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10° BE SETI The Cotton Mill Operatives Ate Likely to Return to Work. THE REPORT OF . . BURNS Pit | CENT. IN- IN WAGES. SHOWS FIFTY CREASE Made by Dominion Textile Company Since' 1914--General Manager of Company te Come Here to Settle Questions, Nothing official has been announe ed as a result of the conference held Che Daily Brit MILITARY MOTORS "CARRY PEOPLE tion in Londo. GOVERNMENT HELPS TILL TLEMENT REACHED, Of the Great Strike--One Thousand | | to-day Military Motor Lorries Supplement the Bus Service. (Canada Pre Des London, Feb. 6 I'he Government was The War Offi Aids In the Transport NO FARE BEING CHARGED SET- | | still maintaining its atti-} " KINGSTON, ON " CANADIA TARIO., THURSDAY, "NEW APPOINTMENTS N NATIONAL RAILWAYS G \ 4 Zz) S-G-TIFFIN EF SBRUARY 6, Iv19, ish Whig | | ed upo Andrew * Bonar Law, government leader in the House of Commons, in used to mae: ers It 80 thé result ure of J. Bromley, secret Ar) Association of Locomotive and f i with which he r Is Horne, Minister of Labo COMPEL OFFICERS TO SERVE THEM Bolsheviki Hold Families as Hostages For Obedient Behavior. Archangel, Feb, 6.--Advice to the allied intelligence department reveal some of the methods by which the Bolsheviks have been able to organ- ize their army$ in such a way as to CANADA Bb LAST EDITION 10 HAVE BEST OF ROADS |The Dominion And Provincial Coverments DOMINION: IS TO SUPPLY -- A LARGE SHARE oF THE NECES- LSARY MONEY, Great Banguet Held In Ottawa--A M. Rankin One of the Speakogs-- Hon. Dr. Reid's Announcement. (Special to the Whig.) Ottawa, Feb. § The {irst annual dinner the Eastern Ontario Good Roads / a ssociation, held in the Chat- efu Laurieron T most representative good in W. F. Nickle's office on Wednes | tude that it could not interfere in the | day afternoon for thé purpose of ad-| strikes now in progress, for the ren-~| Pn y 5 Justing the kibor difficulty at the cot-| son that they were solely industrial] gn ed 'ton mill; | The secretary of the | controversies, but the great inconve-| ; \ y Trades and Labor Council declined | hience Shien she, London public a Jf' 8 » press | suffering has prompte governmen | 10 make guy Sarement hr Ihe phi. | measure of reliet until a settlement | EE Ni serve. the" olshevists by holing catién of the report presented by R.| Is reached hese were initiated by | [r AE their families as hostages for the off KE. Burns on the wages paid opera- | the starting of a military motor ser- J tives: He is to make a yeport on | vice in London's streets. In this | the conference to the Trades and | ituation the War Office early in the | Labor Council this evening | day mobilized more than 1,000 oto} It Is understood that the | lorries along the principal routes of I tion of the Dominion Textile | traffic to supplement the bus Sery joo | pany that an advance of fifty [to take the place of the Suspendes { cent. in wages had heen made to em- | tube service I'hese lorries were make possible the carrying on of a stroug campaign in northern Russia. The principle of th methods lies in compelling the g als and staf officers in the old 'Russian army to sday evening, was the ads gathering 'ever held in the'Dominion of Canada Almost three hundggd good roads enthusiasts atten.lén, Anfongst the guests were several Cabinet Ministers and members of the Dominion and Provincial Parlia- ments, as weil as delegates from Que- bec and Manitoba. Kingston and dis+ trict was represented by A, M. Ran- kin, M.P.P.,, Dr. W. W: Sands, ( 134 clerk, warden Truscott and Reeve Reed of Frontenac County, and R. H. Fa ulenburnie, Frontenac County Roads The large cers' conduct The position of former Russian of- ficers in the ranks of the soviet army is extremely difficult They occupy Posts Aas Com i jt i R.F.MACLEOD R. F. MACLEOD, Assistant to Passenger Traffic Manager, Montreal. Ff. W ROBERTSON, General Passenger Agent, Moncton. nanding officers and trusted in all technical matter in regard to everything are und constant Military ex- perts v Ave forced to serve conten Com per else er 1spicion been clock this afternoon, but there was g y i p rivers is | : 3 ployees since 1914, was verified by manned by military driver: It is | : i ? 