Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 179, 29 July 1922 — Page 1

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AND SIX-TELEGRAM VOL. XCIL, No. 179 Palladium. Kst. 1S31. Consolidated With Sun-Telegram, 1907. RICHMOND, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 29, 1922. SINGLE COPY, 3 CENTS

REED BITTER IN HIS FIGHT TO HOLD JOB

Has Made Remarkable Gains Toward Recovery From Political Grave But Cannot Overcome Wilson Doom. IS OPPOSED BY WOMEN Br MARK grLMVA! . WASHINGTON, July 23. Among the three senatorial primaries that oc cur next Tuesday, by far the most interesting one is the Missouri one, in which Senator Reed has been enzaeed for lt week3 in an extraordinary per sonal attempt to effect a return from "what was," as everybody supposed, his political grave. Trie information that Washington grets is to the effect that Reed has not succeeded in overcoming the doom that settled down on him when he incurred the opposition of ex-President Wilson. Not all of Washington, by anv means, is glad to hear this news. The thick and thin friends of Wilson are as eager' to see Reed annihilated as Wilson himself is: bu. in the senate, among many Republicans as well as Democrats, the still lingering hopo is that fate will enable Reed to rebuke the audacity that tried to read him out of his party. The senate, beneath all its factional cleavages and beneath all its personal enmities, is at bottom a club a club of loyal brothers, and nothing would please it better than to have the Missouri primary turn out, not as a rebuke to Reed, but a rebuke to the ex-president who dared to proscribe a senator. This sentiment is shared even by many of those senators who carry the wounds, incurred in the course of various senatorial debates, from Reed's fists, feet and teeth. Letters Dangerous. Even-outside the senate, even, indeed, Missouri. Wilson's outlawing if Reed went perilously near to that dan!?pr nnint TrVioro turh an nrtinn failQ to have the result intended, but reacts in favor of the victim. It is said that in addition to those leters from Wilson which Reed's enemies already

have published, there are several others which they have been led to retain in their files through a prudent esti- . mate of the boomberang possibilities of this sort of thing. Even though Reed should be beaten the strength he has been able to show is a surprise, considering the depth from which he started. Even before Wilson denounced him. as long ago as 1920. Reed seemed to be as hopelessly an autlaw from his party in Missouri as could be. When he tried to be a delegate at the Democratic state convention two years ago he succeeded in being named by his A, local party organization in Kansas City. But the Democratic state convention turned him down by a vote of 112 to 2, and Reed was prevented from carrying out the intention he avowed , of going to the national convention to oppose Wilson and to oppose any platform that Wilson might be assumed to favor. Recovery Remarkable. That Reed should be able to recover from this opposition, even to the extent of making any kind of a fight at all for renomination in his state, is

a tribute to certain remarkable, if no: wholly happy traits of his personality. On personality Reed has had the best of this fight The newspaper men who were sent out to follow Reed s tour, all report having had an interesting and agreeable time; while some of those sent out to cover the tour of Reed's oponent. Breckenbridge Long, have asked their papers to bring them back and assign them to a more spectacular show. Even so hard-boiled a veteran follower of fighting, fire and famine, ia every part of the globe, as Mr. William Hard, wrote, in a dispatch from the town of Washington, Mo.: "Why the Honorable James A. Reed made me cry, talking about mothers to some 2,500 people whom he was persuading to vote for him for United

