1.-NO, 69 GANANOQUE TROUBLES --a-- HARNESS FACTORIES REFUSE TO RECOGNIZE LABOR UNIONS Proposals of the Mén Were Rejected by Mrs. Acton and W. J. Gibson-- What the Proposals of Both Sides Were 2s Gananoque, March 23.--The labor conditions occasioned by the lock-out of the employees of the W. J. Gibson company and the Gananogue Harness company, limited, after negotiations for the past week, still remain un- changed. W. E. Bryan, of Kansas City, Mo., who bas been here in an advisory mature as general president Wt the International Brotherhood of Joather Workers ' on Horse Goods, has been doing his utmost to secure a satisfactory settlement, the men also doing their best to further his efforts, On Tuesday the men of the Gananoque Harness company were Summoned for a consultation with Mrs. W. R. Acton, the head of that concern. After a discussion of ex- isting conditions the men were asked to formulate an agreement, on which they would return and resume work. This was done, the agreement as pre- sented being unsatisfactory to Mrs. Acton was refused. She then pre- sented the following agreement: 1. The Gananoque Harness Works, limited, refuses to recognize any lo- bor organization of any kind in con- nection with its factory, its foreman, or any workman employed therein. 2. All harness-makers, whether union or non-union to be treated aifye, individually and on their mer- ts. 3. The foreman is to have full power to hire or discharge any man, how or when he may soe fit, without any interference from any other workman. 4. That the Gananoque harness works or its foreman may this day discharge whatever man or men they | seo fit, 5. That there will be no raise in On an estate in the Duchy of 'Laucas- | In the person of Prof. W. G. Miller, Wages or prices paid to piece workers for at least six months, and that no Prince of Wales, this novel firéplace time referred to, he had just been It is so constructed strike without a month's notice given in writing. This was considered too one-sided by the men, who moderated their for- mer effort and presented the follow- ing as an ultimatum: Proposed agreements. entered by and between the employees of the Gananoque Harness Works, limited, and the undersigned owner or repre- sentative of sald company, the pur- Pose being to promote harmonious relations between employees and above firm, in the manufacture of harness, saddles, collars and leather snd for the settlement of controversies fairly and equit- ably as they arise. 1. Said owner or representative agrees to meet any and each em- ployee at any time to discuss and ad- just such difficulties or misunder- standings as may occur from time to time. 2. It is agree by both parties that strikes or lock-outs are not to occur uptil' all amicable means of adjust- utent have been exhausted. 3. The firm to he given thirty days' notice in advance for increase in day wages, piece work prices or shortening of hours-of labor, same notice to be given employees before changes are instituted by the firm. 4. This agreement to become null and void when such owner or repre- sentative sells, conveys, or disposes of the business. Mrs. Acton refused to accept this, and in consequence negotiations have been broken off for the present. The union considers it has exhausted all Just means of securing an adjust- ment. A conference was also held with W. J. Gibson, who stated that his opinions were unchanged since the lock out three weeks ago. He still point blank refuses to have a union man in his establishment. However, neither firm has hired any new men to take the vacant positions in their works. + No Freight Increase Washington, March 23.--The pro- posed increase in transcontinental freight rates to and from certain points in California was suspended by the Interstate Commerce commis- IN ARMS OVER ARREST , Glasgow Protest Against Treatment of Mrs. Pankhurst Glasgow, March 23.--Lively scenes were enacted at the meeting of the Glasgow corporation Friday night, when the action of the police in con- nection with the recent Pankhurst arrest, formed the subject of discus- sion. In course of the tumult the lord provost was called a despot, whilst the town clerk was called a trickster. The member indulging in the latter appellation was cop pelled to withdraw it. The primary cause of the outburst was the attendance of a delegation of citizens who had come before the corporation to Jodge a complaint against the recent action of the po- lice. The town clerk delivered a legal opinion, showing that the police were under the jurisdiction of the magistrate's committée, and that, therefore, it was useless for the deputation to address itself to the town corporation. This bawlking of the delegation provoked an uproar, in the course of which several mem- hers abused the provost aud the town clerk, all shouting for a hearing at the one time. After quiet had been resumed to some extent, the deputa- tion was advised{to wait upon the magistrate's comdittee. In the course of the meeting the corporation received a letter from the Glasgow's Woman's Suffrage as- gociation, stating that that body pro- posed holding a public meeting of protest against the insult hurled at the electorate by Premier Asquith hy his refusal to Jecgive a delegation of men who sought