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.VOU.XLIII. NO. 173
GASTONIA, N. G, FRIDAY- AFTERNOON, JULY 21, 1922
SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS
MR. L B. ALTMAN HAS BEEN
HMD NEW COUNTY AGENT
C. LEE
New Mna Is From South Caro
lina and Comes Highly
Recommended.
NO ' OTHER INFORMATION
Mr.
Altman Will Take Up
Work In the County
August It
Mr. L. B. Altman, a native of South
Carolina, is tho newly appointed county
agent for Canton county, succeeding C.
LLee Oowan, whose term cxxpiri's Au
gust 1. Other than tho nuuio of the man
who is coming to the county to take up
this work, the Gazette is able to give no
further particulars' at present. No in
formation from tho County Commission
ers is available. Mr. Altman attended
a district meeting of county agents hell
recently in Stateaville.
Other agenta present were: District
Agent Milsans, Dr. Kilgore, Dr. Winters,
'Mr. Parker and other visitors are: U. A.
Miller, Alexander county; Jl. D. Good
man, Cabarrus, D. W Itoberts, Caldwell;
J. W. Hendricks, Catawba; It. T. Law
rence, Cleveland ; K. V. l'ou, Forsyth ;
E B Garrett, Guilford; It W. Graeber,
Iredell; J. G. Morrison, Lincoln; W. L.
6marr, McDowell; Kopo Elias, Mecklen
burg; W. G. Y eager, ltownn; F. 8. Wal
ker, Rockingham; L. D. Thrash, Ruther
ford,, O II. Phillips, Stanley; A. G. He
dren; Wilkes; I). II. Osborne, Yadkin;
L. B. Altman; Gaston.
&0WAN MAY HEAD SEED
! BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION
According To Gaston Times
Countv Aeent May Be
Asked To Head Organiza
tion In County.
C- Leo Gowan,- present county agent,
..whoso term of of (ice-expires August 1,
may head a county seed breeders' asso
ciation, if plans ns described in-Fii-"
day'a issue of the Gaston Times, are
worked out:
"At a meeting of business men held
recently, during the course of conversa
tion, the idea of n seed breeders' asso
ciation was broached, and the men be
came somewhat enthusiast ie over the
discussion, so much so, in fact, that
Sixty of Gie men present said they
would givo $25 eac h toward . defraying
the expenses of a live association sitch
as this .would be, should the plans ma
terialize. Since this amount, 1,5(10,
was tentatively pledged without sub
scription or 'a - campaign of any kind,
these men believe they could easily
raiso the 'amount' required .'per year,
Which ' has been estimated at $,,Hi(.
This would include- tho salary of a
scientific expert, his traveling excuses,
and office expenses. If their plans,
work out it is their 'intention to employ
the present county agent, Mr. C. Lee
Gowan, as scientific expert; to have the
supervision of tno work" to be done
by the association. Mr. Gowan 's time
as county agent is out the ulst of
July, 102:2.
"Nothing definite has taken shape
in tho matter as jet, but if the com
pany of men should perfect their plan;;,
it would be a forward stride for Gas
ton county. " . " :
CREAMERY PROPOSITION
CONSIDERED BY CHAMBER
Farm Relations Committee To
Take Up Project Of Cream
ery For County To See If
There Is Any Interest In It.
Plans for establishing a creamery in
Gastonia for the promotion of the dairy
industry in Gaston county were referred
to the Farm Relations Committee "by tho
board of directors of the Chamber of
Commerce at a meeting Thursday after
non. " The chamber of commerce has
!bcen asked by severay dairymen to at
leastlaunch the movement so as to really
ascertain how much interest there is in
it. It is probable that a meeting will
be called around the first of the month
to consider the matter.
New members elected yesterday arc
R. O. Craig of the Craig Electrical Com
pany, nominated by Mr. G. C. Andrews;
Rolwrt Cohen, dealer in shoes, by Mr.
