CONSOLIDATED AUG, 2,1 PASSENGER ;J TW? HALTED AT SPENCER: -.- ! Trainmen, Switchmen and Clerks Refuse to Move Trains on Account of Military Guards * ? ? ?? Spencer, N. C, Aug. 21.?All trainmen, switchmen and clerks of j the Southern railway here last j night held a meeting and agreed! not to take another train out of j this terminal until. 9:30 o'clock this i (Tuesday) morning, when decision ! will be reached as to whether the walkout is to be permanent or not, j according to' announcement made : by brotherhood officials about mid- { night, following adjournment of the meeting. The action was taken, it ? was explained, because of the pres- i ence of troops, on guard duty here. AH trains arriving after midnight! are tied up here and will be, ac cording to present indications, until 9:30 o'clock, including many main line trains running between W;ash- s ington and Atlanta and those on a ? number of Other lines, including j that toAsheville. Clerks in the yard office quit st a late hour last night and returned to their homes, leaving only a girl telephone operator on duty. When asked as to why they had quit the ! only answer that was forthcoming from them was that they were; afraid of the soldiers stationed at j ; the yard office. The telephone op-J erator stated last night that shel would also quit her post unless j she had some one there with her. ] At a late hour last -night a large I '. - crowd of people had congregated, in front of the main entrance to the shops. All were orderly, their sole purpose in being there, it was said, was" to see just what move was to; be made next. >. Greensboro. X- C, Aug. 21.?It! was learned j here early, this morn- | ing that all railroad brotherhoods! met .last night in .K Spencer and j . agreed hot to enter the South- ] ern,"s property as long as the sol- j diers remain on. guards duty,on the] road's property. A titifhTser of j trains are said to be tied up there J tonight. Spencer members of the "Big j Four" brotherhoods, yard workers, j ana" clerks in a meeting last night refused^ to handle trains so long! as troops remained on Southern j railway property, according to statements made early this morn- J ing by Southern officials in Greens- I boro. The decision/ involves all classes of trains, including those handling United States mail. Xumber 38 reached Greensboro at*12:25 this morning not quite two hours late, but at/that hour Xo. 138 was stilt standmg in the yards in Spencer. Officials announced shortly after that hour that a force to- handle it was being arranged and that it would come through, , though they were not certain when it could clear" Spencer. For Xo. 30 they were still trying to make arrangements at l o'clock but without success. For all trains scheduled to come through Spencer j at later hours they were also try- f ing to make plans. Acting on the news from Spen- ! cer, officials in Greensbc ro held here about midnight two freight trains from the north headed for points south of Spencer. They said it was no use to let them go through to Spencer 'as they would be held up j there^. Accordingly, the freights were parked in the yards until some disposition could be made and the engines were prepared to turn around a!W head; north with other trains. The plans I at 1 O'clock called for three other j freights from the north to be held in Greensboro also. Hopes of getting trains from the south through Spencer rested i mainly on the belief that at least j some members of Big Four broth erhoods and other railroad workers j would not join in the refusal of the others to handle the trains. ? .i Louisville, Ky.. Aug. 21.?Offi- ! *bial notice of a walkout of the Big j Four brotherhoods of trainmen on j the Western division of the South ern railway from Danville, Ky.. to ' St. Louis. Mo., was received late today by officials of the campaign here following a second strike of j firemen at- 12:30 o'clock this af ternoon at Princeton, Ind. Orders were given for the annulment of trains between Louisville and St. Louis until further notice. "The firemen today repudiated their agreement they made with me at Princeton." said J. F. Sher idan, superintendent of the Louis ville-St. Louis division. . "The set tlement had been made," he said, ' ."on the condition that the guards be zoned off and kept from the ; . railroad yards. The claim upon ; which the men are baling their j new strike is that the equipment ; is unsafe and that they refuse toj work where guards are located." \ The 50 firemen who quit work at Princeton Saturday morning re turned to work yesterday, but sus- j pended service again this after- j noon. Until 12:01 a. m. Thursday, when the strike of trainmen be- ; comes effective on the