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ESTABLISHED 118 0 omd 3Vif|} | MOUNT AIRY, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. JULY 27th, 1922 91.50 PBK YEAR IN ADVANCB. NO PROSPECTS OF EARLY INDUSTRIAL PEACE IN NATION Strike Situation Suck Tkat No Can Forfeit Final Washington, July 10.—No algns art! in light tonight that ths twin coal and rail strikea are abating, condition* ha-1 ing chaotic, with President Harding finding now plan* for ending these, plana that prove no bettor than th-! othara ha haa proposed. Tha uncar-1 talnity of tha situation grows and thara ia no prophat with any credit who .will foracaat tha raault. In tha| twin tie-up thara art now approxi aiataly from 1460.000 to 1.S00.000 man involved, tha estimate being that AM,- j 000 miner* and 580,000 rail worker* are involved, with track Man number Ing some 400,000 man threatening to walk out Train* are being taken off in all Mrtiona of the country, ache dulea are ballad up, railroad equip ment ia retting in worse and w»rae ■hape. Mine owner* and mine worker* have refused the raquaat of President Harding to reaume digging coal at the ratoa that were In operation beforw1 the atrike began and condition* look ao bad, with but a email amount of, coal In aight, that trgnlatMiM for the distributing and rationing of coal will! be promulgated by the government within a very few daya. Thia rtata ment come* from Secretary of Com mecre Hoover, who aaya that varioui government department* are co operating with the Interstate Com merce Commie*ion In working out plan* for dlatributing coal after min ing operation* are eeaumed. Declar ing that unleaa something unforeseen intervene*, "the nation ia about to be! plunged into a reign of force, Inatoad )t reaaon," because of matter* arising from the coal and rail troublea. the Waahlngton Daily New* thl* after noon, stating that it will he public opinion in the finality that will de cide the Issue and that public opinion should spring from a knowledge of basic facts, says there are tour things «t the root of th* trouble, and giving what it declares are simple facta de clare* they "ahiiuld be taken into con sideration of the CMuaes and conae quence* of the impending bayonet ex j>erience." The four thing* which it ^ declare* lie at the root1 of the trouble and which it hold* the public should not overlook, give a clear idea of the trouble, theae being: "First, the Railroad Labor Board, a Government agency, It under injunc tion, granted by a court at the rail roada request, which forbida it even to publish its finding*. "Second, the final effort to settle the railroad dispute broke down when,' agreeing on all else, the railroada re fuaed in taking men back to observe their seniority rights. That is an other way of inaisting that the rail road union* be paralysed. "Third, the coal seiners are not on strik*. They had a contract with tha coal operators whic h expired last April. The contract provided that on or before April 1 operators nnd miner* should meet and negotiate a new con tract of employment. The operator* refused and still refuse to so negoti ate. The men's jobs en-led in April when their contract ended. "Fourth, the government for nearly two years ha* been under injunction, granted by a court at the coal opera tor** request, forbidding the collec tion of the information as to co(»t of production, wsges. etc., that any com mission such aa suggested by Prtal Jent Harding mu«t have if it is to In telligently arbitrate the coal dispute." MR. TAFT RETURNS FROM BRITISH TRIPj Chief Justice Sejrs English Trade He* "Turned the Cor ner" Quebec. July 10.—William Howard Taft, Chief Juttice of the Supreme Court, and Mrs. Taft, home from their vilit to England, were spending today •t their rammer home near Murray Bey, Quebec. Mr. Taft, who landed here yesterday •aid he believed the "comer had bees turned" in British trade condition*. British business man, he said, showed strong optimism and wsre attacking poet war problems with greet conr nce and industry. Mr. Taft spoke appreciatively of the welcome he had received in Er.glend. He soon will begin prpa ration of • report on his study of the British law code, vbieh rw the prime per poee ef his visit.. The report /ill be submitted to the Government far guidance in revision of the American legnliyrtw. THE MAN DIRECTING THE RAILWAY STRIKE Works Dky and Night to Guido CtiiM 401,000 Workorsi Op poioi Violanca Chicago, July 19.