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CHEISIIANSTED
V.
1. 118 A. FRIDAY.
2157
NOVEMBER
1919,
bridgehead
as
they
left.
Budapest
had
been
evacuated
hy
ten o'clock,
and
the
National
Army
was occupying
it.
«
,
Washinton-
Nov.
14th.—D
mands
of
coal
miners
for
a
thirty hour
week
and
sixty
per
cent
increase
in
wages,
and
unyie ding
pos‘tion,
by
the
operators
alike
were
declared
‘irapossible’’
by
Secretary
Wilson
opening
today
the
Conference
called
tobring
peace
to
the
bituminious
ie!ds of the nation.
To
ob-
rain
peace
the
Seeéretary
proposed
three
plans of procedure.
Decluring
that
the
Washington
wages
agreement
still
is
legally is forece,
M:. Wilson
told
the
op-
erators
and
the
miners
ttat
the
people
01
the United
States
were
not
‘‘Shylocks
and
do ot want
or
expec
the technical
provisious of a bond
when
the
condition
under
which
the
bond
was
made
are
changed’’.
He
added
that
"'lf
any
change
is made
in
the
contraet
‘he
veo-
ple
of othe
United
States
are
the
ones
who will
have
to
pay’’
and
throughout
his
remarks
emphasized
.he
publie
in-
terest
in the
wholé
situation.
The
pro-
posals
expected
,io aid
the
two
factions
in arranging
the
wage
ageement,
were
set
forth by the Labour
Stcretary
as
fol-
lows:
First.
Negotiation
through
joint
wage
scale
committees
representing
all
distriets.
Second.
Negotictions
through
concurrent sessoin
of Commitices
from the
varioas
disiriets.
Third.
Negotiations
first
on
an
agreement
in
the
Central
Competitive
Fields
and
thien
on
agree-
ments
for
other
fields
with
that
of
the central
districts
as
a basis.
Washington,
Nov.
15th.—Aceceptance
without qualification by
the
mine
work-
ers
of
Secretary
of Lab
.ur
"Wilson’s
proprosals
of
negotitions
»f nation-wide
wage
scale
agreement
wa:
announced
at
the
conference
today
by
J.
L.
Lewis.
Washington.
Nov. 15th.-—A closure
to
shut
debate
out of the Peace
Treaty
was
adopted
today in the
Sencte.
‘Washington,
Nov.
15th.—The
Prince
of Wales
left Washington
tonightaccom-
panied by his immediate personal
stafl for
three
days’ siuy
in
a
southern
winter
&¥esort
where
he
proposes
to
remain
in
strict incognito.
His next publicappear-
ance
will be on Tuesday.
when
he arrives
in New York.
St. Johns, N.F., Now 15th.—Sir Michael
Cashin,
Leader of the Government
which
was defeated at the recent
general
elec-
tion,
having
announced
that
he
would
resign
the Premiership
today.
the Gover-
nor was preparec
to call immediataly
up-
on the npposition
leader,
R.
A.
Squires,
for
the
formation
of
a
new
Cabinet.
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The editor cannot
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responsible ;o the views of his correspon-
dents no/'dqz:s
he necessarily endorse them.
fELEGRAMS
8% CROIX STATION.
New
York, Nov. 14th.—James’ Lurkin,
Irish Labour
l.eader,
and
Benjamin
Cin-
dow,
a‘for::er
assembly
man,
charged
with advoe:
ting crimina.
anarchy,
were
held for
the
Grand
Jury
laie
tod»y by
Chief
of
N agistrate
Mr.
McAdoo.
Be-
fore announcing
hix decision,
Mr. McAdoo
scathingly
Jenounced
the
activitias
of
radicals
in
this countryv.
The defendants
were held in
$i5,000 bail
each.
Mr. Me
Adoo
charuacterized
the
prisoners
as
“*dangerous
and
prominent
leaders
of
the
organized
red
army of
8,000
mem-
pers
in Nevww
York
City,
threatening
to
overchrow
the
Government’’.
