The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, July 08, 1922, Image 1
THE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Ests
CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2,1
HARDING'S i
MOVE EXCITES!
ft % COMMENT
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Act Seen as First Step
; in Alleged War
1 Fraud Cases?Came;
f as Surprise
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% Washington, July 2.?The movei
of the Harding administration j
against the Chemical Foundation,;
Inc., was the chief topic of discus- j
sion cf official Washington on this
sizzling hot Sunday.
The determination of the admin- I
istration to take steps against the]
foundation, which was organized i
by Francis P. Garvan and several!
of his associates in the alien prop
erty custodian's office under the
Wilson administration, was reveal
ed in a letter made public yester
day at the White House, in which
President Harding instructed Thus.
W. Miller, the present alien prop
erty custodian, to demand return
of all patents, copyrights and other j
property transferred to the foun
dation. The move came as a com
plete surprise to a great proportion j
of official Washington and for this j
reason it was a subject of conver- (
sation today whenever officials met.
Officials closely connected with
the administration's move declined
to supplement what w^s cqntained
in the presidents letterand the ac
companying statement by Attorney
Generai Daugherty, saying that the
transfer of patents to the founda
tion had been under investigation
for some months by the depart
ment of justice and that the presi-.
dent's instructions would be
promptly carried out.
Alien Property Custodian Miller,
as well as Mr. Daugherty, was out
of the city and A. Mitchell Palm
er, who preceded Mr. Garvan as
*2ien property custodian and under?
'whose afiministration of that cf-j
.fice many of the German patents in
question were, seized, could not be
found in the capital.
Other officials, while not ac
quainted with the details of the
move, saw in it one of the steps in
the administration's announced al
leged war frauds prosecutions. They
also saw the prospects of consider
able discussion of the matter in the
~~$*nate, where the. -ChemicalFoun
dation often has been the subject of
fire from the Republicans and has
been as warmly .defended by Dem
ocratic members.
Most house members had left the
capital, due to the six weeks' ad
journment taken Friday, but amoDg
the Republicans still here Repre
sentative Woodruff (Republican)
of Michigan, was about the only
one who would comment. Mr.
Woodruff, who has attacked the
department of justice on the
grounds that it had been remiss in
prosecution of war frauds, describ
ed the president's action -as "splen
did" and added that the course was
fully justified in view of the charges
made in congress at various times
that the foundation had acquired
from the alien property custodian's
office German patents worth from
$15,000,000 to $20.000,000 for ap
proximately $250.000.
Democratic members generally
have pointed to Mr. Garvan's testi
mony before the senate dyestuffs
lobby investigating committee as
an answer to these charges. Mr.
Garvan before that committee said
the foundation acquired its patents
coyprights and other similar prop
erty through a sale made under
an executive order issued by
Acting Secretary of State Polk aff
the direction of President Wilson.
Authority for the sale, he told the
committee, was contained in an
amendment to the trading with the
enemy act.
Stock of the foundation. Mr.
Garvan's statement showed, was
held by five trustees, who elect the
officers and directors. These trus
tees are: Cleveland H. Dodge, of
New York. Otto T. Bannard, presi
dent of the Xew York Trust com
pany: Judge Gedrge L. Ingraham,
presiding justice of the appellate
division of Xew York: Benjamin
H. Griswold. Jr., president of
Brown Brothers of Baltimore, and {
Ralph Stone, president of the De
troit Trust company.
Stroudsburg. Pa.. July 2.?A. j
Mitchell Palmer, attorney general j
and alien property custodian under)
President Wilson, in a formal i
statement tonight said that if the 1
patents, trade marks and other j
property transferred to the Chemi- j
cal Foundation. Inc.. during the j
Wilson administration were re
turned to the government as de
manded by President Harding.'
America would again "be at the!
mercy of the German dye trust." j
Palmer's statement, in pan. says: !
"These patents were seized by J
the alien property custodian underj
the authority of the trading with j
the enemy act. We had no means
of determining their actual money
value. If we had sold them to j
private interests we might have sold |
them for less than their value and)
got nothing but a new American !
monopoly to take the place of the I
German trust. i
'?We formed the Chemical Foun
dation, sold the sto<k in small
blocks to persons interested in a
new chemical industry, trusted the j
stock for a long period of years in j
the bands of five disinterested
American ? itizens of high charac- j
ter and undoubted patriotism, pro- !
vided for non-exclusive licenses up- j
on equal terms to all comers, the j
proceeds to be used after payment
of 6 per cent, to stockholders in j
research and educational work in i
Wished April. 1850.
