Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 77, Hammond, Lake County, 17 September 1919 — Page 1

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WILL LIVE IN THEPLANT tSteel Co. Confident That Only Fraction Will Walk Out. That United States Steel Cort oration officials have already kompleted arrangements to operate Jhe Gary works and its subsidiary plants when the monster steel letrike is called next Monday morning, was revealed by several workmen at the plant today, who stated ithat they were going to remain at work. COMPANT Will. OPXSATE MAST. This was disclosed In these columns Jn week ago when the story was published that cots, carloads of food and oth-:-r necessities for the comfort of the men who will stay at the plant until the frike Is settled was being shipped into plant. .Although it was denied by officials. It was rumored that boxes of nfics and ammunition was shipped, to be. ti -jr d by guards in protecting property of ti:- plant should certain eventualities ensue. This also discloses th fact that the steel company does not intend to accept the demarjds of the steel workers. PLANT WOT TO SHUT DOWN. Those remaining at work will be fed and quartered in the plant and alraedy officials have the names of hundreds of iren who heve signified their intention of remaining at the plant until the s'rike is broken. t was thought by nany that the steel corporation would shut down for a week or so, but it 's jretty well established that the wheels of the monster plant will be kept running as usual. The steel corporation insists that not oxer 15 per cent of the. men employed in Gary will walk out. PHYSICIAN HAS GOOD SUGGESTION "Veteran Auto Owner Believes City Should Se- '" cure Parking Site Pointing- out the fearful congestion -? the Hammond streets In state of relair today, ue to the heavy traffic. Dr. T. W. Oberlin. one of Hammond's fist auto owners, declared that the t:r- has come in Hammond when automobiles should not be permitted to Tark on Hohman street' nor should they be permitted to stop and block tiaffic. "There is." continued Dr. 'Oberlin, "an ideal place for parkin? utos in the heart of the city, providing arrangements could be made to secure the tract and that is the strip of ground north of Plummer avenue, between Morton Court and -Oakley ave., Known as the Michigan Central park. It is easy of access, conveniently looted and off a street that would make parking of automobiles a relief for all down town congestion. The city should provide a parking space. It will have to do so eventually, ad it seems to many that this strip is Just the place." GET STRIKE NOTICE The headquarters of the Amalgamated siociation of Iron. Steel and Tin Work As er at Indiana Harbor today received a f clegram from J. DeToung, secretary of the steel committee, asking that all newspaper stories be disregarded and stating that the strike will be called on September 22. The local labor officials are already planning on the manner of conducting the strike and plan to conduct it on much the same principle as the Gary Bolt and Screw strike is being conJuetrl. Thismethod would include peaceful picketing but would allow of no force being used to stop workmen from' entering the plants if they wish to do so. Strict precaution will be taken in order to avoid the necessity for city authorities to call upon the militia and strike leaders are expected to vouch for the good conduct of their men if the authorities will agree not to call state troops. Both sides are anxious to avoid bloodshed and great care will bo taken by all concerned to avoid a rereti'lon of the Hammond catastrophe. Don't throw your paper away without reading the want ad page.

