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Canada's Premier
INDUSTRIAL WAR IN GREAT BRITAIN A despatch froth Ottawa says;
-The first long, distance tele -
Coal Miners Agree to Discuss VVages-With the Owners -
Just Possible That Threatened Tie -Up May
be Av erted.
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A despatch from London say -A declared the sympathetic strike, in -
dramatic development came in the coal sisted that they had acted not only
strike situation at midnight on Friday as a measure of sympathy with the
whs . the miners agreed to disuse miners' -claims, but also to protect all
wages with the owners. There is de- unions from raids on their wages,
dared a possibility that the strike will The meetings with the labor chiefs
be averted. Immediate steps are to be dieclosed an overwhelming sentiment
taken to reopen negotiations for end- among the labor bosses in favor of
ing the strike, and averting a general nationalizing mines and railroads and
tie-up which now threatens. brought 'from Lloyd George the de -
Thursday evening after the coal claration that the Government could
owners had placed their case before a only consider such a proposal if it was
gathering of 200 members of the advanced in a constitutional manner
House of Commons, Frank Hodges, before the House of Commons,
leader and spokesman for the miners,
Was invited to give the miners' version
of the dispute. A later despateh from London
Theemeeting started at 9.30 and says: -Hopelessly outmanoeuvred on
lasted until 11.30, Hodges, in reply the eve of its greatest .battle, labor has
to questions, agreed to a proposal for lost its first national fight with the
a further conferenoe with the owners Government even before the first real
bo discuss the question of wages, and gun was fired,
leaving the other issues for further By forcing Frank Hodges, leader of
negotiations. the miners, to yield their foremost de -
The House of Commons appointed mond for a wages pool, Premier Lloyd
s delegation to wait upon Premier George completely outsgeneralled the
Lloyd George and place the sugges- Triple Alliance, forcing a split which
tion before him. At 1 a.m. eight is likely permanently to smash the
automobiles drove up with a depute- alliance.
tion. They were admitted and were After the most spectacular conflict
closeted at onee with the Premier.
It is deelared, moreover, that _steps
are being taken •at this meeting to
assure a reopening of the negotiations.
The Daily News on Friday morning
said that Hodges told the Commons
members that he preferred to con-
sider a temporary arrangement re--
garding wages and that he had aban-
doned the proposed plan for a'national
pool to equalize wages.
Premier Lloyd George was prepared
to go before the House of Commons
this (Friday) morning, where in a
Speech he expected to plead with all
citizens to eo-operate with the Gov-
ernment in preserving the life of the
nation throughout the strike which
was scheduled to begin at 10 o'clock
Friday night.
The Premier intended to detail to
the House the measures the Gavean-
merit is taking to safeguard workers
if the strike is not averted and to in-
sure the distribution of food and pre-
serve public order.
The Triple Alliance leaders who
visited him to explain why they had
within the inner ranks of labor re-
corded in its history, J. H. Thomas .
and Harry Gosling have called off the
railroad men and transport men's
strike six hours before the notices
were to become effeotive. Thus the
Government won a bloodless victory
over the protagonists of the general
strike.
This entirely unexpected denoue-
ment, which made Great Britain gasp
with amazement on Friday night, be-
gan late Thursday night when Frank
Hodges', appearing on behalf of the
Miners' Federation, before 200 mem-
bers of the House of Commons, ad-
mitted that he was prepared to aban-
don the hitherto inexorable demand
for the national wage pool.
This concession made peace appear
certain and in the public mind it was
virtually achieved, when, at two
o'clock Friday morning, Lord Gain-
ford, on behalf of the eoal owners
formally announced their readiness to
forego all profits from the sale of coal
during the period of depression in
order to amend the recent wage cuts.
FRANCE PLANS TO
- INVADE RUHR
- Military and Civil Staff to De-
termine Manner of Joint -
Action.
Paris,' April 17.-A military and
civil general staff will meet to -morrow
- to determine the precise manner of
action in the Ruhr district in the
event of occupation after May 1. The
military plans, fully completed long
since by the staff of Marshal Foch,
are quite elastic enough, it is learned
on •good authority, to adapt them-
' pelves to the economic plans which the
mixed commission sitting- daily be-
tween now and May 1 will definitely
adopt if necessary.
From a military point of view the
recall of only ease class, that of 1919,
has been decided upon as sufficient to
carry out further operations.
