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. THE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Esta CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2,1 ORDERS I ISSUED TO i TROOPS! - ' ' I Pres- Harding Takes . Action to Back Up His Proclamation to Striking Shopmen ??? ? -Washington, July IS (By the As sociated Press).?President Hard ing took the first step.today toward j backing up with the military arms i of the government- his proclama- j tion warning striking railway * shopmen against interference with the transportaiton of interstate commerce and the mails. Instructions were sent at the di . rection of the president to Maj. Gen. John L. Hines, command ing the Eighth army corps area at San Antonio? Texas, to prepare a sufficient force of troops to give adequate protection to the lines of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas rail road-which have been attacked by striking shopmen, particularly ati - Denison, Texas. Coincident with these instruc tions there went forth from the war department to C. E. Schaff of! . St. Louis, the receiver appointed by ? a United States court for the Mis souri, Kansas & Texas, the advice that he^should again call on the governor of Texas for protection for the railroad properties, the receiver having reported that pre vious appeals to the state executive had been unheeded. The receiver further was promised that should j his appeal bring no protection j from the state authorities "the j federal government is ready to af ford protection and will take ac tion if necessary as soon as you have the reply from the governor." Officials in announcing the gov enment's action emphasized it was taken because the Missouri. Kan sas & Texas was in the hands of a receiver appointed by a federal court and consequently was under the supervision of the federal gov ernment. No official statement was ~ available to indicate that the ac tion was to be taken as precedent determining t&e ? policy to be iol- ? lowed by the government in other J cases where violence and lawless-i ness arising .-fron=b the- sttfk-?- inter- j fere with the two essentials as! "Enumerated by President Harding in. his p*N>clamation*?movement of the mails and maintenance of in terstate commerce. It is under stood, however, that the president personally will pass upon other emergencies that may arise call ing for the use of troops. Other developments in the capital in > connection with the strike dur ing the day included the receipt by President Harding of a telegram from B. M. Jewell, head of the railway employees'^ department of the American Federation of Labor, and heads of the six striking shop crafts, replying to his proclamation and setting forth the viewpoint of the striking workers. So far as could be learned at the White House tonight the .president had not determined whether the tele gram called for a reply. The proclamation of the presi dent, to which the employees* tele gram took exception as based on "incomplete information" was commended by the board of di rectors of the chamber of com merce of the United States in a resolution which called upon busi ness organizations of the country to assume leadership m crystalliz ing public sentiment in upholding the president. "The attempt of the striking railroad employees to enforce their own views through methods of in dustrial war." the resolution added, ^'should meet the condemnation of all who believe in orderly process of settlement." The president also received dur ing the day a letter from Postmas ter General Work, stating that a survey just completed showed that 50.000 motor vehicles could be made ready on 24 hours* notice to carry the mails in event the railroads found it impossible to do so. Supplementing this the Aero nautic Chamber of Commerce of j America, with headquarters in New York, notified Dr. Work that it was prepared to mobilize* into an aerial mail fleet all commercial airplanes in use in the United States and that such planes would be capable Of transporting 8.000.000 first class letters daily. The bureau of aeronautics of the ( navy likewise came forward, stat-1 ing it had at its disposal hundreds) of land and seaplanes scattered in . squadron units from Newport to) San Diego which at a word from ; the proper authority could be put J into the air carrying mail or other! commodities. Pallas. Texas. July 13 'By the Associated Press).?State troops will not be ordered out to protect property of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad in Texas "at thi:; time." Governor Pat M. Neff said here tonight, after reading the tele gram of Secretary War Weeks rel ative to the railroad strike situa tion at Dennison. I Chicago. July 14.?A strike call *to eight thousand stationary fire- J men. engineers and oilers employ-' ed on railroads lias been issued, Timothy Healy. internntionji 1 pres-i ident, announced today. The strike ; becomes effective at x o'clock <>n I morning of July 17th. The call j ',\;ts made in compliance with the i recent referendum which favored j the walkout, Healy .-aid. Mem bers of the organization on sever- j iblished AprH, 1850. 