The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, July 05, 1922, Image 1
THE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850.
CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2,1881. _
LABOR BOARD REPLIES
TO COMMUNICATION OF
" RAILWAY EMPLOY
lisue Taken With Mr. Jewell on Several
Points?Comparisons Made in Pur
t chase Value of Wages Now
and In 1915
Hr. B. M. Jewell, president, Rail
way Employes' Dept., A.. F. of
1^., 4750 Broadway* Chicago, 111.
? Dear Sir: Tour communication
of-the 17th .instant, in which the
presidents of the eleven organiza
tions composing your department
also joined, has been duly received
and most carefully considered.
Your letter is to the effect that
certain decisions of the railroad la
bor board have been submitted to a
strike \'Ote of the members of your
several organizations and that, in
the event the vote is affirmative,
the strike will be sanctioned by you
and your associate officials.
? might seem that your com
munication calls for no official re
sponse.* Personally, however, I
have .always felt a willingness to go
beyond the strict limits of my offi
cial authority in the interest of
railway peace, when this could be
-donewithout the sacrifice of any
principle or the commission of any
official, impropriety.
. Inasmuch as a vote in favor of a
strike by the men is not to be a
mere, formality, but is to be follow
ed by.^a strike order % from the or
ganization heads, I deem it a duty
to make reply to your letter
It is to be presumed that you
do-not desire that the members of
, your-organization shall vote for a,
proposition that contains such pos
sibilities of loss and detriment to
themselves, upon a misunderstand
ing of the action and attitude of
this fcoard. It is a fact, however,
that your letter doe? manifest a
strikingly distorted conception ., of
what the board has done and Why
it'did- it.
. .In the mo3t concise manner pos
sible ^and without the reptition "of
much detail, let me call ;attention
to a few statements iir^your'letter.
1. '-Your statement that' the
hoard's last decision "states openly
that-pressure of circumstances was
such that the -board: was'rrnable to
determine just and . reasonable
"wVges" is not correct. %h* decision
contains no such . statement and
none that can be . fairly so con
. st rued.
:./;The decision recites at length the
abnormal economic and industrial
conditions of the post-war period,
and. then says:
"Surrounded by such abnormal
conditions, the Labor Board has
cot been permitted to deal with the
question of what constitutes just
and. reasonable wages and; working
conditions in the same undisturb
ed and uncomplicated manner as
would have been possible, in normal
times/'
. This simple recognition of dif
ficulties experienced by the whole
world should not be twisted into
an interpretation designed to mis
lead the men whose interest are
most directly involved.
2. Your statement that this board
says that "the establishment of just
wages for railway workers must
await the complete satisfaction of
0 Tnership. in the matter of rehabil
itation and profits" is_ an inexcus
able perversion of both the lan
guage and meaning of what the
board in fact said. A strike of
railway employees, involving their
wages, their employment and their 1
welfare, based upon such mislead
ing statements of this board's senti
ments and declarations, would be
unjust to the men and to the pub
lic.
3. The statement in the board's!
decision "that labor1 can not be
completely freed from the econom
ic laws which likewise affect the
earnings of capital" is so obviously
sound that it will not be question
ed anywhere this side of the king
dom of the Bolsheviki. And yet,
you mention this as an occasion
of offense.
Your construction of this as
meaning "the treatment of labor
as a commodity" is strained, espec
ially so, in view of .the fact that
the board, in the same paragraph,
said:
"It should be said that the labor
hoard has never adopted the theory
that human labor is a commodity
to be bought and 30ld upon the
market, and. consequently, to be
reduced to starvation wages during
periods of depression and unem-,
ployment."
4. Your statement that the board
'failed to take into consideration
the principle that eve nthe lowest
paid railway employees, such as
section men and laborers, should
receive at least a living wage." is
utterly baseless.
Your continual isolation and ac
centuation of the fact that a niin
mum rate of 23 cents an hour. S1.84
a day. was established for section
men is entirely misleading: because
it overlooks or suppresses so many
connected facts, among which are
the following:
(1) The rate for Section men
ranges from 23 to 35 cents per
hour:
(2) A comparatively small num
ber of them receive 23 cents per
hour. A vast majority of them re
ceive the higher wages. This is
shown by the fact that the average
rate per hour is 32.7.
