Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 12, 1937, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights to printed and published Winnipeg free press company limited. 300 Carlton Street Winnipeg. Manitoba. J. W. Dafoe Victor Sifton. President. General manager. Registered at the general Post of Rice Condon. Ens., for transmission through the Post in the United Klinc Dom at the newspaper rate of postage. Winnipeg Friday february 12, 1937. End of an Industrial War after a six i both weeks struggle and the infliction of serious loss Exa Des the strike of employees in various plants general motors company has been terminated. It is the primitive method of disposing of Industrial the United states As contrasted with the and disputes so Ater use of the conciliatory method in Canada a nun o the settlement the United automobile worker 11 did not gain one of the major Points for which they in recognition As the sole bargaining Agency for the motor employees. This Union is to be recognized a collective bargaining Agency Only for those employees Bei c in Many of the plants however it will have to the Union d minting influence among the workers. While the men go lne 0rk negotiations will now begin on the other matters i. 1 a _ _ _ it to Back i Issue abolition of the piece work system a thirty hour weely working condition adjustments. And other wage and w was a big test for the new form of worker this strike organization sponsored by John l. Lewis which was breaking away the american federation of labor and causing a air ranks in the i Blish new unions embracing All the employees of an Indus cleavage in labor ranks in the United states. Its plan is Stead of the Craft unions of the . Of l. The result of t strike of the automobile workers brings recognition of their s but it does not give the new movement for Industrial tation the prestige and the Victory Over the . Of a its recognition As the sole bargaining Agency would have org which done. An entirely new weapon of Industrial War used in this the sit Down the men taking Possession lants to prevent other workers being brought in to 01 r the them this was illegal but on the other hand general tiers refused to abide by the new Federal Industrial relations act Ivin negotiating authority to the Union having a majority f the workers. The company claimed that the act was unconditional. It is fortunate that the strike has been ended with out serious disturbances and in Canada and great Britain there Are far better facilities settling disputes and preventing dislocations and they Are successful in doing so. Investigation by a conciliation Board is compulsory in Canada in any dispute in a Field in which the Dominion has jurisdiction if either Side asks for it. The acceptance of the award is not compulsory. The railway workers have not accepted the recent wage award of a conciliation Board. Hats now and again but they do a lot of useful work in clothes no More decorative than those on View in the House of commons. The Washington legation to take the oldest and most important has negotiated several major treaties and agreements in its eleven years the reciprocity treaty the St. Law rence waterway treaty an agree ment about the use of broadcasting channels and others. Besides these special jobs the legation gets through a great Deal of routine work. Canadian exporters often want information about american markets for their goods. Canadians1 moving across the line May need help in untangling the immigration1 restrictions. Numerous canadians living in the United states War veterans for instance Are entitled to pensions of some kind from the Dominion the Washington legation Gores in formation and help to All these As Well As to canadians who get into trouble of one sort or another South of the line. Another function of the legation of course is to keep the Ottawa government posted on the policies of the for eign countries to which they Are accredited especially1 Tariff regu actions. All of this is steady and prosaic Vork not performed in the Pink a surroundings Woodsworth which or. And others regard apparently As the permanent habitat of diplomats. Before can Ada had legation it was work done for Canada if at All by the British at the expense of British taxpayers. But to nations. Settlements usually do result with or without further Nego the Industrial disputes conciliation act is based on set Forth All the facts on each the principles of Light and reason so that the Case of each can be fully examined and then in a reasonable Way the fairest basis of settlement. The conciliation Board itself has an important part in removing mis understandings and bringing the employers and employees to in Britain although the unions have opposed inter Fence by the government to the extent of making conciliation compulsory and this feature has not been adopted conciliation is nevertheless the prevalent method of disposing of Industrial disputes. The employers and employees of Many industries have set up conciliation boards of their own and differences Are commonly referred to them. Industrial courts Are also set up by the govern