1 68TH YEAR, NO. 95, uitmnn iit a iit mil IMNUft NAM Ml MINES NATIONALS Would Have Government All Mines and Operate Wil Miner Representation. WOULD OUST BURLEJ , Call Him "Uncharitable, R and Malignant Opponent Labor"?New Trial or Pardon Asked for Mooney Cleveland, Sept. 2 2.?The co: tion of the United Mine Worke America has developed its plar jr the nationalization of coal m which includes purchase by the oral government of all private r at their actual value as detern by federal appraisers and oper by the federal government, with ( miner representation upon the b administering the industry, and ( wages and conditions of employr Nationalization of coal mines in ada also is proposed. The minei fer right, of way to nationalizati< railroads, provided the railroad Ij erhoods pledge themselves to tlnue the fight with equal vigoi the nationalization of the mines, tion was taken by a unanimous r vote. The convention further adc resolutions demanding legislatir take from the United States Sup court the power to declare unec tutional laws passed by the ele congress; calling upon President son to remove Postmaster Gei Burleson as the "uncharitable, t and malignant opponent of and asking a new trial or full pa for Thomas J. Mooney and \Varr< Hillings, the repeal of the espio act and amnesty for political pi ers. It refused, however, fo cal JpA .J proposed a general strike and ( page of all production until all ical and Industrial prisoners ar leased and in its resolution or espionage act declared that man fenders bad been justly convictei interference with the prosecutic the war and that^it had no desl * condone such offenses. The resolution in regard to ns alization of mines reads in pai follows: "Coal mining is a basic indu indispensable to the economic li the nation and to the well-beir the nation's citizens. "The all-important coal resoi of our country are owned and trolled by private interests. C the prevailing system of private ershfp, coal is mined primarllj the purpose of creating profits fo coal owners. The production of under this system is characterize an appalling economic waste. T1 comparable natural resources America,x and pratlcularly thos timber and coal, aro being desp linilnr n ttvutpm nf nrrwl nr>t Inn u _ ? I- ?* *' wastes from 33 to 50 per cer these resources in order that the imum amount of dividends ma] crue to those capitalists who ha\ cured ownership of these indispi hie commodities. "We hold that the coal suppi our nation should be owned by commonwealth and operated in interest of, and for the use and fort of nil the people of the com wealth. Countless generations men and women will doubtless low ua, and the American peop this generation owe a solemn du them in protecting with Jealous and conserving with wise admin! lion those great treasures will bounteous nature has bestowed us in such generous store. "Our coal resources are the b \ right of the American people fo time to cgme and we hold that the immediate duty of the Amei people to prevent the profligate v that Is taking iftace under pr ownership of these resources, by lng the government take such i as may be necessary. providing the nationalization of the coal log Industry of the United States "Under private ownership w production la conducted for prl ga!n. the spirit of these times s< to be: 'After us the deluge.' must be supplanted by u ay where production will be for Use the common good and economic w (Continued on Page Eight.) m ? \ v**?re _.?Khr %-* I' ' . .JS ft fHE LAI SEMI-WEEKLY. I ..AM J WE'RE PREPARING FOR PRFQIF * WORLD TRADE BATTLE lilLMl ED Kdge Measure Made Possible By 1SL0 Strength of the Federal HeBuy serve System. Welcomed th Crowd V Washington, Sept. 18.?Preslden the Wilson hps drawn attention In many of his addresses in the West to th ^ON importance of the United States rati PARADE fying the peace treaty and league o , nations in order that the business n( ? . arsn the world may be resumed at once, t of and that America may participate to peared Full t*>c 'Iumens0 extent the possibilities multUOl warrant. As Indicative of its belief ' in the approval of the treaty, as prep- Mee 1I1( aration for America's part in the bat nven tle for world trade conquest, the sen Log Ang rs of ate has Pa88ed a foreign finance bank- Wilson con 1 for ,ng b,U anqunl t,ve tr,umPhs of the Wilson admin whlch dens odien '8trat,on? section, the Ixing This bill, introduced by Senator multuously nent. Edge, ?f ^ew Jersey, is a develop during the Can- Inent ?f the Owen foreign finance bill 10-mile par rs of- of tbe 'ast session, one of the ad- plause and in of ministration measures that failed of cheers gre< roth passage. Senator Owen, one of the the treaty con- architects