Hammond Times, Volume 8, Number 33, Hammond, Lake County, 20 September 1919 — Page 1

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STRUGGLE SET TOivlORROV Midnight Shift on Sunday Will See Conflict Between Industry and Labor Begin. f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept- 20. With the nation-wide strike of organized steel workers and members cf allied trades connected with the steel industry set for the Sunday night shift, the employers and American Federation of Labor leaders today were making their final preptrations for the great industrial struggle and the question is "how many will strike?" E3CFX.OYES HOLD MEETINGS. Some of the subsidiaries of the United Plates Steel Corporation have adopted the policy of giving their employes tha opportunity to hold meetings to consider theiT attitude toward a strike. The first m-cting was held this morning' when the plants of the Allegheny Steel Co. and the "West Penn Steel company suspended operations so that the six thousand v orkmcn could talk it over. ALLEQUZSnr CO.'S STATEMENT. With the closing order President Harry E- Shedon. of the Allegheny Steel Co.. issued a statement declaring that th company is opposed to the "closed shop" principles of the A. F. of L. and that "sympathetic, strikes" are the cause of undue hardship to the satisfied employes and their families." WXXXi SUPPORT EMPLOYES. The company gave assurance of support to loyal employes and their families, provided the "company was able to secure business to enable it to ip'Tate the plant." officials of the two plants claim that ony about 15 per cent cf the employes arc affiliated with the union. Loyal employes of the National Tube A orks in McKeesport went today wearins large buttons bearing the words Loyal; I will not strike." The buttons are white with the words ".Srrike" and "Loyal" printed in extra larse letters. V. S. STEEL CONFIDENT. Officials of the United States Steel 1 Continued on pae five.) CORONER STILL WORKS ON PROBLEM In an effort to solve the complicated nuestion of "Who fired the first shot in the Standard riot?" Coroner Graham his been making some quiet Investigations among the residents of East Hamr.ind, who claimed to have witnessed iie affair. From the testimony he has received thus far little light is sh-.'d upon the matter. Over a dozen witnesses have been ex amined during the last few days. All were either by-standers r lived in I houses near the shooting.- One says, nrv;it i v.i1v that tbf firct cK.-f ramA f.-,-.,,, ' the ranks of the strikers. Several others re just as sure that the police fired first. One says the officers did the first shootinff. but kept their guns pointed into the air. lie adds that he -did not s-r any shots fired from among the strikers as he turned to see where nis wife was standing as soon as the batCe started. When he turned again the strikers were all in flight, but Standard puards, he says, were still firing after them. Coroner Graham says he has been informed that the Standard Stool Car Co. has a moving picture film of the riot which was taken from an ipstairs j window of the Lyndora Hotel. The film n-ay prove of value in settling the perplexing problem. ALLEGED W MEN ARE BROUGHT BACK Harry Morris, alias Morris Stulbaum, of Chicago, and Steve Stanarovirh, of Pittsburgh, appeared to George Tcpovoc to be fine fellows. They cafled on George at his restaurant on Guthrie street In Indiana Harbor and persuaded him to go ti Chicago with them. While in Chicago they stayed at the LaSalle Hotrl and had everything of the best. Soon after their arrival in Chicago a cird game was started and some how on compalined to the Indiana Harbor poHc and the two "con" men were located in rittsburfrh. Extradition papers woro obtained and the men are now in the Indiana Harbor jail awaiting trial on tTf 1 grand larceny.

