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?__J? WILL BE NO STRIKE OF RAILWAY WORKERS President Given Free Hand in Dealing With Any Situation That May Arise?War Board Announces That Railways Place Inter* ests Unreservedly in Wilenn'e Hindi. \ ' Washington, Nov. 20?President Wilson yesterday was given a free hand in his effort to avert a strike for higher wages by engineers, conductors, trainmen and brakemen, with whose representatives he will confer here Thursday. Formal announcement by the railroads' war board that the railroads were ready, should any crisis arise, to place their interests unreservedly in the hands of the president for such disposition as he may determine is necessary in the public interest was expected to clear away misunderstandings of the four bro- 1 therhoods over the attitude of the 1 roads, which had caused the unions x- X. ?v;J?A- j.1? J:? to rexuse to uruiuai? tuc ui9{iuv? Possibility of a stoppage in the steady flow of commerce, thereby paralyzing the nation's war preparations, was believed by officials to 1 have passed. They expected. that an agreement to leave the wage question to an impartial tribunal woul dresult from Thursday's con- 1 ference and already suggestions for means to forestall any further agitation concerning wages and condi- 1 tionB of work during the war which at the same time would protect the J workers in maintaining their standards of life in the midst of war ' prices are under considerationEng- 1 land's example' of allowing the Tjoard^of trade to regulate wages at 1 intervals of several months and at ' the'same time adjust rates to protsct the rftifooAcb, is being given 1 , /close study. ' 1 Some form of continuing atbitra- ' lion, it is believed confidently, will Tesult from the president's confer- ' ence and succeeding; negotiations. 1 For-their part the railroads have in- 1 dicated that they ma yaslc for sorte J form of control of .wages and rates 1 similar to that- in effect to regulate 'J coal wages and prices. < 1 Brotherhood officials Have disclosed a serious situation in the discus- 1 sions with Judge William L. Chambers, chairman of the United States * Board of Mediation and Conciliation, who has been President Wil- * son's representative in preHminaryr' l conferences with- both- sides. They said increased wages are necessary to maintain the operating personnel1 of the roads against the inducements of higher wageB paid in other industries which have government. n >i fan ltii vvuvravM. ivcviuiun^ ui xaiuuau ^ regiments for service in France, enlistment in the army and the operation Of the draft law also have aid- . ed in depleting the number of highly trained railroad men. 7 , < VOLUNTEERING TO END ON DECEMBER 15 I ? Now Change* Are Moat Drastic Yet Announced Regarding the Second Draft. 7 Washington, Nov. 20^?Voluntary enlistment of all men between 21 and 31 years in tne united states army will cease on December 15. This is the most drastic change made in the new selective draft regulations announced by Provost Marudial General Crowder recently. Men between these ages may enlist in the navy or marine corps up on presenting satisfactory evidence ~that their serial numbers are so high that they wilt not be affected by the second draft. To offset the regulations prohibiting the voluntary enlistment of men of draft age after December 15, provisions are made for the special induction into service of spe' cialized workers. Secretary of War Baker is given power to revoke the classifications order of any registrant. How Rule WiH Work. Therefore, if the Adjutant general' sends out a call for 25,000 machinists for military duty, Secretary Baker will revoke the classification of machinists and the local boards will be so instructed. The quotaB of such local board will then be diawn from the machinist registrants. When the required number of men is secured, the remainder will revert to their former classification. rnt_ ^ a/ waivaIh^iaW a/ /ilaa. \ X lit? puwui U1 1CTV1UVIVII VI VllAtJaification by the Secretary of War does not apply to men classified because of dependencies. It applies only to industrial classifications. Any registrant who decidesto enlist may accomplish the same by a waiver of all classification. By so doing he automatically goes to the head of the list But his waiver must be accompanied by waivers filed by any dependents that'he may have. - ' Regulations previously announced exempting all men engaged in shipbuilding while actually engaged in that industry, will take- effect Nov ember zu. xne majority ot tne regulations will go into effect on a date to be set by Provost Marshal General Crowder, probably December 15. The