Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 149, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 November 1921 — Page 1

Legion Delegates Rap U. . S. Treasurer as War Profiteer

THE WEATHER Partly cloudy and somewhat warmer tonight. Thursday fair.

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28,000 COAL MINERS ON STRIKE IN INDIANA ARE BEING JOINED BY THOUSANDS IN OTHER STA TES; ENTIRE FIELD MA Y QUII IF OWNERS STOP ‘CHECK OFF;’ U. S. HAS RESERVE SUPPLY

INDIANAPOLIS STRENGTH LIES IN DIVERSITIES Spillane Shows Why •City Escaped Full Share Depression. RECORD BUILDING Enter urban Network Is Surpassed Only by Los Angeles. (Editor's Note—Following are the Impressions of Indianapolis as gathered by Richard Spillane of the Philadelphia Public Ledger staff on a recent visit to this city.) By RICHARD SPILLANE. Indianapolis presents a rather complex and puzzling picture to the perlon who tries to view it as a whole. Essentially it is an industrial city, having more than 1,100 manufacturing plants ranging from packing houses and automobiles concerns, to foundry and tool and machine works and furniture factories, flour and grist mills, etc. The variety of articles manufactured is large, totalling nearly 800. Most of these industries have been dull, the auto plants, foundries and machine Shops particularly. Some are quite active, the furniture and flour mills leading In this respect. Why furniture should be in demand today is not clear, yet furnifactories are busy. Respite the depression In its principal Industries Indianapolis is in pretty fair shape. It has had a lot of construction work this year, more proportionately than any other city east of the Mississippi It has not had a failure of size. It has an industrial exhibit recently about which many prominent men had grave doubts at the start, but which turned out to be a decided success and a business getter. INTERIOR BAN TRADE AND TRAFFIC 810 ITEM. Not until a person looks beneath the surface can he understand the sustaining influences in Indianapolis. Possibly the chief of these is the remarkable volume of interurban trade and traffic. Only one city in America has a greater network of trolley, motor truck lines and that Is Los Angeles. There are trolley lines everywhere and auto truck services too. That explains the great number of wholesale (Contlnned on Page Three.)

IRA BRAMBLETT WILL BE NAMED ON G.O.P. TICKET Chosen by Lemaux to Run for Councilman in Place of Henry E. Harris. Irving W. Lemaux, Republican city Bhalrman, announced this afternoon that he would offer Ira L. Bramblett, 434 North LaSalle street, the vacancy on the ticket created by the resignation of E. Harris, 1937 Adams street, ■omlnee for councilman from the First district. Bramblett ran second to Harris la the spring primaries. Harris's resignation from the ticket Is due to the fact that a question has been raised as to his citizenship. Some time ago he entered a claim, and while he has always regarded himself and been regarded us an American citizen, It Is understood that technically his allegiance Is to the Canadian government. CHICAGO GREETS LORDBEATTY Parade Feature of Reception to British Admiral and Staff. CHICAGO. Nor. 2. —Admiral Lord Beatty of England and his staff were accorded an enthusiastic welcome by thousands on their arrival here today from Kansas City, where they had attended the American Legion convention. Lord Beatty was accompanied by Admiral Rodman and staff, United States Nary. A parade in Lord Beatty’s honor was held In the downtown district. Thousands lined the streets and cheered the rlsitors. The parnde was led by two troops of United States caralry. In the afternoon the Beatty party visited the Great Lakes Naval Station.

m WEATHER Forecast for Indianapolis and Tlclnlty for the twenty-four hours ending at 7 p. m., Oct. 3. 1921: Partly cloudy and somewhat warmer tonight; Thursday fair. HOURLV TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m 35 7 a. m 34 ** a m 37 • a. m JS 10 a. m 40 . 11 a. m 42 12 (noon) .............. 45 Ip.m. ............. 46 9 P. bl ... *7

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SECRETARY MELLON IS SCORED BY LEGION AS PROFITEER IN WAR Resolution Is Passed by National Convention Demanding Immediate Passage of Solv diers’ Adjusted Compensation. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 2. —Criticising the opposition of President Harding and Secretary of Treasury Mellon to the adjusted compensation bill now before Congress, the American Legion convention adopted a report today to urge immediate passage of the act. The report was read by National Vice Commander James F. Scrugham of the committee on legislation. “The greatest opposition we have had has been letters from Secretary of Treasury Mellon and President Harding," he stated. “One of the greatest factors in the defeat of this law was a man who was the world's greatest war profiteer.”

