Loading...
Zurich Herald, 1919-08-08, Page 2INDUSTRIAL STRIFE IN GREAT BRITAIN REACHES DANGER POINT Commerce of Country Faces Temporary Disaster -Downfall of Government Considered Possible -London "Bobbies" and British Bakers Join Strikers. A -despatch from London says: -The genezal industrial unrest in Great Bri- tain which has been seething ever .sines the armistice, seem.. at the present hour to have reaehe;l a point which menaces the commerce of the country with at least temporary dis- aster, It is considered possible that tit may mean the downfall of the Lloyd George Government. The strikes of the past month have been serious enough, but they are merely symtomatie of an epidemic of 1 dissatisfaction which appears to pre- vail throughout the ranks of organized labor. Half a. million Lancashire cotton operatives were idle for more than three weeks. Two hundred thousand Yorkshire miners have been on strike wince July 20. The Liverpool dockers have paralyzed shipping there for two weeks, holding up hundred's of ships of all sizes. The bakers decided to strike on Saturday, and now then London police are about to go on their i second strike. The worst movement of all from the Government standpoint is the threat of '"direct action' by the triple alliance of raiilwaymen, miners and stransport workers. These powerful unions, are taking a secret ballot to decide whether they shall use the weapon of a general strike to try to enforce their political program of the nationalization of mines and railways, and to end con stripiik i and within awal from all participation in Russian affairs. In these circumstances words of revolution and Bolshevism crop up in the newspapers, and are used by con= servative men to describe the present movement. Some of the newspapers are asking where the money comes from to finance all the propaganda being put forth. The Government regards the police stnike as the most dangerous feature of the prevalent unrest. It may prove a critical test of the labor convention. Meets of theort] ported hand-picked, Burma or Indian, Y $3 to $3.50; Limas, 14c. Honey -Extracted clover, 5-1b, tins, 60-1b. tins, 23 to 24c; buckwheat, 60-1b. at .18 to 19c; Comb, 16 -oz., $4.50 to n 2 ! $5 doz.; 10 -oz., $3.50 to $4, dozen. Maple products --Syrup, per imper- ore ial gallon $2.45 to $2.50; per 5 im- perial gallons, $2.35 to $2.40; sugar, lb., 27e. Provisions -Wholesale. Smoked meats -Hams, med., 47 to 48c; do, heavy, 40 to 42c; cooked, 63 to 65c; rolls, 35' to 36c; breakfast bacon, 49 to 55c; backs, plain, 50 to 51c; boneless, 56 to 58c; clear bellies, 33 to 35c. Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 32 to 33e; clear bellies, 31 to 32c. Lard -Pure tierces, 35 to 35%c; tubs, 361, to 37c; pails, 36% to 3714c; prints, 373'2 to 38e.. Compound tierces, 313 to 32c; tubs, 32 to 32%c; pails, 32%, to 32%c; prints, 83 to 831/ c. Montreal Markets'. Montreal, Aug. 5 -Oats, extra No. 1 feed, $1.0336. Flour,°new standard grade, $11 to $11.10. Rolled oats, bag 90 lbs., $5.25. Bran, $42. Shorts, $44. Hay, No. 2, per ton, car lots, ;28. Cheese, finest easterns 25c. Butter Breadstuffs. Toronto, Aug. 6. -Manitoba whe -No. 1 Northern, $2.24%; No. Northern, $2.211/2;No. 3 Norther $2.171, ; No. 4 wheat, $2.11, in st Fort William. Manitoba oats -NO. 2 CW, 92%c; No. 3 CW, 89%c; extra No. 1 feed, 80%c; No. 1 feed, 87%c; No. 2 feed, 84aac, in store Fort William. 1Vlanatoba barley -No. 3 CW, $1.41; No. 4 CW, $1.36; rejected, $1.29%; feed, $1.29%; .in store Fort William. American corn -No. 3 yellow, nom- inal; No. 4 yellow, nominal. Ontario oats -No. 3 white, 92 to 95c, according to freights outside. Ontario wheat -No. 1 winter, per car lot, nominal; No. 2 do, $2.03 to $2.08; No. 3 do, nominal, f.o.b. ship- ping points, according to freights. Ontario wheat -No. 1, 2 and 3 Spring, nominal. Barley -Malting, $1.31 to $1.35, ac- cording to feights outside. Buckwheat -Nominal. Rye -Nominal. Manitoba flour -Government stand- ard, $11, Toronto Ontario flour -Government stand ard, $10.25 to 310.50, in bags, Mon tread„ prompt -shipment; do, $10.25 t $10.50, in jute bags, Toronto, prompt shinm: