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VOLUME III
CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER ZOtb, 1919
MM EFFORT
RESULTS IN FAILURE
Miners Plan to Strike at Beginning of
Next Month in Spite of Appeal from
President Wilson Made on Sick B< <1.
Washington, Oct. 24.—The last gov
ernment effort to avert the coal strike
set for November 1, failed utterly to
night and half a million miner swill
qiiiTwork on Tfie very'eve of* winter,
with the nation’s bins running danger
ously low. Even an appeal from Pres-
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House, was not enough to bring peace
to a conference that was torn and on
the breaking point half a.dozen- times
during the day. Charges and counter
charges flew thick and fast as the
groups of operators and miners filed
out of the meeting which began some
what hopefully four days ago.
• While the operators announced that
they had accepted the president’s of
fer to wipe the slate clean and negoti
ate a new wage agreement, the miners
charged that the operators had bolt
ed without the consent of Secretary of
lAbor Wilson, the storm center of an
extraordinary fight to save the coun
try untold distress and suffering.
Surrounded by a score of miners,
John L. Lewis, president of the United
Mine Workers of America, hurried out
of the hall without stopping but halted
long enough to announce that the
strike order stood and that the min
ers would walk out after a full day’s
work on the closing day of the present
month. The final breaking up of the
conference, Lewis said,'meant that of
ficial notice of the failure would be
sent forth with the unions everywhere
to ordr the men out of the mines at
'the appointed hour. .
The president’s appeal was made
through Secretary Wilson after the
latter had exhausted every possible ef-
ached. It was pointed out what a
strike meant and urged the two sides
to get together, negotiate their dif-
fernces, resorting to arbitration only
in the event that negotiations failed.
The important point in the proposal,
however, was that the mines be kept
open and the miners stay at work.
The miners and operators had left
the conference room and Secretary
Wilson, the tears springing to his
eyes, was gathering up his papers,
when he announced that his efforts
and the president’s efforts had fallen
down and that the. conference had ad
journed for good. He brief explained
the' status, but refused to be drawn
into charges of bad faith.
“The operators agreed to accept the
proposal of the president in its en
tirety, Mr. Wilson said, “and to pro
ceed with negotiations and if they fail
ed to come Jo a conclusion to submit
the matters stHl in dispute to arbitra
tion, the mines to continue in opera
tion pending adjoufhment.
‘The miners interpreted the presi
dent’s letter as two proposals. They
were willing to accept the first, that is,
to proceed to negotiate. The opera
tors said that having expressed a will
ingness to accept the president’s pro
posal in its entirety they held them
selves ready to proceed to negotiate
and arbitrate whenever called upon by
the secrtary of labor or by the min
ers’ scale committee, and with that
statement withdrew.
“The miners remained and ex
pressed their regret that the negotia
tions could not go on, but declined to
proceed with the negotiations until it
had been determined whether the re
sults of the negotiations would be suc
cessful or unsuccessful.
“The conference then adjourned
without date." . .'
That was all the fecretary would
say, except to explain briefly how the
miner’s position worked out.
“The president’s proposal,” he de
clared, “was, first to negotiate second
to submit the matter to arbitration If
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negotiations failed and third to keep
the mines in operation.
“The first the ^nitfers accepted, and
held over the other two.
“What is your next step ’’ Mr. Wil
son was asked.
“Down to the automobile,” he re
plied, as he saw the last of bis hard
work fall dow».
There was little hope of settling the
strike when the miners and operators
met late today after two offers by the
secretary had been rejected. In op
ening the meting Mr. Wilson said he
had Just come from the White House
with a message from the president
urging peace that the people might
have a bountiful stock coal. Miners
TWO ARMY FFIFR3
SLAIN BY MEXICANS
Fishermen KiH Connolly and Water-
house. Story of Sufferings.
San Diego, Cal., Oct. 26.—It was of
ficially announced here tonight that
Lleiits. Cecil H. Connolly of San iDlego
and Frederick B. Waterhouse of Weis-
er, Idaho, army aviators, missing since
ifornla by two Mexican fishermen.