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ORGANIZERS ARE . SLAIN Pittsburg Meeting Held Behind Closed Doors, Chairman Interviewed. (BULLETIN.) iiNLENT,0NL Ntws "kvice; KXW TOBK, Sept. 17. -A news ticker Mil afternoon carried the following tinder a Plttaborrn date: "Chairman E. H. Oary, of the United State Steel Corporation, la a letter received by heads of the subsidiary companies today reiterated that ha could not meet with the men representing the onions. "Chairman Gary's letter says the steel corporation will not stand for a closed j. shop. It cannot alfora It. It would lower production ana Increase the cost of living, it would be the beginning- of Indus, trial decay and an Injustice to the men themselves." f INTERNATIONAL N ES SERVICE) PITTSBURGH, Sept. 17 The great steel workers' meeting was called to order today shortly after 11 o'clock. Twenty-two of the 24 heads of international unions were present when John J. Fitzpatrick, chairman of the national committee, had the doors closed. The meeting is an executive one and the committeemen thought it would be lengthy. It was learned that a resolution had been prepared to make the strike vote unanimous. STRIKE ORCEB TO STAND. Before he went into the meetltuf Chairman Fitzpatrick said that unless a last minute telegram Is received from E. H. Oary, chairman of the board of directors of the United States Steel Corporation, acceeding to the demands of the steel workers for the right of collective bargaining, an eight hour day and other minor demands the strike order will stand. riTZPATEICX DENOUNCES OAST. Mr. Fitzpatrick was bitter in his denunciation of the methods alleged to have been used to prevent steel workers fro morganlzir.g. "In the last twelve days," he declared, even of our organizers have been murdered. Gary's thugs are responsible for this. There is no room in the United States for Oary and his thugs on the one hand and the unions on the other. One, will have to go and that will be Gary." 'Asked if the attitude of Prsident Oompers ws not neutral in the threatened strike. Fitzpatrick replied that Mr. Oompers' silence "speaks strength" in the present situation. WANTS NO STRIKE THESE. Andrew Furuseth, of San Francisco, president of the Seamen's union, thought that a strike in the transportation end of the steel Industry might not be advisable as such a strike would de!ay the resumption of work. "If the demands of the men should be met." said Mr. Furuseth, "the supply would have been shut off and the men would be without material with which to work when they return." NOT rOS TAKING VOTE. The meeting today, according to Mr. Fitzpatrick, was not for the purpose '( takin ga vote on whether or not to defer the strike, but to perfect arrangements for carrying the strike order into effect. He said he knew of no request from any source to postpone the strike, al'hough I he was familiar with the wish of Presi dent "Wilson that all labor dispu'es be hld in abeyance, pending the industrial conference. "What i the opinion of labor lenders In the steel industry as to the possibility of the strike being deferred?" Mr. Fitzpatrick was asked. j BITTER IN DENUNCIATION. j "These men are not weather vanes." ; rerlied Fitzpatrick. "They do not veer around with every wind that blows." E. H. TOWLE IS SUED FOR DIVORCE. Numerous complaints are lodged acainst Everett Harrison Towle, in the complaints for divorce which his wife Hazel Ttuth Towle, filed today in the Hammond Superior court. Towle is accused of threatening to kill her and of refusing to support her and their children. The complaint states that they were married April 7. 1915 and lived together until September 11 1919. She says that during the last three ! years he has failed to provide for his family, but that he stays, out late at right and then sleeps most of the day. She believes him unfit to have the custody of their children because he swears and gambles. Mrs. Towle asks for $5,000 alimony, the custody of the children and support money while the suit is being heard. Green wald and Stinson are her attorneys.

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DANCER TO DIRECT COLLEGE PAGEANT Miss Gladys Gerrish. Miss Gladys Gerrish, a co-ed in th University of California in Berkeley,' las been selected to manag and direct the prine Fartheneia for 1920 vhere all the girl students of the aniversity will appear in all their beauty and grace. It is a woman's festival performance which is one of tfie most notable productions of the eollece year. FILES HIS APPEAL Attorney j. H. Conroy, of Hammond, today filed in the Supreme court a; Indianapolis the appeal of Damjon Bielich, sentenced to life imprisonment for complicity in the Tolleston bank murder, to have the judgment of the Lako Criminal court vacated and to be permitted to withdraw the plea of guilty on which ho was sentenced. Beillch contends that as he speaks only the Serbian language and does not understand English, the interpreter which was used at his hearing misinterpreted questions so that he ncv;r knew the gravity of the affair until u was too late. He was employed by N'lcit Trkulja and worked under his order and at the time Tom Batchelor rode with himand Nick to West Hammonl . rom Oary he did not know that he was hauling a murderer. Arriving in West Hammond. Batchelor took the wheel an 1 after driving around ended in South rhiotigo. IJielich. unacquainted with the territory, had a hard time getting bac't home at all. He says that at tli hearing he was a.t-ked if he had hauled Tom Bachelor end that he had admitted it without hesitation and that on this grounds be was induced to enter a plea of guilty to the charge of murder as accessory after the fact. Immediately after bein sentenced. Bielich tried to have Jud-; Smith vacate the Judgment and allow nim to change his plea to not guilty, but the court refused. Nick Trkulja. Bielich's cmplojer. received a sentence of from two to fourteen years for his part in the affair. BREAK GROUND FOR $350,000 PLANT The Gains-Ginsburg Auto accessories factory building which, when completed, will cost in the neighborhood of $350. OOD loomed up into a reality for the first time yesterday when the' Clark-Smith Contracting company of Grand Rapids. Mich., placed a large force of men excavating for the big concrete foundations. The length or the building will be 486 feet long and nearly 9-t feet wide. It will be f ur stories high and constructed entirely of brick, heavy timber and re-enforced with concrete. The first floor will be car high to enable cars to be run into the plant. Windows will be built around the big building on each floor, permitting excellent light in the daytime. Officials of the company have offered the building to be erected as soon as possible, as an endeavor is to b made to operate shortly after the first of the year.

