Evening star., 1921-05-01

to mention disarmament In the view of NJ
Poincare that issue is ne less important than
the issue of reparationi 1t screams for neluctabie
guarantees. Even should satisfactory repara-
ton offer arrive before the knell of midnight.
April 3O-May l, if by then Germany does not sat
isfy and convince to disarmament. will the
Sanctions halt? Guarantees: There's the rub
GREAT BRITAIN: The miners strike con-
tinues 1t is now in another acute phase. Con-
ferences between miners chiefs. mine owners and
members of government continuous from
Monday to Thursday. 1t seems that in March
there dead loss of over five million pounds
for the entire industry Foregoing Of profits by
the owners and cut in wages of shillings per
per day would just about quash such a deficit
The owners offered to forego all profits for three
months The miners chiefs consented to a cut of
. shillingS. Frank Hodges was emphatic that
they could concede no more.
Here the government stepped in and offered a
subsidy to the situation during the next four
months condition that the miners and mine
owners agree to a permanent system of dividing
profits" and wage schedules. which should
hold good for at least year from the end of
August. and should then be terminated only on
three months notice. The agreed to a
division of profits scheme under which the stand
ard wage would be the first charge on the pro-
ceeds of the industry" A standard profit would
next be deducted and any surplus left would
proportion" But even with the government sub
sidy the cut in wages must be more than
shillings, if there is to be no deficit. To such
greater cut, Hodges said, the men would never
agree: at the same time (when owners and gov
ernment thought that ghost laid for the presently
he remarked that settlement which should not
include national pool of profits would be salts
factory. Here, too the owners have gone part of
the way in concession They have agreed to uni
form wage rates in (six in all). instead of
in districts twenty-six in alD. 1t is obvious
how such concessions by the owners point the way
toward that reorganization of the industry on
broader and more economical lines which alone
can provide genuine and lasting solution. Close
coordination of the industry by areas might be
the ideal compromise arrangement. 1t would prob
ably make for economy in production as much as
would organization national basis and would
allow scope to the heathful principle Of
petition
Let the owners and government look to it. There
will not be permanent industrial peace until the
miners see in efficient organization of the in
dustry a guarantee of continuous well being.
The congress Of miners delegates. which in
session in London and to which the miners execu-
tive committee reported conference results. voted
rejection Of the governments subsidy offer. The
congress broke up Friday and the delegates
returned home. Tho members of the executive
committee also dispersed and went down among
the miners. The outlook dismal, but a
full examination Of the developments is somewhat
rcassuring. Though hopes be dupes. fears may
be liars
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RUSSIA: Big Bill Haywood has joined the
general staff of the world revolution. He will
return to US riding on a tempest.
Another congress of the communist interna-
tonal will open in Moscow on June 1. The first
interna tional congress Of trade and industrial
unions will open in Moscow July /. Evidently
it is going to be a lively in Moscow.
Anti-soviet risngs in the Ukraine are growing.
Makhno extends his sway.
'Ts reported that ant-Brtish propaganda in
Afghanistan and Central Asia continues. That
ineffable rascal, Enver Pasha is in Moscow upon
that business.
There said to be some %, 900 refugees of
Wrangel's Crimean army in and about CONSTANT
nople. The French have been feeding them but