I .J I I 1111 111111 HI 111 111 ZZZ. /'" /- - bkMMMMMfeiJ I ££=: ZXZ FuH D»lail« j s Scheduled To Begin Friday (Next) At 8 O'clock And Complete Details $75,000 Worth of Seasonable Merchandise at Far Less Than Wholesale Prices THE SURPLUS STOCKS OF NEW YORK AMD PHILADELPHIA'S REST MAKERS ENTER THIS SALE wm- Our Ready Cash Was An Important Factor In Securing For You And For Us The Biggest Values Any Store Has Ever Attempted To Place On Sale Over and over, and again and again, you've been told how hard it has been to get desirable merchandise and the scarcity of Dye Stuffs and Raw Materials. Yet in spite of these very facts both Our Biggest and Smallest Manufacturers have been kept extremely busy, working to their utmost capacity to supply the unusual demand. Bigger demand of course meant bigger manufacturing and the bigger the manufacturing the bigger the chance of some factory overproducing. Again, weather conditions played an important part in big business this season—some Retail Sections having had con siderable unseasonable weather with the result that many a manufacturer had his orders cancelled. Our Entire Corps of Buyers have been on the lookout for just these very conditions and have succeeded in securing for you and us a Total of Over $75,000 Worth of This Season's Most Dependable Merchandise. This Entire Purchase Enters Our Big May Sale Beginning Friday Next, May sth. The Savings Have Been Big For Us and Will Be Still Greater For You. Every Section in the store will be well represented by Extraordinary Offerings. Buy Your Summer Needs Now and Buy at a Big Saving. Don't Miss the Opening Days ef TjJO I 'lit '1 Qa Suri To Attond Tho Opening This Sale, Friday and Sat- I A fir s a ' B °*y*> Friday and Sat urday, May 5 and 6 J I\l|M I !lIK3 EllDl IIIBJ urday, May 5 and 6 ~~ J GOVERNOR'S TROOP FIRST ON SCENE [Continued From First Page] others were taken into custody early to-day and were placed 'n ja'l. Find Note on Striker Hall was questioned especially re garding a note which was alleged to have been found In his possession and which reads: "Five killed, fourteen in jured. Phone McNamara to meet M. The corner of the note was torn off and apparently the letter E was missing after the M, the coroner said. Hall refused to tell who McNamara is. Actors Had Uniforms When the mobilization order was received at the headquarters of the Eighteenth Infantry >ate last night all the men In the building were put to work at telephones while others were sent to order automobiles and other means of taking messages to the 720 members of the regiment. Colonel C. I* Kearns called Postmaster George W. McXell and requested that a force of mail carriers be put in service to take copies of the order to men who could not be reached by telephone. The uniforms of some of the men had been loaned to members of a club which was giving an amateur theatri cal performance in a downtown the ater. The militiamen went to the theater and the show was interrupted for a short time while the members of the east could return the uniforms. Picket Had Gun A lone picket appeared at the Edgar Thomson plant In Braddock soon after 7 o'clock and taking a position just outside the Thirteenth street'entrance, where the fighting occurred yesterday, began making a speech to the few men mid women who stood around In the drizzling rain. He was arrested by deputy sheriffs and when searched in the mill was found to be armed with an automatic revolver. Three of the eleven blast furnaces were still lighted, hut the other eight had been banked and the men told not to report for duty until quiet is re stored. The rail mill also was shut down, as the unskilled laborers were still fearful of possible violence. About the Westinghouse plants in the East Pittsburgh district not a striker appeared and no picket lines were formed. Quiet was reported from other parts of Turtle Creek Val ley, where factory managers were gathering together the forces scattered yesterday by the mob and preparing to repair the damage done to their shops. Many llants Resume Encouraged by the presence of troops, a number of manufacturing plants which were closed yesterday re sumed operations to-day ami others announced their Intention of reopen ing to-night, when, It was announced, Brigadier-General A. J. ex pected to have the Eighteenth Infan try and the other units under him in ramp before nightfall. The troops will live under tents. Rioting by Rum Mad Mob Followed Disorders Starting in Morning Pittsburgh. May 3.