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3 T WEEKLY EDITION OLD SERIES-VOL. L5CXXIII-N0. 4,639. FAYETTEVILLE, N. C.,' WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6. 1919. NEW SERIES-VOL. XXXVI-NO. 2,463 mm VM 111 J 7J ML 1 . 1 xflL FAR-REACHING PLAN ORGANIZED LABOR WANTS TRIPARTITE The Strike of Federated Railroad Shopmen Continues to Spread Union Officials Predict a Tie-up of All Rail roads unless Demands for Higher Wages Are Met There Is Question as to Regularity of Strike. - (By The Associated Press.) Washington, Aug. 5. Organized la bor was before the nation today with a demand that private capital be re tired from railroad operation and that there, be substituted a tripartite con trol of the railroad properties by the public, the operating management and the employes.' The demands of organized labor presented in the statement signed by engineers, firemen, conductors and the American Federation of Labor was recognized today in Washington as the most far reaching proposal placed before the nation during its recon struction period. Officials refused to predict 'the out come. Tomorrow it will be formally laid before the House Interstate Com merce Commission by Warren S. Tone, grand chief of the Brotherhood of Lo comotive Engineers; Frank Morrison, secretary of the Associated Federation of Labor, and Glen E. Plum, general counsel of the Organized Railway Em ployes of America. The proposal, In the words of its authors, "marks the step by which organized labor passes from demands for wage increase to demands that the system of profits In Industry be overhauled.' " Washington, Aug. 5 Demands of 450,000 railway clerks, freight hand lers, express and station employes that their wages be increased unless something is done to materially re duce the cost of living were to be considered today at a conference be tween Director General Hines and J. j. Forrester, grand president of the brotherfiood of these employes. Similar demands from the Brother hood of Railway Trainmen now are before the director general. Mean time the 500,"000 shopmen over the country are formally voting on wheth er a strike shall be called to enforce the demands made last January that their wages be increased 25 per cent. Pending the outcome of this strike; vote, the thousands of shopmen now out on an unauthorized strike were expected by union officials to return to work. tike an invest'gation of the rail take an Investigation of the rail rail road employes wage demands was considered today by the Senate Inter state Commerce Commission. The whole question was finally referred to a, sub-committee consisting of Chair man Cummins and Senator LaFolette and Senator Wollcott, Democrat of Delaware. Chicago, Aug. 5. The strike of Fed erated Railway Shopmen, which start ed last Friday, continued to spread today, and according to officials here of the district council directing the walkout a complete tie-up of the rail roads of the country will result In a few days, unless their demands for higher wages are met at once. While the Chicago district Is the center of the strike, reports from the Northwest. Southwest, Southeast, Ohio, Indiana and as far West as Cob orado show that the shopmen contin ued to walk out. In a number of, instances, however, local unions vot ed to remain at work until the order to strike came from the officials of the grand lodge In the regular way; the day's claims of further strikes as madey Hie district council officials were concurred In by the grand lodge officers. They predicted a complete tie-up of the railroads unless the men yielded to the plea to return to wort; pending action by the grand lodge offi cials, who re now presenting the de mands to Director General of Rail roads Walker B. Hlnes at Washington. Washington, Aug. 6. Having term ed the proposal of President Wilson and Director General Hlnes for a Con. gresa-created committee to investigate wages and working conditions unsat- j isjactpryndaoo.alqw.jifncla way shop crafts, through the mailing CONTROL RAILROADS out of strike ballots prepared to en force the demands for wage increase approximating 25 per cent. The bal lots were to go to 500,000 shop em ployes in the United States, and about 10,000 in Canada, some of whom al ready are on strike, refusing to obey the instructions of the union officials to await the return of the strike vote August 24. San Francisco, Aug. 5. The metal trades department of the American' Federation of (Labor win make de mandVW Congress and the President this month that measures be taken to reduce the high cost of living, James O'Connor, chairman of this department.