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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS. COLBORNE. ONT.. THURSDAY, NOV. 10, 1921. J THREAT OF COAL MINERS'STRIKE HANGS OVER THE UNITED STATES Indiana Miners Totalling 25,000 Have Already Quit Work --General Strike Would Involve 350,000 Workmen-- Coal Shortage Not Imminent as Large Supplies Are on Hand. A despatch from Chicago says:--A strike of 350,000 coal miners of the principal bituminous producing fields of the country will follow enforcement i of Judge Anderson's injunction! against the "check-off" system, according to union officials. Already; 25,000 miners have quit work in! Indiana. Frank Farrington, head of the II-1 linois miners, wired his chiefs that] while a stoppage of the "check-off" j system would be a violation of con-j tract, he could not order a strike until j it had actually occurred. It was undeistood he had received his instructions from headquarters in Indian- The Illinois miners will not be paid for two weeks, and until that time they will not know what action lias been taken by the Illinois operators on Judge Anderson's injunction. Illinois miners were reported ready to ftrike and 400 quit work in the Central Iowa district. They were the fust to go out in this state. It wai not expected there would be a gen- eral walkout before naxt pay day. Approximately 350,000 miners would be idle if a general strike is called. The mines cf Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia. Michigan, Missouri, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Wyoming, Iowa, and Montana would be tied up. The "check-off" system prevails in these states as well as Indiana where the miners have already gene out. Under the "check-off" system the mine operators deduct union dues from the men's pay and turn it over to the union treasurer. Judge Anderson held money raised in this way was being used to prolong the West Virginia mine war. Danger of a coal shortage was not regarded as serious by Chicago operators and coal dealers. It estimated Chicago had a supply eient for two months. Suppli both bituminous and anthracite reported above normal, due to the industrial depression. 'Similar conditions, it was said, exist throughout the country. EAST NEWFOUNDLAND China's Finances SUFFERS FROM GALE at Washington Conference A despatch from Washington says:--The State Department recently called the attention of the Chinese Government to the possible serious effect upon its credit which might follow default of the $5,500,000 loan made to it by the Continental Trust & Savings Company of Chicago. The Chinese Government decision to default on the Chicago loan defaulted also several loans advanced by Japanese institutions during the world war and, so tar as known here, the Japanese Government has taken no action to satisfy claims of the Japanese creditors of China. The general financial demoralization of the debtor country, it is assumed, will be discussed in the Washington Conference, when the Chinese problems are presented for discussion. Plebiscite for Two Irish Counties A despatch from London says: --By a unanimous decision, says The Daily News, the British Cabinet has sent the Ulster Premier, Sir James Craig, an invitation for his Government to consent to a plebiscite of the coun-ties of Fermanagh and Tyrone. Half a Million Dollars' Damage Done to Roads and Property. A despatch from St. John's, Nfld., says:--The northeast gale which has swept this section of Newfoundland since Friday evening has abated. Half | & million dollars' damage has been done to roads and public property, it is estimated, in addition to the loss of private property swept away or destroyed. Beyond one death in St. John's from electrocution, no toll of life from the storm is known, but it is feared that loss of life was inevitable sit sea. No word has yet been heard1 from the small pchooner which was blown out to sea with four men on board near Cape Hayden. One story from Conception Bay tells of 12 men being forced to spend three 'lays without fcod, marooned on Kelly's Island, near Bell Island, where they were trapped by the sudden rising- of wind end sea. A steamer rescued them. Sir Richard Squire3, Prime Minister, has returned from a 250-mile tour to Trinity Bay. A pathway through big banks of snow, practically unknown previously at this time of year, had to be shovelled to allow the Premier's car to pass. WHAT