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Wage Scale For Bituminous Miners Is Featured at Today's Conference; Mines Still Are Idle
EXXXYTQ— No. 276 20 PAGES Wo.: om.Tft HARRISBURG, PA. MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 24. 1919. 8 sl t?vo c cents' 3 HOME EDITION
INDUSTRIES SUFFER FOR
FUEL AS WORKERS PARLEY
WITH OWNERS OF MINES
Shops and Industries Face Crisis as
Strikers Mark Time While Negotia
tions Hang Fire; Coal Is Scarce
AGREE TO 31 PER CENT. INCREASE IF PUBLIC
IS MADE TO PAY FOR ENTIRE COST
By Associated Press
Washington, Nov. 24.—Operators and miners of the Central Competitive bi
tuminous coal field marked time to-day in their negotiations for a new wage scale
while awaiting a decision by Fuel Administrator Garfield as to what portion of any
wage advance should be passed on to the public.
When the wage scale committees met this morning the operators obtained an adjust
ment until to-morrow at which time they expect Dr. Garfield will be prepared to make a statement
based on further investigation of • tacts connected with the coal industry.
Two separate proposals are before the committees. One is the otter of the operators tor an
increase of 20 per cent, for day work and 15 cents a ton for mining and the other is the demand of
the miners for a wage increase of 40 per cent, and a seven-hour day.
Dr. Garfield, Attorney General Palmer and Assistant Attorney General Ames went into
conference this atternuwii t'o discuss the general c>al strike situation.
Although there were virtually no new developments just before the conference began, it
was evident that both sides recognized that a settlement could not long be delayed.
Although none of the operators would say so flatly, it was learned the scale committee of the
operators had informed Dr. Harrv A. Garfield," fuel administrator, that they would agree to the ad-
vaticc of 51 per cent, in wages proposed by \\ . B. \\ ilson. sece
tarv of labor, if the government would assume the responsibility
for the increased cost in production.
In government circles this was taken to mean the operators
w ant assurance tjiat thev will be allowed to advance the pi ice ot
coal to the consumer up to a point that will meet the increase
given to labor.
That is the problem the President. Doctor Garfield and the
Cabinet must settle. The preliminary consideration is to take
place to-dav when A. Mitchell Palmer, aattorney general: Doctor
Garfield. Walker D. Mines, director general of railroads, and Sec
retary Wilson meet to arrange a program which will be considered
by tlie full Cabinet to-morrow, and it is generally expected that,
if his condition permits, President Wilson will be advised of the i
• arious steos and serve as final arbiter of the course to pursued.;
Colli Famine Near
Reports received by operators
from middle western states showed
that the coal scarcity already had
reached the famine stage and that
the cold weather had brought suffei
ing and hardship. ir
Several operators declared their
willingness to accept whatever prop
osition the government might ofR r.
With the entire country aroused to
the need of resuming the production
of coal on a normal basis, neither
the miners nor the ownersi of the
properties, they said, could artord to
turn a deaf ear to recommendations
of the government.
Plants Shut Down
Industrial plants all over the
Middle West continued to close down
10-dav. fuel supplies to public uti.i
ties we r e curtailed further and re
gional coal committees advised indi
viduals to save coal as the nation
wide strike of bituminous miners
entered its 2tth day.
The only large producing center
reporting nn improvement during ire;
last 24 hours was West \ irginia;
where the output in the nonunionj
fields of the Southern part of the i
state was said by the operators to be :
normal. The operators also assert- (
ed that additional ogranized mines in
the New river and Kanawha dis- ,
triots in that state were expected to i
open to-day. I
In the great bituminous fields oi ;
Pennsylvania. Ohio. Indiana and;
Illinois, the miners apparently were I
determined to remain idle until a ;
settlement of the controversy of the;
wages and hou-s is reached by the j
conference at Washington of oper
ators a id officials of the United Mine;
Workers of America. . !