Marshal Foch, General Buat, Chief
of Staff of the army, and General
Weygand, acting as General Secretary
of the staff, will represent the mili-
tany element. Louie Loucheur, Min-
ister of the Liberated Regions; Paul
Tirard, High Commissioner in the
Rhineland, and -M. Seydoux, the finan-
cial expert who represented France at
the Brussels Conference, will compose
the civil element.
King George Gives
Coal to Windsor Poor
A despatch from London eays:-The
King's solicitude for the poorer people
of Windsor, who are in difficulties
' owing to the shortage of coal, was de-
monstrated on Friday when the
Mayor of Windsor received a telegram
stating the King had authorized the
transfer of 25 tons of coal from the
stocks at Windsor Castle to the -coal
rixerchants of the town for household
use.
The University Dynamic.
A time there was when. universities
were regaraed as the preserve et the
few but, happily, that time is 'past
and now universities not only wel-
come all who come but they go out
offering their wares to those whom
circumstances prevent from coming
within the walls. Their wares consist
of higher education. In the old days
-a university was static; now it is
dynamic.
Pre-eminent in thin most important
movement in Canada is the University
of Toronto. With its special courses
for farmers, for urban sworkingmen
and women, for teachers, with its ex-
tension lectures, courses of lectures,
and tutorial classes, it extends its
activity over' the whole Province. No
man or woman boy or girl, in Ontario
need fail to iake advantage of the
opportunities offered by the Provin-
cial University; this University is, in
the most real sense, the "University
of the People."
The Report of the Royal Coinmis-
sten says: -"Without educated brain
and skilled hands, the fertile soil, the
timbered . land, water -powers, and
mineral deposits must lie idle or be
ignorantly squandered. National
wealth and industry are directly re-
lated to education and must -become
more and more dependent upon it as
civilization advances." To answer this
national need is the purpose of the
extension work of the University of
Toronto; for this it requires the most
generous support of the Government
of the Province.
Journeys' 2,600 Miles
to File Oil Claim
A despatch from Calgary says: -A.
S. F. Rankin is here from the Fort
Norman oil fields after having covered
2,600 miles of winter trails to file oil
claime. He travelled 2,100 miles from
Fort McMurray to Fort Norman on
foot and the other 500 miles by dog
sled.
phone conversation between Ca-
nada and Cuba took place on
Thursday afternoon at 4.34,
when Rt. Hon Arthur Meighen
Hon. W. L. Mackenzie Xing,
Hon. W. S. Fielding and Hon.
Rodolphe Lemieux spoke hi turn
from the Parliament Thiildings
to President Mario G. Menocal,
Who had called up from presiden-
tial palace at Havana, Cuba, to
extend the greetings of the, Re-
public of Cuba to the Dominion
of Canada.
The conversation from the
other end of the .line could be
heard as plainly as though the
person telephoning had been in
the next room, according to the
Prime Minister and the other
gentlemen who spoke to Presi-
dent Menocal.
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'SINN FEIN NOW
WAR ON WOMEN
Irish Revolutionists Shoot a
Poor Peasant in Monaghan.
Dublin, April 17. -The first execu-
tion of a 'woman in the strife between
the disoordant factions in Ireland is
announced. She was taken from her
home in the Scotstown district of Mon-
aghan to -day and shot and killed on
the bank of the river.
The woman, whose name was Kitty
MacCarron, belonged to the farming
class. ' •
Kitty MacCarron, who • was about
45 years of a'ge, lived with her par-
ents, octogenarians, in h wild, mune
tainous part of the country. About
midnight a knock was heard at the
door and a party of masked men en-
tered and informed the victim that
they had come for her.
She struggled in vain; the assassins
fastened her hands behind her back
and lead her, pleading pitifully, down
a lane about a mile to the main, road,
by the side of which the body was
afterward fou-nd 'with a bullet hole
through the cheek, which is the .cuse
ternary sign of Sinn Fein executions.
A card on the body was inscribed:
"Spies and informers, beware, Tried,
-convicted and executed by the Irish
Republican Army."
Neighbors refused aid in the re-
moval of the body, such is the terror
inspired in Monaghan by the recent
series of terrible deeds, which have
earned for the county the reputation
of being the worst in Ulster.
The police, although accustomed to
tragic evidence, were deeply moved at
the sight of the ppm- old mother in her
second childhood, entering the robin
where her daughter's body lay and
staring 'about her bewildered, unable
to realize What had happened.
MURDER VICARS
AND BURN HOUSE
Sinn Feiners Take Revenge
on Former Keeper of
Crown Jewels.