<3> Thv 23 cents rate is found on
? comparatively small number of
divisions on a few roads in the
south and southwest. It is not even
found on the Southern and Illinois
Central. ? which cut4 completely
through the south.
(4) Where this minimum rate is
found, the cost of living is usually
law, and th emen in many instances
are furnished free living quarters.
(5) In 1915 this class of labor
received an average hourly rate of
: 15- cents, and in. 1917. an average
j hourly rate of 19.3 cents.
(6) The hourly rate of this class
1 of employees has. therefore increas
: ed under the present decision 69.4
j per cent over 1917 and 118 per cent
over 1915.
(7) Based upon the cost of living
the purchasing power of the hourly
wage of section men under the pres
ent decision is 44.5 per cent greater
than it. was in 1917 and 37.3 per
cent greater .than in 1915.
(8^ If it be said that-the 10 hour
day prevailed in 191 J, and the 8
hour day now, it may likewise be
said that .the man either gets the
benefit of>the extra two hours for
his own purposes or in many in
stances he will now be permitted
j to work the .two hours, since puni
tive overtime has been abolished
for this class of employees for the
ninth and tenth hour.
- (9) Even comparing the present
8 hour wage with the 10 hour wage
of 1915, the purchasing power of
the new wage is"9.8 per cent great
er than that of 1915, and the man,
has, on top of this, the gift of two
hours' time for other activities.
(10) It must also be clearly un
derstood that the 23 cent rate will
I exist only'in a territory where the
Bailroad Administration, after care
ful investigation, found a justifi*
cation for and did .establish a lesser
! rate than paid the same classes in
? the balance of the country, which
] condition has not been disturbed
i by decision of this board,
j In vi&w of these facts, not a one
I of which you can yourself dispute,
] there is nc ground for the fierce
assaults which you make upon the
action of the board in this matter.
For your information. I will say
that I recently made some limited
investigation, personally and on the
ground, of the wages of common
labor in one southern state, and
found the new rate for section men
appreciably higher than' the rates
to similar labor in other employ
ments.
It may also be noted just here
that the average pay of section
foremen under the new decision
is 119.7 per' cent higher than it
was in 1915. and that the purchas
ing power of the section foreman's
wages is 38.5 per cent higher than
it was in 1315. His average hourly
rate in 1915 was 23.3 cents, and
under the new decision it is 51.2
cents.
You do not enter into any dis
cussion of the wages fixed by the
board for other classes of employees
but I reiterate here the statement
demonstrated in the decision of the
board that the purchasing power
of these rates is very considerably
larger than it was in 1917. just
before Federal control, ^or than it
was in the year you prefer to use
as a base. 1915.
Surely the leaders of these rail
way labor organizations cannot' ex
pect to win with the approval of
people of the United States by a
rigid, unyielding resistance to the
inevitable process of readjustment
which has been in progress for the
past year. If the public is satisfied
that the railway employees have
been even more than fairly dealt
with by comparison with similar la
bor and in view of the conditions
surrounding their work, there will
be no demand that they shall be
j treated as absolutely immune from
' the operation of the economic pro
cesses through which everybody
j else must pass.
I The fact cannot be overlooked
I that the policy of the leaders of
j the employees seems to be to ac
1 cept no reduction, however slight.
! For example, a strike vote hs being
j submitted to the stationery engi
neers, firemen and oilers, whose
'wages under the new decision shows
} an increase over the compensation
?they received before the war. Xot
j withstanding the increased cost of
j living, the increase in the pay of
j these employees has been so great
i as to result in the following per
? centages of increase in the purchas
i ing power of tbeir wages under the
J present decision over 1915.
Stationary engineers 70.0
j Stationary firemen.42.1
j Engine room oilers. 42.1
Boiler room water tenders. 25.0
Coal passers (boiler room >.. 25.9
i The increase of their actual daily
wage under the new decision over
1915 range*? from 100 per <-ent to
1S9.9 per cent. And yet there is
submitted to them a strike ballot.
