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THE MORMXG OREGOMAN, SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1907. UNITE EMPLOYERS IN BIG FEDERATION War. This organization, the speaker Bald, should become a great National power for preserving industrial peace. Van Cleave Proposes to Imi tate Labor Unions and Recognize Rights. Move to Knd Lithographers' Strike. NEW YORK, March 22. It was an nounced yesterday by the officers of the Lithographers' Protective and Bene ficial Association, whose members have been on strike throughout the country for eight months for the closed shop and the eight-hour workday, that nego tiations have been started to make 1 peace. FOR INDUSTRIAL PEACE President of Manufacturers' Asso ciation Would Abolish Blacklist and Boycott With Graft ing Labor Leaders. BOSTON, March 22. Plans for a Erreat federation of a.11 the employing interests of the United States, built on the lines of the American Federation of Labor, were advanced in Boston today after a speech by James W. Van Cleave of St. Louis, president of the National Association of Manufacturers. Mr. Van Cleave startled BOO delegates to the an nual convention of the National Metal Trades Association by declaring capi tal everywhere must recognise labor's right to organize, this recognition be ing necessary before industrial Amer ica can hope to reach its fullest growth. The interests Mr, Van Cleave would consolidate for the advancement of in dustrial peace and commercial suprem cy represent a capitalization of more than 1X000,030,000. More than a bil lion dollars of this is represented in Mr. Van Cleave's organization, to which he would weld the National Metal Trades, the National Typothetae, the National Founders, the National Wholesale Merchant Tailors' Associa tion and other bodies of magnitude. Said Mr. Van Cleave: Xew Policy of Fraternity. Roth employer organizations and labor unions have come to stay. Intelligent or ganization among employers Is needed, not only to enable us. to deal with labor prob lems promptly and justly, whenever thy ari but also to iquipus to strengthen our Industrial position at home, so that we can win the constantly expanding- markets abroad, which we will need in order to keep our shops busy and to provide labor for our workers. All the great National organizations of employer! should come together In a nptrtt of mutual fraternity and establish a central bo-ly in which each would be represented, litis body could- deal with the interests common to all the organizations. These Interests are not only large in number, but titanic in magnitude. Moreover, they are rapidly expanding in each particular. One of the country's greatest needs at this moment Is the diffusion of education along sane lines. Social and political quack ery should be rendered impossible by In stilling into the minds of employers, work ers and the general public ideas which will show th?m that in the last analysis all their interests coincide and Injury to any one element in society will react on all. Oppose Fad Legislation. One of the evils which every arganlzation of rmployors Is frequently called upon to Fads, follitts and vlcs manage to register themselves In bills Introduced in Congress and the various state Legislatures at every session. The demagogue and disturber arc always with us and they are always active. Tn lighting its ills each organization now acts separately. Kach makes its own ex periments and learns Us own lessons from its own losses and the losses are frequent and humiliating. The losses and humilia tions which beset us now can be avoided only by co-operation. As a preliminary to settlements which will stay settled, Mr. Van Cleave told the convention there must be, at the outset, a full and frank recognition of the fact that both capital and labor have duties as well as rights. As an employer, he said that all employing interests should act on the assumption that, if labor lead ers will eliminate unlawful and coertive methods, they must be reckoned with as a fixture in America's business life. He continued: Recognize Labor Vnions. This is an age of concentration, combina-. tion, consolidation. Labor has as large an Incentive and also as large a right to concentrate as has capital, and capital must concede this right. At the same time, em ployers must aid in educating the workers, morally as well as intellectually, so that they will choose better officers than many of the grafters with whom they have been afflicted In recent years. L.jt us have peace between workers and employers on a basis of the recognition, fully and frankly, of the rights and duties of each. Kmploycrs must work discreetly, Mr. Van Cleave warned, so as not to give opportunity to demagogues to arouse any ilass prejudices. He averred it to be to the interest of employers, workers and the public generally that the labor leaders abolish all their ignorant and corrupt leaders. Kliminatc Corrupt Labor Leaders. Mr. Van Cleave said the diffusion of