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THK 8CMTFR WATCHMAN, Ifrtaba Oorsolidated Aug. II, 1 SHIPYARD STRIKE SPREADS. WOHKKHS IN M \ YOIJK I'lS TR1CT ni:i isi. to work I M il IHM \\I>S UUC 8i im Ik'mand laruc Iticroiistc In l'a> uul Itopn m ntutum oll Wage \d|ii-tmont Hoard?Threaten to Tie up All At? lantic Coast Yards. New Tork. Feb. If.?Approximate? ly fifVy per cent, of the shipyard washer* is the New Tors district ere on strike today, according to ? by brotherhood officials. ' bi striae would spread Is sthet titles along lbs eeast, they said, unless the wage, do* assarts are grant! t1 The number Of ?soil now out they declared to he seven to eight thousand. The govirn fnent has rejected the proposition saade by the carpenters' brotherhood that the shlpworkcra be allowed to place a representative on the labor ;vd Justment board of the Kmergency Fleet Corporation to settle the pres? ent wage controversy, it was an? nounced. Conference on Shipyard strike. Washington. Feb. 16.?Chain Hurley of the shipping hoard. Gener? al Manager Pie/, of the Kmergei cy Fleet Corporation, and Chairman Xacy of the labor adjustment ???>. id conferred with Acting Secretary of Navy Rooaevelt today on the SS p yard strikes. A 1*1*1'AK T<> FRI SIIH NT. Shipyard Workers Will Take Th ir Cum* to Headquarters. New York, Feb. IB.?An appeal di? rect to I*resldent Wilson to intervene in the strike of shipyard workers engaged on government contracts a ill he made today by the Fnited Hroth ? i hood carpenters and Joiners, it Wal announced by officials of that organi? sation here. MAN1 CHU.MtFN FKHISH. I bitty-eight I in rued to I hut I* In Mon? treal Fire. Moid- ? l i -The thai bodiea of 3s children had been re? covered late tonight from the rums of the Grey Nunnery which was de stroj ed by fire. It la feared ma iy more perished and searchers believe the toll of death miKht reach 100. All the In mute* of the Grey buiH Inge except the children are believ >d to have escaped. These Included nuns, nursing sisters, wounded or si ?'< Soldiers hregg over seas. aged. sb k o' crippled men and women to the num? ber of u I most 1,000. Wh? n the Humes were discovered in the west wing the alarm was quickly givsn anil all those able to ho.p th< i ? selves fled to place? of safe ;. . V n heroic nuna and nursing sister* strove valiantly to save the sick a id wounded us well as the infants un b i their charge. The children were housed In the section of the building where the fire started and the flames spread so rap? idly It was im possible to suve them ail None of the soldiers suffered injury, however, although nearly |tt of the || w?re quartered in the building The ages of the Inmates or the nun? nery ranged from two or three days to almost a hundred years. Many of the Infants who died In the tire ar d emoke were only a few days or a few weeks old. The elderly inmates fsgssj housed n another section of the nunnery ord were not immediately menaced by tie Maines. r-no\i iuimii \i:t?s hovKlt. An. k Mail*' In 11 road l?a>liglil H] German suhmurltie i im-ei l?ondon. Feb. 16.? An SSJgSBJ sub murine bombarded l>over this morn? ing, it Is officially announced. Win n flred on from the shore battsrlSS tin U-boat censed the bombardment. gtf< ter about gt rounds has been lire l 7h? i e \\ei |r,s lb.in a do/en casual ties and gsjlg slight property da may. > N \\ M It MIM Itl M< ?i: I l> I -In .r M un (?crnmn S;|||ut u i iini lp mi Swedish Count. London. Feb 16 The belief that ? naval engagement hOS occurred It e\ pressed in a dispatch received ft Htocktwdm from ?iolhcnhUfg nnd f<>* warded gg the con ? ?mondent of tb Morning Poet The dlapatstl report Ihe recovery of a large numbei o bodies of German sailors who appa ? cuti. belonged to a warship '.othenhurir is on the western cons vt riwsden, near the gkugurruk. tied April, 1850. "Be fust a 881. sua WILSON WRITES STRIKERS. RIITSXL TO MU MKAXS AII> fOB ENEMY. ivc-bicnt nemos night <>? Men to tjuit Jobs Intil Adjustment FJTort I nils. Washington, Feb. 17.?President Wilson took a hand tonight in the Lastern shipyard labor strikes an I issued a sharp rebuke to William L. Huteheson. president of the Prother hood of Carpenters- and Joiners, win after refusing to send striking shin . rpontOri buck to WOrk pending ac? tion by the shipbuilding labor ad? justment board, had asked for a per? sonal conference to lay the situation 1 ore the president. in effect the president declared that if Huteheson did not want to g v aid ami comfort to the enemy he I ould send the men to work and h ave a settlement of differences- to tin adjustment hoard and declined to ie< him until he had done so. "he president sent this telegram to tb< union chief: C -m-ral 1'iesnlent Fnited Prother hood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, New York: "I have received your