The announcement was made upon
the arrival heso ot - deatsflgfifc
Aaron Ward bringing the bodies of the
two aviators from Bahia Los Angeles,
on the Gulf of Lower California, to
which point they had flown after los
ing their way in a border patrol flight
from Yuma, Ariz., to San Diego.
The destroyer also brought a part
of a story of the sufferings endured
by the young aviators, in the form of
notes scrawled in part on the wings
and fusilage of the ©eiHaviland aero
plane in Which Conolly and Water-
house made their last fight. Some of
these messages, evidently written
when the aviators ban almost lorft
hope of being found, were of such* a
tragic nature that Major Bratton
asked the newspaper reporters to re
frain from using them out of consid
eration for the officers’ families.
Major Bratton said that the two
aviators had gone 19 days without
food or at least without much to sus
tain them. The fate that drew them
far from their air path remained with
them until the very last. Maj. Theo
dore MacAuley, in one, of his flights
to find them, flew within 60 miles of
the spot, where they stood guarding
their plane. Later, on the afternoon
of September 6, they were landed from
a canoe on the shores of Bahia Los
Angeles hy the same fishermen who
radiator of their plane. This prove
sufficient to allay their thirst up to'
the time they were taken to Bahi
Los Angeles from Guadeloupe bay,
where the plane landed, by the fisher
men.
, The party which left San Diego Oc
tober 16 includes, besides Major Brat
ton, who is attached to the Twenty-
fifth infantry at Nogales, Ariz., two
other army officers and several of
ficials and soldiers of the northern
district of Lower California and Joe
Allen Richards, mining engineer, whb
SINGING GERMAN
OPERAS PERMITTED
New York Supreme Court Justice Re
fuses to Withdraw His Injunction
in Case. New Jersey City Forbids
Operas. *
New York, Oct. 23.—The, attempt b/
the city authorities backed by the
American Legion to stop the singing
of German operas in New York, two
performances of which have resulted
in serious rioting, received a further
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and operators, sitting in separate
groups, listened closely while the sec
retary reajl the following letter fro
the president, embodying his sugges
tions for settling the strike.
“I have been watching with deep
and sincere interest your efforts- to
bring about a just settlement of the
differences between the operators and
the coal miners in the bituminous coal
fields of the country. It is to be hoped
that the good judgment that has been
exercised by both operators and min
ers in years gone in the adjustment of
their differences will again prevail in
the present crisis.
“All organized society i^ dependent
upon the maintenance of the fuel sup-
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ence. The government has appealed
with success to other classes of work
ers to propose similar questions until
a reasonable adjustment could be ar
rived at.
“With the parties of this controversy
rests the responsibility of seeing that
the fuel supply of the nation is main
tained. At this time when the world
is in need of more supplies it would
be cruel neglect of our high duty to
humanity to fail them.
“I have read the suggestion made
by you that the wage scale committees
of the operators and miners go into
conference without reservation for the
purpose of negotiating an agreement
as though no demands already had
been made or rejected, having due re
gard to tha interests of their respec
tive groups. I am in accord with that
suggestion.
“No body of men knows better the
details, intricacies and technicalities
of mining than do the miners and op
erators. No body of men can work out
the details of the wage scale on a
more equitable basis. Their judgment
would undoubtedly E>e based upon a
sum total of knowledge of the indus
try. Whatever their differences may
be, no matter how widely divergent-,
their viewpoints may be from each
other, it is a duty that they owe so
ciety to make an earnest effort to
negotiate those difference and to keep
the mines of our country in operation.
“After all the public interest in this
vital matter is the paramount consid
eration of the government, and admits
of no other action than that of consid
eration of a peaceful settlement of the
matter as suggested by you. If, for
any reason the miners and operators
fail to come to a mutual understand
ing the interests of the public are of
sqch vital Importance in connection
with tlie production of coal that it is
incumbent upon them to refer the mat
ter in dispute to a board of arbitra
tion for determination and to continue
the operatiqns of the mines pending
the decision of the board."