- said. Membership of the metal crafts exceed 500.000 men, O'Connor said. Wilmington. N. C, Aug. 5 Mem bers of the stevedores and freight handlers' union employed here joined forces today with the striking shop men, further complicating the tie-up of the A. C. L. and S. A. L. The car cleaners went out yesterday. Practi cally all trains are running late, and Uttle freight is moving here. Chicago, Aug. u. John B. Saunders, president of the Chicago District Councif of the Federated Railway Shopmen's Union, said this morning that his organization had refused Ut take the strike vote ordered by the grand lodge officers. "We will pay no attention to orders issued by the grand lodge," said Presi dent Saunders. "No strike vote will be taken, and we will not. return to work until our demand for Increased wages has been granted. Further more, we will refuse to negotiate for a settlement through the grana lodge. If the government wants to talk busi ness with us it will have to come tc us direct, as we will not be bound by any agreement made by grand lodge officials." Officials declared that the effect of the shopmen's strike Is being felt by every railway in the West and South. They say thalt'all of the roads in the d;stricts affected are greatly crippled and are refusing to accept perishable freight. Reports reecived' at union headquarters-were to the effect that many locomotive engineers had refui ed to take out trains because of the bad condition of the rolling stock. A HUGE PLANT. Construction Work of Jackson Bros. Co. Making Good Progress Will Be One of Fayettevile's Best Enter prises, Despite the great difficulty in secur ing building material, progress has been quite rapid in the construction of the Jackson Bros. Co. lumber plant, situated off Russell street, southeast of the market house in the edge of Fayettevllle. Work has been going on for a number of weeks In laying the foundation of the big plant, and con siderable delay has been caused by the shortage of building material and the practical impossibility of getting it. With tne improvement somewhat of conditions, however, the progress has been rapid. A talk with Mr. H. A.' Hopper, gen eral superintendent of the contract ing firm, Ifwin & Leighton of Phila delphia, reveals that the mill frame building will be 241 by 292 feet, a portion oue story and a portion two story. A huge boiler room is being constructed to be 105 Dy 105 feet In size, one ntory. The plant will be one of the largest concerns of its kind in this vicinity. About sixty men are on the pay roll now, and within two weeks, Mr. Hopper says, the number will be Increased to a 115 or 120. With- materihl is expected to arrive. AT WASHINGTON Items of Interest-Sayings and Doings in the Capital of the Nation. (By The Associated Pre&s.) Washington, Aug. 5 In Its hearing on economic sections of the Versailles treaty, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee got into a sharp argument today over the League of Nations, dur ing which Chairman Lodge declared that repeated attempts to secure in formation on the league from Presi dent Wilson had been unavailing. "The Presaident." said Senator Lodge, "has never offered to come be fore this committee. He sent only a telephone message saying he would be glad to have the committee come to the White House. We have called for paper after paper, and he has not sent one." Senator Fall, Republican of New Mexico, remarked that the committee did see the President at the White House on his first return from France, but had failed to secure from him any inportant information. Democratic members of the committee replied, and the argument became so sharp that the chairman had to rap for or der. The clash interrupted the testi mony.f Norman Davis, an economic adviser to the Versa!lles conference, regarding reparation clauses of the treaty, and was accepted by some Senators as a foretaste of what is to be expected when Secretary Lansing appears before the committee tomor row. Washington, Aug. 5. Hundreds of letters from persons suffering from incurable diseases and from aged per sons addicted for many years to the use- of drugs, pitiful in the'.r supplica tions, that rules governing the sale of . narcotics be modified to permit them to purchase drugs', led Commis sioner Roper today to issue instruc tions to collectors of internal revenue whereby such persons may obtain drugs on the prescription of a repu table physician, saying that it is need ed to maintain life. Previous instruc tions had been that persons prescrib ing, selling or obtaining drugs merely to satisfy the cravings of drug addicts should be regarded as violating the law. Danger of Rioting at Coal Mine Near Bellaire, Ohio (By The Associated Press) Wheeling, W. Va., Aug. 5 Twenty deputy sheriffs, armed with riot guns, were rushed to the Fort Pitt Coal Mine south of Belleaire, 0 near here this morning, following receipt of re ports of a clash between striking min ers, believed to be led by radical agi tators and other more conservative workmen.. Early reports were that rioting broke out after the strikers had refused to permit the other min ers to work. According to reports received here the strikers who are demanding a 6-' hour day and large increases in wages attacked non-striking workers, as they were about to enter the mine this morning. The situation, it is said, got beyond control, of the Belleaire authorities and a hurried appeal was made to the sheriff of Belmont Coun ty for