881, _ RAILROADS MUST SUBMIT TO STRIKERS Leaders of Shopmen I Declares That Rail-1 roads Cannot Win! Fight on Account of Demands of Busi ness Chicago, July 14 (By the Asso ciated Press).?A strike bulletin sent out today by B. M. Jewell, head, of the striking railway shop men, declares ^ the strikers "have the railroads in a hole." Here are the facts summarized, comprising. President Jewell said, "our strate gic position:" "Industrial and business condi tions throughout the country are picking up strongly. "Steel and iron production is steadily increasing and prepara tions for further activity in all oth er lines are increasing. "Dun's and Bradstreet's report steady betterment of conditions allj along the* line. "This means the railroads have to carry a tremendous, amount of freight in the next few montns. Since the beginning of the year I earnings and business have in- j creased tremenjdously over a cor- j responding * period last year. "Railroad managements antici- j pated this increased business and j ordered 100,000 new freight cars in! the first six months of this year as compared with only 30,000 new cars for all of last year. * "The present demand for rolling stock is about 300 per cent, more than the last five years' average and the demand for locomotives is also increasing. "The prolonged coal strike means there has got to be a tremendous movement of coal between now and December in order to supply both domestic users, industrial concerns and public utilities. "Over a -? freek ago the United; States geological survey reported jj the existing coal reserves are the lowest they can possibly go with out endangering the future regular supply.. "The threatened strike of sea men on the Great Lakes, if it hap pens, will probably throw still more burden of moving coal on the rail ways. , "The latest report of condition: of equipment show the percentage] of bad order locomotives ranging j from 12 per cent, on the Louisville; & Nashville to 39 per cent, on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas and bad order cars from 5 per cnet. on the; Norfolk & Western to 38.2 per cent, on the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie. "Outside contractors can not handle all this repair work and j most of the roads are far enough j from the contractors' shops so that | the problem of hauling bad order j equipment to the contractors is a j big one. "Demand for labor is increas ing in outside industries and that! means that the railways can not get enough men to replace those now on strike. "All this means that time is with us. Every day we hold on weakens the railroads and strength ens our hand. Hold on, brothers." Chicago. July 13. ? Virtually abandoning hope of an early settle ment of the strike following the failure of last night's conferences* railroad executives today prepared to make a determined effort to re open, shops with non-union em ployes, according to high official of the railroad labor board. This of ficial said peace moves will be sus pended for the present. A stumbl ing block in the path of a settle ment, it is said, at the labor board office, will be the union's demand for a restoration of seniority, and other privileges to the strikers. The executive council of six shop crafts unions went into executive session today to determine where they stood on the propositions dis cussed in yesterday's conference- j When Wiener, the young tennis flash, appears on the scene his opponents say "The Wurst has come.' al roads have already joined in | sympathetic walkout with the shop-! men. Healy said. Chicago. July 14. ? Railway j unicn leaders today said they ex pected to hold maintenance of way laborers in check and prevent a general walkout in which four hundred thousand shop track la- j borers threaten to to join the strik- I ing shopmen. Disturbances con- : tinue t>) be reported. Attorney General Daugherty has been asked | to furnish fourteen hundred depu- ' ty marshals for strike duty in northern Ohio. _ Washington. July 13.?Pre-i- j dents of international unions and of the various American Federa-1 tiori of Labor departments met , here today with President Sarau*1! i ?ompers to discuss the railroad | strike, and. according to a later announcement "in determine in: what manner the most effective; assistance could rendered." i ?*1t whs made clear t?? the con-! ferenc? by Mr. Gompers." the] statement said, "that the full j strength of the American Federa-i tion of I-ibor was behind the strike j and that every possible effort will j be made to bring about its success."