a > WILSON GALLS HALT ON B. R. STRIKE WHI Treat With Shopmen If Strike is Called Off THE SITUATION IS CLARIFIED Effect Of Executive Decision, It Is Believed, Will Be To Put A Sud den End To Transportation Disturbances. ‘Washington.—President Wilson no tified Director General Hines that he was authorized to take up the de- mands of railroad shop employes for higher wages and decide them on their merits. Strikers Chief Obstacle. The President said that the letter sent him by Senator Cummins, chair man of the Committee on Interstate Commerce, had “set me free to deal as I think best with the difficult ques. tion of wages of certain classes of railroad employes,” but added: “The chief obstacle to a decision has been created by the men them: selves. They have gone out on a strike and repudiated the authority of their officers at the very mcment when they were urging action in regard tc their interests.” The President's decision was an- nounced from the White House in the form of a letter sent by him to Mr. Hines. The President said that “until the employes return to work and again recognize the authority of their organization the whole matter must be at a standstill.” The President's Letter, The President's letter follows: “My Dear Mr. Director General: “1 am just in receipt of the letter from Senator Albert B. Cummins, | chairman of the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce, which set me | free to deal as I think with the dif. | cult question of the wages of certain | classes of railway employes, and 1 take advantage of the occasion to| write you this letter, in order that 1) may, both in the public interest and | in the interests of the railroad em- ployes themselves, make the present situation as clear and definite as pos sible. “I thought it my duty to lay the question in its present pressing form before the committee of the Senate, because I thought 1 should not act upon this matter within the brief in-! terval of Government control remain- ing without their acquiescence and! approval. Senator Cumming letter, | which speaks the unanimous judgment | of the committee, leaves me free and | indeed imposes upon me the duty to! act. “The question of the wages of rail: road shopmen was submitted, you will remember, to the Board of Railroad Wages and Working Conditions of the Railroad Administration last Febru | ary, but was not reported upon by the board until July 18. The delay was unavoidable because the board was! continuously engaged in dealing with several wage matters affecting classes of employes who had not previously | received consideration. The board not | having apprised us of its inability, at | any rate for the time being, to agree upon recommendation, it is clearly our duty to proceed with the matter in| the hope of disposing of it. To Deal With Union. “You are therefors authorized to say | to the railroad shop employes that the | question of wages they have raised will be taken up and considered on its | merits by the Director General in con ference with their duly accredited representatives. 1 hopé that you will make it clear to the men concerned that the Railroad Administration can- not deal with problems of this sort, or with any problems affecting the men, except through the duly chosen inter. national officers of the regularly con- stituted organization and their au thorized committees. “Matters of so various a nature and affecting so many men cannot be dealt with except in this way. Any action which brings the authority of the au thorized representatives of the organ: ization into question or discredits it, must interfere with, if not prevent, action altogether. The chief obstacle ‘to a decigion has been created by the men themselves. They have gone out on strike and repudiated the authority of their officers at the very moment when they were urging action in re gard to various interests. “You will remember that a confer. ence between yourself and the author ized representatives of the men was arranged at the instance of these rep resentatives for July 28 to discuss the wage question and the question of a national agreement, but before this conference took place, or could take place, local bodies of railway shop men took action looking toward a strike on August 1. As a result of this action, various strikes actually conclusive way with respect to the wages. In the presence of these strikes and the repudiation of the authority of the representatives of the organization concerned, there can J pe lid Cro —. [aT Ce To] vy be no consideration of the matter in controversy. Until the employes re turn to work and again recognize the authority of their own organization, the whole matter must be at a stand still. Government Will Be Fair. “When Federal control of the rail roads began the Railroad Administra tion accepted existing agreements be tween the shopmen's organizations and the several railroad companies, and by agreement machinery was cre ated for handling the grievances of the shopmen’s organization of all the railways, whether they had heretofore had the benefits of definite agree ments or not. There can be no ques tion, therefore, of the readiness of the Government to deal in a spirit of any matters the their attention. “Concerned and very careful consid. men may bring to the high cost of living. 