States senator. Ic is not a political correspondent this man Reed needs to follow him around and report him, it's a dramatic critic." This sentimental speech of Reed's about motherhood is his way of trying to overebme the fact that most of the f women Democrats of Missouri are organized against him. The women don't like Reed. They resent what seems

to have been in Reed's course on various matters coming up in the senate affecting women, an old-fashioned "get thee back to tne Kiicnen auuuae on the Dart of Reed toward their sex. This attitude has in a general way colored many of Reed's votes in the senate and his speeches on issues in which women were interested. Got Into Trouble. Among the positions taken by Reed which got him into trouble with the women, was his resistance to the Sheppard Towner maternity bill. Reed's way of meeting this in his present campaign has been to deliver a series of prose poems on maternity. The newspaper men who have followed Reed say that these poems constitute as moving a theatrical performance as has ever been heard on the one-night stands among the Ozarks. Reed has varied this speech from time to time, speaking on one night of motherhood among the birds; on another night of motherhood among the wild animals, and so on throughout the

mammalian Kingdom, xuc BpCei.uCa have been extremely sentimental but thev don't seem to have been effective. Thi women's "Rid Us of Reed" clubs continue to be the most formidable finger of fate pointing toward Reeds To Reed the fatal thins about this opposition by the women is the fact Pi hat women in politics seem to have longer memories and to be moie disposed to go through to the end than men. Even if Reed should win the primary, which he is not likely to, the women who have become stirred up in . (Continued on Page Five)

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Left to right, Senators Hale, Maine; Keyes, New Hampshire, and Newberry, Michigan, after completing inspection of the S-50, snapped on deck. Three members of the senate naval committee made a tour of inspection of the new U. S. submarine, the S-50, at the Washington navy yard. The new sub is equipped with two Diesel motors developing 1,800 horsepower, capable of a surface speed of fifteen knots. It submerges in 58 seconds, carries a 4-inch gun, three periscopes, five torpedo tubes and a crew of thirty.

REPORT SUBMARINES SAFE AFTER REPORT FOUR WERE MISSING (By Associated Press) SAN DIEGO, Calif., July 29. The tender Beaver, from whose convoy of submarines four were reported missing last night, was in touch by radio with the naval air station here shortly afttr 2 a. m. and reported herself "all right" but made no mention of any of the convoy being missing. LOS ANGELES, Calif., July 29. All 12 of the submarines en route from Los Angeles td Hampton Roads, Va., under convoy of the tender Beaver were said at the local submarine base : to be accounted for this morning. Two of the submersibles are out of commission and ae being towed, it was said, but no serious trouble is being experienced. Early reports to the effect that four of the submarines were missing grew out of the statement of Capt. Thomas W. Sheridan, master of the liner City of Honolulu that he had sighted a badly smoking submarine off the Lower California coast, below Ensenada. Some degree of verification was added by a message received last night at the submarine base here from Commander Roy L. Stover, in com mand of the flotilla, stating he had eight submarines in convoy, but not mentioning the other four reported missing. The submarine base also intercepted a message from the Beaver to the L-8 ordering her to stand by to talca a tow line from th T-S. Thpse two submersibles. together with the; L-6 and L-7 were the ones reported j missing. At 9 o'clock it was said no ' information explaining the apparent disappearance of the four submarines had been received but that efforts were being made to get in touch with the Beaver. Later, however, Capt. W. S. Miller, commanding officer at the submarine base, denied that any serious accident had befallen the undersea flotilla. GERMANY IS GIVE 10 DAYS TO ACCEPT RULING ON PAYMENTS (By Associated Press) PARIS, July 29. Germany has been given ten days in which formally to accept the decision of the Allied Clearing offices in refusing to reduce the monthly payments made by the German government to the allies for debts contracted by German nationals with allied citizens prior to the war. Germany, in connection with her re-i quest for a moratorium, asked that this monthly installment of 2.000,000 he reduced to 500.000 because of the difficulty in purchasing the foreign exchange necessary to make the payments. Strike News Summary District 19' member of the" United ! Mine Workers, signed a separate agreement witu operators in the Ken-tucky-Tennessee district, where the strike had not been ettective. operators say agreement was with individuals and not unions. John L. Lewis, president of mine workers, reiterated his belief that miners and operators of the central competitive fields would get together in a few days. Frank Farrington. head of Illinois miners, who joined Lewis' meeting at Philadelphia said he had no information regarding proposed settlement. Springfield, 111., miners telegraphed Lewis asking him to close Illinois mines working under special' permit from Farrington to supply coal to institutions and utilities. Secretary Hoover announced ships would be furnished coal only to next port of coal and operating vessels, after Aug. 1, will be required to bunker abroad for round trip. Indications point to an early settlement as rail strike, enters the fifth week. Preparations under way by members of naticral executive board of shopcraft and 25 general chairmen of oilers to attend meeting in Chicago, Tuesday to discuss Harding's proposal. B. M. Jewell.- his executive council and Timothy Healy arrived in Chica go following conferences with President Harding. Supervisors of mechanics petitioned President Harding to include them in peace plans. ? - Further violence reported widely scattered points. from

