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THREE FOR SETTLEMENT .? r * >' ? . ? ; I. * PRESENT DEMANDS OF MINERS ?DECLARED <IMf*OS8ipLE BY ; 9 ep vy j i. a ow . ; PEOPLE , M fJOI SHYLOCKS Wh#n Making Changes Existing Con tracts it^uit bo Remembered the People Will Have to Pay. Washington. -^-Demunde of coal* min ers for a 30-hour week and a 60 per cent, inoreaao in wages, and an un yielding position by the operators were declared "mpossible" by Secretary Wilson in opening tho conference called to bring peace to the bitumin ous fields of the nation. To obtain this peace the secretary proposed three plans of procedure. Declaring that the Washington wage agreement still is legally in force, Mr. Wilson told the operators and miners that the people of tho United States were not ' shylocks" and do not want to exact "the technical provisions of a bond when the conditions under which the bond was made have chang ed." He added that "If any great change Is made In the contracts the people of the United States are the ones who will have to pay." The three proposals expected to aid the two factions in arranging the new wage agreement were set forth by the labor secretary as follows: First, negotiations through Joint wage scale committees representing all districts; second, negotiation through concurrent sessions of com mittee, from various districts, and. third, negotiation first of an agree ment in the central competitive fields and then of agreements for other fieldc' with that of the central dis trict as a basis. MEMBERS OF LEGION ARE BEING SWORN AS SPECIAL DEPUTIES Spokane, Wash. ? Members of the American legion here were being sworn In as special policemen to meet what was declared to he an invasion of one thousand to two thousand members of the Industrial Workers of tho World due to arrive here from Montana and other parts of the north west. TO FILE MURDER CHARGE8 -AGAINST CENTRALI A REDS. Centralia, Wash. ? Arrangements wore made to. file murder charges against 11 men, 10 of whom have been arrested following the attack of al leged members of the Industrial Workers of the World on the armis tice day parade which resulted In tho deaths' of four former service men. ADOPTION OR REJECTION OF CLOTURE 18 8TILL DOUBTFUL. Washington.? Success for tho move ment to shut down tho peace treaty debate by a cloture seemed likely to remain in doubt until the clerks call the roll call on Ihe question In the senate. Thirty republicans signod the peti tion for cloture, and party loaders de clared that more would vote for It. There was no doubt, lenders assert ed, that the republican side of the chamber would contribute more than Its aharo of tho two-thirds majority noceasary to Invoke tho cloture rule. VERY PROBABLE INCREASE IN CHARGES FO R ADVERTISING. New Orleans. ? A resolution favoring an Increase of 25 per cent In tho rates on both foi ign and local advertising in southern nowspaperii was adopted here by tho advertising committee of tho Southern Newspaper Publishers' association which met hero to plan a $10,000 campaign for exploiting th? south. Tho Increase In advertising rates was favored because of the shortage of white paper. THIRTY THOUSAND FINN8 TO FIGHT BOL8HEVIK8. Helslngfors. ? The Baltic states con ference at Dorpat has boon advised that Finland has decided to aid Gen eral Ytidonltch with 30,000 volunteers In a new attompt to take Petrograd within the next f'?w weeks. ? A delegate to the conferenc inti mated to the correspondent that such great pressure had been suddenly brought upon the conferees that it would be Iniposslhle to attempt to ne gotiate a peace with the bolshevlki. LOCAL DISTILLER? 8ELLING INTOXICANTS AT LOUISVILLE ?? ?.'? Ky.-1?' Two local distill ers sold whiskey openly in Louisville at $76 a cane, regardless of the war time prohibition law. Hundreds of or t dent, filed before July 1, when the arar-ttme law went Into effect, it wan aaM, were being Mind by these ,dt? tllterlee, which renamed Hales follow tag the grafting of an injunction to i i by Federal Judge Brans, re attaining the government from later taring with the sale. ' M SfflB OR. STERLING ruffin r D.r Sterling Ruffln, who Is one of I th? consulting phslcians In the presUl ent's illness, Is one of the best known j and most successful general practi- . tioners in the country. ALL-SIDE CONFERENCE CALLED i Copies of the Telegrams Relating to1 Meeting of Representatives of All the Parties Are Not