correct ideas among the wage-earners of the country is one of the largest issues confronting public-spirited men today. By educating the rank and file of the unions, he declared, a way for the ousting of cor rupt labor leaders may be prepared. This done, the speaker said, it will be easy to roach an equitable agreement between capital and labor. Discussing agreements with labor, Mr. Van Cleave expressed belief that nearly all employers favor agreements with labor as making for stable business con ditions over a term of years. This gives employers an opportunity to make con tracts and to plan for a few years in ad vance. Such collective bargaining. Mr. Van Cleave asserted, is losing favor be cause less has been accomplished than was expected. The reason for this failure was said to be an unwillingness or ina bility to reach agreements that were equitable. Deploring the absence of friendly and confidential relations between employers and workers, Mr. Van Cleave praised the work of President Roosevelt's Anthracite Coal Strike Commission, which declared for the "open shop" and against boycot ting and blacklisting. He added: Kill Blacklist and Boycott. The principles enunciated by that com- niissiun turui me Davis upon wnicn employ ers and workers ehould meet from now on ward. They should be insisted upon. They are the Magna Charta of America's indus trial liberty. X hold that the closed shop ansails Indi vidual initiative, destroys Individual free dom and robs the American worker of the Independence and dignity which should be as dear to him as life. Employers must throw away the blacklist. Boycotting, a barbarous said cowardly practice, must go. The boycott and the closed shop generate the blacklist. All must go. In conclusion Mr. Van Cleave praised the establishment by President Roosevelt and passage by Congress of the act giv ing National sanction to the foundation for the promotion of industrial peace. This organization to work for settlement of labor difficulties, has been given the SrO.mn) Nobel peace prize fund given the President for ending the Russo-Japanese RAILS BENT WITH CROWBAR Chicago Special Train Deliberately Wrecked No Passengers Injured. PITTSBU3U3. March 22. The Chicago Limited, from New York to Chicago, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, while running ' about 35 miles an hour, was wrecked at j Stewart, 17 miles east of here today. The engine and the first five cars were de- j railed, but no one was hurt The passen- I ger were transferred to the three rear cars and brought to this city, where an other train was made up, and they con tinued their journey. An Investigation by the railway officials showed that the fishplates had been re moved at the rail joint, the bolts havlug been taken out and the rails bent Inward. A claw bar and several other tools, not property of the railroad company, were found nearby and it is believed that these tools were used by the wreckers. Tne train was derailed on . a straight track and to this was due, beyond a doubt, the escape of the passengers from serious injury. The officials attribute the work of the wreckers either to malice or an attempt to loot the train and passengers. ENGINE SMASHES STREETCAR Two Persons Fatally Injured Nine Girls Hurt Car Cut in Two. DETROIT, March 22. Two persons were fatally Injured and nine others, all girls, were more or less seriously hurt today, when a streetcar was struck at the Four teenth avenue crossing by a Michigan Central Railway train. The fatally injured: . JAMBS C. SMITH, aged 55, Detroit. MISS CHARLOTTE MARTIN, Mason City, Mich. There were 22 passengers upon the car, a majority of them working girls. The car got past the gates before the train was sighted. The view was obstructed and the engineer did not see the streetcar until within 75 feet of it. He was unable to stop the train and the engine struck the car in the middle, splitting it in two and hurling. the wreckage a distance of 60 feet. A few of the passengers jumped and es caped injury. Others were thrown into a heap among the wreckage. Cruslid Beneath His Engine. DANVILLE. Ind.. March 22. Passen ger No. 11. of the St. Louis division of the Big Four Railroad, westbound, left the track two miles from Avon this after noon. Engineer Gregory was crushed to death beneath his engine. Seven passengers were injured, none fatally. Two passenger coaches rolled down a 20-foot embankment. A gravel pile near the track being used in plac ing a new switch caused the engine to leave the track, carrying the coaches with it. Two rear cars left the track, but did not go over the embankment. The injured passengers were taken to Avon to await the arrival of physicians sent on a relief train from Indianapolis. TRACE BULLETS TO SOURCE Taft Finds Difficulty In Brownsville Case Will Analyze Bullets. "WASHINGTON", March 22. Secretary Taft today transmitted to the Senate committee on military affairs a report of Brigadier-General Crozier, Chief of Ordnance, with reference to the numbers of the guns assigned to the negro sol diers of Companies B, C. and D, of the Twenty-fifth Infantry upon the night of August . 