Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1922-06-29

1ngton, have spent month in
futile attempts to reach basis for
settlement of the Tacna-Arica dispute,
and now they have asked Secretary of
State Hughes to help them. It is
understood that he will not act Of
fcially as formal arbitrator, but in
an individual capacity in the role of
conciliator.
CUBA is in a mess again, owing
~ to the delay Of President Zayas
In carrying out the pledges made to
/ General Crowder to rid the govern.
ment Of alleged graft. The cabinet
has resigned in order to aid the Presi-
dent in carrying out the desired re-
forms. Some members of the Cuban
congress are talking of impeaching
Zayas. The American government is
watching developments closely, but is
hopeful that, intervention under the
terms of the Plat amendment will
not be necessary.
THE AMERICAN FEDERATION
= OF LABOR, in session in Cincin-
natl, once more turned down the idea
of the zone big union'' plan, which
Gompers and his supporters have so
far successfully combated. The Chi
cago Federation Of Labor was leading
In the effort to put over an amalgama-
ton of allied unions so that there
would be only one union in each in
dustry. The delegates to the cOnven-
tion decided that the whole force Of
the federation shall be directed toward
the elimination Of child labor in the
United States, crusade in which they
will find few to oppose them outside
!. of the southern states. They also
adopted resolution declaring that the
ship subsidy bill should be condemned
as inimical to the public interests and
destructive to the nations hopes and
i aspirations for sea power. In an ad-
dress to the convention Senator La
Toilette of Wisconsin made warm at
tack on the Supreme court and some
of its recent decisions. He proposed
an amendment to the Constitution de-
nying the power of lower courts to
set aside federal law as unconstitu-
tional, and providing for the nullifica-
tion Of any such decision by the Su-
preme court by re-enactment of the
statute. ~,
IRELAND'S dali elections took place
Friday, but at. this writing no re-
, turns have been received. The wind
up Of the campaign and the vigorous
measures Of the British soldiery served
to quiet somewhat the warfare on the
Ulster border, but there were daily
outrages in Belfast, including an in
cendiary fire that destroyed a large
block of business houses.
In London the constitution Of the
Irish Free State, us revised. was made
public. It places the relation between
Ireland and the empire on the same
basis5as Canada and the other domm-
ions. The instrument is quite up to
F, date, including female suffrage, pro-
portional representation and the ref
erendum and initiative. Free schools
and freedom of religion are provided
for. .s,
a BOUT S6O,OOO,OOO having been
"A Topped off their yearly pay by
the federal railway labor board, the
railroad shopmen are taking a vote re-
turnable on June 80, on the question
o. accepting the reduction or going on
strike The maintenance Of way men,
whose annual wages were cut some
$50, 100000, also are taking strike
vote
Thus, apparently, the country faces a
strike, probably effective in the middle
of July, that might come near to ty-
ing up It's rail transportation. But
there is hope that it will not eventu-
ate. An affirmative strike vote and
an actual strike are different things,
and the vote is but seldom used only
as weapon in the hands Of union Off
Gals In negotiating. Railroad execu-
tives profess to believe that the men
will not even vote to strike. A ON.
mlttee OF six rail presidents issued the
following statement:
4, b "There is no talk of strike among
the men, the statement says. .'.The
disturbing statements are prepared by
leaders Of the unions, whose viewpoint
has been distorted by months Of efforts
before the board to resist the inev.
liable downward trend Of wages. The
employees are IN the main sincerely In.
terested in taking care Of their Jobs
and their homes, and few employees n
any industry have more good reasoni
for doing so. !. !, !.
4 .The records show that the proposed
scale Of wages for the classes Of EN-
ployees involved in the two wage re
duction orders already issued practi
cally would restore the scale 70! ef
feet at the end Of federal control y
1920, which carried an Increase fol
these employees Of 10 per cent ovel
theSwages paid Ia 1915. The cost y
living, as shown by the Department q
Labor for March. 1922, was q per cen
! above 1s1e." B.