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JL :.jmuc 6 VOL. XCII., No. 70 Palladium, Eat.' 1831. Consolidated With Sun-Telegram. 1907. RICHMOND, IND., THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 23, 1922. SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS NO AUDIT IN 14 MONTHS OF Sets 'Thrift Record
FARMERS' BIOC HAS OWN WAY IN TARIFF BILL Is Generous to Manufacturers
Bonus Supporters in Congress Fail to Get Harding's Support
WARN HERS VIOLENCE WILL BE PROHIBITED Daugherty Warns Prevention of Production Not ToleratedBland Bill Calls for Probe '
CLOSED BANK State Bank Department
Awaited Co-operation of j
Federal Reserve Bank to Examine Dickinson Trust.
HIATT IN FULL CONTROL
Why was the Dickinson Trust company, which was closed by Charles W. Camp, state bank commissioner on March 15, not examined for a period of M months by the state banking department or the federal reserve bank? This Is a question asked by many depositors of the trust company and by persons acquainted with banking methods. The answer i3 three-fold:
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After Its Own Interests Arei
Protected Is Farmers Measure.
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Representatives of the state banking department say they were "waiting for co-operation from the Federal Reserve Bank before they conducted an examination. The Federal Reserve Bank answers that It makes an examination only where there Is an Indication of gross Irregularities or a marked abuse of federal reserve facilities. Lastly, the Dickinson Trust corflpany was a "one man" Insti
tution, In which Edgar F. Hiatt, Its deposed president, dominated the board of directors and the personnel of the trust company. If the foregoing factors are kept in mind it will be possible to comprehend how $660,000 worth of undesirable" securities, as Charles W. Camp, state bank commissioner, described them,- could have been substituted for gilt-edge securities between last October and March 15. Benefit of Delay A representative of the state banking department says it was a good thing for the stockholders that an examination of the condition of the bank was not made last fall, as would have been the case in the regular course of affairs. If this examination had been- made prior to that time, the process of sub
stituting undesirable securities fort
eood ones would not have been Interrupted as was the case when the exumination finally was started in March. Another year might have rolled around before the examiners again stepped into the bank, and in the meantime gigantic irregularities might have taken place. The failure to do so last fall, and the institution of the examination in March fortunately interrupted the process of substituting securities shortly after it had gotten under way.
State banks are examined about twice a year, but as a rule, 10 months to a year intervenes between the conclusion of one examination and the beginning of another. 4 . "The Dickinson Trust company was not examined for 14 months," said a representative
of the state, department, "because we could not secure the co-operation of the Federal Reserve Bank. We asked them repeatedly to send a man to go through the bank with us. "We believed that because the Dickinson Trust company was a member of the Federal Reserve Bank, examiners from that bank should join with us in this work. "We delayed the work as long as we could, and then came In ourselves." V. A. Heath, chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, has made the following statement: "The Federal Reserve Bank maintains but a limited number of men on Its examining force, and as a rule these examiners join with state or national departments in co-operative examination, or make Independent examinations only when there are indications of gross Irregularity in banking practice or of marked abuse of facilities of Federal Reserve membership. "Only occasionally have they taken part In examinations other than above Indicated, and that only at times when at the moment a sufficient number of the force happen to be available for regular examination work. "The Dickinson Trust com- -pany has never at any time abused Its privileges with the Federal Reserve Bank. Their lawful reserve with us has been
maintained at the proper figune
until the day before it closed, when they wired for a large cash shipment, which was immediately sent. "It has never abused Its borrowing privilege, being most of the time out of our debt, and at the time of closing owed us but sixty thousand dollars, whereas on the basis of its lawful reserve it would have been entitled to a much larger amount without question. "It is true that Commissioner Camp Invited us to join him in
an examination of this institution, but our entire force has . been for months engaged with greatly over-extended banks. We believed and still believe in Commissioner Camp's ability to deal with critical situations such as this proved to be. "His prompt action in the situation when he discovered the facts and his efforts to accomplish a speedy reopening on a sound basis, which we believe will be succesful, all confirm us
In the opinion above expressed. "W. A. HEATH, "Chairman, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago." fc'ot the least important factor in -jsidering the reason why the direc- ( Continued on Page Twelve)
oergi. J. Williard Greene.
