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i was called have closed down inf INTERNATIONAL NES SERV1CE1 CHICAGO, Sept. 23. With three j definitely and both sides are waitmen Leo and Walter Phillips,! ing to see what will develop. brothers, and Joha S. Wejta, held The big Inland plant closed yesterday .... .. , ! and all men were turned back from the at. police headquarters police, Qe-jplant vilh the cxceptlon of tne oST!Ce tPCtives and COStoffice inspectors! men and a small maintenance force. The
cie toady searching for $141,000 in currency, part of a cash shipment of $234,000 stolen from the mails between Chicago and Gary last Thursday. The $234,000 intended for the payroll of the Standard Oil Co. of j Endiana, was in transit from a Chi-, caeo bank to the First National Bank and the Bank of Whiting, when two men held up the postal clerk at the Pennsylvania railway station in the Indiana town and made the;r escape with the mail pouch containing the cash. riHD SC3.000 IS CTJRSEK'CY. Fallowing the arrest late last night of tie Phillips brothers, taken into custody when the police say they "flashed rolls of ?eeral thousand dollars on the (-;-pct."- detectives went to their home i,ere' they found $33,000 tn curency. The money was hidden behind pictures n closets, between sheets cp beds In the occupied by the Phillips w-otners. 'i.i tul under the carpet. n information, said to " have been Continued on ptg FIVE DIE IN B.&0. WRECK Fourteen Passengers are also Reported to Be Seriously Injured. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE ! CO N X ELLS VI LLE Pa.. Sept. 23. y ,e pps-sensers and a fireman were re-.-!tfi killed. 14 pasenst-rs were seriousinjured and a cure or more were ;:,.'btly hurt when a Baltimore and Ohio : . tl :n. number 8. was w recked at Houstnear here early today. The train i 't Pittsburgh at U.30 this morning for V- w- York and was going at express !-eei when defective brakes are supd to have fallen from one of th ' i . :us onto the tracks The locornotivo ,,,d two coaches were upset and thrca other coaches were derailed. The fireman killed was "W. A- Glenn. Jo . f Connellsvliie . His body is believed io.be in the wreckage. P. E. Miller. 50, ConnellsviHe, engini r. is in the hospital in a serious con"it:.'n. Latest Bulletins INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. Judge E. H. Gary, bead of the U. S. Steel Cor-r.-ration. and John Fitzpatrick. chairmnn of the national committee organising the steel strikers, this afternoon vre summoiLid by Senator Kenyon. of Iowa, to appear before the senate comi.uttce on education and labor next T'turtday morning. Kenyon's action f. llowcd the passage of bis resolution providing that the committee, of which h is chairman, investigate the steel strike. 'I intend to get these men face to face and get to the bottom of this affair," declared Kenyon, in announcing the action he had taken. EXCITEMENT AT AUTOMOBILE PLANT Things moved pretty briskly at the HerrinKton and Sorenson's auto service plant today, besides disposing of a couple of cars. Adolph Sorenson. the Jun!or member of the firm was hitting on twelve cylinders on account of the arrival of a ten pound boy at his home 211 West State street and BJ1 Herrmgton was just about as tickled as Adolph. "It was one of those bouncing kind," ald Mr. Harrington "r.d you car. say that we look forward to ret Fail and Winter business."
