Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 272, 29 August 1919 — Page 1

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WILSON ASKED TO INTERVENE TO HOLD OFF STEEL STRIKE

Committee of Steel Workers Charge Corporation is Trying to Force Strike Before President Interferes. CONFERENCE IS ASKED (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON', Aug. 29. President Wilson la to be asked to take a hand in the controversy between the steel workers and the United States Steel corporation in an effort to prevent a general Btrike. This announcement was made today by the committee of the steel workers, who charged that the steel corporation was trying to force the issue before the president should have an opportunity to pass upon the merits of the controversy. In a telegram to the union of steel workers at Gary, Ind., the committee paid the workers were not to strike "under any circumstances," until ths strike date had been set by the committee. The-Gary union had telegraphed that the steel workers were being discriminated against and "discharged wholesale for the purpose of forcing Hold Men at Work. The telegram, addressed to Janus Mulholland, secretary of the Gary Allied Iron and Steel Workers council, follows: "Your telegram received stating that fteel workers are being discriminated against and discharged wholesale for purpose of forcing a strike. The steel companies are doing the same in many other places. But in spite of thia persecution try to hold the men at work until all amicable means of settlement have been exhausted. "The executive council of the American Federation of Labor Is negotiating for a conference with President Wilison today. The steel companies show by their action a determination to ,force the issue before the president l;ns hod chance to pass on merits of controversy. We are doing all possible to secure justice for the men and to prevent the national disaster of a general strike in the steel Industry. Do not strike under any circumstances .until tho striko date has been Bet fay jour committee. FOOD PRICES STILL SLIDING DOWNWARD (By Associated Press CHICAGO, Aug. 29 Foodstuffs of all kinds continued on a downward sale today. Live hogs sold as low as , $14.50 per hundred pounds early in the buying, ad lack of buyers fori thousands of hogs on the market made j further declines almost certain. All grades have shown a drop of approximately three and ore half cents a pound since the beginning of the slump Cattle sales began around $16.75 per hundred and average of $1.50 under prices at the close of last week s trad ing. RAILROAD BILL NOW COMPLETED T?y Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. The Senate Interstate sub-committee which has been engaged for several months

in the preparation of a bill designed to j o'clock Saturday morning the railroad meet Ihe railroad situation following j a(jministratlon would undertake to do IJr::. ent among strikers swung

(. riiiuiin- iu i-i nv. .. - , i pleted its work. Chairman Cummins said today the bill will not be- ready ; for introduction in tlie t-enate ueiore early next week. Wilson Had Too Much Hand in Treaty, Says Frenchman in Debate iBy Associated P'-essi) parir Aucr. 29.-- Debate on thpeace treaty with Germany which was presented to the Chamber of Deputies which was I as bV the government lor iaum Uwcu early this week was continued in the chamber this afternoon. M l'e Gallhard Itancel, a Catholic party deputy, criticized the treaty as ioi iniv Ut-rnianv too strong and declared that. President Wilson had been allowed to play too cominauums part in the formulation of the peace terms. Weather Forecast I For Indiana by the U. S. Weather Bureau Showers and thunderstorms tonight. Saturday fair. Temperature Today. Yesterday. Noon Maximum Minimum .71 .46 For yayne County by W. E. Moore Thunderstorms tonight, possibly arriving this afternoon. Saturday somewhat unsettled but probably fair. General Conditions The western storm is moving slowly reaching Illinois this morning. Temperatures contine low for the season, over the east. Normally warm weather over the west. Range from 80 to 8S in mountains and West Canada.

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of the former Duchess of Westminster, who was recently granted a divorce. It is reported that the princess, as well as her mother, was enjoying an income rrom the Westminster estate, but that Immediately with the granting of the divorce this source of revenue was closed.

