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BROTHERHOODS TO AID UJAVAL ESTIMATES ' ,i imiun Showing the Relation of the Macedonian and the Rumanian Fronts FOR 1918 HEAVIER Organization Heads to Address the American Federation - Today. ' for First Time in History. ONSIDERED SIGNIFICANT Confer With President Wilson, At- torney General- Gregory and Legislative Representatives. ADAMSON AT WHITE HOUSE! '" ; . J Thinks Railroads Main PlirpOSe 1S t- Washin gt on, No v. 1 20. Heads of the railroad employees' brother hoods, determined that the Adam son S-hour law shall itoibe broken down, conferred here today with President Wilson; Attorney. Gene ral Gregory and their 'legislative representatives, declared their pur pose to aid the government in ev ery way in fighting injunction suits against the i law, . and inade further plans for perfecting; a working agreement with-- their al lies, the railroad men of the 'Am erican Federation- of Labor.-. ' Considered Significant. : When the government .attorneys, G. Corrall Todd, assistant - to -.the Attor ney General ; Assistant Attorney Gen erj.i Underwood and .Frank Hagerman appear in the federal court, at KansaaiJ City next Thursday to oppose tne union r-aicflr and Atchison, -.Topeka &' Santa Fe suits -aainst thafnm law.: thy - wilt he flankoa byepresntitivN)f tne brotherhood. It?" is probable that the four bro-herhood heads themselves will be there. Messrs:-. Todd and Un derwood left tonight for Kansas Ctty7 Great significance fs attached "to ..the i announcement today that' the brother hood heads will address the American Federation of Labor convention in Bal tomore tomorrow. Never before in the' history of the organization have any) members met in joint Eessioh, but their, meeting at Baltimore will be the re sult of a carefully worked out agree-f ment that the two forces shall join hand in working for the general bet-. tem.ent of the organized railway em-! 1 - - I After receiving the brotherhood ' hearts and Chairman Adamson, , author of the eight-hour law, President Wilson virtually finished his message" to Con press, in which he will recommend the completion of the railway legislative', prosrramms, outlined by him at the last session. Those recommendations in-" dud? provisions for the, enlargement of the Interstate Commerce Commission nrd for compulsory investigation of; proposed strikes. The latter If. bitter ly opposed by the brotherhood -saders.- Kallwny Executives Incoasplcna. I'aihoad executives figured only ;n-f conspicuously in today's ' activities here. Their representatives appeared befnr? the Senate Interstate Commerce committee t, and learned that their spokesmen "would be he,ard Thursday;1 Brotherhood representatives may .ap pear before the committee lajer" but sry far have not indicated formally th-ir irn-Titiori to do so. Members of a committee of. the Kv-I msvillc, Tnd., chamber of commerco fallid during the day to tell President 'i'.son that there would be' a' middle states" conference on the railroad situa tion in their city early in' December; He told them he hoped there, would hf similar discussions of the probiem In other sections of the United: Stxts fl'''l that he wished all business men would investigate the Question' in an 1 Pen minded way. After the 15-minten ' conference with the President the brother.ool heads would ndmit only that they had cori-ei-atuiated Mr. Wilson pn his re-election. Warren S. Stone,-of the Kngi.l-pfr:-. declared that he could -not- tell row whether" a strike would be -jailed 11 th the eight-hour law was, not put ;n'to ect Jan-ary 1 - - ' ,r w"i ) an vary AdnniKon Confern With -Wilson. Representative Adamson went : over Plann for railroad legislation fully with Jhe President. Afterwards he .said that had no doubt that the eizht-hour :nv would he upheld by the courts as institutional, adding that the rr.eas-v.-ns very carefully framed by 'law-' e"s fuli' familiar with the situation and W:,:h constltution.N. ' "T have a bill prepared'for additional 'sislntion to meet the situation; which i, pro!'i'iy ' will introduce, as soon as wngr-s; convenes," he-aaid.