! "Be Jost and Fear I no prospect of strike settlement! Labor Leaders De-1 termined to Con- J tinue the F i g h t j Against Labor Board Order to the End Chicago, July 14 (by the Asso ciated Press).?The second week of the railway shopmen's strike ended tonight while the railroad labor board, the shop crafts' represen tatives and the railroads maintain ed silence regarding negotiations! looking toward a settlemen* of the j walkout. A four hour conference between Chairman Ben W. Hooper of the la- j bor board. B. M. Jewell, head of j the shopmen's organization and j Timothy Healey. who has author ized a strike of stationary fire men and oilers' ended tonight with- | out a statement from any of the conferees but it was reported to j have failed to reach a settlement, i Chairman Hooper hurried to the Conference after a meeting with L. i F. Loree, president of the Dela- i ware and Hudson railroad., and T. | E. Crowley, vice president of the New York Central lines. The na- i ture of this meeting was not re- j vealed. While the .parley was underway ! between Chairman Hooper and Mr.! Jewell there were indications else- j where that the general trend of the ? strike situation was toward peace. ' E. F.,Grable. head of the United j Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees and Railway Shop Laborers, who held a midnight con ference here last night with ' Mr. Jewell, left for Washington today, I where it was said he expected to | see the president. He reiterated hisj statements before the labor board j members last week .that the 400,- ? 000 maintenance of way employees; would not strike despite the fact i that some of his men had joined in a sympathetic strike with the; shopman. Mr. Grable indicated j that the only contingency thatj might result in a strike was a de-; termination on''tn'e"p?rt*nf the car-i riers to force, the maintenance of j way men to do the work regularly i done by the striking crafts, a prac- j tice against which the labor board ruled in an opinion last (week. I While an apparent effort was be- j ing made 10 end the walkout. Sen-; ator Cummins of Iowa, one of the coauthors of the transportation act. j declared that the rulings of the' labor board were binding on both carriers and employees and could be enforced. Mr. Jewell today expressed the i opinion that the maintenance of j way men would not join in the ? walkout. From St. Paul, where I shop craft representatives havej been meeting with the Northwes-j tern roads in an? effort to reach an' agreement, came an announcement j from R. A. Henning, chairman of j the shop crafts organization, that aj settlement within 48 hours was j possible. Following a cabinet meeting at which the strike was discussed,' of- i ficials at Washington close to Pres- i ident Harding said the chief execu tive was optimistic regarding the ability of Chairman Hooper to ef fect" a settlement. One organization, the stationary firemen, engineers and oilers, how- j ever, announced its intention to: join Ihe walkout qf shopmen July i 17. when Timothy Healey, inter-i national president, sent out at strike call affecting about 8,000 men. More troops were ordered out to day to protect railroad property and j employees. Soldiers were sent to Poplar Bluff, Mo., to relieve troops | already there and Governor Davis} of Ohio, ordered troops mobilized? for possible ,use in connection with* the coal and rail strikes. j Secretary Weeks and Governor" Neff of Texas sent representatives! to Denison. Texas, to report onj conditions which are said by Mis- I souri, Kansas & Texas railroad j officials to be interfering with the operation of trains. Attorney Gen eral Daugherty -was rea.uested to send 1.400 deputy marshals to the strike district in Northern Ohio. Numerous court orders restrain- j ing picketing and interference with railroad property and employees marked the progress of the 14th day of the strike. Postmaster General Work ac- j cepted an offer of 1.000 commer- j cial aircraft by the Aeronautical j Chamber of Commerce of Ameri-; ca to be used in maintaining mail \ service if the trains fail to operate, j Clashes between strikers and; sympathizers and railroad em ployees were reported from various: points, but there were no serious1 outbreaks. Rocky Mount Asks For State Troops i i . i Raleigh. July 17.?L. V. Bassett. representing the city of Rocky j Mount here today prepared, he j said, to urge Governor Morrison to send troops to Rocky Mount te j maintain order, that the situatin In connection with the shopmen's strike at the Atlantic (..'oast Line shops continues threatening. i - j "Only way to live long is by keeping busy" says a centenarian. We know a boy who will never sec Sot?Let all the ends Thou Aims't a Sumter, S. C, Wednei COKER TAKES I WITH CL Hartsville Planter Ss and Molasses Mixti Squares Form on ' Many of Firsl To the Editor of The State. j I am going to force myself to I write temperately about an article! which I have just read in Tuesday's I ?- i State under Clemson College date; line with respect to methods of boll weevil control. That article is 3o much at va riance with the experiences of a great many of the best and most reliable farmers in South Carolina! that I marvel that the Clemson au- j thorities still allow such statements' to be issued by those in charge of j the boll weevil work there. 