Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 76, Hammond, Lake County, 16 September 1919 — Page 1

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HARPOONS PRESIDENT Illinois Senator Brills-Wilson As Crowned Monarch of Quitters Without a Rival. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON, Sept. 16. "The president denounces all who do not follow him as contemptible quitters and vacillating time servers, as (Ostriches with their heads in the sand," Senator Sherman, Republican, of Illinois, said In the senate this afternoon, when debate on the treaty with Germany was resumed. "MONAUCH Or QUITTERS." "The president Is the crowned monarch of quitters without a rival !n the -we stern hemisphere." he continued. "Xo nan in public life ever auit quicker or ot'toner. His silence and speed whn escaping from his Imperishable principles of yesterday is as abyssmal and swift as primal cha-.s or a fallen angel sweeping: to his predestined doom. His echoes lacking the agility and silence of Their chief make a considerable exhibition of themselves in the subordinate Tola of beating: a more vociferous retreat. ECHOOIED IH VICE AND SCTOLT. "Why are we charged with desertion and poltroonery when we declare it's time to safeguard our wn country?" inquired Sherman. "We must spend our substance to resurrect and redeem peoples stunted by racial faults and vices end schooled for generations in rhronic revolt and general insubordination egainst the tranquility of peaceful life. "When we decline to ruin ourselves, wreck our government and destroy our country by a mad crusade around the world as the guardian angels of mankind and knights errant of oppressed humanity everywhere, we are denounced s quitters and poltroons by the senator from Nebraska (Hitchcock) and by our executive, who avows that he thinks more of the league of nations than his oath to protect the Vnited States government." WILSON IS OEILLID. Sherman referred to the president and ol. House as "the two crusaders In the bloody chaoes of internationalism." "All must pass under the yoke of his (the president's) epithets who will not respond to his flight into the dim world of Wilsonian dreams," Sherman continued. "A chief magistrate of this repub1'c. an accomplice of the receiver of s'olen territory, the betrayer of an outraged, plundered people, associated with a cut purse of empires in a coalition to divide and share three continents. Having picked their defeated enemy of the last available pound of flesh, they turn nd rob one friendly ally (Italy) and betray and desert another (China). SWASM 07 BATELLITES. "And," added Sherman, as he criticized the president for the Shantung and Hume settlements, "this cavern of counterfeit moralities and cock-loft of scholastic gabble has the sublime assurance to asperse senators who refuse to abase themselves before the tottering throne -of the chief rhetorician whose metaphysical thunder no longer Inspires ither respect or fear. "Let the swarm of satellites basking In the sunshine of patronage and sniffing the fragrant trade winds of administration favors gratify him with 1heir anthems of ineffable perfection. The louder their hallelujahs now the more fervent the maledictions at the Inevitable end." Sherman stressed the support given by Hitchcock on January 27. 1915. to a proposed embargo on munitions. "His chief had not then begun to hear voices in the air. nor the senator himself to demand the last pound of German fiesh be removed by us and given to others," Sherman said. "The senator's course then gave such satisfaction to the German element that his picture appeared on the first page of the Vicrecks" Fatherland.' "Tet the senator from Nebraska now charges the senator 'trora Pennsylvania (Knox) with defending the German cause and adopting German argurmn s at the reace conference. For loyally to America the senator from Pennsylvan'a Js accused of pro-Germar.ism. It comes with singular infelicity from one whose previous acts sought to cripple the Allies in the, crisis of their mighty struggle." ROSES FOR BILLY ROSE CROWN rOINT, Ind.. Sept. 16. The secret is out. At the Republican love feast in Crown Point last Saturday many men were seen wearing a little red rose on the lapel of their coat. "The Rose of Ukfi County," snd a good many wondered. It was designated and meant the wearer was a friend of Will Rose of Hammond, candidate for Recorder.