—The situation was quiet here last night, but 2,000 citizens of the borough have been sworn In as deputies and patrolled the streets. District Attorney R. H. Jackson announced he would take steps at once for the deportation of all foreigners connected with the trouble. The riot was the climax of a day of disorder in the boroughs of Brad dock and RanWn during which mobs stormed the plants of four big sjeel companies, drove the workmen out and then partly wrecked the interior of the plants. Many of those Injured In the fight ing at the Edgar Thomson works were spirited away by the rioters and for hours after quiet had been re stored injured men continued to be brought to hospitals for treatment. "Snipers" hidden in doorways and windows near the Thirteenth street entrance tried to pick ofr deputies who were fighting to hold back the moh, and two deputies were said to have been hit. Women Attacks Wounded. Women also joined- In the mad fight to gain entry to the works and two of these were wounded. The two men killed were foreigners. Both the men who were killed and a majority of the wounded were members of the mob, but the author ities have not yet determined if they were strikers. A number of WEDNESDAY EVENING, pedestrians were also hit by stray bul lets. Hand-to-Hand Fight. The mob first attacked the office of W. J. Dixon, superintendent of trans portation at the Edgar Thomson works, and, with clubs and stones, wrecked it. Deputies, rushing to prevent the destruction of the of-, i See. were compelled to use it as a barricade, and from behind the; wreckage they poured shot after shot Into the mob, which withdrew. After stoning the plant for 45 minutes an other charge was made and, in a hand-to-hand struggle the deputies and guards were foroed back Inside the plant. Injure Jlen; Destroy Property. The frenzied mob swept through the plant, driving men from their ma chines and knocking down all whol stood In their way. Twenty or more' workmen were Injured before they were finally driven out and the mob ] turned its attention to destroying property. From the chain works the mob I moved on the Swissvale factory of \ the Pittsburgh Lamp, Brass A Glass I Company nearby, where 360 men,! women and boys were at work. Ev- j erything possible was broken after 1 the workers had been chased away. Rioter Shoots First. Shouting and hooting, the rioters] next appeared at the Thirteenth street entrance to the Edgar Thomson, Works. For a time the strikers contented themselves with a demonstration, in] which they called upon workmen in- j side the wall to come out and join' them. This continued for perhaps half an: hour, when a man rushed out from' the mob, and, pointing his revolver j toward the entrance, fired as he ran. There was no response. A few min utes later the firing from the mob became almost general. Harangued in Foreign Tongues. After the street in front of the en trance was clear, members of the mob reassembled in streets and alleys, \ while leaders harangued them in for-; eign tongues. The guards strength ened their lines and prepared to es cort such of the 6,000 or 7,000 work- i men in the mill as desired to go j home at the end of the day's work,' but the mob did not disturb them as they passed out, nor did it inter- ] fere with the night force which ap peared for work. Homestead Riots Recalled. The dark days of 1892, when the Homestead riots occurred, resulting in the loss of many lives, were re called when the disturbance took place at the gates of the Edgar Thom son Steel works, which is a part of the United States Steel Corporation. All during the day the mob had been attacking manufacturing plants in the Turtle Creek and Mononga hela valleys. This afternoon, the crisis came at the Edgar Thomson mills, where they marched to "pull the workers out." They were refused, and the guards attempted to persuade them to leave, but they began a bombardment with stones and started to scale the walls. The Rattle Ensued. The two killed were John Barko, 22 years old, of 1218 Willow Way, Braddock, who leaves a wife and two children, and Michael Havrilka, a Greek, 32 years old. Among those who were shot and may die are Frank Williams and his wife, who were watching the fight from an alley when hit. After_the conflict there was desul tory firing by guards and rioters at the Thirteenth street and Baltimore & Ohio entrances to the Edgar Thomson works where between 6,000 and 7,000 men were at work. Sheriff Richards, of Allegheny county, sent 500 deputies to the scene late in the afternoon and workers in the Edgar Thomson works were sworn in as Deputy Sheriffs and arm ed with rifles and revolvers. Most of the foreigners are unarmed ex cept with bludgeons. Had they been supplied with firearms a dreadful massacre would undoubtedly have re sulted. Sheriff Richards was notified of the situation at the Allegheny county courthouse, here and it was decided the Governor should be asked for de tachments of the National Guard, which later were sent. MACHINISTS STRIKE Bradford, Pa., May 3.