Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1924, Page 21

MINE FEDERATION e i e PERU PLANS HUGE ~ RIFT UNCOVERED World Body, Once Peaceful, Torn by Strife—U. S. View Stays Action. Correspondence of The Star and New York World. LONDON, November 21.—A critical tuation has arisen in the Interna tional Federation of Miners, the oldest &nd one of the most powerful world- wide trade union organizations. The attitude of the American miners has had an important {nfluence on the development of this crisis so far and | it is not unlikely they will bd the de- cisive factor in its solution and in determining the whole future of the min international organization The critical phase began about a year ago. Up till then the Inter- national Miners' Federation was on tne whole a happy family. Unity was complete and relations cordial be- tween the nations represented in it d the federation was growing steadily in numbers, power and pres- t Frank Hodges, then secretary of the British Miners' Federation, was secretary of the International Tederation, and, owing to his knowl- edge of French and his personal tac he was popul with the miners' lead- ere of 1 nations. The change came when Mr. Hodges - elected for the British Parlia- ment in December, 1923, followed by his appointment as civil lord of the admiralty in the Labor governmeht The continental delegations saw no TAas why either of these functions hould debar him ave, perhaps, for verr short period, from continuing his functions in the national and in- tarnational miners’ movement. On the European continent most promi- nent minars' leaders are at the same time membe; of Parliament and some of them have been members of the government of their respective coun- tries. also Different View Arises. Eritish Miners' Federation, however, held a very different view On Parliament Mr. Hodg had to resign trom his post as secre- tary of the British Federation. That dtd not. however, at first carry with it any change In the secretaryship of the international federation. It was only when Mr. Hodges joined the Brit- ish’ government that the new Brit- ish miners’ secretary, J. A. Cook, was delegated in Mr. Hodges' place to end the committee meetings of e miners’ international, and it was there the British delegation propose 10 appeint.Mr. Cook internatianal sec- retary pro tempore—that is, as long as Mr. Hodges should be prevented by his ministerial dutles from fulfilling his secretarial functions or until the International Miners' Congress, which was to meet in Auguse, 1924, in Prague, should appoint an interna- tional secretary The continental miners’ never doubted for one moment that Mr. Hodges would resume his place as international secretary as soon as 1 oppportunity offered itself, as they knew Mr. Hodges himself was very wiliing to do. But they soon found out that that was not at all the way the British miners looked at the mat- ter. In their view Mr. Cook had come to stay not only as British sec- retary, but as international secre- tary, and Mr. Hodges was regarded as having definitely severed his ofi- cial connections with the miners’ movement. Irritated Others, This {rritated the continental lead- ers all the more, as they presently overed Mr. Cook's views did not square with thelr own. Mr. Cook is a4 left-wing trade unionist In Eng- land, and, although he supports the Labor party in politics, he declares himself a communist in theory and favors the united front with the Com- munists and with the Red Trade Unlon International. The conti- nental miners’ leaders are without ex- ception bitterly opposed to com- munism and refuse to have any deal- ing with the Red International. The position in the miners' inter- national thus became increasingly un- comfortable, and when the Prague congress came around it was further p ¥ aggravated by the discovery that Mr. Cook, in the capacity of international miners' secretary, had Leen carrying on correspondence with the Russlan miners’ organization with « view to an uultmate understanding, and that in a way which the conti- nental miners’ leaders regarded alinost as a breath of trust. They de no effort to conceal from Mr. Cook he did not enjoy the confidence of any of the continetal miners’ lead- ers forming part of the International committee. Tha did not, however, induce Mr. Cook to-tender his resig- nation or to withdraw his candidature for the international secretaryship. ©On the contrary, he gave the commit- %ee to understand that any mani- festation of distrust toward him- kelf would be regarded as an insult 0 the powerful British Miners' Fed- eraton, whose national secretary he was and whose confidence he pos- mossed. Americans Pledge Atd. To avoid a painful and dangerous conflict in open session of congress, the committee declded to take up an ©ld desire of the International Miners’ Federation and appoint