Comple e Tieup of Co n vy s Mines Within Next Sevevotl Days Is Being Pvedicied hy StYikevs
LXXXVIII— NO. 259
MINE LEADERS
ARE CONFIDENT
OF SHUTDOWN
Operators Make No Preparations to Run
Mines—Only Enough Men to Guard
Property at the Workings, Union
Heads Continue to Insist
PALMER REPLIES TO MINERS
WHO PROTEST INJUNCTION
Chicago, Nov. 4. —Deprived of the directing hands of its
leaders, as a result of the injunction, the membership of the
United Mine Workers of America to-day entered the first full
working day since confident that the men were prepared to dem
onstrate its ability to halt production of soft coal throughout the
nation.
Directing heads of the workers' union maintain that more
than 400,000 men are out. The operators, so far as available re
ports show, have not yet made plans to combat the strike, not
withstanding the fact that troops, both Federal and State, have
been sent in many instances to localities from which they might
best guard the coal properties.
Up until this morning no disorders have been reported. (>nly
enough men to guard the property are at the mines, the union
leaders saw
To Clarify Situation
Developments in the strike of
more than 423,000 soft coal miners
throughout the country were ex
pected to clarify (he situation to the
extent of determining whether pro
duction was to be stopped indefinite
ly in a large part of the bituminous
zone or whether any considerable
number of workers were willing to
return to work.
No plans have been made for
opening any of the mines with im
ported labor, and old men who re
turn to work are to be treated as if
they had never laid down their tools,
according to Thomas T. Brewster,
chairman of the coal operators scale
committee. No miner will be dis
criminated against, he said.
Don't Kxpoct Union Men Back
Reports from most of the large
mining centers indicated that while
a large number of the mines would
be in shape for the miners to resume
work, the operators did not expect
many union jnen to re-enter the
workings to-day.
While operators admitted that the
figures given out by union leaders
as to the number of men on strike,
were approximately correct, they
pointed out that close to 1 50,000
nonunion men were at work in the
Pennsylvania and West Virginia
fields and that nearly 20,000 union
miners were working in Kentucky
under contracts signed recently.
Troops in Fields
Federal troops to-day were in the
mining regions of West Virginia,
Tennessee, Wyoming and New Mex
ico under orders to preserve the
peace in case disorders arise in con
nection with the strike. One com
pany of the 32nd Infantry also was
on its way from Sun Diego, Cub, to
Utah, for duty in the coal fields of
that state.
The National Guard of Colorado
and Oklahoma have already been
sent to the coal districts of those
COAL STRIKE IS CAUSING
PASSENGER CURTAILMENT
By Associated Brass,
Washington, Noy. 3.—At the White
House to-day it was said that Presi
dent Wilson's offer for arbitration
of the strike still was open. Mean
time preparations for the setting up
of a commission of industrial unrest
as recommended by the public group
in the recent Industrial Conference
are going forward and the selection
of the personnel is expected to be
completed by the Cubinet to-morrow.
One of the first effects of the coal
strike has been the curtailment oE
passenger trains on some railroads.
Director General Hines has given
regional directors wide discretion in
this matter as they are in a position
U. S. Will Make No
Attempt to Arbitrate
Until Recall Is Sent
By Associated Press.
Washington, Nov. 3. —Attorney
General Palmer to-day informed coal
miners who protested against the
strike injunction that the Govern
ment stood ready to "do everything
in its power to facilitate an inquiry
into tile merits of the controversy,
but in the meantime the law must
be informed and combinations to
stop production cannot be tolerated."
Mr. Palmer's statement, made in
reply to a telegram from the union
local at Glencoe. Ohio, to President
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ITHEWEATHRP]
Hiirrisburg and Vicinity■ Partly
cloudy to-night and Tc-sdav
warmer Tnrnday. l,onn tem
perature to-night about 3N de
green.
Eastern Pennsylvania. Partly
cloudy to-night and Tuesday,
slightly warmer Tuesday. Mod
erate northeast to southeast
winds.