It is scarcely worth while to.mul
tiply those examples of the real
meaning and effect of the board's
i derision of which you complain,
j I^et me say. before concluding.
I that the members of your organiza
tion have no occasion to reflect up
' on the official, representatives in
j connection with the conduct of
: these wage disputes before our
I board. The employees have been
jably and loyally represented, and,
in my humble judgment, have se
"Bs Just and Fear
FLORENCE
SHOPMEN
GET ORDERS
Local Officials Con
strue Walkout as
Optional With Men
and With Union
Florence, June 29.-r-Member3 of
ihe Florence local of the Atlantic
Coast Line railroad shop crafts
union today received permission by
telegraph from their head officials
to quit their jobs at 10 o'clock Sat
urday morning".
The local chairman construed the
j telegram as making the walkout
optional with the local union and
with the individual members. The
instructions received are the first of
the kind ever received here, it was
stated today. Local union men
j would not say today whether
! there would be a strike on Satur
jday or not. The railroad officials
here have received; no notification.
Approximately 700 men will be af
fected here if the strike comes
off.
WILL MAKE
PAYMENT
Depositors in Peoples' Bank of
Greenwood to Receive
Money
Greenwood, June 29.?Deposi
I tors of the Peoples' bank of this
I city, the affairs of which were
taken over by the Bank of Green
I wood as liquidating agent in Jan
uary. 1921, will be paid 20 per
cent, of the balance of their un
paid deposits tomorrow, according
to announcement of the trustees of
the bank today. A 40 per cent,
payment of the total deposits was
made on December 27. 1921.
Since the payment of 40 per cent,
i of the total deposits the trustees
j ha.ve succeeded in spite' of unfavor
I able financial conditions in col
j lecting enough to make a 20 per
j cent, payment-' at this time.
j DEMPSEY AGREES
J TO FIGHT NEGRO
Accepts Challenge of Harry
Wills.
New York, June 29 (By the As
sociated Press).?First- steps in
negotiations which, it is believed,
eventually will - bring Jack Demp
sey and Harry Wills, negro pugi
list into the ring for a titular
match for the heavy weight crown
were taken today when Dempsey
accepted Wills* challenge.
This acceptance was announced
! by the New York state boxing com
! mission. This body officially ac
} knowledged receipt of the challenge
and deposit of $2.500/and later is
sued a proclamation stating that,
unless Dempsey, before July 10,
accepted under reasonable condi
tions, his title would be declared
forfeited as far as New York state
boxing territory was involved. In
accepting the challenge, Dempsey.
through his manager. Jack Kearns.
requested that a conference be
tween the principals be held soon,
so that conditions governing the
proposed bout might be considered.
No date for this conference was
mentioned in the statement issued
by the boxing commission, but it
is understood that the managers
of the two heavyweights will meet
and arrange the necessary pre
liminary details within the next
week or ten days!.
Rainbow Veterans
I Plan For Reunion
I Former Members of Famous
Division to Gather at
Greenwood in July
Greenwood. June 29.?Prepara
tions are being made here for the
annual reunion of veterans of the
Rainbow division living in North
Carolina and South Carolina which
will be held in Greenwood July 10
fand 11. A large number of mem
I bers of the famous division are ex
? pected to attend.
j No program has yet been an
' nounced but. according to L- A.
Dugan. chairman of the reception
committee, the reunion will be long
remembered by every Rainbow
veteran who attends.
cured results that should be satis
factory to them. With the degree
of freindly interest that I feel in
these organizations and with the
recognition that I accord to their
great service to their membership
1 am hopeful that they will not
adopt a course that will 'surely
prove dms'trous to the organiza
tion and unfortunate to the men
composing them. It is regrettable
that such a step is contemplated
at a time when the country is just
entering upon an era of more stable
industrial conditions that give
promise of an enlarged degree of
prosperity to railway employees.
Very respectfully,
Ben W. Hooper. Chairman.
Co-William H. Johnson.
J. A. Franklin.
Jas. W. Kline.
.1. .1 Hynes,
Jas. P. Xoonan,
Martin F. Ryan.
