HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1919-10-10, Page 2BRITISH RAII.W.AY ST RIKE
SETTLED BY A COMPROMISE
ISE
Government Offers to Continue Present Wage Scale For Twelve
Months instead of Six, the Union of Railwayrnen
to Resume Work at Or.ce.
Landon, Oct. 5. -With dramaticthroughout have set their faces stead -
suddenness in the quiet of the London; i1y against the idea of a sympathetic
Sunday afternoon, lit was announced I strike until every possible aven,1e of
to a knot of people waiting in Down -i mediation had been explored.
ing Street that the great railway! The official terms of settlement of
strike, which appeared to have the railwaymen's strike are as fol -
brought the country almost to the: lows:
brink of revolution, was settled, and! 1. Work shall be resumed immedi-
that the strikers would resume work' ately.
as quickly as possible. 2. Negotiations will be resumed on
The terms of the settlement are in. the understanding that they shall be
the nature of a compromise. The Na -1 completed before the end of the year.
tonal Union of Railwaymen agrees to 3. Wages will be stabilized at the
call off the strike, and the Govern- present level until Sept. 30, 1920, and
went consents to a renewal of the, at any time after Aug. 1 they may be
negotiations, the continuance of the! reviewed in the light of circumstances
existing wage scale for another yeare then existing.
instead of six months, as previously! 4. No adult railwayman in Great
Britain shall receive less than 51 shill-
ings per week while the cost of living
is 110 per cent. above the pre-war
above the pre-war level. level.
The settlement was the result of 5. The Railway Union agree that
a long conference to -day between a the men will work harmoniously with
Trade Union delegation, including re- the men who returned to work or who
presentatives• of the Railwaymen's retrained at work during the strive.
Union, and Premier Lloyd George and Nor shalt there be any victimization
Andrew Bonar Law in the famous of sulkers.
conference room en Downing Street. 0. 1 .rrears of wages will be paid on
Prior to this there was a Cabinet resumption of work.
meeting. The people of Britain, partieulatly
It is conceded on all sides that the those of. London, will long remember
settlement is the outcome of the mod- the past ten days as the most remark-
erated but determined effort of the able experience, apart from the war,
executive of the Transport Workers' in their day. Noth'ng except the air
Federation and men like Arthur Hen- raids has ever so disorganized the
derson and John Robert Clynes, who normal life of the country.
offered, and the establishment of a
minimum wage of 51 shillings while
the cost of living i`3 110 per cent.
GERMANS RAZE
RHINE FORTRESSES
French Oversee Dismantling of
Works About Mayence.
Mayence, Oct. 5. -The task of dis-
mantling the twelve ancient forts, London, Oct. 6. -Business men are
which surround Mayence and protect inclined to estimatecthe total loss to
the n nt of the Rhine, hasr been the nation through the strike as ap-
begun by the Germans under the proximately 50,000 000 pounds, ac -
occupation.
of the French army of p y
The work, which is be- cording to the Daily Mail, but it will
ing carried out in conformity with be a long time before the cost if fully
the provisions of the peace treaty re- determined, The bills to be paid by
quiring the dismantlement of Ger-
many's Rhine fortresses, probably
will require more than a year, as
the job is tedious and necessitates
much blasting. by the stoppage, numbering more than
Sand and gravel resulting from the p
demolition of the fort at Gonsenheim,
seven miles from Mayence, will be
used for commercial purposes.. Some
gravel already has been used for im-
proving roads in the region of May-
ence.
LOSS ESTIMATED
AT $250,000,000
Strike Bills to be Paid by Britain
Amount to Million Pounds
a Day.
the Government probably will amount
to 1,000,000 pothele for each day of
the strike, coveting a variety of serv-
ices necessitated, nn addition to the
unemployment pay of those made idle
RURAL TELEPHONES
IN SASKATCHEWAN
Rural telephone construction this
year in the Province of. Sasatchewan
is stated by Mr. D. C. MeNab 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
year."
