VOL. 1,1 X XO. 18,Go4
Enterd -t Portland (Oregon)
Pntof flee- a Scond-ClaN Matter.
PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1920
PRICE FIVE CENTS
ROCK SLIDE CRUSHES
3 IN NIAGARA CAVE
DEMPSEY WIIIS BI
11 KILLED, 70 HURT
PREMIER SAYS CORK
MAYOR CAN BE FREED
GUARANTEES THAT POLICE
WILL SOT BE SLAIN" ASKED.
CITY JOINS LABOR
IN OBSERVING 011!
32,000 STOP PLAY
TODAY FOR SCHOOL
PUPILS REGISTER A1 GET
BOORS THIS MORNING.
AMERIGATQ LEAD,
IN STREETCAR CRASH
TWO IXJCRED; 100 TOURISTS
HAVE SARROW ESCAPE.
IXTERURBAXS COLLIDE HEAD
OS KOCXDIXG CURVE.
TEH LOSE IMS
II KLAMATH FI
Two Portland Persons on
Missing List.
KNOCKOUT NTHIRD
SAYS M R
1
DEAD MAY REACH SIXTEEN!
Seven Persons Are Injured
or Sustain Burns Loss
Is Put at $150,000.
OTHER STRUCTURES RAZED
Flames Jump Across Two
Streets and Destroy
. Nearby Residences.
KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Sept. 6.
(Special.) Ten persons are known
to have been burned to death, seven
are injured, and several others, two
of whom are believed to be from
Portland, are missing as the result
of a fire which destroyed, the Hous
ton hotel here today and also razed
a part of the business district. -Estimates
of the number of dead have
been placed as high as 16.
The property loss was estimated
at $150,000.
The Identified Dead Are:
Charles Harmon, Klamath Falls,
peanut vendor.
Miss Margaret Hanley, Klamath
Falls, chambermaid.
Miss Leona Vilderback, 19, Ash
land, Or.
Mrs. Lottie Vilderback, wife of
Grant Vilderback of Ashland, Or.
The Injured Are:
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Mary Brung, serious burns.
Thomas Higgins.
3ames Pofder of Madero, CaL
Mrs. Mary Campora.
William Morse.
One man whose name was not
learned when he received first aid.
The Missing List Includes:
Woman believed to be Mrs. Dolly
Taylor of Portland but who regis
tered as Miss Grace Hall of Medford.
Chadrick of Portland, Or.
Dalton, address unknown.
Clyde Pollock, Klamath Falls log
rer. Other persons who are known to
have occupied rooms in the hotel.
All those who lost their lives were
occupants of the Houston hotel,
which was crowded with 180 persons
who had come to Klamath Falls for
the Labor day celebration.
Seven Persons Injured. .
The seven persons who were hurt
sustained injuries or burns in at
tempting to make their escape from
' the flaming building. The fire rap
idly swept through the old three
story building which almost at once
was turned to a fiery furnace. Many
of the patrons were forced to leap
from the upper windows. The flames,
in almost no time seemed to have
cut off all avenues of escape from
the hotel.
The hotel register was destroyed,
making the work of identifica
tion difficult. . It was feared that in
some cases the names of the victims
might never be learned. Five un
identified persons who were known
to have occupied rooms in. the hotel
are missing, according to statements
made by Mrs. Goldie Houston, who
managed the hotel, and Harry Jones,
night clerk.
180 Patrons in Hotel
In the Houston hotel there were
180 persons. It was said that pa
trons were sleeping in the office and
other rooms not ordinarily rented
for lodging. Hundreds of visitors
arrived last night for today's labor
day celebration and packed the
hotels to the limit.
' Two brothers and a sister of Miss
Hanley, one of the dead, live at Pla
cerville, Cal. Miss Vilderback and
her mother, Mrs. Lottie Vilderback,
arrived yesterday by 6tage from
Ashland and engaged a room to
gether. The woman believed to be Mrs.
Dolly Taylor of Portland arrived
Thursday on the stage from Med
ford and registered as Miss Grace
Hall of Medford. She told the stage
driver that she had had trouble with
her parents in Portland, had sepa-
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Boat Crew Risk Lives to Recover
Bodies From Pool in Cav
em Under Falls.