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FAIR CITY TOUGH He Doesn't Last Very Long and Will Probably Return To Dakota Soon. As soon as Stanley Reese gets out of the Hospital he will probably go back to ranching In South Dakota. Mr. Hcese hid some friends in East Hammond and he came here on a visit ltst week-end. He heard there were a lot of good jobs at the Standard Steel ar plant and he started to work on Monday morning. He was given a brass h'?ck and whs very pioud of it. W hen h" came from work on Monday, be stopped in a grocery store and in paying for his groceries, accidently displayed his 'heck. How the rest of it happened Mr. Reese hasn't a clear idea but when he got out on Columbia avenue, he encountered some of the Amazons who rive in the neighborhood and what they did to Mr. Keese was a plenty. He was taken to Dr. A. W. Lloyd's office and Dr. Lloyd found one of his eyes nearly gouged out among other injuries, but believes he will be able to save it. Reese Is now at St. Margarets hospital. He could not identify any of hts ata:lants, tn no arrests have been made . To lay plans for campaign, to increase Its membership and place the orgraniation in position to take a more agretsive attitude In Hammond's civic affairs, a special meeting of the entire membership of the Hammond Chamber of Comerce has been called for Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. At the eeting o the board of directors Monday evening it was 'decided that the time fcr re-organization had arrived and that the association should have a. paid secretary who will always be on the job looking after. the interests of Hammond. At the meeting of the board of directmorrow another speaker from the American City bureau wil lbe present and explain why a paid secretary is necessary and what ha been accomplished recently by other chambers, in the evening there will be a meeting of the directors and all members at the rooms to take action on the proposition. If the members are in favor of a campaign to increase the membership, a contract will be signed with some reputable bureau which makes a specialty of such campaigns. It Is urged that every member attend and bring with him another man or citizen who is vitally interested in making Hammond s Chamber of Commerce Just what it should be. GENERAL STRIKE FEARED IN BOSTON r INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! BOSTON, Sept. 17. Peril of a general strike of labor unions In sympathy with the strlkiTK policemen, continued to hang like a pall over the city today. This situation existed despite the fact that the. union firemen had declared they would not strike and other unions were taid to be voting solely on the proposition of walking out only in ease of a strike of all unions. Guy H. Oyster, secretary to President Samuel H. Oompers of the American Federation of Labor, delivered his report on the Boston situation to his chi-f today in Washington. LXnial by Police Commissioner Curtis today that his amendment to the order regarding the punishment of those found guilty of violating the rules of the department, had any bearing on the present situation and was designed solely for the future, put to rest the report that it furnished a loophole through which most of the strikers could return to their jobs. GARY MINISTER MOVES TO MINN. Rev. L. H. Workman, pastor of the! Glen Tark Gary M. E. Church, since last January, with his family yesterday departed for Alexander. Minn., where they will make their future home . On Saturday evening at the home of .Mrs. F. H. Dunn in Adams street, a farewell party was given in honor of the pastor and Mrs. Workman. One Gary Building Fermti. One Gary building permit issued sinco yesterday was that of John Leks. who will erect a $3.0ft two-story frame residence at 41S4 Adams st.

