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Show NEWS REVIEW OF-GURRETEVENTS OF-GURRETEVENTS Railway Executives Refuse to Accept President's Plan as to Seniority. STRIKE SETTIEEHT FAILS Federal and State Control of Coal Distribution Dis-tribution Gets Under Way Chicago Traction Workers Quit Results of Some Interesting Primaries France Warns Germany. In Kansas, W. Y. Morgan, Hutchinson Hutchin-son editor, wns leading former Gov. W. It. Stubbs for the Republican gubernatorial gub-ernatorial nomination when about 75 per cent of the returns were In. , Phil Campbell, veteran member of congress con-gress from the Third district, failed of renomlnatlon. Senator Howard Sutherland was renominated by the Republicans of West Virginia. Republicans of Iowa, in state convention con-vention at Des Moines, warmly In dorsed the record of Senator Cummins and pointedly neglected to mention Smith W. Brookhea.t, the party nominee nom-inee to succeed Cummins. This waa pleasing to the Democrats, also in convention, con-vention, and their candidate, Clyde I Herring, predicted he would win wIUV out any Republican opposition. r KRMANY has been trying to post-pone post-pone the payment t debts to French citizens contracted by Germans before the war, and last week France grew tired of this and brusquely notified noti-fied Berlin that unless assurance of the payment of $10,000,000 by August 15 were received within four dayi Fiance would Impose penalties of an economic and flnanclul character. It wns stated In Paris that these penalties penal-ties would Include the seizure of such Gerinun Industrial enterprises as are Rtill tolerated In Alsace-Lorraine. It may be some lnduitrles In occupied Germnny will be seized. A still more elaborate scheme wns proposed by members of the French parliament to Premier Polncare, This Is nothing less than the separation of the Rhlneland from Germnny, giving It a parliament and government and a financial regime supervised by the allies. All Prussian officials would be ousted. , Great Britain sent a note to all the allies explaining that America's attitude atti-tude concerning war debts made It necessary nec-essary for Britain to collect from her debtors unless all the Interallied Indebtedness In-debtedness Is canceled. The other European nations Interpreted this as directed solely to America, and In Washington It was stated officially the note would cause no change In the policy pol-icy of the United States toward Its foreign debts. Premier Polncare and members of bis cabinet are In London this week, the date of the conference with Lloyd George having been advanced. Premier Pre-mier Theiinls and others of Belgium also are there. The general subject of reparations and war debts will be considered. without the services of the striking shopmen. Roads unable to do so, particularly par-ticularly carriers reaching Into the producing bituminous tields, may be taken over nnd opeiuted by the.fed-erul the.fed-erul government pRKSIDENT, LEWIS of the mine workers maile a definite move for settlement of the coal strike by calling a Joint wage conference of operators ami miners of the central competitive 'jltumlnous field, to be held In Cleveland Cleve-land August 7. Unfortunately, the operators, op-erators, or most of them, refused to attend. Meanwhile Henry B. Spencer, who wos appointed federal fuel distributor, and bis committee and subcommittees began functioning actively. According to Mr. Spencer's plun, the federal organization or-ganization will cover the distribution of avuilnble supplies among the railways, rail-ways, federal institutions and states, and the governors of the states will handle locnl supplies. State fuel committees com-mittees were called on to report at once the consumption of coal In their territories by utilities, Industries and households and to submit a list of those who should receive priorities. These state committees are also made entirely responsible for the prevention of profiteering and extortion. In the sale and distribution of coal within their respective states. Governor McCruy of Indiana took the most vigorous action yet reported In the mutter of getting out coal. The Milners of the state refused to Issue permits to sufficient men to operate the mines for emergency purposes, so the governor opened two strip mines In Clay county under the protection of 800 state troops as a preliminary measure and declared a state of martial mar-tial law to exist in that potf of the county. These mines are In the hands of a receiver appointed by the federal court, and the governor called attention atten-tion to the fuct that this places the United - States government behind them. Mr. McCray also called a conference con-ference of the governors of Pennsylvania, Pennsylva-nia, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Kentucky nnd Wisconsin. Governor Preus of Minnesota says the coal situation In the Northwest Is more threatening than ever, and he has asked the governors gov-ernors of Iowa. Wisconsin and North and South Dakota to meet with blm In St. Paul August 10. In Wisconsin the bottom of the coal bin is In sight and, at the request of the state fuel commission, all ornnmcntat and display dis-play electric lighting has been discontinued. By EDWARD W. PICKARD , NEGOTIATIONS for the ending of the railroad strike were at least temporarily halted again last week when the plan of President UanllnR falb'd of complete acceptance. Optl-' Optl-' mlstlc prophets of Immediate peace were confounded. As expressed by himself, the President's Pres-ident's plun comprised these stipulations: stipula-tions: First Railway managers and workmen, work-men, are to agree to recognize the validity of all decisions of the rail-road rail-road labor board' and to faithfully carry out such decisions as contemplated contem-plated by the law. - Second The carriers will withdraw all lawsuits growing out of the strike and railroad tabor board decisions "which have been Involved in the strike may be taken. In the exercise of recognized recog-nized rights, by either party to a railroad rail-road labor board for rehearing. Third All employees now on strike to be returned to work and to their former positions with seniority and other rights unimpaired. The representatives repre-sentatives of the carriers and the representatives rep-resentatives of the