Evening star., 1920-03-28

revolutionary movements with which it has
the granted permission to Germany to send
armed government forces into the district
Which lies IN sad oy bhe
Following shortly upon this decision came the
Teached aeanite naa aereement with the WORKERS
in the Ruhr valley.
Fans shy TO a
though Ebert is apparently gradually getting
some time before anything approximating nor
NAL conditions will obtain.
A number of developments must be
noted under the chapter headed Industrial
Events for the Week" Samuel Gompers has
outlined union labor's political program and
protested the report of the Presidents indus
trial conference. And wage increases amount
ing to $1.100.e00.00O annually have been asked
by the railroad workers of the joint confer
ence meeting with Director Hines In this city.
support of union labor for the eltction of
candidates regarded as .'ft" by the American
he gives his
The dehatlon Of currency. federal licensing of
and use of credit to serve productions needs,
government ownership Of all public and semi:
water power and number Of similar propo-
sitions.
ference report is to the effect that Its plan
for workers representation in industrial man
agement is applied to the individual shop I'M
stead of to the industry as whole
1t is interesting to note in connection with
the wage increase demands laid before the
railroad conferees that IL the Increase be
granted the railroad pay roll will be bigger
than the whole national transportation
bill before the war. In the year before the
gross receipts of all American roads from
all sources in freight. passenger. mall express
milk and incidentals were s3.11s, ,929.3 800. At
the present time the wage item of the railroads
alone is approximated at s2.75o,o0o.0oo In
resulting figure shows the astonishing fact
that should the demand be granted the rail-
tcan public will be close to $1,000 100000
year more than was paid for every item of ma
tional transportation in 1918.
The present transportation bill of the Ameri-
can people is already in excess Of IS 900 900
in wages and pile a second additional billion
upon traff1ce rates for solvency and improve
ments In pondering upon % the the ssniaeance sig, 20. Of
taking pencil and paper, to figure out for
themselves what total transportation bill of
American family And just on the chance that
the pencil and paper may not be handy it
that the sum stands at approximately 1920 a
family year.
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During the week President Wilson ordered
the termination April Of the governments
control Of bituminous coal prices. The order
makes binding upon both operators and
miners the majority report of the Presidents
arbitration comission on wages and hours. 1t
is generally felt that there is every hope of
satisfactory adjustment of labor differences
under the majority report. 1t should be noted
hat nna ol
not settled by the arrangement And that is
the future price of coal related to the
however. had ample warning as to the temper
Of the American public. They will either profit
by 1t eventually some settlement which
will take the matter of prices out of their hands
altogether.
It has been decided that there will be no
cessation Of work in the anthracite coal fields
April 1. although the existing agreement be-
tween operators and miners expires March 81
and a one has not been negotiated The
Joint and definitely expressed solicitude of both