Andrews, A. II. Puller of S. G. Aber
& Company, cotton, by Mr. F. C. Aber
lifathy wffSK
Much routine business was dliTmsed
of at the meeting Present were Presi
dent S. A. Robinson, Vice President
Wado S. Biiice. Directors G. C. Andrews,
P, W. Garland. E.-B. Prittain, II. M.
Van Sleen, D. II. Williams and the exc
cutiec secretary.
S. S. LEAGUE SCHEDULE
Week of July 31
First Pres. vs. W. Ave. Pres.
A'. S. P. vs. Methodists
Lutheians vs. Baptists
THE WEATHER
, Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday
ttle change in temperature.
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Two Companies
On Guard Duty
RALFJGII, July 20. Two companies
of troops, taking up guard duty at
Rocky Jjount ' this afternoon, have or
ders to uforce the law and protect all
petlka 'wanting to work ,
The situation there was reported
greatly relieved tonight.- The troops
have forced .the suspension of intimi
dation tactics and threat and a .hun
dred or so" -men were preparing to re
turn to work In the Atlantic Coast Line
shops. ' .
The packing of ieachos for shipment
from1 tho sandhills was resumed today.
Tho squad of soldiers ordered from
Rockingham last night were doing polico
duty around .Aberdeen.
Governor Morrison and Adjutant
General ,M"etts, receiving frequent re
ports as to conditions in the strike
zones, considered the situation satisfac
tory tonight.
Hamlet was quiet and 150 non union
workers in tho Seaboard shops at Ra
leigh were going . about their duties
without fear of being molested.
Situation at Raleigh.
Guards at the local fhops reported
an exchange of shots after midnight
last night but this was the only form
of disorder reported to tho police.
Viftw-anvpn men. broueht here two
days ago, were sent away by the Sea
board this morning. Their places were
taken "by a new arrival of workers.
The men removed were reported as
"rough fellows" and unsatisfactory for
the work required. ' '
The situation at Rocky Mount had
reached tho stago when the second call
camo for troops that had not protec
tion been afforded men willing ami
wanting to work, the Coast Line would
have been forced to susiend 0.cration
nt its trains. v according to President
I J. R. Kenly'a report. Governor Mor
rison naid fi two companies or guanis-
men are not sufficient to protect the
men, others can be called into Ecrvice.
"Anyone who wants to work in
North Carolina can work and the state
will see that no one bothers them', be
cause they work,' ' the governor asserted.
The guards sent to Rocky Mount con
stitute tho Burlington and Goldsboro
companies. Tho former have been at
Wilson, while tho Goldsboro troops were
in from the encampment at
AT mi lw.,1,1 Citv. The 8'iuad detailed
for duty at Aberdeen is from the Con
cord company, now stationed at Rock
ingham. Conditions At Rocky Mount.
President Kculy 's report on condi
tions at Rocky Mount was verified in
u written statement to tho governor by
Rocky Mount city officials. The situa
tion there as set forth by President
Kenly was as follows, prior to tho ar
rival of the troops:
"Situation of this company s ter
minal at Rocky Mount, North Carolina,
has become so acute, due to the inter
ference by the fomrer employes who are
now on strike, unless we are given pro
tection by properly constituted authori
ties, continuance of our operation will
son become impossible.
"The polico force of the city of
Rocky Mount is confessedly unable to
give us this protection . sineo the be
ginning of the strike on July 1. This
company hail been able to continue its
operation through efforts of its em
ployes who have volunteered to leave
other posts and to perform necessary
work in Rocky Mount terminals. At
the outset this work was conducted by
(Continued on page 4.)
RAN DOWN MAN
AUGUSTA, Ga., July 21. Released
from custody after his automobile is said
to have run down J. C. Merritt, 09 years
old white man, on tho streets of Augusta
last Monday night, A. W. Mitchum was
re arrainged last night, when the police
learned that Merritt is not expected to
live. No charges have yet been preferr
ed against Mitchum.
