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sal responso of labor to the miners'
call. For example, in no previous
strike has the union of the locomotive
men acted with the National Union of
Railwaymen. Othjr railway services,
in the ?vent of a strike, may be re
placed by volunteers, but H will bo
difficult to find competent drivers,
The decision of the Federation of
General Workers to support the Triplo
Alliance is also highly important. The
resolution adopted by this organization
does not mean that the unions con?
cerned, representing 1,500,000 workers,
wi'.l strike, but means that, it is their
intention to consult with the Triplo
Alliance in nil steps and give it gen?
eral support. The federation's resolu?
tion pledged support to the Triplo
Alliance "in its effort to resist whole?
sale reductions in wages and to main?
tain national standards of \va~os and
conditions of labor."'
Various members of tne government
have been appointed commissioners of
the dozen districts into which the king?
dom is divided for the organization of
public services, while ?t great number
of divisional road commissioners have
beon appointed to organize transport.
The government's actual plan of cam?
paign will not bo published unless or
until the strike actually begins, but
the emergency machinery devised in
the railway .strike of 1910 lias boon
continuously improved and is every?
where ready for action. Croat mili?
tary camps are forming at Wormwood
Scrubbs and Wimbledon Common, and
another camp in the eastern suburbs
of London for additional food and milk
supplies.
Resort to Ballot Urged
During the morning conference be?
tween Mr. Lloyd George and a delega?
tion of the Triple Alliance, it developed,
Mr. Lloyd George made a plea to the
labor men that they resort to the bal?
lot, suggesting that they put their case
to the nation'and saving that the gov?
ernment would do likewise with its
case and let the nation decide the is?
sue.
The railwaymen and the transport
workers went to Downing Street, where
Mr. Lloyd George and other members
of the Cabinet met them on their.
own initiative. Their ostensible er?
rand was to deliver in person the an?
swer to the Premier's request of last
night that the miners set forth speci?
fically the reasons for their rejection
of his proposals for adjusting the dis?
pute between the miners and the mine
owners.
When Harry Gosling, for the trans?
fert workers, and Mr. Thomas, for the
railwaymen, had finished iheir presen?
tations of the miners' case and had
outlined their reasons for deciding to
support it by sympathetic strikes, if
fcccessary, Mr. Lloyd George appealed
to them to consider whether reason
was on their side. If so, he asked why
they had not availed themselves of the
ballot box.
"Starvation is not your only weapon,"
said the Prime Minister, "you have
exactly the weapons you had before,
the weapons of civilization?persua?
sion, argument and reason. You can
leave it to the nation to decide. You
hive your plan, we have ours. Put it
to the nation and we will put ours to
the nation. If the nation decides that
your plan is the right one why should
you starve your people in order to
achieve something which you can
achieve by reason, if reason is on your
side.
"If reason is not on your side why
should you force the nation, by starv?
ing it, to surrender to unreason?"
asked the Primt Minister. "They are
not an unreasonable people. The vast
majority of the people you appeal to
are workmen. If the workmen are
against us we have no chance."
Pool Declared Impossible.
These declarations were made by
the Prime Minister when he was
pointing out the impossibility of the
government accepting the miners' de?
mand for a national pooling of profits,
which he defined as "nationalization up
t-j the point of meddling, and not of
managing, which is a worse form of
nationalization."
In furtherance of his argument, Mr.
Lloyd George said the miners' scheme
for a pool in order to equalize wages
represented neither private ownership
nor nationalization, but had the defects
of both. He continued:
"Nationalization is an idea and pri?
vate enterprise is an idea, but I never
heard anybody advancing such a propo?
sition as this except as a sort of make?
shift in order to get over a temporary
difficulty, and while attempting to gel
over our temporary difficulties w(
would be landing the nation, the mini
owners and the miners in infinitelj
worse difficulties than they ever wer?
in before.
"If we had not had nearly sever
years' experience of that system i
might be argued, but having seeh i
actually operating I can not under
stand Mr. Hodges [secretary of thi
miners' union] recommending it again
He is a nationalizer?very well, let hir
put his case for nationalization. Bu
that he should recommend this sort o
mongrel scheme is a thing I cannc
understand a man of his intelligenc
putting forward."