XI AGAR A FALLS, N. T.. Sept. 6
Two women and a man were crushed
to death and two men were Injured
this afternoon when a slide of shale
forced out a bridge leading- to one
of the stairway in the Cave of the
Winds, under Niagara falls. A hun
dred or more tourists who were in
the cave had narrow escapes, many
being bruised and cut by the falling
rock.
. The dead and Injured were mem
bers of a, party of tourists .complet
ing a tour "of the cave.; "With a
guide leading, the party was in the
middle of one of the four bridges in
the cave when the slide came, its
noise drowned by the roar of the
cataract. The guide was not touched.
To recover the bodies of the dead
it was necessary to take a ro,wboat
from the Maid of the Mist steamer
which had been run up as near as
possible to the falls and the cave.
It was a hazardous venture, but the
rowboat crew finally brought the
bodies out of the pool and regained
the steamer.
The -accident Is the first of the
kind in the cave since the first stair
way was built in 1883. There have
been ' slides before but only In the
winter or early spring.
FRANCE IS PAYING DEBT
Plans for Meeting Share of Anglo-
French Loan Completed.
NEW YORK, Sept. 6. French gov
ernment arrangements for repayment
of its half of the $500,000,000 Anglo
French loan, due October 15, includ
ing public Issue ofJ100, 000,000 of
French government bonds under
written by the American syndicate
and J150.000.000 in cash and gold, ar
riving from France, were made public
tonight. The statement said:
"Maurice Casenave, minister pleni
notentiarv. director-general of the
French services in the United States,
and Jean Parmenier, special financial
envoy from France to the United
States, announce that the French
government has arranged for the re
payment of $250,000,000, being Its one
half of the Anglo-French loan due
October 15. 1920. Of this amount ap
proximately $150,000,000 is to be
taken care of by funds already in
hand and by gold shipments from
France. " The- remainder will bo pro
vided by a publio issue of $100,000,000
in bonds by the French government to
be underwritten by a syndicate now
being formed by J. P. Morgan & Co.
2 KILLED IN PLANE FALL
Machine Plunsres to Ground Xear
Tennis Playing Crowd.
FOREST HILLS, N. T., Sept. 6.
Two aviators were killed this after
noon when a navy seaplane in which
they were flying crashed into the
ground a short distance from the For
est Hills tennis courts and witnin
view of the crowd watching the finals
in the national all-comers title tour
nament. The aviators had been circling over
the courts when their engine suddenly
slopped and the plane dropped.
AIR ACROBAT IS KILLED
Airman .Plunges to Death While
Attempting Stunt on Plane.
DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 6. Myron K.1
Tinney, former army aviator, fell 500
feet to his -death today while perform
ing aerial acrobatics at the state fair
grounds.
In an attempt to catch a rope ladder
on which be was to cllmo irora one
plane to another flying above him, he
missed his hold and plunged from the
top of his machine. A crowd of 200,000
witnessed the accident.
SHEEP 0WNER IS KILLED
Henry O'Keefe Goes to Death When
Automobile Capsizes.
KLAMATH FALLS, Or.. Sept. 6.
(Special.) Henry O'Keeie, wealthy
Lake county sheep man, was killed
today near Lakeview when his auto
mobile capsized, according to a tele
phone message received here.
The accident occurred early this
morning. O'Keefe died at 3 o'clock
this afternoon without regaining con
sciousness.
NON-UNION JVIINER KILLED
Second Fatality Follows- Labor
Troubles in Alabama.
BIRMINGHAM. Ala., Sept. 6. Sam
Lynn, non-union miner, was killed
and several others were injured in
clash growing out of the coal strike
at Gintown, Jefferson county, last
night.
The death of Lynn is the second
fatality since labor troubles started
In the Alabama coal fields.
CHURCH SEATS STOLEN
Discovery of Theft Not Made XJatl
Service Hour Arrives.
OMAHA, Neb.. Sept. 6. Seventy
three, all the seats, in tlit United
Evangelical church here, were stolen
some time last week.
Discovery of the theft was not mads
until last night when the church
building was opened for services.
