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direct accords with the Industrial lead
ers there and with the local labor or
ganizatlons. He said, however. he was
ready to examine any proposals regard
ing reparations payments which Berlin
might make directly to the reparations
commission. The German government
was deeply chagrined by this rebuff.
since 1t had officially abandoned pas
sive resistance.
When the authorization bill was
called up In the reichstag Thursday
the first and second paragraphs were
voted by a large majority, but when
the measure as a whole came up for a
final vote the entire National party
walked out, leaving the reichstag with
out a quorum. Adjournment was taken
until Saturday. II Chancellor Strese-
mann should fail to secure the neces-
sary two-thfrds vote for the bill he is
authorized by President Ebert to dis
solve the reichstSg.
These varied complications brought
about panic on the Berlin bourse that
carried the mark down TO the ridicu-
lous figure Of 7,O0O. .OOO. 600 to the dol
lar. The shops doubled all their prices
and the people rushed about trying to
get rid Of their practically worthless
paper money. The Communist leaders
were making the most OF the situation
and were hopeful that the prospect Of
winter OF hunger and cold, together
with the anger of the workers against
the Industrial leaders, would enable
them to set up revolutionary govern
ment. Documents seized at communist
headquarters at ,Breslau revealed a
plot to overthrow the Stresemann gov
ernment and an attempt to organize a
communist state by force or arms.
More than fifty persons were arrested.
Indeed, the Red peril In Germany was
greater than at any time in the past.
That Soviet Russia Is well Informed Of
the conditions and ready to help the
Communists is Indicated by the con-
centration Of large bodies of soviet
troops near the western border of Rus
sla.
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nAvID LLOYD GEORGE, now In
- Canada on his American tour. has
no hesitation in expressing the opinion
that wars are not done with and that
the next war may wipe out our Aciviliza-
tion. His view of European affairs Is
rather pessimistic, and his main hope
is that the British empire, which he
calls the one effective league of ma
tions In the world today. will make It,
self so strong that when 1t says "Halt !
the other nations will hear 1t. Such, in
way. Is the purpose of the imperial
conference being held in London. Plans
were laid last week for making the
empire on economic unit and for tying
up trade SO that none but subjects of
the empire would benefit. These plans
include purchasing pool for empire
food and raw material and dlstribu-
tion scheme for Great Britain; ways
for insuring empire preference on pub
lie contracts and for developing out
lying regions with the help of British
money, and plans for providing an Inn
mediate market for British manufac-
lures and the employment Of British
labor.
The empire premiers are not united
on many subjects and some Of them
have been severely critIcising some of
Premier Baldwin's policies and acts.
D EFUSING to be swayed from its
IN tro1ittopoI poitcy nv, tho cucrarcou
of the Farmer-Labor party in /, the
Northwest, the American Federation
of Labor In convention ut Portland,
Ore, voted decisively against resolu-
tions calling on labor to unite with
the farmers in forming new national
party. OF the ia International unions.
state federations and city councils on
the roll call, all but 27 voted to in
dorse the report of the resolutions
committee which said: Experience
has demonstrated that any attempt to
mass and direct the potential and ac-
tual power of the wage earners
through any form of fixed party
scheme is to destroy that efficiency
that comes from flexible mobility of
power to meet whatever emergency
may arise and from whatever source
It may emanate. The policy and prac-
tice OF the American Federation OF
Labor to be partisan to principles and
not to be partisan to political parties
has been fully justified by experience" :"
After a stormy debate the cOnven-
ton refused to recognize the soviet
government Of Russia, declaring the
people of Russia must first be given a
chance to vote on Endorsement or re-
! pudiatlon Of their present ru' ers. The