The Sneedville news. (Sneedville, Tenn.) 191?-19??, 1921-11-25

Of Go.tingen. Berlin and Paris, ana
speaks German and French.
Next January Germany is due to pay
n reparatlons installment of 100000
600, and In February a quarterly pay
ment Of about $6OOOO.O0O on exports.
Her financial experts are wondering
where II Is TO come from and the
allied PREPARATIONS commission In SEES
sion In Berlin is working over the
problem. The commission believes the
Germans can raise the money for those
two payments and urge them To do so
as q show of good will. There was
reason 10 believe that II they did, the
French delegates would consent to
grant concessions for the rest Of the
year. The commission rejected plan
of the Industrial leaders If Germany
to pawn the country's Industries as
guaranty for the repafatiOns pay
ments: instead II suggested that the
Industrial interests make sacrifices for
their country instead of trying to prof
IL from Its misery.
That Germany Is miserable In some
respects Is made evident by the riots
In Berlin caused by the increasing
cost of foodstuffs. Many shops We're
looted. High prices, OF course, are
caused by the decline Of the mark.
T LISTER still stands firmly. or stub
~ bornly, as you chooy, TO look ut
IL. In the way OF settlement Of the
Irish trouble. Craig and his cabinet.
after studying the English plan. re-
jected II as unfair to their part of the
Ifsland and offered soru, kind Of a
substitute. This the British cabinet
In turn rejected. and an exchange Of
notes between Lloyd George and Craig
left the status unchanged. The Ulster
ites reiterated their determination not
TO submit TO anything considered a
violation Of listers rights. The
British premier's stand was strength
ened by the action OF the Unionlst
party In convention In Liverpool. The
Irish negotiations are dragging out
SO that Lloyd George may have to
abandon his contemplated trip to WASH
ington to take part In the armament
conference.
THE congressional conference COM
L mlttee on the tax revision bill has
been ironing out the differences be-
tween the house and senate measures
with considerable rapidity. both sides
making concessions. One Of the i'm
portant actions was the elimination
OF the house bill provisions for the
exemption OF foreign traders and
foreign trade corporations. On Thurs
day the conferees suspended their
meetings To allow the house TO vote on
the question Of surtax rates. The
senate had fixed the maximum rate
at % per cent and the house at 81
per cent. The "insurgent" Republi-
cans OF the house were determined TO
carry through the senate plan so the
leaders turned to a compromise. Just
before the house met President Har-
ding took hand In tho affair by in
maximum surtax rate OF 40 per cent
would he agreeable 10 the admlnistra-
tion.
The house. however. by a vote of
col 10 La. instructed its conferees
10 accept the 10 per cent rate.
THE week I'm America was not with.
| Il out It's serious labor troubles
few weeks are. The garment workers
| of New York went ON strike I'm pro.
test against the restoration of ths
niece work system. Their leaders
said most Of the GOOcO workers quit
but the employers asserted that "a
per cent Of the workers had refused
to 30 out.
In Chicago there was a short hui
lively strike of the teams;ers accom-
pauied by some violence. The mes
refused to accept a wage cut OF s
a week ordered by an arblter and &C
,,ppicd .by the union officials Aftei
being out two days they returned Il
| work With the understanding thai
they should have a rehearing befor'
the arbiter.
AleNanuer NJ h"NaA' i"i aN'ua'
wears a leader % the Kansas miner
and now their president. WAS expelled
frum the United Mine Workers 81
America Zoe his refusal 20 obey th'
order IL the international officers e
c,d the strike In that state. About 4.oo
Kansas miners also were suspended
fron membership Howat ana biz
crowd have fought uncomprumisingl
| against the kansas industrial court
The Colorado Fuel and Iron company
miners In Colorado struck and stat
! troops were called out