Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1920-11-05

Premier and Labor Chiefs Reach
an Agreement.
MUST BE o. KID BY THE MEN
New Power Bill Is Answer to Plotters
Against the Government and Not
Due to Coal Dispute, 1t
Is Reported.

London, Oct. 29.-The strike of coal
rliners throughout England and Wales
was settled, but the settlement is con-
government announced the ballot
would be taken Immediately.
The terms which the executive body
OF the miners recommends to the men
provide for an. advance OF , shillings
shift for persons eighteen years old.
with a corresponding advance for
younger miners. The miners pledge
themselves to cooperate TO the full
est extent to obtain an increased out
put.
1t is provided that the Increased
wages shall remain operative until a
permanent wage board is established.
which will be operative by the end Of
March.
The additional cost of the miners
Claims will come out of the excess rev.
enues obtained from the export of
coal. The output for last September
is the average struck which will intlu-
ence the rise or fall of a sliding scale
which is to operate to the extent of q
pence reduction in wages if the out
put does not come up to the Septem-
Der figures or rise of pence if the
output is bigger.
Frank Hodges, a member of the min
ers executive body. said:
I'VE have got terms from the gov
eminent which the executive are sub
hitting to d ballot of the men for
their judgment. The executive are
recommending their adoption as tenn
porary measure until national wages
board is established"
Government Measure Passed.
The governments emergency bill.
which provides for all contingencies in
the event the miners strike should
involve the railway and transport
workers, was rushed through all its
remaining stages and passed the third
reading. which is final. The vote was
23S to So.
The bill is not the product of the
coal strike or of other recent indus
trial crisis. 1t was framed months ago
and is the governments answer to the
plotters against the existing form of
government in this country. 1t does
not propose the suppression of the au-
thority of parliament even in emer-
gencies. It proposes merely that the
government shall be empowered to act
instantly III the event of a sudden
move on the part of the revolutionary
/, elements to gain their ends by taking
possession of the nations means CO
/ life
! Some Bent on Destruction
I'm Great Britain, as in other cOun-
| tries, there are people bent upon de-
struction,'' said Edward Short, secre-
tary OF state for home affairs. Their
creed is Ole of savagery. They would
not hesitate to starve women and chill
dren by the million if they fancied
themselves thus able to bring civiliza-
tion to the ground, We are deter
mined that such methods shall not
succeed. This can be managed with
out at all setting up dictatorship.
The powers of parliament will not be
curtailed. Everything done under the
emergency powers bill will be subject
to revision and reversal by the house
of commons and the house of lords.
'It is untolerable that the commun-
ity should be placed in a position of
begging for it's supplies of food and
other essentials fem trades unions
or sectional bodies of any kind. Eng
land does not intend to give up its
democratic government for a govern
ment by starvation"