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END WATAtRSTNESDAY, JULY

18, 1934.

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SAFEST TYRE

'FRISCO PEACE NOW DEPENDS ON EMPLOYERS

MEN'S COMMITTEE

MAKE MOVE

UNCONDITIONAL OFFER OF

ARBITRATION

UNIONS MAY BAULK

WHILST THE GENERAL STRIKE COMMIT- TEE IN SAN FRANCISCO HAS VOTED IN FAVOUR OF IMMEDIATE AND UNCONDITIONAL ARBI- TRATION WITH A VIEW TO ENDING THE GEN- ERAL STOPPAGE, THE PROPOSAL HAS TO BE APPROVED BY EMPLOYERS BEFORE IT CAN BE PUT INTO EFFECT.

There are expectations that the employers will con- sent to arbitration, but doubts are expressed whether ratification by individual Unions, which is also necessary, will be forthcoming.

Meanwhile, General Hugh Johnson has severely criticised both employers and employees for their past attitudes.

The leader of the striking longshoremen is very angry at the sudden turn of events which has brought peace within sight. He accuses the conservative ele- ments among the Strike Committee of having "railroad- ed the strike by a phoney vote.”

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San Francisco, July 17

The General Strike Committee,

by 207 votes to 180, voted to send

GENERAL JOHNSON HITS OUT

all the labour disputes to arbitra Workers & Employers

Lion. This stop is reported to have ended the general strike.

LEADER ANGRY.

Mr. Harry Bridges, the long-

Both To Blame

San Francisco, July 17. General Hugh Johnson, sperking

shoremen's leader, emerged from at Berkeley, "criticised both tho the Committee meeting in an apoplectic rage, and churged the

employers and employees. He

REMA

742.000

The British Government has procured elavan sine ina, vans which are to tour the country showing films Hlustrating the work of the National Administration in various spheres. Our picture shows Mr. Ramsay Mac- Donald, Sir John Simon and Mr. Baldwin Inapasting one of the vans before it set out in its tour.

"BLOODY INSURRECTION"

GEN. JOHNSON & THE STRIKE

RETROGRESSIVE TO LABOUR

San Francisco, July 17, While labour unrest seethes throughout the nation, General Hugh Johnson, N. R. A. Ad- ministrator, addressing the students of California Univer- sity on the occasion of his re- ceiving an honorary degree, denounced the San Francisco

conservative-element-with-having said shippers denied Labour_the-strike as "civil war and bloody "railroaded the strike through a right phoney vote."United Press.

San Francisco, July 17.

to

insurrection.” bargain collectively through their self-chosen represen– General Johnson said the right of dissatisfied men to strike against recalcitrant employers Continuing, he said: "If ship-was inviolate, and the Government rights to would support it to the limit. It was a weapon in a two-sided con-

The General Strike Committee tatives. has passed a resolution, by 207

votes to 108, advising the long-j shoremen, the marine workers and pers do not accord

the employers to settle the walk- Labour, they will be fully respon-flet. out by arbitration.

UNCONDITIONAL

sible for whatever happens..Their position is extremely unrenson- Later. jable, and it must be tempered, it Committee, in its statement, advises. the maritime! we are to have peace.”

The Strike

THREAT TO COMMUNITY. But, he continued, the present general strike was a threat to the

the community, When

inter- State and international commerce of the nation was paralysed up and down the coast, all the majesty and powers of the Federal Govern- ment had been deliberately invok-

KENT'S LATEST DISTINCTON,

WONDERFUL CRICKET WIN AGAINST SURREY.

The disnetion of gaining one.of, the most brilliant víc- torics of the cricket season, fell to hent yesterday, when on the historic Rectory Field at Blackheath, they defeated Surrey, after being set 416 to win, and batting in the fourth innings. A century by Frank Woolley, graceful left-hander, paved the way to success by four wickets.

Other features of first-class cricket were Yorkshire's per- formance in holding the Âus. tralians to a draw, and the re- tention of the championship leadership by Sussex, who won again with ease. Full details on page 8.

