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CLINTON, S. C.. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25th, 1919
NUMBER 17
CUSHES USHER IN
THE STEEE STRIKE
Effect of Walkout Felt When Steel
Strikers Walk Oat la Many MON
' la Steel District Both Sides Settle
Down for Loaf Straggle, Mnaiag-
District Uaaffected.
FORMER EMPEROR
REFUSES TO TALK
The second day of the great strug
gle between the labor unions and the
•- United States Steel corporation open
ed with the question as to the ex
tent to which the industry has been
affected by the strike still uncertain,
. cantuasd as lt.l8„.by~ the coafllctlng
claims of the leaders on either side.
That the industry has been gravely
crippled in the great centers of Pitts
burgh, Chicago and Youngstown was
certain and early reports yesterday
recorded several gains for the strik
ers.
In the Birmingham district in Ala-
bama the strike was said to be a dis
mal failure.
The possibility of the spread of the
strike to as yet unaffected plants was
more threatening yesterday. At the
Bethlehem works of the Bethlehem
Steel corporation where 35,000 men
are einploed, the union leaders an
nounced that no. reply had been re
ceived to their request for a confer
ence with the company officials and
that preparations were .being complet
ed for calling out the workers.
Rioting which broke out at the close
of the first day of the strike was re
sumed at different points this morn
ing. The known casualties so far are
one man dead, three others so badly
wounded that they may die, and
scores more or less severely wounded.
The fatality occurred in the Pitts
burgh district. Every mill in Far-
rell, Pa., was closed this morning but
did not prevent a renewal of violence
in whfch TT persons wreEe wounded..
At Buffalo where the great indepen
dent plant of the Lackawanna Steel
company has been forced to suspend
diftrfffronsr according to* fcfcfffce re
ports, rioting occurred last night and
^was resumed this morning. The dis
order here however was apparently
not so serious as in Pennsylvania. The
Bonner Steel company, a sister plant
of the Lackawanna, announced that
operation would cease tomorrow. In
cipient rioting was reported from
Youngstown.
Pittsburgh, Sept 21.—Clashes be
tween Pennsylvania state police and
1 crowds bent on holding labor mass
meetings In the Pittsburgh district to
day ushered in the strike in the iron
and steel industry. The most serious
disturbance occurred at North Clair-
ton, twenty miles from Pittsburgh,
late in the afternoon, where the state
troopers charged a crowd of union
men holding a mass meeting and
broke it up. Resistance was offered
and it is charged by union leaders that
the mounted_-policemen used their
clubs vigorously and injured d number
in the crowd. About a dozen men
were arrested. The meeting was
broken up at the request of local au
thorities.
According to eye-witnesses, the
meeting was proceeding quietly when
the state police broke it up The
crowd scattered and some ran up a
railroad embankment and threw
stones and other missiles at the troop
ers. During the melee, several in the
crowd were struck on the head by
the policemen, it was said. The crowd
soon scattered and as far as can be
learned no one was seriously injured.
During the melee the horse of one of
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the "troopers sufferd a broken leg.
. It is alleged that several shots were
\ired by someone in the crowd.
William Z. Foster, secretary of the
national committee for organizing
iron and steel workers, tonight said
that a vigorous protest would be
lodged with the state government
against what he termed a “murderous
attack upon law-abiding people.”
Some of the blast furnaces of the
Carnegie Steel company are located at
Ctakirton,
There was a slight disturbance at
MofCeesport, where union organizers
attempted to hold a mass mseetipg in
deftance of the prclamation oJLMayor
George Lysle forbidding public gath
erings. Mote than 2,500 steel workers-
and sympathizers were gathered near
the southern limits of the city when
a squad of McKeesport police dis
persed them, driving the crowd into
Glassport, an adjoining borough. .
When the crotfd again began to as
semble in Glasspor^ the 7 local police
Has Nothing to Say Following Visit
of Friend* *. Receives Much News.
Amerongen, Sept. 21.—The former
German emperor has refused to break
his long alienee sc far as the public is
cencerrcd, c-ven at too behest of the
monarchist leaders of Germany. Igna-
tlous T. Lincoln, the German agent,
who was at one time a member of the
British parliament and was interned
during the greater part of the war, re
turned hastily to Berlin today with
his guest “Herr Anderson” after a
conference at Bentnick castle this
morning.
It was believed that Lincoln came to
Amerongen for the purpose of obtain-
lnirsonre~<ftrect word from the former
emperor, which he could deliver to the
Hohenzollern supporters. But if he
did, the nature of it is not disclosed.