Western di- ! vision, daj; trains will be operated I iblisbed April, 1850. TRAINS ARE MOVING, _ t ? i Southern Officials and j Others Are Man-j ning Trains in Place! o f Striking Engi neers and Firemen at Spencer Salisbury, X. C, August 22?Only ore southbound passenger train on the main line of the Southern rail way has passed, here up to nine thirty -this morning, since train service employes, switchmen and clerks early today agreed, as indi- j viduals,. not take out trains from j Spencer, or go on the railroad j property, until the meeting to de-: cide whether their action is to be j formal and permanent on account j of guards being placed around the' Spencer shops has acted. -* All Passenger Trains Being Moved j Spencer, X. C? August 22?AH' Southern railway trains have been \ cleared out of the Spencer termi nal with crews made up of offi cials and others, it was stated at the office of" Superintendent of Rich- j mond Division at 10 this morning, j ! Greensboro, Aug. 22. ? With j railroad officials substituting for| striking engineers and firemen, who j refused to work in or out of Spen- j cer while state troops are on guard; duty, the Southern railway today] began clearing away the virtual tie- I up of passenger transportation be- j tween Washington and Atlanta.| Freight trains, however, are not be-! ing moved. Washington, Aug. 22.?President? Harding although hopeful of sue- j cess for the Xew York rail strike { settlementc onference, it was saidj at the. White House today that he( was unready to take any further j steps than those stated in his re- j cent address to congress. . - ? - j Salisbury, Aug. 22.?Troops were j ordered removed from the South ern railway shops at Spencer today, j after transportation men had voted j to remain out as long as soldiers were on duty. Members of the trainmens' organizations and clerks were reported returning to work at j noon. The removal of the troops; was ordered by Col. Scott at- the, request of General Superintendent! Simpson of the Southern, following j a conference with representatives! of employees. ? ? ? Emergency Fleet Corporationi Status of Organization to Be Decided by Supreme Court Washington, Aug. 23.?Asserting j that there is an "apparent irrecon- { cilable conflict" between the doc- I trine-announced by the supreme! court in recent decisions defining the suabiiit.v and status of the emergency fleet corporation as a government agency and the "set tled rule" established by court inj a number of prior decisions the government has filed a petition asking for a rehearing. The pe tition seeks a definition of the au thority of the shipping board over government funds for payment o. debts of the emergency corpora tion. I ? j S from Louisville to Huntingburg, Ind. The train due out of Louisville at 9:50 o'clock tonight for St. j j Louis was ,the first passenger be- j j tween Louisville and St. Louis an- J j nulled because of the strike, it was ! stated by Mr. Sheridan. Xotice of strike wras given the railroad officials following a meet ing of firemen and engineers this I afternoon. It will affect approxi mately 400 men. located at termi nals at East Sr. Louis, Ills.. Prince ton and Huntingburg, Ind., it was said. St. Louis, Aug. 21.-?Service on; I the Southern railway again was I ordered suspended tonight, accord- j ling to the local Stationmaster, fol-j i lowing receipt of information that trainmen at Princeton. Ind.. had I decided to strike Thursday. A train - to Louisville, scheduled to leave j here at 9:20 was annulled indefi j nitely. - Salisbury. X. C. Aug. 22.?South ern railway train No. 138 left; Spencer terminal this morning at; 1 o'clock with Clyde Keever, gen eral foreman of the Southern shops, at the throttle. It was stated tonight by officials that the fai e of the other passeng |er .rains tied up here by the re-; jfusal of the trainmen to enter the: Spencer yards with troops on duty, remained uncertain. Raleigh. X. C, Aus. 21.?"I'd be a pretty fool going to Spencer to! Stake charge of troops," was the' [comment of Governor .Morrison. ;it : i the Manufacturers' club in Char-j I lotte at 2 o'clock this morning. I where he communicated with Ad- j jjutant General Yah Metts in Rai-; eigh over the telephone. General' Metts informed the governor of a j rumor that he had gone to Spen cer to take charge of the situation. I "Be Just and Fear 2 MARTIAL LAW AT SALISBURY j N. CAROLINA; Threat of Serious Dis- ? orders at Spencer j Shops of Southern; Leads to Drastic Measures Salisbury, X. C, Augr. 21.?All the eight companies of troops sent j here Saturday on account of the j tense situation developing from the i strike of' 1,700 workers in the j Southern railway shops at Spencer