Available. Indianapolis. Ind . ? The way for the j final adjustment of the controversy be- j tween the bituminous coal operators ; and the United Mine Workers of , America, which resulted In a strike of 245,000 union miners and action by I the government in the federal court, j appear in sight. While the representat'ves of the ; miners, who earlier in the day had ! agroed to comply with the mandate j of United States District Judge A. B. j Anderson and mailed an order res- J cinding the 9trike, were discussing , the future policy of the organization, telegrams were received from W. B. ; Wilson, secretary of the United States i department of labor, and Thomas T 1 Brewster, chairman of the operators' | scale committee, by John T. Lewis, | hi: thy? president of the miners, invit-J ing the miners' representatives into i a conference. Mr. Lewis, on behalf of the mine | workers, accepted the invitation of ; Secretary Wilson to meet the bitumin ous operators of the country and re plied to Mr. Brewster, who requested a meeting of the central competitive scale committee with the operators of the district in Washington Monday, November 17, "to negotiate a contract to be in force upon the termination of the contract now in effect," that the miners already had accepted the invi tation of Mr. Wilson. Copies of the minors' telegrams to Mr. Wilson and Mr. Brewster were not available, but their contents were made public. LATE8T REVISED LIST OF OUR CASUALTIES IN WAR. Washington. ? In the m'.rst of the j oclebratlon of the anniversary of the I signing of the urmlstice. the tragedy j of war agiin was emphasized by an- I nousP"m6nl, of a revised list of Amer- j lean casualties, showing a total of 293.089. i NO AGREEMENT REACHED WITH THE RAILWAY BROTHERHOODS Washington. ? After a four-hour con- ; ference agreement between the rail- 1 r.md administration and the four rail- j roan brotherhood leaders apparently j was as far away as at any time since I the brotherhood demands for time and a half overtime in road service and 1 revision of working conditions were j laid before Director General Hines J several months ago. INTERNATIONAL LABOR , CONFERENCE IS ENDED. Washington. ? After a week of opon discussion on tho question of the eight J hour day and the 48-hour week, tho , international labor conferences closed , general debate, and referred the en tire subject to a commission of IB for consideration and report. VICTOR BERGER IS OUSTED BY OVERWHELMING BALLOT I Washington. "-Victor L. Bergor. Mil-! waukee, socialist, was denied his seat In the house by an overwhelming vote, the house holding ho was Inoll-i glhlo for membership because of hi*; open opposition to the war. Tho vote to unseat Bergor was 809 to 1. Rep resentative Voight, Republican, Wis consin. being the only member to support him. After denying the seat to Berger the house declared tho seat vacant, j THE STATE OF OHIO VOTED AttAINST DRY AMENDMENT , Columbus, Ohio.? Ohio last Tues day voted against ratifying tho fed oral prohibition amendment by a ma jority of 641, according to complete official return* received by the score tary of wtato. The vote wan: For rati fication. 499,879; against, 600?20. Snftretary of State Rmlth announe '<J?that some errors are apparent In ho official vOto and that thrt official ^oturna from nine counttea will be vt <,-> r-mntjr election boards. PASS RESERVATION TO ARTICLE TEN WITH AID OF FOUR . DEMOCRATS ' ' . .V i REPUBLICANS PUT ON^OVER ON THE PRESIDENT. THE VOTE WAS 33 .10 46 it * ' ' : ~ "i \ *: ? ' Vot^.^f ^'ufttlon of Clamplnjr'wWri a CI o^'uro on ^Debate Dep'e nds\ on' the Democrats, Republican* S*y. ; .. JT . 1 Washington. ? Squarely Joining the Issue with President Wilson, the Ben ate adopted a reservation qualifying the obligations of the United States under article 10 of the league of na tions covenant. A solid republican lineup, reinforc ed by four democratic votes, put the reservation acrosB exactly as it came from the foreign rrl.1 lions committee and In virtually the language which the President declared on his western tour would cut the heart out of the covenant and mean the rejection of the treaty. The vote by which the re servation won was 46 to 33. The fight for reservations having thus been carried to a climax, the re publicans presented for future action, a cloture proposal designed to bring final rctlon on the question of ratifica tion within a week. A vote on the question of clamping down a cloture on debate, republican leaders say, will depend entirely on the den")crats whether the move ral lies the necessary two-thirds to make , cloture effective. POSTAL CHIEF DECLINES TO SEND BURLESON CHECK. New York. ? Clarence H. MacKay, | president of the Postal Telegraph-Ca- 1 ble company, made public a letter he | had written Postmaster General Bur-] leson declining to send a check for I $2,349,195.20. which MacKay asserted would be "the difference between the $4,029.20 our company earned from August 1. 