Last OTfcht Lincoln informed the As
sociated Press that he expected to
have a startling statement to make
Sunday. But just before hastening by
automobile to Utrecht immediately af
ter the conference, he said he had not
been authorized to talk. _
Lincoln apparently based high
hopes on the conference today. It is
known at Amerongen that while the
monarchists in Germany do not con
sider the time ripe for any revival of
the Hohenzollern claims, they have
been somewhat disturbed by the re
ports that the former royal family
seem content to settle down in Hol
land, and have recently bombarded
both the former emperor and former
crown prince with information, pur
porting to show that the greater part
of the population of Germany will,
sooner or later urge a limited consti
tutional monarchy, with a Hohenzol
lern king.
William Hohenzollern, however,
yhile keeping in close touch with af
fairs, apparently has decided to pre
serve silence both for the sake of
himself and his eldest son.
appeared and ordered the meeting dis
persed. ,
ta.move. and a
detachment of state police appeared
and with drawn clubs broke up the
meetings No one was injured. Two
aliens were arrested for refusing to
obey the order v>f the police to “move
on.”
After dispersing the Glassport
meeting the state police returned to
McKeesport and patrolled the streets.
Crowds were dispersed without diffi
culty.
All preparation had been com
pleted by Mayor Lysle tonight for
putting down disorder in MdKeesport.
All day long men were being sworn in
as special officers. Members of the
McKeesport chamber af commerce
were sworn in as special police. More
than 2,500 police are now available for
duty, Mayor Lysle said. About 3,000
employees of the plant at McKeesport
have been made deputy sheriffs to pro
tect property, it was stated. The stee’
plants in and at>out McKeesport em
ploy approximately 18,000 workmen.
All plants In the McKeesport dis
trict are under heavy guard tonight.
Searchlights have been installed and
command all entrances to the com
pany’s property.
Quiet reigned throughout the day at
Duquesne, Homestead and East Du-
quesne. There w&s no attempt made
by the steel men to hold meetings and
there was no congregating on the
streets.
The steel plants at Homestead and
Duquesne are prepared to protect
their property. Special hashed wire
fenses have been constructed about
exposed property and searchlights
have been installed. Deputy sheriffs
are patrolling the company properties.
Although the call of the unions
made the Strike effective tomorrow
morning reports showed that steel
companies, in the Pittsburgh district
at least, have already felt the effect
of the summons. The skeleton Sun
day day shifts in many plants were
not as complete as under normal con
dition and union leaders said that a
large number of men had decided not
to report tonight.
Sunday was a day of expectancy in
virtually all the iron and steel com
munities in the district. Active un
ionists were busy canvassing men in
their communities to get an idea of
the extent of the walkout, and in the
afternoon mass meetings were held In
many place sin last efforts to per
suade men to join the strike.
DISAPPROVES FRENCH STYLES.
Thinks American Girls are Better
Bred.
Bringing the only soldier’s mother
who visited, her son in France and the
only Italian bride of an American
army officer as passengers, the troop
ship American, flying a thousand foot
long “Homeward Bound”, arrived at
Hoboken Monday.
The “only mother” was Mrs. W. B.
Arnold, of Arkadelphia, Ark., mother
of Lieut. H. B. Arnold, of the Three
Hundred and Thirty-fourth Field Ar
tillery, Eighty-seventh Division.
When the Three Hundred and Thir
ty-fourth embarked for home last
June Lieutenant Arnold was detailed
for further eervice. He said he was
willing to stay if the- authorities
would allow him to send for his moth
er and the authorities agreed. She
went to* France in July on board the
Agamemnon.
In France she stayed at Bassens,
near Bordeaux, where Lieutenant Ar
nold was on duty. She visited all the
camps in the vicinity of Bordeaux and
Brest. Lieutenant Arnold is a ranch
er and the oldest of five brothers and
sisters.
“From the standpoint of an Ameri
can mother—especially one from Ar
kansas,” she said, “I have just this to
say about France, or who were there:
While the great fight was going on
they got along all right. Now, though,
a person can look things over and
compare the towns and camps and
ways of living with America. I was
never so glad to get anywhere as I
am to get back to New York, and if
we can make the train we’ll leave to
night for Arkadelphia.
“In the first place the boys - over
there miss home life in having to do
their own 'washing. They don’t boll
their clothes. That Is conducive to
disease* Then, although the food is
all right—I ate, with the hoys—lining
up with mess pans and then eating
most any place does not induce good
table manners.
