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IMPORTANT NEWS M WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS r AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAY8 GIVEN THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH What li Taking Place In The South- it land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs r oreign "The proletariat will descend into the streets, build barricades and give Af ter receiving numerous complaints up their lives rather than fall into o elay in the unloading of such cars, the rapacious claws of the military," Mn Hines ordered regional directors is the gist of a resolution passed by to piace an embargo against all con- the Italian council of the chamber of signees Who fail to release such equip- labor at Rome. ment. Paris dispatches says that President Le0 stevans, balloon instructor at Wilson insists upon a plebiscite for a Fort Omaha, announces that Prof. Da buffer state between Italy and Jugo- yid Todd will attempt to cpmmunicate Slavia, but he consents to the rectifi- with pianet Mars this fall in a bal cations of the eastern frontier of Is- loon to De constructed and piloted tria in favor of Italy, in the district by stevens. The" balloon will ascend of Albona. . 50,000 feet. Its capacity will be 140,- Italian Foreign Minister Tittoni says 000 feet. it would be difficult to find a graver The field kitchen used by the for- period than this in the whole history mer" German emperor is among the of modern Italy. 2,700 trophies of the world war, which Viscount Grey, newly appointed am- naye been brought to this country by bassador to the United States says he tne transport SantaRosa. They will will not put forward any new propos- be gent tQ the Smithsonian Institute als for treaties and alliances, but will ftt Washmgton to be placed in the per- endeavor to promote existing good will manent war exhibit, where grandchil- between all English-speaking peoples dren and great-grandchildren may throughout the world. view them in the days to come. In an encounter at Saarbrucken be- Several tons of war trophies have tween Bourgeoise and French soldiers aiready reached Washington and have many persons on both sides were been put in the national museum, wounded. One hundred Frenchmen Many 0f these trophies are associat- participated in the conflict. Numer- ed with some of the most dramatic ous Germans have been arrested for episodes of the war, others vividly having attacked the Frenchmen. depict German military brutality and Budapest is now the hungriest of the 0thers stand out for their mechanical great cities of Europe. On meat aays one lit: ii l lanuu w il-vi i w rf aoT m 11 T TflTI I IT veal of poor quality is to be had at me miauay iuctti ui "e rants that remain open, but on such days supper is meager. At the larg- est and most fashionable hotels in the city, supper consists of a green pep- per' stuffed with rice and tomatoes, hniiPd sninach and a fragment of natrv T.ondon hears that the Bolshevik! h,vp abandoned Kursk after severe fightiDg with Denlkine's troops. Domestic - A strike of 200,000 shipyard em- pioyees on tne racuic coast io cci- tain unless the navy department and the shipping board revoke their joint order prohibiting wage increases af- ter October 1, James O'Connell, pres- ldent of the metal trade department of the American Federation of Labor, says. O'Connell further said that an eoual number of workers on the At- lantic coast will join in the strike un- less the order is changed. At the conference of the Democratic executive committee held in Atlantic City, N. J., not the slightest hint of a, third term for President Wilson was operation of radio stations and radio given. equipment by amateurs will be re- Dennis E. Metcalf, charged with the moved early in October, murder of Itobin j. Cooper, and Nora William Jennings Bryan made an Lee Jones, negress, charged with be- address in Washington, in which he ing accessory before the fact, were urged the senate to ratify the treaty held to the Nashville, Tenn., grand without any reservations. If senators jury without bail before a magistrate were dealing with their own affairs, following theirarrest on warrants he said, they might take chances, but sworn out by Gabriel Hansen of Mem- they have no right to take chances phis,- Tenn., self-styled psycho-analyti- with the people's affairs, cal detective. Two long distance seaplane flights 111 from over-exertion on his long are planned for early next year by tour for the peace treaty, President the navy, one to Brazil and another to Wilson cancelled the speaking dates the Philippines. at Wichita and turned back toward It is announced from New York Washington, where he arrived Sunday that John D. Rockefeller has given morning. . twenty million dollars for the improve- Eleven United States war vessels ment of medical education, are tied up at the New York navy The house committee has reported yard without crews sufficiently large favorably on the bill authorizing in to man them. creased bank loans upon commodi- Many naval officers have sent in ties.' their resignations, claiming they can- The secretary of war has instruct not live on the navy salaries. ed his military associates