At Indianapolis manufacturers
.-greed to close their factories three!
days a week beginning to-day. until)
the coal shortage is relieved. In,
<'hlrago heat was shut off in street;
cars.
Five hundred Virginia state troops
reached St. Charles, a mining town !
near the Virginia-Kentucky border;
where it was reported radicals had
threatened to shoot any of the stril:-;
ing miners who attempted to return!
to work.
SAYS BIG PROFIT IN
SOFT COAL
By Associated Press.
New York. Nov. 24.—Soft coal
mine owners made "shocking
and in-defensible" profits in 1917.
and there is "grave doubt" that
they are entitled to increased
prices because of the proposed
thirty-one per cent, increase in
miners' wages, William G. JJc-
Adoo. former Secretary of the
Treasury, declared to-day in a
telegram to Federal Fuel Admin
istrator Garfield. The owners'
profits, as shown by their income
tax returns, examined by him as
Secretary of the Treasury in 1918,
he said showed earnings on capi
tal stock ranging from 15 to 2,000
per cent.
"I am convinced that the wage
increases proposed for the mine
workers are just and reasonable,"
he stated.
THE WEATHER.
Ilarrlnbnrg and Vlvlnltyi Fair to
night nnil TII<'*<III v. % 0 t much
•-■tnnge in temperature. lonral
to-night nhout freezing.
I-intern I'l-imayl tun in i Fair tn
nlxlit mill Tumidity, little ehungr
in temperature. Gentle to mod
erate northwest wrlndu.
HARRISBURG tMBSP TELEGRAPH
LABOR DEMANDS
IMPEACHMENT OF
JUDGE ANDERSON
Jurist's Mandatory Injunction
Incites 111 Will of New
Party
By - J .fjjt'itf ted Press,
thimg*. Nov. 24. A demand for
. in.peachment of Judge A. B. Ander-
Isi n. of the United States District
Ocurt was formally voiced to-day by
! the new national labor party in a pe
tition addressed to Congress. The
i jurist's action in granting the gov
| ernment a mandatory injunction or
i dering rescinding of the coal miners'
j strike call was the reason assigned,
j The action followed presentation of
a report by Robert M. Bruce, of Chi
| cago, chairman of the convention's
; resolution committee. Only one voice
: in the gathering was raised against
j resolution. It. 1.. Mariin. an Oklaho
i ma official of the United Mine Work
! ers, objecting to the procedure as "a
i waste of time."
"Congress has never paid any at-
I lenticn lo the demands of labor." he
' said. "The only way to remedy pres
! ent conditions is to change control
! of the government by voting the na
' ticnal labor party into power."
' Nevertheless Martin and every oth
er delegate to the convention signed
j the petition.
CIIIMXEY ABUAZK
A small lire resulting from an
overheated chimney called out sev
! eral companies of the Fire Depart
-1 ment this morning at 11.30 o'clock
| to the home of Charles Smith, 1110
, Monroe street. The fire was extin
• guislied without the aid of the en
l gines.
SERVICE MEN WILL BE
GIVEN ENTERTAINMENT
Post No. 27. American Legion. Planning Big Program For
December 1: to Be Given in Chestnut Street Hall
11} Private K. P.
Doughboys, gobs, devil dogs,
nurses, all service and ex-service
men of Uarrisburg, members of the
American Region, members of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars, Spanish-
American War Veterans, Veterans of
the Civil War and soldiers and satl
ois who don't belong to any of the
organizations mentioned—Greetings:
You are Invited to set aside the
evening of Thursday, December 4,
and to make no other engagement
for that evening, because some of
your "buddies" have arranged a
big party at Chestnut Street Hall
and provided "beunsoup" social
events
In the first place, there will be
clgarets and cigars, pipes and pipe
tobucco scattered broadcust through
out the auditorium, so thai there
will be plenty of smokes for every
body. nurses included, all evening
without cost. A special corner will
be reserved for the nurses and the
gallery set aside for the colored men
who were in the service.
