Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-09-08

The threat OF the |. 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 a lot more Of the gang. and the
great strike fizzled out miserably. No
sooner was this trouble passed than the
mnchinists and boilermakers, employed
in the Atlantic coast shipyards, were
called on to quit. This of course would
put stop to vast amounts of govern
ment naval work, and the United
States mediators got busy nj once. Sew
eral thousand men stopped work. but
most of them either pledged Secretary
Daniels that they would not quit, or
delayed action until n 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 Wite of various state adj
ministratons. Having studied the pro-
duction cost figures supplied him by
the trade commission. the president is-
sued an executive order fixing a tenta-
tive scale of prices for btumlnous coal
at the mines In nearly MI coal produc-
Ing districts Of the country, These
prices in some instances are more than
Lal
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 Dir. Hurry Garfield fuel admin
istrator, fixed anthracite prices for
producers ana iobbers and set limit
on profits to be made Ivy bituminous
wholesalers.
The senate spent most Of the week
In consideration Of the revenue bill.
Among other things II increased the
finance committees income tax pro-
visions by II total return TO the treas
ury Of $73000,000, adopting unanimous
ly the Gerry amendment, which adds
S40,000000 to the returns from In.
comes Of half million and over.
Japans Mission in Washington.
The imperial Japanese mission was
formally received in Wa hington by
Secretary Lansing and other govern
mcnt officials ON Wednesday. It's head
Viscount Ishii, made II clear that the
mission has come not on a commercial
or political errand, but TO decide Oh
how the two nations can best coop
crate, in both military ana an eco.
homie sense, in carrying on the war,
The neutral countries of Europe-so,
called though no country there is any
longer really ueutral-are still trying
TO get around the American embargo
that Is 81 painful to their pockethooks
and their stomachs, hut the iudca-
tions are that unless they quit supply
ing Germany with foodsuffS, their suf.
fering win only increase. Switzerland
aud Holland, which depend ON Ger
many for coal. have contracted TO lend
the kaiser large sums in return for the
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