Scene at Island Park During Program of Services For Soldiers on Sunday AMERICANIZATION LEGION DEMAND [Continued front First Page. I the Louis caucus of last May has provoked a nation-wide interest. Its aims are to form the men and wom en who were willing to give their lives for their country into a great nonmilitary, nonpartisan body that will stand for those principles of red-blooded virile Americanism that will stand as a bulwark against the destructive forces that would ham per the growth of the nation. Since the formation of the Amer ican Legion last March its organiza tion has been a remarkable thing. It has upwards of five million per sons who are eligible and in the State of Pennsylvania alone there are 340,040. Every effort is being made to have at least 1,000,000 of these enrolled in the organization before the first national convention which is to be held at Minneapolis in November. \ 850 Posts in State In Pennsylvania there are 350 posts and during the past month a membership campaign has been conducted which unofficially, ac cording to reports submitted to Paul J. McGahan, the State publicity of fleer, shows a membership of appro ximately 60,000. In Philadelphia there are seventy-two posts and much work is being done under the direction of the county chairman, George W. Carr and Romaine C. Hassrick, the county secretary to increase the membership here. The approaching State convention will be unique in that it will be the first time that all the posts of the State will be brought together for the purpose of forming the perma nent State organization. The offi cers selected and the policies deter mined upon will he the result of the thought of the members of the le gion throughout the State and therefore when it concludes, the principles that it will enunciate can be accepted as the delineation of the thoughts for better government and betterment of conditions that have been evolved by the soldiers, sailors and marines as 'a conse quence of the broadening experi- ! ence of. the war. The headqxf.rters of the conven tion will be at the Penn-Harris Ho tel. The sessions will he held at ' the Chestnut Street Auditorium. To demonstrate the representative character of the convention, the first business will be the election of a chaintvan and a secretary for its meetings. Thus the unofficially designated executives who have made possible its development to this point, will step aside so that the will of the majority shall prevail. The officers for the ensuing year are to be nominated the second day of the convention and they will be elected on the third and final day of the gathering. Governor to Speak Mayor Daniel Keister will official - ly welcome the delegates to the State Capitol. Governor William C. Snroul has taken a hearty inter est in the movement and he will make an address at the afternoon session on Friday, October 3. The arrangements for the conven tion were put in final shape at a special meeting held in the office of the State chairman. George F. Tyler. Every effort in this was made to assure .the utmost fairness in the distribution of the delegates to the national convention who are I to lie elected at the State convention. Roughly Pennsylvania will be en titled to four delegates to represent the State ,dne additional delegate for each 1,000 membership and a s body of seventy-si.x delegates-at large to represent each Congres sional district in the State. The importance of the convention' THE ARCH OF WELCOME IN MARKET SQUARE AF TER THE CIVIL WAR H|^^ s • : ' ;••. ," ' > - . .<? •;'• •• 'A- .* •' - *. v-;. ,f *7?;*. *v •>; . This is n picture of the Welcome Home arch in Market Square at the time of the Civil War celebra tion when the city's veterans came home following the surrender of Lee It stood very nearly on the same •■• pot as the pylons of the Court of Honor stand to-day. The picture is tho property of Mrs. John S. Schref ller, of West Fairview, and is prints d through the kindness of Saltglver s art store, North Second street. MONDAY EVENING. lis being emphasized in the care [ that is being exercised in the selec- I tion of the delegates. Each post is ' picking its strongest men and many : of the posts have prepared resolu | tions on questions of public moment. | sucli as tne alien slacker, l the master of the treatment of sol diers and sailors and marines, war ! risk insurance, vocational training [ and bonuses for those who served J in the war. GRATEFUL CITY ]IS ACCLAIMING HEROES [Continued from First* Page.] i time and form up with the Iron