Senate Committee Probes Deeper Into Cause of Steel Strike With Gomp. rs on Witness Standi LXXXVIII— NO. 225 24 PAGES RIGHT TO BE HEARD IS WHAT STEEL WORKERS ARE ASKING ABOVE ALL ELSE, GOMPERS DECLARES IN PROBE Want Voice in Determining Conditions IS SECOND TO TESTIFY Asserts Companies Reaping- Harvest on Importations H\ Associated Press. Washington, Sept. 26.—The right of the employes to have some voice In determining the conditions un der which they work is the para mount issue in the strike of steel workers, Sumutl Uoinpcrs, presi dent of the American Federation ot" Labor, told the Senate investigating committee to-day. Appearing us the second witness l'or labor, Mr. Comp els was first asked by Chairman Kenyon to define the issues in the controversy. "The right to be heard is what the steel workers are asking above nil else," Mr. Gompers said. "The right to speak with their employers through their own representatives to have some voice in determining conditions under which they work. Denied Eights "The right of workers to associa tion has been denied —denied with .•ill the power and influence, and wealth ot the steel corporation—• denied by brutal and unwarrantable means. "It has been said that most of the men taking part in this strike are of foreign birth and not naturalized citizens. That may be and no doubt is true. The largest proportion of steel corporation employes are of foreign birth, but these men were brought here by the companies . "Thes" was for years a systematic effort to bring in these gangs from Europe. There was a systematic ef fort to eliminate Americans. They have a harvest to reap now." "These steel companies brought about the state of which they now complain. "Under the efforts of the steel corporation the hours of labor were always abnormally long. They never seemed satisfied until they had their men toiling seven days a week. 365 days a year. When the shifts changed front day to night they got them working 24 hours a day. Met Opposition "The right of association, the at tempt to organize, met with the sternest opposition by the steel cor poration. "The appeals coming to us from their employes were for help in or ganizing. But most of the efforts were slaughtered by the detectives and the agencies in the company pay. More than sixty per cent, of all the private detective agency ef fort in this country had been de voted to_ spying on employes, in mines, and mills. They have been used as agent provocateurs to in duce men tb some overt act, to get them to strike too soon." As he described the "dogging" of employes by detectives, Gompers (Continued on Page 23) A. Shadow and A. Crook' Are Remembered With Votes at the Primaries A Shadow" and "A. Crook" each received one vote at the primaries lor mayor, according to returns made by election hoards And com puted to-day during the official count. ' Returns from Elizabethville show that voter cast , a ballot for "Sally Wort" for county surveyor, and that two votes were cast for James E. Lenta for constable. E. H. Hershey, Robert T. Fox and Jacob Faver each received a vote for district attorney. There were ties in a number of districts as fol lows: Conewago township, John S. McCorkle and Simon S. Wanamaker, 31 votes each for Republican nomi nation for inspector of elections; Gratz, William Stiley, Charles Zer ting, J. J. Coleman, I. M. Bufflgton sind J. H. Laudenslager. one vote each for constable; Hummelstown, Morris Engle and George Hoffer. two votes each for auditor. Election expense accounts have been tiled by the following: Harry C. Wells, Democratic nominee for county commissioner, $575: Samuel M. Taylor, defeated Democratic can didate for county commissioner. $295; William R. McNair. defeated for Democratic candidacy for mayor, $94; Harry F. Oves, Republican nominee for city treasurer, $593.28. Returns from thirty-seven districts were tabulated this morning and it is likely that the work can be com pleted by late this afternoon or to morrow morning. ITHE WEATHER] llarrlMliurg find Ylrinltyt Fnlr, continued cool to-night with lowest temperature nhniit IS degrees. Saturday, fair aad slightly warmer. Kivrr: The Susquehanna river and till Its branches will full s'owly or remain stationary except the lower portion of the mnln river which will rise slightly this afternoon nnd to-night. \ stnge of nbout 3.4 feet is Indleuted for Jlurrisburg Snturduy morning. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Poor Picking and a Long, Hard Winter Ahead ' ■ S\L tW , • C\\ PLAN TO QUIZ \ FOSTER GIVEN UP BY SENATE After Gompers Testifies An nouncement Is Made That Hearings Are Postponed TO RESUME WITH GARY , Steel Chairman Will Be Sum -1 moned Next; Secretary At tacked as I.WAV. Later Washington. Sefit. 