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Zurich Herald, 1920-11-11, Page 7BRIT RI MINERS' STRIKE SECURES INCREASE FOR WO K RS Agreement Arrived a$ Between Government and Labor Leaders --- Men Pledge Themselves to In- crease Output of Coal.. A despatch from London says: ---A settlement of the Boal strike was ar- rived at last week, but acceptance of the Government's terms by tho miners' executive is subject to ratifi- cation by ballot of the men. This, however rapidly put through, will take some days, so that ithe resumption of work before the end of the week is unlikely. In that case, the strike will have lasted three •weeks.. The provisional settlement of the strike was reached' after a conference at Downing street which lasted for two and a half hours. On, Thursday night the miners' Executive decided the ballot should be taken on Tuesday, The returns are to be at Federation headquarters on Wednesday morning, and.dn the afternoon a delegate con- ference will take place to consider the result. There is not likely, therefore, to be a resumption of work before Monday next. Immediately the agreement had been reached Smillie and Hodges paid visit to the All -Labor Conference at Central Hall to convey the result to `the meeting there. Then conference adjourned to wait the result of the ballot. If this is in favor of accepting the terms offered, the delegates will not be summoned again. The settlement upon which the min- ers' delegates, coal mine owners and the Government are agreed is a very complicated one. Briefly, the men get a sliding advance of two shillings to one shilling sixpence, according to age, as was originally demanded. • The miners and owners solemnly pledge themselves to co-operate to se- cure an increased output of coal. Na- tional and District Committees are to be established immediately to control the output, and a joint National Wage Board will be established at the earli- est possible time before March 3?. for regulation of wages for the whole in- dustry, with regard to profits of the industry and the principles on which profits should be dealt with. This clause is most important as establishing the principle that Labor has a right to have a say in the ratio of wages and profits. A certificate from the Minister of Mines is to be accepted as evidence of conditions governing wage adjust- ment. MAINTAIN FRENCH ARMY OF 700,000. Will Enforce Versailles Treaty Though British Do Not Help. A .despatch from Paris says:—The French Government will neglect no weapon, political, economic or .military to compel the integral fulfilment of the Versailles Treaty by Germany, even though France stand alone in im- posing upon a recalcitrant Germany those' penalties prescribed in the terms of peace. That is the French answer to Great Britain's decision not to force the commercial reprisals sanctioned by paragraph XIII. of the annex to the reparational clauses' in the treaty in the event of Germany's failure to carry out her obligations. Feeling that this decision has dealt the Anglo-French entente a blow that may prove mortal, President Miller - and and Prenmier.Leygues are resolved to keep the French armies at a mini- mum strength of 700,000 men. More- over, they are prepred to insist that Parliament fix the period of military service at two years, although three days ago, before the British bomb burst in Paris, they were almost un- animous in deeming eighteen months with the colors sufficient, Nov. 1 Memorial Day For Canada in France A despatch from Paris says:— Canadians living in Paris have de- cided to adopt All Saints' Day for the yearly decoration of their soldiers graves. It is estimated that there are 2,000 Canadians here who will join in the memorial movement, which is be- ing headed by Phillip Roy, Canadian High Commissioner. On the morning of November 1 a special train will be run from Paris to one of the Canadian cemeteries in the Arras region, where 31,000 sons of the Maple Leaf lie buried, and every grave will be decorated with the Canadian flag and Canadian flowers. The Canadians intend to concen- trate their efforts in one eenmetery each year, the tentative program nam- ing Viny for next month and Ypres, where the "Canucks" received the first German gas attack, to be the scene of tint year's service. 