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; i ' Cotton Market I II Today 11 39 Cents | i facll^ I ?iec";lP8TH YEAR. NO. 104. SE l " the ehlm. wlthou^ tracks, IftQN'S MESSAGE j friction fT?? I nets A.1D Vi AVjltJCiLMi!jJN i I I am f> WITHOUT RESULT Labor Delegates Withdraw from Industrial Conference With^ out a Settlement. \ SPLIT ON BARGAINING "You llavc Defeated l's," Says (Join iwrs, "Hut When We Meet Again You Will He (ila<l to Talk Colle-c tive Bargaining."?Holes Hlained for Lack of Settlement. WASHINGTON. Oct. 23.?l.abo withdrew from the national industrial conference Wednesday night after its final effort to obtain adoption of a collective bargaining resolution had been defeated by the vote of a majority of the capital group. Although the representatives of both the public and capital announced their Intention of remaining in the conference, the next move in the effort to restore industrial peace to the country rested with President Wilson. Mr. Lino will make a personal re port of the situation to the president, but neither leuders in the conference nor officials generally would venture a prediction as to what course Mr Wilson would take. * ' Withdrawal of the labor group was announced by Samuel Gompers. president of the American federation of labor, after a dramatic speech. It came only a few hours after Secretary Lane, in an effort to prevent what many from almost the first had regarded as the inevitable, had read a letter in which President Wilson, dictating from his sick bed. appealed for harmony in the conference and for (he final working out of a program of lustrial peace. .jbepre&onvatfves of labor did not Join in the applause which greeted "V the letter and Mr. Gompers characterixed as "most unfortunate" a motion by John Spargo, of the public group that each group pledge the presiden it would make every effort to accomplish the work for which the confer- , eooe was called. The motion was withdrawn and the conference recessed so the labor group could meet to determine its future course. When the conference convened in the afternoon, the labor group proposed a resolution recognizing the right of collective bargaining. * Under a suspension of the rules, J the resolution Immediately was 1 brought to discussion and vote, tho labor and public groups uniting in its support on the roll call. The majority against the resolution in the capital group was one vote, hut under the conference rules this majority was sufficient to defeat the resolution. vWJth"tho announcement of tho result Mr. Gompers told the conference the resolution had been rejected without right or reason, rejected on the grounds so flimsy that the men sitting in the employers' group will have difficulty in explalinng their action to their fellows in the world. "You have defeated the labor group in Its declaration," declared the veteran lahor leader, "but we will meet you again in conference and when we do meet you there you will he glad to talk collective bargaining." "I have sung my swan song in this conference. You have by your action legislated us out of the gathering. We hnve nothing further to sav, and _ It Ih with a feeling of regret that we are not able to remain longer. Our rhlef regret la the defeat of everv fair proposition on our part. The die la cast. We cannot remain longer." Representatives of the four railf> $ road brotherhoods remained In the ( conference until the session adjourned, hut they announced that they did " so "out of courtesy to the other delegates." and that they were In accord with the main body of the labor t ?roup. Before the labor delegates left the hall Mr. Spargo asked them not to make their decision Irrevocable, but ( to remain with the understanding that ^ the conference "would proceed to de- * velop and formulate a general pro ' gram which will clearly define and ' establish the right of collective bar p gaining.'' a Calling attention that only a "very w small majority" of the memberu had ' . 1 (Continued on Page Bight.) w .4, _____ BE L MI-WEEKLY. TEXT OF MR. WILSON'S C AGR] W1KUIV/11V1V <W ?>?l T trial conference follows: "To (he Lullrs and fJentlemen of "I am advised by your chaii at Ion which appears to threaten cause of that 1 am presuming to a to you its Americans. It is not present condition. I do not s|N*al vidua! or group. Hut having en temporary imlis|M>sition should in of the seriousness of the position should you adjourn without hav that you exhausted your resour effort to come to some common i "At a time when the natioi flml a way of avoiding iutemutioi is no method to la* found for cart and with the very method of wn forep rule us in civil life? Arc o trial workers to live together w it struggling for advantage over en compelled? "My friends, this would lie a worthy of the large things done this