881._?
NO RESULTS
ARE SEEN IN
STRIKEPARLEY
Coal Operators and
Miners Still Dead
locked. Meet at
Washington
Washington, July 2.?Operators
and miners of the bituminous fields
remained deadlocked tonight after
another's day's session of the joint
conference called by President
Harding and admonished to reach
a basis for negotiating a settlement
of the strike with measurable
promptness.
Meeting from 2 to 4 o'clock to
day with Secretaries Hoover and
Davis each side voted down the pro
posal of the other for a basis of ne
gotiation and adjourned until 10
o'clock tomorrow. Meanwhile op
erators and miners are to meet sep
arately to consider methods of solv
ing the problem of the coal Indus- j
try.
Upon adjournment of today's ses- j
sion the operators returned to their j
hotels while the miners remained j
in the conference room at the Red ?
Cross building with Secretary Davis, j
Official report of today's proceed
ings was made pdblic by Secretary
Hoover in the form of a statement j
agreed upon by himself and Secre- i
tary Davis as follows:
The operators voted down the j
proposal for conferences between'
miners and operators in the central !
competitive fields alone. The min- j
ers voted down the proposition for |
independent conferences between |
miners and operators in each dis
trict. Upon suggestions for further j
separate conferences of operators
and miners for further considera
tion of methods the joint conference i
adjourned until Monday at 10 a. m.
Washington, July 2?Bituminous
coal production in districts operat
ing notwithstanding . the miner's
strike showed a slight falling off
last week on account of railroad
congestion, the geological survey
reported today. The figure of 5.
301,000 tons reached by the output j
for the week ending June 24, it was i
not likely'to be exceeded by" the}
later period totals, though anthra-!
cite, production, whjchj;'BS?S com-|
pletely stopped by the walkout April
1, recovered very slightly. *
The "continued, expansion" of
non-union soft coal production in
certain -areas in Kentucky and
southern West Virginia, the survey
reported, has finally taxed the ca
pacity of the railroads serving them.
Chicago, July 3.?Six railway
shop crafts unions which went on
strike Saturday were outlawed by
the United States Labor Board
today. Informal resolution of the
board declared that the unions by
their actions forfeited all their
rights before the board as rail
way employees: that new organi
zations of shopmen taking the
striking men's jobs should be
formed to represent shop employ
ees in disputes before the board.
Xew York. July 3.?Several con
tingents pickets sent to strike cen
ters in New York district today, j
Other Railway
Workers Voting
Chicago. July 3.?Railway strike
interest which centered over the
week-end in the-walkout Saturday
by shopmen, today turned to de
velopments dependent upon the
canvass at Detroit of the strike vote
of four hundred thousand main
tenance of way employes, and ac
tion by their union officials. The
two days of strike of shopmen
had failed, according to reports,
to interfere seriously with trans
portation or to produce a definite
statement of the number of men
out. The railroad labor board
merely marked time pending de
velopments.
"Nobody Starve,
Nobody Freeze"!
Xew York. July 3.?Asserting
that "nobody will starve, nobody j
freeze." even though the strike of
the shop crafts unions should con
tinue to October, officials of the
American Association of Railway
executives announced today. They
would maintain a "hands off" pol
icy leaving each road to extricate
itself from the strike.
? ? ?
Five Killed and
Seventy-Five Injured j
Atlantic City, July ?At least!
five were killed. 75 others injured, j
half of them seriously, early today
when the Camden-Atlantic City
Express train left the rail at'
Winslow Junction. .">7 miles from j
here, and rolled down an embank-i
men*.
the development of tin- chemical j
science.
"Francis 1'. Qarvau was made)
president < he is not a stockholder) i
because lie was so circumstanced :
that he could and would work I
without compensation for services
or personal expenses. We then sold |
all the patents-?about 4.r?<ui in I
number?under authority of law]
and in strict conformity there-j
with, to the Chemical Foundation:
for $300,000," I
"Be Just and Fear 3
TRAINS TO
RUN DESPITE
WALKOUT
Will Continue Service
Regardless of the
Strike, Say .Com
panies ? Awaiting
Canvass of Other
Ballots
Chicago. July 2 (By the Associ
ated Press).?Railway executives,
union labor leaders and the United
States railroad labor board mark
ed time today in the country-wide
strike of shop men. while train
service continued unintrerupted by
Saturday's walkout.