'Airships Employed in Newfoundland Seal Hunt A despatch from London says:—An aerial expedition to hunt seals off Newfoundland has sailed by the. :steamship Almeida, sander the leader- ship of Frank J. Tippen, the New- oundland Government's aircraft ex- pert. The party is taking four scout- ing airships as the gift of the British Air Ministry to Newfoundland. After the seal experiment the ehips will be used for survey work by the forest patrol, Hungary Ordered to Ratify Treaty A despatch :from Paris says:—Tho Allies have sent a note to the Hunger- an Government demanding ratifica- tion of the Treaty of Triano not later ,an November 15, it was learned on Friday, In the event that no action lis taken by that time the note points bunt that "certain consequences" will iresult. A law providing for ratlike - tion has been introduced in the Hun- ,; arian Parliament, JUSTICE METED OUT TO SINN FEINP,R Murderer of Soldier is Flanged in Mount Joy Prison. Dublin, Monday, Nov. 1.—Bevin Barry, an eighteen -year-old Sinn Fein- er, convicted by court -partial of hav- ing aving killed a soldier stationed at Monk's Brewery, Dublin, was hanged this morning at Mount JOy Pzison. Premier Lloyd George was in com- munication with the Lord Mayor of Dublin by telephone at midnight, but no reprieve for Barry was forthcom- ing, • Bishop Cohalan, of Cork, visited the Cork Jail yesterday and peremptorily ordered the hunger strikers there to take food. All of them refused. There- upon Bishop Cohalan instructed the. nuns attending the hunger strikers to prepare food. The nuns, having no alternative, obeyed the command and offered food to each of the prisoners, but all refused it. Bishop Cahalan now is appealing .personally to the Sinn Fein leaders to release the prisoners from their hunger strike. Scotland Voting on Prohibition A despatch from London says:— Poil,ing throughout most of Scotland to decide if the country goes dry-, opens next Tuesday, and will continue until the middle of December. The voters have three choices name- ly: one, no change; two, reduction of licenses by a quarter; and three, no licenses except for inns, restaurants and hotels in special circumstances, and for clubs and wholesale dealers. Both the "dry" and "wet" factions in Glasgow express confidence. Edin- burgh is considered doubtful. The Glasgow "drys" organized Friday night "a whole night of prayer for deliverance of the drink evil." Troops in Ireland Total 49,000 A despatch from London says:—In reply to questions in the House of Commons it was stated there are 49,- 000 troops in Ireland at. the present moment. An emphatic denial was given to allegations of flogging out- rages in Ireland by the military. Newspaper photographs representing such incidents were unhesitatingly denounced fakes, Between Fight and Nine Millions in Canada A despatch from Ottawa says:-- With.•preparations render way for tak- ing the census of Canada the Govern- ment Bureau of' Statistics estimates the population of the nation at 8,750,- 000. It is believed the census will prove this estimate approximately correct, though some optinshits place the population at 10,000,000. Raises Big Constitutional Question Viscountess Rhondda, fatuous busi- nese woman, who asks that she be al- lowed to take hal seat in the House of Lords as "a peeress of the realm," A MESSAGE FROM GENEVA Organizer of League of Red Cross Societies Tells of Need of Europe's Orphans. "While we at hone are intent on in- dustrial expansion and a place in the sun, Europe in its war -weakened con- dition is fighting for its very exis- tence," said Donald W. Brown, direc- tor of the department of organization in the League of Red. Cross Societies of the World, wh:ch has its head- quarters at Geneva, Switzerland. He visited Toronto to learn the peaee pro- gram of the Canadian Red Cross So- ciety and to establish closer contact between it and the League. Millions of War Orphans. Having just arrived from Europe, Mr. Brown was able to give the Can- adian Red Cross some first hand in- formation concerning the people of Europe. He called attention particu- larly to the condition of the •children; so .many of whom are now orphans., While the exact number who have lost one or both parents during the war cannot be determined, the most con- servative estimate places the number at over ten millions. This number seeing quite eonsistent with the heavy war casualties among., so many na- tions, - Dependent on Charity. The condition of these children is in most cases very pitiable. Many of them have no homes and they are de- pendent upon whoever may be char- itable and kind enough to help them But there are few who are able to give such held, for the mass of the people of ' Poland, Galicia, parts of Roumania, Czecho-Slovakia, Jugo- Slavia and other countries are so poor .that they have not necessaries for themselves. Consequently, in the great area between the Baltic, the Black and the Adriatic