telegram of yesterday and am very glad to not( the expression of your desire as a patriotic citizen to assist in carrying 00 the work by which we are trying to save America and men everywher v. bo work and are free. Taking ad? vantage of that assurance, I feel It *o he my duty to call your attention to tin- fact that the strike of the car? penters in the shipyards is in marked and painful contrast to the action of labor in other trades and places. Ships ire absolutely necessary for the win? ning Of this- war. N'o one can ltrlk< B deadlier blow at tho safety of the nation and of its forces on the other side than by Interfering with or ob structing the shipbuilding program. All the other unions engaged :r this indispensable work have ggres to abide b\ the decisions of the ship 1 building wage adjustment board. That board has dealt I 'irly and liberal! svitb ail who ban resorted to it. I moot say to you very frankly that it is your duty, to le: ve to it th? solution of your present difference with your employers and to advise the , men whom you represent to return at once to work ponding the lecision. "No body of men have the moral right in the present circumstances of the nation to strike until every meth? od of adjustment has been tried to th limit. P you do not act upon this principle you are undoubtedly giving iid and omi'ort to the enemy what? ever may be your own conscious pur? pose. '1 dS not see that anything will be Ined by my seeing you personally until yoV have acted, and acted upon that principle. It is the duty of th' I government to BOO that the best pos sJblt conditions of labor are main? tained, as it is also its duty to see to it that there is no lawless and cor. sclonceless profiteering and that duty the government has accepted and will perform. Will you eooperatt or will you obstruct ? Wood row Wilson." SHIPYARD STRIKE RNDfl. ( ariK-nlci-s und Joiners Itcturncd to Work Today. Si-v. fork, Feb. IS. ?The strike by eurpentenl In the Atlantic seaboard shipyards, engaged on government contracts Is over, John Rico, nat? ional organiser of the United Brother? hood of Carpenters and Joiners, said ti day. Several thousand men who re still Idle are expected to return 10 Work tomorrow moi ning. About three thousand returned to work this morning, Rles estimated, in many yards win re the men unit this morn? ing they returned when Informed that President Huteheson of the Brotherhood had replied to Presl dent Wilson, saying he would on* decVOr to Influence the strikers to re? turn to work, pending ? settlement oi I the grievances by the trage adjust ' nionl board. I IIA I N Kil l I I? ItV III NS. dunter Nejnad Mai es Tu,? Haids on London. London, l-vh 18.?Bloven peraoni were killed and four wounded In the aoiial attack on London Saturday, It 11 announced officially. si\ Qermun pianos, attempted to h London gnturda) night, but only one wai successful. Ons Oer? mas plans fell Into the osa. Runday night London was raided sgaM, umber Of bombs being dropped if iho city. nd Fear not?Det all the en da Thon All [TER. S. 0., WEDNESD WAR OK RUSSIA. GERMANY AND AUSTRIA HAVE HO PEACE with nohsiii: viK i. I.r. von Kuohlnmnn Declares Thai Trouky's Domohll lent ton of His Troops Will Not Alter Situation in Regard tO Action by Central Pow? ers. London, Feb. K>.?Russia's with-; drawai from the war was a real withdrawal, and the throwing away of ail agreements with her former allies, said Leon Trot/.ky, the H9I- j abevlkl foreign minlsteri In report? ing to the all Russian workmen's and soldiers' council on the result of the Brest?l4tovsk conference, aeeordlng to a Russian wlreleaf dispatch received here. The dis? patch says the councils approved Trotzky's policy. Amsterdam, Feh. 16.?That Ger many aitd Austria were still < at war With Russia was the belief expressed by Dr. Richard von Kuehlmann, the German foreign secretary at ths con? cluding session of the recent pcact conferenc e at Hi t st-1.itovsk after Iveon Trotsky, ths Bolshevik! foreign min? ister, had made his linn 1 Statement that Russia was out of the war and hi r armies would be demobilised, but that she would desist from signing a formal peace treaty, The acts of war, Dr. von Kuehl? mann said, ended when Russia and the Teutonic allies signed the ar? mistice, hut when the armistice end? ed the warfare must be revived. He added that because one or two of the contracting parties had demobilised their armies this fact would in no wise alter the situation. Germany was pictured as a peace loving, hon-aggressive nation in the speech of Dr. von Kuehlmann. Dr. von Kuehlmann said the Russians should have no fear that Germany la id any designs on Russia. ??] need only refer at. Trofaky to tin permanent basis of ths German pol , Icy which, UP to the time when wai With Russia Was forced on the Ger? man people consisted in the preserva? tion of good and friendly relations toward our eastern neighbors." Dr. Kuehlmann declared, "Germany's pol? iov will always Contimit?as soon OS I > tae war has reached a satisfactory ( oiu luslon to strive for the friend liest relations with newly organised Russia by avoiding all Interference in its internal affairs." 