3 bY Mr. Burns, and that the misunder- standing on this point has been cleared up to the satisfaction of all parties. Mr .Daniels, general man- ager of the company, has been---yge- quested to come to Kingston, and he is on his way here, to take up some minor points on factory conditions that the employees ask to have changed. It is not considered that these will prove obstacles to the sat- isfactory settlement of the whole dif- ficulty, and all of the workers ought to be back on their old jobs by the end of the week at the latest. Many of them will be glad when the set- tlement is announced, because they have not been in receipt of strike pay from the International executive. The local union, it is claimed, was not long enough in existence to le- gally claim strike pay from the sover- eign body, and hence the inability of that body to render financial assis- tance. The other trades unions, however, voted various sums of "money within their ability, but could not make up the deficiency, and the girls have been without money for | weeks, some. receiving only five dol lars in To ir three weeks. The Trades and Labor Council will take official action this evening, and it is generally expected that the em- ployees will accept the advice of their officials of the union who have had the case in their charge. i -- No th in Report. There was report on tke streets throughout the day that there was to be a general strike at three o'- no foundation for this report. Labor leaders denied all knowledge of it. A JOB FOR EVERY SOLPIER. U.S. Secretary of War Promises This and Asks Help. Washington, Feb. 6.--'Every sol- dier who put on the uniform of the United States, who fought, or train- ed to fight, will have a job if he wants . one," Secretary of War Baker declar- ed in delivering the opening address at the fourteenth annual convention of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress, The secretary emphasized the duty of American business men to co-op- erate in what the Governmen) was doing in this direction, and said that every Chamber of Commerce, Board of "Trade, or other similar organiza- tion should realize the need for its co-operation. To Move the Address. Ottawa, Ont., Feb. 6.--Reéturned soldiers will be mover and seconder of the address in the House to reply | to the speech from the throne. Major Redmun, Calgary, will be mover, and Capt. Manion, Fort 'William and Rainy River, will bo: the seconder, Armistice in Silesia? Basel, Feb. 8.--An armistice be- tween the Polish and Czecho-Slovak forces which have been fighting on the Sifesian front, was signed ou Feb. 3rd, according to advices feo: ceived here. ------r ---------- - ; Hon. Dr. H. J. Cody announced 'to the Women's Institute conven- tion legislative chan coming in connection with rural schools. ; The Norwegian Cabinet, headed by Gunner Knudsen, has resigned. WHIG CONTENTS. ect | Stike to be Settled; a y Motors Carry the Peo- Called will be able ta daily that 0,600 they egtimated £ persons carry fare is tion is paid to the working women and girls The strike of waiters and cooks in the hotels and is still inconveniencing thousands of Londoners, but the staffs for these e¢ating places are. being from among the unemployed Td Take Strong Action, (Cangdian Press Despatch) London, Feb. 6.---Trade union leaders are contemplating strong action dealing with the revolution- ary movement which has led to the unauthorized strike in England, Scotland and Ireland. The lead has been taken by the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, whose execu- tive has suspended the district com- mittees of Belfast, Clyde and Lon- don for violating the rules by par- ticipating in unauthorized strikes. Furthermore, the megotiating 'eom- mittee 'of the engineering and ship- building trades yesterday manifest. toed their members in . Belfast, Glasgow d on, the north-east coast, WFging that they reswme work immediately, pointing out that stoppages: weaken the effi- ciency of trades unionism. OPENING OF GERMAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY Name of Herr Eichhorn Will] Be Stricken From Mem-=- bership Role. (Canadian Press Despatch) Amsterdam, Feb. 6.