Evening Star Newspaper, March 30, 1924, Page 21

LONDON HELPLESS BEFORE STRIKERS City's Week Recalls Anxious Days of the War—Thousands Forced to Walk. SHOWS POWER OF LABOR MacDonald Facing Difficult Posi- tion in Settlement. BY A. G. GARDINER. Y5 Radio fo The Star, LONDON, March mind has never the insecurity of the ciety as it ha domestic war th metrope he public alarmed at structure of so- been this week by the raged in the the transport has between and the people If a trumpery dispute can paralyze London as it did for five days this week, then it would seem that the real power of the country has passed to a dictatorship outside of parlia- servie der of the striking, talked abou exactly as | Inde | ‘unless the pub- can remove essential services from ne of industrial conflict, the the state is at the mercy of Mussolini who, through trade unions, can hold up society. ¥riday Anxious Day. Friday, up to the time that Prim. Minister’ MacDonald succeeded bringing the empld nd the work- ers together, was the most anxious day in the recent experience of Lon- T recalled memoirs of the al days of the war when hung in the balance. There was abundant anxiety. London had had depressing week in living ANl trams and bus services in the metropolis were suspended. and the public’ was reduced o underground el and walking. And, if the con. ad failed, all underground services would o ceased day midnight, and the whole of London would have be to absolute standstill. Ot sure on the public was th including putting out the the electricluns Was Desperate Attack. ‘Hits Wb e imoAt desdarate tack that was ever made on existence of the community, and about three shillings a week conductors demanded an in- of eight shillings a week, and ompanies and municipalities of- d five shillings with arbitration the remainder. reason for the most memory. for traffic brought er pre tened, at- the on S | the the | " | principal ¥ lights by | all The : FRANCO-GERMAN Rapidly During Time Committee Has BY WILLIAM BIRD. | Br Radio to The Star. *ARIS, March King Carnival is definitely dead. “Mi-Careme” fes- {tival, which has been a Parisian tra- dition for centuries, was definitely abolished this year when the govern- {ment refused to appropriate subsidie throwing. | But, wanton joicing, comie holi . Premier Poincare exits in a rage through one door and re-enters smilingly through another and every- body laughs. That is how it appears to the superficial observer, but there is something more serious ts the eye. Franco-German Negotiations. Although very little has leaked to publie, 1t is well understood well-informed circles that the nego- tiations for Franco-German economic collaboration have been proceeding rapidly during the time the Dawes- Young experts’ committee has been in session. The precise terms at which the negotiations are attempt- ing to arrive are unknown to the writer, but the general lines of the proposals are these eCt an Arrang 1t whereby German coal and c ources c: be combined with France's iron de- posits in Lorraine, thus turning the w Ruhr distriet into onc unif steel producing area without a ri in Europe. Under such a scheme, {is argued, there would be such i tremendous surplus of production for | export that reparations paymen:s up {to u very considerable figure could be {paid out of this alone Committee des Forges. Tt is held by French negotiators representing the committee des forges, which is @ consortium of the ench metallurgical in- that M. Poincare alone is » of securing adoption and rat- of this pl which f n]l s well, will be public property the French elections May unfortunately, election signs | have been pointing to a decided left- ward swing and so M. Poincare, who has shown marked leftward leanings in recent months, was more than de- lighted to seize opportunity to drope overboard certain embarrassing members of his cabinet and thus re- form his lines for the electoral cam- as if in compensation for this ppr n of mid-Lenten re- it was decided to cabinet crisis to brighten th n me | teres ificatiof ut for the pageant and forbade confetti; stage a! this! in THE SUNDAY ECONOMIC COLLABORATION IS FORESEEN Report States Negotiations Have Been Proceeding Dawes-Young Experts’ Been Convened. government's policy based on its broad lines. He is believed to rely largely on the expected reactionary victory at the German elections May 4, which, if it comes off, would undoubtedly have the effect of strengthening the French conservatives as it would m to indicate the growth of the erman revenge menace. Conservatives Co-operating. But, jFrench conservatives are at present jwarking for an economic understand- ing which will mean money in both their pockets ‘This is regarded as especially desirable in view of Bel- {glum's swing toward Great Britain