POLAND AND GERMANY GET IN UPPER SILESIA This diagram illustrates what the Council of the League of Nations has done in dividing Upper Silesia between Germany and Poland. It gives the former the mast territory and the latter the best of the industrial area. The Provincial University. SLUMP IN EXPORTS HITS CANADA'S TRADE Speaking at the Uroiver-'lty College Alumni dinner on Friday evening last Hon. Dr. H. J. Cody told of finding, on the tour of inspection last year by the Royal Commission, students packed into what had been an old dining-hall but is now a poorly ventilated classroom, of discovering a professor teaching a class in mathematics in an abandoned kitchen in the basement where there was no possible ventilation at all, and of seeing another professor teaching Greek to a group of' aS° against Thynm, Nicholson and students in a little basement that was once a pantry. "If,! SPIRIT OF LEAGUE PRESENT AT ARMS CONFERENCE I U.S. CAPITAL A despatch from Paris says:--The idea that the League of Nations will play no part in the Washington Conference is a fallacy. It may not have an official delegation present at the deliberations, and it may not figure on the program, but it-will be there just the -same. The ghost of the League they said they had killed will go to Washington to haunt the Republican chiefs of the American Government. But this ghost will not be an ordinary ghost. It will be the spirit of something which, if it does not exist in the minds of the Harding Administration, lives he minds of those who will sit in majority about the Washington council table. Can the dignified Mr. Balfour of England, whose enthusiasm for the League and its work stirred the representatives of the 48 nations at Gen-in September, sit down in November and1 forget it exists ? is the question asked here. Can the eloquent M. Viviani of France, who four weeks ago pictured the League as the greatest hope of international fraternity, shut it from his conscience two weeks from now? Can the earnest Signer*. Schanzer of Italy change in a month from the ardent League worker he' has been for two years? Will the! taciturn Hyashi of Jaip-an bake back tbe honeyed words of hope he spread upon the minutes of Geneva ? Will the youthful and efficient Wellington Koo of China recant his praise of the League when he opened the second assembly, or will Jonkheer van Karne-beck of Holland be brought to believe' at Washington that for five weeks at Geneva he presided over a gathering of the dead1? The same men who represent their Governments at Geneva are going to Washington, since they are the best fitted men, both beicause they are students of international co-operation, and partially, at least, because their experience in League work has bet-* tered them for the role. And so, no matter where it come»i technically in the proceedings, the question of the entry of the United: States into the League will be auto-! matioally posed at all stages of the Washington Conference. Commercial Enterprises of Canadians in London Suffer a Setback. A despatch from London says:--The slump in the export trade has hit Canadian commercial enterprise in London fairly hard. A compulsory winding-up order issued some time speaker, "the regulations of the Department of Education regarding classroom space and ventilation which are enforced in the Public and High Schools were made to apply to the j ™le Ei University C educational j Lamentable state of a remedied until i Duncan, has now been followed- by the report of the official receiver, showing liabilities cf £22,000 against assets of less than £3,000 and a total deficit of £32,0C0 with regard to contribu-j Dions. The company was formerly! i agent for and owned considerable stock in the Export As-! sociation of Canada, which for a time' This ! did a big business here, and of which iot be | some thirty Canadian firms, many of avail- them in Montreal, were members, able-tor the support of the University j Over a year ago the Export Assoeia-parted company with the firm and Admiral Beatty Honored at Great Lakes Station A despatch from Chicago says: -"The world's greatest living naval commander," was the honor conferred upon Admiral Earl Beatty, First Sea Lord of the British Admiralty and hero of the Battle of Jutland, by the officers and men of the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. The Admiral, his uniform decorated with yards of gold cord and