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Show : !--J j ... - UfMlk .ml T " MaJ. Gen. Squler giving diplomas to gruduaies of U. S. signal school at Camp Vail. New York. 2--U A. there. Morton Howell of Ohio, first American gunboat isobel on her way to Nanchung. China, to protect missionaries mlulster to Egypt. of U convention appointed to con-&ido- r recent United States Supreme court decisions affecting labor cases recommended amendments to the Con-stitution prohibiting the labor of chil-dren under 10; prohibiting the 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 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 Interpreta-tion asserts a public policy at variance with the statutory declaration of con-gress, then If congress by a two-third- s majority repasses the law It shall 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 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. IRELAND Is pacified It will not IF. with the consent and aid of Eamon de Valera. niougn lipnlpn In of the worst labor clashes In ONE 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 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 bat-tle, surrendered and many of them were murdered In cold blood by their raptors. The number of dead Is 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 at-tempt to place tlie actual biauie or the disgraceful affair. to tlie request of the YIELDING 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 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 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 the Dull EIreann elections by a 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. prac-tically disenfranchise every honest re-publican. Directly connected with the Irish! trouble was the assassination In 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 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 and unification of China. Acting as an agent of 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 de-cided that Doctor Sun should be per-mitted to resign. President LI even formally invited Sun to go to Peking and assist him In reorganizing the general government. Meanwhile 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 gun-boats hurried to the protection of for elgners In that region. THE railway maintenance of way IF 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 un-ions will find themselves In direct con-flict with the government, for Presi-dent Harding has let It be known that he will, to the full extent of his 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 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 off-icials 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 mis-leading statements of this board's sen-timents and declarations, would be unjust to the men and to the public." So far as the shop vrafis are con-cerned, one of the three rersons for desiring a strike um.v be removed 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 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 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 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 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, conduct-ors and switchmen, are not Involved In the controversy. THE American Federation of La-bor IN convention In Cincinnati a reso-lution wsa Introduced calling for the repeal of the Cuinfnlns-E-s h 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 the present ndmlnlsiratlon Is tin friendly to us nnd we thought that it would be Inadvisable to pros the 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 sell-ing liquor on Anierjcan vessels. The Democrats again made It clear that they will keep this Issue alive. Mean-while the row over Chairman Lasker's policy has been temporarily quieted by the Issuance of nvv Treasury de-partment rulings declaring that the Volstead law does not apply on ves-sels outside the three mile limit. PROVIDING for an enlisted and currying about $iSS.450.iKl0. the naval appropriation bill was passed by the senate and sent to conference with the bouse. Tlie 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. RUSSIA", whose affairs are SOY1F.T considered this wwk by the International, commission at The 1 ague, thinks she has so modified her economic plans that the other powers must he satisfied. According to assistant commissar of for-eign affair, tlie central executive committee recently has en-larged the scope hf Its new economic policy, tanking new decree defining private property rights, regiil.it ing con tracts, reintroducing lawyers and pub-lic prosecutors, .and civil law, until now the government re-gards the guarantee problem as prac-tically settled. APPROVAL was given to the Yap 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. MORTON IIOWKLL of Ohio has J 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 posi-tion would seem to be especially wise, as he has hcn the American diplo-matic agent ' and consul general In the land of the Pharaohs. FRANK KELLOGG was SKNATOR 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 con-vention of 1 .)'