Evening star., 1922-07-23
THE SUNDAY STAR wAsHNaToN D. q. July 2s 1g2-PARr 2
The Story the Week Has Told

Bologna Trieste. Parma, Tolentino, Novara ana
the eenmunists s o"' local sovernments from
Yiterbo. Alatri and Cremona 1t was the
cussion in u the Camera which resulted in the
fall of De Facta.. 1t seems that at Cremona oIia
deputy who was pleased to & saii him himself ,hua a
Christian communist" and that ,,, they nus nus
fascist are not careful enough to distinguish
between pink socialists and red COMMUNISTS
tian communists Theoretically their actiyi-
ties solely by way of reprisal. Practically
The Italians are winning through a most
difficult phase of national life by methods
may our methods seem peculiar to the Italians.
They are. when all's said very great people.
(Orlando has been asked to form a caoiheI'
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United states Of America.-On July 19 Chair
man Hooper of the Railroad Labor Board is
sued the following statement: LAS there does
not seem to be any probability of reconcilng'
the antipodal views of the carriers and the
the question at issue. neither tne
labor board nor any of its members are now now
line" The question at issue" is understood
difference Offering no insuperabie obstacle to
settlement The railroad managements
stand by their new men and will not restore restore
strikers. \ Conditions in the shopmen strike
have not changed very materially since last
On July Is the policy committee of the
United Mine Workers signifed their re1ection
Of the Presidents proposal Of coal commis-
sion-or. to be more precise. of commission
empowered as proposed by the President
fact-fnd commission by all means. yes, put put
the combination of a scientific investigation
commission with wage arbitration board.
rejected a whole. it was. in effect, rejected
On July II the majority Of the representa-.
tives of bituminous operators assembled AT
Washington accepted unconditlonaHy .he
IS d and
approving. "ip principle" fact-fnding com
mission could not see their way to aceeptancs s,a
of its detals-n effect, they rejected the
proposal ..o,,,. .,,u.,
ment having failed. he invited the btu
mnops operators st to resume mining nj operationhs
coal-producing states; requesting them to CO.
operate with the federal government in its
effort to procure resumption of mining opera
tions. and to furnish protection to efforts to
resume. The response was. with exceptions
of no great Importance. cordial 1t is under
stood that the operators in general. propose
to acquit themselves like brave men Cfor 1t
will require nerve) and public spirited cti-
zens, and to make every effort to resume
operations. With what success. the country is
anxiously watching to see. for stocks of coal
running dangerously low. especially in the
northwest should the experiment not give
should be remarked that hat, in the ira important
seem almost insuperable. and the interacton
of the coal and railroad strikes, the effect of
in the falling off of shipments from non-unon
mines. is another important consideration
Again one asks. should this effort Instituted
by the President to avert the threatening coal
famine fail to give immediate promise of sue
cess, what then?
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Miscellaneoux.-A battle, declared to be de-
cisve. has been fought between the main
forces of Sun Yat-Sen and Chen Kwang- Ming
in the vicinity of Shao-Chau, on the North
river and the railroad about $50 miles
north of Canton. Chen's warriors were VIC
torious
The arbitration agreement between Chile
and Peru has been consummated and Presi-
dent Harding has been named arbitrator.