to interview him on the question of suffrage. KING HAS SOLD PATENT Gets $23,000 for | Removable Ecouom- irmg Faepdace sion until July 30th. ~ Jeff May Be®Short in Stature But He's Lon HERE (A 1 EY sas NOTES THAT vu: AME RICANS ARE A ENBLISH STYLE OF Wh ARS Bl Dap MANDRER CH= 11g ™e Geet TLL PLL on CON mur NS TURE London, March 23=The 'kin¥ hes inst sold A patent for a movible fire- place. In the new workmen's flats now being erected: in South Londen ter, which is the property of the is being . used. that when fixed in a wall dividing two rooms it can be moved back- ards and forwards tg make one fire serve both rooms, this etonomizing fuel. These fire places were the idea of the king and a provisional patent was, taken out. The king refused $15,000 for the patent two years ago. contractor who-is building the flats has mow purchased the patent for 25,000 and the money is being wet- tled upon Prince John, the king's youngest child. NINE-YEAR-OLD KILLS MOTHER Sees Her Drop Dead When He Fives Gun . New Westminster, B.C., March 23. PAR OF WEAK EYES KINGSTON, MADE PROF. R. W. BROCK A MIN: ING AUTHORITY Ho is Canada's Deputy Minister of Mines--A Graduate and Former Professor of Queen's Toronto Star Weekly Not only ine newest but the younyg- est of the deputy ministers in the dominion public service is Reginald Walter Brock, of the department of mifles. He has just turned forty, and the enthusiasm of his glance and the clear smoothness of his skin give an almost boyish look. But though young in years and looks, he is not unexperienced. He knows men. He has trained them on the gridiron and on the hockey ice. - He has lived with them in the wilds, where they were face to face with the difficultieg and dangers of nature. He 9 wrestled with them in the carrying out of publie 'policy, where private interests wére claimant, and he hds withstood private interests in tHe name of the public and of science. His preparation for his life work was achieved under difficulties. He is a son of a Methodist parson, born at 'Perth. His early education was received in the public and collegiate schools of*Ottawa und Mount Forgst. Then he entered Toronto University with a view to pursuing the general course in arts. It was here that his dificult'es came --difficulties which finally turned his attention to the problems and opportunities of science. He completed his first year in arts successfully, but the strain upon his eyesight proved too great. For two years afterwards each aut- umn he tried to carry on his college work, only to be forced to give it up on account of his icability to do sus tained reading. The: ---Mrs. Frank Doan; wife of Frank Doan, secretary of theh Cooper Avenue Investment company,, of this city, and a relative of Sir Richard McBride, was accidentally shot and killed by a shot-gun in the hands of her 'nine-year-old son. Mrs. Doan had been away from the cabin and on her return the lit- tle boy, who during her absence had secured possession of the gun, point- ed it at her and pulled the trigger as his mother entered the door. She died instantly. Russia Will Erect Elevators London, March,23.--Russia is de- termined te regain her place in the British wheat markets, from which Canada has ousted her in recent years. Conferences between Rusiian grain exchanges and ministers of fin- ance and commerce have resulted in a decision to erect eighty grain eleva- tors to enable the small grower to await betler markets instead of sell- ing his produce immediately at sacri- ficial prices. Bank Robber Killed by Posse Shawnee, Okla, March 23.--Joo Patterson ,alleged to have robbed the State Bank of Newalla, Okla., of $1, 200, was shot a killed Saturday in a battle with & posse near here. Deputy Sheriff Frank Timmons and Chief of Police Charles Hawk, of Shawnee, were slightly wounded. The money was not recovered. Pre HE FARMOs, BL Des REG A MONEC LE AND KRY on ] ATH LN A Kind Professor His "god from the machine' came now provincial geologist, At the appointed to the staff of Queen's university. Prof. Miller suggested that perhaps he would be able to fol- low the work in chemistry and min- eralogy without reading, and young Brock accepted the suggestion and went to Kingston. There he attend- ed closely to the work in the lectures and in the laboratory, while Prof. Miller assisted him in.the evenings Mr. Brock indeed considers that he was not handicapped, but specially favored; and 'n eighteen months he was able to complete the remaining three years work of the university cougse. z It was this chance--what usually be called ill-fortune---which led Mr: Brock to take up the work of the geological survey. And it is to the field work of the survey, too, that he gives credit for his present Health. Under the bracing condi- tions of outdoor lif2 with field parties of the survey, his eyes regained al- most their original strength, so that be was able to stand long hours. at the microscope without strain, and he now uses glasses but little. He began his connection with the survey as far back as 1891, when he was only seventeen, so that he put in a good part of twenty-three years in the work of the department of which he has this winter became the head A Pioneer Department The department over which he provides is a