Cries of "Mellon, Mellon,” were heard from delegates about the hall “The failure to pass this measure,” Scrugham continued, "was the result of a small group controlling a majority. “Let the American Legion show Congress it is disgusted with the back door politics to which it has been subjected." The report urging the passage of the bill as cow before Congress and without further delay was then put to the vote and was passed with one dissenting vote J. J. Harrisoh, of Arkansas, member of the legislative committee in 1&19 which voted against soldier bonus. Hisses were heard from thousands when the name of Grover Bergdoll was heard in a resolution Indorsing the action of the alien property custodian in confiscating

BONUS ISSUE IS PUT UP TO G. 0 ,P. SIDE Squeezed Senators in Threat to Bolt Leaders. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—Squeezed between the “bonus or no bonus” issue, set \ up by the Democrats, many Republican Senators today were threatening to bolt ' their leaders and vote for some proposals to grant the demands of the soldiers. This wavering on the part of Republicans has changed the attitude of bonus advocates from one of forelorn hope to confidence as the real fight over the proposal nears. Although Republicans without exception charge the Democrats with political trickery, they hesitate to vote against Senator Reed's amendment to the tax bill, which provides that the bonua bo paid out of excess profits. A number of Senators look with favor -on the proposal of Senators Simmons and Walsh of Massachusetts to pay the bonus from a fund created by the interest on the $11,000,000,000 debts due the United States from foreign countries. G. 0. P. RALSTON PLEDGES POUR IN_ BY MAIL Committee of 100 Announces Receipt of 1,500 and Start Hardly Made. Investigation reveals the fact that only three of the members of the Committee of 100 back of the Republican movement for Ralston, are not registered to vote, it was stated at the committee headquarters today. The investigation was made following charge* of W. N. Harding, made at a Republican meeting, that twenty members of the committee were not qualified voters. Tt was stated that some of the members lamed by Mr. Harding were out of the ci:y and the question of their registration could not be determined. A list of nine members of the committee whom Mr. Harding said i;e not registered, but whom the committee contends were registered, were made public yesterday. The members of the committee who are not registered are Lucius Wainwright, Homer McKee and Russell W. Johnson. All were said to have been out of the city on both registration days. Mr. Wainwright was in Europe. About 1,500 signed pledge cards were displayed at the committee headquarters and the statement was made that all of them were received this morning. The cards pledge Republican voters to vote for Mr. Ralston. It was announced that 25,000 additional cards are being printed. The committee, it was stated. Is making preparations to supply automobiles to take Ralston voters to the polls. It was said that 200 persons already have volunteered to supply automobiles on election day.

SOCIALIST MA YOU OF GAS CITY RENOUNCES POLITICAL PARTY Special to Th*T!mes. MARION, Ind., Nor. 2.—Fraa* Lerminianx, mayor of Gas City, Ind., one of the th>ee cities of the United States having Socialist administrations, today announced his repudiation of the Socialist party. “I have discovered, after four years of effort, that the Socialists can not carry tb.dr principles into effect ,n municipal affairs,” said Lermintaux. Lermnlaux came into tho limelight several months ago, when he was Imprisoned by Federal Judge A. B. Anderson for dismaying an Inlunctiou Issued by the court la wtimm to • atilte of glass-blowers la Gas City.

the Bergdoll property. An amendment passed called upon the American Government to endeavor to secure the return of Bergdoll to America Immediately. Another resolution scored radicalism. Another opposed the pardoning of Ehgene V. Debs and any person convicted of treason. The convention voted to urge the exclusion of all aliens from three to five years. That blood tests of all Immigrants be taken was recommended. The legion reaffirmed its position on the Japanese question as voiced at Cleveland lust year, recommending exclusion of Orientals. The Daisy was adopted as the legion (Continued on Page Eleven.)

