The Holbrook news., 1921-07-15

1 ments which were to have terminated
 last Friday. The overtime order Is
 not final, however. It was hoped that
 the railroads and employees would
 soon reach agreements relating to
 rules and working conditions. Rail
 union leaders to the number of more
 than a thousand met in Chicago to decide whether the employees should i accept the wage cut and to try to avert a tie-up in the cOuntry's trans
 portation facilities.
 In the Chicago district 1t appeared
 the efforts of Judge Landis as arbi- | trator would result in the ending of
 the controversy that has tied up all building operations for a long time.
 The carpenters were the last to yield.
 There was rejoicing in England at
 the news that the great strike of Brit
 ish coal miners had been ended and
 that the men would return to the
 pits on July 4. The government
 grants a subsidy of ten million pounds
 to avert the hardships of the next
 three months due to wage reductions.
 By the terms of the settlement a new
 wage basis will come into effect for
 the next eighteen months whereby the
 miners receive 20 per cent above the
 pre-war scale of wages, with an ad-
 ditional share of profits, which will
 be regulated by the creation of a na-
 tional board and district boards. The
 strike thus ended lasted 94 days and
 is considered the most injurious Eng land ever suffered, because it crippled
 so many industries and affected all classes of the population.
 Lloyd Georges effort to arrive at a friendly solution of the Irish trouble by inviting De Valera and an aSsOci- ate to confer in London with him and with Sir James Craig, premier of Ul- ster, appears to have failed as have all other attempts to settle the row. Craig agreed to the conference, but De Valera has baked. At first the Irish president" wrote to Lloyd George temporizing letter, and invited Craig to meet him in Dublin for an exchange of views. Craig declined, and De Valera wrote him: "Mr. Lloyd Georges proposal, because of it's i'm plications, is impossible of acceptance in its present form. Irish political differences should be adjusted and can, believe, be adjusted on Irish soil. It is obvious that in negotiating peace with Great Britain the Irish del egation ought not to be divided, but should act as a unit on some common principle"
 A London newspaper says the au- thorities have discovered and frus- trated a plot to murder the British cabinet ministers. It says the police are seeking three men sent to Lon don to do the assassinating. They are French medical student, an Irish man from the western part of the United States and Spaniard. The same paper declares the forces of the Royal Irish constabulary are 10 be Quadrupled at once.
 Rather unexpectedly, King Constan- tine refused to defer his projected | offensive against the Turkish Nation alists and permit the allies to try to | mediate. It was believed he knew | the Turks were getting ready to at tack with Bolshevist aid and deter mined to strike first. The British ex- erted extreme pressure on the Greeks, | and up to the time of writing the only | fighting has been a rather bloody con-. fict while the Greeks were withdraw ing from Ismid. Thursdays news dis patches indicated that Constantine had good grounds for his apprehension. The allied troops in Constantinople were called into action to forestall vast uprising planned by the Turks and the Bolsheviki, which was to be accompanied by the destruction of pub lie buildings. The Bolshevik head quarters were raided, quantities of weapons seized and several ringlead- CTS arrested.
 In the death roll of the week ap- pear two notable names. Charles J. eminent citizen of Balti- more and cabinet member during the Roosevelt administration, died at his home. He was a grandnephew of the great Napoleon. Lady Ran dOlph Churchill, who was Jennie Jerome of New York, passed away as the result of injuries received last May. Probably no other American has had so great an influence on British public affairs. She was famous as a writer and a wit.