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of DefendWas Who Opposed of New Company.
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ARE SHU ON THE SLUMP
REDS REPORT VICTORIES.
Say Kupiansk and Pav-
Have Been Taken.
, August S».—The towns of sixty-one miles east-south-east of Kharkov, and PrlovgJc, on the Don rirer. ninety miles sooth-southeast of Voronezh, have been captured by the Bolsheviki, according to a statement issued by the Russian soviet ror-
emment today.
The statement follows:
'“The towns of Kupiansk and Pavlovsk have been captured. Following the capture of Pskov we advanced ten
LODGE SAYS PACT •WILLBI
Agreement With Minority Members of Senate Committee Will Be Observed.
SEPARATE PEACE
EFFECT OF KMOX SPEECH
Fear in Some Quarters That Ratification Without Reservations May Be Hastened as Result.
German Pact “Hard and Cruel, and America Should Not Be
Party to Harshness.
Tt»« Isdiaasjwli* N*w* Bureau.
SS Wyatt Building.
WASHINGTON, August 29.— Senator Lodge, chairman of the committee on foreign relations, said today that he has no doubt that the nine Republican members of the
MORE BLOOD-LETTING SEEN i committee who are io control of the
committee will carry out their agreement with the minority on the com-
Pl.n for Starting World Tow.rd | mittM nport ^ trelty ^
for Starting World
Tranquillity Outlined by Pennsyl-
vania Senator in Speech.
with Germany: to the senate before
tfie end of next week.
In order that this may be done the committee will. Chairman Lodge said, agree that some f the representations
BUT CONSUMER NOT TO IT UNTIL LATER.
FEEL
IY HOGS ARE UNSOLD
CHICAGO, August Foodstuffs of all kinds continued on a downward scale today. Live hog* sold as low as fH.50 a hundred i*ound« early In the buying lack of buyers for thousands of the market made further de-
grades have
RRB . . I JPL- ■... . ty 8^ cents States * hound since the beginning of the
almost certain. All g a drop of approximate nd since the begtnnii
lee began around 11B.75 a hurf-
tge of flJG under prices at
, It
.‘gtsty.’s ng of more dressed
III reviv cardK m ;ve the
trading. Only . meat by the
ve the market, according nen. The consumers will the benefit of the lower ftgpofnted out, until meat
decline is released for be in about a week,
thousand hogs remained un-
pens at the close of and nearly 1,000 cars
on the way to the yards.
WILSON m I TO DO WITH PACT
IENCH CATHOLIC PARTY DEPUTY ON TREATY. T IY LEFT TOO STRONG
out I
to thoet
that and
the prothe eioek- : “'7“ me merger and that the » and Terminal year, violated In permitting and tliat the all the i Indianapolis including by the lessee, be required
Street
all claims, which were payments
that the law t street railand is it lions in the state a line of
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29.—Debate on the which was of deputies itMcation early In the chamber. Banoel. a Catholic the treaty as too strong and deit Wilson had been too commanding a ilation of the peace Socialist, said that Preslwns not the father of the of nations; the Socialists would chteved It. had not war been deRamell. Radical, arraigned Premier nenceau for not forming a Anemia! league of nations. M. Comudet, Clerical. attacked the Anglo-Perslan treaty. For Rhine Frontier. Maurice Barres criticised the treaty for falling to make a Rhine frontier. He advocated French propaganda and (he dlsscmlnaVon of French literature, art and language, so that when the fifteen years of occupation have ended the Rhine valiev may become a sort of Franco-tie rjnan autinomous country Which will afford protection against another Prussian aggression. He declared he would vote for ratlttcation of the
treaty.
