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Newspaper Page TextTIIE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2G, 1919. PEACE OR CONFLICT HELD LEAGUE ISSUE Hitchcock Predicts All Na tions May Prepare to Fight. ONLY ONE REMEDY SEEN Nebraska Senator Pictures World of Disorder and Dismay if Ratification Fails. BALTIMORE. Md.. Sept. 25. (Spe cial.) With the declaration that the world has never been confronted by so stupendous an issue as the peace treaty and league of nations. Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, who is leading the fight for ratification in the sen ate, made a plea for the treaty with out amendment or reservation before the Baltimore Press club tonight. "I regret," said Senator Hitchcock, "that the issue has become involved in national polities in a partisan sense. It is a question too large and too vital to be made partisan. "The history of the world is a his tory of wars and temporary, pea'ce settlements. The question now is whether we can make this peace set tlement permanent, whether we can reform international relations and do away with wars which have cursed the earth in the past. To my mind the issue is plain. It is peace with a league of nations or it is a continua tion of the old programme of war without sr league. War Preparations Forecaift. "If this present effort to establish the league of nations fails, the world will return to war conditions. Every nation will resume preparations for war. No intelligent man will be will ing to have his nation remain unpre pared as long as war is to be on the programme. "It is not a question of having this league or a better one, it is a ques tion of having this league or none. If this league fails, brought forth as it has been by the terrible . exigencies as all the advantage of an interna tional council arranging the terms of peace, never in our (lay need we expect to see a serious effort made to create a league of nations. Dis couragement and dismay will eettle over the world. Lawlessness and dis order will hold possession in vast areas of the earth and an opportunity will be given to resume the dreams of conquest that have for the time being been shattered. league Held Only Remedy. "There can be no possible doubt that the world wants to get rid of war. The next thing to realize is that this league of nations now be fore the United States is not only a remedy for war but it is the only remedy that is proposed. There is no other. Its critics suggest no other way; they predict no other. It is this or nothing if we want to prevent war. "The attempt to defeat the league of nations has developed along sev eral very well-defined lines. "First By an appeal to a distorted and false Americanism. In this ef fort the pretense is made that the league does not protect the Monroe doctrine; that it impairs the sover eign powers of congress; that it per mits the council of the .league to force us into war, and that it drags domes tic questions, like immigration and tariff, into the realm of international decisions, subject to its jurisdiction. This is an unqualified misrepresenta tion of the league. AMNtiinptionM Branded False. "Second It asserts the bold false hood that article 10 of the league will involve us in all European wars and make it necessary to send our boys to take part in them. "The first part of this misrepresen tation consists in tne assumption that there will be frequent wars, where as the pledges and guarantees which the members give to settle disputes by lawful methods make this assump tion a reckless misrepresentation. The league provisions will make wars growing out of disputes highly im probable. "When the Monroe doctrine was promulgated and our republic notified the old world that we would treat as an act of war on us any attack on any one of the little nations of the western hemisphere there were some who condemned it just as critics now condemn article 10, but it has never cost us a man nor a dollar. Instead of leading to war it lead to peace just as article 10 will." H. Gary, chairman of the board of the j United States Steel corporation, that he would appear before the committee Senator Kenyon replied that Judge Gary had telephoned him that ha would be present Wednesday and add ed that "until that time we will not question his being here." Rubin requested that the committee place in the record correspondence be tween Joseph P. Tumulty, secretary to the president; Samuel Gompers, pres ident of the American Federation of Labor, and Chairman Fitzpatrick re garding efforts to postpone the strike. Senator Kenyon asked Rubin to read the telegrams and letters, which al ready have been published. Kitzpatrick opened his statement with what he said was a brief history of labor conditions in the steel in dustry. "With the creation of the steel cor poration a campaign was begun with the object of pushing organized work ers out of the mills," he said. "A great cum of money, I don't know whether it was $2,000,000 or J20.000.000, was appropriated. In recent years labor has begun to realize the tremendous importance of the steel industry and its influence on other industry. Organization Held tcfarr. . "While we were getting the eight hour day and better working condi tions elsewhere, the steel mills still operated with .very long hours and with wages below the proper line. Labor understood then the necessity of organizing the steel industry for the purpose of controlling its effects on others and at the last two con ventions of the Federation of Labor the step was authorized." Fitzpatrick said representatives of 24 international unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor met in Chicago about a 5' ear ago and appointed, a campaign committee to organize the steel workers. Samuel Gompers was elected chairman and William Z. Foster secretary. Men and money, the witness said, were