He
de-
clared
that
thé
Red
/rmy
had
almost
“eighty recruitilg
barracks’’
in
the city
and
is
apparently
well
suppled
with
wroney.
:
London.,
Nov.
15th.—Replying
to
the
Trade
Uni>n
Deputation,
the Hom>
Sec-
retary
again
emphatica'ly
declined
to
re-
instate
pol:ce
strikers.
One
Liverpool
striker
has
been
elected
to
the
City
Council, anl was nominated
to the Police
Cvommittee,
but
the
nomination
was
re-
jected.
Antwerp,
Nov. 15th.—The
Prize Court
has
decided
that
53
German
boats,
ag-
oregating
150,000
tons,
seized
by
the
Belgian
au horities in
1914
in
the port
of Antwerp
are lawful prizes.
Paris,
Nov. 156th—Deputy
Paul
Mouni-
er
was
today
arrested
by
the
Military
authorities
at
Aix-en-Othe ciarged
with
having had intelligence
with the eremy.
His residen:c
was searched
in
his
pres-
ence.
Budapest,
Nov.
15th.—The
Rumanian
troops
began
evacuating
Budapest
this
morning.
the national
army
holding the
No. 26§.-
Returns
from all but
one
of the
36 seatsy
in the
Lagislafture show
trat
the
incom-
ing
administration
will
have
23
seats
and
the Cashin
supporters
12.
Paris,
Nov.
16th.
—The
failure
of the
peace
conference
to
expel
the
Turks
from Europe
would
spell
bankruptey.
of
the reace,
said M. Eliptherios
Venizelos,
the Greek
Prime
Minister
to
the
Asso-
ciated
Press
today
‘‘neither
the Greeks,
Buigars
nor Rumanians
will consider
the
Balkan
question
settled
so
long
as
the
Turk remains
in Europe’”.
M. Venizelos,
continued,
‘‘we
seek
no
mandate
for
Smyrna,
but merely
wish
to
incorporate
the
district
which
has
been
Greek
for
three
thousand
years
and
in
which
we
are
at home,
the findings of
the commis-
sion
which investigated
affairs in Smyrna
are vicious,
and
was
asked
that
they
be
considered
null
and void.
There
was
no
question
of
temporary
oceupation
and
policing when
Mr. Lloyd George,
M.
Cle-
menceau
and
President
Wilsen,
asked
the Greeks
to occupy
Smyrna
and
I feel
confident
thot although
President
Wilson
disagreed
with
me
on
the
question
of
Thrace,
they
are
fully in
accord
as
to
Smyrna,
nettled
at
the
interpretation
Ziven by the
press
to
the Supreme
Coun-
cil fav from approving
the
finding of the
commission
wrote’’.
The
Supreme
Coun-
cil while admitting
every
foundation for
the
resevvation
you
have
taken
cannot
find that
the results
of the
investigation
may
be regarded
as
entirely vicious.
London.
Nov.
16th.—Mr.
Thomas,
General
Seeretary
of the Nationat
Union
of Railway
mer,
in
a
speech
at
Bristol
today outlined
the plan of
the
Govt.
to
2ive the
men
representation
on
a
joint
buard
of
management
and
expressed
the
hope that the arrangement
would
be
accepted.
The Govt. proposed
Mr. Thom-
as said,
that
the
railways
be
managed
by the joint committee
of
executives
on
which workers
would have
three
repre-
sentatives
with power
equal
to
those
of
the general managers.
The
plan
would
also
create
a joint board ccmposed
of five
general
managers
of railways
and
five
delegates
of
the
locomotive
men
and
the
National
Union
of railwaymen,
to
negotiate all
matters
concerning
condi-
tions
of
service.
Any
dispute
arising
would be referred
to another
body of
12,
comprising
four
representatives
of
the
railways, four appointed by the
men and
four delegatés
to look after the
interests
of the general public
of
the
representa-
tives of the public,
one would be
a
trade
[Continued
on 4th pagel.