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ISOLATION THEORY IS FOUND WANTING American Trade Expected to) Be Affected, But Some & Trades Will Profit. BY DAVID LAWR Despite the cutward appearance of optimism_and unconcern. there is a feeling of real nervousness here over the effects of the British coal strike on American trade. The theory that the United States P without the rest of the 4 comfortable policy of isola ] has so often been advanced American Senate, is encounter verse winds. The White House has officially indicated that it was not believed that exports of food sfuffs would be affected, because the laiter had been exempted from the vansportation embargo, but in the contusion of a general strike there is Lound to be delay and congestion. Cotton Trade Affected. 1t is officially admitted thal cotion expoits may be diminished. Great Britain is America’s biggest custom- er for coton. And it is the same "ith respect to exports generally. The ritish buy a large part of the A Under the cellations of orders feared which may cost the Ame producers considerable money. partment of Commerce offici heen loath to make any estimates 10 what the British coal strike would cost the American people Fortunately, the losses come at a time when American industry is in an excellent position to meet them, for there has been a noticeable improve- ment in business conditions and par- ticularly in the export trade, But it is not Great Britain alone which may affect the course of Ameri- can exports. If the British are tied up for any length of time in a general strike they will cut off their purchases of raw materials from other countries in the world. The possibilities of a husiness depression temporarily in other countries which in turn buy yoods from America are admitted. Will Cause Cancellations. Tte an il wind, however, which blows no good. Some of the British manufactured products will have been delayed and the consumers will not wish to wait on delayed British pro- duction. This means that the Ameri- ean producer will get orders from other countries which ordinarily sre placed in Great Britain. The steel industry in the United States, for instance, 1s expected to profit by the British strile. The Brit- ish themselves will be behind when { the strike is over, and there are indi- cations that some orders for emer- geney use will be placed which may in the aggregate help to make up for temporary losses In the export figures. On the whole the inter-relationship of British industrial conditions with the American economic situation is belng forcibly brought to the atten- | tion of the American Government, and the incident will not be lost on thoss who have been urging that American foreign policy should al- ways be conducted with an eye to the ocontinuance of stable political rela- tions, because an unsettled Europe may mean a depressed business situa- *on on this side of the Atlantic. (Copyright. 1926.) . SCHWAB SEES ENGLAND | FACING GREAT DANGER Stesl Magnate Expects Nation to Stop Short of Drifting Into Russian Ideas. | i i ASHEVILL 3 , May 5.—'"“The present situation is more dangerous than any England hes ever faced,’” declared Charles M. Schwab at a local hotel last The steel king v mean his- | tory-making changes, declared that England would never drift into what Russia became. He foresaw no noticeable effect upon labor or labor conditions in this oountry, declaring that he is an opti- mist and that he could be nothing but aptimistic with the industrial situa- don in the United Staes as it is at present. He paid tribute to the work of Mussolini in Italy and the Spanish dictator, declaring that at the pres- ent time both countries were pro: COOK BROADCASTS PLEA TO MINERS IN GERMANY British Labor Leader Says Inter- 1ational Movement for Wage Con- trol Will Be Pressed. By the Associated Press BERLIN, May 5.—A. J. Cook, gen- aval mecretary of the Miners' Fed- »ation, broadcast an appeal to the German workers for support of the British strike through the columns o¢ the Sociulist newspaper Vor- waerts today. The appeal expresses appreciation for the sympathetic attitude of the German miners and declares the Miners' International is a real, liv- ing body, which will strive for inter- national regulation of the hours and conditions of work. FISH SENT TO LONDON. Prices Show Increase Because of Strike Conditions. LOWESTOFF. England, May & UP).—The fish trade in this seaport “own Is able to carry on, notwith- rtanding the industrial crisis. From 8% to_90 tons of fish were sent to 14ndCh and other big towns vester- dsy by motor transport. “>wenty fishing boats have brought in a fair supply of fish, but prices sre double those of last week. Volunteers Aid. FLEETWOOD, England, ). —The fishing fleet here ha. “nloaded by voluntary labor. handreds of tons of fish dispatched by motor vans to various perts of ‘he country. MEXICANS BACK BRITISH. Labor Confederation Takes Stand in Favor of Strike. MEXICO CITY, May 5 ®).