Division crowd. The formation of the parade to -1 day was as follows: Platoon of Police. Captain Joseph Thompson. Spring Garden Band. Chief Marshal, George W. RJioads. (Department Commander G. A. R.) Chief of Staff, Captain Francis H. Hoy, Jr. • Aids Captain George C. Jack. Captain A. M. Porter. Captain E. Laubenstein. i Captain Walter K. Thrush. Lieutenant Samuel Fitting. First Division Division Marshal, Harry S. Watson. Aids Michael Floyd. Francis H. Hoy, Sr. Joseph Runkle. James Auter. ' G. A. R. in auto'mobiles in double column. Moose Band. : Post No. 31, Foreign ServiSe men, United Spanish War Veterans. Middletown Band. Company I. Pennsylvania Reserve Militia Truck Company. Pennsylvania Reserve Militia. Motor Trucks. Second Division Old Eighth Regiment Band. Division Marshal, • Colonel Frederick M. Ott. Aids Captain Paul W. Harm. Captain Ross A. Hickolt. David McConnell. Harry E. Earp. Howard Myers. Overseas Army Camp and Military Post War Workers. Army Nurses. Y. M. C. A. Y. W. C. A. K. of C. Jewish Welfare. Salvation Army. War Camp Community. War Library Association. * World War Veterans. Commonwealth Band. Overseas Veterans. New Cumberland Band. Service Men who served in armed forces in United States during 'World's War. "Y" Docs Splendid Work In the greatest celebration Har ; risburg has ever seen, the "Y" took a prominent part and from early morning until late night, ren dered a real service to the thousands of men in whose honor the great event had been staged. At 1 o'clock while the second divi sion was forming in Chestnut street the "Y" auto appeared on the scene loaded with cigars, cigarets, choco late almond bars and apples. These i wares were distributed among the | hoys bj; seven "Y" overseas service ! girls, every one of whom entered | tho service from this city. They were Harrisburg's own. There were all told twenty "Y" secretaries, men and women, in the line of march of the great parade. When the second division reach -1 ed the Island, the men found that the "Y" had not forgotten to make provision for their enjoyment dur ing the afternoon's sports. Through the courtesy of V. Grant Forrer, the refreshment booth, nenr the grant stand. had been secured as the base of operations, the large sign on which bore the announcement: "Y. M. C. A. —Refreshments— Free to All Service Men." This, of course, at once caught the eye of the boys, and some real work was done by the "Y" girls who were kept busy the entire afternoon handing out eats'to the men. STATE CHAMBER MEETING HERE [Continued- from First Page.] [ manufacture and commerce, brfhg ing them together. Here Two Days The meeting will last for two days | and to-night Governor Sproul, W. C. Culkins, director of Cincinnati street railways, a_pd Newton W. Gilbert, of New York, will speak at the annual banquet. The opening session was largely devoted to agriculture. Mr. Johnson said that "All laws and regulations relating to food productio'tj should be based on the fundamental propo sition that returns to capital invested In agriculture should be equal to the returns of capital invested in other industries and business. The prices of farm products should be sufficient to assure production and to pay the wages essential to that end." He criticised the makeup of the na tional industrial conference saying that only three men were assigned to represent 30,000,000 who gain their livelihood from agriculture, while 15 were named to represent two to three million organized lab orers "supplemented by 15 theorists and uplifters appointed by the presi dent." He also called attention to the necessity of better housing con ditions immediately and urged close attention to this problem. 219,000 Farms in State Secretary of Agriculture Fred Ras mussen said that Pennsylvania had 219,000 farms and its farm products last yeas were, worth JfilS.ooo,ooo, corn alone being $103,000,000, and the labor ex pended on the farm represented a quar ter of a billion dollars. After outlin ing the organization of the department and the campaign against the potato, wheat and other pests he urged sup port of the new bureau of markets and enforcement of the dog law in interest of sheep raising. The secretary said there was a field for farmers organiza tions and that businessmen should work with them, declared that prices for food stuffs would have to be Tnade so that it was worth while to produce them. "If serious economic disturbances are to be avoided labor must realize that the progress of the world is measured not by the wages paid, but by the