Masf Not Spend Money For Movies, Chocolates Pending Divorce Ruling Josephine Lee, 17 years old, bluo-

eyed and with bobbed hair, Saturday was granted an allowance of $4 perj

decision Of the Suit for divorce filed 'By Associated Press) against her husband, Robert Lee. The ' WASHINGTON, July 29 Details of court cautioned Josephine against J the rail strike settlement plan drawn spending any of the money for choco- by Presdent Harding and to be late, bon-bons or movies. j . - - , it "I want you to spend this money j considered at separate meetings of judiciously," said the court when the ; the :ailroaa executives and union ofruling was made. Shortly before tes-ificials at New York and Chicago next timony had been introduced showing! Tuesday were still withheld today, but that Josephine went to the movies two the president was said to feel that times a week. MIf the court finds that they will reach a basis upon which any of this allowance is being used ; the two sides should be able to come

for going to shows it will be chopped; off." RUSSIA TO BE ABLE TO FEED SELF NEXT YEAR, SAYS HASKELL (Bv Associated Pre) I NEW YORK, July 29. Col. William ' xt u. i n At-t- f tVlQ Smav.n ' N. Haskell, director of the American , Relief Administration in Russia, who; has returned to confer with officials ! .! here, predicted today that next year, the United States would not have to feed Russia, except in isolated cases.

"I estimated that Russia will have j tj0D as practically the only contro5,000,000 tons more food next year i yersial issue now remaining between than she had last," he added, "and I the railroads and their workmen, other officials have made it 12,000,000. j other sections, it was said, would

Even with 5,000,000 tons, however, j Russia will practically be able to feed ; herself, except that she will have to nave meaicai am ana n may pe necessary to continue me rener worn in i some cities. "When I left on July 10, there was practically no starvation. It has all been cleaned up, and the best part of it is that the officials of the government have helped us in every detail and have paid in kind and arranged a taxation system so that the people are not made beggars." Col. Haskell said that since May no foreigner in Russia had seen Lenine. He said they had heard all sorts of stories that the premier would return to his work in fhree weeks, that it would be three months; that he in't ill, only resting; that he has had a paralytic stroke and will never talk again and that he is dead. "But none of us knows" he said. Edgar Rickard and Walter Lyman Brown, directors of the relief work, returned with Col. Haskell. GETS 2 T0 14 YEARS FOR FORGING CHECKS; OTHERS GIVEN TERMS John Murray, alias James Martin, 80 years old, was given a two to 14 year sentence to the state prison on his plea of guilty to a charge of check forging, in circuit court Saturday. William Smith, 29 years old, and Thomas Rigsby, 23, farm hands, were given suspended sentences of from one to 14 years, following their plea of guilty to a charge of grand larceny. Murray claims Piqua, Ohio, as his home. He was caught in Kokomo a few days ago, while trying to get some checks printed lor the purpose of repeating the plan he had worked here. Thompson and Borton and Frankel and Harding were local firms victimized by him when in this. city. In the story he told the court, Murlay stated that he was "hard up", that he had been drinking before he passed the checks here, and that he was aided in his operations by another man who got away with most of the money.' "A case where there wasn't much honor among thieves," commented the court. Rigsby and Smith had taken 24 fleeces of wool from the premises of Clarence Martin, a farmer living near Fountain City and the employer of Rigsby. A garage debt contracted by Smith on account of a car he owned was the chief cause of his taking part in the crime, he said. The pair was fined $5 and costs each and sentenced to the Indiana reformatory, with the sentence suspended. ASKS MOTOR BUSSES KEPT OFF TROLLEY STREETS (By Associated Press) TOLEDO, July 29 Recommenda tion that motor busses be excluded! from streets on which trolleys run, ! has been made by the sub-eommittee j I on busse3 appointed by city council. J

