THE 3IOKNIXG OREGOXIAN, SATURDAY, i, .919.
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GOMPERS PREDICTS
SPREAD OF STRIKE
Injunction Likely to Force
New Issues, Says Chief.
OPERATORS ARE BLAMED
History of Case Is Reviewed in
Statement That Says Living
Cost Is Basis of Trouble.
"WASHINGTON. Oct. 31. Samuel
Gompera, speaking tonight for organ
ized labor, declared the injunction In
the coal strike case "can only result
in creating new and more disturbing
issues which may not be confined
solely to the miners."
The statement issued jointly by Mr.
Gompera, Vice-President Woll and
Secretary Morrison of the federation,
after they- had protested to Attorney
General Palmer the action of the fed
eral district of Indianapolis, follows:
"Throughout the period of the war
and during the nation's time of stress
the miners of America labored pa
tiently, patriotically and arduously in
order that the principles of freedom
and democracy might triumph over
the forces of arbitrary authority, dic
tatorship and despotism.
"When armed hostilities ceased last
November the miners found them
selves in the paradoxical position
where their intensive labor was being
used to enrich further the owners of
coal mines and merchants dealing in
coal, by the immediate reduction of
the mining of the coal. Of course, the
mind owners readily conceived that
an overabundance of mined coal
would seriously disturb the high
prices of coal and endanger their
large margin of profits.
Limit Is Hearhed.
"On the other "hand, the miners
found that with the constantly rising
cost of necessities of life and with
their income reduced more than 50
per cent because of idleness they had
reached the limit of human endurance.
Orderly and improved processes were
invoked to negotiate a new under
standing with the mine owners and
which would enable the miners to
work at least five days during each
week throughout the entire year and
allow them a wage sufficient to en
able them to live in decency and free
from many of the pressing uncertain
ties of life.
"In attempting to negotiate this
new understanding and relation, the
miners found that their plea for con
tinuous employment would destroy
the mine owners' arrangements to
curtail the mining of coal so as to
continue exploiting the public with
high and exorbitant prices.
"The mine owners very cleverly
met the issue by appearing willing
and anxious to negotiate, but only if
the miners would first throw aside
the only power at their command to
gain a respectful hearing and fair
consideration the decision to strike
whenever it was demonstrated fair
dealings did not prevail.
U. S. Course Criticised.
"We are now faced with a coal
strike of vast magnitude. The gov
ernment now proposes to intervene
because of a possible coal shortage.
Apparently the government is not
concerned with the manipulation by
the mine owners "which has made for
present coal shortage and undue un
employment of the miners for the past
11 months. Instead of dealing with
those responsible for this grave men
ace to the public welfare it now pro
poses to punish those who by force
tims of the coal barons' exploitations.
The miners are now told the war is
not over and that all war legislation
is still in effect and if reports re
ceived here are correct the govern
ment intends to apply existing war
measures, not against the owners of
the coal mines, but against the coal
miners. The government has taken
steps to enforce war measures by an
injunction and it has restrained the
officials of the United Mine Workers
from counseling, aiding or in any way
assisting the members of this organi
zation for relief against grievous con
ditions of life and employment.
Oppression la C'hargrd.
"It is almost inconceivable that a
government which is proud of its par
ticipation in a great war to liberate
suppressed peoples should now under
take to suppress the legitimate aims,
hopes and aspirations of a group of its
own people. It is still more strange
that a nation which may justly be
proud of its Abraham Lincoln should
now reverse the application of the
great truth he enunciated when he
said that as between capital and labor,
labor should receive first and fore
most consideration.
"The injunction against the United
Mine Workers bodes for ill. An in
junction of this nature will not pre
vent the strike it will not fill the
empty stomachs of the miners it
may restrain sane leadership, but will
give added strength to unwise coun
sel and increase bitterness and fric
tion. "This injunction can only result in
creating new and more disturbing is
sues which may not be confined solely
to the miners. These views were pre
sented to Attorney-General Palmer in
a conference this afternoon lasting
nearly two hours by President Gomp
ers. Secretary Morrison and Vice
President Won of the American Fed
eration of Labor."