Rlvcri The main river will rise
except the upper portion will
begin to fall Tuesday afternoon
or night. All tributaries will fall
except the lower portions of the
A'orth and West branches which
. will rise slightly or rriiiniu
nearly statlonar) to-night. A
singe ot about 7.4 feet Is In
dicated for Hnrrlsbuurg Tues
day morula/
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
if J- /xv_ri-.0 • Matter at the. Post Office at Harriaburg
•states ami several companies of state
•troops have been mobilised at Bir
! tningham, Ala., In case their serv
j ices are needed quickly to quell dis-
Jturbanees around the mines there.
Federal troops have been ordered
i to be held in readiness in every de
partment of the Army for service
whenever state authorities ask for
i assist anr in keeping down disor
• ders.
No Back to Work Move
, No movement of men back to the
j mines developed in the early Mon-
I day reports front the country's bi
j luminous mine lields. A small num
| her of lignite miners in the Burling
ton, N. D., area returned to work af-
I ter being on strike one day, explain
| ing that they had not received union
: orders to continue at work. This
' was the only place where reports
were received of strikers reporting
for work Monday.
No attempts were made by own
ers to operate the unionized mines.
In West Virginia 300 nonunion
.mines., were operating, according to
advices from the officers of the West
Virginia Coal Association.
Reports received at the offices of
the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
] pany in Denver described the situa
!tion as "about the same as Satur
day," when central properties were
operated with reduced forces.
Business Fooling ElTwts
Business in some of the smaller
I lowa cities was feeling the effects
! of the coal strike, according to re
ports. Newton was in darkness Sun-
I day night, while in Indionla schools
I and theaters are closed,
i There were no reports of lawless
ness from any of the mining fields
I and the first arrest reported in con
| nection with the strike came from
! Walsenburg, Colo., where United
| States immigration inspectors took
j into custody a Bulgarian miner
j charged with having threatened to
I burn several mines in the district if
I the miners returned to work.
jto survey the coal needs of their
s; respective districts.
- i Freight service will not be disturb
i : ed unless the coal shortage becomes
-I serious. Officials believe that with
) the stocks of coal in transit together
t 'with the thousands of tons stored at
) | terminals it would not be necessary
31 to curtail this service for several
i j weeks.
5 1 A survey of all the coal stocks held
. !by railroads under direction of the
1 railroad administration is under way.
E The administration also is gathering
. figures on the quantity of coal r.t
i seaboard, intended for export, but
i which has been ordered held by the
i railroads if necessary.
Nonunion Mines in
Pennsylvania Are
Working Full Time
By .Associated Press,
W Nov. 3. Nonunion
mines in Pennsylvania and West
Virginia were working full time to
day, according to reports to the
Washington officers of the operators.
At some points in those States the
miners were trying to get out more
than the normal day's production.
~ {j Pennsylvania nonunion
fields including Greensburg, Irwin,
Connellsville and Ligonier, all mines
were reported in full operation.
Their was no change in the situation
around Pitsburgh.
Nonunion men in the West Vir
ginia fields, embracing Pocahontas,
Rlver ' Winding Gulf, Logan and
Williamson "went to work with their
shirts of," messages said, in the hope
of getting out more coal than was
mined in any single day last week.
Workers in the Fairmont, W. Vu.,
fields whose output Saturday was
24 cars sought to-day to beat Unit
mark.
first reports from the central
competitive fields—Ohio, Illinois.
Indiana and Western Pennsylvania—
showed all union miners out.
EXPECTED TO WOK It
By Associated Press,
Washington. Nov. 3.—After three
days of rest from executive business
President Wilson was expected' to
do some work tiv-da.v, as several bills
and other mutters were awuiting his
attention
It Doesn't Matter Whose Dog It Is—That's One Place
He Can't Stay
JLIVING COST, AS
SHOWN IN MEAT
J PRICES, IS LOWER
i! Sharp Declines Seen in Retail
r ■ Charges Made in City
f 1 Shops
Decreasing meat prices in Harris
| burg markets are resulting in a
| lowered cost of living in Harrlsburg.
