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THE SUMTEK WATCHMAN, Estah, -.? Consolidated Aug. 2.1 EN0NEERS URGE INDUSTRIAL BODY Want Broad Review of Labor Conditions?Deplore Gov ernment's Injunction SET OUT PRINCIPLES THEY WOULD ADOPT j Sh" -? ?' 1 //Brotherhood of Railroad Engi-; neers Thinks Dispute Can Bei - Adjusted .Washington, Nov. 2.?Immediate v-sfeps- for assembling at Washington an industrial commission to deal j brbadly with present turbulent condi- ? lions was suggested today by the.ad- i . ;-visory board of the Brotherhood of ? Lroeomotive Engineers. Deploring "attempt at government by injunction" a.> a means of settling j >the coal strike, the board, speaking i i'^'ror^So.-OOO members, declared injunc-! tion prbceedings would only make ;-'conditions worse, 'and defer if not defeat a peaceful settlement." ' The boai'd stood out for an indus trial'' commission that would "reeog r nize the rights of ail citizens and not; ..be pledged to oppose collective bar ; gaining." Its statement, the only formal one bearing on the strike is :;sued here during the day, was con 4^sidered a direct outgrowth of the miners* walkout, and was prepared j after full and careful consideration j of all questions leading up to thfc i break between operators and mine j workers. The government's next move in the j offon to keep the country supplied -with fuel will depend upon what hap ; .?'??.pens in the coal fields tomorrow. Attorney General Palmer and his associates were cheered today by con fidential reports which were said to show, a tendency in some districts toy call off the strike. Some locals were I ?asserted to be making efforts to this j end. In other places, however, the j miners were reported apparently de termined to stay out until their de mands were granted. ^ -^n7'a>-'^eiiei*?T ' way the * confidentia!.' reports were along the same lines as union miners, almost to a man, had quit, while in the non-union mines work went on without- apparent in- j terruption. Attorney General-Palmer's instruc-1 tions to district attorneys to watch Sharply for the first evidence of con spiracy to restrict the output of "coal or profiteering was taken to mean that the department of justice was prepar ing to open war on agitators who might invade the mine fields and- at tempt to keep out miners willing to return to their old jobs. With all strike benefits cut off by the court, officials beiieve the miners, .or a large number of them, will go back to work, provided they are not urged to stay out and are. not swayed by agitators. The department of justice is just as determined to arrest and prosecute to the limit coal dealers who take ad vantage of the critical times to prof iteer as it is to deal with representa tives of the radical element who try to stir up trouble among the miners. This determination was reflected in correspondence made public today in which "Attorney General Palmer ad ministered a sharp rebuke 1<> W. A. Marshall, president of the Wholesale !Coal Trade association of New York, who protested against any interfer ence by the government with coal prices or supplies. Mr. Palmer de clared the government was acting solely for the benefit of the public and that the coal dealers ought to be willing to cooperate in such a na tional emergency ' even to the extent of sacrificing profits." Some officials said tonight that it might not be possible to size up the situation for several days, but the general h^li'-f was that the next 4S hours would disclose a "back to the mines" tendency . openly confirming the confidential reports. Warren S. Stone,**grand chief of the Brotherhood (if Locomotive Engineers, which suggested the assembling of an industrial commission, headed a dele gation which saw Attorney General Palmer a few hours after the injunc tion was ishued at Indianapolis. M<-mb' rs of the. delegation said ;* thai time they merely wanted "to offer their good offices to the government." and Mr. Stone personally declined to discuss th-- strike, saying the broth erhood's attitude would he made known later. Today's statement was tht- first formal one to e<,.n-- from any member of the railroad delega tion sine.- th conference. Th.