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3USTRY AT The second day of the big strike in Indiana Harbor and East Chicago found everything quiet with ; very few men on the streets. All of the plants at which the strike similar force at work. Nothing definite can be obtained from the officials of the Buffington Portland Cement but labor officials claim that they have so many men out that the plant can not operate. The American Steel Foundries and the Hubbard Steel Foundry are both closed and today the Standard Forgings closed its doors. 10,000 not wosiiifo. The dosing of these plants ! that over ten thousand men of ihe InSTRIKE BE 10 A BIG DIMENSION T INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVlCt) WASHIN-GTOX. Sept. 13. The sterl strike will be the first matter brought before the president's Industrial conference, in the opinion of Samuel Gompers. president of the American Federation of Labor. This- was disclosed today by Mr. Gompers' associates in discussing th personnel of the committea he has appointed to represent labor at the October sixth meeting. Before the conference can discuss plans for industrial peace, tbey contended. It must first take up I the settlement of what may develop into the greatest industrial batle in ne nistory or me country. i President Gompers' appointment eti M. F. Tighe of the Amalgamated Association of Steel. Iron and Tin Workers, one of the strike leaders, to sit as one of lalior's representatives, was regarded as significant in view of the fact that President Wilson has invited Judse E. H. Gary, head of the U. S. Steel Cofporition, to take part in the conference as a representative of the public Another, participant will be "W. H. Johnston, president of the International Machinists Union, one of the unions involved in the strike. M'ith the strik ers' representatives Gompers and other will sit Samuel members of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor. In other words, should the steel trust head accept the president's invitation he wjf! find himself in a conference -with representatives of the strikers whose position will be sup-i-,rted bv the entire executive council of the American Federation, of Labor. Even the conservative leaders hero predict that the strike may assume such proportions as to paralyze Industry throughout the country. They confirm the statements of the striko leaders that those of the two million workers;
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affiliated with the international unions j out. It was dark, stormy, rainy night involved w ho are not directly concerned i and the exposure, a. cording to Wilkinwi!l stand behind the strikers and that! s-n, resulted in the dentil of one of sympathetic strikes may be expected in I the children a ' few days later. Mrs.
every section of the country. Even the government may become a; I party to the strike, they believe, in that i members of the railroad brotherhoods may refuse to move government-controlled cars which carry ore and st 1 for the companies under the strikers' ban and boiler makers, machinists and other trades affiliated with the unions involved and working in government ship-yards may walk out. To Quote one American Federation of Labor official: "Labor is united in one mighty drive to destroy the power of the steel trust." It is no secret that Samuel Gompers lins been dubious about the effectiveness of the strike. He was not inclined to trust the judgment of some of the strike leaders and listened skeptically to their estimates of the number of men who would walk out. The developments, however, have "surprised and pleased him." it was stated. WILL PRACTICE THIS EVENING Manager John Dahl. of the newly organized Clabby A. A. football team, announces that the first practice of his men will be held this evening at the Harrison park starting at T:3P o'clock. Dahl now has seven of the old Hammond team on his lineup and has several more college etars on the way t participate in the opening practice game. Take The Tim:s and keep touch with the whole world. 13
S THE HARBOR di&na Harbor plants are not working. In spite of the large number of men vtjio are not working there are very few men on the streets today. Yesterday the streets were crowded all day but today ; the men seemed to sleep late anl thn J stay at home or leave the city. At the) Inland plant this morning there -were; only about one hundred men waiting o see what number went to work. Tester-) day morning there were probably 1.500 j and at midnight Sunday there were over 2.500. I PICKETS EO HOT INTERFERE, i The entire strike is being conducted in . an orderl manner, pickets do not lay aj hand on any w'orkers going through, j There were ff w calls yesterday when ! men entered the plant but Steel Secre- j tary J. E. Howard warned the str-.kers: against even this mild form of abuse nt the meeting yesterday afternoon sna in slsted that all men with the exception of ( the pickets remain away rrom Mr Howard has riven orders that if any strikers feel so enthusiastic that tney , must be present near the plant they I must keep quiet. The pickets also have j tContinued on page six ) SHE UNDERSTOOD HE WAS SWEARING. when Majthsw- Schmidt bec?jne angry! and started to raise Cain with bis wit a. ho used to talk German, which she did . not understand, but in the few months, they had lived together she was aoie to tell that he was swearing- by his actions. She says she knew he was cursing her and she uses it as one of her reasons for asking for a divorce. Mrs. Schmidt filed her petition this morning in the Hammond superior court, stating that they were married November 2S... 131S. and lived together until May 25. 