—Th* directing genius of Ihr present railway strike bids fair, win or lose, to continue tha stormy petrel of the labor world for many montha to come. Many of Kia method* ara naw. Hla paraonallty la ipore or laaa of a puttie to all with whom ho eoton In conta< t. Yat to day. In a tiny office ovar a North Sid* movie palacr. seated about a plain-topped tabtr. »ur rounded by ahlrt-sleeved aaaorlataa, Bart M. Jaw all dominated tha croup, altho aomr of tham have been laadara in tha labor field for years. Ham, far removed from tha itnI railroad centers of tha city, tha plan of campaign ia being manipulated to meat tha hourly < hanges that uV» place in tha altua lion, which today holds tha attention of the entire world. Jewell, according to Hla aaaoclataa, ia a genius. Sandy-haired, wearing heavy hom-rlmmed glasses, thin but hard and alnewy, with the long fingers of an artist, he looks more like a high school principal »han tha leader of an organisation that already has cripplad the country. With hla chlrt alsevas rolled up and his hand* resting m the tabla, this bluv-eyed man hardly would atand out in a cmwd, no matter how well he rtands out in sn argu ment. Officially he 'a chnirwn of the railway department employer, Ameri can Federation of Labor Actually and actively he Is the >.<adar of six federated shop crafts and the general in-chief of the army of 401,000 strik ers who hare left their work in pro teat againat the wage reductions or dered and approved by the United State* Railway l.abor Board. "Who is thi* map Jewell," is the question that for more than a week ha» been repeated with more force ilaily aa the strikers continue to show tbeir solidarity of purpose. Jewill is an American, thirty-eight years <411, born in Omaha. He quietly assure* anyone who Inquires that he ia a boilcrmakcr, "and a good one," and that he has "drifted" about the country. He came into the union leiulership from the shop* of the Atlantic Coaat Line, and hi* present position of leadership is one which he proudly points out, was earned A* a labor leader he enjoys the confidence of his men and of the chiefs of the American Federation. When the Railway labor Board was established and Chicago selected •* Ha headquar ters, Jewell removed- his small office force to this city, located • small office on the edge of the loop region, threw away the door key and settled down Ui long hours, working day and night. hi* orrice, wnere tne stnxe noara of strategy remain* in almost con tinuous session, is as plain as its owner. The main room is 10 by 12 feet square. The big desk occupirs the ccnter, while Im the corner* are filing case* with cards inside carry ing the "vital statistics" of the or ganisations. Directly in front of Jewell's chair stands a file of letter baskets, into which are dropped a perfect avalanche of letters and tele grams from every section of the United State*. A typical message reached him early today. !t waa a requant from New Jersey for BOO word* of encour agement. There ia to be a mass meeting of strikers late today. The eoinm1tt.ee wanted the "low down" for the strikers . Jewell calls his stenographer. He dictates his message. Some of it is well worth reading. It is language that is rather new in the strike line. "We are opposed to all violence," he says. "One hundred men are not needed to get a tingle individual off the job. Two men will serve as well. The mob is an evil, • detriment to the strikers' cause. "Let two men seek out the man on the Job and talk to him quietly per suasively and earnestly. The troth and a friendly argument will accom plish results impossible with force. Forre is forbidden." ONE RANGER ENOUGH Some decades ago there waa a riot down in Texas and a hurry call for help waa sent to the Texas Ranger*. The governor wired back' "Rang ers en route." The sheriff met the train. One lonely ranger—little old Billy Macau ley- -got off. The sher iff Mid: "Oh my Lord, where's the rest of the outfit*" Best.—I" said BUly, "yon atnt got hut one riot hen, have youT" KU KLUX THREATEN TO GET POLITICIAN Robl. Young, Smloritl Candi data iq MUaouri, Ordarad to Cut Out Ad in JawUk Paper St. Louis, July tl.—Robert L Young, of 8t. Joseph, candidate for the Democratic noatihation for United State* senator In a letter made public today, said he bad received notice from th Ku KHax to remove a cam paign advertisement which he had eon tracted "for Inaertlon In the Jewiah Record, a local Hebrew language newspaper, "because the Jew la after the almighty dollar and to bell with th* country." Fred Weissman, attorney for the newspaper, made public the letter which Young wrote to H. D. White, advertising representative of the paper, in eiplanation of his refusal to fulfill the contract. An excerpt from the letter follow*: "I have always been very friendly to the Jewiah people and am yet. I am no normal coward, but I do not car* to get a coat of tar and feather*." Counsel for the paper announced suit would be filed against Young to collect money due it under the con tract. LARGE YIELD OF ARIZONA MELONS! Haavy Shipment* Baing Mada| From Imparial Valley Tuscon. An* . July 12.