Premier Clemenceau will speak last In the debate, unless drawn into the discussion. Louis Klots, finance minister; Capa In Andre Tardieu. of the French peace mission: Louis Loucheur, minister of reconstruction, and Etienne Clemente!. minister of commerce, will help present the case of the government American Delay Discouraging. From indications the French have given hope oi prompt action by the American senate and are looking to Italy's ratification early In September
to_put the treaty in force. itles are watching with great e controversy going on in the a tea senate over the treaty
unfavorable comments on the senate's procrastination. One deputy, who heretofore l\as been a staunch supporter the league of nations, said; “If the league of nations is the cause, then 1
? = :: W*S umfct to that
Continued on Page Thirty-eight.
TEN POUNDS OF SUGAR TO BE SOLD FOR SI .10
FEDERAL DISTRIBUTER TELLS OF CANNING SUPPLY PLANS.
WARD TO HAVE DEPOT
Miapolis' housewives can get ten of granulated sugar at 11 a pound Monday morning, is the announced today from the office Wvckoff, federal sugar disIndiana. According to plans at today, the sugai will be on teen grocery stores over the . a centra' store for each ward. The kill be sold only for canning purMr Wyckoff said that he has any plan to sell sugar from place In the city and lias the ward plan to avoid crowds which would otherwise Worsts of Trouble Over. worst of the sugar trouble is said Mr. Wyckoff today. “We igar rolling toward VinHaute. Lafayette, Ft. 'Uth Bend, where the is acute. Logans port was in need and a car should
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iVi t * ff said that the plan ot dising sugar Monday by t would depend for sucthe grocers themselves, lurants. bakeries today If the
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Jfbty < i week.
WASHINGTON, Aug-usl 29.—
Declaring that the peace treaty can not he onfnrcAd h«t will lav the! < ? ep * n . de . rlt peoples who are yet to not oe enforced, out win ia> tne ^ jj ear< i the committee shall be
foundation “for centuries of blood letting/’ Senator Knox, of Pennsylvania, a Republican member of the foreign relations committee, and former secretary of state, told the senate today that the United States should decline to become a parly to the settlement effected at Versailles, and should negotiate a separate
peace with Germany.
In its hard and cruel’’ terms, he
asserted the treaty imposed on Germany penalties that violate Internationa! law and engender strife. He declared there was no reason why the United States should project Itself Into
vinced that the only safe way for as to deal with it is to decline to be a
psrty to it at all.
Credit for Renunciation.
*T think we should renounce in favor of Germany any and all claims for in-
demnity because of
that she gets credit for what we renounce. We ought to renounce all participation or membership in commissions, committees, boards or otherwise provided for In the treaty In aid of its execution to which by its terms we are
parties.
“V\> ought not to accept cessions of German territory. We ought to declare a general policy to regard with concern any threat of disturbance of general world peace, but at the same time we should reserve complete liberty of action either independently or In conjunction with other powers in taking such steps as we determine wise for
preserving peace-
Way Toward Harmony. “We ought then to carry out the spirit of the act of 1916. which authorized the President to convene the nations of world together to establish a cods Internationa] law. reduce armaments, establish an International tribunal and go as far as possible in the direction of securing peace through lust ice. through a league to which all the world are parti** in its formation. "This would be-a fitting, generous and dignified exit from a situation in which primarily we had no direct con-
cern. '
"It is indeed a hard and cruel peace that this treaty stipulates and I have no Continued on Page Thirteen.
asked to appear after the treaty has gone to the senate. It is generally understood and even admitted by some of the majority members of the committee that the new promise to expedite the treaty in committee is due to the announcement that President Wilson intends to go to the country for the purpose of urging ratification without further delay. It is the intention of the committee, it was said today, further to amend the treaty before reporting.
Attitude of Opposition.
The speech of Senator Knox, of Pennsylvania, today, was generally accepted by senators as representing the attitude of the nine Republican members of the committee who have voted m make textual changes in the treaty. With possibly two or three exceptions, these nine committee members have made no attempt to conceal the fact that they are in favor of defeating ratification and thereby forcing the United States to mak^ an independent peace with Germany. Senator Knox, however, in his speech today went a little further, *• is said, than some of the senators who are in favor of killing the
treaty would go.
i There was much private comment
war and see ’ among senators today that Senator
Knox had taken an attitude that the country would not approve. In this connection it was pointed out by senators in their private comments on the speech that Germany herself was not making complaints about the conditions imposed and that it was somewhat remarkable that a United States senator should at this juncture complain of
these conditions.