regulations start the draft machinery anew. Every registrant not now in military service has the same status as before the first draft All registrants, whether exempted or discharged; must go through the draft machinery again. To Fill Vacancies. Local boards may hold men who already have been jftssed, but not yet called, as ready for service. This provision is made in order to fill vacancies which may occur until the new regulations are in operation. There will be no physical examination untH the-call for a second draft. Under the new regulations, all r^isiruiiw amy upjpem xrum wits decision of the physical examiner. Upon filing their appeal* they will pro before a medical advisory board in each local district. The local board must then act upon the report of the medical advisory board. Transfers of jurisdiction may be secured by registrants who have left- the local district in which they were registered. - Reasonable extensions of time will be allowed men in returning the questionaires when due to unavoidable- circumstances. Under the new ? regulations there can be no appeals made to ad&tifti istrative officers in W ashington. All administrative- officials are prohibited from attempting in Any way to affect or change the claseifieatieiVof any. registrant. All registrants are prohibited' from' correspondence with the office of the Provtost Ma* shaL They - most communifeate with their local boards'or adjutant general of their Stated g ' ni" ? if - ' ' ATLANTA* GROCERWHO SOLD SUGAR AT? 20feTS: MUST REFUND 9 CENTS (Atlanta Georgian.) The first illustration of the manner in Whftiir the Food AdmfnistratlOh'ii?fiih'd^;? to enfbrCe Government regulations in Georgia was given Tti&day when " an Atlanta grocer who had sold stigar Saturday night at 20 tents' a pound signed an agreement to refund to every purchaser1 at that price * 9 cents a pound At the: same' tiihe he pledged himself to abide^by^the rules and regulations Of the Adnftnisttation henceforth: It was a concrete case, handled with the* promptness and dispatch with which the State office declaresall cases will be handled ^ in so fart as this case in concerned. He was not a member of the Retail' Grocers' Association. "We want the voluntary cooperation of every dealer in food articIm " anil) Q+n+?l executive secretary, decisively. "If we can't get co-operation voluntarily, we are going to get it anyway.'Beginning Tuesday, the office of the Food Administration is, upon direction from Washington, urging a further conservation of flour. Merchants generally are being advised that the administration will apprdve certain forms of "combina tion sale" to effect the conservation and to bring about a greater use of corn meal. ALL AMERICANS SAFE IN FRANCE Citizen* of United State* Who Wished to Leave AaaUted By AmbuuicFor Francis. Washington, Nov. 20.?Messages from Ambassador Francis at Petrograd and Consul General Summers at Moscow, dated last Friday and Saturday and received today at the state department, said all Americans m the two principal Russian cities were safe>. Conditions in both places were reported as quieter but still chaotic. Ambassador Francis reported that, the obtained trafnspor | SEAB Air Line Rid] "THR PROGRF.S5IV SOI SteelEquipmen * i Observation-Pa t Thru Coaches a To principal points Noi For fates, scheduler on iHesarestSeaboard^Ti c. s. GomtatK Traveling Pass'iv Agtv Si A. L. RWY1, I Atlanta? Gavx ! ?WEN B Wdde And Gtar Company Designer# Manufacturers Ereetors , TRtBureriw arroNE is ii b , f6rifftl#- bot&ftft whtafh wt y^manyllitnfryou^HooM i hfcftr*pMng yoar order bwtt?qi iTWllilTtafVlflf 'InMIf in lINr 'W Oi R?Mp : I?if i iMii W- W?r. bcononiy In | Purity Your ? Your tJncle Sam wants you to b of Food, but there is not? citizen 1 - i A -X- ? - ,ne wants to go nungry. In the matter of Conservation ol the longest way. Yon cannot econo ducts obtainable. Highly nourishing cheapest in the long run. . , i Feed your- familly. from our ate out for the best from every viet some And at the same-time high! * ' Very best way to economize. W. D. E \ . i Classified f , Want to buj flung? Then advertisement THE PRESS tatlon from PetrogTad to Harbii over the Trans Siberian railroad fo Americans who wished to depni from the capital. He had recom mended that unattached women an men accompanied by women ' an I children leave. Officials have esti mated that there were about zu Americans in Petrograd. No suggestion was made of mo\ ing th eAmericans from Moscow although the fighting in that cit appeared to have been more genei i al and sanguinary than that in Pel rograd. During the fiercest of th street *battling many American were gathered in the Hotel Metre pole. AmKommiIa* UVanoin' Hiftnftffil j niuvaooauvj. * ?