- full text of the brotherhood's Statement follows: "In view of th" conditions facing our country at this time, which, in our judgment. is far more serious than during the late war. inasmuch as it affects all classes of the people, and in consideration <>f the situation, the advisory board of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, assembled at Washington, has formulated the following declaration of principles: "The advisory board of locon otive engineers, the undoubted American ism of whose membership can assure recognition nor only by the govern ment but every factor contributing to the welfare of all the people, believes that: "The industrial conditions now con fronting the nation, with capital and J:;!?er occupying a militant attitude in ward each other, while the whole country is suffering from the high cost of living caused by hoarding and ft&ed April, 1SSG. "B? Just m 881. su: FRAUD MAY RUN j INTO MILLIONS: ? I United States Congressmen Are1 I Astounded at Mass of Evi dence Obtained PROVING UP GREAT FRAUD IN ARMY CAMPS] Time Keeper Says Hundreds of Men Spent Most of Time' "Bolting the Bones" - i Columbus. O., Nov. 1.?Astounded! by the mass of evidence tending to; .show that the government had been] defrauded of thousands if not sever- ] al millions of dollars, in the con-[ struction of Camp Sherman, Con-j gressman Lewis C. McKenzie, of II-1 linois, chairman of the congressional, subcommittee which is investigating' the camp construction, declared, to-1 night that he will introduce a bill inj congress making it treason to defraud the government in time of War. j Chairman McKenzie said lie wasj certain, before entering upon the in-i quiry. that the government had been j defrauded in the (construction ofj cantonments, but that he never ex pected it to reach such gigantic pro-i portions as are indicated by testi- ( mor.y given before the committee here. Congressman McCullough said he is certain the committee will furnish the J department of justice ample evidence on which to base criminal prosecu tions. The committee concluded its hear ings h'-re this afternoon and will go j to Camp Sherman Monday where j about thirty additional witnesses will j be examined. It. will go to Camp; Grant. 111., November 10, where a similar investigation will l>e conduct ed. That fifty Chicago professional crap shooters obtained positions as plumb- ! ers at Camp Sherman and were paid i regular, piumhers wages of $8.25 Per] day. though-they spent all of their j time. "roUing. the bones" . was -testi-i fied today by Ben M. Clark. Cnil-I licothe. timekeeper for contractors | building the Camp Sherman canton- j ment. These crap shooters made as much \ as $100 per day :r their profession.! Clark said. He said to his\knowledge : they never worked at plumbing a day. j Clark also testified that hundreds! of men spent most of their time. shooting craps and playing poker and ' that he himself had sat in poker] games for three hours at a time when ; I he was supposed to be working, j Though furnaces for heating sol- , ? dier barracks were on hand early inj jthe fall". George Cooper, general fore-' j man of the furnace gang, said he j cculd not obtain orders to install the ? furnaces until late in November. He! j declared they were badly needed be-: i fore they were installed. Cooper said j he received order.-: direct from the ! general offices cf A. Bentley and ? Sons Company, the general contrac i tors. j __ l Espionage Act Stands. ! Washington. Nov. 3.?The senate! i judiciary committee today unani mously declined Jo recommend repeal! 1 of the espionage act. ? inB ? ii ill IIMMBMWMWni I profiteering, resulting in general dis content which tends to lower pro duction^ has brought about the most j serious crisis in the history of our I (Country. ; "We believe that there is no indus trial dispute or misunderstanding that jean not be adjusted upon a basis of I j justice and right, and we further be- j ilicve that in seeking justice, justice) ?should l?e practiced by all concerned. "We believe In the laws and insti tutions of our country which g?ar- 1 anttM? that all people shall have equal ! opportunity and a fair and impartial I [hearing before being- condemned. We [deplore the action of the federal gov ernment in its present attempt at [government by injunction, believing such action will only t?end make j 'conditions worse and defer, if no1 dc-'j feat, a peaceful settlement. "The advisory board has full assur [ance that we express the unanimous sentiment of the 85,000 members ofj our organization that the principle of j collective bargaining is of vital ini jportanee to them and can not 1?;' con jstrued as harmful tc? any inter.-st I which desires to !)?? just and fair. As 'a remedy for the pr?-seni turbulent j condition we suggest that immediate (steps be taken to assemble at Wash jington an industrial commission thai will recognize the rights id* .-ill <i:i zehs and not pledge to oppose col lective bargaining, as this is a lime for deliberate action on the part of concerned in a peaceful solution of ih<- present condition. "We pledge the support of ear or ganization to the government in every just and reasonable effort toward sta bilizing industrial conditions, to ;li end that normal conditions be re stored. "We believe that if such :i policy is adopted reason aud justice will take the place of passion and tie- auto cratic and militant attitude now }???