Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 85, Hammond, Lake County, 26 September 1919 — Page 1
EEST READ NEWSPAPER IN COUNTY FAIR WE ATM ER OrSSKNATIOKAI. I7EW3 rUIL LEASED WIBE SESVXCE. On streets and newsstands. 3c vex cory- Delivered by carrier la Hammond and West Hammond, 50o per month. VOL. XIV, M). 83. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2G? 19.19. HAMMOND, INDIANA. 1 IL-iJLi
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Gary and Grace Statements Prophesy Protracted and Long-Drawn Out Struggle. BY GICEQE K. EOiafiES rSTAFF COPRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 26.Tke steel strike went into its fifth! day today giving every appearance of having evolved into a long drawn-out test of endurance between the steel interests and their organized employes. Events of the last 24 hours leadj to the belief in Pittsburgh that; only intervention by some outside j agency possibly the government j can lead to a quick setlement of the conflict. EXPECT TIGHT TO TTSXSXL F-oth sides saw In Judge Gary's reitcrfcted refusal to deal -with Foster and! Fjtzpatrlck and E. R. Grace's refusal to m"t them in conference a declaration o' platform upon which the steel opera- j I : : lllll tut: jmr v-w. i... ... . I also was- .thrrt tet-ri"teTt - thef s and taicen by the two biggest steel; 'nterests ef the country the. 1'nitcd; states Steel Corporation and the Bethle- : hem Steel company cannot fall to j rystalize behind them the smaller tn-.; dependent concerns of which there are ntany throughout this section. PHYSIC AXZiT IT'S DEADLOCKED. The physical side of the strike is praci.ralv deadlocked here today. Union iraders claimed small additions to their ranks. Men are gradually being per-j (Continued en page three.) Gary Is Sitting Tight In Strike Crisis and Waiting for What Happens Next. (BTTXiXiETCf.) Th flrt arrests at Gary resulting t rem attempted violence were made to. day wfeea Tony cradel, a shearman; Fran Tlax, a fireman, and Wra. Waidullti, a machinist, were taken for throw. Ing bricks at a track carrying' workmen into tJie American Tin Plate mills. The situation appears to be deadlocked j lr the monster steel industry-labor strike in Gary today, with both tides i-immlrif an edge on a victory. A feeling ! ff if rise interest fills the city and rest-j r nts- await a crisis', tvhat its outcome ( w .11 be is an uncertainty. So eecretiv-.? sri. both sides in the controversy, that it i is almost an impossibility to gain eny-I thing authentic as figures comradi-.ti e-ery hour. It is Just a case of sitting j ''Kbt end time only wiil tell. DEITY TAKE STOBT. j While there is fear that there is poms , to be trouble intory before it roaches ; t - iniax. dentals were made this mornof a ffke story run In a Chicago ; ,-,ier that state troops were to be called r.:o Gar; to sift trouble Mayor AV. j 1 . Hodges and Chief of Police W. A. ; 7'-. rbls smashed the dream to s.r.ither-j (.Continued on page seven) ODDFELLOWS, j Calumet Lodge I. V O. F. will -eiebrate home coming of its soldier members Saturday evening. September Isth. All members and the:r fantilier . are requestfd to h" present . All sojourning OJ-1 Fellows '. especially loose who have been in he service are r?ouesed to be present. Appropriate ceremonies to suit the occasion will be rendered, followed by a binrjuet. COMMITTEE. Advertise in The Times and ad-r-rtise again. Kesuits ccm c v.-i.u constant effort