—This I* a banner year for melons in Ariaona, the first load being marketed early this week. Melons grown in this rounty alone will be ample to supply all the needs of Tusoon and vicinity for the cftming two month*, according t<> the report of the county agrlcultur >1 agent, as '250 acre* were plan tod In i-antaloupe* this year, and about half an many acres In watermelons. The rich soil of the dry river beds, the long periods of warm weather, with the present irrigation facilitio* make Tor the production of a high grade inelon. known parttcuUrty -tor--ftavwr #nd sweetness The Salt River valley ■unrounding Phoenix, which has been under irrigation for a much longer period hss begun shipments of melons >o eastern and northwestern points, 2.r>00 carloads having been shipped out last week. Many of theae cars passed through Tuscon for eastern points. From S00 to 700 car* of melon* are now passing through Tuscon daily From the Imperial Valley in California to eastern cities. All of the car* are iced in Tuicon; 610 cars of canta loupe*. and IIW cars of watermelon*, '.he highest number recorded during the week passed through In a single lay. the icing of which under itrike conditions heing a vast undertaking, Sut which was accomplished expendi tiously, according to the superintend ed of the division. It required 10 trains of 78 car* each to transport this day's shipment. The trains of melons are run on fast passenger schedule and are iced at all divisions. The empty cars are returned on the mme swift schedule as It i» somwhat *f a problem to keep the growers supplied with cars at this season. Danville Tobacconist Owns an Airplane Danville, July 18.—Danville now | hoaata of a privately owned airplane. Lowell Ba»«, a well known tobacco man and who saw service during th< , war as an aviator having purchased a Curtis biplane for private tranapor- ' tation purposes. Bass rs called upon j frequently to viait the tobacco markets in eastern Carolina and many of the i larger North Carolina cities at which ! are already established private or municipal fields equipped with stand ard insignia and markera. Bass had an accident the first day he owned the machine. He made *j good landing In the field now used for such purposes on the farm of W. E. Gardner, bit when he found that' hia machine on touching the ground was racing straight toward* another, machine brought here for pasaengvr flights, he diverted his machine in a 2-foot ditch, where it tipped over and was damaged. Baas auatained no per aonal injuries and the ahip wilt be ready for flight by the end of this week. Interest has been arouaed her* in a municipal flying field and the Cham ber of Commerce is trying to bringl about the establishment of a field. The government la *ald to be trying to Interest towne along the mate line of the Southern to eetabHah such fields tO Mite* apart providing alight ing potato for forced landtags Four Facto tha Public Must Not Overtook iWsahington (D. C.) N»wa) Unless something unforaeen inter viiim tha nation ia about to b« plunged Into • reign of forts, instead of raaaon, aa a rsault of ths ooal and railroad disputes. In tka and public opinion will da rids tKs laaua. , Public opinion should spring from a knowledge of basic fact. Hara in four things that lla at tha root of tha trouble: First—Tha Railroad Labor Board. • government sgenla undar Injunc tion, granted by a court at tha rail road's request, which forbids it aran to publiah Ita findings. Second The final affort to sottls thr railroad dispute broke down when, agreeing on all alaa, tka rail roads refused In taking man back to observe their seniority rights. That Is another way of tnaiating that tbs railroad unions be paralyxed. Third—Tha coal minsrs ara not on strike. They had a contract with the coal operators which expired last April. The contract provided that on or before April 1 operators and miners should msat and negotiate a new eon tract of employment. The operators refused and still refuse to so negotiate. The mens' Jobs ended In April, when their contract ended. Fourth—The government for nearly two years has been under injunction, grante by • court at the coal opera tors' request, forbidding the collec tion of information as to cost of pro duction, wares, etc., that any com misaion auch aa suggestedby Presi dent Harding muat have if It ia to intelligently arbitrate the coal dis pute. Those are simple 1'acts which should be taken Into any consideration of the causes and consequence of the im pending bayonet experiment. W. J. Bryan Urges Democrats to Resist Wet Propaganda Lincoln, Neb., July 17.