- i ing displayed. In such event a suc cessful and permanent adjustment of the relations between capital and la bor. which virtually concerns all Un people, could be hoped for." I id Fear not?JOet all the en da Thon Ai BITER, S. C, WEDNES For U. S. A. Soldiers and Round Out War Time Pro ? ] gramme HENRY P. DAVISON TALKS OF GREAT WORK Says There Is an Imperative! Call For Emergency Relief; in Europe ; Atlanta. Nov. 1.?Henry P. Davison* j former chairman of the war council ] of the American Red Cross, and now ? a. member of its executive committee; today made the following statement: "As former chairman of the war council of the.American Rod Cross,; and now a member of its executive committee. I address this statement 1 to the American people concerning; the financial basis of th" appeal of the Red Cross during the next week for members and for a new fund of $15,000,000. "When the war council on Febru ary 25 last turned over the manag?', ment of the Red Cross to the perma nent executive committee the records; showed a book balance of $127.000. yoo still remaining out of the two war fund drives. Of this amount. f.lZ, 000,000 was in the hands of the 4.000 odd chapters for their local ww: k and $53.000,000 whs represented by good? for relief abroad, either already in Europe or in process of shipment: Some ?41.000.000 remained available for new purposes. "On February 28 -expenses of the Red Cross were at their peak, this peak continuing for some ninety days subsequently.. During that period practically our whole army was un der arms or in rocess of demobiliza tion, and relatively few men had been discharged from our hospitals. The work for families ofsolders did not attain its peak until the first of April. These situations entailed very great expense to the Red Cross. "Abroad the coming of peace open ed up -areas unbelievalj^tfevarta'tt^ particularly in the countries in East ern Europe. Such was the magni tude of the task of administering re lief that (for a while the Red Cross feared that the funds on hand would be insufficient to last until November. The effective work of those directly in charge of the activities enabled the Red Cross to wind up more rapidly than had been anticipated thai Por tion of the work which was suscepti ble of being terminated. and for which appropriation:-, had been made on a war time scale. "As a result there were many sav ings from appropriations made tnd the reports for the month of Septem ber show that for the coming year approximately $14."?00,000 will remain and will be available out of the- $41. 000.000 turned over by the war council on February 2S. This sum of $14.000.000 will be added to the proceeds of the campaign which be gins next week. "The Red Cross must now complete its work for our soldiers and their families and round otit its war-tim< program. In Europe the needs for aid are simply without limit. The larger needs can only b<- met by the governments, but there is an impera tive call for emergency relief where the processes of government are too slow to aid those suffering acute af flictions. "The sum now asked for by the Red Cross will enable this great or ganization to do a well propcrtion-'d piece, of relief work abroad, carry ou* at home its activities planned for the new year and furnish proper reserves to provide for emergencies or disas ters. The American*people, who have responded so whole-heartedly and up on such a magnificent scale to past appeals for the Red Cross, will. I am sure, be eager again to ava.il them selves during the coming week of/the opportunity to enlist themselves on the rolls <?!' tie- Red Cross and there by rededicate the efforts of this great organization to the service of human ity." To Continue (Hospital Work. Atlanta. Nov. 1.?At the request of the War Department, Rod Cross tivities in camps and hospitals throughout the country will be con tinued indefinitely, according to an announcement made at Southern Di vision headquarters of the American Red Cross. A recent order of ib< War Depart men i terminated the war work of all welfar?- organizations with the exception of the Red Cross, November 1. Thefr activities being taken ovei by army organizations, the. Red Cross however, was asked to remain for peace time service to the army. Its program will, be largely recreational. Ii will in addition maintain its home service open to men in the army. Thirty-seven thousand.