13 last, when Brownsville was shot up. It appears that upon the face of the list of guns, as forwarded by the officers of the companies, there were certain errors, arising probably from mis takes in transcribing from the property books of the companies. The effect of this is to raise a doubt whether two of the guns, held by expert examination to have been used in the affray, were in the arm chests of Company B under lock and key and not Issued to the soldiers as was Indicated by the former report sent to the committee. In his letter transmitting General Croz ler's supplementary report, Secretary Taft says: "It will be observed that this does not affect in the slightest the conclusions of Lieutenant Hawkins, the expert who ex amined the shells and made further tests at the Springfield arsenal, as to the num bers of the guns from which the cart ridge shells found upon the streets of Brownsville were discharged. This mat ter only affects the question of the cus tody of those guns and the names of the enlisted men of the company to whom they were assigned, if any of them." Mr. Taft has ordered the property books of all three companies sent to the War Department, and says it will prob ably be possible from them to correct the errors apparent upon the lists as pointed out in General Crozier's supplementary report. During the sitting of the committee to day a request was received from Mr. Taft for the return of the three bul lets taken from walls of houses in Brownsville. The War Department de sires to have these bullets analyzed in or der to determine if possible whether Army guns were used in discharging tnem, and, if so. the numbers of such guns. In view of this request, the com mittee decided to postpone the exami nation of expert witnesses and to ad journ until Monday, as it is expected offi cers of the Twenty-fifth Regiment will have arrived from Fort Sam Houston by that time. Chaffe Denies Puter's Story. MILWAUKEE. March 22. Charles Chaffee, secretary of the Abiqua Land Company, with offices at Rhinelander, Wis., made a statement today over the long-distance telephone, denying having handed S. A. D. Puter two J1000 bills which, according to Puter's testimony in the Hermann trial at Washington, Puter gave to Senator Mitchell, "to fix things" regarding certain land claims. Mr. Chaffee says his company paid Puter large sums of money on various occasions for lands, but the money was usually in the form of drafts for which Chaffee held receipts. No money, Mr. Chaffee says, has passed between himself and Puter for several years and no land deals have been negotiated for 15 years. Negro Train Robbers Get $600. FORT WORTH, Tex., March 22. It has been determined that two unknown ne groes are gulRy of the robbery of the ex press car on the International & Great Northern Railroad near Elkhart last night. Officials today say the bandits secured J600. Only One "BROMO QUTNTXE" That 1 LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine. Simi larly named remedies sometimes deceive. The first and original Cold Tablet is a WHITH PACKAGE with black and red lettering, and beax tb. signature of E. W. GROVE, 25c A new baby the People's Press. At all news stands today. 5c copy. $1.50 Handbags 98c These bags come in all colors they 're well made and good shapes. The regular price is $1.50 each, but we'ra going to sell juit about 100 today at, each... OS CARD CASES, in seal or walrus, a fine quality that sell regularly for $1.00; special 83 IHRSnHHHHIj WRITE FOR OUR NEW SPRING CATALOGUE 65c Beads for 49c PEARL BEAD NECK CHAINS Beads are graduated sizes, with plated catch, and regularly 65c each; special for today.... .49 TIE PINS-Sterling silver, various unique and artistic designs val ues that run up to 75c each; spe cial today 19 Let Us Show You Children's Coats Smart garments for little ladies from 6 to 14 years of age. Come in cloth or silk, mostly the long, loose styles, in plain colors or fancy patterns. New shipments bring the assortment up to perfection and make shopping here a pleasure if you're looking for correctness in styles and smallness in prices. Misses' Junior Suits, very styl ish, jaunty little Eton and jacket- style suits for misses frem 10 to 14 years of age, in the plain cloths or fancy mixtures. The jacket styles are splendid models of the more mannish styles and materials, while the Eton suits are daintily rich affairs, trimined with lace and braid, and cut in the most graceful lines. We invite the discriminating mothers of Port land to come and look over the assortments. 