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The Cotton Market Today 11 34 1.4 Cent* JL 68TH YEAR, NO. 97, SE GOMPERS DEFINES ISSUES IN STRIKE Telts Senate Labor Committet W. t _ *? employes nave itignis to Be Heard and to Organize LA BOH MUST HAVE VOIC1 Should Have A Say in Determin ing The Conditions Undei Which They Work?Commit tee's Course Open. Washington, Sept. 29.?The issu in the nation-wide steel strike was dc iir? biwa uuiuiiK employes, in repij the labor chief said that the compan had increased its earnings 4 00 pc rent while increasing workmen's pa 100 per cent, and that its stock sol ing enterprises "were attempts to ti the men to the Jobs." "What we want is the right to hav workers represented before their en ployers," he went on, "represented b counsel of ability, of courage, and c intelligence that can cope with th power of the corporation chiefs, an can fitly set forth the evils and injut tlces of plant and mill life. This wa was fought against autocracy, an won against autocracy, whether ai tocrary of militarism or autocracy o Industry. The day is past when a employer, no matter how great, ca declare himself master of all he sui veys." Chairman Kenyon, adjourning th session, loft the future course of th L investigation to be settled at anothe meeting, and as the only certain dat for its convening fixed the Wednei day appointment with Judge Oarj The intention to cull William Z. Koi tcr tomorrow was abandoned, a though members of the committe ir (end to rail hint later. Inland employes Deny Plt/patrick' Testimony. Indiana Arbor, Ind., Sept. 29.?t K. I'erkins. an employe of the Inlam Steel company, who has perslded a meetings at which expressions wer made that many of the men want* to return to work, sent a telegrat to Senator Kenyon, chairman of th (Continued on Page 3.) ) fined by Samuel Gompers, presiden of the American Federation of Labor as recognition- of the right of emploj cs "to be heard, to organize and t have some voice in determining cor ditions under which they labor." Appearing as labor's second wi1 ness in the senate labor committee' investigation of the steel strike, Pre: ident Gompers drew from his experi ences as chairman of the first con rnittee to organize the Hleel industr and traced the history of organize! labor's efforts to unionize the stec workers. When he finished, the com mlttee adjourned until next Wednei day, at which time Judge Gary, chaii mull of the United States Steel coi potation, has promised to appear. President Gompers, in the cours of his remarks, condemned unspat ingly civic authorities in the wester) Pennsylvania steel centers and r< peated many of the charges made b< for the committee yesterday by Joh r uzputrtcK, chairman of the strili , era' committee. "Whatever helps the corporation against the workers, that the authoi ities of Pennsylvania will be foun doing," Gompers said at one point Full responsibility for tue strike h laid at the door of Judge Gary, wh couUI have stopped it, he said, b granting a conference to the atrik . ^.committee. Counter charges against the stee workers, involving the revolutionar radicalism of William Z. Fostei strike committee secretary, in parti cular, was met by Gompers with th assertion that Foster no longer wa a syndicalist or a believer in violence There wore several interludes, one when Senator Phtpps, republican, u Colorado, read statements of Pres dent Wilson made in 1909, to the e feet that he was "a tierce partisan o the open shop," which brought quick assertion from Gompers thn "President Wilson now does not hoi with what I)r. Wilson then said." Senator Sterling, republican, c South Dakota, at another point rea some steel company statistics, in re erence to greatly increased pay c workmen during recent years, and e forts made by the company to plac I , V 'HE LJ JMI-WEEKLY. I JAPS SCOUT THE IDEA UN OF WAR WITH AMERICA "J f ? SI Jap Official Kids American to wl Tell Home Polks War ? Couldn't Happen. Tot Tokio, Sept. 25).?Address In which it was declared war between Japan and United States is a contingency 2 not to be considered and statements DE that the future of he two countries lie in the cultivating of economic re- _ b pv lations and friendly intercourse were r heartily applauded today at a lunch- I eon given by the American-Japan ^ society. Viscount Kaneko, a member of the ^ privy council and former special representative of Japun to the United ^ States, presided. The luncheon, which ^(> ' was given in honor of former United States 'Senator Theodore {?. Liurton, ' of Ohio; Carl F. Baldwin, the