The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, October 21, 1919, Image 1
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68TH YEAR. NO. 103. SI
WITHOUT ROLL CALL
AMENDMENTS WERE
i QUICKLY DEFEATED
x . * Those Relating to Reparations
Commission Promptly Killed
By Committee
IRISH QUESTION UP AGAIN
Senator Walsh Proposes After League
Is Formed to Demand Self-tJovemment?Colonel
House Will Testify
If Wanted in Connection With the
Peace Treaty.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.?After a
brief debate and without the formall*..
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i.j ui n recuraea yoie, me senate uti?
day threw out two more of the
amendments written into the peace
treaty by the foreign relations committee.
The two amendments had been introduced
by Senator Fall. Republican,
of New Mexico, and had as their common
purpose curtailment of the power
of the American representative on
the reparation commission, an international
body set up by the treaty to
fix and collect Germany's reparation
bill.
The vote came sooner than had
been expected, the leaders agreeing
to It as part of a plan to complete the
consideration of amendments as soon
as possible so that the senate might
get down to the real work of drafting
a ratification resolution. Only
two of the committee's 45 amendments
now remain to be considered,
ana 11 is nopea to nring them to a
vote early this week. They both relate
to equalization of voting strength
In the league of nations.
Action on the two Fall amendments
came near the end of a session which
had been enlivened by a sharp debate
over the dispatch of American
4 troops to Europe for service in connection
with the Silesean plebiscite,
and by a new move from administration
quarters to meet the objections
J- of Irish-Americans to the league cov^0,J
% enant. Some progress also was made
in the formal reading of the treaty
text, and the foreign relations committee
took under advisement an offer
from Col. E. M. House to appear
before it.
In anticipation of a roll call, both
sides had mustered their forces in the
senate chamber as the time for action
on the tFall amendments approached.
As the question was put,
However, Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska,
the administration leader,
asked Senator Fall whether it was his
purpose to request a roll call, and the
New Mexico senator replied that it
would be useless since he realized the
measures would be beaten. In quick
succession the two votes then were
taken by acclamation, no one asking
for a count.
The only speeches made on the
amendments were by Senator Fall
and by Senator Kellogg, Republican,
of Minnesota, who argued that the
purpose could be served sufficiently
by reservations. In the course of the
day various other features of the
treaty and the peace negotiations
were discussed. Senators Brandegee,
Republican, of Connecticut, and Wads,
worth, Republican, of New York, at
tucking the dispatch of troops for
Silcsean duty, and Senator Hitchcock
and Senator Nelson, Republican, Minnesota.
defending the action.
The move to further Ireland's
cause in rhe league was made by Senator
Walsh, Democrat, of Montana,
who introduced a resolution expressing
it as the sense of the senate that
once the league is organized the United
States should bring before it under
article XI the right of the Irish
people to self-government. It was
this article, which permits any member
state to call attention to any condition
threatening the neace nf tha
world, which Preslden Wilson repeatedly
quoted on his western trip as
holding out hope for subject peoples
and embodying his views on the Irish
question.
In their reading of the treaty text
a formality required by senate rules,
the senate clerks about completed
during the day the first half of their
task. Most of the time they were
droning away with an audience of.
less than half a doxen senators, and
when they resumed in a filled chamber
arter the vote on the Pall amendments.
their voices were drowned out
no effectually that Senator Robinson,
Democrat, of Arkansas, asked that
they be called to order so as not to'
Interfere with the conversation ou the
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NONE OF THEM EXPLAIN
Newspaper* in Other Towns Attempt
Explanation of Lancaster's Superiority
as Cotton Market. (
No one is denying in latter days
that Lancaster is leading in prices
paid for cotton. Instead, newspapers
in other towns are busying themselves
to find out the reason why. Here is ^
a fellow who was one the ground and
"got some Inside information." The
Monroe Journal quotes the Waxhaw 1
Enterprise as follows:
"Much comment has been occasioned
recently by the Lancaster cotton
buyers paying so much more for cotton
than buyers at Waxhaw, Monroe
or Charlotte. The writer was in Lancaster
one day last week and asked
several of the business men there the
reason for this and they said that
Col. Springs returned from a trip to
New York a couple of weeks ago and
issued orders to his buyers to stock f
up on cotton at whatever price It j
took to get It. Accordingly his buyers
began paying a little more than
other markets and they have kept a
cent or two ahead of the market ever
since. This condition is only temporary
and when It is past the Lancaster
market will probably slump back
to its normal place of a little below
Waxhaw and Monroe. But while it
lasts it is a bonanza for the farmers
and they are hauling it from all over
this section to Lancaster. One day
last week Lancaster paid out about
seventy-five thousand dollars for cotton.**
And here is Chester's explanation,
from the Chester News:
"A list of cotton markets in twenty
South Carolina towns, published in
this morning's Columbia State, shows
that on yesterday Lancaster nald the
highest price for cotton in the state,
the price paid there being 37 cents. (
The Chester market was 35 cents,
which was as high as any in the state
with the exception of two or three
towns. It is generally admitted that
the Lancaster cotton has a better staple
than cotton to be found elsewhere
in the state and we also understand
that the Lancaster buyers are waging
a war against each other."
