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VOL. XLIII. NO. 166
GASTONIA, N. C, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 13, 1922
SINGLE qOPY 5 CENTS J
JFIVFIL IN TELEGRAM TO HARDING OPENS OP PHASE OF STRIKE TROUBLE
GAS
GENERAL TREND IN RAIL STRIKE
' SEEMS TO BE FOR SETTLEMENT
DESPITE EXECUTIVES' REFUSAL
One of Most Optimistic Notes
Is Sounded By Ben
W. Hooper.
SCATTERED OUTBREAKS
Thirteenth Day of Shopmen's
Strike Holds Promise of
Developments.
CHICAGO, July 13. (By the Asso
. elated Press) Although moves for peace
iu the rail strike apparently were slowed
up today, the general trend still seemed
to be toward negotiations for a settle
ment despite the flat refusal of railroatl
executives to enter a peace parley with
B. M. Jewell, head of the striking shop
crafts.
One of the most optimistic notes was
sounded by Ben W, Hooper,' chairman of
the .Railroad Labor Board, who fostered
the rejected conference. Mr. Hooper an
noueed ho hud formulated new plum for
ending the walkout.
The board chairman made' tho announ
cement without yielding from tho posi
tion ho has maintained since the striko
began, asserting that any proposals from
him would bo in harmony with the trans
portation act.
One remaining hope in the peace par
ley move, Mr. Hooper declared, lay in
the fact that the railroad chiefs who re
jected the proposed conference- were not
authorized to speak for railway execu
tives generally.
The thirteenth, day of tho shopmen's
strike thus held considerable promise of
important developments.
Meanwhile the short lull in which acts
of violence diminished soincwOiat w.is
followed by renewed outbreaks hi wide
ly scattered areas. California, Texua
and Michigan, were among the scenes
of fresh disorders, while Crewe, Va., :
quieted down following the killing of &
yard office clerk.
Former trouble centers calmed percip
tibly during the lust 124 hours. At
Bloomington, Illsl state troops with
' drew from, the Chicago and Alton yards,
and confined themselves to the shops
while Sheriff Morrison with a force of
deputies took over guarding thoyurds. ,
As a result' of tins move, Alton tratn
men,"who refused to haudki' trains with
in the military controlled yurds, yielded
in their attitude and service on tho Al
ton through Bloomington showed signs
of improvement. f
Bloomington still remained one of the
tense spots of the country, however. To
day was pay-day on the Alton and the
road sent word to striking shopmen that
tho chcksk today would bo their final
pay, and that they would bo expected to
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turn m an puisars unit unui wmii-mhj j
property and would no longer be con
. eidcred asempk)yes of the road. Tho
troops remained vigilent as shopmen
gatherer for their checks.
Previous threats of the strike spreiid
iiiE to the train service employes appar
ently was averted by- the conference of i
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'B,g Four" Brotherhood duels here,
and the New York Central apparent y ,
had prevented a strike of clerks, on ""
lines.
Additional
Northwestern Pacific epplied for au in-1
jjunction in San Francisco.
Saginaw, Mich., was the scene of dis
turbances on the Fere Marquette and
Governor Groesbcck was asked for troops
Uryrevent further trouble.
A worker was beaten at Atlanta, Ga,
and the home of a rtdlway employe at
Buffalo, N. Y., was attacked. Two trains
carrying strike breaker were stormed at
Baltimore and wives of strikers were ac
tive on the picket lines in the yards of
the New York Central at Cleveland.
Striking shopmen at Slater, Mo., pro
tested to President Harding against tho
presence of United States marshals and
their deputies who wero in control of the
Chicago and Alton shops.
Ten trains on the Baltimore & Ohio
and the Chicago, Indianapolis anil West
ern were among the steadily increasing
number to be annulled.
St. Paul reported one of the largest
Tilnvpmnnta t sfrilcnr. li'iclf tn tlnir nlil '
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jobs in. the shops, while at Atlanta, Ga., j
operation, in the shops of the Georgia, ,
the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis .
and the Atlanta and Wbit Point were re
ported by company ofiiciuls as sixty pe
cent normal.
