for an
advance
in wages
and
a reduction
of
the
price
of
chal.
The
voting
will
continue
all this
week.
It is
forecasted
by
l.endon
newspapers
that the
miners
will vote
overwhelmingly
in
faivour of
striking.
The
Government
has
so
far
refused
to
consider
the
vrojected
ad-
vance
of wages
and
a reduction
of coal
prices,
but
belief is expressed
that
some
way
can
be found
to avert
a
tie-up
of
the
eountry’s
mining
indusiry.
The
miners’
leader,
Robert
Smillie,
deeclarcd
vesterday,
‘'We are
determined
that
the
nation
shall
own the
mines
and
the
time
has
come
when
the
present
exploiters
will have
to give them up’”.
Beriin,
Aug.
24th.—The
Lokal
An-
zeigers
correspondent
on
the
Russian
front,
reports
that
the
Ruassian
retreat
along
the Kast
Prussian
border
has
de-
veloped
into
a panic
under
pressure
of
the
Polish
cavalry
Herds
of
cattle,
cavalry
and
infantry
are
intermingled
in the flight.
Officers
and
Commissaries
are
trying
to
restore
order
with
their
revolvers.
Somc
of the regiments
have
thrown
away
their
weapons.
The
cor-
respondent
says
that
the
Reds
declare
they
could
not stand
the fire
of the
Pol-
ish
and
French
aviators
who
attacked
them
from
short
distances
and
whose
bombs
worked
havoe,
they
=avidently
were
unaccustomed
to
wes
2ru
fighting
methods.
New
York,
Aug.
23rd.!--The
sugar
trade
is bassing
through
.
perind
of
such
complete
disorganizalion
as
has
never
been
parallelled
in
7,3
past
his-
tory, replete
as
that has
be
-, and
par-
ticularly in
recent
years,
with develop-
ments
of
a
most
unusua‘
character.
The present
situation
has
been
produc-
ed
by
a
reaction
.rom
condgitions
of
exactly
opposite
character,
that
existed
in the first months
of the
1919 and 1920
campaign.
Fears
of
a
repetition of che
experience
ofthe
two preceding
years,
when
sugar
was
practically
unobtaina-
able
during
the
period of heaviest
con-
sumption,
induced
buyers
of all
classes
to
make
commitments
for
supvlies
for
months
ahead,
In
manv
cases
up
to
December,t eir
competition
with
each
other for such
supplies,
forcing prices
al-
most unprecedented
highlevel.
What was
not
then
foreseen,
has
now
come
to
pass.
The
great
consuming
puble
ac-
customed
to economy
in the use
of sugar
forced ®y
war
time
contiigencies,
has
continued
the
practice
whether
or
not
the
need
nad
passed
noc
doubt
being
confirmed
in
it by
consideration
of
the
high
cost
of
sugar
despite
the
more
plentiful
supply..
Thus
with
deliveries
on contracts
made
in expectation-of at
least
a
normal
demand
at
this
season
pouring in upon
them
wholesale
dealers
and manufacturing
consuniers
find them-
selves
in
view
of
the restricted
mark-
et
-and
act: ally
curtailed
bank
credit,
unable
to
take care
ofthis sugar.
At-
tempts
to re-seil
at prices
below
any
quo-
tations
made
by refiners,
met
with
no
=t
R&G
1
X
& Vis
success
as
every
one€
is in the same
box.,
so there
is much
talk
of
a
repudiation
of
contracts
to
avoid
the
heavy
finan-
cial
losses
of
deliveries
would
entail
Naturally refiners abject
to shouldering
such
losses
but
they
display
commend-
able
readiness
to
meet
the
buvers
on
any ground
that
promises
a
solution
of
. the problem. No
one even
among
those
that
are
most
deeply
concerned
in
the
matter has yet
! een able to suggest
a
wav
out of the difficulty.
Based
upon
normal
requirements
of
consumption
for
the
past
four months
of the years,
the
quan-
tity of sugar
in
sight
aecording
to
the
foremost
trade authorities,
is inadequate,
therefore
with ales-up of
the
financial
stringency
and provided that the demand
from
now
forward
is
approximately
equal
to the average
for that
period, it is
asserted
thar
the
ovresent
surplus
will
soon
be absorbed.
In
the
meantime
the
situation
is critical and
the
outcome
most
ancertain
NEW
YORK,
Aug.
24th
1920
Flour, Blended Clears St. Lawrence
Lrand
pr.
brl.
$12.50
Meal, Kiindried per
100 Ibs $3.90
New
Secason’s
Pork.per
bri. $39.00
Heavy
Mess
Pork
ver bbl.,
$33.00
Sugar---Crystals
maximum
per
100
lbs
$12.04.