26. After I hearing Samuel Gompers, president iof the American Federation of j Labor, for more than three hours, the Senate Committee investigating 1 the steel strike to-day abandoned its plans to examine to-morrow William ;Z. Foster, secretary of the steel i workers' committee, who has been attacked in the House of Represent , atives, as a radical and an I. W. W. Chairman Kenyon announced that I the inquiry would not be resume.! until next Wednesday when Judge Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the board of directors of the United States Steel Corporation, will be t heard. He gave no reason for not hearing Foster to-morrow, but other members of the committee [said later that Foster would be called beforq the committee at some j future time. Efforts to Avert Rail Strike in England Fails; 600,000 Go Out Tonight London, Sept. 26. The confer ence between the railroad men's representatives and the Government for an attempted adjustment of dif ferences on the wage question to day resulted in failure, and a strike on the railroads has been ordered to take effect to-night at midnight. The strike will affect probably! more than 600,000 men. The Government has arranged to have the mails carried by airplanes, | and to have large motor cars from I the Government services made avail- I able for the conveyance of supplies to the big towns which will be ser iously affected. The locomotive engineers have an nounced that they would join in the strike, but it is stated that the j Government ljas arranged to have i many men who drove engines during ' the war make runs on the principal train service routes. The official announcement from Downing sfreet of the breakdown of the negotiations with the rail wuy men read* Daily Except Sunday. Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Harrisburg BETHLEHEM STRIKE HANGS IN BALANCE Definite Decision Late Today; Employ ers Show No Inclination to Com promise, but Workers Express Optimism; Strike Developments • 'I hree important developments were pending to-day in the steel strike, any one of which may have a vital bearing on the outcome of the great industrial struggle. In Pittsburgh the national steel workers committee was to meet late to-day and a definite decision was expected in regard to calling out the 40,000 workers in the Bethlehem Steel plants on Monday. Although the company officials have so far shown no inclination to compromise, local union officials at Allentown expressed optimism over the prospect of a strike being averted. In Youngstown, where the strikers i have succeeded in completely tying j up the st&el industry in the Matron- j ing Valley district, meetings were ' announced of unskilled and semi-1 skilled workers to discuss the ques- j tion of returning to work. Some I mystery enveloped these meetings, | INTEREST GROWS I IN CAMPAIGN OF TREE PLANTING Xol More Than 100 Norway ; Maples at the Island I Park Nursery The growing interest in the pro posed October tree-planting cam paign for Harrisburg is emphasized by the strong communication of State Forestry Commissioner Conk lin to City Commissioner E. Z. Gross, head of the Department of Parks, and the activity of City For ester Baltimore, who has completed a comprehensive survey of the shade tree situation. It develops that there are fewer trees in the Island Park nursery this year than was reported some j [Continued on Page 11.] GARY ACCEPTS INVITATION ' Washington, Sept. 26. —Judge El bert H. Gayf, chairman of of hoard of directors pf the United States Steel Corporation, has wired his ac ceptance of President Wilson's in vitation to participate in the indus trial conference here, October 6. otar-3ndcptn&efil HARRISBURG, PA. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1919 as both the strike leaders and the mill managers professed to know nothing of their origin. The third development was prom ised at Cleveland, where the execu tive committees of the Great Lakes [Continued on Page 18.] STEELTON TEAMS TRY TO RETAIN FIRST AID TROPHY Bethlehem Steel Corporation Annual Tournament Is to Be Held in Steelton Tomorrow . Fourteen first-aid teams from the various plants of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation will compete to morrow afternoon for the first-aid trophy. The trophy is contested for annually. It is now held by the Steelton plant. In addition to the trophy there is offered a cash prize j of SIOO to each member of the | winning team, SSO to the second and $25 to each member of the I third team. Team of Girls Among the competing teams there j is one team of girls, that of.the general offices