Terms Not Unpopular.
The trend of comment on this feature of the speech generally was that while there are many things in the treaty that the people of the United States do not like, the conditionsdmposed on Germany
are not one of them.
The declaration of Senator Knox In favor of the rejection of the treaty and his observation that the treaty will be-
come effective
three natio
MANDATORY RAIL RATES
MEMORIAL FAVORING GUARANTY SUBMITTED TO HOUSE.
WARFIELD PLAN APPROVED
in Europe when any
that the ;h which
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is reported by the committee on
rtflatlons. The textual amend-
made by the committee on foreign relations In the last w’eek were all made with a view of killing the treaty. The senate understands that very clearly. Indeed as has already been pointed out the Johrison-Borah-Fali-Knox group has at no time attempted to give out any impression other than that the purpose of the amendments w'as to defeat the treaty. It was decided several days ago by this group of senators that Senator Knox should make the opening speecii setting forth to the country the plan that the group of Republicans
would pursue.
Opposed to Root-Taft Idea. The plan is, of course, directly opposed to the course that Elihu Root, former secretary of state; former Justice Hughes, former President Taft and Chairman Hays, of the Republican national committee, have advised the Republicans in the senate to follow. These men have advised the Republicans to support effective reservations that would be embodied in the resolution of ratification, but reservations that would not be designed to kill the treaty nor even require it to go back to the peace Continued on Page Thirty-eight.
WASHINGTON. August 29.-Princi-ples of the Warfield plan under which a minimum interst return of 6 per cent, on railroad securities would be guaranteed through a nymdatory adjustment of rates by the Interstate commerce commission were indorsed by 50,000,000 persons owning or directly “inlerested in railroad securities" in a memorial to the congress submitted to the house interstate commerce committee by S. Davis Warfield, president of the National Association of Owners of Railread Securities. Signers of the memorial numbered 6,000 investigating institutions including savings banks, national and state banks, surety companies, trust companies, life and tire insurance companies and 8.189 Individual investors. Shipping Public Joins. The shipping public also was repreresented in the indorsemnt by sixteen municipal trade organizations with an estimated total membership of 90.000. Insurance companies giving their indorsement were said to represent 23,000,000 policyholders, while it was estimated that 6,500.500 persons were represented by savings banks. In presenting the memorial. Mr. Warfield said that its signers did not ask “the continuation of .utocratic railroad methods of the past, but a just and definite solution by the congress of the most important problem now before the country." The memorial urged favorable consideration by the congress of the remedial legislation proposed in the Warfield
plan.
Problem of the Future. “It Is our conviction."* reads the memorial, “that the railroads can not avoid destruction and eventual government absorption without a primary distributable return of not tess than 6 per cent assured upon the aggregate Investment not through & governmental guarantee, but through the dkercise by congress of Us duty to stop by act, the knife of regulation short ot the heart of the transportation system of the United States. “The responsibility for the existing system and the duty of conserving transportation in America rests exclusively upon the congress. The interstate commerce commission has not the power and can not .•onsistently with the Constitution be charged with the responsibility ot determining fundamental questions of public policy. Appeal to the Congress. “W'e appeal to this congress to discharge its duty by the only possible method. The first requisite is a mandatory declaration that the power of regulation shall not be employed so as to depress net operating income below the level which experience has shown to be necessary to sustain the carriers. "’The legislation proposed is based upon the necessity that congress shall
by law recognize a minimum percentage a down grade from now on." return on ihe aggregate investment as Following their conference with
a necessary limitation upon its delegatior of ratemaking power to the interstate commerce commission and shall
PROFITEER LISTS ARE
GOVERNORS JOIN HANDS RICHMOND RIOIING IN H WARFARE 1 ENDS; CITY IS QUIET COMMITTEE OF EIGHT CONFER with attorney-general. Crowds Assemble Around Plant
ALSO GO TO SEE PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON. August 29.-Governors of seven states came to Washington today as a committee from the national conference of Governors to offer state co-operation to the federal government in the campaign to reduce the cost of living. The Governors went into conference immediately with Attorney-Gen-eral Palmer to discuss the best methods to be pursued In the hunt for profiteers and hoarders. Later the Governors were to confer with President Wilson at the White House. After the Governors had offered the full services of the state machinery to assist the federal government. Attor-ney-General Palmer outlined to them what was desired In the way of cooperation. It is understood that the state Governors are prepared to make constant reports of food conditions in the communities, which would enable federal authorities to determine whether or not hoarding was being practiced, and otherwise to co-operate with the federal officials. Discussion today was entirely tentative. Governor Gardner said, and a program of action will not be formulated bv the Governors until after they have seer, the President. ’ - CAPTORES11 MEN IN RIVER AURA HOLDUP
CHARLES BEST THEN TAKES * PRISONERS TO JAIL.