j were placed on guard duty at the i shops and the Salisbury postoffice j tonight. Col. Don E. Scott, com- j manding the troops, tonight estab- ; lished headquai-ters in the postof- i fice building. A proclamation issued by Gov-; ernor Morrison similar to the pro- j nouncement on the occasion ^of re- { cent threatened disturbances at the j Atlantic Coast Line shops in Rocky | Mount, was read to a mass meet- j ing of strikers and strike sympa- j thizers by Mayor Wade V. Bowman \ today. The military' authorities! were requested to allow peaceful picketing by the strikers, but they; were directed ro "disperse all large i assemblies brought together for the i purpose of overawing and intimid- | atign, by a display of numbers, those who desire to go to work." J The Charlotte and Burlington' companies of infantry and part of the Durham machine gun company , were placed on duty in and around the postoffice upon request of Postmaster A. H. Boyden. who al- j leged that open'threats of lynching ! of John Sleep, postoffice clerk, who j this morning attacked the Rev. Tom! J". .Timison, former chaplain of the Xorth Carolina Federation of La- j bor, knocking him down in the street, has been made. Following the attack crowds be- f gan to gather around the postof fice and as night came on the situ ation grew rapidly more threaten- ' ing. Sloop was on duty in the postoffice and will remain there through the night, it was reported, j Up to late tonight no disorders had I occurred but crowds were contin ually approaching the postoffice, only to be kept passing on by the soldiers. Soldiers Xear Shops. The situation at Spencer rapidly' became more tense until Colonel Scott assigned five infantry com-! panics and a part of the Durham \ machine gun company to guard; duty at all the entrances to the shop premises, covering about 75 j acres and stationed detachments at ' the railway passenger station. Fol-! lowing the placing of troops on j guard duty, the situation was quier.; Xo disorders had occurred up to a j late hour, though another conting ent of recruits for the shop work-1 ers arrived tonight and entered the { shops. They were not molested, j A report from Spencer late to- j night said that the Rev. Mr. Jimi- j son. who was at his home there,! had some temperature and was suf- j fering vsomewhat from the effects of his encounter with Sloop. The ? latter is to have a preliminary j hearing tomorrow at 10 o'clock it? was announced. The companies on duty at Spen- [ cer are those from Concord. Mount Gilead, Hickory, Lincolnton and j Winston-Saiem. They are under; direct command of Major Bowman] of Hickory. Xo disorders other than the at- J tack upon Mr. Jimisou were re ported during the day. POLICE GUARDING SOUTHERN SHOPS Strikers in Columbia Protest Against Action of Council Columbia. Aug. 22.?Southern Railway striking shopmen here ap- j peared before city council this morning with their attorney, and | protested against members of the police department guarding the I Southern shops, where strikbreak- j ers are working. A majority of council objected to the patrol wag on being used for hauling replace ment workers to the Sou! hern J shops, but were in .favor of proper protection to both factions in the controversy. Adequate police pro tection will be given, it was stated, and the city intends to preserve or der at all hazards. The strike sit-1 uation has been very quiet here. theJ only incident being the attack on I the 11 strikebreakers last Sunday1 afternoon, and this was sporadic and deeply deplored hy union lead er , who are doing everything pos- ' sible to keep their men from deeds of violence. PITTSBURG WAGE SCALE j Operators Agree to 19201 Scale But Refuse Check Off Demand Pittsburgh. Aug. 23.?The scale committee of the Pittsburgh coal! poducers association today order ed the 1920-22 wage scale at all mines owned and operated by its members but declined to yield to the demands of the United Mine Workers that the check-off pro vision of scale be enforced. About 45,000 miners are affected. ticks about the length i of a walking cane. It was difficult j to distinguish striking shop em , ployees from other citizens, and it I may have been that mere spectators I also carried sticks. In speaking yesterday of the I strike Mr. Stebbins said. "The city I has taken the strike in charge now I and it is up to the city to see after ; it and he responsible for the con i duct of it." j W. A. Goleman, mayor, said, j "Some time ago a committee from ; the union came before members of j city council and we had an agree j ment with it. Members of this Icommittee said that they would see to it that there was no violence. Mr. Stebbins and Mr. Fetner were among