—In the cur N^-M» at the Commoner. W J. Bryan appeals to Democrats not to permit the wet interests to use the party to serve the fight againat the prohibition amendment. He says that the efforts now being made to capture Democratic nominations in many parts of the country will, if they sre not defeated, spoil the present splendid * hance of the Democrats to control the next Houae. He aays in part: Prohibition is here to stay. No In telligent wet has any hope of repeal ing the Eighteenth Amendment; neither has any intelligent wet' any hope of a law permitting the manufac ture snd sale of intoxicating bever age*. So long ax the Eighteenth Amendment remains the Supreme Court will be compelled to nullify any law permitting the use of enough al cohol to make beverages intoxicating. All that the wets hope for is a majority in the House or Senate—Just enough to enable them to block ap propriations for enforcement Any man who represents the wet side of the contest will oppose appropriation* and thus invite an era of lawlessness in which ti. liquor traffic can do as it pleases. 1 real question is law or lawlessness, nd that issue super sedes all other*. We csnnot have governments without obedience to law Wherever, therefore, the enfoirt-1 mcnt of the law U threatened, other! questions must be postponed. The: dry* greatly outnumber the wets, but the wets ape more intense in their j feeling and therefore more active in their effort*. We should not only have a working majority in both houses, but • two-thirds vote to that we can override vetoea, if necessary, and'impeach judges who fail to en-1 force the law. The dry forces should unite everywhere to defeat a wet candidate. Flier Hopes to Cross Continent, r in One Day San Antonle, Tax., July Crossing the American continent in one day by airplane and making only one intermediate stop will be attempt ed by Lieut. James H. Doollttle ot "Kelly Field, about August 8, he an 'Kounced today. Lieutenant Doollttle will "hop off at Kelly Field the morn ing of August 4 for Jacksonville, Fla., A few days later be wfll begin his daah from the A tan tie eoeat to Sea Diego, CaL, travaltaff hi I specially built airplane of a one-man *yne, with a gasoline eapecity of 275 gallons. Hie only scheduled step will be bumU at Su Antonio. Teg., at day break fur replenishing fuel DENBY IN AN AIRPLANE ACCIDENT BUT ESCAPES Mac kin* Wu Flying 4000 FmI Over Creit Wall When tha Engine Stalled P*kin, July 1*.—Secretary Kdwtn Ihrnby of tlto American navy narrowly escaped death hart today In an a*ro ll la n« accident H* wai flying at a height of 4,000 foot ov*r tlw Groat Wall when tha angina of tha plan* stalled. Th* mash In* (u demolished m landing, bat Mr. Deeby wu unin Jurod. Th* plan* belonged to th* Chintae goveminent and had seen service In th* recent fighting between Gen. • •rail Wu Pal Fu ami Chang Tso Lin. Secretary Denby rm phasing, however, that he had mad* the flight at hi* own suggestion, and that ha did not go a* the gnaot of th* Peking administra tion. The forrod landing, mad* In tha heart of th* hllU traversed Hy the Groat Wall, waa a thrilling one, after a spectacular flight In which a high altitude waa reached to avoid th* mountain top. Th* party took off from th* capital at noon. In th* plan*, besides th* head of tha American navy. w*r* Captain Robert Brace and Command er G«orge Simpson of the American navy, and Charles Dolan, of Boston, who piloted the machine. After circling over Peking. Mr. Denhy suggested that they proceed to the Great Wall of China. After half an hour's flying aver the wall at an altitude of 4,000 feet, the secre tary expressed a desire to follow the course of the ancient harrier to ob serve its serpentine path over th* hills »nd sides. Th* plana was turned along the course of the wall wh*n suddenly the gaaoline feed clogged and the pistons stopped, leaving the party feet in the air with a series of jagged peaks and crags helow. Realizing his danger. Pilot Dolan started the plane downward, seeking a landing place. Finally he located what appeared to be a comparatively eleat apace in the midst of 'he hitla Here the plane was brought to earth, iinly to be wrecked against the n<ckM that strewed the ground Secretary Denby was the first man Hear of the machine as it struck and he and his companions all escaped un injured. MARCONI STATION OPENED ON DESERT England-Egypt Telegraph Ser vice Transmit* Meuagei in Ten Minute*' Time Alexandria, Egypt. June IS.—It wan in June, 1914 that the Marrani Company commenced to install a wirele** receiving and tran*mitting station at Abou Zahal. situated on the | <*hre of the Eastern Desert, some 15 mile* north of Cairo, as a link in its| chain of wireless communication* of the British Empire. The station was! to have been eompleted originally in 18 month* time, but on account of the! world disturbing events of 1914, the Admiralty took over the installation i and had it completed sufficiently to transmit messages regularly in six week* During the war It was naturally of great utility, but it was not until a j few weeks ago that it was opened, for public use, the British General' Post Office being now it* administrat or. The rates for the public have re cently been advertised and are 26 per cent lower than those of the Eastern Telegraph Company, which owns