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- 1 -V I I 1 I " v r ..." - 5 i '' " 'is -iis( JAIF.S V. FAHUELL chairman of the corporation, to end j the great strike which has crlpptetJ j many of their plants. It Is said that ' he 1s dc-u riii.Kd to make it a finish .; flsrht. ' I. . STEALING HAMMOND STRIKE HE SAYS J0in DeYOUJlff POUltS Ollt J.. that Radicals Are" Try ing to Incite Men. CHICAGO Sept. 26. In connection with the fear that xht strtkers.may.be called Bolshevists, John H Do Toung. secretary-treasurer of the Oik ago district steel council, dei-lared csierday that the I. Vv AY. is trying to "steal the strike" at Hammond and South Chicago. He says ttiat radicals arf working constantly among the men. trying to incite them to join the reds. Haywood Denies Chaigea. William (Eig Bili'i Haywood (one-: head of the -Wobb! les." now out of the penitentiary on bond) denied that tii I. W. W. Is 'trying t s'eal" any thin-'. On the other hand, he says he has received at least twenty appeals frani workers in the steel mills to s nd organizers. Haywood said he had disregarded all appeals. A criticism of the methods employed by the other side tn compiling strike percentages was made last night by John 11. Te Toung. assistant secretary of the Chicaco r,"-t i committee.., Gives Bevlsed Figures. "In many cases," said Mr. 1 Toung. "they are unfair. In Hammond, for Instance, the only men on strike arc the employes of the Standard Stc'-l Company. The bosses, in their iigtires, gice U3 thirty per cent. "The actual number of m- n on strike is only about thirty per f tit of -he total men employed in the city, but :f we base the percentage upon th number ef men employed at the Standard plant, the only one affected by the strii;-.-. we get about ninety-eight per cent." CO". HAH. HIT ! i?l CHARGE I i State Accounts Examiner i Files Reports From ! 17 Counties- ; !NTEPNTIONAL NEWS 5CRVICE1 M ! IXblAXAPOLlS, Ind.. Sept. 2d. Officials andi I'ontractors in "ev-nteen, counties are hit in chars- s aggregating $12,000 submitted to Gov. Goodrich by' Jesse Eschba-'h, state exanum r of th' i board of accounts, for collect!. -n by the nttorney -general. In some instances the amounts range from $1,000 to $-"0'. August W. Xut.-nfcldt. superintendent, of the poor asylum, Lake county, is al-i lcgcd to have charno-d the county S112.CG as traveling exp.ensea for himself and wife for attending state and nationalcharity association conventions in 1916-, 17. ' Carl J. Ahigrin. sheriff of LaPorte o.iuy, is charge! with Jliti't of which; MEoi was charged for posting I linquent ; tav notices and $30 fees alleged to be due in executions. The charges cover the periods from 1515 to 19 1 S. I W. S. FEUER IS j IMPROVING, j Willlari Feurer, acting secretary of I the Gary- Commercial rHili.-who underwent an operation in a Ch'cago h!r!t- I al. a few days air... ;s j--pore.. as miprov'.ns nicely ar.d will soon be a to be removed to his home.
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mm -ILL I Gfary and Newspapers arej Denounced; Mayor McCormack Speaks to Men At Gathering. Tith no t rikrvs, exceptinc a few picket p. -.n the eircto this morning the police of Indiana Harbor report everything c-v. n more qui.-t th in in rdinniy ''-... A tiriK hief i:d d Jionne! shv.s, "The police have had f'ner call smc ilie tirike v.;is c:.r,t- d h:-:i up ho.! h a cirrespcndit.K ti 1ef. i-e ten strike." YcPtcrdM;, . ;i . f ;. -i;ay at P.-veral of the plants which n-c clo.-rd and the police took in lr.-.r nf-.ial Inrg-c numbr charged with iik. The n.-groyi were particuia; l.v flagrant in their violation of the (.-amldinp iavv last night. reaiizinK that the j dice were al! kep busy on sink"- duty. -. I AGAIN ACCUSE NEWSPAPERS. The strike mass meeiinK yesterday In the Atidsii riutn after an addrf. hy Ma; i r McCor!i:.i.'K was d'.o;,,l nnst'y to cautioning againt vioience, h.u'.ittling lary for hi failure t) app' ar lefi.re iie (Continued on page five.) WAUKEGAN APPEALS FOR STATE TROOPS INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! CHlCAi.c. Sept. 2fi. The first app'al for the state troop growing out of the steel strike in th" Chicago district was made today by . oifn iais at Watikegau where last mph; s'likers stmn d automobiles as they :? !,,. plntil of the American Steel and V ir- Co. Adjutant -Con. Fran!, Pickson of !he I'iinois Nat ion.: f C.o-r.i. after a visit to Waukegati t..