Mr. Gosling interrupted: "If he rec
?mmended complete nationalizatio
you would not accept it, would you?"
Action by Commons Necessary
Mr. Lloyd George answered: "Yo
Would have to go to the Commons an
ask them virtually to restore contro
?which every one wanted to get rid o
Tho Commons would ask, 'How did
work?' We would say badly. Th
House would ask, 'Did it improve th
outlook?' We would say it destroye
the outlook. The House would as!
"^ 'Did it reduce the cost of the mines
m We would say no, it increased th
w costs. Then the House would ask,'Wh
did you recommend it?' We would sa;
'Well, thon? was a strike of the minci
and the transport men said they cam
out in a spirit of comradeship.'"
lloro Mr. Thomas interjected: "Ju!
tice, not comradeship alone." Tli
Prime Minister continued:
"How could any minister go to th
House on that basis? Mr. Goslin
says: 'Suppose you starve us. Ho
much better off are you'." May I pi
the consideration to you? Supposin
you could starve the community. Ho
much better oft are you? That is n<
h question to put to us. It is a que:
tion to be put by you to youraelve
You do not alter the vital econom
position by your success?I am assun
ing the possibility of your succeeding
Mr. Lloyd George concluded by sa;
nig:
"There are three pr.ints at issue: .
national pool, involving a great sehen
for control of the mines and for mc(
dling in the mines' management- an
that we cannot have. We will take tli
light on that. There is only one wa
you can carry that, and that is not b
starving the nation. It is by persua(
ing the nation?that is open to you.
Wage Settlement Discussed
"The second is a national settlemei
of wages. Let me make clear what thi
means." The Prime Minister cited
specific case of how this propositic
would operate, seeking to show thi
dealings would be with the Miner
Federation as a whole, and that ti
government was not seeking to spl
the coal fields into areas.
"We are not saying that Fores
Dean must fight for itself, or thf
North Wales, which also is a ratht
weak unit, must fight for itself," M
Lloyd George said, "All the big powei
ful areas should be represented, fo
they are to protect the weaker ones.
"The third point is the amount eithe
of wages or profits. Upon this: Wit'
open mind we are prepared to discus
it with the miners and the owner
so long as the first principle is accept
cd, but until then I am afraid wo mus
fight it out. But I ask you in all ear
neatness whether you will commit you
organisations to fighting what is, afte
?1), a great question of principle t<
be sett lid by the nation through youi
Thousands of Volunteers Wait
For Call to Man British Trains
Government Plans to Maintain Skeleton Service on
Railroads and Subways, but Trolleys Will
Stop ; Taking of Census Postponed
Frow Th* Tribun?'? European Bureau
Copyright. 1921. New York Tribune Inc.
LONDON. April 14. Thousands of
telegrams m volunteers who have
offered their services to take the places
of strikers are. piled up in Whitehall to
be sent out when the word comes that
the general strike in Great Britain is
inevitable. With the aid of these vol?
unteers the railroads and subways tire
planning to maintain a skeleton serv?
ice, but all trolleys and busses probably
will be idle. Theaters and moving pic?
ture shows are to remain opon, at the
request of the government. The de?
cennial census, which was to have b'een
taken on April 24, has been postponed.
Theater crowds to-night stopped to
watch lorry loads of singing and cheer?
ing soldiers passing through the streets
on their way to concentration points.
The Ministry of Transport has is-'
elected representatives. There is no
distinction between this and direct
action. I again put to you, that you
should not commit yourself to what is
equivalent to direct action by seeking
to overawe Parliament into revers?
ing a legislative decision by the threat
of paralyzing the whole life of the
community."
Thomas Refuses to Yield
Mr. Thomas, in reply, said:
"1 regret nothing has been said by
you this morning which would enable
iis to feel the decision we have taken
is a wrong one. 1 agree that just as
you have the right to say to us, 'You
must not starve us.' we have the right
to say to you: 'You must not starve
us.' Soth ought to have a settlement
?rhich would avoid either side starv?
ing the other. It is in this spirit we
approached the question. It is in that
spirit wo shall continue."