those present. This com mittee said it violence occurred, it wanted the mayor to take action. "Disorder has occurred and the city has taken action. Of course we do not intend to say that mem bers of this committee from the union countenanced or in any way eneouraged the outbreak Sunday afternoon, but they failed to con trol the crowd. I have nothing at all to say as to the merits of the strike, but I believe I know my duty as to law and order. "Ten extra men have been put on the police force and men will be on duty at the shops at all times to preserve order." Troth's." DODGING THE BONUS QUESTION Republicans Are Try ing to Keep Up the Hope of Bonus Seek ers Without Doing Anything Washington. Aug. 23.?The sen ate moved forward so rapidly today in its consideration of ihe soldiers' bonus bill that some, leaders re garded prospects of the measure being passed before the end of this week as more than a possibility. Opponents were understood to be disposed&to let the bill take its course at this time in the belief that Preside^ Harding would.veto. Should he do so they planned to centre their fight against its pas sage over his veto. There still was. however, no offi cial information before the senate as to the executive's view other than that contained in a letter read lothe house last March just before that body, passed , the bill. The president then advised that con gress either find a means of financ ing the legislation or postone its I enactment and some friends of the j hill as well as opponents believe he ; still is of that mind. Replying to a question by Senator Robinson (Democrat) of Arkansas, Chairman McCumber of the finance committee told the senate today that there was no official informa tion as to ? what the president \ would do'. He added,, however, that the changes in the bill by which there would be no heavy draft on the treasury for the next year would seem to meet every objection the president - had urged against the original measure and that he could see no reason why the executive should veto the bill as now drawn. After it got to work on the'bonus late today, the senate agreed to! 47 committee .amendments to the house bill in exactly 15 minutes and then it got ahead of itself to such an extent that the measure was laid aside temporarily. With the committee changes cleaned up. Senator.- Bursum Republican) of Xew Mes3,c ocalieH* up his substi tute proposing half cash and half certificates of indebtedness for the veterans but this was rejected without a roll call or any discus sion. Senator Bursum protested, say ing there should be some debate on an amendment which he believ ed would save'something like $3, 000,000.000 to,the government. He added that he wanted to speak on i his proposal, but would not be I ready to proceed until tomorrow. By unanimous consent action on; I the substitute was reconsidered and as no other amendments werej proposed the senate turned to oth er work. BONUS BILL I DELAYED Unanimous Consent Agree ment Not in Sight Washington, Aug. 21. ? Senate Republican leaders continued ne gotiations today for an unanimous consent agreement for a final senate vote on the soldiers' bonus bill, but apparently with little prospects of immediate success. Some pro gress was reported, but it was un derstood that four or five senators objected to an agreement at this time. The bonus measure is the sen ? ate's unfinished business and will be taken up after the senate re convenes tS&dnesday. Chairman McCumber of-the finance commit tee, plans to deliver a prepared ad dress at that time in support of it and some majority leaders said that unless there was an agreement meantime for a time for the final vote the legislation would have to be fought out to a finish on the floor. Estimates as to the time [ which would be required to pass the measure in the absence of any agreement varies, but it appeared that it might require several weeks. After the bonus is passed by the senate?and the general belief at the capitol is that it will go through finally by substantial ma jority? it would, in the usual j course, be sent* to conference for the composing of differences be tween the senate and the house. In that event it would be han j died by the same conference cqm j mittee to which th*> tariff measure will be deferred this week with little prospect that it would receive attention until after the committee had completed its work on the tar iff. -If it Takes All Summer. "If it means war. to run the Southern Railway, then let us have it now?not later." is the message Fairfax Harrison, president of that great system, sent to the strikers who had gone back on the terms they had previously :igreed to ac cept and in the