to establish Twelve American owned steamships an organization within the general valued at more than ten million dol- staff to be charged with development lars, the property of a German eub- and supervision of matters pertaining eidiary company of the Standard Oil to education, recreation and moral company of New Jersey, have been or- training of officers and men of the dered from German ports to the Firth service. This organization will un of Forth, for allocation among the al- dertake the work of the seven affili lied and associated nations recently ated welfare societies, beginning No at war against Germany. vember 1 as far as they relate to mil Cranberries will be cheaper this it&ry. establishment within contincn year than last year. There will be tal limits or the United States. 637,000 barrels this year against 350,- The secretary of war has ihform 000 barrels last year. ed the seven affiliated welfare associ Fifteen hundred lieutenants of the ations which co-operated with the de regular army have sent in their res- partments during, the war of his sin ignations to j the war department, be- cere appreciation of the valuable cause they say they cannot live on work they rendered the country dur-ante-bellum wages. ing the world war. General Pershing will have around The Mexican foreign office, It is him in his new headquarters in Wash- learned in Washington, has instruct ington only a fraction of the great ed Mexican consuls to refuse to vise - staff , wheih comprised the American British passports. This does not ap grand headquarters at Chaumont dur- ply to British nationals who live in ' ing the war. Twenty-five officers, Mexico. No reason is given for the i forty-five' clerks and thirty-five sol- action, but it is stated that Great diers comprise the general's forces. Britain had refused to vise passports Rear Admiral Robert E. Coontz has of Mexican citizens who were not go been appointed chief of naval opera- ing to Britain but were on their way tions, the highest office in the navy, to France. September 24th three million Bap- Eighteen nations are preparing to tists of the South gave themselves to send delegates to the first internation prayer and fasting . in behalf of the al labor conference called by Presi . Baptist $75,000,000 campaign. The de- dent Wilson to meet in Wishtrgton, ' Votions began at sunrise and continued October 29 The conference will meet far into the night. - - . under the league of nations.-' Speaking to a great crowd in the The German consul in Mexico has Mormon temple at Salt Lake City, received information from his govern President Wilson says opponents , of ment that thirty thousand immigrants the league of nations are cutting thi from Germany will soon arrive in heart out of that instrument. There Mexico to make their future homes, is in Article X, he says, no peril, and This is the first considerable body of that power of war still remains with Germans to leave, home 4n answer to congress. - He asserts that proposed the overtures made by the Mexican reservations will destroy plan for the government immediately after the ar Uague of nations. 7- f mistice was signed. -V " . .Two disastrous fires in the Los An geles national forest are spreading. One hundred men fighting fires in the Big Tejunga canyon, about ten miles north of Pasadena, were forced to flee for their lives when the fire de stroyed their camp. The total area burned so far, September 25, is over one hundred thousand acres. The principal damage has been to water sheds forming the source of water supply for a number of southern Cali fornia communities. Action to remedy defects of the American cotton bale will be consid ered at the world cotton conference to be held in New Orleans in October. ia said by some authorities that the American bale is a disgrace when it reaches the other side of the "big pond." niaeH aoHnn hns bean taken hv Di- 11 11V fc. V VA rector General Hines to compel the Br0mpt release of refrigerator cars. perfection. Washington . More than two thousand men who have been in Siberia are on their way home. All drafted men remaining in Eu- rope will be brought home by the end of October. Over 2,000 advances and but 898 re- ductions in class rail rates for the South are shown in a report sent out py ine trainc Dureau 01 tne Mobile chamber of commerce. ental news. Little American news is printed Qn eagtern AsfaUc cQast The Florida state board of health refused to .Permit the United lca w a lePer colony at Cedar Key It is an- nounced that Louisiana will permit the establishment of such a colony, and mat 11 win proDaDiy go mere. The storm sufferers of the Texas gulf coast have asked that the weather bureau be investigated, on the ground that the' bureau failed to take any notice whatever of the coming storm. Wartime restrictions governing the "dLpv TSp - - ' 1 President and Mrs. Wilson photographed as they began their return trip from the Pacific coast; at the left Is Gavin McNabb, the president's western representative. 2 Troop of the Pennsylvania mounted constabulary leaving their barracks to disperse turbulent steel mill strikers. 3 Lieut. Col. D'Annunzio, the poet-soldier whose seizure of Flume has precipitated a crisis In Italy. