Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-11-25

of Gottingen, Berlin and Paris, and
speaks German and French.
Next January Germany is due to pay
a PREPARATIONS installment of 100000.
600, and In February a quarterly pay
ment of about $60,0O0.OOO on exports
Her financial experts are wondering
where 1t 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 a 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 a plan
of the industrial leaders of Germany
to pawn the country's industries as
a guaranty for the reparations pay
ments; instead 1t suggested that the
industrial interests make sacrifices for
their country instead Of trying to prof.
it from its misery.
That Germany is miserable in some
respects is made evident by the riots
in Berlin caused by the increasing
cost Of fo~odstuffs. Many shops were
looted. High prices, of course, are
caused by the decline of the mark.
T LISTER still stands firmly, or stub
~ bornly, as you choose to look at
1t, in the way of settlement Of the
Irish trouble. Craig and his cabinet,
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 a
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
\ mittee 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 90 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 a
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 it's conferees
to accept the so per cent rate.
THE week in America was not with
L out it's 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 a short but
lively strike of the teamsters accom-
panied by some violence. The men
refused to accept a wage cut of IS
a week ordered by an arbiter and &C.
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 o. the Kansas miners
and now their president, was expelled
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 1900
Kansas miners also were suspended
from membership. Howat and his
crowd have fought uncompromisingly
against the Kansas industrial court.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron company's
miners in Colorado struck and state
troops were called out.