continent. Indeed it would I From such a |>ossihility my mill abiding that in tlijs land we liav judgment upon matters tliat afTr very heart and soul of democracy "It is my understanding th tlon only of a possible large pis velo|ied. Before a severance is mcrs, I believe you should star that full program touching the s<s>|K? of your investigations. It cure was called that you would cry of those methods by which a dustry may have been secured ai signed by which a minimum of ploycrs may reasonably be hoped to secure its adoption. ? "It cannot he expected that u|ton each proposition or met ho however, that as a whole, a plan e will advance further the product establishment of surer and Ilea elements engaged in industry, that you will have that one end way is found leading to that end u lld U til'L' Jl?wl tl?o ????? ? i? ??? upon (livoixcnt paths tliat all e fAil lire. "I renew my appeal, with fu! parable im|M>rtanee of your task with full faith in the high patri that you push your task to a !ui| (Si NAVAJO CHIEF GREETS THE KING OF BELGIUI Alliert Shows \o Condescension an the Indian Manifests No Humility?Presents Blanket. A I lU'OlTLUlATTM XT na mini n, i>. >!., UCl. ? The pale face chief (if the Helglan greeted a grim visaged, gray-ha ire swarthy chief of the Nuvajoes at Oa lup. They shook hands gravely an each showed his respect for the othei The aged Indian chief bore himse with a dignity equal to that of a kinf There was no condescension in A bert's manner and no humility in tha of the red-skin. The sun had not yet banished th ehfll of dawn when the royal specia stopped on the New Mexican villag of Gallup, hut there was a crowd c several hundred at the station. Man of them had ridden a score of mile to greet the Belgians. As the trai stopped the band of St. Michael's Ir tlian school swung into the strains a the nationul anthem of Belgium an then that of the United States. A little band of braves mounted o uustangs, sat waiting and watchinp their faces exnressionless. as the kinc ineen and prince descended from th %ar. After one war dance, his majes :y expressed a desire to meet som one of the Indians and several n hem were presented to him and hi consort. Then Chief Sllagotio Tribauldje tetter known as Pete Price, steppei 'orward with the Rift of the tribe, i landsome Navajo blanket, which In fravely handed to Albert, who in tun tinned upon the old warrior's breas diver medals of his house. The grizzled Indian was the last t< turrender to the regulars at Port Defl ince in the days when Kit Carsot vas a guide. There was no lack of color in th< tcene which greeted the Belgians traves In shirts of the Handiest huei ind squaws wrapped In blankets o nany colors were grouped In an oper pace near the station, some of th< romen carrying papooses. The daugh er of the chief was mounted on ? nuatang. When the braves had filed pasl iueen Kllzaboth, who stood besidt ler husband. In atriking contrast tr he place given their women by the ndlans, she asked to be presented to he Indian squaws. Then she request d thoni to pose before her camera nd they compiled, although somewhat sullenly, for they view pictureaking devices with superstitious avs 'hey kept their eyes on the g ound while they posed. ANCA LANCASTER, S. C., FRID ALL FOR A CONFERENCE EEMENT. lie prrsidcnt's message t<? the industlie Industrial Conference: rman that you have come to a sit lithe life of your conference, and lieddrcss a word of very solemn appeal for me to assess the hlutue for tlie? k in a spirit of criticism of any initialled tills conference, 1 feel that my ot i?ar the way to a frank expression in wliicli this country will lie placed ing convinced the American people cefulncss ami your patience in an agreement. ns of tlte world are endeavoring to ml war, are we to confi-ss that there ying on industry except in the spii it ir? Must suspicion and hatred ami ur industrial leaders and our Induslimit faith in each other, constantly u li other, doing naught hut what is n intolerable outlook, a prospect unity this people in the mastering of lie an invitation tn national disaster, d turns away, for my confidence is r> learned how to accept the general the public weal. And this is the i*. at you have divided ii|>on one |>nr>Urnm which has not lns>n fully dee(Tected based U|x>n present differid together for the development of many questions within the hroad. was in my miiul when this conferconct ra yourselves with the discov? mensurable co-operation within inul if new nuirlilnery needs to l>e decontlict lu'tween employes and enn I for, that we should make an effort at every step all parties will jttiree <1 suKHested. It is to Ih- evpcctcdi >r program can he agreed upon which ive capacity of America throuuli the rtier co-operation Itetween all the The puhlic expects not less than, in view and stav toirether until the or until it i.s rt>vi*alnl that the men iiiagc American industry nn* so s?