aid. Advices just before noon said further trouble was expected. The strikers are said to have been agitated by Bolshevik agents and to have formed a radical organization. When the deputies arrived on the scene the strikers, numbering more than 200 men, retreated beyond gun shot range and appeared to be plan ning to make a stand, and reports re ceived shortly before noon said a pitched battle between the miners and the deputies was expected. Sheriff John Osborn of Belmont County, who was on the scene, Bald he had given his men orders to shoot to kill and not waste any ammunition it attacked. EYES EXAMINED GLASSES GROUND. DR. JULIUS SHAFFER J2l&Ji&jSTREET- Fayettevllle, N. C FIRST STEP TAKEN Attempt to Reduce Cost of Living bv Sale of Immense Surplus of Army Stores. iu (By The Annotated Press.) ) Washington, Julj 31. First steps, in the Federal Government's attempt to reduce the high (post of living were taken today with tne inauguration of a plan for the Be of $125,000,000 worth of army foo0 stocks direct to j .the people, with eVeb- postmaster and iir.il carr"er over the country acting I its n salesman, umnrmtion or tne Kurr-lr.s m this manner was requested by the House of Representatives, and details were worked out at conference between Secretary jt3akor, Postmaster General Burleson and Representative Kelly of Pennsylvania, author of the House resolution. 1 f While this programme was being 1 put into effect, President Wilson had ' before him a statement from the i Brotherhood of Lodbmotive Engineers . which declared tha the "conscience-' less profiteering t the great in-; terests who have secured control of all the necessities at life" had brought ; about such conditions that the engi neers felt they must demand increas-: ed wages unless living expenses speedily were redudod. At the Department of Justice in vestigation into the cause of increas ed living-costs was under way, with particular attention, being given to the Auestion of whether producers or dealers had continued in violation of law to raise prices on necessities. Meantime there was pending in the House a resolutioniproposing that the Federal Trade Commiss;on investigate recent increases of coffee, sugar, shoes and clothing. PRESIDENT AltO USED OVER "PROFITEERING'. (By TheAssociated Press); Washington, July 31. President Wilson is giving . "deep and thoughtful consideration," to the high cost of living, it was an- nounced today at the White House, and all branches of the government that might aid in solv- ing the problem are at work. The President is understood to have been deeply impressed by the statement presented to him yester- day by Warren S. Stone, chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, describing the unrest over the country because of the decreased purchasing power of the dollar. In this connection it became, known today that the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen had present- ed to the Railroad Administration a statement similar to that of the engineers, setting forth that the trainmen must have increased wages unless immediate steps were taken to reduuce living costs. THE COMMISSIONERS The regular meeting of the County Commissioners was held on August 4. Members present were Albert Wade, E. V. Edens, chairman; J. T. Martin, F. L. Holcomb. Mr. Alex Leslie, superintendent of county farm, and Mr. G. D. Davis, su perintendent of county roads, made their reports, which werje accepted on motion. Dr. K. G. Averett and others came before the board asking for a con crete bridge over the Highsmith canal near Cedar Creek. It was ordered that the matter be looked into. It was later ordered that when the Strick land bridge road is cleared out and accepted by the commissioners, the bridge will be built. The reports of W. C. Verdery, county health officer, and W. J. Brockington, farm demonstrntor, were made and accepted, after which the meeting ad journed till 2:30 p. m. In the afternoon session G. D. Da cis and Albert Wade were appointed on committee to act with the land owners, J. A. Tally, F. H. Hobbs and John Morrison, as to a part of the Strickland bridge road . "W, J. and M. D. Gilles of Seventy first were relieved of double tax for 1918. BUlswere-O- K 4-tof-August -and other minor business was attended to. - A BIGEVENT City of Wilmington Greets the Editors Concrete Ship is Launched in Their Honor. Thursday, July 31, was a great day in Wilmington, and one event in the programme marked what the whole State trusts is the beginning of b!; tilings for North Carolina's sea-ltne port. That event was the lauching of ' a concrete ship, the "Cape Fear," built on the yards of the' Cai.olina ship Building Corporation. Secretary of the Navy Daniels deliv ered an address on the occasion of the launching aird the North Carolina I . ' State Press Association, in session at , Wrightsville Beach, attended in a i body. Airplanes from Camp Bragg ; circled in the air and did stunts when the good ship took to the water, and .great enthusiasm was manifested by the throng of spectators. The