USES BOAT IN THE PURSUIT
[Special to The Indianapolis News] EVANSVILLE. Ind., August 29.— Charles Best, a merchant at Rockport, was held up ami robbed, near Silverdale, today, by two young men. who had been atending the Warrick county fair at Boonvilfe. Both were armed and took a considerable sum of money. After the robbery the two men. who were In an automobile, as was Best, hastened to Rockport. and Best pursued them. Arriving there, he learned that two men had abandoned a car in the city and were attempting to wade and swim across the Ohio river. Being unable to find the county sheriff or town marshal, he armed himself, followed the men to the river, and jumping into a skiff, overtook them in the stream, captured them single-handed, and took them to the county jail! They will be held pending a grand Jury investigation. Best has identified the men as'those who robbed him. They gave their names as Louis Kitchen and William Rashell, and their home as SL Louis. OPERATORS THREATEN TO
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FLAT WAGE SCALE OF $1
HOUR IS DTMANDED.
OWNERS READY, THEY SAY
ATTORNEY-GENERAL SAYS TION WILL FOLLOW.
RESTAURANTS GET LOOK-IN
[By the United PressJ WASHINGTON. August 29.—Lists of retail food dealers charging excessive profits now are being collected in every big city, Attorney-General Palmer let it be known today. They are to be.used as the oasis for crim in&i action against dealers as soon as the congress passes Attorney-General Palmer’s proposed amendments to the Lever food control bill. The congress is expected to write the amendments into the bill within a few days. Wholesale arrests of retail dealers in every city are certain te follow, it was said at the justice de-
partment.
Wholesale and Retail. Mr. Palmer's amendments provide wholesale dealers as well as retailers. Agents also are investigating prices charged by restaurants in many cities. Chain restaurants are getting special
attention.
Evidence already in Mr. Palmer's posession indicates that profits of 100 per cent, on many articles of food are common in several eastern cities. Mr. Palmer’s list includes many that dealers convicted of profiteering shall be imprisoned or fined $2,000, or subjected to both penalties. The at-torney-general is planning to press for jail sentences where convictions are obtained, officials said today.
Predicts Price Reduction.
Very mate* will occur within ninety days.
Motion picture operators employed at practically all the movie theaters in the city planned to go on a strike before the end of a day If representatives of the Motion Picture Exhibitors’ Association of the city did not sign an agreement granting the demands of the operators for a flat‘wage scale of $1 an hour. John Benner, business agent for local union No. 194 of moving picture machine operators with headquarters at Room 43, the United building, said that the strike as planned probably would result in the closing of many of the theaters. Declares Contract Broken. Gustate Schmidt, city councilman, and an official of the Central Amusement Company, saiil this afternoon that the demand of the operators would not be granted today. He said that the operators had broken a contract entered into between the operators and exhibitors two years agofl providing for salaries ranging from $19.50 to about $30 a week for operators, the salaries being deterirust become effective today. Mr. Benner sain that the exhibitors had first broken the contract by the fact that two members of the exhibitors' association had employed nonunion operators and colored operators at their theaters. This, he said, justified the operators in declaring the contract void and in presenting their demand for a new contract at the increased scale of wages. No Conferences Held. Mr. Schmidt said no conferences would be held with the operators this afternoon, and added that the theater owners had made arrangements to run their theaters as usual after the men had walked out. Operators would be on hand to take the place of the strikers, he said, and if necessary police protection would be sought. All theater owners in the city received special delivery letters last night, Mr. Schmidt said, informing them that the new wage scale sought by the operators must come effective today.