Your t cket of uilmisslon will bo
your uniform, your discharge but
ESCAPED BANDIT
IS HEADED EAST;
LEAVES MESSAGE
Announces Arrival in Erie;
Railroad Authorities No
tify Detectives
By .Ijspciated Press.
liuflalu. X. Y., Xov. 2+.—Bill Car
lisle, escaped convict bandit, is
headed east, according to a dis
i patch to the livening News from
j Erie, Pa., where he is said to have
j been last night.
j- Carlisle followed his usual spec
| tacular methods by calling at a
j newspaper office and leaving a mes
t sage announcinghis arrival. The note
i read: "To some editor: Just
i dropped in for something to eat.
j How is the search coming? I've got
I them hunting this time. Wishing
: myself lots of luck.
(Signed)
"BIIjTJ CAREISEE."
"Former Convict No. 2883."
The communication was found in
the mailbox on the newspaper office
; door, where it was deposited be
tween 8.30 and 9 o'clock Sunday
evening.
The finding of the note was re
ported to Captain Wolff in charge
, of the New York Central Railroad
' detective force, between Cleveland
j and Buffalo. Wolff took no chance
that the note might be a hoax and
; immediately notified detectives all
j alor.g the line to be on the alert to
! catch Carlisle.
Rawlins. Wyo., Nov. 24. The
prison number of William Carlisle,
escaped convict and train robber, as
shown by records at the Wyoming
State penitentiary is 2354. Officials
said they considered the Erie. Pa.,
letter, signed by Carlisle, a hoax.
Atlanta. Ga., Nov. 24. Chief
of Police Beavers to-day received a
postcard mailed in Atlanta, at 7.30
o'clock last night and signed "Wil
liam Carlisle."
It said:
"Just hit this town. 1 like it very
much. Think I will slick around
here for a while and see what 1 can
get out of the Southern Railroad.
Regards to the entire force."
APPLY FOR CHARTER
The Riverside Fire Company, No.
15. will apply for a charted Decem
ber 2.
ton, your discharge papers, or your
J membership affiliation with any of
I the veteran organiaztions mention
ed in the first parugraph. The party
is to be exclusively for ex-service
men and women. Post No. 27,
American Legion, is making the ar
rangements.
War Flints a Feature
After considerable difficulty, the
i entertainment committee has se
cured the best war film taken by the
. Signal Corps, IT. S. Army, of dif
| ferent engagements on the battle
fields of France. The film has not
1 hitherto been used, and Harrlsburg'.s
! ex-service men will have the first
opportunity to see pictures of tliem
! selves under fire, In hospitals and
behind the lines.
Several vaudeville ucts have been
scoured for the entertainment, In
, eluding some local talent among the
cnlls'ed men which is said to lie top
notch. A feature of the cven'ng will
be the mu°tc. One of Harrisburg's
irnupuiest bands has been signed
up. and there will he a jazz orches
tra to fill in the Intervals while the
band steps 'round the corner.
Stye #toc-3n&epcn&ent.
Out of the Uniform and No u Civies" to Put On
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THANKSGIVING DAY
DINNER COSTS $lO
With Turkeys Selling at 65
Cents a Pound Family of
Five Cannot Get a Big Fowl
and Remain Within Limit
VEGETABLES SLIGHTLY
LOWER THAN LAST YEAR
Thanksgiving dinner for the average
Harrisburg family of five will cost '
slightly more than $lO this year, ac- !
cording to quotations issued to-day from J
one of the city's leading grocery stores.
This price, of course, is dependent on
the presence or absence of turkey on the
menu. Some householders have passed
around the tip that their dinner is not
going to cost $lO by reason of the fact
that King Turkey will have no place
on the table.
$2.50 Over Last Year
The dinner this year will cost almost •
$2.50 more than a similinr dinner cost
last year, according to quotations given !
by Arthur Williams, Federal food ad
ministrator.