1 need hardly point out how intimately and directly this matter affects every in dividual in the nation, and if trans portation is interrupted it will be im possible to solve it. This is a time when every employe of the railways should help to make the process of transportation more easy and nomical, rather than less, and eco em: living. They should promptly re upon their representatives the | immediate necessity of their doing 60. ! Cordially and sincerely yours. “WOODROW WILSON" Hines Notifies Unions. i Director General Hines notified the unions immediately that the Raliroad | Administration was ready to take up! the question "as soon as the employes | return to work” : | i { 2 U.S. FLAG TO STAY ON FORT. Pershing Recommends Policy In Re! gard To Ehrenbreitstein, Coblenz. ~The American flag will continue to fly from the fortress of | Ehrenbreitstein so long as United States troops hold a poaition here in the occupied area, according to in| formation from Paris received here by the interallied Rhineland commission, General Pershing, it Is understood, rec ommended that the Stars and the Stripes be kept on thé fortress, which has been an American garrison since | last December. He also recommended | that Coblenz be made American head | quarters. A decision by the supreme | council 88 to the area to be occupied | by the Eighth Infantry and other units | you HAD PET! TAKE CARE OF YOUR THISTLES THE SEED 1S A WORLD LABO BODY ORGANIZED Ground Laid for Reforms in Social Questions NO PRACTICAL RESULTS YET Entire Governing Board Changes, Ger mans And Austrians Disappear ing From The List Of Officers. Amsterdam.— The International La bor Congress, at which a pew interns | tional federation was formed, came to | an end shortly before 10 o'clock Tues day night, with many speeches from | the representatives of the various pa- | tions. From the speeches it could be | gathered thet even after four years of wir, workingmen could meet to con sider their welfare without more than | an occasional exchange of sharp | words. ! It cannot be sald that s great amount of practical work was asccom- | plished at the first meeting, but ground | for the future which | promises to prove fruitful in reforms | of social questions upon which the | of Was iaid all nations are urging ac tion, The last hours of the congress were | gpent in discussing a number of portant resolutions with regard the League of Nations, the socializa tion of the im fe national resources and were accepted by the con Only the American delegates agninst the resolutions, while the British were absent, owing to the | ) steamer. Samuel GCompers, president | of the American Federation of Labor, | explained that the Americans agreed | almost entirely with the spirit of all | the resolutions, but that, owing to! their mandate, they could not vote for them. : The entire governing body has! changed since the last international. | the Germans and Austrians at pres | ent taking no part either in the presi | dency, vice-presidency, treasury or | secretariat. Many of the members he pressed sorrow at the disappearance | of Carl Legien, the most prominent | SO mania PALMER OPENS FIGHT ON PACKERS I c—co— Antitrust Suits to Be Brought Against “Big Five” THE CAMPAIGN ON HIGH COST Justice Agents After Hoarders—Pres dent Appears Before Joint Session Of Con- gress. Washington. ~ Anti-trust suits against the great meat-packing firms were anpounced by Attorney-General Palmer as the first concrete develop ment of the to reduce the high cost Armour, Swift, Morris, Cudahy, who been the of Trade and Government's of living. Wilson have pictured investigations the Commission before bination in eral Courts by special proseculors, eral Palmer declared, clear violation of the antitrust Whether the laws.’ prosecution would ¥y the law provided for both, not show a single individual ever serv. ing a jail There are ment hopes for some io the present campaign. Mr. Paimer's announcement follows “The Department of Justice sentence for a violation. the investigation combination of packers, bo Federal Trade Commission the the th bs Congress. This review has been made by lawyers specially for purpose and now hand I am the dence adduced retained their report is satisfied that indicates a clear viola- the action will be taken accordingly. Fur. ther proceedings, while under the Im mediate direction of the Department of Justice, will be in charge of Isidor J. Krasel, of the law firm of Jerome Rand and Kresel of New York, who be given such assistance as the warrant.” he was announcing prosecn- the packers, Altoraey-General wae unleashing his on a country-wide S51 will While tions o special trail the come under control law them under Federal law. “This is the most important ness before the country today” busi of the Government track everything to this job” WASHINGTON | William A. Wimbish, of Atlanta, Ga., special counsel for the Southern Traffic league, told the House Interstate Commerce Committee it should sit tight and proceed with investigation of the railroad problem just as if organ. ARMY RETURNS TRANSPORTS. | 2912000 Tons Given Over To The Shipping Board. Washington.—Return by the army 2,912,000 tons of shipping was an nounced by the War Department. In. cluded in 1,176,000 tons retained by the Department on August 1 was 230. 000 tons of cargo vessels, The fastest transports remaining In the army service have been ordered to make westbound trips without full ca- pacity as a means of hastening the return of “first-class personnel.” The order was made possible by the de creasing number of troops available for embarkation on the other side of the Atlantic. niin. GETS 46 VESSELS IN WEEK. Shipping Board Fleet Augmented By 163,355 Tons. Washington.—¥Forty-six vessels, ag gregating 163,355 gross tons were de livered to the Shipping Board during the week ending August 1, it was an- nounced. This brought the total num- ber of vessels delivered to 1,182, rep: resenting more than 4.342.000 gross tons. Of the 48 vessels, 25 were steel construction, aggregating 119. 