- He added lilar hp believed the Interstate Com mcrce Commission under existing laws 'ireauy had the power to 'take Wages nto consideration in ' fixing freighH ...its. rrr-sident ' Wilson .embodied : a lioir.mondation' foi legislation, giving ;M i.o.cr when. addressing. Congress in the threatened strike, but .the foiKia r ipresenttaive said he bellev a tho President would agree with him .., , lioesn't Pear Strike. ; nr,L think there Is anVthiner in the t;'lk that the railroad men will call tl'ike if thi eie-ht-ho'iir law ila n-nrl- in courts," said Mr. Adamson. o they would be running dl- ' ontrary. to. public onlnion and 4Continued on page Two.) :-N - 5' STOBY As to What is the Matter With Them and What Legislation Might Better Conditions. WILL BEGIN THURSDAY Joint . Congressional Committee .of In- vestijration Meet ud Get. Ready for It. InltT Into Pnb- lie Utilities. Washington, Nov. 20. What is the matter 'with the railroads .and What kind of: legislation Congress might enact to better conditions will be pic tured to the joint congressional com mitted investigating. transportation problems;, beginning Thursday by the executives , of some of the greatest sy-; terns in thecountry. The investigating committee held its , first ; session today, heard -an opening statement by- its chairman, Senator Newlanas, , and received notice tf ap pearance from nearly 100 public util ity companies, state railway commls- sions," commercial . and - industrial or ganizations, and shippers-, and,' individ uals.. Few who noted) appeaVances seemed" ready to open the 'hearings: with 'testimony, ; and Jn executive . sea sion tonight the committee decided to hear the railroads first , iA the . belief that their executives, arei better . pre pared to state their case with6u.tr fur ther ; delay.-T The railway '.executives', advisory- committee, composed , of morb than, a dosen heads of important "sys tems, was advised ;and; it is expected that most gOf ita. memers.; will testify 4efore -thft.ranjyjadsj 9 cpmpjetely '4.ie.-cozBiniee, aacicua to noia -near hne j 1W P.'MTnyrnotrr.er'WhM. al" fe- porters tiipe to keep the record up to date for the .comftilttee and . for wit nesses. No decision was reached as to what wltnesses.iil be called When the railroads conclude. Representatives of the American : Telephone & Telegraph Company, ithe Western ? JJnlon Tele graph Corrfpany apd several of the big express compaijies were present and Will be heaird before the committee re ports.: ' ,v " The railroad phase of the Investiga tion Is expected to take most of the committee's time .but under the reso lution which created it, -Its investiga tions are to extend' to all such public utilities. NET AND GROSS EARNINGS FOB ' ; 1 18 ' YEARS TO BE RECORDED Liouisvllle, Ky., Nov. 20. Commis sioner McChord, of the Interstate Com merce Commission, announced late to day at (he car shortage ; hearings in progress; here,' that it was his purpose to put Into, the record - a ctable of the net and gross earnings of all the rail roads of. rthe United states during the last-' 15 years. His announcement followed a state ( Continued on Page Two . FOUR MINISTERS 70 GREECE iE EXPELLED By Order, of the Commander of , . the Allied Fleet German, Austro-Hungrarlan, .Bulgarian . and Turkih Rpreentative at " Athens Are Ordered to Del . . , -. ,pa)Tt Espionage Charged. . London,: Nov. 20. An Athens dis patch to "the Exchange Telegraph Company- says -the German,' Austro-Hun-o-arlan.,: Tfulirarian and Turkish minis- L , . . , . . . Iters - to Greece, have been informed by Vice - -Admiral DuJournet, commander of the 'Allied fleet, that they must de part from Greece by Wednesday, Reuter's" Athens " correspondent, un der date of November zO, says that Viae Admiral 4 JLiuJpurne ; .- has notified thjs Austrian,' German, BuIgaran:andTurk lsh ministers to Greece that -they must go aboard- a ' stey ;rr : ''f''fn placed f,at'i thy , S -srte they .-will blUiifj0SMT':l'M spondent' adi'C "- jffety't.?.. t.'tle prot'eclidn olf xf&-tfc-rtriAi---, ":' v;:' d Bulbars in tr legation 'wjll -interests. 1 ' . The, JDaily irfSft m dent aays:. '( .