eat 1su Ile --. e. Q. Crlots; delivered slivered Mon tread freights, bags included, br 24 to 25c; 10-1b tins 23to 24c• AS ioPNG AS sor 'ars 'chiiSWAy 'THEY c air Orr roGErm RW., s-> CO-OPERATION NEEDED. The mail order king with his dark shadow is the one FORCE that is keeping the farmer'and the home mer- chant apart. This is the one big THUNDER cloud on our country life. This SHADOW of the BIG CITY is killing our COMMUNITY growth. This GIANT monopoly works NIGHT and day to keep us APART. He knows that once WE GET TOGETHER HIS business is doomed. Where, then, do WE stand? WHAT shall WE do? Remain in the GRIP of the GL=INT? Rest CONTENT under the DARK shadow? Rather, let us break up the monopoly and the shadow by the SUNLIGHT of co-operation, LET'S GET TOGETHER and scatter that GLOOM. PEACE EFFECTIVE ABOUT AUG. 20 Treaty Requires France's Signa- ture to Make Up Necessary Three. A despatch from Paris says :••-It is expected in French circles that the discussion of the German peace treaty will open about August 10th in the Chamber of Deputies, and. will con- tinue for three or four days. There will then be a three or four-day clis- cussion in the Senate. - Eggs,nicest creamery, 543. to 543tc. A suggestion that the French would o.fresh, 62 to . 2 64c; selected, 58c; not consider the treaty until the Unit- - o. 1 stock, 52c; No. � stock, 45e. Po- o tatoes, , per bag, car lots, $2.50 to 33, ed, States had acted, came from M. Dressed hogs, a8 ttgir ; ed, eogee, Franklie Bouillox.�, en,d other op 'f=`''ro °"nth="4' 1 t...0 ane 'Mil eats do Premier Clemenceau,who are .,, p ,, - !lis.: net; 38�e., coirsidered, to have political -reasons a --Live Stook Markets. for delay. But 1t As generally behaved that M. Clemenceau will be able to, A despatch from Leedun says: - bring about a speedy consideration. One battleship, three light cruisers, As Japan is supposed to have a copy and fifteen destroyers of the German of the treaty by this time, and the Grand fleet, which were scuttled by Emperor's ratification is expected at an early date, French officials are of the opinion that the treaty will be- to be salvaged, it was announced in atively quiet: The presence of th come effective when the French ratify, the House of Common; by Waller troops apparently had calmed th about August 20th, England has al -i Hume Long, First Lord of the Admir- negroes' fears, and had a salute): ready ratified the treaty, and the sign-? arty. Mr. Long said work was pro- effect on, disturbing elements amoi atures of only three great powers are! ceeding on three other destroyers. lie both whites and blacks. The troop necessary to make it effective. f1 were well distributed, and the military per ton, 342 to'$45; shorts, per ton, Toronto, Aug.- 5. -Choice heavy 344 to $49; good feed flour, per bag,. , 314 to $14.75; , $3.25 to $3.85. good, heavy Hay -No. 1, per ton, $22 to 324;'steers, $13.7 $to 0; 313.25; do cattle, mixed, per ton, 310 to 319, track, To-, choice, to 312; to do, do, good, ionto. $11.75 med., 311.25 to Straw -Car lots, per ton, $10 to $11, ! $11.50; do, coin., 37 to $8; bulls, choice, track, '.� erontu. do0 to $11; do, coed., $10.25 to $10.75; ff Country Produce -Wholesale. choice, $10 to $10.50; do, good, $9.25-I , rough, $8 to $8.25; butchers' cows, Butter --Dairy, tubs and rolls, 36 to to $9.75; do, med., $8.50 to $9; the; 88c; prints, 38 to 40c. Creamery, come '$ a to $8$ stockers, $8.75 to i fresh made solids, 50 to 50?c; prints01',ndccutiersexs4501.50 to 12; canners good to choice, $110 to $150; do, tom, j 50 per c•s . "',, , spring am s, Lire p +nary -Spring chickens, 40c choice, $16.50 to $17.50; hogs, fed and; roosters, e2c; fowl, 26 to 30e; duck- i'fatered, $2.125 to 324.50; do, weighed' dings, He; turkeys, 30c. ' !off cars, $24.50 to $24.75; do, f.o.b.,I V holesalers are selling to the re- Montreal Au , I :2 to 51c. , $ • to 6.27; milkers Eggs -45 to 47c. and med., $65 to $75; springers, $90 Dressed poultry-apring chickens, c; ro�.sters, 25c; fowl, 30 to 3?c; 1111 $160; light ewes, $9 to $10; ,Ear -i ducl•lings, 32c; turkeys, 35 to 40c• gs $1150 to $1 a0 seri I b squabs, doz., $6, p cwt., $15 to $lb; calves, good to! o "' $_3...v to $23.50. tail trade at the following prices }bulls, $r.50' to $8.50• 5 -Best butchers Cheese -New, large, 28 to 9c•.to5 , poorer grades, 6.50 30ensSti ton, 29 to 1,a to 80c.twitriplets, 29 to I 36o $9$0;' good equalityst ,, 3555.50 to' 36.50. Butter -Fresh dairy, choice 40 to f Canners down to $5. Grass calves, 48c; creamery prints, 5a- to 5 Margarine -3C } 38c. off cars, $24; others, $20. 