- eight hundred eases were handled by the home serv ice department during the month of September, according to the announce ment bv the Southern Division. GERMAN FORTRESS IS DISMANTLED Geneva, Nov. 2.?The Herman.? have started dismantling the fortress at [then on the Rhine near Bahle. The work is being conducted under the su ?. pervision of allied officers. tns't at be thy Country'*. Thy God's a DAY, NOVEMBER 5, 15 i Warns Operators and Coali Profiteers That They May Expect Prosecution THEY ARE AMAZED I AT LETTER RECEIVED Palmer Replies to Suggestion of Trade Association Against Fixing Maximum Price Washington, Nov. 2.?Suggestions from the Wholesale Coal Trade asso ciation of New York that the govern ment should not fix a maximum price : for coal or intertere with the normal ? course of supply and demand during ; the strike brought from Attorney I General Palmer today vigorous asser tion that he would take the same ac llion against persons enhancing prices j as was taken against the union bf i ficers. j "The action o" the government was ' taken solely in the general public in : terest/ Mr. Palmer declared, "and I j shall not permit it to be used directly ! or indirectly for the benefit of t?*?e employers' side of the controversy." W. A. Marshall, president of the association, wrote Mr. Palmer recom mending that miners who want to I work be given protection and that ( coal consumers be allowed to obtain J fuel through the usual normal ehan | uels. lie asserted that with adc ! uqate protection enough coal would be produced to meet the emergency, that fixing a maximum price would curtail the operators' ability to meet abnormal production costs caused i>y the strike, and discourage their ef i forts to continue work, that priority I lists would overstock certain con sumers and allow others to go with out, and that the fuel control act [could be used to prevent attempts at i profiteering. "1 am in receipt of your letter I and am amazed by its contents," the Lattorney general replied. I "While.- of course, proper protect j tion will be given to all miners who J are willing to continue at work, it j must be perfectly plain to you that j even under such conditions the sup | ply of coal must be far from normal, j Such propositon amounts in effect to ! declaration that coal dealers should J be permitted to take advantage of ! these abnormal conditions and have i their prices based entirely ifpon tne haw of supply and demand, which is ! only, another way of saying that they j should be permitted to charge the : public whatever they please. The de j mand for fuel will be constantly ; creasing and with the supply decreas j ing, unless there is governm< nt regu ! lation, prices charged to the public I will be outrageous and >profits accra j ing to dealers unconscionable. You j ought to be willing to cooperate in j the public welfare in this emergency, j even to the extent of sacrificing pro fits. "The action ojf the government in restraining the officers of the mine (workers' union from furthering '.he ?strike order already issued was taken j solely in the general public interest i and I shall not permit it to be tis.^d I directly or indirectly for the benefit ! of the employers' side of the con I troversy. If any advantage shall be ; taken of present conditions by any I arrangement or agreement of two or I more persons to restrict either pro ! auction or distribution in order to ! enhance the price of fuel, I shall with ! out hesitation take precisely the same ] action against such persons as has j been taken against the officers of the : mine workers' union." STRIKE AFFECTS IOWA BUSINESS Des .Meines*. Nov. '?>.?Business in ! some small towns :n Iowa is feeling the effects of the coa' strike today, j according to reports received here. ! Newton was in darkness last night [and at Indianapolis, schools, theatres j and lodges arc closed. Only drug U-.tores remain op< n after dark. NO PLAINS FOR OP ERATING MINES Chicago, Nov. ?.-?Developments to day in the strike of soft coal miners throughout (he eounry are expected to clarify the situation to tin- extenl ? f determining whether production will he stopped indefinitely in .- large pari of the bituminous zone, or wheth er any considerable number of work ers art: willing t<< return to work. \o plans have been made for opening the mines with imported labor, and old men who return to work will be treated as though they had never slopped. according to Chairman ! rewster <-;' the coal operators scale c< immttee. A WAIT RESULT ~ OF INJUNCTION Plttsbnrg. N'o.