correspondent of the Raleigh News and Observer says: "Secretary of the Navy, Hon. Jose phus Daniels, paid his respects to his fellow brethren of the press in an ad dress at the Victoria Theatre, witness- el witn them the launching of the Cape Fear, spoke to the 2,000 opera fives nf the Carolina Kliinlmildini Cor- , , , . . .... , . , ! poration, which is building 12 steel I ships of large tonnage here, lunched with the editors and their wives at the mess hall of the Carolina Ship- building Corporation, and left tonight at 7 o'clock, returning to Washington, with one of the busiest days of recent months behind him." The upper Cape Fear section sends greetings to its city by the sea, and sincerely trusts that the good people of Wilmington and of the entire State arc to be greatly benefitted because the Cape Fear metropolis has come into its own, both as a port and a city where many ships shall be built. A MATTER FOR REGRET. Gecretary of Navy Daniels Cannot At tend LaFayette Day Here. The Secretary of the Navy, Washington, Aug. 2, lit 19. My Dear Mr. Nimicks: In tlier absence of Secretary Dan iels, who left yesterday- for the Pa cific coast to be gone for a month or two, I am taking the liberty of quot ing below a letter which the secre tary has just received from the sec- relnrv nf war: "I deeply regret that it will not be possible to accept the invitation of the ; c!t:zens of Fayetteville to participate in the celebration of LaFayette Day in that city on the Cth of September, it now being quite certain that Gen eral Pershing's return will be at just . ; about that time and I musf be pres- ent to receive and welcome the gen- j eral on his return. I "As you did not give me any ad- : dress to which I could send a note j to the committee in Fayetteville ex-1 pressing my appreciation of the hon- j i or of their invitation, I beg that you j will ask your secretary to convey such an expression to the proper person , in North Carolina." : Sincerely yours, EDWARD E. BRITTON, Private Secretary. , Mr. Q. K. Nimocks, Fayetteville, N. C. FROM OVERSEAS. i Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Vann received a message from their son. Capt. J. R. i Vann, Jr., M. C. A. E. F.. Monday aft iernoon informing them ofi.s arrival 1 at Camp Dix, N. J. That he has been ordered to. Camp Lee, Va., for de mobilization. He hopes to reach home Uhis week. Capt. Vann has been in ; France since August, 1918. He has I recently completed a post-graduate ! course in medicine in the University ! of Edinborough, Scotland. . NEGRO DIES OF INJURIES. 0 Fails to Recover From Shots in Sted man Row- -George Owens, the negro who was seriously wounded Friday night by two shots fired at him during a row at a country church this side of Stad man w:tn several other negroes, fail- j ed - to-recover-f rom-his-woundu-and died in a local hospital Sunday night. FIRE INCHICAG0 Declared by Police to Have Been Started by Negros Loss More than $200,000 (By The Associated Press.) Chicago, Aug. 2. -An incendiary fire which the police declare was started by negroes early today swept through district bounded by West 3rd Rtreet West 45th street, South Lin- coin street and South Hermitage ave nue, destroying 100 homes of Polish and Lithuanian employes of the stock yards, and causing- a property loss of more than $200,000. Three persons are missing and a score were injureu in the Are. The buildings destroyed consist chiefly of one and two-story frame d.weljlngs. Three thousand men, women and children have been rendered homeless by the fire, and bad feeling between the whites and negroes greatly aggravated. State troops were sent to the scene of the fire to disperse the cVowds and pre vent a renewal of race riots. A number of witnesses have been found by the police who say they saw several automobiles of negroes with burning torches in the district shortly before the fire was discov ered. The fire broke out in three sec- Itions at the same time. Several resl dents declare they saw negroes flee u uci.m.i. i b ine from the scene after the fire was i discovered. A number of shots were I fired at negroes, who, it is said, were attempting to escape in automoones afteT the firps wert) started. One ne gro was said to have been wounded, but was carried away by his compan ions. AFTER YEARS OF ABSENCE. Mr. William H. Powell, one of Fay etteville's dispersed abroad, who if mow living in .Richmond, va., is in the city. He has not resided here for more than a quarter of century and has not been a visitor in six years Mr. Powell is both surprised and de lighted at the progress Fayetteville lias made. He says he would not han-e known where he was if he had been dropped in a part of the town where ho could not see the old mar ket house. DEATH OF MR. T. B. ROBINSON. Mr. Thomas B. Robinson died in a local hospital Monday a. m., at 1:30 o'clock, after an illness of about six weeks with typhoid fever and com Plicatl0"s- Mr. Robinson came here last Oc tober with James Stewart & Co., since which time he has been employed with them at Camp Bragg. He was born at Dumfries, Scotland, in AiiKiist. 