Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-08-31

The threat of the l. w. w. to tie up
the industries of the West, including
| the harvest, if their leaders were not
released was met promptly by the ar
rest of lot more of the gang, and the
great strike fzzled out miserably. No
| sooner was this trouble passed than the
machinists and boilermakers, employed
! in the Atlantic coast shipyards, were
called on to quit. This of course would
put a stop to vast amounts of govern
ment naval work, and the United
| States mediators got busy at once. Sew
| eral thousand men stopped work, but
most of them either pledged Secretary
Daniels that they would not quit, or
delayed action until vote could be
| taken.
| President Cuts Coal Prices.
Having started Mr.. Hoover well ON
| the food conservation campaign, Pres
! ident Wilson last week turned to the
| almost equally pressing coal problem,
which for several weeks had been ex-
ercising the wits of various state adj
ministrations. Having studied the pro-
| duction cost figures supplied him by
| the trade commission, the president is
sued an executive order fixing tenta-
| tive scale of prices for bituminous coal
| at the mines in nearly all coal prOduc-
| ing districts Of the country. These
prices in some instances are more than
| 81 a ton below the voluntary prices
| fixed at the conference last June. The
scale is subject to change when meth
cd of administering the fuel supplies
of the country has been determined
| and put into operation,
Later in the week the president
named Dr.. Harry Garfield fuel admin
istrator. fixed anthracite prices for
producers and jobbers and set limit
on profits to be made by bituminous
| wholesalers.
The senate spent most of the week
1 in consideration of the revenue bill.
Among other things it. increased the
finance committees income tax pro-
visions by total return to the treas
ury of 73,OOO,OO0 adopting unanimous
| ly the Gerry amendment, which adds
! $4O,OOOOOG to the returns from in
| comes of half a million and over.
Japan's Mission in Washington.
The imperial Japanese mission was
formally received in Washington by
/ Secretary Lansing and other govern
ment officials on Wednesday. It's head,
! Viscount Ishii,l made it clear that the
,,,;e,e;r,r hos ooy,oo not on o0m M nr0iaI
+ or political errand, but to decide on
| how the two nations can best cO-op-
crate, in both military and an eco
| nomic sense, in carrying on the war.
The neutral countries of EurOpe-sO-
called, though no country there is any
| longer really neutral-are still trying
| to get around the American embargo
that is so painful to their pocketbooks
and their stomachs; but the indica-
/ lions are that unless they quit supply
| ing Germany with foodstuffs, their suf-
fering will only increase. Switzerland
and Holland, which depend on Ger
many for coal, have contracted to lend
| the kaiser large sums in return for the
privilege of continuing to buy their fuel
| from his country.
Hungary took real step toward
| characterization and freedom from Ger
man and Austrian influence in the ap-
| pointment of DIR. Alexander WekerIe
as Hungarian premier, to succeed ES-
| terhazy. The new premier is popular,
| Democratic, a financial genius and Is
known to be no friend of Germany.
The new nationalist movement IN Hun
! gary has attained great strength, and it
| is said King Charles is in complete har-
mony with the desires of the nation.
German aviators distinguished them
| selves last week by another raid on
English coast towns in which II per-
/ sons were killed, and by deliberately
| bombing two French hospitals behind
| the Verdun lines and then shooting
| down the doctors and nurses, who were
| trying to rescue the wounded soldiers
| from the resulting confiagration. 1t
would seem that the chivalry of avi-
atOrs is one-sided.
Negro soldiers of the Twenty-fourth
| United States infantry, stationed at
Houston, Tex, as guards during the
construction of Camp Logan, started a
serious race riot, in which a dozen
white civilians, police officers and Ma
tional Guardsmen, and number of ne
groes were killed, and more than a
score wounded. Among the dead was
Capt. w. Mates, Battery A, Second
Illinois field artillery, who was trying
t0 roct0rn order