FIRST CASE OF A
NEGRO SUICIDE HEARD
AUGUSTA, Ga., July 21. What is
said to be the first, case of a negro sui
cide in Augusta oceured here last night
when Albert Paiie.V, after critically
wounding his wife, turned a pistol upon
liimself and fired a bullet into'his heart.
The shooting oceured at Bailey's home
and no cause hiis been ascribed according
fo Coroner R. L. Elliott.
Morrison Says Interference
Responsible For Disorders
RALEIGH, July 20. Governor Mor
rison, writing President Harding on
labor disputes and the government's re
lation to them, supplements yesterday's
telegjaphic declarations with the asser
tion that government interfclcn.e wirh
labor controversies is what has made
this country today almost a i armed
camp, full of riot, bloodshed and law
lessness. The letter, which is enclosed with a
copy of the governor's siuech at Con
cord last summer on the relation of
government to labor disputes and strike
troubles, reads as follow!,:
"My dear Mr. President:
"After reflection I have decided to
invite your attention to a proclamation
and an address which I delivered mi
; fhe occasion of having sent troops to
Concord in my state to keep the peace.
! I have marked the more i-ertineut parts
of the speech. I cannot ask you to
read all of this speech, as butv r.s von
are, but I do hope you will do me the
honor to glance at it. -sufficiently to tee
that my wire of yesterday -was based
on the principles therein declared.
"I would not have you think that
my wire cf yesterday was captious or
partisan in any sense, for I have the
'ery highest reypect for the inotices
Of Troops Are
In Strike Zones
Candidate For U. S.
Senate Wanted No Coat
of Tar and Feathers
STi, LOUJSV July 21. Robert 1.
Young, of St. Joseph, candidate for
the nomination for United States
Senator, said he had, received notice
from ten Ku.Klux Klan to remove a
campaign advertisement which he had
contracted for insertion in the Jewish
Reconjc a laical Hebrew, language
newspaper, because 'the Jew is after
the "almighty dollar and to hell with
the country."
Fred Wiessman, attorney for the
newspaper, made public the letter
which Young wrote to H. D. White,
advertising representative of the pa
per, in explanation of his refusal to
fulfill the contract.
An excerpt from the letter read :
"I have always been very friendly
to the Jewish people fnd'im yet X
am no moral coward, but I do not
care to get a coat of tar and fea
thers." Counsel for the paper annaunced
suit would be filed against Young to
collect money due it under the con
tract. '
BODY OF BAGGAGE
AGENT FOUND BEAD
Granddaughter Of Former
Congressman Brewer Is
Held In Connection With
Case Says She Shot Him.
MONTGOMERY, Ala., July 21. Cor-'
oner John Duffy continued his investiga
tion today into the killing of Porter
MeKeithan, baggage agent at the union
station here, whose body was found yes
terday in a clump of woods about seven
miles west of Montgomery, with a bullet
hole through the head and a pistol with
one empty chamber lying nearby.
' Mildred Willis Brewer, 15 years old
granddaughter of the late Representative
Wissis Brewer, who represented the
Montgomery district in Congress and
who was a historian of national reputa
tion, is held in connection with the case.
She arrived at police station in an auto
mobile yesterday afternoon and told the
coroner she had shot McKeithen. The
police said thoegijl had an empty revol
ver when she surrendered, but that it had
not been fired.
Coroner Duffy is working on tho
theory that letters Miss Brewer turned
over to Miss McMillan, probation oflicci
had some bearing on tho killing. The
letters, said to have been written by Me
Keithan to the girl, who is his wife's
cousin, were described as "too horrible
for a young girl to read." "
Henry Payne, negro chaffeur, for Mc
Keithen, told the police he drove the
baggage agent to the lonely spot where
his body wSJ found about ten o 'clock yes
terduy' morning.. He parked the car to
wait for McKeithen after he . an id the.
girl met him and they strolled off toward
the clump of woods. Tho negro said he
went to sleep and soon after awakening
about ono o'clock ho heard a pistol shot
in the dirfction taken by McKeithen and
the girl, and that a short time later she
came to the .car and ordered : " Drive
me to town, McKeithen is dead."