“And their beds are not as comfort
able as the beds they slept in at home,
"A' boy wants a soft bed and he gets H
Just right in an American home.
These are the reasons the boys are
homesick and were homesick. The
way they lived they didn’t have a
home feeling.
“I’m a mother of five. Three of
them are girls. Maybe I’m prejudiced,
but to be fair. I’ll compare the French
girls with my neighbors’ girls.
“French girls are not reared like
American girls—their moral training
is not so good—they are not respected
by their men folk nor treated as well
as American boys treat American
girls. This makes a difference.
"And as for dresses, I’ve seen them
in Paris, where fashions are supposed
tn_come from, and the American girls
wear hetteYcIothes.Those short, light
skirts are awful. I’m glad American
girls don’t‘dress like that. Thank
goodness I never saw the barelegged
styles; that would be too much.”
WINTHROP ADMITS
I
BIG STUDENT BODY
Eleven Hundred and Fifty Girls En-
rolled. Classes Began Last Thurs
day.
Rock Hill, Sept.. 18.—The student
body has reassembled at Winthrop
College and the activities of another
session have begun. The faculty re
turned for it£ first meeting at noon on
Thursday, September 11, and on the
morning of the 12th 500 freshmen re
ported at chapel in order that their
classification and enrollment might be
completed before . old students be
gan to arrive. Tuesday’s trains
brought in these old students by the
hundred.
There were 1,407 applications for
entrance to the college, this session,
but only 1,150 have been admitted. As
only one wing of the new dormitory
has been completed to accommodate
the Increased numbers, there is still
considerable crowding in the dormi
tories. It will be recalled that the
Increased cost of construction since
the appropriation by the State was
made for the new dormitory has pre
vented its completion.
At the ringing of the college bell
this morning the auditorium was soon
filled, there being vacant chairs only
In the gallery.
Dr. D. B. Johnson, president, re
quested that the new students be giv
en seats of honor in the front for this
meeting. He then read the 23rd
Psalm and announced the hymn
“Coronation”, which was sung with a
great deal of spirit, after which the
Rev. Guy H. Fraser of the (Episcopal
church offered prayer. - This was fol
lowed by a beautiful vocal selection.
“Yesterday and Today,” by Miss Haury
of the department of music. President
Johnson then addressed the student
body extending words of welcome and
giving wise counsel. — •
In his remarks Dr. Johnson urged
that the opportunity of securing a col
lege training be recognized as a great
and precious privilege, that the stu-
WASHINGTON CHEERS
PERSHING AND MEN
dents begin aConce. today, to do Hu Fiiyt Divimnn marched with full
VAUGHN’S ESCAPE
IS INVESTIGATED
Prisoner Displayed Great Ingenuity in
Getting Away. May Prove Sanity.
Investigation made at Martin's Re
quest.
Columbia, Sept. 17.—The office of
the attorney general today made an
investigation of the facts and circum
stances surrounding the escape of T.
T. Vaugh from the state hospital for
the insane with a view of showing his
sanity. The investigation was made
at the request of Solicitor Martin.
.Morris C. Lumpkin, assistant attorney
general, who /nade the investigation,
called attention to the ingenuity exhib
ited b ythe patient in making his es
cape, but would add no further com
ment.
A report.was forwarded to Solicitor
Martin. Mr. Lumpkin was positive in
hts utterances that no possible blame
could be attached to hospital authori
ties, as every precaution to guard
against such an eventuality had been
observed.
work of their college courses to the
very best of their ability. He remind
ed them further that whatever their
good intentions and resolutions they
coUld hardly hope* to carry them out
and - live the lives they should without
divine help. He advised them to con
nect themseltes 'With the Y. W. C. A.
for mutual help in Christian living.
At the close of Dr. Johnson’s ad
dress, he called on the Rev. Alexander
Martin, D. D., of the Oakland Avenue
Presbyterian church to speak as a
representative of the city churches.
Dr. Martin extended a cordial welcome
to the students to attend services in
any and all the churches. He urged
that they take part in the church life
and expressed his graitude for the part
they had taken heretofore in the work
of his Sunday scliool and church. He
commended the student body for its
ever dignified bearing and reverential
attention in Church, saying that in the
12. years-of his pastorate he had-never
seen any conduct that he could criti
cise unfavorably.