RAIL STRIKERS ' OlflMGfTO WORK i WEST Brotherhoods Working, to Induce Return Mines Warning Has Ef.fect. (Hy Associated Tress) LOS ANGELKS. Aug. 2D. The tieup of al! steam roads continued today in Los Angeles, although the railioad companies announced they were willing t0 glve thp strikers their old posts and brotherhood heads were working to induce strikers to return. In San Francisco and other cities in the state the strikers returned to work. SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 2!). The strike of railway men in the extreme west and southwest, from indications, was crumbling today. Warned by Walker D. Hines, Director General of Railroads that if they did not operate trains by seven toward a instances. return to work in many g Francisco yardmen, after bav ing boon out about 36 hours, agreed to return to work at S o'clock this morning. Virtually normal conditions had been restored at San Jose, Tiacy and Oakland, important points in the har.dling of trains to the south and ea.t strikers have returned to work ! last night. Traffic Still Held Up. I At Los Angeles the question of returning awaited approval of the meeti ing of the officers today and second ; met unM i: me niviiis i t M rscuiiu u' j those officers. These meetings were ! called to discuss reports of iniernaj tional union officers, who last night i conferred with railroad administration officials. Optimistic statements recarding a return to work were made bv snokesmen for the union men. A' San nernardino, Calif., where mem- I hers of the "Big Four" brotherhoods j are out the engineers were said to j have expressed willingness to return j to work but were bound by an agr -! ment that al! four crafts would return j together, while other crafts continued j to oppose return. Mean-while traffic continued virtually paralyzed from Albuquerque. N. M., to Yuma, Ariz., west to l.os Angeles and for a considerable distance north I and south of that point on all lines. No alleviation was reported f'om desert towns dependent upon rail transport for water for domestic pur poses but there were no reports of suffering anywhere. Sirps for con - servation of water continued at several points however. Like measures were applied to gasolene at a number of places. Automobiles still were being used to handle mail in a number of in-

satnees and it was said this method of j The itinerary was announced tomoving the mails would be continued ! day at the White House. The second

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1 VVTVJqi Rent in Paris Goes Up Over Que Hundred Per Cent (By Associated Press) PARTS, Aug. 29. The income from lodgings and apartments in Paris, calculated on the rentals now demanded by landlords, would show an increase from 663.004,000 francs in 1916 to more than 1,325,000,000. The number of apartments ; for" rent Increased about thirty per cent between 1889 and 1919. while the total rentals went up about fifty per cent between 1S89 and the fall of 1918. Since the armistice the increase has been more than a hundred per cent, and most of that since April of this year. DESTRUCTION OF WAR MATERIAL TO BE INVESTIGATE (By Associated Press) FARIS, Aug. 29. The destruction of material owned by the American expeditionary forces in France is receiving particular attention from the war expenditures investigation committee of congress, which toc'.ny Inquired into the burning of $1,000 000 worth of aviation stock at Colombey-La-Bell, and tlio destruction of motor vehicles at Romartin, of which the French have complained officially There- seems to be a difference of appreciation between the French and American officials as to the value of the material broken uu at Romartin t It. was generally considered worthless by American army officers, while the French placed a certain value on it. as junk. The committee has obtained evidence indicating that the aviation stock burned at Colombey-La-Bc-lle, however, included maierial and ma chines of Value. The committee will probably spend scleral jlays examining in detail the bulk sale to the French government of American goods, composing $135,000.000 worth of food and $137,000,000 worth of clothing. Inquiry by the i committee has disclosed some conj fusion in the powers of the Liquidalion commission headed by Edward B. I Parker, of Houston, Tex., and the misI sion headed by C. W. Hare, director of sales, the latter although accompanied by a largo staff of experts, apI pears to have no authority to sell any ! part of expeditionary force stocks in ! Europe. WILSON TO SPEAK AT 'INDIANAPOLIS THURSDAY NIGHT (Tiy Assoeiaterl Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.-i-President Wilson will visit 30 citien during his j tour of the country in the interests of the peace treaty and will be absent j from Washington until September 30. He will leave here next Wednesday night and will make his first address Thursday afternoon at Columbus. address will be made in Indianapolis Thursday evening.