HITCHCOCK BLOCKS ACTION
(Continued Fropi First pa ge. )
is the one which will probably be
adopted. This plan would close all
debate on November 12 after which
voting would begin without further
discussion and proceed until all
amendments and reservations are out
of the way. This would mean a final
vote on the treaty about November
15 or 20.
Washington opinion is divided on
the question of whether there will be
a coal strike. Some officials say that
the violent statement issued by Presi
dent Lewis of the mine workers, was
only the swan song of a dying cause,
but others say it had fight In it and
that there will be no putting down of
the strike without using the full pow
ers of the government.
Labor Belabors Wilson.
The bitter attack of Lewis on the
president was being re-echoed in
Washington today by radicals of all
types who have heretofore sung Mr.
Wilson's praises, in season and out.
as the friend of labor. Why these per
sons expressed so much bitterness to
ward Mr. Wilson was not apparent be
cause in the same breath they ac
cused him of absolute mental irre
sponsibility and declared that the
ringing challenge to the mine work
ers' leaders last Saturday night was
written by Franklin K. Lane, secre
tary oi the interior, and that the pres
ident never saw it. Another slurring
remark was that Secretary Tumulty
wrote the veto message of Monday on
the prohibition bill without consult
ing his chief.
But one thing is sure. Whoever is
holding the reins of the government
today, whether it -be Mr. Wilson, Sec
retary Lane, Attorney-General Palm
er or Joe Tumulty, he is hold'ng them
tp.ut. He is neither halting nor turn
ing to the side of the road. All of
the machinery of the government with
public opinion behind it is moving and
moving more rapidly than anyone
knows, to stop this strike.
There is lus'le and hurrying in all
the executive branches of the govern
ment as if Uncle Sam were rolling up
his sleeves for a new war, and the old
man, it cannot be questioned, means
business.
General Pershing's testimony be
fore the senate and house joint com
mittees on military affairs today was
a. hard jolt to Secretary Baker and
the chief-of-staff. It was unex
pected. Some said there was politics
in it, but admitted that it was good
politics.
The surprise wa3 that General
Pershing should turn against his I
chiefs in the war department, who I
picked him for the one great big j
honor overseas and indorse the plan
originated by Theodore Roosevelt
and since advocated by General
Leonard Wood, Senator Chamberlain
and Representative Julius Kahn. As
other press dispatches show, he dis
approved the war department bill
calling for an army of 567,000 men,
favoring instead an army of 275 to
300,000 supported by a system of uni
versal military training. He said spe
cifically in answer' to questions from
Senator Chamberlain that he favored
universal military training as the
safest and surest method of defense
and the least militaristic of all na
tional defense plans,
DAKOTHTOThELO UP
MIXERS GET ORDERS AT LATE
HOUR TO STAV OS JOBS.
Operation by State Discussed; Man
Other Cities Report Thousands
of Men Walking Out.
BISMARCK, N. D., Oct. 11. Within
a few hours of midnight, the time set
for the strike of bituminous miners,
every union locaj in North Dakota
tonight received instructions to re
main at work until further orders.
Official explanation of this action
was lacking. The order came from
Henry Drennan, district president of
the United Mine Workeis of America,
and was considered here to mean
that the miners were willing to dis
cuss with Governor Frazier his pro
posal that the state operate the mines
by arrangement with the men during
the strike.
Irving Matthias, secretary of the
local union at Wilton, the biggest
coal town in the state, said tonight
that he had been unable to obtain
any explanation of the order, but
that the men there would remain at
work.
MUSKOGEE, Okla., Oct. 31. Orders
were telegraphed tonight from head
Quarters of District No. 21, United
Mine Workers of America here, call
ing upon all miners in Oklahoma, Ar
kansas and Texas to obey the strike
call at midnight.