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SENIORITY BELIEVED ONLY CONTROVERSIAL RAIL STRIKE POINT to an early agreement. After announcing the general strike committee would be convened in Chicago to consider the proposals on the same day the rail heads met in New York for that purpose, B. M. Jewell, I leader of the shop men, and interna- ! tional officers of the unions left here J for Chicago last night, apparently prepared to recommend favorable action i by the committee. Seniority Doubtful Point That the spokesmen of the rail executives who have conferred with the president would have , the sams fav0abe recommendation to make. however,' appeared improbable "today, with the seniority issue looming in that quarter as the doubleful point as unaerstooa in Droaa uuume, u . 9 . J 4.1." presiaeni s seiuemeni piau ueais iu major part with the seniority quesconcede to the strikers the right to a re-hearing before the railroad labor Doard on the wage issue, bind the rallroa(i3 t0 et up regional adjust. ment boards, and require their aban donment of repair contracts with "outside" shops. Suggest Compromise. With a view to overcoming the strong objection indicated by a number of roads to the displacement of new men by returning strikers, President Harding is understood to have suggested a compromise on the senior ity question by which the former would retain their positions, while the strikers would be given a seniority rank just behind the men who did not walk out July 1. Although a large number of lines have indicated a willingness to take back all of their men in the exact positions held prior to the strike, union officials appear disposed to resist any proposals for a settlement excluding systems which are endeavorin build up new shop forces. to Coanty Officials to Give Estimate of Expenses County officials have already received blanks sent out by the auditor on which they will make a statement of their estimates of expense for the coming year. These estimates will be taken up by the board of commissioners at a meeting to be held soon, preparatory to making up the budget. Weather Forecast FOR RICHMOND and VICINITY By W. E. Moore Partly cloudy tonight and Sundayoccasional showers. . A small storm center, moving eastward from the Rocky mountains, indicates fair and -cloudy intervals in the next 36 hours, with occasional rains and probably showers. Temperature Yesterday Maximum 85 Minimum 62 Today Noon 76 Weather conditions Generally fall' weather prevails over the middle Atlantic states, but is becoming threatening over the central states, where local rains are occurring from the Great Lakes to the Ohio river. It remains very warm over the west and southwest, where the temperature ranges from 80 to 90 degrees in the shade; also over Montana and the northwestern states. The rainfall is the heaviest over the north Atlantic coast and over the New England states. For Indiana by the United States weather bureau. Unsettled weather tonighf and Sunday. Possibly showers. Not much change in temperature. Paid Circulation Yesterday, was 11,644

PDBLIC SERVICE BODYTO DIRECT INDIANA'S COAL

Will Have Charge of Supply ; Sent to Indiana by Federal Uovemment and 01 Loal Mined in State ' ' ! M'CRAY TAKES ACTION (By Associated Press)