The statement has frequently been
heard that it is impossible to forecast
the development in a city or town, and
therefore not practical to plan com-
prehensively foe its future growth.
Unfortunately, places in this country
have been unplanned from the be-
lenning, and by treating additions and
developments in piecemeal fashion, a
chaotic growth has occurred, resulting
in the above erroneou., deduction. The
leading cities in the United States
335,000.
The loss to industry is far greater.
Perishable goods in many cases were
destroyed; many works stopped op-
erations, .almost all export trade ceas-
ed, and orders were lost through the
uncertain conditions.
The railwaymen, who were out
eight days, spent 300,000 pounds
strike pay, the emergency funds of
the National Union of Railwaymen
being depleted to that extent, and in-
curred besides many other expenses.
Princess Mary at Edinburgh, de ccrating Lt. -Col. Loch, O.C. the 1st
Royal Scots, of which the Princess is Colonel -in -Chief.
Grain and Live Roe{
Breadstuffs.
Toronto, Oct. 7. -Manitoba wheat -
No. 1 Northern, $2.30; No. 2 Northern,
$2.27; No. 3 Northern, $2,23, in store
Fort William.
Manitoba oats -No. 2 CW, 831/4e;
No. 3 CW, 821/4Limas c; extra No. 1 feed, , 15 to 16c.
821/4c; No. 1 feed, 811/4c; No. 2 feed, Honey -Extracted clover, 5-1b. tins,
24 to 25c; 10
791/4 c, in store Fort William. 1b. tins, 231 to 24c;
Manitoba barley -No., 3 CW, 60-1b. tins, 23 to 24c; buckwheat, 60 -Ib.
$1.271/4; Po. 4 CW, $1.241/x; rejected, tins, 18 to 20e; Comb, 16=oz., $4.50 to
$1.13; feed, $1.13, in store Fort Wil- $5 dos.; 10 -oz., $3,50 to $4, dozen.
Maple products-Svrup, per imper-
ial gallon, $2.45 to $2.50; per 5 mi-
perial gallons, $2.35 to $2.40; sugar,
lb., 27c.
Provisions -Wholesale.
Smoked meats -Hams, medium, 44
ftie to 46c• do, heavy, 38 to 40c: cooked,
KING AND QUEEN
RETURN BY MOTO
AKERICANS
MOVING TO CA ;' ¢A
138,222 Settlers Crossed the Bor
der in the Last Eight Months.
A despatch from Ottawa says:-
Irmmigration from the United States
to Canada for the first eight months
of 1919 shows an increase of 7,079, as
compared with the figures for the
same period last year.
From January 31st to August 31st
this year 38,222 persons entered Can-
ada as settlers from the States, of
whom 1'7,818 were of the farming
class, 11,009 being adult males, 3,308
adult females and 3,773 children under
14 years of age. During the •same
period in 1918, 12,663 persons of the
farming class entered Canada, of
whom 7,739 were adult males, 2,254
adult females, and 3,400 children
under 14 years of age. The other 20,-
404, which, added to the '17,818 per-
sons of the farming class, make a total
of 38,222 for the first eight months of
this year, were made up of laborers,
mechanics, miners, clerks, etc:, with
their families et al.
Live poultry -Spring chickens, 22
to 26c; fowl, 23 to 25c; ducks, 22 to
25c.
Beans -Canadian, hand-picked, bus.,
$5.25 to $5.75; primes, $4.25 to $4.75;
Imported, hand-picked, Burma, $4.00;
ham.
American corn -No. 3 yellow, nom-
inal; No. 4 yellow, nominal.
Ontario oats -Na. _: wl 86 to
88c, according to freights
.Ontario uit-No. " 1
car lot, $2~ .06; b o. e, $1.
$2.03; No. 3 do, $1.93 to $1.99, f.o.13- 58 to 60c; rolls, 35 to 37c; breakfast
shipping points, according to freights.. bacon, 49 to 55c; backs, plain, 51 to
T
Ontario Wheat -No. 1 Spring, $2.
to $2.08; No. 2 Spring, $1.99 to $2.05;
No. 3 Spring, $1:95 to $2.01, f.o.b.
shipping points, according to freights."