1313. when she says Matthew deserted her. It was the second marriage for both of them and each, already had a set of children. Schmidt canio to live with nis new wife, who was staying with her sen and daughter. He at once started to criticize his wife's son and objected to his presence around the house. The wife stood pat and refused to send the boy away, so it ended with her husband leaving. She says he only paid the grocery bill and never gave her any money to purchase clothes. In addition to the divorce. Mrs. Schmidt asks for the restoration of Vir maidf n name, Mary De Chatital. Claims Eviction Was Responsible For Death ;harg!r.g that the art of Charles S. Bunnell In ejecting the Cletus Wilkinson larnily from their home on a very stormy evening had been responsible ior tne aeam oi one oi me w iminsun I children and the undermining of the i mother's health, suit for $10,000 dam ages has been brought against Mr. Bunnell in the Hammond superior court. The complaint which was filed this morning by Attorneys Granger & Todd states that on October 7 19i", the Wilkmson family waa away, the defendant visited the rooms and locking- the I door made violent threats regarding what he was going to do to Mrs. Wilkinson and the children unless they moved out at once. In the evening the police came and were there when the husband arrived. Bunnell order- j ed thfni to get out ond under threats that he would kill them, drove them Wilkinsons he fay? . health was Injured also. GARY STEEL STRIKE PICTURES. In the Chago papers of this morning many pictures of the Gary steel strikes scenes appear among which many familiar faces are noticed. One of which is the face nf Miss Opal Haste. 17 years old. the only woman on the Gary Steel Council and her appearance mingling with the strikers is often witnessed, and she ia a leader among them. Another picture is that showing the girl clerks in the offices of the Steel nulls goinar home after completing their shifts. The girls are rrnt affected by the strike and were not molested in any way. Other pic-t tures are those of the strikers on j Broadway near the mills listening to ; speakers and the strikers paying back ; dues to AuKimt Engfel in Vnian hall ' and the one that looms up the most j profinent is that of William F. Forb- 1 is. the efficient chief of police of the city of Gary, who has a thorough official organization in the preserving of Ia wand order. WM. FEUER TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL William Feurer. 741 Connecticut St., and acting secretary of the Gary eomferclal ciub. who was tsken suldenly ill last Saturday night ha heen removed t0 a Chicago hoepltai where he will undergo an operation.
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GARY HILLS PRACTICALLY Absolute Absence of Any Disorder, Hatter Congratulation for Authorities and Strikers. Establishing picket lines at the various mills in' Gary and furtherjng plans to make their absence , , ,, .,,,. flOiU the mills more effective, thOUsan(Js Qf WOrkmen of the monster! j . i . v i steel and iron, industrial-labor I i strike wound into their first twen-1 . S C ;ii .r i iy-iour nours oi ltueness ai o o'clock this morning, recording almost a miracle ia the absence of bloody encounter!, quietness and rf t order prevailing r , o THOUSANDS JAM STEETS. Thousands of striking steel workers congregated in and Jammed the strikebound area near t&e entrance of the mill gate on Broaisvay at the usual hour for the 6:00 j 'clock night shilt to go on yesterday afternoon, and if there was "method in their madness" they did not attempt to display it. Not knowing to what cxttemcs the strikers would go. the police Vere prepared for any emergency and kept them inovinn, and when they were Seen congregating in bunches they were quickly dispersed and ordered to b on their way. They offered n resistance and were cheerful. BB.OADWAY HEAL THOROUGHFARE. Broadway never presented a buti:r scene than it did yesterday. From early morning until late at night it Continucd on page six.) How Plants Line Up In Big Strike PITTS BURGH, FA. Mills operating, ( practically normal capacity. j WHEELING, w. V A. All plants ciosea. TAR AN Tl'M, PA. All mills operating. Officials report increased personnel ovor yesterday. West Fcnn plant operating with fifty per cent force. ERADDOCK. PA. American Steel and Wire plants closed. Carnegie Steel and Thomson plants operating. HOMESTEAD. PA. All plants operating. Officials that only ten per cent of foreign labor struck. DUQUESXE. PA. All plants operating practically 100 per cent. CLAIUTOX, PA. U. S. Steel plant virtually closed, some departments running. WOODL.WVN and .MIDLAND, PA. Crucible and independent plants running 100 per cent. McKEESPORT. PA. All plants running; some crippled, some report increased personnel. MONESSON". FA. Five plants closed, 12,000 men idle. No attempt to operate. i BEAVER VALLEY. FA. Plants opcrat- ! ing. DONOKA. PA. Plants closed; no atI tempt to operate. SHARON. PA. All plants closed by i strike. ! FARRELL. PA All plants j cept Carnegie, which is closed partly ex-op-er? ting. JOHNSTOWN. FA. Cambria steel plant closed down: Lorain plant opcrat- ! ing. j SHARPSVILLE, PA. Partly operating. I NEWCASTLE. PA. Carnegie plant op- ' era tins: fully. American Sheet and Tin Plate works partially working, j STEUEF.XVTLLE. O. Al plant practicaily down. j TOl'NGSTOW'.V. O. PracHcally plants closed dcvn. all FVIC THE TIMES is prepared by its leased wire service to give, the fullest possible news of the great steel workers' struggle underway. It kPes t0 ive ts reaers e most accurate facts obtainable of all eventualities as its news columns today show. If you are not having THE TIMES delivered to you regularly do so now by all means.