— ‘wicardo 'Irevino, secretary general of the Regional Confederation of Jabor, announces that Mexican or- { zanized labor is in sympathy with the British strikers and will aid them in every way possible. He id Mex- can_organized workers are morally beside British labor in the present conflict. Tram Workers Return. PORTSMOUTH, England, Mav . y per cent of the tramway employes who were on strike vester- dey returned to work this morning when it was announced they would o dismicsed i they failed to report THE EVEN LAND ROYALTIES_CAUSE STRIKE; BOLSHEVISM ADDS TO DANG Estate Owners Get Much of Profits From Mines. Men Demand Be Abolished by Government. What primarily lies at England todey? P the bottom ] That question dobs wp persistently in the maze of un- related informaticn now coming from London. Baldwin Is Aroused for Existence of British Society. Rake-Off| Direct Action Plan of Labor to Be Met With Firm Hand. disastrous situation in of the Hal O'Flaherty, just back in this country ofter several years in charge of The Star and Chicago I:rl_fl‘y News foreign service, with headquarters in London, and Edward Price Bell, who was dean of qil foreign correspondents when he retired vecently after 25 years in London, answer the question uppermost in American minds in their following dispatches BY HAL O'FLAHERTY. Royalties! Thers in one word, royalties - the land owners’ rakeoff—is the under- Iying cause of the appalling situation that exists tod#y in Great Britain. Why are the mine operators ada- mant in their stand against higher wages? Because so much of the profit of mining coal goes to the great estate owners that there is not a sufficient margin of profit in the jndustry. Why are miners underpald and housed in misery? Because too great a margin of the profits of their labors have been going to people who cared nothing about them: who took no jn- ;eren whatever In the source of their ncome. Custom 1s Centuries Old. For centuries the men who mined the seams of coal thousands of feet under ground have been enriching the owner of the peaceful meadows above them. Generation after generation of wealthy English families have I comfortably in the belief that thelr income was their inherited birthright. Such a thing as questioning the ethics of levying toll upon an industry that couldn’t pay a living wage to over a milllon laborers never entered their minds. Even today thers is a tendency to shy away from any discussion of the right and wrong of coal royalties, but the keenest thinkers in Britain and the most astute economists have gone straight to the heart of the matter. They say without hesitation that the wtate must own the rights; that the process of nationalising these rights must be put through at once if there is to be anything like peace in the coal'mining industry. The ter- rible overhead of the royaitles system must be abolished. The recent report of the coal com- mission, appointed last August to investigate the whole Industry, and report its findings, was featured by its one socialistic recommendation— the nationalization of rovalties. In a country that is the gibraltar of con- servatism, the staunchest adherent of the idea of constitutional monarchy, such a recommendation was startling. Yot it was made by a commission dominated by caplitalists. Hold to Private Enterprise. They held steadfastly to the idea of private enterprise in the operation of industry, but when they reviewed the many phases of the royalty ques- tion they were forced to conclude that the state must intervene. In other countries, such as the United States, mine owners are usually land owners, and the capital- ists who operate the mines can be reached directly by the laborers. In England the land owners are obscure persons, drawing thelr income through musty solicitors’ offices. Only rarely is it found that the owners of the coal land are actually engaged in industry. There are per- haps one or two such pictures in all Britain. In a dozen different min- ing areas the actual operators are forced into the most elaborate legal battles to secure the right to take out i the coal. Waste in Some Areas. In some instances where the landed proprietors refused to sell the mining rights under their land the operators were forced to run entrles several miles around to get at coal beyond the area under dispute. It involved an extreme waste of money and labor.s There 18 no doubt about the feeling ‘When they placed be- operators their demands for a wage based upon the cost of living they were told that the industry would not stand the drain of such an {ncrease. Why? Because the industry was not on an economical or efficient basis. Time and again they were brought face to face with the fact that outside interests were at fault, and they could not reach those in- terests. In the end the miners became desperate and are so today. (Copsright. 