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) BOSTON. Mass., Sept. 16. Phases of the Roston strike situation today are as follows: J- bsuhila calm on the streets with guardsmen on patrol d.ity. Situation between Mrimng pollc r.-en und Police Commissi mor Otitis at a (lead lock. Establishment of a force of policemen to leplace strikers mees snag when only r.cven of twci'y n en quant'. -1 by civil service commission for the work. Six of these, it was reported, plan to Je in the union once they are swum in. Ccmmis-sion cj:: 'iu s 139 more-. ermont aui li.u uies ship to V. sl n A'j'i riot guns am'. i'U.UOO rounds of hp..i.iunition. Captains and lieutenants in Boston fire department voted not to go on strike, but directors of firemen's union hold secret meeting. May.'-r Peters announces that minimum pay of policemen and firemen is raised to $1,400 a year. Organized F. IL McCarthy, of the American Federation of Labor, issues a statement blaming Curtis for riots and saying: "The policemen are struggling for right, justice and Americanism in their employment, and shall so continue to fight until victory perches on their banner." Nearly one hundred Boston labor unions, all that have not as yet balloted, are now voting on the question of a general strike in sympathy with the striking policemen, it was stated today. Officials of the Boston Central Labor Union announced that every ailliiated union will be ready to report at a meeting to be held next Sunday. The Boston Typographical Union and the Pressmen's Union will meet tonight and the Newspaper Writers Union will meet tomorrow. According to Miss May Matthews "of the Telephone Operators Union, that organization is practically 100 per cent in favor of a general walkout. The Bartenders Union has also voted in favor of a strike. The Central Labor Union cannot call a general strike unless it is voted by fifty-one per cent of the unions which are affiliated with it. The Central Labor Union must secure the approval of the American Federation of Labor if the strike is to be countenanced by that oi ganization. Guy H. Oyster, secretary to President Campers, of the American Federation of Labor, announced today that he would I leave for Washington to confer with Mr. Gompers on the local situation. This statement was made following a conference this forenoon between Mr. Oyster and Organizer Frank H. McCarthy of the American Federation of Labor. McCarthy, when asked for a statement, said: "Let Commissioner Curtis explain what he has been doing for the last three weeks outside of his bombast. The public would like to know." WILL STEEL ' WEAKEN, IS QUESTION? East Chicago Man Said to Have Been called to Peoria on Important Mission Ed Knight, 4314 Xorthcote avenue. Fast Chicago, who Is a representative of the Amalgamated Association of Iron. Steel and Tin Workers has been callrd to Peoria to sign an agreement with the steel company at that fiace by which the company is said to recognize the union, agree to an eight hour day and twenty per cent increases in writes. Labor officials here look upon 'hl3 as significant in face of the. Impending general strike and believe that it indicates a weakening on the part of the steel heads. They believe that this may ie a fore-runner of a general compromise on the part of the steel industries throughout the country. In the meantime the organization in Indiana Harbor is bein compelted and new members are bein received daily. There seems to be a tendency of all the workers to get into the union before the big strike. Even those who were Indifferent previously are now applying for membership in spite of the increased membership dues. BAD FIRE AT FAIR GROUNDS. IfFCIAL TO THE TIMES CROWN POINT. Ind., Sept. 16. Owing to the carlessness of the worknan who was burning some rubbish at ' the Fair Grounds on Monday, many of the beautiful trees and the cow, pig nnd sheep sheds, the Willowdale stock barns and several other small sheds were completely demolished by fire, which had caught from some burning rubbish. The fire was a costly one and will be an added expense in fixing up the fair grounds.

