Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-10
BY HENRY w. BUM.

DI 12EINhL w. DUNN
TIME following is brief sum
mary of the most important
news of the world for the
seven days ended April 9:
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Great Britain.-The fight is on
vigorously not to say ferociously,
over the bill framed to deal with
trade unions and strikes. The bill is
in certain respects more drastic than
had been expected. For example.
the first clause would make Illegal
any strike INTENDED to intimidate any
substantial portion of the community"
land more to like effect, so that a
strict Interpretation thereof would
outlaw any sympathetic strike. An
other clause calls for annulment of
the famous Parliament act of 1907
which made trade union funds I'M
mune and would make them once more
liable for civil damages. Still another
clause would annul the political
levy" act of 1913. That act allows as.
sessment on members for political
purposes. To be sure, this great
privilege is qualified by the privilege
of any member to claim exemption;
but it is readily understood how in
practice the qualification does not
amount to much, The bill would per.
NIT assessment only upon such union
members as may have agreed thereto
in advance. Another provision forbids
civil servants to belong to unions
with outside affiliations. And even
the hardest-shell conservatives agree
that the bill should be amended so as
to bear upon 'lockouts" as well as
strikes. On the other hand, these
hard-shelled are offended by failure
to provide that a strike, to be legal,
must have been approved in advance
by a secret vote.
The grand issue, after all, would
seem to be one of expediency. A
great many who theoretically approve
the bill fear that its enactment would
fatally check the recent tendency to
moderation in trade union counsels
and restore the lead to the extrem
lists, for whom it would provide plau
sible slogans.
March 81. the end Of the fiscal year
saw budget deficit of f36, G93, 1874. Al
the end of December the deficit was
f146, 900 900. 1t Is thus seen that re
covery since the strike has been re
| markabIe. We are told that the def
| icit as Of March 81 is to be met from
the sinking fund; that instead of APP
plying eco 900, 900 thereof to reduction
of the internal debt, only f23 800, 00(
will be so applied, the rest of that
sum going to extinguish the deficit.
April S was the Tooth anniversary
of the birth of Lord Lister, the father
| of modern surgery. 1t is perhaps nc
exaggeration to say that no man has
| done more than Lord Lister to amelio
rate human conditions. 1t was In
| May, 1866, at Glasgow, that he first
applied antisepsis to a wound. The
| idea was inspired by the bacteriologi
| cal discoveries of Pasteur, but was
nevertheless, one of the great menta
| leaps. The aseptic surgery of today
| is logical development lin which de
| velopment Lister was the guiding
spirit from the first crude use of car
| bolic acid as a germicide. Lister died
| in 1912. No doubt his great discovery
| has saved a great many more lives
| than war has destroyed since 1865.
| Germany.-Reports persist that ere
many months pass the Lufthansa
| Go. (the great German air combine
| will have in operation regular air
| plane service Peking- Moscow-Berlin
| Seville 5000 miles,, connecting at Sc
vile with a regular Zeppelin service
under the same auspices, Seville-Per
nambuco- Rio DE Janeiro- Buenos Aires
| Is. 500 miles,. The German Russian
Deruluft Co. Is affiliated with the
Lufthansa Co. for operation of the
section Berlin Moscow-Pe Picking.
! An air base is now under construc.
| ton at Seville. There are more than
40 airplane lines connecting the great
cities OF Germany, and in some in,