J. Williard Greene, sergeant of the Washington, D. C, police, tells a thrift story that rivals those of the country's foremost financiers. Earning $160 a month, he saved his first thousand dollars, his wife started a boarding house and by investing carefully they have now accumulated a fortune of $200,000.
DICKINSON TO REOPEN WEDNESDAY PROVIDED
ASSESSMENT IS PAID
The Dickinson Trust company will reopen for business next Wednesday, provided the stockholders in the meantime agree to a voluntary assessment of $220 on each share, according to
statements of stockholders who attended a reorganization meeting Wednesday. This money must be in the hands of the stockholders by Saturday of this week, in order that arrangements may be completed for the opening of the bank on Wednesday.
Stockholders were informed of the I
exact condition of the bank yesterday and they were asked for the voluntary assessment of $220 on' each share of stock.
This assessment would raise $440,000, providing all stockholders can pay the full amount of the assessment.
HIDE, WOOL DUTIES HIGH By MARK SILt.IVAV WASHINGTON, March 23. Within a few days now, as soon as the vote on the four-power treaty is out of the way, we shall have with us the tariff. The principal news the country will
observe about it will be that the farm bloc has won it.
There aren't many farm bloc mem
bers on the senate finance commit-1 tee. LaFollette is about the only one who can be so considered. It is true,
the chairman, McCumber represents North Dakota, but he has generally appeared to avoid formal identification with the farm bloc. In announcing his candidacy for re-election, the other day he described himself as a "conservative Republican." But if the farm bloc personally is not in the committee its voice and its influence are. It will probably turn out when the committee's work is made public that anticipation of the farm bloc's wishes, and deference to them, has colored the tariff to a greater degree than any other one interest. ' Held by Penrose Before McCumber succeeded to the chairmanship, about two months ago
that office was held by Penrose. When Penrose, just before his death,
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Left to right: Representatives Mondell; Fordney, chairman house ways and means committee; Towner, of Iowa; Campbell, chairman rules committee; Longworth and Fess, of Ohio.
Funeral services for Dr. W. W. Zimmerman, were held at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon from the U. B. church
was managing the tariff making, he j with all city officials, and members of
TWO KILLED, ONE HURT
AS TRAIN HITS TRUCK AT CAMDEN CROSSING
Special to The Palladium) CAMDEN, Ohio, March 23. Harvey
Girton, undertaker of this city, and Pearl Overholtz, farmer, living east of Camden, were killed instantly, and Darrel Overholtz, 10 years old, was
seriously injured when the automobile truck in which they were riding was
struck by a fast train near the crossing in Camden about 7:30 o'clock Thursday morning. The extent of Dar
rel Overholtz s injuries has not been determined, but it is thought he will recover. He is the son of Pearl Overholtz, who was killed.
The train, which is the morning flyer
from Chicago, was over an hour late and it is thought the occupants of the truck probably did not take their usual
precautions because they thought the train had passed.
So severe was the impact that the
truck and the bodies of the killed and injured were carried over 100 yards down the track. The crossing at which the accident occurred was next to the
Camden station. The men and boy were driving east in the truck returning from an early morning trip to Mr. Girton's farm.
Mr. Girton is survived by a wife, son
and daughter. Mr. Overholtz - is survived only by his injured son.
went to the leaders of the farm bloc and told them to say what they wanted and assured them they should have it.
Penrose in good health would never have committed any such act of abdication as that. He would have welcomed a fight, if only for the fun ot
the fighting. But Penrose during the last year of his life was pathetically yielding the essence of power in order to hold on to its symbols. A Farmers Bill. In any event the desires of the farm bloc have been about as generously written into the bill as if they had
REP. ELLIOTT NOT TO RETURN TO DISTRICT TO CONDUCT CAMPAIGN FOR RENOMINATE
palladium sews bureau ihome in Connersville, Ind., by the WASHINGTON, March 23. Repre-J critical illness of his mother, Mrs. sentative' Richard N. Elliott of the j Eliza Elliott, whose death occurred
last Sunday. Funeral services were
held Tuesday, and Mr. Elliott is devoting the remainder of the week giving attention to personal, affairs. It is not his intention to return to the sixth district to conduct his cam
paign for renomination. Representa
tive Elliott has informed Washington friends, notwithstanding the fact that
three other candidates are seeking the congressional nomination. He believes
it will be necessary for him to de
vote his entire time to his congressional duties up to the date of the sum
mer adjournment of congress as much
important legislation remains on the
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PENNSY WILL EMPLOY
100 TRACK WORKERS; C.&0. WILL ADD MEN
sixth Indiana district will return to Washington Monday, after an absence of two weeks. He was called to his LAST HONORS PAID TO DR. W.W.ZIMMERMAN IN IMPRESSIVE RITES
the fire and police departments in at
tendance. The firemen and policemen were in full uniform.