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FOR OCTOBER CONFERENCE Industrial Conference at Washington Will be One of Nation's Most Important. WASHINGTON, Sept. 16. The national industrial conference set for October 6, will be called on to deal specifically with these 'things: 1. The demand of E0O nnn h.-,.r.-employed by the railroads for more pay than the government has been willing to give them. ST EE I, QUESTION TO FOSE. 2. The decision of the unionized employes of the UnitedStates Steel Corporation to strike unless the demand for the recognition of their organization by the steel company is granted. 3. The Boston police strike situation. 4. The demand of the Washington (D. C.) Policemen's Union that ihc right of policemen to organize and affiliate with the American Federation of Labor be recognized. OENEBAL SITBJECTS. In a general way the conference will be called on to consider the following: 1. The high cost of living. I. The democratization of industry. 3. The question of putting the wage system on a new basis. No conference convened In the United States, it will be seen, was ever confronted with more important problems. President Wilson is temporarily holding in check numerous labor manif estatlcns by referring them to this October conference. In pursuing this course he is supported by Samuel Gompers. president of the American Federation of Labor. The railroad shopmen were ready to vote to strike by an overwhelming majority, but when the President of the United States and the president of the American Federation of Labor joined iasking them to await the outcome oC tho October 6 conference, they decided to ' at worlt 'r the present. T de Itnlnnl7pi1 nt.il,,,. . i . . . ""i"")" in mi! sieci t-o.-pora-tion did actually vote to go on strike next Monday, but they yielded to the request of President "Wilson arA r j president of the American Federation of Labor that they too await the outcome of the October conference. The police j situation in Boston, while Wal in ,k... acter. really affects the entire nation for it has raised a question affecting tho police force in nearly every Jarge city MANY ALREADY OKQAJTIZED. It develops that In thirty-six of the larger cities the policemen have orgir ired and their unions have become affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. The Boston case is looked on as the test. It is generally conceded that If it shall finally be held that the policemen in Boston has a right to organize, affiliate with the great labor conization, and go on strike, then the same freedom must be granted to the policemen of other cities. The' same question was raised here at Washington when the policemen organized and were about to go on strike. They were asked to postpone action until after the October meeting. There are now assurances thp. t ihc federal government will take a dei'.nitc stand In opposition to policemen's unions. .Whether the October conference will sustain this position rt. mains of course, to be seen. The October meeting, it was niinolin.'ed today, will not attempt to rule with respect to disputes about wages or Lou-., of labor. The hope is entertained ti.it the forty-five men who will compose the conference, men representing every important line of endeavor in the country, will be able to lay down some general principles for the guidance of both capital and labor. The hope is that such controversies as those between the railroad employes and the federal government, between the steel workers and tne steel corporation, between the policeiiun and the states they serve, or. as is the case with respect to the Washington situation, between them and the federal government, can be adjusted by applying certain general principles. K. C. Ik AND LABOR POSITION. President Wilson, it is well understood, will, in his -address to the conference, continue to advocate a reduction in the cost of living rather than further increases in wages. Most of the influential labor leaders have indorsed this course of action, but it is pointed out that in spite of this fact, many of the labor organizations still continue to prefer higher wages to lower cost of living. The conference in dealing with the l.ibor problem will be confronted with the views of both the conservatives and the radicals' in the labor movement. Samuel Gompers. as head of the American Federation of Labor, and his associates In that organization represent the conservative view. The I. W. W. and the ra'dical Socialists are anta-on-Istic to Gompers and his fol'nwera. making up the personnel of tlv; confer-

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Remarkable photo, showing When the police in Boston went on strike recently fcr better conditions, crooks, thieves and highwaymen spread a reign of terror ence the radicals have not thus far been recognized. It was said at the labor department today, when attention was called to hc fact that the radicals yesterday made u demand on President Wilson at Seattle that they b-j, represented in the conference, that no step In that direction has thus far been taken. It is generally believed, however, that the President will select some one to represent the radical view. E. E Car Fare Increase Meeting May Settle Moot Question Within Week. The East Chicago board of public works will eonsider the seven en fare askeil by the H. W. & K. C. St. P.y. Co. for at least another week before taking any definite action upon It. It i. then likely that the increase will be disapproved. At the meeting yesterday the board asked that the Pickey Place exten?in be built and that a definite date be set for the construction. The street ca- company agreed to build the extension as soon as. conditions warrant it but would not set a definite date for the work. The street car company went further and told the board that eventually all the improvements desired will be made but that time will be required. Mr. Talmadgc. speaking for the company, explained th.it it had always been his policy to build up the service, that he had built it up just as fast s the finances of the company would permit and that he would continue to make improvements as fast as he could get the money together. He explained that when he took chirge of the company everything was in a run-down condition and that it has required all Ihe rironis of the company during the past few years to get things into such condition as to be able to operate efficiently. The street car company agreed ts run cars over the Gary and Interurban tracks on Kennedy avenue as far as l.-.lst street if it could be arrange.. with the nary and Interurhnn. These, cars would be run only in the morning and even'ng to take care of the men employed in the industries on 151st. The company also agreed to repairs on the pavement between the ear tracks on Forsylhe avenue." The board approved i large number of bills, most of them for small amounts. It was taken by consent that all bills in the future be submitted by the month and net be allowed to accumulate. Claims which are net siibmited by the month hereafter -will be bard of collection. FIVE INJURED IN RIOTING. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! SCR ANTON, Pa.. Sept. 16. Five persons were injured In rioting at the Von Storrh colliery of the Delaware and Hudson Coal Co. when members of the Rolsl-cvik element of the United " Mine Vorke;.s tried to stop other men from going to work today. Two hundrel men were engaged in the fight, in which clubs and stones were bt ing freely used wlu-n the police arrived. Five arrests were made. WRECK ON THE B. & O. RAILROAD INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CLEVELAND. O.. Sept. 15. In a headon collision at Willow on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad shortly before 8 o'clock six men were injured. They were members of the two engine crews.