At this juncture the visitors with
drew, and after singing community
songs, the work of classification and
enrollment proceeded. Friday regular
class work will begin.
General Marches at Head of Famoas
First Division. Three Hour Parade
of Fighting Force.
Wastn&ton, Sept. 17.—Hoarse with
cheering, Washington, rested tonight
satisfied that it had paid full honor to
Gen. John J. Pershing and the fight
ing men of the First Division.
The nation’s victory parade was
over. For nearly three hours a roll- 1
ing flood of soldiery, guns and hors
es, tanks and motor trucks had poured
up Pennsylvania Avenue without
check or halt to pass the reviewing
stand where Vice President Marshall,
representing President Wilson, re
viewed the troops.
The wide street ran back full with
its grim, living tide of fighting power
and organization; and as the great
pageant was unrolled before their eyes
the hundreds of thousands of people
who formed those banks roared and
shrieked with pride and approval, the
sound of their cheering slowly dwind
ling at the end, but only from physi
cal exhaustion.
Riding at the head of the mighty
column, General Pershing was carried
forward along the whole line of march
as though on a wave of sound as the
nation and city gave him his formal
greeting. To no American since Ad
miral George Dewey came home in
triumph from Manila has such an ova
tion been tendered. Nor has the end
yet come; for tomorrow congress will
formally add its tribute to that of the
city and the nation and with business
put to one side, tender the expedition
ary commander a formal reception at
the capitol.
Never has Washington witnessed
such a military pageant as that which
today flooded its great victory way.
Men in numbers have marched there
in review, but never has the full pomp
and panoply of war been thus given to
the public.
Fresh from the loyal tribute paid
them in New York, the men of the
LEM COVENANT
VOTE COMES SOON
BELGIUM AND HOLLAND
BREAK OFF RELATIONS
London, Sept. 21.—An official wire-
lass dispatch from Berlin, dated Sat
urday, says that the Belgian ambas
sador at The Hague having been with
drawn, the Dutch ambassador at Brus-
sells has also 'been withdrawn.
Several times recently there have
been reports that diplomatic relations
between Belgium and Holland were
strained as a result of the demands of
Belgium tof a revision of the treaty
of 1839 between Belgium and Holland
under which Holland annexed the
Southern bank of the Scheldt river, an
e^opgated strip of Dutch Limbers ly
ing between Belgium and Germany.
; NEW G-AS STATION.
Announcement is made Ihroujc'h
the advertising columns of The
Chronicle today of the opening of
the Clinton Pilling Station for au-
tomoibilos. The new concern will
handle oils and gas, and will have
a place for washing and cleaning
ears.
• SPOKE HERE SUNDAY.
Dr. J. R Jester of Greenwood
spoke to an unusually large con
gregation Sunday night at the
First Baptist Ghureh in the inter
est of the Baptist $75,000,000 cam
paign.
fighting equipment. From the pond
erous six-inch howitzers of the artil
lery to the diminutive one pounders
and grotesque French molars, the full
strength of the divisional artillery was
there. From the thick clustered bayo
nets of the infantry masses to the
grhn lines of machine gun mounted
motor trucks, the small arms of this
great fighting unit were on display;
and from the lumbering miles of hood
ed supply and ammunition trucks to a
roaring, clattering cavalcade of whip
pet tanks, the tools of every phase of
modern warfare were represented.
In addition to the division’s own
equipment, special service detach
ments from the engineers, a pontoon
bridgq section, a motorised machine
shop with its planes and drills in mo
tion, ^nd even-a mobile laundry unit,
were in line. It was the most com
plete military display attempted since
the war, Jacking only the great guns
to make a composite view of the whole
war army for as the thousands tramp
ed by below, their comrades of .the air
dipped and circled in dozens of air
planes above or marked the progress
of the column from a great observa
tion E>alloon riding high above the
White House.
The mechanical perfection of equip
ment, the motorized artillery, -ammu
nition and supply trains, the chug
ging rows of ambulances driven by
men who had carried succor to thous
ands of stricken comrades on the
battlefields of France, » all brought
round after round of cheers. It was
y
trudging sturdily ahead that the
heart of the crowd went out. They
represented sheer man powfer, the
youth and strength of the nation, tried
and proved in battle. Terse placards
told where each unit, had fought, and
the names of the French villages sent
a thrill through every spectator.