ment if requested by both sides to a dispute. Acceptance of the decision of such courts is not compulsory. The government can also on its own initiative Call a conference of employers and employees if a dispute has Arisen or if one is feared. Actually the method of conciliation is followed in Britain to a very great extent and usually with successful results. The conciliation Branch of the labor department at Ottawa has an excellent record. It has four conciliation officers at Montreal Toronto Ottawa and have had a Large measure of Success in settling or preventing Industrial disputes. Or. Rogers minister of labor told parliament a few Days ago that he intended to appoint four Junior conciliation officers and get them in training since two of the present officers Are nearing retirement. When the matter of the strike at the Cotton Mills at Welland was raised or. Rogers said that although this was within provincial jurisdiction and a conciliation Board could not. Be appointed because the company refused to agree to it. The company was willing to discuss a settlement with the chief conciliation officer of the department. The Only weakness of the conciliation system in Canada is that it does not apply to disputes of a purely provincial nature and the thorough investigation by a Board of conciliation cannot be obtained without the consent of both sides. The strike at Welland is an example of the result of this and we have another example right at Home in the strike of fur workers in Winnipeg which began six months ago and is still unsettled. Both these strikes might have been prevented if it had been possible to bring the employers and employees together and have them present their cases fully before boards of conciliation. The provinces would be very Wise to pass legislation Mak ing the Industrial disputes conciliation act applicable to Indus tries entirely within provincial jurisdiction. They should have no compunction about doing so because of regard for the rights of employers 01, employees to immunity from interference. The Public have some rights too. And one of them is the right to Protection against the trouble sometimes very serious caused by Industrial dislocations which can be prevented in most cases and reasonable methods Are substituted for Hasty action. Either Side is compelled to accept the award of a conciliation Board so that its rights Are nor. Seriously invaded. And the Public interest entirely justifies the provision for investigation upon the request of either Side. The results also justify it. Manitoba is at a disadvantage and suffers considerable loss from Industrial disputes due to the Lack of legislation of this there is an Opportunity for a Good stroke on the part o1 he legislature. It would be a move in the direction of fair and teas enable settlements instead of engaging in fights in which everyone loses. It would be really in the Best interest of All con Public the employers and the employees. R Canadian legation came up at Ottawa this week Tommy Church of Toronto still its first diplomatic fast asleep in colonial Days alone 1926, sending Hon. J objected on Imperial grounds. Or to Washington As Church one of parliament s ves a legation tibial relics still thinks Canada s be . Capital evoked loud of dismay from hard Shell Psia list. Canada they up the British com my each. For some ume after. Ben y s Mission began. Or. Nett legation As an extravagance i parliament to the of legation abroad. Diplomatic agents Are Empire busters. Criticism of another sort came from left wingers in the hous of commons. Or. Woodsworth Leader of the c.c.f., objected to annually in. Parliament la the there May be other Canadian who think like or. Woodsworth As Well years later Canada that envoys of Canada abroad we As w Tokyo and Paris i spend their time attending Socia act seems to and the 1 functions in cocked hats and tha a exec t of finds. Esti f a e 1 ranted i Lhoir salaries and expenses Are w j consequently a waste of Money. For the Legal they do of course Wear silk Library experiments a couple of highly interesting ind instructive experiments of applying Library facilities to schools Are under Way n this town. They Are in the ,0rd Selkirk school in Elmwood and in the Robert h. Smith school River Heights and Are being made with the co operation of the school Board end the Public Library. It was the intention in the lord Selkirk school to place a thou Sand books and open the room once a week to the students. The Iemand was however immediate my pronounced and the Supply Vas necessarily increased to volumes and the room was opened of the students on two Days he week. The Robert h. Smith Experiment on a smaller scale is been received with equal zest by the children. As a matter of act the waiting list for Many of he books in the latter Library is so Long that the officials fear that some of the books will be worn out weeks before the various applicants get a Chance to read them. The response from the children is thus been most Gratifying to he sponsors of the two experiments and they Are being watched carefully to see if the interest is maintained. There