The upward trend of prices this year. ]
is accounted for by reason of the ob- >
normally high prices being paid for j
dressed turkeys. These fowls, cleaned
and ready for the pan, this year will be |
offered to the consumer at 65 cents per :
pound, an unexampled high price. The
general list, however, shows a slight de
crease in cost.
Included in the menu are BOUP meat,
celery, turkey, cranberries, sweet po
tatoes. turnips, pumpkins, mixed nuts, J
apples, oranges, coffee, bread, butter, |
eggs. milk, etc.
BANK CLERKS STRIKE
By Associated Press.
Dublin, Sunday, Nov. 23.—Bank i
clerks throughout Ireland will strike
on December 31 unless the directors,
of banks consent to recognize their j
union, an action which they have!
hitherto refused to take. This was!
decided upon at a conference of the .
Irish Bank Clerks' Union here to- i
day. Fifty-six delegates at the meet- j
Ing voted ununimously •in favor of'
the strike, which will affect 3,000 out ,
of a total of 3,700 bank clerks in Ire- ,
land. \
A SERVANT GIRL
SEEKS SEAT
By Associated I'ress.
I.nudoii, Nov. 24.—Jessie Steph
ens. a servant girl, with a mass
of dark hair, who generally goes
about hatless, has signified her
intention of entering the race for
Parliament on the labor ticket.
She is endeavoring to gain a
scat in the local borough council
of Bcrmondscy and will their
stand as n Parliamentary candi
date.
Miss Stephens has been em
ployed as u cook, housemaid, a
cook-general, the "boss" of a
large common lodging house in
Glasgow, and a porter in a clicm
ici 1 rehouse. During the war
sn irove a three-ton lorry.
i
GOOD DINNER IS
COSTLY
Tills I gist
Year Year
Soup Meat, good,
1 1-2 lbs $.15 $.33
Celery, good. ;{
bunches 3 .15
r Turkey, It) pounds e.30 1.10
Cranberries, 1 lb. . .15 .18
Sweet Potatoes, 1-1
peek 20 .35
Turnip-, l qt 07 .13
Pumpkin, best
grade 25 .20
-Mixed X uts, 2
pounds . . . 00 .70
Apples, 1 20 .11
Oranges. 1 10 .13
Coffee, 1-16 lb 01 .03
Bread, one loaf . . .10 .10
Hotter. 1-1 pound. .20 .10
Eggs, 2 II .11
Milk, 1 qt 14 .13
Flour. 1 lb .08 .08
Sugar, 1 lb 11 .11
Total $10.05 $7.73
Army of 500,000 Men
Necessary For Peace,
Says General March
By Associated Press.
J \\ nnhiitglun, Nov. 24.-—The opinion
I of the Army General Staff and the
I administration is that a peace time
Auny of 500,<100 men is the miniini/m
j necessary to cr.re fur the national in
i teresl. General March, chief of staff,
, declared to-day coure-iting an inter
• pretation of nis annual report, pub
, lished Sunday, which placed the min
j imum at 250.900. General March em-
I phasized that he never changed his
(estimate of 500.000 as the smallest
; upon which to rest the military pow-
I er of the United States.
IS 69 YEARS OLD AND
NEVER SAW A "MOVIE"
Daniel L iqfrock, of Faxtonia, Went to One Circus When a
Boy, but Doesn't Remember Whose It Was
No sir-eft, C. Floyd Hopkins, Peter
Mngaro and oilier theatrical and
movie allow operators, past and pris
cnt, would not he occupying the po
sitions of affluence they now do, if
people of this district were all as is
Daniel Finfrock.
Daniel F'-nfrock, let it be ex
plained. is 9 years old and lias his
place of abode at Paxtonln. Uy oc
cupation he is a machinist's helper
in the service of the Pennsylvania
Ru'lroad.