rows of service ribbons, his service cap tipped saucily over one eye, and his famous smile much in evidence, had visited the training station on a tour of inspection. He had viewed the quarters of the men, had met all the officers, had reviewed the parade and was just preparing to leave when Captain Daniel W. Wurtsbaugh, Commandant at the station, proposed three cheers for the "world's greatest living naval commander." MALTESE HOUSE OPENED BY PRINCE On His Way to India--New Type of Government at Malta. A dtespatch frcm Malta says:--The Prince of Wales, on his way to India' on the battle cruiser Renown, opened the mw Maltese Parliament. The event marks the introduction of a new: type of Government in Malta, based! upon the principle of responsible self--' government, sdbjeet to definite limitaJ tions laid down in the interests of im-j perial security. The main principle is the establish-J ment of two concurrent Governmental systems, one for local affairs und'er| the complete legislative and adminis-J trative control of the Maltese people,/ and another for matters of imperial^ concern, taking orders from the Inn perial Government. South Africa sent a wreath to bet placed on the tomb of the unknown United States warrior. H.R.H. Prince Eric cf Denmarl Prince Rene de Bourbon Parma sailed for Canada. of Toronto. It was hoped that the j t: Lady Laurier, widow of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, former Premier of Canada, died at her Ottawa home last week. CARL AND ZITA ON BOARD BRITISH MONITOR SAILING DOWN THE DANUBE Carl i will l board the British . abdicate river monitor, Glow Worm, of the the thro Danube flotilla, steaming slowly down I 4n(j, e( that romantic liver which is famous j pas<;ing < in song and dance, towards a, to them, i warsnip as yet unknown St. Helena. j Hungary With them departs also what isj j^e Horthy G< t™l7™^-1^ethft?I?y?,ll>8_lh*s decided to proclaim the deth, >f ! ization, not only of Carl, but of all I the Hapsburgs, and will attempt to do :t j this through constitutional change, n ! dropping the "pragmatic sanction." In this manner, Hungary, under the it has turned out, and Carl, >wn the Danube on a British is still the legal king of burger may have entertained mounting the Hungarian throne. In making his comic opera, tragic dash for the throne, Carl destroying all his own chances for again setting the thousand-year-old I Report of the Royal Commission University Finances would have beenlthe adopted by the Government of On^clif tario last year but, because of lack of time for its consideration, this Report was laid over until the session of 1922. Holy St. Stephen Crown on his head, has also had some revenge--he has dethroned all the other Hapsburger of circumstances, emerges i feudal monarchy into a more -able but still kingless mon- In archducal circles the adventure' The Hungarian Cabinet has decided of Carl is spoken of in great bitter- *° *omply ™^r e, ultimatum ness and characterized as "madcap I *° depose,th* Hapsbusg dynasty and folly." The chief blame is put upon ! ^s convoked the Assembly for Thurs-former Empress Zita. Even after the! day t0 p;ass bhe neces'sary motion, fiasco there was still hope in those i A despatch from London says:-- circles that prompt abdication by Carl j Stubbornly refusing to abdicate might save the chances for some other 1 uP°n th-e demand of the Hun-member of bhe Hapsburg dynasty toj &arian Government, the form-mount the throne. Soma, however, j 6r Emperor has now been forcibly de-were extremely skeptical, one of the j Posed, according to reports received archdukes remarking to the corres- j in official quarters here from Buda-pondent: ' pest.__ itself continued to do- bus'i management of two sons of Sir ifford Siifton. It has since closed its European offices. The Dominion Exporters, another Canadian concern with head offices at Montreal, has ;dso met financial disaster here. The Canada Overseas Trading Company is being re-organized, while several other Canadian en-l terprises have been abandoned during the past six months. On the other hand, some firms founded on a firmer basis have managed to hold out and now report improved prospects. Canadian salmon, the market for which was very flat- until a month or two ago, is now, on account of the small pack this year, again quite saleable at firmer prices. The failure of the British apple crop has bettered the situation for