Ameri- , r- fanl Q can military attache, who is leaving was ( Japan shortly for Washington, and 1). ^er P. Blake, an American business moi leader in Japan for 3U years, who is tjmi going to Loudon, was attended by a ^ . large number of Japanese and Ameri- , i- cans- extc , Without directly mentioning Shan- mot y tung the speeches were based on the Qf j feeling in the United States arising wag ,j from the Shantung question. mo, "Some Americans fear that a war gro may come with Japan," said Viscount q r. Kaneko in opening the speechmaking. fan( r. "But you. Colonel Baldwin, who have 8jX seen our military organization and shG e know our people will he able to tell ?ieci r. your countrymen that we never have P(j n had the slightest idea of declaring j. war against the republic on the other 0f ? j. side of the Pacific." 191 u Viscount Kaneko added that Col- t,irt onel Baldwin might even tell the Am- \ ericans that instead of thinking of sjX 3 war the Japanese were fraternizing Und r. with Americans around the banquet it0( d Bible. per t "There will never be a war between thai e Japan and America." continued Vis- wag Q count Kaneko, "and the entire Japuj- ^ y nese people will concur with mo in o(jj( 9 this opinion. Tell this to your Pros- j ident and the members of the cabinet ata'{ ,j the senators and representatives, and moI y your Judges, bankers, capitalists, ^ r Journalists and working people. jjrg| l_ "Never can we entertain such an e idea against America, which has done j 8 so much for our country and led us ,)() ( , Into the path of taking a seat in tho e council of live great powers." ~a| Cheering greeted the words of Vis |. count Kaneko. f. Mr. Burton said he joined with the a Japanese statesman in declaring that a a war between Japan and the United .* States was impossible. In the first .1 place, he declared, it would be futile. of i If Japan attacked the Pacific coast she could not hope to penetrate the 'loa Interior of America; if America atmoi fm tacked Japan she might be able to do ,f serious injury, but she would leave '* Wh f trails of hatred behind her which _ would hurt America more than Japan. 11 Nes "As I have traveled here," continu- e y ed Mr. Burton, "I have found the very " ,r air charged with hospitality und ^ ^ friendliness. Language and customs t r I will prove but a temporary barrier be-j ? tween us. There is the traditional e i wh friendship that must endure always.! No trouble makers or jingoes can ,r" e break the ties that bind us Mutual t * 1 interest holds us. and we shall go for- ' y I (? i1 ward with the conviction that war is not the way to settle differences 6 between nations." d ^ 1 CHARLESTON WOMAN moi * KILLED HY ANOTHER 1 ?' d I 1 | Mrs. Luetic Lvncli Shot to Death ,n,i ... - ~ - ... of i iiv urs. i . .pones, now in n r n Custody of Coroner. H, j I Charleston, S. Sept 29.?Mrs. 12,1 A Luclle Lynch was fatally shot Thurs- |; e day morning in ?an entry way on r King street, and Mrs. Joseph T. Jones f0n e is now in custody of the coroner, charged with killing Mrs. Lynch. Mr. r Jones is held as a material witness, * and the tragedy is said to be the ^an 1 outcome of domestic troubles. Hear- Dip ing the shot fired, Mr. Jones hurried Dys from his meat shop to the entry way Dys leading to rooms over his place, and ? found Mrs. Lynch prostrated at the \fa| foot of the stairs. \fe, \ After telephoning the police. Mr. apjr J ind Mrs. Jones took Mrs. Lynch to j>ej| t 'toper hospital. She expired on the j>nf ? way, from the wound. Inflicted by a pne J "R caliber bullet which passed f>0ll n through her body. Mrs. Jones is said gca e to have admitted the shooting. Mrs. gm, . Lynch wus about 23 years of age and ? formerly resided in Uranchvllle. kNCASTEl LANCASTER, S. C. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER, 30, 1919 HUE BIRTH RATE GOVERNOR C00P1 IOWS AN INCREASE LAUDS MEN OF 3 al Number of Births in Record for Valor as Co South Carolina for First That Made By Southeri Half Year 9,670 In Any War ATIIC Oilrvitr nn/mn * /\i no oiivjr* ucittttASt LIVE LONG AS HIS* ver Negro Infants Per 1000 Chief Executive Calls 'opulation Were Horn in The Veterans to f 'date in 1919 Than in First Leadership in Their I lalf Year 1918. tive Communities. uring the first six months of 1913, Columbia. R. C.. Sept. 2i*. total number of births of white record for valor and devotion nts in South Carolina was 9,670. a3 good as that made by th number of births of white in- ern soldiers in the Revolution! ts for the IIrat six months of 1918 or tn the Mexican war. or in 9,886, which shows that the