-da . rv fused the request for troops, dvcls.r.nc he believed Short ft reen able to oi-f ui'h tile situai ion and preserve order. sheriff Green has sworn in linn special deputies. Several strikers have been arrested. Shots were fired today in the South Chicago district when four men attacked John Wright, a no"-striker. a" he was leainu tli- plant of the Illinois Sic! Co. Th'- iiKn escaped under a fitst'lad't of shots fired by policemen. Union men fNw-lared Wright's assailants w ore not pickets. Two pi. kets In the South Ohirnci disT'.fts were arrr.'-tcd toti;.- wh. n they failed to oh- ,.ihc I d. rs to "keep moving " operations were r..-un;rd today at the universal plate itMil of the Illinois S'..-. 1 Co. at South Chicago. Oftoiah; of the plant claimed ?.i'""" men were at work. Attaches of the I nited States Sleel oorporaliou declared today that operations were gradually l-ing rcsuiri and men constantly returning t. work. Union mnii de .-e that no M,-,- is b mad-" and that the men at work are tner.-ly U. ej.ing 1 h- furt-a '' v. mm. Three strik rs were arrested in Gary today after an automobile "loaded w i ; h ntilloi-k i bad h. en stoned. '!iry officia's ilony ing import--hat strike-breakers are WM. GATES IS ARRESTED Will. am G.tto:-, a ,wt t cbman wh" lives at t-e eorr.. r r.f Webb t-;t-et and Xorrh--"tte pvej-'-c, Hnntm.-nd, was arrested - i ''i dp y hy Chief Special agent A. A . Zo-Ikc and hss m n cbrti gej wt.i iaioTy, Gates, w ii" pleaded sruilty to the charge o.' s .ii'-.ng 15 buslu 1 of grain off th'- r.cbl ef w ay of the Indiana Harbor Tj. Tt. 'lacks which had been knn.-k; rl o .'l ' the cars when they i aine together at t'..- Hump, was fir.ed $30 and co.ts ar.d given a suspended jail sentence hy Judge Kb.-.;: in the lianvme-nd city c oir:. ENGLISH RAILWAY EMPLOYES STRIKE. ' (NTT?NTIONAI NEWS SEtVICE! 1 I : ". y-t r.t. 2i. The railway men, will k.i on a nai onal strike at mltlnmbt ' it w-as announced today by J. H. Thomas, j head of the Xationa! Union of Railway-; mi n. i It p cvioiisly had been stated tint progress was b-ms made towards anj cdjustmo'-t of the trouble by the. execu- j five organization of the union and thei cabinet. j The men ar d manding standardiza- j tion of wages fintonff other th;ngs. j Steel Strike Casualties Up to Today ! KILLED BADLY HURT 9 il
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FOUNDRIES MAKE BIG PURCHASE
Pec Js of transfer co-ering one of th-i i largest real estate deais in the history of Lake county will he recorded toruoi - ! row at ('romi I'oint showing ihi; purchase of over loo res f la rid in th" ' Indiana Harbor factors district hy Ihe Amcrican Steel roumlrii-s The trans- : action involving ou r halt ;i million doi- ' !ars w as closed estf rday and the papers will he filed at oiu e by Isomrn rge r. : retersvfc ilorthiand. tii Hannn'uai lefe-ii Jinn rcpresentiDg the -rporatmn. Company Is SUent. Xo annouticerncnt regtmling the pur- i p"sc of th-- purchase whicli ha been under negotiation for some time, hs hon ! made, hy the officials of. the Indiana . Harbi-r industry but u is said by per- r pons in . io.--.t! touch u:Ui the firm thai avast program o" expansion is being ' mapped out to begin as soon as cond.