- '- m "The Jnimej ! " j u s'ion of ttie : s s:if st fM' ery that the! l;jr.,,n J3aron von pt l-- -gaged inesp . WashlriKtol io. man' suffragf vas'ehdorsecj tiorial Grangi night., ' Simil Gr eiige 4a. ,y.d minority opp TO BEHEARD FIRST First Stage of Franco-Serbian Campaign Ended, Interest Now Centers in Rumania. MONASTER NOT ENTERED Allies GainYiptoryin Macedonia; Hostilities in the Somme Re , gion Diminished. With the end of the first stage of the Franco-Serbian campaign,' which resulted in the capitulation of Monas tlr by the Bui gars ana Germans, and diminution, of hostilities in the Somme region of Prance, except for bombard ments and! isolated infantry actions, Rumania has again become the center of interest. ' Driving- eastward through- Western Wallachia, the Austro-German forces now are reaching but for Craidva, ly lag on the railroad midway between the Danube town of Orsova, ; Hungary, and Bucharest. V;This maneuver apparently - places a menace in the rear to the retreat of the Rumanians fighting in the north on Hungarian'soil and disputing with the .Austro-Gerrcans the passages of the Transylvanian' Alps reading to the plains of "Wallachia: : ; - : .- :: ' i- ' , Rumanian Loig Ground. : In the' Jlul valley region tlfe' retire ment of 1 the Rumanians continues and Mn -the Campulug sector -Petrograd re ports that further Rumanian attacks against the Teutonic allies have been unsuccessful. On the Danube front in pobrudja artillery engagements -are in progress from Silistria to OItina.v .( The fighting in Macedonia, from the erha "rtvef to 'Cake- Pre3ba" has- ended in a complete victory for the Entente Allied troops, : says the Paris war-of-rice. The, Serbs have .not :yet . entered Monastlr, cajired -Sunaythe $aw.n having been virtually destroyed,--ae- fbnttf" forces have occupied 'villages" to' the north of the town and. are declared to be still in pursuit of ' th Germans and Bulgarians, f Berlin says, however, that the; newly--"Chosen positions se lected; for their retirement north. of Monastlr ' have been entered 'by the Germans end Bulgarian's without' pres sure from the antagonists, 'and also that new German.forces have ; reached the fighting zone.v ,-..:. . . . - German Artillery Active. The German artillery, in, the Somme front near Guedecourt and on Verdun sector ' near Dbuaumbnt have Heavily shelled British and French positions. Strong forces of , Austrians in kn as sault jori the summit of- Hill 12.8 on the Carso front of the Italian theatre have captured Italian, entrenchments. . .. ; Cold weather has set in on the Rus sian front- and as a consequence, lit tie fighting is going on there. ' Newport News.'Va., Nov. 20. Busi ness men of Hampton, VaJ; today stat ed that .the United States government has options on 2500 acres of land near that -place with an idea of taking ,it over as. the site of the new army fly ing: school. " The owners of ' the land hold it for $300,000. ID. C. T. U. WOULD CUT Commends 850 Newspapers Refus ing to Carry Business. :;;.'-v::' v . ,v. ; National Organisation Goes " on Record for Equal Political Rights far Men and Women, and Equal Pay for Same Service. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 20. The Na tional Women's Christian Temperance Union, In annual session here today, adopted a resolution . commending the 850 daily newspaper and 68 maga sines In the country, known to refuse to carry liquor advertisements. The delegates pledged themselves and each member of the organization to use her influence in every way possible in their respective communities to get' newspa pers now carrying - such advertising matter to drop it at the expiration of existing contracts,.. . . Other v resolutions . adopted included one which said , the organization, be lieves Un equal; political rights -for wo men and men,-.and that the .ballot. In the ' hands of women" Is; a .Weapon for the destruction of the r liquor traffic. The "Union alsoF went en : record ' as favoring living wages . and i equal pay for equal services! and as believing In justice as opposed to commercial greed. A pledge was given to continue the fight ' for - constitutional . prohibition, both state and nationaL r " The principal;, speaker ; today was Commissioner General Caminetti,-. of the United States' Bureau1 of ' Immigra tion. ' - ; ' . ' . - ' ' i Tonight's - session was . addressed by Mfs.J.Mary Harri s ; Armor, : of - Georgia, on the "Irrepressible Conflict," " , The business programme for tomor row Includes 'the election, of officers, but it. has-been a custom for years to re-electthe lnvumbentaf -.