A despatch from Cork says: -Sir
Arthur Vicars, formerly Ulster King
of Arms and custodian of the Crown
jewels at Dublin Castle, was assassin-
ated on Thursday morning outside his
residence, Kilniorna House, Listowel,
by a party of armed assassins, who
afterward set the house on fire, which
was totally destroyed. On the body
of their victim they placed a card
bearing the words: "Traitors, beware;
we never forget.-I.R.R."
A Dublin Castle message says
Vicars was taken from his bed M a
dressingsgown and murdered outside
his house. About thirty armed men
participated. Sir Arthur was in dan-
ger of being killed when his house
was raided a year ago. He was in
his study late at night when there
was a knock at the door. On his
asking who was there a voice called
out the name ef an inspector of the
R.LC, but Sir Arthur became suspi-
cious and refused to open the door.
A moment later a body of raiders
smashed in. the door with hatchets.
Sir Arthur was seized and threatened
withdeath unless he gave up arms to
them. He told them he would rather
be killed than surrender. They then
made an attack on the strong -room,
which •contained 'arms, but failed, to
break into it.
J. H. Whitley, M.P.
Mr, Lowther's successor as Speaker
in the British House of Commons.
CANADA HAD GOOD.
TRAPPING SEASON
Prices Are, However, From
One -Third to One -Half
Lower Than Peak.
Sudbury, April 17. -The trapping
season ended on April 10th and al-
though many of the trappers halo not
brought in the winter catch as yet,
Sudbury fur buyers report that the
reason on the Whole has been a sue-
ceseful one considering the genemal
business depression and unfavorable
state of the fur market. Fur prices
in the cities took a slump last year and
this in turn affected the local market
so that the trapping business was not
as profitable this winter as formerly.
Many trappers turned their energies
into other lines owing to the falling
off in prices which are now from one-
third to one-half what they were when
at the peak. There has bean a fairly
brisk demand and although it was not
as successful a season as last year,
Sudbury buyers are satisfied that they
will perhaps be better off financially
in the long run.
Last year from $25 to $65 was paid
for beaver skins, but this season
prices range from $7 to $23. From $8
to $10 is being paid for mink whereas
when prices were high the trappers
received from $35 to $40. Muskrat
skins nowadays only bring the trap-
per $1.60, while last year they brought
$5. The muskrat catch this year, it
might be noted, is much smaller than
usual.
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SERUM CURES
SLEEPING SICKNESS
french Savants Find Remedy
After Three Years' Search.
Paris, April 17. -Complete cues of
leth•argig encephalitis (sieving sick-
ness), by intravenous injections of a
new serum, 'are reported by Professors
C. Levadite and H. Larvier of the Pas-
teor Institute. After three years of
unremitting research the two savants
announce two definite .conelusionss
1. Encephalitis is caused by a fil-
trent invading nervous .centres, pene-
trating to - the organisms from the
nasal passages.
2. Cleanliness of the nasal channel
is largely responsible for the aSsparent
immunity enjoyed by some persons ex-
posed to the germ.
A complete description of the d serum
will not be given out until it is de-
finitely established as a certain cure.
No Oleomargarine
in Guise of Butter
A. despatch from Ottawa says: -
Canadian Oletenargaiine regulations
have been amended by adding a pro-
vision that "no person 'shall sell, offer,
expose, or have in possession for sale
in Canada any oleomargarine bearing
on the package or container thereof
the trade mark or the name of the
manufacturer in which is included any
of the words 'butter,' ',creamery,'
'dairy,' or the name of any breed of
cattle."
Further Decline in Foodstuffs
,Ottawa, April 17.-A further decline
in the cost of foodstuffs during the
month of March is recorded in the cur -
resat issue of The Labor Gazette, which
states that the cost of the weekly
family budget of staple foods aver-
aged $13.23 at the beginning of Mantle,
as oomparexissvith $14.08 in February,
$15.98 in March, 1920; $15.77 in March,
1919, and $7.86 in Meech, 1914.
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REGCA-it-FELLE.:RS--By Gene Byrne.
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Weekly Market Report
Toronto,
Manitoba wheat -No. 1 Northeen,
$1.70%; No. 2 Northern, $1.64; N9.
3 Northern, $1.60; No. 4 wheat, $1,49,
Manitoba oats -No. 2 CW, 43%e;
No, 3 CW, 38%c; extra, No. 1 feed,
33%c; No, 1 feed, 36%c; No. 2 feed,
34%c.