- ' turn? become settled ono inor. Tour JJcli HoltUngs. Four separate purchasers were mc.uded in the transfer totaling 100.65 acr.S: of the best factory sit land in 'uo Calumet region. All of the land formed' part of the holdings or the Potter Patio- i er and Ieander Mo Virmiok estates and ; is situated immediately east of he present plant of the American fUel i Foundries plant on Kennedy avenue to! Dickey piacf- in Indiana Harbor. Xiles On Ship Cancl. The land lies just south of the Indiana; Harbor ehip canal and has a anal' frontage of 2.837 feet, mor half a tni'e ; and is inclose proximity to the I. If.! I?elt railroad yards. This purchase more ' titan quadruples the holdings of the stcei ; company in the Indiana Harbor distrvt' making !t one of the heaviest land owners in that section of the "a hi met rotion. "War stamps attached to the de. d indfeated that the purchase price war otr; $5,000 rcr acre. ; ADAMNEJfjR LIVED IN EQEN Adam rrzibisj! of East Chicago, did not care much avo'jt work but woule only stick to r. job for a few- days and then rno'. e out. At bast that is the statement of his wife. Fel ksa, who is asking for a dimvc in the Hammond superior eouit. She declares he was piways wanting p move and he kept dragging her and the eh'.drcn fioai one place to another until she got tired of it. T'ney were married at Duluth. Minn., January 3, 1914 and separated September . Adam, she says w ould frequently beat, her and .all her vile name- after which he would put h" out ' the house with the children, and thev w ould hav e t" rema in away r nt.J his -.e-npet settled down. He fa. led to provide suitably for the family and would not let li end money- for clothes . He is now employed at the plant of the Mark Mffir. '. rrslbisz ks for $!.'' alimony, the custody ..f the r'li'ilri'it and Jl.Aoo a year fci" their support . 5T, Itivran Is her attorney. OHIO BANK IS ROBBED ' INTERNATIONAL NEW SERVICE! FAST blVKliPiWl., .". Sept. 2fi. Robbers "eraeked" the ..-,tr mi the Nrv V. aterford Sayings f P.ankmg Comt.any's institution at New Watrrfird. thirty-f've miles pe.rth o' here ea'-'y today and escaped w Hh worth of l.it-er'y I'oik's .ne $iti3 in otsh. A large sum of money was placed yesterda afternoon in a section of the saf. which was not wrecked by the explosion. GETS IN VAULTS WITH SLEDGE HAMMERS 1 INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERV!CE iWF.VSY Tf.t.K. Ind.. Sept. 26. liberty bond-- -:i one to amount to rvrinv thouend? f dollars, .iew elrv and valuable ;.-iprrs wire solen (from the safety: dep."-,:: -.au'is or' the w "isvlllc Banking I'l'nrrtn. '.ley oday l-.v robbers wh burst into th- vault with slcdee hammers, ''"ne t-.d-hcry was not iliscc, ere-1 ' m(l tb bank opened for business late in the risoi ning. STEEL STRIKE SUMMARY STEEI- STUIKE STOMAKY 5TK DAY. Cut of the mass of conflicting :1a. ms "i appeared today that the steel operators are making some headway in the nation-wide strike Pittsburgh ai d AVcstt-rn Pennsylvania opt raters reported increase.! personnel in their factories over the previous days of I he strike. They r. ported additional mills being opened in the plants. The Chicago district where the suspension of work has been nearlv complete since the walkout was inauguratoel. reported a T su m pt : o:f of' work in some mills which have been shut down. In the Mahoning A'alley district, of which Youngstown is the center, th? general shut-down continued today. Operators there reported men are indicating their desire to return to work. WHAT TSE STEEL ST3IKEK3 SAY. Three hundred and fifty thousand no n are still out. Steel operators' statements that men arc returning to woik are untrue. lines news serv: to be belieA-ect. i-- ir.c oer;
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- rfvT. i- i.'s i f ti -" lT t V' f - i 1 I , I fr r . .v. - Says Plumb and Allies Plan To Starve Country Into Submssion. 'INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE". WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, Ark., Sept. 26. Socialism is running mad through the United States and the leaders of labor are plotting to nationalize the railroads, mines and other huge industries through a system of strike.