SFWWW rHH1' ' ' ' J - -rrK' -x vfii???5p T-grwv mxifkm m ' ' EVENING' PUBLIC LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1919 &i Ji " n WWT & IS- h l!" J- I i- P 1$ !,'. . . I" . J k w r i IS? UNRESI IN BRIII I Strike Clouds Shadow Nation as Opposition to Premier's Com promise Policy vGains TRIPLE ALLIANCE BALLOTS By tlio Associated Press London, Aug. 1. The tide of indus trial unrest seemi to threaten tempor ary disaster to tne commerce of the country and may mean the downfall of the Lloyd George government. The police strike to prevent IcgMn-' tlon forbidding the union to affiliate with other labor unions or the police to strike was declared a failure today by Homo Secretary Rhortt, but union of ficials contended that G5.000 policemen or prison officials have quit work. Minister of Tensions Hodge said in Parliament last night : "It looks as if we are approaching n general election." Premier Lloyd George's famous policy of compromise, so long successful, ap pears to have readied the breaking point, and certainly is undergoing its severest test. No sooner is one erup tion cleared up than a new one breaks out. f The old leaders of labor, men of the type of J. II. Thomas, who has just returned from America ; 'William Adamron, spokesman of restraint and patience while 1 construction from the war 'is being nrranged. are warning the wirkihgninn that Great Britain's future is imperiled unless she can regain her foreign trade. Mr. Thomas has held up the picture of American competition and American enterprise, But the old leaders seem to have lost their influence. A new and younger set, a majority of them outspoken So cialists, some of them not even work Ingmen, but socialistic theorists, arc in the saddle. Epidemic ot Dissatisfaction The strikes of the last month have been serious enough, but they are merely symptomatic of an epidemic of dissatisfaction which appears to prevail throughout the ranks of organized labor. Half a million Lancashire cotton oper atives were idle for more than three weeks. Two hundred thousand York shire miners have been on strike since July 20. The Liverpool dockers have paralyzed shipping there for two weeks, holding up hundreds of ships of nil sizes. The bakers have decided to strike on Saturday. Secretary Shortt told the House of Commons today that the strike order had been obeved by about 300 police -men out of 1700 in Liverpool. "Policemen who are unable to give proper explanations of their nhsencc from duty," the secretary continued, ''will cease immediately to be police men. Regarding Liverpool. I told the chief constable thnt I would fully sup port any step ne considered necessary. In contrast with the home secretary's statement, it was announced at a meet ing of strikers that the citv police would walk out in a body this after noon. Strike leaders asserted that by 8 o'clock tonight there would not be a policeman on drjty in London. Sir Xevil Macrcady, chief of the metropolitan police, took cognizance this morning of a report that the strik ers proposed marching to No. 10 Down ing street, official residence of Premier Lloyd George, near the houses of Parlla-jwent.- ' "To take such a step while the House is sitting is an unlawful act. "Sir Nevil said. "I can tell them they will never rench Downing street." Strike leaders, however, said the men had no intention o marching to the premier's mansion. With reference to a letter made pub lic last night from the permier's secre tary, saying that as the administration of the police was in the hands of the home secretary, the union should np broach Mr. Shortt, instead of the pre mier, as it had attempted to do. Chair man Mnrstoji, of the union, said he had no intention of approaching the home secretary. "This time," he continued, "the home secretary must come to me." Assert Strike a Failure 'General Sir Nevil MacUeady, chief commissioner of police, is quoted ns saying that less than 250 men bad struck last night. The Scotland Yard authorities in formed the Associated Press that, up to 8 o'clock this morning only fiSC of the entire metropolitan force had failed to report for duty nnd only one member of the city police. An official nt one of the principal West End police stations said there was less than 5 per cent of absentees from the morning rollcall nnd that con ditions were normal throughout Lon don. At a meeting of the striking police men this morning Chairman Marston read the following telegram from the Liverpool branch : "Liverpool out solid; stripped docks at midnight, flro brigade as well." The announcement was received with cheers. General Sccrctnry Hnyes, of the po licemen's union. In a statement issued this morning said: "Tho situation generally is highly satisfactory, seeing that the decision of the executive committee enmc ns n bombshell to the mass meeting nnd that the news has not jet reached the whole of the metropolis." May Cut Off London's Light Union officials claim the undivided support of organized labor. The Star says it is reported that the electrical workers linvn threatened, in certain contingencies, to cut off London's light ing in support of the police, and extreme action is also threatened by the officials of the locomotive engineers' union. Secretary Hnyes. addressing n meet ing of the strikers, said that the authori ties had sent n telegram to every police station, intimating that. If the strikers would return by noon today, tncy wouiu be reinstated. Ironical laughter greeted the announcement. Hayes made a strong appeal to the men to remain firm, asserting that their uumner wouin bo increased tenfold by tomorrow. He