NOW WHO IS RIGHT

X.eo XX. Hogaa, secretary of tie Allied Council of Steul aad Iron Work, en of Chicago, claimad yesterday that practical every- mu employed In the Chicago aad Calumet district mills will lay down his tools. "The walkout will he nearly 100 per cent,1" he said. "The only men w'ao will not quit are a few who have been working in the mllla for fifteen or twenty years. They hare rotten into a rut, and are afraid to break away. We hare 90 per cent of the men actually slfned up in the unions, and expect those not now in the unions to join the walkout. The tieup will he complete." Meanwhile the steel mill heads stand by their assertion that not more than 15 per cent of the workers will strike. It Is asserted that the men in the mills at Gary are five to one against quitting- their Jots. THE GREAT UNREST STATE TROOPS FOR GARY. f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. Sept. 20. State troops will be held in readiness to render "instant aid" at Gary in the event disorders occur there and get beyond control of local authorities. A telegram from Gov. Goodrich, who is now in Washington, was received today by Adjt. Gen. Harry B. Smith, requesting him to be ready to intervene if occasion requires and the adjutant general immediately took up the work of preparing to move troops to the Calumet city." WILSON ASKS INFORMATION John Edwin Nevin 'stff correspondent i. n. service! t,OS ANGELES. Cal., Sept. 20. President Wilson today asked for information regarding developments In the threatened steel strike. The president has been hoping that the men would accde to his request sent by him a, week ago to President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor to try to have the workers continue their labor until after the conference at Washington between the representatives of capital, labcr and the farmers of the country had concluded its program next month. FIRST BREAK IN RANKS. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICll WARREN, O.. Sept. 20. The first break in the ranks of the independent steel companies against the steel strike came here today when employes of the Trumbull Steel Co. were notified by officials of the Amalgamated Association of Iron. Steel and Tin Workers to report for work Monday as an agreement had been reached between the company and the union. The plint, which employes 8.000 men. has fcr some time recognized the union in all departments except the open hearth mills. As a result It is believmi the l the agreement was necessary only in the case of these employes. The Liberty Steel and the Western Pcscrve mills here employ 5,000 men. MILL OWNERS TO OPERATE I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) CHICAGO, Sept. 20. Mill owners in the South Chicago dlstrrct are today making preparations to operate despite i the strike of the steel workers set for Monday morning, and lf enough employes respond to the call already sent out. there will be a determined ecort mad-j to maintain the output Of the plants. This became known today after Police Chief Garrity visited the steel district to complete final arrangements for the disposition of police reserves which will be sent into the district Monday morning. HESSVILLE'S FIRST REVIVAL D. Emmett Snyder. County Evangel ist of the Christian church Is now conducting Hessville's first revival and the old town shows itself r.ot so slow after all. Thirty-one conversions at first invitation which was ast night. The meeting began Sunday. Sept. 14th and has been running five days. Mr. Pnyder is now In his sixth meeting In Lake county since April, in which meetings 425 have been added to the Christian churches. There will be a big baptismal service at Hessville tonight at which the 31 will be immersed. SCOUT MOVIES TOMORROW. The famous moving picture which was made this summer aj- the Hammond Boy Scout Camp at Cedar Lake, will be shown at the Bijou theatre for three days beginning Sunday, Sept. 21st. This film has been shown all - over the Unit ed States and all Hammond Scouts and their friends should sea it. While the report was not confirmed, it was reported yesterday that William Z. Foster, secretary of the national committee, had neen chosen to represent the Gary end of the strike and tomorrow- is expected to arrive to take complete charge. Gary is known as the pivotal city in the steei strike and in sending a man of his reputation and caliber it believed there is something to the story. Times news service is the best to be believed