num- war, during which conflicts of white births for 1919 was 284 from the Southern States m e than for the same period of ords which will live as long e in 1918. tory lives." fegro births for the same periods Thpge WOrds were used bj Lime showed a falling off to the nQr f00p0r jn n statement gl mt of 1,023. During the lirst six ^Pre jn welcoming the men iths of 1919. the number of birth. ThirtIeth division to (Jr negro infants in South Carolina wbere the initial reunion of 10,255. During the first six Who broke the Hindenburg 1 iths of 1918 the numbei of ne- held today and Tuesday, biiths was 11,2 <8. Governor Cooper's stntem omparative death rates for in- repj0tR with commendation ts of the two races for the tir.t formude, endurance and months of 1918 and for 1919 mpn(. of the mpn of tho Thir w that the white race showed a vlsjon rease while the negro race showTh#? C.nvnmnr anLl . t.. *? - " " ** '* nu iiRieast). in ISIS llie (leattl "* "> ?"?'' f for white infants under one year "I nnoce. ?sary KfTort ige was 94.7 per 1,000 births. In "I have horn asked to sn 9, the rate was 88.4 per 1,000 words of welcome to the Thir hs. vision. It is a pleasure to nth the negro race, the deaths for and yet it is an unnecessary el months in 1918 among infants the members of this divisio e'r one year of ago was 169.4 per they are welcome in every I )0 births. In 1919 for the same South Carolina. They were iod of time the statistics show of this welcome when they hi t the death rate among negroes Charleston last spring on the! i 176.9 per 1,000 births. from France, where they ma 'he?e statistics are taken from the Klorlous history, and the welc :lal figures compiled by c W. Mil- l>een '*ionded and repeated e1 chief clerk of the bureau or vital ovor since, everywhere the istlcs of the state health depart- ?7'?ne And this welcome will it. and grow warmer, if possible, 'he total number of births for the ,hp years and at each succec t six months or 1918 in South ; ,,nion- wherever it may be h< l olina was 21,454 The total num- heroes will he given the sain for the same time in 1919 was "lastlc and full hearted greet 591. is being given them by th< p 'he total number of deaths for the South Carolina today, t six months of 1918 in the state "As Governor of one of tit i 12,683. The rate per 1,000 of; which furnished the officers : ulation was the same for the two'of the Thirtieth division 1 h rs while the birth rate showed a the greatest pride and satisfa lit falling off for 1919. the record made by this orga Infant Mortality. To say that the record mailt 'he following statistics will prove field of battle by this division nterest to persons inteiested in tlio surpassed by any other divis 1th conditions In South Carolina. VPr-v m?dest a"1' eonservatit > figures are for the first six raent. indeed. It is also true 1 aths of 1918 and 1919: an(1 la something to he pre 1U1K tain that VOIl VOUtlP men h:iv? livi ite deaths best history and traditions inder 1 yr. 899 94 7 855 88.4 s,re8- Your record for valor ;ro deaths votion to duty is as Rood inder 1 yr.1,911 169.4 1,815 176.9 made by Southern soldiers In ite deaths oiutlonary war, or in the rom 1 to 5. 580 61 7 4 11 42.5 war- or in tho c,vil war,ro deaths which conflicts soldiers fr< 1 to 5.1,004 89.0 731 71 3 Southern States made record ite births. 9.386 24.5 9,670 25 1 wl" ,ive as ,on* aH hlstor>' 1 rease for "Another Record." 919 -'84 .6 "You have made another [to births.11,278 25.7 10,255 23.4, which I would like to be rease for which 1 would not like to he 1< 9 1,023 2.3 of. Wherever the Thirtieth Mirths and Deaths. was stationed, in this counti 'he births for the first sixth France, the best of discipline nths of 1918, 21.454; rate per best of morale prevailed. Y 90, 26 2. not professional soldiers, and firths for 1919 (first six months.) thoiiirlit of heinir ?m?h ?< ? i] number 20,691; rate per 1,000 cipline of this division was population, 25.2. as that of the most highly >eaths for the first six months of troops the world ever saw. V 8, 12,623; rate per 1,000, 15.4. discipline there was nothing tenths for first six months of 1919, tary autocracy, hut the most S33; rate per 1.000, 15 4 and even affectionate, feelii tenths from certain disease /or tween officers and men, and i first six months of 1918 were as officers. There was at all tirw ows: ful and whole-hearted devo 1918 duty, a contempt for dangr Hate per aside from the ordinary dutle No. 100,000 diers there was in evidence <*er 252 30.7 where and at nil times goo htheria 23 2.8 and gentlemanly conduct in al entery 213 25.9 In short, tho Thirtieth divisi entery, amebic , . 