After services at the church, the fu- J
neral procession was accompanied as far as the Main street bridge by the city officials. City offices were closed from 1:30 o'clock to 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon in accordance with a request made by Mayor Handiey late Wednesday evening. The U. B. church was packed fo the doors when services were opened by R. H. S. James in the afternoon. He
made it themselves. It is true that 'took for his text the twenty-fifth and the position of the farm bloc on the ! twenty-sixth verses, eleventh chapter
tariff is one of seeming generosityri book of St. John, t'l-fmr-i resurrec
BRITISH SUBMARINE LOST AT SEA WITH
ALL HANDS ON BOARD
LONDON, March 23 The British
submarine H-42, has been lost with
all hands in the mediterranean, says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Gibralter today. She collided with destroyer during maneuvers.
They say that if they are given the
duties they want on farm products, they are willing to let the manufacturing interests have a good high tariff too. The result is that the senate bill will probably range somewhat higher than the Payne-Aldrich bill. Some of the duties in the approaching measure
tion and the life. He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die." This was the favorite quotation of Mr. Zimmerman. Lodges Pay Honor. Lodges of which Dr. Zimmerman had been a member, and personal
are said to be as much as 200 percent Mends as well, visited the house all higher than the Pavne-Aldrich duties. ! day Wednesday. Members of the
Whether there will be as much com
motion as was caused by the -Payne-Aldrich bill, when 10 years ago was considered "going some," even for a purely republican measure, remains to
oe seen. wneiner mere will be a
Moose, Elks, Eagles, Red Men and Druids paid tribute to his memory in special services Wednesday evening. Active pallbearers at the funeral Thursdaya tternoon were: Dr. J. H.
(Kinsey, Dr. J. M. Bulla, Marion Cald
Approximately 100 or more addi
tional track workers will be employed
along, the Richmond division of the Pennsylvania railroad, Friday morning, according to a statement issued from the offices Thursday.
The tracks are said to be in poor
condition and the officials of the division are adding the additional men to look after the parts of the lino which need attention.
With the advent of warmer weather,
the foundation along the rails has become exceedingly soft. The workers
will try to bolster the foundations. ;
As far as possible, the men to o? added will be experienced workers
who have been laid off by the railroad. Six or eight carpenters also will be acjded to the force for the necessary maintenance work' which will be started soon. . Additional men will be added to the force of track workers on the C. and O. railroad on or about April 25. The tracks south of Richmond will receive special attention. Large consignments of gravel have been purchased from a local firm and the, tracks will be inlaid with new gravel at the weakest sections. .
The British submarines of the "II"
class were all built under the war emergency program, most of them in 1918-19 They are of the single hu.l
"Holland" type, modified by the ad
miralty, 164 to 171 fet long and 15 foot beam. They displace from 440 to 500 tons and are equipped with two sets of Diesel engines, giving a speed of 13 knots on the surface. They carry four torpedo tubes. Their ordinary complement is 22 men.
howl from the consumer or not, there i well Elmer Eggemeyer, George Stau
is sure to be one from some of the manufacturing interests. They Won't Work It sounds well enough for the farm
bloc members to say that if they geti
bach and Edward McNally. Honorary
pallbearers were: Harry Wait, Benjmain Price, James Fry and James P. Dillon.
The fire department was represent
the high duties they want on their I ed by the follwing members: Martin farm products the manufacturing jn. Swisher, Albert Griffith, John Brown, terests can have what they want on!John Bresher. Earl Mann. Earl Wiltheir goods; but that theory won't i lianis' "arfy Miller. William Stover, work. There is' in many respects a Frank Davis Harry BradHeld, Elmer fundamental economic deadlock be- Longstreth, Roy Dye, James Hahn, tween high duties for raw materials Geoe Barker Ed c? J1,1111 Ton"
and any duties on manufactured goods that can be practicable. Duty on Raw Hides The new bill is said to put a duty of from 10 to 15 per cent on
ey, Clem Turner and E. E. Miller.