Tne tniei had entered by a pass
kty , .
World Champion's Ter
rific Blows Crush Miske.
3 SMASHES GET $50,000
Challenger Apparently Never
Had Chance al Title.
MANY WOMEN AT BATTLE
Deteated Heavy in Statement Pay
Tribute to Victor as Un
beatable Fighter.
RINGSIDE, BENTON HARBOR,
Mich., Sept. 6. Jack Dempsey, heavy
weight champion of the world, dem
onstrated today that he still retains
the terrific punch that won him the
title. He knocked out Billy Miske of
St. Paul, a fighter as big and game as
himself, in the third round of their
10-round mated. Three hard smashes
were sufficient to win him between
$50,000 and $100,000, his 50 per cent
share of the gate receipts.
At the start of the fight, his first in
14 months, Dempsey peeled off tb
same worn and patched red sweater
that he wore when he knocked out
Jess Wlllard. His face wore the same
fighting frown, he danced about the
ring with old-time lightness of foot
and finished up by taking the fight in
the third round just as he did at To
ledo. The third round went one min
ute and 13 seconds.
Miske Down Three Times.
Miske went down three times In
the less than two and one-half rounds
of fighting. In the second he meas
ured his length on the floor for the
count of five. In the fatal third
driven to his corner under a rain
left and rights to the stomach and
chin, the challenger took the couitt of
nine and had Just regained his feet
when Dempsey, carefully measuring
his balance, finished the bout with
right-hand punch to the chin.
- The fight was- watched by one of
the most .orderly crowds on record at
a championship match. Women in
bright clothing were scattered
throughout the audience from the
ringside to the back fence, where they
perched alongside the wicked barbed
wires and outshone some of the sign
boards in attracting attention.
Dcmpatr'i Arrival J Ovation.
Delayed special trains held back the
fight and in the confusion of the
long- wait, Miske, first into the ring,
slipped through the crowd scarcely
being noticed. A messenger from the
champion's camp presently arrived to
whether the" challenger was
inquire
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Conductor of Special and Trailer
Carrying Holiday Crowd Fails
to Obey "Wait" Order.
DENVER, Sept. 6. Eleven persons
were killed and 70 injured when two
interurban cars collided head on on j
a curve Just outside of Globevillef
a suburb, this afternoon. Tonight all
but one of the dead had been iden
tified. A special car and trailer carrying
a load of holiday pleasure 'seekers to
Eldorado Springs, a resort, collided
1th a regular car returning from
Boulder to Denver on the Denver &
Interurban railroad. According to
officials in charge of the Globevllle
station, the conductor of the outbound
failed to obey orders . to wait at
Globeville, for the . Incoming car. The
incoming car was two minutes : be
hind schedule and was running at
high speed to make up the' time.
"When the cars. struck, they plowed
into each other a distance of 15 feet.
Most of the casualties occurred on
the inbound car but few or either
car escaped without Injury. ' .
At least two persons were killed
when they Jumped in an attempt to
save themselves, according to T. F.
Searlino of Louisville, Colo., who was
on the Inbound car. -
One of these was C. W. Grenmayer,
conductor, 60, who was in -charge
of the car. The other was Frank
Dalby of Louisville. .
Four of the dead and many ofthe
Injured were from Louisville and
were on the car coming to Denver.
As soon as word of the wreck was
received in Denver, a squad of the
soldiers here in connection with the
tramway strike was rushed to the
scene.
J. w. scnuitz, conductor, who was
in charge of the outbound car, de
clared that he received orders at
Globevllle to go on. Agent Richards
of the Denver & Interurban company
at Globevllle declared that he must
have gotten the wrong orders, as he
should have waited for the inbound
car to pass him at Globevllle.
.A revised list of the dead and in
jured follows:
Dead.
Joseph Lombard!, 17, Louisville,
Colo., miner.
Frank Dalby, 21, Louisville, Colo,
miner.
Joe Cortez. 30, Louisville. Colo,
miner.
William Zarlna, 21, Louisville. Colo,
miner. v ,.
Judge R. S. Morrison, 65, Denver.
Archie MaUoyy 25, Boulder.