-, is the opinion of Governor John J. Cornwe'I, as declared here in a speech. "Labor leaders, drunk with power, are planning to discard the work cf Washington, Madison, Lincoln, Cleveland and Roosevelt and substitute the ideas of Marx, Lenine and Trotsky," declared the crovernor. TEAK TO STAE.A7E COTTNTEY." "They know- that the American people will nexer deliberately vo'c cut a repub' ican form of government and veto in the Ru'Him sovi t. They do not plan to put into effect their ideas through cb-ctiou of mm to congress and legislatures. That would be too slow. Hence Air. Plumb and his allied plan a quicker method. It is to starve the country ir.to submission through n-il ionwide strikes. The campaign is now on to organize every indurtry so that when the word is passed the leaders cpp tie up railroads, close in Hies, slop mill, leave strc-e' cars idle. They plait to rule the cbo-s. to let ifihor unions step into absolute control. DOH'T KNCAV WHAT'S OIT. "These fire the pltms of the bad. is of labor uniors the plans of men wrw ai e paid princely salaries and whose opmse accounts, if audited, would cause an insurrection among the men win. p..y the dues thit enrich these leaders. The tank and tiie.of labor, like trie rank and fie of farmers and bu sitters men are not awake to what is going on. "We should demand of our pub'i.; officials that they lay aside their foolish peditioal games at bast until thes--- .-ri-otis problem are settled. There was a ltoman emperor w ho fiddled whi! ; the city burned and forever since has been an example of foolishness. T eh not think he had very much on some of our congressmen today.'" Advertise in The Times and advertise again, cvuhs come with constant effort.
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' v - C - 5 - vf.'A i LATEST ON BIG STRIKE (BULLETIN.) i : .TtPMTiONU "EWS SERVICE: ' YOUITCrSTOWJ". o., Sept. 26. The first shooting in tiie steel stiiiie here occurred today r.t the plant of the Tiroui Steel Hocp Co. plant. Sheriff Morris ; rushed to the scene and arrested Loxxis : Delmark and Pete Xczoraeski. , (ETJLt.ETIX.) j IIMTrnwATinnit f.FVVS SLRVICE: i WASErrTOTOr. Sspt. , 26 Judge E.! H. Gary, head of tlie United States Steel I corporation, has wired President Vlson i that he hatl accepted his anpintrucnt as one of be 22 representat i-.-os of tho gen- ; era1. F'tblic named hty ;'ie presidoiit f cr the indvstrisl conference Oct. 6 it was! announced this afteracos. j Gary Steel M peraang! INTERNATIONAL NTWS SERVICE 1 CHICAGO, Sept. 25. With more than 3,000 steel Avcrkers reported now at work at the Illinois Steel Co. plant in Gary, Ind., and S00 more preparing to return to their places today under pence protection, the strike situation in Gan may register its.lim severe break today. Major AV. P. Hc!g. s-, C nary late yesterday assure ::1 a ..-,-.;" e of ten! men re-orcse-to. in e: eeral hundre-t tii' ii I who wished to return to their work that j '.he - v.o;:M be given 'o.i ,- protection i po:-s ibl . !"''.h on "in -ir w a v to work and i hot w fen the plants and th- I.- homes st : night. EvnKT ka:i who wokss. "Tha hole's for . ,. :--,- ., .s :, ,n.l who want- m r 1 u rn t- or -: i ." Jinynr . Hodges said. i K'.erv ste.l r'arit ;n r'rry ivo? r-"-porte.l i.pernt ir.g loin;.. u ch ni'hj greatly . :.. d foro.s -tod t:.' ir onp;i;l accordingly limne..f J While no '.'ft 'C I frur-s as the! number of tr.eti i-eturnir.g t. work a; other pltints in the I'hirap.t .list, let a-e j available, it is- s-id that the men ae returning t-. work in .-'rai: tiroup? and! that several mills, iriie snico 'an Mm- j dny. wiil ho m oper.-ition v.-it run the;! nut 2 1 hours, ! FIRST GAME OF THE SEASON Hammond H.gh f?c'-.ool w .1! ' P-'n its football season t-. morrow w : t h its f.rst came, the iitor bejfp Chicago Heights, ' stri ng snaj'ti..' train . The local Poy - have p-:o ; dip.gertly find are c .undent of making a good showing. The gn,"- w ill lie called at 2:30 at Parduhn's ball par . Advertise in The TIrr.Cj and ad j tonishins results if their users are to be belie ed.
