Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 1, 1921, Winnipeg, Manitoba Phone rate protests before the Public utilities commission hearing of protests against the proposed increases Telephone rates commenced commissioner Lowry of the Telephone announced that no the waste of labor would be allowed on construction Page s l k fair a scattered showers farther w stonecutters strike ends returning to work this morning on the bails of Lait years Wane the stonecutters of Winnipeg achieve a Compromise with the As the which Beean two weeks was a protest against reduction of wages and a demand for an pages Sun sets Moon rises Seta june edition with we on trains 24 pages t artiste agreement to in Side regarded As idea solution defence Issue g of Borah motion promises easing of Burden declares anglican Rich in Canada of Over cd May in Canada Are remarked focal at the morning session of the anglican conference to the Paget we have a Gen eral Synod meeting once every three unwieldy there is our executive Council meeting also a very unwieldy then we have the these remarks followed an address by or of on our system Church during he made the statement that there was no inherent right in the diocese of Calgary to elect their own Grain commission sees re sults of Competition at Weyburn elevator men testify 31 Canadian As the together with represent assemble in Lon second fortnight in june for non Siderow the most import the British t will be for do include the naval de y the renewal of the japanese the Imperial Nolick and the arrangements Imperial Confer Ettle the lines of policy As ire Mother country and the and he representation of ions in the Imperial Par questions the Anglo Jap is the dominating t does future relations Britain the d incidentally the unite elec flon Only convention at Saskatoon decides against forming provincial party track prices for Street Grain evidence of Short weight the Day at the capital assume position of official opposition to Martin government in Campaign and naval the which is the extent to s will in the fut of flute to the Burden of the defense of the which fallen almost entirely l theme her the prime atm null declared Anil ate Moons ago declared House of commons that the could no longer be this heavy Burden must be shared by it is Are not Adverse to such a Sulu Don but will in return to have a greater voice in the Imperial t Only to Settle tatter the dominions contribution in the shape of Money or up the latter is the generally Fer ored with an arrangement to in the event of War involving 4e whole Empire All the fleets should come under the Imperial effect of Borah motion in this connection the action of the United states Congress on a naval conference Between the United states great Britain and Japan has acted intense interest Here because thy such move promising to1 ease the Burden of naval armaments would re1 move a Load anxiety now weigh ing heavily on the Imperial states Admiral governor general in new is reported to have recommended to the admiralty plans for the Tun aug of a great far Eastern it is neither Brit ish nor the Dominion in the present state of Public Finan wish to renewal of treaty favored with regard to the Anglo Japan Ese Alliance the Public declarations of general Jan Christian Wil liam7 Morris Hughes and premiers respectively of the Tinion of South Australia and leave Little doubt As tithe line policy the conference is Likely they All renewal of the but conditionally on the treaty being modified to such a manner As to remove All possibility of suspicion on the part of the United As indicated by press is very divided some of the papers advocate abandoning the Alliance on the ground that the circumstances which brought it into existence no longer since Russia ind Germany Are out of the calculation As world and that its continuance is a menace to Good relationship Between great Britain and lie United the and in this it is believed lie government View favors always provided that the treaty takes such form As to be unobjectionable to the United what w4uld be regarded As a perfect it is a Tri Partite including the United states and such a solution has Beer advocated by Many influential discussion will be prolonged there is Little doubt that the ques Tion of the renewal of this Alliance by Cecil special staff May Tion of the proposal for the forma Tion of a provincial Independent poli tical party in Saskatchewan and acceptance of a plan for institution of a temporary Central committee for the duration of the election Campaign Only was decided upon at the convention of the provincial Independent political movement held Hare the action was taken Only after acrimonious discussion lasting for Sev eral the Independent by its action has taken upon itself the position of official opposition to the Martin for the Dura Tion of the Headquarters will of established at Saskatoon for direction and coordination of Campaign activities for the which take place june resolutions were passed by the convention denouncing the govern ment for bringing on the elections during opposing the party form of and favouring substitution by a Businesslike form of administration carried on by All members of the legislature instead Nottis by Woodward special staff correspondent with Grain commission May option Market As had no friends today at the Star witness who came from the pleasant sounding Village