the; submarine cables in this part of the i world. As regards the quality of, service perhaps it is too soon to make; comparisons. It is, however, well known that the Eastern Telegraph Company has in anticipation of possi ble competition improved its service remarkably, the speed for messages between England and Egypt being ra il need to 10 minutes for urgent tele grams and to from 26 to SO minutes for ordinary full rate cables, while the reliability of the service is un questionable. So far their rates, which are now Is. Sd, a word to England, have net been reduced. It will be Interesting to see whether the wireless sanies will be able to offer serious competi tion. , HOME COW! This advertisement appeased m a newspaper the other day: "Wanted, a Steady, respectable yonag s*an to look alter a garden and mflV a cow who has a geed veiee and I* eeeae BRICKLAYER IS PAID *M FOR 10-HOUR DAY Was* SmIm in New Yarti Building Tradva Ara S*M to bt tha Hi|kMt t»« Kim Albany, N. Y.. July 12-Even If the word "downt roddeo" alfkt haw h«n applied In y*ar» (OM by with reference to the treatment of man who work with their hands, apparently It l» obaoUta today. Wag* scale com pariaona a how that tha several build ing trade* worker* de*l d and re ceive the higbeat wagaa ever paid. Thia la mpenally trua In New Talk City, win.-re bricklayers, carprvten and plasterer* at* paid daily MM than thay one* received weekly. ■Statistics compiled by tha Naw York State Department of Labor abow that a pay envelop containing tt4 for a single day'a work la not unusual for bricklayer* In New York Cit;'. It ta shown by the some Itadatiea that other building tradaa worker* receira w»n» much higher than tha prevail nig series in other line* uf Industry. The explanation given as la that i he revival of building has had tha effect of bringing about a greatly In flated wage scale In New York City. It also Is said that contractor* who have obtained work which most be hurried to completion also have baaa responsible for abnormally high wages which bricklayer*, carpenter* and plasterer* are receiving. Still the Inference is made in addt tion that the building tradaa union* havi- purpoaely kept down the mam ber*hip list*. Investigation* have nhown the accuracy of this Inference State Labor Department officials aay. The schedule of building trades Uage* for New York City aa filed Lith the Stat*' Department of L«bor, Hoe* not Indicate the wages of brick layers. Bricklayers' helpers, however, receive $7 for s basic eight-hour day, xtending from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m.. ax Cpt on Saturdays, when the noon knur la quitting time The State l.ab»r Department has been told that bricklayers are receiv ing 116 a day. or It an hour for aa MghMiaur working day. with double lime for all overtime. Bricklayer*, huite generally, are working 10 hour* daily and receiving $4 an hour ."or the :wo hours overtime. This bring* their daily wage for 10 hours to $24 s day. The union schedule on file in the State Labor Department shows that -arpenter* and framer* receive 19 for Ln eight-hour day. Many other building trades worker* find their em ployment usually lucrative. It ia kiid that the lowest paid worker, ac cording to the schedule submitted, is the excavator and general laborer, who receives 16 per day. Wearing of Mask Bar* Klu Say* Governor of Kmum Topcka, Kan.. July IS.—The Ku Klux Klan and any other organisa tion which find* it necessary to have it* members wear masks is an unlaw ful assemblage in Kansas and will not be permitted to hold meetings in this State, according to an announcement by Gov. Henry J. Allen, made in con• nection with a railroad strike. He ha* sent a special order to all mayors, sheriff*, county attorneys and peace officer* generally to see to it that these meetings are not held. The Governor's proclamation said in part: "In Kansas the mask heretofore ha* Man worn exclusively by those who sought to cloak their identity while robbing banks, railroad train*, house* and individual* upon public high ways. The idea of masking ia asso ciate in this state inseparably with violence and the inescapable effect of it is to create fear and terror in the mind of tha citisen who ha* no occa sion to employ disguise. It is my judgment that any aaswa bly of men wearing either white or black masks is againjt the peace, safety and welfare of the public at tMa particular time. Especially is this menace serious in those communities where industrial quarrels are new go- * ing on. The privilege at men to eas ploy disguises gives to those whs might become foes to the Government and to law an opportunity to cloak their identity and to work aiKkW. State Highway Coenmintern Installs 11 Hmdio t%ow Raleigh. July IS—Pm* Page, ■tats highway commission*, wl b> •tall a radio station at ths haaiqaar
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