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Show t.uertuMit troop re-enterm .v..iKwg. lesions in Oertuany . by iluiMclt. i'ts eiewitois and waro-houses waro-houses In Baltimore burning, the Ions uein;? over si.oou.uua 3. Passenger coaches tied up in Ilurlem yards, New Tork, by the shopmen's strike. , ; ' NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Railway Executives Refuse to Enter Negotiations to End . Shopmen's Strike. don some of their mall trains. In rase the proclamation were Ignored, the administration laid plans for the Institution of civil and criminal proceedings pro-ceedings against Individual offenders and the 'unions. It was understood that for the present the various states would he relied on for protection of workers and trains, but If any failed, the federal troops would be called out, and possibly soldiers and marines would be placed on the mall trains. The President Is determined to back jp the federal labor board to the full extent of his powers. four vessels of not more than 100 tons burden, each carrying not more than one 18-pound gun. M King thought this an opportune tlrae to suggest to our government that the agreement be given permanency In a formal treaty. Son.e of the authorities author-ities in Washington thought the Canadian Cana-dian prime mlnlstev was -"trying to take a flier of his own In the dlo armament market lor political purposes." pur-poses." ' NOTWITHSTANDING the strong opposition of France, It appeared probable the allied reparations com- mission would grant Germany's formal for-mal request for a moratorium on cash reparations payments, after the payment by Berlin of the $8,000,000 due on July 15. The amount was reduced re-duced from $12,500,000 by the crediting credit-ing of Germany with $4,500,000 on delivery of coal and dyes. The moratorium mora-torium asked is for 30 oonths and the prediction was thai It would be' granted on condition that the allies be given control (it Germany's finances during that pnd. The French asserted the collapse of the mark end the threatened financial downfall of Germany Is due to the German Ger-man policy of Usuln, unlimited marks and to extravagant government expenditures, ex-penditures, and that (he granting of a moratorium would not change the basic factors. They believe, In fact, that Germany has deliberately engineered engi-neered her own Insolvency In order to obtain a reduction of the reparations repara-tions bill. In Paris it was said the chamber of deputies would overthrow any cabinet that consented to a moratorium mora-torium unless there was a remission of the allied debts. GREAT BRITAIN has no Intention of asking that her war debt to America be cancelled. Fremler Lloyd George has decided to name delegates dele-gates at once who will come to Washington Wash-ington to confer regarding the refunding refund-ing of the debt in accordance with the terms of the Mellon. act. These delegates are to have plenary powers pow-ers and are to assure the United States officials that Great Britain does not consider the American debt as Involved In Europe's war debts or la the reparations. ' Gold shipments to pay the Interest will begin In August DODGING and squirming and evading evad-ing direct replies to direct queries, the Russian delegates in the International conference at The Hague had, by the end of the week, brought that conference Just about to the hreaklng-up point. Their efforts were PR0MT10N BY HARDING He Warns Against Interference With Mails and Strikers Reply France Opposes Moratorium for GermanyAttitude Ger-manyAttitude of Russians Disrupt The Hague Conference. By EDWARD W. PICKARD STRENUOUS efforts to brmg to an end the strike of railway shopmen were made last week by Chairman Hooper and his colleagues of the federal fed-eral labor board, but np to the time of writing these had been entirely unsuccessful un-successful and the status of affairs did not give much hope of an early peace. Late Wednesday night the railway rail-way executives took action that In the minds of many placed on them the burden of blame for the failure of negotiations. ne-gotiations. They flatly refused to enter en-ter Into a parley with B. M. Jewell, leader of the strikers, and their reasons rea-sons were held by Mr. Hooper to be In the main quite Insufficient. They demanded de-manded that the shopmen abandon their strike and then proceed to settle set-tle their grievances- through the tabor board. They declined to. meet Jewell on the ground that, the men having struck In defiance of the decision and order of the board and the controlling provision of the transportation art, "the Issue thus raised Is not one for consideration between the carriers and the representatives of the organized crafts on strike, except through the further orderly processes before the United Slates railroad labor board, as contemplated by the transportation act" Unbiased opinion will agree with Mr. Hooper's statement that the executive execu-tive gave no reason that would satisfy the pwbllc. He continued: "In so far s the declination Is based on a desire to preserve the authority and dignity of the railroad labor board. It Is superfluous. super-fluous. The labor board will endeavor to take care -of Itself In that regard. The statement In the letter that the strike Is a refusal to accept the results of the srbltratlon of the railroad rail-road labor board," falls a little short of accuracy. One of the questions Involved In-volved In the strike Is violation of the boards decisions by certain carriers. car-riers. P. Is true nearly all of the carriers car-riers have discontinued this practice, but some of them have not." Chairman Hooper Intimated that new peace plans of the board Involved appeals to the railway lines Individually. Individu-ally. In many parts of the country, especially es-pecially the Middle WefcC T(-as, and on the Pacific coast, the disorders due to the strike became Increasingly violent, vio-lent, and a numlr of men were killed. In several states the militia was called out, and in some localities, notably Bloomliigton, 111., the engineers, engi-neers, firemen and trainmen rebelled On Thursday, at the direction of the President, Secretary Weeks ordered or-dered troops held In readiness to protect pro-tect the lines of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas road in Texas, where operations op-erations were Impeded by lawlessness and violence. This was In response to on appeal from