1918, to August 1. 1919, and $1,680,000 the award which you claim to have made us." "Apparently you are short of funds to pay the Western Union." MacKay wrote, "and you, therefore, demand $2,349,196.20 of our profits In order that you may pay them to the Western Union This means that you wish to use our profltn to pay Western Union losses." \ NOW EVERYBODY'LL WANT A TICKET TO LOUISVILLE. Louisville, Ky.? For the first time since July 1, when war-time prohibi tion went Into effect, whiskey openly was sold in Louisville without inter ference by the federal authorities. The sales were made by two Louis ville distilleries from their tax paid floor under the protection of a tem porary Injunction issued by Federal Judge Walter Evans, but in the face of a government warning that if the i supreme court finds war-time prohibi tion constitutional, prosecutions were possible. 74 SOUTHERN PORTER8 SUE DIRECTOR GENERAL I Knoxville. ? Fourteen suits were J filed in circuit court by negro por- 1 tera working for the Southern Rail way Company, against Walker D. j ,f linen, federal director general of railroads, operating the- Southern Railway Company. In all the cases' plaintiffs seek to compel the railway company to pay back salary claimed ; us due, the total amounting to $21,500.1 GOMPERS REITERATES HIS | STATEMENTS ON LEVER ACT i Washington. ? President Oompers of j the American Federation of Labor, j reiterated his assertion that former i Attorney General Gregory bad "given j assurance" to the union leaders in 1917 that the I/?wer food and fuel act. I under which the coal strike has been enjoined, would not be used against labor organisations. TROUBLE APPEAR8 TO BE BREWING IN MINE FIELDS Washington.- -Activities of md'f cals threatens serious trouble In the j bituminous coal mine fields of Went Virginia, according to reports recelv-j ed by the department of Justice. The situation in Monogala and Tay- j lor counties, was described -by depart- , ment of Justice officials as 'partlcu-, larly nasty." Meetings directed and ! attended largely by Russians have precipitated some violence among the coal miners, the rof^rts said. ? FORMATION FOREIGN PINANCE CORPORATION ANNOUNCED New York. ? - Organisation of the foreign finance corporation to deal In foreign securities with a capitalisa tion of $10,000,000 was announced. Ar thur M Anderson of J. P. Morgan A Co., will he president. Directors *rllt he J. P. Morgan, If. P. Davlaon, Jan. 9 Alexander. George F. Baker, Jr., George W. I)avl*on, Hflrvey l). Glbnon, Chnrlen II. flabln. Sewnrd Prosner, James Stlllman, Albert H. Wlggln and Mr. Andernon. MRS. H. B. BUTLER l Mrs. H. B. Butler of England accom panied her huaband to Washington, where h* ' organized the International labor conference. FORMAL. FINAL DECLARATION Refusal of Officera of Miners Union to Rescind Strike Order Means a Fight to the Bitter End. Washington. ? Solemn warning was given the United Mine Workers of America by Attorney General Palmer that resolutions of conventions and orders of officers of organizations are not above the law. Formal and final declaration of the government's policy of dealing with the coa! strike was announced by the < attorney general while officers of the miners' organization at Indianapolis j were struggling with the question of how to answer the court's blunt and peremptory command to rescind the strike order. Describing the strike as a plain vio lation of a federal statute. Mr. Palmer speaking with full authority of the government, announced that all the , power of the United States would be exerted to enforce the mandate of the court. DEPORTATION PROCEEDINGS TO BEGIN IMMEDIATELY. Washington. ? Deportation proceed- . ings have been Instituted In a num ber of cities to rid the country of the j violent radicals caught in the nation wide raids, Attorney General Palmer j announced. Instructions have gone to all depart ment of 'justice agents, tfye