INDIANAPOLIS, July 29. Designa- The postoffice was located on a cortion of the public service coimissi-on ner 0f tjje farm, near the intersection as a state coal emergency committee of Liberty pike and the road which was announced by Governor McCray hnnni frit cntirri siHa nf tho farm

toaay in a statement to tne puDiic. t The farm was first owned by peter'was resaraeQ 35 "ngm tnai in ran The committee will have charge of;smith, father of George, who came!circles nere e belief was expressed the distribution of coal sent to Indiana uere 'n jg07 from Kentucky and set- i lliat the walkout would not last into by the federal government and of coal tled at a point now known as'the Clark ithe sixth weekmines in the state under order of the.crowe farm about three-eighths of a! Meetings were set for Tuesday, both governor. Warning against the charg- j miie northeast of the present site of j bv the rail chiefs and workers on ing of excessive prices for coal was.i th- 0ifj Smith residence strike, at which time President Hard-

sounded by the governor, who said he proposed that there shall be no profiteering in Indiana. The governor's statement follows: "The fuel emergency has reached such an acute stage that as governor of the state, I realize the time has arrived for executive action not only in the matter of production of coal, but also the price at which it is to be sold. "I fully expect to see coal mined in the state of Indiana, within 10 days, in sufficient quantities to take care of the pressing needs of the state institutions and other imperative demands. To Direct Supply "I have designated the public service commission of Indiana as a committee on emergency distribution to be known as the 'state coal emergency committee,' to take care of the state institutions, public and private hospitals, public utilities and perishable crops, in the order named, insofar as conditions will permit. "In this grave emergency no patriotic citizen will take advantage of the situation to inflate prices, and as chief executive, through the co-operation of the above named committee and with the aid of loyal citizens everywhere, I propose that there shall be no profiteering in Indiana. Operators, wholesalers and retailers, shall all receive a fair and reasonable profit. More than that no honest citizen should ask." John W. McCardle, chairman of the! t- . I I - T Ijl puouc service commission, anu uanu E. Matthews, chief railroad inspector, will be in active charge of the work of the state emergency coal committee, it. was announced this morning. WILL RESUME MINING IN 3 SMALL FIELDS BY SEPARATE PACT (Bv Associated Press) CHICAGO, July 29 Coal mining will be resumed Aug. 1, in three small fields,, con trolled by. the KentuckyTennessee coal operators' association, in an agrement said to be the first to be reached .between the coal miners and operators since the beginning of the strike. . KNOXVILLE. Tenn., July 29 A wage agreement granting $2.50 a day increase to $5 miners in 25 operations in the Kentucky-Tennessee fields was negotiated in Cincinnati, yesterday between the union and the KentuckyTennessee coal operators association according to a statement given out here by district No. 19 headquarters of the United Mine Workers and made public today. WASHINGTON, July 29. With organization of the government's fuel j control machinery rapidly nearing com pletion, the outlook as to distribution and supply of coal was viewed as so favorable today that. President Harding was said to contemplate no further move in the coal strike situation. Confidence was expressed at the White House that, regardless of the rail and mine strikes, production of coal eventually would be increased to the point where it would be adequate to meet the country's needs. The administrative end of the prior ity control of coal distribution estab lished under the governmental committee appointed for that purpose will be centralized in the office of federal coal administrator, appointment to which of Henry B. Spencer, former vice president of the Southern railway and general purchasing agent for the war-time railroad administration, was announced last night by the president. At the same time, Secretary Hoover made public the names of half a dozen operators from coal producing districts who have been designated as members of the advisory committed to the coal distribution committee. Announcement also was made by the secretary that steps to ' organize the necessary state administration to control profiteering and the distribution of coal had been taken by the governors of 23 states. FIRE STILL BURNING - IN SHAFT OF MINE MURPHYSBORO, 111., July 29. Fire discovered in a mine of the Midway Coal company neaj- Ward, 10 miles northeast of here yesterday noon, imprisoning four men in the shaft for 12 hours, still was burning today, while company officials were preparing to seal the shaft. . . - Three of the men trapped in the mine, Milo McGowan, general manager, William Forth, a pumpman, and Tom Ken Kelly, a foreman, were rescued last night while Harry Laughlin, an inspector of the mine, was taken unconscious from the shaft at midnight. Frank Rossbottom, state mine inspector said the fire was an outburst of smoldering flames sealed uf last February.

