Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-10-24
PROBLEM Of THE
|. UlE,,, ..'LQYED IN
<NxfAT BRITAIN
! y>szl0N PARAMOUNT
Question Of Finding Work
for the JobleSS Has Over
shadoWed the Conferences
on Peace in Erin,
CABINET PLANS ARE
DECLARED INADEQUATE
Relief Proposals Are Assail-
ed By Labor With Vehem-
enceiAbnormaI Unemploy-
nent is Result of War.
BY GEORGE N. BARNES. NJ y.
Especial Wireless to Morning Journa)
Copyright 1921 by Albuquerque JournaD

BY GEORGE N. BARNES. M y.
Especial Wireless to Morning JournaD
Copyright 1921 by Albuquerque JournaD
London, oct. 23.--The problem
of unemployed took precedence
here last week. It indeed trans
cends all else in importance. Ire
land for the moment Is compara-
lively unimportant. Irishmen are
like the rest of us and can live
only by eating. So to the unem-
ployed Belfast man self-determi-
nation of Ulster is of little account
compared to getting and keeping
job.
The cabinet plans submitted to
parliament during the week are
pitifully inadequate. They were
found to consist OF increased fl
nancial assistance to the local au-
thorities who may institute relief
work and a more generous sharing
of risks with those engaged in ex-
port business. In addition there
were subsidiary proposals for sup
plementing insurance benefits and
the granting of loans to poor law
guardians.
May Shift Burdens.
These measures may relieve the
poverty of the workless by fitting
some of their burdens to shoulders
best able to bear them. That Is
good as far as it goes, but other
wise, excepting where they NAV
help to a resumption of normal
trade. the proposals will do little
permanently to increase employ
ment.
The relief plans were assailed
by labor with vehemence and al
Tentative proposals were submit
however there is but choice of
palliatives.
The abnormal unemployment Is
a result of the war. Having slain
Goliath, we are faced with the
havoc wrought before he fell. rs
clear the debris we must get more
cordial relations between the en-
ployer and the employed as well
as lessened taxation on Industry
and more mutual aid among the
nations in the international sphere.
| have put these in the order Of
application, though I believe the
first to be the best as we'll as the
easiest. 1t may be applied every
where without waiting on govern
ments anywhere.
The Irish conferences have
passed through critical time, for
the delegates have got thu ough the
initial meetings and may be pre-
sumed to have abandoned precon-
ceptions which were misconcep-
tions and { have created a peace
full atmosphere by friendly con-
tact.
Real Tug of War.
But the real tug of war, to use
a perhaps misapplied martial met
aphor, will come when the claim is
made to deal with Ulster as part
of Ireland. In that connection the
last utterance of Sir James Craig,
the Ulster prime minister is of in
terest. Speaking in Belfast he has
Just assured his followers S that if
called upon to take part in the
parley he will yield nothing. The
point here, however, is in the inn
plication of willingness to, take
p-.rt.
The fact that Prime Minister
Lloyd-George may after all go to
Washington is hailed here with
satisfaction and may be taken as
sign that in his view the Irish Sit
uation and his other pre,occupa-
tions are getting less serious. In
the Silesia settlement, ! must say
the league of nations council has
y snl lxrt - h. IA
industrial triangle is to be divided.
1t is an area crowded with mines
and factories, some of which will
| be separated from their power
plants, Two towns which voted
eighty per cent German are given
to Poland. The decision will create
friction and insecurity generally
and thereby lessen the output. In
view Of the essential economic
| unity of the territory, however, the
Germans and Poles are invited to
cooperate in its administration for
fifteen years after which they will
be required to keep on their own
side of the line.
Little Criticism Heard
The allied powers are, of course,
pledged to the acceptance Of the
decision. Owing. perhaps, to regard
to our French friends. there Is lit
tie criticism to be heard here. MY
own view is that effect can be given
to 1t for the specified time only II
the Germans and Poles are agree
able. That is it may evade facts
for fifteen years at the cost OF eff
ficiency.
After that the deluge.
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