The Dolores star., 1920-11-05
FOREIGN

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the object of obtaining higher pay.
They also desire new rules regarding
the manner in which bulls are admit
ted TO the ring.
An increase OF $1.15 a day in the
wages of Alberta coal miners, granted
by operators in conference with repre-
sentatives of the United Mine Workers
of America, has been announced in
Calgary, Alberta.
Fifteen thousand Russian Bolshe-
visit soldiers have been tuken prison
ers, and many cannon and large guam
titles of war material have been cap
tured in raids carried out by General
Baron WranSels forces recently.
Forty-two horses belonging to the
Royal Canadian mounted police We're
killed in fire which destroyed the old
winter fair buildings at Brandon, Man,
with loss of 100000. Efforts of fire
fighters are being directed toward
saving the new fair buildings and
nearby residences.
Sylvia Pankhurst, who was arrested
on Oct. 10, charged with attempting
to cause sedition in the navy by edit
ing and publishing an issue of the
newspaper, The Workers Dreadnaught,
Oct. 16. was sentenced to six months
Imprisonment on conviction for the Of
fense in London.
The municipal employment bureau
announces that 1873. 900 men and wom-
en- in Germany are unemployed. OF
these, 10000 are in Berlin. The labor
will be unemployed or on short time.
Women constitute approximately one
fourth of those idle.
Fourteen japanese soldiers were
killed and nine We're wounded in re-
cent fight with bandits at Chein-Tao,
routed, say dispatches received. The
bandits lost sixteen killed and the to-
tai casualties inflicted upon them are
said to be heavy.
Canadian highways aggregate $4,000
miles, according to figures presented
by a government report. and the land
appropriated for their construction and
improvement is valued at $3.50, ,OOO, 900.
For every mile the public travels on
railways, it is estimated, it travels two
miles on highways. Canada has ex-
pended s2O,OOO,0OO on highways in the
last five years.
Canadas trade with the United
States continues to develop on both
sides of the account. September fig
ures, issued showed exports to the
United States amounted to $40, ,943 600,
as against S43, ,457 900 in the same
month last year, an increase of 10 per
cent. Imports from the United States
totaled $S1, $4,000, against S65,917 900
an increase of % per cent.
GENERAL
Isaac f. Ferguson, Chicago lawyer,
and Charles L. Ruthenberg of Cleve-
land, were convicted of criminal anar-
chy by n jury in Supreme Court of New
York. Justice Weeks Immediately SEN
fenced them to states prison for terms
of from five to ten years each.
Edgar Carlton Singer of Clear
Lake, Mimi, sent a gold watch and
chain to the Democratic national COM
mittee as his contribution to the
Democratic campaign fund. Still run
ming, the watch was received at head
quarters in New York, with letter
from Singer
The Otis Company announced at
Ware, Mass, that its cloth department
would operate only four days week,
beginning at once, because of lack Of
orders. About 1000 operatives are af-
fected. A part of the underwear de-
partment already is on four-day
schedule.
Appropriations totalling nearly $780,
600 for relief work in the Near East
were voted by the executive committee
of the Near East Relief. A gift OF
$150.OO0 from Armenians resident in
the United States, was received, and
the committee appropriated 100000
for immediate purchase of supplies for
Armenia
The steamship Celtic arrived in New
York from Liverpool and Queenstown
with 344 boxes of gold valued at ap-
proximately S11,OOOOOO, consigned to
the Federal Reserve Bank.
New York trucking companies
adopted resolutions refusing recent de-
mands of their $4,000 employees for
shorter hours and increased pay, and
notifying them that they must work
ten hours for the present nine-hour
wage.
The speed typewriting championship
of the United States and Canada was
won at New York by George l.. Hoss-
field of Paterson, N. j., who typed ap-
proximately 131 words minute for
sixty consecutive minutes. The con-
test featured the opening of the seven
teenth national business show.
Many European children, born dur
ing the lean war years, will enjoy the
taste of sweets next Christmas for the
first time in their lives, as a result