in the last few weeks. Therefore, things stand now, conservative lvictories in France or Germany or {both would not necessarily mean in- creased danger of war but would seem to indicaté rather a tendency rd putting both countries’ for- in the hands of big business ts in the formation of a con al economic bloc destined event- y to eliminate England as & con- tinental power. (Copyright, . RUHR COAL PAYMENTS REACH NEW RECORD French Report High Mark Last Week in Reparations Shipments, 1924) Germany, March 129 —A new record for one-day ship- | ments of coal and coke from the Ruhr ,bnsin for the reparations account since the occupation began was es- tablished on March 26, according to French official figures. These show that 87,176 tons of coal and 24,931 tons of coke were shipped. France and lauxemburg 38,786 tons of the coal and 17,807 tons of the coke; Belgium, coal and 7,124 in coke, while Italy received 2 tons of coal. Dr. Anna L. Bm;vn Dies. TORONTY, March —Dr. Anna Louise Brown of New York. of the division of education and re- search of the national board of the Young Woman's Christian Associa- tion, died here today. received actually, both the German and | 448 in | director | STAR, WASHI GERMANS WELCOME $10,000,000 U. S. AID Harden Says No Mistake Will Be Made by Action of Congress. ADMITS LUXURY EXISTS Wealthier Enjoy Best, While Masses Face Want, He Says. BY MAXIMILIAN HARDEN. By Radio to The Star. BERLIN, March 20.—The ten-mil- IHon-dollar grant of the American Congress for feeding German women and children strengthens slumbering beliefs in humanity. To expressions of deep gratitude, however, the writer would like to add a few words to the congressman who based his opposition to the Fish reso- lution on the allegation that help was unnecessary Germany had a good harvest and her upper class still permitted itself a life of greatest luxury. His statements are true, but the good harvest now is almost used up., and the peasants are forced to jturn everything into cash in order to their t; es and running cxpenses. n the citi where miserable wages are paid, t standard of life is lower than even the poor in America can imagine. Hundreds of thousands of children still have no shirts under their patched jackets, no flesh on {their ribs, and not enough power of resistance to withstand an attack of grippe. Losses to Middle Class. Equally great the number middle class citizens who lost everything they had acquired by decades of hard work. The writer, dear sir, belongs to this class, and can join in the song of sorrow. Ger- man securities in which hard-earned savings have been invested have so depreciated that a share which cost 1,800 gold marks brings only 120 if one is compelled to sell it to pay taxes. Foreign shares became waste r in Russia, and we confiscat and the “reparation compelied to ob- ke. i 5o ridicu- that ome can buy Just twenty ies from push cart for what he ives for one share. For shares of Russo-German Electrie Society, originally costing 160.000 marks. receives, after ing, 100 marks A’ decade ago nobody since is of have one all kinds of petition- would have NGTON, | considered possible Such an interpre- D. C, tation of good faith, such an effect of ‘war upon private property. rmans have become a poor PN)-; ple in the strictest sense of the words. Only the devil, who himself became rich by hellish inflation, knows whence those all too many who visit the Riviera, Athens, Cairo and Syracuse, taking along their au- tos, get their money. The is the general subject of discussion | among the poor devils. But the rid- dle has not _been solved, and no way has been found to weed out this luxury. Worse in German Papers. You, gentlemen of the Congress, could read worse things in German newspapers. In the grotesque |)'lllI of Hittler, Ludendorff and company it was shown that in October, 1923— that is to say, in the time of the worst paper money crisis—the indus- trialists of Nuremberg donated thirty thousand good American dollars for nationalistic agitation. This gift from one city in one month is only one of many. This shows why the “Voelkische Bewegung” grew so rapidly to a Ku Klux Klan, preaching of envy, red and revenge, and cart its “’”“r: million: that Luden- dorff, derhanding a place in the Ger- man pantheon for himself, receives an ovation. It shows why the much cleverer demagague, Hitler, permit- ted in court to make a speech attack- ing his accuser: is worshiped by aristocratic men, women and chil- dren and why every reviler of the republic, which now lies llke a wreck between waves of the masses’ wrath and the cliffs of obtuse indifference, is accompanied everywhere by loud rejolcings. Since all this is o, thinks the right honorable congressman, we Ameri- cans have no reason to feed a nation where our ideals