Evening star., 1920-02-01


ing their demands for 60 per cent increase
in wages. a six-hour day and fve-day week,
charge that the operators earned enormous
profits during the war. and that their de-
mands may be fully met without increasing
the present price of coal. This the operators
vehemently deny. and when the commission
recessed upon Wednesday until Monday it was
with the understanding that the operators will
then lay before it upon resumption of the
hearings all facts concerning their own earn
ings, as well as data purposed to show the
earnings of the miners and the additional
sums they might have made had they taken ad-
vantage of the opportunities for full-time en-
ployment. Undoubtedly the commission is get
ting somewhere in its study of the industry.
but to Jim and Jane it becomes increasingly
difficult to reach fair conclusion as to the
only thing that seems patent to date would
seem to be the fact that one litigant or the
other is sadly misguided" as the cautious
fellows say when they want to use shorter
ugler term. 1t has apparently been definitely
have now modified their demands to 40 per
cent increase and a seven-hour day
The United States Steel Corporation on
Friday announced 10 per cent increase in
the wages Of day laborers Other rates, ac-
cording to Mr.. Gary, will be equitably ad-
justed This is the ninth increase the corpo-
ration has made since 1915. for a total Of 144
time.
The subject Of according financial assistance
to Europe continues to appear in the news
columns Of the press AS matters stand in
the light Of the events of the week. which in
cluded an appeal from the President for
thority from Congress to loan $780, 200 to
Poland. Austria and Armenia. and letter by
the retiring Secretary of the Treasury to the
president Of the Chamber Of Commerce Of the
United States, Uncle Sans position is along the
following general lines:
The government cannot, even if it were
disposed, assume the burdens of all the
earth" 1t cannot undertake to finance Eu-
rope. because it cannot shape the fiscal policies
of Europe. Relief may be supplied where most
urgently needed. matter Of humanity
But so far as the government is concerned
government obligations to us, the limit of aid
to Europe has been reached. 1t has been
ropean nations must make the fight to stand
again upon their own resources. 1t has been
the date would but make the inevitable effort
but the harder when finally undertaken. and
itself at stake.
This is, in effect the context of the chap
ter headed international Finance" for the
week.
That chapter of the news covering the mat
ter Of the reds opened with the announce
ment of Ludwig c. A. K Martens, soviet rep
resentative in the United-States that Lenn-
has abandoned his idea of world revolution
Testifying before the Senate foreign relations
committee, Martens asserted that the success
Of the soviet government has demonstrated
that it survive in the midst of the present
systems of government. He stated that he
had been instructed that none of the funds at
his disposal should be used for interference in
the internal affairs of the United States
According to the chairman of the House
rules committee, the drastic Graham anti-sedi-
tion bill, carrying the death penalty clause. is
dead. Apparently it is now up to the judiciary
committee to report out new legislation, and
it is believed that this will be based upon a
bill introduced by Representative Hustled of
New York.
Last weeks decision by the Secretary of
Labor that the communist and communist
labor parties revolutionary within the
meaning of the deportation laws
nounced during the course of the week
insuring prompt deportation of approximately
5000 of the $500 reds taken in recent raids.
1t is apparently the fixed sentiment of both
Congress and the nation at large that, while
free governments must provide for change in
their own framework by constitutional meth
ods the obligations of freedom do not involve
consent to being destroyed by a desperate
minority.