the receiver of the railway who was appointed by a United Unit-ed States court. Announcement was made by the Post Office depaitmeiit that If every mall train sbtd cense to run, It would continue to transport malls by motortrucks and airplanes. The department de-partment has 50 planes, and the government gov-ernment owns thousands of trucks belonging to various department In response 10 the President' proclamation proc-lamation the executive conncll of the shopcrafts unions sent him a long telegram setting forth the grievances of the strikers. The labor board was, by implication, charged with partial-lty, partial-lty, and the railroads were accused of specific violations of the law and of disregarding the orders of the board. The workers, It was asserted, have been and are ready to negotiate with the railway executives and struck only as a last resort. "We respectfully re-spectfully Insist," continued the telegram, tele-gram, "that no Interruption of commerce com-merce or Interference with the malls Is caused by direct or unlawful acts of organised employees. Such Interruption Inter-ruption and Interference results Inevitably In-evitably from attempts of railroads to operate with Insufficient, Incompetent and unskilled workmen." At the close of the week all that prevented an Immediate strike of the maintenance of way men was the determination of their president, E. F. Grable, to keep them at work for the present. A majority of their general gen-eral chairmen had requested that they be called together to plan for a walkout. walk-out. The stationary firemen and oilers decided to quit work on July 17. CHICAGO was facing an almost complete tleup of Its local transportation trans-portation facilities. The surface street car men already had voted to strike against a wage reduction of 20 cents on hour, and on Thursday the employees em-ployees of thj elevated roads aleo voted for a walkout. The unions agreed on a Joint policy and plan of action, and there was hope that further fur-ther negotiations might svert a strike. The situation was complicated by local politics and the deBlre of some of the city ofllclals that the tnunlcl-pall'y tnunlcl-pall'y should take over the surface roais and operate them. '"pHUS far only partial success has been nchlvwl hy President Harding Hard-ing In his attempt to end the coal strike. The anthracite operators submitted sub-mitted what he regarded as a complete com-plete acceptance of his pnn of arbitration, arbi-tration, but the bituminous operators and the miners union had not at this writing sent in their reply. Government Govern-ment officials thought both sides were directed toward rupturing the solidarity solidar-ity of the non-Russians so that they might lay the blame for failure op some and then enter separate nego tlations with others, especially the British. In this they seemed to have failed, for the British stood solidly with the French and others In the demand de-mand that the Russians recognize the pre-war debts, give guarantees for fhe credits they asked, and state definitely defi-nitely on what terms they would restore re-store foreign property to Its owners. All tiilH the Russians refused to do, and tlielr attitude made so useless further continuation of the confer ence that many of the delegates an ranged to start for home at once. ALTHOUGH the Irish Free State forces are successfully "mopping upf' the rebellious republicans, the disorder In the Island Is still such that the first session of the new parliament parlia-ment has been postponed again Until against working under military guard. Sympathetic strikes were talked of. The leaders of the brotherhoods held everal conferences and said their men vould continue to operate trains up to the point whre the military occupation occu-pation began. President Ilelt of the railway signalmen sig-nalmen announced that his organization organiza-tion had postponed striking pending negotiations with the labor board which are nnw.nndw way. On one Eastern road all tt-e clerks struck. evading an Immediate decision with the Intention of rejecting the settlement settle-ment plan If public opinion seemed to approve such a course. Two conditions con-ditions to the anthracite operators' acceptance were that a seporate com. mission consider wage scales, and that the commission render Its decision de-cision by August 10, they agreeing to pay In the meantime the scale of March 17. PIIEMIER MACKENZIE, KING of Canada, went to Washington last week and submitted to Secretary of State Hughes an Interesting and, on the face of it, a reasonable proposal. This" was thot lb Rash Begot agreement agree-ment between Great, Britain an! the United Utes;.Votieen44g the Gseat I jit et and the other .boundary .waters betw'ren th1 'country and Canadu be modernized and made permanent. The agreement! hlch has stood.for 105 years and k terminable , on . six mouths' notice'.' 'limits the armament n the Mr and the 8. Lawreme to August 15. By then, It is believed, conditions will be normal ami there need be no Involuntary absentees. .Ulster has thrown another monkey wrench into the new Irish machinery. Premier Sir James Craig says Ulster will not participate in the Joint commission com-mission which, under the treaty, was to have carefully marked out the frontier between the north and the south. The border, as It now stands. Is a continual source of strife ON TUE recommendation of Senator Sen-ator McKlnley and McCormlck end the Illtnvrs Bar association, President Pres-ident Harding has named James H. 'Wltt.erson of t Chicago to ' be federal judge of 4he pnpthern district .-of HIV not to succeed Jodge Lendls. ' ' Mr. Wllkerson has bad a long career as county attorney, member ' of- the - nil; nols legislature, asinsianf and Iet United WateardlsLctettoro-A8l assistant tbAttorney Oisxirel Bmn dage of Blinds rteterinlned to it rd federal Inter-:ts. Inter-:ts. the administration at Washlng-4op Washlng-4op h been keeping vUmit tab on the developments; and President Harding teaoed 'a' jfoclaitMtten-. "directing all , sjersoM te efrali. with all taferfe-r. ."with Vhe lawful effrr to motn-! motn-! UH .ldteiTe"tnnfiMirtatfi'n and thr :' carrying ofr-tI United Sfaies malls." .Thieiwe ibmi -after post master " Uen-.'ereJ Uen-.'ereJ Work hsd submitted to the Csh-lnumefi.ns Csh-lnumefi.ns lritn .f Mnterfer. .Hnr .;'wtth 'the transporte'iion of the i mee end the lnformntlon thst a num-I num-I be ef reads keen forced to abaa- |