- - LIQUOR ADVEBTESING The' Velatlon of the Macedonian, and Rumanian fronts is shown In the ac- compahyihg':niap. . "The. shaded portion sTOwSjierriroy jpiuBiecy yje central lAliiesiistso. catch Bulgaria between two armies and to cut the TSerJin-Constaritinople rail way, . Wjhich, runs through - Sofia and Nish. Turkey 'and' Bulgaria would be separated from- Germany arid. Austro- INCH ISSUE TO BE PARAMOUNT Organized . Labor Urged to Disre gard Court Decrees Based on 1 Dictum A' Labor is Property." H BY AMERICAN FEDERATION "Let the Conseaaenee be What They - May", Reaolntlon Insist That L.a- ' bor Mast Not be Considered Property in Contests. - Baltimore, ) Nov. 20. The American Federation of Labor today recommend ed' unanimously . that any, injunction dealing with the relationship of cm ployer and employe and based on the dictum that labor is property, should be oTiBregarded,; 'let . the consequences, be what thex'may." ' The action was taken when. the Fed eration convention, in annual session here, adopted a report of the executive council ' committee dealing " with a de cision of the Massachusetts,, Supreme court classifying. labor as property. The convention also -adopted a resolution urging organized labor to make the j injunction question ' the paramount issue in all of their future political ac tivities;" ' ' ' The comnjittee report on the Massa chusetts decision reads: i "It ' seems;' to be a settled purpose of interests, antagonistic to the freedom of men and women who - labor to per suade. ,and then use the judiciary and misconstrue constitutional guarantees and thereby nullify legislative .enactr ments so as to leave but one remedy and we -therefore recommend that, any injunctions ;'dealtng' with the relation ship of employer - and employe ,ahd based' on- the dictum, labor la ; properr; ty be. wholly., and .absolutely regarded as usurpation: and disregarded, let the consequences, be what they .may. Such decisions a8 the one rendered by the Supreme court of the state of . Massa chusetts ' has ' Us -roots . in class inter ests, it is vUsMfpa-tl.oh ' and ' .tyranny.' Freedom ' came to" man . because ho -believed .that 'resistance to;' tyranny s obedience to God.. - As' it; came, Tsq , it i must. be molntalned Kings .could be and bo.--dls6bey.ed:l4-.nd-':;somt'lmes-r..i4e- posed, in; ceases ; of this Uiud, 'Judges must be disobeyed? and -subsequently inipeached,"v : '. .-'"":, - ' ' Ty - 1 ;.- Agan';vCesdrWpw ', i' " A resolution rwas adoptedf today reg ist er 1 n'g the -.Federation' a ''un r e len ting opposition to. any scheme ' or aystem whiclv deuces freedoni Of speech press or the showing of motion picture, when they aiaBd"Onrata.--.'A m, . Hungary and could be dealt with in jde tail.r . The southernarmy in Macedtinia , under - General " ; Sar rail, , ; advancing .north, has pushed '.its ' left wing 'into Serbia Vto a oblnt tthi'ee" mltes trotlfcl and Russians has reconauered the un shaded portion of Serbia south and east, of Monastir. The northern -;-army "In the Rumanian province of the Dobrudja is advancing . south, 'hoping first to .wrest the Constahza-qernavoda railroad BY GERMAN U-BOAT Announcement Hby Semi-Official ''Overseas N4Wa "Agency" Snr- prises tfS. Officials ... . ' - MAKES DEEP IMPRESSION "... I Suggest that Admission May Mean that -.- Germany' la Preparing to Make m ,' ; . Test Of the "Armed Ship" Controversy With V. S. Washington, . Nov. 20. Announce ment by the semi-official Overseas News Agency that a German submarine sank the British liner Arabia has made a deep impression in official quarters here and apparently removed all possi bility that this -case- might, take its place with that Of the Persia, sunk in the Mediterranean long ago in some manner never cleared up. . -Officials were loath to discuss the matter in-the absence of official Infor mation, which it is understood is being sought from all sources. . Some of them expressed surprise however that the attack upon the Arabia had been semi officially: admitted. -- It was suggested that thw Overseas dispatch of yester day: might mean that Germany was pre paring to make a - test in ' this of the "armed ship" controversy with the United . States, or that in some way a minor official hostile to Chancellor V,on -Bethmann-Hollweg's . submarine policy might have