Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-12-15

THE first regular session Of the Six
L ty-seventh congress opened on De
cember 8, and President Harding
promptly submitted the budget for the
fiscal year 1923-the first national
budget In our history. 1t shows the
expenditures Of the government dur
ing 1923 will be more than half bill
lion dollars less than during 1922, and
two billions less than during 1921. The
budget contemplates a total expendi-
ture Of $4,0S1, 1902, 1893.
On Tuesday the President read his
message to congress in the presence
Of nearly tie entire membership Of the
arms conference and many other dis
tingulshed persons. 1t was rather
more startling in parts than people
had been led to expect from Mr.. Har-
ding and some Of his recommendations
already are the subjects of warm con-
establishment Of tribunals for the ad-
judicatlon Of disputes between capital
and labor and to prevent the strike,
the lockout and the boycott. OF course
this brought instant response from
Samuel Gompers, who characterized
the recommendation as "reyersion
to conditions Of 400 years ago." and
asserted that the experience of the
Australaslan countries and Kansas
with such courts proved them to be
utter failures.
In plea for closer party unity and
less division in congress "geograph-
ically or according to pursuits" Mr..
Harding was supposed to be hitting at
the members of the agriculture bloc;
but he pleased them by recommending
the adoption Of a cooperative market
Ing system similar to that Of Russia.
The President made it clear that he,
like President Wilson, would refuse
to carry out the injunction Of the
Jones act to abrogate commercial
treaties In order to help develop our.
merchant marine, and said that soon
he would submit better plan which
would contemplate no greater draft
on the public treasury.
CONSIDERABLE progress Is being
~ made in the negotiations to pro-
vide moratorium for the German rep
aratlons debts, and cablegrams from
Paris say the allied governments will
soon announce that 1t Is impossible for
Germany to carry out the schedule Of
payments. NJ. Loucheur, French min
lister Of the liberated regions, made
hurried trip to London to confer with
Sir Robert Horne and Doctor Rattle
nau after Premier BRAND had consult
ed the British, italian and Japanese
ambassadors. Berlin failed to negoti-
ate loans In New York, London and
Amsterdam, and the French are begin
ming to fear that unless changes In the
schedule are made before the next in
stallments are due on January Is, Ger
many will default.
IN LATIN America most of those
who rise by revolution fall by rev.
olution. This has been demonstrated
to Carlos Herrera of Guatemala. Some
nineteen months ago he headed re-
volt and became president. Last week
another bunch Of revolutionists got
into action and Herrera was seized
and forced to resign. The Guatemalan
congress was called together to insti-
tute a provisional government.
A MOTHER government that was
"A overthrown last week, through
this time at the polls, was that Of
Premier Melghan Of Canada. The Lib
erals, headed by w. L. Mackenzie
King, won a sweeping victory over the
Conservatives and obtained working
majority In parliament without the
necessity of coalition with the Pro-
gresslve or farmers party. Meighan
himself and several cabinet ministers
we're defeated for reelection.
DENOUNCING the shop representa-
- tion plan and refusing the cut in
wages, the Amalgamated Meat Cut
ters and Butcher WorRmen's union
went on strike last week In the pack
Ing plants Of the country. The first
day saw some mob violence In several
cities, and on Wednesday the rioting
in Chicago reached serious proper
tlons. The police and the strikers had
many battles and number on both
sides were badly injured. A temporary
injunction against picketing was OBJ
tanned by the packers, but that did
not wholly stop the disorders.
The United States Supreme court
handed down an opinion holding that
picketing is illegal, bu. also upholding
the right of labor organizations to Or
ganize workers In nonunlon plants.