The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-03
NEWS REVIEW OF PAST WEEK
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raised to three cents a mile.

eminent control Is the railway broth
erhoods. Their opportunity to en-
force by strike their demands for In
creased pay has vanished. though IL
10 emily fair to assume that their loyal
IL and patriotism would o have per-
mfstsA them to tie up the country's
svpnsportation. The heads Of the
hrotherhoods were called to the White
House TO confer with the president on
sheir requests for higher wages. The
Increases asked average about 10 per
cent What the government will grant
q course Is not yet known. In tits
matter, as in all Others, Director Nc.
Adoo has plenary powers. Indeed.
next to the president, he Is now the
most powerful Official in the nation. his
authority being paramount TO that OF
the interstate m commission
and the state railway commission
He can revise rates, determine divi-
dends and even discharge and appoint
directors and other officials.
Senate Committee Prods Baker.
Bureaucratic methods and the red
tape in which they are e~ntangled were
rather mercilessly exposed In the In
Quiry conducted By the senate commit
tee on military affairs, and as II re-
suit the committee did precisely what
President Wilson successfully opposed
last summer when he defeated the
plan to create a congressional commit
tee on the conduct Of the war. After
hearing thai more than 10000 men in
the army camps are without o%vercoats
and nearly 1900 without winter
blouses, the committee adopted u rcso-
luton asking Secretary Baker to sup
ply these deficiencies At nee and 10
permit camp commanders TO cut the
red tape and purchase the garments
wherever possible. The secretary OF
war also was requested To ascertain
whether any other serious shortages
existed aud IL 50, TO obtain the sup
plies ut once. Mr.. Baker said he would
fake the action requested.
The committee has been finding out
IL great many things that explain much
OF the exasperating and perilous delay
In equipplng our troops with arms. mu-
nltions and other supplies and the
good effects of the investigation are
already apparent in the speeding up
that is being shown.
Interesting Developments in Chicago
Without betraying government plans,
II may be said that arrangements are
= being made to devote II great part OF
Chicago's manufacturing resources 10
Y the making of large culiber guns ant
finished shells. II was stated a locaI
director OF munitions might be appoint
ed to apportion the war contracts.
Another event of Importance in Chi
cago-important 10 the whole countr!
was the definite settlement, durinI
he war, of all labor troubles NJ tn
s~tockyards. Through the efforts o
government officials an agreement wa
reached tina there shall be no NOR
Z strikes or lockouts and that all dill
. ferences that cannot be adjusted b
Z the companies general managers shal
J be referred to the United States ad
4 mipistrntor, whose decision shall b
! final. John F.. Williams Of Strentol
= famed for his success In handling IL
! Dor troubles, was appointed admins
= trltor by Secretary Of Labor Wilson
II is understood that the agreemeu
reached In this case represents IN
! policy the government intends TO puI
sue In all pending labor disputes thu
affect the making or handling Of WI
supplies. Union labor won a big poir
: at Chicago in hat tho agreement pr
vides that the men and women al n
\ yards can belong to unions II they
desire.
- Consumption Of labor to build shiI
- was suggested by Senators Sherma
= Nelson and Bankhead when VII
Chairman Stevens Of the shipplI
board told the senate &C
mittee that between 200 900 and 3N
900 more men we're needed to col
plete the boards program within q
I next year. Mr.. Stevens. however, co
tended that co~nscrlption OF labor won
never b.. accepted by the Amerlct
people.
Christmas Peace Offer.
Kaiser Wilhelm did not make |
predicted Christmas peace ofrer.
did, however, deliver another Of
4 honDusuc p~roClaihuUlouS lo Ms arm
\ In which he ave the German soldi'
high praise and added the staten,
that II his enemies would not cOns'
to such peace terms as he has 81
gested In the past, Germnny's II
fist and flaming sword would com
y. them TO yield. At the sane u
Count Czernln, the Austro-H ungsr
foreign minister, was telling the pei
conference ~ Brest-Lltovsk that
central powers were resolved TO =
terms immediately which will tern
nte the war on conditions that will
Just 10 all belllgcrcutS, without forcI
n%nnexations and indemnities. T
approved. he said, ~ the basic priI
pies uttered by the Russian delega
but insisted these proposals could
realized only II all the belllgerents
ligated themselves 10 adhere TO
terms OF such q peace. He said {
- many cou'l at "'llw the right
= sell differentiation of control 10 be