Several roads, notably in the east, re
ported impairment of rolling stock with I
strikers from interfering with railroad I generany 10 m interests
operations were granted to roads in Los'0. 'our CI,T Ycs' i 1i Xjnc-
Angeles, Hannibal, Mo, Springfield, and I A1',- ' . . , ' . :
v...?. ji i tii i L i .,.. ti. " I. uecrtainty m regard to questions
locomotive and cars laid up iu need of j has been of the greatest benefit geuer
repairs. ' ally to tho interests of our city."
The clerks' strike on the Norfolk &i '
Western was effectively interfering with ;
operations on that road. The Norfolk's !
Btation at Portsmouth, O., was closed as
result of the clerks' walkout.
IMPORTED WORKMEN , wife that he was tired of living, J.
TOLD TO GET OUT ,ljUke Williamson, magistrate and farmer,
TVFVT4rV Tpt T,,l Vi rR hiff ,thlS countJ'' went into a closet of h!
DEN IfcO.N. Tex.. July 13. (By the be(lroln at the town WaW bete of
Assocated Press) Two .imported work- tLe Williamsons and was found a few
men were seized early today by a band
of men and taken to the Red river five
tniles north of hers where they vrr
PROHIBITION DECLARED
TO BE. CIVIC ASSET
Officials of Chambers of Com
merce In Many Cities Make
Report to Union Signal of
Results of Prohibition.
EVAN8TON, 111., July 13. Prohi
bition was declared to be a civic asset
by officials of Chambers of Commerce
in Sbmo of the leading cities of the
country in statements sent to The Union
Signal, the official publication of the
National Woman's Christian Temper
cnee Union, and made public by that
organ today.
The Union Signal quoted the follow
ing officials:
James S. Cady, secretary of the Min
neapolis Association: "Prohibition has
proved an ecouomie asset in our com
munity. It has promoted thrift and has
been beneficial gencrall yto tho inter
ests of our city, "
Vance C. Criss. secretary of tho
Springfield, Mo., Association: "Prohibi
tion has been helpful to the community
for tho reason that the oncoming gen
eration has not had tho access to liquor
that was had by young men and boys
of four or five years ago. In other
words there would scorn to be less op
portunity by far for the members- of
tho next generation to become addicted
to the liquor habit."
Nelson Marshman, associate-secretary,
Springfield, Mass., Association: "I be
lieve that prohibition has proved to be
an economis asset to this community
and that it has promoted thrift among
our people.. A statement from the va
rious savings banks shows that morq
people have savings accounts and that
tho balances are larger.
' ' The charitable organizations of the
city tell mo .that taking into considera
tion tho recent business depression,
there are fewer receiving aid than dur
ing tho time before prohibition. Tho
former saloons in most cases aro being
used for other lines of business.
"I" rohihition has been, I believe,
very 'beneficial-to -tho general interests
of our city."
William A. Searlc, secretary -manager,
Camden, ii. J., Chamber of Commerce,
took a pool of representative citizens.
(Two bankers, a clergyman, an insur
ance man, Salvation Army leader, a. A.
M. C. A. secretary, chief of police, a
large manufacturer, the director of tho
Bureau of Charities and his own.) The
question and answers follows:
Has prohibition proven an economic
asset to your community f Yes, 7; No,
2; Uncertain, 2.
lias it promoted thrift among your
people, as indicated by an increase in
savings banks deposits and depositorsf
Yes, 6; No, 1; Uncertain, A.
Are fewer peoplo receiving aid from
charity organizations as a result of
prohibition! Are there fewer delin
quents and dependents in your institu
tions! les, 6; No, 2; LAertam, 3.
-"ro 11,0 ouiMiings lormeny occupied
, ,. con(,ern8 now U8ed for otLer
,iK,8 of bmiam1 ycs 10 N 0
Uncertain, 1.
Are tho buildings formerly occupied
In your judgment
prohibition
and 3 was due to the fact that un
employment and other factors enter into
the question in a way too confusing to
jiermit xf a satisfactory answer," Mr.
Searle said.
O. O. McLeish, acting secretary,
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very enthusiastically and energetically
favoring both local and national prohi
bition . ...
ttocmoru was Eiven camn uram ;
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mcitunu ii nau a recoru ior many years
previous of beine a temoerate town
Of course, immediately following local
prohibition we had several buildings
vacated, but only temiioraily, as they
were filled very soon afterwards by tho
normal expension of business."