the product of Canadian orchards and despite low prices and exchange difficulties Canadian grain is being sold in Liverpool much more freely than had been hoped. Latest photograph of'Sergt. George Richardson, V.C., who was 90 fast August, and is the oldest V.C. hero in the world. He won the Victoria Cross-for his services in the Indian Mutiny, and is one of the few living V.C.'s who were decorated by Queen Victoria. Sergt. Richardson will lay a wreath of Maples Leaves on the grave of the United States unknown hero on Armistice Day. Baby Dead Between Rungs of Cot A despatch from Montreal says:-- Left sleeping in its cot wthjile its mother went out for a few minutes to a grocery store, the eight-month-old baby of Bruno Brunelle, of 854a Dorchester street east, was found dead on her return, hanging by the neck from between the rungs of the The chief difference between th human hand and that of the highe apes lies in the thumb, which is a! ways shorter in the ape. I Mrs, MeCudden, who on behalf of the war mothers of Britain will lay a j wreath -- their wreath -- upon the I grave of the unknown American sol-i dier on Armistice Day, has made a j tremendous sacrifice to war. She gave j three sons and her husband that free-| dom might live. Weekly Market Report ; No. 3, $1.12%, inal. Manitoba oats--No. 2 CW, 47c; 3 CW, 44c; extra No. 1 feed, 44c; 2 feed), 40c. Manitoba barley--No. 3 CW, ( No. 4 CW, 61 %c. All the above, track, Bay ports, American corn--No, 2 yellow, I nominal, Bay ports. Ontario oats--No. 2 white, 38 to 40c. - Ontario wheat--No. 2 Winter, per car lot, $1 to $1.05; No. 3 Winter, 97c to $1.02; No. 1 comimereial, 90 to 95c; No. 2 Spring, 93 to 98c; No. 3 Spring, nominal. Barley--No. 3, extra, test 47 lbs. or better, 55 to 58c, according to freights outside. i;;,ekvvheat--No. 2, 60 to 65c. Rye--No. 2, 80c. Manitoba flour--First pats., $7.60; second pats,, $7.10, Toronto. Ontario flour--$5, bulk, seaboard. Millfeed--Del. Montreal freight, bags included: Bran, per ton, $19 to $21; shorts, per ton, $21. to $23; good feed flour, $1.70 to $1.80. Baled hay--Track-, Toronto, per ton, No. 2, $22; mixed, $18. Butter--Creamery, fresh made, solids. 34V2 to 35%c; prints, Mo te, :i:;e; dairy, 25 to 30c; cooking, 18 to 20c. Churning cream--40c per lb., butter fat, at shipping points for Toronto de- pai:.-, and 13 to 14c per lb. for 5-i ,! lb. pails. ,1 Smoked- meats--IU-ms, med., 29 •■me; heavy, 22 to 24c; cooked. 44 bage roil? , 27 1 29 33c; Eggs--New laid, 50 t o 43c, r.L'e-: : poultry--"Spring chickens, 25 to 28c; roosters, 20c; fowl. 23 to 25c; ducklings, 25 to 30c; turkeys, 40c. Live poultry--Spuing chickens, 20 to 23c; roosters, 11 to 13c; fowl, 10 to 20c; ducklings, 18 to 20c; turkeys, 35c. special brand breakfast bacon, i 40c; backs, boneless, 40 to 44c. \ j Cured meats--Long clear bacon, 18| I to 20c; clear bellies, 18% to 20!ic. ! Lard---Pure, tierces hubs, 17 to 17%c; pails, 17% to 18ef ! prints, 19% to 20%c. Shortening, i tierces, 13 to 13%c; tubs, 13% to 14c; I pails, 14 to 14%c; prints, 16 to 16%c. I Choice heavy steers, $6 to $7; .but-I cher steer®, choice, $6 to $6.25; do | good, $5.50 to $6; do. med., $4 to $5; do, com., $2.50 to $3,50; butchers' heifers, choice, $5.50 to $6; butchers' cows, choice, $4 to $4.75; do, med., $3 to $4; canners and cutters, $1.50 to $2.50; butcher bulls, good, $3.50 to $4; do, com., $2.50 to $3.50; feeders, good, 900 lbs., $5 to $5.50; do, fair, $4.50 to $5; stackers', good, $4 to $4.50; do, fair, $3 to $4; milkers, $60 to $80; s wingers, $70 to $90; calves, choice, $10 to $12; do, med.. $8 to $10; .do; com., $3 to $7; lambs, good, $8.25 to $8.75; do, com,, $6 to $5.50; sheep; choice, $4 to $4.50; do, good, $3,50 to $4; do, heavy and bucks, $2 to $3} hogs, fed end watered. $9 to $9.25; do, off cars, $9.50 to $9.75; do, f.o.b.. $8.26 to $8.50; do country points, $8 to $8.25. Montreal. '• Oats, Can. West,, No. 2, 52% to 52c; Can. West. No. 3, 50 to 51c. Flour, Man. 'Spring wheat pats, firsts, $7.40. Rolled oats, bag, 90 lbs'., $2.90 to $3. Bran, $21.25. Shorts, $23.25, Hay, No. 2, per ton, car lots, $27 to $28. Cheese, finest easterns, 13% to 14c, Butter, choicest creamery, 40 to lie] Eggs, selected, 48c. Potatoes, car' lots, S1.25 to $1.35. p Cows, $1.25 up; bulls, $2.25 to $3;-good calves, $3; med-. veals, $9; selectt hogs, $9; choice lots, $10; good lambs,] $7.75; sheep, $3.50._ - REGLAR FELLERS-- By Gene Byrnes