B. M. Jewell, head of the shop
men, who igmored the orders of
the labor board to appear before
it and explain his strike action,
spent the day at union headquar
ters receiving reports from all sec
tions of the country. While he
refused to give any figures, he
asserted that the walkout- was
"practically 100 per cent."
Railway executives. however,
claimed that probably less than 90
per cent, of the 401.000 repairmen"
had joined the walkout which be
gan at 10 a. m.. yesterday. Be
cause of the Sunday holiday, they
said, they had been unable to make
a complete check of their shopmen
but that train service would con
tinue regardless of how many laid
down their tools.
With the union leaders refusing
to treat with the labor board, the
railway executives asserting that
the dispute was entirely between
their former employees and the
government, and the labor board
assuring the full protection of the
government, interest in railway
circles was centered on Detroit,
where the executive council of the
United Brotherhood of Mainten
ance of Way Employees will meet
tomorrow to canvass the strike,
ballot of the track men. Hope was
expressed by the rail executives
that the maintenance of way men
would not join, the walkout.
Ignored Board's Summons
Mr. Jewell today explained that
he ignored-the labor-board's sum
mons because the board failed to
exclude from wage reduction hear
ings almost 80 roads that had in
part or wholly viloated ruiing3 of
the government tribunal which, he
said, has caused railroad employ
ees to regard the board with no
slight misgivings.
"Practically all of these 80 roads
violated decisions of the labor
board." Mr. Jewel! said, "yet they
were included in the wage reduc
tion hearings. If the board .had
1 ruled that these roads were
not entitled to participate in these
hearings the respect of railroad la
bor for the tribunal would have
been increased materially. Rail
road labor would then have look
ed upon the board, as a tribunal
willing and ready to deal out jus
tice. If this had been done, the of
ficials of the shop crafts could
have gone to the men with this as
an argument and averted the
strike. But this was not done and
postponement of the strike was
humanly impossible.
m 4 m ?
Hold Negro Waiter
On Serious Charge
Alleged to Have Attacked
White Woman on Train
Near Cullman, Ala.
Birmingham. Ala.. July 2?W. B.
Hayes, negro waiter on Louisville
& Nashville train No. S. en route
from Nashville to Birmingham, is
in jail here tonight on the charge
of having attempted to criminally
assault a prominent young woman
of Montgomery. Ala., who was a
p?ssenger on the train today.
The neg?*o was removed from the
train when it arrived at the station
here by local officers, after tele
graphic instructions from Cullman
where the alleged crime is said to
have been attempted.
According to conductor H. S.
Cook, the negro, who was serving
patrons of the dining car at lunch,
was cleaning off the tables just be
fore the train left Cullman. Being
the last patron to leave the diner,
the young woman v.as followed by
Hayes to the rest room. Just as
the passenger closed the door be
hind her. the waiter forced him
self into the compartment, but was
repulsed.
Upon a second attempt he forced
himself through the door by throw
ing his body against it and was
Muffling with the young woman
when Conductor Cook rescued her.
Haye:-; is said by local officials
to have denied that he laid hands
upon the woman, hut admitted
that li" forced himself into the
rest chamber after the passenger
had left the diner.
Th<> negro is being carefully
guarded in the Birmingham jail
and will he turned over to Cullman
authorities tomorrow. The young
woman stated that she will appear
to push charges against Hayes.
Baltimore, July 5.?The fire
which swept Locust Point rivet
front of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad last night caused dama^*
estimated at four million ^ipM
hundred thousand dollars and ser
iously threatened the Public Health
Service Hospital at Foil McHeury.