pioneer in the develop- ment of the natural resources of the dominion. Until a few years ago there were practically two depart- ments of the dominion service engag- ed in this work. One was the gee- logical survey, to which Mr. Brock was attached. The other was the de- partment of mines, which was under the control of the minister of the in- terior. ' Since they have been con- solidated, the head of the joint de- partment has always been taken from the geolog'cal survey. The first deputy of the larger department was Dr. A. P. Low, and the second is Ii. W. Brock. ? An example of the work which the geological survey has done is the prospecting. for oil in the prairie pro- vinces. For a number of years sur- vey parties have been out in various om ode would mation for indications of oil. Mr. Brock is. hopeful thaf oil will be found under these western lands, but he discourages the small man from entering into search. Unless a com- pany has plenty of capital its re- sources are very likely to be dissipat- ed in preliminary werk. The new deputy minister of mines has a high standing among sclentists. In addition to his training at Queen's university, he has spent some time in research ut Heidelberg and other German universities. He was select- ed as professor of mining at the opening of the school of mines in connection with Queen's university, a position which he held for several years, He was royal commissioner to investigate the landslide at Frank, B.C., and his advice has been largely instrumental in the removal of that town from immediate proximity to the insecure shoulder of the moun- tain which still overhangs the valley. He is a member of a number of scien- t'fic societies, and he is joint author with F. T. Congdon, of the Yukon, of our present mining laws. CHICKEN RANCH LURES GIRLS Canadian Writing for a Wife Gets Letters and Photographs London, March 23.--At a meeting of the East Bourne board of guard- fans yesterday the chairman. an- nounced that in response to a letter fromm a Canadian chicken rancher, with an income of $2,500 a year, and who wanted a wife, no fewer than 244 replies had been received from girls willing to go to the dominion. These replies would be forwarded to the rancher. Some of the letters contained charming photographs, while one girl enclosed some verses of poetry. The suggestion was made that the rancher should make h's selection and hand over remaining letters to lonely Canadian comrades. HYDRAULIC EXPERT ILL Rudolph Herring Stricken Suddenly at Buffalo City Hall Buffalo, N.Y., March 23.--Rudolph Herring, of New York, well known throughofit the country as a hydrau- lic eng'neer, was 'stricken with heart trouble at the municipal building here to-day, and was rushed to the general hospital. How serious the attack is could not be stated at this time. Mr. Herring come here for a consultation with city officials re- garding the installation of a sterili- zation plan in connection with the city water department. FAINTED. IN COURT Police Comat Charge Results From Unemployed Concert ' Ottawa, March 2%. --R.. P. Read, = promoter of a concert for the "unem- ployed" who operated in Toronto and Hamilton recently, ap- peared in the police court here on Saturday, charged with using the mails- in an attempt to defraud the public. Read fainted in the dock, and thie case was adjourned until next Thursday. lit is alleged by the police that the concert was chiefly for his own bei VICTIM OF VENDETTA Johnstown Restaurant-keeper Shot Dead on Verandah of House Johnstown, Pa., March 23.--Raf- facle Argo, a wealthy member of the foreign colony here, was found dead on Saturday on the front verandah of his house with two bullets in his back. The police say Argo was the second victim of the vendetta declar- ed four years ago, when an Italian was killed in Argo's restaurant, the other having been Albert. Deni, =a banker, who was shot down in the street last summer THIRTY GOING TO ULSTER Thirty Preparing te "Leave Ont., for Ulster Loudon, Ont., March ~Thirty Londoners, and possibly more, are preparing to go to Ulster to fight for the Carson forces should the threat- ened civil war break out. Secretary Harry Bennett; of the Ulster defence fund, says that definite action will be taken following a meeting called for this evening. a0 "3. fields, examining the geological for- London, ' WOULD TEND TO MUTUAL TOLERATION IN IRELAND Protestants and Roman Catholics Would Each Have Given Hostages to the Other--William O'Brien's Proposals By an Old Countryman. ' Nobody nas been more bitter in denunciation of Mr. Asquith's sug- gestions for a home rule compromise than William O'Brien, M.P. for Cork, and leader of the party of half a score of independent nationalists in the house of commons. The sugges- tions, he maintaing, "must mean either the death of the bill or the death of Irish nationality'--and it is more than probable that, so far as in him lies, he will do his best to con- tribute to the former consummatien. However, in expressing this view with with regard to the suggested policy of inodified exclusion, he ls, at least, consistent, though consist- ency has not always been too marked an attribute of his political career. He has always been dead against any exclusion of any part of Ireland