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Show department of justice is not doing all it might in this respect and It may be the army is certainly active and achieving excellent results. This Is especially true of the central department depart-ment under General Wood, which has to deal with one of the worst regions, that Including Gary, South Chicago and the surrounding towns. Repeated raids have been made on the radicals there, great quantities of their propaganda propa-ganda material have been seized and some of the ringleaders arrested and held, presumably for deportation, since they are mostly unnaturalized foreigners. foreign-ers. The army authorities assert that the revolutionists, taking advantage NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Cabinet Takes Over 'Rule of Nation Na-tion Pending Recovery of the President. HIS AILMENT NOT REVEALED ing the life out of the soviet government. govern-ment. Denikine kept up his advance on Moscow, capturing Orel and other important points. The army of the northwest under Yudenitch took Luga and pressed on toward Petrograd, whose fall was imminent. This army, It was said, was working in close understanding un-derstanding with Admiral Kolehak whose Siberian troops ' were pushing the holsheviki back to the European border. These three commanders have rejected all overtures from Germany, maintaining their connection with the allies. An official dispatch from Archangel said the North Russian forces were pursuing the bolshevik! in the direction direc-tion of Onega after occupying their fortified positions along the railroad, capturing guns and prisoners and destroying de-stroying an armored train. In fact, thy seem to be doing very well without with-out the help of the British and American Amer-ican troops that were withdrawn. Meanwhile the British fleet in the Baltic was very busy. The supreme council having declared a blockade o! all Russian bolshevik ports?, a number of German vessels were seized. Then the British warships moved on Kron-stadt. Kron-stadt. After a severe bombardment it was evacuated by the holsheviki and the fleet entered the harbor. All neutral neu-tral nations. have been asked to join in the 'blockade of bolshevist Russia. Doings of the Industrial Conference Army Is Hot After "Reds" League of Nations Comes Into Being Anti-BolshewisH Armies Closing In on Soviet Russia. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Because of the certainty that the resumption f Ihis official duties by President Wilson will be long delayed, the cabinet has taken matters into its own hands and is virtually running the government. For the first time since Mr. Wilson became the chief magistrate, it is performing Vhe functions func-tions alloted 'it by the Constitution. Each member of the cabinet Is handling all executive matters within its jurisdiction, juris-diction, amd all other questions that come up are passed on by the full cabinet cab-inet The most important decisions are submitted to Mr. Wilson for his approval, through Admiral Graysr n. Specifically, the industrial and economic eco-nomic situation which has been brought to a crisis by the steel strike !s being bandied by Secretary Baker. Secretary of Labor Wilson is looking after the threatened coal miners' strike, -Mtd Secretary of Agriculture Houston Is 'doing what he can to avert the sugar famine. of the steel strike, are frying to organize or-ganize the workers far an armed revolt re-volt against the government. Colonel Mapes, in command at Gary, says if he were to make public the evidence he has collected, the strike would col-lapse.'but col-lapse.'but the government is not taking a hand In the situation for the purpose of breaking the strike. The steel companies claimed steady improvement in conditions, from their standpoint, though the strikers asserted as-serted most of the returning workers were unskilled, .lien steel men in large numbers are engaging -steamship passage back to Europe. Despite their wartime agreement to work at the present scale until peace: is officially declared or until March 31. 1920, the soft coal miners of the country, coun-try, about 000,000 in number, have been ordered out on strike on November 1. Secretary of Labor Wilson took Ira-mediate Ira-mediate steps to avert the strike, and at last reports was hopeful of success. The miners demand a five-day week, a sis-hour day and a general wage increase in-crease of 60 per cent. The miners now receive $8 to $10 a day. and the mine laborers $5. The strike of the longshoremen, followed by that of the teamsters and chauffeurs, in New York threatened the metropolis with a serious food shortage, for shipments were left to rot on the docks. The collapse of the strike was foreshadowed by the vote of several of the local unions to return to work, and the firm stand taken by the railway administration in dealing with the express company employees. Lieutenant D'Annunzio seems to have adopted a more yielding attitude in 'regard to Fiume, which he still holds. He has sent to Premier Cle-meneeau Cle-meneeau an appeal to take the initiative initia-tive in obtaining from the allied governments gov-ernments a declaration making Fiume an open port. The present Italian plan contemplates an independent buffer state at Flume with the extension of Italian control over the strip of coast from Flume to Trieste so the new state shall abut on Italian territory on that side and not be surrounded by Jugo-Slavia influence. The danger dan-ger of war over this problem is fading. fad-ing. D'Annunzio sent word to Paris that he had drafted a manifesto urging both Serbs and Italians to recognize mutual national rights and to "maintain "main-tain the bonds of brotherhood which have been sealed by blood." Prices of food throughout the United Uni-ted States have fallen almost 25 per cent, according to Attorney General Palmer. But housewives, also throughout through-out the United States, are asking why, if this is true, they are forced to pay as much as ever or more when they visit the retail dealer. The cost of leather and of footwear has dropped 20 per cent since the middle mid-dle of August, says the president of the National Boot and Shoe Manufacturers' Manufac-turers' association. But the consumer is