'Tis Good Economy to Buy, Children's Shoes Here Today $1.89 $1.59 MISSES' AND CHILDREN'S SHOES, in button, blucher or plain lace style, light or heavy soles; patent tips and bright or dull Kid. tops. Young women's Shoes, sizes 2 to 7, worth to $2.50; spe cial .' MISSES' SHOES, sizes liy2 to 2, worth to $2.00; special CHILDREN'S SHOES, sizes 8'2 to 11, worth to $1.75 the pair $1.39 Sizes 5 to 8, worth $1.50 pair $1.19 BOYS' SHOES, light or heavy-weight calfskin, plain kid or tan leather, blucher or regular lace styles ; fine for school or dress wear; for Saturday, 22 to 5V, $2.50 values $1.89 Youths', $1 to $2 values $1.59 9 to 1312, $1-75 values $1.39 MISSES' AND CHILDREN'S SHOES, plain or patent leathers; good assortment of styles; light or heavy soles; button or lace. All sizes aud widths: 21. to 7, worth to $3.00, pair $2,29 liy2 to 2, $2.50 value .-..$,1.89 8i2 to 11, $2.25 value $1.69 Child's 5 to 8, $2.00 value $1.49 FREE Souvenir Pocket Mirror to Everyone Who Visits Our Shoe Department Saturday MISSES' SHOES Odd sizes, several styles, light or heavy soles; patent or plain kid leathers, and sizes 11, 1, IY2 and 2 only, worth to $1.75 Q Q pair; special 7 7 1 INFANTS' AND CHILDREN'S SHOES, lace or button style; plain or patent kid leather, with colored tops; sizes 1 to 8; values to $1.25, (SQg special OCrC 3Sc Boys' Waists 25c Good heavy weight, light or dark colorings, blouse style, in neat stripes anjl figures; regular 35c values; special for Sat- tyCZf urclay, only iiJZ BOYS' "MOTHERS' FRIEND" BLOUSE WAISTS, new arrivals, in dark grounds with light stripes, white grounds with fancy stripes and figures, plain shades in light, dark or medium ma terials, gingham, percale and ma dras. Nearly all stores sell these waists for 75c; we sell (iff them for 65c and Notion Aisle f-, BACKCOMBS, new lot, gold-' mounted, shell combs, in unusual ly pleasing designs and qualities that sell regularly for 50c each; special for Saturday, each SHINOLA Shoe Polish and Pol ishing Outfit, consisting of sheep skin polisher, dauber and box of polish; special, the 25 C GARDEN SEEDS-Now's the time for planting, and here's a speeial for Saturday. Flower and vegetable seeds, the kind that grow. Special Saturday, two packages , WAXED PAPER, 24 sheets A -in roll; special, the roll..... C HAIR BRUSHES, pure Of)n bristles, 50c values OlC Men! Buy 50c Ties for 29c Beautiful Easter Neckwear, in the most pleasing patterns, the most taste ful coloring and the nicest silks EXTREMELY GOOD 50 NECK WEAR not 25c goods advertised as 50c qualities; same grades we had two weeks -ago, but more and even better patterns. Now we have another shipment, and we'll take care of thVfellows that failed to take advantage of the first offering. Be prompt, though; you've plenty of patterns, colors and all that to select from early in the sale, and yon COULDN'T be dis appointed; but if you put it off, you're liable to get left again. By far the greatest necktie sale you've had a chance to attend; an assortment of nearly five thousand again, in the richest silks, light and dark shades, ties for dress or business wear. No better 50-cent' values made by any neckwear house, and these sell for only Iff 1 2 c All $1.25 Fancy Silks 98c Yard Any Dollar-and-a-Qaarter Fancy Silk in the Store It's a bargain that fairly takes one's breath away. Just think of itt An opportunity to choose at will from this magnificent assortment of fancy silks at $1.25 the yard. We have easily 175 pieces in the lot, and there are some of the prettiest patterns that were ever woven. Stripes, dots, checks, hairline stripes, broche effects, etc., in light or dark colorings ; every shade or figure on could desire. Also plaids, in Scotch and French effects; silks for every purpose in the lot. Now come and choose from among these many miles of silks; save 27e on each yard. Special Saturday 98c COLORED DRESS GOODS, new Spring Sut ings, iu novelty effects, 44 to 54 inches wide ; in checks, stripes and invisible plaids, in medium shades or light colorings. Regular values $1.50 to $1.75 the yard. d1 OO Special Saturday tpl.O BLACK; DRESS GOODS A new shipment of Black Panamas, the very popular weave for tfie coming season. These goods are the grade that sell for $1.75 to $2.00 regularly. Special for Saturday you'll C 1 pb have to' pay us but P 3 Specials in Horn efit tings Fourth Floor White Wool Blankets of extra fine quality ; , size 70x84 inches, and regu larly worth $5.50: spe .cial $4.50 Portieres, heavy tapestry, in decidedly attractive Oriental patterns, and regularly worth $4.50 pair, special $3.49 Smyrna Rugs, size 30x60 ins., all wool, double faced; a regular $2.75 value; special here, each $1.95 Art Dept. ASSORTED SIZES, in center-' pieces and scarfs, with deep hem stitched border and fancy Japan ese drawnwork. Selling this way, special: Regular ...$1.50 $2.00 $2.75 $5.50 Special ....