KU KLUX TAKE GEORGIA
MAN AND BEAT HIM UP
(By The Associated Press.)
ATHENS, Ga., July 21. James W.
Luck, prominent sawmill owner of Win
terville, Ga., near- Athens, was taken
from his home early Thursday moring
by masked men said to be wearing the
regalia of the Ku Klux Klan, driven in
an automobile to Dunlap about two miles
away, where he was stripped and beaten,
and then made to walk the entire dis
tance home on foot, according to reports
reaching here this morning.
He was met on his way back from the
scene by the marshal from Winterville,
who had been summoned.
actuating you and r?a!i.? that you are
but carrying out the 'policy which the
country has adopted. I think the pol
icy long pursued, not by your adminis
tration alone, but by previous adminis
trations as well, has been a failure.
"I earnestlj; believe the very founda
tions of liberty are in danger by ad
herence to a policy which makes the
government, federal or state, undertake
to adjust these dispute.1. I believe the
sound policy is to stand for absolute
liberty of contract and to protect it
by a sufficient exercise of the police
power of the government, but please
be assured that I only differed with
you to the extent, my wire does and
through deep conviction upon the sjo
ject. .
"I verily believe that the fact that
our country from one end to the other
is almost an armed camp today, full of
riot, bloodshed and lawlessness, is due
to the efforts of the government to
adjust the industrial controversies out
of which the trouble grows, instead of
bringing disorderly people to order with
such force as is necessary,
"With highest esteem and great re
spect, I am,
"Very truly your:?,
"CAMEBON MORRISON,
'?'Gorerur of .North Carolina.'.
DAVID OVENS MAKES FINE
TALK TO TH E KOTA R Y CLUB
AT THURSDAY LUNCHEON
Club .Favors Going Out To
' Country Churches For
Meetings.
ALLEN TALKS ABOUT FAIR
J. White Ware Tells About
Wonderful Peaches In
j Moore County.
Talks by David Ovens, of Ivev's,
Charlotte, Fred M.-,Allen pud J. White
Ware, of Gastonia,' featured the weekly
Rotary luncheon Tlmrsiluy. Ovens'
speech was a mixtures of wit, humor
and seriousness. It was one of the
best talks ever given before tho Kotary
Club. Allen talked about the county
fair and tho Mado in-Cnroliuas Exposi
tion. White Ware gave tho members
an illuminating talk on the Sandhill
peach crop and the wonderful prospects
in Mooro county real estate.
Mr. Ovens spoke interestingly of the
organization and purposes of luncheon
clubs and of tho motives that inspire
them. He belongs to )hc Kiwanis Club
of Charlotte and is also president of
the (ioodfellows Club, an organization
of GOO men, meeting monthly and giv
ing annually hundreds of dollars to
charity.
"I belong to the Kiwanis Club, which
was organized to take cure of those
who did not get into Kotary," humor
ously observed Mr. Ovens. "I guesn
I am not good enough for tho Rotary
Club." Mr. Ovens extolled the mo
tive of Rotary Clubs whose idea is
that of service. He took occasion to
compliment the people of Gastonia and
Gaston county for their "empire-building'
' citizens, those who arc spreading
tho name and fame of Gaston county
.as a textile center far and wide. He
condemned the 'money-getters in vigor
ous terms, declaring that he would
rather stand before the Judgment
Throne in the last gre;U day as n man
who had done something for his fellow
man to help him along on the path
way of life than to havo it said of him
that he had left a million dollars in
his name. He cited an illustration of
where a Mecklenburg county minister
had sent his son to him to work in
Ivey'e, with the appeal ',that he d his
Dest lor ine Doy, aiming vnai a com
mon and a high school education was
the best the parents could io for him.