K. F. Grable.
B. H. Fitzgerald,
Timothy Healy,
V. W. Hoit.
Not?Let all the ends Thou Aims't
Sumter, S. C? Wgdru
[GOVERNMENT
WILL MOVE
IN STRIP
United States Rail
road Labor Board
Summons Heads of
Unions and Execu
tives to Appear in
Federal Investiga
tion in Chicago Tp
day
Chicago. June 29 (By the Asso
ciated Press).?Intervention by "the
federal government under the aii'
j tho'rity of the transportation' ?act
created to maintain the orderly
jcourse of the nation's transporta
{tion arteries loomed tonight as the
final hope of averting the threat
ened railroad strike of 400.000
shopmen, and possibly 500,000
more railroad workers.
Their ultimatum to the railway
executives rejected, chief execu
tives of the six shop crafts unions,
which have called a strike for 10
j o'clock Saturday morning, and tho
! leaders of four other unions now
I polling a strike vote, prepared to
| night to answer the summons of
jthe United States railroad labor
I board to appear in a federal 'in
vestigation tomorrow.
With the union heads were
summoned the executives of 23
railroads, charged by the employ
i ees with illegally contractingvshop
work in violation of the board's
orders, one of the three questions'
on w-hich the shopmen have been
casting, strike ballots for the last
two wekes. Other railway execu
tives of the 201 class roads in "the
country also were asked by the
board to be present.
Developments of the strike sit
uation came in rapid sequence to
[ day. International presidents of
i the . six shop unions announced
{telegrams authorizing their mem
bership to walk out Saturday
j morning. ' ' '
The labor board immediately
! recognized a threatened interrup
tion of traffic and actihgunder the
\ authority of the transportation act
[issued citations " tothe .,strike.
I leaders to come before it?or offi
i .
! cial inquiry.
j The Association of Railway
[Executives meeting here on other
j matters considered and rejected the
{union proposal of a truce pending
i negotiation over wages and work
f ing conditions.
j The. executives declared that a
j strike would be against the orders
of the- labor board and against the
} United States government and thus
j absolved themselves from further
j responsibility to the present situ
j ation". ^
I Rumors of a compromise to be
I submitted by the labor board at
i a meeting this afternoon, had it
that the railroads agree to abol
ish the system of farming
out work to contractors,
which was one of the issues in the
strike referendum and controversy
in which the board has ruled
concession by the carriers as a
against several roads. With this
! partial victory for the unions, their
leaders were said to be manifest
ing a disposition to cancel tomor
row's strike order and accept the
wage reduction.
! The assurance that the railroads
! and employees will* abide by the
law and orders of the United States
Railroad Labor Board was the
basis on which the Federation
Labor body pinned its hopes of
throttling the threatened railroad
strike.
MORE MEN
ON STAFF
'Governor Appoints Four as
Lieutenant Colonels
I Columbia, June 30.?Gov. Har
j vey yesterday announced the ap
pointment of the following men as
members of his military staff: D.
L. Smith. Walterboro: Jesse S.
Leopard. Central: J. L. Michie. Dar
lington; J. B. Gibson, Dillon. All
members are to rank as lieutenant
colonels.
j Irish Republicans
Escape by Tunnel
! _
I
i Belfast. June 30.?The republi
cans in Four Courts at Dublin are
? escaping from the building by
! means of a tunnel which thev have
i
; constructed for use in emergenc y.
' say*3 a Dublin message received
i here this afternoon. The flight fol
J lowed a tremendous explosion at
I twelve thiry in the Four Courts.
, Hiid was followed by a shower of
j legal documents. the message
I stated.
-?
State Police at
Pennsylvania Mines
Punxsutawney. Pa.. June 30.?
j A detail of state police arriv ed to
I day to take over the eoal strike
situation, after yesterday's disor
ders iii the mining district around
here. The marching men were es
timated to number three hundred.