is every indication that the response will be permanent. The test will come when the summer holidays arrive in any Case there cannot help but be Good and far reaching re sults. A percentage of the Chil Dren using the libraries will unavoidably catch the lure the fascination the wonder of books they will unavoidably become inoculated with that insatiable curiosity which can be appeased Only by Reading. And those on whom dawns this love of the writ ten word will have been Dow Erec with a heritage that All the forma education in the world cannot sur pass with due respect to tha profession. Casting its Shadow when Trotzky rages notes and comment the report of a possible armis Tice in Spain is we fear much too Good to be True. A Way has been found of killing dandelions with chemical sprays. That will save a lot of digging. Peace hath her victories. Ending of the general motors strike in the United states is hailed with Relief. As Brief As it was millions of dollars were lost by workmen and employers Dur ing the tie up. The Post office department has a surplus but an Ottawa report says that we shall not get the two cent stamp Back thin year next year. Man never is but always to be Blest. Jux the Dominion government has approved plans for a House costing Only including the land the erection of the houses to be aided under the housing act. The government is getting nearer to the real housing problem. Woollen goods Are among the necessities of life in this Northern clime and the Public will not be exactly pleased at being told that the Woollen Industry favored by a High Tariff was More profitable than Ever during the worst years of the depression when everyone suffering. Trotzky has made the headlines again. There is nothing particularly new about that. He has been in the news almost constantly since 1917. Veteran compositors when they come to his name can set it up with their eyes closed. But there was one incident in connection with the failure of his grandstand play earlier this week that brought Back vivid memories to the mind of this writer. When mechanical trouble prevented. Trotzky s speech from being transmitted direct from his pres ent Haven of exile in Mexico City to the hippodrome in new York where thousands had Gath ered to hear his offer to stand trial before an impartial com Mission on the Many crimes imputed to him by Moscow tribunals news despatches referred to him As Rushing from the broadcast room in a Tower of of the three occasions widely separated by time on which i have seen the fiery bolshevism the one i recall most clearly was characterized by m. Trotzky re tiring in a somewhat similar Tower of it was on the Little Island Prin Kipo in the sea of Marmora heavenly the Spring of 1930. I had gone there in quest of an interview with Trotzky an interview which meant much to me at the time because i was cold Stony broke in Istanbul with my Tokatlian hotel Bill mounting alarmingly and a wife to be concerned about who might not find being s traded on Tepi Basi As much Jot a Lark As would i. The interview was carefully prepared for. I wrote to him in Advance that i was coming taking care to mention in a burst of shameless patronage that Back in the earlier War years i had As a boy in Nova Scotia peeked Over a High Board Fence to watch him placidly perusing a Book in the exercise Yard of the internment Camp in which he was All too briefly incarcerated. That by the Way was my first View of the Little Man who a few months hence was largely responsible for the overthrow of a great Empire and the establishment of the mod Ern world s first proletarian dictatorship. I have often wondered How different the course of history might have been had Trotzky s friends not pulled the wires which gave him his Freedom so speedily on that occasion. Because from this obscure internment Camp in Nova Scotia his Trail led straight to hed glory via new York Anc Sweden. However this is no place for such obviously futile ruminations by . On and wife occupied a ravish ugly attractive Wisteria covered Ilia on the outskirts of Prin Kipo Village a peaceful White walled Hamlet that glistened from the sea Ike a Diamond in an Emerald etting. Yes Prin Kipo most assuredly is i Paradise but it was not As it happened in this Case a news Paperman s Paradise. I was walked from the very tart first by the secret service men who stood on constant guard outside Trotzky s Gateway and Ater by Trotzky s son who when finally brought to the Gateway insisted that his father was too ick with jaundice to see anybody. When i revealed myself As the Man who had written to his father i few Days earlier from Istanbul be went Back to the House Only o return a few minutes later with refusal that was definitely indignant. When i requested an explanation he said his father considered my letter most insult no and would not see me under by circumstances. To the guard it the Entrance he said i was not o be allowed even to approach he House. Next phase lord Queenborough in the hungarian quarterly the balance of Power in Europe by the peace treaty must somehow be restored if any Hope of future Security is to be