Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ttuW Alt) ron. uBm fens and Fear not?Dec nil the en da Tbon Almn't at be thy Country's, Thy God's and Truth's.' THE TRUE SC -ON, EMHtabed tmm% 1' Ooneolidated Aua. 8,1861. SUMTER, S. 0., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. 1916. / 4 oLXLIII. No. 6. IgANNlNO-COOKKIt WORKERS TO CANVASfc STATE. v' > OrgaohKMi?Spevldlly Careful WIB be Given Populous Vendors tot GoofereDce. . V Columbia. Sept. I.?Realising fully Hit 'eak that la before them. Cooper ane Manning supporters were busy WQOtarday putting the final touches on the organisation to prevent the rc tnm ef C. U Bleaee to the governors' for a third term. After a day of conferences with lern from many sections of South Gov. Manning announced that organisation had been effected in every county In the State and that a determined fight would be made to i nomination at the second V be held September 11. Teatereay Qov. Manning received hundreds of letters, telegrams and telegnen? messages from Cooper sup? porters announcing their intention to work for the reelection of the present -We ware strong Cooper supporters, we are now with you and will fight to the end for your reelection," waa (tag tunetance of many meaeagee re ay the governor from man;, of the State. The big contest for ballots will be In the Piedmont section of the State and the Cooper and Manning forces Wilt pay particular attention to this lion Moot encouraging reports been received from Anderson, ivllle and Spar tan burg counties, leadern In the Pee Dee section Of the State have gone to work in and every effort will be made the vote for the governor ! m that section. I' $ebert A. Cooper of Laurena, who third Id the race for governor, has declared In favor of Mr. Men reeieellen. night and met nlgtojneet* I netten was egpreneis to Jar. Manning. Carolinians sojourning In the of western North Carolina .?grtS bA urged to return to the Slate in f trnae for the election Tuesday wtmk. t Tmm administration leaders will use 1 grery effort to bring out the votore on ?n day, beetuae there mint be a ?ota for the success of the cause. Practically complete returns would te that aboR 156,000 vote* were In the recent primary. TO AID AUSTRIANS. Made to idem Tide of Russian Advance hi Transylvania. London. Sept. 2.?Fifty thouse 1 <hn ma as have been sent to help check tgje Ruaian and Roumanla advance through Transylvania. The Austrians evacuating Klausenburg, 66 miles ke of Hungary. Violent fighting hi going on In the Transylvania,! alps, where the Roumanians continue to ice. Portions of trenches In the Die wood lost on Thursday have recaptured, it is announced, by la attacks against the Ger sULLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT. Mievpoweun Dead and Mrs. Evans Sc Ho um I y Wounded. fc* ? > Norfolk, Va., Sept. 2.?Mrs. Vernon Dnwson was killed and Mrs. E. R. Evans la near death as a result of an automobile turning turtle at this place thia morning. EN GERM HAVE SHAKEUP. of 14*jsc Freight Cars Craali Into PasMngcr Flier. Lafayette. Ind., Sept 3.?Nearly fifty passengers on the Rig Four rail read. Cincinnati to Chicago Filer, were aim ken up und hruisod when Wild string of fifteen freight cars crashed into train while It was stand? ing at the station hore. The cars broke loose at Altamont, two n '1. of here. MEMAND TEN PER CENT. RAISE. of General Electric Plnnt Work? men Walk Out. Plttsfleld, Mass., Sept. 2.?Four thousand workers of the General Electric plant have struck. They de ind a ten per cent. Increase In ns Advance In Gullcin. Petregrsd, Sept. 2.?The Russians are again advancing In Gallcla. The Oeriaens delivered fresh attacks along the Stokhod, but were repulsed. EIGHT HOUR P'u QUESTION. NOT ISSUE, NOW SOUTHER?? RAILROADS SAY. Statement Asserts That Workers' De? mend Is Only for Increased Com* pensatlon. Washington. Sept. 1.?Advancing the contention that the eight hour day is not the Issue In tho present contro? versy, 12 railroad officials represent? ing practically all Southern roads Is? sued a statement today explaining their posltien. It is addressed "To the people of the South." "It has been suggested that an eight hour day is not the proper subject of arbitration," says the statement. "To thisj they (the railroads) have replied that an eight hour day is not an Issue, but even If it were there is no evi? dence sufficient) to place the question beyond the limits of honest difference af opinion, that tho eight hour day for men engaged In train Bervic* has been tnally accepted by social opinion. "To justify this view they point to the fact that the men themselves have not demanded it, do not want It and would not accept it if offered; that the underlying principle of an eight hour day, where it has been introduced, is humanitarian for the purpose of ac? tually shortening the hours of labor ind has never been Justified by any ?aw or by any