of the federal reserve act, cepted. r for suggested to Senator Edge that a He- When h< Ac publican had better handle the meas- for his nig ialrg ure 'n 'b'8 congress, hence it now for more th bears the Jersey senator's name. estimated b ipted Though starting out on the Owen ball was j ?n to principles (uvor^ng a foreign banking thousands 1 renie corporation with American govern- bad been w ?nsti- mental participation, the Edge bill f?r 'be doo dive has become an act practically limited At 'be at Wll- to private banking activities under son WUH '' neral I federal reserve board supervisors. As Evans Cow larsh such it had the approval of prominent 'be Genera labor banking interests, and, with some clubs, who rdou amendments, wus. okehed by the fed- league mus ?n K. eral reserve board. wark of a nage The chaotic conditions brought on1'"10' Tlie ison- by the world war are accentuated atl80r*ed' bad 11, as j the present time by financial and in- 1 ^ Peace * stop- dustrial uncertainties, duo in large ' pollt- measure to doubt as to the fate of the (>,u ot str e re- league of nations and stability of in- " i the ternational finance, American manu , . # form. Am y or- facturers and merchants are chary of ^ d for seeking foreign business because cf ' f, ' SP tn of the tremendous balance of trade in 'seni y" a re to favor of the United States in the last Nsas ?k nf snppch. _ ? the Pacific coast Saturday A. H. a monster mass meeting on tin Ich thousands shrieked ap- ronto, s plea for early ratification Tortug e treaty. by the id to the city by a crowd picked ;ely packed the downtown Egmoti i president was cheered tu- 24 me everywhere he appeared been 1 day. Along the line of a cludinj ade he rode in a din of ap- of the later at a public dinner becaus sted his declarations tiiat stuashc should and would be ac- were t Fan nic e entered the auditorium The 1 ht speech he was cheered Chief an two minutes by a crowd less oj iy the police at 6,500. The ter; E ainmed and outside were swain kvho could not get in. Some a. She siting since early morning nth an rs to open. Tho iditorlum meeting Mr. Wil- v atroduced by Mrs. Josiah tlie slii 'les, national president of jn>r il Federation of Women's ;lIvj told the crowd that the NVater it and will become the bul- jater war weary world for all sprea(i 'political partisan," she as- j,ajf no place in a discussion of reaty. , . . raw. i.ng had been advertised as , . ? i .1 ... sfghtec ictly non-partisan charac. .. , sent u tany of the states prom- sa ,s t] Jblicans sat on the plat- SH>f cept tc ong them were Henry W. ,. eaker of the California as- S * ' d Marshall Stimson, who ign manager in southern poure<1 for Senator Hiram W. co?' tl 1910. Rk,nsident alluded to an ad- abse88< by President McKinley on 1>eter fore his assassination, and 'ook'ni iat the martyred Presi- The ards about arbitration r?nto, show he hud a prophetic bound he eve of his death. Via N'o g to objections that the Steanu iuld involve the United torpeoi entangllug alliances, Mr. ,a,d UP 1 the league was in fact a Southa >r disentanglement. Chief 1 Vashington had in mind was ol / what these gentlemen 1 ad us back to," he said. and f alliances is behind us." ?^Ing * r. Wilson declared it was of amazement that some also 1,1 now opposing the league. ?',ant the crowd shouted "shame am' on and many others took up and ^here were more cheers a " ter when he declared the ,an<': founded on the rights of ,h<> (,t' rather than the power of At t It was a people's treaty, smack t a statesman's treaty. he Hi -le of the world, said the sighted vere tired of old system of rowed lominution and they would a 22-y it one way or another." survive ie league, he added, auto- ona- 11 nments would be excluded thrw?r t society because only self- waa re people would hold % mem I,e 8a>' deck o ig a friend who he said with * he facts get him if he saw from ( )g first," the president as- *)OHr('some men could not now Is In the treaty discussion EPTEMUER, 23, 1919. AT HARDSHIPS A'1 R THE SURVIVORS ? I>nys and n Men Drifted Six Days th Only Five Gallons of fater and 100 Biscuits. Miami, Sep ing, hardship passed by any JRS DROWN Rn n? i ncT ... uvui icai nurricant southern end cently and d Picked Up By Fishing Corpus Christ ick Eighty Miles South- has been t>rc _ * . ,, i Ebow Cay by t of Eftmont Key and Wav<,8 BWt.p, ught in to Tampa. which is 40 i houses except , , filled the inl pa. Sept. 22.?After drifting ^ waUjr T s in an open boat, Chief Officer water 11 Moodie and 1? other survivors lonR e 11,000-ton steamship (Bay- Wind and sunk September 11 off the wkk SU(.jj fOJ as, were brought into Tampa were toi local fishing smack Ida, which (he ^ Not them up 80 miles southwest