Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-10
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST

Seven large strikes are threatening the
worlds Industrial peace. In Paris more than
100000 workers are striking for an eight
hour day and higher wages, and indications
point to an expansion of the strike to include
a half million. In Toledo, OHIO, Where more
than 1900 employees struck l.. one or the
big automobile manufactures. the mayor has
had to call for troops to maintain order. In
Winnipeg, Canada, a general strike Tor
forty-four hour week and collective par
gaining is still in force, and in vancouver,
British Columbia, a general strike sympa-
thetc to the Winnipeg strike has been start
ed. In Toronto, Canada, there is a strike OF
the metal workers. In Buenos Ayres, Argen-
tina, no newspapers have been published for
week and the citys transportation lines
are tied up by strike. In Atlanta, Georgia,
telephone and Western Union operators are
on strike and wire strike throughout the
nation is ordered for Wednesday,
1t is learned on good authority, says the
Associated Press, that not only did Lieuten-
ant Kurt Vogel, convicted in Berlin OF the
Liebknecht murder case, escape from prison
by means of a false release order and get to
Holland with false passport but that Cap
tain Heitz Won Pfug-Hartung and Lieuten-
ant Lehman convicted in the same case, also
| escaped at the same time and in the same
| way. News of the escape of the last two Of
| ficers has been suppressed in the German
newspapers because of fear that it might
| cause serious uprising against the govern
| ment Sentiment has been bitter against the
government for the laxness which enabled
VOgel to escape. The government is Known
| to be planning, quietly and secretly, to COM
bat violent Sparticise uprising, started pro-
| badly because of the escape of the convicted
officers or, more likely in connection with
the outcome of the peace negotiations, buS
which will actually be another attempt to
| overthrow the government. Tt is expected that
| the center of the revolt will be Berlin, with
the chancellor's office and the foreign Of
flee as the chief points of attack. Precaution-
airy plans for protecting these buildings al
ready have been laid.
With one of the largest cargoes ever
brought to Boston from South Africa the
British steamer Kandahar arrived in Boston
harbor few days ago with 21,000 bales of
wool and 10000 bales of waffle bark. The
steamer made the trip in the unusually fast
time of twenty-four steaming days..
The Washington Star says that patriotism
meets with severe test when it comes to
listening to German delegates through long
hot summer day.
Herbert a. L. Fisher is another of the men
being talked of as possible successor to Ford
Reading as British ambassador to the United
States. He is an educator, linguist, scholar,
historian and England's minister Of educa-
| ton. According to the parliamentary CORE
spondent of the Daily Mail the post has Leen
| definitely offered to him, and he is favorably
considering the offer.
The German government is circulating
the full text of the peace terms throughout
the adjoining neutral countries says a CO..
penhagen dispatch. The volumes, carrying
| the text in German, English and French are
promin entity displayed in Scandinavian book
stores. They were issued by the German ad-
miralty printing establishment. The ta<t is
carried also in an exact copy by photo-litho-
gra phic process of the original received by
the German delegates. The treaty as resent
ed makes volume of AIS pages.
For the first time in four years the great
English Derby on Epson Downs was held
last week, the king and queen being in the
vast throng of half million people who
watched the classic race. It was the 135th
| EPSON Derby. Grand parade. wearing the col
ors of Lord Glaneley, won the race. Grand
Parade was formerly owned by Richard Gro
ker retired chieftain of Tammany Hall, N.
" who sold him to Lord Glanely
| The ex-Kaiser thought we'll of his looks
| evidently. One hundred portraits and busts
of himself were found in municipal schools
and offices of Berlin, and these, under the
new regime, have been ordered to the at
| tics along with portraits of all other mem
| bers of the Hohenzollern family.
William J. Flynn, former chief of the
| treasury secret SERVICE has been appointed
| chief of the bureau of investigation of the
United States department of justice. This is
| taken genarally as an indication that the
| government has entered upon campaign OF
| determination of all forms of violent radical
| ism. Mr.. Flynn's job is to "get" those respon-'
| sible for the bomb outrages that have stirred
| the country One thousand suspects are under
| closest surveillance.
Preparations for larger trade between
the United States and South America, to-
gether with evidences of greater comfy be-
tween the two countries indicate that the
commercial relations between the two Ameri
can continents are to be strongly cemented
in the future. With direct wire lines al
ready arranged, announcement is now made
that plans are under way for the estblish-
ment of direct steamship lines connecting
American-Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific ports
with South and Central American ports.
DR.. Bernard Dernberg, the minister of
finance of Germany, has evolved a plan to
raise for the government 7,000,000,000
marks year by means of government
working hour" according to the Neue lei
tung. The plan will become law, it is add
ed if the government is convinced that it
is workable. Dr. Dernberg's scheme provides
that each worker in Germany shall labor
an extra hour each day, for which the en-
ployers will pay a proportionate wage, plus
one mark overtime. The extra mark will go
to the government. Dernberg estimates that
there are 81 100000 workers, and that the
plan will bring in more than 7,000,000,00O
marks a year. The only objection to the plan,
it is said, is that the cabinet may decide
that it violates the eight-hour day with which