E. W, Porter, secretary Concord, N.
H., Association: "Prohibition has prov
en an economic asset to our community.
It has pnnoted thrift among our people,
and the savings banks deDositors are
i .
vt'nniitruiy increasing
"Fewer people are' receiving aid from
ohanty organizations ' and there are
fewer delinquents and de,.n,1nt in r
institutions.
"Buildings formerly occupied by li
quor concerns are all used for other
lines of business.
It is my judgment that prohibition
rAPnTT1tf . .
bUUTH CAROLINA FARMER
WAS TIRED OF LIVING
AIKEN, S. C, July 13. Aftor tnllina
moments later with-a gaping wound in
his side made by a discharge from a
double barrelled shotgun. He may re.
cover.
has
CONGRESSMAN UPSHAW
0 SPEAK HERE MONDAY
Comes to Gastonia Under the
- Auspices of Convention Bible
Class Is Noted Lecturer,
Editor and Humorist. -
Congressman Will Dt Upshaw, rep
resentative from the 5th Congressional
District of Georgia, will deliver ono of
his powerful addresses next Monday
evening July 17th at the Central High
School auditorium. ' Mr. Upshaw, who is
considered by mnuy the most noted and
interesting speaker on the platform,
comes to Gastonia under the auspices of
tho Convention Bible Class of the First
Baptist Church. Mr. Upshaw is a noted
Chautauqua lecturer, humorist and edi
tor. He is considered everywhere as tho
most beloved man in Georgia, and the
most electrifying speaker in the South.
Dr. Woodard, of the Southern Metho
dist University in Texas, seys: "Will
D Upshaw is the most remarkable illus.
tratiou of brilliant pluck and purpose I
ever saw. Rising from seven years of
bed ridden pain he fought his way
through college. Ho hus since clequcntly
championed every just cause, he has de
voted his life to the education of worth
while boys and girls, fought the liquor
traffic with winning heroism and lived
more in his brief eventful life than some
men would live in a thousand years."
Tho Jackson Mississippi Daily News
comments thus: "The State Capitol was
packed last night, floor and galleries,
with one of the most brilliant audiences
of law makers and patriotic citizens ever
assembled, iu Mississippi to hear the
death-knoll of the liquor traffic. There
were strong speeches made by a Gover
nor, a Co''Bo President and powerful
lawyer wiio is a candidate for the United
States Senate, but tho speech of the
occasion, everybody agrees, was delivered
hy Mil D. Upshaw, tho Georgia 'Ora
tor on Crutches,' who was introduced 2t
the Alexander Stephens of the prohibi
tion movement. It was a wonderful com
bination of wit,, logic and: heart-moving
eloquence. , The effect on tho grent'audi
nce was magical." ' j
Congressman Upshaw will be 'intro
duced Monday evening by Honorable A.
L. Bulwinkkle. Every man and woman
and boy and girl should avail themselves
of this ojiportunity to hear Mr.- Upshaw
Monday evening on " The 'Americanism
that will savo America."
FANTASY IN PANTOMIME
TO BE PRESENTED JULY 27
One of Features of Dramatic
Festival to Be Given ' By
Community Service at Play
ground Theater.
One of the most unique features of the
children's dramatic festival which is to
be held under the auspices of Gastonia
Community Service at the Playground
theatre on the evening of July 27th is
the presentation for the first time in Gas
tnni'i nf Tl.n Klimilior.l in Tim Din. I
tancc" a fantasy in pantomime by Mr.
Holland Hudson which will bo personally
nnn-wn.i .., (, i:..rn ii,in !,
department of educational dramatic of
Community Service, Inc.
The cast of characters in this delight
ful playlet iucludo the beautiful Princess,
who was as fair and slender as the lily,
her guardian, the fat and stupid Wazir
mitt hia nnii'i tlv Mf imiil flifHR-nla vine nm.