Mr. Ovens' address of fifteen min
utes was punctuated throughout with
good jokes and humorous stories. He
closed with a brief word for the Caro
Tinas Exposition to be held in Charlotte
in September. , Mr. Ovens is respon
sible for tho excellent niusical program
that has' been engaged for the exposi
tion. Ho, spent a week in New York
recently, engaging singers and artists.
The musical program will cost from
$15,000 to $20,000.
Ab Myers) chairman of the city
school , boards put in a plea tor the
school' bond election, advising ths ,Ro
tarians that Saturday was tho last day
for registration.
Tho proposition of holding meeitngs
with the country church organizations
was mentioned by the program chair
man, Hugh Query, and received appro
bation. It was pointed out that the
plan would serve several purposes, chief
of which would bo the fellowship aim
friendship of mixing with tho people
of tho country. Tho ladies' organiza
tions of tho country, desiring to earn
a little money, were urged to take note
of these discussions. The Kotarinns
let it be known that all they were wait
ing for was the invitation.
MEN'S LEAGUE HAD
A GOOD MEETING
The regular monthly banquet of tho
Men's League of the First Baptist
church was held on. Thursday night, July
20th in the Baptist Annex. Mr. I. 11.
Gantt, 'Vice-prest., . officiating. An in
teresting talk was made by Attorney W.
F. Hester on the subject of "Baseball,"
following him was an interesting talk by
Attorney John A. Wllkins on tho subject
"Value of the Men's League." Miort,
but very interesting, talks were niado by
Supt. W. H. Wray, Attorney W. Y.
v- ' Wer W. C. Barrett, J. E. Phil
lips and Van A. Covington and Prof
Kay Armstrong.
The big feature of the evening was
the fact that (Mr. W. H. Wray had tho
baseball team of the First Baptist Bun-day-school
League as his guests, all of
whom dined with Mr. Wray at a special
table. ;
The occasion was a most enjoyable
one and the time was held strictly with
in one hour by Viee-prest. Gantt.
The banquet was served by a division
of the Ladies' Aid, headed by Mrs. A.
Thorpe and they served a most excellent
meal. .
TWO SUNDAY SCHOOL
GAMES THIS AFTERNOON
Two games will le played in the local
Sunday Schol circuit this afternoon. The
First Presbyterians, piloted by "Buck'-
rCurrie, will meet the Lutherans at the
Central scholl diamond at 4:30 P. M. A
goodgame is promised. In the last game
that the Lutherans were in they showed
that they haJKbeen earnestly at work to
put u pa stiff fight in the league. -The
Presbyterians appear short of men this
week as some are away from home and
others have not come-out for the games.
The" West Avenuers will be at homo
at Loray Bail Park to Dr. Parker's A.
R. P. entry. These two teams who seem
to be the weak clubs in tho association
have also picked up considerably in theix
Ufet games and a not . Datie is expected
at the red clay orchard t.t six. o 'clock authorized by Governor Pvis igtj yes
this sftsraoon, " ii 't'rday. , .' . ;
STRIKE TAKES ON APPEARANCE OF
A FINISH FIGHT BETWEEN UNION . '
LEADERS AND RAILROAD HEAD'S
SETTLEMENT OF STRIKE
IS FURTHER REMOVED
WASHINGTON, July 21. A
settlement of tho strike of railway
shopmen npicared mure remote
than over today following what was
said to have been an insistent re
fusal by railway executives who
conferred hero with 'members of tho
senate interstate commerce commit
tee to accede to some of tho union
demands.