social movement as a means of increasing wages for hours that shall remain unchanged; that I the establishment of an eight hour day In train service has never been favored in any political platform of any party and while the subject of an eight hour day has been under con? sideration In party conventions, its ap? plication has been carefully limited by party opinion and has excluded employes In railroad service and gen? erally In industrial pursuits; that It has never been recommended by an executive officer of this country for adoption by any legislative body and by; any ?t?te, and that It has never been brought Into prominent pubLc discussion except in the misleading as? pect given to it in this wage contro? versy and Is now being thought of only as a means of avoiding the na? tionwide disaster of interrupted trans? portation facilities." After pointing out the fact that the men had refused arbitration of all points at issue, the reason given being thatj 'no fair arbitration of such mat? tere of difference U possible," the statement says: "In saying that no arbitration can be fair, they indict the whole nation for the proposition was that the pres? ident should appoint the arbitrators. They claim the right to arbitrarily put upon the railroads, upon the other employes and upon the whole public, their own demands by the strong arm of their irresponsible and unregulated power . "The country Is, therefore, con? fronted by the question whether It la to be ruled by law or by the few men who acknowledge no limitation, ex? cept the limitation of force, upon their obligations to the social welfare." SCHOLARSHIPS GIVEN. Announcement Is Made of Awards for Citadel. Columbia, Sept. 2.?The State su? perintendent of education announces the following winners of the scholar? ships at the Citadel: J. L. Whltten, Anderson; J. W. Simmons, Bam? berg; Virgil Harvey, Pinopolis; Charles James, Jr., St. Matthews; T. C. Lati mer, Chester; Moses Alexander, Bntes i burg; Judson Stewart, Easley; Rob? ert Baynard, Land rum; Hughes Brad I ley, Sumter. _ "' ??? AustriaiiN Advance, on Roumanians. Vienna, Sept. 2.- The Austrlans evacuated ilormannstad and Scpisxent Gyorgy beforo advancing on the Rou? manians, it Is announced. The lattor are thirty miles Inside the border. lilies' Aeroplanes Active, tlonlkl, Sept. 2.?The allies havo dc\ -loped Intense uoilal activity. Their aeroplanes are bombarding the Bulgarian camp at Sorrovltch, killing i?ne hundred and titty. Italian Advance Cheeked. Vienna. Sept. 2.?The Italians at? tempt to push forward their lines havo been frustrated by the Teutons says tho war office statement, ibe Italian urtlUery Is kept active. Railroads Remove Emburgo. Chicago, Sept. 2.?More railroads have reduced their freight embargoes as the strike outlook brightens. Prep? ? rations for5 tho strike continue, how? ever. ft. B. STRIKE ORDER REVOKED. ADAMSON BILL AVERTING GREAT TIEUP OF TRAFFIC PASSED RY SENATE. Despite Desperate Opposition and Ef? forts to Amend Measure is Sent to President for His Signature by Strictly Party Vote?Senators De? el uro Congress Was Coerced Into Action?To Take Effect January 1. Washington, Sept. 2.?The threat of a general railroad strike, which has been hanging like a pall over the country for nearly a month was lifted tonight. Three hours after the senate had passed without amendment the Ada,m son eight hour day bill, passed by the ! house yesterday, the heads of the four great railroad employees' brother? hoods telegraphed 600-odd code mes? sages to their general chairmen in all parts of the country cancelling the j strike order issued a week ago to take effect next Monday morning at 7 o'clock. i The legislative expedient to avert the strike was passed in the senate by a vote of 43 to 28?almost a strict party vote?amid stirring scenes, af? ter many senators, Democrats and Republicans, had fought desperately to amend the measure by provisions designed to prevent industrial disas? ters in the future. Some senators, thoroughly aroused, declared congress was being coerced Into enactment of legislation that It did not desire, and that it knew would return to plague It In tho future. In both houses the measure was signed within a few minutes after a final vote In the senate O flic la Is of the brotherhoods, who witnessed the final passage of the bill had announced early in the night that cancellation of the strike would, not be ordered until the bill, had ibeen signed by the president and actually had become ftut later the*(ion through their chairmen the message that a satisfactory settlement had been secured. The bill that stopped the strike pro? vides that after January 1, 1917, eight hours shall be regarded us a basis of reckoning for a day's pay for men engaged In the operation of railroad train in interstate commerce, (except? ing roads less than 100 miles long and electric liner,) that they shall re? ceive