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Show i r ' n ' " - : - " 1 I ., v. .'j i .r t-: j , -SA ;m t , I tV. is. s. North Carol Intv beliiK t , u,i,A.ii .u -n.uo .. ,.,.vy yam n tt .-wn.nnvw vlth ttie t asiiiiiittuu naval treaty. 2 Striking railway shopmen at Chicago on way to luatw luceting. 3 Kuthryn Agar of 'Chicago, Juvellu throwtr, selected to go to Olympic ginies In Paris.' ' ' ;'' , , 1WSREIW0F: GMT EVENTS Maintenance cf Way Mei Po3t-cop.g Po3t-cop.g Strike and Shopmen May Return to Work, mm FOR fl COMQjiSE President Harding's Utterances on ths Industrial Situation Irish Republicans, Repub-licans, Routed In Dublin, Still' Fightinj Russia's Amazing Amaz-ing Budget' Submitted ' to ths Haguo Conference. ' . . . Dy EDWARD W. P1CKARD. LALOH 'troubles, present and prospective, pros-pective, continue to absorb much oi the Interest of the American public. The railway shopmen are" out practically prac-tically nil of them, according to 11.. M. Jewell, hetid of the six federuted shop crafts ; not nearly all of them, according accord-ing to the railway executives. The maintenance of way workers, who were expected to strlue last week, are still at work. E. F. Giable, president of tiifclr brotherhood, and six members of liii executive council, held an all-day all-day inference with the members of tbe railway labor board and then Issued Is-sued s statement saying they bad -concluded, "it is .not wise f or ouf membership mem-bership to leave the service, of tbe carriers until every resource has been exhausted that affords hope of a peace-fuU peace-fuU adjustment." . Tlje. chairman on each carrier Is to take up at once with the management nil grievances ai'd controversies und suc.h as cannot be adjusted are to be taken before the labor, board. Pending these efforts at peaceful settlement the men are to continue work under the present wags decision of the ', labor board under protist. Mi. Jewell celebrated his Fourth of July by putting forth a long statement In rhlch he bitterly arraigned the labor board because It had "out'a .ved ' th" striking shopmen. lie declared the b'nrd bad outawed itself as the friend of the unions and bad "adopted a tragic attitude in at'einptlng to compel com-pel American workers to accept a wage scale below dec-jut living." True, tbe board bad In effect declared Hie strikers outlawed and had invited le-oruits le-oruits to till their places, promising them protection and urg'ng tin m to form a new shopmen's i;n!on within the American Federation of Labor. Hut In a day or two both Mr. Jewell and Chairman Hooper of the board became milder and the pence' prospects brightened somewhat. The former said, he was not averse to dialing "with any authorized persuai on any reason-bie reason-bie bitsU," "u 'the h;:ter ;!. d c statement In which he undertook to show that the board was proieclin.tr the Interests of the sMihlng shopmen by advlsit a carriers against conn acting act-ing oat shop work, and also wrote a 'otter to Mr. Jewell repudlnt'ng the charge of Injustice on the part of the board and concluding : "I am yet quite hopeful that your organization will recover their equilibrium equi-librium and discern that it is vastly better for them go alon ; with the railroad labor hoard, patiently when It makes m's'akes, but connVently at all rimes that It profoundly de-drcs to do lust lee to the men, the carriers, and the public, without fear, favor or affection." Toward the end of the week W. L. McMenlinisn. one of the labor members of tbe boifd. held conferences w'th tbe heads of the railway clerks and, freight handlers, and It was predicted that those unions would follow tbe example set by. the maintenance of way men. Though most disorders last week due to the shopmen's strike were of m'nor Importance, reports reached Washington In Increasing numbers that strikers were let o-f eying with tbe dis-patch dis-patch of the United St; t s mails in various parts of the country. The administration ad-ministration Is disposed and prepared to deal vigorously with any persons who hamper tbe movement of the C!ls. Postolllce Inspectors were sent lo all ootids, where trouble was likely to arise, and doubtless every federal agency necessary w ill