Conference ratified the acceptance of the mineowners' terms and or-dored a resumption of work as from January 19. The provisional agreement previder for a resumption of work at the rates of pay ruling in November, 1930. The hours work for the miners underground will be TE each week day.
Roughly 21,500,000 Marks in gold bars found their way into the vaults of the Reichsbank. The bars are a consignment from the state tank of the Soviet Union and destined to cover credits guaranteed by German banks for Soviet purchases in Germany.
Following the latest royal decree Spain has now lined up with the countries who have adopted protective legislative measures against the competition of imported labor.
The German government dealt a serious tentative blow to the pri fixing policy of the various cartels by decreeing that the retail-dealers will from now on be freed from the obligation to observe the sale prices stipulated by their wholesale suppli-[ers except in those cases where the articles in question have become at Toast ten-per cent. cheaper as compared with the price prevailing The well-known paper and pule concern _Kymmene which recently acquired the majority of the shores of the English Star Paper Mill Ca., Ltd. at Feniscowles has decided to increase the annual production of the English factory which in the main produces newsprint to 43,000 tons for which the necessary pulp will be imported from Finland, Despatches from Mexico City state that 71 worshippers are reported to have been killed through the collapse of the spire of a church in the village of Guelapova, 80 miles from Oxaca, during the recent] earthquake.
Public subscriptions totalling' G$518,000 have been received towards the fund of—G.$10,000,000 which the Red Cross is raising the relief of suffering farmers and their family the drought stricken regions in U.S. situation in French colonies, and he has proposed to the Chamber of Deputies to levy, as part of the plan for national equipment, Franes 100,000,000 for the organization of colonial credit, indispensable for ing the situation for the <ver-seas_ possessions.
'The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the War Department' appropriations bill. The measure provides for expenditure of By a vote of 72 to 13 the US. Senate decided to spend G.$30,000,- (000 for the modernizati ite of the!
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