The Prime Minister terminated the
interview by repeating:
"The question of resumption of con?
trol of the mines by the state is a
political one. It must be decided by
political methods, and not by strikes."
When questions in connection with
the industrial crisis were passed by
in the House of Commons in the after?
noon the Prime Minister said he be?
lieved a discussion of the subject
would be prejudicial to a settlement.
The Opposition leaders, former Pre?
mier Asquith, for the Liberals, and
John B. Clynes, for the Parliamentary
Labor party, concurred in this view.
A serious phase of the threatened
strike is, that of the British seamen
and stewards, whose wages, 'it was
learned to-d?y, the owners have an?
nounced will be reduced approximately
30 per cent. The reduction, however,
will not be effective pending a meet?
ing on April 22 of the ship owners and
representatives or the Firemen's and
Sailors' Union, to which the seamen
and stewards belong. At this meeting
the whole question will be discussed.
Seamen Not Anxious to Strike
Meanwhile the union is balloting on
the issue of joining in the general
stoppage of work to-morrow. While
the soarnen declare sentiment regard?
ing a strike is evenly divided, the ref?
erendum shows 2,000 against the strike
with 65 per cent of the vote in. The
result of the balloting, however, will
not be obtainable until to-morrow.
It was stated at the headquarters of
the Firemen and Sailors' Union to?
day that even if the present ballot
should result in refusal to particip?t1}
in the strike of the Triple Alliance tho
seamen would not submit to the 30 per
cent reduction. While, it is hoped tho
; issue can be settled by negotiation a
i strike of the seamen and stewards,
! with consequent paralysis of transat
! lantic traffic, is considered not impos
j sible.
Reports received by the union here
from the Marine Workers' Union of
| America say a reduction of 25 per cent
I in the wages of seamen will become ef
I fective in the United States May l.and
I great interest is manifested here in the
j attitude the seamen across the Atlantic
will take in view of this cut.
A reduction in the wages of shipyard
| workers amounting to six shillings a
I week and 15 per cent on piecework is
I also about to become effective in Eng?
land, on which negotiations are pend
| ing between the workers and the own
j ers.
. .. m
Russia Exclusive, Too;
Bars U. S. Immigration
Any Arriving After April 20 To
Be Refused Admission, Bol
i shevik Council Rules
1 LIVERPOOL, April 14.?Russian Bol
[ shevik authorities have closed the
frontier of that country against immi
'? gration from America, according to a
j cablegram received by a shipping com
j pany here from its agent in Libau,
' I says The Post, of this city. Immigrants
will be accepted, however, from steam?
ers 'already on their way to Russia
from America.
? The Soviet Consul in Libau has
issued, a notice that immigrants arriv?
ing later than April 20 will not be ad?
mitted to Russia.
-? ?-,
4,000 Houses Destroyed
In New Japanese Fire
; HAKODATE, Japan, April 14 (By
; ! The Associated Press1).?Fire which
. ! broke out here last midnight destroyed
' j some 4,000 houses before it was
I brought under control. The buildings
'. I destroyed included three Christian
; i missions, the British consulate, several
? j banks, hosnitals. echoolhouses, theaters
. and government buildings.
The tire in Hakodate was the third
I great conflagration to occur in Japan
. ! within the past three weeks. On
; March 27 the whole city of Tokio was
? imperiled by the greatest fire in a
| decade, which destroyed 1,000 houses
in the northwestern part of the citv
and involved a loss estimated at 25,"
000,000 yen. On April 6 a big lire in
the Asakusa section of Tokio destroyed
1,700 houses, nmong them eight tem?
ples, a schoolhouse and a police sta
? tion.
Love for Child Betrays Him
Jleged Wife Slayer Arrested on
Return After Two Years
Giovanni Aversa, who formerly lived
! at 302 East 102d Street, was arrested
: Wednesday night at Forty-seventh
Stree; and Eighth Avenue charged
with the murder of his wife at his
former address on April (5, 1910. An
indictment for murder lies against
him.
When Aversa ran from the house
after killing his wife, the police say,
he left his five-year-old daughter
asleep beside the body. After wander?
ing all over the country doing odd jobs
he was so overcome with a desire to
see hi? daughter that he returned here
in an effort to find the child. The po?
lice received information of his return
and laid plans to capture him, result?
ing In i fa wrest.
sued an order under the emergency
powers act to the effect that owners
of horses, vehicles and motor cars are
required to place them at the dis?
posal of officially authorized persons
when called upon.
