The Seaforth News, 1919-10-09, Page 7BRITISII RAILWAY STRIKE
SETTLED ED BY A° COMPROMISE
'Goveriareent Offers to Contin/le Present Wage Scale Foe Twelve
1Vfontlao Instead of Sin, the Union: of Railwaymen
to Resume Work at Orate
5 -With dramatic throughoot haye set their faces stead
London,
in . Oct. Sympathetic
sunder ic: the billet of the London; ilyagainst the 5rlta of a syxrtp
Sunday afternoon, ,1 was annou'ncedl .tr,ike ural; every possible avenue of
to a knot of people waiting in Down -II mediation bad been explored,
iag Street that the great railway; The official terms of settlement of
'strtko, which appealed to have; the railsaytuen,,'s alike are .;., f,;,1-
brought the country almost to the' lows: R uti ec( iinniecli
brink of revolution, was _hall settled, anal 1. Work be r e s
that the strikers would resume work ate,y' f ions will be resumed on
as quickly as possible. 2. Negot at
The terms of the ,settlement are in, the understanding that they shall be
the nature bf a compromise. The Na- completed 'befcre the elect of the year.
tionn..l Union of Railwaymen agrees to. 3. Wages will be stabilized at the
present level until Sept. 30, 1920, and
call off the strike, and the Govern -
meat consents to a renewal of the
negotiation's, the ehntinuance of the
existing wage scale foe another year,
Indeed of six months, as previously
offered, and the e tablishment of a
minimum wage' of 51 shillings while
the cost of living is 110, per cent.
above the pre-war level.
The settlement was the result of
a long conference to -day _between a
'Trade Union delegation, including re-
pres••entetivcs of the Railwaymen's
Union, and Premier Lloyd George and
.Andrew, Boner Law in the famous
conference room loo Downing Street.
Prior to this there was a Cabinet
meeting.
It is .conceded on all ,aides that the
settlement is the outcome of the mod=
•erdted but determined effort of the
executive of the Transport Workers'
Federation and men like Arthur Hen -
demon and John Robert Clynes, who
at any time after Aug. 1 they may be
reviewed hi the light of circumstances'
then existing. 7 -_
4, No adult raliwayman in Creat
Britain shall receive less than 51 shill-
ings per week while the cost of living
is 110. per cent. above the pre-war
level.
6. The Railway Union agree that
the men will work harmoniously with
the mea who returned to work or who
remained at work during the strive.
Nor ehail there be any victimization
of etr'kers.
0. Arreitre of wages will be paid on
resumption of work.
'The people of Britain, particularly
those o1'.London, will long remember
the past ten days as the most remark-
able experience, apart from the war,.
en their day. Nothing except the ,'tis
raids has ever so disorganized the
normal life of the country. '
MANY 'A 'RICANS GERMANS RAZE
MOVING TO CANADA RHINE FORTRESSES
.38,222 Settlers Crossed the Bor. French Oversee Dismantling of
der in the Last Eight Months. Works About Mayence.
A despatch from Ottawa says:- Mayence, Oct. 5. -The task of dis-
mantling the twelve ancient forts,
Io Cesn
Immigration from the UnitediStates which surround Mayence and protect
to Canada for the first eight months the crossing of the Rhine, has been
of 1019 shows an increase 7079, as begun, by ,the Germans under the
compared with the figureses for the
supervision of the French army of
year. period last year. occupation, The work, which is be -
From January 31st to August ^ist in carred out in conformity with
this year 38,222 parsons entered Can- the provisions, of the peace treaty re-
ada as settlers from the States, of
quiring the dismantlement of Ger-
whom 17,818 were of the farming manys RQune fortresses, probably
class, 11,009 being adult males, 3,308 will require more than a year, as
the job is tedious and necessitates
much blasting.