-. ::. \\> effort will be made by Ihe United Mine Workers of America to have non-union miners in Pittsburg field join the strike, until a:"t<;v the injunction pr<.'dings in ln diajhapoli: have been disposed of, ac cording to union olficials. Md TRUfe'i." THE TRUE )19. MINERS Leaders Forbidden to Send In structions To The Strikers BUT MEN STRIKE NEVERTHELESS Union Officials May Not Make, Speeches Nor Take Part in Meetings ?Indianapolis, Oct. 31. The strike of bituminous miners went into effect tonighk with the national headquar ters here of the United Mine Work ers of America silenced by a restrain ing order issued-today by Judge A. I). Anderson of the federal district court. No "last word" or other mes sage to the members of the union could be issued by the executive board or officers of the organization and they only smiled grimly when this fact was brought to their attention. While the strike order was effec tive at midnight, most of the men who were following it quit work with tho ? ruling of the day shift. It was staged several days ago at union headquarters that midnight of Octob er 31 was selected for the official hour merely because' it marked the beginning of November 1, on which date the Cleveland convention of the union had decreed that the war time wage agreement of the miners should terminate. At that lime also, it was pointed out that comparatively few mines have been running night shifts. Deputies of Mark Stem. United States marshal of Indiana, were busy all afternoon serving notice of the re straining order on union officials who had been missed in the general round I up at noon when the meeting of the union's executive board was invaded : by the process servers. Eighteen of : the unitm leaders were served. The I visits made effective the order which i <.'. J\ Ames, assistant attorney gon j vr;tf..-ba.d .^r.estntoja.-.to-.^thje. ^ed^ral, ' court ana which restrained the de fendants from issuing any messages, oral or writ ten. that the strike is to be enforced as previously announced:" from issuing any further strike orders v r messages of encouragement or ex portation and from distributing any strike benefits. The order was so sweeping that jjufge Adams explained after the is j suance that it would prevent any of the men named in the bill from ad dressing mass meetings. The petition by the government I upon which the order was based, (charged that the union men were con ; spiring to limit the faculties for the production of coal and to restrict the supply and distribution of the fuel. The writ accordingly commanded : them to refrain from continuing the alleged conspiracy. The petition emphasized that the I suit was based upon a war time act j by which the government was given I control of the fuel and food supplies (of the country and also pointed out ! that the strike would cause cessation j of transportation and thus throw ' back upon the public treasury the ? burden of paying the gu ran teed in : comes which the government con tracted to pay the railroads when it took control of them. It was ' also brought out that the act in question , specifically provided that it was to j continue in force until the end of the nate of war had been proclaimed by : the president. Altogether $4 leaders of the big ! coal mine union were named in the I restraining order. Federal marshal.' ; here were given names of 2.~> men to serve in Indianapolis and reached IS of them as follows: John L. Lewis. I acting 'president.-: William Creen, ; secretary-treasurer: Percy Tetlow. i statistician: Ellis Searles. editor of j the .Mine Workers' Journal; John j Wilkinson, district president of Dis trict 21. Muskogee, Okla.. and the fol lowing members of the executive : board: John rVLeary, Pittsburgh: A. R. Watkins. Vorkviile. Ohio; if. J. Ferry. Hazel ton. Pa.: Lawrence : Bramlet. Diamond. Ind.: J. J. Matz. Williamstown . Pa.; W. D, Van Horn. Terre [Taute! Ind.: Samuel Ballan ; iyne. Boone. Iowa: Frank Walters. Jellico. Tonn.: William Dalrymple, McAIester. Okja.: Hugh McLeod. Acme. Wyo.: George Baker. Central ! City. Ky.: Andrew Steele. Novinger. Mo. 7u addition to these men the order named nil other executive board mem bers, district presidents and seere '??:? < s of the variotTs districts, includ ing offie-.als of anthracite and Cana dian districts unaffected by the strike. Pi was. state*] hy L. Erl Slack. United Sttaes district attorney for Indiana, that to icacb the men resident outside 'he Indiana federal district, it would lie necessary to bring ancilliary pro ceedings in tin' various jurisdictions. Mr. Slack' was left in charge of the government's case shortly after it be came evident that ihe union would make no immediate move in resist-j "?w(< to it. ?udge Ames left for Washington and other members of the ?