Joseph Chapman, 23, Boulder.
C. W. Grenmayer, 60, Denver, con
ductor incoming train.
William Hillburg, 29, Globevllle.
Colo.
Frank Craveth, 58, , Cal.
Raymond Joyce, 21, student. Uni
versity of Colorado, Boulder.
The injured include
James Ferrari, 22, Louisville, miner,
will die.
Ed Kokalecik, Louisville, miner,
body crushed, will die.
George Cheek, Sparta, N. C, . pos
sible internal injuries.
i. mAsci it
Other Hunger Strikers Included;
McSwiney Failing so Rapidly
" Conversation Is Limited.
.
' LONDON, Sept. 6. A dispatch to the
London Times from Viege, SwltzerV
land, quotes David Lloyd George, the
British prime minister, as saying that
If guarantees are given that the mur
der of policemen In Ireland will cease,
the premier is convinced that Lord
Mayor MacSwiney and the other hun
ger strikera" will be released from
prison.
Other special dispatches tend to
confirm the Interview printed In the
Times. .
Accordlnr to the Times, the pre-
mler. sald not a single appeal for
clemency offered the slightest assur
ance that g'ueh. killings would be
stopped. He added that the uncon
ditional release of the imprisoned
men would be- disastrous to the
morale of the Irish police and make
government in Ireland impossible.
Each day as the fast of Lord Mayor
MacSwiney in . Brixton prison pro
gresses there Is staged by the bed
side of the dying man a tragic little
act, which. was disclosed to the Asso
ciated Press today by Father Dominic,
Mayor MacSwiney's private chaplain.
Every morning food in some form
or another Is brought in By the prison
authorities and offered to the starv
ing prisoner In the hope that his al
most uncontrollable craving will mas
ter him-and that he will be tempted
to. eat. Every morning' there is the
same end to the act MacSwiney, who
is too weak to utter a epoken refusal.
crushes his desire and turns his head
away. it has gone on until the
25th day of his hunger strike has
been reached. '
There have been many rumors that
MacSwiney has being given suste
nance in drinking water or otherwise,
This is denied by relatives and friends
and the Associated Press was further
informed that the prison authorities
have not given the lord mayor any
food in this manner. Father Dominic
also denied that the prisoner was be
ing fed and added:
"Although some people say that. the
desire for food disappears after a few
days' abstinence, it is not so in Mayor
MacSwiney's case. He is still hungry
but refuses to take anything.
"The lord mayor looked pale, drawn
and haggard this morning when I ad
ministered the usual sacrament, and
the local rumor that he received the
last sacrament today is not true. Mac
S-wlney has intervals of dizziness and
is only able to speak in short gasps,
owing to difficulty in breathing, and
any attempt at continual conversa
tion Is Impossible."
Lord Mayor MacSwiney Is in the
same room Sir Roger Casement occu
pied before he was transferred to the
tower. The main entrance to the
prison Is guarded by several police,
who refuse to admit any but relatives
of the inmates.
Many vsltors were turned away to
day. But beyond these, the police and
the coming and going of Mayor Mac
Swiney's relatives, there is nothing to
Indicate the battle of wills going on
behind the high walls of the Jail, the
outcome of which may have a far
reaching effect.
Dream of Eleven Years Is
Realized by Toilers.
TEMPLE CORNERSTONE LAID
Workers
Crowd Auditorium
for Ceremonies.
PICNIC ENDS PROGRAMME
New Home Will Have Rental Tn.
come of $35,000 a Tear; Costs
Estimated at $19,000.
Portland, In respect to brawny toil. I
halted Its usual pursuits yesterday I
and Joined the forces of organized 1
labor In the celebration which was
conducted under the auspices of the
airniated union bodies of this city
n n H vlninllv
To organized labor it wa an epoch-
ai aay. or In addition to the usual
paiu to tne men and women
who gain their livelihood by toiling
nanas, it marked the -virtual realiza
tion of long-cherished hopes that
some day all organized labor of Port-
land might have a central building in I
v. men to conduct its deliberations and 1
business. I
And in order that full emphasis I
mlght be given to the laying of the 1
cornerstone of the new labor temple, I
now nearing completion at Fourth I
and Jefferson streets, the usual Labor I
uay parade was eliminated.