of Bow in the person of elevator owner and would have it rooted he conceded that it might be Well if some sys tem could be arrived whereby actual Cash purchases of Grain could be hedged or buyers could get some sort sort of Purchase with actual documents As it is done in the Stock said where there is a he apparently had never heard of stocks being sold Short or Bear raids on Wall witness could not see that european conditions had any effect on the Price of Grain last Calls it manipulation it was news to him that great Britain was out of the Market but granted it was True he did not think that that fact did or should influence the Market enough to break staff correspondence May very decided conflict of opinion characterized the debate today upon the government Bill by which it is de sighed to control the Levels of the Lake of the Woods and Seul and the flow of the Winnipeg and English the Bill is fathered by Premier who has manifested a stubborn determine Itanion throughout to insist upon the prerogatives of the Federal authority International and navigation inter and to exercise a parental care Over the natural resources of Manitoba which Are still vested in the judging by the de Bate the Premier has not the undivided support of his follow ers on the matter and it is matter of record that he has Over Ridden the wishes of the Ontario government in connection with the provisions which Are contained in the measure before the the debate brought Forth some very decided opinions of a contradictory character controversy As Between the Federal and provincial authority controversy was manifested As be tween the province o Ontario and the province of Manitoba controversy a Between Federal to prerogative and vested the Levels of these lakes and the flow of these Rivers have been a Mateer of International a joint commission investigated tres whole subject some years its report was ratified by Bue still remains to be ratified by the United in Sharp Cut 111 order to be handed Down by labor Board will average 12 per to stimulate Industry opinion expressed that de pression will be stayed by order continued on Page by the party caucus another Cen Martin for wheat a Dollar in the it was away with said also Leroy estate senator from but ram certainly is in a not very enviable position due to the state legislation North he has to pay six cents under spot Price for his Street and spot is about 58 cents Premium Over july in which he would hedge if he believed in the and the spread is liable to narrow at any time and Gram is out of the commission got a close up on the effect of especially Competition where there is a this when elevator operators were Given the prices paid for Street wheat at Weyburn and Hal on 15 there was some miners Likely to reject new offer Hodges suggests 80 per raise on 1914 scale May Point to a general rejection of fhe govern ments new proposals for a Settle Neji of the Coal some of the mines in South Yorkshire and other Large Coal Fields have already declined to accept the in a statement Frank Secretary of the min ers virtually offers to drop the Pool which heretofore has prevented a provided the owners Are willing to offer a higher wage he suggests 80 per cent above 1914 scale As the new to which the owners Are not Likely to last survivor of Grants staff Dies general Porter spent thirty years in Public service May an estimated will be slashed from the railway wage Bill of the United states when an order cutting wages 12 per to be handed Down tomorrow by the United stakes railway labor becomes effective july the order affects of 31 labor organizations employed on 104 while the decrease is specifically applied Only to the roads whose cases have been Hoard by the the decision says it May be later applied to any other Road asking a hearing under the provisions of the Esch Cummins transportation average of reduction percentages of reductions computed by members of the Board gave the average of 12 per and the same source estimated the annual reduction in wages at approximately the decision Grants re varsity students use proxies at examinations May Nineteen varsity students in the faculties of and plied science have been summoned before the varsity Caput following attempts to win their annual examinations by the students who undertook to write the examinations will also sir Robert Falconer declined to discus the affair to j simply stating that i Caput would hand out its decision punishment has not yet decided but it is expected that the students who Are try ing to pass their examinations on false pretences will be sus Pended for a session and then i forced to repeat their present year they return to varsity in the fall of the would be Good who were attempting to assist their is Jess Learned Brothers by impersonating will present a More delicate problem for the gets third readin8 discussion in committee and vote not strictly on party lines most liberals against but Molloy Bow the knee to king1 Backus f Inister of labor is in Senate Surcel Premier lowering the dignity of office by charging Independent supporters with being bolshevik its and while the fourth Resolution commended the individual platforms of Independent nominees and opposed formation of an Independent Little criticism of government Lack of criticism of tile Martin government administration of Provin Cial affairs the suggestions for the Selec Tion