at Bethlehem, und known as Bethlehem team No. 13. [Continued on Page B.] MAY CLOSE MILL PERMANENTLY, COMPANY SAYS General Manager Hildrup Says Plant Has Been Operating at Loss STRIKE IS PROGRESSING 300 Out Will Force Closing of All Departments in Short Time The strike of employes of the Har risburg Pipe and Pipe Bending Com pany, called yesterday, may result in the permanent closing of the es tablishment. This was the state ment to-day of W. T. Hildrup, Jr., general manager. The plant has been operating at a loss for some months, Mr. Hild rup added./ The demands of the men approxi mate an eighty per cent, increase in wages over what they are now receiving, the general manager said in a brief summary of the situation. "With the company already operat ing at a considerable loss, it would be decidedly impracticable for such demands to be met," he said. The demand for increased wages, it was asserted, provided for an eight-hour day with the men receiv ing for this work a twenty per cent, increase over the wages now paid for twelve hours. This, it was ex plained, approximates an eighty per cent, increase in hourly wage. "I wish 1 could give them more money," said Mr. Hildrup, "but present industrial conditions make it [Continued on Page 18.] Many Harrisburgers Went Over With First Wave Year Ago Today One year ago to-day marked the openityr of the last great offensive of th war, the Meuse-Argonne of fensive. Practically every iVmbat division in France figured in this drive, many going into the line for the first time. Many Harrisburger's were in it. The Meuse-Argonne, fight was di vided into two distinct phases, the first lasting from the opening, drive until the latter part of October, the beginning the first of November and carrying on until the armistice. Beginning late on the night of September 25, the artillery laid down one of the heaviest preparatory bar rages of the war. This continued until 5 o'clock, when th rolling bar rage began, and tbe infantry went over behind their curtain of fire. Late that day Montfaucon was reported tc be occupied but It was not until the morning of the fTth that Amer ican troops were thoroughly in pos session of the city from which the Crown Prince 1 3d watched the battle of Verdun in 1916. One of the most interesting cap tures of war material was made in Montfaupon, when the telescope of the Crown Prince vas taken, and later shipped back to the cadet corps at West Point. It was discovered in a large three-story building in the far end of town, it's base surround ed by concrete sandbags, while it's periscopic top pteped out through the r< of and surveyed the country for miles. AH Rebel Chiefs, Excepting Diaz, Cast Their Forces With Villa By .Associated Press. Washington, Sept. 26.—Informs - ! tion that all the revolutionary lead ers in Mexico except Felix Diaz . have accepted Francisco Villa as I their chief and placed at his dis ! posal their men, munitions and ; money, has reached Washington ! through a Villa courier who left the | revolutionary headquarters in Dur | ango about two weeks ago. The i courier bears documents said to be I signed by the following chiefs hf- I firming their loyalty to Villa: Gen eral Banuelos, of Zacatecas; Gen- I eral Meixueir, Oaxaca; General | Magana, Morelos; General Peluez, | Vera Cruz; General Carre Torres, ! San LuisPotosi; General Cabellero, i Tamaulipas: General Almaz, Nue : vodo Leon; Cedillos, San T.uis Potosi, and Coahuila and General GuFerrez, Coahuila. The various chieftains also are said to have approved formally the plan of Villa to govern territory un der their control by a junta de gobernaclon. Raisuli Reported. Wounded in Head by- Grenade From Airplane Tangier, Morocco, Sept. 26. — ! Travelers returning from the in- ! terior bring accounts of military i operations of Span'sh troops against I the bandit Raisuli, who is reported j to have been wounded in the head ! in an early engagement by a frag- I njent of a grenade thrown from art I airplane. Refugees from the area of hos- I tilities are flocking into the inter- 1 national zone. Rai°ul!, most not°d of Moroccan j bandits, has been in active revolt during the great part of the past ! summer in the Spanish zone of Morocco. He was reported late in August to have begun organizing i a great entrenched camp in the in terior and enrolling large numbers of recruuits for an extension of his operations. STRUCK BY AUTO William Kbert. of Big Springs, j Md., is in the Harrisburg Hosnital | with severe lacerations of the scalp ! and a probable fracture of the right 1 index finger as a result of being j struck by an automobile. Ebert, a brakemnn on the Western Mary land Railroad, was crossing a road near Rutherford when struck. MARKET ST. BRIDGE FREE ! Richard J. Haldeman, prosi ! dent of the Harrisburg Bridge j Company, announced to-day that the directors had agreed to de | clare the Market street bridge I free between the hours of 2 and 1 4.30 o'clock Sunday and Monday I next as a courtesy to the sol -1 diers and all who will participate ; in the features of the liome j coming celebration in honor of | the Greater Harrisburg men who i responded to the call to the col ! ors. Signs will be placed at the en ! trances to the bridge giving pub j lie r.