pro rata pay for work in ex? cess of eight hours and that their rate of compensation shall not be changed pending an investigation for from six/ to nine months of the effect of the eight-hour day upon the rail? roads by a commission to be appoint? ed by the president. Efforts to amend the bill in the senate were futile, the supreme effort \ to alter It having been led by Senator Underwood, who sought to provide that the Interstate commerce commis? sion should have power to flx rail? road wages and hours of service in J the future. This amendment was de? feated by a vote of 57 to 14. Only two Democrats, Senators Hard . wick, of Georgia, and Clarke, of Ar? kansas, voted against Ihe bill, and one Republican, LaFollette, of Wisconsin, voted for it. In the debate on the Adamson bill Senator Borah said he doubted if the price about to be paid would "cure tho patient." He had his own views, he said, of the ability of the four broth? erhood's chiefs to call off the strike, but ho was certain the great body of trainmen never would carry the strike 'order out if they were assured.that the president and congress were se? riously investigating with a view to J legislation. No severer indictment could be drawn against their charac? ter and intelligence, he said, than to suy they would not accept such assur? ance. "If congress cannot proceed to con? sider this deliberately and with all facts at hand," he asked, "then it Is truly yielding to dictation. If that Is the situation, then congress has reached the greatest crisis of Its whole history . . . . and the halo that has hovered over t lie body for years will soon bo dissolved. "I warn union labor that the amend j ment to give the Interstate commerce commission authority to fix wages is the Inevitable logic of the position we will OCOUPS when we pass this bill. When they accept this bill the union men will have conceded tho right of I Congress or other governmental tri? bune to fix wages. "I cannot get the consent of my conscience and my judgment to vote for this bill," said Senator Jones, j "This net is a compulsory and arbi? trary settlement.' I Senaten- l'ornercne said he would lanpport the bill because he felt the RAILROADS REMOVE EMBARGO. ACTION OF RAILROADS IN PREP? ARATION FOR STRIKE CAN? CELLED. Stopping of Freight Traffic Had Threatened Great Damage to South?Southern Railway One of Those to Act. Atlanta, Sept. 2.?Railroad em? bargoes that twenty-four hours pre? viously had threatened to work im? measurable hardships on producer and consumer alike throughout the South I had been almost entirely removed late today and conditions were rapidly be | coming normal. Roads that did not immediately lift their embargoes eith ; er modified them or indicated that no shipments would be refused after a short time. Among the roads that have an? nounced they would accept shipments of all classes are Norfolk and Wes ; tern, the Chesapeake and Ohio, Cen? tral of Georgia, the Georgia Railroad, Atlantic and West Point, New Or j leans, Mobile and Chicago, Yazoo and Mississippi Valley, Nashville, Chatta ' nooga and St. Louis, Mississippi Cen? tral, Natchez and Southern, Georgia, Southern and Florida, and the Texas and Pacific. The Southern Railway has raised its embargo insofar as it applies to ship? ments to destinations on its own lines. Perishable freight, including livestock I and explosives, will not bo accepted for other lines, unless the shipper has made arangements for its delivery' m advance. Mobile and Ohio announced today that Its embargo would be 11ft ; ed tomorrow and the Louisville and I Nashville officials are expected to take similar action. j The Atlanta, Birmingham and At? lantic Railroad has modified its em? bargo and will probably be operating under normal conditions soon. In many cases the embargoes were raised when advices frmn Washing ? ton made Jit wAiff!^' .^lh-? mAnf4M would pass the Adamson eight hour bill. URGES USE OF TEN CENT LOAF. 1 ?resident of Master Bakers Says Five cent Loaf is Not Economical. 1 Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 2.<?S. F. Mc I Donald, president of the National As? sociation of Master Bakers in a state? ment Issued here today urged the adoption by housewives of tho coun? try of the ten-cent loaf of bread, in? stead of the popular five-cent loaf, as a matter of economy. He called attention to a resolution I pussed at the recent bakers' conven ' tlon held In Salt Lake City to aban? don the making of the five-cent loaf, ! and make the ten-cent loaf the unit ? of bankers' bread, i * Mr. McDonald said this resolution ' had been widely misconstrued into meaning that the bakers intended to charge ten cents for the five-cent loaf. Tho five-cent loaf, he said, was im? possible because of the high cost of flour and the labor connected with its production. He asserted that the high standard of quality maintained by the bakers , in the United States can not continue I unless the larger unit is adopted. Pirsoncr is Not Fay. Corint?, Miss., Sept. 4.?A prison? er suspected of being escaped Lieut. Robert Fay, the German plotter, proved not to bo Fay when photo? graphs were compared. 