Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 231, 15 August 1916 — Page 7

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BOTH SIDES PLAGE HOPE FOR PREVENTING STRIK

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 13. Hoping that a ground work had been laid which will permit completion within the next twenty-four hours of a peace plan in tho threatened railway labor war, President Wilson today resumed his Independent conference with the railroad and union labor representatives.

Before the scheduled conference be

would be able to Influence the railway managers to withdraw their demand that In any arbitration that is agreed upon tho entire question of overtime and pay generally be considered as direct questions. That up to the present has been the great stumbling block, the brotherhood men insisting that only the eight hour question and the wage advance were in dispute, as

DESERTS THE PULPIT FOR QUARTER DECK

fian he "talked things over" again j the other questions already had been with Commissioner W. L. Chambers, of conceded by the roads during the last

the federal board of conciliation and J few years

mediation. The later has led in all

of the efforts to bring about a reconciliation of the differences between the railroads and "Big Four" unions and today he professed still to be supremely confMent that the threatened general strike yet will bo averted. Hold Long Conference The representatives of the Railway Managers association were in conference in their hotel until after 3 o'clock this morning and talked over the suggestions that were made to them by the president at yesterday's conference.- , It is understood that there was a wide difference of opinion among the representatives of the roads as to the means that Ehould be followed. A number of managers took the position that the president's action in de

manding that they make further com

Worried Over Reports.

The president is admittedly especially worried by reports that practically all of the big railroads are agreed that if the strike finally materializes, they will make no effort to enforce operation of trains by employing strike breakers. It was estimated at the office of the board of mediation and conciliation that about ten per cent of the railoads involved would lose their charters by failure to make any efforts to run trains. At the same time It was stated that word has been received on reliable authority that the railroads will insist that they have met all demands for wage Increases that they could without receiving increased rates for the transportation of merchandise. Would Cause Suffering.

"Twenty-four hours of such a strike

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HOUSE MAY ADOPT PARTY'S NAVAL BILL

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. Prospects were good for the adoption by the House before adjournment late today of the conference report on the navy bill carrying $315,000,000. This will complete President Wilson's preparedness program so far as legislation is concerned. Majority leader Kitchen, who has opposed both army and navy increases planned to speak against adoption of the report, but it was conceded the measure will carry. The senate amendment to the House bill Includes provision for the immediate construction of four battle ships and four battle cruisers. The House bill provided for the construction of

five battleships.

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HOME AFTER 3 YEARS

MAHA6ERS RECOGNIZE NEEO OF SHORT HOURS

BULBAR DIPLOMATS SPARRING FOR PEACE

promises to avert a strike had placed would cause more suffering than an them in a false light before the j invading army," said Judge Chambers, country. j head of the mediation board, in comAfter a lengthy discussion a plan j menting on the situation. "I recall a of procedure was arranged which was ; twenty-four-hour strike on one com-

to be placed before the president when

he received them today. By agreement fll details regarding the plan were withheld out of respect to the president. Wait Word from Wilson Meanwhile the representatives of the brotherhoods quietly waited at their hotel in the other end of the ity for word from the White House, "he majority of thejmion representatives admited that Ihey expected a way out would be found but declined to discuss what the president was cioing. The consensus of opinion is that some general plan cf arbitration will bo the mutual solution. This will take the form, unless one side or the other kicks over the traces at the last moment,, of either a board completely appointed by the president or of which he will name the neutral member. It was generally hoped that the president

paratively small railroad. Half a dozen important hospitals were without milk, rates on various commodities increased 100 per cent, and great suffering resulted before that short time was up. I can not think that either side in this dispute will be willing to shoulder the awful responsibility of bringing about such a state of affairs." While the postoffiCe department is studiously avoiding projecting itself into the controversy at this time, it is known that conferences are being held and arrangements for quick ac

tion are being mn.de in anticipation of i

a suspension of railroad operation. It was reported generally here today! that enough trains to carry the mails j would be manned by soldiers if the i men did not furnish them themselves. !

Threatened to Use Army. "In President Cleveland's administration there was a serious strike which threatened to tie up the mails,"

EV..EDWm SMITH. The Rev. Edwin Smith, who up. to a few months ago was the pastor of a little flock at Tilsonbury, Ontario, Canada, is now a captain in the British royal navy. The minister enlisted in the royal naval volunteers and was recently made a captain aboard one of the destroyers In the North sea fleet.

said Judge Chambers. "On that occasion the president said that if necessary he would use the United States army to take cars across the country." Although there have been reports that the entire strike situation is to be referred to the interstate commerce commission for settlement, this is not confirmed by officials. The managers again went into session behind closed doors in their hotel at 8:30 this morning. They carried into the conference a large number of documents which were brought to Washington by a special messenger on the early morning train. These documents were understood to contain a complete statement of the earnings of the various railroads, with the comparative tables which showed just what per cent is paid out in wages, and it was understood that a new statement was being prepared to submit to the president.

ROME, Aug. 15. Bulgarian and Turkish diplomats have arrived in Berne and are in touch with diplomatic agents of the allies with a view to the negotiation of separate peace, says a Berne dispatch to the Idea Nazionale today. Austrian agents are said to be watching the Turks and Bulgarians very closely.