Coal for home consumption has
been put on closer rations already and
householders are required to obtain a
permit even for the fifty pounds they
are allowed to buy at any one time.
An appeal has been issued for economy
in the use of electricity and gas.
The government has taken over Hyde
Park for use as a food distributing
center. Its gates were closed to the
public to-day.
Rooms in several hotels have been
requisitioned for government use and
by business men who desire to be
within walking distance of their
offices.
Statistics at the unemployment ex- ;
change show that 1,615,000 idle por- ?
sons registered there last week. This |
is an increase of 109,000 over the pre?
ceding week.
Ex-Gov. Smith to Testify
i
In Lazarus Larceny Case ?
Expected to Say Doctor Did Not j
Help Convicted Firebug
Obtain Commutation
Alfred E. Smith, rx-Governor, is ox- |
pected to testify to-day at the trial of J
Dr. Bernard Lazarus, charged with ,
grand larceny. The cane will be calle 1
in General Sessions before Judge Nott.
j It is believed ex-Governor Smith will
j suy that neither Lazarus nor Morris 1. !
? Rosenberg was instrumental in ob
! tair.ing the commutation of the ten- !
i year sentence of Jacob Smith for
I arson.
Lazarus was indicted September 28.
! 1920, with Rosenberg, an insurance
I agent, for obtaining $5,000 from Mrs.
; Rebecca Smith, of 54 Atlantic Avenue,
Brooklyn, on the representation that
? Lazarus was former Governor Smith's
! personal physician and could get her
! husband's sentence commuted. Smith
j was convicted of burning the creamery
i of Smith Brothers, at Cato, in Cayuga
j County, N. Y., in 1919. The citizens of
' Cayuga County shortly afterward pre?
sented a petition to the then Governor
urging clemency for Smith, and com?
mutation was granted. When, however,
the former Governor was told by
Charles Steinberg, of Union Hill, N.J.,
attorney for Mrs. Smith in the trans?
action, that money had been passed,
the commutation was 'revoked im?
mediately.
Poles Mass Troops Near
Vilna on Eve of Parley
-
Intention to Attack if Area Is
Awarded to Lithuania,
Is Rumored
KOVNO, Lithuania, April 14.?On the
eve of the conference at Brussels be?
tween the Poles and Lithuanians for
settling the differences between the
two countries, the Poles, according to
Lithuanian sources, are massing troops
in the Vilna area, and rumors are cur?
rent in Kovno that they plan an attack
in the event Vilna is awarded to
Lithuania.
General Zellgouski, head of the
Polish "regular" troops, is now in
charge in Vilna, and it is learned here
that additional Polish troops, amply
supplied with munitions, are arriving
by train and afoot. The Lithuanians
are preparing for any eventuality.
Red Republic in Turkestan
STOCKHOLM, April 14.?An inde?
pendent republic of Turkestan has
been proclaimed. ? It will be admin?
istered as an autonomous republic by
means of a soviet congress and an ex?
ecutive committee within a soviet fed?
eration.
British Crews
Won't Desert
Vessels Here
Strike Call Will Not Be
Answered Until MentAre
in Home Ports; Would Be
Mutiny on Sea, They Fear
Sailing Schedules Stand
Union Seamen Will Take
Carmania and the Other
Big Liners to England
Advices of a general strike in Eng?
land and the strike decision of all
unions that have to do with men who
serve on British steamships in all ca?
pacities were received in this city yes?
terday by Robert Hawton, of the stew?
ard's department of. the White Star
liner Olympic, which arrived here on
Wednesday. Upon receipt, the plans
of tho British unions to strike on all
vessels in home ports was dissemi?
nated throughout the British tonnage
in New York Harbor.
The strike will not affect any Brit?
ish steamships now in this port, as
the. men do not wish to go on record
as striking in foreign ports. This they
regard tantamount to mutiny and tho
same as though they had struck on the
high seas.