PADUCAH, Ky Oct. 31. Coal mine
operators in this city tonight declared
that the strike of bituminous coal
miners set for midnight would in no
way affect the West Kentucky fields.
Officials of the St. Charles mines,
offices in Paducah, said ttiat the
operators had signed an agreement
with the miners six weeks ago which
forbids them to participate in the
present strike.
BELLEVILT.R Til . ;i a
proximately ll.Onn minora omnln.,..
oj 70 collieries in this sub-district.
m"-i. 1 mmeni. i nere is no sur
plus of coal supply for public use at
any of the mines here, it was said.
4 0,000 EXPECTED TO STRIKE
Head of Ohio Miners Announces
Writ Will Se Ignored.
COLUMBUS, O., Oct. 31. Approxi
mately 40,000 soft toal miners in Ohio
will go out on strike tomorrow de
spite the injunction issued against the
strike at Indianapolis today by Fed
eral Judge Anderson, according to
President John Moore of the United
Mine Workers of Ohio.
Mr. Moore said he had received a
telegram from John L. Lewis, acting
president of the United Mine Workers
of America, saying that the strike
order issued October 15. will become
efective at midnight tonight.
He declared that state officials of
the union have no power to call off
a strike called by the national head
quarters. Many miners in the east
ern Ohio coal fields, nuit work today.
Reports stated that at Bellaire more
than 500 miners quit work and that
100 or more had lert the mines near
St. Clairsville.
President Moore and other officials
of the miners declare that as the
Ohio fields are 100 per cent organized,
the miners' strike will absolutely stop
the production of coal in Ohio.
They indicated that the strike will
be the most gigantic contest between
capital and labor ever staged in Ohio
and that it will be a fight to the
finish.
"Instead of 80 per cent foreigners,
Ohio miners are more than 80 per cent
naturalized Americans," said one of
ficial. Injunction Is Defied.
CHICAGO, Oct. 31. District No. 14
of the United Mine Workers of
America, with a membership of ap
proximately 13,000 in Kansas and
part of Missouri, will be tied up 100
per cent by tomorrow morning, ac
cording to a message received today
by Alexander Howat, president of
the district, from August Dorchy,
vice-president with headquarters at
Pittsburg, Kan.
"They say America is a democracy,"
asserted Mr. Howat. "Now is the
time for a showdown. The govern
ment's injunction does not alarm us."
Ohio Men Go Out.
BRIDGEPORT, O., Oct. 31. That
more than 3000 eastern Ohio miners
did not work today is indicated by
reports of the larger companies to
night. One mine in Barton, which nor
mally loads 900 tons daily, only mined
50 tons, it is reported.
Catholics Celebrate Today.
"Feast of All Saints," a holy day
of obligation, will be observed by
the Catholic church today. At St.
Mary's pro-Cathedral masses will be
held at the following hours 7:15,
8:30 and 9:45 o'clock in the morning -
and a special low mass at 12:30
o'clock this noon to enable working
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MINERS SILENCED BY
RESTRAINING
ER
Executive Board Unable to
Issue Final Message.
18 LEADERS ARE SERVED
Order of Court So Sweeping as to
Prevent Men Named From
Addressing Meetings.
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., Oct. 31. The
strike of bituminous miners went into
effect tonight with the national head
quarters here of the United Mine
Workers of America silenced by a re
straining order issued today by Judge
A. B. Anderson of the federal district
court. No "last word" or other mes
sages to the members of the union
could be issued by the executive board
or officers of the organization and
they only smiled grimly when this
fact was brought to their attention.
While the strike order was effective
at midnight, most of the men who
were following it quit work with the
ending of the day shift. Midnight
was selected for the official hour
merely because it marked the begin
ning of November l,xn which date the
Cleveland convention had decreed that
the war-time wage agreement of the
miners should terminate.
Deputies of Mark Storem, United
States marshal of Indiana, were busy
all afternoon serving notice of the
restraining order on union officials
who had been missed in the general
roundup at noon when the meeting of
the unions' executive board was in
vaded. 18 Leaders Served.