1026, by Chicago Dally News Co.) RED LABOR LEADERS ASK BRITISH BOYCOTT Say World's Workers Must Rally to Support of Working Britons in Btruggle. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, May 6.—The Red Labor International has fissued a procla- mation signed by General Secretary Losovsky and reading, in part, as follows: “The struggle has begun. Millions of the English proletariat have risen as one man the exploiters. “Facing the development of this gigantio struggle, when for the first time in Bri history class rises against class, all differences among the workers must be sunk. All workers, regardless of factions, must stand with our struggling brothers and give them full and unqualified aid. “Not one ton of coal for England! All countries, boycott British ocoal orders and refuse to deliver any foreign merchandise to England! Wage a merciless fight against strike- breakers!" o PROMOTER IS JAILED. A. C. Johnson Victimized Many Persons in Land Scheme. KANSAS CITY, May 5 (®).—Albert C. Johnson, 61-yearold promoter, whose companles victimized hundreds of persons through promisés of untold wealth in Mexico land, pleaded guilty to charges of using the malls to defraud in Federal court here vesterday and was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. Through the Mexico Land Co. of Kansas City, the West Coast Agricultural and Land Co., of Los ‘Angeles, and a number of branch offices in Oklahoma, Colorado and Texas, Johnson drew thousands of dollars for worthless Mexican land. Ordered to Temporary Duty. Lieut Col. Harry A. Knox, Maj. George Schuster, and Capt. Edmund S. V. Brunt, Ordnance Department Reserves, all of this city, have been ordered to temporary active duty in training. Col. Knox and Maj. Schu- ster will report to the Assistant Sec- retary of War for duty and Capt. Brunt has been ordered to the United Waterlawi, Masi States Arsonad ad BY EDWARD PRICE BELL. Democracy versus bolshevism is the issue in England today. True, the bulk of organized workers in Great Britain repudiate nominal bolshevism. True, the Bolshevik party in the nation is almost microscopically small. But these executives of organ- 1zed labor are proposing to overthrow the government, to destroy the demo- cratic principle, to back thelr class point of view with force. England’s problems are the concern of all Western soclety—indeed, the concern of organized human life every- where. England is not like Russia— illiterate, semi-barbaric, on the far periphery of democratic and capitalis- tic civilization. Bolshevism in Eng- land, at the very heart of the free world, would be a matter entirely aif- ferent from bolshevism in Russia. Little wonder Premier Baldwin s aroused. Some nine months ago, ylelding to a menace, he took the un- precedented step of paying out huge sums of public money to aid in meet- ing the wage bill of the coal industry. British taxpayers, out $100,000,000 or 8o, are denled the peace for which they pald when this subsidy falled to solve the problem. Threat Forced Subsidy. Direct action, tried in England for the first time in 1921, falled. In 1926 it was tried again. The labor spokes- men told Mr. Baldwin that he must get for the miners the wages and hours they wanted or the allled trades would paralyze the communications of the country. This was the threat that brought the coal subsidy. Premier Baldwin and his colleagues cannot now back down. They are not only too far committed, but cherish no {lluslons to to the nature of the pretensions of the union leaders, and have the support of millions of British citizens. Conservatism and proletarian revolution—or, if one pre- fers, fascismo and bolshevism—will fight it out in a political arena im- memorially consecrated to freedom. Labor's most distinguished and brilliant leader in Great Britain, James Ramsay MacDonald, professes implacable opposition to “capitalism® though he would conserve capital. He blames ‘*‘capitalism’ for the present trouble. If you are out for real con- servatism—a conservatism that con- servee—Mr. MacDonald commends you to socialism. MacDonald Against Force. He sald to the writer in London in 1924: “I am the most conservative of conservatives and soclallsm is my political religion.” Ramsay MacDon- ald s no strong-arm politician. Com- mensurately with his influence, brute force in British politics will be re- strained. So much for the political situation. The industrial situation is a very dif- ferent matter. Persons with any faith in democracy have no difficulty choosing between bolshevism and repregentative government; between direct action and constitutionallsm. British organized labor is dead wrong politically, whereas there may be, and probably are, irresistible arguments for its case industrially. (Copyright. 