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nub in. slave who guarded the Wasiers I
garden the faithful attendant and duen- ,
..a io ine princess ..u , ui tu mve v i pj ht chilllren The big n, believed j City Wedricsdav at Lor.iv Park, scor
slave girls who, olicyed her every wish, to ltf a ,.du,iM picked up during the 7-0, has Ix-en signed. Moulton, who has
and that wretched and worthless beggai '.artinie fg t ,)racti(.e of tha mUl Im.(. layin gh!,rt.st,n) in the in state
who had even lost his name and was ealHi.i ti. Pinn pi-.in rn .,' ii...,.,,, ... l i ., .;,..i iiu,,..ii
eu uM,--,Urr. r,..uc tJ"";'1
solutely as niiwrable as that. Best of
all is a character called "The Maker of
Sounds" without whom no one does any
thing at all, which is to say but then
if we. tell you what we mean, you would
not enjoy the play nearly yas much as
if you saw it for yourself and laughed
long and loud with us.
There are many other features of in
terest in this fascinating production
such as the fact that not a sound is made
from beginning to end that is on ths
stage, that there is no color of any kind
to be seen only black and white.
If you want to he in this performance
and think you can really act go up and
tell Mr. J. P. Mahaffey, the Director or
Community Serviee, whose offices are in
the Chamber of Commerce rooms, and he
will see what he can do to get you in it
THE WEATHER
Local thundershowers tonight or Fri
day, except fair in southeast tonight;
slightly cooler Fri!ay in t and j
central,
EIGHT CHILDREN ARE
BLOWN TO BITS WHEN
. 75 MM. SHELL EXPLODES
"Dud" Picked Up From Range
Goes Off Either From
Heat or Blow.
HOUSE IS DEMOLISHED
Had Been Used By 104th
Field Artillery In Tar
get Practice.
WATERTOWN, N. Yi; July 13.
Kight children, ranging in age from 11
to 18 years, were blown to atoms late
today by the explosion of a 75 niiliiiieter
shell on the back porch of a house is
Dimmiek 'street, occupied by Edward iJ.
Workman and William L. Salisbury.
The dead: Morris Salisbury, 16: Fran
cis Wiley, 13; Vivian Jones, 12; Olin
Brown, 11; Anson Workman, 13; Edna.
Workman, 14; Sarah Barden, 13; and
Donald Hortoii, 12, of Pulaski, N. V.,
who was visiting the. Brown boy.
The shell, which was owned by Mr.
Workman, was ono which he had kept
as a souvenir a'"l uscil on the rear
porch to hold the door from closing. It
was "believed to be "dead."
The children were playing croqiirt In
tho back yard. The shell is believed to
have either been st off by the hot sun or
to hae been struck by one of the victim
with a croquet mallet. Windows witlnn
a radius of two blocks were' shattered by
the explosion.
Practically all of the clothing was
blown off tho bodies of the children.
Fragments of it lodged iu trees and on
house tops in the vicinity.
Physician Finds His Own
Ono of the first physicians on the
scene was Dr. J. W. Jones.
Lifting a cover which had been placed
over ono of the forms, he recognized the
body of his 12-year-old daughter, Vivian,
by means of an adhesive dressing lie
had placed on a cut on her leg babrely
a half hour before.
He did not know his daughter was in
the group and was almost overcome with
grief.
The bodies of the children were found
apparently at places near where they hat
been standing in their croquet game.
Near them lay tho fragments of the cro
quet .mallets. Several balls used in the
game .were blown to bits and the wickets
were torn from the ground.
The shell apparently let go without
warning. Two carpenters at work on
a house next daar to the Workman homo
said that a second before the detoun
Hon they heard the voices of the children
laughing at play. The two men were
the first to reach the scene.
They were greeted by a scene of ntter
desolation. The Workknian house is or
concrete and the concussion had reduced
the entire rear of the house to powder.
On the ground lay the eight bodies and
ovir all a grey pall of concrete dust was
beginning to settle.
Clothing on House Tops
Fragments of clothing were suspended
from trees and house tops.
Two automobile tires which had. been
on the bock porch were blown to the
roof of a building two hundred feet
away.. Blocks of concrete were blow.i
against neighboring houses ond into tho
streets and surrounding yards.
The shell was what is commonly known
as a "dud.". The projectile had been
fired from one of the six-inch howitzers
during target practice of the 104th field
artillerv at Pine Plains reservation last
Slimmer
It had not exploited by fuso
i or contact and lay in the sand fully
i charged when Mr. Workman found it
land brought it home as a souvenir.
He kept it in his home during the win
ter and this summer used it as a weight
to adjust the 'Screen door oh his rear
porch.