Every TJnlon Represented.
Tnc.. ' . . .
cpreseniatives or every
"'"" Day n the Portland district,
together with members of their fam
Bainerea in the public audi
torium, where W. H. Fitzgerald,
......ur qi me cigarmakers' unlnn
Land deputy labor
r.en;re8'def.and M1s this
..,.,ucu in a oopy to the new
laoor temple and witnessed the cere
mony Incident to the laying of the
cornerstone.
Mayor Baker, State Treasurer vtnff
City Commissioner Barbur, City Au-
j. ui.jv ana onerirr Hurlburt all
spoKe Dneny at the Auditorium. r,v
ing tribute to the organized laboring
hosts of this city, following which" Dr
W. T. McElveen gave the principal
nuuicaa oi me aay.
xu iHie or years of strenuous ef-
.i mo pari or individuals with
in the ranks of labor, to comni,!.
7 7" . ; ' "rsanizea labor of this
cny rniem nave its own home was re-
countea oy Air. Fitzgerald.
" ws oacK in i09, he stated, that
a committee was appointed for the
purpose of viewing property at
Fourth and Aflder streets as a pos-
.k.j mr a laoor temple. Dis
agreement among members of this
committee, the speaker averred, re-
sulted in virtual abandonment r n
plans for an exclusive building or
uiguuizeu moor,
S Locals Carried om Work.
T3nf ntfh 1 .
" eecu sown, many
members of the labor forces were not
wining to allow the plan to die, and
as a result eight locals began an in
dependent eriort to gain a building
Th T-OB..1, f .1,1. ..
-" w.to cuuri was tne leas
ing of one floor In the building at
Fourth and Alder atreets, which for
many years was operated under the
direction of the Labor Temple asso-
""tr Headquarters or or
ganized labor wa moved to 162 Sec
ona street, where a so-called labor
temple was operated under the dire'e
tion or the building trades council.
According to J. W. Wheelock. an
umer sptKtr ac tne Auditorium meet
ing, the Portland Co-operative Labor
Temple association was organized and
incorporated fn 1918 as a stock com
pany, with all stock eold to members
01, organized labor exclusively. Al
though the stock Is owned Individual
ly Dy members of organized labor.
such stock must be voted throue-h the
various bodies of organized labor and
not by individual shareholders.
Mayor Baker, Introduced by Chair
man Fitzgerald as a man who did not
always agree with organized labor
but who always expressed his honest
convictions, congratulated Portland's
laboring men
buu women upon Its
new home.
Home Owner an Asset.
"Home is the foundatl.on of Ameri
can institutions," said Mayor Baker.
"America Is the land made up of
homes and home-owners. Whenever
a person purchases a home, imme
diately ooes sucn a person Decome an
asset in a community. Labor is
dominant factor In the life of every
community. With a home of Its own
organized labor of Portland will have
a iirmer grip on 11s own at ialrs, a
more active Interest In the future of
our city and, above all else, will con
tinue to be an ardent supporter of
America and her Institutions."
The church, and the church alone.
can restore stability and security to
the present ' troubled industrial af
fairs of this country, according to Dr.
McElveen, the principal speaker at
the auditorium meeting. He said in
part:
"Since the civil war our country
has experienced an industrial revolu-l
tion. The industrial revolution that
tool place In England in the middle
of the 19th century began In this)
country after the civil war. That In-
iCuncludcil ou I'aso 11, Column 1.1
Big Increase In Attendance Ex
pected Portables Have Been
Provided for Overflow.
Play time ends today for more than
32.000 boys and girls of Portland.
who must, after a three months'
cation, resume their studies. While
classes will not actually take up
until later In the week, this i the
first day of the fall term and has
been set aside for registering pupils.
distributInff book iista nd selecting
Disa Bcnooi courses,
A noticeable increase In attendance
is being looked for and additional
portables have been provided to ac
commodate the overflow at some
buildings. Ockley Green and Thomp
son schools will be in a. position to
transfer several hundred children to
the new Beach school, a 12-room por
table, west of Jefferson. Attend
ance rolls will not be complete until
all families are home from the hop
fields.