ULSTER MOVE MAKES IRISH SKIES BRIGHT .Sudden Yielding of Ulster Changes Situation. LONDON, Nov. 2—The Ulster i Unionist government at Belfast has finally consented to the dismemberment of Ulster province by which the Sinn Felners will get Fermanagh and Tyrone counties, it was reported in semi-official quarters today. It generally was admitted that such a concession on the part of the Irish Unldhists would insure a peace agreement between South Ireland and the British government. At Sinn Fein headquarters it was declared that the relinquishment of the two Ulster counties “removed the last serious obstacle to peace.” The Sinn Feiners had demanded first a plebiscite in Ulster to fix new boundaries and later the detachment of Fermanagh and Tyrone counties. They based the! claim on the ground that most of the male residents of the two counties were sympathizers of the Sinn Fein or actual members of that party. The Unionists contended at first that Ulster must remain a unit and that all Ireland must likewise remain a unit. Pressure was brought to bear from London and t Ulster Unionists receded from ihelr orig Inal position. The change from pessimism to optimism, following the revelation that Ulster was giving way to the Sinn Fein, came with dramatic suddenness. It was generally felt this affernou that peace wag under way and that after all the Premier may be able to get away for Washington within the next week. The experts of the various committees settled down late today to work out details and they were under orders to proceed at breakneck speed. It was understood that Arthur Gr'filth, head of the Sinn Fein delegation, would withhold until the Inst minute his promise of Irish acquiescence to the English royal sovereignty. This was his trump card and he was saving it until the last. 600 MEN AND BOYS IN ’FRISCO COP NET Club Men Charged With Viewing Naughty Picture. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2.—ln the largest single raid ever conducted by the police, six hundred men and bo.vs were arrested at the "Jolly Bachelors’ Club.” They were charged with attending an exhibition of an Improper motion picture. Most of those arrested were able to give the required $5 forfeit at police headquarters after being booked. Many, however, spent s he night in jail. It was estimated that nearly half of the audience was made up of boys. The raid was made at the insistence of the Women’s Vigilant Committee.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2,1921.

JAPAN COMES TO PARLEY IN GOOD FAITH Admiral Kato Talks of Country’s Naval Program. WOULD RETRENCH Attitude Depends on Positions of Other Nations. By GEORGE R. HOLMES. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—Japan will not necessarily insist upon completion of her “eight and eight” program of naval construction now building, provided that a “proper understanding” concerning limitation of arament is reached at the forthcoming conference. Furthermore Japan has not fortified any of her islands of the mldPaciflc and will not do so as long as she is certain of the "peaceful attitude oi neighboring nations toward Japan.” These and similar opinions were expressed by Vice Admiral Kato, chief naval adviser to the Japanese delegation, in an interview in which he indicated Japan's complete willinguees to “go along” with the other nations at the conference in their efforts to limit armaments and allay the frictional causes of future wars in the Pacific and Far East. JAPAN HOPING FOR GREAT THINGS. The "eight and elgnt” program now building is designed to add eight of tne most modern battleships and eight latest tjpe battle cruisers to Japan's navy, bringing it up to a point where It compares favorably with the British and American fleets. At last accounts it is about half completed. "Japan Is looking forward to this conference with high hopes and expectations,” said Admiral Kato, "and our people are eagerly waiting for successful (Continued on Page Nine.)

CITIZENS FIGHT COAL YARD AT FAIR ENTRANCE Bitter Opposition Shown Toward Fortieth and Winthrop Avenue Project. Citizens residing In the neighborhood of Fortieth street and Winthrop avenue, fearing the establishment of a coal yard at that point, are seeking legal means to block such r move, considering It a damage to their residential district. Leadera in the movement declared today that they had sought protection from tho board of public works, the board of public safety, the board of park commissioners and the city building department without avail and now aro discussing an Injunction suit and on appeal to the city plun commission ns a last resort. No building permit for a coal yard at the point has Ween Issued, according to Building Commissioner Walter B. Stern, but the protesting resident* assert they have Information that there will be established upon ground between Winthrop avenue and the Monon rnliroad. at Fortieth street, owned by the Marlon County Construction Company, a coal yard which they say they have reason to believe the Banner Coal Company will operate for five years. WHAT BUTT,DING RECORDS SHOW. Records in the building commissioner's office show that on Sept. 26 there was Issued to the Marlon County Construe' tion Company permits to erect at the contested point a material shed 30x20 feet and an Bxß foot office building. Subsequently another permit for the office building was taken out, increasing Its size to 12x20 feet. The objecting residents say that those whom they believe to be interested In establishing the coal yard first asked the building commissioner for a permit to establish a temporary building In which to store cement and then came back with a request, for a permanent building with the argument that it would be better looking Construction work upon the two permits granted is in progress, the residents say. The petition which the residents say was presented to the board of public works board of public safety and building department without result, reads -as follows: “We, the following owners nnd residents located adjacent to the State fnlrgrotinds, do hereby file this protest and petition against the establishment of a coal yard at East Fortieth street and Winthrop avenue and the west gate of the fairgrounds and declared such, not necessary and detrimental to tho Interests of the community.” SIGNERS TO PETITION. The signers are R. S. Graham, J. R Compton, Wright Marble, Paul D. Tharp, Charles A. Griffith, I.ewls M. McDaniel, John D. Huffman, Elizabeth Huffman, Ralph Conway, J. B. Henry, L. J. Silver, C. R. Sutton, Thomas E. Garvin, Charles F. Simpson, George C. Iske. G. G. White, L. R. Zaph, James Ilazelton, I. G. Dick, A. J. and Edna K. Morris, L. C. Hopper, Car:. S. Black, Gene Miller, Julia L. Black, Donald M. Black, Claude Secrest, (Continued on Pago Eleven.)