—Two hun dred and fifty machinists struck to-day because their employers refused de mands for the elgfct-hour day and an Increase in wages from 37 V 4to SO cents an hour. Shops were closed and some companies announced they would discontinue machine work in their plants, GOVERNOR'S TROOP OFFICERS AND OF MILITIA CALLED TO PITTSBURGH STRIKE SCENE l\ , ijk CAPTATN GEORGE C. JACK Governor's Troop. COLONEL RICHARD COULTER Tenth Infantry. First Time Militia Has Been Caller Out For Riot Duty Since 1902 Trouble The Governor's Troop and other organizations of the National Guard were called into strike service last night for the first time since the great anthracite strike of 1902. The State Police, which has furnished all of the force needed to cope with in dustrial disturbances since that time, was engaged in strike duty at Wilkes- Governor Brumbaugh called into Barre and could not be transferred, service the Eighteenth infantry, of Pittsburgh, commanded by Col. Ed wartf 1,. Kearns, a former Harrisburg er; the Governor's Troop, of this city; Troop I, Sunbury: Sheridan Troop, Tyrone, and Troop H, Pittsburgh. Col. John P. Wood, commander of the First cavalry, will command the cavalry. Brig. Gen. A. J. 1-ogan, of Pitts burgh. commanding the second bri gade is in command with headquar ters in Pittsburgh. The Tenth infantry, commanded hy Col. Richard Coulter was ordered mobilized. Six companies were as sembled at Greensburg, not far from the scene of trouble, the others at home stations. Official Order Is in Effect Call Upon Citizens of State to Preserve Order The official order for the Guards men to go into the first strike service they have had since 1902 was issued at a late hour last night and was in effect a call upon the citizens of the | State to preserve order. During the evening Major General iStewart, Attorney General Brown and ! Public Service Commissioner YV. A. Magee. who comes from Pittsburgh and knows the situation and the coun itry, at the adjutant general's office, jjriiey kept in touvh witii i'lttaburuU HARRISBURG tfSflb TELEGRAPH IR |^yV|^KMk FIRST LIEUTENANT EDWIN A. NICODEMUS Governor's Troop. e \ Other Guard Calls 1802—-Strike at CarnfKip Steel Work*. at llomealead, Allegheny county, July 10 to July 27. In ner viee IK dayn. ISo7—Antliraelte coal atrlke at Har.leton, Luzerne county, Septem ber 11 to October 4. In service 24 day*#. 1000—Anthracite coal ntrike. Shen nndoah, Onelila, Malianoy City and Tamaqua, September 22 to October 31. In Mervlce 40 tlayw. I!H>2—Anthracite coal ntrike, Shen- July SO to November 1. In aervlce 04 andoah, Tamaqua and Olyphant, daya. 1 0III—Strike riot at Kdffar Thomp son Steel Company'* at llraddock, Allegheny County. Troopa called out Tuemday evening. May 2. v » and heard the views of a number of prominent men In the community. Finally, when it was deemed hest to issue the call the Governor was apprised of conditions and General Clement ordered the organizations in to service. The Governor's order followed in this form: "Unlawful assemblages of persons in Allegheny county have by acts of violence and disregard of law taken human life and placed the lives of citizens and property in Jeopardy. "Citizens of the Commonwealtth have been deprived of rights and privileges guaranteed them under the Constitution and laws of the State. The public peace is disturbed and dis order prevails to an extent beyond the control of the civil authorities, and such portions of the National Guard of Pennsylvania as may be necessary to enforce the laws and safe-guard life and property will be placed on duty to assist the civil authorities in restoring and maintaining peace and order. "The Sheriff of Allegheny County, the County Commissioners of Alle gheny County and the Burgesses of the municipalities affected, having advised the Governor of their inabil ity to preserve the public peace and protect life and property, and hav ing requested that he place troops on duty, and the Governor being satis fled upon investigation that tumult, riot and mob violence does exist, the Major General commanding the Di vision. National Guard of Pennsylva nia, will place on duty such portions of the Division as in his judgment may be necessary to properly