attorney, general said, to permit no delay in In stituting formal hearings, preliminary I to the actual deportations. Assur- ] ances have been received from other i government departmnts having to do I with deportations that action would be taken to expedite the cases. TOLEDO TRACTION MEN WANT ANOTHER CHANCE Toledo, Ohio. ? With the city and traction company officials in a dead lock over settlement of, the street car question the operating concern, the Toledo Railways and Light Company, began the circulation of a petition seeking to have an ordinance, em bodying the granting of a cost-plus franchise submitted to the voters at another election. SPEEDY ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS IS EXPECTED Washington.- The railroad bill will have the right of way In the house with final vote set under an agree ment reached by leaders. Action on the hill will be followod Immediately by adjournment of the special session of Congress, the agreement provides, consideration of the measure by the I senate tjMng over until the regular i session beginning In December. CANADA MUST ADOPT OUR RE8TRICTION8 ON COAL; Washington. ? In order to obtain ' more American coal than Is needed for emergencies, Canada must adopt restrictions on the use of coal similar to those in effr"t In the United States. This statement was made by thei railroad administration's central coal committee after members had read the complaint In the Canadian house o' commons by J. D| Reld, minister of! railways, that citizens of Alberta were suffering from lack of fuel. SENATE NOW DI8CU88ING ARTICLE TEN OF TREATY Washington. ? With apparently little! change in the program of procedure I developed over the week end despite increasing pressure from members , who desire final action so they might have a rece*? before the regular sea- 1 alon o?f congress begins In three ; Wfftks, opposing factions In the peace > treaty ratification relating to article' ten of the league of nations covenant.' which was recommended by tho fnr-i Al*r? relations committee HEADQUARTERS OF I. W. W'S. RAIDED .& . MANY A R R EST? OF SUSPECTS MADE IN SEVERAL CITJES in the" nor-P^West;' .! ? - DEPORTATIONS MAY JOILGW Seattle NJayor Warns All Radical#. Af ter Two Raids to Leave Hia City Oft Future Itineraries. Centralia, Wash ? Cities of west ern Washington joined Centralis in arresting member* re Industrial Workers of the Wo.. .4. and raiding their headquarters following the fir ing on nn armistice day parade here. Four former American soldiers are dead, and a fifth is reported dying as a result of the shooting and one alleged I W W has been lynched Twenty-two men and one woman, reported to have radical beliefs, were placed in jail here, and later four cf the prisoners including the woman, were removed to the Lewis county jail at Chehalis by national guards men, who patrolled Centralia. Raids were conducted in Seattle. Tacoma and Aberdeen on the Industrial Workers headquarters. Henry S. White. United States im migration commissoner, was reported en route to Centralia to investigtte the records of all alien I. W. W.'s and pndcavor to deport them if they are held in connection with the shooting Mayor C. 13. Fitzgerald of Seattle. Issued a statement warning all radi cals to "leave Seattle off their future itineraries." The statement was mado after two raids had been made by the Seattle police. DAUGHTERS OF CONFEDERACY NOW NUMBER 63.479 MEMBERS Tampa, Fla.?? According to the an nual address of the president general. Miss Mary B. Poppenheim, of Char leston, made at the first business ses sion of the annual convention of the United Daughters of the Confederacy here, the organization now has a membership of 63.479 In 34 states and the District of Columbia. "Member ship in a IT. D. C| chapter is the most eloquent tribute a woman can pay to her Confederate ancestry," said Miss Poppenheim. BROTHERHOOD CHIEFS IN CONFERENCE WITH HINF.S Washington. ? Rti Uroad brotherhood chiefs spent another day in confer ence with Director General Mines on the employes demands for changes in working conditions without reaching any agreement. The brotherhood chiefs were said to havo worked out. in more detail, the question as to which there is a disagreement and to have presented this data to the railroad administra tion officials during the session. Hut no conclusion was reached and none was In immediate prospect when the conference adjourned. PERSHING CALLS RED OUTBREAK