- ? said the Petrograd city duma ha r not reorganized the Lenine-Troi zky faction and that many of th OARD wayiGompary E RAILWAY OF THE UTH"? t ' * .rior-CafaGara ndiSleepem 111, SouthfEart:and.West. or. otharinfuwnation, call cket'AgHBttoRwnte V FRED 6EI5SLER, Asst. Gen. Pm'r- A|jt. S. ^JL KWX,, ROIMBRS: | lite ifUmE' " 1 , N. Q. ~~ iff Wafcbtord Standard i | i t as saving aa possible in the matter* j of these-good old United States that , . ! F food, remember thia: The Best'soef | mize fcy using the che^ipes^foedipro- J ; food comes higher in price and'is the i >re. We are constantly on the watch wpoint. If it is pore and whole* , j nourishing^ Have 'Ti? the 1 5 ^ \ / * L arksdate i ? 1: 111 ' ljl " " 1 " ,Advertising |; ? M ,J i or sell some _ ? !l?. 1 J cry a classinea i k i 111 :| ; |.4 v & BANNER | < \ n government departments were clos-' r ed while others were operating un- , * der subordinate officials. A few l" Bolsheviki were appearing at intei^ : d vate with frequent changes-of nunes 1 d and banks were open part of the time; Dispatcher from the state 0 department were beginning to teach < Mr. Francis, the first one b eing r" dated November 9 and containing v the American-Japanese agreement y regarding China. Conditions in Moscow, Consul General Summers-' fc- dispatch under date of November * 17 said, were somewhat improved, is after a week of fighting. The Max* imalists had taken over the government. Officials at the Russian em n bassy as id that they had received d no late news* but that the mention t- in press dispatches of the name oif ie Captain Pauloff, a Social Democrat, workmen's leader as being at th< head of troops opposing the Bol sheviki, was encouraging, as indicat ing that one of the strongest fae tions of the opposition had gont over to the moderates. The predic tion- wae- made - that the Bohhevik would: be overthrown by a military victory or< fall ,-by 'internal dissea sion o^ing to the evident incapacity of the radical leaders to obtain th< reforms embodied in their program MINERS ACCEPT WAGE CONTRAC1 Operator* . and Employ;*** Notifj Fu?l Administrator. Washington, Nov. 20.-r-Fuel Ad ministcatpr..Garfield was. notifiec yesterday .of the final acceptance,ol a satisfactory wage, contract penal; ty clause by both operators am miners in the ffansas, Arkansas anc Missouri coal, fields. Acceptance $f the penalty claust in. the. Southwest extends its pro visions to virtually all the.cduqtry'i bituminous coal fields, "Patriotic cooperation . of bptife mine workers, and operators, sc thoroughly, exemplified in t^gen eral acceptance of ihe.. penaltj clause. agreement* Dr. Garfield said, "can .be depended unon to increau the' bituminous coal production .all along the line." The penalty; clause is designed, tc prevent by a. system of fin$s the shutting down of mines either bj strikes or lockouts. ; Dr. Garfield is, stiU. considerinf the request, of anthracite. operaton and miners for higher anthracite prices to absorb a proposed wag* increase in the anthracite* fields. / The fuel administration* is work ing with the priority committee anc the interstate commerce commission on a plan for obtaining more effective use of coal cars and ii studying suggestions for greater cooperation by railroads in use ol trackage. Coal operators claim that the toads are workfng too much to theu own advantage and that thev arc not using each others' facilities as much as th6'y should. They have suggested a further pooling of railway equipment,, and . priority foj coal shipments 'oyer all other commodities except, /.food and govern* raent materials,' LABOR1 MERAGCUMM LdVALTY TO- GOMPER9 Stamp of Approval Placed Beyond All IQumUAb at Buffalo?Vot? 1 of Confidence Rebuke*. the Pacifists. Buffalo. N-. Y.. Nov. 20.?Union labor today-put its stamp of approval on the attitude of Samue Gompere, president of the. American Federation of tabor, in working handinhand-with President Wilson and. placing'the needs-of- the* nation above all., other - considerations in questions involving the- workingman's part in a- vigorous prosecution of the war against Germany, j The vote of- confidence came af^ ter more than three hours of debatq in which-the-pacifist element at thq 37th annual convention of the fedj eration was given ample opportune ty- to express itself. Out. of a to* tal jof 460 delegates, only 15 wer^ recorded in opposition* The garment workers of. New JYork. under the. .leadership of. Rose Shapiero was the, only, organization refusing to go on record on the roll call. The fpqf of ufavnoih came unon a report from the committee on resolutions. The committee