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Doctor Forces Cancellation of His League Campaign Appointments. I President Wilson's trip in behalf ! of the confirmation of the treaty of I Versailles was called off this morning. The president was ill through ! the night and Admiral Grayson, his i personal physician was in constant attendance on him. The train was ; stopped on the outskirts of Wichita i and word sent to the committee S there that the trip had been called j off. 1 TTJMrJLTY GIVES SEASON. j The reason assigned was Riven fn the . following statemer-t made- by Secretary j -Joseph P. Tumulty. The president has exerted hlmt!f . I constantly and has been und-r s'ueh a I strain during the last year and has .o I spent himself without reserve en th a i tri rthat it has brought tn nervous rI 9cl!o in hifi digestiye organs. Dr. Gihxson t.ierelore insists upon the cancellation of his remaining appointments and r.:s immediate return to Washington notwithstanding the president's earnes" desire to complete his engagemt nts. PRESIDENT TJNDEB STKAI3T. The j resident CIA net get any rnl during the night as the nervous leaction kept him awake. Admiral Grayfon re-Ti-ained ee-nsta.t;i - au.Jiis wde.- T.e' president was y cry insistant tha there should be no interference with the trip as he did r.ot want to disappoint the people. However, it was stated by tha doetor that it would be very unwU fur liim to attemrt any further speechi. Tho j-resl.lonf was very nuch d!appcinted with this order but be finally ac--erted the dictates of 11.? physician. BSTU5N TO WASHINGTON. Orders inimeuiatcly were sent forward to arrange for the return of the train to Washington. The president wiil eo direct to the white house on his arrival there to rest. Admiral Grayson stated thit all that could be said was contained in the sta'ernent issued by Secretary Tumulty. The president's train left for AVasiiington gt 11 o'clock. A great crowd had turned out here for the speech today and the announcement that the president was i'.l and would have to cant. el bis engagement here ps well as his other dates was a great disa ppointment. Freni here the president bad been scheduled to so to l.itte P.ock, Ark., frcn there to Memphis, from there to Pouisvlile. and then to Washington, arriving there September 30. THE GREAT UNREST "going to force gary. tNTf.P NATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! AA'ASHlNiiTOX. Sept. 26. "We r-. n- t ge.'ne to a'-k Mai y for arbitration, wore go-ng to fone. bum t" ask us foatbitration." Fitspa trick declared toda"Do e lopmen f s in the next few days." be continued, "will show- organized lab. r pr, sent ins a solid front to the common (tuiiiy ar.d ready i.o jrive Mr. Onry -lot g a rattle as he cares to undertake.' SHOTS TIRED AT SHARON. 1 INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE; I.Mlov. Pa.. ?ent. 2t. Five slice: f fired from ambus!. b re early to as AV. S. Sprow . superintendent Claire Furnace Co., and Willian Veai-y. of Jlurtf & Co., while vhe returtur.g from the Claire Str- , n.e of th. shots struck th- !:: W er at" troops were hurried to th e o'" the ambtu'h. bur toubi Pr.d n " of the men v ho. tired the shots Set n : '3''. ROBBED IN EAST HAMMOND X.ght he for- las' Chester Dickers., n of 77S Sou tii Hoh.uan street had st-...-oed his cuioiiir.hiie at the P. and . r. ss.rg on calumet avenue, to let ., i i'2.in pass two men with handkerchief:; over their faces come :,p from behind. The men got in the car and at tiie point of a revolver ordered l.'ickersoe. 1" drive on which he did, w ith the men t.lling hi mwherp to go. When they ai rived at th" corner of i.'.iluffliiia f.venue and Standard avenue the- men robbed Plckcrson of $H5 and then cot out of the machine and ortleied hi'n to drive on. JASS MUSIC DISPLACES BULLET.? SHARON'. Pa.. Sept. 23,Jazr mu-lc piaye-d t,y electric pianos and phnnorni;.h' displaced the singing of bullets and brickba's anrl tin- crashing of fai::ri r'ass in the rj.'t district of Farre"! laM niKht. Tiie strikers apparently are subdued by the state troopers.