of ,tfttlon'wa8 ? it Key. Another lifeboat with hoU8e ,n whk n from the Bayronto hus not am, aWfl leard from. Fifteen men, in- heJp they pra; ? Capt. T. Eversett and most North EUj? officers, were lost on the ship Qf Flor|da aj, e the other lifeboats were thp FIorlda v ?d, but it is reported that they vigUed ono aken off by the schooner Cuban goven i and Fay, Tampa to Havana. pHej| and ma, 1 men brought to Tampa are Two poats Officer Moodie. W. Cole, wire- la|.ge fl(jpk on jerator; \V. Saunders, carpen- the 8t0rin. ant . Abbot, lamp trimmer; Boat- o(her food Bridle and Firemen T. Brett, away terin, Edmunds, Duovan, tlrit- sepulchers d W. Den ley. former reside Rayronto foundered in heavy torn open by Ithout running aground. When coffins carried p listed GO degrees, the remain- A Cuban g? a boats were launched. Moodie missing Spani s 10 men had five gallons of was signalled and 100 biscuits. Two days able to furnh running short of water, they A wireless in< their oiled coats and caught to Nassau, B) bucket of rain water. Tuesday Key West and iught a few fish and ate them marine chasei A 3 a. m. September 12 they t)P 8Pnt to tin 1 a big two-masted steamer and food. p distress rockets, but Moodie he ship paid no attention ex- GREAT F/1 t turn and run off in the oppo- MEET!* rection. men were almost naked They caught t'udei salt water over their bodies to Head W tern, and the sun blistered th-3 , many 01 mem nave nous and is formed by the exposure. Taylor, Knglisli vice-consul, is Great fall: g after their welfare. 8- K Helvin, 11.000-ton steamship Bay- r"tton ,nl?8with 7,000 tons of wheat. ? ,.* l,,oblle nt'?lde: from Galveston to Marseilles 5 rfolk. It is owned by the BayjS'T"'s (>l (,n ihip company. London. It was s;,(,n"ss l>reVi rl in July, 1!?18. and had been ,mvn whon ,h > for repairs until it sailed from ^ "1P aoc,d<1 mpton last month on this trip. ?' N'rs IJp,vl Officer Moodie states that h<- While Mrs. i the steamship Baynvassa in ",und v in# 917. which sank a r-boat then. a"^nr* that 8 ! was afterwards decorated by ?! ller n l getting the I), s. O. Moodie (omP,eto 801,1 is the victory medal, the mer- ""w n,muUs service medal, the 1914 medal' under ,,H' ra his sleeve three aold torpedoes re yearly service chevrons. Mrs' '*ol> . ., ,, . ? . months itko I. Moodie is front Dundee. Scot- ... ... , as nurst* for i \ ictor ( olo from I Million m. I MOKE T ear-old I'or to Rican negro, a ir of the steamer Lake Win- Report Itecci anging half dead across the Justice liwl t In a boat full of water. He mlttees A vlved and brought into Tampa, s he and an Italian fell off the Washingtor f the Winona with a lifeboat, ihe departme rhlch they were swept away states indicat he ship, leaving 52 others on cline of 10 t These two men, Cubello says, prices since t together Tor 10 days, living on committees b< ind small fish. raw. and moist- From four s their parched lips with salt on wholesale cline of two he 10th day the Italian, after tually no redu the negro to kill himself, corns ^av<> been noti suicme r?v slashing his throat 1 nf> report! s knife. He was engaged rr? he were said to 1. had bought furniture for and counties \ jse and his Rweetheart was out 'be founti : for him at Porto Rico, says'1" believed b> >. The negro threw the hody fa,r indlcatloi ird and continued .drifting six everywhere. 1 ore until picked up. It seems now becoming that in his suffering he lost latlve as the of time, as according to re- declines in w It has not been 16 days since reflected In r nona was wrecked. His hody tional reducth campaign aga ont.nued on Page Eight.) Steering. IEW? SUBSCRII ES ON ISLAND Jfir ROY EI) BY STORM * HE ?: m ihiui mucr for Kli'ven l,1< Larknl FimmI Nearly As Ixwk. Eneirt (Je< t. 22.?A tale of sufferand privation unsurgrowing out of the trip* which passed over the ^ ILL of Florida and Cuba reid so much damage at r orl n i and other Texas towns, (light here from North A!s submarine ihaser 335. entirely over the island, Feet high, destroyed all *n the lighthouse, and labitants' cisterns with ^ 'he islanders were with- . cant li days and food almost as structi night li wave struck the islet eraUv -ce that large pieces of union n away and swept into under a vestige of human habift. save only the light- gtates h the 1 ') mirviinfi! v....I lited the arrival of the <)n ved for. authen w Cay is in the straits ,ho i,1!out half way hetweenn Iu' eninsula and Cuba. It from e in three months by a ma'n intent vessel with sup- sou,hI line ol of the comparatively ,oa<' a the island were left by beyond i these were eaten. All 'r,|e supplies were washed N'ew c< this e In which bodies of porting nts were buried were ?n 'be the giant waves and the Chatta away by the waves. lanta, inboat searching for the forwar sh steamship Vatbanera 'be II on the 16th, but was tin- see p.a g ' { on one of the residence s'derec sat Kalis. A feeling of liled over our entire n:a'n ' ie sad news was learned Morgn nt that crushed the life alH* ( " In. but wi Belvin was making her rr?PX the sick in her oar. it Still he evidently lost control vil has ltd it plunged ove?