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10 BOOK SHORTAGE Hammond Publishing Plant Cannot Get Employes Enough for Rush Job. 'T!E5 BUREAU AT STATE CAPITAL INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept 23. The inability of Indiana school children to obtain required text books will be dismissed in detail at the meeting of the state board of education called to consder the uestion next Friday. I.. X. Hines, state superintendent of public instruction, is gathering from county superintendents data describing; the shortaee of books. i Ele Stansbury, attorney general, will place before the board information as to how it may take up thousands of dollars In bonds given by book companies which contracted to deliver books within five days after they were ordered by dealers. The board may decide to prescribe, for the present, books formerly used in some of the grades or may take other temporary measures to supply books. The board may inquire into the operation of the plant of W. B. Conkey company of Hammond, as it appears that all the books on which delivery is short are being printed and bound by that company. It is understood that inability of the company to get labor is the cauS of the contract's slow delHery. THE GREAT UNREST (BUELETXPT. ) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CHICAGO, Sept. 23. John Fitzpatrlck, head of the Chicago Federation of Labor and chairman of the national committee of organizers for steel and iron workers, has been summoned to Pittsburgh for a special conference of. the committee tomorrow, at which it is believed plans for spreading the strike to ore carrying steamers and railroads to "tie up everything" are to be discussed, according to an announcement at steel workers' headquarters here today. (BTJLEETIN.) f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! "WASHINGTON. Sept. 23. -In six important steel centers in the Pittsburgh district ninety-five per cent of all the workers of the U. S. Steel Corporation and forty-eight per cent of the workers in the independent steel plants In the same places are on strike, according to a telegram received today by William H. Johnston, president of the International Association of Machinists, one of the organizations directly affected in the strike, from an organizer of the association in the Pittsburgh district. (BULLETIN.) (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE ) PITTSBURGH. Sept. 23.-"-' Before the week is over." said William Z. Foster, secretary of the steel men's union and directing head of the strike in the East, "every man in the steel and iron industry will be on strike. Every mill will be closed dow n by Saturday. "All over the country cur reports show that the tie-up is complete. Our Birmingham headquarters wired us that outside of a few men working the mills there arc closed dow-n." The organizers of the stetl and iron workers held a '"get-together" meeting here today and checked up returns and made reports. Tomorrow there will be a meeting of the international presidents of the unions concerned in the strike. (BTJ EEETITT.) f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 riTTSBLTtGH. Sept. 23. Harry B. Sheldon, president of tho Allegheny Steel Co., a subsidiary of ;he U. S. Stevl Corporation, declared that conditions at his plant were better than yesterday. "We have a decided increase in our personnel today and the situation is cry promi'snK." he said. The U. S. Steel Corporation suffered one setback today when one of its subsidiaries, the American Steel and Wire p'.ant at "Braddock and Rankin decided to close down. Ten thousand men were thrown out of work there. Officials operated the plants yesterday -with reduced forces. The men were paid off today and everything put in shape for a protracted shut-down. (BULLETIN.) (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 WASHINGTON". Sept. 23. Condemnation of "violent method of organized labor in forcing its demands" is demanded in a resolution introduced in the senate this afternoon by Senator Thomai of Colorado. The resolution would put the senate on record as characterizing the closed shop as "un-American" anl would declare "strikes for power" to be "conspiracy in restraint of trade." Senator Thomas announced be would call the resolution up for consideration tomorrow". TWO HAMMOND j BOYS AT COLLEGE, j Richard Tinkham. son of Attorney C. B. Tinkham. and William Pierce, son I of R. C. Perce of The Times, left today! ror Ann Arbor, Mich., where they will ' e,,ter the University of Michigan at th? opening of the fall term.