To Return on Schedule
The strike will not affect the pas?
senger bookings or the taking of
; freight on vessels now in this or other
American ports, but it will practically
tio up all east and west bound sched?
ules of these vessels sfter they have
arrived in home ports of Great Brit?
ain.
Because of coal shortage, the de
parture of the Berengaria (Imperator;
from Southampton for New York wa?
recently canceled. Tho Cunarder Mau
retania, which probably arrived ir
Southampton from New York yesterday
may be deserted by her crow and hoi
return to New York postponed. Th(
Cunarder Aquitania', now on the Atlan
tic bound to Cherbourg and Southamp
ton, is subject to the same difficulty
The Cunarder Caronia, also in the Nev
York service, is at Liverpool. Thi
Carmania, in the Liverpool service, i:
now in this port and will depart oi
schedule.
Ships of Other Lines
The eastward schedules of the Co
lumbia, of the Anchor Line, bound hen
from Glasgow, and the Cunarder Sax
onia, due from Liverpool, will not bi
affected, as the crews are pledged t<
stand by until the vessels return t<
their home ports.
Among Lhe ships of the Internationa
Mercantile Company that are in th?
trans-Atlantic service are the Whit'
Stnr liners Olympic and Cedric, now ii
this port, and the Cedric and Adriatic
now in home ports. The Megantic
which is returning from a West In
dian cruise, is due to leave New Yorl
April 21.
The Rod Star liner Lapland saile
I from Antwerp for Cherbourg on Apri
; 11 and was scheduled to stop at South
unipton. It was not known last nigh
if she had left the latter port for Nei
York.
On the large trans-Atlantic liners th
crews which have union affiliation
| vary from 000 to 1,100 men. The crew
of the smaller vessels range from 30
i to 450.
The steamship officials in this cit
? fear no tie-up in this port, but if th
i strike continues they assume that th
j trans-Atlantic travel on British stcarr
; ships will be paralyzed completely.
84 Ships Built This Year
U. S. Yards' Output for Firs
Quarter 463,000 Tons
Seagoing vessels built in the Unite
States and officially numbered by tl
Bureau of Navigation during the fir:
throe months of this year total eight
four, aggregating 463,242 gross tons.'
i Of this total seventy-one, of 445,0.'
tons, are steel vessels, and thirteen, <
18,207 tons, are wooden ships.
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Jusserand Criticized
As Lacking Initiative
Delay in Receiving Information
on Message Causes Com?
ment in Paris
PA?IIS, April 14. The text of Presi?
dent Harding'ft message had not yet
reached Paris this morning, and the
newspapers based their comment on
extracts thus far received. Some of
the commentators, notably those of
L'Hommo Libre and the Gaulois, criti?
cized the lack of information possessed
j by Franco on the state of affairH in
| Washington. The Cablegramme, a new
] daily representing important business
interests, .said:
"M. Jusserand was not kept informed
ai to what was going on at the White
House- and in tho lobbies of the Son
ate. Under the pretext of not wanting
to offend American opinion, he has dis
ccuraged all initiative to promote our
interests, and has left us recently in
prodigious ignorance of things over
there. It pains us that wo must speak
thus of such a man as M. Jusserand,
but we are at a point where successes
in the past cannot compensato for
failures in the present."
Sir A. E. Vicars
Shot Dead and
Home Burned
? (Contlnuod from flrtt page)
publication of an entirely fnlse story.
A verdict wus thereupon found against
the paper for $25,000 damages and the
costs of the suit. This result was uni?
versally regarded as a full vindication
of Sir Arthur Vicars and, of course
Lady Hnddo,
Sir Arthur Vicars was born at Leam?
ington on July 27, 1804, tho son of
Colonel Vicar.s. of the British Army.
He was educated atOxford. married Miss
Gertrude Wright, was knighted in 1891
and was Ulster King-of-Arms and Reg?
istrar and Knight Attendant of the Or?
der of St. Patrick from 1803 to 1908. He
was a fellow of the Society of Antiqua?
ries, of London; a government trustee
of the National Library of Ireland, sec?
retary of the Kildare Archaeological
Society and the author of the Index to
the Prerogative Wills of Ireland since
1536. His home, which he inherited
from his mother, was Kilmorna, County
1 Kerry.
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