8 .97 as we knew it, and others 1 ephalit's, lethargic .... ... the perfection of citizen soldi aria 87 10.6 that is the highest type of sol llngltls, cerebro- the world. The Thirtieth divlt tal 156 19. a moral force, a force for law lagra 322 39.2 der, as well as an irresistih umonia 980 119.3 upon the field of battle. lumonia, broncho . 463 56.3 "And the record which you lomyellti* 2 .24 this rospect emboldens me t rlet fever 2 .24 a suggestion and a request. iUpox .... were some of us who were (Continued on Page 3.) (Continued on i'age Eig ei News SUBSCRIP' 7D |S. A. L. TRAIN WRECKED flATl! jll WITH MALICIOUS INTENT TUill >ATU U[| 'v I H HIimmIIioiiimIs Taken to Scene l-'utul ?? ' Wreck of Train No. n Near od as Petersburg Vu. Charac iers (ieri Petersburg, Va , Sept. 29.?Hail road officials have no doubt that the wreck of Seaboard Air Line train No. >TORY 5( three miles south of tins city early 1 IE Saturday morning, was caused by the switches being opened with malicious ... , . intent. The switch lock was broken ,lS Assume and the jaws of the switch held apart (lent tespec- n,ean8 a larse stone. The switch True lamp was stolen, the w ick being found this morning some distance from the Vists lamp standard Dr. J. M. Burke, chief .... I surgeon of the Snnhnarit ivlw? tuan inur " ~ ' """ """ New . . summoned to the scene to attend in- ..... to duty Wilson e South- made a very close examination world s of the Burroundings and says ho has - , ^ . ;irv war. dress rn the civil lit,le doubt that the wrock Probably ,,oindex ... was caused by robbers. Embers of a r.? soldiers Queens . fire built on the embankment above * . . . ade rec- Island t . . tho scene were found. Bloodhounds as his- celebrut were brought to the scene within two foundjn hours, and followed a trail for some ^ ? , i Hnvpr. Senator two miles, when it was lost at a street v?... -v? lypn out i>CW YO railway crossing just beyond the.corof thc porate limits. The s eenville. ter blai The body of Engineer C. E. Smith, . . .... the men in rat it; ... of Raleigh, was taken to Asheville ... ? .... ine will " was "th this morning for interment. The body ,.rn)nfrN of Harrv Ferguson, the lireman, is ent was suggesti .. still at an undertaking establishment .; for the .... cratizat . . in this city, achieve aged ra tieth di- ne8ro killed in the wreck while to t(rjMg beating his way. was identified this pmletar morning as James Ilobbs, of Dinwid- overthn die county, for whom a reward of ^overnti $100 was offered hv the authorities y a row nf Mrunswick county for shooting antieth ill- other negro about six months ago. do this. tat ion t Ton. for I)mVKK loses LIFE r;!p, in k now v,< 1 111 home In ON DILLON TRACK (lexter c assured declarin indcd at Victim of Accident Also Fright- ' ' i< 11 i i return fully liurncd by KxpUMon of . 1 de such ? ? _ will, am Gasoline I nidi. rind-it., ome has 1 rery day " defeat i y have Dillon, S. Sept. 120.- Driving a "The endure! high powered Studobaker racing auto as theii through mobile in the 150 mile race here Poinde.v ding re Thursday afternoon Robert Norton coining Id. these of Columbia was instantly killed or Moor e enthu- when the car plunged through the er Ilils ing that fence inclosing the track, turned Robert ople of tut tie after crossing a ditch and pin- temptin ned him underneath it. One of Xol- of civil e States kou's legs was mashed to pieces as punishn md men ! Wiis one of ^is arms and he was al- just idee! ave felt mos' disemboweled, besides being tionists irfion In t't'ghtf Uy burned from the explosion friend." nix. at ion ''u> gasoline tank on the car. Nor- s on the ?on was strapped to the car d(>nt a was not There whre four entrants in the!on Motion is ;i Ho mile event in which Norton lost the Uni ,o state- his life. All had completed the sev- by the to say? enth lap of the half mile track and the for ?ud of? Norton was in the rear and was mak- an(j saj ed up to ing the turn on the back side of the "aelCdc i of your track. Something went wrong with bad "c and de his car and it was seen to skid slight- tions" I as that ly. He succeeded in righting the car. vited the Rev- ituf it again skidded almost immediat- Italy. Mexican ely nnd plunged through the fence. , f during! The oth<>r drivers mnde nnmh?r tun I I As a ?m th? or two before the rare was stopped Iterferer s which Meanwhile a number of spectators Wj,h w live*. pnd r.'shed to the assistance of Nor- mediate ton. hut he was dead when the first record on(> reached him. Practically all the ,jon to lost zfi clothing was burned front his body ou( tjlf ?st sight an(' flames had consumed the ma- 8(Mit to division chine. ; over Pit ry or in There were 3.500 present for the now sec and the races, but many of them did not see'marines on were the accident as great clouds of dust They sh had no WPrt. kicked up by the fast going ma- ely. Th< the dis- ,.