from the operations of a home rule measure, however limited either in scope or in Lune way be the exclusion proposal. And he may certainly be relied on to-make vigorous play with the weapon which Mr, Redmond's ac- quiescence, however reluctant, in the prime minister's compromise sugges tions, has placed in his hands. More- over, it would be erroneous hastily to assume that he is necessarily a spent force in Irish politics or that his influence with the Irish people is commensurate only with the very exiguous number of his guerilla band in the house of commons. "You are old, Father William," but you can still be a 'broth of a boy' at your old game of inflaming a countryside. For your disposition is neither quite pacific, nor quite so benevolent as your white beard, and spectacled, and: generally patriarehal aspect would lead the superficial observer to suppose. O'Brien's Proposals Consistent though he has been in this matter, it is probable neverthe- less, that Mr. O'Brien is not sorry that the chance seems to offer of his getting even vith Mr. Redmond over the little matter of the Lloyd George budget. He saw in the budget mere- ly another "injustice to Ireland," and it was certainly far from popular in the Emerald Isle. Mr. Redmond and his followers, however, swallowed it, though not without. a. wry. face, as Apart of that policy of give-dnd-take between the liberals and the nation- alists, which alone conld. make hame rule a live issue. Mr. O'Brien, on the other hand, predicted that they were losing the bird in the hand for the sake of the tow in the bush. Now he thinks he has got the op- portunity of proving that the home tule for which the national party agreed to the sacrifices which the budget entailed on Ireland means the "death of Irish nationality." He has formulated his own pro- posals for concillating Ulstermen. Briefly he would have the home rule bill apply to the whole of Ireland, but he would give the menibers of the Ulster party in the imperial par- liament for five years a direct sus- pensory veto upon any bill in the Irish parliament, unless and until it should be opproved: or rejected by resolution of the imperial.parliament. With regard to thege proposals, on the one hand, there is scant sign of their finding any favor with the Ul- stermen. On 'he other hand, it is possible to conceive of circumstances under which such a veto as proposed m"ght be used hopelessly to discredit an Irish parliament altogether. Mutual Toleration In truth, perhaps, the most not- able feature about Mr. Asquith's compromise suggestions, is that they bid fair, if adopted, to ensure-a cer- tain amount of mutual toleration as between the two parties unto which the Irish nation is divided by race and religion. For eagh will have given hostages of the other. ' The surest way in which the Protestants Unionists of whatever area may.-vote can ensure fair treatment for the Protestant unionist minority in the rest of Ireland, is to accord that treatment to the Roman Catholic and nationalist minority within its limits. Conversely the same rule holds good 4s regards the Roman Catholic and nationalist majority in the major part of Ireland. : In all seriousness, a heavy respon- sibility lies on the leaders of both these parties--nay, upon all men of all 'parties in tho imperial. parliament ~--to think iong and wisely before re- jecting any proposals which seem de- s'gned to ensure some dégree of this mutual toleration. For there is the gravest need of it. Nobody who knows either Mr. Redmond or Sir Edward Carson can imagine for a PAGES 9 MME. CAILLAUX WEPT AS SHF TESTIFIED IN PARIS ON SATURDAY The Police Protected Her Mob on the Way to the Palace of Justice in a Taxi Paris, March 23.---Guarded by four police inspectors and carrying the muff in whch she concealed the automatic pistol which killed Gaston Calmette, editor of Le Figaro, last Monday, Mme. Caillaux Saturday af- ternoon was taken to the palace of justice for a preliminary hearing om moment that ether would sanction }!B® charge of murder. any oppression of a minority within their respective spheres of influence. But they cannot answer for their fol- lowers--or, perhaps, I should say their '"camp-followers."" And the spirit of intoleration is very rife on both sides. Wherefore, any sugges- tions that tend to ensure a diminy- tion of it are (us I think) devoutly to be welcomad. Ho Pictures Two Sides Let me give but two instances out of many which might be quoted--of how this intolerance is shown. In the one' case it 18 shown by the Pro- testant unionists, in the other by the Roman Catholic nationalists. Last year, there was an election in Derry city, caused by the death of the Duke of Abercorn, and the conse- quent accession to the house of lords of his son, Lord Hamiitdn, the then un'onist member for Derry. Mr. David Hogg stood not as an Irish na- tionalist, but as a liberal--though, s0 far as the home rule bill is con- cerned, this distinction made little difference--and he wrested Derry from the Unionists. Mr. Hogg is a merchant held in universal esteem in Derry. Moreover, he is a septuagen- arian. He was an elder of the Pres- byterian church which he long had attended In Derry. But, when he was returned to parliament as a lib- eral, he was warned