-..ial staff which prepared the pe tition for the attorney general an runneed thai the?1 would depart to morrow. The defeiBmits wore sum-! mened to appear ^??mh^r s when = motion for a^^jj^ary injimcrion^ )Oardfof :lu : SOCTHKON, EetabUsbed 'one, )??? VoLXLIX. No. 24. GEN. PERSH1NG NO MILITARIST Comes Out Strongly Against Maintaining Large Army rv CRITCISES THE WAR DEPARTMENT Says Estimates Are Entirely Too Large?Three Hundred i Thousand Enough ! j Washington', Oct. 21.?Dissenting in many important respects from the [program recommended by the war department and the general staff, General Pershing told the- military committee of congress today that 300-, !00'? men raised entirely by voluntary I enlistment .should be the outside fig lure considered for a standing army. )He favored universal miiitar? tra.'nmg j to provide an emergency r^s-'rve. out j thought general educational work i should he combined with it and mili tary discipline '"somewhat relaxed" so that the system would be in com iplete harmony with democratic in I stitutions. He fixed six months as the I training period. j The department has recommended an army of more than 500,000 with a 'system of universal training not 'em bracing the educational feature. Its recommendation for a training period I was three months. j Departing again from ' expressed j views of the department the general j declared cmy purchasing should be I reorganized in a new bureau apart ifrom the quartermaster corps. .?nd a separate department of the govern ment should be organized to co a\Ii [nate and supervise military, naval fad [commercial aeronautics. :Ie tcuhid jered the department's request for 231 j general staff officers -excessive and (made clear his opposition to any ef ; fort by the staff to extend its author ? ity into the dctailsMff the department I bureau and of the line. j During his day of testimony before j the two committees which opened a jhis view on peace time reorganization ! of the army the former commander of i the American expeditionary forces ex J pressed several times his unfamiliar ! ity with the present makeup and pbli ' cy of the general staff and emphasiz i ed that he was speaking directly I from his experience in the field. But I he did not hesitate to put into point ! ed language his opinions on the ab j stract questions presented by cbm | mittee members. I When one representative astred j whether he approved an apparent ten ! dency of the ataff to project Its cbn ; trol into details of the line, he brought 1 his list down upon the table and snapped: I "I certainly do not." ! He was equally emphatic when a j senator asked whether the staff ought j not to take th^ military committees ! into its confidence about the general ; situation in the army: V "I am quite sure of it.' he quickly replied. Only once or twice did the question ing lead him into discussion of the activities of the American armies in (Prance, though that is expected to i come in for more detailed consid-yr | atloh before he completes his testi ? mony. He will appear again toraor i row and his statement, which is <ex pected to be the last h-^rd by the committees before they begin framing reorganization legislation may run in i to next week. ! The general said no American, com ; hat planes at all had been received tip to the beginning of this year, though on January 1 a total of 11443 American machines of the observa tion type were on hand: together with ").181 of various types made in Eu , rope. The only American guns which [got in action, he said, were some i eight inch pieces. About 170 Ameri can made 7"> m. m. guns reached : Prance, but they never were used. He did not have the exact figuresiT?>n guns and planes at the time of .the armistice. General Pershing also recommended [that rank up to and including second lieutenant be given army nurses: that students at West Point be required"'" serve a year in the army or go to a training camp: that the pay of officers and enlisted men be increased: that reserve officers be classified and as signed on paper to definite units; that the scope of army service -schools be broadened, and that the duties <of bureau chiefs be prescribed by ?5w# and the president empowered to re move them. SEND TROOPS TO GERMANY Five Thousand American- Reg ulars Land at Brest Paris. Oct. 31.?The United Stages transport. President Grant, with five ihousand American troops destined for Ooblenz arrived at Brest today.. union was effectually restrained from strike activities, it took occasion to clear up a number of routine cases which were awaiting its decision. The afternoon session \ya* postponed until lafe in the day and it was understock f\w net announced, that plans for combating the government's injunc tion suits were discussed then also.