1 crisis demanded it. Senator Lewis submitted a resolu j tlon declaring it to be the sense of the Senate that ar.y other future dis? putes between railroad employers and employes pending the proposed inves? tigation should be submitted to the j interstate commerce commission for ' investigation, the commission to make a public report of what it concludes to bo just and reasonable. The reso? lution was offered as a separate meas ; ure to be taken up uftor disposition j of amendements to the bill. Debate on amendments began at ! 4 o'clock, Senator Underwood's pro ! posal to give tho Interstate commerce commission authority to tlx railway wages and hours being taken up lirst. ' Senator Underwood said the bill with? out his amendment was a price of peace without any attempt perma? nently to solve tin great questions in? volved. Senator Newlands also urged adoption of the amen lment. Senator Reed told the Senate that Chairman Adamson of the House com? merce committee, had informed him it would be impossible to pass the bill before Monday with the Underwood amendment included, because there is no quorum of the House in Washing* ton. Senator Reed opposed the i amendemcnt. SIGNS EIGHT HOUR DAY BIL1 PRESIDENT AFFIXES SIGNATU IN PRIVATE CAR AT WASP INCTON STATION. Will Sign Document Again Tuesday | Removing All Dou^t of Legality of Act?'How Long l*cace Shall Reign \ lttPlilnlt on Developments. Washington, Sept. 3.?The Adam son eight-hour day bill, exacted from congress last week by the railroad brotherhoods as the price of calling off the nation-wide strike ordered fori tomorrow, was signed by President Wilson today in his private car at! the union station, where he stopped j on his way from Shadow Lawn, N. I J., to Hodgenville, Ky. That there , may be no question as to the legality j of the measure as a result of it hav- ] ing been signed on Sunday, the pres? ident will affix his signature again upon his return to Washington next Tuesday. How long peace shall reign as a result of the bill apparently is de? pendent upon developments In the proposed move to test the constif 1 tionality of the act. Should the rail? roads take no action but await the beginning of an Investigation of the workings of the eight hour day oy the special commission for which the measure provides, the brotherhoods will remain inactive. The employes' leaders declare, however, that should the law be held unconstitutional and the railroads attempt to restore the ten hour day on their lines, a strike will follow promptly. Brotherhood heads in a ciicular leter to their members today made no comment on the measure as pass | ed. They merely pointed out that it I would not become effective until next January 1 and that many things might occur between now and then which would change materially any suggestions or comment they might make. Nei*n*Wthe ' ^ witnessed the signing of the bill. They had expected, according to tentative arrangements made by Secretary Wil? son lust night, to be present, but the president decided to attend to the ( business at the railroad station and newspaper correspondents gave them their first information about it. The four pens used by the president in signing the bill?one for each sylla? ble of his name?will be presented to the four brotherhood heads, A. B. Garretson, W. G. Lee, W. S. Carter and W. S. Stone, after being used for resigning the bill Tuesday. No ceremony attended the signing today. It originally had been planned that the president should go to the White House, but this was changed and instead Rudolph Forster, assist? ant secretary to the president, took the bill to the train. Near the car window a group of trainmen in their overalls paused in their work long enough to watch the president write his name. An engineer, passing on a yard engine, celebrated the occasion with several prolonged blasts of his whistle. i While at the station the president also signed several commissions and executive papers and sent Secretary Tumulty to the home of Majority Leader Kern of the senate to urge that the senate pass the Webb bill, passed yesterday by the house, de? signed to permit American firms to utilize common selling agencies abroad without violating the Sher? man anti-trust law. Later the President and Mrs. Wil? son took an automobile ride about the city. During their absence the pri? vate car was attached to a special train carrying guests of the Lin? coln Farm association. bound :or Hodgenville to participate in the exer? cises incident to the transfer of tho log cabin in which Abraham Lincoln was born to the federal government grounds tomorrow, at which time the president will make an