6e + 37.50; milk -fed, $15 to $17. Sheep Margarine -36 o c 1 Eggs -No. l's, 54 to 55c; selects, 57 to Sed 'WINNIPEG HAS ARMY Dressed poultry -Spring chickens, 5O to 55e; roosters, 28 to 30e: fowl 37 OF UNEMPLOYED A despatch from Winnipeg says: -- $8; lambs, $16. Choice selected hogs to 38c; turkeys, 40 to 45c; ducklings, lb., 35 to 40c; squabs doz., $7; geese, 28 to 30c. According to a statement given out by Live poultry -Spring chickens, 45c; officials of the Dominion Employment fowl, 30 to 35c, Bureau here, between 10,000 and 12, - Beans -Canadian hand-picked, bus.,, 000 persons are unemployed in the city 34.50 to $5; primes, $8.50 to 34; Im-! of Winnipeg at the present time, COVER'S ENT BOARD °A SELL I T PAYING CASHTO FARMS RS Prevailing World Prices to be Paid at Delivery -Speculation Pro- hibited -Speedy Movement of Crop Along Usual Channels of Transport. A ' despatch from Ottawa says:.-- eThe Government has finally determin- pd its policy in regard to this year's wheat crop. The main features of the plan are: (1) A Board to buy and market the ;!crop of 1919. P (2) A cash payment on account to pe made to the farmer at the time he. Isells his wheat. ' (3) The wheat crop of Canada to !be sold by the Board at the prevailing fe orld prices, and the surplus proceeds, , a.fter expenses are deducted, to be „distributed to the original sellers of the wheat in proportion to grade and quantity. (4) No speculating on exchanges or profiteering by handlers to be allowed in disposing of the wheat crop of I t0 to the disadvantage of either produear or consumer. (5) A direct and immediate cash sale by the farmer, and a speedy movement of the crop along the usual ehrnnels of transport. The personnel of the Hoard will be made known very shortly, as also will the initial cash payment to be made on account to the farmer at the time of the sale of his wheat. ALBERTA DROUGHT RELIEVED BY RAINS Situation Regarding Feed Short- age is Rapidly Improving. A despatch from Calgary says: - General rains throughout the southern section of the Province indicate that the long drought has been broken and the situation as regards feed shortage for cattle is rapidly improving. News to this effect was brought in from all quarters of the Province by Provincial Government Min- isters, gathering here to confer with ranchers and stock men in the Calary Board of Trade rooms. N 1 ENEMY1; SU1V.K 1� AI2 HY ..IIIP,' ARE READY TO I3E S kaVAGED CHICAGO .RACE STRIFE I� ' ABATED Violence Kept in Check by Force of 6,500 State Troops. A despatch from Chicago says: - Race war terror aro bloodshed abated after four days and nights of rioting, but violence continued to occur spor- adically during the.latter part of the week, notwithstanding a force of 6,500 State troops and thousands of police- men Were on active duty in the South- side negro quarters. Three negroes died of bullet wounds, making the official corrected death list 32, of whom 18° were ne- 0 roc's Only one of the the th ysee was shot. Thursday, though a dozed or more members of both races were wounded in the scattered disturbanaas, most of them of a minor character. In the down -town districts a crowd of whites attacked and severely beat a negro their crews at Scapa blow, in the who was on his way home from work. Orkney Islands, on Jure 22, are ready The negro area remained compar- e e y rg s said there was no intention of holding a court of enquiry, machinery was running smoothly. SA ROUT re Many of the poorer negroes were GERMAN STATE TRIBUNAL ported in dire need of food and with PASS UPON KAISER'S GUILT out funds. Thursday was pay day at FORCESthe stock yards, but negroes feared BOLSHEVIK A despatch from Berlin says: -A