Sand and gravel resulting from e
adult females and 3,773 children under
14 years of age. During the same
period in 1918, 12,663 persons of the
Grin and lin Stnc
Ilreedtr0's. I 've poultry -Sprung chickens; 22
Toronto, Oct 7. --Manitoba wheat- to 280fowl 23 to 2,50; ducks, 22 to
No. 1 Northern $2,30; No 2 Northern, 250.
{
$2.27; Nc. 8 Nerthere, $2.G,i, in store
Fort I e GBfratn-$5C7aan,adpiraunn, ehsa, n$d1-p2i5ctkeod X4bu7s6:;,
Willi:m,
Man'tobn oate-No 2 CW, 821e 'Imported, hand-picked, Burma, $4.00;.
No. t CW, 22'h c; cram No, 1 fed, Lanae, 15 to 10c,
182,A,c No.c; No, 2 i 24
l to ey-eEYOo-lhted clover, 5 to 240;
'i11! c iu :-tare Ce '. iilixm,
Irian trLa ba 1 y- ^�o 3 Gv; , ; t 0 Ib Linn, 23 to 2'1c h tc.l;wheat CO -lb.
p1.2r',5; No. 4 4 Td, $(.24%; rejected, t a, 1.8 to 20e; Comb,16-os., $4.50 to
•1.13 feed $L.7h, in :tore Feet Wil- • `b .de ;.; 10 or $3.50 to ,r dozen,
;lain. Macho pr ^ucte-°gasp, per imper-
American corn-No.yellow,:nom-
nel; No. 4 yellow, lens, i al.
Ontario oats ---No. white, SO to
I38c according to freights outside.
j Ontario a. heat --Ne'. I •V'lintel, per
Isar lot, $2 to $2.06; No. 2 do, $1.07 to
No. 3 do, $1.93CO $1.99, f.o.b.
`shipping points, according to freights,
Ontario Wheat-No.1 Spring,$2.02
to $2.08; No.2 Spring,$1.99 to $2.96;
No. 3 Spring, $1.95 to $2.01f.o.b.
shipping points, according t.' freights.
Barley -Malting, $1.27 to $1.30, ac-
cordingto-freights outside.
g sl.
Buckwheat-I`lomct.a
Rye -Nominal.
Manitoba' flour --Government stand
erre '$11., Toronto.
Ontario flour -Government stand-
ard, Montreal and Toronto, $9.40 to
$9.60 in. jute bags, prompt shipment.
Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Mont-
real freights, bags included: Bran,
per ton,' $45; Shorts, peg ton,' $55;
good feed fibler, per bag,$5.50.
Hay-N'o. 1t per ton, 24 to $26;
mixed, per ton, $16 to $20, track, To-
ronto.
t5traw-Cllr lots, per ton, $10 to $11,
track, Toronto.
Princess Mary at Edinburgh, decorating Lt. -Col. Loch, 0,C. the 1st
Royal Scots, of •which the Princess is Colonel -in -Chief.
WESTERN TOWNS
GREET THE PRINCE
Medicine Hat Welcomes Him
With a Tower. of Flaming
Natural Gas.
A despatch from Swift Current,
Sask., says:-Saskatchevran on Friday
welcomed the Prince of Wales back
from the West, and the enthusiasm
of the smaller communities along the
way bore witness to the Prince's pop-
ularity here. At Maple Creek, Tomp-
kins, Gull Lake and Swift Current,
the Royal party made short stops, to
find nearly all the population out to
greet the Prince.
Inspections of veterans and pres-
entations of medals were performed
at the bigger teems, Medicine Hat
class entered Canada, of th on Friday welcomed the Pr nee ev
farming demolition of the fort at Gonsenhr,im, a tower of flame, pocket of natural
whom 7,739 were adult males, children2,2seven miles from Mayeuce, will be gas was ignited, and, as the Prince's
adult4
ncle14 years, and 3,400 he 2used for commercial purposes, Some automobile reached it, millions of feet
under years age. the i other per -0- gravel alxeadv has been t of gas p in 1' 1 d
404, which, added to 17,815 rovin = roads in the region of May -
eons of the farming class, make a total encs
of 38,222 for the first eight months of
this year, were made up of laborers,
mechanics, miners, clerics, etc., with RURAL TELEPHONES
used for im- i flame over us les •
The Royalparty wi Satur-
day morning in Moose Jaw and the
week -end in Regina.
their fnmilies et al.
