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Show NEWS REM OF CURRENT EVENTS Seniority Again Blocks Efforts to Settle the Railway Shopmen's Strike. EERT JEWELL HOT HOPEFUL Hlinols Miners Resume Work and Profiteers Boost Prices House Passes Coal Commission Bill Senate Acts Swiftly on Soldiers' Bon u s 6'aylng of Michael Mi-chael Collins. COAL miners and operators of Illinois Illi-nois reached an agreement on the lines of , that adopted ut Cleveland, the men winning all their contentions. Production was resumeu at once, but In thnt state as elaewherjp, and as was to be expected, the profiteers also reminied and prices began to climb, to the dismay of the consumers. I'roin various sources protests against this reached the authorities in Washington. Wash-ington. Congress, having been urged to action by President Harding, showed It was alive to the situation. The house took up the administration bill for a coal commission reported from the committee on Interstate and foreign commerce and speedily passed It, only reducing the salaries of the commissioners from $10,000 to $7,500 and the appropriation for Its expenses from $.")00,000 to $.".00,000. In accordance accord-ance with the desire of the President, Presi-dent, the bill prohibits the appointment appoint-ment of any operator or miner as a member. In the senate a similar bill Introduced by Senator Borah was consent In this letter the President refers to the unfavorable effect of the question of the sale of liquor on American ships oh the subsidy legislation, legis-lation, and also refers to opposition' which baa arisen to the feature of I the bill which provides tax exemption to shippers of freight on American ships equal to a percentage of the money paid for such shipments. The fact that It will be difficult to keep a full attendnace during the campaign period, he Indicates, also enters lnt the situation., ' THERE Is some reason to believe 'that the civil war in China la about over and that tho country will be united finder one or another of the strong men who have been leadtng the factions. The conferences at Shanghai lead to the prediction that this man will be Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, lately late-ly head of the southern government. President LI Yuan-Hung has laid he will resign In favor of Doctor Sun If the parliament approves, and General By EDWARD W. PICKARD SENIORITY rights were still block-lng block-lng a settlement of the railway Shopmen's strike as last week drew to a close, and though pt-ace efforts were eontlnued, their success was worse than problematical In view of the uncompromising un-compromising stand of both sides on the chief point in dispute." On Wednesday Wednes-day the Association of Railway Executives, Execu-tives, by a vole of 254 to 4, rejected the proposal of the ciders of the brotherhoods, acting as radiators, that the strikers be reinstated with seniority unimpaired. The brotherhood brother-hood leaders, after conferring with beads of other rail unions, suggested tie possibility of separate agreements with the railroads, and the executives said they would test the sincerity of this proposal, but with the distinct understanding that any Individual settlement would have to conform to Wu, the north China military leader, has pledged his support to Sun's policy pol-icy for reorganization of the govern ment. He also has the backing of the labor organizations, and of large delegations from various cities. TRULY a, martyr to the cause he served, Michael Collins, head of the Irish Free State and commander of Its armies, was slain last week by the republican rebels. In his death and that of Griffith Ireland has lost her two strongest leaders, but others will endeavor to carry on the work of establishing a government and restoring re-storing peace. Collins with a guard of a dozen men was making a tour of Inspection In County Cork and was ambushed by a party of several hundred hun-dred irregulars. The fight lasted an 1 hour until the general fell, shot through the head. He lived for 15 . minutes, cheering on his comrades and firing his revolver. Collins was scarcely thirty years old and was soon to be married. Ho was beloved by the Free Staters and highly respected re-spected by all Great Britain. He had labored earnestly to placate the republicans re-publicans and was planning to redraft some sections of the Irish constitution constitu-tion to which they objected. William T.Cosgrove Is now acting heaJ of the Irish provisional government PREMIER POINCARE, In an address ad-dress at Bar-le-Duc, reiterated and emphasized the Intentions of France concerning Germany. He said France was determined to make Germany Ger-many pay for the devastation she wrought In the war and that If necessary nec-essary he would act alone. He asserted as-serted that France would not consent to a moratorium of any character for Germany unless the German state mines of the Ruhr and the national forests are placed In the hands of the allies as a guarantee, and, no matter what happens, France will not depart from this policy. He denounced as false the claims that France sought to enslave Germany in revenge, but gave figures to show that Germany was responsible for her own collapse and that her failure to 'Ive up to the demands cf the reparations co-min-slon had been deliberate. He said the execution of the treaty and the payment pay-ment of reparations were vital to France, while Great Britain, finding Its Industries paralyzed and Its people peo-ple out of employment, was obsessed with regaining Its markets. H added: passed, and the two measures went to .conference for adjustment of the small differences. 