COMBING THE CITY
FOR UNEXPL0DED "DUDS"
wiTi.'Tfr-rrm'V- '"A v l.il,. i:t !
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Police are searching the city for artil
' oiice are searcning tne city tor arm
lery shells retained as souvenirs of tho
wo,,j war aftcr tho I)loiiion of a thrt.
in(h ghH1 rcsuhin iu tho deatu ot
near here, was Used as a screen door
. ,k n lh r)0rch of thp Edward
G. Workman house. In the intense heat,
the T. N. T. charge expanded, according
to Maddison Barracks oflieials, mak
ing the shell liable to explosion at re
duced concussion. It is beleived thai
one of the children, playing croquet,
struck the shell with a mallet or ball.
COTTON MARKET
CLOSING BIDS ON THE
NEW YORK MARKET !
NEW YORK, July 13. Cotton fu-
tures closed steady; spots steady, i5 i
(points up. - !
Julv 22.61: October 22.72: LKvem-
her 22.57; January 22.55; March )
j 22.18; May 21.93; Spots 22.83.
TODAT'S COTTON MARKET
Receipts
10 "Bales
Price 22 Cents
uets ins ivien
' Yd fa.:.'-
Posing as a holdup man, Special!
Agent O. T. McCarthy of the
American Hallway Express tracked
alleged postal robbers throughout
the country and Anally seised In.
New York three said to be Involved;
in a nation-wide looting of malls.
WIS CLUB HAD
INTERESTING MEETING
"Buck" Merrimon, District
Governor, Compliments Lo
cal Club Delegates to In
ternational Meeting Back.
At the regular meeting of the Gas
tonia Kiwanis Club held ut the Country
Club Tuesday evening there was a large
attendenco of members und guests uud
Upmost interesting program was carried
out. Mr. Sam Boyee, cashier of tho
First National Bunk, was in charge of
the program.
The principal feature of the evening
was an informal talk by "Buck," Merri
mon, of Greensboro, District Governor of
Kiwanis for the Carolina district. Mr.
Merrimon spoke principally of the plen
did meeting of Kiwanis International
recuutly held iu Toronto. llo expressed
great pleasure at having another oppor
Utility to visit the Gastonia club, which
he characterised as ono of the strongest
and most progressive clubs in the two
Carolinas.
Another feature of the evening was a
rtmnrf Of-' Wilftv H:iiikill nil liiit visit to
i UartHvillo, S. C., to gather information
in regard to methods of lighting tho boll
weevil menace. As chairman of the Ki
wanis Commit tee which acted jointly
with Kotnry, Civitau and Chamber' of
Commerce committees in this matter,
Mr. Bankiu reported that the combined
committees had made good progress', hat
ing purchased a large qqtiautity of cal
cium arsenate and cheap molasses to be
used in poisining the pest. A quartet
composed of Mr. and Mrs. D. II. Willi
ams, Perk Thompson and Ken Glass gavs
an enjoyable ocal selection. Messrs
WSiliams, Glass and Thompson also gave
interesting incidents in connection with
their visit to Toronto, where they wero
representatives of the local club at the
international cor vent ion.
BASEBALL TEAM BEING
, ORGANIZED IN GASTONIA
Many Prominent Amateur and
Semi-Prof essional Players
Are Being Signed Look
Out, Shelby and Kings Mtn.
A fast baseball team is being organis
ed to represent Gastonia for the next
t ,..u :.... , , .,.,
, , t nnm.oters. Williams, the
, , . ,. p. ... . ' I
M hand wonder from the B.-State Lea-,
Kus in -Danville, who shut out Bessemci j
from Forest CHty, who has made finite
a reputation in umeteur ball, is here to
do the receiving. Curry, tho out-fielder
from Bock Hill, who is Kiid to be a
fiend with the stick, has been signed.
Smith, who h:is been playing second base
; for the Lorny team, one of the most de
i pendable men at the bat in ameteur ball,
lis anxious for a try-out. Liiulscvv who
has been with the fast Kings Mountain
team and who is responsible for getting
that aggregation to get her, has signed
l for the infield. Negotiations have been
made for another pitcher who has been
with a team iu the South Atlantic Lea
gue. With "Ked" Johnson and the de
pendable Tom Robinson to complete th
out field look out Kings Mountaiu. and
Shelby.
us is not a nun. Team out a team to
represent Castonia. The material is all
on hand' and the ixray rark will i;
used. It will depend entirely on the in
terest tyken by the Gastonia baseball
fans us to whether this team will funs
tion. .