COAL RESERVE ADEQUATE FOR 2 MONTHS AT BEST Public Utilities and Railroads Better Supplied Than Householder. YEAR’S PRODUCTION LOW WASHINGTON. Nor. 2.—The Nation has a reserve supply of coal sufficient to last from three weeks to two months, if production is halted by a big strike, figures obtained today from Government sources and the National Coal Association showed. With the first touches of winter already here the coal reserve situation as summarised by the National Coal Association follows: 1. Household consumers have not 1 stocked their bins beßvily but there is available in retail yards, tbe country over, a sufficient supply to last on an average of three weeks. Taken together the stocks In bins and yards will average approximately a six weeks' to two months' supply. 2. Public utilities have reserves sufficient to last from two to four months on the average. 3. The railroads have approximately a six weeks' supply with another week's supply on wheels. 4. Industries have been buying slowly and have only small reserve supplies. RAILROADS AND UTILITIES AKK ItKsr EQUIPPED. “Taken us a whole,” the association said, "the public utilities anil the railroad systems are vustly better equipped with coal reserves than are other consumers. But the household user is believed to be in position to augment his stocks now without great difficulty both from supplies in retail yards and because the public utilities and the railroads aie bo well supplied.” Coal production during the last few weeks lias been speeded up considerably. Government figures show The total production thus far this year, however, is still at a lower point than during any year since 1009, but Government officials do not look on this with alarm because of the business depression. Reserves in retail yards of some of the principal cities as reported to the association follow: New York City—Manhattan and the Bronx. Three weeks supply, bituminous and anthracite. Fort Wnyno, It.d.—Thirty days bituminous and anthracite. Indianapolis—Thirty days both anthracite and bituminous. Minneapolis—Two to three weeks supply.

BEECH GROVE BANK ROBBERY CASE WITH JURY Miller, on Stand, Makes Denial of State’s Chief Testimony. The fate of George W. Miller, who is charged with being one of the active members of a gang of bandits who robbed the Beech Grove State Bank of about $20,000 in cash and about $3,000 in United States Liberty bonds, on Sept. 9, was placed in the hands of the jury late this afternoon. Miller. Glenn Stout and Clint Shaw are credited with having been the robbers. Following the testimony of Miller in his own defense shortly betfore noon, both sides rested. Special Judge Charles Wlltsle allowed an hour to each side for arguments which began at 2 o’clock. Counsel for Miller attempted to “alibi” the defendant out of court by presenting Thomas McKinney, u motorcycle officer who is under Indictment ns an accessory after the fact. He testified that Miller was with him at his (McKinney’s) garage from about 9:30 o'clock in the morning to about 12,30 o'clock In tbo afternoon on the day that the bank was robbed. McKINNEY DENIES SHAW’S STATEMENTS. McKinney made a sweeping denial of testimony given by Shaw, who testified yesterday for the State that McKinney received SIOO of the money taken from the bank. McKinney denied that he went to Stout’s home and was told that “too many people wero around" while the loot was being distributed. He claimed that Miller and a inan by the name of W. C. Mcßride, a mechanic of 821 River avenue, worked with him on his machine at the time the bnnK was robbed. Mcßride, probably gave the strongest, evidence in the behalf of Miller as he Is not under Indictment nor in any way connected with the Beech Grove Bank robbery. no claimed that Miller, whom he met at McKinney’s garage for the first time on the morning of Sept. 9, was working on McKinney's car and that Miller stayed there until after 12 o'clock noon. MILLER MAKES FULL DENIAL. Miller in taking the stand declared that he had never been In Beoch Grove and was at McKinney’s garage at the time the robbery was staged. He admitted that he was a friend of Stout (Continued on Page Eleven.)

