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