Eighteen of the union leaders were
served. The writs made effective the
order which C. B. Ames, assistant attorney-general,
had presented to the
federal court and which restrained the
defendants from issuing any mes
sages, oral or written, that the strike
is to be enforced as previously an
nounced; from issuing any further
strike orders or messages of encour
agement or exhortation and from dis
tributing any strike benefits.
The order was so sweeping that
Judge Ames explained that it would
prevent any of the men named in
the bill from addressing mass meet
ings. The petition by the government,
upon which tbe order was based,
charged that the union men were
conspiring to limit the facilities for
the production of coal and to restrict
the supply and distribution of the
fuel. The writ accordingly command
ed them to refrain from continuing
the elleged conspiracy.
War Act Still In Force.
The petition emphasized that the
suit was based upon a wartime act
under which the government took
over control of the fuel and food
supplies and also pointed out that the
strike would cause cessation of trans
portation and thus throw back upon
the public treasury the burden of
paying the guaranteed incomes which
the government contracted to pay the
railroads when It took control of
them. It was also brought out that
the act in question specifically pro
vided tnat it was to continue in force
until the end of the state of war had
been proclaimed by the president.
AiLUKCLiier leaaers or tne big
coal miners' union were named in the
restraining order. Federal marshals
here had names of 25 men to serve in
Indianapolis and reached 18.
The names of the 18 follow:
John L. Lewis, acting president;
William Green, secretary-treasurer;
Percy Tetlow, statistician; Ellis
Searles, editor of the Mine Workers'
Journal; John Wilkinson, district
president of district No. 21. Mukoi
Okla., and the following members of
tne executive board :
John O'Leary, Pittsburg: A. R.
Watkins, Yorkvllle, O.; J. M. Ferry,
Hazelton, Pa.; Lawrence Bramlet!
Diamond. Ind.; J. J. Mates, Williams
town, Pa.; W. D. Van Horn. Terre
Haute, jnd.; Samuel Ballantyne,
Boone, la.: Frank Walters, Jellico,
Tenn.; William Dalrymple, McAIester,
Okla.; Hugh McLeod, Acme, Wyo.;
George Baker, Central City, Ky.;
Andrew Steele, Novinger, Mo., and G
L. Peck. Pittsburgh, Kan.
All Presidents Affected.
In addition to these men the order
named all other executive board mem
bers, district presidents and secre
taries of the various districts, includ
ing officials of anthracite and Cana
dian districts. unaffected by the
strike. It was stated by L. E. Slack,
United States district attorney for
Indiana, that to reach the men resi
dent outside the Indiana federal dis
trict, it would be necessary to hrlnir
ancillary proceedings in the various
jurisdictions.
Mr. Slack was left in charge of the
government's case shortly after it be
came evident that the union would
make no immediate move in resist
ance to It. Judge Amen left for Wash
Sample Ballot for Special
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Special Municipal Election,
City of Portland, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 1919
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PRECINCT NO. 217
Mark Cross (X) Between the Number and Answer Voted For.
Charter Amendment Submitted to the Voters by the Council.
AMENDMENT to the Charter authorizing an annual tax levy not to exceed three mills in addition to the
eight mills now authorized to pay the' general expenses of the City, discontinuing one mill hereto
fore authorized during war emergency, and authorizing th City each year to borrow sufficient
funds for current expenses of the City pending collection of the taxes.
(The reason for said additional three-mill tax. is the increased cost of personal service and
materials caused by conditions brought about by the war, and the depletion of revenue from various
causes.)
Shall the Charter be so amended?
500 YES.
501 ' NO.
Published by authority of Section 131 of the City Charter.
GEO: R. FUNK,
. r Auditor of the City of Portland.
ington and other members of the spe-
cial staff which prepared the petl-
tion for the attorney-general an- I
nounced they would depart tomor
row. The defendants were summoned j
to appear November 8, when a motion i
for a temporary injunction id to be
argued.