Seas, there are millions of children who face the next few years, and particularly the conn- ing winter without hope of decent food and care unless outside assist- ance is given them. The vitality of the children is already very low on account of their having been deprived of fats, milk and sugar during the years when they most needed them, and they are therefore' very suscep- tible to diseases, particularly rickets, Disease Prevalent. In addition to the unhappy condi- tion of the children, the adult popula- tions are in the direst of misery on account of disease. Suffering has' been accentuated by lack of food and cloth- ing, nursing and medical attention, and tuberculosis, small -pox, typhus and dysentery are continuing un- chesked. Typhus, which has so often proved a scourge and menace to the human race, is again prevalent, and unless checked, will most likely extend its ravages to an alarming degree. British Empire Appeal. For these urgent reasons, Mr. Brown said, the League of Red Cross Societies has made an earnest appeal to the people of the British Empire, and he was glad to 1 ear that the cause of the suffering children was being taken up hi Canada, He had learned that an appeal en behalf of the British Empire Fund would be made in Can- ada by the Canadian Red Cross dur- ing Arnmistiee Week and wished for its every success. Weekly Market Report Wholesale Grain. Toronto, Nov, 2'-.Manitebn oats --- No. 2 CW, 71%c; No. 3 CW, 04%e; extra No, 1 feed, 04%0; No. 1 feed, 62%c; No, 2 feed, 591r`se, in store Fort .11., Manitoba wheat ---No. 1 Northern, $2.31%; No, 2 Northern, $2,29% : No. 3 Northern, 32,24%; No. 4 wheat,; 3240?%, in store Fort William. Manitoba barley ---No. 3 CW, $1.20; No, 4 CW, $1..15;.rejected, 87%e; feed, 87%c, in store Font William. American corn—Nu. 8 yellow, $1.17; nominal, track, Toronto, prompt ship- 'ment, • Ontario eats—No. 2 white, 68 to 71c. Ontario wheat --No. 2 winter, $2.05 to 32.10; No, 2 spring, $2 to $2.05; shipping points, according to freights. Peas --No. 2, nominal. Barley—$1,12 to $1..17, according to freights outside, Buelcwheat—No. 2, nominal. Rye—No. 3, $1.G5, nominal, accord- ing to freights outside, Manitoba flour—$12.90 top patents; 412.40 second: patents. Ontario flour—$9, bulk, seaboard. Millfeed'--Car lots, delivered. Mont- real freights, bags included: Bran, per ton, $40.25; shorts, per ton, $45.25; good feed flour, $3.25. Country Produce.—Wholesale. Cheese—New, large, 28 to 29c; twins, 29 to 80c; triplets, 29% to 30%:c; o1c1, large, 33 to 34e; do, twins, 333 to 34%c. Butter—Fresh dairy, choice, 49 to 60c; creamery, prints, 55 to 61c. Margarine -35 to 37c. Eggs—No. 1, 61 to 65c; cartons, 75 to 80c; selects, 68 to 70e, •Means --Canadian hand picked, bus., $4.20; primes, $8 to 33.25; Japans, 34.75 to $5; Limas, Madagascar„ 11 to 12c; Oalifosnia Limas, 12 to l.3c. Maple products—Syrup, per nnp. gal., 33.40 to $3.50; per 5 imp. gals., 38.25 to 33.40. Maple sugar, lb., 27 to 30e. Honey -60, 30 -lb tins, 26 to 27c per Ib. Ontario comb honey, at 37.50 per 15 section case; 5%, 2% Ib. tins, 28 to 29e per lb. Provisions.—Wholesale. Smoked meats Hams, med., 47 to 50c; heavy, 40 to 42c; cooked, 64 to 68e; rolls, 34 to 36e; cottage rolls, 41 to 48e; breakfast ba n, 50 to 56e; fancy breakfast baeo ' 56 to 62e; Cbaaks, plain, 52 to 54c; boneless, 60 to 64e. Cured meats—Long clear bacon, 27 to 28c; clear bellies, 26 to 27e, Lard ---Pure tierces, 30% to 31c; tubs, 31 to 31%,e; pails, 31% to 31%c; prints, 33 to 33%0; Compound tierces, 23% to 24c; tubs, 24i to 24%e; pails, 24% to 24%c; prints, 27 to 28c. Montreal Markets. Montreal, Nov. 2.—Oats, No. 2 C. W., 92%c; No. 8 CW, 86. Flour, Man. spring wheat patents, firsts, $13. Rol- led cats, bag 90 lbs., 34.20. Bran, $40.25. Shorts, 345.25, Hay, no. 2, per ton, car lots, $31 to 332. Cheese, finest easterns, 23 13-16c. Butter, choicest creamery, 53 to 54e. Eggs, fresh, 68 to 69c. Potatoes, per bag, car lots, 31,40 to 31.50. Live Stock Markets. Toronto, Nov. 2.—Choice heavy steers, 312,50 to 318.50; good heavy steers, 311.50 to 312; butchers' cattle, choice, 311 to 312; do, good, 39 to 310; do, med., 37 to 38; do, com., 35 to $6; buIis, choice, $9 to 310.50; do, good, 38 to 39; do, com., $5 to $7; butchers' cows, choice, 39.50 to 310; do, good, 37.25 to 8; do, corn., $5 to $6; feeders, best, $10 to 311; do, 900 lbs., 39.50 to $10; do, 800 lbs., 38.75 to 39.25; do, cons., 36.75 to $8.25; canners and cut- ters, $3.50 to $4.50; milkers, good to choice, $100 to $105; do, cone. and med., 365 to 375; lambs, yearling, 38.50 to $9.50; do, spring, 312.50 to $13.50; calves, good to choice, 316 to 317; sheep, $5 to 38; hogs, fed and watered, $18.25; do, weighed off cars, $13.50; do, f.o.b., 317.25; do, country points, 317. Montreal, Nov. 2.