( i. Another woman who came to the front In that convention, Mrs. Isetta Jewell Brown of West Vir-ginia, announces her candidacy for the jtenate subject to the DWKwrut 1 primaries of August 1. ifl I Pithy News Rotes From All Part of j ! UTAH 'I Option The city wtitor aywtem will' be extended thin .summer, ' 1 Brlgham CityMany streets arid 1 sidewalks will be Improved this sea j son. , - j Brlfhom City Peach Day will be reldlrutol ou September 20th Oils i year. - , Suit Ijike. rrlsoners at the state penltentlury were given a vaudeville entertainment this week. ,v s ( , Bountiful. A large quantity or cement sidewalks will be contrKted . j here this seuBon. t Ephralm John C. Johnson has beea ; grunted a poimion by the federal gor-- eminent ' ! ' t i Duchesne A new bridge Is needed across the Strawberry river and ef forts tire bclnj; made to fiuanco the . undertaking. s j Salt Lake Numerous anglers have) been fined by local authorities for catching and keeping trout less than seven inches long. , Salt Lake All railways having three or more employees must now report all uccldonts to the state industrial cimmlsslon. (, S.ilt Lakt. Practically all the coun-ties of the first class, as grouped by, the Utah state fair directors, have an n mi need that they will have agricul-tural and horticultural county exhibit at the state fair this year. Salt Lake James Metcalf, Jr. of Sa4 Lake, w as elected worthy president of the grand aerie of the Faternal Order of Dngles of Utah at the closing ses-sion of the annual state Eagles' con-vention. Bingham was selected as the meeting place of next years conven-tion. Logan A class of sixty-thre- e young Aomen of the city has enrolled for training In recreational leadership which is to be given here by leader from the Community Service, Inc., through the cooperation of local com. mittecs, of which George D. Cardon Is general chairman. Suit Lake Engagement Is announo ed by the state board of health oU A. M. Bedell now at Montgomery, Ala., as sanitary engineer for the board In Utah. Particular Interest attaches Ut the selection of Mr. Bedell at this time, was asserted by Dr. T. B, Peatty s'ate health commissioner, for the rea-son that Mr. Bedell has proved among other things, to be an expert In mo-squito control. His work In Alabama has given him considerable experience Moroni. Local sportsmen will or ranize to protect game and fish front improper exploiting. Spanish Fork. A building is to b erected in the city park for the use ol auto tourists. ;, Ogden. A fifty thousand dollai quote for the business district to apply on the Weber gymnasium has been raised. Salt Lake. Noxious weeds are to be battled to the death by the stats crops pest comissloner. New plans . for eradication are being laid. Salt Lake. George E. Trice, chnrg 4 with keeping trout less than seven Inches in length, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to pay a fine. Logan. A temporary organization of La Socite des Quarant Homines aa Hints Chevenu, the society that will put French frills on the Logan post of the American legion has been ef-fected. Salt Lake. The report of the pre-datory animal campaign shows thai during March, April and May 1. 416 artmals were l, which in-- , eluded four mountain lions. Signs of only on wolf were found In San luan county. Salt Luke. Durtr-- the flte years that the state Inrtrance fund has been established, the amount paid In premiums aggregate about $1j000,0OO, $,"10,ihk) has been pftd In benefits to Injured workmen nnd the assets of. the fund are $170,000 in excess of lia-bilities. Provo. Joseph Van Smith, for many years a resident of this city died at his home after a stroke of apoplexy. Mr. Smith was born in Salt Lake City January 11, lfi-18- , being one of tbs Hrst boys born in the Salt Lake tal-le- y. His piirenl. came to Utah witU th second company of emigrants. Sa't Lake A state tncwwe tax law reasons for its adoption nnd some considerations which must be weighed closely before fl'tch a law is enacted wre considered at a public hearing held by th( stctte lax commission nt the esipltol. Tho hearing was ad-journed, subject to the cull of William iUilley, chairman if the commission,' -- iiich has the duty of recommend I ing to the next