While the executive board of the
union was effectually restrained from
strike activities it took occasion to
clear up a number of routine cases
which were awaiting its decisions.
The afternoon session was postponed
until late in the cay and it was
understood, but not announced, that
plans for combatting the govern
ment's injunction suits v -re discussed
then also.
PALMER AT CONFERENCE
RAILROAD UAIOXS DO XOT
PROTEST ANTI-STRIKE EDICT.
Attorney-General Holds Injunction
Is Aimed Not at Workingmen
but at Walkout Organizers.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 31. Railroad
union officials conferring late today
with Attorney-General Palmer en
tered no protest against the injunc
tion issued In Indianapolis today
against the calling of the coal strike
and tendered the good offices of their
organizations in attempting to ar
range a settlement of the strike.
The attorney-general told the rail
road union chiefs as well as Samuel
Gompers. president of the American
Federation of Labor, with whom he
conferred after the meeting with the
railroad men. that he did not believe
it would be necessary to use any
other power than the courts "to pro
tect the government."
Mr. Palmer said he told the union
men that they were at liberty to say
to either fide in the strike that the
president was ready to act immedi
ately to have the controversy settled
amicably whenever the strike was
called off.
President Gompers and other offi
cials of the American Federation of
Labor were said, however, to have
urged their views on the matter of
the injunction in their conference
with the attorney-general.
"I explained the necessity for the
action," Mr. Palmer said, "and the
manner in which this case must be
differentiated on its facts from all
other cases in which injunctions have
been used. 1 have been opposed and
the administration has been opposed
to government by injunction whereby
employers might use the processes of
the courts on an ex-parte hearing to
force their employes into submission.
"This i3 the government itself,
using its own courts to protect itself
from paralysis."
"It is not an injunction obtained
by employers," Mr. Palmer said, "not
for the benefit of the employers, not
to settle the controversy, but to save
the people of the entire country from
disaster. It doesn't affect the right
of a man to work when he pleases."
In this connection he explained
that the petition for Injunction as
prepared by the government seeks to
restrain the officers of the United
Mine Workers from doing anything
In furtherance of the strike order.
"If the injunction is obeyed," Mr.
Palmer said, "and it goes without
saying that the law must be obeyed,
it will take away the direction of the
strike from above and leaves to the
men perfect freedom to work or not
as they see fit. No strike can go on
without direction."
If the injunction Is disobeyed the
court can act on its own initiative
to punish the violators or on applica
tion of the government. Mr. Palmer
declared the next step depends on
what happened.
Representatives of the four railroad
brotherhoods, including Warren S.
Stone, grand chief of the engineers,
and L. E. Sheppard, president of the
conductors, accompanied the delega
tion. Their presence was taken as in
dicating that although not affiliated
with the federation, the brotherhoods
would give their powerful support to
any action union labor might take.
Wholesale Arrests Not Intended.
The attorney-general's careful ex
planation that the injunction proceed
ings was directed against the un'on
officers, and not against any of the
men who actually mine the coal, leav
ing them "in fact "free to work or
not," as they individually pleased, re
flected previous statements by ad
ministration officials that the strike
lacked support of the rank and file.
It was made plain that the govern
ment intended to seek to avert disas
ter by preventing, legally, the activ
ities of the men believed responsible
for the disaster, rather than by whole,
sale arrests.
"I didn't argue the question of an
injunction," Mr. Palmer said, in speak
ing of his conference with the rail
road men. "but treated the situation
as a crisis needing the good offices
of all good citizens."
Mr. Palmer la Reticent.
Mr. Palmer was more reticent con
cerning his conference with Mr. Gom
pers, which apparenty was not so har
monious as the first.
Mr. Palmer told Mr. Gompers the
rairoad administration had outstand
ing contracts-calling for 330,000 tons
daily and that roads would be par
alyzed if the supply could not be ob
tained. "It must be that the government
can protect itself from such a calam-
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tect itself."
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