Sot?Let all the ends Thou Aims't a
Sumter, S- C, Sat
RAILWAY
EMPLOYEES
DEFER STRIKE
Have Abandoned the
Idea of Striking at
This Time?Signal
Men Are Still on
Fence
Chicago, July 4 (By the Asso-j
ciated Pres3).?The threatened ex- j
tension of the strike of railway;
employees to 400.000 trackmen was!
averted today through the efforts j
of members of the United States
railroad labor board and officials!
j of the United Maintenance of Way j
j employees and railroad shop labor- I
' ers. ? -
Postponement of the strike was
j announced tonight by E. F. Oracle.
i president of the maintenance or-1
j ganization. after he and his execu- I
tive council had conferred through- 1
out the day with Chairman Ben I
W. Hooper of the labor board and!
W. L. McMenimen, labor member
of the board. -
j Maintenance of Way chairmen!
were instructed to proceed to take !
up Maintenance of Way disputes j
; with the individual roads, and in i
j case an agreement is not reached i
j to refer the matter to the labor j
j board. These disputes include the :
j wage cut recently authorized b*y the !
j board for Maintenance of Way em
; ployees, changes in maintenance of
! way rules and the contracting out
j of track work. *
' Members were directed to con'
tinue work under the cut. wagNss
ordered by the labor board,' Ef
fective July 1. but to make any
revision of rates retroactive' to
July l..and to withhold strike or
j ders, pending the carrying out of
i these matters.
It was also announced that an
immediate ruling from the labor
board would be sought absolving
members from doing any work
j formerly done by members of oth
I er organizations on strike.
One of the conditions to post
! ponement of the strike was that
j the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad
j cancel its contracts with an out
I side agency to do track work and
j officials of the road were summon
!-ed before the meeting and' agreed
j to do this, maintaining, however,
j that such contracting was lawful.
With this crisis safely past both
railroad executives and officers of
? the shop crafts now on strike ad
j mitted tonight that the first real
I test of strength of the striking
I shopmen will occur tomorrow
i niorning when the whistles blow,
j ? B. M. Jewell, head of the rail
! way employees department of the
I American Federation of Labor, has
, contended that practically 100 per
?cent, of his 400,000 members had
j obeyed the strike call.
The carriers have asserted that
i many men who walked out last Sat
urday were merely going for a hol
! iday over the Fourth of July and
will be back on the job tomorrow.
Mr. Jewell today replied to the
j pronouncement of the labor board
of yesterday "outlawing" his or
ganization by asserting that it was
not the shopmen but the board it
self that had been "outlawed." Mr.
j Jewell, in his letter to the board.
I asserted that the body had failed
I to negotiate a settlement between
? the shopmen and the carriers and
I reiterated his intention of dealing
I only with the roads in making a
I settlement.
j President Harding, in an address
iat Marion, Ohio, today took cog
nizance of the labor situation when
he declared that a man has a right
to labor without any other's per
mission and that men also have
the right to bargain collectively.
"Governments," he added, "can not
tolerate any class or group domi
I nation through force."
J The fourth day of the shopmen's
istrike passed quietly. The head
quarters of the organization here
was practically deserted and the
holiday's effect was felt on the
strike situation everywhere.
Several of the railroads main
tained that their shop forces were
being augmented by the strikers
themselves who were returning to
work. These statements were de
nied by the union men.
{ Violence in connection with the
j strike was confined today to a few
scattered clashes between strike
sympathizers and workers, although
a number of railroads established
extra guards about their shops in
a number of instances and took
other added precautions,
j _
j Jacksonville. Fla.. July 4. ?
; Maintenance of way men employed
l by the Florida East Coast railroad
? have withdrawn from their nation
I al organization and formed an or
j ganization of their own, according
j to a statement issued from the of
fice of J. P. Brekwith. vice pres
ident of the road, today. The men
i have signed a contract with the
(road, the statement said, based on
i the wage srale fixed by the railroad
j labor board.
! The announcement was contain
ed in a brief statement and offi
: rials would not elaborate on it.
[The statement was made bet?re it
(was known, it was asserted, that
j national olficres of the maintenance
I of way organization had ordered
a strike call held in abeyance under
an agreement readied with the
j railway labor board.
It is known that negotiations;
looking to th?- forming of a system)
organization have been under way
, for some time hut officials of the
! road and men concerned in the or
' ganization have refused to discuss
t be thy Country's, Thy God's and I
urday, July 8, 1922
MAINTENANCE
OF WAY MEN
NOT TOSTRIKE
Maintenance of Way
Men Continue at
Work, Walkout is
Averted For Time
at Least
Chicago. July 5.?The striking
railway shopmen who walked out
here Saturday were reported to be
drifting back to work today in
groups of uncertain size. Today was
considered the turning point in the
strike. Small disorders appeared
at several points, mostly in the
south.
