23 JANUARY 1925
The National Executive of the Miners’ Federation at a meeting in London agreed to meet the coal-owners next week in order to hear their views in relation to their request for a joint committee to go into the present condition of the industry and investigate possible remedies.
The claim by the locomotive engineers and firemen for the restoration of a guaranteed full day’s pay for any turn of duty on Sundays has been refused by the National Wages Board.
The members of the London Press Club entertained the Prime Minister at luncheon, when they presented him with a pipe. He as Prime Minister and they as journalists, he said, were engaged in the common work of trying to elevate the people of this country.
By 246 votes against 160, the German Reichstag adopted a motion approving the new Government’s declaration of policy.
Viscount Kato, the Japanese Prime Minister, announced in the Diet at Tokyo that a Bill for the adoption of universal suffrage is to be introduced in the present session.
In the French Chamber M. Briand, the ex-Premier, made a strong appeal to M. Herriot not to sever diplomatic relations with the Vatican.
The announcement is made that an Army Council is to be created for Egypt with a view to assuring the greatest possible efficiency in the Army and the country’s defence system.