Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-12-23

favored ratification, and they felt
equally certain that If the question
were referred to a plebiscite, as De
Valera might ask, a large majority
of the people of southern Ireland
would vote for acceptance of the
peace terms.
The opposition in the British parlia-
ment was voiced in the house of lords
by Lord Edward Carson and in the
commons by Capt. Charles Craig,
brother of the Ulster premier. AL
ready the Ulster cabinet had sent word
to London that Ulster would not enter
the Irish Free State, and it protested
bitterly against the making of an r.
ish agreement without it's consent.
1t charged that the treaty violates the
word Of King George and Premier
Lloyd George. In the Ulster note ex-
ception was taken also to the boun-
Diary commission plan, it being con-
tended that to remove territory from
any government without that govern
ment's consent is without precedent.
Over here in America a lot of the
professional Irish, like Justice CohaIan
Of New York, are wildly denouncing
the treaty. Just what they want us
to do about it-whether to weep, or to
declare war against England-they
have not yet stated.
T MESS someone intervenes, Chile
~ and Peru. are likely to have a war
over the long disputed territory of
Tacna-Arica. Technically state of
war has existed between them since
the Peruvian assembly decreed the re-
incorporation of Tacna-Arica and Tar
apaca in Peruvian territory. Now,
though there are no diplomatic rela-
lions between the two countries, Chile
has invited Peru to take part in
plebiscite in the territory, and has In
timated that If Peru declines, Chile's
only alternative is to annex Tacna-
africa. No one expects Peru to accept
the invitation, and the governments
organ, La Prensa of Lima, character
ICES the Chilean note as "a gross in
suit following the deportation of
Peruvians from the captured prov
inces:'' This journal suggests arbi-
tration by the United States as the
best way out of the tangle.
D REPRESENTATIVES. of $4,000 rail-
IN way maintenance of way and
shop laborers met in New York and
voted to reject any wage reduction pro-
posals and to appeal to the railway la
Dor board for increases in pay. Two
days later that board dealt the main
tenance of way men a hard blow in
new rules it promulgated Under this
decision time and a half rates are to
be paid after the tenth hour of work
instead of after the eighth hour as I'M
der the old national working agree
ment. The basic" efght-hour day,
however, is reaffirmed; but the new
rules allow the carriers and employees
to make agreements for reduction of
working hours below eight to avoid
making force reductions. The. starting
time Of any shift, too, is to be arranged
by mutual understanding. This knocks
out rigid hour stipulations in the old
agreement.
II HE United Mine Workers of Amer
lea. won a partial victory on
Thursday when the United States Cir
cult Court of Appeals at Chicago found
Judge Anderson of Indianapolis was in
error in enjoining the operation of the
"checkoff" system and remanded the
case back to him for rehearing. This
action of the Court of Appeals was be-
lieved to have prevented a general
strike of coal miners, already started
in Indiana and Illinois.
Wives of the striking coal miners of
Kansas, followers of the discredited
and expelled Howat, were the leaders
of mobs in the Pittsburg region which
fiercely attacked miners who wished to
work and raised such trouble generally
that state troops were sent there.
GOVERNOR HARDING of the fed
NJ eraI reserve board, whose annuai
report was made public last week, is
fairly optimistic. He says basic bust
ness and financial conditions through
out the country have improved greatly
during the past year, though normalcy
vof ~ hp attained
Until the purchasing power of the
farmer improves" he continued, 1T
will, of course, be idle to look for any
rapid or substantial Improvement in
domestic trade. / think, however, that
the outlook for the farmers is more
hopeful"
493 silver for the corresponding month