of the executive Council from the floor of the legislature by All members of the delegates from 15 constituencies attended the while Many wired to state their inability to at tend owing to seeding and electioneering the Northern and Central Section of province Only took part or expressed sympathy with the project of the the first taken up at the afternoon session was Central or Badger moved a Resolution favouring formation of a Central body for coordination of organization Badger advocated a Central office to be used As a Clearing House for speakers and to watch movements of the government the organization would go out it Exi Tente following the according to badgers delegates were of continued on paper manufacturers proposal is under brotherhoods and by May tin of i mop Osal representatives of ten paper manufacturers to 14 cents and on another Date about 19 the freight rate is the about 19 cents a that Weyburn houses must be los intr Money or the profits of some other Points must grateful and comforting was the Conesus of artificially depressed Market he the morning stated that he that the Market is artificially depressed especially the first the Reify months of the crop partly this de pression might be due to weights of but the big dealers in options sometimes so out and sell Mil Lions of bushels Short and on de pression cover up and take he thought that Selling should be accompanied by a warehouse receipt in the same Way that a Stock certificate is necessary on Stock sex he believed that on Occa Sions the Price of Grain was artificially inflated by of the option on a recent occasion this had happened in the Corn june and july Are the months usually selected for these Bull this because the Farmer has no Grain with which to take advantage of a Bull move of in 1920 fall the United states visible was from to 000 usually at this Timo it is this was due to crop shortages in the Spring wheat in Faue of this the Price of wheat went Down from 244 to at this time there was Only 000 bushels left in Tho by the option to artificially depress the several billion bushels he had been sold Short with Only the in the Chicago of tude was the scene of these after there was a reaction of some reconstruction work outlined by Loucher tells Senate Cost is Only three times prewar figure now May ister for the devastated in outlining to the Senate today the governments plan for the rebuilding of the devastated declared we Are at the beginning and still More should see reconstruction getting under he or Cize what been Doine May critic thus but to be fair the chaotic conditions there must be Loucher said he had investigated the prices of contractors and had obtained the time was now approaching when Restora Tion could be calculated at Only three times the prewar Cost As a result of cheaper Coal and other things he said he hoped to make favourable contracts with Germany for materials and expected the Pend ing proposal for Germany to build 25000 Homes in the re Gions to develop he saw Little of employing German labor in France to any great new May Hor Ace last survivor of general Grants military and former ambassador to died this week in his 85th general Porter accompanied Grant to and was with his chief when Grant and Lee the terms of the letters after the when Grant served As Secretary of general Porter became his when Grant became general Porter accompanied him to the White House As executive and remained during the first term of when Grant died it was general Porter who organized the popular subscription that yielded and built Grants Tomb in new York altogether general Porter spent 30 years in Public service As a scholar and a congressional medal of Honor was awarded him for distinguished ser vices in the civil the grand Cross of the legion of Honor from France testified to his services As ambassador at he received the degree of from Union and general Porter was by profession a Railroad at 36 years of age he resigned from the army and be came Vic president of the Pullman later he was president of the West Shore but and the Louis and san fran Cisco during his business career of 24 years he was a director in 14 and financial inst presence in chamber menace to says Gas Grain is auctions of from 5 to 13 cents an hour or from 5 to 10 per in the Case of Section labourers completely wipes out the increase granted that class of employees by the award of july for Section men the reduction was approximately 18 per switchman and shop crafts were Given a 9 per while the train ser vice men were Cut approximately 7 per car repairers Cut about 10 per common labourers Over which the Railroad made their hardest is to be reduced by from 6 to 8 cents an Cut Ting freight truckers average monthly wages to and track labourers to this new schedule gives Section men an average daily wage of for an eight hour Al though considerably testimony offered by the particularly in the showed common Lahore wages As Low As for a ten hour objects to his attitude towards the Catholic unions May was a spirited debate in the Senate today on senator Cas grains notice of motion that in the opinion of the Senate the presence in the Council chamber of a minis Ter affiliated to an International Union is a menace to senator supporting this said his remarks were not directed against any nor did he wish them to be considered As hostile to International he was a Friend of but