The public is iuvitej out to Loray
Park every afternoon at 5 P.M. t see
the boys in 8.'i"Q,
Says Men Walked Out Because
Wages Were Fixed By Labor
Board In Violation Of Pact
MASONIC LODGE BUYS
PROPERTY FOR TEMPLE
Masons Pay $12,000 For Lot
On South Street From Shu
ford Estate Adjoining W. W.
Glenn's Property.
The local Masonic Lodge No. 3(59, A.
F. & A. M., has recently purchased from
the M. II. Shuford estate a most de
sirable building lot on South street be
tween Franklin avnue and Second aven
ue. This lot adjoins tho resdience prop
erty of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Glen
and has a frontage of 60 feet on South
street, running buck to a depth of 223
feet. The consideration was $12,0(10, oi
$200 per front foot. It is understood
that the lodge acquired this property as
a location for a Masonio temple which it
is proposed to build at some future time.
It has been decided to dispose of the lot
on South Marietta street, adjoining the
Piedmont Telephone Conmpuny's build
ing, which was purchased several years
ago for a similar purpose. Tho new
lot on South street has a frontage of six
ty feet, whreas the Marietta' Street lot
was only forty feet in width.
URGED TO ATTEND THE
JERSEY MEETING FRIDAY
Messrs. Arey, Dunk and Ruff
ner to Speak In Interest of
Better Jersey Cattle at the
Chamber of Commerce.
Everyone interested in milk produc
lion is urged by the Farm Itelationa
Committee of the Jastoqia (Hiamber of
Commerce to attend the meeting Friday
night at 8 o'clock in the Chamber-of
Commerce auditorium and hear the illus
trated address on the Jersey cow by
Leonard Dunk, extension man for the
American Jersey Cattle Club. Professor
Buffer of the North Curolimi A. & M,
College ond J. A. Arey of the Dairy
Extension Department, will be present
and speak nlso.
Forty slides will illustrate tho lecture
each showing a cow giving more than
her body weight of butter fat in the year
and Hot less than 20,000 pounds of milk.
Two reels of movies wilt also be shown,
Mr. Katridgo'of the Gaslonian having
courteously arranged to install a mach
ine especially for the purpose.
GEORGIA FARMERS STAND
TO LOSE $3,500,000
Has to Do With Nitrate of
Soda Contracts In War
Times Many Suits Filed
By Farmers.
ATLANTA. Ga., July PS. Georgia
farmers will losw approximately l.'i.oiiO,
OOi) on fertilizer contracts if a ruling
tiv the priori nf nniututu i. iit.lu.lil l.v Hi
State Supreme Court.
In deciding the case of A. A. Smith.'!
an Atlanta fertilizer dealer, against B. i
L. Battle, Taliferro county farmer, ths
court of appeals held that fertilizer con
tracted for during government control
of nitrate of soda importations, yet was
not delivered until Federal control were
relenquished, must be paid for at the
full contract price.
Counsel for Battle announced todjy
that the case would he taken to the Su-
mo imlmljiat(1
Th (.()(roversv originated in 1920
Tho controversy originated in 1920
when Southern . fanners - placed orders
with fertilizer concerns for nitrate of
soda to be delivered in January, Febru
ary and March of 1921 at a minimum
price of !fS4 n ton. When time for de
livery came the government had relin
qnislied control of importations and the
market price had dropped to f-0 a ton.
Farmers refused to pay the difference
and many suits were filed to force pay
ment. The contracts were attacked as
being illegal hei-aiisc, is was alleged,
they were biuding as to purdiasers and
not as to sellers, because of a "no deli
very, no sale": clause which, it iwas
said, was inserted as a precaution against
lucxpected navigation difficulties."
FOURTEEN KILLED
CAIRO, July 13. (By the Associated
Press) Fourteen persons were killed and
twenty others seriously' injured through
the fall of the roof of the Abu Elela
mosque during tiie celebration of the
feast of the patron saint today.
ireat damage was done the antiqui
ties in the sacred structure.