'The; advice that the government and ex- j periment station experts give, to go! nothing to control the boll weevil j until- squares have formed on "the j plant, wouid be laughable if it-were not so tragic, and few farmers even j in South Carolina still follow them, j I can prove to these gentlemen. I if they care to have the proof, that I by the use of a mixture of calcium arsenate. molasses and water ap- J plied before squares begin to form j and repeated at weekly intervals, for four or five weeks thereafter. \ practically all of the early wegyife j can be killed and the cotton^ pro- j tected from early damage, tlie 'frve i FORD'S BID ! REJECTED BY COMMITTEE - . Big Vote of Nine toj * .Seven Senate Agri-j cultural Committee Rejects Offer For Muscle Shoals Washington. July 15?Henry Ford's offer for the Muscle Shoals project was rejected by the senate i agriculture committee today by a vote of nine to seven. The bill, introduced by Chairman Norris. I calling for the operation of the. projects by a government owned j and controlled corporation was also rejected by a vote of nine to five. The other offers including the Ala-; bama Power Co.. Engstrum & Par sons were also rejected without a ? record vote. Despite the adverse I votes the Ford offer will be present- I ed to the senate for flnaf decision through minority reports, it is ex-j plained. ' Engine Runs Off To Wreck Train I i i Six Persons Hurt in Collision; at Saluda Ashev?le, X. G. July 14.?Five j passengers and the baggage mas-1 ter were slightly injured, other j passengers bruised and two engines 1 damaged when a "helper" loco-1 motive standing on a siding near j Saluda. N. C. ran away and crash- j ed head on into Train No. 4 which ! was south bound. The "helper" j was on the siding, under steam, to; be used on the Saluda mountain | climb and there was no one on it j at the time it started forward, j crashing into the locomotive of the coming train. "Reason unknown" was the statement of officials shortly be- \ fore leaving for the scene of the wreck to investigate and render any possible assistance. Those hurt as a result of being! thrown from their seats were: S. j Gutman, Fairfield. Ga.. cut on! nose: Anna Eldridge. White Pine, cut on head: Mrs. Baco. wife of the j mayor of Tryon, N. C. cut on 1 nose: O. E. Minims. St. George. S. j C. sprained shoulder: Mrs. W. J. i Adams. Laurens. S. C. back hurt, j and W. W. Sutton. Asheville. i bruises and cuts on shoulder. Sleeping cars from Train No. 4 were attached to the Carolina Spe cial. operating about ten hours late. ; and which left Asheville after train ! No. 4. The Passengers w ere all able | to continue the journey. Train Fired Upon Bullet Passes Within Few j Inches of Man's Head Baltimore. July 14.?A Balti- ! more & Ohio passenger train, j bound from Washington to Balti- : more, was fired upon as it neared i Camden station, this city, early to night. One bullet passed through a! window of a coach within a few inches of the lu-ad of W. E. Evans of Baltimore. There was much ex- j citement, especially among tli?--. women passengers. The train was fired upon while running :if about 30 miles an hour.! Examination of th*-* ?-ar did not reveal where the bullet lodged. and it is thought it passed ?>ur an open | window mi the opposite side of the; car. A woman is a~ yo'tng as he thinks. it be thy Country's, Thy God's and ' sday, July 19, 1922 SUE emson colle ays Calcium-Arsenate ire, Applied Before Cotton, Destroys t Boll Weevils applications of poison costing about -SI for material, applied with a mop or bott'.o in the day time, and the whole process being so simple and cheap that any tenant farmer can us.e it. Its effectiveness has been absolutely proved in this section and its universal adoption can be secured if we can get the state and government authorities to stop advocating the expensive, dangerous and impracticable dusting method and bend their efforts towards the promotion of this simple and in expensive recipe. When univer sally adopted it will undoubtedly prevent the early migration of the weevil and allow everyone to pro duce cotton for a longer period. j I dislike very much to come out siuarely against anything promoted directly or indirectly by Clemson college, for I have the highest re gard for the personnel and work of that institution with the excep tion of their boll weevil propagan ga. I can not remain silent, how ever, in the face of their state ment "that early poisoning is not a material factor in boll weevil control."' David R. Coker. Hartsville. charleston is making stiff fight Ask President Hard ing to Intervene to Prevent Closing of Navy Yard Washington, July 13.?President Harding was called upon otday by Senator E. D. Smith, accompanied by Representative W. T. Logan, and asked to intervene to prevent the closing of the Charleston navy yard as contemplated by the order recently issued by Acting Secretary Theodore Roosevelt. The matter was most earnestly presente d to the president's atten tion and he listened with interest. Mr. Harding did not commit him- j self as to what he might do. but promised to take the subject under very serious consideration. He seemed to be appreciative of the points advanced against the policy of leaving an entire section of the country without a navy yard. When Senator Smith got back to the Capitol from the White House he was disappointed to receive the following radiogram reply to the cable of Tuesday, in which he asked Secretary of the Navy Denby. now in Japan, to suspend the Roosevelt order until the matter could be investigated after Mr. Denby's return: "Very sorry: do not feel justified in acting as you suggest. Edwin Denjy." This is a disappointment, but it ?will not check the fight to have the order held up or modified. On the contrary this fight will be waged all the harder with all legi timate means at command. There is no question that Acting Secre tary Roosevelt, who is away from "Washington today, has heard many more protests against his order than he expected and from sources which surprised him cud the in tervention, of tho nresident has been sought by cei a* 1 influential Republicans to pr.