Harding Sees Great Promise in Arms Meet
President proposes flexible tariff industrial tribunal and tax free securities check as he outlines aims at the arms meet. He urges prompt action to foster national industry and economic stability.
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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1921
Page
1
President proposes flexible tariff industrial tribunal and tax free securities check as he outlines aims at the arms meet. He urges prompt action to foster national industry and economic stability.
President Harding opened the new Congress with a joint session alongside armament conference delegates. He called for a flexible tariff, an industrial tribunal, and a constitutional amendment against tax free securities. He praised the armament talks and urged funding the allied debt and aid for famine relief in Russia.
P. L. Agassiz Boston was elected president of the Copper Association at its annual meeting. The group aims to educate the public on copper and brass advantages and to study methods to cut production and distribution costs, noting war demand pulled copper from domestic use and postwar markets must be rebuilt.
Violence marked the second day of the packing house workers strike in the Midwest. National guard troops were called out to patrol South St. Paul’s packing plant district as clashes, shootings, and beatings were reported in Fort Worth Omaha and Kansas City. Union officials claimed thousands more joined Chicago strikers while packers said most workers remained at work. Meantime in Canada Premier Meighen lost his Portage la Prairie seat in a Liberal landslide, with multiple cabinet members defeated and Liberals sweeping Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic provinces.
Ulster leaders show nonplussed reaction to the Ireland England treaty news. Belfast sits uneasy as cabinet and party meetings plan clarifications and possible correspondence before a reply.
Reading Madalynne Obenchain letters occupied much of the trial of Arthur C. Burch for the Kennedy murder. The writings dated 1917 to 1920 show affection, pleas, and threats as the defense and prosecution present motives and alibis.
London reports the Ireland Britain accord signed in the premier's cabinet room. Ireland becomes the Irish Free State with Canada style status while allegiance to the king is required. Imperial Parliament to meet December 14 to ratify amid Ulster scrutiny.
Sir Edward Carson former Ulster leader blasts terms of the Irish agreement describing them as abject humiliation for Great Britain according to the Morning Post.
The article outlines a treaty establishing the Irish Free State with a parliament and executive, aligned with Canada’s constitutional practice. It covers crown representation, allegiance to the king, and shared status within the British Commonwealth, plus handling of public debt and war pensions.
A historical report notes Boland stating the agreement returns Ireland to the comity of nations. It highlights the Irish struggle for freedom, Britain’s choice between peace or extermination, and America’s moral and financial support through Congress, state legislatures, and liberty-minded groups.
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