To the men wounded in those battles
and not able to march, special tribute
was given as they rode by in motor
cars. And to the group in invalid
chairs under the trees of a park just
beyond the reviewing stand or lying
full length in their stretchers along
the curb with nurses hovering about
them, there flowed a strong current
of sympathy and pride from the thous
ands grouped about. They were
j sightseers from the military hospital,
j men whose wounds will keep them
long from civil life. The flags of the
marching regiment were dipped to
them in passing.
Upon the row of French 75’s with
which two of the artillery regiments
were armed, the crowds gazed with
almost the same affection France feels
for these weapons that hav been
MARY PICK FORD IN "DADDY
LONG LEGS" HERE SEPT. 2J)th.
Mary Pickford in "Daddy Long Legs"
will ap)>ear next Monday the 2 , .)th . at
the Casino lor one day only, matinee
and night. Their advertisement in
t°da\ s paper gives the date of the to the solid blocks of the infantr)
20th which is” an error on tjie part of
The Chronicle and should read the
29th. This picture is making a big
hit everywhere and will doubtless la?
seen here next Monday by unusually
large crowds.
Senate to Pass Upon First AaMwI-
ment. Both Factions Alert.
Washington, Sept 21.—Imminence
of a decisive vote by the senate on
amending the league of nations cove
nant will hold the German peace
treaty preeminent in affairs of con
gress this week. Except for concern
over the industrial sittmtion, especial
ly the steel workers’ strike, the league
of nations contest promises to dwarf
all other qmotions at the capitol.
The second week of actual consid
eration of the peace treaty will open
tomorrow, with both advocates add
opponents of the legaue conceding the
approach of the first actual test of
strength. By the end of the week or
early next week both factions expect
the first vote on amendment of the
league covenant. While the senate is
engrossed with the treaty, the house
will be comparatively inactive, con
sidering dye tariff revision and other
minor bills.
The senate factions are to have
their full voting strength on hand to
morrow to remain until roll calls are
reached. Little action, however, is ex
pected for a few days. Debate will Le
resumed tomorrow, Senator Reed,
democrat, of Missouri planning a
lengthy address in attack on the
league covenant. A few other ad
dresses are being prepared, but it is
expected the period of fast and furious
“infighting” soon will be reached.
The first test of strength undoubt
edly will center about the amendment
of Senator Johnson, Republican, of
California to give Great Britain and
the United States equal voting power
in the league assembly. Republican
leaders believe they can muster their
greatest strength on this amendment
and consider that if adopted it could
enhance their prospects ^voting •fur**
ther amendments. Democratic lead
ers, however, express unimpaired con
fidence that without the aid of Repub
licans opposing amendments they will
be able to defeat each and every
amendment. ^ »
Although senate committee meet
ings, investigations and all other af
fairs will be subordinated to the treaty
controversy it is planned to dispose
of other business daily before the
treaty is called up. Leaders hope to
enact this week the prohibition en
forcement bill and, possibly, the food
control extension act to provide prof
iteering penalties.
GOES TO CHARLOTTE.
Mr. Harvey Layton, who hat?
beeti connivie<T wtIh M. X.- J >aitey
& Son, Bankers, for the pasT two
years as bookkeeper, left Sunday
for Charlotte where he has accept
ed a~"elcrieul pc.sdtion with the
Southern Bell ' Telephone Com
pany. Mr. Layton had made his
home here for a number of years
aityl due to his splendid qualities
had made mi ny friends in the -city
who regret that his now "work car
ries him elsewhere and whose best
wishes will follow him. lie is suc-
eoedej at his former position by
Mr. Goinos Simpson now with the
local express company.
called her saviors. Ahead of the Sixt
Artillery, (Still in its battle fror
camouflaged and stained with the mu
of France the long slim gun that sen
the first shot of America singing int
the enemy lines rode in a place c
honor. It was mounted in a specia
trailer towed by a motor truck an
a continuous cheer greeted its passag
along the victory'way. To the rollin
kitchen especial tribute was given a
they rumbled by after massed column
with supper steaming in the kettle:
In winding up the ceremonies of r<
ception to General Pershing tomoi
row. congrss will meet in joint set
sion, the members of the senat
marching in a body to the hous
chamber for the purpose. Senate
Cummins, president protein of the set
ate. and Speaker GUlett will delivt
the addresses of wlcotne, while Fonr
er Speaker Champ Clark *111 exten
the formal thanks of congress to Get
eral Pershing and his men as express
ed in the joint resolution alrdad
adopted. With his own reply Genert
Pershing will dose the efremony an
all of the formal functions codnecte
with his return from France.