SEIZE ABOUT $100,000
ARMOUR CHILD DIES
DESPITE EFFORTS OF MILLIONS AND SKILL
(Ry Associated Press) CHICAGO, March 23. Gwendolyn Armour, six year old daughter of Phillip D. Armour III, died today from
a form of septicemia, after a week'f! illness, during which the millions of the Armour family, the skill of a doi en physicians, and a host of nurses, and the resources of the entire city of Chicago, proved unavailing. Saidom In Chicago's history has such heroic effort been made to save a life. A week ago the little girl contractd a throat infection. The greatest physicians in the middle west were sum
moned. A special staff of nurses was employed in the Admour home on Lake Shore drive "the Gold Coast" As Gwendolyn's condition became worse, city officials were appealed to, and orders were issued yesterday to close all traffic on that section of Lake Shore drive. Special policemen were stationed all around the neighbor hood to prevent noise. The homes of
Chicago's richest were cut off from traffic communication. Along toward midnight last night it became apparent that the fight was a losing one, and the end come with the little girl's father, vice president of Armour and company, 10 physicians and six. nurses grouped at her bed-
hides, and at this the New England W MM I H 111- K N shoe manufacturers are likelv to be ""JIM II Ul U Irtlfl IP II UO
dismayed. The tariff on raw wool can also be expected to be very high. NEW YORK.. March 23. Diamonds, Incidentally, when the great public whose wholesale value was estimated clamor arose over the wool duties in between $85,000 and $110,000, were the last Republican tariff, this parti seized today by customs officials, of the tariff was known as Schedule Francisco Chamie, 40, a rubber K. Schedule K at the time was po-1 dealer, of Para, Brazil, alleged to have litical slogan, which had a good deal I illegally imnorted the eems. was
to do with the Republicans losing the I arrested when trvine to disnose of ! TrUd a id- tn,irin ,.r hoarino a
house to the Democrats. them in a West 23rd street iewplrv ! Tviiohj-on lironc. in or, oi'i r,t tar
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ROB CINCINNATI SHOP WITH PASSERSBY AND TRAFFIC COP NEARBY
CINCINNATI, March 23. Within
full view of hundreds of passersby, and with a policeman directing traffic not a hundred feet away, three bandits today held up the Liberal Loan office in the heart of the city and escaped with diamonds and jewelry estimated by Sam Sabin, owner of the pawn shop at $100,000.
I The robbers, two of them white, the i other colored, with revolvers backed i the two clerks, Phil Haas and Max
Munich, into a closet in the rear of the store, threw sacks over their heads and then locked the room, after which the thieves took the diamonds from the safe and show windows, in addition to $300 in cash. It was 15 minutes before the clerks
could break out of the room and give the alarm. By that time the bandits were far away.
It developed that the bandits had
U. S. FREIGHT STEAMER IS SINKING OFF COAST OF CHERBOURG, FRANCE
MARSEILLES. March 23. The Am erican steamship West Caruth was sinking this morning 17 miles east of Cherbourg, said a wireless appeal for help picked up by the Mediterranean wireless station at 6:12 o'clock. The message stated that the vessel wr.s in a hopeless condition.
COMMITTEE IN SESSION
(By Associated press) ' WASHINGTON, March 23. Warning that the federal government would tolerate no use of violence to prevent coal production during the threatened coal strike, was Issued today by Attorney-General Daugherty. r Mr. Daugherty declared he was making no threats and that he believed that a man or a set of men had a right to strike in an orderly way, but they did not have the right to interfere with thjose who took their places. , The attorney-general , did not dis- . close the government's plan for the miners' walkout, but it was understood he conferred yesterday with President Harding and Secretary Davi3 upon
the possibility of a public appeal by the president to avert the strike. '
Mr. Daugherty said that he did not believe that the government would have to wait until there was an actual coal shortage, before it could take action. - - . . . " " .. - His theory he" explained," was that, since fuel was an indispensible part of transportation the government had the same power to act in the case of any interference to coal production, that it would in the event ot any interruption in the nation's trasportation system.