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Indications That Union Labor . May Get the Worst of the Great Steel Strike. SENATE STARTS All INQUIRY Many Workers Said to Be Returning to the Mills Status of the Peace Treaty Contest D'Annunzio'8 Raid Precipitates Crisis in Italy. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. , Developments of the week in the great strike of steel workers indicated that this, perhaps the severest test to which union labor in America ever has subjected Itself, would result adverse ly to the unions. At the beginning many thousands of men In the United States Steel corpor ation's numerous plants scattered throughout the country quit work, re gardjess of whether or not they were members of the unions. W. Z. Foster, general organizer, claimed that 342, 000 had gone out before the week was Lhalf over. This was not directly dis puted by the corporation officials, but they declared the tide already had turned and that the men were coming back to the mills In large numbers seeking their old jobs. A great many of the plants were closed down at the beginning of the week, but in some of the districts these were being reopened gradually with increasing forces of workers. In the Pittsburgh district the employers -asserted they were in creasing production in all the impor tant plants; the Gary and Indiana Harbor mills resumed partial opera tion ; the strikers at Canton, O., and Birmingham, returned to work. On the other hand there was virtually a complete tie-up in the Mahoning val ley, the Colorado district and at other points. Though the union officials had de clared the strike would be conducted without violence on the part of the men, rioting started promptly In some regions, especially In Pennsylvania. Several deaths and many injuries re sulted. The state constabulary got Into action promptly and effectively, breaking up all assemblages and In general restoring order. Sabotage was In evidence In various plants. The strike leaders were earnestly endeavoring to expand the .strike into a walkout of allied crafts, which in clude the men in 25 unions. On the Great Lakes it appeared likely the sea men and marine firemen who trans port iron ore would go out, and switch men on railroads that especially serve steel plants were reported to be ready to quit. The senate committee on education and labor began an Inquiry Into the strike and the first witness was John Fitzpatrick, chairman of the commit tee on organization of the steel work ers and real leader of the strike. It was announced that Mr. Gary would appear before the committee later to present the case for the employers. Fitzpatrick admitted to the commit tee that there had been no demand from the steel workers for unioniza tlon, but that the Federation of Labor considered It necessary because the steel Industry was a "bad SDot" in the Industrial situation and that the con ditions prevailing In It led other large employers to consider imposing sim ilar conditions on their employees. He told at length of the vain efforts to in duce Mr. Gary to confer with his com mittee, and said that even If the steel "corporation should now consent to meet the union representatives It would be too late to stop the strike, as the men "are going to demand de cent justice-of, the United States gov eminent." , ; . iiowever, Fitzpatrick said, the unions would call off the strike if the steel corporation would agree to sub mit the issue Involved to arbitration by a commission to be named by President Wilson. When this was told to Mr. I Gary In New York, he replied that, speaking for himself, he believed the board of directors could not negotiate with Fitzpatrick and his associates as union labor leaders and that questions of moral principles, such as are in volved in this struggle cannot be ar bitrated nor compromised. Samuel Gompers, testifying before the senate interstate commerce com mittee, gave the steel strike his ap proval though he said he would have preferred to have postponed it until after the Industrial conference in Oc tober. He laid all the blame for the strike on Mr. Gary for his refusal to deal with the union chiefs. As a mat ter of plain fact, the whole contest hinges on the question of the open or the closed shop and Its outcome will go far to determine the power and right of the unions to organize indus tries that have not asked such action and to enforce their closed shop pol icy everywhere. Mr. Gompers also appeared- before the senate committee on the District of Columbia, where he maintained the right of policemen to organize, but said they should not go on strike. "Pri vate employees" he said, "can quit work, while policemen have no such recourse." Ajt the same time he de fended the policemen of Boston by asserting that the trouble there was not really a strike but a lockout. As for the constabulary of Pennsylvania, he declared the events of recent days have proved they are nothing but Cos sacks, and they would not be admitted to the Federation of Labor. The resentment of the public, which of course is always the "goat" in in dustrial disputes, Is being reflected in congress. Senator Thomas of Colo rado leads the fight In the upper house against tyranny by