Barley -Malting, $1.27 to $1.30, •ac-
cording to freights outside.
Buckwheat -Nominal.
Rye -Nominal.
Manitoba flour -Government stand-
ard, $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, per ton, $55;
good feed flour, per bag, $3.50.
Hay -No. 1, per ton, $24 to $26;
mixed, per ton, $15 to $20, track, To-
ronto.
Straw -Car lots, per ton, $10 to $11,
track, Toronto.
Country Produce -Wholesale.
No Trains Owing to Railway
Strike in Great Britain.
A despatch from London says: -
The King and Queen are returning by
motor car from Scotland, though it
was at first suggested that they
should return south by means of a
destroyer from Aberdeen.
The Royal luggage was conveyed by
water, but their Majesties hope to
conclude their lengthy trip from Bal -
have recognized the dangers and moral with one halt.
MARKED BY GERMANS
FOR ASSASSINATION
A despatch from San Francisco
says: -Charles M. Schwab, Sir Cecil
Spring -Rice, former British mbar-
sador to the United States; Lord
Fisher of the British Admiralty, the
late Lord Kitchener and the British
Vice -Consul at Ensenada, Mexico,
were marked for assassination by
agents of the German Government
according to sworn testimony given
by former First Lieutenant Wilhelm
von Brincken, formerly Military At-
tache of the German Consulate in San
Francisco, to Commissioner of Immi-
gration Henry M. White of Seattle,
Washington.
LARGEST GRAIN CARGO
EVER CARRIED ON LAKES
A despatch from. Port Arthur
says: --The Port Arthur -built freight-
er W. Grant Morden cleared for Port
plicetions for photographs of graves MN,i
ccoil with 503,1531/2 bushels of
in the various theatres of war, b wheat, the largest grain cargo ever
hoed the reuets read
`athat it•eceived� willpbe completedlsbefc re the carried on the lakes: The value of the
'close of the present year, wheat is $1,150,000,
harmful consequences of unregulated
expansion, and have been adopting
regulations as to use, districts and
building restrictions." --Saskatchewan
Municipal Department. n..
BLOCKADE ON GERMANY
TO FORCE COMPLIANCE
A despatch from Paris says: -The
blockade of 'Germany which was
threatened by the allies in case the
German troops of General von der
Goltz were not removed from the
Baltic region is being enforced. No
food ships are permitted to start for
Germany until further orders are
issued.
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 further ap-
Butter -Dairy, tubs and rolls, 38 to
40c; prints, 40 to 42c. Creamery,
fresh made solids, 52% to 53c; prints,
53 to 531/2c.
Eggs -53 to 55c.
Dressed poultry -=Spring chickens,
25 to 30c; roosters, 25c; fowl, 20 to
25c; ducklings, 25 to 30c; turkeys, 35
to 40c; squabs, doz., $4.50.
Live poultry -Spring chickens, 22
to 25c; roosters, 20c; fowl, 18 to 25c;
ducklings, 20c; turkeys, 30c.
Cheese -New, large, 28 to 29e;
twins, 28% to 29%c; triplets, 29 to
30c; Stilton, 81 to 32e.
Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 47 to
49c; creamery prints, 56 to 58e.
Margarine -36 to 38c.
Eggs -No. l's, 57 to 58c; selects, 61
to 62c,
Dressed poultry -Spring cllekens,
30 to 35c; roosters, 28 to 25c; fowl,
30 to 34c; turkeys, 40 to 45c• duckl-
ings, 34 to 35c; squabs, doz., $6.
re-
Tidli3gsTroin Scotland
11. W. Duff, of Stirling, has been
appointed burgh surveyor of Stran-
raen
Wm. Ewing, son of Duncan Ewing,
Laggan, has been appointed British
Consul at Washington.
Captain A. T. Smith, a native of
Peebles, has been made a chevalier
of the Legion of Honor.
