Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-09
A NACION, Buenos Aires.-The
railway workers of Argentina
have been attracting considerable

| n NAHUM, BueQOS Alres.-Tne
railway workers of Argentina
have been attracting considerable
| IL attention to themselves and to
| their cause by stopping work at
a certain time on certain days, the
| last instance being for half an hour al
noon recently at different points. Both
| steam and electric railway workers are
involved. They threaten to increase this
stoppage by Is minutes on future occa-
sions unless some attention is made to
their demands for more pay and better
| gentlne Railway and the Union Fer
roviaria in Buenos Aires and all the
subsidiary lines of the former company
are affected. The of1icials of these COM
| panies claim that they cannot bring
about any improvements due to the fact
that they would have to increase both
| passenger and freight rates, If they
were to grant increased wages or holi-
| days with pay, and that the public Is
already complaining about the rates.
| More than that, recent revenues Of the
COMPANY have been falling Oh due to
| the great reduction In grain and other
| shipment owing to the poor crop.
Palestine
Ponders Disturbances.
| Falastin, Jaffa.-The present week end
is being spent by the commission of in
quiry into the Palestine disturbances and
| the Palestine mandate in visiting the
places where trouble between the Jews
and the Arabs has occurred. Investigation
on the spot ought to leave the members
of the commission in no doubt as to the
true position in Palestine, which has
been carefully hidden from the British
public, and pretty much the rest OF the
| world, by British officialdom.
The first point which will strike the
commission is that everywhere there
| Is acute friction between the Arabs and
the Zionists. The Arabs, who number
| flve-sixths of the population, have never
understood why their interests should
| be subordinated to those of a compare
lively small Zionist minority. AS re-
suit, peace is only being maintained
with difficulty by British aircraft and
bayonets. Now the number of British
| bayonets is once more being danger
ously reduced, with the withdrawal Of
one of the three battalions hurried to
the country during the disturbances.
In fact, hostility between the Jews
and the Arabs is growing and all the
hope once entertained of perfect har-
mony after a period of British control
must now be abandoned. There will, of
course, be a heavy bill to pay for the
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troops and ships to deal with them, but
the money will have to be found by the
British taxpayer, for Palestine itself is
insolvent, and is not likely to be solvent
at any early date with its present ex-
pensive system of administration.
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New Paving
in Montevideo Streets.
impartial, Montevideo-A number Of
streets in Montevideo are to be newly
| paved with blocks Is centimeters C.
| inches) in thickness. Sectors will be
| paved both with wood and paving brick,
| to see which gives the better results
with heavy traffic. While pavements of
| concrete and asphaltum are better in
some respects, still they have disad-
| vantages, both from the standpoint of
expense and other particulars which will
F., result in these experiments being watch
ed with great interest by municipal au-
thorities. The cost is from $407 to SIS. o9
(Uruguayan and U. So per square meter.
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Brazil Talks Of
Mercy Killings.
| A Note, Rio de Janeiro-The cam
paign in favor of "euthanasia," II we
may so denominate the mercy killing"
| for which a son was recently acquitted
| In France, does not appeal to our best
| emotions or intelligence. There Is too
| much fallihility in human judgments.
II is impossible for us to determine
Whather a prolouCatiOn of main or In /.