TRUGE IN THE
BiG STEEL STRIKE
Gompers Proposes Conference
Name Arbitration Board
Workers To Return Pending Decision
~-Public Group Calls For Three.
Month Truce Between Labor
And Employers.
Washington.—Samuel Gompers, vet
eran labor leader, by an adroit
|
responsibility for the further prosecu
ix members be selected by the confer
ence to arbitrate the
tween the steel workers
ployers.
Mr. Gompers
must be regarded
program worked out by
bor for the improvement of
relations generally,
line approving
“nationalization” of
{sm or any other ultra-radical doctrine
An immediate industrial truce,
continue for thre¢ months, and
creation of a general arbitration
by the President and by Congress were
proposals submitted for the considera
tion of the I
group
The pla ir labor adjustment
pre
flson
differences be
and their em
also presented what
as a conservative
There is not a
or approaching
industry,
in it
soviet
to
the
conference by the ubH
means ol r ration was
Secretary of Labor W
ared by
and was
Franci
as the Admini
prevailing tro
country,
A A.
ing
providing
that
mediatel
pending
to a st
to exist between
employe
The proposal
the steel strike be
the steel workers return to their
immediat Was
development of
idea of arbitr
new
§CO, ly regarded
SURgestion for
hroughout the
Landon, of Buffalo
drafted the
t a truce be declared and
represent
the publ! resolution
the Tipe
th quo
both
andard of
ely
atior
Organized
from the b
but the
ing for ti
Righ
bargain colle
day of rest in
half -holiday on Saturday
and overtime disconraged
Payment of a living wag
Women to receive the same pay as
men for equal work
Prohibition of labor for
der 16 years of age
“To secure a greater share of con
sideration and the
workers in all the
chilgaren
co-operation
matters
to
affecting
board was
the
a national conference pro
posed to provide systematic
review of industrial relations and con-
ditions, the board consist of an
equal number of representatives of
employers and workers, having due re.
gard to the various sections of indus:
try and classes of workmen. Forma-
tion of these boards would he en:
couraged by the Department of Labor.
Prohibition of all immigration for at
least two years after the declaration
of peace and at such time thereafter
as there may be an abnormal condi
tion of unemployment. At no time
would immigration be permitted to ex.
ceed the nation’s ability to American.
ize the incoming foreigners,
for
to
Import from Germany in July
amounted to $201,166, and for the
soven months ending with July, 1919,
$983,923.
A AS So
REE KILLED I
NRPUANE RACE
Sixty-two Machines Start in
Aerial Trail
Sergeants Virgil! Thomas And Nevitt
Die From
Brandt Not Seriously
Hurt.
Injuries—Colonel
tenant D. |
1
were compelled to w
the race when their plane
flames and
Canadice, N. Y
The only
bu
was forced to land
accident on the local field
about noon when a
piloted by Captain Maurice Cleary, of
Everett, Wash, and carrying Be nédict
first assistant secretary
48 a passenger, crashed to
ground from a height of
overturned. The
while the machine
off and
left
the
100 feet and
accident happened
was trying to take
than a minute after it
ground Neither
jess
the Capt
of
the
the right wing
emashed and
commission,
the machine
plane put out of
SAYS BANKS MUST ADVERTISE.
Enhances Friendly Feeling, Conven-
tion Delegate Holds.
New Orleans. ~Value of newspaper
advertising for banks was stressed by
Raleigh Roses, of Minneapolis, former
advertising head of the Northern Trust
Company of Chicago, in an address
before the seventeenth annual conven.
tion here of the American Institute
of Banking.
“Newspaper advertising,” he said,
“bas removed the feeling of awe which
hindered the banks in former times.
PEAGE TREATIES
Assent Given to
Pacts By Royal Decree
THIRD GREAT POWER TO ACT
ftaly The First Of The Powers To Act
Upon The Austrian Treaty—Will
Start The League Of Na-
tions On Its Career.
Rome. — King Viet
ratified German
real
D'italia say
article
government
He Pre
gation Roard
$42 LION WRI Ww
buy 1920 Cuban cro
th
Nose
& proposed and
lations o the
he
Years
Equalization
$5. 1]
imprisonment
would subject to fine and
twe
HUNS LIE ABOUT
YANKS,
Spread False Reports Of Mutiny At
Coblenz.
Coblenz. —QGerman newspapers have
given publicity to a false story that
American soldiers at Coblenz had mu
on wccount reduction of
At American military headquar
18 slated that the story,
which wae also sent out by the Ger
of a
pure propaganda, originating with Ger.
mans who desire to create a feeling
RAILROAD MAN DECORATED.
Head Of Commission Ta
Awarded D. 8. M.
Viadivostok Maj. Gen. William 8.
Graves, commander of American
forces in Siberia, decorated John FP.
Stevens, bead of the American Rall
way Commission to Russia, with the
Distinguished Service Medal.
Russia Is
PRESIDENT WILSON'S
PROVEMENT CONTINUES,
BUT SLOW RECOVERY
IS EXPECTED,
IM
Althoug
continues
Washington
dent Wil
his physicians indicated tha
Gh
to pr
might
expected his recovery
very slowly and that ft
af considerable
would permit him to resume work
Rear-Admiral Grayson, the Pre:
ident's personal would
make prediction when
Mr. Wilson might
desk, but sald it
it he
in attendance
President is most
the swing of affair
and it is with difficulty
that he {8 persuaded to remain
be
time before th
physician,
a8 to
return
would not he
advice of
upon him
HNXI0uUs
no
to his
yon
those
Tha
we
follows the
to t
back into
however,
confinement,
A message from President
of Urnguay today said
“1 read with
the
state
ardent wis
full
have the
Excellency
vif pre
intenss :
reports of your Exceller
Making the
for your E
of health,
hes
lency's and speedy
honor to reit
Hur
YOu the
exp
my highest ra
esteem.”