Once In his life, just once nnd that
tn the far distant past of his youth,
lie saw a circus. Whether it was
SCHAFFERWILL
HEAD REVISION
j OF CONSTITUTION
Attorney General Made Chair
man of State Commission
by Governor Sproul
i Attorney General William I. Sehaf
! fer, of Pennsylvania, will or chairman
; of the State Commission on Constitu
; ticnal Amendment and Revision, the
| personnel of . which was announced
by Governor Sproul yesterday. The
! appointments include 24 others, two
j of them women, and in the list are
j United States Attorney General A.
! Mitchell Palmer and United States
I Secretary of Labor William B. Wil
| sen, former state officials and judges,
| eminent lawyers, former legislators,
city officials, newspaper men and col
! lege presidents. Sixteen of th 25 ap
j pointees are Republicans, seven are
j Democrats and two are Independent
j Republicans.
| Governor Sproul made the appoint
ments under authority of the act of
' June 4, 1919, and as soon as Attorney
| General Schaffer recovers from an at
j ti.ck of illness arrangements will be
made for the convening of the com
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HOI,I) UO MEETIXGS
By Associated Press.
| Berlin, Sunday, Nov. 23.—Inde
i pendent Socalists held sixty meet
ings throughout the greater city to-
I day to demonstrate against reaction
I and what George I-edebour, a party
| leader, called "the murderers' orga
i nizatlon which has taken the place
: of the government."
TWO DEAD IX FIRE
By Associated Press.
Watervllle, Me., Nov. 24.—Gladys
(Harvey, 15, and her little niece,
• Glenys Gaeke, lost their lives in a
I fire which burned the home of Ed
( ward C. Gaeke, a railroad employe,
I near here to-day. Their bodies were
found in the ruins.
one of the productions of Burnum &
Bailey, Kingling Brothers, Buffalo
Bill, or one of their forerunners, lie
is not now able to explain. Informa
tion was not obtainable as to the
number of rings It contained.
Geraldine Fnrrnr, Mary Pickford,
Charley Chaplin, "Bill" Hart, et al..
worry him even less than do and did
the clowns, acrobats and others of
the past. Never hus he set his foot
within n "movie" hall to see the pro
ductions of the big studios.
Does he ever anticipate such an
orgy? Well, for the present, he does
not wish to commit himself.
RELATION OF U.S.
i NOT CHANGED BY
TREATY FAILURE
| Country Is Still One of Allied
: Powers, Peace Conference
Circles Believe
(IKHMANY IS HESITATING
I Much Discussion About Sud
den Departure of Com
mission to Paris
fly Associated Press.
Purls, Nov. 24. —The withdrawal
! of the American troops from Coblenz,
in occupied Germany, is no c inside red
in American Peace Conference circles
! necessary in consequence of the fail
| nr. of the United States to ratify the
.German Peace Treaty. It is contend-'
j e.i that the United States is still one
; of the Allied and Associated powers,
j and that postponement of linal action
! on the Treany does not change its re
i lation to either the associated pow
; ers or to Germany.
Parts. Nov. 24.—The sudden depart
ure of tlie commission headed by Herr
von Simsop, delegated by the German
government to sign for Germany the
protocol guaranteeing enforcement of
the Pence Treaty, and to exchange
ratifications of the document, is re
garded In American peace delegation
circles as having close connection
with the news of the adjournment
of the United States Congress with
out ratifying the Treaty.
The American opinion, however,
dees not agree with the majority of
French criticism that the Germans
are using the failure of the Senate
to ratify the Treaty as a pretest for
avoiding fulfillment of the Peace
terms. It is suggested that the Ger
mans are hesitating because they are
confronted with a situation in which
the absence of American members
from the 'commission charged with
the supervision of eexecution of the
Treaty deprives them of what tliey
nr. supposed to consider as a counter
poise to the joints, of view of their
former European enemies.
The Supreme Council's note to the
German delegation is understood to
bo a sort of summons to the Germans
to make known whether they want to
sign the protocol and make the Treaty
effective or not. It is not understood
t i be couched as an ultimatum.