8556 gross tons: 18 were wooden craft, aggregating 41.6867 gross tons, aud three were of the composite type. Australian manufacturers are mak- ing pressed steel water pipe 28 feet long by 20 inches internal diameter «t a plant in Bombay, pacity. Several delegation leaders spoke of their hopes for the future, Mr. Gom- pers saying that the Americans would do all in their power to further leg. islation for improvement of the con: dition of the workers of all countries. Herr Legien told the correspondent that he thought the international move. ment would prove successful and that the workers of all countries would act together. He was totally against any idea of a war revenge, he said, as were all the German workers, For Socialization, In one resolution the congress de clared: “The economic disorganization ac centuated by the war was caused by the impotence of capitalism to reor- ganize production in such a way as to insure the well-being of the masses. The congress declares it imperative that the efforts and activities of the working classes of all countries should be directed toward obtaining complete trade union organization as a necessary basis for realization of the socialization of means of produc tion.” The burean of the International Trades’ Union Federation was in structed to obtain information on the result of socialization and to report to the national centers, the report to be accompanied by afdavits, The resolution further states: “Even when the means of produc tion are socialized, it is only by nor mal production, scientifically and con tinually developed, that general and individual well-being ean be obtai and guaranteed for all everywhere. Demands of 410,000 rallway em. ployes that their wages be increased unless something was done to mate rially reduce the cost of living were considered at a conference between Director’ General Hines and J. J. Rorester. A resolution directing the President “to employ means directly within his power” to relieve the people from the high cost of living, was introduced by Representative Riddick, Republican, Montana, The Senate today confirmed the nomination of John Barton Payne, of Tlinois, and Henry M. Robinson, of California, to be members of the Unit ed States Shipping Board. Commissioner Roper ordered tha! drug addicts may obtain narcotics op prescription by reputable physicians. Modification of the War Risk In surance Aot were proposed In a bill introduced by Representgtive Sweet Republican, of lowa. 7.CENT FARE CAUSES RIOT, Mob Burns Two Cars And Overturns Others—8everal Murt, Muskegon, Mich All street ost traflic is suspended here as the resul! of disorders following refusal of pas sengers {0 pay a Tcent fare. A mob of eeveral hundred persons attacked street cars during the night, burning two of them and tipping over a score of others. Several rioters wore in jured when the police, traction em ployes and special deputies disperser PENNSYLVANIA {| BRIEFS A weasel killed thirteen hens, val ued at $10 each belonging to John Musselman, an East Allentown farme er, and was, in turn slain by the own- The county com. the wensel's At auction the well-known distil jery at Indian Head , Connellsville, owned by Bill Pritts, was sold to his son, James Pritts, for the sum of $505.50. It will be scrapped for the | copper, Petitions liberally signed are pour. ing In from every section of Mifflin county requesting the county comimnis- siopers to provide a rest room and comfort station In the basement of the court house in Lewistown for the use of the country people who come to town. Since the court put the county dry eleven years it has been a growing question as {to this issue was ta be taken care A general outline of the events the home demonstration returned service men of which will on has been commitiee “go, how of. of for Franklin in Sep the welcome take Labor adopted for the place any, ’ by celebra tember 1, executive of entertainment for men and women will the finante commit- securing voluntary for the The borough of Port Carbon, which y fail da ion A full day the be provided, £X-Bervice fn 1 ana tee is now at work contributions OCCasion, ¢ number of sOlQIErs ¥ Iwiagts of a larger furnished the government than other town of the slate has set upon an same size in the August 15 as the date which it will DOYS A home its comm welcome sporting flee App of hus sinted has prepar- ong Port asked all pari which heen prizes to is ed a authorities BE Yingst is president P. Mclaughlin, John 3 Oren, Carbon peiguborin towns “roti ry BOCTEIATY, O backfired bingt FURY resis quack being no She was ur for trial ROPDers h wed rested and is how under $500 bail = are gelling sone » the United from the district of those w Men in the “ =e " = ia per oen Panther ho sell Creek ing plan, as give ample time favor pes the dayl them for iT. jown mie cuitivation of their gardens, cia cut i this will help to mt +4 ; « high cost of living purposes for fund was created which host no jon the money will arial men of Same in erecting a suitable men n honor of t mit Hill Eighteen received by he service been which Fritz street, members have woman's cl old John Market new the ub, has purchased the homestead tethiehem, a8 a8 home for the E30,0060 he club has to $30.500 toward the £50,000 Park fund For giving short weight in ice, Rob ert Wirth, of Bethlehem, was obliged to pay a fine of 85 and costs to Al derman Reuter. The charge was brought by Clty Sealer of Weights and Measures Erwin Seifert Fallure to use grease on a pulley connecting with a