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Show UfMlk .ml T " t 1-MaJ. Gen. Squler giving diplomas to gruduaies of U. S. signal school at Camp Vail. New York. 2-U , A. gunboat isobel on her way to Nanchung. China, to protect missionaries there. 1-J. Morton Howell of Ohio, first -American mlulster to Egypt. of U convention appointed to con-&idor con-&idor recent United States Supreme court decisions affecting labor cases recommended amendments to the Constitution Con-stitution prohibiting the labor of children chil-dren under 10; prohibiting the enactment enact-ment of any law or the making of Judicial determination which would He also says Russia Is willing to demobilize 50 per cent of its army If Poland, Llthuanlu, Latvia and Es tlionla will reduce their armies In proportion. The success of the con ference at The Hague, he asserted, depends mainly on France, and he added that If It failed, Kussla hopexl NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Union Leaders Warn That They Will Order Rail Strike if Men Vote for It. GOVERNMENT TO COMBAT IT President Harding Gives Labor Board Full Support Tariff Precedes Bonus In Senate Conference on Russia at The Hague De Valera Is Irreconcilable. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ' deny the right of workers to organize, to deal collectively with their employers, employ-ers, to collectively withhold their labor and patronage and induce others to do so; providing thut If the Supreme court decides that an act of congress Is unconstitutional, or by Interpretation Interpreta-tion asserts a public policy at variance with the statutory declaration of congress, con-gress, then If congress by a two-thirds majority repasses the law It shall become be-come the law of the land. ,.; The--' committee also recommended that congress be urged to enact s child labor law to overcome objections raised by the Supreme court to previous pre-vious luws. to conclude separate treaties wun Kngland, Italy and other powers. Japan's delegates to the conference have decided that France's Itusslan program is futile and unreasonable, and now It looks as though France and Belgium stand alone. It may be, that one or two other countries will support their demand that, as a prior condition to discussion, Kussla agree) to recognize the rights of private" property. The British and their fol-j lowers wish to omit all discussion of the principles of communism and deal with concrete cases. IF. IRELAND Is pacified It will not be with the consent and aid of I.",. iM,m ,1.a Viili.rn Tlioiiirti lipnlpn In ONE of the worst labor clashes In the history of Illinois occurred last week at the strip mine of the Southern Illinois Coal company In Williamson county. A gang of steam shovelers was at work there, and after af-ter President Lewis of the United Mine Workers bad declared they were to be treated as "common strike brenkers" they were surrounded and attacked by a crowd of striking miners armed largely with stolen weupons. The nonunion men, after a long battle, bat-tle, surrendered and many of them were murdered In cold blood by their raptors. The number of dead Is uncertain un-certain at tills writing, but probubly Is as high as 40, and perhaps much higher. Governor Small ordered 1,000 members of the state , national guard mobilized at Chicago. Though the miners quieted down somewhat after their orgy of slaughter, there was great danger of recurrence of the disorders. It Is too early now to attempt at-tempt to place tlie actual biauie or the disgraceful affair. YIELDING to tlie request of the administration, the Republican senators agreed to get through with the tariff before taking up the soldiers' bonus bill. Then the senate, by a vote of SI to 22 rejected Senator Walsh's motion to sidetrack the tariff for the bonus, and, after u long w rangle, voted almost unanimously to make the bonus bill the special order of business immediately im-mediately following the passage of the tariff measure. During the debate some of the Democrats severely as sailed the President and the majority party fur delaying tlie adoption of the bonus bill, but Senator Lenroot retorted re-torted that tlie matter of speeding It up was now In their own hands, and that If they would cease filibustering ngalnst the tariff, both measures could be passed before Augut 1. Consideration of . the ship subsidy bill also has bwn deferred. President Harding consenting to po: tponcmcnt until the house has sent the tariff bill Eamon de Valera. niougn Deaien in the Dull EIreann elections by a considerable con-siderable majority, he still persists In his Implacable opposition to the treaty, which establishes the Irish Free State;' and he declares he does not believe1 the Dull will pass the new Irish con- stltutlon In Its present form, which! he says Is "well composed In all its parts and peculiarly fitted to the endj In view, the degradation of the people." no adds that it would ex-! elude from public service and. practically prac-tically disenfranchise every honest republican. re-publican. Directly connected with the Irish! trouble was the assassination In London Lon-don on Thursday of Field Marshal Sir! Henry Wilson, late chief of the lnv perlal general staff of the British! army. He retired from this post lust, February and was elected a member of parliament from an Ulster district. He also was appointed military adviser ad-viser to the Ulster government and was a leader In plans for pacification. He was shot to death by two men. BETTER, perhaps, are the prospects for pacification and unification of China. Acting as an agent of President Presi-dent LI Yuan-hung, Generul Chen took possession of Canton, defeating the troops of Sun Yat Sen, who later was taken prisoner and held on a Chinese cruiser. Chen set up a provisional government pledged to support the central government at Pekln, and decided de-cided that Doctor Sun should be permitted per-mitted to resign. President LI even formally invited Sun to go to Peking and assist him In reorganizing the general government. Meanwhile General Gen-eral Chang, the defeated Manchurlan leader, and (ienerul Wu signed an armistice. Of course there Is still a lot of fighting going on In China. In Klangsi province some ten thousand ol Wu's troop mutinied, killed many natives and started on a march toward