Difficulties In housing the boys and
girls of James John high have been
overcome and they will be distributed
in various buildings until repairs
are completed on their own about
si weeks hence.
School will take uo this morning
at 8:30 at the high schools and 8:45
in the grades.
BUT AIMU' UlttL, ID, LLUrL
Message to Apprehend Youthful
Pair Sent From Vancouver.
Campbell Cribble, 16, and Myrtle
Boyer, 16, eloped from Vancouver,
Wash., yesterday and were believed to
have come to Portland to get married,
according to information telephoned
the police last night by the Vancou-
ver authorities. The parents of the
two youngsters want them , appre
hended and held until the Washing-
ton authorities come and get them.
The boy is described as 5 feet. 8
Inches tall, light compiexloned. with
red hair and blue eyes. He wore a
light suit and a cap. The girl was
5 feet 6 inches tall and weighed about
125 pounds. She was dark, with dark
hair and eyes. She wore a pink or
blue dress and a gray check coat.
FOUR KILLED BY TRAIN
Auto Stalls on Crossing In Front of
Speeding- Passenger.
SIOTTX FALLS. S. D., Sept. 6. Mr,
and Mrs. Clark Wagoner, who live
near here, and Roy DobinskI of this
city were Instantly killed today and
Frank Dobinski injured so severely
that he died an hour later by an east
bound Omaha passenger train.
The dead were in an automobile
that stalled on the track near Moun
tain lake, Minnesota. The train
crashed, head on, into their car and
burled them in the wreckage
COUPLE FATALLY BURNED
Gasoline Used by Mistake in Kin
dling Kitchen Fire.
MARSH ALLTOWN, la., Sept. 6. J.
L. Johnson, 60, a foreman in the Min-
neapolls & St. Louis railroad shops
and his wife were burned to death to
day,
Mrs. Johnson, by mistake, poured
gasoline into the kitchen stove to
hurry a fire.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The
Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 67
degrees; minimum. 04 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair; westerly winds.
. Vnrflrn.
Bolshevik army driven across Dnieper river
by V rangel xorces. fare O.
Metal workers In Italian cities seize.
and
operate bis plants. Page 3.
Lloyd George names conditions
for
lease ot McSwiney. Page 1.
Domestic.
Ten killed, TO hurt In head-on collision of
Interurban cars on curve. Page 1.
Three crushed by rock slide in Cave of
"Winds at Niagara tails. Page 1.
19 radicals- plot wreck of train and death
of passengers. Page 4.
Parents claim babe is restored to them
eight months after death. Page 6.
Democrats to offer evidence today in cam
palgn fund case. Page
National.
Farm Implement prices held unlawfully
I J . , V. mn n Ufa .tlir... Ta. K
raised by manufacturers. Page
Pacific Korthvrest.
Ten die In Klamath Falls fire. Page 1
Hood River celebrates completion of Co
lumbla highway pavlntf to Portland.
Page 5,
Rev. Father Lane of Albany Invested with
high apostolic olilce. i-gga 7.
I Pardon of Pender again belne sought by
I inenuo.
Learue snd labor discussed by Cox.
Page 3.
Harding victory In state of "Washington
predicted. rase 11.
Democrats Joining republieaa clubs.
Page 10.
Mr. Harding may not finally reject league,
says George N . lcker&uam. Page 1.
Sporta.
Coast league results: San Francisco 0-V
Portland 1-3; Sacramento 5-o, Oaklan
0-1-; Vernon 4-4. Seattle 1-8. eecon
game 11 innings: Salt Lake 4-7, Lo
Angeles 11-n. Page 12.
Dempsey holds world title by knocking
out Mlfcke. Page 1.
Portland Golf club wins three-cornered
city match. Page 13.
Commercial and Marine.
Sale of wooden steamers recalled by ship
ping board. Page '21.
Rail and water carriers urcred to absorb
wharfage charges. Page 'Jl.
Stockyartla trade good on holiday.
Page 21.
Portland and Vicinity.
Joo Anderson's fatal fall attributed to
whisky Instead of foul play. Page 9.