address. It developed today that the brother? hoods before being summoned to Washington by Pr?sident Wilson three weeks ago had agreed to call a strike effective August 20. Tho orders they drafted were used when the strike finally was set for Labor day. After having been printed in preparation for the proposed strike on August 20 they were locked In a vault in Now j York. Decision a week ago last Sit-, urday to order a strike the next lay, when the majority of the committee of j j 040 were leaving for their homes, was , I followed by a hasty trip to New York by t\so representatives of the brother* I hoods. The strike date, September 4, was tilled in With a rubber stamp, but the original date of the call, August 11. was not changed. Hundreds of telegrams came to .he brotherhood leaden at their hotel to? day. Most of them were congratula? tory. One or two were from locals /ai fight mmm RESIDENT GOMPERS OF LABOR FEDERATION SAYS DEMO? CRATIC PARTY IS BEST FOR LABOR. Opposes President Wilson's LeghJa tive Program to Prevent Strikes in Labor Day Address. Lewiston, Maine, Sept. 4.?Samuel Gompers in a labor day address serv? ed notice on the nation that organiz? ed labor would fight to the last to pre? vent the laws compelling the federal investigation of labor difficulties be? fore strikes are called. \ Gompers referred to the part of President Wilson's recent original ! railway strike program for preventive strike legislation, declaring it in any j form would mean labor's slavery. Gompers declared for a world federa , tion of labor. '. He bitterly denounced Hughes. He 1 held up Wilson and the Democratic party as labor's only true political ! friend. Gompers asserted that labor** slogan is "To reward friends and de? feat enemies." Sil ACK LETON PARTY RESCUED. I Explorer Succeeds in Third Atteiunt to Rescue His Men on Elephant Is? land. Punta Arenas, Chile, Sept. 3.?Lieut Sir Ernest II. Shackleton has rescued the members of his Antarctic expedi? tion which were marooned on Ele? phant island. Shackleton returned 1 here today with his men safe and well ? on board the rescue ship Yelcho. Sir Ernest Shackleton left Punta I Arenas August 26 with the ship Ycl i cho for a third attempt to rescue bis ! men marooned on Elephant island. After the failure of his Antarctic ex? pedition, Shackleton, with five mem? bers of his crew, managed to reach. Port Stanley, Falkland inlands, on May 31. Twenty-two others of the creer wer?* Ifilx on J8ii?;pbaiu. island '??mx^?r* 4. The first attempt to rtseue the* j men was made in June and the second ! attempt in July, both failing on ac count of the ice. STRIKE NARROWLY AVERTED. Action Prevented by Discovery of Er* ror in Telegram to Texas Brother? hood. Houston, Texas, Sept. 3.?A strike of trainmen on the Southern Pacific lines j in Louisiana and Texas was averted tonight by the timely discovery and j correction of an error in the code j message sent from Washington revok? ing the general railway strike orders. The code message as received here by \ J. L. Morgan, general chairman of the trainmen's organization, owing to ! a mistake in the wording, failed to re j voke the original strike order and ; until a second dispatch was received j at 9 o'clock tonight, correcting the J error, preparations were continuing j for the trainmen to quit work tomor j row morning. I With the receipt of the , second message orders immediately 1 were issued to abandon plans for the strike. v ALLIED AERIAL ATTACK FAILS. Aeroplanes Driven oft From Artillery Depot by Zeppelins. I Amsterdam, Sept. 4.?A squadron of allied aeroplanes attacked the German artillery depot near Antwerp, but were driven off by Zeppelins. Three were killed in the raid. who had received no notice that the strike was off, so tomorrow morning in some few far away sections of the country there may be temporary dif? ficulties. Efforts were being made tonight to communicate with all of these points. A circular letter, drafted by W. G. Leo and giving the complete details of negotiations since last August 1, as well as a copy of the Adamson bill, was being mailed to all members of the brotherhood tonight. After com? pleting this work, Mr. Lee left for his home In Cleveland. The other three brotherhood heads will leave either tomorrow or Tuesday. Railroad execu? tives called lure by the president left yesterday. Virtually all of the 13 j general chairmen who remained here las members of the last committee of 14. also have gone home. Among those who departed from Washington early today was a delega? tion of the Order of Railway Conduc? tors from the Northwest, who cam* here yesterday to protest to Mr. Gar retson against a strike. They arrived about the time the senate was In the last stages of passage of the bill whl? i will give them ten hours pay for eight hours work and called on Mr. Garretson. He declined today to dis? cuss the conversation which followed,