believed in individual Liberty Hoth for employers and a serious mistake the of the minister of labor May Long and keen discussion marked consideration in committee of the Bill to control the outflow of the Waters of the Lake of the defence and attack came on occasion from both sides of the opposition members generally argued that the Bill was an invasion of the provincial rights of Ontario and urged that the measure be held from this Point of Liberal Mem Ber for warmly dissent it is not a question of Provin Cial he it is a question of protecting the people against Backus 1 refuse to Bow the knee to Kins As Al Olio announced his intention to vote Tor the government Mem Bers loudly from the government contended that there was no need for the the government already had All the Power it gave except in regard to the English the difficulty really simmered Down to a water Power dispute Between Teress in Ontario and interests in he Mackenzie Leader of the took the View that there was no difference of opinion that the Lake of the Woods must be subject to the question was one of the administration must be such As to main Tain the Good will Noth and of Ontario crafts and train and engine me Shad been a great credit to but continued in Page of Canadian cattle again opposed was begun Here today eleven to sixteen the country a Levator operators Are ail advised German propaganda again misses Mark stories of French coloured troops keep tourists away May a stroke of poetic Justice the germans of the Rheinland again suffer the effects of the Campaign of con ducted against the French coloured Walls of distress Are rising from the summer resorts and Beauty spots on the whose yearly Host of visitors have been scared away by poles suffer heavy defeat by germans lose 50 killed and Many wounded in attack on Annaberg x May poles and 15 germans were killed and a total of about 175 were wound when polish insurgents attempted today to take after a Brief shelling by Small Field the poles were repulsed and to whither t the Germar pursued and drove them seven Hundred rebels marched on Annaberg and engaged the a Previn Garrison of 300 with rifles and a the germans replied with steady volleying for two hours and then the fighting became rifles being clubbed and and knives brought into after an hour of this Street i renting the poles broke and leaving their dead and wounded in the except those in the Passen Ger Are reduced 8 cents an construction and Section fore men Are reduced 10 cents an 1920 increase halved passenger and freight engineers who were Given increases of 10 and 13 cents an hour by the 1920 award Are to be Cut 6 and s cents an hour passenger and freight conductors who received increases of 12h and 13 cents in 1920 Are Cut and s respectively by the new train dispatchers and Yardmaster whose monthly earnings at present average and Are Cut 8 cents an the smallest reduction will apply to office boys and other employees tinder 18 years of who will receive 5 cents an hour less Ter july v clerks Are reclassified so that entering usually Young men and women of 18 years of will receive a monthly salary of for the first six months and for the second six months of clerks with less than one years experience now receive attitude of the unions the attitude of the railway i talons toward the decreases ordered remains to be the big brother hoods Are expected to meet Here on july 1 to consider the boards Deci which is effective on that claiming they were hard hit by the Winter slump in Railroad managements have been clamouring for several months for lower and the decision tomorrow will Mark the first Relief granted by the Board since it set the advanced scale More the minister had made a serious mistake when he refused to invite the National Catholic unions to con what difference does it he if the Union is Catholic or methodist so Long As it is not socialistic or there was a change in the Atti tude of labor and even Union men were anxious to assert Union men were restricted in Vandement by Trade and the Leader of the supported the de Claring that there was no intention of interfering with the rights of on following the committee of West moved the six months his motion was Defeated by 9g to a govern ment majority of government members present voted solidly for the one Liberal of voted with the the progressives i with messes Thomson and voted with the Frova rement Clark red Reid my Johnston last Kennedy Mcdonald and Mcdermand voted from the Cross continued on Page sir Robert thinks it is advantage May associated Daniel scientific adviser to the British toward of Cross examined toy at the continued enquiry into effects of the embargo on in or tech cattle in Force in the British told counsel for scottish Agri cultural interests that the total importations from Canada Small As not to be Worth while Tak s the risk of sir Daniel that the British Farmer was in a very doubtful state concerning the future and that it was Felt by the department that nothing to be done to impair conf once by introducing another disturbing sir Robert a member of the scottish Board of Fri waned the commission that the cards opinion was that before the embargo was imposed the import of Canadian cattle had in food production by enabling Home Farmers to grow More it would be an Robert for the Farmer the consumer to obtain a larger umber of Protessor of flared that the admission