of Castings Company, Housing Strike-Breaking Group.
HEAR BOMBARDMENT ECHOES Helsingfors Dispatch Relates Probable British Engagement LONDON, August 29.—A heavy bombardment, lasting two hours, was heard in Viborg, Finland, August 27. in the direction of Kronstadt the Bolshevik naval base, near Petrograd. says a Helsingfors message today. It is supposed that British naval and air forces were engaged. The British admiralty has received no advices regarding the reported bom- | bardment.
THIRTY CIIIES ARE TD HEAR PRESIDENT
Itinerary Officially Announced Indicates Speech Next Thursday Evening in Indianapotis.
MEN ARE PLACED ON TRAIN
Outside Workers Sent Away in Effort to Prevent Other Outbreaks— | Police and Deputies on Guard.
TD BLAME FOR H.C.L
TOUR IS TO END SEPT. 30
St. Louis to Be Next Stopping Placs After Address on Treaty to Folk of Indiana.
[Special to The Indianapolis Nears] RICHMOND, Ind.. August 29.— William A. Bond, judge of the Wayne county circuit court here, issued a call this afternoon for a special session of the county grand jury to investigate rioting that took place last night in connection with a strike of molders at the plant of the Richmond Malleable Castings Company. The call was made on the request of Gath P. Freeman, the prosecuting attorney, who said that he would make an effort to fix responsibility for the destruction of property. A large number of witnesses are to be summoned. - [Special to The Indianapolia News! RICHMOND, Ind., August 29.— Rioting, which occurred last night and until nearly I o’clock this morning about the plant of the Richmond Malleable Castings Company, ended when a dozen strike breakers were escorted to the Pennsylvania railroad station under a heavy guard and placed on a train for Chicago. The men had been imported to take the place of some striking molders, whose demands included an advance in pay and revision of working hours. Streets about ths plant are now qutet and the authoraties believe that the danger of further outbreaks has passed. Governor Goodrich has ordered the Richmond company of the Indiana militia to be in readiness for action, following an appeal last night from Mayor Zimmerman and Sheriff Carr, who told the Governor that the situation was alarming and that it was feared the small police-force here could not handle the crowds or give protection to property. One Man Badly Injured. Frank Stitson, said to have been one of the nonunion men employed, was injured. He says he was not attacked, as had been reported, but that he wag caught between two freight cars as he was walking across the railroad tracks near the Pennsylvania station. Physicians, who ace attending him at the Walter Reid hospital, say his condition is not serious. Policemen and special deputies are on duty about the casting company’s property and and also the plant of the Reliable Foundry Company, where molders, too, have been on strike for ten days and which was damaged some last night during the disorder. No persons were at work In the building at the time. It Is two squares from the casting company’s plant, which suffered considerable loss, practically every window being broken by stones Continued on Page Thirty-eight.
MED PEACHES ARE
CARLOAD IS DUMPED AT SIDE OF TRACKS.
CONDEMNED BY INSPECTORS
OMAHA MAN FAVORS LICENSE WITH LAW-FIXED POWER.
SENATE HEARING CONTINUES
Attorney-General Ames, in charge of the government’s price campaign, predicted today. A general reduction of 3 per cent, will finally result from the government's effort, Mr. Ames further
predicted.