DECISION ON DEMAND FOR HOSPITAL IS LEFT TO COUNTY BY ESTEB

By, R- G. TIIVTOY The old mansion located on the Smith farm, south of Richmond, which was turned over to the county to be iused as a tuberculosis hospital, was bunt in the year is6i by George h. brick and iron construction, it is sit-J uated at a high point, commanding an i excellent view on all sides. j "Smithf ield" the farm transferred to the county by David and India Esteb, J j was at one time the site of a postoffice (which took its name from the farm. George Smith was only six weeks

old when his father, Peter Smith, i ea lo De 4016(1 upon. The conference brought the family to Indiana- 'The;0 rail heads, the call for which was

farm had never been out of the hands of the Smith family since that time until it wa3 turned over to the county in 1918. Carry Out Wishes. Mr. and Mrs. Esteb are merely carrying out the wishes of Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Estebs' mother, in offering the farm to the county for a tuberculosis hospital. Although the farm was taken over by the county in 191S with the understanding that it was to be used as a site for a hospital, various causes have operated to delay the construction work up to tiis time. "If the people of Wayne county want a hospital, and if it is for the good of the county, that they take over this land, we want the hospital," said Mr. Esteb in discussing the gift, Saturday. "On the other hnd, it there is no demand for a hospital, we do not want the taxpayers put to one cent of expense. The gift was made in the interest of persons suffering from tuberculosis." There is a misunderstanding on the part of the people as to the true use to which the farm is being put, was the statement of a man who has been connected with the gift of the land to the county. He said "many people believe a hospital has already been established at Smithfield. Erroneous Belief "People call me up and ask where they can send their applications for beds", he said. "Many have asked me what number of patients are being treated at Smithfield, and the popular belief seems to be that the farm Is now a full fledged institution for the treating of tubercular patients." As a matter of fact, the farm Is now being operated by the county in the same way that it was when it was first taken over, through a superintendent and hired man. In the four and one half years since the farm was taken over, it has paid in to the county treasury a gross of J26.010.23. In the same time the county has expended, in various improvements, both for the farm and as ground work for a hospital, $65,319.54. The difference $39,309.31 represents money which has been invested by the county. ENCOURAGEMENT FELT IN BUSINESS DESPITE EFFECT OF WALKOUTS (By Associated Press) CLEVELAND, July 29 Business la not discouraged despite the coal and rail strikes, and "is anchoring to those basic principles which underlie sound business," according to the monthly review of the Fourth Feder al Reserve Bank, issued today. Although strike conditions have become definite menace to iron, and steel production and overshadow all considerations of business or prices in that industry and are resulting in more uncertain conditions in the coal industry, encouragement is felt in other lines. Especially is this true in the- automobile industry, which is in &n unusually busy period, the report states. One large motor truck company reported an increase of 40 per cent in production over the first quarter. Building continues at a rapid pace and farm implement lines are slowly recovering. Coal cargoes were very scarce, but -the ore trade furnished employment for most of the lake ves sels, while the grain trade took care of a fair amount of tonnage. The rubber industry holds lo its heavy production schedule. No particular change was noted in the textile situation. SAYS RAIL STRIKERS WERE DENIED HEARING That the shopcrafts unions have been blocked at every turn and are now on strike because they have not been given a hearing, was the substance of the speech by Charles Kutz, general cnairman or tne machinists union, before the public meeting held at the South Tenth Street park Fri day evening. The meeting was con-i ducted under the auspices of the local federated shopcrafts and was a part of their program to place their cause before the public. He stated " that it was to the interest of Richmond to give their moral support to the cause of the strikers if the benefit in the end ia to revert to the community. Rev. A. L. Stamper, pastor of the First Christian church, made a short talk before the meeting, stating -that the spirit of brotherly love and friendship should govern the actions of all people, and he complimented the lo cal strikers on their orderly conduct of the strike here. .