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PLANTS ARE A canvass of the steel Industries In the city of East Chicago, those in the Indiana Harbor district and In the older part of East Chicago, discloses the sentiment among: officials and men that the city will escape the rigors of the general steel walkout that may befall other communities. Independent Steels. As one executive pointed out. the steel works in the city of East Chicago are independent concerns. In reality the big fight now pending is one between the steel unionization movement and the U. S. steel trust. None of the companies :n East Chicago or Indiana Harbor is part of the steel trust, and for this reason it is not expected that they will be involved like the subsidiaries of the big corporation all over the country. Different Conditions. The big steel strike, with the steel unions on one hand and the TJ. S. steel on the other, is based primarily on the refusal of Judge Gary to deal with unions in matters concerning employee of his corporation. Now In the city of East Chicago several companies not only have the eight-hour day, but biggest of all. the Inland deals with its DID YOU HEAR THAT ALDERMAN FRA"K MARTIN has packed up his bathing togs in moth balls and said goodbye to his near-daily visits to the Hammond beach, and in the meantime take a peep now and anon at the swimming rrize he won. BAILIFF JAMES TROST is about to celebrate his fifty-fourth birthday and the family has decided that if they can buy enough candles in town Jeems shall have a birthday cake. WILL HASTINGS left thia morning for a week of relaxation at French Lick. Springs. It-i reported -that the horses down there hear of Bill's coming with no great degre of satisfaction. "YOU can say that the baseball party Is all arranged." said C. A. Bonham today, "and that's all you do need to say. Lay off that new suit stuff for awhile until I get my tailor paid up." F. D. McELROY. the Hammond manufacturer, continues to write from out-of-the-way places on the earth. The latest was from Calcutta, where he paid eight pounds for a little ad in a Calcutta paper of 15.000 circulation. PENN CAROLAN. the former Dartmouth football atar, who Is coaching Hammond's football team, is very enthusiastic about the prospects for a championship eleven and intimates thit the fans are going to be much surprised. CORPORAL ERIC LUND is candidate for sheriff and says that his opponents will have to roll out beforo reveille every morning before election iu order to defeat him. COL. L. T. MEYER has just received pictures of the two sweet little French orphans he adopted some time ago. Both wrote flowery letters of gtatitude and Mr. Meyer is wishing that he could bring them to this country. W. P. LAVIN. international representative of the Electrical Workers, expects to spend next week at the big convention of hi organization at New Orleans. DR. H. E. SHARRER left today for Oma-ha. where he will attend the American Life convention. FRIENDS who rode with Harry Folk to the Crown Point barbecue are 'still telling of the speed they made. It took just seven hours. Harry had his engino overhauled three times absolutely free on that trip. SAM HICKS, business agent for the railway clerks' organization, has a pair of sore feet and is planning to buy an automobile instead of borrowing secondhand ones on trial. LUCIEN HIRSCH dropped into Hammond Just long enough to be frisked through the initiatory work of the Elks lodge and then beat it back to Omaha n the first train. OVER in West Hammond they get th j weeds cut along the sidewalks all right. Prisoners at the city jail who can't pay iheir tines are allowed to exercise in that manner. REV. J. C. PARRETT is howlng just j a little more pep than any of the other s.thlctes who have entered the business ' men's class at the South Side Gym. Atty. L. L. Bomberger is his nearest competitor. f . I CHIEF JOE NITZ. of the West Ham- ' mond police, a rabid football fan. suggests The Tanks as the name for the ! Hammond team. "In the w,r the tanks were invincible." says the chief. VICTIM OF EXPLOSION IS DEAD AT GRIFFITH. SPECIAL TO THE TIMES) GRIFFITH. Ind., Sept. 20. Miss Vera V'ray. aged IT, who was so badly i burned !n the powder explosioii here a month arn, died this noon of pneumonia. She was brought home from St. Margaret's hospital in Hammond on Tuesday. She was the daughter mi ( Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Wray. The funeral arrangements have not yet ' been completed.