allowed the dispatch to get out. - - . The contention that the Arabia was an : armed transport because- she 'car ried a 16-centimeter g-un and had work men and war munitions aboard Is not regarded1 here as ; justified. The .ship was; e Peninsular & Orient passenger, liner with many passengers aboard. r There was one American on his way to- India. He has made an affidavit which has been forwarded to the State Department. - STEAMER EAPPAHANSTOCK, 8VHK , v BY , SUBMARINE! SAYS REPORT t Halifax, N. Si Nqv. 20. -Word was received from London - that" the overiue steamer Rappahannock had : been , sunk by .a German submarine. No word has been heard of Captain Garrett and his crew; of orty-inen, and the. fear was expressed that they had perished. The Rappahannock sailed from this port for Liverpool October; 19, and for ten days has been posted as -missing, i The cable' saidk that word ;, of the steamer's loss, came from ?erUni ARABIA WAS SUNK ILANE HA from Von Mackensen Jand drive 'himi back into Bulgaria. : A" second 'amy! co-operating wfth this one is-. on; the Western-bank .of the " Danube across frornjCferjiavpla. Jdn Rumania.'snorth'3 rjftg&avftHterj . ,f ronjirs, in the mountains," the"GeriflsCns ad-' Aostrias" under General ; Von. .Palkenhayn ars pushing south and east into Rumania through the passes indicated tjy arrows. The Teuton advarice-has' been slow but steadq., ' -' OF THE Will Tell Cabrera Today on Just What Terms Agreement for Withdrawal May be Reached. BOTH SIDES YET HOPEFUL No . Evidence, However, That the Mexi can Commissioners' Chairman Im x Prepared to Recede from His lieng-Malntained Position. Atlantic City, N. J., Nov. 20. Luis Cabrera and his colleagues on the Mexican-American joint commission will be formally told tomorrow by Sec retary of . the Interior Lane, chairman of the American commission, . on just what terms an agreement providing for withdrawal of the American puni tive expedition and the protection of life and property along the interna tional border may be reached. Fortified by the assurance of Presi dent Wilson that hej will back the American representatives in their ef forts to roach a settlement of the ques tions at issue. Secretary Lane returned here late today and immediately went into conference with the two other American commissioners. The'-- atmosphere of uncertainty and even hopelessness which has been ap parent for many weeks was entirely lacking tonight. The Americans ap peared confident . that the end of the conference la' in?-sight. Their proposi tions have been reduced to writing and it is understood win admit of lit tle debate. : Mexican "Not Pesalmtetle. The .Mexicans appeared not to take a pessimistic view of the situation, Mr. Cabrera again assuring newspaper men that he was- very hopeful of an ami cable adjustment. "There was no evi dence, however, that h,, was prepared to recede f rom his position so long maintained that agreement to the plan of the Americans was out of question. Ignacio Bonillas and ".Alberto J, Pan!, the other members of th Mexican com mission, have been disposed of late to agree with the Americans on . the plan suggested, but there was some reason tonight to believe", that Mr.- Cabrera had on them over to an agreement to stand with him. The plan to . be placed before the Mexicans will contain nothing that Is new to them.. ' It has. been gone Over in sessions of the Joint commission time and again and will not require a long explanation". ' - The question at Issue is not the wlth i t Continued on Page Two.) - ' THAN EVER BEFORE Daniels Awards Contracts for Ar - mor Plate for .Four Battle ships of 1917 Programme. SUB-COMMITTEE 13 BtTSV Plans - for Ammunition Ship, Lasl yessel for 1917 Building, Are -Approved. ; A. Washington, Nov. 20. While Seer- ittrj- inaietB was awaramg oon tracts todav for armor nlntn for (ha fnn, tleships' authoribed at the last session ot Congress, and approving plana for an ammunition ship, the last vessel e signed for the 1917 building program. House Naval committee began work on the 1918 estimates .the heaviest in American history, to be "presented to Congress this winter. . The Navy Department's 1918 figure contemplate construction of half of tho ui(ia jbi w us uuiii in me great -enree-vear nrne-rn-mmo nnil hnir tntol t