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S N E HAMMOND SITUATION UNCHANGED Hammond's part in the great stel strike remains yet to be determined Plants which were expected to be tied up yesterday morning when the strike became effective were running today with thir regular forces of workmen. Chicago newspapers in listing Hammond as having 2,700 men out of 3.600 on strike evidently referred to the Standard Steel Car Co., where the strike has existed since July IS. Practically all of Hammond's plants turning out' steel products employ men who bcloi.g to the different labor organizations but they ha-ve no working agreements and are not classed as closed shops. One of the last statements made by W. P. Lavm, international representative of the Electrical Workers before he left Hammond for Xew Orleans Saturday w as that the all had been extended to the organized men of all opn shops and that every plant of importance in Hammond would be affected. Little change has been seen in the situation at the Standard Steel Car piini Since the strike was called. Officials report a gradual increase and this morning it was said that before 7 o'clock 4'J0 men had passed through the west gate alone. A report had been circulated in East Hammond towards the end of las', week that the big steel strike w as bein called in sympathy with the strikers at the Standard and the statement was confidently made by many of the men that the company would soon be forced to accede to their demands. WHITING LOCAL FILES SUIT IN FEDERAL GT. Seeks Dissolution of Int. Brotherhood of Boilermakers Before Judge Anderson. f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., Sept. 23. Dissolution of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers and Helpers of America, appointment of a receiver and distribution of the organization's fund among the J67.0CO members Is asked in a suit filed in the federal court here today by the Whiting local, which charges that it was illegally expelled frof the brotherhood. ATI Internationa officers, having headquarters at Kansas City, presidents of forty-nine district lodges and officers of two dozen subordinate lodges are made defendants. RIOT AT CUSH1NG SERIOUS MNTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEI GUSHING, Okla., Sept. 23. Mayor Xicodomus and several of the officials of the Drumright, Okla.. f.ed to this place today to escape the fury of a mob which late Monday took possession of the town. All wires to Drumright. according to the telegraph companies, ha. i been taken over or cut by the mob. The mob, organized in sympathy with telephone strikers and after a picket had been struck by an officer, threats of lynching was made. The mayor and other officials were given until 10.00 o'clock Tuesday morning to resign. Hefore that hour, however, they had escaped from the town after yprndnig a part of tho night in jail for their own protection. Gv. J. B. A. Robertson has been asked to send guardsmen to the csene and the chief of police of Oilton, with several deputies, have gone 'to Drumright to try to restore order. Three girls, who had remained at work at telephone switchboards after the strike had started, were spirited away from TJrubright last night to safety at this place. MANY TICKETS ARE SOLD. Michigan Central agent E. Z. Vaughn, reports that 43 ticket" were sold Saturday for Montreal, and 51 Sunday for the same place from Ind. Harbor. The men are destined for Rouinania and Servia. The total so far will approximate 2"0 and more is to follow. He reports also that the Grand Rapids train change d from 5:i3 P . m . Better call up Tht Times and have it sent to your house every night. Then you'll be sure it will be there.