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ALL INDEPENDENTS employes, and any man can appeal to the company through the industrial relations aystem for redress of grievances. The Republic Iron and Steel and the Interstate Iron and Steel, for instance, have long recognized and dealt with the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers of America. Other of the smaller plants have the eighthour -day and conditions now sought by the new steel unions. Pay Roll 4O,OOO,0O0. Another reason why East ChicagoIndiana Harbor has such few labor troubles is that it has the steadiest and largest industrial payroll of any industrial city in Indiana, with the exception of the city of Indianapolis. It is $5,000,000 larger than the next nearest city. It is pointed out that with workmen in the Independent steel industries In East Chicago-Indiana Harbor receiving hgh and steady wages and working under the best conditions in the industry that there will be little disposition to Join In a strike that primarily is between the t. S. steel and such of its employes as want to bring about union recognition. LAVIH . SAYS MAJORITY WILL CLOSE Electrical Union Officials Says Strike Will Mean Walkout in Hammond. The majority of Hammond's industries will be closed down Monday morning at S o'clock if predictions of labor union leaders prove Irur W. P. Lavin. international liixfc fi-jtaai of tha electrical workers, stated this morning that the instructions which he and other union heads have received called out the men from every eteel or fabrication plant in which the unions did not have a working agreement. That includes practically every important plant in Hammond. Mr. Lavin is of the orinion that reports sent out by the heads of the ste.il plants are untrue when they say that eighty per cent of the men have voted not to strike. Local 652 of the Electrical Workers, he says, has a membership of 1.800 in Lake county and all except one man voted to strike. "We are confident that we have eightyfive per cent of the boys with us." said Mr. Lavin. "Monday morning will show whether it is the employers or we who have been mistaken. I believe everything will be closed down tight." in UU DETECTIVES NOT GUILTY Perry Voight and Charles Jones are Cleared of Murder Charges. srECIAL TO THt TIMES) CROWN POINT. Ind., Sept. CO. The trial " of Perry N. Voight and Charles Jones of Hammond, the two C. & O. railroad detectives who shot Nico'a Silinovich last February while on duty at the railroad yards, was held on Thursday and Friday in the criminal Court at Crown Point. The two men were charged with murder and were represented by Attorneys Gavit and Boone. The evidence showed that Voight and .Jones were chasing a couple of tramps who had stolen goods out of a car and thought they had jumped into a passing automobile. They gave chase and shot at the car in which Sllinovlch was riding, ' their bullets struck him and he died Ehortly after. The Jury was out ten minutes and returned a verdict of not guilty. MAK HELD ON $10,000 BOND. ISIECIAL TO THE TIMES CROWN POINT. Ind.. Sept. 20 Peter Mak, Jr.. cf Hammond, was re leased on 110.000 bail by Judge ?mith on Friday and Henry Barnhart who is implicated in the murder of "Texas" Miller, also was admitted to bail for ji.ooo. ite men nave been in Jail t Crown Point since the murder . COMMITTEE FAILSTO REPORT Owing to the fact that some of the officials of the Standard Steel Car Co.. were attending a business meeting in Chicago yesterday, the committee appointed by Mayor Brown to arrange for a narbitration hearing and select a Judge, was unable to do anything yesterday. In case the factory heads returned in time today it was hoped that some action mlsshl be taken towards bringing the two sides of the controversy together. i ' Don't throw your paper awa? without reading the want ad page.

EXPECT NO STRIKE AT THE INLAND

Because Company Already Has 8-Hour Day; Men Share in Management and Profits. ADVANTAGES AT THE INLAND The Inland Steal employ hare these adTaatafas, which. It Is atatd, will preclude them from joinia la tha general steel s.rlxe: Tfce eight-hour day. Bonos system. Keeent wage Increase. Share in management relations. Besides, the company la about to embark on a Tist plan of new housing for it employes. Because of ti unusual relations that exist between employes of the Indiana Harbor work of the Inland Steel com-, pany It 1 believed that the proposed, steal stria will have little or no l&fiu- j enee at the big Independent work. This is based on the fact thit thej company some time ago not only vol-) untarily instituted the S-hour day. In- j creased wages, and besides this it has a saving plan and a bonus system. And the foremost modern thing of its p'an is that the men actually have something to say about the policies of the company, through the industrial relations system. SCCNSATIIjriED. THEY SAY. When the Inland Steel recencyabolished the 10 and 12 hour day and instituted the 8-hour day of 3 shifts it accomplished something what the men long desired. In addition the company made a substantial increase in wages. STXAJDY SM7X.OY1CEITT. Indiana Harbor works, the company officials point out, is not only a steel Conilnued on page five.) PREPARES FOR RELIEF DRIVE Hammond's share of the fund which is boing raised by the American Jewith Relief Committee will be raised In short order and Hammond's reputation for promptness in such manner will