--Fifedrich Ebert, German chancellor, will open the first session of the" recently elected German National Assembly, at Weimer, this afternoon. Des- patches from Berlin state that af-| ter the meeting of the body is thus | opened the chair will be taken by the oldest member of the assembly, probably Herr Pfannkuch. The ad- vices report that many members for Alsace-Lorraine have presented: themselves-{or the first sitting of the assembly. The name of Herr, Eichhorn, former chief of the Ber* lin police department, who was ousted during the troubles with the Spartacans, will be stricken from the role of n¥hbership of the as- sembly as his whereabouts is not known. He will be succeeded by the candidate in his district who re- ceived the next largest vote. © - {rl SYMPATHETIC STRIKE IS ON AT SEATTLE it Will Tie Up the Industrial and Commercial Life of the City. {Canadian Press Despatch) Séattle, Wn., Feb. strike of approximately 65,000 union workers in nearly every trade and industry was set for ten o'clock to- day, the decision of the Central Labor Council late last night' rati- fying the time selected previously by a conference of a majority of 130 unions affected. © The general strike. was called in sympathy of between 40,000 and 50,000 metal trade workers who left the ship- yards and contract shops om Jan. 21st to enforce demands for $8, §7 and $6 a day for basic trades; help- ers and laborers respectively. Seattle's industrial and commerciat life practically will be pardiyzed by the strike. All the newspapers are expected to suspend. Mayor Han. son and Chief of Police Warren sald. emv's Al Canada To o Best of } 2-An Ice § ruival Last Night: Iris © edde e Day. : S->ana a He Best of Roads] ® News. i 4 ge ons ot an Editor; "Re | : ses ns of R. 8 Wright Cre- | ters to the Buiter. 0 ¥ s a Realm of Women: Warns ermans in Ol News: Township Coun Wi disorders arise. ---- » SPEND $104,901 IN EXTRAS. - . Ottawa, Feb. 6. Between Febru- ary, 1918, and Décember 31st, 1918; the Canada Fopd Board expended $24,086 to promote the *" of {1 the soil" movement; $4,648 was spent in securing other labor for farm work. and $76,278 for educa:|® Sonal and {hformative work, laclud. ng vertising, making a total of $104,991 expended for work other than 'the general of the recruited | | No| charged, and particular atten- | | | L restaurants | support. hey. Prepared to handle the | time Bituation should J-E-LE PAGE JAMES - MORRISON, Assistant General Passenger Agent. Montreal H.C. BOURLIER, Assistant General Pass- enger Agent, Toronto. $c TIFFIN, Assistant General Freight Agent, Montreal, GR. FAIRHEAD, Division Freight Agent, Toronto. IE LEPAGE, Division Freight Agent, Quebec. 6 M. THOMAS, District Freight Agent, Hamilton. OTHER APPOINTMENTS ARE JAMES ORR, 'Assistant General Fraight Agent, Toroate. LE LEBLANC, District Passenger Agent, Montreal : G -M-TFHOMAS == A A Alf NN, DIVORCE REFORM AGAIN TALKED OF Tere Maoh Natal Work ied or the Old Senators. THE PRARE PROVINCES WANT THEIR COURTS TO DE- CIDE DIVORCE CASES. Divorce Would be Cheaper in the Courts--It Not Easy to Divorces Through the Senate. Ottewa, Feb. 6.--The fact that there "are sixty-seven applications for divorce so far, with in prospect, fs giviiig rise, to renewed discussion as to divorce reform. It is more is suggested that the volume of di- | the | necessitate over to to deal vorce business will Government handing courts jurisdiction such cases without course to Parliament, and along that line has been talked this session. were made seems probable Columbia and th reform such yet. Maritime to-day just the no British Pro vinces have divorce courts of their | own, and if the Privy Council sus- tain the claims of the Prairie Pro- vinces divorce will be added to the Judicature of their courts will leave only Ontario and Quebec from 'which, particularly the form- er, the majority of cases come. The statistics show, however, that while divorre is accomplished with much less publicity wheve the courts adjudicate the number is re- latively much greater. than hefore the Sendte. For ome thing it is 'cheaper. A-big factor in the matter is that divorce in many cireles is regarded as an evil, and while it conves high At Ottawa, this deterrent condition is considered preferable to the wholesale dfssolution- of marriage resulting from cheap divorce pro- cesses, jn' the' courts. _ If is 'the moral rather than the financial as of the situation that causes the iL to proceed very slowly with the suggested reforms, though they are not without inflnential| The Senste Divorce Com- by pe ; perience to pass judiciously on ail these domestic ruptures. LE A tn, Get | with | the need of re- | of | From inquiries which | action | io 1 x 1 SES = as well as aptitude from ex-| | he said, in dealing with what he "har< acterized CANADIAN GRAVES IN BONN Later Special Burial " Grouitf Win Have Fringe of Maples. Ottawa, Feb, 6.