-'/e.-n: the c ?Il lumination of what they regard as a serious blunder. The matter may be discussed in the cabinet after Col. Roosevelt's return. Trot est to President Washington. July 13.?A protest against the navy department's pro posed abandonment of Hie Charles ton. S. C. navy yard was made to President Harding today by Senator Smith and Representative Logan ' of South Carolina and Mayor John P. Grace of Charles ton. As the three left the White House after a haif-hour audience with the President they repoited that their interview had been "very satisfactory" and declared they j were hopeful that the navy yard i would be kept in operation. L It was pointed out to the presi- j dent thai the closing down of the i Charleston yard would leave the 2.300 mil^s of coast line between Cape Hatteras and the Mexican border without a single yard j equipped for navy craft and larger j merchant ships. New Tariff on j Fancy Cotton Cloths Washington. -July 17.?Senator I.enroot charged today in the sen ate and Senator Smoot conceded, that th?- section of the new tariff bill imposing additional duty of 3 2 per cent ad valoreum on fancy cotton cloths was "word for word" as proposed by Former Senator Lippitt. cotton goods manufacturer of Providence.. R. 1. rrath's." MAY TAKE OVER THE RAILROAD Government Will Use All the Force Neces sary to Insure Ser vice on Railroads Washington, July 14.?While op timism to the outcome of the rail- j road strike was reflected at the j White House today, there "was fur- I ther evidence that the administra- ? tion intends to keep a firm grasp j on the situation and that every j force at the command of the gov- j ernment will be utilized to insure maintenance of necessary inter- ; state transportation. Members of the cabinet who met; with President Harding in the reg- j ular Friday session placed their main reliance on the abiiity of! Chairman Hooper of the United! States railroad labor board to find a solution togrthe problem. The meeting' wa3 understood to have been devoted largely to dis- | cussion of the rail and coal strikes, j The president was said to hold the view that, should government I operation of the carriers become '? necessary, it would not abridge the ? liberty of railroad workers to be j drafted for service in the positions j in which they have had experience \ Whatever discussion occurred \ along this line, however, was said j to be on a strictly hypthetical basis, i there being no evidence that fed- i eral control would be forced by! developments of the. strike. Cabinet members brought to the j meeting voluminous reports on the I various phases in which their port- j folios were directly interested. At torney General Daugherty had with i him numerous telegrams bearing j on the situation at points where; disorders have developed, and re- f ports on the organization of special : forces of deputy marshals. Post master General Work was said to j have reported the bulk of the mail movement as yet unaffected by the j strike, although a number of trains \ have been discontinued. Messages ; reaching the postoffice department | during the day, however, indicated the anxiety, of rajlr.oad officials and in some cases of postal inspectors! over the situation at certain rail | centers, including Dennison, Tex-; arkana, Marshall and Fort Worth, j Texas, and Hattiesburg, Miss. Further request for federal pro- ; tection reached the war depart-; ment from Dennison. where the i federal receiver ,of the Missouri.} Kansas & Texas railway was un-! derstood to hold the view that all i trains would ' have to stop within three days unless protection was j given the shopmen working on j vital repairs to rolling stock. Possible use of federal troops to j protect railroad employees remain- I ing on their jobs were viewed in union circles as tending to ag gravate the situation. This view j was expressed by J. P. Xooman, president of the International,' Brotherhood of Electrical Work-1 ers. who charged that mail trains j were being withdrawn deliberate- ? ly by the railroads to force govern- I ment action. President Gompers: of the American Federation of ; Labor, .afco declared there was no j justification for use of troops, par- j ticularly. unless and until request- j ed by the state authorities. Decision, on whether federal j troops would be semi to preserve j order at Dennison apparently was j being withheld at the war depart- j ment until the inspector general of j the Eighth corps area, ordered to the scene today, had reported on j the situation at t%t railroad cen- J ter. Early in the day a.report from! the receiver to Secretary Weeks is j