Official Washington, beginning to
realize the grim horror of a coal
strike, was bombarded tonight with
conflicting claims as to which side was
responsible. It turned, however, to
what,Mr. Wilson had dictated at the
final break up as the explanation with-'
out knowing the next move. An
nouncement by President Lewis that
the strike would begin at the time
called, caused a hurried rush to find
out how much bituminous coal there
is on hand and how long it might last,
once the mines shut down. The first
reports were discouraging, although
dealers’ and brokers’ estimates have
Indicated that the supply, with proper
care, might last a month.
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days later and at that time were only
12 miles from Los Flores Silver mine,
where they might have received pro
tection and food.
One of their messages, scratched on
the airplane fusilage with a knife or
nail, said the airmen remained In the
air four hours and five minutes; that
they ran into a rain storm and lost
their sense of direction. When they
lighted near the Gulf of California
they thought they were flying up the
coast instead of southward along the
east coast of the Gulf of California.
Another message, traced on the
wings and fusilage, told how the air
men attempted vainly for two days to
catch fish to appease their hunger.
They then started walking northward
toward the border, but returned to
their airplane in 36 hours when their
supply of water became exhausted.
The airmen drank the water from the
_ . . j „ v. ™ i setback today when Supreme Justice
»r 5 t M^^.4nmn 8 .the ^
Its Gils OAnAitwf /x# tHiS Avnnril- —
ary injunction obtained by the pro
ducing company-. The injunction pro-
JjjMifiJ^& citX-aaihorlties^from intqr-
Bratton in an account of the expedi
tion said:
“The Aaron W r ard arrived at Bahia,
pi mrrefoWTgr
We immediately went ashore with
Richards acting as guide and in a few
moments had discovered the graves.
The bodies bad been disturbed,- the
skulls being found under some brush
about ten feet distant from the bodies.
“The bodies were then disinterred
and formal inquest started.
“There was absolutely no question
that the bodies were those of Conolly
and Waterhouse.” —
The officer then told of the party’s
going up the ^uif to Guadelupe Bay,
20 miles to the northward, where the
plane, piloted by Connolly and Water-
house, was discovered on the beach.
“The two airmen had made a perfect
landing," he continued, “hot Mexicans
subsequently removed the motor from
the fupllage, stole all the ammunition
for the twp machine guns and carried
away ot^her equipment. The motor
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ferrin* with the petformancesj On the
question of a permanent injunction.
Justice Giegerich directed counsel for
E>oth sides to submit briefs to him on
Saturday.
At today’s hearing arguments op
posed to granting a permanent injunc
tion were presented by Martin W. Lit
tleton, representing the American Le
gion, and Assistant Corporation Coun
sel Nicholson, who appeared for the
city. Mr.-Littleton referred to Otto
Gorits, a member of the opera com
pany, as the singer of a song of jubila
tion following the Lusitania disaster.
“Should Goritz be allowed to flaunt
German opera in the faces of men still
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evidently was too heavy to carry away,
and It was foup$) nearby. The wheels,
engine, machine guns, compass and
other equipment worth salvaging were
taken aboard the Ward.
smarting from the wounds of war?” he
asked. Mr. Nicholson contended that
the singing of operas in German lead
to disorder and the violation of muni-
cipal laws.
Max De Steur, representing the
opera company, asserted there was no
legal basis to prevent the performanc
es of the opera. He also pointed out
that the speaking of German had nev
er been prohibited in the United
States. *
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Patterson, N. J., Oct. 23.—German
opera here was forbidden today by the
f-pf IKfffgg oil eomiplaliit \»f the
American Legion. A new York local
of the “White Rats,” an actors’ union,
’affUfAKWFrwit lithe Aiwfiem
tion of Labor, had announced a per-'
formance of '.‘Der Rastel Binder”.
When the local post of the Legion pro-
-tested, Chief Tracey informed the pro
prietor of the hall that no German
production would be permitted until
peace was proclaimed and that police
men would be at the hall tonight to en
force this dictum.
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