Bland Asks Probe Investigation of conditions in - the coal mining industries by a special commission to be appointed by the president is called for in a bill introduced today by Representative Bland. Republican, Indiana. The commission, which would have
three members, would be instructed to-
make inquiry particularly into wages, hours of employment and working conditions of miners, and into the causes of "the present industrial dispute" between the operators and miners. The investigation would embrace both the anthracite and the bitum ous fields.
NEW YORK, March 23. The freight steamer West Caruth, property of the United States shipping board, was reported sinking --this morning off the northwest cpast of France. A wileless dispatch received by the Independent Wireless Telegraph company
from the liner Kroonland, relayed the S. O. 3. call of the disabled freighter. When the West Canity sent out h-v call for assistance she was about 20 miles off Cherbourg. The West Caruth left Grand BasFom, a port on the gold coast of Upper Guinia on Friday, March 2. enroute to Havre. . The cause of the accident was not stated. The steamer was built at San Pedro, Calif., in 1919, and was 410 feet in length, having a beam measurement of 54 feet. Her registered tonnage was 5,632.
FOR
Those who have knowledge of the, shop new senate bill say that the wooli
schedule in it is marked by a figure' instead of a letter, an example which illustrates the maxim of Talleyrand that "the chief business of statesmen !
is to Invent new names for institutions which under their old names have become odious to the public." Humorous Story Another of the humorous stories which circulate among statesmen in their hours of ease pictures the duty on potatoes raised from 25 to 35 cents
a bushel as a feeling response to Sen
Weather Forecast
j from the scene of the robbery.
; drove away in it.
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They
ator Fred Hale of the state where the j
I "Early Maine" potatoes come from,
who is up for re-election this year, and who Is represented in the facetious
telling of this "story as having come into the finance committee's room, accompanied by the senior senator from the same state, and sung two stanzas of "Throw out the life line.",, There almost would seem to be something significant about the color
of humor in such tariff talk as there
RICHMOND AND VICINITY
By W. E. Moore. Unsettled tonight and Friday; protibly local rain or snow; colder Friday and Friday night. The gradual eastward movement -of a storm over the upper plain states indicates unsettled weather for the
next 36 hours period, with falling tem-
Estimate $200,000,000 Income, Profit Tax Slump ' (By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 23. On the
basis ot reported collection of income
and profits taxes of March 15 installment, a shortage of $200,000,000 in the
estimated revenues from these sour
ces for the calendar year 1922 was
estimated today by the treasury.
peratures about Friday. Conditions are favorable for local rain or snow. Temperatures for Yesterday. Maximum ' Si1 Minimum .24 Today. Noon : Weather Conditions The temperatures have risen decidedly over the central states, but it remains cold over the northeast. It is getting colder over the northwest, where it had been mild. It -was 22 below zero yesterday
VENICE IS INUNDATED
BY GREAT TIDAL WAVE
LONDON, March 23. A Central News dispatch from Venice says that a tidal wave late last night inundated the city, the water rising to a depth of more than three feet in some of the public squares. ..
Venice, situated virtually at sea level and threaded by canals, Is subject to periodic inundation, due to unusually, high tides and spring freshets. The squares, such as St. Mark's, are under water at such times, but the rise seldom exceeds a few inches.
OKLAHOMA GOVERNOR AND 7 BANK OFFICERS
UNDER BOND TODAY (By Associated Press) OKMULGEE, Okla., March 23 Governor J. B. A. Robertson of Okla
homa and seven officials of Okmulgee :
banks were under bond today for trial on indictments alleging illegal transactions involving two local banking institutions. : ' '" Governor Robertson is charged specifically with accepting part of a $25,000 bribe to place $150,000 of state funds in the former Guaranty State bank to prevent closure when that bank was known to have been insolvent. The state executive came here last night from Oklahoma City, accepted service On a warrant, furnished bond of $5,000 and left in a few hours to return to the state capitol. He said his visit, was "to meet the issue without (Continued on Page Four) ."
is. so far. in Washington. In Wash
ington the tariff doesn't seem to bulk (at White River, Ontario, and far beso large as an outstanding political low zero in northern Michigan. It
issue as it used to be. The case must be the same throughout the country. If the country were very insistent on tariff revision, the Republicans could hardly have postponed it so long as they have. It Is more than a year since the Republican members of the Ways r.nd Means committee of the house began work on it. The lower house got through with it and passed it, without much public excitement, on July 21, last. Since then, the senate finance
committee has had the bills. WhatJ
changes they nave made, and what the response will be, we shall know by the middle of next week. Copyright, 1922. by The New York Evening Post, Inc.