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RIOTING RESUME PENN. THIS A. M, Wife of Butler-Standard Car Non Striker, Fatally Hurt Today. (BULLETIN.) BTJTXiEB, Pa, Sept. 23 An. innocent woman, the wife of a noa-strikiag em. ploye of tie Standard Steel Car Works was probably fatally wounded here tod when shots were tred through a -window Into the home of Michael Thompson. A small baby sleeping- with the mother was uninlured and v.i j whom the shots were Intended. also escaped unscathed. Three bullets entered the woman's body. (BULLETIN.) RWA4NrttRN,T,0N,L NEWS SERVICE! SHAEON, Ta.., Sept. 23. Two foreign. ers were shot here this forenoon in a resumption of the rtotinff which started last nlfht. Both men were wounded severely. They were part of a crowd which gathered In Staunton St., ne-v-the entrances to the American Steel an I Wire plant. The throng. failed to mov on when ordered to do so by mount constabulary and the troopers charge the crowd. In the melee which followed many shots were fired and the mob was broken up. ( B ULLE TIN. ) BTTRnAi-,0L,NEWS SERVICE' BTJTPALO, N. T., Sept. 23. Announcement was made shortly before noon that the lackawaaa Steel plant, which has been employing anywhere from 80CO to 10,000 men for the past year, had sh-.it town this morning on account of the steel strike. The plant of the E-onner Steel Co. will close tonight. By GEOKGE R. HOLMES STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE! PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. IS. After a night of incipient rioting ic half a dozen towns in the Pittsburgh district, during which two persons were killed and eleven others suffered gunshot wounds, the rioting in the strike areas was resumed this morning. Three others one a woman were shot today. State troopers, reinforced by spe cial police and deputies, were everywhere in evidence in the mill towns, patrolling the streets and preventing anything which gave the appearance of crowds or congestion about the mill entrances or in the streets. The principal dis-' orders occurred in Farrell, Newcastle and Donors. There were minor disturbances in either places, none of which attained the seriousness of those points. HEAVY TOLE AT EAE.RELL. At Farrell two men were kiikd n i three injured. The trouble started, it i. said, when .Paul Prouz. a striker, took h pot-shot at State Trooper Smith who was riding down the street. Smi'r. was hit in the leg and Prouz was then kind, according to reports by Andrew Wir.'neknecht, a special policeman. This prfcd the match to the powder and a your.,c riot started which raged for severs hours before th authorities succeeieu ,ri fretting it under control. TWO WOMEN- SHOT AT NEWCASTLE. Included in the sern -hn in Newcastle were two women, both of w hi Ui appear to have been non-participant? in the disorders. Hundreds of shots were fired. ma: w a.-a Fnoi -n Ik r,oi a j where there were slight disorders wh.n the night shift came on. Homcsfe.iti. ! where the bloody riots of lSf)2 occji-ri vas the scene of some disorders. Hundreds of shots were fired du'inj ih- ) mht but was quiet this morning j MOKE DISORDERS FEARED, i Further disorders were fenr..x following orders from strike hrsiquaiters to picket every plant in the distrie.. There was little picketing done ve:o:day but today YVm. Z. Foster, seciti iiv of the Iron and Steel Workers Union, directed the work to be undrtakr. in earnest. With the battle well begun, both sid.-s apparently settled today f r a tin sh fight. At strikers headquarters today it na asserted that the tipure on the number of strikers on the tirst day have been r.--atly increased. PREDICT STRIKE LASTING MONTH. The operators maintained their usu.il silence, but all of the mills which oyciied on the first, day continued operations, opinions as to the probable duration ot the tnke aried here today. V.ilt'aTi Z. j Foster asserted that the Mr.ke wnuM last "until Elbert H. Gary axn cl o in -jet representatii -s of the w ork ci in onf erence." In steel circles today it was prediet.j that the strike would last e month in ! t he-operators would w in the strike m il-e last week of that, month.