Chicago, July 5.?The railway
shopmen who walked off their jobs
last Saturday played a lone hand
in the rail strike today. Fears that
other unions would join the strik
ing shopmen is virtually dispelled.
The first wide rift in the strike
clouds passed yesterday when the
maintenance of way employee*,
who include track workers and
other common labor definitely
abandoned the idea of-walking out
at this time. The signal men are
still "on the. fence." but their pres
ident usually has followed the lead
of the maintenance of way union.
The maintenance union was giv
en the sympathy and congratula
tions of the strkiing shopmen today
by Jewell, the shopmen's leader. He
declared that the maintenance un
ion's action was not a surprise; and
added that if "they can find a way
out of their difficulties they are to
be congratulated. He said the de
cision of track lahorers didn't weak
en the position of shopmen in the
least, that each organization was
autonomous.
SPARTANBURG
MAN RECEIVES
APPOINTMENT
B. C. Getsinger Will Head
Commerce Bureau For
South Atlantic States
"."Washington, July 6.?The ap
pointment of B. C. Getsinger. Spar
tanburg. S. C. as manager of the
new Atlanta office of the bureau of
foreign and domestic commerce was
announced today by Secretary
Hoover. The territorj" to .be served
includes South Carolina, Georgia.
Alabama. Florida and probably
North Carolina.
Bidders May
Modify Proposals
"Washington. July 6.?A final op
portunity will be given all bidders
to offer further modification of
their proposals for Muscle Shoals.
Chairman Norris, of the senate ag
riculture committee, announced
today.
them. Meetings of the employees'1
have been held at several points on
the road, which extends from
South Jacksonville to Key West.
Employees attending these meet
ing's were given free transportation
to and from their homes and other
means of encouragement were of
fered by the road, it was said.
Officials of the independent or
ganization were not announced and
it was impossible to learn from the
workers' viewpoint whether the
organization would supplant in
whole the former union or whether
it would be combatted by the lat
ter.
Chicago. July 4.?"After most
careful consideration of the entire
situation, we have reached the con
clusion that it is not wise for our
membership to leave the service of
the carriers until every resource
has been exhausted that affords a
hope of a peaceful adjustment,"
said the announcement which was
signed by Mr. Grable. three vice
presidents of the union and a
quorum of the executive board
constituting a subcommittee of the
executive board of grand lodge of
ficers.
Atlanta. July 4.?Armed guards
have been stationed at its bridges
between At'anta and Chattanooga,
the Nashville, Chattanooga & St.
Louis railway announced here to
day.
I hattanooga, July 4.?An al
leged attempt to wreck a coal
^elevator in the southern railway
yards here and the cutting of air
hose on a train being made up for
Cincinnati was reported at the local
railroad late today. One arrest was j
made in the reported attempt to:
destroy the elevator winch, it was
announced, was frustrated.
Macon. Ga.. July 4.?J. O. Ualey.
president of the Order of Skilled
Railway Maintenance of Way Em
ployees, announced tonight that he
has received a letter of recognition
from the management of the Cen
tral of Georgia railroad. He also
stated that tile new order has a
majority of maintenance of way
men oti a number of Southern
railroads and that negotiations are
under way for contracts. A con
ference with the New Orleans Sz
North Eastern and the New Or
leans terminals, where lie says he
has 90 per cent, of the maintenance
of way men, has been arranged.
Raley stated.
rrntb/s."
HEAVY GUNS
ARE USED IN
DUBUNBATTLEj
Remnants of Rebel I
Stronghold Under j
Bombardment andj
Prisoners Are Cap-j
tured
London. July 4.?A Dublin dis-1
patch to the Times says:
"Tonight the remnants of the ir- }
regular stronghold in Upper Sack- j
ville street is being bombarded j
with heavy guns.""
The Dublin correspondent of j
the press association says the na
tional forces are making steady
progress. The battle in O'Connell |
street continued with varying in- j
tensity throughout the day, ;the;
firing on the whole being much J
heavier than yesterday.
The postofRce ^was rushed and
captured by a bombing party, j
twenty irregulars being taken.
The correspondent says it is per- |
sistently rumored that De Valera;
has" left Tlamnmn's Hotel.