The position taken by the heads
of leading railroads at tho sud
denly arranged conference last
night, "said to hnve been railed on
tho initiative of (Senator Cummins,
chiiiruiau of tho fenato committee,
was viewed by those participating
as making further such efforts at
a settlement appear fruitless. No
further conferences were said to
day to be planned here, ami while
it wns expected the result of tho
meeting would in some fashion lie
conveyed to Fresidcut Harding,
well informed persons said he did
not contemplate calling tho rail
heads into conference liimself,, ho
that any further move appeared to
lie left again to the Railroad Labor
Board, the railroad executives or
the union.
On leaving the White House tho
Senators said they had merely made
a report to the President concerning
the meeting with the executives. It
was Naid that future conferences
"probably" would be held.
Senator Cummins seemed rather
pessimistic over the oujtlook but Sena
tor Watson was in a more optimistic
mood, declaring he believed some way
would be found to bring a cessation
of tho railroad strike.
The early conference between the
President and the Senators was arrang
ed, it was thought, so that Mr. Harding
could lay the matter before the cabi
net at its meeting today.
The railroad executives in their
conference were understood to have de
clared most emphatically there could
be no restoration of the seniority rights
of those eaiploycs on strike. Restora
tin of seniority, they were said to
hold, would violate the word of the rail
roads as given to tho workers who
step in to fill the places f those who
walked out and no such violation could
be considered by tho railroad manage
ments. The seniority question . accord
ingly 'was held to be the big point at
issue.
Samuel Gompors, president of tho
American Federation of Labor, in a
statement issued today invited tlfe
government to ure that the striking
coal miners and the striking railroad
workere and their respective employers
Legislative Day
Has Run 2,208 Hours
WASHINGTON, July 21. Today
ih the first aniversary of the passage
of the adminstration tariff bill by the
House. When the measure will find
its niche in the statute hall still is
problematical, but thehe are in creas
ing signs that the leaders, at least,
on both sides of the Senate are anxi
ous to get it into conference.
Admittedly they are weary of the
grind if work on what has become the
longest legislature day in the his
tory of the Senate, a day that now
has run 2,208 hours, or 121 more
more hours that there were committee
amendments to the bill. In the Sen.
ate it still is 12 o'clock noon, Thurs
day, April 20, 1922 the hour the
tariff was called up this bit of legis
lature fiction being indulged in with
a hops of facilitating final action by
keeping out all other except the most
pressing legislation.
But this fiction has not prevented
Senators from talking on most every
subject under the sun.
Soldiers Are Being Moved To
Strike Areas Among Coal Miners
HARRISHURG, Pa., July 21.
Pennsylvania cavalrymen anil machine
gunners are moving into Cambria, In
diana, riomei set, "Washington and West
moreland counties in the southwestern
part of tho state today to prevent dis
order when bituminous mines are re
oiened. The whole power of the state
government is being massed behind
them. State policemen in .the affected
districts will act with the soldiers.
Movement of the soldiers to the soft
coal districts is the first to be made usj
a preventive measure. Heretofore
guardsmen have leen ordered out when
disorder occurred. Many of the men
on active duty were overseas veterans
and they are equipped like regulars.
COLUMBUS. O., July 21. Ohio na
tional guardsmen today were stationed
at two strategic points in Ohio coal
producing districts ready for any emer
gency which may arise in connection
with the carrying out of President
Harding's protection plan for operation
of coal mines. ':'.'
The troop movement and the mobili
zation, tit adiiitioaal guard units was
inaugurate direct negotiations.
"We invito the Federal government
to see to it that employers and work
ers
Iher,' ' said Mr.
Gom-
pers. - lire government has done
everything except this one logical,
necessary thing.
''The government has threatened a
great deal. It was talked about
troops and about the rights of the
public. It has not talked effectively
about conference ami 'it has had little
or nothing to say about tho rights ' of
tho workers.
"Labor calls upon the government
to talk about conference between em
ployers and workers, both in the coal
industry and' in tho railroad Bhops
strike. x x x. Conference is the
thing that is needed."