The death has taken place at Hed-
dlemaker of W. H. Hume, a well-known
Border marksman,
Major Lewis Gibson, D.S.O., of
Crieff, has been awarded the French
Croix de Guerre and Star.
PRINCE OF WALES WILL
NOT TOUR UNITED STATES
A despatch from Washington
says: -The Prince of Waley who now
is touring Canada, will come to Wash-
ington in about a month for a visit
of three days, but he will not make
a tour of the United States, Mayor
Babcock of Pittsburg has just been
informed by Chairman Worter of the
House Foreign Affairs Committee.
"I am reliably informed," said Mr.
Worter, "that it is the wish of the
British Government that the Prince
of Wales, upon leaving Canada, should
spend but three days in Washington,
returning to New York thereafter,
from whence he sails for Europe, and
that a tour of the United States
should not be made."
LONGEVITY OF BRITISHERS
INCREASED BY 12 YEARS
53c; boneless, 54 to 570; clear belhes,
32 to 34c.
Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 33
to 34c; clear bellies, 32 to 33c.
Lard -Pure tierces, 32 to 32%c;
tubs, 321/2 to 33c; pails, 32% to 331/4c;
prints, 331/4 to 34c. Compound tierces,
27 to 27%c; tubs, 27% to 28c; pails,
273/¢, to 281/4c; e; prints, 29 to 29%o.
Ivlontreal Markets.
Montreal, Oct. 7. -Oats, extra No.
1 feed, 96c. Flour, new standard grade,
$11 to $11.10. Rolled oats, bag 90 lbs.,
$4.90 to $5. Bran, $45. Shorts, $55.
Hay, No. 2, per ton, car lots, $22 to
$23. Cheese, finest easterns, 25c.
Butter, choicest creamery, 54 to 54%c.
Eggs, fresh, 68c; selected, 64c; No. 1
stock, -•57c; No. 2 stock, 52 to 54c. Po-
tatoes, per bag, car lots, $1.50 to $1.60.
Dressed hogs, abattoir killed, $25.50
to $26. Lard, pure, wood pails, 20
lbs. net, 31% to 32%c.
Live Stock Markets.
Toronto, Oct. 7. -Choice heavy
steers, $13 to $13.50; good heavy
steers,, $12.50 to $12.75; butchers' At-
tie, choice, $12 to $12.50; do, good,
$11.25 to $11.50; do, med., $10 to
$10.75; do, con., $7 to $7.50; bulls,
choice, $10 to $10.50; do, rued., $9.50
to $9.75; do, rough, $7.50 to $8; but-
cher cows, choice, $10.25 to $10.75;
do, good, $9 to $9.25; do, med., $8.50
to $9; do, coin., $7 to $7.50; stockers,
$7.50 to $10; feeders, $10 to $11.25;
carolers and cutters, $5 to $6.25; milk-
ers, good to choice, $110 to $150; do,
corn, and med., $65 to $75; springers,
$90 to $150; light ewes, $7.50 to $9.50;
yearlings, $9 to $10; spring lambs, per
cwt., $13.75 to $14.75; calves, good to
choice, $17.50 to $21.50; hogs, fed and
watered, $17.75; do, weighed off cars,
$18; do, f.o.b., $16.75; .do, do, to farm,
ers, $16.50.
F. C. Gardiner, Old Ballikinrain, has
been appointed president of the Kil.
earn Agricultural Society.
Among the recipients of the Order
of the British Empire is W: Moodie,
M.A., of Limekiln and India.
.. Selkirk has purchased grounnd from
the British Linen Bank In Ettrick
as a site for a war memorial.
The old -age pensioners of Kilsyth
were each given a gift of £1 with
which to help in celebrating peace.
The death is announced of Mrs. E.
Puller, wife of Major Edward Pullar,
Westerton House, Bridge of Allan.
Alex. K. Forbes, M.A., Logue Durno,
Aberdeenshire, has been appointed
headmaster of Fishcross Public
School.