M.G.M. LOSE APPEAL

"RASPUTIN THE MAD MONK”

London, July 17.

employees and employers to sub- Turning to the position of the mit to immediate and unconditional employees, General Johnson said: arbitration, both sides to agree to "A general strike menaces the accept the arbitration findings..

Government. It is civil war, and A spokesman of the Committee when the necessities of life are ed. says the employers must accept the threatened it is bloody Insurrec One side warring against the i The Civil Court of Appeal to- arbitration proposal before the tion....Labour must eliminate allį business element could no more day dismissed the appeal made by general strike can be regarded as subversive elements like rats, or use economle strangulation than Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer against the ended. Acceptance seems likely, they will forfeit the gains of a it could go into the street and recent award of £25,000 damages

shoot innocent bystanders. If the Members of the Committee said decade.”

to Princess Youssouioff, in con- responsible elements in organised individual maritime unions musti

General Johnson concluded: Labour did not purge themselves nection ratify the proposal, but observers It would be safer for a rabbit to of this blight immediately, they the Mad Monk," believe it is doubtful whether they

a would set buck the clock of labour slap a wild cat's face than for will do so.-United Press.

Union minority to

to organlantions for attempt strangle Americans into submis- Reuter. sion by a general strike."--United Press,

NOW UP TO EMPLOYERS.

The Committee has asked the Governors of California. Oregon and Washington, as well as the Mayors of the affected ports and cities, to appeal to President Roosevelt 10 net so as to permit the employees and employers to arbitrats on all questions in dis- pute,

The proposal is contingent upon acceptance by the employers of each group of employees involved in the dispute. Reular.

MINOR RIOTS IN OAKLAND,

San Francisco, July 17.

MASSED FLIGHT TO ALASKA

U.S. NAVY PLANES START

(Special to "Telegraph")

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A number of minor riots have is. 1043 am) occurred in Oakland, where

San Diego, July 17.

machino-gunners have boon des. Twelve Navy seaplanes, with 61 patched to the waterfront aren personnel aboard, departed at following reports that bands of 10.47 am. for San Francisco en terrorists wero attempting to routo to Alaska. wreck abopa and intimidinte clorks,

Hongkong Continues To Swelter

SAMOS ISLAND DRAMA

ENGLISH AND TURKISH VERSIONS CONFLICT

ON

GRAVITY OF INCIDENTS

STRESSED.

learning of the incident in which Turkish soldiers fired on a sailing boat from H.M.S. Devonshire, killing one officer and wounding another, Sir John Simon sent for the Turkish Ambassador and stressed the gravity of the matter.

WHILST the Turkish version of the affair

states that the shooting was done by a Customs officer after the officers had landed on: the beach, the British Admiralty statement is to the effect that a number of soldiers did the firing whilst the boat was a hundred yards from the shore.

IT is further stated that the boat immediately went about

when waved away, but nevertheless the occupanta were fired on. This conflicts with the Turkish version that a warning shot was fired over the heads of the officers, who did not heed it.

..

London, July 17.

In the House of Commona to- |day, Sir John Simon was asked if

TEMPERATURE OF he could state the circumstances

98 TO-DAY

In which a party of British naval officers bathing off the island of Samos were fred on by Turkish A temperature of 93 degrees soldiers, one British officer being was recorded at the Royal killed. Observatory between 1 and 2 The Foreign Societary said that o'clock this afternoon. This according to reports received by has not been exceeded on any on ivas a skiff belonging to the Admiralty, the boat in ques- day during the present year, and H.M.S. "Devonshire, which was there is a possibility that an lying off the Greek Island even higher point may be Samos. The skiff had approached reached during the course of the under sail to within 100 yards of afternoon.___

the Turkish mainland when some

SUPPRESSING. SLAVE TRAFFIC

BRITISH NAVY TO THE RESCUE

FASTEST SHIPS USED

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The record July temperature is ten soldiers appeared, and, ac- 94 degreas, registered as far back cording to reports received by the

a 1806.

British naval authorities, wavod per The typhoon to the east

of the boat away. Formosa is still moving slowly westwards, and there is according- ly every prospect of the hot weather continuing in Hongkong. ...CANTON SWELTERS.

