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I ?iec";lP8TH YEAR. NO. 104. SE
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tracks, IftQN'S MESSAGE j
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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withdrawn and the conference recessed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 '
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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.
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5 AfTTK INTOXICATION FKOM
DHINKINO AliCOHOI. FATAL *
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# / ?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.
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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 "
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> SOUTH CAROLINA TAKES
0 SECOND FLKiHT HONORS;
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)
('apt. J. O. honalilson Limlrd af
0 llonsrvrh rirld Montlav? l.icut.
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Mawi.ml Was rirst.
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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.
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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
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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. ,?.
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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.
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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