Either of these "explanations"
seems to contradict the other, but the
farmers won't worry about why the
Lancaster market pays more, so long
ns they get the money, and that
"slump" which our friends in North
Carolina are talking about is likely
to come long after the last of the J
crop has been sold.
STEE!~ MILLS* CLAIMING
THE MEN ARE RETURNING
Strike leaders, on the Other Hand,
Cluiin Pittsburg District Only
10 Per Cent Normal.
PITTSBURG, PA., Oct. 20.?The
fourth week of the strike in the steel
mills of the Pittsburg district ended
Saturday night with the employers
declaring their men were returning
to work in increasing numbers every
day. and the strike lenders insisting
their figures showed that steel production
in the Pittsburg district is
"only 10 per cent of normal."
Reports of the leading corporations
were that gains in the number of men
employed during the week had been
pronounced and blast furnace activity
was sliowing steady improvement.
The only disorder reported during
the day was the arrest of a dozen
women and eight men in Pittsburg 1
charged by the police with annoying
workmen in the Second avenue mills
and attacking policemen. Each was
fined $10 with the alternative of a
Jail sentence of 10 days.
Some of the women were accompanied
by their children and the din
In the courtroom became such that
i the magistrate ordered all the children
sent to their homes.
"Uncfwtrd IjMdn."
The Yorkvllle Enquirer says: "I
can't understand why it 1r that Lancaster
can afford to pay so much
more for cotton than Yorkvllle," said '
a local merchant last 8aturday. "Lancaster
is being quoted as the leading
cotton market of the state and there
Isn't any doubt about It. The Yorkvllle"
cotton market Is the best now i
that the town has ever known; but
still we are far short of Lancaster."
Chester Wins (Jante. 1
The Chester high school football
faam Ik. f a a -a
%?nui uotcaimi iuv liOdUIBier IOAD1 ftll
? Kame In this city Friday afternoon.
The score was 34 to 0, and the oot- i
standing playing of Chester was that
by Collins, Htndman, Cornwall and
i Brlce.
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LANCASTER, S. C., TUESD
LABOR CONGRESS IN
NO AGREEMENT AS TO
ITEM OF BARGAINING
Conference Adjourned Over the
Week-end While Central
Committee Worked.
SOMPERS BACK AT' DE^K 1
Svery Indication is That Confero?eo '
Will Make a New Start Toward $he
Reaching of Agreement Satisfactory
to All Groups?(lompcrs Hays
Irfibor Takes No Advantage.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 20.?Without
caching a decision on recognition'of
he right of workers to bargain Qol- 1
ectively?an issue which has b^en
he subject of two days of dehatd?
he national industrial conference 1
:losed the second week of its dejib- !
srations. I
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Adjournment was taken until to- '
lay when there is every Indication i
hat the conference will make a nfew
itart, a definite program for prof:e- i
lure to that end being In. proceesjof
'ormulation. 1 1
Withdrawing their motion to /relommlt
the labor-public declaration i
>n collective bargaining, the emplbyjrs
took the initiative by offering a 1
lubstitute resolution which woald
jrotect their right "to deal or not to
ieui wnn men or groups or men v^no
ire not their employes." The wijthirawal
came as a surprise to representatives
of the public, who wfcre
prepared to support it. and had ex- i
pressed their willingness to agree to
imending It.