--Fred James, of- ficial correspondent with the Cana- dian corps, writes from Bonn to the Director of Public Information to effect that since the rst and Second divisions dnd the corps troops came. ipto Germany-there have only been eleven deaths, due to sickness. mostly pneumonia, following influ- | enza. ; | The bodies of Ganddians who have | died in Germany are buried in Bgnn | in a special plot set apart for Cana- i dians Arrangements are now gom- | pleted to locate the graves of every { Canadian whe has died as a prisonor| | of war in the territory on horh sides | {of the Rhine, occupied by British! { forces. As soon as this is lone the | remains of the deceasbd soldiers will be exhumed and re-interred by Can- adian chaplains in' the cemetery in Bonn. { | Evertually that little haiteweft.| [ spot gwill be .enclosed with maple | | trees, so that the patiénal émblem | of Canada will staid. as monuments to the honored dead. ANOTHER M'DOWELL HONORED. | > pre . - I | Lt. Cuyler MacDowell Wins Distinc- | tion of Croix de Guerre. i t+ Brockville, Feb. 6.--Another mem- | ber of the famous MacDowell fam-| ily of Maitland; five iles east of here, has been honoyed for conspicu- | cus gallantry in the war. Yesterday word was roceived that Lieut. Cuy- ler M. M. MacDowell has been pres- ented with the Crdix de Guerre by | the French Government for bravery | {exhibited last summer. He was] formerly a G.T.R. employee at this] point and enlisted in the British] | navy shortly after the outbreak of | { the war. and in England transferred | This | te the Canadian heavy artillery as|©! returning sanity, ¥ I {a gunner, later winning his commis- | sion. He is a brother of Major Thain | indignant with the general anar-|eaying tooth conditions W. MacDowell, V.., DS8.O, andl { Capt. Merrill MacDowell, winner of the Military Cross... & fourth broth- er, Newell, is also overseas. Cost Placed At $3500,0000000,000, London, Feb. &.---The direct dost of the war is estimmted at £40,000 000,000 in a speeial article in the Daily Telegraph yesterday. The au- thor estimates the indirect cost of diminished 'trade and financial dis- turbance at £50,000,000. "Vast sums," he says, "have been used for cheer destruction ' and vast public debts have been incurred for whicly there is no corresponding property." Colcizne, Feb. 6.~--The British have had little difficulty in enforcing the rule that German officers and of- ia A : @ large scale is not to be thought of, declared Arthur J. Balfour, the British Foreign Secre- tary, im 'an interview whieh. he gragted the newspaper correspon- pondeats here 1a8F night. The great ére dOINE everything they powers were considered could be done, however, CALL STRIKERS ENEMY'S ALLIES Bitish Trades Union Leader Says They Were "German Party." in War. ME OF FOREN BIRTH AND ARE SIMPLY JEOPARDIZ. ING THE EMPIRE. Trade Against and Appleton, a Noted Union Leader, Writes Government Intervention the Men's Extreme Demands. London, February 6. -- The 3overnment issued a stata- Ww. A. ment throwing all the blame for the | strike on a small section of men, and shows no sign of interfering in this policy... It has the support of that something should be done put ask have no definite proposgl forward. Moreover, it seems that at Glas- gow and in the London doek strike this attitude of aloofmess is begin- ning 'to produce satisfactory re- sults. A certain number of men have been returning to work, and there is some hope that the sprike fever will wear itself out. Even at Belfast there are sighs and strikers' be getting to womenfolk are said to chy. i It is also noticeable that news- papers of all shades of opinion are insisting more strongly every day that the disturbances are not the 'work of legitimate trade unionists, but of agitators of foreign birth or extraction, and are - asking why they should be permitted to stir up trouble in a country that has shown them = hospitality. Thus, W. A, Appleton, . a noted trade union leader, in an article in the Evening Standard against Government in- tervention and .the men's extreme demands, says: . "The men behind the present dis- turbances are the same men who formed the 'Friends of Germany" party and who tried their hardest to prevent guns ° and. munitions reaching Flanders at the time the soldiers were enduring indeserib- able misery and dally fading death. | CONdItion While he was saving the Empire on a shilling a -day some of these strikers were jeopardizing the Em- pire. on/£1 a day." = {Canadian Press Despatch) « London, Feb. 6.