AIKEN, S. C. July 13. Mrs. Alger
non E. Beard, postmistress at Warren
ville, was arrested yesterday afteruooa
on a charge of embezzling 1.161 of
funds frnpi theWarre!?vii9 woft3c5.
Replies to Proclamation of.
President Harding On the
Strike Situation.
SIGNED BY CRAFT HEADS
Reiterate Desire to Co-operate
In All Efforts to Bring
Peace to Roads.
CHICAGO, July 13. B. M. Jewell,
head of the railway employes' depart
meat oi tne American Federation of
Labor, today sent a telegram to Presi
dent Harding replying to th presi
dent's proclamation on the strike situa
tion and opening a new phase of the
grievances of striking railway shopmen.
The telegram which also was. signed
by tho six- international presidents of
tho railway shop crafts declared that
the strikers had walked out because
wages fixed by tho Labor Board were
in violation of the provisions of the
transportation act and because of tha
violation of the Labor Board's decision
by tho railroads.
The strikers insisted that no inter
ruption of commerce or interference
with the mails had been caused by an
unlawful act by the shopmen. The tel
egram laid such interference directly to
the attempt of tho railroads to operate
with incompetent workmen, i President
Jewell and his associates reiterated
their desire to co-operate in any effort
to bring peace but declared that up to
tho present tho rail executives had re
fused to meet tho representatives of
the employes.
Tho text follows: ;
"It appears from your proclamation
of Jul' 11 that incomplete information
has been furnished you concerning. 'the
present dispute between the railroad
operators, and employes. Ninqty-two
railroads havo - violated transportation
acts or decisions of the Railroad Labor
Board in 104 cHses. These involved hot
only contracting out work in .shops but
nlso wage decreases, interpretations fiof
rules and right of employes , tot elect
their own representatives . , When f 'the
Pennsylvania Ilailroad refused to com
ply with the 'hoard's rulings, Federal
Judge Pago held that the board's posi
tion ou wages and rules was only ad
visory. Tho railroads have refused
ever since passage of the transportation
net to establish national boards of ad
justment described by the labor board
as the central part of tho machinery
to decide disputes between tho carriers
and their employes.
"The railroads have made all nego-.
tiations merely formal, thus throwing
on the board an impossible burden of
arbitration. The board has abolished
overtime pay for Sundays and holidays,
enjoyed for thirty years even on unor
ganized roads. The board has estab
lished a rato of ray of $S0O a year
though the department of labor fixed
the bare cost of living at over $1,400
and a minimum comfort budget at over
$2,.t0(l.
When the basic wago is unjust it fol
lows that all wages graded upwards for
skill and responsibility are .likewise
unjust. Organized employes support
your declaration of May 23, 1921, that
the lowest wage must be enough for
comfort and to insure tliat the struggle
for existence shall not crowd out things
purel yworh living for and should pro
vide for amusement, recreation and
Employes have never violated
anv decision of the board: but the rail-
roads havo violated decisions and ern-
'lovcs have refused to work under
wages fixed bv the Labor Board which
violated provisions of tho transporta
tion act.
'The Board has attempted to un
load financial burdens of railroad
management upon employes through
inadequate wages and this 'xW under
mine the health and prosperity of the
next generation. After exhausting
all other .methods the employes sought
again to obtain a conference and
agreement 'with the railroad execu
tives. Only as a last resort did they
strike. Wo. respectfully insist that no
interruption of commerce or interfer
ence of mails was caused by direct or
unlawful acts of the organized em
ployes. Such interruptions and inter
ference results inevitably from at
tempts of railroads to operate with
insufficient, incompetent and unskill
ed workmen.
"Such interruptions and interfer
ence will continue and increase until
agreement is obtained upon just and
reasonable wages between tho rcpresen-
tatives. who up to date have refused
even to meet with employes" repre
sentatives. We stand ready to co
operate wholeheartedly with any effort
to bring about such an agreement. '
SON OF POLICE CHIEF
KILLED BOOTLEGGING
WALTERBORO. S. C, July 13.
John Bntton, son of Chief of Police
Britton, of this p'acf, wa shot IM al
most instantly kil'ed near her eater
day afternoon by Sheriff A'kfriiun.
who claims that Britton wru o. ratug
a still in the EdUto Rinr . p i t
fired . upon him and his w;
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