“Reductions," Mr. Ames mid, "already have been forced in many local!-i-es. including New York, Tennessee and Idaho. A big drop in hog prices, which occurred yesterday at Chicago, is one indication of the effect of the government’s campaign. Another is the general decrease in prices if securities of companies dealing in food products and clothing. “Prices will continue on
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WASHINGTON, August 29.-While the general attack on the Kenyon and Kendrick bills for regulation of the meat packing industry, was continued today before the senate agriculture committee, W. B. Tagg, speaking for the Omaha Livestock Exchange, said that moderate government control would be
welcomed.
"Don’t give us a license plan with oneman control from Washington,’’ he said. “If it comes to regulation, let us have a livestock commissioner to run it, with members who represent the indus-
d prices try, and can hear and pass upon all
. complaints of unfair treatment.”
Assistant **You would think it a good plan to es-
Pal-
mer, »ft Governors were to see President Wilson. With Palmer, the Gover-nii-s were to plan the details of the c&m-»aigns to be waged in each state to cut living costs in co-operation the government in its campaign.
with
tablish such a commission r* asked Senator Kenyon (Rep.), of Iowa. “I do," Tagg responded. “Give us a commission like the interstate commerce commission, but put the power in the law. But your plan of taking away the refrigerator cars would shorten the sale of meat.” Instead of requiring the packers to sell stockyards they own, Tagg said, they should be required by law to include representatives of the shippers on boards of directors of the yard companies. “Would you confine the big packers to dealing in meat products and kept out of dealing in other foodstuffs?” asked Senator Harrison (Dem.), Mississippi. "Let the commission consider that for a year or two," Tagg responded "and recommend legislation to congress ff that is necessary. But wait and find
out.’*
When more than a carload of spoiled peaches in gallon cans was dumped at the side of the railroafi tracks, in the Big Four yards east of Alabama street early today, a number of small children began gathering the cans and eating the contents. Sergeant of Police Crane, of the humane department, notified inspectors of the city board of health, who, he said, told him that the fruit had been shipped from a packing house in Chicago and consigned to Abe Azin at Newcastle. Ind. Authorities had inspected the contents of the cars in the railroad yards here and had forbidden the shipment of the fruit beyond this point, the police were told, and many of the cans then were dumped from the cars at the side of the tracks. Cans Burst Open. Sergeant Crane said the peaches apparently had been placed in the cans a long time previously. Many of the cans had burst open because of the rotten condition of the contents. The health board inspectors ordered the stuff taken to a dumping ground. Police guarded the piles of cans after Sergeant Crane reported the children had been eating some of the molded peaches. The peaches, shipped by Swift & Co., of Chicago, HI., to Azin, who is a commission merchant at Newcastle, were condemned yesterday afternoon bv Edward Young, chief food inspector of the city health department. Mr. Young was tracing four other cars of the same shipment today. On to Newcastle. Charles Johnson, chief clerk of the health department, said that Azin desired to have the cars shipped on to him and that when his request was refused he sorted out some of the cans and took them on a truck to Newcastle. H. E. Barnard, state food commissioner, was informed of this. Johnson said that the cause of the peaches going bad was attributed to bad cans, a large number of which had swelled and burst open. The peaches were packed in gallon cans. LABOR UNREST A E. DEL.
He Has Not Been Profiteering,
Labor Leader Tells Stator Federation Convention.
LABOR PARTY ADVOCATED
High Wages Not the Cause of High Prices, McDonald Asserts—Calling
of Troops Condemned.
“Neither high wages nor profiteering on the part of the farmer is responsible for the enormous increase in the cost of the necessities of life, but the middleman, who takes 65 per cent, of the money we pay for whatever we are able to buy, is alone responsible,” declared Duncan McDonald, president of the Illinois State Federation of Labor, in addressing the convention of the Indiana federa-
tion in session here. ^ dvocated 518 a means
ta n l n .* formation of a labor party, following his address the convention voted to have a resolution for the formaUon of such a party In Indiana, reported by the resolutions committee and voted on at the re-con-vening of the delegates in the after-
noon.