organizations especially espe-cially agree that there will be no discrimination dis-crimination by either party against the employees who did or did not strike. The railway executives were the first to act on these proposals. They accepted the first ; agreed to the Second Sec-ond with the urdersiMiiding that the strike be first ciu&O off and thnt the representatives of the strikers pledge themselves and the strikers against violence In any form against the men now at work ard the property of the carriers; declared It was Impossible for them to agree to the first sentence of the tb'J-d proposal. " Having placed themselves In a strategic position by awaiting action by the executives, the representatives of fie striking shopmen met In Chicago Chica-go and voted, though with expressed reluctance, to accept the President's proposals. This was conditioned up-on up-on recognition of the union Interpretation Interpre-tation of the plan, which, among other things, would require the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania railroad to abandon its fight for tin pe-i s.iup. The shop crafts also liiMi, on the ffctubliftiiuiciit of a national na-tional board of adjustment which would relieve the labor board of all llsputes except those Involving wages. Some roads have agreed to regional boards, but probably all of them are apposed to orM national board which would prescribe uniform condition regardless re-gardless of needs of various localities. Seemingly the r ill executives are In Jead earnest In their refusal to abandon aban-don their stand m. seniority rights. They notified their local employe; and other workers thet they would be protected and guan tevd permanent employment, and we;.-, ahead with the task of filling the pit vs of the strikers. strik-ers. In New York It was said their decisive stand resulted In a rush of applicants for Jobs. Public opinion Is widely divided concerning this attitude of the railway executives. Many persons per-sons feel that It is only Justice to the men who have remained at work and those who have responded to the call for workers to take up the tools the strikers laid down. Those who sympathize sym-pathize strongly with the demands of organized labor take the position that the action of the railway beuds Is a part of a campaign to destroy the unions. It wus predicted In Washington that President Harding would do nothing more In the mntter at present, giving the railroads an opportunity to prove Uut thej eouli rperate effectively DOINGS of the Greeks In Turkey greatly disturbed the allies. First, King Constnntlne formally asked permission per-mission to iecupy Constantinople. This was probably "for home consumption," con-sumption," but the allies, much excited, excit-ed, refused the request and sent a lot of troops into Thrace, forcing the Greeks to withdraw to six miles from the Cliatnlja lines Then Constan-tine Constan-tine suddenly proclaimed Smyrna and Its hinterland an autonomous state under un-der protection of the Grek army, declaring de-claring the occupied regions In Asia Minor should not bo returned to Turkey. Tur-key. He thus upset the pluns of the allies for a peace settlement between Greece and Turkey, possibly believing that In this way only cun he keep the Greek people from again driving him from the throne. "NE offer another the strongholds of the Irish rebels in the south ore being taken by the nationals, and the Irregulars so far have not made a determined stund. despite the reported pleos of De Vulefa. Harry Roland, one of De Vulera's closest friends and who was with him In America, died of a bullet wound. Llam Mellowes, Sean O'Malley, Rory O'Connor, General Qulnn and other Sinn leaders are prisoners. pris-oners. The final triumph of the provisional pro-visional government seems near. nOR one minute Inst Friday every telephone and telegraph Instrument Instru-ment In America was silent. This was the Impressive tribute to the memory of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor of the telephone, who died In Buddeck, Nova Scotia, at the age of seventy-five seventy-five years. The great scientist perfect ed many other notafile Inventions, and also wns untiring In his efforts to aid the deaf. United States Senator William E. Crowe of Pennsylvania, who succeeded succeed-ed Senator Knox, died at Ms horns, after an illness that began last December. De-cember. He appeared In the senate i only twice before that Us ' CHICAGO'S street car strike came along according to schedule. Some 20,000 employees of the surfuce and elevated lines quit curly Tuesday morning and no attempt was made to take the cars out of the yards. Motor vehicles of all descriptions were called Into service and on the first day there wus a terrific congestion of trufllc. By Wednesday the police, motor clubs and Individual motorists had worked out a system that brought the situation almost to normal, nnd many a Chlca-gonn Chlca-gonn began to wonder If the city couldn't Pet along without the noisy street and elevated cars. Also they learned the worth of one-way street regulations In the business cetiter. Toward the end of the week pence negotiations were resumed, but the lo-cul lo-cul president of the employees said be saw no prospect for an early settlement. settle-ment. The men are fighting not only a proponed wage reduction, but a nine-hour nine-hour day. Chunces of an order by the state public utilities board reducing fares and politics enter Into the Chicago Chi-cago situation, ond It was frequently and openly asserted that the strike was a "put up Job" to prevent the fare reduction and to deal a blow to Mayor Thompson and bis organization. The mayor has long promised a 5-eent fare and last week tried to take steps toward to-ward the establishing of a munlclpa' bus line to supplant the street cars. AT THIS writing It appears probable prob-able that United Stutes Senator James A. Reed has been renominated by the Democrats of Missouri, defeating defeat-ing Breckinridge Long In a fight that was hot and even bitter. Mr. Long bad the support of former President Wilson, Wil-son, during whose administration be wns assistant secretary of state. The dislike that Mr. Wilson and many others oth-ers have for Reed dates from the years of the World war. fhe Republicans of Missouri nominated R. R. Brewster of Kansas City for the senate. |