work ac complished" said he. "It is only recently that some manufacturers have come to realize that food is fundamental to the labor problem. Agriculture is no longer of interest only to the farmer, it is of interest to the whole world." MANY MORE RETURN* TO WORK AT SHARON* r.y Associated Press Sharon, Pa., Sept. 29. Officials of the Carnegie Steel Company an nounced that many more men returned to work to-day; that two blast furnaces are in full operation at the south works at Farrell, and that the bar and blooming mills have practically full quotas. The north mill of the Carnegie Com pany in Sharon is still closed down. Of ficials of the Sharon Steel Hoop Com pany reported that more of its employes had returned to the mills. HAMUSBTTRG TELEGRXPH • LEFT TO RIGHT, MEN WHO RECEIVED CROSSES AND CITA TIONS FOR BRAVERY, MAJOR FLEMING, CAPTAIN STACKPOLE AND SERGEANT SHECKART. CONTRADICTING STRIKE CLAIMS ARE MADE [Continued from First Pnge.l both armies the utmost confidence in the final issue of the strug gle was expressed. EVERY DEPARTMENT AT STEELTON MILL IS IN OPERATION At noon to-day announcement i was made at Steelton that all de- | partments of the Steelton branch | of the Bethlehem Steel Company! I were in operation and would con-! tinue at work. This came from the ! office of Frank A. Bobbins, Jr., gen-I eral manager. Harry Page -opened strike head- i quarters at Steelton. He will act as secretary to John W. Brown, repre senting the American Federation of j Labor. Strikers will register there. ; An estimate was given as to the i total number of men out at sixty- i five per cent, of the entire force. It I was said there were enough men not working to indicate a shutdown-' in several of the departments to-; morrow. At the Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe j Bending Company's plant the steel j plant, rolling and blooming mills i are still closed down. The other | departments are running and it was | announced that there was no change In the strike situation- there. Employes at the Central Iron and Steel Company voted to remain at work, and the announcement from this plant was that there would be no strike. Another statement Issued to-day was from Norman F. Swords, of Local No. 283, representing! bridge and steelworkers, riggers and helpers. No Disorders At the office of the Bethlehem Steel Company in Steelton it was j said no trouble was anticipated. The j men who are out are orderly and i most of them are not loitering j about the corners or in the vicinity i of the steel plant. Most of them j visited the headquarters in North; Front street. Burgess Thomas T. McEntee, i with Hiram B. Longaker, chief | of police, requested all citizens to j keep order, refrain from congre- j gating on street corners and not to | get into any arguments. Burgess i McEntee this morning swore in all ■ of the Bethlehem Steel Company j special officers as borough police-j men, also dozen or more union - men- who agreed to act as policemen ; and prevent any disturbances, j There were about 100 steel company j policemen on duty to-day. Chief j Longnaker Wid there was no indi- ■ cation of any trouble and that the . strikers had agreed to keep out of | trouble. • The Workers' Statement For tnc workers Norman F. Swords, . of Local No. 283. I. A. B. S. and O. S. j W. Riggers and Helpers, issued the fol- j lowing statement: The Bethlehem Steel Bridge Corpora- | lion, Steelton plant, employes worked ! long hours, at low pay and top-speed to j keep up production always. During the i war they worked so hard that it im- | paired the health of some employes. Was j this caused by lovalty to the govern- | ment or high wages? "An assembler is one of the highest- I skilled employes of the steel industry. He is not only a skilled piechanic, but is a foreman as well. (His skill in read ing drawings places him In the class of brain workers.) In the Steelton plant, he receives a guaranteed average rate of flfty-oi.e cents per hour, j "During the war. we fabricated muni tion plants, big. gun plants, small arm i plants, powder plants, ships and plants Ito furnish material for ships. We did 1 this work cheerfully, without strikes or ! trouble of any kind. We were so ex i haußted after a day's work that we fell asleep at the supper table. We pared to the bone in order to buS- Liberty j Bond*, to five to the Ked Cross, Y. ■M. C. A., and similar organizations. ! For what? To "Make the wtfrld safe | for Democracy." ! "In tile shipyards of the Bethlehem l Steel Corporation, the employes have a j