be used to protect pro-tect the mall trains and facilitate their regular movemei t. ' piIFiUDKNT HAUDINC'S confer ence of representatives of tlie coal mine operators and striking minors In the White Huusu brought no immediate rcs;:!ts, ' but hope of peaceful adjust laent was not abandoned and the conferees con-ferees agreed to get together u; aln July 10. They know that Mr. Harding has In reserve some drastic ''government ''govern-ment action if they' fail to agree, though ho lias not revcalud Its exact nature. , In Kansas the cord miners who supported sup-ported the program of Alexander llowatt and who, with their ollleials, were expelled from the United' Mine Workers of Amei lea, have decided to return to work, that being the only way they could recover their autonomy and be restored to membership In the union, IN HIS Fourth-of July speech at the celebration In Marion, O., President Presi-dent Harding had some significant things to say of the Industrial situation. situa-tion. For Instance t "A free American has the right to labor without any other's leave. It would be no less an abridgement to deny men the right to burgaiu collectively. collec-tively. Governments can not tolerate any cbass or group domination through force. It will be a- sorry day when group domination Is reflected In our laws. Government, and tlie laws which government is charged with enforcing, en-forcing, must be for all the people, ever aiming at the common good." Disclaiming .any note of pessimism, lie asserted that the republic is secure. "Menaces do arise," he added, "but public opinion will efface them. Meanwhile Mean-while government must repress them." These of course- ure truisms, but It Is well thut they should be repeated from time td lime by tlie voice of highest authority. General Pershing, who also spoke at the Marion celebration, was loudly applauded ap-plauded when he advocated fearless use of "the strong arm of the law" In communities which "openly sympathize sympa-thize with ruthless murder of Inoffensive Inof-fensive people In the exercise of the right to earn a livelihood." CAPTURE of the Four Courts building build-ing in Dublin by the troops of the Irtsh Free State by no means ended the bloody conflict with the republican republi-can Irregulars. The latter took re-fuge re-fuge In hotels and other, bulld'ngs In O'Connell street nnd there continued lite battle until the shells of the regulars regu-lars set lire to almost every structure In that part of the street. The conflagration con-flagration could not be stopped and ' most of the rebels surrendered. De Viilera, w ho was with them, was said to have escaped in disguise and lied to . County Wickhiw. Cathnl P.rugha, minister rt defense in the De Viilera cabinet, refused to surrender and was .r--if.i,.ji; "yimivWt, A,iroei he premiers pre-miers wim Mrs. Terence MeSwIney, widow of the late lord mayor of Cork, and Itory O'Conner, comuu nder of the Irregulars. The provisional government govern-ment Is now putting its entiiV military establishment on an active service basis and has Issued a proclamation calling for recruits. The republicans arc preparing for a flnal struggle In the ticinity of Cork. That city Is in their hands and, having hav-ing Skibbercen. they claim control of the entire county, as well ns of Conn-ties Conn-ties Kerry and West Limerick, Water-ford, Water-ford, Fust Limerick nnd parts of Tl-perary Tl-perary and Kilkenny. DF.SPITK tlie vigorous net Ion of the" government In llerlln, the monarchists monarch-ists have been stirring up trouble In many places In Germany. These were aggravated by the anti-monarch-1st demonstrntlnns that were staged on July 4 by the Democrats and Social-Wis. Social-Wis. One of the Incidents of the week was the attempt to assassinate Maximilian Harden, the famous editor edi-tor who Is so thoroughly bated by the renctinnarles. There is a movement on foot In Germany that Is likely to upset the cabinet of Chancellor Wirt h and result re-sult In tbe formation of a purely socialistic government In place of the present one, which Is a coalition of minorities. To forestall this, an offer bus been made .u the Independent Socialists of a share- in the government. govern-ment. The