legislature steps foi ' the revlsloa of the state's tavutlus sysUia 4 - A Complete History of Whal Hal Been Happening Thioughout the World. f " WESTEKM ; C. D. Klcher, wanted in Myton, Utah on a charge In connection with the embezzlement of funds belonging to the First National bank of that town, ; was arrested and turned over to gov. ernment officials at Portland, Oregon. With the shearing season nearlng an end In the Idaho district interest has centered on the shipment from the Gray's Lofce region of 100,000 pounds '' f wool sold to St Louis for 30 cents a pound. The lot was the largest ship-ment and was brought to one week's shipments totaled thirteen cars, St. Louis and Boston dealers getting the bulk. j A civil service examination to fill the postinastership at Suit Lake will be held July 25. The office, which pays $0000, will not become vacant until September 5. In the examination of candidates education and training wl.l constitute twenty of the hundred points the remaining eighty points cover business experience and fitness. As regards metallurgical operations, 1922 will probably, occupy a unicpie i place In mining history, in that two large milling plants of the most mod-ern type have been put In operation. The first new mill to start treatment of ore during the year was the Silver King Ooalllon Mines company's plant at Park City; the second, that of the Utah Consolidated Mining company. : Excessive heat and deficient mois-ture, with danger of premature ripen. Ing and shrunken yield, have had much WASHINOTON The interior department, prepara-tory to enlarging and rebuilding the Fort Hall Irrigation project In Idaho is sending to each land ownsr under that project a foim of agreement tin-der which they will be required to obll. gate themselves to the extent of $15.10 per acre to cover the costs of the work. Uncle Sain is nwiking money out of tils naval radio equipment. The com-mercial business carried not only re-duced the cost to the government of Its own business, but brought into the United States treasury more tliau (X)0,000 In cash In a year. Passage of the Dunn act, signed by President Harding, makes it possible for Utah to count on an additional $2,. 151,479 of federal aid for Utah roads, within the next three fiscal years? and will stir good roads enthusiasts of the fate up to proportionate actlTiy. The bill as passtHl provides $50,000,000 for fede.ml aid in he construction of roads on the feleral hlghawy system In the fiscal year begun July 1, $05,000,000 the following year and $75,000,000 in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925. The amount appropriated for the fiscal year now ending was $75,000,000. In-cluding fedenl aid previously approp-riated and still unexpended, Utah be-g- an tlie present calender year with about $2,250,000, in round numbers, to be allocatel to Utah road projects, in additon to a part of $1,100,000 which had already neen allocated and had been partially expended in road con-struction. The coal strike, almost forgotten by the public until the bloddy outbreaks In Illinois and We.-- t Virginia brought it forciblly to mind, has result?d dun Ing the twelve weeks of its life In cut. ting down available stock piles to with-- . 12,000,000 tone of the danger lin , according to reports to the geological survey and the department of com-merce. These agencies estimate that the industries of the country can con-tinu- e operation, at their present rate 'or about four weeks more and will 'hen have to curtail operations to a sis of four or five days a week, gen-erally because of the approaching coal shortage, now regarded as certain. to do with making wheat go higher In price. ' After completing a 150-mil- e trip over, land from Filer, Idaho, the wagon train successful bidders on the Elko.Hal-lec- k road contract, has arrived at Ooln, four miles east of Elko. A camp has been built, and the first earth moved on the $110,000 link of the Victory highway east of this city. It is expected that the entire twenty-mil- e strli of graveled highway will be completed thjs season, w perhaps the exception of the work incident to wetting down the suface of the gravel topping. GENERAL r Adoption of a program for a non- - partis! political campaign this fall to elect the friends of organized labor, and an overwhelming defeat of the radical forces that favored recognition of the Russian soviet government, marked the closing session Monday of the American Federation of Labor con. vention ntCincinnati. An invisible peril that has been lurk-- ! Ing for months, menacing thousands of lives and perhaps oausing death in many causes, was bared when the New York World obtained the admis-sion