Fifteen irregular? are believed to
have 'surrendered under the white j
flag at this hotel and it .is rumored j
that Countess Markieyiecz was,cap-j
tured while sniping.
During the-* course ?of the day,;
continues the correspondent, .there !
have been fierce duels between na- j
tional troops lying in the road be- j
hind light barricades and shipers j
from windows a n^t roofs. There are
several indicatinos of the dimin
ished strength of 9 the ^-irregular
forces and that they will no longer j
attempt to fight all their positions
simultaneously.
The irregulars concentrate their
attention especially on threatened
points, moving about in under
ground tunnels. A large number
of irregulars arc known to have left i
the O'Connell area, either tired by j
the Struggle or under orders from
the leaders.
Crowds in the city still watched j
the fighting.
Prisoners Taken.
Dublin. July 4 (By the Asso- j
ciated Press).?Hamman's Hotel j
on Sackville street, one of the main j
positions of the insurgents, was;
captured..by the .-.national army;
forces this afternoon. The hostelry j
with its garrison of thirty men;
was surrendered to the Free State!
troops after the b?iling had taken;
fire. i
Y. M. C. A. Burns.
Dublin, July 4.?The enveloping
movement by the Free State forces j
in the Sackville street area is coni-j
plete and the final defeat of the
rebels is in sight, says a commu
nique issued from general head
quarters in the Beggars Bush bar
racks today.
The insurgents have been driven
out of the positions in Earl Street
so that their comrades in the
Gresham Ho/tel arid adjoniingr
buildings in Sackville street are en
tirely surrounded.
Thirty-two rebels were captured
when ? the national troops rushed j
the Earl street positions and the \
Catholic club, opposite the Gresh-1
am Hotel.
The Young Men's Christian As- i
sociation building in Sackville1
street, which has been occupied by
in'surgents, was burned during the
night after an attack by the Free
Staters.
Yesterday's casualties were threo
j killed and twenty-seven wounded.
The lull since the termination of |
the fierce attack on the insurgents'
position early this morning had
been broken up to 9 o'clock only j
by activities of snipers.
} The government forces now hold
all ?the positions dominating the
buildings in Sackville street occu- j
pied by the rebels. Barricades at
I the Liffey bridge and across the.
principal thoroughfares leading to
the center of the city prevent the
Republicans from escaping or re
inforcements from reaching them.
London. July 5?Colonial Secre
tary Winston Churchill anounced
in the House of Commons this af
ternoon that the attack by the Irish
National army in the Sackville
Street area in Dublin is still in
progress at 3:45 o'clock. The where
abouts of DeValera are unknown,
he said. "It is uncertain whether
he is within the cordon of national
troops, or has deserted his com
mand and escaped." he added
Dublin. July 5?It is learned on I
excellent authority, says the pre*sj
associat'on this afternoon, t.h-j Iri^hj
provisional government intends to1
issue a national call to ~?;;>s to
morrow, j
i
? Ii. ?
Dublin, July 5.?An official com- ;
munique issued early this morn-!
ing says:
"The attacks on the irregular!
position continued intermittently I
during the night: a number of]
eighteen-pounder shots were fired
into the buildings they hold in
O'Connell street. The Free Stat ?
troops captured twenty-one irreg
ulars with arms and ammunition;
at Ballingers."
Shipping Board
Violates Lawj
Washington. July G.?Senator
Caraway, in the senate charged j
President Harding and Chairman
Lasker of the shipping board with
flagrant violation of the prohibition i
act. in permitting the sale of liquor!
on the vessels. 1
THE TRUE SOW.
BUILDINGS
DESTROYED
INDUBLIN
Practically All the
Strongholds of In
surgent Irish Forces
Captured as Pris
oners Surrender
Dublin, July 5.?The siege of
the strongholds of the insurgent
Irish forces was virtually ended to
night with the surrender of small
groups of the men who had been
fighting for the past week behind
the barricade* and the character
of one of the principal leaders,
Cathal Brugha. former minister of
defense. But the score of the na
tional cause has been purchased at
the cost of blazing buildings and
terrible destruction ia O'Connell
to say nothing of the loss of life and
the many seriously wounded.
There is still no information as
to the whereabouts of Eamonn de
Valera, who has apparently escaped
from the Free Staters' net.