PRINCE OF WALES WILL
NOT TOUR UNITED STATES
A despatch from Washington
says: -The Prince of Wales who now
is touring Canada, will come to Wash-
ington In about a mouth for a visit
of three days, but he will not make
a tour of the United States, Mayor year." Babcock of Pittsburg has just been, ye "
aThe r.statemeent has frequently been
informed by Chairman Wester of the heard that itforecast
House Foreign Affairs Committee, is impossible a
"I am reliably informed," said Mr. the development in a city or town, and
Worter, "that it is the wish of the therefore not practical to plan cons
British Government that the Prince prchensively foe its future growth.
of Wales, upon leaving Canada, should Unfortunately, places in this country
spend but three 'days in Washington, have been unplanned from the be -
returning to New York thereafter, Laming, and by tfeating additions and
from whence he sails for Burope, and developments in piecemeal fashion, a
chaotic growth has occurred, resulting
thata tour of the United States in the above erroneou. deduction. The
should not be made." leading cities in the United 'States
have recognized the dangers,, and
LONGEVITY OF BRITISHERS harmful consequences of unregulated
INCREASED BY 12 Y1IA11S expansion, and have been adapting
regulations as to use, districts and
A despatch front New York says:-- building restrictions." -Saskatchewan
Fifty per cent, of tate ailments from Municipal Department.
which persons under 70 years of age -----•.�-
suffer are preventable and should be BLOCKADE ON GERMANY
prevented, declared Sir Arthur News- TO FORCE COMPLIANCE
holme, formerly principal medical
s officer of the Local Government tsoard A despatch from Paris says:--T']ie
of England, in addressing the Acid- blockade of Germany ' which was
emy of Medially here, Sir Arthur threatened 'by the allies in east the
said that as a result of Government German troops of General von der,
effort in connection with the medical Galtz were not removed front the
fraternity, the average longevity of Baltic region is being enforced. No
men and women in England has been food ships are permitted to start for
increased between eleven and twelve Germany until further orders . am
issued.
IN SAS'HE.I,YAN
Rurat telephone construction •this
year in the Province of Sasatchewen
is stated by Mr. D. C. McNab to be
slightly above normal, with conditions
healthy and prospects bright. "While
there have been years," said Mr. Me -
Nab,' "in which more rapid develop-
ment has been made, it is estimated
that from 7,500 to $8,000 new tele-
phone mileage will be completed this
Porridge and milk forest, it is said,
an almost perfect diet.
Years do the last decade,
tel gai1on 9 45 to 22.50; leer 5 im-
tierial gallons. $2.35 to $2.40; sugar,
'lb., 27e.
Provisions. --W hoieaale.
KING ALBERT OF BELGIANS
ARRIVES AT NEI', YORK
A despatch from New York says: --
King Albert of the Belgians, accom-
panied by Queen Elizabeth and Prince
Leopold, arrived early on Thursday
morning on the transport George
Washington. The liner was escorted
through the narrows and up the bay
to the pier at Hoboken by a flotilla
of destroyers.
Vice -President Marshall and See-
retaries Lansing and Balser and Gen-
eral Marsh welcomed the King on be-
half of President Wilson.
Owing to the illness of the Presi-
dent, King Albert will not visit the
White House until after his tour of
the country.
WEDDING CAKE WAS
SENT BY AIRPLANE
A despatch from Paris says: --Sir
Norman Leslie, Air Attache at the
1111 British Embassy, sent over to London
for a wedding cake, but the railway
strike prevented it being delivered by
the ordinary route, and the cake was
sent over by airplane express from
Hounslow. The cost of carriage of
the cake, a big one, sufficient for sixty
people, was $15.