"Labor asks for conference with the
employers," Mr. Gompcrs added. "If
the government wishes results, if it
wishes operation of mines and rail
roads let it adopt the only course that
can secure thoso results. Let it exert
its tremendous influence to bring the
employers into conference with the
representatives of the workers.
"If the government cares more
about sustaining the reputation of its
helpless and all but defunct railroad
labor board, if it cares nioro about a
costly and ineffective military show
than it does about justice and results,
then it is on the right track.
"But labor urges the government
to come back to a constructive and
bane view point. Labor invites the
government of tho United States to
bring about conference workers and em
ployers. Labor will enter conferences
in every caso in absolutely good faith
and unless employers are absoluto bour
bons and autocrats the strike can quick
ly be adjusted and prnductiog and
transportation put into effective opera
tion."
WASHINGTON, July 21. The
Agreement was hailed by Secretary
Hughw in a speech at tho closing ses
sion' as a sweeping victory, for the
"conference plan" of international
negotiation.
"If war is to be prevented when in
ternational controversies arise," the
secretary declared, it can only bo ac
complished through tho willingness of
tho nations to provide for "the coil
tacts of honorable and reasnable men,'
who honestly desire to erase difficulties
rather than to keep them alive.
The Taciia-Arica settlement, Mr.
Hughes described as tho greatest ac
complishment of the generation in the
direction of peace in the western hemis
phere. On behalf of Prrsideuf Hard
ing ho accepted the designation of ar
bitrator given the chief executive in
the arbitration protocol, and thanked
the delegates of. both. sides for the
spirit in . which they approached , the
tasks of tho conference.
HARDING TO TRY CHICAGO
AS A SUMMER RESORT
(By The Associated Press.)
CHICAGO, July 21. President Hard
ing will give Chicago a tryout as a
sumer resort during the last week in Au-
jgust unless the present plans go astray,
,F. W. Upham raid today. The program
! for the week's visit is in the hands of
j Mr. Upham and Brigidier General
i Charles G. Dawes, whose guests the Presi
dent and Mrs. Harding will be.
! Tho President, according to present
plans expects to go to Moose he art to
attend a celebration of the Loyal Order
of Moose, August 2t, ns a guext of eiee
;retrny of Labor Davis, an officer of ihc
j ordi r.
From Mooseheart the Ptesidcht expects
I to return here and spend as much time
Ins possible on the golf course and in
! rest and recreation, Mr. Upham skid,
j Mr. Upham said the President asked
I that there be no formaliities or en
i tertainments.
DETROIT, July 21. The taking
over of Michigan coal mines and their
Oeration by the State government, to
day awaited President -Harding's ap
proval of the program outlined yester
day by Governor Alex J. Groesbeck.
The Governor completed his plans
Jast night and was prepared to take
steps to reoicn the mines immediately
upon receipt of authorization from the
President.
Governor Groesbeck has ""been as
sured of the co-ieration of Michigan
ojierators aud was cinfident a sufficient
number of striking miners could be
induced to return to work to avert
a serious shortage in Michigan.
The mines : would be protected by
state police or national guard troops,
the miners being sworn in as members
of the State police force.
COLUMBUS, O., July 21. De
claring that local officials are unable
to cope with the situation, aud that
"Governor Davis has refused to fur
nish us any protection" the Consoli
dated Coal and Coke Company of But
ler, Pa., through its attorneys here
today," telegraphed President Harding
aking that Federal troops be sent to
guard the company's operations, near
v . S3 rait?Tiii Perr1, conn v. Ohio.
CONFERENCE BETWEEN
SENATORS AND RAILROADS
IS DISAPPOINTMENT
Harding Advised By Senators
Tnat heir Conference r
Was Failure.
BOTH SIDES STUBBORN
Nearly 300 Trains Throughout
the United States Are
Annulled.
WASHINGTON. July- 21. fBv . tha
Associated Press; President Harding
was sjaid by the administration advisor
who conferred with him today to contem
plate as his next move in the railroad
strike the summoning to Washington
of Chairman Hooper, of teh railroad,
labor board, for a full discussion of tho
questions at issue between employes. and
executives.