1 Dr. von Kuehlmann said the Ger? man Idea In drawing the frontier lines for Poland, Courland and Mthunla was *'to observe ths racial point view as suggested by the Russian del sgatlon and ws have done this In ac? cordance with historical demarcation and ethnographical position." "As regards the future lot of these peoples," Dr. von Kuehlmann contin? ued, "although we believe thell wishes already have been expressed In accordance with the principle of sslf-determlnatlon ws are ready by 0 systematic extension of existinii representative bodies to provide for the possibility of a further expression 01 the national will on the broadest possible basis-,." As tti a separate peace with Ukraine, Dr. von Kuehlmann said the central , powers must reserve the right to be their own judgs as to what states they should recognise. They had rec? ognized the Ukraine, he added, and there w.is no use discussing that question any further. Count Cssrnln, Austro-Hungarlan forslgn minister expressed surprise that Trotsky had introduced the sub ject of the Ukraini at the peace con? ference, "The relations between the Ukraine and the Petrograd government," suid Count Csernln, "do not concern the central powers, and our conclusion 01 d peacs with the Ukraine can not be trded as an unfriendly act toward the pel rograd po\ernment." Replying to Trotsky's Inquiry re? garding ths frontier wouth ol Brest bltOVSk, Dr. von Kuohhuann said: "in drawing these frontiers we at tempted merelj to Und r middle course between racial divisions and the historical frontier." Dr. von Kuehlmann proposed a now peace treaty, to the effect that certain frontier territories which were not defined should no longer be sui> ect to the territorial sovereignty ol RUSSia, and that in the future the lot of these territories should "hS de? cided In agreement with their re ?pSCtlVS peoples according to a?;. menu which Germany or Austria Hungary shall make with them." The point was Dr von Kuehlmani added, (bat the evacuation of ceitaii: territories by the central powora WSJ ua't ?t be thy Omirurj'?, VhJ Qod't ? AY, FEBRUARY i^O, 11 FRENGHMEN PRAISE AMERICANS OUR BOYS DO SPLENDID FIGHT? ING IN CHAMPAGNE IN SMASHING GERMAN LINES. English Paper Places Xo Until OB Wlmt American Arms Can Ac? complish in War. London, Feb. 15.?In a leading ar? ticle on the Americans in action In Franco the Manchester Guardian says that mor< not, worthy than the ground i gained, valuable as is every inch on this Champagne front, where Ameri? can batteries were engaged in sup-i porting the French raid of Wednes? day, is the fact that the Americans for the first time took part in the ' Panting. "There have been American casual? ties In France before now," continues the Guardian, "but tbey have been In German attacks by nir or artillery lire. This Is the first instance in Which the Americans have taken part in a formal attack. The French are la polite people, but tor that very r?a h on they do not waste compliments and their praise of the part taken by the American heavy guns in this j action may be taken exactly at its j face value. ; "We have persistently warned the people not to expect the American as? sistance to develop its full value early, but when America does develop her military power we place no limit on what it can accomplish. Wo must re? member that the Americans are the equal of the Germans in pride and energy, and their superiors in popula? tion, material resources and mother wit." \ PARADES WILL BE LIMITED. Troops Will Not Be Available For Washington's Birthday Shows. Washington, Feb. 16.?The railway 1 freight congestion on the Eastern j lines and the necessity of moving the last contingent of the National Armj ?'will prevent any extensive movement of .soldiers to cities for parades on Washington's birthday, Dldector Gen Oral McAdOO explained today. BETTER PAY FOR CLERKS. Railroad Office .Men Make New Agree? ment. Savannah, Feb. IG.? R. L. Patter? son, clerk of the Seaboard Railroad, who is in Washington, telegraphed the chief of the local council las* night that a new working agreement had been made by which the roads agree to give the clerks a twenty per cent. Increase in pay I ml let eight hours constitute a Working day. ? RAILROAD BILL DEBATE. Anti-Administration Forces Pelay Ac? tion by Talk. Washington, Fern 16.?Debate on I the administration railroad bill was j resumed in the senate today with ; prospects that a final vote cannot bo reached before the middle of next week. OF VITAL