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after
section
of
indus-
try
has
been
d manding
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and
the
situation
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now
reached
a
crisis
point
and
i is
deelarad
that,
in-
cluding the
London
Transport
Workers
who
are
balloting
today
on
a
settie-
ment of the
terms
arranged
last
week,
fully two
million
workers
are
involved
in
a
big
movement
for
incrcased
pay.
Croydor,
March
3lst.-—— An
unprece-
denied
strike
was
begun
hore
today
namely
a
strike
of
the
airmen
in
the
service
of the coneern
which
carries
the
air mails,
when
the
pilots
and
mecha-
ies connected
with long
distance
flights
ceased
work
because
of
a
dispute
with
the
new
air
combines
regarding
rates
of pay.
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rilyenc arse
hem.
BY request
of
the
Chairmn
an
extraordinary
meeting
of the Co-
lonial Councils
of St. Thomas
and
t. John
and
St. Croix will be held
in the Council Hall
in Christiansted
on FRIDAY APRIL 4, at 2 o’clock
p.
m.
Introduction of a resolution
em-
bodying
recommendations
to
be
forwarded through
the Governor
of the Virgin Islands
expressing
the opizion
of the Colonial
Coun-
cils of St.
Thomas
and
St.
John
and St. Croix, as
may be decided,
in
regard
to
Senate
Bill
No.
2780.
ROBT. L. MERWIN,
Caairman.
sLEGRAMS.
Q7. CROIX
STATION
Jionn
.
Mareh
30th,—The
refusal
of
(1.
Sov.»t
delezates
to
the
kusso
Rou-
nanian
conference
to
recognize
the
Kumani:
n Paei
with the
Entenie
Pocwers
granting
Jessarabia
to
Rumania,
bhas
caased
u biteh
in the
cenference
today.
1. Kretisky,
nead of the Sovict Delega-
tio
), argie
1 that
the Paris
Pac:
wesone
o
¢
cat
4 juridically
worthless,
staiing
(.1 Ruassi.
disputed
the binditg
charae-
er
of
all
jost-wal undertaking:
en
ered
il,
oby Bes arabiu,claiming
that
hey were
given
un '«
1 miiiary compulsion.
It was
luior
au.vaced
inat
the Soviet
Govern
ment
weaid
not
consent
to the
antexa-
tich of B ssarabia
by Roumania.
Lyon,
Mass.,
March
30th.—1'’he
Lynn
Er2lish High School
was totaliy desiroy-
ed
by fir
. the damage
being
«stimaited
at
betwe
.o one
and
two millior.
do: ars.
Oua
fire.lan lost
ms
life
whiie
fighting
the flames.
‘Lansas
City, Mo., March
30tt..—Four-
teen
per=o.s
lost
their
lives
«nd
lun-
dre is
we. 2 injured
as a result of a severe
stotm
whici swzptl
aCross
Central
Okla-
homa, ceniering
at Shawnes,
07 Friday.
The propery
damage
is estimat¢d
to
run
into hund. eds
of thousands
of d. lars.
Loandon,
Jaren 30th.—A striks
of ¢oal-
trimmers
at the Leith
docks
took
prace
today ana
threa‘ens
to spread
to all ports
of
Grest
Britain
working
under
the
siri<ers
nutionai azreement,
Londen,
March
31st.-—-The
2xisting
and constaitly
growingdiscontentamong
the working
classes,
is
a
theme
whaich
calls for'h much
comment
in
the
press
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No
17
GOVERNMENT
OF THE
VIRGIN ISLANDS
OF THE
UNITED STATES
ST.
CROIX
Official Fubticai
icial
Fuicaiion.
TKT?F;
mail arriving from Continent-
al United
States
today
biought
a copy of Senate
Bill No. 2785,
In-
troduced
in the Senate
on March
10,
1924, by
Senator
Mc LEAN oi Con-
necticut by request.
This bill
1s
en-
titled:
“A Bill to
p ovide
a (ivil
Government
for the Virgin Islands,
and for other purposes.”
[ desire to inform the people of the
Virgin Islands
that the Government
had nothing whatever to do with this
bill;
was
given
no
opportunity
.to
comment upon it prioi to its presen-
tation to the
United
States
Senate
and,
in fact, knew nothing
corcern-
ing it until the printed
copy
wis
re-
cewved
this morning.
Further,
mso-
far as this Government
isaware,
the
party
or parties
who requested
Mena-
tor MCLEAN to introduce this billact-
ed without the consent
and approv-
al
of the
people
inasmuch
as
the
people
as
represented
by
the two
Colonial Councils
have
not signified
a desire
for
a
complete
change
in
the
form
of government
of these
islgnds.
The
danger
of
legislation
con-
cerning
thz
Virgin
Islands
being
introduced
in the
Federal
Congress
without
official backing
lis only too
apparent.
Would
not
this bill,
if
enacted,
endanger
the Federal
ap-
propriation
now
made
for
the
js-
lands?
Porto Rico, from whose
Or-
ganic Act this bill is largely copicd,
receives
no
direct
Federal
app:r:-
priation.
PHILIP WILLIAMS,
Governor.