not to attend communion in that very church-- and on no ether ground than that of his béing the liberal M.P. Here is the instance on the other side. Watarford is the constituency for which Mr. Redmond 'sits, and, as I have said, he would be the last to give countenance to any attacks on his opponents who are in a very small minority there. On the open- ing day of this session, a special ser- vice was held in Waterford cathedral with special intercession for parlia- ment and the people. There were no political illusions made. But, never- theless, a nationalist paper in Water- ford, asserting that "the name of each will be treasured in the memory of Lhe vast majority of the people of this city," printed a list giving the name of every layman present. An- other nationalist paper in Waterford strongly protested against this. But the harm was done--'these are your friends' was what the list was intend- ed to, and 41d, in fact, convey. - No- body who knows conditions in Ire- land, and the quickness of the people in jamping to a. hint, can mistake the significance of this. And the simple truth 'is that no leader on either side of Irish affairs is able to give guarantees which can bind ef- fectually the 'crowd in whose hands lie the possibilities alike of tyranny and of liberty. But mpre effectual guarantees are provided in Mr. As- quith's compromise suggestion. Absorbs British Guiana Bank Montreal, March 23.----The Royal Bank of Canada, following its policy of extending its branches throughout the British West Indies, has purchas- ed the British Guiana bank which has been in existence since 1836. 'The acquired bank has a capital of $026,520, surplus of $239,463 and total assets of $3,680,396, with bran- ches at Georgetown, Demerara and New Amsterdam, Berbice. Panama Resolutions Withdrawn Washington, March 23.--Senator Jones' . much discussed resolutions calling on President Wilson for in- formation of what nations had pro- tested against the Panama tolls ex- emption was referred to the foreign relations committee after Senator O'Gorman and its authors had with- itself out of the home rule measure, T'S WARM w-------- g in Style BEAT Dotty YoU YHiNg --r OLD CHAPH drawn objections. Three of the police sat in the taxi with Mme. Callaux, while the fourth sat on the seat with the chauffeur ready to repel any move by the throngs who pressed about the auto, some cheering, some hissing the wife of the former minister of finance. In order to prevent any risk to Mme, Caillaux from mobs in her trips from Sainte Lazare prison to the palace of justice, there is prob- ability of the woman being detained in the conciergerie, possibly in the same rooms made famous by the im« prisonment of Marie Antoinette. She wore a black dress and hat, and appeared quite calm, though very: pale. The inquiry began im- mediately. "I always took a great interest in the public life of my husband, shar< ing the pleasures and' cares of poli- tics." The prisoner's recital was suspend- ed temporarily when she broke into fits of sobbing. On resuming her tes- timony, she said: ' "For two years an abominable campaign was directed against my husband, who was attacked on every occasion, notably on the charge that he had secretly ceded a portion of the French Congo to Germany, and in connection with the Agadir incid- ent in Morocco. I was .deeply grievs ed by these calumnies, which became particularly venomous at the time of the formation of the Doumergue cab- Inet. The feeling of hostility I notic~ ed especially at receptions. My ine dignation was aroused because I had implicit faith in my husband's pro- bity." The accused woman sald she had married Leo Claretie in 1894, and had two girl children, one of whom was dead, and the other, Germaine, fifteen years old, was still living. She declared' a divorce in her favor was obtained against Claretie in 1908, and that she "martied Caillaux in 1911. "That was a true love match," she told the mag sm tOyr fortunes were équal, and both of us were in- dependent." - Mme. Caillaux wept when she men~ tioned her "babies and her love for Caillaux. D ON THE "MENACE" FROWN Canadian Postal Authorities Pursuing Journal That Attacks Catholics Toronto, March 23.--The Menace, a Missouri paper that.has been at- tacking the Roman Catholic religion, was some time ago excluded from the mails of Canada. The publishers then attempted to send out a Canadian edition from Aurora, OM. This, too, has been excluded from the malls. Meanwhile the postal authorities of Canada have communicated with Washington with a view to prevent. ing the American edition being mail- ed to addresses in Canada. Clings to Free Trade London, March £3.---Lord Bryce, speaking on free trade at the Cobden club Saturday, said that the more one travelled the more pne would be con- vinced of the soundness of free trade as a general economic proposition. Dealing with the movement to- wards free trade made in the United States within the past year. Lord Bryce is quot saying that the most difficult and trying day for England would be. when the United States dropped protection and having dropped it, entered into competition with free trade England. . If in need of safe and sane counsel you had better not consult an ex- tremist. . By "Bud" Fisher