They destroyed the coal house
scales and wrecked a motor truck
carrying coal. The march w?<s fin
ally broken up by troopers. There
were uo casualties,
aj be thy Country's, Thy God'g and
g|day, July 5, 1922
0 DISCUS
COAL STRIKE
SITUATION
?
tnvitatiohs to White
House Accepted by
) All Principals. Con
! x ference Saturday
I Remains More or
jfejess a Mystery
i & Washington. June 29.?With
! |eceptances received from all the
j principals in the bituminous and
i anthracite coal strikes, both on the
eperators' and the miners' union
feide. official Washington tonight
began preparations for the Satur
day conference President Harding
has called to consider a possible
.'?basis for resuming work in th<
mine fields.
Both sides having accepted, a
question remains only on. two
I points: first, as to the identity of
the individuals who would repre
j sent the employers of the union
j ized bituminous field, and. second,
{what would be the administration's
j plan for procedure after the meet
| ing assembled.
At the commerce and labor de
partments where officials have
) chiefly been occupied with the
[strike settlement plan, it was inti
mated that the union leaders and
the operators would be expected to
work out their own course after
the conference assembled. Pres
ident Harding was expected to
bring the groups together but his
engagements call for him to leave
Washington immediately after and
it was expected that Secretary
! Davis and Secretary Hoover would
I represent the government in the
? immediate negotiation.
Emphasis was placed behind the
j assertions in semi-official discus
! sion that the government did not
I expect the meeting to bring about
fa strike settlement itself, but to
: recommend, if possible, to asso
; ciations by those present a further
j course which might be followed
land which might result in settle
j ment. It was considered unlikely
; that the meeting would be public.
iHOUSE TO TAKE
LONG VACATION
Members Go Home to Enter
Campaigns
Washington, June SO. ? The1
I house of representatives adjourned
: tonight at 9:49 o'clock until Aug
just 15. thus giving members oppor
jtunity to return home to l?ok after
j their campaigns while the senate
? still is at work on the tariff.
! Democrats, opposing adjoiurn
j ment almost solidly, forced a roll
j call. The vote to quit was 171 to
; 43 with two voting "present"
[ "The Democrats having voted
j with their fingers crossed, I now
move that the house be adjourn
ed." said Representative Mondell.
the Republican leader.
There was a shout and a wild
race to taxicabs waiting outside
to rush members to outgoing
j trains.
j In opposing adjournment. Dem
? ocrats insisted the house ought to
; stay in session and act on Henry
; Ford's offer for lease of Muscle
j Shoals.
j On objection by Representative
[Montague (Democrat) of Virginia,
j Mr. Mondell failed to get through
j a request that all members be
j given five days in which to extend
i their remarks in The Congression
jal Record on any subject relating
i to legislation.
j To enable the house to clean its
affairs, a technical session of the
senate was held at 9 o'clock for
signature of last minute bills by the
senate's presiding officer. ;
j Washington. June 30.?Although
[two-thirds of its session was devot
, ed to cleaning up conference re
j ports so the house might start on
its vacation, the senate made more
; rapid progress today on the tariff
; bill than it had in any single one j
lof the 60 odd days the measure has
j been before it. Thirty-eight
[amendments to the agricultural and
j fo>Ki schedule were disposed of.
j this number including those re
latinb to all cereals, except wheat j
? and ri^e. consideration of which
J was deferred.
I An outstanding feature of the
j day was the victory of the Repub
! liean agricultural tariff bloc in its
j fight for a duty of 20 cents a bushel
j on corn, an increase of 5 cents a
' bushel over the hous*1 rate.
RAILWAY
STRIKE IS ON j
- j
All Hope of Averting Walk
out of Shopmen Abandon
ed
j Chicago. July 1.?All hope of i
j averting the nation-wide strike of |
railway shopmen apparently had j
vanished this morning as the hour j
tor the walkout approached. The
j cessation of work marks the fust
I general strike of cny standard rail
road union since 11 i*? railroad labor
board w;<s created in 1920.
! In the old days the bad guy
j frequently got shot in the fracus,
but now he mere 15" ?*-'^ a shot in
I the arm.
Truth's."
TROOPSARE
READY IN
WEST VIRGINIA
National Guard Com
panies Are Ordered
Mobilized. No De
tails Known. Des
tination of Soldiers
Not Announced
Charleston, W. Va., June 29.?
Company D. West Virginia Nation
al Guard, comprising three officers
and 50 men, was ordered mobiliz
ed shortly before midnight tonight.