said arrangements would be made this afternoon for picketing the police station. In a speech last night nt a meeting of the People's League, which was insti tuted for the protection of the unor ganized classes, the Very Reverend WIU limn Ilalpli Inge, ucun ot ot. iaui s, said : "We nre making for national bank ruptcy, which will result in anarchy." TO ATTACK ALLIES Six Ottoman Divisions, Showing Hostility, Are 'Concentrating AboUt Erzeroum THRACE QUESTION UP AGAIN HO WILL OPEN T 0 COLONISTS Ity the Associated Press Paris, Aug. 1. There is uneasiness in Peace Conference circles over the sit uation in Asiatic Turkey, where six divisions of troops, under Kcnnl Pasha, I He became famous through the capture who rolls himself dictator of natlomliof Jerusalem nnd .UtIcIio In 1017 and BRITAIN AWARDS 2 BATONS Generals Allenby and Plumer Are Made Field Marshals London, Aug. 1, (lty A. P.) Gen cral L II. II. Allenby, formerly com mander of tho British forces in Pales tine nnd at present special high com missioner for Kgjpt and Soudan, nnd Lieutenant General Sir Herbert Plumer, commander of the Second British army, have been raised to the rank of field marshal. Both Held Marshal Allenby and Field Marshal Sir Herbert Plumer won dis tinction in military scrvke before the great war, In which tliey gaiued gieat fame. 1'ield Marshal Allcnbj's most recent achievement was the restoration of or der in Egjpt during March nnd April. I POLTAVA FR0IV1 REDS Bolshevik! Advance 14 Miles on Archangel Front, Aided by Allied Mutiny defense, nre threatening an attack upon the allied forces. The wnrlike Turkish forces arc con 101S, during his successful campaign in Palestine. He is lifty-elght jears old. field Jlnrsiial Humor was Micros centrnted chiefly about Rrzoroum nnd In'sively commander of the Thlid British the neighborhood of Trebizond. A Sort Army Corps in I-'rnnie, the Second Biit of Turkish political assembly, repre- Mi Army in the South Ypres offensive M-nting various districts, is gathered nt t in 1017, which tan led out the Mc-sines Erzeroum. " I attack, and commander of the UritMi llic unsteadiness of the politlcnl sit- forces in Italj. Later he returned to LENINE PLANS TO RETIRE Carranza Says Aid Will Be Given Immigrants From War Torn Countries DISCUSSES OIL SITUATION By file Associated F;ress Mexico, City, Aug. 1. Mexico will hold open the door to nationals of all countries, who can show that they possess whplesome ideas of citizenship and will not prove a disturbing element in the nntion, President Venustiano Carranza told the correspondent of tho Associated Press today in nn interview. The president's statement of the gov ernment's attitude toward immigra tion was m response to nn inquiry con cerning declarations in the press of Mexico City that large numbers of col onists were leaving their European or Asiatic homes because of disrupted con ditions due to the world war. President Carranza gav assurances that Mexico would place no barrier against proper immigration, nnd in fact would extend all possible aid to colo nists. Inquiries on colonization have been received from England, France, Canada, Germany and Russia. Touching on the petroleum question, President Carranza asserted that the initiative he presented to Congress last November, which was in effect an amendment to Article XXVII of the constitution, probably will be considered by that body soon. He was emphatic in the declaration that the public press of the United States is being influenced by the petroleum interests, who he said. are distorting the facts. The president continued : "The petroleum compnnies have set out to engender ill feeling between Mexico and the United States. They are doing this through the medium ot sections of the American press, whith are distorting facts to suit their own ends. "Mexico is not opposed to the petro leum companies or to any other foreign investors. Wo merely require that if such companies operate in the republic they shall abide by our Jaws." In conclusion, President Carranza gave renewed assurance of his personal wishes and those of the government that cordial relations between Mexico and the United States be maintained. uatiou in Constantinople also is causing apprehension, ltst there be a general po litical collapse, which would result in anarchy throughout Turkey. Uncon firmed rumors art reaching Paris that Iersians arc lending aid to Kenal la.sha .au effort to prevent Mussul mans being replaced by Christians. Thrace Causes Problems Although the question of Thrace was again before the supreme council to duy there appeared little prospect of on immediate settlement regarding the boundaries of Bulgaria In this region, because of the uncertainty that exists as to the dispositlou of the mandates for the government of territories, in the Near East. The reports of the commission entrusted with the delinea tion of the Bulgarian boundaries are conditioned upon what disposition is to be made of Turkey, and conse quently tne general disposition is to awuit decisions on this point, which are regarded by observers of the situ ation as resting chiefly with the atti tude of the American public toward the acceptance by the United States of a mandate in Asia Minor. The proposed withdrawal of British troops from Asiatic Turkey .renders the unsettled conditions recently renorted there more alarming in the opinion of members of the Peace Conference, who regard the danger of serious military moements and general anarchy in Abia Minor us not at all remote, and us constituting probably the most dis quietingssituation in the present world crisis. U. S. and Armenia