of the department of ugrlculture that It has condemned as unsife a vast quantity of chloroform sold from the army surplus stores. This chloroform, put up in small tin containers and in. tended for an enesthesla, has been distributed to surgeons and to hospi-tals throughout the county, itnd there is no way of telling at present how much of It hiis already been used In connection with operations. About 1.000,KX cn8 are said to have ten sold and It is estimated that possibly one-quart- er of it has decomposed t such an extent that to admirer it to a patient would be to Invito le.;th. Support of the movement in con-gress for reduction of second-clas- s postal rates will not receive official indorsement of the postoffice depart, ment, It was said at the department until a thorough Investigation has been completed and the department is assured that such proposed reductions will not imposa additional burdens. House and senate conferees on the army appropriation bill have agreed on a maximum of 12,000 officers as the permanent strength for the army for the next twelve months. FOREIGN Oxford unlverslkv has no academic gown large enough to fit the ample proportions of William Howard Taft, so the former president had a tailoi take measurements for a new robe; in which, lie recieved the degree of doc, tor of laws. Japan has sealed her pledge to pro-mote world peace taken at the limita-tion of nrmamenteonferenee at Wash . lngton by declaring her final decision lo withdraw her troops from Siberia and announcing to the vorld a policy of The diplomatic nd vlsory council at Tcfclo fixed Ottobei 30 as the day when the last Jnpimeif soldi r must be out of the maritime provinces of Siberia. With the murder recent'y of Dr. Valter Rathennn lieriiip.j loreign niln-lster- , who was shot down by unknown ssass'ns, political consequences, rndi. cul In tin Ir scone, are forecast Tii"-- ulent scen3s were enacted in thi re'ehst'g following the assassination Socialists nttackln'j Nationalist mem. liers trying to drive them from V chamber. The Spanish st punier Itenulic I? t to depart from Spain through t'u Panama canal. Ti e f teair.er will car--- n cari'O of various Siianlsh prmiuc's William Rockefeller, who with his older brother, John !.., built up the family m!ll!;r.s in the l !n1'i-- y, d'ed of pneumonia complicated by a recurrence of kidney trouble r--t his country estate overlooking the Hudson l iver from North Tnrrytown. He was 81 years old. Governor Len Small was acquitted of a charge of conspiracy to nv!ie7-r.l- e Illinois state funds, after one of the nut sons'ition-'- l tral's In the his-tory of Illinois. The Jury was out only an hour and thirty-fiv- e minute. j Lack of nerve on the part of Sheriff Melvin Thai ton of Williamson county Illinois and the killing of two union miners by guards were two of the cases assigned for tlie nmssicre of twenty-fiv- e wtrlkebreakers In a report made over long-distanc- e telephone to Adjutant GorerM Black by Major Gen-- e al Milton J. Foreman. Generally favorable rondi:lons for the harvesting of grain jind hay and for the cultivat'on of crops, except In some imithe;isfo:n ami north central sftes. wore recorded by "the weather bur. no i:i l!s weekly weather and crop review. Fifty thousand workers of the men's ctot'ilng industry left thflr Jobs throughout the metropolitan area of Ne v York to force manufacturers to let their work out to registered union Contractors. or commercial propaganda. Wu Ting-Fang- , former min'ster to Washington, more recently foreign minister for Sun Yat Sen In the dls rupted soul) e-- n government t Canton is dead. Madame Slarie Itulsj Bcssaraho wri'er of feverish verse and snsa-tiona- l stories under the namp of Hera Mnrtel, was convicted at Paris of the murder of her husband and fdilpplnc tha body away In a trunk, and sen-tenced to twenty years' hard labor upon a confession made in opin court by her daifiiter, Pauls Jacques, tried Jointly with her, but acq.iltted when the mother, who had just been condemned by her daughter, became her daughter's defender; she Implored tlie Jurors! mercy for her daughter and later, when she was' convicted and the daughter acquitted, she thnnked the Jury for setting her daughter free, Complete returns in the elections fo a new parliament in southern Ireland show that the boyd will lie made up Ot fifty-eig- protre'aty representatives filr'thy-sl- x ant". treaty reprose.nttatlvei, six iihie!" ndcnt-- and four mombert from Trinity college. Field Marshal Wilson of the h'n;-lisl- i army was asslsluated .. tlie re. ti 1 of conspiracy on tlie part "of an nrchists who fire said to plan a can;. pai;;n of assignation of English not sbles. |