! A conference was in session at that
hour in the governor's office, with
Governor Morgan. Adjt. Gen.
1 Charnock and other state officials
attending.
j Both Governor Morgan and Gen
eral Charnock were silent as to the
cause for mobilization. At the ex
ecutive office Josse V. Sullivan, sec
retary to the governor, told an As
sociated Press representative that
"we can't tell you now; maybe
there will be something later."
Company C infantry unit of the
National Guard, was also ordered
mobilized. The men reported to
the armory about 1:30 o'clock,
and were at once ordered to "fall
in." Their departure for the Cabin
Creek district was momentarily
expected.
Charleston, W. Va., June 30.?A
Gazette staff man, stationed a,t
headquarters where Company D.
machine gun unit of the National
Guard is being mobolized at 1:40
o'clock this morning, said that he
had reliable information that the
company would entrain within
the next 30 minutes. He couid
not learn officially its destination
but it is believed to be to the
Cabin Creek district where a
threatened outbreak of miners is
reported.
Herrin. 111.. June 29.?No addi
tional bodies were recovered from
the "wrecked strip mine near here
today by William McCowan, coro
ner of Williamson county and a
squad of nine deputies, who work
,ed all day _bj-:. digging, with shovels
in the earth "ar??ndT'the destroyed
steam shovel mine of the South
ern Illinois Coal company.
It has been rumored that sev
eral bodies of non-union miners
were buried in the . mine as a re
sult of the fighting between the
striking union miners and strike
breakers last week.
One of the wounded strike
breakers, who is in a hospital here,
reported that guards at the mine
buried several dead strikebreak
ers last Wednesday night with the
steam shovel, but Coroner McCown
said that no evidence was found
to substantiate tfhe report.
Other developments today in the
mine situation in - Williamson
county were an announcement by
Circuit Judge Hartzell at Marion
that a grand jury investigation of
the mine masscare last Thursday
would begin July 10, and the first
arrest in connection with the mine
disorders in the district.
Maintenance men at three mines
of the Madison. Coal company near
Carterville, who had quit work af
ter being warned to leave, return
ed to their posts, and deputy sher
iffs arrested a union miner at Car
terville in connection with the
threats.
Denver. Col.. June 29.?After a
conference with Governor Shoup
late todav. Adjutant General Ham
rock announced he would immed
iately ord?r mobilization of *"five
or six companies of National
Guard to maintain order in the
coal fields. " "Keep peace at any
cost" is the order Governor Shoup
gave the adjutant general.
-' ? ? ?
PINK SILK
GOWN STIRS
ENTHUSIASM
Garment Displayed in House
of Representatives by Ford
ney in Tariff Agreement
Washington. June 30.?A pink
silk night gown?very soft and
fluffy?was displayed to the house
today by Chairman Fordney of the
ways and means committee to sup
port his charge that home manu
facturers could not compete with
foreign dealers because of a low
rate tariff. hTe garment al
most broke up the show.
Lifting it high, after he had ex
hibited other wares, including a
shotgun and a fiddle. Mr. Fordney
shouted above the laughter that he
hardly knew how to describe it.
"Atta boy!" a member shouted
hack.
"1 suppose you gentlemen would
like it better if there were some
thing in it." said the veteran tariff
builder, and women in the gallery
joined in the laughter.
The gown made in Belgium cost
$13.40. the landing cost raised it to
$21.69 and it was put on sale for
N>w York women who like lux
uric:- at ?6U. said the chairman.
Belfast. July 1.?The big main
line bridge, two miles -south of
Drogheda has been blown up. sev
ering railway communicaiton be
tween Belfast and Dublin.
THE TRUE SOU!
"7
BEAUFORT
VOTERS HEAR
CANDIDATES
Candidates For Gov
ernor All Lay Stress
Upon Questions of
Taxation
Beaufort, June 29.?Candidates
for state offices were heard in
! Beaufort tonight, the meeting be
I ing held in the court house and at
j tended by about 300 voters.