was 60 to 75 above over the plain states adjacent to the Mississippi river. For Indiana, by the United States Weather Bureau Mostly cloudy tonight and Friday; warmer in south
PASSAGE OF $4,000,000,000 BONUS BILL MADE CERTAIN BY RESOLUTION ADOPTION
WASHINGTON, March 23 Passage of the $4,000,000,000 soldier bonus bill by the house .before adjournment was made certain today
!with the adoption of a resolution pro
portion tonight; colder in north andividing for consideration of the meas-
central portions Friday. , . J ure under a suspension or tne ruies.
The vote on the resolution was z&i. 'to 121 and was without a roll call. 'Previously the house had adopted a I motion for the previous question by a roll call vote of 276 to 126.
i As the.roll call proceeded there was more than the usual hubbub on ; the floor, and those in the crowded
galleries, strangers to congressional
i custom looked down in surprise as tfte
Paid Circulation Yesterday, was 11,512
members milled about, talking and
laughing while the clerks read the
435 names on the list. Those voted
were forced to shout at the top of their voices in order to have their vote
heard at the clerk's desk. - ,
There was a breaking of party lines
on the vote, for the suspension resolution. Many of the Democrats who voted in the negative on this motion were counted upon to support the
bonus bill on the final vote and lead
ers were confident that more than the two-third majority required under the
NEW YORK, March 23. In an eleventh hour attempt to halt preparations for a nation-wide strike In the coal industry the arbitration committee of anthracite miners amd operators met behind locked doors today at the Union League club. The committee was composed of eight men, four miners and four operators. With them sat two non-vot!ng neutrals, a chairman and a secretary. John L. Lewis, president of the international organization of United Mine Workers, headed the miners' delegation. The spokesman for the operators was S. D. Warriner, of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation company. Upon the conference will depend whether the 200,000 anthracite workers shall proceed with their 400.000 brethren in the bituminous fields and prepare to drop their tools April 1
while their 19 wage demands are given consideration.
Agreement Not Expected The miners' representatives enter the meeting with little expectation of reaching an agreement to avert the strike. - 1 ' "Of course, I w e have hope,", said Mr. Lewis. - - - - -- "It would be possible for us to conclude an - agreement within ;r 40 , minutes. Such a thing might happen. But I recall that,; similar wage- arbi-, trations In previous years have taken from several weeks to months. , - - "There is no - reasonable; doubt buf that the general strike wirf be -April 1 as scheduled." ; - - - Representatives of the operators declined to make any predictions as to the outcome. They continued to main-, tain strict secrecy concerning the program of wage reduction 'which they will offer as the basis for a new contract as opposed to the wage demands of the' miners. Delegates - chosen yesterday to attend the meeting of the national general policies committee at; Cleveland
are preparing , to leave for thaV;iclty tonight. Decide Distribution. They with nearly 200 delegates from bituminous unions will decide upon the distribution of the 10,000 men who will be left in the mines to protect property while the strike is in progress. " " '" ' "'' ' Questions of financing the strike also will be decided at Cleveland, and plans laid for distribution of strike
benefits in case the cessation of activities continues until it works hardships on the families of the miners. "
Plans will be devised for the assess
ment of strike dues in local districts
to swell the $2,000,000 war chest,
which union leaders estimate is al
ready available.
Miners Still Willing Mr. Lewis announced today that the United Mine Workers were still ready and willing to meet with the mine owners in any move to decide upon a new wage scale. His organization was in perfect accord with attempts of the administration at Washigton to "urge the operators to change their policy of absolutely -refusing to deal with the unions." he said. . Coal distributors of New York today . were, distributing circulars urging their customers to buy anthracite now, to prepare for a threatened shortage which a protracted strike would cause: While mine operators were reticent concerning this move, labor men Immediately called it "propaganda - to dispose of their large stocks bought at peak prices." The public would not be affected by a strike for at least two
months, it was said, as reserve "tock
ruies wouia De ouiainea. i n rinto.r, - i .i.., ,
, , - . , , I yuca duuivicui. yJi aL leant. 111 a L Of! rlOtl .. Chairman Fordney, of the ways and . now held at fhp ,n "7
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