ADOPTS DRY ENFORCEMENT.
| House For Final Action.
{
men 4
pro! :
Iron!
Was ade
FOCH NOT TAKING SIDES
ns His Action In Lithuan
Polish
is
Dispute,
— “-
I WOULD PAY GOBS $50 A MONTH
Admirals Wilson And Washington Also
Urge Raise For Officers
i i plise v i
| son said "We are
nd it is not a quest!
of labor
j organization and few of us
TELEGRAPH TICKS.
Lovwis H. Palmer, tant he
president of the United Rallways and
Electric Company of Baltimore, de
clared in an address in Atlantic City
that private automobiles are making
destructive inroads into the receipts of
street railways. This is competition
that the Railways cannot combat, he
said.
anais
Value of newspaper advertising for
banks was.stressed by Raleigh Ross,
of Minneapolis, in an address before
the seventeenth annual convention of
the American Institute of Banking.
The Episcopal bishops will send out
a pastoral letteg bringing sharply to
the attention of the membership of
the church the social and industrial
problems and afterthe-war unrest.
Formal acceptance of the United
States Navy Radio Communication
Service for American export commerce
was made by commercial interests of
the country.
Eight hundred shopmen of the
Southern Pacific Company at Tucson,
Ariz, went on strike.
PENNSYLVANIA
STATE ITEMS
Norristown For
tent of
George 1 C. Dudwick
to answer In criminal court. It Is
claimed that Ludwick, who was em
ployed as a driver for Adam Scheidt
irewlng company,
fuilure to
which they
Allentown
termaster corps of
alleged embezzie-
thousand
Was sent
several
dolinrs,
1 5 i
to Jail
robbed holelmen bs
beer ordered for
the company.
Members
deliver
paid
of the
Camp (
section
here,
organization
qual
Fane, wio
the coun
effected
and ele
Judson I
president,
Chester, N
came from of
try, held a
peripanent
these
every
reunion
officers: President,
Clayton, hiladelphia ; vice
Port
Matthew
m of $10,008 fron
the
URe
depurime
in
of, man)
show
$25.00 more i he receipts dur
any previous year, and $60 m
ntown
of a
hatzte
walked out of
returned
$125 fur neckpicce
Beth Alderman
collected fines and
£137.50 from five gamblers in
section, arrested
"ulcher,
the agent
chem
Mark Devlin
- 4
CORIS amounting to
the for
eignery’ singie-hand
ed by Officer
Lewistown. John Betleyon, a far
mer residing 'n the ast end of Fergu
son valley, is cutting his second
of timothy hay this season and will
have about forty tons
Franklin Nicholas E. Musgrave,
rwenty-three, was instantly killed
being hit by a train on the James
town, Clarion and Franklin railroad
He was employed as lineman and
walked in front of the train under the
impression he was stepping to a side
track.
Greensburg. Thomas W. Irwin, »
retired merchant, was found dead iu
bed at his home here,
Harrisburg. —The board of pardons
«ill meet on October 15,
Altoona. «Awarded an extensive
road Improvement contract by the
Brazilian government, Edwin H. Brau,
a Hollldaysburg contractor, will leave
on his H000-mile journey to Rio Jane!
ro soon to begin active operations
New Cumberland. Married sixty
years, Mr, and Mrs, Henry Schaner,
of this place, observed the anniversary
with a large number of relatives and
Criends,
crop
Waynesboro, Word has been pe
celved here by Mr, and Mrs an
Bhefller of the death of their son,
Charles Sheffler, from The
Hews was communicated by the wa
department at Wash but did not
wlute The
WES
then
i
BINalipox.,
ngion
where his death occurred,
last his parents heard
months
the 1
He had
ice fourteen montl
from im
eight
HE, Bnd
#0 Blales
he was
€
ik 9
OVYEISE as serve
wit)
wiih forces
beria been
Greensburg "# Foster
er, while cannip
Ligonier was
quantity
ing caught
prepare {or i red
Mench-
Home in
when a
in
was helping to
a1 her
burned
of which she was
she
» ff +} « £4
eption of the young
soldiers éertaining her
Charles
for
and in en
bands oousin
T. Mencher,
ihe ceiebr
ra
Major Genera
was in L
Bhe Is su
eniaren,
w iso gonler
1:07 r
g "
i six
Uniontown. At the annual
Fayette County Red ¢
eq
i
ner
nushian
FFOWET rop is
Pennsyivar
hop herevfor
CAS,
8¢ hoo
940 in
Potistowt
road will
y fred hit
Connells
aie ith
apen ’
:
ent is
chool.
Lititz
at
elered
The Moravian Min
ion of Pennsylvania,
Rev, C. A. Weber,
president, and Rey
Reading,
Kiprw
R80 meeting
LEE
Andrew
of
reassure:
Lancaster.-8ix aliens whe fough!
through the war under the American
flag were granted citizenship papers
Quakertown. Many Polish and
Slavish farmers are purchasing upper
Backs county farms Mans
farms are old homesteads,
going Influx is most evident
field township
Reading —Six'ein young men
the clvil service examination here fa
w policemen and two for positions a.
Irafismen,
Arcola<By the collapse of an jen
house floor, where she had taken shel
er from a storm while out horsohack
ding, Miss Litlian Plush, near here
fell fifteen feet, but escaped serious
‘njories, while it took mere than an
hour to rescue the horse
Birdsboro~ Falling fifteen feet from
1 second-story window, a twelveyear
id daughter of Henry Messner, of
his place, escaped with only slight
henises
sécreiary and
of these
ne fore
n Spring
fonk
od
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