Revenue Bureau to Tax Medicinal Beer WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—Beer for medicinal purposes will be taxed at the rate of 40 cents a case by the Federal Government, the Internal Revenue Bureau announced today. There is no provision in the Volstead law for a tax on medicinal beer, but the bureau will invoke a tax law passed In 1918 levying a tax on beer. The tax to be imposed wKI be $6 a barrel.

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BULLETINS FROM STRIKING FIELDS

TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Nov. 2.—Twentyeight thousand coni miners of District 11, United Mine Workers, are not working today in protest against the Injunction of Judge A. B. Anderson. District officials expressed tile belief that 30,000 men employed by 230 mines would be out In the district before Friday. LINTON, Ind.. Nov. 2.—Practically every mine in the Linton field, is closed today in protest over Judge Anderson’s decree. The telegram sent to district presidents by international officers of the United Mine Workers was Interpreted virtually us an order to cease work. Both miners and operators here are astounded over the unexpected and far-reaching effects of the injunction. The walkout in this field involves approximately thirty mines and 5,000 men. HICK NELL, Ind., Nov. 2.—Ail thirteen mines of the Knox County field—including the largest bituminous coal mines in the world—are Idle today in protest against Judge Anderson’s injunction decree forbidding operation of tlie check-off system. Three thousand miners laid down their tools. DES MOINES, lowa, Nov. 2.—Attempts by lowa cooJ operators to discontinue the “check-off” system of collecting union dues will be foßowed by a general strike of the miners of lowa. John Gay, secretary o* District 13, made this statement. “The men w ill not stand for any change

DAVIS HOPES AGAINST WIDE COAL STRIKE Secretary of Labor Indicates Appeal May Quiet Injunction Situation. WASHINGTON. Nov. 2.—The Administration is hopeful that there will be no nation-wide coal strike as the result so Judge Anderson's injunction decision, it was stated officially today. Secretary of Labor Davis said that he could not discuss the situation while it wag still in the courts, but indicated that he was hopeful that the matter would be adjusted without a strike and pointed out that an appeal will be taken. Labor Department officials pointed out taht the check off system was provided for in tbo recommendations of the bituminous coal commission, appointed more than a year ago to adjust the last wnge dispute. They suggested that these recommendations might play a part in the future action on the Anderson decision. Muncie Judge Holds Jitney Ordinance Void Special to The Times. MUNCIE, Ind., Nov. 2.—Declaring that the ordinance passed by the city council recently prohibiting busses from operating ou streets where city street cars run, was obviously intended for the single purpose of favoring the street car company, W. W. McClellan, city Judge, today dismissed charges filed against bus drivers. Judge Solon J. Carter of Superior Court, room 3, today had under advisement preparatory to announcing a decision, the petition of jitney owners asking tjiat the court issue an injunction restraining the city officials and police officers from enforcing provisions of a recent city ordinance regulating J'vr.eys. The court probably will announce his decision tomorrow.

Dirigible ZR-2 Not to Be Replaced LONDON. Nov. was made in the House of Commons today that England will not offer tne United States another dirigible balloon to replace the ZK-2, which was destroyed during a trial flight. The United States purchased the Zli--2 from England but the airship had not been formally turned over when the disaster occurred.