Manitoba barley -No, 3 CW, 78%o;
No. 4 CW, 62%c; rejected 49%,c; feed,
4914 -
All of the above in store at, Fort
William.
American corn -68c, nominal, track,
Toronto,prompt shipment.
Ontario oats --No. 2 white, 42 to
44c.
Ontario wheat -No. 2 Winter, $1.55
to $1.60 per car lot; No. 2 Spring,
$1,45 to $1,50; No. 2 Goose wheat,
nominal, shipping points, according to
freight,
Peas -No. 2, $L55 to $1.65.
Barley -Malting, 65 to 70c, accord-
ing to freights outside.
Buckwheat -No. 3, nominal.
Rye -No. 2, $1.30 to $1.35, nominal,
according to freights outside,
Manitoba flour---Firet pat., $10.70;
second pat., $10.20, bulk, seaboard.
Ontario flour -$7.75, bulkoseaboard.
Millfeed - Delivered, Montreal
freight, bags included: Bran, per ton,
$33; shorts, per ton, $35; good feed
flour, $2.10 to $2.40 per bag.
Hay -No. 1, per ton, $24 to $26.
Straw -Car lots, per ton, $12 to
$12.50.
Cheese -New, large, 303i to 81c;
twins, 31 to 31%c. triplets, 31% to
32e; old, large, 33 to 34c; do, twins,
33% to 34%c; tfalets, 34% to 35c.
Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 48 to
490; creamery, No. 1, 58 to 61e; fresh,
60 to 63c.
Margarine -28 to 30c.
Eggs -New laid, 32 to 33c,; new
laid, in cartons, 35 to 86c.
Beans -Canadian, hand-picked, bus.,
$3.50 to $3.175; primes, $2.75 to $3,25;
Japans, Sc; Limas, Madagascar, 10%c;
California Limas, 12%c.
Maple products -Syrup, per imp.
gal., 2.60; per 5 imp. gals., $2.50;
Maple sugar, lbs., 19 to 22c.
Honey -60 -30 -lb. tins, 22to 230 per
lb.; 5 -2% -lb. tins, 23 to 25c per. lb.;
Ontario comb honey, at $7.50 per 15.*
Isectien case.
i Smoked meats -Hams, mode, 35 to
36e; heavy, 27 to 29c; eooltecl, 50 to
55o; rolls, 31 to 32e; cottage rolls, 83
to 34c; breakfast bacon, 43 to 460;
fancy (breakfast bacon, 53 to 50e;
backs, plain, bone in, 47 to 50c; 'Lome -
less, 49, to 53c.
• Cured ineats-Long clear bacon, 27
to 28c; clear bellies, 26 to 27e.
Larde-Pure tierces, 16% to 17%o;
tubs, 17 to 17%c; pails, 17% to 18c;
prints, 184 to 19ea Shortening tierces,
11% to 12e; tabs, 12 to 12Vars;
121/4 to 13c; prints, 14 to 141/2c.
Choice heavy steers, $9 to $10.50;
good heavy steer, P to $9; butehers'
cattle, choice, $9 to $10; do, good, $8
to $9; do, Tried., $6 to $8; do, come
$4 to $5; butchers' bulls, choice, $7
to $7,50; do, good, $6 to $7; do, come
$4 to $6; butohers' cows, choice, P
to $9; do, good, $6,50 to $7.50; do,
corn., $4 to $6; feeders, $7.75 to $8.76;
do, 900 lbs., $7.25 to $8.75; do, 800
lbs., $5.75 to $6.75; do, come $5 to $6;
oarinees and cutters! $2 to $4.50;
milkers, good to choice, $85 to $120;
do, cone and med., $50 to $G0; choice
springens, $90 to $130; lambs, yearl-
ings, $10 to $11; do, spring, $11 to
$13.50; calves, good to ehoice, $9 to
$11; sheep, $6 to $10; hogs, fed and
watered, $13; do, weighed off cars,
$13.25; do, f.o.b., $12.25; do, country
points, $12.
Montreal.
Oats -No. 2 CW, 62 to 63c; No. 3
CW, 58 to 59c. Flour, Man. Spring
wheat pats., 1sts., $10.30. Rolled oats,
90-1b. bag, $3.20. Bran, P3.25. Shorts,
$35.25. Hay, No. 2, per ton, ear lots,
$24 to $25.
Cheese, finest Easterns, 30 to 31c.
Butter, choicest creamery, 50% to 51c.