1 • The past several weeks have seen
j sharp declines and big percentage
! decreases are shown over the prices
r I that existed one year ago.
j Some few grades of meats are to
- |day selling at slightly higher prices
*' than they did one year ago, but even
[these are not as high they had
t; been. For some weeks following the
"j" j conclusion of hostilities the prices
! continued .to mount, but the peak
j I apparently has been reached and
B 1 passed.
j Smaller Kxports
tl Meat dealers assign lessened ex
t'|ports as the reason for the drop.
'jWith the warring countries of Eu
i rope again becoming partially self
j supporting, there no longer exists
i the need for the enormous foreign
j.shipments that had been made.
I South American products, too,
jare being sent across the Atlantic to
> aid in feeding the Europeans, and
j this still further decreased the need
for the product in the United States,
iUnder such conditions, with an in
u creased supply of meats available
t - for home consumption, prices are
.(now droppng steadily and promise
Ito go still lower.
Thirty Per Cent. Off
•j Advertisements of the Harrlsburg
ij branch of a string of meat houses
2 i throughout the country of now and
' one year ago show in a number of
| instances decreases in prices of
1 thirty per cent, and more.
'! Pin steak, which one year ago
3 sold for 30 certs, is now quoted as
i being worth 22 cents. Chuck roast
j has dropped from 20 cents to 16
I cents, while top rib and fleshy boil
is to-day selling'at 14 cents, whereas
lit cost the consumer 20 cents one J
; year ago.
i hard Prices Higher
I The lower tendency is not con-j
! lined alone to beef, but is shown also
,in other meat products. Picnic hams'
ure to-day worth but 30 cents perl
t pound, as compared to the quota- 1
lion of 27 cents one year ago. |
1 I,anil) chops, especially, show a de- ;
, crease and, while they sold for 3 5
- cents one year ago, to-day they are
! bringing but 20 cents.
; Hard, however, has shown an up
ward tendency since November 1,
1918. The sale price is now quoted
j|at 32 cents, four cents higher than
sj last year. The present figure, how
> [ ever, is lower than it had been for
< tome time, the product going us high
3 as 4,0 cents a pound and in some in
| stances even higher. I
HARRISBURG, PA. MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 3, 1919- WTSuho ess si TWO k CENTS S3
REMEMBER LOANS
WHEN YOU VOTE
i RTVON'T forget the loans
I I when you vote."
That will be the slo-
I gan of the Chamber of Com
j merce, Rotary Club and Kiwanis
] Club volunteers who will work
for the loans to-morrow.
| They are:
$4 0,000 for bathing beache3
i and bathhouses.
$30,000 for street paving.
SIOO,OOO for sewers,
i Transfer of $300,000 from Wal
' ! nut street bridge fund to State
- j street bridge fund.
. ! All parties favor them. There
, ' is no opposition.
But be sure to vote for them,
! j or they may fail for lack of at
' | tention. Look for them on bot-
I torn of ballot.
IRED CROSS WILL
GIVE ACCOUNTING
OF GUARDIANSHIP
. j Annual Report to Be Read at
Open Meeting This
'i V ■
, Evening
j When the annual report of Harrls
j burg Red Cross chapter is read to
night at the meeting in Chestnut
J Street Auditorium the people of
I Harrisburg will have an opportunity
j of knowing just what the chapter has
been doing the last year. And in
1 addition, when Dr. Stockton Axson,
j a relative of President Wilson, tells
' his personal story of the Red Cross
| Harrisburg will have an intimate
j knowledge of what the national or
ganization has been doing.
Every Red Cross worker, every
Red Cross member and every Har
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Moose to Burn Old
Mortgage at Banquet
Harrisburg Lodge, No. 107, Loyal |
Older of Moose, will hold a banquet!
j on their eleventh anniversary. Thurs- •
! day, November 13, In Chestnut street I
] Auditorium, at X o'clock. Preparu-1
l Hons ale now being made on a large |
; seule tn take care of the membership. I
l and speakers from the central organ- !