-tt, ITort at ro-operation is doomed toj II apprehension of the almost inconis to this ami to otli?*r peoples, ami otism ami good faith of riu'li ntlit'r ?py conclusion. gned) "WOOIIIIOW WIIjSOX." I PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE tf| REFUTES MANY RUMOR! (1 At the Same Time It l)o?*s Not Imll | cute Decided Improvement?Acts in Case of Emei'Rrnry, -J WASHINGTON'. Oct. 2%.?Whil 18 ^ President Wilson was able to forim dilate a message to Secretary I.ane In 1-1 transmission to the national industr dial conference, no effort was mad r.'either by Hear Admiral Grayson, hi If physician, or by White House official to create the impression that the a< 1- tion was indicative of a decided in it provement in the president's rond tion. G Writing of the message, hownvei Ll was pointed to by members of th p White House staff as further refutin ,f reports that Mr. Wilson was unabl y to transact any necessary husines |R that might require his attention a n 1*11 ifi exenmve, i lie siiuntlon col fronting the national industrial cot j ference or which may face it at an ,j time through danger of its dissoli tion, was considered as constitutini such a necessity. While the president, it was sab " at the White House, was no worse his condition did not show any decid e ed change for the better as might b p inferred from his increasing activit; j, In governmental affairs. Dr. Oraysoi made it plain he does not propose t< let the incident of the message servi as precedent for lowering the bars t< " all who may have affairs of state t( ' tiring the patient. ii The gradual improvement In tin p president's condition was noted but i i was again emphasized the dailj t change is so slight as to be aimos imperceptible and is to lie measuret more by tiie absence of complication! . than by signs of returning strength. 1 I'reai liing at < amp Creek. The News is requested to announce ? that there will be preaching at upper ' Camp Creek Baptist church next SunJ day night at seve no'clock. t 5 AfTTK INTOXICATION FKOM DHINKINO AliCOHOI. FATAL * i # / ?AI t!Ut?* a c. ^ v/wui' .11 ni;%, 3. U., UCl. 123. l OoorKla Johnson and John I'. Al i len, both civilian mechanics of > the! motor transport corps at > Camp Jackson, died at the base > hospital there Tuesday from the effects of acute intoxication caus , * ed by drinking quantities of men thyl alcohol. Both men were 23 years of af?e. Johnson's home ? was said to be Hope, Ark., while 1) Allen was from Mayo, Fla. ! A ^ " iSTER AY, OCTOBER 24, 1919. " COMMITTEE IS DAZED BY DISCLOSURES OF AN I. W. W. ATTORNEY Ultra-Radical Activities Mixed i p in jMeel strike, Says Pittsburg Lawyer. MENTIONS FOSTERS NAME !!< Sought and ScciihmI Indorsement for Slrcl Strike ol' Kovnltitioni?ft*. "Government of No I've When Proper Industrial < 'oiulit ions are Kstahlislted," Says Margolis. WASHINGTON. Oct. 23.?While members of the senate labor committee Investigating the steel strike sat fairly dazed and dumbfounded, Jacob Margolis, of Pittsburg, 1. W. W. attorney and admitted advocate of social revolution, told them a story of ultraradical activities which he said underlay and were associated with the nation-wide strike of steel workers. Kven more remarkable to his hearI ers was the Pittsburg attorney's deI lineation of n nnrlinllu ounnnu.f..! tempt covering the past two years to fuse at Pittsburg for an unstated but vague hinted revolutionary purpose the combined forces of the Industrial | workers, bolshevik and Russian industrial workers whose imagination he acknowledged had been caught by the successes of l.enlne and Trotsky j in Russia. All were working, he told I tlie committee calmly, "to create a1 new society within the shell of the old." Throughout Margolis's story ran the name of William Z. Foster, secretary of the steel strike committee, to whom Chairman Kenyon, of the labor committee, forced a frequent recurrence by a cross-examination in which dictograph records of telephone con ~ vernations, photographed copies of Margolis' correspondence and similar matter played a large part. Margolis calmly classified himself as an "anarchist syndicalist," in which capacity he had worked with and for the I. W. W. organization, and a "Tolstian anarchist.'' Governments, he said, will be of no use "when proper industrial conditions 1 are established," he put it. and these ' industrial conditions he predicted would be established when workers. J organized along I W W. lines, get > ready "to take over and operate in? dustry for themselves, more efficiently than private ownership can." lSecretarv Foster came into the testimony not so much as a radical au!, tutor himself, bat ;is a seeker for h?'lp in conducting the