Eggs, fresh, 38c.
Butcher steers, med., $8 to $9; come
$7.50 to 8.50; butcher heifers, med.,
$7.50 to $8.50; com., $5 to $7; butcher
oows, med., $5 to $7; canners, $2 to
$2.50; cutters, $3 to $4; butcher bulls,
com., $6 to $6.50; good veal, P to
$6.50; ined., $5 to $6; hogs, off -car
weights, selects, $14.50 to $15; heavies,
$12.50 to $13; sows, $10.50 to $11.
DEATH TAKES HEAVY
TOLL IN RUSSIA
Massacres, Famine and Typh-
us Have Thinned out the
Population.
Paris, April 16. -Since Red rule be-
gan in Russia the city of Petrograd
has lost 71 per cent. et its population,
according to a statement made in a
book entitled, "Moscow the Red,"
Which has been published in &lege.
The first toll was taken in, the early
days of the revolution, when the
bourgeois, who escaped -massacre fled
abroad. Then eame typhus and other
diseaee scourges, and later famine ow-
ing to the complete breakdown of
transport, which drove the working
people to the country, where, at least,
there is enough to eat.
One of the features of the decline
in popul'ation is that at present women
outnumber men isa the proportion of
100 to 72. The death rate isa the city
has alrnost tripled since the advent of
communism and now stands at twenty-
twoper 1,000, in place of eight per
1,000 before the war.
Moscow has not suffered in suppear-
ance nearly so heavily as Petrograd.
The loss of populations in the Soviet
Capital is given at 49.67 per cent. The
reason is stated to be the great influx
of functionaries and employees of the
Central Soviet, who number 360,000.
GREEK RESERVISTS IN -
CANADA CALLED UP
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Turks Have Greek Army Bot-
tled Up in Brusa.
A despatch from Paris says: -Acs
cording to reports received in Paris,
a strong Turkish cavalry raid aimed at -
Ala-Shehr (ancient Philadelphia)
located on the Smyrna-Afiun Karahis-
sar Railway, threatens to cut the
south Greek army off from its base.
The Turks have practically captured
Brusa, where a Greek army corps is
bottled up.
The Turkish delegation at Paris as
serts that the morale of the Greek
troops is shattered and that bands of
Greek deserters are terrorizing and
looting villages.
A despatch from Montreal says: -
The Greek Consulate has been advised
by the Charge d'Affaires for Greece in
London that reserviats in Canada of
the classes of 1913 (b), 1914 and 1915,
with the exception of the auxiliaries,
have been called to the colors, and
int, within seven days, apply to it
for transportation home,
Trinidad Gives Canada
50 Per Cent. Preference
Ottawa, April 17. -The Department
of Trade and Commerce has received
notification from Port of Spain, Trini-
dad, that the new tariff bill has :been
passed, giving Canada a preferential
tariff of fifty per cent.
TRIPLE ALLIANCE DIVIDED
A despateh from London says: -The
calling of a conference of representa-
tives of the miners from all the coal
fields was decided upon by the execu-
tive of the Miners' Federation Friday
evening. It took this action after
hearing- the decision of the railway-
men and transport workers to cancel
their sympathetic strike.
Frank Hedge's, the miners' secre-
tary, when questioned regarding this
decision, said that it meant that the
miners' strike would eontinue.
Mr. Lloyd George, the Prime Min-
ister, announced in the House of Com-
mons Friday afternoon that the min-
ers had refused to re -open negotia-
tions for a settlement of their strike
on the basis trig had been suggested.
The Prime Minister read a letter
from the Miners' Federation stating
that the only eonditione on which a
temporary settlement could be reach-
ed was one which must follow con-
cession of the two principles of a na-
tional
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wages Oaten and a. national
pool.
A despatch from Cardiff, South
Wales, says :-The miners are astound-
ed at the cancellation of the 'Triple
Alliance strike.
The Cardiff Strike Committee of the
Triple Alliance receivedthe news from
London by telephone at 4.15 p.m, on
Friday, when members were settling
the final -details of the arrangements
for the week -end. The messages have
thrown the strike •organization into a
state of hopeless chaos.
To quote one of the mining officials,
some of the transport workers in Car-
diff are actually .out on strike. About
70 of the men were engaged during the
day in unloading a large grain ship,
and as their instructions are to .strike
at night, they left the job unfinished,
The miners are especially resentful
at the strange course of events. They
openly say that it means the break-up
of the Triple Alliance.
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