1870. He,- came to America when a boy, and outside of his imme diate family he has no relatives in this country. Mr. Robinson was a man of untir ing energy; he was very efficient in construction work, having been en gaged in this line for the last 16 years with Stewart- & Co., and for the past two years prior to last Oc tober, he was doing contract work for that firm in Toronto, Canada. He was a useful man, a devoted husband and father and a kind neigh bor. He was a member of the Pres byterian denomination. He was twice married and is survived by one son by his first wife Mr. John T. Robin son "of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. His second wife was Miss May Mc- -Clellan of Greensburg, Pa. She sur vives him with two children May. and James. CANNOT ATTEND. French Ambassador Will Not Be in Fayetteville on LaFayette Day: The people of Fayetteville will be disappointed to learn that the French ambassador can not be in this city on September 0, according to the follow ing telegram from Congressman Charles M. Stedman, who personally extended the invitation t oM. Jusser and for Fayetteville: "Washington, Aug. 1. "Mr. F. H. Stedman, "Fayetteville, N. C. "French ambassador expresses great regret that he cannot accept invita tion to be in Fayetteville on LaFay ette Day on account of a previous en: gagement- in-New-York. "CHAS. M. STEDMAN." Slump nrconoN Excited Selling on New York York Market Causes Price to Drop $7.50 a Bale. ... (By The Associated Press.) New York, Aug. 5. There' was a continuance of yesterday's excited selling in the cotton market today and a further sensational break In prices, -with October contracts selling off to 30.85 during the early trading. This made a decline of nearly J7 per bale from the closing prices of yes terday and approximately 5 cents per pound, or $25 a bale from the high level touched toward the end of last month. Rallies of several points fol lowed, but the market remained ex tremely nervous with sentiment dis turbed by the generally unsettled la bor conditions, the large amount of old crop cotton remaining at the be ginning of the new season and favor able weather for the coming crop. CONSERVATORY MUSIC A Fayetteville Institution Which Will Start Undor Most Favorable Auspi ces. As will be seen by reference to an advertisement in todr.y's issue, the Fayetteville Conservatory of Music -v i 1 1 be opened on September .15. The promoters of the school state that they have secured the best musi cal faculty in the South headed by Miss Charlotte Reugger, a graduate ind teacher of the Conservatory of Music at Brussels, Belgium. The building secured for the insti ution is pleasantly situated on Green treet in the heart of the city. The stockholders and promoters of the con ;ervatory are among the leading and progressive people of Fayetteville, who will leave no stone unturned to nake it a success. Fayetteville is asy of access from all directions, (he climate is good and health and sanl fary conditions are-excellent, while lie social atmosphere of the commun ity is all that could be desired. Handsome catalogues of the insti tution are now ready for distribution. BASEBALL. Siturday Victory defeated Cumber land by the score of 8 to 0 at Cumber and. The features of the game were the pitching of O. Person, and the run by Ward, both of, the Victory aam. The batteries were Cumberland rnett and Prillips; Victory O. Pur ;on and M. Person. Score by innings: Cumberland 000 (100 000 (I Victory 400 020 0208 Victory also defeated Cape Fear to he tune of 5 to 0 on the I'.rtth of July. Victory challenges any local amateur team in the Eastern section of North Carolina. Address ILK KOHN, Mgr., .akedale, N. C. BOARD OF EDUCATION CONVENES A special meeting of the Board of Education was held yesterday at the court house, called to decide upon the consolidation of the Pinedale and Eureka Spring districts by the us" nf an automobile kid wagon to be run from the home of John R. Buie, up the National Highway, to the M. Bill place, thence northwest a mile and a half to Eureka Spring school house, and thereby collecting transportation of the entire Pinedale district to Eu reka Spring; this consolidation, if af fected, requiring the purchase of an auto wagon and the erection of an added room to the' Eureka Spring school house, and another teacher, making a faculty of three Instead of two. The matter was deferred two weeks by the board. 0 jPOSTON DEAVER. Miss Florence Deaver and Mr. Wil lis Poston. of Parkersburg, W. Va., formerly with the 46th Infantry at Camp Bragg, were married last night at the home of the bride's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Peatt Deaver on Turners avenue. The ceremony was performed by the bride's uncle, Rev. W. A. Hum phrey. The wedding marches were played by Mrs. Turlis Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Poston left on the 11:20 A. C. L. train last night for their fntnrr homr-jtr Parkers burgrWr- Va.
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