1926. by Chicago Daily News Co.) 200 Fight Mountain Fire. Special Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va., May 5—Hun- dreds of acres of mountain lands have been burned over during the last few days by a fire which has near Natural Bridge on the Piny Fork River. More than 200 men are fighting the fire. & ENGINE CREW RUS BALKED ON ARABIC Liner Sails Despite Attempt to Desert—Majestic Also Sails for United States. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 6.—The first dis- turbance here in connection with the general strike in England occurred at noon today, when 46 members of the’ engine room crew of the White Star liner Arabic attempted to rush from the ship to the pier three minutes be- fore the steamer's scheduled depart- ure. ‘Three officers of the ship frustrated the attempt of the men to leave the thlp. The liner sailed on schedule time. After the officers had temporarily stopped the rush of the men for shore, the aft gangplank was ordered re- moved and there was no further dis- turbance before the ship salled. There was considerable excitement among the third-class passengers on the deck, where the disturbance occurred. Men May Be Arrested Officials of the line belleved that the crew members involved will be placed under arrest for mutiny when the ship arrives at Plymouth. Four- teen men of the engine room crew left the ship yesterday afternoon and were replaced by other men this morning. The Acquitania, first British steam- er to leave here eince the general strike paralyzed England, sailed for Southampton early today manned by a British crew of 378. policy of rect, with In shipping circles here business as usual was in plans under way for 48 ships with 8,000 British subjects in their crews, to leave on schedule time. The Leviathan of the United States Line s due {n Southampton tomorrow. May Quit in England. The British orew of the Aqul- tania expects to be called out on reaching Southampton. Sir James Charles, commander of the vessel, said before leaving that If the crew falled to sign for the return trip he was confident he could get a new Crew. Next on the list of departures are the United States liner President Harding, the White Star Line Arable and the Royal Mail steamer Oroca. to- day and the Olympic Friday night. Sir Harry Gloster Armstrong, Brit- feh general consul, plans to address British seamen in New York to im- press on them the seriousness of the situation. Settlement Soon Predicted. Rennie Smith, an M. P. labor leader visiting in New York, expressed the belief the general strike nrobably will be settled within two weeks by decree of Premier Baldwin. In Wall Street interpretations are that the strike has not vet affected business. The Street looked calmly on the situation today after a rally in stocks yesterday. Financiers belleved that a loss of British busineas would he compensated by increased trade in other forelgn countries. Crude rubber has advanced sharply. MAJESTIC ON SCHEDULE. Liner Has Americans Aboard Who Are Fleeing Strike. SOUTHAMPTON, England, May § —The steamer Majestic sailed at daybreak for New York. It had on board the mafls and quite a number of Americans, who decided they did not care much for strikes and there- for cut short their visit to England. The passengers, mail and baggage were brought here from London in motor cars. French Liner Avoids Britain. HAVRE, France, May 5 (#).—The liner France, of the French Line, sall- ing for New York tonight, will not make its customary stop at Plymouth, England. A single cross-channel steamer is maintaining the Havre-Southampton service, making three trips each way weekly, while the British Southern Railway Is selling no tickets for destination beyond Southampton. NOTES OF STRIKE. By the Aesociated Press. There were disorders in the Poplar district of London, and in Glasgow, both notorfously radical centers. In Poplar toughs wrecked motor cars and lorries faking workers home- ward. Police clubbed the rioters vig- orously and finally cleared the streets. In Glasgow several busses were stop- ped and windows smashed. Passen- gers were not harmed. The tie-up on docks throughout the British Isles seems general. Clerks at Southampton, unloaded