Cole L. Blease had come to the
! people, he said, to give them a
remedy for their tax burdens. A
sick man did not need a physician
to tell him he was ill. The prob
lem, he thought, was to cut ex
| pense.s, not to find other sources of
(revenue. He characterized the
j tax commission and other depart
I ments as useless fifth wheels in the
j government. No commission form
! of government had ever been suc
' cessful. he said.
j Cole L. Blease, John T. Duncan
! said, has had two terms and is ask
j ing for a third and Blease, he said,
j was not offering a single suggestion
.?for tax reducton and could not
? point to a single thing he did while
j in office to reduce taxes,
j George K. Laney, of Chesterfield
: again laid stress upon the state
j ment that he was making the cam
; paign on his own hook. Nobody
was behind him, he said, and if
! elected governor no machine or or
iganization would control him. He
j would be the chief executive of the
state.
!t Mr. Laney paid a high tribute to
| Senator Neils Christensen's effort
j to settle the canal question. He
dened that the commsson had of
j fered to sell the canal for a small
; sum as claimed by John T. Duncan
j and said he would not allow state
j ments embodying shady charges to
J go unrefuted. If the senate had
i swallowed the full program of tax
j reform as set forth at the last ses
| sion of the general assembly the
[state levy would have been cut
j down to about four mills. The peo
: pie. despite the cry of tax burdens,
j would see that not a school was
J closed, that not an inmate of the
istate hospital suffered and that the
[Confederate veterans were cared
Ifor. If elected governor, Mr. Lan
j ey -safd,' he' would give "the Veople
'the same kind of service he has
: rendered the general assembly the
j last 20 years.
Thomas G. McLeod told the
j voters that 70 per cent, of the tax
j burden on the people of Beaufort
f rested directly^ on the responsibility
j of the county delegation as only 30
per cent, of the taxes paid by the
people of the county goes for state
? purposes.
Mr. McLeod made a strenuous
plea for enforcement of the law. if
the crime wave is to recede. His
remarks were soi applauded that at
times he had to wait for the cheers
to subside. ,*T can make no better
governor than I have been citizen !
at home," he said. He could take
j no more character into the office
'than he had shown in a private
j citizen at home. Mr. McLeod
'awakened more enthusiasm here
j than possibly has yet been shdwn
anv candidate during the campaign.
-...
i STILL WILL FACE
MURDER TRIAL
i Mother-in-law Accuses Barn
i well Man
J Barnwell, June 30.?Milton Still,
ja white farmer, who lives a few
miles from this city, has been ar
! rested on a warrant charging him.
j with the ; murder of Barnie
j Diamond 18 years ago.
j The arrest is said to have result
jed from a difficulty between Stil*
j arid his brother-in-law. Frank
j Owens, about ten days ago. a*
! which time the latter shot Stil l
,'in the leg. Still had Owens ar
I rested, whereupon Owens' mother,
! Mrs. M. A. Owens, divulged infer
j mation which led to the arrest of
I Still on the charge of murder.
' Frbm the best information avail
I able, it seems that the evidence
: against Still is very meager, as no
; eyewitnesses to the alleged murder
ican be located. In May, 1904. the
f body of Barnie Diamond was found
; lying by the Southern railway
? tracks about two miles south of
? Barnwell. and it was thought that j
he had been killed by a train dur- j
I ing the night. On the night of his j
! death Mrs. Owens was at the home [
i of Milton Still, her son-in-law. and !
? now states that she heard cries \
and the sound of blows coming J
! from the house of a white woman
j named Mamie Phillips, who lived
I just across the railroad track from
! Still's home. Mrs. Owens, it is
? understood, charges that Diamond
was killed at the Phillips' house
i and his body placed on the track
I hy Still in an effort to hide his al
? leged crime.
? The case will probably be
j brought to trial at the October
; term of the court of general ses
sions.
a ^ ^ ,
j Strike General
at Roanoke
Roanoke. July 1.?It is estimat
ed that about thirty-five hundred
men employe I in the Norfolk Wes
tern shops here, answered the
strike call, while seventy-five men
went out of the Virginia shops.
fBROX, Established Jane 1, 188?.