industrial tight in 0 the steel Industry Margolis told of a "union of Russian workmen" existe inp in and around Pittsburg, rnvolutionary in its objects, and said at Fos( ter's request, or with his cognizance, ( he secured the Indorsement of that orgnnizntion for the steel strike j. "The Russians had a tri-state meetP ing at Youngstown in August," Margolls explained, Chairman Kenyon 1 leading and suggesting. "It was a , delegate assembly I went theie and [. made a speech, asking them to in e dorse the sfeol strike and give it stipy port. This they agreed to do " a > SOUTH CAROLINA TAKES 0 SECOND FLKiHT HONORS; ) ) ('apt. J. O. honalilson Limlrd af 0 llonsrvrh rirld Montlav? l.icut. t Mawi.ml Was rirst. / II t MINKOLA, L. I . Oct 23 South I Carolina raptured second honors in < tiie trans-continental air flight and to- i turn when ('apt J (). Donaldson landed at Roosevelt field at 10:30 Mon- i day. the winner of the army air race ( ' from this place to San Francisco and l return having been Lieut II. \V. May < nurd, of Wake Forest, N. who reached here Saturday afternoon at f 1:50. 1 Captain Donaldson, who made the ' 5,400 mile journey in a single seated s 8E-5 airplane, is a native of Green- ' ville, S. C. He was in Europe 14 1 months as a member of the American ' headquarters squadron and saw ser- s vice with the Hrltlsh army near Dun- s , kirk. 1 Captain Donaldson, took part in seven of the major operations of the American army and while flying over j Douai shortly after the Chateau Thier- t ry drive was attacked by thre.e German planes. He brought down two < of them but was captured by the third later escaping to Helgium. 9 I New SUB; GOVERNMENT MIGHT < STEP IN AND TAKE A XT A "NTT* TXT rpTT-n ?mr>TT?-n ?j 111 inCi DUKlAfi ? Operators and Coal Miners Fail ! to Reach Agreement in Conference. MAKE ANOTHER EFFORT Government Plans are lleld in \l?'v- ' a lice I'ntil Result of Si'itiinl Meet-' in-r is Known?Coii^n'ss May sunn- t'ontrol of Mines II' Dispute J is Not Adjusted. WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.?Failure of operators and miners to settle their , differences after a four-hour conference with Secretary Wilson may force the government to step in and prevent the strike of half a million bituminous coal miners called for Novem- , her 1. Although another effort will he i made to bring peace to the industry,]' the strike looms big and close at band ' and loaders of tho two sides, speaking frankly and Bravely, said there was little hope. While the full soalo committees representing miners and operators were fighting their battles behind a closed door, a strike storm raged "n the senate, and federal agencies looked up the law. firmly convinced it would have to be invoked to stive j tbe country from untold distress and suffering, with mines shut down and less than a month's stock on hand to keep fires burning. Filing out of the meeting place .the miners and operators, nearly 100 of them, went their separate ways to (lis euss the crisis, the former led bv John I. Lewis, president of the united mine workers of America, and the1' latter by Thomas T. Brewster, head! of the coal operators' association.' Leaders and members of both were extremely reticent. Both leaders refused to discuss the situation hevond i ' saying there had been no change in 1 the attitude of either group. Informed of the attack on the un ions in the senate l>y Senator FrePn t- ( huysen, of New Jersey, strike leaders ( said there was a bare chance of some encouraging developments, but the strike order would stand. Secretary Wilson left the meeting without giving the least intimation as ' i to what was in his mind as to hope of j settlement. | The two committees, in separate groups, tiled into the assembly hallj of t tie Ued Cross building and Seere-j tary Wilson went to the front and . ' I without c< reinon> announced that they had been asked to meet and adjust their grievances. Pleading for immediate settlement of the strike the secretary showed how it would af- ' feet the publir, how it would close in- ' dustriel plants and stop freight and ' passenger ti attic, because of the limited coal stocks held by the railroads. s Pointing out that the matter was 1 one of vital concern to the people, * Secretary Wilson explained that as ' executive officer of the government ' Illlil fr?ivtf/l trlt K t fnnetlon ! dialion of such disputes, ho felt that.' every possible effort should he made ' to induce the miners and operators t??; * see the importance of early adjust-!' inent The secretary said he rave, ' ftill weight to the statement of thel operators regarding contracts and to < the importance of reselndlng the <] strike order and to withdrawal of do- j mands for a 30-hour week, just as he | gave weight to the statement >f the miners that there must be "a