the Maure- tania from New York. Passengers were taken to London in charabancs. At Liverpool office staffs aided in docking liners. Clerks have volun- teered to unload the Cedric. If they cannot complete the task by Satur- day the Cedric will take part of her cargo back to New York. The strike seems likely to raise a new crop of heel-and-toe walkers and bieyelists, not to mention chauffeurs. Also it may require new staffs of chefs in restaurants, which report appetites of customers greatly in- creased by the unusual exercise ne- cessitated in getting to work. London chorus girls have had no worries. They are fed in the theaters by the management and those who do not own their own limousines are taken home in machines hired by their employers. The universal question in London is: Where did all these autsmsobiles come from? Horse racing, cricket, soccer and tennis meets have been abandoned. The golfers, however, are carrying on to a certain extent. Railway service from Paris to Eng- lish Channel ports has been severely curtailed. The air service to London is to be doubled for passengers and paro however. The rates for sportation by air will be boosted. Hyde Park, in London, the rendez- vous of soap-box orators, now is the center for emergency food distribu- tion. ‘The silver-tongued speakers will have to await the end of the strike and the removal of the milk cans and fopd boxes before they again are permitted to display thelr torensic abilities. The Prince of Wales has been an- ticlpating a pleasant vacation in France after the recent operation on his ear. When the strike began, however, he boarded an airplane and returned to London. Apparently he was in fine fettle and seemed to have recovered from his recent in- disposition. One cross-channel mail service be- tween - North Ireland and England has been suspended. One service 1s still running. The Ulster govern- ment proposes to ration coal. ‘Members of one industry falled to answer the call to strike. Ten thou- sand men in the chemical trade in Cheshire are on the job as usual. The London Times came out to dag with & 1i-ta-8-inch eme-she paper. It contalned strike news, the doings of Parliament, atock market reports and sporting items. It sold for the usual price of the massive Times—about 4 cents. The oplinion of the German Federa- tion of Trades Union officials is that the British coal mine situation shows the necessity of dividing the world's coal supply on a quota basis in order to save the world’s industry from ruin by fruitless competition. Forty passengers at Hamburg, bound for Southampton, did not em- bark when informed they would be unable to land at the English port. The labor congress of Canada hi pledged moral support to the Brtish strikers. Financial aid is contemplat- ed if necessary. The British government has started publication of the British Gagette. It announces it will disseminate full and timely news throughout all parts of the country to offset rumors “which, if allowed to continue, would poison the air, raise panics and disorders and inflame fears and passions.” A review of the strike in the newspaper says it 18 by no means so complete as the promoters had hoped. Russia's Red Labor International, in a proclamation, calls upon all workers to stand with their British brof and give them unqualified ald. ot one ton of coal for England,” it says. “All countries boycott British coal orders and refuse to éiuvor any_for- eign merchandise to gland. Wage a merciless fight against strike-break- ers!” So far as the best mining districte in the British Isles are concerned, the strike seems to have culminated over a proposed reduction in the wages of the miners from $16 to $11 per week, although wages varied according to the quality of the mines. The Trades Unlon Congress is pub- lishing a newspaper, beginning this afternoon, to set forth the labor side of the strike in answer to the British Gazette, issued by the government. The paper will be called the British Worker, and will be issued from the London Daily Heraid office, but inde- pendently of that publication. Strikes make strange bedfellows. When officials of the Trades Union Congress arrived at thelr London headquarters today they found piles of telegrams received during the night over the government wires and delivered by government employes. The government telephones into all the labor bureaus also were function- ing as usual. A dense fog, which blanketed the city with midnight blackness, de scended over London early this after- noon, greatly adding to the already serlous traffic problem. All the street lamps were lighted, the buildings il- luminated as at night and automobiles were running with all lights on. It you need work, read the. want columns of The Stad > WORK IS AT STANDSTILL ON MANCHESTER DOCKS Motor Vehicles Provide Only Transportation in British Center. Papers Greatly Reduced. By the Associsted Press. MANCHESTER, England, May 5.