threshing outfit at work threshing rye on the farm of WwW. G. Long, near Chambershurg, Is said to have been the cause of a fire which destroyed a large siraw stack and damaged the threshing rig and sixty bags of rye just threshed. The pulley during the work became heat- ed from friction and ignited the siraw stack causing a big biage, George Kadasik, nineteen, and Frank Riskowski, thirty-five, of Wil kes-Barre, were perhaps fatally fa- tally burned by an explosion of gas | in the long drift of the West End | Coal company, at Mocanaqua. Ka- | dasik worked as a driver boy and | Riskowski as a miner, { A fire entailing a $7000 loss occur red on the farm of Milton King, of | Zions Vigw, when sparks from a steam engine, which was used im | threshing grain, are supposed to have | set fire to the barn. Three horses were lost in the flames, along with | on East club date, the grain and hay of the season, Struck by a swinging door of the | barn on his father's farm at Marys ville, Hoke, six-year-old son of Hoke | Sharp, of Klein, was Instantly killed, | The lad was standing In the doorway | of the barn when the door swung | shut during a heavy windstorm, | crushing his skull, Davison R. Clark, of Freemansburg, | shot a gray fox on South Mountain, It weighed twenty-sle pounds, The property of the Home Brewing | company, at Welssport, was sold to | "Raquire Austin Boyer, of Weissport, | for $5500, and will, very likely, be | converted Into a factory. { In an order just handed down by | Judge J. C. Work, the clalm of the Mrs, Francis Gillespie, wife of an Allentown raliroad section hand, has become heiress to the bulk of a £190, estate left by her father, Peter commissioners ask- bridge over Wed Chester county ed for bids for a Clay creek, near Kennett Square, but an offer for the work was made when bids were to have bees opened, Edward Osborne, a discharged sol- dier, and Catharine Hickman, of Bal- timore, locked up as veterans at West Chester walking Oklahoma, gnid, falled their at habeas corpus proceedings, and must serve thirty days in fall Roads throughout Bucks county are in bad condition, roads having been badly washed, and dirt roads be ing extremely soft sink holes A shows while to they lib erty 10 secure stone and full of survey by County Garber that ET Agent more than 100 tractors in 3 {Official warning of are in erks county was issued by the Connelisvilie and sur dogs would be Killed, constables round found on It was reported that fifteen dogs were ngs that in the future the streels found on one square of a Ber tion of th i : ne city sunning nen Ver Een The orders for a eral sisughter {ol lowed Clearfiel authorities are i- efforts i for- io Bpeake BRIeR ie, of DuBois, harged with county busy on the job to wipe out the legal booze business and their have brought to Justi eigners who A man wis the laatest ind were rig named selling Intoxicnt! For the years g Susquehnn teports the effort ing made ing mane COMInE daily bin ws One 1 16 Inches hass being | s 1a - “ 3 i oo he largest taken in aid 870 for supper at he iadies promoted auditor to sur i C. Dewey, of Clearfield count long Bar Ny resigned after Plans be returned soldiers at the welcome New for Rervice fs od are 1508 home August will rossted, being fireless.conker system Chicago for bag osonkiderahle made to. Lastle on the alreads reception at The the 10 he! harbecue reach city prepared by a while enroute from Westmoreland county the first time In many years bouckwhent, acreage and prospects p are very good It Hon by farmers for the or is oR acres of buck- the this timated that fully wheat were Westmore. land For the last twenty-five years Indiana and Romerse! have “buckwheat™ counties of western Pennsylvania A. Segal, a Palmerton merchant, was arrested on oath of R J. Hone gen, Carbon county sealer of weights and measures, charged with short weight and fined £10 by Squire Segal sold 25% pounds of onions for thirty pounds, charging the latter weight. Palmerion holds the record for short weights and meas. ures. A total of twenty-five merchants have heen arrested for this offense In Palmerton alone, az aganst eighteen throughout the county. President Lucas, of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ association of Columbia, has named Edward Bittner and William I. Bucher as delegates to a chamber of commerce meeting at Lancaster to protest against the re- moval of the ninth Internal revenue office to Philadelphia, where it is to be merged with the first district The position of borough school nurse, recently created by the local sown county Year heen the was Mooney Miss Nettie Gable, former superin. tendent of the Chambersburg hospi. tal, who was elected by the school board at a recent meeting. Wild deer are again appearing In near to settled sections in search of food. Recently an especially large F. D. Jefiries in Oliver township by J. Clayton Hixon, Amaranth, has associate judge in Fulton county and J. A. Barclay, Sinnemsahoning, to be candidate in Canvien county, Allentown ¢ity council has decided to sell all the fire department's horse drawn apparatus and to parchase mo. tor equipment, costing nearly £150, 000 - Resigning the secretaryship of the to school teaching. After a three months’ strike, nine ers at the Keystone mine, Hilldale, have reached an agreement and will return to work. Canvass of the Lehigh district shows a large majority of the farmers tnheritance tax of the coal Jands of | Thirteen of every fourteen aliens McShane, is given $81,08025 Mrs McShane was the chief beneficiary. | \ hom have salled, intending to ¥
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