The motion to adjourn offered by
rhomas L. Chadbourne, a public rep esentative
and chairman of the conference
central committee of 15, carried
with it recommitting of both
leclarations as to collective bargainng,
to the central committee. This
committee will try to reconcile the
wo declarations if possible, and also
:onsider the new program which It
was understood provides that the Islue
of collective bargaining remain
In the background until agreement
:an be reached on the less disputed
questions.
After several hours of desultory
lebate, Samuel Qompers, president of
the American federation of labor, who
returned to his seat at the afternoon
session Friday after a 3-day illness
uruuKui me discussion 10 a cninax
with a heated and eloquent reply to
L. F. Loree, president of the Delaware
and Hudson railroad and a representative
of capital.
Denying the assertion of Mr. Loree
that labor had taken advantage of the
war to force important concessions
from the government, Mr. Gompers
declared labor had been actuated by
the most Intense patriotism during
the war and that labor had made good
its pledge of co-operation, tendered
President Wilson even before the nation
entered the world conflict. Hut,
emphatically declared the veteran labor
chieftain, noticeably weakened
by his recent illness, "the masses of
labor of the United States have at
last found their ability to articulate
through organization and the time
has come when American labor is determined
to gain a fair share of the
rewards of its toll."
Shaking with emotion and his voice
quivering. Mr. Gompers bitterly arsailed
Mr. Loree for his assertion that
there were elements In America labor
that planned overthrow of the
government.
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that the government be Riven the
same access to the records and correspondence
of'labor unions that it now
has to those of corporations and that
generally the same regulations that
now surround capital be extended to
the labor unions.
GASTONIA MILLS IDLE
ON ACCOUNT OF STRIKE
Several Hundred Textile Workers
Walk Out and It Is Understood
Demand Recognition.
GA8TONIA, N. C., Oct. 20.?Several
hundred employes of the Ocark
and Avon mills here quit work Friday
morning. Between 300 and 500
men are estimated to be out. No demands
were made and there was not
the slightest evidence of disorder.
Unofficially, however, it is reported
that recognition of the union and a
higher wage scale are sought by the
operatives.
This strike leaves three Gastonla
mills Idle, employes of the Myrtle
mill having quit work Thursday.
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STER
AY, OCTOBER 21, 1919.
LITTLE HOPE IS FELT
THAT COAL STRIKE
CAN BE PREVENTED
Lewis Declares That All Demands
Must Be Granted
to the Miners.
PRESSURE ON BOTH SIDES
['on! Operators are Firm and I>eelare
Against Any Arbitration of the
Dispute While Strike Order Stands.
Secretary Wilson Hopeful of Settling
the Trouble.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.?There is
little hope of averting the srike of
half a million bituminous eoal miners
called for November 15.
After a series of conferences with
labor leaders here, and telephone
talks with others in the central coal
territory, John L. Lewis, president of
the United Mine Workers of America,
announced that they would go out unless
all demands, including the fiveday
week, were granted.
The operators, standing by their de
cision not to consider any proposal
looking to a shorter weekly schedule
and refusing to open negotiations unless
the strike order was withdrawn,
charged that the miners were trying
to freeze the country into submission
by insisting upon acceptance of "impossible
demands."
"The strike will not be called off,"
Lewis declared.
"We will not arbitrate while the
strike order staDds,'' said Thomas T.
Brewster, chairman of the operators'
scale committee.
Meanwhile pressure was being
brought to bear on both sides from
many quarters to adjust their differences
and save untold distress. Taking
mental stock, Lewis said there
would be enough coal on hand Nevein
ber 1 to keep the country warm 30
flays.
Secretary of i?abor Wilson at whose
invitation the scale committees of the
miners and operators will meet with
him here tomorrow declined to comment
on the negotiations, and continued
to hope that he would be able to
bring about peace. Official Washington
held to the view, however, that
the strike was inevitable. The meeting
will be held behind closed doors.
LEWIS ASSERTS WAR SCALE
OF WAGES HAS EXPIRED
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.?In a
statement issued here President Lewis,
of the United Mine Workers, said
a recent report by the federal trade
commission "revealed that never hefore
in the history of the mining industry
have the operators been making
such astounding profits upon coal
produced."