STRIKE BILL HAS COST WORKERS $1,179,000,000 IN PAST SIX MONTHS

Special to Indiana Dally Timas nd Philadelphia Public Ledger. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—Workers forfeited 61,179,000,000 In wages as a result of strikes and lockouts during the first half of 1921, is indicated in data of tho Department of Labor. Cost of strikes to workers for entire year at this rate will be roughly 13.3 per cent of the Nation’s total industrial pay roll. It represents a sum sufficient to have almost wiped out unemployment throughout the United States, providing jobs for an entire yoar for nearly 2,900,000 persons. Loss to employers as a result of strikes and lockouts Is not known, although It is estimated at from three to four times tha loss to workers. To the public, tha cost would be further magnified In increased prices of necessities. From January to June Inclusive, a total of 1,621 strikes and lockouts were referred to the Department of Labor for settlement this year. For the same period last year the total was 1,980. Lockouts for tills year numbered thirty-seven, showing that

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in the contract with the operators which is In force until April I, next,” Gay said. EVANSVILLE. Ind., Nov. 2.—Miners in the extreme southern end of District It started tlielr walkout today In protest against the check-off Injunction. One hundred miners quit at Newburg, near here. Union officials expect the action to be followed at once by walk-outs in many of the other forty mines In this district. Four hundred miners have walked out at Princeton. There are about four thousand miners In the southern Indiana field. ATHENS, Ohio, Nov. 2.—Mining operations in two Ohio counties were affected todny by a strike of i,OOO workers who protested against the check-off injunction. Three large operations near Nelsonville and small mines at Beautmont, Kimberly ond Mlllfleld wero closed. The strike was reported spreading to other parts of the Hocking Valley district. CHARLESTON, ff. Vs., Xov. 2.—Possibility of an organized strike of West Virginia miners iu protest against the Anderson injunction was believed to be remote today because their leaders either are in Jail or are fugitives. CENTRALIA. 111., Nov. 2.—A1l the miners of the Marlon County Coal Company here refused to go to work today as a protest against the “check-off" system Injunction of Federal Judge A. li. Anderson.

A. F. OF L. WILL GIVE MINERS FULL SUPPORT Gompers Says Fight on Injunction Will Be Vigorous. Special to Indiana Daily Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. WASHINGTON. Nov. 2—The Union Mine Workers of America enjoined bj Federal Judge Anderson of Indianapolis from unionizing the Williamson coal fields of West Virginia, will have the full support of tbo American Federation of Labor in their intention to Ignore the mandate of the court, Samuel Gompers, asserted last night. ! The fight on the injunction and what he termed the “autocratic” methods of Judge Anderson will be vigorous and bitter, Mr. Gompers said. Organized labor, he indicated. will not tolerate nor compromise with the injunction which labor regards as a clear violation of the Clayton law. The aged labor leader's defy of Judge Anderson was issued after he had talked with John Walker of the Illinois miners' organization, who came to Washington to discuss the mine labor situation. Mr. Walker is understood to have assured Mr. Gompers that the mine union officials will contest the Injunction to the last ditch and may find it impossible to keep the miners in various sections from striking in protest of the court’s decree. I Suggestion that union leaders will rej gard abrogation of the “check-off" as a i violation of wage agreements and therefore grounds for a walk-out, is heard here. Mr. Gompers characterized the I ■‘check-off’’ system as a "matter of mutual convenience, agreed upon for many years between operators and miners,” and asserted he could not see any reason why Judge Anderson should .intervene now. i Officers of the National Coal Associaj tion, an organization which consists of ' operators in both union and non-union fields were silent, taking the position that they could not comment on Judge Anderson's ruling as it touched all phases of their membership.—Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Company. Remodel City Court Building for Women A contract for remodeling the second floor of the city court building so as to give the women s police department more o f fice space and to provide a more suit- , able arrangement of toilet rooms iu the south end of the building was awarded 1 by the board of public works today to J. W. and W. C. Martin on a bid of $1,890. The present south, stairway from the Alabama street entrance will be torn out and the second floor built over the opening. The space occupied by the I stairway and the part of the second floor main corridor between the north aud south stairways will be utilized for the additional space fofi the women police. The contract includes several other minor changes. i

In 1,584 cases of disagreement drastic measures were originated by the workers. May, always high as a strike month, brought 522 differences to tha labor department for settlement. East year the number of May industrial battles was but 403. In January of 1921 strikes and lockouts totaled 212, In February, 171; in March, 213; in April 266, and in June, 149. Building trades had the largest number of strikes. Printing and publishing plants came second. The baking industry reported more than fifty strikes aud tiie textile Industry in excess of thirty. Store than 1,600,000 workers lost time through Strikes and lockouts during first half of the year. Indicating for the entire year the total number of workers involved in quarrels with employers will reach nearly 3,000,000 men and women. These figures Include ouly those workers who walked out. Reports show the average strike lasted more than forty days before settlement was effected.—Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Company.