In the afternoon, when tea
buildings, including three hotels,
were aflame, the remainder of the
irregulars, driven into the Gran
ville Hotel, with Are on all sides,
still maintained a desperate resis
tance with automatics and rifles,
but it was already, seen that they
could not long delay the inevi
table end. The final attack by the
Free State troops commenced at
midday after a lull during which
the firing slackened greatly. The
regulars then began a desperate
plan of bombing the insurgents. A
bomb was hurled into Hamma Ho
tel and soon faint wisps of smol:e
crept through the shattered win
dows and suddenly a burst of flame
in front, followed by dense volumes
of smoke. The flames spread swift
ly, and the fire brigade hurried to
the scene. But a fusillade from
the irregulars in the Gr?nville Ho
tel compelled them to retreat. The
fire attacked the shops, .adjoining
the Kamma, and in less'than two
hours the roofs iiad ..collapsed.
Three buildings were completely
destroyed, their ruin being has
tened through the flames reaching
stores, of the bombs and ammuni
tion, causing: numerous explosions
and throwing up great clouds of
smoke.
Still the battle raged, the ir
regulars firing fusillades from the
windows of both the Gresham and
the Granviile, while the national
rifllemen replied vigorously from
their positions opposite and from
armored cars.
Shortly after 1 o'clock an
armored car took up a position op
posite the Gresham and poured
machine gun fire into the hotel
windows. Smoke belched** forth,
quickly followed by a muffled ex
plosion and tongues of flame from
windows, and within half an hour
the front of the bui'ding was a
flaming furnace. /
Even while the lower floors of
this hotel were burning, the irreg
ulars continued to fire from the up
per windows, but by 3 o'clock, the
remnant of the garrison, five men,
weary eyed and blackened, emerged
from the rear of the building un
der the white flag and surrendered.
Other irregulars driven from
place to place by the flames took
up a position in the Granviile, and
from points of vantage they di
rected a brisk fire against the na
tionals. In the meantime fire
broke out opposite in the store
next door to the Edinburgh Hotel;
presently a white flag was seen
protruding from the door of the
Edinburgh and a man stepped
forth, holding a flag in one hand
and a suitcase in the other. Be
hind him walked a curious and
pitiful procession of between
twenty and thirty persons, mostly
women, a white haired woman of
seventy bringing up the rear, all
carrying small quantities of lug
gage. .
* They explained that they had
been living in tire Edinburgh a
whole week, chiefly taking refuge
in the cellars, but were forced to
leave by the flames in the adjacent
store. These unfortunate civilians
were escorted to a place of safety,
by members of the Red Cross.
BIG FIRE
IN DUBLIN
Twenty Buildings on Main
Street Destroyed by Insur
gents
Dublin. July 6.?Twenty build
ings in O'Connell street. Dublin's
main thoroughfare, were destroyed
by fire after the surrender of the
insurgent republicans, who had
turned the buildings into fortresses
in their resistance to the Free
State troops. Four snipers were
shot dead during the night. It is
believed the damage will reach
several hundred thousand pounds.
TWO MINES TO
BE OPERATED
Striking Miners Accept Wage
Scale Offered by Operators
Pittsburgh, July 6.?The women
today be;;an cleaning up two mines
in this divtrict preparatory to op
erations under the scale which the
Pittsburgh coal producers associa
tion offered to the miners and
which the miners rejected before
the strike became effective on April
first, last.
FHROX, Established June 1, 1S66.
, VOL. LH. NO, 42
BOARD GIVES
OUT WAGE
STATBTIGS
Pay of Railroad Men
Are Higher Than m
December, 1917. The
High Buying Pow
er Accounts For
Fact
Chicago, July 2.?The cut of
about $135,000,000 in the wages of.
some 1.200,000 railroad employees,
which became effective at the same
time that a 10 per cent, cut .in
freiglit rates amounting to abous
$400,000,000 went into effect, stilt
leaves hourly wages measure** hv
actual buying power above the
wages of December. 1917, just be
fore governmental control accord
ing to figures* compiled by the
United States railroad labor board.
Machinists, who are among- the
shop crafts employees on strike,
,were cut 7 cents an hour. They
averaged 77.3 xrents and now aver
age 70.3 cents. In 1917 the rate
wag 50.5. the new hourly rate be
ing 39 per cent higher. Cost -of
living, according to board figu30es?'
is 17 per "Sent, higher than i? De
cember, 1917. The board " figures
the new hourly rate for machin
ists 19 per cent, greater in-real
purchasing power than in Decem
ber, 1917.