to go there to draw their wages. state tribunal is to enquire into and Thousands of negroes did not attempt Over 5,000 Prisoners Taken by i fix the responsibility for the war. It to go to work all week. will be composed of the Supreme -^----- Gen. Denekine on the Volga. !Court of the Empire, whose president! CALL P:IRLIAMENT A despatch from London says:- I will be Chairman, He will be assisted EARLY IN SEPTEMBER Gen. Denekine, the Russian command-! by the president of the Military Court er, has gained an important victoryi and the judges of the Prussian, Bay- '� ' I A despatch from Cl r �. over the Bolshevik and captured the • arian and Hansa High Courts. In' p ed. L . l p Parliament will be called, in a', pro - town of Kainashin, on the Volga. Five addition, ten assistant judges will be bability, early in September thousand Bolshevik, nine guns and! elected, five by the National Assemb:y Thursdr.y, September, 1, is suggest, - large quantities of material were also! and five by a committee at the Oxer- ed as a tentative. date, although no- taken.ma,n States. The efttrags will be I thing has yet been n£ i^ial;y He rm' :- In making this announcement, the public. The tribunal will be only em- ed, As pointed out some day, ago, War Office says that possession of powered to pronounce upon the ques- an earlier calling of sesscn than was Kamaskin gives Gen. Denekin a firm -i tion of guilt; it will tot impose pun- at first contemplated wi'.l be neeesary er hold on the river and his main oh- ishment, owing to the lapse of the War Aleas_ jective in the advance on Saratov,ures Act (end the orders in Council threatening the Bolshevik communiea- LONDON CHEERS passed under .it) on the proe'.oinatian tions with Astrakhan. Kamaskin was GREATEST AIRSHIP of peace. entered by the anti -Bolshevik troops! --- It is iurther regar,ler as of great on July 30, and the fleeing enemy was A despatch from London says:--. importan.:e that there should be no pursued 12 miles beyod the town. The giant British dirigible R-34, which delay in ratification of the Peace landed at Pulham, Norfolk, on July Treaty by the Dominion Parlian,env, EMBARK. AT PORTSMOUTH 13, after snaking the first transatlantic _.- ON THE RENOWN ON AUG. 5 dirigible flight, left there for East " What He Meant, a Fortune, Scotland, the point from Everybody who has used a telephone which it started for the United States. knows exactly what is meant by the The R-34 circled over London at low following description of the way a cer- tain person talked over the wire: The man at one end had become thoroughly exasperated, and asked his friend if he were losing his' hearing. His friend was an Irishman, and re- plied: "I can hear you all right till you begin to talk, and then I can't un- derstand a word you say." A. despatch from London says: -- The Admiralty has issued the pro - gam of his Majesty's ships Renown, altitude during the trip and was seen Dragon and Dauntless for the visit of and cheered by excited crowds. the Prince of Wales to Newfoundland and Canada. The Prince will embark on the Renown at Portsmouth, August 5th, and transfer at sea to the Dragon on arrival in Canadian, waters. He will re -embark in the Renown off Charlottetown on August 19th, finally disembarking at Quebec, after arrival there on August 21st. On his journey to Canada the Prince of Wales will occupy the apartments on the Renown usually alintted to the Admiral. The refitting of the vessel, be his ex- His Vacant Donie. pressed wish, is not to 'be on the usual 13orleigh-Yes, the bullets struck my lavish scale associated with State head, went careering into space and - voyages. The ship will, in feet, be Miss Keen -How terrible! Did they little altered. get out? LASTING MVIEMORIAL TO GLORIOUS DEA') A despatch from London says: - The eenotaph eenotaph to "the glorious dead" in 'Whitehall, now of plaster, will be done in marble, as a permanent mem- orial. It was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, who will now he asked to make a memorial in enduring form, Just So. The peace Crank was going strong, His umbrella wavod frantically, and his side whiskers bristled with the strength of his emotions, • "Gentlemen, unity is strength. We keepers of the door of peace must all hang together-" "And the sooner the better," came a sweet voice from the crowd. 