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AUTHORIZED WALKOUT MAY RESULT SOON Full Strike Hinges on Operators’ Construction of CheckOff Injunction. INDIANA IN PROTEST Strike of bituminous coal miners, tying up mines in sixteen States apparently hinged today upon whether all mine operators construe the Federal check-off injunction as applying to them. If they do, a strike may materialize on or about Nov. 10, the next pay day at the mines. At any rate Indiana is threatened with an authorized walkout at that time. Operators in this State say they will obey the injunction in preference to heeding veiled threats of a strike sent out Is 4 ’ Dight by officers of the United Min Workers directing their subordinates tt. consider abolition of the check-off as violation of contract. 28,000 INDIANA MINERS QUIT IN PROTEST. There are about 30,000 miners In Indiana. Approximately 23,000 of them were'on strike today, protesting against the Injunction which temporarily restrained operators from deducting union dues from the miners wage. Officers of the union will resist the Injunction of Federal Judge Anderson with every legal means at their disposal, one of them said. It Is understood the miners hold that the Injunction affects only the Indiana operators named as defendants. If their position is sustained in an appeal to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago, the possibility of a strike tying up all bituminous fields will be considerably lessened. NATIONAL TREASURY LOOKS TO DISTRICTS. There is understood to be less than $1,000,000 in the national treasury, but uinon officers say that the individual districts affected would finance the strike and that benefits would not be paid until the strike was five or six weeks old. Judge A. B. Anderson was studying the telegrams sent out by union officers last night. His injunction specifically restrained further efforts of the union to organize the open shop fields in West Virginia and practice of the operators in carrying on the check-off system. It will be for him to determine whether the telegram and its results would be in violation of the injunction. The international officials remained silent and even refused to comment upon the order John L. Lewis, president of the union, sent to the seventeen district* (Continued on Page Eleven.)

9 PLEAD GUILTY TO VIOLATION OF SHIPPING LAWS Eight in Plot to Steal From Express Company Get Sentences. After entering pleas of guilty to the charge of conspiring to steal from Interstate express shipments nine defendants, eight of them former employes of the company and the other, a wife of one of of the defendants, were sentenced In Federal Court by Judge Albert A. Anderson today. The following sentences were Imposed t Henry Lotz. 6311 Brookville road, and John W. Stevenson, 015 East Michigan sireet, eighteen months; Charles T. Bray. 1023 North Capitol a renue, Jesse J. Ward, Sl2 Shelby street. George Batts, 220 West North street, fifteen months; John W. Burkhead, 435 Nortl Nobis street, one year and one day; I rav.k MeEvoy, 101 N. Bradley street and Je*se B. Lambert. 1018 North New Jersey stieet, three months; Mrs. Charles T. Bray, ons day. All sentences of one year or_mor wiil be served at the Federal prison at Leavenworth, tho others in the Marlon County Jail. The evidence revealed a wide-spread conspiracy to steal from interstate express shipments, with Lotz ar>d Stevenson, foremen for American Railway Express Company, at the head of the conspiracy. With the exception of Birkhead who is a second-hand dealer and Mrs. Bray, the others were drivers for the company. Leniency was shown in the cases of Lambert and McEvoy because of their youth, neither boy being over 21, and the court seemed convinced that they had been led into the conspiracy. Before the discovery of the thefts it was shown that McEvoy left the emj)loy of the company and took another position at less money in order to get away from his surroundings. The testimony showed that 100 poundj of sugar had been delivered to Burkhead’s home, and Judge Anderson asked him what he had done with so much sugar. Burkhead hesitated a minute and then answered, “I made wine with it.” Judge Anderson directed United Statei Marshal Mark Storen to release any defendants desiring time to close up thell business affairs, until Monday on suf fieient bond. / Just before noon Dr. J. Otway Puryetß negro physician, who was found gulltj by a Jury yesterday on a charge ol violating the Harrison narcotic law, wal called into court and sentenced to twa years at I.eavenwortn. When the case of Clyde Edward Rhodes, who formerly was a constable in an Irvington Justice of the peace court, was called he failed to put in appearance, although his lawyer and bondsmen were in court. Judge Anderson ordered the bond forfeited and a capias Issued for arrest. He gave the bondsmen untii this afternoon to produce him. RhodA faces a charge of white slavery, -