: ization will be present.
• The Harrisburg lodge will meet at I
the club rooms, Third aud Boas I
; streets, and march to the hall, head- j
ed by the Moose Band, of 40 pieces, j
At the hall the ceremony of burning:
the mortgage on the second property
■ at 328 North Third street will be ob
i served. All Dauphin and Perry
counties have been scoured in an ef- i
fort to get turkeys for the feast, and j
the comniitteh in charge said to-day •
' thut enough hud been secured to feed j
I the hungriest Moose.
Stoc-fln&cpenftent,
LEADERS AGREE
ON FINAL PEACE
PACT VOTE SOON
Ratification Ballot Proposing
Unanimous Consent Agree
ment Is Drawn Up
By Associated Press.
\\ asltinglon, Nov. 3.—A filial vote
his week on ratification of the Peace
Treaty is proposed in unanimous con
sent agreement drawn up for presen
tation to the Senate to-day by the ad
minstration leaders.
Apparently < ontemplating the pos
sibility of a deadlock over reserva
tions, the agreement provides that
after this week, the Treaty, if not
ratified, can be laid aside.
To lllniionc of Amendments
In the plan put forward as a coun
ter to Republican Reader Lodge's
proposal for a final vote November 12,
all amendments would be disposed of
to-day, the reservations of the for
eign relations committe would be
passed on to-morrow and Wednesday
and the committee's resolution of rat
ification voted on Thursday. Friday
end Saturday would be reserved for
consideration of alternate ratification
resolutions, should that presented by
the committee fail.
The fact that the agreement pro
vided for a possible deadlock in
Treaty was taken as another indica
tion that the administration forces
would vote apuinst ratification If the
committee reservations were adopted
and then would present a ratification
resolution containing only qualifica
tions of an interpretative character.
Debase on all subjects relating to
the Treaty would be limited under the
plan to 15-minute speeches and the
Senate would meet an hour earlier
than usual each day.
300-Pound Porker Cavorts
Around Capito! Park
r>id you see that 300-pound porker
which got loose from the Swift and
Company stockyards last night and
tan wild in the vicinity of the Cap
tol for awhile? Between g and 10
o'clock it was all over that part of
town, and after being chased around
! the High School building on Forster
j street ten or twelve times, the hog
[ got dizzy and flew off at a tangent, I
finally landing at Green and Forster
streets, where It was taken into cus- I
I truly, but not by the police. The loose
porker caused more excitement than 1
the arrival of the King, as it tore!
! around, upsetting everything that
came In Its way.
WIATRI.Y l)\ FLIGHT
>ll nr.,ln, N. J., Nov. 3.— .Miss Jane
Herveaux. who served as an honorary !
captain in the French aviation corps i
left here In a Curtlss airplane this 1
morning for Havana. Cuba. 9he will!
make several stops on the way, the
first being at Bustleton field' near I
Philadelphia. Merrill 15. Kiddlck, a 1
former air pilot, will accompany her]
as a passenger as Washington.
From there Miss Herveaux plans to
make the trip alone.
REPUBLICANS
SURE TO SWEEP
WHOLE COUNTY
City and County Tickets Both
Safe; Only Question Now
Is of Majorities
LOANS WILL BE WINNERS
Workers Are Redoubling Ef-!
forts as Many Democratic
Committeemen Quit
REPUBLICAN COUNTY
TICKET
County Commissioners
Charles C. Oumbler.
Henry M. Stine.
Recorder of Deeds
M. Harvey Taylor.
Register of Wills
Ed. H. Fisher.
Sheriff
George W. Karmany.
District Attorney
Philip S. Moyer.
County Treasurer
Oliver C. Bishop.
, Directors of the Door
John H. Lehr.
Frank B. Snavely.
(2-year term)
Jacob S. Farver.
REPUBLICAN CITY TICKET
Mayor
George A. Hoverter.
City Coiiii(<ilmen
Charles W. Bnrtnett._
Edward Z. Gross.