Country Produce -Wholesale.
Butter -Dairy, tubs and rolls, 38 to
40c; prints, 40 to 42c. Creamery,.
fresh made solids, 52% to 53e; prints,
53 to 53%e.
Eggs -53 to He.
Dressed poultry -'Spring chickens,
25 to 300; roosters, 25c; fowl, 20 to
25c• ducklings, 25 to 30e; turkeys, 36
to 4Oc; squabs, doz., $4.50.
Live poultry -Spring chicken's, 22
to 25c; roosters, 20c; fowl, 18 to 260;
ducklings, 20e; turkeys, 30e.
Cheese -New, large, 28 to 29c;
twins, 28% to 29x%; triplets, 29 to
30o; Stilton, 31 to He.
l tter--Fresh dairy, choice, 47 to
49c• creamery prints, 60 to 58e.
in chickens,
Smoked meats ---Hams, medium, 44
to 46e; do, heavy, • 88 to 40e; ca ked,
FS to 60c rolls, 35 to 27c; breakfast
basun, 49 to 55c; hacks, plain, 61 to
53e; boneless, 54 to 57e; clear bellies,
32 to 34e.
Cured meate-Long clear baron,; 33
to 84e; clear bellies,32 to He,
Lard -Pure tierces, 32 to 32%e;
tabs 32% to 33c; pails, 32% to 33x4.c;
prints, 33% to 34c. Compound tierces,
27 to 27xe; tubs, 27% to 28e; .pails, MA.,of Limekiln and India.
27% to 28%c; prints, 29 to 29 ✓sc,
Montreal Markets. Selkirk has purchased grounnd from
Montreal, Oct. 7. -Outs, extra No, the British Linen Bank'. in Ettrick
1 feed, 96e, Flour, new standard grade, Etc a site for a war memorial. '
$11 to $11,10. Rolled oats, bag 90 lbs., Tub old -age seeneIoners of 'Iiilsltb
$4.90 to $5. Bran, $46. Shorts, 55 were each given a
Tidingsfrom Scotia d
R. W. Duff, of Stirling, has been
appointed burgh eurveyor of Strep
rear.
Wee lewisee.. eon of Duncan Ewing,
La.gggen, has been appointed British
Corm). at Washington.'
Captain A. T. Smith, a native of
eeobies, has been made a chevalier
of the Legion of Honor. •
• The death lonetaken place hi Iled-
dleanaker of W. H. Hume, a well-known
Border marksman. •
Major Lewls° Gibson, • D.S.O., of,
Orrell, has hoes awarded the French
Croix :de Guerra and Star.
F. C. Garstiner, Old Ballikinrain.,,line
been .appointed` president of the K11-
carn Agricultural SoClete.
esonog the recipients of the Order
of the British Empire is 'W. Moodie,
gift of £1 with
Hay, No.. 2, per ton; car lots, $22to winch to help In celebrating pewee,
$28. Cheese, finest eastern", see.
Butter, choicest creamery; 54 to 54x%c. The cletith is :announced of Mrs. E.
Eggs, fresh, 68e; selected, 64c• No. 1 Puller, wife of Major Edward Pealar,
stock, 57e; No. 2 ,oek, 52 to 5�4c. Po- Westerton House Bridge df Allan.
tatoes, per bag, car lots, $1.50 to $1.60,
Dented hogs, abattoir killed, $25.50 Alex• it. Forbes. Ivi.A•, l,agto Durno,
to $26. Lard, pure, wood pails, 20 Aberdeenshire, has been appointed
lbs, net, 31% to 32eic. headmaster of Fishcross Public
Live Stock Markets. Sclsool.