* an more t ibankment, turning a accura lersault. When found a | surpas later she was penned I estlma r with her head practi- ment from her body centra! tin came here several oughly and accepted position loss, the mills, and since her Hesl s displayed remakahle weatht a nurse. She had won Hot. dr i and high esteem of all "f gro r. places ?^ shower ES DECLINE have b HAN 10 PER ( KM ,r< taI . . [ fruit s v?nl l?y Departmen! < f so,ne 0 Urate Fair Price Coin also ti ire (letting Results. Kxai donnie I, Sept. 22 Reports to he pub nt of justice from 12 Othr e there has been a de- ent coi o 15 per cent in food tions o he time the' fait price weeks sgan their work on the itates have come reports are ah prices, indicating a de- sweet to five per cent. Ylr- and ha, ctions in clothing prices side of fd. wrong, x on retail food prices' have been front cities <'l veil distributed through The ry. and the information has goi ' officials here to he a for its tt of what is going on ment t 'hey think that results lion an ; evident will be cuntu- Direeto season advances, new compai holesale prices being "ays a etail prices, and addl- the net ons coming from the month* inst hoarding and pre- peace < date ol % 5 . ?TION $2.00 A YEAR BOLL WEEVIL WANCES 20 MILES y Enters New Counties in >rgia Though is Checked in Some Others. ) RUMORS ARE AFLOAT ightly Crop Review Says o Weather Has Added to Trouble and Crop is Badly Seed of Rain. other crop news is insigniateside the story of weevil deon and advance, Kays the fort? review issued by the Co-op! Crop Reporting Service, (a of state and federal agencies J. J. Brown, commissioner of iorgia department and United Field Agent Z. It. Pettet.) August 25th, the date of last, etic data, the advance posts of lect pest had penetrated about, les beyond the Georgia road Atlanta to Augusta, with the body at work some 15 miles During this two weeks the f destruciTon has crossed the. t most points and is 20 miles at the eastern end. outposts are still farther north, unities not previously aware of nemy. now authentically re: are. Walton. Oconee, Wilkes, east, while on th<> Atiomo nooga line, northwest of AtGordon sends in word. The d movement follows exactly [tin system of liltration of e. by which a few weevils work d unnoticed, establish a center ^station, increase in numbers epare for the heavy and dist rush of the fall migration, is about due. as in all invaded territory, imors of the foe occur, so scnil reports of infestation hecurrent, and it is difficult to te the truth from the false, inds of innocent bugs are capand sent in for examination, which a few of the real de s occur. i of the thin line of skirmishe real destruction occurs with rival of the main bodies. The ? salient, consisting of Fulton >Kalb counties, previously conI safe, has been overrun an f p squares survive, ('hough th too is preserved.) Rockdale, n, Newton, Warren, McDuffi ilumbia are now fast in his grip II lofce only a part of the top fftHhfiI. ...? " m iicrt' me WeI been garrisoned for a year o lie tribute exacted is now beinj.' telv checked and is found t<> s even the sensational early fes. The loss in total abandon* will run large. In the north 1 belt the counties now thor occupied will show increas'nsr des the weevil factor, tho ?r has added to the trouble y weather has caused stoppage wth and dropping of fruit. In this was relieved by welcome s htit these do not appear t ? een state wide. Cotton plants ler than usual lint ihe line o" tops a oot from the top or .a ases even lower. The bolls aie wcr than usual. >t figures on the cotton abannt. loss in hales and value will lishcd in the October report r crops vary greatly in differ inties and even in diverse serif the same county. The p.tst have had little material effe t condition figures as the crop* out made with exception <-r potatoes, sugar cane, pecans y. All of these are on the righ' the ledger, all others on th? tester Watt's New Depot. Chester Chamber of Commerce ie after the Seaboard Air l.ln failure to live up to an a^reeo erect a new passenger start will carry the matter b<*ote. ir-Oeneral llines. The railroad ty. the Chamber of Commerce greed on October 5, 1317 that. x station would be built three ? after the determination of or within two years from the f the agrueniout. - i im ii ?i r 'Tssfli