COMMERCE

CHAMBER

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MAY ASK JUDGE TO ACT AS REFEREE

East Hammond Alderman Presents Resolution 'to Council Which is Passed. A Judge of one of the courts of Lake county will b; called upon to act as referee in adjusting the differences between the Standard Steel Car Co. of Hammond and its striking employes if a; resolution adopted by the Hammondli city counril last night brings the re-j suits for which it was intended. Alderman Skufakiss of East Hammond presented the resolution author-j izes Mayor Brown to appoint a committee from the council to call upon both I the Standard officials and the strikers j and decide upon a judge acceptable to both sides to act as arbitrator. Aft-.r I the Judge has been selected representa-j tives of both sides of the controversy will meet with him and at a hearing it j is hoped an agreement can be reached. The plan is similar to that adopted in I settling the Chicago packing house wage I and working condition disputes during j the war and which is still in force there.! It is specified In the resolution that' agreement to meet with the strikers in his hearing is not to be construed as a recognition of the union by the Standard company. Mayor Brown expects to name! the committee this afternoon. Members of the Hammond fire department were granted an increase . in salaries at the meeting yesterday evening but the vote .on the ordinance to give the policemen a similar raise was halted on suspension of rules by the vote of Alderman Stocker. This holds the matter up until the next regular meeting, October 7. unless a special meeting is called before that date. The new ordinance which embodies the report of the finance committee, gives the privates of the fire department an in crease of $12.50 per month and officers $10 per month. The police department i ordinance called for the same increases, j This will give the fire privates and pa- j trolmen $135 per month where they hadj aaked for $150. A heated argument ensued whn the I bill of Attorney C. B. Tinkham was pre- j eented for his legal services in the street car controversy. The whole affair was re.viewed. Many had been of the opinion that Mr. Tinkham had been hired by the Calumet Ave. Improvent association and they wanted to know on whose authority he had been retained by the city when Hammond already had a legal department. It developed that Mr. Tinkham had been asked in on th.? case by the proper authorities so the bill went through. The old cry of South Side residents for the removal of the C. & O. tracks from Kenwood avenue was renewed. City Attorney McMahon had promised the last time it was brought up that he would start action at once through the office of the prosecuting attorney which J would result in the removal or tne tracks. Nothing has been done as yet but the legal department will see to it. . An ordinance was passed whiHi pro hibits any old house being moved f rom j one lot to another within the residence districts of the city without the owner first getting the consent of two-thirds of the property owners of the district into which it Is proposed to move the building. T AXDERSOV. Ind. Sept. 17. Edward C. Toner, editor and publisher of the Anderson Herald, has announced that he v.i51 be a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor. Considerable rurprise was expressed in political circles today when it became known tha. ho will take a stand in favor of the tax law rassed by the last legislature. He is the first Republican candidate to take an open stand for the tax act. political leaders pointed out. WOMAN GETS HER FINGERS BITTEN In a free for all fight over a friendly card game at 131? Washington t., Gary, yesterday in which George Koko and wife. Mary Davis and Mike Roco-J vich took a lively part. Mrs. Koko got her fingers pretty badly chewed up. and to Judge Clemens' court the w hole bunch went with charges of assault and battery, gambling and divers other charges, and after hearing the evidence a fine of five' dollars and costs was imposed on Rocovich. ARRESTED ON ADULTERY CHARGE Aton Nage of Gary yesterday had his wife, Rosa, arrested on the charge of adultery with one Stcnto Radivinch. In Justice Clemens' court last night evidence was not introduced to convict, so the judge dismissed the case.

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HIS CANDIDACY

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TESTIMOTY DEALS TELLING BLOW FOR LEAGUE OPPONENTS William C. Bullitt, snapped in 'Washington.'' The testimony, before the senate foreign relations committee, of William C. Bullitt, lateiy attached to the American Peace eommiesior, is regarded as the most tell!!is blow yet delivered against the peace .reaty and league of nations pact. ,11a testified that Secretary Lansing expected the peace treaty to fail ana that I.ansir.g also stated that the league f nations was entirely uslasjk 71 IS OVER Little that was new was brought out 1 esterday by Coroner Graham in his continuation of the inquest over the deaths of the four vktims of the Standard strike riot, and the Coroner, unable to get some of the men to appear as witnesses, is considering turning the whole affair over to the grand jury. At the part of the investigation held at his office yesterday afternoon a number of witnesses wore examined. W. P. Lavin and M. W. Martin, International representatives of the electrical workers and blacksmiths, told of their advice to the strikers as to the manner in which they should conduct themselves. They said they had always insisted upon the observance of law and order. G. H. Vincett, works manager of the Standard plant, and several members. rcn of" the Hammond and the Standard police forces were also examined. About the only thing that was brought out which had not already been learned, was the admission ot one officer that he had fired his gun but he added that he had shot in the air. So far this is the only sht admitted to have been fired in the whole riot . Following the meeting at his office. Coroner Graham went to Stodola hall in East Hammond but none of the witnesses appeared so the hearing was called off. The Coroner believes the men do not come as they are afraid of being arrested by the police. Because of Mis inability to secure further testimony he now plans to turn the matter over to the grand Jur". ROBBERY IN COURTS (SPECIAL TO THE T!MES CROWN POINT, Ind.. Sept. 17.fidav its against John Shannon -Af-and Frank Duchrane of Hammond wer-j filed in the criminal court at Crown Point on Tuesday. The yourg men were arrested on complaint of Miss Agnes Ross, a Hammond school teacher who says the men stole clothing valued st over t hundred dollars from her. Lrnore Hodge and May Halloran, also of Hammond, were implicated in the transaction and affidavits have been filed aeaii.st them. This is an echo of the Hammond Hotel robbery. Writs were served on Gecrgc Harasrrovvski for having a slung shot and Mike Xestrovlch for carrying concealed weapons. They are also from Hammond.