spirit of the great citizen of Rome, he determined that "having done ail. to stand." We much mistake the temper of the southern people if they fail to stand with him. "Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just." ?Spartanburg Journal. THE TRUE SOU RADICAL MEETING ! RAIDED j _. j Authorities Arrest j Eighteen Leaders of Communist Party j Who Were Plotting Trouble j Washington. Aug. 23.?The" ar rest of 17 alleged Communists af ? ter the secret convention of the j j Communist party at Bridgeman, i ; Mich., yesterday by Michigan state authorities disclosed a program ! for the organization of Communist ' groups in the army and navy, and ? for the initiation of militant action on the part of radicals in the Unit j ed States, according to information ; from official sources in Washington j today. j William J. Burns, chief of the : bureau of investigation of the de partment of justice, declined to comment in any way on the Michi gan arrest, but in other quarters ? it was said that a definite connec tion between the Communist Inter ! nationale of Soviet Russia and the : Friends of Soviet Russia in the United States had been established with the Communist parry, other- j : wise known in America under its [ reorganization name as the Work ers' party.^ j Many prominent alleged Com I munists who attended the conven tion managed to elude the authori i ties by automobile, according'to ? information here. These included, I officials asserted, William Z. Fos j ter of the Trade Unions Education ' al league, described as active in Communist councils: Boris Rein s' stein, formerly military propa gandist with the Red army in Rus sia who recently arrived in the United States, and one Lozovsky, r general secretary of the Red Union j Trade - Union Internationale, who j has been in the United States for jthe last two years. Before attend ; ing the conference at Bridgeman, it was said, he was in secret oon j ference with several of the leading "radicals'-* in Xew Tor* o&fcy. I Officials- said last year the sec ret convention of 'Communists'* I was held undisturbed at Wood . stock, N.-Y. This year, they add i ed, the place of assemblage was set . for Chicago, and the delegates were ! then taken across Lake Michigan j to Bridgeman. Information', how lever, was placed in the ha.nds of j the Michigan commissioner of pub i lie safety by secret agents and the ' trap, was sprung, but not before 1 some had escaped, j The Communist party became an "underground" organization, it was 'said, after the arrests of Janu ary, 1920. and after its operation had been adjudged illegal by the government and various state courts. The Workers' party was then formed and this was declared j by officials to be under the control ! and complete discipline of the Com j munist party. Thousands of circu j lars were sent out by the Work I ers' party \ during the coal and I rail strikes, urging workers to j "mass?action," officials asserted, j William Dunn, one of those tak | en into custody at Bridgeman, was j declared by officials to be the gu ! bernatorial candidate of the Work j ers' party in New- York at the elec i tion next November. I Chicago/ Aug. 23.?William Z. i Foster, president of the Trades ! Union Educational league, who has been sought by federal agents as one of those participating in an al leged radical convention held in a forest near Bridgeman, Mich.? was taken into custody tonight while in the offices of the Educational league. Foster strongly denied having attended the convention which was- raided by federal oper atives and state troops, j Later a federal agent, accom j panied by a representative of the ! police department, a private detec jtive, searched Foster's apartment ! but declared they had found noth I ing of value. Meanwhile Foster ? was held in a police cell for extra dition to Michigan. "My arrest is an outrage." Fos I ter asserted. "I was not at the i meeting in Michigan and I will hire 'the best lawyer in the West to j fight extradition." j It was said the answer was ex : pected soon of two men said to j represent the Soviet government of ! Russia. m ? t I PEACE IN I NON-UNION FIELDS Operators Prepare to Sign Up Agreement With t'he Coal Miners Washington. Aug. 23.?The West J Virginia non-union coal operators I j are preparing to sign up with min- j ers an ageement raising the basic! ! scale from S4.6S per day to $7.IS. j I it was reported today to federal j fuel distributor Spencer. The new river district it is said has already i ; signed up. ; Umpire Doyle, of the Florida j j State league, has been set down j for five days, the penalty for I punching a player in the .jaw. ' EHEO.V, Established Jane 1, :iJ?j?. VOL. LM. NO. 4 BORAH WORRIES