union labor, and last week Introduced a resolution con demning the closed shop principle as un-American and calling for the repu diation by congress of the special Im munity it has granted to labor unions from prosecution for violation of the anti-trust laws. In the lower house Representative Cooper, who is from the Ycningstown district and is him self a union labor man, uttered a warn ing against the danger of organized labor being misled by such a "revolu tionary leader" asx William Z. Foster, secretary of the steel worker's com mittee. Foster is the author of a book on syndicalism and secretary of the Syndicalist League of North America and in his book defends the syndical ist methods of violence, sabotage and lawlessness to win strikes. Congress man Kahn of California, asked Attor ney General Palmer if Foster could not be prosecuted in connection with deaths and injuries caused since the steel strike began, but Mr. Palmer said he thought any such action should be brought by the various states rather than by tlie federal government. Mr. Gompers and other "conservative" un ion labor leaders must enjoy their close relation with Foster and his like. If anyone supposed President Wil son would compromise with the reser- vationists concerning the peace treaty, he seemingly was mistaken. The pres ident, on his way back from the Pacific coast, delivered himself of speeches that showed his spirit was, If possible, more uncompromising than ever, and he rather plainly intimated that if the pact were not ratified as It stands he would pigeonhole It for the present and make It the Issue of next year's presidential campaign. To his audi ence in Cheyenne he said if the pro posed reservation to article ten were adopted by the senate he. would re gard It as rejection of the whole trea ty, and that it would mean the nego tiation of a separate peace with Ger many, which would turn the whole world against us. He predicted that without the League of Nations cov enant, Including article ten unchanged. the world would be plunged Into a war far more horrible than the conflict just enaea. Mr. Wilson also continued to defend the arrangement by which the Brit lsh empire has six votes to one for the United States In the league assembly. The proposed amendment to this ar ticle was causing both sides in the senate considerable worry, and they dodged a vote on it for the time being. xne proponents of the covenant want. ed to wait until after the president re turned in the hope that he might be uuie to onng'some pressure to bear, ""'"'11 l rr ni m. i.in....irninnitf and the opposition were not at all sure of their strength. The mild reserva tionists hoped some way might be found to avoid the direct issue. The French chamber of deputies, in which the government was pressing for ratification of the treaty, was much exercised by the hostile . attitude of the American senate and the govern ment was called; on for explanations. Tardieu said he was satisfied the sen ate would ratify the treaty, and Pichon said even without the United States the League of Nations' could exist, le gally speaking. Barthou replied that France wanted political, not legal guaranties. Premier Clemenceau then said: "Should the United States reject the League of Nations, two treaties of alliance between France and Great Britain and France and the United States exist. Nevertheless it was pre cisely because we felt that the League or in ations was an msumcient guaran tee for some years to come that these treaties were drawn up. The League of Nations for the present has nothing to do with the Franco-British-Ameri can treaties, which constitute suffl cient guarantees for France." Italy was in the midst of a tremen dous crisis, brought on directly by th seizure of Flume by D'Annunzio and blamed, by the Italians themselves on the great powers which refused to car ry out all the promises in the treaty of London. Foreign Minister Tittoni was compelled to resign, and the peace conference in Paris was deeply con cerned by the situation. The Italian government asked the allies to oust D'Annunzio and his followers, but at this writing nothing in that line had been started. The poet-soldier was still defiant and his forces were in creasing in strength. Other Italian leaders, it was reported, were follow ing his example and making raids on Spalato, Sabenico and Trau, towns on the Dalmatian coast which have been under the domination of the Jugo slavs. In Ragusa, near the Montene grin frontier, there was a veritable reign of terror. There are rumors, al so, that the Italians are planning to restore King Nicholas to the throne of Montenegro. He is the father of the queen of Italy. Late advices from Spalato by way of Copenhagen said an American des troyer appeared at Trau and landed marines, compelling the Italians to leave, after which the Jugo-Slavs took over the town from the Ameri cans. Officials of the state department at Washington admit that the president has agreed with the allies on a plan to give support to Kolchak and Denl kine in their fight against the bolshe vik!. The United States Is' to supply the former with the things he needs, and Great Britain and France will take care of the latter. Presumably this