reported favorably a resolution indorsing the "patriotic work" of the alliance fo* labor and democracy which Mr. Gompers took an active part in organizing as an offset to the People^ Council, a pacifist, organization. The attack on the resolution was I led by Delegate Burns of Philadelphia. He was supported, in addition to Miss Shapiro, by Delegate Burke of the sulphite workers, Joseph P. Cannon of the mine workers and a few others. The alliance and Mr. Gompers were defended by Delegates Walker of Illinois, Brown of Washington, Matthew Wall of the photo-engravers, George Berry of the pressmen, Max S. Hayes of the Typographical Union and- Viae President James Duncan. Giran Full Reifn. The opposition discussed the h:gh cost of living, the Arizona mineras' strike, the street railway strike of Springfield, 111., and the suppression of foreign language newspapers and ' 7liTwiH 1 u / '. , s President Gompere gav# thwa full t nin. r The sorters of ^? reiol?tion; r Aid not mi nice wqrtf* 4ii cOnden$nin$ t the attitno^of 'the 4>$ciflfcK "Labor has a big duty to . pen * form," said MrrBvrty: "We1 can | P not afford-to place ourselves in such * a position that we-wiH be miaunder f stood. If the resolution is rejected, * it will feo^abroad*ito the wwM that we have^turned down the government. It is time we should stand ;up . and be counted.' r . . .. a "If we have tnrftom in our Tanks p ,1 am ready :to elOTinate them. Wi can not take half way measure*. Wd must show where we stand for the . democracy for which *ir have been \ fighting during the lsltt" 37 year*}" j ' Delegate Walker, Who was at the * Minneapolis meeting -of the AHiancB j, for Labor and Democracy, said tte I fact that the alliance had declared acainst treason and sedition a??m j ed to have; unfavorably received 'by a; great many people. i "I have -not . c!?a^d. my , mind foftMT Mr, Walker conti^tf, ' ** ? ' . tilat is not fliiffieienfc tn RimnnHM : BE *rr' annaa. ?r?,TK , faM.rj.dv^ of .Pw^. ' *m>w , > ever steps,are necessary to. suppress I .them. No CU1#? flay.> . "Pacific sknBriijg, unditt th# > I cloak of unionism are going aj^ar r i as tfcey .dare. m t|ie, *ay. of Peking sedition. Tbis^r is np .d?^> r play. It meaps, moj$_:to us tha#, any ' issue ever raised > the WstoKy; of > Sie hj^ ra<$? Delegate Brown suggested* .that when a vot? was itaken there should J b* a; roll calL. "Let ti* stand upand 1 be counted/' he demaiidedr Mr. Hayea protected againat what ' he termed th?-"holier than thou" ' attitude of i some., of the speakers. None ofr the membflTS ol; the. federr ation could be called traitor*, b# WM.1 1 "Whea PreaideirfLi Wiiaou .declaicd ' maij' heaaid^ 1 ?nd that waa, to *tand: up wd^fht 1 this war*v no jpatfcrtiilPW;:; lOfg.Jt y \ Jittts.?' : U. tI.VM uojto \|?cun,wu R"rJ?WuJ'? ' control: railroads as the only solutipn\of: t^? jieonMBic iquestion#; /.to.yjtoyptf,. at the close of the war. President, Gc?np?r*i clp*#*tfc*-debate in a ringing speech in. defen $9 of the alHance andihi* , own petitions ' , * ''By those who have opposed, the report and the. recommendation ai ' this commiiee," he odd,. "my; name was not always mentioned*, but m^ position was, and there^is^Btodiirdj^ . - ence between the- two. r or inatance, T may recall' that- ifisinulrtiotrt were made of my hobnobbing with the feBemiea-of- laborf Now, -Ihav* al-N ways said this: SI will-go-anywhere - to brift'g the-jnoennce 'hoye^to la| bor?even into- the.camp of the ene' If fteM is aziy( one v:ho can ! i)wog on? utteianc^ ofuniiW* JWMfo ' anywhere that was not in the de :?enae of th/a, rigfrtyof the. . laboring people, let him do so, I dare you! I challenge yoyi" . ...... . 'HUN&. REFUSJE P AGE TALK Kaiser Willi Treat Only Willi -Lefal * Successor to Imperial Ruuke 1 ' Government. r. Petrograd, Nov. 20.?Germany :h?8 refusad to treat for peace wjth ' .the. ne,yr sobers and, workmen's gov ernment in response to a recent * proposal,, according to the newBjgapers nere, which publish this news .as coming from a well authenticated It is stated that Emperor William announced , in his reply that he would treat only with the successor to the imperial go^jrnjJ^nt or with the constituent assembly.. In this connection the Volia Not oda, says it has information that the 4 soldiers and workmen's government in the event of its,failure to. jreceive replies from; the belligerents by November 23 reserves the right to >make peace on its own account, after which, if the war , continues, Russia will occupy a neutral position. MIGHTY GOOD PAPER. M. W. Smith, who lives qn Route 2, was in the office yesterday to re1 new his subscription to The Press i and Banner. He says it it a mighty [ good paper.