of democracy and republicanism are daily spattered with mud. Instead of going exten- sively Into the fact that buying of foodstuffs in America will also help American farmers, sailors, etc, the writer merely recalls Christ's words in the Sermon on the Mount: “Our Father in heaven lets t shine upon the evil and the the rain fall on the unjust.” it it e sun good, and just and the be humanity’s aim to become Godlike, then the doer of good deeds may not ask whether his gifts could also prove to the advantage of evil and unrighteous peoples. Must the poorest people in Germany starve, must the women fade away and the children sicken because an orgy of shameless luxury, of blind national- istic pride and ‘anti-foreign hatred, rages about them? (Copyright, 1924.) There are 125,000 migratory % in the state of California. work- BumsteadsWormSyrup “To children an angel of merey.” Where directions are followed, IT NEVER PAILS and enormous cost of SAN- ontains full dose. Stood mixty Sold everywhere or by mail, 50¢ Voorhees, M. D.. Philadelp) MARCH 30, 1924— PART ROOFING and SPOUTING for your Spring repair work will give you the satisfaction of knowing that just a little more spent in the first cost is the wise and econom- ical step because it requires just as much 1abor to erect Spouting and Gutter that won’t last as it does to erect LYONORE METAL. Specify LYONORE METAL; all good Sheet Metal Contractors use it and will glad- ly show you the words LYONORE METAL stamped in the Spouting and Gutter itself. This stamp is placed there for his protection and to assure your getting what you order. For further information phone any reliable Sheet Metal Contractor or 930-932 E St. N.W., Washington Main 890 o.Inc. The root of th 2 system pays, Tems fare little better. s due to wasteful competition be-| Me tween the companies and the munici- palities. Any extra wage has to come out of rates, or increased farcs. 'he official view is that increased res do not produce higher income. but the men took the bit in their teeth and insisted on full terms at thoe point of the bayonet. Hence the catastrophe which paral the whole commerce of the metropolis and reduced seven million people to & foot race The position was MacDonald and the paign | Millerand Ixsues Statement. i anwhile, President Millerand has issued a statement of capital ating that if the coun- to support th tic policies, | on as he may | may mean one her resignation or | of a dictatorship. The latier course has been urged on President Millerand for many week and the president is credibly reported favorable to it, but M Poincare has resisted it and has in sisted that the clections would prove men It was supposed that with th ublic wa solidly behind labor in power the liability to strike - would be diminished. Instead, there H has been a ssfon of smashing |jcized on the grounds that he had| blow at the public existence made no move to provide public fa- If the underground systems cilities to meet the withdrawal of | stopped Mr. MacDonald would have |services, but to have done so before been confronted with the issue of [exhausting all efforts to bring the{ whether he was fighting for exist-two sides together would have been ence of the public or for the triumph |construed by the strikers as taking of the unions. If h had decided he |sides against them. The writer un- was fighting for the public be would derstands that he had made prepara- have been crushed by his own fol-|tions to defend London against what Jowe If he had decided he was|amounted to a siege of war. { fighting for the unions he By bringing the employers and the | have been smashed by the public. 1f | workers together, Mr. MacDonald has | the strike had been extended it done much to convi the public | a grave question whether Mr. Mac-|that he is doing his utmost to pro- Donaid would have been able to com- tect its existence. If It had been mand sufficient support from his col- | convinced that he was not, his fall leagues to fight the strikers. oila have been immediate. acDonald was sharply (OopyTight, 1924.) im- por indi try at th present cabindt he will “take judge proper. of two things. yroclamation nee R R BB BB & B & for Mr labor govern critfeal Pink Envelope Chemise 29c nod Quality or White Batiste Envelopes, | & t1y shirred Full cut, made, all Brosd back in _slight of 31 black only oiors i ¢ k-fashioned had 1316 to 1326 7th St. N.W. 200 Marigold, Glos Silk, Crepe and Fancy & SILK DRESSES $3.98 Stylish, new Spring models, b O Y P AR T 2 3 AT g T 2 e 2 s 2 B B BB U erit- | S Y S o ST O SPRING SALE of BABY GRAND PIANOS in a large variety of styles and \H]m\, in seli-color or combinations. Included are a variety of other styles in oblong check crepes, glos, siik trico. 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