4 Froin Erin's Green isle • A ewe owned by e Midlands farmer has given birth to five lambs, malting 14 in three years. A general strike was ordered in Limerick as a protest against the recent military proclamation, Tho Department has revolted the order prohibiting the landing of hay and straw from a&oss the Channel. The annual business meeting of the Stewart Institution, Pahnerston, Country Dublin, was held recently. The out -of -wort: donation scheme for civilian workers in Ireland will come to an end on November 25 next. When the Ilowtb. train was near Sutton Cross, it struck two horses which had strayed 'on the line, killing both, - The sudden death is reported of W. H. Hussey, ex -district inspector R.I,C., and formerly head detective at Belfast. During March last, one hundred and eighty-six persons left Ireland, as compared with eighty-five in March, .. 1918. It is reported that lack of capital is responsible for the abandonment of •the scheme to develop the Bally- castle coalfields. • The Secretary to the Treasury says that he cannot see his way to give a bonus to pensioned Irish Na- tional teacher,. Of the two posthumous V.C.'s re- cently given by the King, one was to the mother of Lieut. -Col. John Marshall, Irish Guards. Hawker. Well clone, bold Anzac, courser of the sky! The world has seen so many a daring deed Of reckless chance, it first gave little heed, When you and gallant Grieve made bold to fly Across the wide Atlantic, bearing high Brittania's flag. Your deepest hope had been To place your Empire again - Your deed has proved you to try. When those who knew clared you lost, The world gave up, save loved you most: Then men paid tribute to your age rare That o'er the pathless waste had tern- . pests braved, And all the world now joins in thank- ful prayer To God, that gallant Hawker has been saved. -Robert E. Park. Detroit, Mich., May 28. in the lead not afraid the sea de - one who HUNT FOR"MISSING," British Government Will Make Special Search Over War Zone. In order to exhaust all sources of in- formation in regard to the fate of of- ficers and men missing in Belgium and northern France during the war, the Government has decided to des- patch a special mission to the Conti- nent to make an extensive tour throughout the country districts and' conduct an inquiry among peasants, parish priests and other classes of the Population likely to have been in touch with men hiding in occupied territory, says a London despatch. Tho mem- bers of the mission are Dante Adelaide Livingstone, Sir Malcolm Mcllwraith and Brig. -Gen, C. G. Bruce. Any recent information likely to be of service to the Mission, and not previously com- municated to a Government depart- ment or committee, should be sent without delay to the hon. secretary, Prisoners of War Committee, House of Parliament, Westminster, London, England. SALVAGE WORf< DANGEROUS. Cr ,wa in say mo wa cut the of tas the be T ver abl nev vise tion city! inat 3;1)111pro Tl wat cons Cove poln the ews Face Death in Many Ways Try- ing to Save Ships. Salvage crews face death in many ys trying to save the vessels sunk the war by German submarines, s a Loltlon despatch. One of the st perilous incidents of this service s that of a navy commander who away the nose of a live torpedo t had become jammed in the deck a destroyer. So dangerous was the k that the naval authorities towed three miles out to sea eft they would permit the attempt. he salvage work has advanced y rapidly and become very profit - e. Submersible lifting devices, er before thought of, have been de- cd anti put into successful opera- . Dangers from gases due to de - ng grain cargoes have been `elim- ed lay scientific research. Diving lances have been greatly im- ved. 1e"cutting of steel plates ander er is now only a detail and the truction of the standard hatch to r holes in hulls has readied the t where it is now merely a part of day's work of the salvage man.