Molasses
Sugar
89
test,
no
quotation.
Cotton,
Middling Upiand,
at
Liverpool
per
|h,
22 47-100 d.
xchanyge,
New
York
and
London,
60
.
days’
sight
$3.51
Exchange
New
York
and
London,
sight
$3.55%
LoNnDpoN,
Aug.
24th
1920.
Sugar,
Demerara
Crystals,
Govt. controll-
ed and free
oi
control
1295. 4.
Sugar-Moscovado
Govt.
eo trolled price,
duty paid
1245.
9d.
Moscovado
iree
of
Govt.
control
duty
paid
nominal.
(German
Beet 8%“/¢ f.o.b.
no
sales,
White
Java
sugar
cif United
Kingdom:
nominal
110 s.
Od
Demerara
Rum,
per 2al. nominal.
Trinidad
Cocoa,
Good Middling
Red
no
minal per ewt
853,
od.
Cotto..
Medium Fine Sea
island,
at
1.
erpoo! per ib, nominal
Bank
of
England
rzie
of Discount
pe:
cent.
7.
Con sol"e 46%.
Three per
cent rentes
in Paris
Fes.
55,40
All prices
subjeet
to correction.
RED CROSS
SETS
ROLL CALI.
DATE
Fourth
Nationali
Appeal
to
be
trom
Ar-
mistice
Day to Thanksgiving.
The
American
Red Cross
will hold
its
fourth roll call from Armistice day,
No-
vemhbher
11,
to Thanksgiving
dav, No
vember
25.
In this period the
organiza
tion will make
its nation-wide
annual
ap-
peal to its members
to remew
their
alle.
giance
and support
and ask
those
who are
not members
to join the
ranks.
With
more than
10,000,000
members,
not including the
14,000,000
members
of
the Junior Auxiliary, the Americar
Red
Cross
has
today
more
than
three
times
the combined
enrollment
of
all
the
rest
of the
Red
Cross
Societies
of the
worid.
Its
present
membership
is
more
than
twenty
times
its
enrollment
previous
to,
the world war.
Figures
of Other
Countries.
The Japanese
Red
(ross
‘stands
second
to the American
Red
Cross
with 1.900.000
members,
according
to the latest
avail-
able
tigures.
Argentine
has
4,000
mem
bers;
Brazil,
6,600;
China.
26,000:
Den
mark,
25,000;
France,
250,000,
Holland.
18,000;
Italy, 300,000:
New
Zealand.
10
000; Norway,
9,000:
Poland.
30.000:
Por
tugal,
5,600:
Roumania,
14,000
Serbia.
2,850;
Spain.
63,000;
Sweden,
65.000:
Switzeriand,
42 500:
Uruguav.
300.
Cur
rent
figures
for
England,
Canada
and
Australia,
which
have
important
organi
zations,
are
not available
The
Roll Call
appea!
this yedar
will
be
primarily for
memberships.
There
are
four
classes
of
membership:
first.
the
dollar annual
wembership,
which
is i
vided
on
a fift{-Cftybasis,
ane-half goirg
to National
HYadquarters
and
one-halt
to the chapter
}hat secured
the
member
ship
forits
o&r
uses;
second,
the
fve
dollar
or confributing
membership,
of
which
the
cßlapter
retains
four
dol-
lars,
the
r Jaining
dollar
going
to
the
national
organization:
the
ten-
dollar sustaini}g
membership,
of which
the
chapter
retains
eight
dollars
and
national
neadquariers
receives
two ol
lars.
The
fees
for
all
life
member
ships,
fifty dollars, and
all
patron
mem
berships,
one hundred
dollars,
oo
1o the
endowment
fund
by
regulations
! 1
by-law.
Chapters
Get More Money.
The
chapters
have
not in the
past
re-
ceived
such
a
large
proportion
of
the
membership
dues
for
use
in
their
own
communities.
Under
the
new
division
of
fees
one
contributing
membership
will
be
worth
to the chapters
eight
an-
nual
memberships,
and
one
sustaining
membership
will- be
worth
to the
chap-
ters
16 annual
memberships.
Every individual who
renews
member-
ship or joins the Red
Cross
in the
fourth
roll call will receive
a membership
card,
the membership
button
for
1921
and
the
fourth roll call service
flag.
The national
orgenization
will not
this
year
make
a
general
appeal
for funde
unless
some
now
unforeseen
emergenecy
of
world-wide
importance
arises.
but
chapters
have
the
privilege
of
rasing
funds
in conpection
with
the roii
call
in
their-own
territories
tc
carry
on their
pedte-time
programs.
The chapters
will
set their own ‘quotas
for
their
local
ap-
peals.
Boston Herald.