The probability of the new move was
revealed today after the President 'had
been informed by Chairman Cummins,
and Senator Watson, of Indiana, and
Kellogg, of Minnesota, of the Senate
Interstate Commerce Committee, of tho
details of the fruitless conference held
by the Senators last night with leading .
eastern railroad executives. :
The information furnished tho govern
ment through the conference, according
to additional! disclosures today, that tho
three principal points at issue in tha
strike controversy are restoration of tha
seniority and of pension rights of tho
strikers and setting no a national board
of adjustment. The latter was received
as a new factor by the President, who
was said to have been unadvised that
this was a jrtroiig point at issue. Chair
man Hooper, it was said, has not inform
ed the President that thej national board
question was prominently involved, al
though labor leaders have informed Sena
tors that it was being passed as a con
dition precedent to return of the-iitrikers
to work.
On' tho question of the strikers tho
big point at issue seniority rights, tho
president was said to have been inform
ed, upon statements of "tho railheads
to the' Senators, that of 400,000 men who
went on strikt, places of 240,00 have been
filled. The jaitroads, it was said, in hir- ,
ing these men guaranteed, that they
woyJJ"bc retained permanently, if com
petent. The employers, it was tfaicf fe?
gard this promise as a pledge and;; ono
interferring with return of the strikers!
not only as to the actual return to work;
but in its effect on their seniority stat-
us. The pension question, the rail exe
cutives were said to have indicated, inighli
be yielded.
The statement that the freight servicd "
of ' tho eastern lines was being main
tained for the present at 100 tier cent in
spite of the strike was said to have been
made by the executives and transmitted
to Mr. Harding. Tho executives. were re
ported to have conceded that 100 pes
cent service could not be continued in
definitely, but they beleivecl it would not
suffer a material reduction. The new
men hired in place of tho strikers wero
not as competent as a rule, but sufficient-
ly su as to maintain approximately nor-'
nial service up to this time also was said
to havo been stated by the executives.
Another noint in tho -strike on which
the executives were suid to have indieat-4
ed a position to yield was that of letting:
shop work to outside firms. Only two;
roads, the hne and Western Maryland
wero said to be continuing this prac
tice in violation of the orders of tho
railroad labor board and it was said lo
havo been indicated that these road
were prepared to abandon the outsido
working contracts. On the question of
liar loom adjuMimciut board, the executives)
were reported to be adamant. The execu
tives pointed out, it was stated, that tho
Pennsylvania and other railroads already
have their own adjustment boards whic-U
were sain io uo woriung sasiiuuciuruy.
The executives were said to have ex-,
pressed the opinion that the strike would,
not spread beyond the unions now invol
ved. They were reported to have firm
assurance on this point, one said to bo
causing much concern to the President,
and administration leaders.
The President was said to have been
further informed that Chairman Hooper
had ntt, because of the lack of direct'
discussion given him complete and de
tailed information regarding the points
in dispeje espeeally relating to the re
ported union demand for the national
adjuscment board. For this and otbei
reasons it was said to be the President '
desire to eonfer with Chairman Jloopcr.
WASHINGTON, July 21. (Ry the
Associated Press.) President Harding
was advised today by Chairman Cummins
and Senator Watson, of IifUana, and
Interstate Commerce Committee of tho
unavailing efforts made by them in con
ference with several leading eastern rail
road executives last night to obtain a
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COTTON MARKET J
CLOSING BIDS ON THE
NEW YOfiK MABKIt
NEW YORK, July 21. Cotton fu
tures closed barely steady; spots piiet,
40 iints clown.
July 21.82; October 21. C2; Dum
ber' 21. ;' January 21.75; March,
21.71; May 21.57; SpoM 22.10.
Receipts
Price . ,
:.2i C""3