— ‘Work was at & standstill on the docks and ship canal here today. The tram- way employees are solid for con- tinuance for the strike, and trans- portation in the nearby towns depends entirely on charabans and motor cars. Thirty charabans this morning took the crowd to the Chester races. ‘The Manchester Guardian today was published in mimeographed form, and the Dally Mail {ssued a. single sheet printed on one side. No evening papers were ——— CREENTS SYNPATHY CRATIES MINERS British Labor Chief Sure of Success, in Reply to A. F. of L. President. By the Associated Presa LONDON, May b5~Confidente of winning the general strike, called in sympathy with the coal miners, was expressed anew at the headquarters of the Trades Union Congress today. Shown a cabled report of the state- ment made in Washington yesterday by Willlam_Green, president of the American Federation of W 30&(@‘!\ for_the congress said to o _Assolated Press: “We are delighted to receive the en- mrmm-m ot President Green. We the American labor men for their good wishes as expressed by President Green and give our assur- ances that the British labor movement will prove itselt worthy of its best tra- ditions. “It may interest President Green and other Americans to know that the re- sponse to our call for aid to the lock- ed-out mine workers has been grati- tying and satisfactory, and we are con- fident that we will be able to gain an honorable settlement which will ulti- mately place this fundamental induva- try in a satistactory position.” 2000 WALK OUT INPARISFACTORY Miners’ International Group Prepares for General Strike. Extremists Active. By the Associated Press. PARIS, May b—Two thousand workers in an automobile factory at Saint Ouen, a suburb of Paris, have struck in sympathy with their British comrades. The extremist labor federation is trying to get its adherents to walk out. Frank Hodges, secrstary of the Miners’ International Federation, has telegraphed from London to the seo- retaries of affillated federations, ask- ing them to hold themselves in readi- ness for any eventuality. Mr. Hodges also has written M. Vigne, secretary of the French Miners' Federation. An international strike is regarded in labor circles here as unlikely, although M. Vigne insists it is quite possible. He says Mr. Hodges will call a meeting of the international commttee, either in Brussels or Lon- don, in a few days, at which grave decisions may be taken. Greek Workers in Sympathy. ATHENS, Greece, May § (®).—A meeting of Greek workmen today voted sympathy with the British strikers. CANADIANS IN SYMPATHY. Trades Union Congress Backs ‘Struggle to Maintain Meager Standards.” OTTAWA, Ontarlo, May 5 (®.— Officers of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada have sent a message to the British Trades Union Congress extending the full moral support of the Canadian workers to the British strikers, in their ‘“‘present struggle to maintain the already meager standards of living of British ‘workers."” MONTGOMERY COUNTY REPUBLICANS MEET William Tyler Page Pleads for Party Unity—Assails Pri- mary System. It was made evident at a meeting ot the Republican Voters’ Club of Montgomery County, held last night in Bethesda, Md., that they intend to conduct an active campaign in the interest of the candidates of their party. between now and the elections next November. There is a feeling among the party leadership in Mont- gomery County, according to several of those who spoke at this meeting, that the Republican prospects are un- usually bright in Montgomery County this year. The main object of last night’s gathering was to arouse in- terest in their party, and to plan for an early start in the coming cam- paign. Willlam Tyler Page of Friendship Heights, who made the principal ad- dress, esxpressed himself as feeling confident of sucess throughout the greater part of the State. Mr. Page urged party unity. “This , in Maryland,” Mr. Page stated, ‘‘motwithstandnig the attempt to make this a one y State by throwing the election of Btate officials into the year for national elections, we will, 1 confidently belleve, elect a United States Senator and members of the House of Representatives who will support the policies of President Coolldge." Mr. Page did not confine himself to Maryland politics. He spoke at some length of the success of the Coolidge administration and paid a glowing tribute to the accomplishments of the present Congress. ‘ The meeting was presided over by Walter P. Plumley of Takoma Park, president of the club. He stated that the officers of the club are engaged in mapping out & plan of activity for the participation of the membership of the club in the coming campaign. He an- nounced that the next meeting will be held in Takoma Park June 7. Others who addressed the meeting ‘were James F, Siebert of Garrett Park and Harold Smith of Rockville. Quebec. Canada, i8 to have a school for the weak-minded, to be erected at eesut of §500,008 AR. WASHINGTON, D. €., WEDNESDAY, MAY 5 1926 MINERS TOPWAGE | $1FOR SIX DAYS Average Only Five Days, However—Cut to $11 Was Proposed in Britain. By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 5.