a full-time international secretary. In this wa) Mr. Cook would be debarred from the international secretaryship by the mere fact of his being British na- tional secretary and the way would thaps be opened for the appoint- ment of Mr. Hodges. The only difi- culty was the financial one. But at this polnt the American sainers’ delegates present in Prague, Messrs. Phillp Murray, W. Nesbit and 0. Kennedy, intervened decisively by insisting upon the absolute necessity of finding the money for the estab- lishment of a permanent international wecretarist with a full-time secretary drawing an adequate salary, and promising the full financial support of the United Mine Workers ot America with its 600,000 members. "This latter argument had a decisive effect, especlally on the British dele- zation, and it was unanimously de- ‘ided mot to appoint a secretary at that congress, but to instruct the in- tornational committee to meet within three months for the purpose of ap- pointing a full-time International secretary. New Surprise Fou The ente: leaders The internatiorfal committee duly || met in Brussels November 5 and 6, but there was a new surprise await- ing the continental delegates. The British delegation declared thelr ex- ecutive committes did not see its way to nominate any candidate for the post of International secretary, al- theugh they had received a consider- &ble number of applications from nearly all districts, it belng under- stood that one district had nominated Mr. Hodges. The British delegation proposed to postpone the appolnt- ment of an international secretary on the ground that an examination of the financial position did not seem to justify them in Incurring the great Bnancial responsibility involved. The weightiest argument advanced by the British delegates was what they considered the disappointing at- titude of the American miners. The Anterican miners were not represent- #d at the Brussels committee meeting, but a letter was read from the Ameri- wan organization to the effect that they were not In a position to pledge the financfal support of the American To Have 5.000,000 Cubic Feet Space Government to Build Shed to House One of Two Maminoth Planes. Correspondence of the Associated Press. , December 1.—Britain is airship shed bigger than the mammoth one at Lakehurst, N. roost of the Shenandoah and the Los Angeles. It will sRelter one of the two 5,000,000-cubic-feet-capucity air- ships which the British government has decided to build. The shed will be located at Card- ington, near Bedford, according to Modern Transport. It is to be mere- 1y an enlargement of the shed al- ready there. Its increased length— 512 feet—will make it 12 feet longer than the Lakchurst hangar and feet longer than the shed at Fried- richshafen where the ZR-3 was built The height of the Cardington shed is to be increased to 156 feet. The big British Zeppelins are to be flown regularly, it is hoped, between | England and India. Mooring masts, an American invention, are to be In- «talled along the route. The air vice| marshal, Sir W. Sefton Brancker, has gone to India by airplane to study| the possibilities for airship termini| out there. | international secretary, the American | executive committee not having yet| had time to discuss the matter. Germans Propose Levy. The continental delegates were not of the opinfon that the delay of the Americans in promising their definite | help need necessarlly delay the carry- | ing out of the scheme decided upon | in Prague. Some of them pointed out | in fact that the American aid was not | absolutely indispensable to fthe| scheme at all. The German delegates | went a step further and proposed an | all-around increase of the interna- tional contribution to five gold pfennig | per member, whereby ample provision | would be made for all the cost of & | tull-time international secretary, even if the Americans fafled to contribute their share. The new organization could thus be set up without delay. But the British delegation did not | sec its way to adhere to this proposal except on condition of it being cepted and actually carried into effect | by all the other nations, and, in par ticular, by the Americans. They felt that unless the Americans made good their promise in Prague and con- tributed their share, the British fed eration would have to bear too great a proportion of the burden. Roughly, out of a total membership of 1,900,000 of the International Miners' Federa- tion. Great Britain furnishes 800,000, all the continental nations put to- gether something over 500,000, and the United States between 400,000 and 600.000. Therefore, If the Americans failed to make their promise of financial help effective, Great Britaln would have some £2.000 of the total of £3.00¢ per annum which the levy of 5 pfen nig s estimated to raise. That, the British deélegates felt, was