unde2-stood to have indicated that j Governor Neff of Texas intended to j take no action. The message from the receiver was not made public but was said by Secretary Weeks I to have confirmed his previous re- ? port on interruptions to traffic due ; to acts of violence by strikers or \ strike sympathizers. Life Sentence For Zimmerman ? York. July 14?A n?w trial was' refused Albert Zimmerman, con-! victed last night of the murder of Pink Hoggins and Zimmerman at; 3:.'59 this afternoon was sentenced; to spend the rest of his natural : life at hard labor in the state pen- j Itentiary. Zimmerman was unmoV- ' ed by the sentence, stating when asked by Judge McGowan if he hda anything to say why sentence j should not be pronounced, '"nothing' further than what my counsel has already said.1' Tie was carried back j to .ia.il after the sentence to pre".' pare to go to the penitentiary. SEABOARD TRAIN WRECKED Savannah. July IT.?Several pas-; sengers were injured, and a ne-! gro dining car cook was killed when five coaches of the Seaboard : Air Line passenger train N??. :>| turned turtle this morning nearj Cox. Ga. The |rain is >=:<id to have ! struck a broken rail. Be careful where you put your confidence and you won't lose it. When the boss gets back from \ his vacation he finds even-one rest THE TRUE SOU1 PRESIDENT'S PLAN REFUSED BY THE MINERS Harding Mentions the Responsibility They Have Assumed in Strike Problem Washington, July 15.?Coal mine workers whose walkout in the an thracite region and strike in the unionized bituminous fields has crippled the nation's coal produc tion since April 1. flatly refused today, through the officers and committeemen of their .union, to submit their grievances to arbi tration under terms suggested by President Harding. They notified the president of their determina tion, received a response mention ing the responsibility they had as sumed, and adjourned the session of their central controlling com mittee, holding its members in the city, however, until Monday. Only a White House statement to the effect that nothing would be done until Monday when the bi tuminous employers are expected to respond to the same arbitration proposal, was available to indicate the government's future policy. An thracite operators have formally accepted the president's plan, but bituminous employers are known to be divided. It was intimated tonight that at least one section of them would, in addition to ac cepting conditionally the arbitra tion proposals,- tender their mines to the government for operation, control or other disposition. Today's proceedings of the pol icy committee of the United Mine Workers of America with 150 odd union spokesmen attending, went forward like clockwork on the plan laid down by John Lewis, president of the union, and other national officers, recounting the history of his negotiations with the govern ment and the employers, express ing his dissatisfaction with the terms of the arbitration offer, Mr. Lewis in executive session offered a lengthy letter of refusal of the arbitration and moved its adoption. r>elegrate after, delegate behind the closed doors of the executive session gave his views, and James L. Lord, vice president of' the American Federation of Labor in charge of the central union body, sat with them. The vote in the end for the adoption of the letter was unanimous. A committee then took the let ter to the White House and saw the president briefly. The scale committee of the union for the anthracite meeting at an earlier meeting refused for them selves to accept the arbitration of fer, but joined with' the main pol icy committee deliberations. "For substantial reasons the representatives of the United Mine | Workers are compelled to withhold j their acceptance of the arbitra-1 tion proposals submitted by you," } the letter to the president said.} _ . _ The mine workers desire to point out that the coal opera tors who have been in attendance at the recent conferences assem bled by you. and to whom you have submitted, the plan for-arbi tration of the coal strike, are only partially representative of the pro ducing interests affected by the present suspension of mining. Op erators representing nearly 50 per cent of the tonnage in strike fields whose production is stopped have not been in attendance, and we have no information that the proposed plan of arbitration has been submitted to them by any governmental agency. "And we are further advised that these interests have no inten tion of coming within the purview I of the provisions of your plan of} adjustment. Under such cireum- j stances it is futile to believe any j general settlement can be made _ _ . Even the acceptance of the plan by the mine workers would bring about only a partial settle ment." This was the crux of the unions to the arbitration. SCHEDULE OF CAMPAIGN Columbia. July 13.?The revised schedule of meetings for the candi dates for Congress for the Seventh district is as follows: July 15, Saturday. 10 a. m.. Orangeburg: July 19. Wednesday. S p. m.. Branchville; July 20. Thursday, 10 a. m., Elloree: Juiy 20, Thursday, j 8 p. m.. St. Matthews: July 21, j Fridav $ p. m., Eastover; July 22, ; Saturday. 