VOL. LIX. NO. 41
TAKE PORTION
OF BUILDING
Two Main Parts of
Four Courts, in Dub
lin Captured by the
Provisional G o v
ernment Forces '
London. Jane 30.?The two main
parts of the Four Courts in Dublin
have been captured by provisional
government forces, according to ?
dispatch to the Central News. Com
mandant Barry and 22 men being
taken prisoner. Rory O'Connpr-anfl
Liam Mellowes. leaders of the re
volt, are in a smaller building an<i
have been summoned to surrender:
Another dispatch to 44? Exchange
Telegraph from Dublin says "Rory
O'Connor and Liam Mellowes with
150 followers hold the rear of the
Four Courts building. The artit
lery firing was renewed, at -S:i5
o'clock this Friday morning. The.
prisoners taken by the Free States
number 33.
London, June 30.?A dispatchxto
The Times from Dublin timed 2:50
o'clock this (Friday) morning;
says the Free Staters attacking the
Four Courts are commanded and
being personally led by Brigadier
General Daly.
After brisk artillery and machine *
gun fire General Daly led his meit
from the s?uthside of the Li?ey
across Grafton street and the
bridges.
The guirfire had broken down
the. fete, and so- briskly did the
Free State soldiers make the ascent
that they did not suffer any seri
ous casualties. " "
As .they crossed the coiiri yard
rifle butts and rams brought down
in inner doors, and as they fell the
defenders pourefr a withering fire
upon the attacking force.
Three rebel soldiers were killed
outright by gun fire, and ten others
were wounded in - hand to hand
fighting which ensued. - >
Twenty-two of* the irregulars
threw . up..their bands and s^rrssj*
dered, while Rory O'Connor; vjSfth
Brig.-. Gen. ^Traynor -and lernen,
retreated" t? ? far corner of l^je
court. -Quickly throwng up bar
ricades they are now; holding the
Free Staterr at bay.
The dispatch to The Times adds
that O'Connor has been given op
portunity th surrender but has, de
clared it to be his intention to
fight to the death/
The Free Staters captured
great quantity of rifles, machine
guns and explosives. It is thottgSW
that by secret means many of the
original garrison have made thT^r
way into the city, where they have
seized Hammand's hotel in SaeS
ville street turning out the jruests
on five miffutes notice.
?Bubiin, June 29 (By the Asso
ciated "-Press).-?The insurgent Re
publican forces under Rory O'Con
nor have been able to hold Poms., -
Courts, for two days.against all the
attacks of the %provisional govern
ment. Throughout-today a slow
bombardment continued and grad
ually sections of the splendid edi
fice were seen ^o crumble away: ,
Because of, the slow and delib
erate methods * employed by the- ,
government authorities, the opera
tions have been prolonged for. a
much greater period than was gen
erally expected, thus permitting an
opportunty for those supportng
the revolutionary movement: to
take up positions at various points
throughout the city with the object
of giving aid to the men withixi;.t$?
insurgent stronghold. They seized
houses in various sections and en
gaged in systematic sniping or
bombing attempts aganist the of
ficial troops.
Nobody hftg been able to get out
of the Four Courts, but O'Connor's
Dublin brigade, comprising up
wards of four thousand men, has
shown activity that indicates it Is
working on a prearranged plan*
Last night, and today bands of ir- -
regulars occupied various premises
which they could hold and from
which they could- do maximum
damage by sniping. But every
where they ra ebeng cuontered
by regulars, who also are main
taining many points of vantage. - .
While the majority of the people
in Dublin commend the action ,qf
the provisional government. \ the
Republicans are circulating conjfir
dent statements and though O'Con
nor is not supposed to be in*any-.
way responsible to the De Yalera .
party, it is evident from {he state
ment issued by Mr. De Vaiera to
day that he has that party's sym
pathy.
Xo accurate estimate of the cas
ualties can be made, although the
dead are known to number at least
a score, the wounded reaching .?
high figure. The casualties are by
no means confined to the -invest
ing and besieged forces as sniping
has played a considerable part. One
free state soldier was shot dead
while standing at the window" in
the Four Courts hotel. One man
was killed and three were wound
ed by snipers in Dane street.
Every time gas goes up, the shoe
dealers grin.
Times are better. A pie hasn't
as many pieces as it once had.