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over the city. Harvard students, armed with clubs, aided the few policemen who remained loyal until the situation get beyond their con FEARFUL HURRICANE IN TEXAS 125 Bodies are Found on Roof Near Portland Yesterday. TINTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE I SAN ANTONIO. Tex.. Sept. 16. Thit portion of Texas along the gulf was recovering today from the effects of the hurricane which Sunday noon swept along the gulf carrying death and destruction in its wake. While no accurate estimate of the number killed could be made today, owing to the crippling of wire communication, estimates place the number at from 100 to 150. So far the only official esti-' mate of the number to reach here, told j of the finding of 25' bodies at Corpus Christi and the death of three others in small towns scattered along the const. Relief trains, bearing army physicians and nurses and great quantities ot food and clothj'ig are being sent into the tornado-swept district from several points today. In many instances the task of getting relief to the affected district ha, been made extremely difficult by the destruc tion of railway tracks. To reach these I isolated spots relief parties are traveling overland tn automobiles. According to word reaching here early today 125 bodies were found on p. reef a short distance from Portland where 23 of the bodies are said to have been tak en. The majority of these are said to! have been identified as residents of Corpus Christ i. I SPECIAL (TIMES BUREAU AT STATE CAPITAL! INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. Sept. Iti. A special session of the legislature will not be called until after the state board of tax commissioners completes its work of fixing tax rates in the state, Gov. Goodrich told Miss Ella Riegel, a member of the advisory council of the National Woman's Party who was sent here to urge the governor to call a special session to ratify the suffrage amendment. This announcement means that a session will not be called before tho latter part of October at the latest. Gov. Goodrich explained that he is very much in favor of the ratification of toe amendment and that he does not elesire to see Indiana lag behind other states In this respect. He expressed fear, however, that a special session at this time might mean an attempt to amend or repeal the tax. law before It has had a fair trial. He said, however, that he would call a session before that t'me if Indiana's vote is absolutely necessary at once to bring about the ratification of the amendment. Sixteen states already have ratified and the women's organization says it lias the promises of the majority of legislators In thirty-seven states to vo.e fer the amendment. The vote of thirtysix states is necessary for ratification. Better call up The Times and have it sent to your house every night. Then youll be sure it will be there.

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loyal police in dispersing crowd. trol and the state troops were called in. Clashes between the troops and crowds loitering on the streets have resulted in several deaths. IS CHOSEN PRESIDENT At the meeting of the Lake CountJ Bar Association held in Koom No. 1. Lake Superior court and presided over by President Abe otte-nheimer it was voted to accept and publish a memorial resolution for Lincoln V. Cravens. At the election of officers Fred UarneLf was chosen president. Beading of the minutes of the previous meeting was suspended upon the motion of Joseph Conroy. Report of the treasurer showed the sum of $49 as balance which was accepted and placed on tiles. Report of committee on memorial resolutions of Lincoln V. Cravens, was read and adopted and ordered to be spread of record. A copy of same was ordered to be sent to Mr. Craven's son in Washington, 1). C, and on motion by Judge Gillett. a copy of said resolution was ordered to be printed in The Lake County Times. A few remarks were then heard from Judge Reitcr. Judge Hardy and Judge Ibach concerning the life of Lincoln V. Cravens. Election of officers was then he'i and the fitlowing officers were duly elected: President Fred Barnett. Vice Pres. Guy C. White. Secretary Allen I. Twyman. Treasurer Roy Green. The president then appointed Robert Pavis ff Gary, as member of the executive committee. Meeting adjourned. NEW COKE BATTERY The second battery of sixty coke ovens of the Mark Manufacturing company began production today with a capacity of eleven to twelve hundred tons of coal a day. This will make a tofal of one hundred and twenty ovens in operation with a capacity of approximately twenty-four hundred tons of coal a day adn em p!oying fix hundred and fifty men. Two additional batteries of sixty ovens each are planned but will r.ot bo constructed this year. Work cr, the construction of these new ovens wiM probably be begun next spring. WHY EGGS AND BUTTER ARE HIGH I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE J WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. Cold storage holdings of case eggs on Sept. 1 showed an increase of 1.447,908 cases, or 23.5 per cent over Sept. 1, 191S. while the holdings of frozen eggs increased 1.7SS,416 or 32.5 per cent, according to figures made public today by the bureau of markets of the deaprtment of agriculture. There was an increase of 32.375.762 pounds or 32.6 per cent in the amount ot creamery butter and of 1.7iS,416 pounds or 33 per cent in the amou-.t eif p-ickin? stock butter held in storage on Sept. 1 of this year. Better call up The Times and have it sent to your house, every night. Then you "11 be sure it will be there.