STAND PAT REPUBLICAN _ ? Radical Senator From the West Preparing to Attack Spineless Administration;: r: Washington. Aug. 24.?"Oust..the minute men of privilege from th? committee of education and labor or I'll quit the chairmanship." That, is the substance of an ulti-, matum which Senator Borah, Re publican of Indiana, has delivered to members of the committee on committees of the senate. - What 'prompts Senator Borah to serve this notice on the Repub lican psuedo-leaders of the senate is the evidence of a deliberate pur pose on their part to pack rthe> committee on education and labor and keep it packed so long as thers is any danger of its giving' favor able action to any progressive leg islation, present or prospective. -1 The men who have been assigned to this committee as so many jail ers of forward-looking measures af fecting the interests' of labor are Senators du Pont, of Delaware; Phipps, of Colorado; Warren, of Wyoming and Shortridge; of Cali-. fornia?all Republicans and all as reactionary as they are rich. They are all conservators of the. status quo and prophets of things-^s-tiiey are. Originally placed on the commit tee as. executioners of. any progres sivism that might be introduced there.by former Senator Kenyon of Iowa, they have remained to plague Senator Borah. The latter .has furnished a Veneer of liberalism to the committee.' and thus made it appear i like a. progressive instituP tion from: the outside?while all ^e' time It was ' filled with axemen ready to slatighter any little pro gressive proposal that strayed within its precincts. . r Senator Borah's ultimatum is the climax to a good many recen: suc cessful attempts on the part af hi* ? reactionary . conferees to obstruct and strangle some of his legislative offspring. For instance, when he soug?t^a--fe.W- w-eeks ago to pro cure legislative sanction for a com prehensive investigation of the caH industry, with the object of ef fecting federal supervision of mines and regulation of prices, the other four Republican members of the committee, saw. that it was smoth ered. Behind. Borah's back the Re publican leaders are pretending to regard him as suffering from ? mild type of communism which they feign to regard as highly con tagious. Ohjy the sort of a senator who has been successfully im munized against his form of ocla? nomic and ^ political ?.iIm>-?; thought a affe companion for Sen ator Borah, .in the close ouarrers of the committee room. That is why Senators du Pont.. Phipps, Warren and Shortridge have been chosen as the men to be exposed. They are in no peril of "catch'.ng/* anything of a communistic nature. There is another consideration which moves the bosses of the .senr ate to save the committee- from even a chance of contagion. . T^ey fear that there is a remote pos sibility that some near-Progressive like Brookheart of'Iowa'and Fra zier of.North Dakota and a far Progressive like Beveridge of In diana might be superadded to Borah and spread a few g^rxmt of communism around the country via the Congressional Record. That would start trouble Tor 1924, and the Republicans now believe that sufficient unto the day. is the evil thereof?including the ; Fordney McCumber tariff, the soldiers' bon us and Mr. Harding's indefensible appointments Senator Borah's closev* friends have been aware for some time -&f his intention to open a barrage or* the administration because of its wiggle at the capitol and its wabble at the White House. The presidents' message on the rail strike and xhe . coal strike promise to furnish Sen ator Borah the opportunity and occasion for which he has been waiting. This attack is confident ly expected by Senator Borah's confidants to prove a really signifi cant event of the present session of congress, - If this shouldn't he se lected by him as the "zero houruft doesn't mean the assault isn't to be forthcoming. It only means that his store of ammunition and the intensity and duration of his gunfire will be all the greater for the delay. Borah's plan for a federal com mission to investigate the coal in dustry was appropriated by Presi dent Harding. This serves two pur poses. It deprives Senator Borah of any part in its creation or credit for authorship of the idea and ?t the same time it would help the president give an impression of ac tivity in the adjustment of present and the obviation of future indus trial upheavals. In default of ? real settlement of the strikes a long and impressive inquiry into a situation that could have been in vestigated and cured months ago is the best the administration h?s to offer. ? ? * The caterpillar does not breathe through its mouth, but through nine holes on each side of his body. ^ ? _ _ _ ,