arrangement means that the American troops now In Siberia will not be brought back for some time. Both these Russian leaders have been scoring considerable success against the, bolshevik! lately, and It may be the recognition of the Omsk govern ment by the allied powers will not be much longer delayed. The bolshevlst government, tohlle willing to make peace with the Bal tic states, Is laying Its plans to conquer the rest of its foes. Trotzky, speak ing recently In Petrograd, said his ar mies would continue their methods of beating their enemy singly, taking K0I7 chak first and then Deniklne. "If Fin land wants war" he said, "It will be necessary to begin against her a cam paign of extermination such as hither to has been unknown to history." Lenine, it is said, is anxious to be at peace' with all the world. There was. a report In Paris that he had been assassinated. If this were true Trotz ky probably would , be more powerful than ever, and the peace he seeks Is founded on the destruction of his en emies.";. ' . - . ., The king and queen of the Belgians are on their way to visit the United States. Before his .departure Albert said he had much to learn In this coun try owing to the "excellent relations existing between capital and ' labor here. Can it be that Albert was spoof ing us? Mil OF WORLD FAMOUS THIRTIETH MORE THAN . 3,500 MEMBERS 0P WORLD FAMOUS D.v:s.on ,n ASSEMBLY AT GREENVILLE HON IS EFFEGTEC The Homes of Greenville Th rown Open to Veterans and Eve rything Done For Their Entertainment. Greenvile, S. C'. More than 3,500 members of the 'famm:. ni,, , ." (30th) division had registering for the first annual reunion oi t le nil Hickory association. Addree- 1 Governor R. A. Cooper, of South rZ olina, Governor T. W. Bickett ot North Carolina, Major General E M Lewis, who commanded the diviVinn when it broke the Hindenburg iine anrt other, high officers were features of the day. The association at its busi ness meeting adopted constitution and by-laws and perfected its permanent organization. The. enlisted men are piaving an importatnt part in the reunion, one of them introducing each of the two governors to a vast audience of about 5000. They were Corporal Herman McManaway, of this city ,and Sergt. L. L. Mallard, of North Carolina. The reunion in a way is a homf-com-ing of heroes, for the renowned di. vision was trained at Camp Sevier in the suburbs fo this c:ty, and while there formed friendships in the com. munity which are now being renewed The homes of Greenville are literally thrown open to the veterans and everything possible is being do.e for their entertainment and amusement, The DrinciDal streets of the - -. . j v y a riot of red, white and blue and the carnival Spirit is in evidence every where, harmless fun with much noise being engaged in by residents and re. turned line smashers. SHIPPING BOARD HAS STOPPED SAILINGS TO BRITISH PORTS Wsahington. Shipping in Ameri. can ports, so far as it concerns ship, ping board vessels with cargoes con. signed to ports of the United King, dom, was at a standstill because of the strike of British railway workers. Suspension of the sailings of all vessels under the control of ports oi England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales was announced by the shipping board through tjbs making public of an or der issued ate Saturday night when the railroad strike became a certain ty. The shipping board, it was explain ed, ordered sailings' suspended follow, ing receipt of information from its representatives in England as to con ditions in the ports there and after the issuance of the British order pro hibiting the furnishing of bunker coal to any ships other than outbound British vessels. SUBJECT BEFORE SENATE IS IGNORED IN LONG DEBATE. Washington. Not one passing ref erence was made in the long peace treaty debate in the senate to the 39 odd fall amendments, which Vice President Marshall had ruled would be thej special and cbntinuing order of business. t The discussion embraced almon every other point. It covered1! tne ground from Omaha, Neb., to Persia, and Vice President Marshall's pre diction that the senate, once it tow up the amendments, would discus everything else under the sun, abundantly fulfilled. RAILWAY SHOPMEN PLACED ON BROTHERHOOD FOOTING- Washington.-Changes in the waP scale of railroad shopmen on ... iA nn the which they win oe p.u of an eight hour day similar to m bers of the four brothertp .ds. embodied in the first national ment covering their wages ana ing conditions. STRIKERS .CLAIM ENEMY ' REPULSED AT CHI " v, hie Chicago.-Efforts of the d jn. mills in the Chicago disir. due a sufficient number .01 , to return in order to o- a(Jdi. larger scale failed. AUno tional police protection was v &? peais were - rpturDea - back, the number who retu no larger. At some of wtf number of men reporting smaller. STOLL DECLARED THE GRE$S. NOMINEE FOR 1 - filCV" ritnhia: S. C Tne m jj. declared - n0flr tiTS commit - tree, StolU attorney of KinP g 1 tho nartv for UM., Dj majority ot 26 votes. Ad , Alter purging the Oeoreetown county, ot mA rf ORGANIZA the. protest ol J-J ry.Mr.Ston-soPPoneW,W .the Andrews box w " committee.
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