pronriatlons of S379.1S1.701. or mar'k than? $66,000,000 in excess of the rec ord total apprbprfated last summer. Contracts for th armnr nlnta vhK will - ga on the Colorado. Maryland Washington and West Virginia, were: awarded to the Bethlehem and Carne gie Steel companies, each receiving half ' the work. A statement analysing the contracts, says that, despite the unpre cedented European demand for. slate. the prices offered were approximately -' the -CtLITlA sift thnsft na lA thru vaara n am . when the Pennsylvania was being com structed. - What is Called For. - ') The department estimates before ths House sub-committee call for fundp tpx beginqconstruction of three battleships, 1 one battle, ermsers,. three scout crula rinftS i -14 "Coast Huhrtr41riAie rittncl .anhma'?: i i Bre-jxuuoi uuu whs ucsirjivBr tentrer. -. . . r t- eral board uraed that . the twas, hktti W p cruisers- .remaining- on, the . three;- yea . programme ana iour or the six bar uesuum wo yjdueu on me esti mate. The department decided, howev er, to divide the new construction equally between the 1918 and 1919 V.i11c . Rear Admiral Strauss, chief of ord nance .appeared before the sub-committee. Explaining an item In his esti mate of 11,500,000 for fleet ammunition, he said the cost of projectiles and other ordnance material had I increased thai ; much since Congress provided SlS.OOOj 000 for the purpose last year. -Some' Prices- Dovrni Some Up. Prices of smaller shells, he said, were goin down, indicating a decreasing demand from Europe; but large 'shell of the 14 -Inch size used by the Navj r showed a 20 per cent, increase ovei last year's quotations. At . another point Admiral Straus outlined the department's scheme foi storing in Navy yards guns and am-. munition with which to equip merchant " steamers' as naval auxiliaries in tlm of war.; More than $3,000,000 for tl purchase ot guns and mountings foi this purpose was, provided last yeajy arid this year the department seek 11," knn ttftfi -av aMtniiitttfAti . ... The department also has recommend ed the installation of anti -aircraft gun at naval stations, magazines and radU stations, the pending estimates provid ing $1,000,000 for this purpose., It will take more than 100 of the Navya three inch ,50-caHbre guns for this purpose, Wow Prodncing'Torpedoem. . i Admiral StraU&sy said . the naval gun factory was now producing torpedoes, the first deliveries, however, exceeding in cost the price quoted by prlvata . manufacturers. It is expeoted that th factory will get its costs considerably below the commercial rate With its next ' Admiral Strauss will appear before the committee again tomorrow and will be followed by other bureau chiefs and finally by Secretary Daniels and mem bers of the General Board. The ammunition ship, for which the Secretary approved plans, is the first craft of the kind ever designed fdr the Navy. . She will have a displacement of 10,000 tons -with cargo of powder and shells. Special facilities are provided . for handling explosives aboard, arid; tfco Violdfl -will fiA niilnnf1 with ranllne- fa cilities to inanre the regulation of. tem perature. Large refrigeration spaces will makeher easily convertible Into, a supply vessel. ' either coal or fuel oil. A defensive armament includes four 5-inch rapid fire auns and two 8-inch anti-aircraft guns. Bids are being asked from ship builders and the department hopes ta " be able to open them by the first of the , year. .--. ' . - ,. . Am to - Snhmarlnea. Secretary Daniels said today he had " arranged to confer with representatives of the Electric Boat Company in an ef fort to seek modification of theii' pend ing submarine bids. , The company of fered to construct 24 or more subma- ;-; rines, deliveries ' to begin within . 25 : months, and proposed at much, higher cost to-havethv deliveries begin within 15 months. The ; department. Is deter- mined to place the submarine construc tion on -'not mrtr than a. - 2 monthi basis. ' . ' ' ; ' " Representatives of the Seattle Con struction, & Drydock Company also will confer-;. with the ..department official Wednesday. Thlscompany submitted the only proposal that came within th . . (Continued on 'Page Tw) - a " 1 V ; 1 . ! ''. -T - ISA' J -Mi'"
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