—The whole ques- tion of the min wages under the post-war agreements, from which the present. dispute between the mine owners and workers arises, is so com- plicated that the general public has very little knowledge of the actual details, Under the existing wage agree- ments the product of the mines is distributed in certain percentages be- tween wages and profits. This dis- tribution gave, roughly, 33 per cent additional to the standard rates of the miners’ wages in operation before the war. The rates of wages paid the miners differ considerably in dif- ferent districts, according to the qual- ity of the mines. In one of the best districts of Northumberland, for instance, hewers were paid 10 shillings 4 pence per shift. If the men worked six days weekly, this would mean a weekly wage of 62 shillings (approximately $16). In this case the owners pro- posed a reduction to 7 shillings 7 pence per shift, reducing the weekly wage on a six-day basis to 45 shiil- ings 6 pence (about $11). Works Five Days Weekly. Generally, however, the miner gets only five days’ work per week, thus still further reducing his pay, but he receives certain allowances of coal free of charge for his household. As an offset to this concession he generally has a number of incldental expenses, such as tools, ofls, etc. The unskilled labor in the same district. would, under the owners’ proposals, get 4 shillings 9 pence per shift, against the present wage of 7 shillings 7 pence per shift In South Wales laborers were get ting 48 shillings weekly for five late shifts, and the owners proposed to reduce this to 33 shillings. Hewars in Scotland received 9 shill- ings 4 pence per shift, which the own. ers proposed to reduce to 7 shillings 6 pence. Hours Regulated By Law. The miners working hours are reg- ulated by the parliamentary seven- hour act. When the owners were unable to obtain the miners’ consent o their proposed reductions in wages on a seven-hour basis, they consented under pressure from the government | to a compromise proposal. This wus that if the men consented to an eight- hour day, the owners would agree to a smaller reduction in wages, which should be fixed at 20 per cent, instead of 33 added to the standard wages of 1914, The contention of the owners, which is partially supported by the government, is that the present| wages were fixed In the prosperous period after the war, when the index cost of living was considerably higher than it is now, and that with the present lower cost of living, the miners ought to be willing to suffer some diminution of wages in order to help get the industry reorganized on a more solvent basis. ! —_——— PARK BILL REPORTED. | Body Favors $50,000 for Moores Creek Shrine. The House military committee re- ported a bill yesterday to authorize an appropriation of $50,000 for cre- ation of a national military park at Moores Creek. N. C., & Revolutionary War battlefield. Tt was sponsored by Representative Abernethy, Democrat, of that State. Three other bills looking to creation or enlargement of military parks in the South also were approved. One would authorize an appropri- ation of $5,000 for creation by the Secretary of War of a commission to | i be composed of one Army officer, and | one veteran each from the Confederate | and Unfon Armies to inspect and re- port on the advisobility of parks at both Lookout Mountain in Tennessee, and Kenesaw Mountain in Georgia. This has been passed by the Senate. Another, by Representative Moore, Democrat, Virginia, would provide $5,000 for a survey of the Bull Run battleflelds in that State, while the fourth would provide for acquisition of two small parcels of land adjacent to Shiloh Park in Tennessee. House e Ordered to Tientsin. | Maj. Henrv B. Lewis, Adjutant General's Defartment, at the West | Point Military Academy, has been ordered to Tientsin for duty with the Unlted States forces in_China. He will sail from New York, July 28. { City of the World! 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