—Butcher steers, com., 35.50 to 37.75; butcher heifers, sed., $7 to 38; com., 35 to 30.75; but- cher caws, med., 35 to 37' ca finer 33 to $3.50; •cutters, 34 to 34,50, Butcher bulls, corn., $4 to 34.75. Good veal, 318 to 315; med., $11 to $12; grass, $5 to 36. Ewes, 34 to 37; Iambs, good, $12 to 312.50; cons., 38 to 311; Hogs, off - car weights, selects, • 318.50 to 319; sows, $14.50 to 315. BOERS AND BRITISH JOIN IN S. AFRICA 'Geo. Smuts Effects Alliance of South African Parties. London, Oct. 31.—General Smuts, Premier of South Africa, has carried hie., resolution in the South African party :congress for a British -Dutch union., The Premier has for .some months been attempting to solve the problem. created by the elections in the Union of South Africa last year, whereby representatives of four parties were elected ---the South African party, competed of younger and more en- lightened Beers and believing in the Union and the British connection, the Unionist party, whose strength lies in Natal and which is English-speaking, the Nationalist party headed by Gen. Hartzog, mostly Dutch, and the Labor party. No party has a working ma- jority. General Smuts proposed an alliance between the South African Party and the Unionists. , the ]atter having alevays been willing to co- operate with the former. It would now appear that the South African party has ratified the alliance. Where. Are Germany's Long -Range Guns? Berlin, Oct. 30.—Where are the long-range German guns which startl- ed the world one day in 1918 by drop- ping shells into Paris from a distance of 75 miles'? This is a question which the Inter -allied Commission for the ciisnrmament of Germany would like to have answered, Not a trace of these long tubes or of the drawings for their construction is reported to have been found. The guns and everything con- nected with them have disappeared as mysteriously as they appeared. It is believed they were blown up, but the blue pnints and plans have been hidden where none willfind them, Royal Sheep Win Championship at Calgary A despatch from Calgary says:— The Prince of .Wales took the cham- pionship and two first with bis Shrop- shire sheep from his ranch south of here at the mutual Fall Cattle Show and Sale. The Earl of Minto took first with his Oxford 'animal. The Prince won fleet in all he showed,. BREAKING NEW TE.RRITORl' IN THE WEST -Peace Riv r 13rid e, the Gateway to the New North. AL, FRANCE REPAIRS TO,I J OCATE CABLES SEIZED IN WAR Task of international Com- mission at Work in Washington. A dospatch from Halifax, N.'Ku., says: ---An ;nternntiortal commission is at work in Washington deciding as to the allocation among the allies of various submarine cables seized from the Germans during the war. One of these cables which ran from Hamburg via the Azores, to New York, and was diverted early in the struggle to Hali- fax, is now operated as "the imperial •Ca'ble," by the Pacific Cable Board, in connection with the British Post Of- fice. Its eastern end is in Ireland. When it was taken from the Germans the New York end was cut and aban- doned, a section being spliced some hundreds of miles at sea for the di- version to Halifax. Some years ago the Western Union ?:eased the submarine cables of the Anglo-American and Direct Compan- ies. There has been a disagreement between the Direct and the Western Union Companies regarding the ful- fillment of the terms of the lease. Each company asserts that the other has violated the terms, and in ac- cordance with the provisions of the lease both have given notice of its termination, which has become effec- tive. The lease period was for 99 . years. The Direct will be taken over by the British Government and added to the service via Halifax, giving "The Imperial" two instead of one cable.. They require a second cable not only on account of pressure of traffic but as a measure of safety, for in case one cable breaks down, there is the other to fall back upon while repairs are being effected. The Direct at present lands at Hali- fax. Cable men here say the Western Union would like to be given control by the allies' conference at Washing- ton ashington of the seized German cable, but that this effort -would be opposed by the British, who are making the cable part of an all -red system and are anxious to increase its effectiveness by adding the Direct to their systein. The Direct must make arrangements with some concern having land lines, as it has no connection of this kind of its own. In Canada the Imperial gets Its land connection from the C.P.R, WAR'S RAVAGES , More Than Half of Homeless French Are Rehabilitated. A despatch from Paris says:—More' than half of the population made' homeless by war in France have been rehabilitated in hoed% sheordtn:g to , French official figures on the recon- struction work just issued. Out of 1,-1 712,000 persons who became deprived of places of habitation. 