still paying exorbitant prices for his shoes, and the aforesaid president explains that the shoes now being manufactured man-ufactured at reduced cost will not he marketed before next April. The tremendous hullabaloo about reducing the cost of living and punishing punish-ing the profiteer has dwindled until it can scarcely he heard with the aid of a microphone. Just at present the consumer is exercised about the sugar situation which promises . to develop into a famine with 25 cents a pound or more demanded for the small amounts of sugar to be had. The domestic do-mestic output is nowhere near enough, and it seems most of the Cuban crop is going to Europe. Dealers blame our government for this condition because it limited the wholesale pnf,e while European dealers were willing to pay anything. The League of Nations came into being on October 13, Great Britain, France and Italy having ratified the treaty. Steps were taken at once looking look-ing to its regular organization, and goodness knows there is enough for it to do. The United States is still outside the league and the contest In the senate sen-ate continues unabated. Considerable time and much vehement language were devoted last week to debating the proposed Shantung amendment. As we expected, it was voted down, but almost every senator who spoke in opposition to it, said he favored a reservation on the same lines. Senator Sena-tor Shields of Tennessee, Democrat, declared himself in favor of the Lodge reservations and the Johnson amendment amend-ment giving the United States as many votes in the league as Great Britain. The administration forces let it be known on Wednesday that they were determined to vote for rejection of the treaty with the Lodge reservations, and the opposition at once prepared to 'retaliate with a resolution declaring declar-ing the war at an end and restoring the status of peace. The entente allies are disturbed over the American situation because the many commissions provided for in the treaty must be organized very soon. The formal exchange of ratifications of the treaty which will put it into effect was delayed by the allies in consequence. The president's physicians and everybody ev-erybody at the White House have combined com-bined to keep from the public the real character of his illness. Admiral Grayson Gray-son told the cabinet what It is, but pledged it to secrecy. All the people are permitted to know is contained in the official 'bulletins, which report Mr. Wilson's continued improvement, with occasional slight set-backs such as headache, and restlessness due to swelling of the prostate gland. The story that he had a lesion of the brain has been vigorously though unofficially denied, but it is admitted that his complete recovery is contingent on keeping him absolutely at rest in mind and body. The truth appears to be that he has had mo cerebral attack but is suffering from a general nervous and physical breakdown. Apparently irreconcilable differences between the several groups are cropping crop-ping out in the Industrial conference, as might have been expected. In the first place, Mr. Gompers, as head of the labor group insisted that the conference con-ference should arrange for arbitration of the steel strike. His resolution was doomed to defeat, and the vote was deferred by order of the conference confer-ence until the steering committee should bring in its report on collective bargaining. This also wss a matter on which agreement seemed almost impossible, for labor insists on the right of workers to bargain through the unions and to pick its representatives representa-tives from outside the plant or industry indus-try if it wishes ; while capital declares the employer should be required to deal only with committees of his own employees. Furthermore, capital says the f-lant must be recognized as the unit, while labor demands that the Industry In-dustry be recognized as the unit. In these questions it seems that capital iias the support of a considerable part of the public group. The fanners' representatives, who are classed among the capitalists, presented pre-sented a statement of principles in which these demands of the agriculturists agricul-turists are set forth : 1. Such returns as will fairly compensate com-pensate them for their capital invested, in-vested, their technical skill, their managerial man-agerial ability, and their manual labor. 2. That they and their families have social, educational. . and political opportunities op-portunities equal to those engaged in other Industries. The federal trade commission came to hat again with another of its reports attacking the big packers, stating they now handle more than 200 food products prod-ucts not related to the meat industry indus-try and bid fair to dominate the wlm'e-sale wlm'e-sale grocery trade, dividing the field among themselves. Of course the packers, this time through Louis B. Swift, declared the trade commission's figures were great- ly exaggerated and the conclusions i based on them utterly absurd. As usual, us-ual, the "big five" can supply facts and 1 figures to upheld their entire inno- j cence, but fur some reason the general j public has learned to look askance at j the statistics these gentlemen produce. This may he due to w hat the trade commission com-mission calls "the maze and secrecy of the packer's methods of conducting much of his business." One of the big jobs of the League of Nations will be to settle affairs in the Baltic states. Though General von dor Goltz submitted to his government and resigned, a large part of his army remained in Courland and. with a force of Russians, has been making a determined attack on Kiga. The Letts rallied to the defense of the city and were aided, according to report, by a British fleet. The most recent dispatches at this writing say the Rus-so-German forces were being slowly forced back. The Poles took part in the scrap, attacking the Germans in the rear, capturing Kovno and threatening threaten-ing the German lines of communication. At the same time the anti-bolshevik armies In Russia were steadily crush- Attorney General Palmer has been attacked in congress for bis apparent llaxity in dealing with the "red" menace men-ace in the United States, but if the |