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Ultimatum Is Served By Steel Workers All Over the Calumet District. (BUXX.ETIK.) UTBW TOM CITY, Sept. 17 At a meeting- of the Board of Directors of the United States Steel Corporation jester, day Judge E. H. Oary. chairman of tne board, refused to ay whether the strike question had been discussed. Ail he would say, "The wave of bolshevlsai may yet strike us." (BULLETIN.) PITTSBURGH, Pa.. Sept. 17 Whether the organised steel workers of the country as well as all the members of allied trades employed in the steel plants would go out on strike next Monday or await the outcome of the industrial conference called by President Wilson for October 6, was to be determined at a meeting- here today of representatives of 24 international unions and the national committee appointed by the A. P. of I. to organise the steel industry. There waa some disappointment because President Samuel Gompers of th A. P. of I,, could net be present. Although there was a report that Oompers ' had counseled ag'ainst "direct action" until after the conference with the president, the expressed sentiment of the labor leaders before the meeting opened was that the strike call would stand. It was admitted, however, that several of the steel men want a postponement. A general walkout of 150,000 steel workers in the Calumet and Chicago district will go into effect at 6 o'clock next Monday morning, unless E. II. Gary agrees to meet the committee of the International Iron and Steel Workers by coon today. The ultimatum was served by the steel workers yesterday. Organizers of the union are preparing for the gigantic strike. Mi. Gary has repeatedly refused to confer with the union delegates, and Theodore Vind, international prganizer and president of th--South Chicago Trades and Labor Assembly, believes that there is little hope that he will alter his attitude. He said yesterday the strike was inevitable. MASS MXETX270 HELD. The Calumet-Chicago district includ" South Chicago, Indiana Harbor, lia-t Chicago. Gary. Hammond. Joliet. Wan kegan. DeKalb and Milwaukee. Mas meetings arc being held at each place i. -forming the workers of the decision strike. Last night Mr. Rogan addressed e -eral hundred of the DeKalb rlants :rl Mr. Vind spoke in Indiana Harbor. Every worker in the South Chlca.' and Gary mills has received his ordr(Continued on page five.) THIEVES WHO STOLE GARY GARJCAPTURED LaFayette Police Place a Taxicab Across Bridge To Stop Them. (SPECIAL TO THE TIHES LAFA1ETTE, Ind., Sept. 17. Novel methods were employed by local policemen early today to capture three alleged automobile thieves, said to be from Indianapolis. Shortly after midnight a telegram was received from Lewis Barnes, sheriff of Lake county, asking the Lafayet;e authorities to be on the lookout for three men, who had stolen a large new louring car at Gary. The policemen were warned that tha men were desperate characters and that they should take no chances with them. A squad of four policemen hired two taxicabs and stationed them across the end of the Main street bridge, making it necessary for ail approaching enrs u stop. The police lay In wait and finally just before daylight the men they weie looking for came into v iew. Before the occupants of the car realized what had happened they found themselves looking into four revolvers. Thv men, when arrested gave the names of Harry Ross, agen nineteen; Richard Love, age nineteen, and Charles Emerson, age twenty-two. They Vere a!! srrmed with .32 'caliber revolvers. The police found papers in their pockets which led them to believe the young men had been living in Indian. ipolis. Advertise in The Times and adtonishing results if their users are to be believed.