as sembled, but funds were so limited that the initial organization efforts were confined to the Calumet dis trict, including Chicago and Gary, Ind. "The men in the steel mills." Fitz patrick continued, "were looking for relief. They had no hope. They re sponded in large numbers and it was only a short time until we had a very successful organization." "Up to that time there had been no unionism in the steel mills?" asked Clwiirman Kenyon. T'.o," FitzpatricV LEGION PLEADS FOR DISABLED SOLDIERS Work of Federal Board Held Far From Satisfactory. RADICAL CHANGES URGED Elaborate and Duplieatory System, It Is Said, Causes Delay and Disheartens ex-Service Men. E- GARY HELD RESPONSIBLE (Continued From First Pas occurence led to sharjj questioning by senators. "Do you feel that the cteel com pany officials directly, ordered the killing of this woman?" asked Senator Sterling, republican. South Dakota. "Yes, I do," Fitzpatrick responded. "Think they had a meeting and de cided upon murder?" "Oh, I don't think they passed a motion and left a record, if that's what you mean." ' Elsewhere in the steel industry, the witness said, striking workers were meeting with fair treatment. Fitzpatrick said organization of the steel industry had been decided upon by the American Federation of Labor because it was a "bad spot in the in dustrial situation." with the men forced to work long hours at small wages and under bad conditions." Labor's Demands Cited. With the actual calling of the strike, a list of 12 demands had been made upon which the 24 unions had combined, Fitzpatrick said. These de mands included recognition of collec tive bargaining, - the eight-hour day. reinstatement with pay of all men discharged for union activities and adoption of the "check off" system, by which the companies would collect union dues from the men. Wages were not specifically mentioned. On this last subject Fitzpatrick had two views. "The industry pays less than paupers get," he said at one .point, but several times later he as serted that money was not the issue. Conditions Held Terrible. "It's conditions," he declared; "the hours are terrible, the men tell us. The conditions are awful. Their women want more happiness." Referring to $60 a day as the wage drawn by highly skilled steel work ers, Fitzpatrick said this was "a mere pittance for the work they do." Aver age wages, he said, were around 40 cents an hour. WASHINGTON, Sept. 25. "The 350, 000 men on strike are going to de mand from the United States goverrt ment justice, decent justice," said John Fitzpatrick, director-general of the steel strike, on arriving from Pittsburg today. He hurried to the ' senate committee room, which was crowded with senators, representa tives and others. He was accom panied by William H. Rubin, counsel for the steel strikers, who, at the out set of the hearing, asked what assur- trick replied. "About that time October, 1918 the steel corporation was resorting to every effort to obstruct action on the part of the men or of labor organization to spread their influence. They an nounced establishment of the eight hour day, and we knew that was an effort to prevent our organization." Senator Jones, democrat. New Mex ico, asked whether the employes had made application to the American Federation of Labor for organization or whether the movement had been initiated by the American Federation of Labor. Federation Starts Move. "The American Federation of Labor initiated the movement," Fitzpatrick replied. "Was there no movement of the men inviting the organization?"-asked Senator Jones. "No; only as the men met In dif ferent localities and expressed their desires." "Why was it incumbent on the American Federation of Labor to or ganize the steel industry?" Senator Jones asked. "It was a bad spot in the industrial situation," Fitzpatrick replied. "In the steel industry the hours are long. the wages small and the treatment- you can t describe tne treatment. These conditions, he added, led other large employers to consider imposing similar conditions on their employes, and so for the benefit jt organized workmen everywhere in.he country organization of the steeljUidustry was deemed essential by the leaders of the labor movement. Gary Refuses Conference. The first effort to obtain a confer ence with Judge Gary was made last May, the witness said. This was by the tin workers. "They received an answer stating that the corporation would not meet the re'presentatives of labor," said Fitzpatrick. After the steel situation had been discussed at the June convention of the American Federation of Labor, President Gompers wrote Chairman Gary, Fitzpatrick said, adding: "That letter was ignored absolutely. There was no reply." In continuing the steel workers' or ganization, Fitzpatrick said the union organizers were "jailed and opposed in every possible way. Finally on July 20, he said, the 24 steel unions' representatives decided to take a strike vote of the men. "The organization responded unani mously" the witness continued. "Did you have the total number of men who voted on the strike?" asked Senator Wolcott, democrat. Delaware. "No. each union got its own figures and reported whatever per cent had voted for the strike. The average of the 24 unions was 98 per cent." Fitzpatrick said one-fifth of the men in the steel industry were In the union when the vote was taken, but added that "when the workers saw hope, 50,000 more joined." Asked as to the number now affil iated, he said 340,000 had joined the strike. "We authorized a committee to ap proach Judge Gary and get a con ference," he said. "He sent word asking to be excused from a personal interview, but saying we could sub mit our proposals in writing. We did so, and got a letter from him saying that he did not consider us to be representatives of the men." NEW TORK, Sept. 25. Changes In the operation of