AUTO HURLS EIGHT MEN INTO HOSPITAL

LAPORTE, Ind., Aug. 15 Rushing along the Lincoln highway early today with the speedometer showing sixty-five miles an hour an automobile containing nine Elkhart men 6kidded at a turn in the road, turned turtle, hurling the occupants in all directions with the result that the eight men are now in the hospital in this city suffering from serious injuries. The ninth man in the party, H. B. Kimball, escaped injury and summoned help.

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. NWALTEE H1NES FAGE,.

Ambassador and Mrs. W. H. Page, who arrived from England on the American liner Philadelphia, are visiting

their children at Garden City, L. I., today. After a few days there the am-

bassador will go to Washington. He has been abroad three years. He is to return to his post late in October.

Asked about the war situation, he said, with a smile: "You might as well ask me about the millenium as to give an opinion on the length of the war. You get more news in the New York newspapers than we aet in London."

HOLD MITCHELL FUNERAL.

The funeral of Joseph Lawrence Mitchell will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at St. Mary's church, Rev. V. J. Cronin officiating. Burial will be at St. Mary's cemetery. Friends may call at any time at the home, 1115 North C street.

HUGHES IS ATTACKED

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 Senator Hardwick of Georgia this afternoon bitterly assailed Charles Evans Hughes in the Senate "for trying to rekindle sectional hatred" by charging in his Butte speech that Congress is controlled by Southern Democrats.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. Further progress in . the efforts to reconcile the differences between the railroads of the country and their union employes was made by President Wilson today. But it will be late today at least before It will be known whether the gains already made have ended the danger of a nation-wide strike that would tie up all the transportation lines. For one hour afcd forty minutes the president and a committee of the rail

way managers discussed the demand of the Brotherhoods that they be granted an eight-hour day. The railway managers through their spokesman Elisha Lee cited figures which they claimed would make It impossible to grant the eight-hour work day on the terms demanded by the men. Offer County Proposal. They offered as a counter proposition, however, to recognize the essential nature of ,a shorter working day some suggested eight hours and

some nine hours but insisted that if it was to be granted a neutral commission should be named to lay down the law as to how it must be made effective. , . ' Finally the railway managers left their counter proposal in the hands of the president to discuss it with the Brotherhood representatives.

BREMEN IS SAFE FAR FROM COAST

LONDON, Aug., 15. The following dispatch from Berlin, dated August 14, was received today by the International News Service: "The submarine merchant ship is perfectly safe, but at this moment is a considerable distance from New York."

LOSES $15,000 ROLL BETTING ON RACES

FEAR WASP'S LOSS.

COPENHAGEN, Aug. 15. German maritime papers have begun to express fears that the merchant submarine Bremen has been lost by being caught in a steel net. They predict that no more merchants submarines will be sent to the United States.

DETROIT, Aug. 15. Dr. Don M. Kelly, 55 years old, of Lafayette, Ind., was easy picking for a trio of swindlers and it cost him $15,000 to find out that it does not pay to play "sure thing" races. Kelly was in Detroit on a visit and met the men who told him they had a sure thing to win $64,000 and persuaded him to put up $15,000. Then they told him the horse lost, and he swore out warrants for the men. Edward F. Stanley, from Murfreesboro, Tenn., 40 years old was arrested.

HEALTH OFFICER, ORDERS SCHOOL TO BE ERECTED

Health Officer Krueger has notified Trustee Reynolds of New Garden township that a new township high school will have to be erected in Fountain City at once to relieve the crowded conditions in the schools there. The advisory board is planing to erect a new $10,000 building to comply with the health officer's ruling.

ROCKEFELLER FLAN DECLARED FAILURE

COLORADO SPRINGS, Col.. Aug. 15. In his annual report to the State Federation of Labor today President John McLennan declared the so-called "Rockefeller industrial plan" to be an "unqualified failure from every standpoint but one it has given the capitalistic press agents a change to talk right and print" the real substance. "The real substance of this plan," said McLennan is that the employer herds his men together keeps tab on each tells them when, where and how to meet; attends their meetings and overawes them with hi3 presence."

CONFER WITH HAAS

The Rrazilian citv of Bahia has re- Men claiming to be representatives

placed in telephone service with an j of a financing company which is planAmerican svstem. ining to take up the proposition or building an interurban line from CoApple wood is the favorite material j lumbus to Richmond, were in conferfor saw handles, and some goes intojence with E. M. Haas and Charle3 so-called brier pipes. j Jordan this afternoon.

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One Everett Upright, was $500, now $150. One Baldwin, large size, mahogany, fancy wood, was $500. One Bush & Lane, very massive in design and first class condition. One Trayser Player, Mahogany Case. One Style G Starr Mahogany Case. One Style B, Mahogany Case.

One Richmond discontinued style. One Remington Player, full 88 note. One Harvard, Mahogany Case. One Trayser Player, discontinued style at $350, original price $550. One Richmond, walnut case, ref inished and thoroughly overhauled, like new. One slightly used Starr Grand.

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