1,53.000 have' been provided with living quarters. i These and other figures indicate that the work of building up the war - devastated sections has advanced much farther than generally was be- lieved. More than 2,000 houses, hays been reconstructed and 14,000. have been temporarily repaired, hqiiese numbers, dlioasever, provide anly a small portion of the relief needed. In the war 319,209 houses were entirely destroyed and 313,675 partly destroy- f ed. • Of 4,875 bridges and viaducts made; useless by the Germans, 3,424 have been rebuilt, The enemy destroyed 6,- 340 miles of railway and 1,581 mniles of canals, but 4,070 of the former and 790 of the latter have been relaid and' reconstructed, Destruction of roads covered 37,288 miles; of these 7,000 miles have been repaired or rebuilt. More than 6,000,000 acres of ground were made useless, but 5,767,000 have been reclaimed. The Germans des- troyed 11,600 factories, in which 879,- 000 persons were employed in 1914, but 3,540 have bean reconstructed and put into operation and 3,842 are in course of reconstruction. In the fac- tories now rebuilt 257,831 persons are employed. The enemy destroyed, entirely or partly, 3,720 towns and villages. The foregoing figures on recon- struction work are reported to be con- servative, and do not include a vast amount of projects for which surveys have been made, plans drawn and ma- terials fabricated, but which have not actually been begun. Coal Strike Cost e Paris Aims to Lead World_. in Health Record A despatch from Paris says:—Paris hopes to escape the influenza epidemic this autumn as a result of the cam- paign of hygiene which has been car-` ried on under direction of the Gov- etnrnent'.s health department, svhiclt has already obtained 'astonishing ra- sulte, Since January 1 only two cases of grippe have been reported in the Paris area, both of which were slight, while not a single case of measles has been found in the city -where last year the total reached several thousands. Scarlet fever and whooping cough each caused one death only. Physi- cians are elated over the success of the health propaganda and predict that in another five years Paris will lead the world in health record, espe-- cialIy if the anti -rat campaign suc- ceeds, as the rodents are blamed for thep reva]ence of children's intestinal maladies which top the mortality Lest with sixty deaths during the last ten menthe. Husband of Mrs. Torn Thumb Passes Away Middleboro, Mass,, Oct. 31.—Count Primo Magri, second husband of Mrs. Tom Thumb, and himself a famous dwarf, died at a hospital :here to -night after an illness of two eleeks. He was 71 years of age. Two weeks ago Count Magri, who was 37 inches tall and weighed 55 pounds, held an auction sale of the late Toni Thumb's effects and those of his wife, and with the proceeds plan- ned to return to Italy, the country of his 'birth,_ Prince Paul Refused $1,500,000,000 Throne of Greece A despatch from London says: --.- One conservative computation of the cost of the coal strike by the end of the next week, including losses of pro- duction in the .mines, wages, railway • earnings, reduction of output in other trades, and general effect on businese totals up to £800,000,000. Other esti- mates go so far as to put the total to the country, directly and indirectly, of a three -weeks' strike at not far be- low £500,000,000. Frince Arthur Assumes New Duties A despatch from London say e-- Prinee Arthur of Connaught has set sail for South Africa to take up his position as Governor-General of the tition of South Africa, Paris, Oct. 31.• --Prince Paul decline ed the throne of Greece. according to a report here to -might. It is mrder- stood that the young prince has re- fused the incitation to bo ruler, be- eanse his father, Constantine, has never renounced his right to the crown. MacSwiney Funeral Passed Off Quietly Cork, Oef, 31. 'Phe funeral of Te•r- enee MaeSwincy, former Lord Mayo of Cork, win committed suicide in Brixton Prison, London, by starving himself to death, took place to -day. Enormnoas crowds attended the funer- al, but there was no disturbance. Ser- vice was held in the cathedral before the burial.