not a pro- posal the British Federation was lkely to view with favor. Thelr po- sition would, on the other hand. be vastly dlfferent’ it the Americans also agreed to contribute their quota of something in the neghborhood of £1,500. Delay Hinges on America. these clrcumstances it was to postpone the matter an- other three months. The interna- tlonal committee is to meet in-the latter part of January in Hanover, Germany. In the interval the Inter natlonal secretary will clrcularize all affillated federations asking them to contribute the 5 pfennig levy. If the response is universally favorable the new International secretariat will be set up forthwith and the full time international secretary appointed. The list of nominations for this post will be closed early in January. If the response is inadequate the whole situation will have to be reviewed again. In view of the attitude of the Brit- Ish delegation at the Brussels meet- ing, this decision practically means that the solution of this problem de- pends entirely on the attitude which the United Mine Workers of America will take up between now and the end of January. Much more is at stake than the mere question of the establishment of a permanent International secre- tariat, since this proposal wag a mat- | ter of fact made because it seemed to | present the only means of escape from a most dangerous crisls about the person of the international secre- tary, setting in operation the British Federation against all the other n tional sections forming the Miners' International. If the financial scheme is dropped as -a result of the Ameri- can organization’s fallure to con- tribute its share, the internatlonal will be confronted with the original crists in an aggravated form. New Medical Terms Many. In this day of sclence the medicai leXicographer 13 one of the buslest of men, for in complling a medical glc- tionary one edition is hardly pre- pared before it is out of date. owing to the great detail and palnstaking effort, which requires time. Fhomas Lathrop Stedman has complle: a new | edition of one and announces it con- talng hundreds of new terms, many of which belong to the field of den- tistry, which is rapidly progressing. BEnO é A TREAT FOR THE £ g ENTIRE FAMILY & 5 Tn agreed | [+ Bring them here jor ki their Sunday dinner. A siz-course meal of [ the season’s choice deli- &3 cacies. r; _THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D C. DECEMBER 21, 1924—PART 1. AL EXPANSIN 4,000 Miles of Trackage to Be Built by British Interests if Proposal Is 0. K.’d. ! | Correspondene of The Star and New York { World. LIMA, Peru, November dent Leguia of Peru message to congress forehadowed the construction, by British inter- i ests, of some 4,000 miles of addition- al rail It is the earnest hope of Peruvians that the negotiations now proceeding with that object may {not prove abortive. That Peru, in this twentieth century, should still be without the transport facilities by | | which alone her immense natural re- sources of raw materfal can be ex- | i ploited and made free to the world's | | Industry they say reflects no credit! upon any one. The railway enterprises that are about to be undertaken in the Argentine have for their object an outlet for he products of that state, through Chilian and Peruvian ports to the countries whose shores march with the Pacific. In addition to this scheme, which is to cost millions the state rallway authorities propose to spend a further £32,000,000 upon a great extension of their existing lines in the northern central, th castern and the Patagonian regions of the republic. 10.—Presi- in his recent Gain for Argentins, The Argentine scheme for connect- ing up with the Pacific coast by way | of Bolivian and Peruvian railways is approaching completion and it is be lieved it will serve the economic in- terests of four republicx. But the | principal gainer will doubtless be the promoting Interest—in this case | the Argentine Republic—for so far | as Peru Is concerned, an enterprise which provides mere running powers | from the Argentine frontier over the friendly Bolivian and Peruvian lines, will have little or no effect upon Peru's wide-flung natural resources, nor will it be any palliative for the disabllity of insufficient railway com- munication from which she suffers so_acutely. Peru's development awaits al cheme by which her inexhaustible | aw materfal may have easy access, trom the four points of the compass, | along the steel rail to her many | ports, and until such an enterprise is initlated and carried to successful completion the country’s more effec- tive and more universal exploitation and_settlement will be delayed. Al who have traveled exploring- in Peru have returned with the testimony of vast material wealth awaiting exploitation and| transport to tho outside world. The | raw material seen in