Car men. cut 9 cents an hour,
now ha\-e an average hourly wage
of 64.4 cents as compared with 32.7
cents in December, 1917, the board
figures show.. This represents a net -
increase of 71-per cent, in coin, an
advance Of 45t7 per cent.:in actaki*
purchasing power of the hourly ~*
wage, the board maintains. /
Average hourly earnings of ^ma
chinists, according to the boaritfav
figures, are 15'cents an hour .less
than under the peak rate esta-blish
ed by the board in May, 1920, but
the real value is .figured as 7 p&f
cent, greater due to the drop, in ?tS*
cost of .living.
Average earnings of car men are
figured as 1616 cents an hour less
than in .May, *92G, but buyiasr
power i3 given as 3.2 per ce^rB.
greater fcr the, same reason,.
According to labor statistics coxa
{ mon. jajb'or in? maintenance of ^war
J in nTT^vefaVea'*'" 19.3 cents aV
hour.. It was chopped 5 centsani
now averages 32.7 cents, an 1^
j crease of about 70 percent, incite
and 45 per cent, in buying powsr
over the IUI7 wage scale. Cler&s
in 1917, the board's table show,
ceived 34.5 cents an hour averages: .
Most of ; them are cut 3 cents a&&
now get 58.5 cents an hour, titna
representing 70 percent, more thrift
the hourly rate 0^1917 and. a pur
chasing value of 44.7 per cent .
higher. .. ?? ~
Common labor around stations
average 22.4 cents an hour in 191?
rose to 52.1 cents in 1920, was cut
to 43.6 -cents in 1921 and the ne*F
rates 39.6 cents an tour. This, the
board contends, is 77.5 per cent,
higher than in 1917 and the pur
chasing t-alue is 51.5 per cent,
higher.
Signal men and assistants aver
aged 39.2 in 1917. Yesterday's" 5
cent cut puts the average at 64;S
cents- an hour, the board says, this -
representing a wage figured .In ac
tual money, 96 per cent, higher
than in 1917 and having a pur
chasing power 67 per cent, higher1.
Stationary firemen and engine
room oilers averaged 21.S cents an
hour in 1917 and the latest cut
leaves their earnings at 49.6 cents.
This is an increase of 127 per cent,
in com and is 94 per cent, greater
in buying power, the board main
tains.
The-, national industrial confer
J ence board has made a compar?"
? son of the new wage rates witn
those in 1914, using its own cost or
living index. It placed the aver
age earnings of the four main ;f
group* which had their wages out
at about 19 per cent higher than in" >
1914, measured in buying power.
Below, is given a comparison, of
the rates of pay for the groups.
which had their' wages cut yester
day, the. figures being from^the
United States railroad labor board. ;
The first date. December. 1917, is
just prior to federal control: Janu
ary. 1920, just before termination of
federal control; May, 1920. when .
the wage increase' of the board be- *
came effective: July. 1921, when ;
last ye.ar'8 decrease became ef
fective, and July.. 1922. the latest
'decrease. The figures represent the
average cents per hour:
- Dec. Jan. May 3aly July
1917 1920 192? 1921 1922
Machinists.30.5 72.3 83.S . 77.S TJQ-S
Tannen .- J...S7.7 -6S.0 81.0 73.0 ?4.4
Common la
bor, mainte
nance or *
war .-19.S S7.7 46.3 37.7 32.7
Clerks . ?84.5 54.3 67.5 61.$ 38^5
..J2.S 43.6 52.1 4S.6 .S9.6
<'omni on la
bor around
stations.
Signalmen.
. niaintainers'
j assistants _ .. -32.S 64 S 77.S 69.S 61.$
Stationary ? -
firemen and **.
engine room
oilers .21.S 46.6 59.6 51.6 49.6
VATICAN
GENDARMES
.MUTINY'
London, July 6.?A Central News
dispatch from Rome says that
gendarmes serving in an honorary
capacity in policing the Vatican,
mutinied this morning, crying,
"Long live the pope," and "death,
to the commandant." They were
disarmed and the barracks occu
pied by Swiss guards.