Expressions by conferees have made it apparent that desire for acceptauce by the United States of the mandate over Armenia is becoming keener every day among the delegates of the prin cipal powers, but the American dele gation is making no promises whatever, ns President Wilson made it clenr be fore leaving Paris that the action of the United States would depend upon the Senate, whose action might be taken as lefiecting public opinion. It is known that the British and French delegates feel that America's decision to undertnke a mandate in Asia Minor would immediately quiet the Turks, who are bitterly opposing the European powers. In some circles it has been rumored that the Persians were nssistjng the Turks in stirring up disorders in Asia Minor, but there is no proof of this in Paris, and mauy of the conference members feel that the Persians are having sufficient troubles of their own. the British front in France. BELA KUN REFUSES TO RESIGN OFFICE Americans Advocate Forcible Ouster, Which Allies Sought By Appeal to Hungarians SOVIET HED KEEPS REINS By the Associated Press Vienna, Aug. 1. Unless the Allies assume a definite policy for forcibly ex pelling Beln Kuu, the lender, it is be lieved byAmeiicans here, who are in formed ns to the situation, that ho will continue ns dictator indefiuiteb. The allied representatives here hae done all in their power in an attempt to reason with Bcla Kun and to moe his patriotism to persuade him to delivea the government into the hands of the Socialists rather than Uiose of a few minority Communists. There hae also been various conferences between Gen eral Boehm, the Hungarian war min ister; M. Agoston, the Hungarian peo ple's commissnrj , and other reliable Socialists in an attempt to evolve a reasonable plan, but so far Bela Kun continues to parley without accepting. Bcla Kun is said to feel that his po sition is stronger because of the new harvest coming in, which gives the Soviet more food, especially ns thou sands of Hungarians continue to tlee, thus mnking more mouths to feed. President Soitz, of Austria, said yes terday that his countrv would not In quiet so long as Bela Kun was permit ted to disturb her politics. He sal 1 Hungarian soldiers were inciting to disorder and that requisitions of privnt houses in cities and villages weie go ing on near Vienna. The Hungarian soldiers arc obe in-orders, so long as they get food an I money and because of that fact is nor thought that Bela Kun will be oer thrown by forces in Hungary. By the Associated Press Ivondon, Aug. 1. News wns received here tcday that the anti-Bolshevik army of General Denikine had scored another important success, capturing the city of Poltna. With the city, large q'tantities of supplies and war materials were taken. fA London dispatch Thursday night announced nn important i--tor for Denikine in the capture of the town of Kaniishin, on the Volga, with fiOOO prisoners, nine guns nnd gieat quantities of material. The I'oltnwi now reported captured prob nbly is the one in the province of that name about eighty miles south west nf Kharkov, indicating a not nble northwestward sweep of Deui Kine's forces. 1 Meanwhile the BolshcviU hnve ad vanced fouiteen miles in the Onega sector of the Archangel front, accord ing to nn ofluinl soviet statement re ceived hei today by wireless from Moscow The statement declares the Bolshevik! have been aided in their ad vance by the mutiny among the allied troops. Bolshevik) Advance on Tomsk The Moscow message also reports unrest in Sibcrin. It claims that there is an insurgent front extending from Tashkenn, in Turkestan, to Niko lnvovsk, on the Amur. In the region of the Amur, it is declared, the in surgents annihilated a large detach ment of Japanese recently. In addi tion it is asserted that an important Bolshevik detachment is advancing finm northern Siberia toward Tomsk. Stockholm, Aug. 1. The Sveusk Dagbladt is informed by persons closely connected with the Russian soviet gov ernment that Nikolai Lenine, the pie mier, intends to begin n direct change of policy and then retire. One condi tion of ills retirement will be that Leon Trotzky, the Bolshevik war minister, be left in command of the Red nrmy. At recent meetings of the soviet com missnrles, the newspaper's informants sny, the question of giving power into the hands of other socialistic parties was earnestly discussed. Lenine de ilnred the best wny to check reaction as represented by .Admiral Kolrlink, head of the all -Russian government nt Omsk, would be to diop power for n time in order to prove that no other party was able to reorganize Bussin. Paris, Aug. 1. (By A. P.) Efforts have born made to got supplies for tin Russian Bolshevlki into ItoMicvik ter ritory through Polnnd, according to n dispatch from Stockholm to the Echo de Paris. Polish extremists nre assist ing In this effort, it is declared. Koleliak Confident of Future Omsk. Julv 14, delavcd. flly A. P.) Admiral Kolchnk. head of the nil - Russian government, expressed confi dence in the futuro of his government nnd In the nntt-Bolshcvlk forces during an interview yesterday, and showed satisfaction becauso It now "seems clenr that America realizes what bol shevism means." The prospective visit in August of Major Genernl AVlllinm S. Graves, com mander of the Amcrlrnn expeditionary force In Siberia, nnd Roland S. Morris, American nmbnssndor to Japan, Ad miral Knlclmk snid would lend to "a better understanding." Relations with the American Government, he declared, hnve been improved by the recent ex change of views. 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