CRUELTY SHOWN GERMAN PEOPLE KNOX PROTESTS

United States Should Conclude Separate Peace, He Tells Senate. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. Declaring that the peace treaty cannot be enforced but will lay the foundation "for centuries of blood letting," Senator Knox of Pennsylvania, a Republican member of the Foreign Relations committee, and former secretary of state, told the senate today that the United States should decline to become a party to the settlement effected at Versailles and should negotiate a separate peace with Germany. In its "hard and cruel" terms, he asserted the treaty imposed on Germany penalties which violate international law and engender strife He declared there was no reason why the United States should project itself into the dangers of such a situation. "The more I consider this treaty," said Mr. Knox, "the more I am convinced that the only safe way for us to deal with it is to decline to be a party to it at all. Would Renounce Indemnity. "I think we should renounce in favor of Germany any and all claims for indemnity because of the war and see t'ha't she gets credit for what we renounce. We ought to renounce all participation or membership in commissions, committees, boards or otherwise pnovided for in the treaty in aid or its execution to which by its terms we are parties. Wo ought not to accept cessions of German territory. We ought to declare a general policy to regard with concern any threat cf disturbance of general world peace, but it the same time we should reserve complete liberty of action either independently or in conjunction with other powers in taking such steps as we determine wise for preserving the peace. "We ought then to enrry out the spirit of the Act of 1916, which authorized the president to convene tho nations of the world together to establish a code of international law. reduce armaments, to establish an international tribunal and go as far as possible in the direction of securing peace through justice, through a league to which all the world are partics in its formation. "This would be a fitting, generous and dignified exit from a situation in which primarily we had no direct concern. It is Indeed a hard and cruel peace that this treaty stipulates and I have no objections to its being so. but see no reason why we who do- not partake in its spoils,, shovld became parties to Its harshness and cruelty. Sees Future Danger. "I see no reason why we should be parties to imposing upon Germany a treaty whose terms, our negotiators say, she will not be able to meet; a treaty that robs our ancient friend, China, in a way disapproved by our negotiators; a treaty that lays th. foundation for centuries of blood-letting into which we should not b drawn, a treaty that, contrary to otn own judgment fails to fix the amount of indemnity to be paid, leaving that vast question to the whim of a majority of a commission on reparation, a treaty predicated on the assertion that a stricken and helpless world ronuirs our counsel and support but leaves to the Itik fu iarii-s ihe decision us to the measure and character of the ben-j etactions they are to receive; a treaty that with ominous words presages our involvement in the eruptions of suppressed i-olcanic world conditions; a treaty that would require us to underwrite all the regional understind ir.gs between nations recognized by the league, most of which are based upon oppression of weaker nation:-, many of which are as yet secret and undisclosed, and when disclosed might drive us to acts of injustice similar to that in which the president felt himself compelled to asquiesce in the case of Shantung." Senator Knox said a state of peace actually would be established in the world as soon as three of, the great powers had ratified the treaty, and that the. United States should make her own peace status compute by a concurrent resolution of congress. " Declaring the foreign relations committee had tried in vain to get important d3ta relating to the treaty, the stnator said the people at last were waking to the true issue as the fycts about the Versailles negotiations leaked out. CHINESE FACTIONS GETTING TOGETH (By Associated Press) PARIS. Thursday, Aug. 2S. The Chinese peace delegation has received despaches from Peking stating that: Wong-I-Tong, representing the North - era government and who is a member of the Anhui military party is negotia - ting with Tang Shao-Yl of the Sojithern government, looking to the reconciliation of the two factions in China which the peace delegation thinks is possible of achievement. Wong-I-Tong represents the extreme militarists and their willingness to enter into negotiations is regarded by the peace delegation as an indication that the breach between North and South China is narrowing. U. 5. Agents Said They Were "Wet Chauffeurs" Bartenders Declare i (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Aug. 29. Asserting that federal officials arrested them obtained liquor on the plea that they were "wet chauffeurs" or "nervous actors.' three bar tenders rounded out in the recent crusade against violaors of the war time provision law, pleaded guilty in the federal district court today and were fined $50 each. More than 50 pleaded not guilty.

King Swope, War Hero, 25, Gets Congress Seat

i - V Mr. and Mis. King Swope. Representative King Swope of Kentucky, a returned war hero, is the first Republican in twenty-three years to represent the Eighth Kentucky district in congress. He celebrated his twenty-sixth birthday after his 'election. Mrs. Swope will prove a charming acquisition to congressional social circles. Mandatory Adjustment of sRates Supported by Owners .pf Rail Security, He Says. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. Principles of the Warn eld plan under which a minimum interest return of six percent, on railway securities would bo guaranteed through a mandatory adjustment of rates by the Inter-state '"ommerce commission were indorsed by fifty million persons owning or directly "interested in railroad securlties" in a memorial to Congress sub-

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iiitted to the House inter-state Com-! aggerat ion," concern only what officialmerce omnrtte bv S. Davis Warfleld. ! described as "exports," they do not

V president of the national association owners of railroad securities. Signers of tho memorial numbered 5,000 investing institutions including savings banks, national and state banks, surety companies, trust companies, and life and fire insurance companies, and S.189 individual investors. The shipping public also was represented in the indorsement by sixteen municipal trade organizations with an estimated total membership of 30,000. Insurance companies giving their indorsement were said to represent 23.0'iq.orio policy holders. while it was estimated that 5.roo,500 persons were represented by savin brnUs. ' In presenting the memorial Mr. War-j field said it:; signers did not. ask "the! i continuation oi autocratic railroad; i methods of the past, but a just, and!,