Toronto, Oct. 7.-Ohoiee heavy Sergt, Charles Gardiner, of 7 Abbey .
steers, $13 to $13.50; good. heavy Road, Stirling, has
been
Medaawarded the
steers, $12.50 to $12.75; butchers'cat- Meritorious Se
l.
tie, choice, $12 to $12.50; do, good, The death has occurred of James
$11.25 to $11.50; do, med., $10 to Shanks Ritchie, for 52 years registrar
c nice; $10do, corn., $7 to $7:60; bulls, of births, marriages and deaths at
choice, to $10.60; do, med, $9.50 Denny.
to $9.75; do, rough, $7.60 to $8; but-
cher cows choice, $10.25 to $10.75; Flight Sergeant W. Angus, of Crieff,
do, good, $9 to $9.25; do, med., $8.50 was one of the engineers of the R-34
to $9; do, con., $7 to $7.50; stockers, when she made her voyage across the
$7.50 to $10; feeders, $10 to $11.25; Atlantic: '
canners and cutters, $5 to $6.25; milk- The Callender war memorial will be
ers, good to choice, $110 to $160; do> built of stone, 35 Peet high, and brass
corn, and med., $65 to $75; springers, plates will contain the names of tite
Margarine -86 to 38a $90 to $150; light ewes, $7.60 to $9.50; fallen soldiers.
Eggs -No. 1's 57 to 68c selects Gl
yearlings, .,$13.75 �too$14.r5; calves, gooper -
to 62c. choice, $_.17..50_1:o_ ...$_21.5_0: hogs, fed and
Dressed poultry -Spring ger__,-•
30 to 35c; roosters, 23 to 25c; fowl, watered, f.o.b.,$1; 6.75; o dos to farm;
30 to 34c; turkeys, 40 to 45c; duck;- $18; do,$16.7 ,
ings, 34 to 35c; squabs, doz., $o. era, $1660 ^_.-_
, __._.__._..�.. AND SEEN -
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r00 000 RETURN BYMOTOR;
���f�A three -acre farm in Lower With
_ melon, Cheshire, was sold recently
THE TOY -MAKERS
Ex -Airman Fritz: --"Trust me eo find those British nurseries,
damped 'toys' on 'Me before!, -London Evening News.
(German toy -makers, are again se citing a market for their g
tale and Canada).
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Events to England,
Strike Bills to be Paid by Britain
Amount to Million Pounds
a Day.
London, Oct. 6. -Business men are
inclined to estimate the total loss to
the nation through the strike as ap-
proximately 50,000,000 pound's, ac-
cording to'the Daily Mail, but it will
be a long time before the cost if fully
determined. The bills to be paid by
the Government probably will amount
to 1,000,900 pounds for. each day of
the strike, covering a variety of serv-
ices necessitated, ,in addition to the
unemployment pay of those made idle
by',the stoppage, numbering more than
335,000.
The loss to industry is far greater.
Perishable goods in many ease wre
destroyed; many works stoppedop-
erations, almost ell export trade ceas-
ed, and orders were lost -through the
uncertain conditions.
The railwayent 300,000 ho were
pounds
eight days, sir
strike pay, the emergency funds of
the National Union of Railwaymen
being depleted -'to that extent, and in-
curred besides many other expensbs.
Prince of Wales Impressed
By Western Canada's Welcome
Regina, Sask., Oct. 4. -In his reply
to the Provincial Government's ad -
•dress of welcome to -day, the Prince of
Wales referred to the touching recep-
tion which lie has been given
at the ' smaller towns along
the route in Saskatchewan dur-
ing the last two days. In most of
these the Royal party has been unable
to halt for more than a few minutes,
and in some it could not stop at all.
The Prince extends his thanks to all
these communities for their loyalty
andand friendliness in coming
stations to add their voices toe
general welcome wliioh has been
ex-
pensed,
No Trains Owing to Railway
Strike in Great Britain.