disposals lion to really negotiate" before it| would be worth while for them to go ' c nto conference. !a President Lewis then spoke for the j, miners The old wage agreement, he ,j leclared. has expired and the opera-j ? tors, he characterized, had refused to onslder a new one. j ^ The side of the operators was pietented by P. H. Penna, of Terre Haute. Ind., who charged that the S niners had violated thtir agreement ind that the operators had adhered o the prlclples and practices of colectlve bargaining, and tnat the unons were at fault. Then without eon- ^ mltlng the leaders, Secretary WilAon n luggested an adjournment as casualy as if the conference had planned to ' un for a week. The secretary, it ^ vas said, indicated a desire to pre?ent the views of the government, afer each side had been given a full n tearing. r Because of the r .cessary absence ' >f Secretary Wilson the strike was * p i Continued on Pace Four.) a Read The News To Get |V_j) The News SCRIPTION $2.00 A YEAR - --"~T CHARLOTTE VOTERS VINDICATE THE OLD CITY COMMISSIONERS Mayor McNineh Defeats Recall Candidate By 1,135 Out of 5,272 Ballots Cast. * * . ELECT WEARN AM) CAGE Hiiyor >lc\inch Xddressos Iiar^t' \u? <1 i?*n' ?* on Vight of Election laying That llo Takes ilio Victory as an (" Endorsement of the Policy of tho am Prosont t'ity Ailmiuistration. ,?. r CHARLOTTE. X. Oct. 23.-?Tho ^ m 'harlotte city commissioners wero given a majority of 1,435 in the re- ' *' ^ roll oloction Tuesday. A total of " .-'72 votes were cast, the largest oil record here. Tlie day passed without any disturbances, and reports that yjC.7 rotton mills would close down and operatives flock to the polls proved untrue. One or two individual tights ** occurred, but these had no serious jf*.. result s. The ntliclal vote was a< follows: For mayor: Frank It McNinch, 3,- K. :tT?4 ; .1 Frank Flowers, 1.!?1 ! . For commissioner of public works: .>$3 Ilcor-c A. i'auc, \V. II. Hall, ? *'A For commissioner of public safety: Arthur H. Wearn. David L? ^ Kistler. I.hl'.t. <'ontnt:s~ioner Wenrn, led the ticket. Following the announci-nii nt of th<> results Tuesday nirht, Mayor Mo N'im It made an address to a crowd of approximate^ 4,Ono people, who as-embled in front of one of the news* [taper otflces. He was warmly received. He stated that he took the vic? lory to be an indorsement of the poli y of the present eity commissioners ind an indication of the belief of a majority of the people of Charlotte*) that the present commissioners have done their duty in maintaining law tnd order and wisely leading the city. The election passed unusually Hiietly. No large crowds hung around the polls, and while both sides had ;t rorps of workers at each of the 11 noting places, these were required to dav at least SO feet awav front tho ' dfflw polls, respecting an agreement signfd by both factions. Only one voter was allowed to approac lithe ballot box at a time, the Australian ballot ' '.Pal system being in use in its entirety. Wards which the recall faction expected to carry by large majorities 5ave but feeble majorities. Four of die 11 wards gave majorities for the recall ticket. The election closed one of the hiterest campaigns evet waned in tho *ify, and the vote was one of the largest ever polled. . ? The issue in the campaign was tho stand and the conduct of the administration and the police department luring the street carmen's strike in \ugust, which reached a climax in a. iot at the oar barn about midnight: m XuL'tist L'.'i when five strike synipa- .' ! iilzors were shot and killed. The re all forces charged that these men verc unlawfully shot by the policelien, whose action was ratified bv tho ity commissioners. The !iilminl?tr?ilf.n . ? iw?i ?v? V ? n ill <11II l ill 11* I il that the policemen fired only in i V lischarge of their lawful duties when nenaced by a mob that threatened to yneh one of their number and proposd to dynamite the car barn to "pet" . ? * * > t l ike -breakers quartered therein. The recall candidates had the uniflieial backing of organized labor, nd the ticket was known as the "la- v or ticket." though the returns aro eclared to prove that union men did r?t vote at all solidly for the recnll. . , lOUNTED POLICE CHARGE CROWD 300 SERVICE MEN ervico Men were Determined tier- J man Opera Should Not Be Pix> lured in New York. NEW YORK, Oct. 23.?Mounted olice charged n crowd of 300 service '" k-C" 1 29 wfifli ien who had massed in front of the - "Jtfv. *.exingion theatre to prevent producIon of German opera, upon which layor llylan had placed nn official Dispersed by the police, th. s<m \ ice ien hastened to Times square, reruited nearly 1,000 civilians and re- :r. urned to the theatre. One. section of ' he line engaged in a fight with the k olice, laying down a barrage of briok 0 I iu * g