the federal board for vocational education which the American Legion regards as essential in order that disabled veterans may secure the benefits intended for them are recommended in the second in stallment of the legion's investigation of the board, which is published today in the American Legion Weekly. These recommendations will be taken up by the legion's legislative committee in Washington. The article says: Before the federal board for voca tional education can hope to redeem itself in the eyes of the nation and the disabled veteran it has neglected, it must vast the beam from its own eye. Congress has made its amends, tardy though they be, and has placed in the hands of the board a workable law. The war risk insurance bureau, at whose door has been laid the blame for much of the bungling in justice of the old regime, no lonerer Ms a party to the rehabilitation of crippiea iignting men. Road Is Plainly Marked. The road to redemption is broad and plainly marked. The board must hew its way through the jungle of in competence, negligence and martinet adherence to petty regulations, and dispense justice, not alms, to the nation's veteran disabled. To achieve this, six principal steps may be sug gested : 1. Decentralization of the board organization. Broader powers and responsibilities should be given the district offices, and duplication of work by these offices and the central office at Washington should cease. Z. Closer anU earlier contact estab lished with men in hospit Is. This will, strengthen their morale and shorten, if not eliminate, the delay between the time men leave the hos pital and the time they begin train ing. 3. Redemption of old promises. The glowing pledges the board made in the early days of its existence, neg lect during its incompetent career under the old law, and finally re pudiated after the amended law be came effective on July 11, must be redeemed. 4. Broader interpretation of sec tion three of the Vocational Rehabili tation law. The board's narrow view of the act denies the benefits 6f vo cational education to men who find it impossible to support themselves while training on the scanty awards of the war risk insurance bureau. 5. More liberal provision in the matter of medical attention for men eligible for training under section 2 of the law. 6. Immediate revocation of articles In regulations which instruct board agents to send crippled men and their dependents to seek aid of public charities. . Simpler Procedure l i -ed. Before cases of disabled men can be disposed of with anything ap proaching reasonable promptitude, the board must dismantle and simplify its elaborate executive and adminis trative machine. More authority must be reposed with the 14 district offices, which are situated in the principal cities of the 14 districts into which the country has been divided. Detail work in ordinary cases must be ac- SAYS IT'S GRAND, "I'm Always Going to Keep a Bottle of Tanlac in My House," She Says. "This Tanlac is the grandest medi cine I have ever seen or heard of," was the statement made by Mrs. Edith Hennessy of 105 Harrison street, Seattle. Wash. 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"I read in tho paper where Tanlac had given such wonderful results In a case that nearly described mine so I decided to try It. And to my complete surprise I began to get bet ter at once, and now I feel like an other woman. I have taken three bottles of Tanlac and have been en tirely restored to health and 1 can now enjoy life. My nerves are calm and I have no pains whatever In my stomach. I have forgotten how it feels to have a hea'ache or dizzy spell. I started to gain in weight at once and am gaining all the time. My appetite is better than ever and I can hardly get enough to .eat. My hus band says he is afraid I will eat him out of house and home. I am nor en joying a good night's sleep every night. I am always goli-S 10 Keep Tanlac In my home." Tanlac is sold In lortlaa oy tne Owl -Drug company. Adv. compllshed within these districts and within a reasonable length of time, and not transmitted laboriously through channels to Washington and then back to the districts again. This elaborate and dirplicatory sys tem has tended to produce the delays which have so disheartened the maimed ex-service man and bereft him of faith in the board. It was suggested to Dr'. C. A. Prosser, direc tor of the board, that if the district offices had power to place men in training much delay would be elim inated. He excused the present sys tem with the statement that he did not feel he had capable enough men in the district offices to shoulder this l esponsibility. Considering the sal aries the district men draw, some people will find this hard to understand. VON BRINCKEN TO FIGHT Imprisoned German Attache Re sists Deportation Move. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25. A tran script of the testimony before Henry White, commissioner of immigration at Seattle, In the deportation case of Wilhelm von Brincken, former mili tary attache of the German consulate here, who is serving a term at Mc Neil's island for unneutral acts, is on its way here for perusal by Henry Owens, Von Brincken's attorney. Owens announced here today. The transcript Is being, sent to Edward White, commissioner of immigration here. Owens expected to make a vigorous I effort to prevent Von Brincken's de portation, he announced. POSLAM STOPS FIERY STING . OF ECZEMA "Just what my skin needed." will be your conviction after Poslam has been spread gently over your itching eczema. Unless you have ever tried Poslam you haven't the faintest idea how surely it works how quickly it soothes and smoothes out all skin ailments. You don't know its control over the fiery pangs of eczema or stubborn acne and other, blemishes. Put Poslam to the test. 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