union agreement, signed by President I 13. G. Grace, of the Bethlehem Steel [Corporation, with the Metal Trades De ; partment of the American Federation iof Labor. Wage rates, guaranteed and I paid, easily average sixty per cent, higher than is paid by the same com pany in the mills. In the ship | yards an assembler receives from eighty j cents to one dollar per hour. ; "It" the Eetlilehom Steel Corporation ! can make a profit in the shipyards, what raust be their profit in the steel mills? ' Who is- the "dollar patriot?" ' "The emplojes of the plants of the i Bethlehem Steel Corporation (that haven't got a union agreement) are - handed together, under one leadership, Icn the same principle of the Allied j Armies in Europe, so that there can be - no' seperate peace. I "The press. •.nanufae':ur;rs. and kindred 'others say this strike is an industrial war. It is, but they convey or try to convey the impression that it will lead to anarchy. This strike can be stopped by President E. G. Grace, simply call ing for a conference with our National Committee. •The whole industrial world is in chaos and it is up to the Industrial I Kings of America to grant their em ployes Industrial Democracy- and both work together for the acquisition of the world trade, because the steel Industry can no longer exist on domestic trade." j Mr. Swords said he had no knowledge !of the number of men out, as he had j been busy in Harrisburg all day and ! had not heard from Harry Page in I charge of strike headquarters at Steel j ton. Claim 65 Per Ccflt. According to the strikers gathered | in Union Hall at least sixty-five per ! cent, of the men responded to the i st rfke call. Harry Page, who is act ! ing as secretary to John W. Brown, ' of Charlestown, West Virginia, the ' union organizer, said, however, this I was merely an estimate, and that i accurate figures could not as yet be ! given. ! Strikers this morning claimed that \ at least ninety-five per cent, of the I workers of the bridge shop had left I work, ancU.that this morning only i fifty-five men had reported for work, i and that fifteen of these had left work a few hours later. The bridge | shop is said to have the strongest I union organization In the plant. Rolling Mills Hard Hit The rolling mills are said too have I been hard hit by the strikers. Strik i ing rolling mill men declared that I the 28, 35 and 44-Inch mills were completely shut down, but that no ' men had left their work without | first completing the heats, so that j no metal would in any way be dam aged. , Strikers estimated that about half I of the machinists and men of the [ machine shop had left woi'k. This j morning a telegram came from I strike headquarters in Bethlehem pleading with the other half to leave work at the end of their shifts. No figures could be estimated in reference to the electricians, but the strikers say that a good num ber of them had joined the strikers' ranks. Olliclnls Deny Stories In strong contrast with these statements from the strikers is the, statement by officials of the com pany. Offlc'iils this morning stated that not a single department had shut down thus far. and that there seems to be little likelihood of any department shutting down. They de nted that anything like s'xtyv-flve per cent, of the men had Jolnod the ranks of the strikers. Sufficient men are said to have reported for work to continue operations throughout the entire plant. Asked about the bridge shop the officials stated that while the union was strongest in that department enough men had turned up for work j to keep tho department running in good shape. Asked about how many men had gone out on the strike, officials re plied that it was impossible to es timate the number because of the changing shifts. Many men, how ever, have been given off for the day to see the parade in Harris burg. In place of shutting down any of the departments one of the depart ments wfcich had been shut down last week was put into action this morn'ng. There are six union organizations in the plant. They are the General Pipe Fitters and Helpers' Union, (he American Federation of Labor, the International Association of Macliin 'gts. the Amalgamated Association of Iron Steel and Tin Workers, the International Association flf Bridge, Structural and Iron Workers and the Electrical Workers' local. It was announced at the plant that a number of men formerly holding offices in local unions had resigned and reported for work. Small Change in General Strike Situation Reported by Pittsburgh Pittsburgh. Sept. 