The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, December 18, 1919, Image 7
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MID CRITICIZES
« : SETTlflEIIT
M Administrator Sends U Us Resign
nntioB Following Stttteaent of Coni
Strike Without Us Beta* Consulted,
Says President Would
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Wshington, Dec. 13.—<Prftic4ple.8 un
derlying President Wilson’g jlan tag
the settlement of the coal strike, ac
cepted by the mifters, as baaed* are
^‘fundamentally (wrong as a matter of
government,” Dr. Harry A. Garfield,
federal fuel administrator until today,
tolfa hastily assembled subcommittee
of the senate tonight. His resignation,
sent to president Wilson because of
bis views was accepted today with
those of one or two of his associates,
he-said.
While discussing with sbfne freedom
Cleavage in the cabinet” caused by
strike settlement negotiations, Dr.
Garteld withheld answers to questions
by Senator Frelinghuysen, Jtepubli-
^Llhansttb* =^S^^eHHFs _ of th^ cabinet. Dr.
commfttee, op matters he regarded
with his former associates during the
strike period. He adhered to this
refusal, though Senator Townsend,
Hepublican, Michigan, and Senator
Myers, Democrat, Montana, joined the
chairman in urging -replies, and re
fused to furnish a copy of his letter
of resignation, which he indicated had
explained his views to the president.
Senator Frelinghuysen intimated
that Attorney General Palmer and
otBer officials connected with the
strike settlement would be called
later.
. “My objection,” Dr. Garfield said of
th<* settlement plan, “goes to the point
that the commission which I under
stand will be set up to decide wages
and prices will fye composed of three
members. One to be a miner, another
to'Te'a coil mine operator, and the
third’tci represent the general public.
TJnd$r It the public. Which is the chief
party at interest; Would always be in
the tnirfority.” ,;/ . • , . ,
"Has it been yopr experience with
the coal Industry that employees and
empiqyerk might have a common in
terest hi increasing wages and co^ts
and passing that increase on to the
public ip prices,” Senator Townsend
asked,
“They may have that common in
terest,” Dr. Garfield responded, quali
fying his answer by saying that he
was not charging that this would be
.the necessary result.
“I believe I represent the real opin
ion of the president in the matter,” he
said later. “That is, if I were able to
see him and talk it over, because I
know his mind.”
Sketching the history of strike ne
gotiations, Dr. Garfield explained that
he- thought the members of he cabi
net were standing with him in his sug
gestion of a 14 per cent, increase in
wages and an advisory commission to
review the facts from which he derived
the 14 per cent clause. When this
was refused, he ’added. ’he thought the
question was going to be “fought out.”
Dr. Garfield would not produce a
telegram sent him by Attorney Gen
eral Palmar confirming that under
standing for which he was asked.
act to fix wages, but did hare power
to fix prices, and the determination of
reasonable prices involved finally a
determination of reasonable wages. I
drew up n statement of principles
which I thought should govern the
determination of reasonable wages,
and submitted that to the cabinet.”
“They were with you on that state
ment?” Senator Frelinghuysen asked.
“Yes, except as to the second of the
principles stated,” Dr. Garfield re>\
plied. “That was one which said
the average wage of workers in the
-Industry ought to be taken as a guide
in fixing increases allowed to meet
the cost of living, and not the wages
of a single group. Secretary of Labor
Wilson desired the increase so given
to be estimated on the wages of pick
miners.”
, “What was your objection to that?”
Senator Townsend asked.
“Basing the increase on the wage
of pick miners,” iDr. Garfield said,
“would have resulted in securing an
average increase of 179 per cent. In
wages In the Industry over the period,
since 1913, when the secretary of labor
conceded that the increase in cost of
living had been only 79 net, cent.”
Garfield said, supported, him, and some
^ieiaiy ur ?g?iwrwrgrnygfr?rf
Discussing proposals.which he had
submitted to the cabinet, Dr. Garfield
said;
“I had no power under the Lever
agreement on the balance of the pro
posal, He had finally taken the re
sponsibility of putting through his
settlement suggestion without secur
ing a unanimous agreement of the
cabinet.
“I conceived myself to be the re
sponsible officer,” he said, “believing
that I had authority to determine price
questions. The matter was not pre
sented to President Wilson."
Applying the principles laid down,
Dr. Garfield said, he decided that 14
per cent would meet the increased
cost of living and that operators could
pay it out of profits and still keep
enough mines running to supply the
nation with coal under the fixed price
of $2.35 a ton. The miners decided to
refuse and continue the strike.
War Time Prohibition
Declared Constitutional
Washington, Dec. 15!—By unani
mous decision, constitutionality of the
wartime prohibition act.was sustained
today by the Supreme Court. The
opinion, given by Associate Justice
Brandeis, held in effect, however, that
the war invoked “dry” period still may
be terminated by presidential procla
mation of demobilization.
In rendering its opinion, the court,
however, did not act on the validity
of the Volstead prohibition enforce
ment act or on appeals involving the
alcoholic content of beer, leaving those
cases to future opinions which may be
handed down next Monday before the
court recesses for the Christmas holi
days.
Today’s decision practically swept
away all hope of a “wet” Christmas
as the possibilities of the wartime act
being repealed before constltutioqal
prohibition becomes effective one
month from tomorrow were consider
ed remote.
T’he
Kentucky Distilleries and Warehouse
company of Louisville. Kentucky, and
Dryfoos and Bliim company. New York,
TnsTiTuted for the post office compell-
ing the government to release whiskey
from bond. In both cases, the court
denied contentions of Elihu Root and
other attorneys for the distilleries that
the act in vain of the constitution take
private property without just compen
sation, that the period of the war
emergency for which the act was
-passed had terminated, that the law
was an interference with the state po
lice powers and an undue exercise of
the war powers of congress. 1
Congress did not intend for the war
time act to terminate on the conclu
sion of the war but at the end of the
period of demobilization in the view
of the court which held that the con
clusion of the war clearly did not
mean cessation of hostilities.”
“Congress, therefore, provided, “the
opinion added, “that the time when
the act ceased to be operative should
be fixed by the president’s ascertain
ing and proclaiming the date when de
mobilization had 'terminated.”
Had the president on October 28th
last, when he'vetoed the Volstead act
believed that demobilization had ter
minated, the coart said, “he wmRi
doubtless have issued then a procla
mation to that effect, for he bad mani
fested a "trong conviction that re
strictions upon the sale of liquor
should end.”
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