Sergt. Charles Gardiner, of 7 Abbey
Road, Stirling, has been awarded the
Meritorious Service Medal.
Tlio death has occurred of James
Shanks Ritchie, for 52 years registrar
of births, marriages and deaths at
Denny.
Flight Sergeant W. Angus, of Crloff,
was one of the engineers of the R-34
when she made her voyage across the
Atlantic.
The Callander war memorial will bo
built of stone, 35 feet high, and brass
plates will contain the names of the
fallen soldiers.
A despatch from New York says:
Fifty per cent. of the ailments from
which persons under 70 years of age
suffer are preventable and should be
prevented, declared Sir Arthur News-
holme, formerly principal medical
officer, of the Local Government xsoard
of England, in addressing the Acad-
emy . of Medicine here. Sir Arthur
said that as .a result of Government
effort in connection with the medics'
fraternity, the average longevity of
Hien and women in England has been
increased between eleven and twelve
years in the last decade.
WE KERN TOWNS
GREET THE PRINCE
Medicine Bat Welcomes Him
With a Tower of Flaming
Natural Gas.
A despatch from Swift Current,
Sask,, says: -Saskatchewan. 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 Currant,
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 perforated
at the bigger towns. Medicine Hat
Vents In England
A three -acre farm in Lower With.
ington, Cheshire, was sold recently
•for $2,300.
Four acres of King's Wood, at Leeds
Castle, near ivlaidstoue, have been des.
troyed by fire.
r
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 he 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 •cornreunities for their loyalty
and friendliness in corning to the
stations to add their voices to the
general welcome which has been ex-
pressed throughout the West.
an Friday welcomed the Prince with
a tower of flame, a pocket of natural
gas was ignited, and, as the Prince's
automobile reached it, millions of feet
of gas went up in flame over his head.
The Royal party will spend Satur-
day morning in Moose Jaw and the
week -end in Regina,
KING ALBERT OF BELGIANS
ARRIVES AT NEW 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 wee 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 Baker and Gen-
eral Marsh welcomed the King on be-
half of President Wilson.
Owing to the illness of the Presi-
dent, Xing Albert will not visit the
White House until after his tour of
the country.
FRENCH DEPUTIES
RATIFY TREATY
NORTH SEA SEA ALMOST
FREE FROM MINES
A despatch from Paris says:: Ac-
cording to information received from
Berlin, a route for shipping along the
coast of Jutland, fifteen miles wide,
has now been completely cleared of
mines. Direct communication between
ports on the North Sea and Germany's
northern ports is now possible. Navi-
gation throughout the North 'Sea, it
is expected, may soon be resumed, the
mine -clearing work having been large-
ly completed,
Nichols Street, Hoxton,• is the long•
est street in London, without a turn•
ing on either side.
In twenty-eight weeks, 123,258 rats
were killed in Leicestershire, at a
cost to the County Council of :51,562.
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
left Smith's Lawn Camp, the rats
have made an advance on Englefield
Green.
The whole of a twenty -acre field of
barley, belonging to John Richards,
near Oswestry, was destroyed by fire.
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 died
before a Nirgeon could remove the
coin.
The heat was so great in South
Devon that the farmers cut, carried
and threshed their wheat the same
ray.
Sir A. H. Oakes, formerly librarian
and keeper of the papers of the
Foreign Office, died recently at Godal-
ming.
Marshall H. Haddock, of the Tec1i-
nical College at Doncaster, has been
appointed mining organizer for Lel-
cesteeshire.
A man named Thorne, an inmate..of
the Pembury Workhouse, aged ninety
four, won the veterans' race at the
Peace celebration.
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 east for
the two treaties,
WEDDING CAKE WAS
SENT BY AIRPLANE
A. despatch from Paris says: -Sir
Norman Leslie, Air Attache at the
British Embassy, sent over to London
tor 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,
Gua From Raw Sonen,
Raw bongs are being made into glue
by treatment - with sulphur dioxide,
the fat being removed with benzine
and the mass being boiled la water
under pressure,