I>r. Samuel F. llassler.
William 11. Lynch
City Controller
DeWilt A. Fry.
City Treasurer
Harry F. Oves.
Seliool Directors
Howard M. Bingaman.
William Pavord.
Franklin J. Roth
|
"Every Republican on the city and |
county tickets will be elected to-mor
row and indications are that all four
I of the municipal loans will be ap
i proved to-morrow," said William H.
| Horner, county chairman, to-day
| when asked as to prospects.
That opinion is shaped by every
■ Republican worker approached and
I not a few Democrats gave up the
i last minute fight to-day as hopeless
I after they had gone over the situa
tion in the various voting districts.
I Alderman George A. Hoverter,
I candidate for mayor, and Harry F.
I Oves, nominee for city treasurer, ex
] pressed themselves as highly pleas
l ed with the progress of their cam
; paigns and said that the only mat
-1 ter in question is that of mujor
| ity. DeWitt A. Fry, candidate for
i city controller, who has been gett
] ing about the city, said the same
■ thing and with them will go into of
| tice again City Commissioners Hass
i ler, Gross, Lynch and Burtnett. Re-
I publican committeemen were busy
i setting up the last of their fences
j for the whole ticket to-day, and the
1 slogan for to-morrow will be "Get
' Out the Vote."
!_I II llic County
Republican sentiment is running
1 high throughout the county and
| there is no question of the election
i of George Karmany as sheriff, Har
; vey Taylor as recorder, Captain
Henry M. Stine and C. C. Cumbler
for county commissioners and the
remainder of their running mates on
| the county ticket. Straight ticket
I voting will be ifapuiar with Repub
; licans to-morrow who are bent upon
! piling up majorities that will testify
! as to their dissatisfaction with na
i tional affairs as conducted by the
| Wilson administration. To-morrow's
j majorities will indicate he feeling of
; Republicans as to the national eloc
! tions next year, they say.
•aqt o) aiqruoAßj oau saßjiHl uy
j loans and the adoption of all of
| them appears to be assured.
Old Gag Fails
Among politicians the outburst of
! pretended interest in behalf of the
.floundering candidates of the party
|by the V\#son machine in Dauphin
county is regarded with mixed feel
\ ings of contempt at the hypberisy
of it all and the amusement over
'amateurish efforts of desperate
bosses, who want to keep in the
party limelight so that they may dic
: tnte party action in the Presidential
icampaign next year. Corruption of
'the ballot box is the old, old slogan
of the machine which has about
j ruined the democracy of this sec
tion, .hut the practical men among
'the Democrats are declaring with
I considerable emphasis that (heir
'memories are too long with regard
! to former campaigns to cause them
,to get excited over the last-hour
ar.-tics of their so-called leaders,
j "If there has been a lot of crook
] edness in the primary campaign,"
declared an outspoken Democrat
to-day, "why didn't the virtuous
gentlemen who are playing poor
polities throw the net out long ago
and hale the culprits Into court,
where they could be fitly punished?
jThis thing of springing sensational
| charges in the lust hour of the cum
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DeShong Regime at
Police Court Near End
A larceny charge preferred by a
| local store against one of its for
j iner employes taken to police head
l quarters Saturday was taken over
1 in some manner by Alderman James
B. DeShong who has been presiding
at police court for months.
l.VHhong to-day went to unusual
lengths to-day to keep the matter I
1 secret apparently because of the I
! manner in which he took the case
i from the police. He hung up the |
telephone when a reporter tried to |
get information from him. One of i
George A. Hoverter's promises to the I
voters ts to abolish the Keistey prac- '
tice of having DeShong at police J
court when he becomes mayor. The
Kelster program has cost the tax
payers thousands of dollars and
given rise to many nasty rumors.
CHEAP FREIGHT IF
RIVER IS DREDGED
FOR NA VIGATION
War Department Reports Show Means
of Opening Great Industrial and
Agriculture Valley to Seaboard
MAJOR GRA Y SA YS TASK IS
ECONOMIC NECESSITY TO U. S.