Portland grocers declare United States fig
ures on milk profits are erroneous.
Page 10.
Citv joins with labor In celebrating day.
Page 1. .
Waterway convention, to be held in Port
land October 4-5. arouses interest.
Page 15.
Thirty-two thousand Portland children re
turn to school tuday, rags 1.
Europe Looks This Way
for Peace Policy.
VIEWS ON LEAGUE OUTLINED
Purpose Previously Stated
Declared Unchanged.
SPECIFIC PLAN UNFORMED
Definite Action on Lcajrue Ones-
tion to Follow Conference
of Ablest ThinVers.
MARION". O., Sept. 6. Senator
Harding's views on the league of na
tions and labor issues were further
elaborated today on the eve of his
departure for Minnesota to make his
first campaign speech outside of Ohio.
Amendment or revision or recon
struction" of the league covenant, h
declared, still was among the policies
to be considered when the time comes
to frame a specific program for
international peace. In such a recon
struction, be added, Europe wanted
this nation to lead the way.
The republican nominee advocated
closer relationship between employers
and employes through Joint advisory
committees and voluntary arbitration.
and asserted that although he be
lieved In unionism, he opposed '"la
bor's domination of business or gov
ernment." Railway Law Indorsed.
He indorsed the labor provisions of
the Each-Cummins railway act, and
declared the cost of living could be
reduced only If laborers gave honest
effort In return for the present high
wages.
The nominee's views on labor issues
were voiced at a local Labor-day cel
ebration in a speech which he cut
short after the chairman of the meet
ing had informed him he was ex
ceeding his allotted time. A local
speaker who advocated the Plumb
plan followed the senator to reply to
some of the former's statements, but
the candidate did not remain.
Statements by several union offi
cials indorsing his stand were'made
public at Harding headquarters to
night.
League Support Hinted.
The candidate's declaration regard
ing a league psogramme was made
tonight in commenting Informally on
the visit here yesterday of George W.
Wickersrtam, former republican attorney-general
and a league support
er. After his conference with the
nominee Mr. Wickersham issued a
statement saying the former would
not "finally" reject the league.
"General Wlckersham's statement,"
said Senator Harding, "calls for no
criticism from me. We do not write
statements for our visitors nor censor
their words. This Is not a campaign
of one mind, nor is there Insistence
that all republicans shall think pre
cisely as the nominee thinks.
"I have spoken In the speech of
acceptance and again on August 2S
on the matter of the league of na
tions and. the purpose uttered in these
addresses will not be altered.
America to Lend Way.
"It Is folly to speak about a spe
cific programme. The specific thing
must be evolved out of a conference
of the best thought and highest
capacity which, can be brought to
gether, not from the dictation of one
spokesman. We are all agreed now
that amendment or revision or re
construction is possible and vastly
better than reservations. Moreover,
Europe is In accord and has sug
gested that we lead the way.
"Manifestly the path is opening
clearly and we shall play America's
big part and hold fast to all that
America holds dear. There can be
no lack of Clarity about that."
The nominee also indicated that
he might carry his suggestion for
a new association of nations a step
further in the near future, but he
emphasized his belief that it probably
would be Impossible because of rapid
ly changing conditions abroad to com
mit himself to any definite; or de
tailed plan.
Voluntary arbitration was de
clared by the republican nominee to
be the ideal solution of labor trou
bles, and he advocated Joint commit
tees of employers and employes, "not
to run the business, but to promote
mutual understanding." He asserted
that no one could deny a laborer the
right to quit his employment, but that
adjustment of labor problems should
be on the basis of Justice to every
one. Plnm Plan Disapproved.
Senator Harding also indorsed the
Cummins-Esch law, restoring rail
ways to private operation, and said
he could not approve the "socialist
plan," which proposed that the prop
erties be placed under control of em
ployes. Citing his own experience as an
employer, the candidate said he never
had any trouble with his employes
in his newspaper establishment and
added that, although print paper
prices had increased his expenses by
an amount equal to $300 for each
worker In his plant, none of them
ever ad suffered financially on ac
count ' of it.
In the course of his speech he also
assailed profiteering, declnring that
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