A despatch from London says: -
The -King and Queen are returning by
motor ear from Scotland, though it
was at first -suggested that they trig on either side.
should return south •by means of a In twenty-eight weees, 1'35,258 rats
i
for $2,800.
Four acres of King's Wood, at Leeds
Castle, near 141aicistoue, have been des-
troyed by fire.
'Nichols Street. !loxton, is the long-
est street in London, without a tura-
destroyer from Aberdeen.
The Royal. luggage was conveyed by
water, but their Majesties hope to
conclude their lengthy trip from Bal -
Moral with one halt.
were killed in Leicestershire, at a
cost to the County Council of £1,552.
In a long-distance swim in the -Med-
way, Ethel Appleyard, a girl of four-
teen, completed the ten -mile course.
Since the Canadian Forestry Corps
LARGEST GRAIN CARGO ES loft Smith's Lawn Camp, the rats,
EVER CARRIED ON LAKES
i have made an advance on Englefield
whole of a twenty -acre field of
says -The Port Arthur -built freight -
barley, belonging to John Richards,
Green.
A despatch from ;'ort Arthur The
er W. Grant Morden cleared for Poe*
McNiicoll with 503,15335 bushels of
wheat, the largest grain cargo ever
carried on the lakes. The value of the
wheat is .$1,150,000.
FRENCH DEPUTIES
RATIFY TREATY
A despatch from Paris says: -The
Chamber of Deputies on Thursday
ratified the German Peace Treaty by
a vote of 372 to 53.
The Chamber then took up the
treaties between France and the Unit-
ed States and France and Great Bri-
tain.
The Franco -American and Franco -
British treaties were unanimously
ratified.
A total of of 501. votes was cast for
the two treaties.
GET NO MORE PHOTOS
OF GRAVES IN FLANDERS
A despatch from London says: -
The' Secretary of the War Office an-
nounces that 'the Directorate of the
Graves Registration and Inquiries
is unable to receive any furtlfer ap-
plicattlons for photographs of graves
in the various theatres of war, bet
that it is hoped the requests already
n Ilii the West received will be completed before the
nods t close of the present year.
• THERE i-iR
I'S • TFIE
WORM'.
14OE'S
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40 TO A 11OTEL:
Ill
ark e
ji
near Oswestry, was destroyed by lire•
A Chatham resident found a live
snake which had escaped from a
travelling show, curled up on his door-
step.
Little George Walton, of Lostock
Hall, swallowed a half -penny and tiled
before a surgeon could remove the
coin.
The hent was so great in South
Devon that the fanciers cut, carried
and threshed their wheat the seine
day.
Sir A. H. Oakes, formerly librarian
and keeper of the papers of the
Foreign Office, died recently at Godal-
ming.
Marshall IL Haddock, of the Tech-
nical College at Doncaster, has been
appointed mining organizer for Lee
eesterehire.
A man named Thorne, an inmate of
the Pembury Workhouse, aged ninety
four, won the veterans' race at the
Peace celebration,
Memorials to British.
The people of France do not intend ,
to let the memory of five years' closet
association with the Tommies fader
for although the British troops are j
gradually leaving the country, even
when the last man has departed there
are still to remain tangible memorials'
to those days when they fought side
by side.
The town of Havre intends to erect
a suitable monument at the entrance
to the harbor, vfhere thousands of
English soldiers obtained their first
glimpse of the country where they
were to experience what modern war
means, while at Dunloirk the towns-
people are considering a project for
the erection of a Merchant 'Service
Club and Seamans Institute. This is
to mark: the nation's recognition of
the men of the British fleet and their .
auxiliaries, and the latest plan tis'tq
build an imposing monument to the
Indian soldiers who, with Feance'f
own colored troops, did yeomen see -
vice.
•
Glue From Raw Bones.
Raw bones are being made into glue
by treatment with sulphur dloxidde
the fat being removed with botoetiuk
and the mass being boiled in Mat
under pressure, r'
lug abu .. °'.>,d,.