1 Negotiations for the settlement of the anthracite strike were boken off, their failure seeming to be complete. Official Statements Indicated that the duration of a contract and the submission sub-mission to arbitration of any differences differ-ences were the stumbling blocks thnt could not be overcome by the negotiators. negotia-tors. Representatives of the mine workers insisted upon a contract at the old wage rate, to extend to April l. 1924. while the operators would not agree to a continuation of the old scale longer than next April. The miners maintained their stand against arbitration. JOHN SHANK, secretary of the trades and labor assembly of Sioux City, Ia Is authority tor the statement state-ment that plans are maturing for a general nation-wide strike of organized, organ-ized, labor. He says various union organizations have called on the executive council of the American Federation of Labor to call such a strlk.e. Probably this need not be feared while the more conservative element remains in control of . the council. However, the activities of the Reds and radicals are Increasing. Last week those chronic disturbers held a rather secret conference In Berrien county. Mlchlcan. federal and state agents of Justice watched them a few days and then made a raid. The radicals had leen warned, however, and only 17 were caught. William Z. Foster, one of their leaders, lead-ers, was arrested In Chicago. Much Red propaganda was seized and the officers said they hnd broken up a huge plot to foment violence In connection con-nection with the railroad strike. Michigan's syndicalism law, which has never before been used, was Invoked In-voked against the prisoners. It was said other radicals would be arrested, among them Row Pastor Stokes. According Ac-cording to the raiders, the propaganda seized In Michigan Included pamphlets pam-phlets advocating the overthrow of the government and the establishment of a soviet regime. SENATORS who are opposed to the soldiers' bonus seemed to have given up hope last week, or else they merely were In a hurry to get through with the bill and ro home. Anyhow, they were so supine that the senate broke Its speed records In adopting the finance committee amendments and taking up consideration of Individual Indi-vidual suggestions of changes. That the measure would be passed within a few days was conceded, and Senator McCumber said be din not believe the President would veto It, since the conditions that caused Mr. Harding and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon to seek delay last year have been met. Mr. McCumber placed emphasis on the points that the annual outlay for payment of the bonus has been reduced to such a figure that the argument ar-gument of the Inability of the treasury to bear the strain no longer holds good, and that the financial condition of the government and the country Is quite capable of withstanding the burden bur-den which the bonus will Impose. TI1K administration ship subsidy bill will not be considered further fur-ther by congress until the December session. This delay has been urged by the Republican leaders, and now President Harding In a letter to l!ey - ?nlatlve Mondell has given his the understanding of seniority reached at the general session of the executives. execu-tives. Most of the railroads also refuse re-fuse to agree to take back all of the strikers, as consistently demanded by the union. Bert M. Jewell, spokesman for the Btrlhers, was pessimistic as to a peaceful peace-ful settlement He Issued a statement state-ment saying: "The association of railway executives execu-tives has closed the door. The unions have offered every concession within reason to end the strike and to save the public from a breakdown of transportation, trans-portation, but the association has made none. On the contrary it has, since the strike began, raised an entirely en-tirely -new and Irrelevant Issue of its own seniority ; and by its refusal to recede from Its position has made a settlement Impossible at this time. The responsibility for what will bap-pen bap-pen now rests wholly upon It "The shop craft employees voted In June for a strike to establish a living wage and decent working conditions. The association of railway executives have now voted for a lockout to smash unionism on the railroads and to eliminate collective bargaining from the Industry. "The 400.000 striking employees accept ac-cept the challenge of the association. We redouble our efforts, confident of success." FROM the American Federation of Labor came an apieal to Its four million members to give their moral and financial support U the striking shopmen. It attributes to "the small but powerful group of bankers who control the finances of the railroads" the adoption of a policy by the rall-; rall-; roads of "bitter antagonism to the organizations of the workers," reaa-i reaa-i sorting what many unprejudiced persons per-sons believe, namely, that there Is a deliberate plan to destroy the unions. Most of the sporadic strikes of brotherhood men soon came to an end, but hist week the Southern railroad n-ns badly tied up by walkouts of train and engine men. The situation bei'Hine so serious that the superintendent superin-tendent of malls In tho southern district dis-trict planned to bundle mails by motortruck mo-tortruck service, with the possibility f f cnlling on the army to handle and prorect the trucks. ! Secretary of War Weeks Fiibl he did not believe the administration ivomd nuike further attempts to settle set-tle the railway strike, and added: t "The government Is not going to permit per-mit transportation service to break lown." "We are greatly disposed to aid other nations in the effort to restore the world. We know the world does not end nt our frontiers. We welcome wel-come a broad and generous European policy. We fervently desire to remalq allies of our allies and friends of our friends. We nsk nothing better than to resume with our enemies of yesterday yester-day pleasant and courteous relations. But we wish to have our ruins repairedand re-pairedand they will be." IN A month or so Great Britain, France nnd Italy are going to hold a conference on the Near East In Venice and they have Instructed Greece and the two Turkish govern ments to send representatives there to present their respective claims. Just to put themselves In the strongest strong-est possible position before this meeting, meet-ing, the Turks have begun a great of-fenstve of-fenstve acntiist the Greeks In Asia Minor. So'tet Russia, It Is suld. Is giving aid to the Turkish nationalists, national-ists, not dtudrlng peace there this fall. |