preserved. Yet to restore this bal Ance holds out the gravest risks i since it must entail the rec Sid a isted among them the supreme consideration of peace and civilization Are to be preserved should be the Protection of the main Stream of our Western culture. The greatest threat to the purity and continued flow of that great ration of the peace treaties current of human Endeavor arises against any such step As this the countries of the Little entente remain Adamant although1 their from the theories of marxian dialectical materialism As expressed in the bolshevik philosophy of original subservience to. French world revolution. If that is not policy has in one Case at i least been modified by pressure from Germany. The Only constructive proposal Ifor the solution of this set of interlocking problems which seems to hold out any Hope is to establish in the minds of the rulers of the ordered governments of Europe a i Clear and just appreciation of the need for the preservation of the social and economic fabric by which they and j their people live. By this no rigid and stationary attitude to popular problems is entailed j ordered Progress along1 lines Laid Down by local i needs and experience should be the goal of every administration which sincerely desires to act humanely towards those whom Fate has placed in its charge. To seek for diplomatic and strategic ends to establish links with a government whose whole philosophy is based on the total overthrow of the whole of the tried and time honoured stabilizing factors in the lives of the Peoples of Europe is a course which no excuse can justify yet it is a course which has been sedulously recognized in time the Fate of Spain will become the Fate of Europe the Only Way to Avert such a catastrophe is the formation of a front of resistance to the bolshevik onslaught. Germany Austria Hungary Italy Jugo Slavia and Greece have in recent times shown themselves to be fully aware of the danger but even United action on their part were it possible would not be sufficient to prevent the clash for which bolshevism has striven Ever since it gained Russia. Unless France and other countries who have come to be regarded As within the orbit of French in fluence recognize the danger and use that recognition As the basis for an agreement with the remain ing european Powers the ultimate conflict is assured and a War As Savage and destructive As the religious wars which convulsed Europe for a Century is inevitable. Hungary for centuries the out Post of Christendom the heroic defender of the West from the onslaughts of the infidel will More readily appreciate the Force such arguments than any other pursued by the French Czecho a country. The position of Hungary slovak and rumanian governments in the present european system getting Back to the interview letter i even went to the Metic Ulous trouble of caging 011 the Good nature of an exiled russian Duke to re write my missive into pure russian. I have since concluded with reluctance that therein Lay my in doing. After allowing More than sufficient time in which to have received an answer to elapse decided that probably or. Trotzky was not Given to letter acknowledging and that i might As Wel go ahead and Beard the in his Den figuring that the intern ment Camp touch would at Leas gain me Access to his illustrious person. J Den is really a most inappropriate metaphor to use in referring to Trotzky s Prin Kipo abode. When the Little Steamboat 1 glorious Miles across azure mar Mora to my destination it was t discover that the Trotzky father for four Days i tried every conceivable ruse in my efforts to land he interview. It was one of these desperation ruses which enabled me. To behold Trotzky in the grip if one of his having Learned that each after noon he was accustomed to Row out from a Little private jetty which backed on his Villa prop erty in Pursuit of a Marmora ish called Rouget very similar outwardly by the Way to Mani Oba it occurred to me hat possibly i could break through he barriers of silence by invoking he brotherhood of Izaak Walton. Rented myself a boat and wait no around a Point until the great was engrossed in casting his Ine i rowed across the inter vening distance with a Friendly i fellow Fisherman Hail. He must have recognized me As the persistent newspaper person almost at once because before i could even commence consolidating my approach he stood up in his boat and tossing his line into Marmora with most obvious anger he directed toward me a tirade of foreign vituperation which i am sure must have caused White capped mount Olympus towering on the far Distant horizon to Blush even redder than the rouges. And then very conspicuously in a Tower of he rowed Back to his Landing and disappeared. My Story properly ends Here but it might not be out of the Way to add that the next Day when throwing discretion to the winds in the face of my unpaid hotel Bill i sneaked into his grounds shot a picture of him standing in one of the French windows of his Villa he observed me called out to the household guards who arrested both myself and my wife who awaited me in a nearby