-otice of the fact that no tolls will be charged between the j hours of 2 and 4.30 o'clock dur ; ing the two days of the celebra tion. HALF OF SPRING ! FOWL FOR EVERY VETERAN OF WAR ! And They Are of the "Neck less" Kind, Too, Mrs. Wil | liam Jennings Reports j A half spring chicken for every j service man and woman. That is I the kind of dinner the soldiers, : sailors, marines, nurses, and welfare , workers of the Harrisburg district, 1 will be seived next Monday evening I at six o'clock, as a part of the wel ! come home demonstration, to occupy ; the greater part of next Sunday and I Monday. J These chickens will be the Vneck i less" kind, Mrs. William Jennings, ■ who i 3 in charge of the dinner, j announced to-day. Every soldier i will get his half of spring chicken, j and no one will have to wrestle with | unpalatable neck, back or chest. More than four hundred home -1 made cakes, "like the kind mother ' u§pd to make," also will be offered as a thanks offering on the altar of gratitude, by the citizens of Har ; risburg. to the service men. By the • way, of ligures, did you < ever stop lo consider how many | chickens must lose their heads, to | provide a half a spring chicken for | 2,500 or 3,000 hungry veterans? Ton Steaming Kitchens , Ten kitchens will operate at full j force to assure the boys a steaming j hot dinner. Hour hundred women | will labor mightily to feed the hun [Continucd on Page 12.] State Asks Prompt Start on New Memorial Bridge Over Railroad Present plans arc for the State I Board of Public Grounds and Build i ings to meet Tuesday to award tho contract for the new Memorial ! Bridge. The official checking up of j the bids docs not show any ma j terial change and an award to the | Central Construction Company, of | this city, is assured. The State will ask very prompt | start on the bridge, and it is the be ; lief that the Central, with its good I organization, which handled bi, : government work, will be in a po i sition to go ahead very soon. The first move will be to construct a ! temporary bridge for pedestrians at j State street and the State street | bridge will be removed. The Pennsylvania Railroad offl | cials are still considering plans in , relation to the bridge, but the State Board is going ahead regardless of j any studies and will consider them | later on when the cost apportion i ment comes up. The railroad com | pany seeks to buy several strips of land from,the State. Drilling for the test for founda : tion for the new Capitol office build | ing started to-day,in the park ex -1 tension. Knox Asks Daniels About the Landing of U.S. Marines at Trau \ Washington, Sept. 26. Secretary | Daniels was asked in a resolution by Senator Knox, Republican, Penn sylvania, adopted to-day by thd Sen ate, to report whether American I marines were landed at Trau, Dul i matia, to compel its evacuation by 1 Italian forces, as reported in press dispatches. > A resolution by Senator Lodge, j also adopted without discussion, : asked the State Department whether j marines had been sent to Europe to j aid in carrying out provisions of the : German Peace Treaty for a pebis ; cite in Schleswig-Holstein. The Knox resolution incorporated ! "the Associated Press" dispatches re porting the incident at Trau. Lauds Sproul For His Message to Labor Wilmington, Del., Sept. 26. Former Federal Judge George Gray, who was chairman of the anthracite coal commission in 1902-3, has sent the following telegram to Governor Sproul, of Pennsylvania: "I heartily congratulate and thank you for your splendid message as Governor of the great Common wealth of Pennsylvania. Its Ameri can spirit appeals to the whole coun try, as well within as without the ranks of union labor, and should arouse in support of our free insti tutions the spirit with which we en tered the war for the preservation of the world's civilization." WONT PERMIT ANNEXATION Rome, Thursday, Sept. 26. To masso Tittoni, foreign minister, de clared during the meeting of the crown council to-day that the Peace Conference would not permit Italy to annex Fiume, because such action would