Three-Year Wage Increase.
‘Tn spite of the things the press has been telling you,” Mr. McDonald declared, “high wage* are not the cause of high prices. As proof of my statement. wares advanced during the three yearrf ending May I, 1919, only 28 per
while the cost of the necessities
cent., i
of Hfe advanced during that time 78 &K, & statement. Wages are 50 per cent, be-
hind now what they Were in 19tG. borne say the farmer is the profiteer.
Can it be so when 65 per cent, of the
Z 111 ? 0 * 8 are farmed by tenants,
while their rich owners sit back in their fine homes in the city, enjoying what their employes have produced. They
thefarmer Tintilheis barely able
to live, himself. The high cost of living Is due to a combination of business Interests—not more than a half dozenwho have so managed affairs that they control the production and sale of everything we need. We must pay what they
ask or do without.
“They told u« a few years ago that meat was not wholesome when eaten too often, and advised us to eat potatoes. Then potatoes jumped from 40
Points to Middlemen.
Mr. McDonald quoted figures to prove that the biggest part of the price paid by the consumer goes to the middleman. Tomatoes raised in Iowa, he said, brought the tarmer M J9 cents a bushel. From twenty to twenty-two cans of tomatoes were made from a single bushel, and then a single can of tomatoes was sold to .the consumer at 22 cents. Cabbage *old by farmers at $8 a ton, brought $300 a ton when finally made Into kraut and canned, he declared. The men who stand between the consumer •bfith* producer, he said, collect a toll of 65 per cent on everything the people
have t6 buy.
"This condition," Mr. Mdbonald declared, “only show's the necessity of organizing politically. We must start our own factories and tell the middlemen
they can take a vacation.”
The speaker scored the “dollar-a-year-patriots,” who served as various administrators for the government during the war. and “secured in advance Information from which they were enabled to reap millions of dollars.” Besides, he declared, they fortified their sons of military age behind rolltop
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“We were told during the war." he declared, “that we were fighting
The ludianapolU N>w* Bureau,
33 Wyatt Building.
WASHINGTON, August 29— President Wilson today approved th« arrangements for his speaking trip in support of the treaty, which will begin next Wednesday, and end Tuesday, September 30, and which will take him to the Pacific coast and back. The original arrangement for the stop in Indianapolis stands. His special train will reach that city from Columbus, 0., at 6 p. m., Thursday, and the itinerary allows him four hours in the city. At 10 p. m. the train will leave for St. Louis, where the President will spend Fri-
day, September 5. Where He Will Go.
Thirty cities will hear speeches/ Ths itinerary will take ths President from St Louis to Kansas City and on to DesMoines whers he will bear north up through Nebraska to Minnesota and thence west through North Dakota, Montana and Washington to the coast Portland, he will go down through itr L forn a /V ^ Angeles and then will strike east for Reno, and on the return trip will touch Halt Lake City, Cheyenne, r?tv Ve rWi Hu ?» b,0 L iY lchita - Oklahoma i/a ® i^ k - Memphis. Nashville, MM „ U UT, VoMKE
h -' wl " com *
Would Bar Politicians.
Telegrams were sent today to all ths cities that are to be visited expressing tho wish that the meetings in no case shall be turned over to, politicians. It is the President's desire, as expressed in these telegrams, that the meetings per bas i ” be on nonpartisan
Since the war closed, there
reference that 1
democrat y.
has been no such reference that I couldsee. Trade unions must bring out and bring about this democracy that we really fought for. W# must stand solidly together for a real democracy in this splendid country of ours. We dethroned the kaiser of Germany, and Continued on Page Thirty-eight,
PRESIDENT TO BE ASKED
STEEL WORKERS ACCUSE CORPORATION OF FORCING ISSUE.