assist the Sheriff of Allegheny County in restoring and maintaining peace and order. Prcserx at ion of Public Peace. "Such troops are placed on duty for the preservation of the public peace and order, not for the ascertainment or vindication of private rights or the other ordinary functions of gov ernment. "They will preserve order, arrest all persons engaging in acts of vio lence, and hold them under guard un til their release or delivery to the civil authorities will not endanger the pub lic peace, ami wiii see that ail as- | W& gl aHH SECOND LIEUTENANT G. W. H. ROBERTS Governor's Troop. COLONEI, EDWARD L. KEARNS Eighteenth Infantry. , saults and acts of violence cease at once. The public peace and good or der must and will be preserved. 11. The Major General command ing Division will report fully to these Headquarters. By order of MARTIN G. BRUMBAUGH, Governor and Commander-in-Chief. THOMAS J. STEWART, The Adjt. Gen., Chief of Staff. Secretary Baker Believes Government Should Lead Way and Pay More Money By Associated Press Washington, May 3. Secretary Baker In announcing to-day that negotiations would be undertaken with workmen of the Rock Island, Illinois, arsenal, seeking a higher wage scale, expressed his belief that the govern ment should lead the way as an em ployer and pay more than the usual wage scale. "The government," said the secre tary, "should be an industrial leader, offering the employes better wages and working conditions than private employers. I believe the government should pay a little the best wages and offer a little the best working condi tions. For two reasons it should pay slightly over the usual wage scale— to secure the pick of employes and be a model to private employers." Mr. Baker said the labor depart ment had been asked to advise on the arsenal wage scale and a final answer probably will be given the workmen May 15. Three Thousand Are Thown Out of Work hy Machinists By Associated Press Reaver Falls, Pa., May 3. Three thousand men In factories throughout the Beaver Valley were thrown out of work to-day when 200 machinists MAY 3, 1916 ; struck for an eight-hour day in (he plants of the Dawes & Myler Co., Standard Gauge and Steel Company, Union Drawn Steel Company, Key stone Driller Company and the Stand ard Steel and Supply Company. New York Garment Strikers Are Increased to 65,000 by Walkout of Sympathizers By Associated Press New York, May 3.—The number of garment workers out of worki was brought up to 65,000 to-day with the strike of 3 5,000 in sympathy with those who involuntarily became idle when their employers declared a lockout last week. Officers of the union estimated that 300,000 persons in all are affected. The principal demand Is for a con tinuance of the provision in the 1910 | protocol under which preference was i promised in favor of union members. C.F.T SECOND INCREASE By Associated Press Easton, Pa., May 3. A general in -1 crease of about ten per cent, in wages to be effective May 1, has been an | nounced by the Alpha Portland Ce ment Company. As an increase of 10 per cent, was made at the beginning | of the year, the cement workers have received two increases in the last six months. POTTERS WANT INCREASE By Associated Press Alliance. Ohio, May 3.—The pack ing denartments of the five general ware potteries at Sebring, near here, were closed to-day by a strike of pack ers. who demanded $3.50 for an eight hour day instead of $3.25 for nine hours. Pittsburgh Trolley Co. Proposes to Increase Fares Following Raise to Men By Associated Press Pittsburgh, May 3. —In a full-page newspaper advertisement this morn ing, addressed to the people of Pitts burgh, the Pittsburgh Street Railways Company announces that by the terms of the settlement of the street ear strike yesterday the payroll of $2,500,000 is increased by $500,000, which the company is unable to meet, from its earnings, and it is proposed to increase street car fares. Notice is served on the Pittsburgh council that immediate steps will be taken to this end. "Night cars are notoriously unprofit able," the announcement says. "The fare for this special service is now 5 cents within the city limits. It should be 10 cents." The announcement also declares that fares to the adjoining boroughs should be increased and that "any ride ex ceeding three and one-half and four miles in length is made at a loss to the company." The railway company also an nounced that "the merchant mediators expressed it as their belief that the facts and conditions warranted an ad justment of fares to secure increased revenue." 