AN OUTRAGE. Washington? General Pershing is sued a statement in which he said: "It is a serious outrage that vet erans of the world war. parading in uniform in celebration of our nation al victory, should be shot down in cold^ blood as was done in Washing ton "Too drastic measures cannot he taken to rid our country of the class of criminal who inspires or commits such crimes." KEYS OF NEW RE8IDENCE ARE HANDED TO KAISER. Berlin. The former German em peror assumed formal possession of the house of Doom, at Doom. Holland, which he purchased some time ago. when the keys were handed over to hi in. PLAN OcIF AMERICANS 18 TO LEAVE PARI8 IN DECEMBER. Pnrls.? The American delegation to the peace conference has informed the supreme council It will l?av? Franco during the first days of De cember. according to semi-off icial In formation from the Frenc h foreign of fice. The British peace delegation has also expressed the same desire and the general Impression la that, the conference will conclude Its work by the end of this month SENATOR MARTIN. VIRGINIA. DIES OF A LEAKING HEART. Charlottesville, Va - Senator Thom as R Martin, of Virginia, the demo cratic leader of the sennte, died here after an Illness of several months. Senator Mnrtin had been con fined to his bed since last July when he was forced to give up active work In the United States %enate nfter a contin uous service of 24 years. He was bfv.ught to his home r>"*r hero and lr.ter taken to a hohpitfti for tr?*t Aient. Better to head tin* tlu off beforl starts than to tight It after it Is I der way. | Very few people who wnntl "soviet" are nlilt' to explain elel what it Is. I.1 Parsnips would have held their 1 j In public favor If butter hadn't deJ ed them for good. I I Que of rhe Krupp l'iiii IWIds Is tf tunnel over to agriculture. Sin raise good popcorn The capture of Petropavlovsk hy holshevlki can never be regarded a pronounced vietorv. : ? ? Belgium needs more eash. says | dl-qmteh. Hclglum Is suffering fr j the universal affliction. Turkey is reported as facing elll I which should appear like an old miliar acquaintance to a Turk. Witli v.i many accusations of pr< eering floating ahout somebody nil to he getting Into trmiMe soon. Very often It happens that the pest men. win) shou'd he least afi of anybody, go ahout toting guns One of the best memory tests d with the names of the innutner soft drinks of present da\ couuiu If government hammering hr down the price of shoes t may i hpcome cheaper to walk than to The claimant t .? the French th Is going into the hutter iiusiness. si Ing he knows where the kings ol day are. I Politics would he much more ji j lar If it would abandon its disa; I nhle hahit of intruding where it nu | tilings up. ! In his future sales I nch- Sam n | to hnve some w ay of d i s t ingulf ; gennlne consumers from protltei ! tradesmen. ('oats with helts are soon to lu style for men. ac?or?Hng to the II Clothiers convention. What tnos ! the masculine contingent want Is s ] thing to put tinder Vjn. i There is tn> accounting for t j when those South Americans that Pun-American congress seho i for .lauuary in Washington postj | until next summer when the we I will he warmer. j The editor of a leading mag i says he is wearing the same pti I shoes he bought seventeen years i when a student at Harvard. ' proves the advantage of a college I eat Ion. The autobiographies issuing 9% Ilerlln Indicate that the war wa^B to Germany because of too much H ary talent. Hi There is one thing to be said 1 rolltop desk? one never loses any! out of It, even If one never it: ah| And anything In It. Beneath Her Notice. ( 'a ry ? "What do you say t tramp along Heche lake'.'" Carle "I never speak to the horrid thing! Cornell Wlilow. "CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP" IS CHILD'S LAXAT Look at tongue! Remove pol( from stomach, liver and bowels. Accept "California" Syrv. of only ? look for the name Cni.forril the package, (hen you are sure child Is having the best and most h less lawative or physic for the I stomach, liver and bowels. Ohll love Its delicious fruity taste, directions fur child's dose on each tie. (Jive It without fear. Mother! Yon must say "Callfor ? -A dv. It In Both. "I find 11 new i-iiiihth is n po) necessity." "Vet you cannot de is a negative proposition." I.ove much and it nial<"s 1 heavy lornls easy. IIones>t-to goodness facts are n< than pullet fang". A fool and his conceit are pnrted.