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the most important problem now be fore the country." Puts Blame on Congress Urging favorable consideration by Conrrp-'S of the remedial legislation proposed in the War Acid plan, the memorial declared: "It is our conviction that the railroads cannot avoid destruction and eventual government absorbticn without a primary distributable return of not less than six percent, assured upon the aggregate, mit through a governmental guarantee 1 but through the exercise by Congress i of its duty to stop by act. the knife 1 of regulation short of the heart of the j transportation system of the United States. I "The responsibility for the existing I system and the duty of conserving I transportation in America rests ex- ' clusively upon th congress. The '. Inter-state commission has not the

tat commission na not n? ",.han ('3 nrt and cannot consistently with ; j"1 nsn.utmn be charged th-th;Jj la!gtbt sibility cf determining iunda-1 Krcrweis m U1e coun,.

. power the con responsi mental Questions of public policy. We appeal to this congress to discharge its duty by the only possible method. The first requisite is a mandatory declaration that the power of regulation shall not be employed so as to depress net operation income below the level which experience has shown to be necessary to sustain the carriers. The legislation proposed is based upon the necessity that Congress shall by law recognize a minmum percentage return on the aggregate investment as a necessary limitation upon its delegation of rate-making power to the Inter-state Commerce commission and shall be law enable that commission to comply with the duty to conserve transportation in America."

MISUNDERSTANDING IS CAUSE OF SHALL RIOT HERE; GRAND JURY CALLED FOR TUESDAY

Crowd of Several Thousand People Attacks Malleable Plant Governor Orders Troops Held in Readiness if Outbreak Should be Intensified Strikebreakers, Cause of Trouble, Are Returned to Chicago Shots Are Fired When Radicals Start Attack on Foundry. FIFTY NAMES ON THE LIST OF PROSECUTOR

Thorough investigation of the cause of Thursday's night's rioting will be made by the Wayne county grand jury, which will be called into a special session next Tuesday morning. The grand jury was called by Judge Bond Friday morning at the request of the prosecuting attorney. According to Prosecuting Attorney Gath Freeman, at least fifty witnesses will be called to testify before the grand jury in connection with its investigations, and there is probability of many more beins? called before the investigation is completed. The prosecutor has a partial list of names of the persons who were connected with the rioting and expects to have the list almost completed when the grand jury convenes. Efforts will be made by the prosecuting attorney to obtain indictments against the ring leaders of the riot for malicious trespass, as a result of the destruction wrought at tho plants of the Richmond Malleable Castings company and the Reliance foundry. Leaders May Be Indicted I am going to make every effort to indict the ring leaders of the riot, and every other person who is known!

to have participated in the affMcta,t freeman said this morning. in QT1,- low ,k,.

Iso estimate could be placed on the uuuia,. ciiuui rlauL 111X3 11 ing, although officials of the companies said that it would probably be Eeveral thousand dollars The Reliance plant wa3 covered by riot insurance, and no effort was made to ascertain the amount of damage done there, pending the arrival of insurance adjusters. Riot Insurance had been purchased for the Reliance foundry only three days before the strike, according to J. E. Jones, head of the concern. . . RUMANIA LOOTED IN WAR, IS CLAIM (By Associated Press) PARIS, Aug. 28. Rumanian author-1 lties have discovered in Transylvania, highly important statistical materir.' from which appears the Central enir

pires between Dec. 1, 1916 and Octo-manded that the men be removed imber 10, 1918. removed from Rumania ! mediately or they would go into the

i 3,705,148 tons oi ! merchandise of which 2,161,005 tons were foodstuffs and the rest petroleum and raw materials says a Havas message from Bucharest. Hundreds of thousands of carloads were removed to Austria-Hungary alone and it is pointed out that the figures quoted, which are said "certainly not to err on the side of exinclude postal parcels which German and Austrian invaders sent home b the carload daily nor what the army of occupation consumed. "In view of this immense spoliation" the message adds, "the absence of Rumanian delegates from the indemnities commission and American protests against clauses in the new armistice with Hungary, seem at least strange. The armistice does not restore one-fifth of what Hungary ha3 stolen from us." " GRAPES PLENTIFUL; QUALITY IS GOOD ... , ,. Grf?es, according to Walter Ratliff, be more plentiful this tall than they have been lor the last, nve years, and according to commission merchants, the price will be lower than last year. I Moore's Early, Concord and Niagara are the three most popular varieties of giapes in this country although several varieties are grown. Berry worms the chief enemy of the prni.es lijve mrsde :m -a mien r.- nee lint

spraving them with an arsenic solu-jthe Police early this morning in keeption will serve to effectually check ! inK back the large crowd of sightseers ttiei;- i;i .eVs i w ho started through the Malleable