of pin or Canadian cattle would mean reduction of the food available for j British there would also be fluctuations in prices when the apply of Canadian cattle Yio Sands of Breeding he we would disappear and land the be effective As Ireland party was proceeding from bar Racks to Rifle ranges May three soldiers were 50 Mills and May card against a wage of 10 per and the cont was reduce Jour Day crease dance Saskatchewan Bri quetting Lut Hormes this evening the who exploded the mines Iai off after firing officer shot dead May officer of the Irish Royal constabulary was shot dead last night during nil hours fighting Between a number of con and an ambushing the were cycling from Blarney Castle to Monaghan when the Amu sberal attacked the ambushes were routed to May who recently was court mar called on a charge of italic in unit nov the Black once More get Mam propaganda has overshot its Mark and the prosperous citizens of Munich have been so impressed by the wholly fictitious films depicting the savagery of the senegalese troops that they prefer to take their sum Mer Holiday on the lakes of the aus Trian Tyrol or on the coast of hol ing an attempt to the prevailing councillor of health of confesses the All top in the columns of the tourist edition of the Berlin Tage of improper behaviour on the the French coloured he is devoid of All foundation As i can guarantee by personal no one has been in any Way and All stories of color de soldiers annoying bathers or boat ing parties Are utterly Bill dropped or Edwards says consent of House must first be obtained May press de Martigny divorce which has aroused so much Contro is Tobe this state ment was made in the House of com Mons tonight by Rodolphe be who said he had been so in formed by the promoter of the Norman made magistrate Dixon in Wilklow last february has been sen British cattle imports Boscawen gives figures and says Price tends to fall May associated the House of com Mons today Percy kurd asked for the numbers of Canadian and United states cattle arriving in great Brit Ain for Slaughter since the reopen ing of Trade and whether they had had any appreciable effect on meat sir Arthur president of the Board of Agricula gave the numbers As irom the United states and from Canada Between March 9 and May the wholesale Price of he had tended to butt was impossible to state the effect of cattle importation on such Yor Sunbury result was says Morrison May Secretary of the United Farmers or who returned from the York Sunbury i Riding in new said that the result of the by election on saturday had been the Farmers were not he and it was an Orange tory Riding where the National progressive candidate stood less Chance of a result of no Liberal candidate being in the tha Risten months the decision tomorrow will say that since the 1920 wage award there has been a decrease in the Cost of living and the scale of wages for similar kinds of work in other industries has in general been these two Points were the chief of the railroads before the testimony was offered in the hearing which began april 18 and ended May to show reductions 20 to 50 per in the Cost of food and cloth arraying reductions in mostly for common were also open shop did not discriminate against Union and Union labor ought not to discriminate against the open lord Shaughnessy had said that in the midst of this period of worldwide trouble que Bec was proving a Sheet Anchor top Robertson replies of la said the motion was not a proper one for discussion in the sen ate and that the main statement in the motion had not been discussed by the to Call an International trades unionist a menace to Canada was to cast a serious re Flection on Canadian he maintained that these unions made for better and quoted the principles of the locomotive engineers and of the order of railway with which he had been associated for Many in support of his one of the chief Bonds of Union was the insurance which had grown to be an enormous and wealthy International Union the assets of his own order total led the Canadian Mem Bers had a direct interest n this As messes Campbell and Davis voted with subsequently the Bill was read a time without further new legislation introduced May press new legislation for the control of the Lake of the Woods water pow ers was moved by right Arthur prime in the House of commons this Resolution providing for financing administration of the act was passed debate and referred to the committee with the Bill on the sub which was also Given a second continued on Page continued on Confidence in br1and voted by Senate Premier says he will not upset London decisions Senate today voted Confidence in Premier Briand in connection with the reparations the vote was 277 to the question of Confidence arose during the discussion of the budget expenses recoverable from the Radical Henri presented a motion that the decisions taken at the London conference be referred to the finance and foreign he not Only objected to France foregoing a balance of twelve Hilliou Marks due on May continued on Page Canadian attitude on immigration restated British Farmers with capital Are not being barred by John Mccormac special Cable to the free press Lomg Board forty years ago Johnston was awarded contract for pile driving for the new congregational Cus Toms receipts for the month of May aggregated better Price for Brandon lots was secured