'HARDSCRABBLE' WAIT SOME DECISION [Continued From First Pace] This same citizen stated that twelve or fifteen of the owners of property in the district were in the same plight as himself and he expressed the hope that the court's decision would come soon so that those who were ready to accept the award of the viewers could make arrangements for removal else where during: the summer. It is un derstood that several of the hanking houses have agreed to accept assign ments of the award of viewers and in this way furnish the money needed for the purchase of other properties. How One Loses Money In one case one of the owners of the condemned property had pur chased a dwelling, expecting to pay for It from the proceeds of the award of viewers, but the appeal held up the transaction and he is now in the position of having made a partial pay ment and entered Into an agreement of purchase without being able to complete the transaction. Among lawyers the position of the city in the matter is expected to be sustained by the court and in this event some of those who had been in duced to participate in the appeal and who are said to be now regretting SCALE COMMITTEE NOW CONSIDERING TENTATIVE PACT j Anthracite Delegates Are Dis cussing Recognition of Miners' Union SOME DISSATISFACTION I M I |lf |() Declare. There Can Be No Satis factory Recognition Without Closed Shop By Associated Press Pottsvllle, Pa., May 3.—Considera ! tion in detail of the tentative agree ment reached between the scale com ! mittee of the United Mine Workers I and the anthracite coal operators was begun here to-day by the mine work ers' convention of the hard coal fields. The first progress of the agreement, which provides that it should be entered into between Districts 1, 7 and "9 representing anthracite mine workers organization and the anthra cite operators, provoked a discussion of recognition of the union. District President John T. Dempsey, of Scran ton. in explaining the paragraph, said that the miners have effective recogni ! tion of their organization with the ! exception of the closed shop. It was : the best that could be obtained under j the circumstances. | Several delegates expressed dissatis i faction with the paragraph because it | did not provide for the closed shop I and stated they had been instructed | by their local unions to vote against | limited recognition. After about a dozen delegates spoke ! for the closed Shop, District President | Thomas Kennedy, of Hazlton, declared | that the form of recognition obtained I was the best that could be obtained. I He said he was just as much in of the closed shop as any delegate ok ! the floor. The debate with the opera tors in the conference President Ken | nedy said, was "bitter and vicious" J and after seven days' discussion % ' break was imminent. Realizing their j responsibility he said, the miners' committee considered whether they should go to a strike on the sole issue of a closed shop ajid plunge 180,000 men, with their wives and children, into a serious struggle. Paced with such a situation, Mr. Kennedy j continued, "the officers of the uqlon pceepted the form of recognition con | tained in the tentative agreement as the best that could be obtained at this j time. COLONEL HOUSE IN WASHINGTON" By Associated Press Washington. D. C., May 3.—Coolnel : E. M. House, President Wilson's clos est adviser, arrived here to-day for a. I visit at the White House. He is ex | pected to discuss the submarine sit i uation. their part In the opposition are willing to accept the award of the viewers. Careless Coal Handling There is much complaint among property owners in the district grow ing out of the careless handling of I coal at Front and Broad streets and the general "messy" condition of that section. One resident said this morn ing: "All we ask is a fair deal. We realize that these properties will be taken over by the city and as we can't make any Improvements for which we will be reimbursed, our homes are not j what they ought to be. Some of my neighbors are complaining that their roofs leak and the conditions are far from satisfactory." President Judge Kunkel has been busy with election cases for several , days, but It Is understood that he will take up the "Hardscrabhle" matter at once so that the uncertainty of the | property owners may be terminated as soon as possible. Members of City Council also feel that Inasmuch aa there is no relief for householders In this section at the present time, the whole ma'ter should be determined once for ali 5
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