Burn Trash in Fall The best mefliod of doing away with this pest is to burn all the trash near the vines, in the late fall or early spring, lor these trash piles are the breeding places for the worms. All the grapes grown near here are for home consumption, and very few are imported with the exception of the California grapes. Isham Sedgwick, Thracians Refuse to V oie in Elections (By Associated Press) SALONIKI, Thursday, Aug. 28. The Mussulmen of Thrace, abstained from voting in the recent Bulgarian legislative elections as a protest against Bulgarian domination of Thrace according to reports from Sofia to the Athena news agency here. The Agrarians and Socialists gained most of the seats in the Bulgarian parliament, completely dereating the group headed by former Premier Radoslovoff.

On account of a misunderstanding between the officials of the Richmond Malleable Castings Company and Uie members of the local Moulders Union, as to what disposition would be made of a crowd of strike breakers which had been brought in from Chicago several days ago, a riot broke out in the neighborhood of the Richmond Malleable Castings Company about ten o'clock last night which resulted In destruction of property and the wounding of two men. Tuesday the officials of the Malleable Castings Company imported about 15 strike breakers from Chicago and attempted to put them to work with the members of the local union In the foundry. The strike breakers were quartered at the Arlington. Hotel. When the members of the local union learned that the strike breakers were being put to work in the foundry with them, they refused to continue to Work and left the foundry. Agreement Was Made. On Wednesday night a crowd of about 500 men assembled at the Arlington Hotel and demanded that thu strike breakers be sent out of town. The officials of the Malleable foundry stated to the police and the police

in turn notified the union officials, that the w be gent Thufsdav ) mnmjTi The officials of the Casting company that thv niOHIlt It,at thi move them from the hotel. Thursday morning the men were removed from the Arlington and quartered at the foundry. This action on the part of the officials of the Malleable foundry was interpreted as a violation of the agreement and organization men assembled Thursday - night with the purpose of making further demands for the strike breakers' removal from town. Conference Is Held. A conference at the ;ourt house between the sheriff, the representatives of the local union, and officials of the Malleable company, revealed the fact that the officials of the Malleable company were bound in a contract with a strike breaking company in Chicago to go ahead and', operate the foundry with the men they had sent in and therefore could not break their agreement with this company. While the conference was In pro gress at the Court House, the crowd 1 surrounding the Malleable plant dei foundry and take tr?m out by force and put them on the first train leaving the city. The officials of the. Castings company claimed that they could do nothing, the result of -which was that the crowd which had collected Joined by the police entered the foundry and demanded of the strike breakers that they leave immediately. Escorted Under Guard The strike breakers were then escorted through the crowd under guard of the union organization' and the police and placed upon the Chicago train leaving at midnight. During the evening a crowd of about 3,000 people assembled in the neighborhood of the foundry and when the men on the Inside of the foundry fired several shots, claimed to be blanks, in response to the rocks thrown through the windows, the crowd proceeded to demolish all of the windows In the foundry until entrance was finally gained and the strike breakers agreed to leave the city if they should be given police protection. Most of the damage was done by boys. Some radicals took occasion of the fituation to destroy property and do general damage. The officials of the Union tried to prevent any proi ',(-'rl-v damage out were overcome ny superior numbers. Washington Avenue, from Eighth to c:.,i, . , 1 i. oiahi siirriB v aa iujicu uu. mis morning and guarded by policemen and deputy sheriffs. Police also guarded the Reliance plant, and the sidewalk in front of that foundry was roped off. Some trouble was experienced by plant along Washington avenue, to seo what damage had been done. Precautions Taken. The Malleable Company had taken precautions following trouble Wednesday and Tuesday nights, and had stationed tw extra watchmen in the factory. The crowd began gathering Thursday evening shortly after working ( hours, and minor disturbance began, When Sheriff Carr. Assistant Chief of Police McNally, John Lontz, president Qf (ompanyi Benjamin nill and representatives of the moulders, went to the sheriff's office at the courthouse for a conference, the crowd stopped ! th disturbances and was orderly for a time. Becoming tired of waiting, however, the men with several hundred boys who had gathered from all parts of town, started the sporadic throwing o stones, and a few windows weri smashed.; "Stones Are Thrown. Cooler heads prevailed, however, and aside from threatened attempts to I break down the doors, nothing was 'done until after ten, 'when the throwing 0f stones became general. Most oi this damage was done by boys and (Continued on Page Twelve)