Discussing the war-time agreement
Lewis said:
"The claim of the operators that
the miners are guilty of repudiation
of contract is totally unfounded and
has no basis in fact. The Washington
agreement read that it was to
continue in force and effect 'until the
ending of the war or until March .11,
1920.' In substance and form the,
war has ended, the mine workers have
no contract; the contract expired on
the 11th day of November, 1918,
when hostilities ^ceased in order to
give the country and the mining industry
an opportunity for readjustment,
the mine workers have worked
for an additional year for the same
wages, merely by common consent.
We now seek to negotiate a new agree
ment to become effective November
1. Ample notice has been given the
operators of our intentions in this respect.
but they have steadfastly refused
to take any action that might interfere
with their profits. The miners
have had no increase in wages for
more than two years.
Charter for legion of Honor Post.
A charter has been issued to the
Lancaster Pont of the American Le
gion of Honor. All ox-members of
the array, navy or marine corps are
eligible to membernhip in this organization
and the Pont in anxioun that
all ex-nervice men in Lancaster county
should enroll at once by writing
to the Post. Any ex aervice man de
siring Information regarding insurance
or other matters in connection
with his discharge should consult
Elliott Springs who has some literature
from the Legion headquarters relating
to such matters.
State Fair Next Week.
The state fair opens in Columbia
next Monday, October 27. The fair
will be bigger than ever.
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RAILWAY LEGISLATION
IS FURTHER PREPARED
Provides Fine of $500 and Imprisonment
for Part,irlpatIon in Strikes
By the Employes.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.?Permanent
railroad legislation was advanced
a step last week, the senate interstate
commerce committee completing
work on its bill providing for return
of the railroads to private ownership
and operation under strict government
supervision and with drastic
provisions against strikes or lockouts.
The bill is to be reported out early
this week and placed in position for
senate debate immediately after disposal
of the treaty of Versailles, with
leaders planning Its passage next
month.
Anti-strike provisions of the bill
provide fines of $500 or six months
imprisonment, or both, for railroad
employes or officials or others connected
with or participating; in or aiding
strikes or lockouts. The prohibition
against aiding strikes was inserted,
committee members said, to reach
both radicals and labor leaders who
"aid. abet, council, command, induce
or procure" action toward a strike.
In order that grievances of employes
may be heard and adjusted, the
committee provided for the establishment
of a general and regional committee
on railroad wages and working
conditions to be composed equally
of railroad employes and employers.
In its principal features the final
committee bill is similar to the original
Cummins draft. It provides for
return of the roads within 30 days afI
ter enactment to private operation
I and control under reculntinn nf the
interestate commerce commission and
a new federal transportation board.
Creation of not less than 15 nor
more than 25 competitive, or regional
systems by the transportation board is
proposed, and the interstate commerce
commission is authorized to
fix rates which will make certain a return
of at least 5 1-2 per cent of the
actual value of the railroads in the
regional systems, plus half of one per
cent for improvements. Earnings
above six per cent are to be divided
between the carriers and the board.
In adjusting finances of the railroads
and the government at the end
of government control, the bill proposes
that the government accept the
railroads long term notes for indebtedness
to the government of about
$400,000,odd payable within 10 years
at six per cent interest. On other indebtedness
the bill authorizes the
president to accept short term demand
notes. The president also is
authorized to extend obligations of
the carriers which have accrued during
government control or to ex-'
change them for other securities.
viscount astor dead
from heart disease
Was Son of Founder of Aslor >151iIons
and Wa.s lt<*?-knncd One
of WfMiltlilest Briton*.
LONDON, Oct. 20.?Viscount Astor.
of Haver castle, died of heart d-isease
Saturday morning. He had
|>een failing In health for a year.
The body of Viscount Astor is lying
in the residence of his son, Waldorf
Astor. member of parliament, in St.
James square.
Through Viscount Astor's wish, his
body will be cremated, and it is understood
the ashes will be placed in
tho private chapel of his one-time
country home, Cliveden, at Taplow
Bucks, now occupied by Waldorf Astor.
Viscount Astor. (William Waldorf
Astor), was born in New York in
1848, the son of John Jacob Astor.
3d, the capitalist, and great-grandson
of John Jacob Astor, the founder of
the Astor millions. He became an expatriate
In the nineties, renouncing
his American citizenship and becoming
a British subject. He was made
a Baron in 1916 and was created first
Viscount Astor of Hever in 1917.