--The first step in the direction of the threatened ex- tension of the railroad strike beyord the loeal lines in London was 'aken: last night when some of the drivers on the Brighton and' Southwestern roads were called out. The union order was issued during the evening but the passenger trains ram wntil midnight. The freight service, Bow- ever, was partially suspended, follow- ing the issuance of the sirike order. Eurly trains to suburbs from the Waterloo Station, Terminus ed as "3 Most diquisting sir- & , » most people, and even those . the Bolshevists include some of the best men in field tacti engineer. ing and ordnance to be found in itral Russia. General mobilization of s all districts is' being vigor ! ried out. The tmining of the Bol Vist army is being assisted by special schools of instruction Petrograd and Moscow. Generally the army is growing stronger, and, altho the new troops are far from being reliable, they nevertheless, owing to the sey- ere methods which have been adopted form the main strength of Bolshevist power cs, ldiers in at HUNS ADMIT DEFEAT. Were Beaten and Helpless When Fighting Stopped. London, Feb. 6.--Any idea thet the Germans' final collapse was due to re- volution or solely to the blockade is scouted in an article in'the Frank- furter Zeitung by the wellknown German military writer, Major Paulus. Ludendorff 'was beaten, says Paulus, when he commenced fo re treat to the Autwerp-Metz line, for iis line could not have bben held. "Neither flank was secare. In the morth, - the, Dutch frontier left no room for sany retreat which would not have been catastrophic. In the centre, Verdun provided an invitation to the enemy to break through. The ine from Diedenhofen to Metz was already outflanked When the St. Mihiel salient was lost, while the whole of our-southern front was full of disadvantages and too close to the| Rhine to be held stubbornly without risk of a catastrophe." Paulus, therefore, mainkatns that! Ludendorff was right when at the| endof September he announced it! impossiblé to continue the war any! longer, not, says Paulus, because of anything that had occurred in Ger-| many, but because of the military situation. MAKE "TEETHING" EASY : {Bring Children Through Period Without Distress and Suffering. Ottawa, Feb. 6.--A discovery of far-reaching importance has been | reported to the headquarters of the Canadian Army Dental Corps here by Major F. M. Wells, who has just returned from England, where he has been engaged for the past three, (years in research work. | Major Wells' research work dis- iclosed the fact that food deficient in its "vitamines™ prévents the harden-| {ing of the teeth and impairs the gen- | iéral health and structure of bone formation. Through the discovery it will now be possible to eliminate! imost of the ills consequent upon de- through a! System. of proper dieting. = It will be possible to bring children through! the difficult period known at "teeth-! ing" without the usual distress andi suffering. It is contended by Major Wells! {that artificial foods in their relation! to child welfare are lacking in the] necessary essentials = for the proper! development and healthy growth of, jInfants. Artificial Price Hard To Maintain, Washington, Feb. 6.---Grain deal- ors, exporters and millers vesterday presented to the House agriculture committee varied suggestions for methods of carrying out the Govern- ment's guarantee to producers of | $2.26 per bushel for the 1919 wheat crop. All agreed that the true mar- guaranteed rate, and that the Gov- ernment should make good the differ- ence directly rather than by main- taining artificially the higher prices. Speeding Up the Conference. ris, Feb. §.