29. —•' Reports from corporations, union head quarters, police and other sources in the Pittsburgh district to-day, did not indicate a substantial change in the steel workers' strike which has now entered upon its second week. No serious break was reported at" the large independent plant of the Jones and Laughlin Company In this city, against which the unions had annout\p.ed an intensive campaign shut down the works. A company representative said that about the same number of men as reported last week were at the work to-day, while at union headquarters kt was reported that • fewer *corkers answered the whistle than on any I other day since the strike started. | The Pennsylvania works of the j National Tube Company in this city which closed last week, opened for ■ operation:, to-day, but whe"filor pro- I duction will amount to muqh can j n6t be stated until late in the day, , Homestead, Braddock, Duquesne ! find Clairton plants of the Carnegie , Company were reported as operat i ing on about the same basis as last | week, though there were confltct i ing claims by each side as to the ! number of men in the works. Roil Mills Resume I The American Steel and Wire ! Company announced that the rod I mills in its plants at Braddock, I Rankin and Farrell resumed oper ! ations to-day. The rod mills were j closed last week. The company's ; plant at Donora, also closed last : week, reported men returning there | for work. In the Cleveland field j the company announced, the nail department of the 11. P. Works be gan operations. The company stated that it had plenty of men in the Chicago district ready to report but operations will not be attempted un til after pay day. which is to-mor row. Reports from Johnstown, Pa., show no change in conditions there. The Cambria plant of the Midvale Steel Company, which shut down last Tuesday, is still idle and will not resume, officials say until a suf ficient number of men indicate a desire to return. The Lorain Steel Company in the Johnstown field con tinued to operate, though strikers claimed it was working with "only a handful of men." Continue Operations At New Castle the varioup plants of the Carnegie Company and the American Sheet and Tin Plate Com pany, continued operations, in some instances departments showing more Our Guest of Honor Today 111 1 11 11 ■ — ■ UP| SEPTEMBER 29, 1919. men at work, corporation officials | reported. The MeKcesport Tin Plate Com- j pany, at Port Vue, resumed opera tions in the finishing, department 1 with a complete personnel, officials I stated. The mill was shut down a week ago. Picketing was done on a large scale in the lower Monongahela Valley scale in ttie lower Mongahola Valley where the Homestead, Braddock and 1 Rankin plants ot' the Carnegie Steel ] Company arc situated. In some in stances, specially at Rankin, the picketjlng prevented many men from returning, officials claimed. It did not deter those who had worked last week and a small number of addi tional men, it was said. Bethlehem Plan?: Is j Very Little Affected by Strike Summons By Associated I rc'ss, Bethlehem, Pa., Sept. 29. The j Bethlehem plant of tho Bethlehem 1 Steel Corporation was very littie af fected this morning by the strike which had been called from Pitts burgh and there was no semblance of disorder at the entrance to the various plants when tho shifts changed at 6 and 7.30 o'clock. Virtually the same number of em ployes appeared in tho various de partment as did last week, save that a number of machinists left witli their tools. The latter were mostly of the floating order who had byen employed during the war. It coitld not be learned how many men came out at the 7.30 shift. The test is expected to come this afternoon and this evening with the changes of shifts. Gatherings Refused Mayor Johnston, who issued a proclamation calling upon the citi zens to be law abiding and to assist in the maintenance of peace, was upon the scene early. He will not permit gatherings of any kind. The police department is well equipped to cope with. the situation should any trouble arise as many additional of ficers have been sworn in. Repre sentatives of organized trades who met here last night announced that reports received stated '.hat from 80 Ito 90 per cent- of the men will walk out, but this fact was not borne out this morning. The police tool; into custody William ,T. P.ohning, secretary of a local union, for pre vailing upon employes of the steel company not to go to work. From reports of the shop committees of the labor unions at