be preserved if plans laid in the opening meeting last night go through. The money to be raised for the benefit of suffering Jewish people in Europe, largely in Poland. Russia and the Balkan states, where conditions are the worst. The first meeting wits a parlor conference at the Leo Wo.f home on Hohman St.. at which twenty-five prominent citizens, representing the leading business line and churches of Hammond, were present. The general plans for the drive were discussed and other details of the organization were attended to. Indiana's share of the fund will be $S00.0O0. while Lake county has been allotted S0.000. W. C. Brlman was named chairman of the organizatien and other officers arc .Khn E. Fitzgerald, vice chairman, L. T. Modjeska, secretary; Carl Kaufman, treasurer. An advisory committee will be' appointed later by Chairman Belman. The drive in Hammond will start September 23 and will be pushed vigorouslyOther meetings will be held soon .it which the entire campaign will be mapped out and announced to the public. MASONIC TEMPLE MEETING Plans for the erection of Hammond's new Masonic Temple took definite shapa last night when at a meeting attended by about 130 members of the order "the proposition of the building committee was enthusiastically received and it wrs unanimously voted to back them up in the project. It was explained that the new home as planned would cost between $250,000 and $300,000. but would undaubtedly be the finest lodge home in Northern Indiana. Bonds bearing five per cent interest will be issued to cover the construction and these will be sold among the members. When a call for expression from those present who would subscribe for at last $100 was issued every mail in the audience sprang to his feet. Th3 bonds will probably be sold on the tenr.iymcnt plan and will be issued in units as low as $100. A resolution of endorsement and coulidence in the old bulding committee was unanimously adopted. With practically $25,000 already pledged, subscription papers will soon be circulated and it is believed that the entire $300,000 will be quickly taken care of. . A e you reading The Times?

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4 1 i 1 1 i ft i- - S ' 1C4 1 t t , VV l 0,, -.tA U HI PALMER CHALLENGES flNTEHNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE ) FREE PORT, Pa., Sept. 20 A challenge to Bolshevism and a plea for a six-months' industrial armistice were voiced by Atty. Gen. A. Mitchell Palnwr In an address at the reunion here this afternoon of the TSth regiment. Pavolunteers. "Ther is no room, as there is no need, in this country for those who resort to violence to impress their ultra radical views upon the people or the goverument." said the attorney general. "They will get nowhere by such methods," he continued. "The government proposes to protect itself against attacks from within as carefully as it has shown itself able to rrotcct itself against attacks from wuhoui. Neither the government, nor any of .its officers will bo embarrassed or affected, much less frightened, by any attempts, ort, nized or unorganized, by lawless elements in the community to terrorize end stampede the government into d'APf something contrary to the tpirit of our free institutions as designed by th-: fathers and sustained by nil the generations of men through the life of this republic. "Every reform which the most radical ir:ay desire to incorporate in our body politic will receive a fair hearing and full consideration and become effective only if and when a majority of tho people, through the regular channels, provided by the constitution, shall decide. ' "No campaign vU be hastened by the use of force. Those who cannot or will not live the life of Americans under our institutions and are unwilling to abide by the methods which we have established for the improvement of those institutions from time to time, should go Jiack to the countries from which they caic Every power of the government will be used to compel those who remain here to comport themselves with that respect for our institutions which are a part of the creed of real Amerians." In urging an absolute Industrial armistice for six months, Atty. Gtn. Palnur said: "Labor is asking a larger share of the joint product of money and labor. Rnd there is much merit in the claims but the chance of geting it is not advanced, nor the justice of it more widely recognized by the refusal of labor o produce. If money and labor would both make a demonstration of the enormous capacity of American genius to produce the things that are ncccssaiy for human kind we would soon run into an era of easier living and better times for all and the peace made by such an armistice would continue as the permanent peace resulting from mutual good will. "Idleness is no panacea for the illo from which the country suffers. Work may be. The cost of life is only enhanced by the idleness of men. It can be reduced by the intelligent industry of all." GARY NOT TO BE SEEN TODAY. (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE ) NEW YORK. Sept. 20 Jude E. H. Gary, president of the V . S. Steel corporation, in whose hands virtually rests the decision whether a nationwide strike of steel worker shall be carried out. was not in his office today. Mr. Gary's secretary declined to sav when he would return. Better call up The Times and have it sent to your house every n.ght. Then you.11 be sure it will be there.