--The progress made {by peace conference committees as an outcome of the energetic' Anglo- . American campaign for quicker ac- i tion, 'has strengthened the hops am- jong the most optimistic delegates , that the league of nations may be {established and that even certain (Peace terms may be settled before ; President Wilson leaves for the Us- : Sted States. It is definitely that all the Sinn England will be morning. stated in Dublin, Feiners interned in released © Monday Superintendent, banquet hall at 'the Chateau Laurier was crowded, and during the dinaer the Canateau orchestra provided ex- elient Cc After the dinner a pleasing inci- ! dent took place when William Figd- lay, retiring president of the as3so- ciation, was presented with a stiver electrical coffee pot, and dinner wag- gon as a token of esteem of the oc- his leaving Ottawa, and 1g his connection with thé as- SC n in an official capacity, C. J , of Perth, in a timely speech paid a high tribute to the president tor his splendid work fn the Eastern Ontario Gocd Roads Association and in the interests of good roads. William Findlay, the chairman, after acknowledgment of the gift, de- tailed some of the things which made for success in the promotion of good roads. S. L. Squires, president of the Canadian Good Roads Association, in proposing the toast of "The Dom- inion Government" said that there are few governments sitting safely to- day and enjoying the cpnfidénce of the eitizens they represent, ing for the reasons for this good roads convention it was not necessary to look far. . When the boys went tol the front, and it was necessary to Support them, it was surprising to find that the manufac- turers and farmers could produce such a quantity and and quality of produce as they did. The farmers produced more foodstuffs per hun- dred acres than any other country in the world. Statesmen have discov- ered that transportation is the hand- maiden" of civiijzation, and that the three. great medns of transportation are railways," waterways, and high- ways. We have the-right to expect governmental consideratiqn of a care- ful but fearless administration of the expenditure pn highways, con- ducted economically and carefully. of Hon. Dr. Reid's Announcement.' Hen. Dr. J. D. Reid, Railways and Canals, speaking in response to the toast said that he was prepared to go the limit for good roads. The Dominin Gvernmlent will provide a large share of the neces- sary money, but it would be left to the Provincial government to see the werk carried out and see roads built quickly and well. It is the intention of Dr. Reid to bring in a bill, which is now before a s@Prommittee, setting aside for road construction as much money as can possibly be expended for that purpose by the provinces dur- ing the next five years. The sub- committee will estimate the maxi- mum that can be expended in five years, hecause it is desired that the bill shall provide sufficient funds for that length of time, so that the provinees can carry on their. work continuously without having to make annual appeals for funds. The amount set aside should be suffi- cient to provide ~11 that the pro- vinces can use, but should that prove jmsufficient, it can be sup- plemented. The amount cannot at present be given out, but it will be sufficient for all needs. The pro- portion of the cost of good roads to be borne by the government can not be stated, but the sub-com- mittee reports that amicable ar- rangements are being made be- tween the Provincial and Dominion Governments. Never before has there been such harmony as in con nection | with geod roads. -- The Highway Rill is. to be pushed ate and put through the as possible.. In the department of raflways and 'candls the only part they wish- ed to fake was to supply the money needed hy the Provincial Govern ments. The provinces will submit plans and specifications .of roads, 50 as to satisfy the Dominion en- gineers that the roads. are to bé permanent, for the money must go into roads that will benefit the country for ail time to come. The inspectors will look over the work, and it not satisfied will draw the atgention of the Provineial Govern- ment to If, with a view to ensuring that the roads shall be of a perman- ent character. The speaker said he swas sure the money would be spent to the best advaniage. One benefit . of {Continged on Page 3.) - ket price, as determined by world would drop. below the a h_all_possible_ peed. - 1n IooR* Minister of |