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S REPORT Union Men In Calumet Region Said to Have Been Notified. (BTJLLZTIN.) 'INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEI CHICAGO. Sept. leSteel worker., 150,000 mtrong, wtli lay down their tool! Monday morning in a strlk that will paralyse the steel lndnatry In this section unless within the next 84. hours . H. Gary consents to meet the Interna, tlonal committee of steel workers, according to a statement today by Theodore Vind. International organiser of the steel workers and president of the South Chicago trades and labor assembly. Vind mads this announcement following receipt of reports from the east that the steel workers would not walk out on strike. "The only postponement of the strike that can come will be E. H. Gary's com. sent by noon tomorrow to meet our International committee,'' said Yin 4. "If he doesn't come throuffh by that time tho men win strike at 6:30 Monday morning-. T hat's our last word." Stories in yesterday morning newspapers as well as last night's that President Samuel Gompers of the A. F. L. had ordered the threatened steel strike deferred until after the Washington industrial conference in Chicago were set at naught last night by a denial of Mr. Gompers, published in these col umns, that he had taken any such action. Steel workers in the Calumet district in Indiana and the Chicago district will not abide by the president's request that they defer their strike. The 150.000 union men engaged In this vicinity as well as the Chicago territory has set their strike for 6 a. m. of Monday, Sept. 22. Orders directing them to quit the mills then were sent to nil locals of the union last night by Theodo.e Vind. president of the South Chicago Trades and Labor assembly. "Contrary to some newspaper report, there will be a strike, and 150.000 workers in the steel industry will quit," said Mr. Vind, who declared he received authorization to call the strike from the international committee of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Stel Tin Plate Workers of America. It was this committee that K. H. Gary recently rebuffed. It is headed by John Fitrpatrick. also president of the Chicago Federation of Labor. TO ATTECT MANY F I. ANTS. The strike, according to Vind. will tie up the steel industry in Indiana mrbor, Ind.: South Chicago. East Chicago, Ind.: Gary, Ind.; Joliet and Pe Kalb, III., and in Milwaukee. Mr. Vind went to Milwaukee last night to Issue the strike call there. The strike call, as sent out by Lo M. Rogan. financial secretary of South Chicago Local 41 of the steel workers, calls a meeting for Friday night, Sept. U, to make plans for conducting the strike. The meeting will be held at Ninety-bn;-ond and Baltimore avenue. t The East Chicago council held a short meeting last night and disposed of its business in record time, most important of which wa sthe licensing of all dealers in soft drinks. Ice cream parlors and soft drink parlors have been paying a license of fifty dollars a year for the privilege of selling soft drinks and a number of these men have complained that soft drinks are being sold in stores and other places of business where the owner has no license. The ordinance was drafted to protect the men who have been paying te license. A license fee of $50 Is provided for and a fine of not to exceed J100 for violation of the ordinance. The ordinance was passed under suspension of rules. The council granted an Increase to $160 a month for the new park superintendent but refused $175 a month to the city chemist and $500 for additional help for the city treasurer. $280.84 was voted for a cork carpet for the city ceiurt and $6,500 was transferred from the general fund to the park fund. $1,000 was voted for fire maintenance.. City Attorney Crites was advised to request Mr. C. L. Kirk of Indianapolis to be present at the next meeting of the council and explain the water situation. Attorney Crites was also advised to look up the law and advise how far the council may go toward restraining children from running automobiles. Are you reading The Trmesf

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