The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-02-13

| Union conference, in which are dele
| gates from the United States and Eng
land, is discussing International labo
legislation in conjunction with thu
Socialists.
Turkey let out a loud wall recently
in protest against the proposition tt
put ConstantinOple, the Bosporus anC
the Dardanelles under interna tiOna
control. This idea is being promul
gated in Paris especially by the en-
tente nations, and they assert that
the controlling nation should be the
United States as the one diSinterest
ed power that could handle the terri.
tory. The Ottoman liberal party,
which has been anti-German through
out the war, asked President Wilson
to save COnstantinOple to Turkey by
giving it chance at self-determina-
ton. Several days later the sultan
himself sent a secret letter to the lib
eral Turks in France and Switzer-
land, appealing to them to return
home and save their country from the
starvation and lewlessness prevalent
under the regime by which the NOM
inal ruler is dominated. Many COM
munities and municipalities under
Ottoman rule have sent petitions to
the American peace delegates asking
that they be put under the prOtec-
ton of the United States.
The labor situation in America and
Great Britain was getting worse in.
stead Of better last week, and if the
opinion of certain British high officials
and of many persons in this country
is correct, it will not improve much
until the alien anarchist leaders are
completely squelched. These profess
SiOnal diSturbers are held to blame.
especially for the strikes in the Unit.
ed Kingdom, many of which are not
authorized by the governing bodies
of the trades unions. London was
badly crippled by strikes of nearly
all transportation workers and the en-
gfneers on some of the steam rail-
roads went out in sympathy. The
government refused to interfere On
the ground that the controversies
were solely Industrial, but tried to re-
lieve the situation by starting a mill
tary motor service to supplement that
of the buses, which were still rum
ming. The mechanics of the army
service corps in depOts adjoining Lon
don, to the number of 1000, refused
to go on duty Thursday because they
to be demObilized and to con-
tiDue work as civilians.
The United States was hit hardest
last week at points widely separated
New York and Seattle In the
building operations were
tied up by lockout de-
clared by the Building Trades EN-.
plOyers' association which affected
$4,000 workers and which threatened
to spread throughout the country and
Canada.
In Seattle the 10000 shipbuilders
who are on strike received the sup
port of general strike which was
started on Thursday. Practically all
union laborers quit work, though the
engineers in the municipal lighting !
plants were exempt. The textile |
workers i'm Lawrence. Mass, struck |
or 48-hour week with "a hours pay,
One more greatest war revenue |
Dill in the cOuntrys history" was pre-
sented to the house last week by |
Chairman Kitchin of the ways and |
means committee. AS fixed NO by |
he conference it provides for the col.
ection Of about $1,000. 100000 in taxes
rom the American citizen, and in adj
litiOn it gives bonus of $50 to each
soldier, sailor, marine and woman
Nurse in the American forces. Pretty
nearly everything one possesses or
loes will be subject to tax. Even
he president and all 1ther federal
officials must pay tax On their in.
comes, though state officials do not.
The normal income tax for 1918 is
per cent on incomes up to $4,000
md II per cent on higher incomes
after 1918 the normal is per cent
N incomes up to $4,000 and Der
ent on those over $4,000. The pres
mt normal is per cent.
The income surtax rates begin at I
'er cent on incomes of 5000 to So.
700 and run to IS per cent on incomes
f over $1.OO0,OOO.
Provision is made for both war and |
xcess profits taxes in the fiscal year |.
ut after that the war profits tar
ONES of. except in certain specified
ases where war contracts run Owe
0 later years.