IMPORTANCE. Vdminlstratlon Railroad Bill Should lie Enacted. Washington. Feb. 1<I.?Senator Kob Im m in discussing the administra? tion railroad bill today urged its carlj enactment as a war measure of vital importance both to the public and government. promised on condition that the Rus? sians evacuate Turkish territory simultaneously. A Bub-committee having failed to reach an agreement mi the new frontier proposed bj tin central powers another meeting was beid Sunday, when Trotsky made his statement regarding the ending of the war ami tin- demobilization of the Russian army. After Trotsky bad made his final statement, Dr. von Kuehlmann de? clared th:tr he must only conclude that the Central powers were at war With RUSBla. The UCts Of war. In added, stopped when the armistice was signed, but when that came to tin cud these aeis of war must revive. The fact that one or two of the con tractlng parties demobilised theh armies would, he continued. In no wise alter this. in-, von Kuehlmann then asked Trotsky to state where Hie frontiers ,,i Russia ran and whether Russia v, ts willing to resume commercial and legal relations with the central pow? ers Trots'.o replied this his delega? tion has. s hausted all Its powem and ?Ulored it necessary to return t I'etrograd. communication, he add cd, might be resumed by wireless. ad Trat?'?.' I'll IC TRUE ?18 LABOR COMMITTEE NAMED. CAPITAL .AND LAHOR TO BE BROUGHT TOGETHER. Announcement of Personnel Not Node Until nil Member* Accent Duty Imposed. Washington, Feb. 15.?Capitol ani labor have named the live representa? tives each was asked by the govern* ment to appoint to outline a basis Ol relation! for the period of the war. First sessions of their deliberations probably will be held next week af? ter each side has named one other man to represent the public, making a board of 12. j Announcement of the personnel of the men who were chosen by the n; - tional council for industrial safety and , the American Federation of Labor is being Withheld until the acceptances Of several of the men asked to serve have been received. The department of labor is endeavoring to expedite con? stitution 6f the hoard in the hope that unrest would he allayed. I Stories of largo profits and exorbi? tant salaries in war contracts have caused an undercurrent of dissatis? faction in the nation's industrial Ufa which officials regard with uneasiness. Allegations of disloyalty made against workers by some employers have add - d to the bad feeling. Department of? ficials say many of the charges were unfounded, that the large turnover of workers at certain shipyards have been due largely to impossible living . conditions. A widely circulated stdry I Of ISO rivets being the limit of work, or less than half the former amount, the officials point out, failed to men? tion that Inefficient management has left the men at some places without tools or compressed air to drive more i than that number, Fundamentals of the labor question ?hours, wages, condition and meth? ods of settling grievances?will he discussed by the new hoard in the ? hope of reaching an understan ling in a general way which can be applied specifically to the carrying condition.* i In all parts of the country. Unofficial suggestions for conscrip? tion of labor havs not found response in government circles according to well informed officials. The power of the government to compel a man to work for the national safety, just as much as to compel another undjer the draft law to tight for the country, is ci needed, providing always that the enforced work Is for the government and not for private capita 1. The belief expressed in official quarters that the 13th amendment to the constitution prohibiting involun? tary service would protect a man j against labor under duress for a com? pany deriving profits from a man's labor but not against a work In n government factory, where the result j made for the public good and the na? tional safety. "It is unthinkable" Louis- F. Post, assistant secretary of labor said to? day, "that a man should be forced to work for the private gain of any oth? er person." Suggestions of coercion of labor re? ceived official notice from the depart? ment of labor before America's par? ticipation In the war w..s many months old. Such suggestions- were termed "unfair" Impracticable "and unpatriotic." In Secretary Wilson's annual reports he took into consider? ation the possibility that conscription might become necessary and an? nounced the department's policy as follows: "it would seem? that is, if wo leers were to be conscripted for industrial purposes that the working opportu? nities to which they were assigned ought to be commandeered, so as to make such workers not coerce.1 serv? ants to employers, but employees of the government Itself." Mr. Tost said today that that decla? ration did not mean the department sanctioned conscription but that \i conscription became necessary* it must be preceded by conscription d! indusl it. FIRE IN JACKSONVILLE. Buslubss Building Destroyed?lass $200.000. Jacksonville, Feb. It.?Fire todaj destroyed the Lengde office nnd store building. The los? is estimated at two hundred thousand dollars. FRENCH TAKE SHIPS. (?ovemmcni Refutations Entire Mer? chant Marine. Faris* Feb. 16.