at the second being realized for 92 Ronald leased one of the stores in the Grace Church and opened a crockery at the closing exercise of Johns ladies College term prizes were awarded the successful in a Ludinig Lizzie Bella nor Mary Nellie Clara Success to death Dixon was Bulavin arid his son seriously wounded at the same the men were resisting armed ban Tho demanded named Foley and also have been sentenced to Heath for ithe murder of ser Geant of in civilian prisoners shot May Pri fiume to have coalition of political his statement in committee and moved that the committee Rise and report a vote was demanded and resulted inthe passage of Lemieux motion by i to party lines being disregarded in against Trie withdrawal the Bill was made later in the House by Edwards Frontenac the promoters could Nesad not withdraw the Bill without the con sept of the i Edwards May recent Des patches noting the Stringency with which British immigration to Canada is being and quoting the Adverse opinions expressed in Angio Canadian circles have apparently caused the Canadian immigration authorities to or at least to restate their a Cir just issued by colonel Obed Dominion immigration superintendent removes the impress thought to have been caused by former urging the discouragement of immigration of a except unmarried and experienced agricultural that British Farmers with capital were being bar the circulars make it Clear that this class of immigrant is Wel come at All times to the circular continues it is desirable that the British people should feel that the immigration regulations thirty five years ago Hanna and a deputation from the municipalities of Brandon and waited on the provincial and asked Aid be Given for the erection of a Bridge across the Assiniboine and to effect drainage in the put Blavo left on a trip to eur receipts of customs duties for May amounted to and for Inland Revenue Young was elected president of the Ninetieth 1acrosse with Harry Gallagher and Turner As associate but also to Frances acceptance of a i the admission of British people 50 per cent reduction in easier than the admission of in asking for a vote of said he would not be the one to adopt a policy which disregarded the agreement the allies had reached at London and which sought at the moment workers with fam Ilies and inexperienced farm labor ers cannot be readily but those intending to work on the whether experienced or if they to obtain from Germany a greater t Are j0ming relatives or friends on amount than the reparations commiss Farma in will not be Dis weather be Post the the weather report la Issue by the Johns College Meteorol Zicai Observatory at 7 yesterday 63 maximum for the it 12 minimum Sion had if the thur were occupied in an attempt to collect More from Ger the Premier France courage and need not worry about the Landing Money provided they have railway tickets and Southeast wind at a Miles ail hour to weather was fair warmer tues Dav throughout the minimum 4g 74 Kam 88 to an official it Fox six Miles South railway Porter named my Ishna in met 11v convict escapes while exercising bloodhounds maj sentenced to o years for murder escaped from the state prison while out exercising St 84 m Quebec run 11 f 7 it Ocean steamships Many thirty years ago vital statistics registered with City clerk during May included 4b 25 marriages and 44 hush Macdonald introduced a Bill in the House of commons to Wynn pee to utilize the i Assiniboine River for Andrews and Pitblado formed a partnership and opened a Legal Buikema was appointed architect and clerk of works to supervise the construction of the exhibition City Council decided to Burn the abandoned smallpox on motion of aldermen Cockburn and Bull notice was Given the water works company that the City would acquire the franchise and works of the Twentyfive years ago vein Dean Grisdale was appointed to administer the affairs of the diocese of Ruperts land during the absence of the archbishop in eng May 55 19 marriages and 28 deaths were registered with the City Macdon necessary Money must be called to arms and he their destinations in the Landing Money regulation is being Ali Vic la Titi f to take them to Nel resigned As chef Engineer of not be the one to do suppose such a policy he then tit no longer exist treaty or reparations commission and the entire world trere then there we u Otilde utter a cry of Revenue from customs and excise during May May Canadian from customs and excise during May amounted to customs import d excise sundry ice continued solely with the object of a Cir curtailing the movement of those who might find it difficult to secure employment at the present owing to the slowing Down of Indus Tria development in As in great the morning Post recently pointed out that British immigration to Australia was greater than to Canada in 1918 and 1919 in the proportion of 9 to 1 and 5 to 1 sex pub cans new York Ink cjlc1pc Berea caption was taken to these he your Cotte which were quoted by your 1 i 1 i if if the provincial department of Public to accept the nomination ten dered him by the electors of the do minion constituency of preliminary sessions of the Manitoba methodist conference opened in in the Twenty years ago Public dances at Edison Hall were the premises being re served for vital statistics for May were 138 31 mar Riftes and 48 h Simpson arid Bain were the Button winners at the ;