|||ne8 Tho 30 ntile race was called presents as good . . friend I v , off when it became known that Nortrained every p ,'lth this t?n had been killed. people. of mili- * whatevt cordial, STItlKK AT KCX'K 1111.L dent to figs he- HAS I l\.\MA ItKKX SKTTI.K.n people ( nen and Rofk nil, g c ^ep( 20 The our fri? * rl,ef r atrike at Aragon and Arcade mills mir f'u' tlon to ag aiijo< Cr anfj ended Friday after the mills had been "The s of sol- idle seven and a half and five weeks. ? qvery- respectively. The management had "''(<> . . nearly i a orner ou( a>;ajnat the union in which },ave p( 1 things. , ., there were workers other than em months on was. <new it Ployes of the two mills. The result Presidei cry. andji* ?? local union will be formed solely treaty dlery in I of Arcade and Aragon employes, the ,n,< rn 11 i,.n a.oc I league lon strikers finally agreeing to this. Re- . . and or- . . ( i presentatives of the slate board of "throne le force " " * conciliation effected the agreement, dent, rr made tn l-oas in wages total $60,000. This formal o make could hawe been averted had workpi V011 b] 1 u er? not atood out (or rocopnition of # K not n0|>. ror i nc general union embracing all mills In 0f this ht.) the city. other n ^ lU-iul Tin? Ni'ws ^ To (Jet fj Tin- News HON $2.00 A YEAR DEXTER SAYS LSON A MENACE terizes President as Proman and Regards Ilim Leader of Reds R IN CRITICISM ipton Senator Says I'resiWi'son is Tried and Friend of llolsheYork. Sept. 29. President was charac-U'rized as "the greatest menace" in an adf United States Senator Mit< s tor at a mass meeting of county republicans in Long 'ity. The meeting was held to e the 05th anniversary of the g of the republican party. k Wadsworth and Calder. of rk, also spoke. senator from Washington, afnitig the President for delay sing the peace treaty, said he. e greatest pro-Gertuan in the and that his theories and ions regarding the "dornoion of industry" had encourdical labor leaders to attempt [ about a "dictatorship of the iat," which means "the final >\v of our republican form of nent." ' Is Itegard Ilim Lender. tine to the President's inipuhat certain opponents of the eaty and covenant were "pros and bolshevlst?,"' Mr l'oln mtered a vigorous disclaimer, g at the same time that the ut "was forced l y an irresistilic opinion in opposition to his el tried, as late as 1918, to prea negotiated peace and thus [lie aims of the allies." reds of the world regard him - leader," asserted Senator iter. "His abuse of power in to the rescue of the dynaniit ley in California, the murdertroni in Utah, the anarchist, Minor in France, and in atg to set aside the processes and military justice in the nent of these criminals, has I the anarchists and revoluin looking upon him us their icnator attributed to the Pre . statement in an address h >. eh f> last, to the efYeet that ted States should tie sacrifice 1 "joining of our fortunes wit i tunes of men everywhere.'* d his utterances regarding 'term/nation for all peoph s routed disorders and revolu in Korea and Egypt, and insedition and insurrection" in i\\ arrant ed Interference. result of this unwarranted inice in the Finnic controversy hich we have no proper im coueern." said Mr Poindex* ' has brought the Italian na'he verge of civil war. Witi remotest authority he haa participate in the controversy ime and in the fighting which ins imminent there. American and American ships of war. lould be withdrawn Imrnedin*ere is no authority for their p there. It is an affront to a nation and is a violation of rerogative of the American No warrant or authority >r has been given the Presi make war upon the Italian >r any part of them. They are nds and we should observe y, at least as neutrals, if not ?, in Ihe recent war." war is over," continued Mr. iter. "It has been over for a year. Formal peace shoul I en ratified at least eicnt ago." ("harping that the nt had "encumbered" the with the provisions for an ional labor congress and a of nations, the senator dethat both provisions were h the influence of the Presi sponsible for the delay of a peace, and largely resposible, r with the encouragement! Y the President to communist, social and political disaster country, of Italy, Russia and ationa."