The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1921-11-19

OblenSky of Russia working as farm MAJ
the roads are offering jobs to men
who will take the places of strikers.
The managers believe the loyal en-
ployees and pensioners who Will help
them out in the crisis will be numer-
Gus.
Actually, the strike threat is direct
ed, not against the railways, Out
against the railway labor board ana
its rulings, and this fact has aroused
the administration to the determlna-
ton that the orders Of the Doaro
shall not be fiouted by either the en-
ployees or the roads The trouble Is
that the Cummins- Esch act does not
provide penalties or give the Doard
powers to enforce its own findings.
This defect came prominently to the
fore last week when the board, In ad-
dition to it's other work in Chicago
called the Pennsylvania railroad onto
the carpet for failing to call ne"
election of shop crafts representa-
| ives, us lIlStTuCtCu.
Strike or no strike, it appears that
one certain result of the affair VIII
be the reduction of freight rates. This
will be highly gratifying to the Amer
lean people, who are convinced IL is
4 necessary to the revival of business
prosperity, and are not at all sure
that the unions are wrong when they
assert that the railroads are making
plenty of money, despite their walls.
If the American business man fell
that he could not go ahead until the
war with Germany, Austria and Hun
gary was formally declared at an end
he need hold back no longer. Las'
Tuesday the senate ratified the peace
treaties with the central powers, anc
only the exchange of notifications re
NAMED to be dOne-a mere FORMAL
ity. The vote in the senate was 6t
to 20. Fourteen Democrats lined vi
with the Republican majority, ant
only two. Republicans-Borah and La
Follette-voted in opposition with thu
IS other Democrats. Two reserva
lions. recommended by the foreign re
lations committee, were attached
One reserves to congress the power t
control American participation in tn
I reparations commission under tn
i treaty of Versailles; the other is de
signed to prevent Germany from es
: GAPING payment Of claims for loss
' life and property based on the destruc
q ton Of the Lusitania. The Democrat
offered a lot Of amendments and res
9 ervations, but they were all vote
down.
Senator Johnson of California vote
L for ratification, but first he told hi
J colleagues how fearful he was tina
!" the views Of Secretary of Stat
Hughes will get the country into trot
BILE later. The hope, he said, is wit
y the Presidents restraining hand.
Surplus supplies and materials hel
/ by the shipping board have suffere
e an inventory loss of 500 1900 900, a.
e cording to report Of cbmmissio
which has been making a survey {
II the boards physical assets. Also, tt
shipyard equipment, land, building
Is and drydocks, which cost Sill, 10000
1t are now worth So, 437 900; and III
d. completed wooden hulls that cost sos
u 475,OOO, are valued now at only $19s
It. 600. Sir Ernest Raeburn, who HI
ID come across to settle Great Britain
es debt Of $21 100000 to the shippir
~ board, has revealed the existence !
ne secret contracts made by the old boal
ne or shipping-control copmittee whit
ne. will largely reduce the Sum due.
ed Earlier In the week, e. S. Greg
MS chief of the transportation divisi'
In Of the bureau Of foreign and dome
rs tic commerce. made public figur
MS showing that the american mercha
Ill marine is failing to hold its own,
en- competition with the shipping init
IS. ests of other nations.
ey
he Quite Characteristic of the lido
methods adopted by the Reds, abro
ed as well as in America. was the
sr- tempt on the life Of Myron T. HI
CHI rick, our ambassador to France.
m bomb was mailed to him, and on
ing opened by his valet, 1t explode
ng iniuring the valet and wrecking I
lid room. The foolish thing is that Il
s." was done by Communists who are p
ar testing against the execution of t
re, Italian radicals convicted of murt
on in Braintree, Mass. Mr.. Herrick 9
i'll, the American ambassadors to Lond
nd and Rome have all received lett
,p- threatening them with death uni
ey the Italians are set free, and in Br
lin sells the Communists held dem
off stration under the windows OF
div American embassy. incidentally,