SIGNAL OBEYED, The boat immediately

went

London, July 17. The fact that some of the about, but the soldiers opened fastest destroyers in the British Are, killing Surgeon Lieutenant Navy were recently sent to the Robinson and alightly wounding Red Sea and the Persian Gulf to Lieutenant Maunsell in the assist in the suppression of the Canton, July 18. shoulder. The search was being slave traffic was revealed by Sir The city of Canton has been continued for Surgeon Lieutenant Bolton Eyres-Monsell, sweltering since yesterday

First in Robinson's body. fresh heat wave.

On hearing of these events, Sir Lord of the Admiralty, at a temperature of 100 degrees in the John Simon said he immediately luncheon held to-day in London shade was reached, and 98 was asked the Turkish Ambassador to to celebrate the centenary of recorded this morning.

come to see him, and, after detail. the emancipation of slaves Most hospitals are filled with ing the circumstances to him as throughout the British Empire. patients suffering from the effects far as he knew them, drew atten

heat. Central tion to the gravity of this occur-ships were constantly engaged in The First Lord said · fourteen of the terrible

DROUGHT RELIEF.

Neica.

Yesterday a

rence.

linos,

tho suppression of the slave trade: Fethi Boy undertook to telo- graph immediately to His Govern-in that part of the world.

Faster ships had been sent in Nanking, July 18.

ment, and the British Ambassador! The Executivo Yuen has ap-in Turkey had also been instruct conquence of a horrible rumour with the film "Rasputin proved a recommendation sub-ed take the matter, up with the that some of the ships wore too similar alow and that dhows engaged in mitted by the Ministry of Industry Turkish Government on

the slave trade had been able to for the relief of drought through-

tlo stones to the slaves' legs and The court offered to grant aout the country.

SYMPATHY OF HOUSE. cast them overboard. stay of execution on the condition The recommendation provides. Sir John 'added that he under-

of faster The employment. that defendant pay the Princess for the appropriation of a sum of stood the Turkish Ambassador ILMS. Tamar, the depot ship of an additional £5,000, and that $1,000,000, of which $800,000 will had now received some informa-ships, however, showed that the the Chinn Fleet, will go into deck for notice of appeal to the House of put aside for the purchase of then and had communiented it to rumour was unfounded.--Renter. re-fit on Monday. In consequence

seeds for farmers, who are faced the Foreign Office this morning, three with losses by there will be no p, gun fired for Lords is entered within

reason of the but he could not yet, give any ja fortnight,

months Reuter,

drought.-Central News.

decade.

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Shocking Flood Disaster In

South

Poland

120, MOSTLY CHILDREN, KILLED

(Spaciar to "Telegraph"

"

of the Cabinet rushed to the affected

farther details.. He divas Gura WA, Arnold, 201 unemployed the House would join with the European living at the Sailors' Home, Government in regretting this tion in Gloucester Road yesterday by was found in a semi-conscious condi». unhappy incident, and in express. Mr. Cox, and was sent to the Govern ing deep sympathy with the rela ment Civil Hospital. tivos.

It is understood that the Cap- tain of 1.M.S. "Devonshire" hus had an interview, with the local Turkish authorities, who collaborating In the search for the body of the doad officer.--Bri- tish WirelesB.

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Superstitious peasants in the The Minister for the Interior 10 1981 am)

Warsaw, Puly 17. A Washington mesengo says the

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na 120 have been drowned as a Flood:

has been steadily developed to are to leave who have taken the law into their Washington at 10 am. on Thurs-

result of one of the greatest. It is estimated that 18,000 squarò area. Thoy found their

Feking, July 18, the utmost pitch of efficiency, own bands) has undertaken · a

floods in the history of South kilometres are now under water.

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Telegrams from Tainan state its roominess is exceptional for Poland. sories of attacks on the Communiat day en route to Alaska.

the which had the remaining sixteen Chinese any light car, and at its price it strongholde,

The victims are

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the extent of the disaster will be "This is the sequal to a promine literature advocating a revolution; | reason of the San Francisco

Government has despatched fully known, case most- of the by General ; Ham- Fü-chu to in- | strike.—United Press.

Cloudbursts and incessant rain three regiments of Infantry, three villages are without communica corporate the piraten in the regular. Reuter

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