bourgeois parties fear that Gils would Interfere -with Germany's obtaining llnanclal relief abroad. IT LOOKS at this writing as though tlie conference at The Hague would (dine no nearer to settling the Kus-slan Kus-slan problem than did that at Genoa. Tho soviet delegates in response to tlie demand,- of the allies submitted what they cii'ed the Itusdan budget, but Chairman Mphand of the commission commis-sion chnrncteil(d It as a "project" nnd the Prltlsh culled It "an amazing document." This budget admitted that one-fifth of the entire revenues consisted con-sisted of new Issues of paper rubles and undertook to show that the more rubles were printed the ir.ore valuable they became amazing ladeed. The budget figures, which were In gold -rubles, weij calculated on an arbitrary arbi-trary rate In ".apor ruble every three months. The tilled ; nperts were I'uxcd by all this. Tlie Itussinns caused further dissension dis-sension by putting out two question nalrcs demanding to krow the social positions, the professions, the revenues reve-nues and the family positions of all previous holders of property, bonds and securities wdio have claims against Russia. Though told tills was prao tlcally Impossible nni unnecessary, Lilvlnoff Insisted his government must have this nnd other Information as a basis for concrete proposals for the settlement of each case. Finally a list of the private agricultural claims of French, Prltlsh and Belgian nationals na-tionals was presented to him, and the matter was taken under further consideration. con-sideration. .Representatives' of lrge financial groups have arrived at The Hague, and it may be that Utvinoflt will be able to trade a lot of concessions for private credits nnd so carry bocfc eer-'tdlrt eer-'tdlrt valuable results fo Moscow even I If tlie formal negotiations fall 'brough. WHEN the-League of Nations assembly as-sembly meets In September it will have a definite program for reduction re-duction of land and sea armaments. The league's commission on disarmament disarma-ment has been In session In Paris and has approved Lord Robert Cecil's plan providing for a general reduction of air and land forces undo the supervision super-vision of the league, and for continental conti-nental alliances ngainsti nggresslon. Tbe commission also adopted the Lrltlsh scheme for extending the Washington naval accord to- all nation. na-tion. Objection to limiting the alliances al-liances to continents was met by the statement that no nation would he barred from aiding a country that was attacked, no matter on what continent. conti-nent. SETTLEMENT of the Tucna-Arlca dispute In the conference at Washington Wash-ington Is delayed by the action of the Peruvian delegates. Chile had accepted ac-cepted the plan offered by Secretary Hughes, but 4hc Peruvians have quail fled their acceptance in such a way tbut fur-her negotiations are necessary. neces-sary. Chile's utritude Is explained by her spokesmen as a thoroughly conciliatory con-ciliatory one. embracing a willingness to accept Peru's suggestion for any minor changes In tbe American formula for-mula so lung as the major principles laid down by Secretary Hughes accepted ac-cepted by Chile ure not disturbed. DREARY tariff debates In the senate sen-ate grow acrimonious occasionally, occasional-ly, and now nnd then even Interesting. Last Wednesday, fur 'nstance, Senator Short rhlge of California found occasion oc-casion to predict tttf.t a son of Ohio would sit In the President's chair for a good many years to come. Itefore he bad a chance to explain that he was alluding to Mr. Harding he was Ikier-ruptod Ikier-ruptod by Senator King of Utah with the admission that the Cnlifornian wa3 correct and the assertion that the son of Ohio who would occupy the White Home next would be Senator Pome-rone. Pome-rone. King's fellow Democrats seemed to approve the suggestion, so the I'oinerene boom may be considered ns launched. r-pilE sporting event of the week A was the prize fight between Benny Ben-ny Leonard, lightweight champion, und Rocky Kansas in Michigan City Ind. It was Leonard's fight all th way und in the eighth round Kansas wns technically knocked out, l.ls sc ends throwing up the spot a e. |