Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1919 — WASHINGTON NEWS. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS.

Washington, D. C., Sept. 5. President Wilson’s plan to stabilizeeconomic• conditions of sh e country through a conference of labor leaders, financiers and public’ «pirited men is seriously threatened unless he can bring about an adjustment of differences between organized steel workers and the United States Steel corporation, which refuses to recognize the,union. After a here with leaders of the steel and iron unions, Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, telegraphed the president urging him to hasten action for an adjustment, declaring that the labor leaders had difficulty now in restraining a strike and could not hold the workers much .longer in view of the defiant and arrogant attitude of the steel corporation. • League of nations opponents in the senate determined today .to carry their fight to the public just as the president has done. A series of speaking trips has been mapped out, beginning in Chicago Sept. 10, where Senators Johns, Borah and McCormick will speak. These speakers will then strike out in different directions. —o ’ Secretary of Commerce Redfield has resigned from the cabinet and will resume business life in New York Nov. 1. It is reported the president may name a middle western man to succeed him, but the name of such a man has not been disclosed. Bernard Baruch, of New York, is also mentioned as a possible successor.

President Wilson’s first speeches to the country brought criticism in the senate today from Senators Sherman and Borah, the former likening them, to utterances of Louis XIV, who said “I am the state,” and the latter, recalling the president’s declaration that the United States, under the league covenant, “can mind other people’s business,” asserting that such a statement was an admission of truth about the league.