$1.00 $1.34 $1.83 $3.67 CHILDREN'S SKIRTS, of fine cambri", with deep double ruffle of same material, finished with two clusters of tucks; sizes 4 to 14 years; Worth 65c, 68c and 71c, at... 54 Worth 74c, 77c and 80c, at. . .63 WARNING BY ROOT Tells Central Americans War Must Cease. March 18 an army of 500 Salvadorians and 100 Hondurians attacked the Nica raguan vanguard near Namasiquo, Hon duras. The battle lasted three days, re sulting in the complete rout of the Salvadorians. who lost 1000 killed. Nica ragua has 20.000 men at the front and will commence an Immediate attack on Choluteca and Tegucigalpa." EUROPE MAY INTERVENE Nicaragua!! Navy Has Seized Every Fort In Honduras Allies Suffer Crushing: Defeat March on Capital Is Threatened. WASHINGTON, March 22- Senor Corea, the Nicaraguan Minister, has received a cablegram from his govern ment confirming the press report to the effect that the Nicaraguan navy has captured Ceiba. The naval ves sels are now on their way to Puerto Cortez, where they probably will re peat their success at Ceiba, and, as Trujillo already has fallen into the hands of Nicaragua practically the whole of the coast of Honduras is now In their possession. The movement for intervention is gaining strength and Assistant Secre tary of State Bacon today received calls from Senor Calvo. the Minister from Costa Rica, and Senor Corea. It is understood that he strongly im pressed npon his callers the wisdom of speedily terminating the present state of warfare in Central America, as it promises to involve all of the other republics and is almost certain, if pro longed, to lead to the presence in their waters of European naval vessels with possible intervention. KILLED 1000 IX LONG BATTLE Nicaraguans Will Now Attack Chief Cities of Honduras. WASHINGTON, March 22. The State Department received the following dis patch today from the American Consul at Managua, Nicaragua: . 'This government reports that on Doctors Hope for Arbitration. PARIS, March 22. The International Medical Association for the Suppres sion of War, now In session here, today adopted a resolution in favor of The Hague peace conference, congratulat ing President Roosevelt on tendering nis arbitration to Nicaragua and Hon duras, felicitating the coming Ameri can National arbitration and peace con ference and inviting the universities and labor organizations to participate in the work of peace. party. The proposition was carried unanimously. OIL OPERATOR IN PRISON Son of Pittsburg Millionaire Charged With Bigamy in South. SAPULPA, I. T., March 22. Ward M. Snyder, son of Nicholas Snyder, a mil lionaire oil operator of Pittsburg, Pa., was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury here today on a charge of bigamy. He was committed to the Federal jail in Muskogee in default of $2,000 bond. The indictment against young Snyder was returned on evidence given by Jeanette Killlan, a beautiful woman whom he married here in January. She says Snyder has another wife living, from. whom he has not been divorced. Snyder's father has refused . to assist him in any way. D0UMA UNITED FOR ONCE Stolypin Joins Democrats In Favor of Famine Relief. ST. PETERSBURG, March' 22. After a Jong debate today in the lower house of Parliament on the formation of famine relief commissions as proposed by the Constitutional Democrats, Pre mier Stolypin announced that the gov ernment fully joined in the proposi tion and would give full assistance to the work of the commissions. The Pre mier admitted the government made many mistakes. This announcement was the first ap proval by the government of the pol icy of the Constitutional Democratic TERRORISTS PICK OFF ENEMIES Three Police and Prison Officials Killed in One Day. KUTAIS, Russia. March '22. A police captain named Kipanidzo was shot dead here tonight. ASTRAKHAN. Russia, March 22. Prison warden Prebyzloffsky was shot and killed today. A captain of police hur ried to the scene to investigate the mur der and was also killed. No arrests have been made. Acquitted of Resisting Police. ST. PETERSBURG?, March 22. T student Yanovitzky has been tried by court-martial and acquitted of the charges against him. All the Russian universities Interceded In his behalf. Last January the St. Petersburg po lice raided a revolutionary stronghold, but met with such strenuous resistance from the revolutionaries that they were obliged to withdraw with the loss of three men. Subsequently Yanovitzky was arrested in connection with the affair and charged with armed resist ance. It was proved that the student was only accidentally present at the time and did not participate In the shooting, but in spite of this he was selected by the police as the culprit. Mrs. Page's Gift to Orchestra. CHICAGO, March 22. The Chicago Or chestral Association has been given $50,000 by Mrs. Florence Lalhrop Page, of Washington, D. C. The money is to be placed in trust and the income used for the benefit of the association. OWN "YOUR OWN HOME ITSI .Rose Qty Rark n an vi.a T-sJ- Made in New York YOU don't need to go to New York for the correct New York Styles in Men's Clothing. Buy New York Clothes right here in town. Alfred Benjamin & Co. send tne same iasmon ably designed and splendidly tailor- merchant who sells their Correct Clothes for Men in this city as they make for the best dressed men of New York. Correct Clothes for Men Exclusive Agent Here. Buffum & Pendleton Co., Inc. 311 Morrison St.