Making the Susquehanna River navigable is practical.
As an additional transportation facility it is necessary,
io reduce freight charges and develop interstate commerce it
is justifiable.
1 o conserve water and flood control, jointly with production
of electric is warranted.
hor benefits to be derived by Eastern Seaboard states and
the nation it should be made navigable without delay.
William B. Gray, major in the en
gineering service of the United
States Army, thus concludes his re
port to the War Department on malt
ing the Susquehanna river navigable,
after an "exhaustive study of condi
tions along this large waterway and
the resulting advantages of making
the river suitable for transportation
facilities.
Major Gray begins his report with
a history of the effort* to make the
river navigable - efforts which be
gan in 17US. President George Wash
ington included it in his recommen
dation for tin inland waterways
I transportation system, and for years
afterward money was appropriated,
surveys and reports made, but t'en
gross never took any action. Flat
boats were floated down the rivet
late in the seventeenth century and
early in the eighteenth century.
Excel Is Itail ways
In reply to the statement that
inlund waterways are not used and
do not pay, Major Gray states that
if economy in freight movement is
desired the canals will supply it.
"If a prompt and speedy receipt of
freight is demanded, the waterway
at the present time excells the rail
roads," the report continues.
Comparing the movement of
barges of coal from Buffalo to New
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jj OFFICER j ALSELY LABELED LIQUOR
T Chicago. A warrant for the arrest of Francis T,
A. Junkin. of Chicago, appointed a month ago a mem-
T a rani, f ii-ut "Km; colonel in the rcgui.-T i • <. was
issued
X shipim liquor.
HURI 1 EX t
J Company were slightly injured in an explqsi
4| Ed. Fci ■ -rtlilc . shut ... is lu'M.i
X and left arm. Benjamin Robinson, 64U Boyd street, has
X several burns on both hands. Richard Miincj. of Steel-
X ATTACKS BILL FOR EXPORT FIN A
4* Wr
|4
lew conttnc/."
J King, attacked the Edge bill for export financing i.t he
House to-day, characterizing it as an "admirable exam
i pie of lobbying and bureaucratic legislation."
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j| J * • BUY GERMAN DIAMOND FIELDS
'aj London. A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
I A
- Company from Johannesburg reports the purchase by an
i
iV Ar foi i >OO o ; i'.i
of all Germany's private and state interests in the dia
_ mond fields of what was formerly German southwest
Africa. Some protests arc expressed over what is called
£ J the "secrecy of the deal" and allegations are made that
? * the purchase was 'effected through undue influence in
4* po 1
" BACK BROKEN UNDER AUTOMOBILE
T*
McVcytown, Pa. Roy H'esser, 22 year;, old. had his
<s N
, i back broken near Ryde last night, when the automobile
* he was driving skidded and turned turtle. His brother,
- Mervin, sustained a fractur cof the right arm. Edward
eh
was removed from under the car in an un
<4
conscious • • dition.
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X MARK/ACE LICENSES
rj* Walter K. Thrush and Fannie I. Hoj, llnrriburf
HOME EDITION
York to tlio movement of six cars on
the railroad it was shown that the
average time to move the cars was
eleven days, while on the canal the
boats traveled the distance in five
days.
With transportation demands in
creasing daily in the United States,
far exceeding the present facilities,
this situation existing in the eastern
states in particular, the principal
means depended upon is the rail
road. Itecently auto-trucks were
Used hut the tonnage is limited and
the operation cost expensive, few
commodities hearing such high
trucking charges.
tiienp Substitute
"The consuming public should not
he compelled to pay excessive freight
charges when a cheap, reliable
means may be substituted," Mayor
Gray states. "It is absolutely for
the continuous growth.and prosper
ity of this- nation that its transpor
tation facilities be increased and
without delay. Pennsylvania, sup
plying all the anthracite coal and
almost 50 per cent, of the bitumin
ous, requires a 100 per cent, in
crease in the transportation of these
products."
Similar nepds for moving steel,
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