such abund- ance, especinally in the rich Montana region. will inevitably bring the pio- reer when the locomotive appears amid this virgin El Dorado. The 1.840 miles of railway In a country of 650,000 square miles and a popu- lation of 5,000,000 is regarded by Peruvians as ridiculous. American the Ploneer. Meiggs, the enterprising American, to whom the country owes the Cen- tral and the Southern Railway sys- tems, was a seer, and belleved in the future prosperity of Peru. But the distinguished stateman, who is the nation’s president for the third time, is a seer also, but on a higher plane than Meiggs, and if his vision em- braces more things than the vitaliz- ing railways of the near future, use such things are neces: 1y same You will be pleased B with the manner in which our food is pre- pared and served. 7 Sainers fog the scheme of a full-time* St Music | span RARE OLD VOLUMES LOCATED BY CHANCE Discovery Made in Chest in A cient Domicile by British Ex- pert Collector. Correspondence of the Associated Press. NEWCASTLE, England, November 25.—A number of rare Old World books, found quite by chance, are now on view in the Armstrong Col- lege Art School here. They were dis- covered by Lionel Robinson, an ex- pert, who, visiting Newburgh Priory near Coxweld, for the purchase o interesting volumes, obtained infor- mation which led to his visiting an- other ancient domicile in the neigh- borhood. Here, near the reputed tomb of Oliver Cromwell. Mr. Robinson found an old chest full of rare treasures, such as editions of Dante and Petrach examples of fifteenth century print- ing by the first craftsmen in Rome and specimens of the work of great Venetian printers. There wac century ium Beatae Mariae” and a French “Romaunt de Rose.” Other rare’ volumes included three follo coples of the “Illad,” printed by Bodini at Parn a follo of the opera “Lactantius,” printed in Rome In 1468, with magnificent {llustrations; an unusually rare illuminated man the | a manuscript volume in small quar- | to, “Book of Hour: possession of Mary, written on vellum, partly in Latin and partly in French, binding and embroidered with silver thread, supposedly the work of Queen Mary herself. Manuscript works included a thirteenth century “Vulgate,” written in minute char- once i the Queen of, Scots. agters on vellum, with flluminated in- | itials and other decorations, dated 1254; & ' Lives”; a fourteenth details in greater pi Melgg's Central loa to a point about three picture of Peru's Railway, from Cal- in the Cordilleras, miles above sea level has 65 tunnels—some of them than a mile long, 61 bridges—several of which hang high up above gloomy ravines. like that remarkable one over the Verrugas ravine, 300 feet high and 375 feet long, its central being feet in length, resting on vertical towers 17 high. Another striking bridge is the Chaupichea, 365 feet long, and 200 feet above the bottom of the gorge This line, which cost £5000,000 to build, is 240 miles in length. Meiggs also was the or the Southern Railway of these two systems, monumental they are, and of the greatest im- portance, are regarded as inadequate and are the mere begining of t plan of those whose eyes are upon the future, and which will embrace the wealth and needs of the whole feet Peru | state. Lines Do Not Meet. These two lines—the Central and the Southern from Mol- lendo in the South—curve roughly toward each other in the Cordilleras as if to meet, but do not meat. Between the Central railhead at Pampas and the Southery railhead at Cuzco there from is a railless gap of some 250 miles. | evertheless, to Meigge' enterprise in constructing them the country owes its present degree of advance- ment, for without the Central Cerro de Pasco Copper Corporation and other great mining ventures would never had an existence President Leguia aware of the meaning of things today both for his country and for the world, meanings that are the outcrop of world war and world wreck. He is consequently moved by the tremendous national necessity of more railways, and working steadily forward their creation. President Legula truth of aim for the peaceful de -elopment and prosperity of his country Is the one rock upen whic he friends of Peru build their hopes ‘or the future glory of Peru to more | and | inator of | the | absolute | with a needlework | | | [ He may rob you of your place be- fore the mirror, but then that’s a 5 1 sure sign he’s | -3 highly pleased | with your gift—a | brightly conserva- | tive, rich silk His- torical Cravat — 3.00. Or a Resilio, two and three tone stripes, also quiet- er p_attcrns—l.so | i [ | { uscript, “The Office of the Blessed Virgin”; the first edition of “Apolil- naris Stdentus,” printed in Milan in 1498, and the opera “Politianus,” a production of the Aldine Press print- ed in Venice. 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