Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-12-01

of Gottingen, Berlin and Paris, and
speaks German and French.
Next January Germany is due to pay
a reparations installment of $100,00O,-
600, and in February a quarterly pay
ment of about $60,000,000 on exports.
Her financial experts are wondering
where it is to come from and the
allied reparations commission in ses-
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 show of good WILL There was
reason to believe that if they did, the
French delegates would consent to
grant concessions for the rest Of the
year. The commission rejected plan
of the industrial leaders of Germany
to pawn the cOuntry's industries as
a guaranty for the reparations pay.
ments; instead it suggested that the
industrial interests make sacrifices for
their country instead of trying to prof
1t 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 were
looted. High prices, of course, are
caused by the decline of the mark.
LISTER still stands firmly, or stub
~ bornly, as you choose to look at
it, in the way of settlement of the
Iris
after studying the English plan, re-
jected it as unfair to their part of the
island and offered some 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
ties reiterated their determination not
to submit to anything considered
violation of listers rights. The
British premier's stand was strength
ened by the action of the Unionist
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
mfttee 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 so per cent and the house at 80
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 a hand in the affair by in
forming the house conferees that
maximum surtax rate of 40 per cent
would be agreeable to the administra-
ton.
The house, however, by a vote of
POI to 173, instructed its conferees
to accept the 80 per cent rate.
THE week in America was not with
l. out its serious labor troubles
few weeks are. The garment workers
of New York went on strike in pro-
test against the restoration of the
piece work system. Their leaders
said most of the 10000 workers quit.
but the employers asserted that 60
per cent of the workers had refused
to go out.
In Chicago there was short but
| lively strike of the teamsters accom-
| panied by some violence. The men
refused to accept wage cut of So
week ordered by an arbiter and ac-
cepted by the union officials. After
being out two days they returned to
| work with the understanding that
| they should have a rehearing before
| the arbiter.
Alexander NJ. HOwat, for twenty
| years a leader OF the Kansas miners
| anu AO" NhOlA pLCs4uCllts was eAJ6Il6u
| from the United Mine Workers of
America for his refusal to obey the
order of the international, officers to
end the strike in that state. About 1000
Kansas miners also were suspended
| from membership. Howat and his
crowd have fought uRcompromisingly
against the Kansas Industrial court.
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miners in Colorado struck and state
troops were called out.