Lane and escorted us through the streets of the Village to the lock up and it was Only through the patriotic efforts of a maltese gentleman who was a great chess Friend of the Island s chief of police that we got off with an armed escort to the evening boat and the threat that should we Ever return to Prin Kipo while m. Trotzky was their guest there would be plenty of trouble ahead. Which is about All there is to say except that a newspaper account of my attempt to get the interview did eventually bring in some much needed piastres that i am now convinced the russian Duke who translated my letter deliberately added an insulting . Man who had deprived him from a life of russian ease and that the other occasion when i saw Trotzky was in the then famine Ridden City of Petrograd in 1922, when he was reviewing his crack red army on red Square. N recent years. That this course was dictated by a fear of Hitler s Germany is not a valid excuse. N 1536, Francois i. King of France the consternation of ought the Aid of the Sublime 3orte in his struggle with the House of Austria. In 1936, the Bird Republic has called in soviet Lussia to offset the pressure of Germany s rising Power upon the Rentiers of France and of those countries who linked to trance by the carefully conceived position established by the treaties of Versailles and Rianon. Whatever the immediate out come of such a policy May be it s. For those who take a Long View a betrayal of the whole european radiation. The Peoples of Europe including France and Germany Lave in Large measure a common inheritance and the late War should have served to prove that whatever personal differences cd birthdays or. T. M. Milroy Winnipeg born gait ont. Feb. 12. 1859. John a. Mckague Winnipeg born Teeswater ont., feb. 12, 1857. Thomas Bruce Winnipeg born Petrolia ont., feb. 12, 1868. George Beeves Winnipeg born Alverstone Stratford on Avon born county eng. Feb. Dan Ross. 12, 1857. Decker Man Martinto in. Glengarry feb. 12. 1862. A mystery solved from the Cedar rapids la Gazette a Little incident that happened at the metropolitan museum of Art in new York City the other Day seems to emphasize the Way some of us these Days frequently go around in circles and meet our selves coming Back. It seems also to hold a moral for those who like morals. The metropolitan museum s egyptian expedition at Thebes last year dug up among other things two wooden objects which for want of a better idea the archaeologists classified As vats these were considered among the earliest known examples of the Cooper s Art. One of them was kept by the egyptian government and the other was brought to new York. But none of the scientists engaged in the work seemed to know wha t they were. Nothing of the original contents was found to offer a clue As to their use and nothing like them had been found Byi other egyptology its. Tomb paintings which Tell much about the daily life of the ancient egyptians threw no Light on the mystery. Last wednesday while the museum people were arranging their vat or tub for display along with the the building happened to pass through the room. He is no Egypt Logist or even a general practising archaeologist. As a matter of fact he is a Carpenter by training. He used to live in Yonkers in the Days other finds of last season assistant superintendent of when Yonkers was less Urban than More it is now and it was not unusual for a citizen of Yonkers to keep a w. He said As he looked Over the collection of archaeological finds i see you dug up an egyptian one of the members of the egyptian expedition grinned and nodded. It answer to a hitherto baffling problem in egyptology. At any rate the experts think it was. The vat or tub looks like a churn and it does t look like anything else the egyptians had butter Al. Right for the museum has a Sample of some but nobody Ever gave much thought before to How they might have made the butter. So the Ivie Tro Politan museum now has on display one of the Only ancient egyptian churns in Captivity thanks to the staff Carpenter emeritus. To us there is something jus a Little bit silly in this spectacle of balloon bowed scholars who know about All that anybody knows of the daily lives of the ancient egyptians but Are so unfamiliar with the lives of millions of their own contemporary countrymen that they can t recognize a churn when they see one. We suppose a Man who does much digging in ancient tombs is pretty Well tied Down to lonely spots nevertheless it occurs to us that just As a knowledge of the throws Light on the present p knowledge of the present migh throw some Light on the past archaeologists ought to get around As a result of the terms of the treaty of Rianon has Long constituted a serious threat to the maintenance of equitable and peaceful conditions in the near East. From the Golden books a glad song of life Lizelle Woodworth Reese glad that i live am i that the sky is Blue glad for the country and the fall of Dew. After the Sun the rain after the rain the Sun this is the Way of life till the work be done. All that we need to do be we Low or High is to see that we grow nearer the sky ;