Nanchang. British and American gunboats gun-boats hurried to the protection of for elgners In that region. IF THE railway maintenance of way workers, shop men and members of other unions that are balloting on the question of a walkout, vote for a strike on July 1, the officials or the unions will sanction It. In that case the unions un-ions will find themselves In direct conflict con-flict with the government, for President Presi-dent Harding has let It be known that he will, to the full extent of his power, pow-er, back up the federal railway labor board, whose adjustments of wages as provided by the transportation . act nave brought on the crisis.. Tlie Pres Ident and the cabinet are keeping In close touch with tlie developments, and all agencies of the government will be employed to prevent a strike If possible and to render It Ineffective If It does come. The stnnd of the union fenders was set forth In a long statement to the labor board In which the decisions of that body were denounced and warning warn-ing was given that the strike would be called If the men so voted. Ben W. Hooper, chairman of the board, replied to this with charges that the union officials offi-cials had' distorted and misconstrued the board's decisions In a manner to misled the men, and he cllod Instances of this distortion. -- "A strike of railway employees." said Mr. Hooper's letter. "Involving their wages, their employment and their welfare, based upon such misleading mis-leading statements of this board's sentiments sen-timents and declarations, would be unjust to the men and to the public." So far as the shop vrafis are concerned, con-cerned, one of the three rersons for desiring a strike um.v be removed within with-in a few days. This is the practice of farming out shop work under the contract system. The labor board lias been considering 17 complaints filed against various roads and Its findings re said lo b almost ready for announcement. an-nouncement. Hearings In .'10 oilier cases are now being held. Early In May the board decided such a rase against the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad, rail-road, the principles II enunciated then helnc, briefly. Mint such contracts "violate the spirit and pun'0 f tlie transportation act. mid In effect set aside the wage decisions of the railroad rail-road labor board to which the carrier was a party and which the carrier put Into effect." Railway executives generally are of the opinion that, though the m'n probably prob-ably will vote for a strike. It will not be ordered; and they say that If It Is. transportation will not be seriously crippled. The train handling forces, Including engineers, firemen, conductors conduct-ors and switchmen, are not Involved In the controversy. IN THE American Federation of Labor La-bor convention In Cincinnati a resolution reso-lution wsa Introduced calling for the repeal of the Cuinfnlns-Es h transportation trans-portation act, with an amendment favoring government ownership of the railways. At the request of the rail union chiefs tlie resolulhm was laid aside. W. II. Johnston, president of the machinistssaid: "Not for a single moment have we abandoned the pro- ! pram of government ownership. Rut 1 the present ndmlnlsiratlon Is tin friendly to us nnd we thought that it would be Inadvisable to pros the matter mat-ter at this time. Our enemies would charge Hint the forthcoming strike WHS called fo force the government .to take control of the rallroinK We. want that issue to he clean cul." Tlie special committee of the A. F to conference. When Ids letter to this effect was read in tlie house n partisan debate arose over the matter of selling sell-ing liquor on Anierjcan vessels. The Democrats again made It clear that they will keep this Issue alive. Meanwhile Mean-while the row over Chairman Lasker's policy has been temporarily quieted by the Issuance of nvv Treasury department de-partment rulings declaring that the Volstead law does not apply on vessels ves-sels outside the three mile limit. PROVIDING for an enlisted personnel person-nel of K(!,(M and currying about $iSS.450.iKl0. the naval appropriation bill was passed by the senate and sent to conference with the bouse. Tlie action ac-tion on Hie personnel Is final. Amend incnts providing for withdrawal f American marines . from Haiti, the Dominican republic and Nicaragua were defeated after long debute. SOY1F.T RUSSIA", whose affairs are being considered this wwk by the International, commission at The 1 1 ague, thinks she has so modified her economic plans that the other powers must he satisfied. According to Lit-vinoff. Lit-vinoff. assistant commissar of foreign for-eign affair, tlie all-Russian central executive committee recently has enlarged en-larged the scope hf Its new economic policy, tanking new decree defining private property rights, regiil.it ing con tracts, reintroducing lawyers and public pub-lic prosecutors, .and re-establishing civil law, until now the government regards re-gards the guarantee problem as practically prac-tically settled. APPROVAL was given to the Yap treaty with the United States by the Japanese privy council and letters of ratification will soon be received In Washington. The other treaties of the Washington conference will be ratified early !n July, according to advices from Toklo. J MORTON IIOWKLL of Ohio has the distinction of being the first American minister to Kgypt. He was nominated by President Harding and promptly confirmed by the senate. The selection of Mr. Howell for this position posi-tion would seem to be especially wise, as he has hcn the American diplomatic diplo-matic agent ' and consul general In the land of the Pharaohs. SKNATOR FRANK KELLOGG was nominated for another term by the Republicans, and bis opponent In the Minnesota fall campaign Is to be the first woman ever nom'nated by a major party for a seat In the upper bouse. She Is Mrs. Anna Dickie Olesen, winner In t!:e Democratic primaries. She beat her nearest competitor, Thomas Veltihen, by several thousand votes. Mrs, Olesen was one of the McAdoo floor managers in the Democratic convention con-vention of 1 .)'( i. Another woman who came to the front In that convention, Mrs. Isetta Jewell Brown of West Virginia, Vir-ginia, announces her candidacy for the jtenate subject to the DWKwrut 1 primaries of August 1. |