Viscount Astor has been reckoned
one of the richest men in England.
At the time of his death he still retained
laree realtv and nthpr flnon
clal holdings in the United States,
particularly in New York city.
Air Line to Cuba.
MIAMI. FLA., Oct. 20.?An aerial
passenger line employing six threepassenger
and two 16-pnssenger Farnham
airplanes will soon be established
between Havana, Cuba, and Miami,
and thence to New York, saving 48
hours in the present time of the New
York-Havana journey, according to
announcement from Havana. Hanibal
J. Mesa, a wealthy Cuban, is fll
nancing the project.
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SCRJPTION $2.00 A YEAR
PLANS UNDER WAY
FOR Y. M. C. A. FUNDS
LANCASTER COUNTY
Campaign Formally Launched
at Luncheon Yesterday at
Royal Hotel.
MR. GRAUEL MAKES TALK
Mass Meeting Will Be Held nt First
Methodist Church Next Sunday
Night in Wh'eh All the Churches
of the City Will Take Part?Lancaster's
Quota $1,000.
The pnmnalm tn ?ulon T ? ? . ~ ?
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county's quota in the drive for extension
of Y. M. C. A. activities was formally
launched at a luncheon at tho
Hotel Royal Monday afternoon at
two o'clock. Rev. Hugh R. Murehison,
county chairman, presided and
covers were laid for 4 5.
Mr. Jas. H. Grauel, of Columbia,
Boys' state secretary, addressed tho
diners and outlined the work to bo '
carried out. He stated that there are
79,000 youths in the state between
the ages, of 12 and 2 0 years and that
16 per cent of that number reside in
the cities and towns and 84 per cent
in the rural districts, and that the object
is to bring to these young men
and boys a personal realization of
Christ as their savior and bring them,
into the church.
The meeting was attended by a
number of ministers from different
parts of the county. After an infor
mal discussion it was decided to hold
a mass meeting next Sunday night at
eight o'clock at the First Methodist
church in which all the churches of
the city will unite. There will be a
prominent speaker present and at the
same time similar meetings will be
held at Kershaw and Heath Springs.
Lancaster county's quota in the
sum to be raised for this work is
$1,000.
LONDON FINDS WOMEN
POLICE MAKING GOOD
After Ten .Months Triul One Hundred
of Them are Permanently Hetained
for Active Duty.
LONDON, Oct. 20.?After ten full
months of trial the higher authorities
of the metropolitan police have decided
that women police officers have
made good and the 100 now on duty
will be retained. They must be of
good education, possessing tact, kind
jut Kook Hill tomorrow. The fair an(thoritiee
are expecting 1,000 automobiles
to take part and they are invited
from all flections of York and adjoin*
] ing counties.
iincns ami <j ?vuipuiiieui: nature, willing
to work seven hours a day for
j $10 a week and he ready at all limes
for duty.
The force was recruited from the
patrol workers of the national union
of women workers employed by the
commissioner in 1916 to aid in the
protection of the city. They did excellent
work, but last November it
was felt that the pressing need for
them had passed and they were disbandod.
The cessation of hostilities, however.
brought thousands of young ofli;
cers from the fighting front to T,onj
don. and the fear that an org'e of
I dissipation might follow the rigors of
life in the trenches induced the police
to retain 100 picked women for duty
in the night life sections.
Their work was preventive in a
large measure, particular attention
being devoted to young girls who
might he attracted to such places. So
well did they carry out the plan that
imn !/n Iiiiuiriu n ui III 11 d n now ueen
recognized.
These police women may be seen
any night in the West End, covering
regular heats near the theatres and
hotels in Paris, dressed in navy blue,
with a business like cap and regulation
whistle, they work under the direction
of a woman chief, whose headquarters
are in Scotland yard. If a
woman is accosted by some man who
does not know her she can cause his
arrest by appealing to the woman officer.
and it frequently happens arrests
are made without complaint..
All women applicants for the force
lire trained for eight weeks in the
regular duties of a policeman, but
they are not sworn in as constables
I and they are only liable for such duty
as the commissioner may direct.
Automobile Parade At York F?ir.
A big automobile parade will fea(ture
the opening day of the York fair