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EMISSARY Gompers Refuses to Discuss Situation, May Have the Statement Monday. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 20. Samuel Gompers, president of the A. F. of L., has informed " strike leaders, it was learned today, that President Wilson, acting through emissaries, was still exerting every effort to prevent the steel strike scheduled for Monday by arranging a conference between E. H. Gary, head of the United States Steel corporation and the representatives of the workers. There had been a constant exchange of messages between the president ' and Gompers since Thursday night. BAEUCH IS XMXSSAJtT. Bernard M. Baruch. who Is reported to have been sent by the president to request Judge Gary to meet the workers, acted as Mr. Wilson's emissary to the employers in the trouble between the copper companies and miners at Bisbee. Ariz., and Butte. Mont., two years ago. it was recalled today. Although John H. Fitzpatrick. chairman of the steel workers national committee, has stated that the strike's would have the full support of the A. F. of L., Mr. Gompers said today he was not yet ready to discuss the situation. The strike leaders, however, were expecting a statement from hfm today or Monday pledging the full financial and moral strength of the federation to the strike. CALL EXPORT EJBXCTJXOTJS. They characterized as "ridiculous" the rumor that he was likely to withhold his support, being frankly displeased at the workers 'refusal to heed his and President Wilson's requests that all strike action be deferred until after the president's industrial conference on October 6. The strike was legally called, the Strike leaders pointed out and whatever Mr. Gompers' personal feelings may be. they declared, officially he can do only one thing come out unequivocally f'f the strikers. WE A? rXTZPATJLXCX SATS. "Failure of the American Fede-alion of Labor and its leaders to back the strikers would mean the rpudiatl -n of twenty-four of the most powerful organizations affiliated with t," said John H. Fitzpatrick before leaving for Chicago. "The attitude of th A. F. of L. during the strike will be a test cf its (Continued on page fl ve. ) FIRST TROUBLE OCCURS IN L VIRGINIA Free-For-AU Fight at National Tube Co. Plant; Fresh. Trouble Expected. 'INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 PITTSBURGH. Sept. 20. The firs'. trouble resulting from the strike call occurred late yesterday when workman clashed at the Riverside plant of the National Tube Co. at r.enwood. W. Va. There was Jl f ren-for-all fight between the men who favor striking and thos opposed when a poll of the sentiment was being taken. It could not be learned whether any of the fighters were eriously hurt. Jack Peters, chairman of the organizing comnittee in the Wheeling district, placed the whole blame for the troufcl upon the operators and declared thit i rouble was certain on Monday if an attempt was made to operate the plants'. "There was a certain element araon; the strikers who will take matters int'i their own nands if forced to by the operators." Peters said. About 5.000 men are employed at '-he Benwood plant and it is said that less than half favor a strike. - It was said, however, that all of the men will quit on Monday, if any of them go out. Tho company will try to operate the mills. A mass meeting has been called for ail of the workers of the Wheeling district tomorrow afternoon. AMERICAN LEGION POST AT LOWELL SPECIAL TO THE TIMES! LOWELL. Ind.. Sept. 20. A post of the American Legion was organized at ! Lowell Thursday night. There was a i gond attendance of the soldier boys it a smoker given in their honor ar.. the boys held a meeting and organized a poti The following officers were elected: President. Will Surprise; Secretary. Harold Strickland: Treasurer. Joseph Little; Executive Committee. Raymond Johnston, ("ordia Kenney and Leon Cailey.