noon to-day David I Williams, who is in charge of the local situation, maintains that 75 per cent, of the men are out and Hint the Bethlehem plant is completely crippled. The of ficials of the steel company claim that every department is running. It was ascertained here that reports have been received at the office of the Bethlehem Steel Company from their plants located at Sparrows Point, Md„ Stnelton, Lebanon. Reading and Titus villo. All of them substantially report full operations, exceptions to tiiis being only in unimportant isolated units, in no way affecting the larger and important operations. There is nothing to indicate that there will be any curtailment of production. Foster's Methods Revealed in House Washington, Sept. 29. That I. W. W. and other radical leaders laid plans to work themselves into con trol of the country's labor unions and dominate them, was charged before the House by Representative Cooper, Republican, Ohio. He made public a letter to the secretary of the Mahoning county (Ohio) Central/Labor Union, which had criticised a' recent speech by him attacking William Z. Foster. The union defended Foster, who was one of the organizers of the steel industry. /' Regarding Foster," said Mr. Cooper. "I wish to say that Mr. Gotnpers acknowledges this man an I. W. W. and the author of the revolutionary pamphlet "Syndical ism,' hut contends that Foster has been converted to labor union prin ciples. "in this connection I quote from a letter written by Foster in 1911. now on file In the otllce of the United States District Attorney in Chicago, in which Foster said: "I am satisfied from my observa tion that the only way for an I. W. W. to have the workers adopt and practice the principles of revo lutionary unionism which I take is its mission, is to give up the attempt to create a new labor movement, turn itself into a propaganda league, get into the organized labor move men and by building up better fight ing machines within the old unions than those possessed by our reac tionaries, realize their unions, ever as our French syndicalist fellow workers have so successfully done." Influence of Pastor Causes Wavering Men to Remain at Work Baltimore, Sept. 28. Only four of hundreds of the steel workers cm ployed by the Bethlehem Steel Com pany at Sparrows Point here at a meeting yesterday voted to obey the strike order from the national com mittee. The influence of Rev. John Gay nor, pastor of St. Luke's Catholic Church at the Point caused many of wavering men to decide to re main at work. At all the masses tills morning the priest told the men and their families there would be no strike. He condemned the members of the national steel committee and branded William Z. Foster, secretary I of the Internationa] Association of I Steel and Iron Workers, as a Bol shevist. Fifty of 6,000 Men Fail to Report at '* Sparrows Point Mil! Baltimore, Sept. 29.—The strike or der of the national organizing com mittee at Pittsburgh, calling out the steel workers of the Bethlehem Sted Corporation at 6 a. m. to-day had no effect on the Sparrows Point branch , el the company, according to General . Manager W. F. Roberts, of the local I plant, this morning. Every depart- I incut of tlie steel works was running with full forces, he said, except the tin plate mill, where .10 of the work | men failed to report for work. Between 5,000 and 6.000 men are ; employed at the steel plant. Later in the morning twenty of the fifty tin plate workers who failed ! to report, returned to work, it was I stated at general manager Roberts' oflh'6. All the departments of the Bethle hem Shipbuilding Company at Spar rows Point were in operation as us ual to-day with no signs of troubV the management said. There had been rumors of a possible sympa thetic strike of the ship workers. TUG MEN STRIKE By Ansociated Press Dulutli, Minn., Sept. 29. Tug men of the Whitney Brothers, Barnet and Record Companies, New England Towing Company, went on a strike here this morning in response to a call for a strike on the Great Lakes. The in dependent ferry companies are not af fected. The Harbor practically is tied up by the strike and by a storm. INJURED IN QUARREL John Kellerman and Charles Kel lerman, 2011 North Sixth street and Charles Miller, 1316 North Third street, were treated at the Harris burg Hospital, for severe lacerations, following an alleged fight with five negroes. The affair fs supposed to have taken place in the 1100 block of North Sixth street. 19
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