Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-11-25
Of Gottingen, Berlin and Paris, and
speaks German and French.

speaks German and French.
Next January Germany is due to pay
reparations installment Of 100000
900, and In February quarterly pay
ment Of about $6O,O00,000 on exports.
Her financial experts are wondering
where It 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 show of good will. There was
reason to believe that II 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
guaranty for the reparations pay
ments; instead It suggested that the
Industrial interests make sacrifices for
their country instead Of trying to prof
II 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.
Ulster 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 1t as unfair to their part Of the
Island and offered some kind of
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 premiers 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 30 per cent and the house at 80
per cent. The "insurgent" Republl-
cans Of the house were determined to
carry through the senate plan so the
leaders turned to compromise. Just
before the house met President Har-
ding took hand In the affair by in
forming the house conferees that
maximum surtax rate Of 40 per cent
would be agreeable to the admlnistra-
ton.
The house, however, by a vote of
2O1 to 1T3, instructed its conferees
to accept the 30 per cent rate.
THE week In America was not with
= 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 90
per cent Of the workers had refused
to 90 out
In Chicago there was a 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 arblter and ac-
cepted by the union officials After
being out two days they returned to
work with the understanding that
they should have rehearing before
the arbiter.
Alexander M. Howat for twenty
years leader Of 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 1000 |
Kansas miners also were suspended |
from membership. Howat and his |
crowd have fought uncompromlsingly |
against the Kansas Industrial court. |
The Colorado Fuel and Iron company's
miners In Colorado struck and state
troops were called out