8 p. m.. Blythewood: July 24. Monday. 8 p. m.. Spring field: July 25. Tuesday. S p. m.. North: July 27. Thursday. S p. m., Bishopville; July 2S. Friday. S p. m.. Sumter: July 31. Monday, S p. m.. Lexington. The only two meetings for j Kichland county fixed * yet are j Eastover, the 21st. and Blythe- ? wood, the 22d. at night. Taken From Their Home and Whipped - Atlanta, Julv 17.?E. L. Ramsev i and son. R. It.. boilermaker at j 'hi- Nashville. Chattanooga and St. j Louis shops here were taken home and whipped early today. Wouldn't it be great if the con sumers could work at it only eight hours a day? rHROX, Established Jane 1, 18??. VOL.LIL NO. 45 MINERS WILL NOT AGREE TO ARBITRATION Leaders Decide to Re ject Proposal of iSete tlement Made ,b y President Harding:: ~~~~? -1? Washington. July 14.?A practi cal certainty existed tonight that the United Mine Workers of Amer ica will refuse President Harding's offer of arbitraiton to settle" the. coal strike, both bituminous "and anthracite. John L. Lewis, presi dent of the union, William Green*, secretary-treasurer, and Philip Murray, vice president, left a Shal conference at the White House with President Harding and Secretary Davis late today determined; it was understood, to recommend a refusal of the government's offer to the union policy committee, which will meet here tomorrow. The expected refusal, it was said? will apply to the anthracite mines as well as the bituminous, although employers in the anthracite region have accepted the president's offer practically without condition. The union viewpoint is that the an thracite fields, with their potential production of 2,000,000 tons of eoa? a week, should not resume work', because this coal supply, alorsg with non-union production of bituminous, would lessen x public pressure* for a strike settlement! "The only light cast upon -the government's possible lurthe/f course was a White House decla-?" ration today that President Hard ing felt no doubt he had pc^er to. operate the mines in an emergency. The president mght run the risjc of impeachmet in taking such * a course, it was indicated, but he was said not to fear such a possibility under existing conditions. The union officials who have TeL mained in- Washington since the break up of the general coal cotl ference have <made, their position plain to officials, in demanding first of all that arbitration _as .cf fered be made to apply, to the semi mionized fields of West Virginia, md Pennsylvania, where product, ion has be*sn only partly crippJod ' since. the . strike. . They hsrV.e fur ther .asked For its application of th?". "ashington state and - in Mtngo county, West Virginia. Indianapolis, July 14.?Bitumin ous coal operators have not yet formed their reply to President Harding's proposal, but, acxjordinsr to A. M. Ogie, president of the* National Coal association, and chairman of. the* bituminous coal operators' committee, it should be accepted if it leads to a "reduc tion in wages in the coal industry and a correspondingly lower price for coal." Columbus, Ohio, July 14.-^-Gov;. Davis late today ordered a 'bat talion of infantry, one machine gun company and two motor truck companies of the Ohio National Guard mobilized immediately for possible use; in connection with disorders arising from coal and railroad strikes. >augherty Tells M?rshals "Go as Far as Necessary** New York. July 15.?First re ports of sabotage on railroads in the New York district today caused federal authorities to deputize 20$ guards for the mails and prepar? to arm a thousand others. . United States marshals in New York and Northern New Jersey were authorized by Attorney Geja? eral Daugherty to "go as far*as necessary" in keeping interstate traffic moving. Reports of- at tempts to damage locomotives on the Lackawanna. and instances where freight trains were held up by slashed brake connection^ spurred government officials to re cruit deputies for strategic points on all of the eleven main carrying lines entering the city. Fifty deputies were sent to Jer sey City, where Brie road execu tives demandded protection on the plea that Mayor Hague was "in terfering" with attempts to guard railroad property with private po lice. Fifteen men were placed in the yards of the Lackawanna. twenty five were distributed in the imme diate vicinity of the city and over 100 at outlying "key" points. Tonight the situation was reports ed well in hand, but executives of? the roads most seriously threat ened by the strike urged United States marshals to have deputies oh hand for any emergency. A steady stream of deputies passed through the examination rooms at the federal building here. Each man accepted was put in uni form and armed. Instructions, be fore they entrained to go on duty, were: Remember you are not sup posed to protect railroad property all along the lines. Your job is to see that United States mail sad interstate trains are not interfered with. Sometimes it looks as if beer and light wines were near: but distance on water is deceiving. Back in 1890, nearly all boys wished to be pirates: but they seem reasonably content as mere hold-up. men.