- A decree publish ?d in the officli l journal today iro vides for the requistlon of the entire n orohanl marine of Francs on m. re Ii 10th. SOUTHRON RstabHsbed Jons. ) m? Vol. XLVI. No. 2. NERVY BjtfTEj EXPOSED. TELEPHON*! CLERK POKED AS SPANISH (OI NT. Duped Xcw Voffk n?? hll and Had J. P. Morgan & Co. on The String lor 0M,gO4 ,000 Loan for King of Spain. New York, Feb. 13.?How a $15 a week telephone operator, posing as "His Excellency, the Marquis Edmond Roussellot di Castillet, confidential representative of his majesty, King Alfonso XIII 'd Spain," opened nego t;;i:ions' with he banking house of J. P. Morgan ft Company for a loan of $50,000,000 to Spain ami by promising that Spain would enter the war on the side of ti c entente allies brought the state department into the matter was revealed in the federal court here today when three indictments were returned against Edmond Rouwttbf under the esj ionage law. ' RoUSSelOt WAS pressing his plan for the loan w hoi chance caused his ar? rest on another charge, and his castle in Spain quickly toppled. William P arson Hamilton of the Morgan hous< was foreman of the grand jury wl ich returned the indict? ments*, and w s familiar with the en? tire transaction because he was the ?member Of tin llrm to whom the mat? ter was entreated. When the subject of the loan was broached to he bank by Rousselot, v. ho had beer, properly introduced by W. E. D. St< ;es of New York City, the bank Immediately communicated with Secretary Lansing, who opposed the loan to the Spanish government j through an individual and suggested that it be taken up through the regular government channels. Rous BClOt objected to this method of pro? cedure, explaining that the loan wrft^ to be made personally to Kiirg Al? fonso and it WBS because of Ulis se? cret arrangement he could/ promise that Spain wat to join the entente al? lies. /' The nrgoti: tions wc^f- still under? way and Mr. Hamilton had the mat? ter under consideration when Rous? selot was arrested on the charge of falsely representing himself as- Count Rousselot, a French diplomat here on a secret mission, and being unable to obtain bai?. was sent to jail. This led to Inquiry, and the whole affair was laid before the grand jury. it developed that Rousselot had not confined his operations to the banker.- hous but numbered among his confiding friends one woman from whom he had borrowed $10,000 on oil stocks of doubtful value, but for the redo: pi ion of which he had pledged his ' incestral estates." Another o; his friends was a prominent a< rears, who told the au? thorities she tiad been introduced to Count Roussnot and, believing him to be in the "rench diplomatic ser? vice, had visi ?d an English warship In the harbO] with him. Rousselot, /ith the money obain ed from the il stocks, established himself in a st ite in a fashionable ho? tel, and there received letters which are described as being covered with crests and so Is, and addressed to him as "Marqt is." "Count" and King's Messenger." The docume its proved to be letters apparently written by Rousselot to himself. Or.e of them, purporting to have come from the King of Spain, bore a largi red seal impressed by the stamp of the commissioner of .eeds of Wcat Chester County. X. Y*. He a bo had .. rubber stamp bearing the words "Minister de la Guerre," which, the authorities allege, he used while posing is a French diplomat. When representing himself as the agent Of the king Of Spain he used a ciest cut fron tbe advertisement of a leading furrier, they declared. A little lab r Rousselot moved to the Hotel Am ua, where he told Mr. Stokes, the owner, that he was King Alfonso's confidential agent in this country, and i i support of his state? ment displayed his collection of "cre? dentials." lie tstated that he expected a visit from Jules .lusserand, th-> French ambassador, but did not have the necessary Minds to entertain him. Mr. Stokes advanced him $500, and one of the ind ctments has to do with this transaction. Prom this torn hiss lion, Rousselo succeeded In having Mr. Stokes Introduce him to the Mor? gan firm. Another Indictment charges Rous? selot with forg ng a government li? cense permitting him to visit all war diips. and stll another allerres the theft of official note paper of the treasury department. "Fse hone} in place of sugar," says i food expert Looks as if we'll have :o keep a bee.