GOMPERS IS ALSO TO SEE PRESIDENT WILSON,
POLICY STATEMENT COMING
WASHINGTON, August 2».-Labor unrest over the country was the subject of further conferences today between President Samuel Gompers and the members of the executive committee of the American Federation of Labor. AfterMhese conferences Mr. Gompers had planned to discuss the general labor situation with President Wilson at the White House. Matters understood to have been considered today by the labor officials Included the threatened strike of steel workers and demands of railroad employes for increased wage* unless living costs w’e re reduced.
GARY UNION MEN ADVISED
WASHINGTON. August 29.-President Wilson is to be asked to take a hand in the controversy between the steel workers and the United States Steel Corporation in an effort to prevent a general
strike.
This announcement was made today by the committee of the steel workers, who say that the s^eel corporation is trying to force the issue before the President can have an opportunity to pass on the merits of the controversy. In a telegram to the union of steel workers at Gary, Ind., the committee said that the workers were not to strike “under any circumstances” until the strike date had been set by the committee. The Gary union had -telegraphed that the steel workers were being dis criminated agginst and "discharged wholesale for the purpose of forcing a
strike.”
The sole purpose of th4 trip, It was announced today, is to Impress on the people the importance of the United States senate s ratifying the treaty with Germany as soon as possible ami thus having the United States do its part toward the re-establishment of world
peace.
. Dates other than at Columbus. O.,
Indianapolis, as announced at the White House, are as follows;
September 5 st. Louis; September «. Kansas Uty, Mo.: September 6 and 7, Des Moines, with address night of -September 6; September S. morning, address
and evening * address
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Representative Rodenberg Offers Resolution Expressing Opinion. WASHINGTON, August ^.-Representative Rodenberg, Republican, Illinois, introduced a resolution today proposing that the congress declare that "the President should postpone his proposed tour of the country at least until such time as we may know definitely the problems which confront us.” growing out of the country’s industrial’Situation and the cost of living problem. The resolution said the railroad and labor situation generally "Indicate the necessity for immediate steps to bring capital and labor together" for a, better understanding; that this congress would soon adopt the President’s suggestions to combat the cost of living and that "renewed absence of the President at a time when his signature is required to place in effect measure.* aoopted by the congress to reduce the high cost of living would occasion serious delay in solving this vital problem." The resolution went over without debate. Applause and Jeera. Representative Murphy, Republican, Ohio, attacked the league covenant and expressed the hope that the President would “tell the truth” regarding ft on his forthcoming trip. He said it pro- . Continued en Page Thirty-eight.
WEATHER INDICATIONS.
UNITED STATES WEATHER BUREAU, Indianapolis, August 29. 1919.
—Temperature— J^TSTmT
August 29. 1318.
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Addresaea Gary Union. The telegram, addressed to James Mulholland, secretary of the Gary Allied Iron and Steel Workers’ Council, follows: ‘Your telegram received stating that steel workers are being discriminated against and discharged wholesale for purpose of forcing strike. The steel companies are doing the same in many other places. But in spite of this persecution try to hold men at work until aii amicable means of settlement have been exhausted.' The executive council of the American Federation of Labor is negotiating for a conference with President Wilson today. The steel companies show by their actions a determination to force the issue before the President has had chance to pass on merits of controversy. We are doing all possible to secure justice for the men and to prevent the national disaster of a general strike in the-steel industry. Do not strike under any circumstances until the strike date has been set by your committee." The steel workers have sought conferences with officials of the steel corporation to discuss wages, hours, workng conditions and collective bargaining, but thus far their efforts to obtain such conferences have been unsuccessful.
—Local Forecast-
Local forecast for Indl&napqlis and viciijtr for the twenty-four boors ending 1 p. in., August 30: Partly cloudy, with probable showers tonight followed by fair Saturday; not much change to temperature. Forecast for Indiana: Showers and thusderstorms tonight Saturday fair. Forecast for Illinois: Thunder showers this afternoon or tonight, followed by fair Saturday. Not much ebang* tn temperature. —Weather in Other Citiea— The following table shows the etat# of the weather In other cities at 7 a. m.;
Station.
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