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• BOLSHEVIKES CLAIM VICTORIES 'Jjt
London. Continued advances against General Deni -■
• I
kine and Admiral Kolchak's forces are claimed in the L™
4 4
£ Eussiah Soviet communique received by wireless to-day. fca
454 ... *
4 „ The Bolsheviki are asserted to be fast approaching *
* * aritzan, on the lower Volga. They report the capture „ L
I of nearly 500 prisoners in the region of Tsareff and 900 *j*
JL *v>
in the vicinity of Omsk. hundred prisoners were
H 9
* * taken when Lbinistch was occupied. X
J MAYNARD TO START FLIGHT f
T 4*
Mineola. Lieutenant Belvin W. Maynard, one of
' 4] i '
4 the winners i nthe Army's recent transcontinental air #( %
ice, will start from here Wednesday or Thursday morn • *
i 4 4
g on his attempted one-;if.op cross-country flight, it was
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43* announced here to-day. He plans to fly from here to * ,
4j| Dallas, Texas, where he will rest over night, and then go | J
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t on the next day to San Diego, Cal.
,; OUR HELD AS PROFITEERS £
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Perth Amboy, N..J. —The four members of the firm of j|g
' * Greens pan Brothers, of this city, were arrested to-day *
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, , by Federal agents cn charges of conspiring to violate the * *
* * food control act by profiteering in sugar. Arraigned be- '
4 fore a United tSates commissioner, the brothers—Hyman * '
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44 Phillip, Isadore and'Jacob —each was held in $lO,n(M •
<4
1 ' ! , which was furnished. ,
* 1 GIVE UP HOPE FOR CREW * *
<4
4 i Sault Ste Marie. The slender hope he'd by marine *
.4 >
X men that some of the crew of the steamer Myron, sunk , j
• ID *
, t off Whitefish Point in the gale of aSturday and Sunday,
e * ight have survived, was virtually abandoned at noon *
< 4 to-day when no further news was re< va * ►
* H n
, I rious craft searching for trace of the victims. „ t
'* SAYS GIRL IS DEAD
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4 Wilkes-Barre. —.The parents of Sophie Lienski, 14
f | 'n r
ft years old, a school girl, who disappeared from her home
* * .Uerday, to-day recc essage to * |
4 the effect that she had been kidnapped and would be •
, .u. (lead. * *
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1 MARRIAGE LICENSES
GENERAL REVOLT
MAY OVERTHROW
ITALIAN KING
Advent of Bolshevism Seen in
Recent Successes of Rad
ical Socialists
REBELLION TALKED OF
Plan to Hiss Ruler When New
Parliament Opens De
comber First
fly Associated Press.
Itoitic, Nov. 21. Totiiassn
Tiltoni, Italian foreign minister
litis resigned ami Motrin Kolii
lioia, minister without portfo
lio. lias been named to sueeeetl
litin. according to tlie Kpoca.
Ilomc. Nov. 24. Humors of Che
wildest character regarding the possi
bility of a very serious crisis, involving
not only the cabinet but also the reigning
house of Italy, are in circulation as the
opening of parliament set for December
1 approaches.
The Socialists, proud of their recent
victory, are eager to continue what they
call their "march forward." The older
members of the party, however, such
as Deputy Turatl, leader of the In
transigeants. Deputy Treve, and Signor
Modigliania. are against any excesses.
The new elements which have entered
ll.e Socialist parliamentary group are
declared to be animated by revolution
ary sentiments and to favor an extreme
policy which, in their opinion will in
evitably lead to the advent of Ilol
shevism in Italy. This section now Is
undoubtedly the most numerous if not
the most important one in th# party,
it Is considered that It will almost cer
tainly assume command of the party
because of the audacity and determina
tion of its members to attain control
by whatever means seems best to tlicm.
Members of tills section are quoted as
declaring that, comprising as they do
more than 150 "live wires" among the
550 deputies, the remainder will not
dare oppose them, and that they will be
able to accomplish "some supreme act
of rebellion which will overthrow the
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