E RAIL TRIKE WILL D IN WEEK Outlook for Peace Regarded .Bright m Rail Circles-Ex-pect Action Tuesday on Harding Plan. DETAILS OF PROPOSAL By Associated Press) CHICAGO, July 29. As the strike of" 300,000 railway shopmen entered its fctth week today the outlook for peace in5's Plan for a settlement was expect..uuu 4uiauaj uj a. . ic,rui vutii chairman of the Association of Railway Executives, will be held in New York. . Representatives of the strikers will meet in Chicago in answer to word sent out last night by B. M. Jewell, head of the shop workers' organization. to the 90 general chairmen comprising the national agreement executive board. At the same time notice was given to 25 general chairmen of tha Stationary Firemen and Oilers' union, which ordered a strike of 8,000 men a week following the shopman's walkout, by Timothy Healey, head of the union, that a meeting would be held here Tuesday to discuss settlement of the strike of that organization. Details Outlined. The president's plans were not made public. Ivwever, it became known from autho. tative sources that it embraced settlement of all the strikers' grievances except the wage question, which would be submitted to the railroad labor board for a rehearing. Under the plan, as .outlined, the president's stand for recognition of the rights of men now at work wouij be carried out. Union shopmen who did not strike would be placed at the head of the railroads seniority list, which means that they would be assured of permanent work, since in slack times the workers at the foot of the lists arc the first to V laid off. Union shopmen who went on strike would b3 placed next on the lists and after them would come the men hired by the roads since the strike began. No mention was made of the pension rights and it was not learned whether thi3 question had been included in the president's plan. If pension rights should not be restored workers who have been in the service of their re spective employers for a number of years would forfeit the benefits allow ed, wnich give worker's the privilege or retiring atter a certain number of years with a continuance of a percentage of their pay. Senority Question Western railroads have been insistent that men now at work should b placed at the head of seniority lists, asserting that if their rights were not thus recognized there would be no incentive for men to stay at work in the event of a strike in the future. Also-included in the president's plan it is understood was elimination of outside contract of repair work by the railroads. This would mean that each railroad would do its own repair work in its own shops. Another demand of the striker? was included in the settlement program. This related to the setting up of national and regional adjustment boards to expedite the adjustment of disputes between workers and employers. The wage question could be left to the labor board, the striking shopmen to recognize the board's wage reduction decision and return to work with the asnrance that their case would receive prompt atention by the board. In addition the administration is understood to have as rued the shopmen that it would make every effort to have labor sections of the Each-Cummins bill amended so that the labor board may be directed to ffx the pay of the workers on a "living wage" oasis. ... Violence Increases While union chiefs and rail head were presumed to be on the verge of making peace, violence was slightly increased in strike areas, reports Indicated- , Thirty colored laborers were said to have disappeared from the Chicago " ", j ty,a i4t cu m the vicinity. A non-union employe of the Wabash was beaten and another-kidnapped at Chicago. i . . . r , , . , .. Two workers in railroad shops at Montgomery. Ala., were beaten bv eight men alleged to be strikers. . A non-union 6bop worker at Roseville, Calif., was seized while walking with his wife. He was carried out of town ,in an automobile, beaten and warned to stop work. A deputy federal marsnal on guard at the Missouri Pacific roundhouse at Jefferson City, Mo.,- was slugged Into unconsciousness by three men after he had been called from the buildig. A mob at Janesville, Wis., surrounded a roundhouse of the Chicago. Milwaukee and St Paul where 10 nonunion men were at work and compelled the men to run from the building. Women and girls in the mob threw stones at the workers.' Striking shopmen of the Mobile and Ohio were said to have taken charge of the shops at West Point, Miss., and driven out new employes. . At St. Louis two guards of the Missouri Pacific and a blacksmith of the terminal railroad were stoned and beaten. Troops at Erie, Pa., were stationed about the homes of several nvm who remained at work following attacks In which the men's homes were stoned. A temporary injury was granted to the great Northern to restrain strikers from interferring with trains or employes in Sioux Falls. Watertown. Huron, Aberdeen and Yankton, Souh Dakota.

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