authorize the Czecho-Slovaks to occupy Teschen; the Jugo-Slavs to move forces into Klagenfurt; the I Greeks to claim Thrace and the Ru manians to annex Danat ONLY EVENING ASSOCIATED PRESS SINGLE COPIES LI PIMP ETIITIftM NEWSPAPER IN llAltKlsßL'ltG TWO CENTS tIUIrIJEi E.DI 1 lUII MAUR INDICTED ON CHARGES OF FALSE PRETENSE True Bills Arc Returned by Grand Jury Against Undertaker GIRL-MOTHER ON TRIAL Charged With Poisoning Her Baby; Velco Case Up; Ver dict Soon in Shooting V verdict of iiivolu'itnry 1111111- Kliiuislitgr WHS returned liv the jury in the trlnl of Hike tiullns. late tills afternoon. True bills were returned by the Grand Jury to-day indicting Charles H. Mauk, an uptown undertaker, on two charges of false pretense pre ferred by families of persons for whom Mr. Mauk had charge of funerals. Indictments were returned also in the murder eases against Mrs. Cath leen Stewart, the girlmother charged with poisoning her three-weeks-old baby, and Sim Velco, charged with shooting Thomas Legurl, when it Is alleged the latter attempted to rob him. Before Judge C. V. Henry to-day, Mike Gallas, aged 19, a Stoeiton youth charged with involuntary manslaughter, was on trial. The case went to the jury room at noon and a verdict may lie returned dur ing the afternoon session of court. Claims Shooting Accident Glil'as. it is alleged, was in the cellar of a house in South Third street. Steelton. with some com panions one of them Geornie Malon. [Continued on Page 11.] At 17 Hr If to Wed Widow of 35 Years Mrs. Melva Artderson to-day was iipnointed guardian for Mary E Witter, aged 19, 1101 North Sixth street, by Judge George Kunkel, so that the latter could secure a mar riage license to wed William A). Deli, of West Fatrview. George F. Hartzell, aged 17, of Summerdale. secured, a license to marry Mrs. Susan E. Evinger. aged 35, a widow since last November. * eie 4 f* e,* V 1 <4* V 4t 4 T <■> . jr <4* X A *r 4 **• e% -• * f ft* A* W 4 .*s* * T a* n- Af s T 4# " Y 4 4 *r ± * X -\ *r X Y 4* *K $ S 4* &* 4 £* 4 s £* ' e * ' X [ e X | #4. A r T - 4* * <4 4 , e£* t <4 r X * " ' * , *** * - 6 4* i 4 *' <4* > A ' ■ ■ i &$ * r X . T •' v " T $ M X J j though h<; was up when his train left Wichita, Kasl, X X • X T T X ► t MARRIAGE LICENSES I! 4 William A. Dell, Went Kalrvloiv, find Mary E. Witter, Harris- * i liiirit; (it'orne F. tl:irtxrll, Suiiimrrdiilc, and Susan E. Evlneer, Hnr- „ t?* risbur K | Herbert Chubb. Millersburix, und Mnrmn-et I. Snyder. Ell/a --4) betbvlllei Krunk \V. Ilart line, Iteudnik, nnd Kntherlne Myers, Harris-** Intrat Walter S. Klein, IteiidlnK, and linthurlne A. Kutly, Harrlsburz) - u <g" John O. Trostle, Hnrrishtirit. anil llelln Anderson. Marshalltown, ll Stanley A. Kllniter. Urnta. and Mary M. Sehelb, l.ykens town-** 5 Ships tieorae S. Foreman and Esther M. Illaek, Hrrshcyj Charles S. M *2* t.arrlty nnd Bertlin M. Seliiieffer. Mldilletown. " * rjf* WILSON, ILL, GIVES UP HIS TREATY TOUR Cancels Remainder of Trip at Wichita Under Orders From Dr. Grayson SUFFERS FROM REACTION I Nervous Trouble Affects His | Digestive Organs; Return ing to Washington By Associated Press. Wichita, Kan., Sept. 26. —PresV- j dent Wilson to-day canceled the I remainder of his tour under orders | from Admiral Car.v T. Grayson, the I President's physician, and will re i turn to Washington direct from I Wichita. Admiral Grayson gave 111- I ncss and physical exhaustion as the { reason for*his action. Although there was said to be nothing serious about the Presi dent's condition. Dr. Grayson, his | physician, declared a nervous reue i tion affecting his digestive organs ; made suspension to his trip lmpera j live. HI Most of Night • Mr. Wilson was ill most of last j night and the decision to return at j once to the capital was reached just , before his train arrived in W'chila. | The President himself wanted to j continue his speaking program, but | Dr. Grayson would not permit it. The President's address, which was to have been delivered at Iho Forum building this morning, was canceled. Stays in Car The Presidental train did not pull | into the station at Wichita, where a | large crowd was waiting to welcome ! the President. Although he wanted to greet the people here. Dr. Gray ( son would not permit him to leave ! his private car. i Secretary Tumulty issued the fol lowing statement: "The President has exerted him | self so constantly and has been un ; der such a strain during the last year and has so spent himself with out reserve on this trip that it has brought on a nervous reaction in his digestive organs. "Dr. Grayson, therefore, insists I [Continued on Page 11.]
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