THE MORNING - O REG OXIAX. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1920
LEAGUE M LABQR
DISCUSSED BY COX
Self-Determination for
land Favored.
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MINNESOTA TALKS MADE
Versailles Tact Is Declared Pre
requisite to Readjustment
of "World Affairs.
ST. PAUL,. Minn Sept. 6. Governor
Cox worked a full holiday today on
what he terms his "pilgrimage to the
Tacifio coast." He made several
speeches, viewed exhibits at the Min
nesota state fair, where he drove a
race horse around the track; attended
several receptions and went tonight
to Minneapolis to close his Minnesota
visit with another address.
Agricultural and labor questions
were the governor's subjects at the
fairgrounds and the league of na
tions that of his public meeting here
tonight.
A statement that he favored appli
cation of the principle of self-determination
to Ireland was made at the
latter meeting in response to a ques
tion from a man in the audience.
Qoery Put Gorernor,
"Tf elected president," the governor
was asked, "will you recognize .the
Irish republic?"
"I am In favir of the application
of the principle of self-determination
in Japan, in China, in Persia and Ire
land," was the governor's reply. The
reply drew loud applause and ended
Interruptions.
The governor preceded 'his reply
with a statement that the armistice
was based on President Wilson's "14
points," including that of self-determination,
and that article 10 would
protect weak nations from external
asgression "bullying - attacks of
stronger nations," he said. He added
that nations should be njnilded from
"racial groups rather than mountains
and rivers."
League Called Salvation.
The league was advocated as a pre
requisite to world readjustment.
"It is the salvation of France, Aus
tria, Kngland and Gerrany," he de
clared, repeating his pleas for disarm
ament and denouncing separate peace
with tiermany which Senator Hard
ing, he declared, advocates "in plain
words."
The governor declared that "big
business was trying to elect the can
didate of the senatorial oligarchy"
and commented on local newspaper
criticisms of his attack on republican
campaign contributions. Stating that
the papers had taken exception t his
"getting a little rough," the governor
added:
"Who Is It that's squealing? The
same crowd that's fought a sick man
on a sick bed in the White House for
a year. This is not going to be a
pink-tea fight nor a pillow contest.
I intend to deal In plain words and
not in the meaningless and ambiguous
words that have characterized the
senatorial oligarchy up to the pres
ent." Party Machine Held Stolen.
The governor accused the "sena
torial oligarchy" of having "stolen"
the republican organization and ap
pealed to the rank and file of repub
licans together with independents to
vote their "intelligence."
The governor was welcomed with
frequent applause and also when he
swept around the track in a sulky
guiding Peter Nash, a thoroughbred
chestnut pacer, in a workout. The
governor swept down the home stretch
at top speed while cheers rang from
the grandstand. ,
The Twin Cities were the farthest
western points ever visited by the
governor, who never had been west of
the Mississippi river before. His party
was augmented here by W. JettLauck,
an economist.
Mr. Lauck was prominent In war
labor board work and Plumb plan
railroad and profiteering publicity.
In his speech at the fair grounds the
governor declared that measures to in
crease farm production, acreage and
labor supply were necessary, and he
declared again for collective bargain
ing by labor. He also pledged himself
specifically to Increase salaries for
postal employes. The governor's ad
dress at the state fair was the first of
three today on his visit to St. Paul and
Minneapolis.
Interests Held Intertwined.
Interests of labor and agriculture
Governor Cor declared to his fair
grounds audience, are intertwined and
interdependent.
Referring to the league of nations
with a statement that it was not a
political question except when turned
to partisan uses. Governor Cox con
tinued:
"Labor is vitally interested in the
plan of readjustment which will be
adopted. There are those who think
the answer to present difficulties lie3
in the adoption of plans of the past;
that progress has gone too far. I am
not of that class. I think that the
solution is in the dawn of a new day
when the human soul and the human
body shall count for more than the
sordid dollar.
"Labor day came to us as one of
J.he mile posts of the road of progress.
But for progresslvelsm. Labor day
could not have been. Reactionists
would not recognize it. Reactionaries
are in various groups. They consist
primarily of the holders of privilege
conferred by law. Special privileges
are aided by the extreme radicals
who propose things that are either
unworkable or advanced ahead of
their time.
night to Organize Tpheld.,
"Labor should have the right to or
ganize and through representatives
of their own choosing negotiate col
lective bargaining. This right ha
never been denied capital. Care must
be exercised that government at no
time be made oppressive in maintain
lng the laws of the land. I have said
that public opinion will settle Indus
trial disputes, and to this end believe
the government should provide for
proper investigation in all cases, with
provision for the filing of the facts
without prejudice, so that the public
may have full information.
"The right to free speech and free
press and the right of orderly assem
bly, guaranteed by the constitution,
must never be infringed."
Urging adequate remuneration' for
government employes. Governor Cox
said that if elected he would sign
a bill granting the "long-suffering
and loyal postal employes the relief
they so richly deserve in the way of
apjh-opriato and adequate wages."
Storage Regulation Wanted.
The governor also reiterated -his
advocacy of regulation af cold stor
age, declaring that it would "break
the circle of profiteering."
After viewing the art exhiolts, the
slate fair board of governors present
ed to Governor Cox the picture, "Oc
tober Day in Minnesota," by Knute
Heldner of Minneapolis, which won
the gold medals.
Governor Cox began his address
shortly before 2 o'clock. He asked
that Senator Harding and other can
didates scheduled to speak here be
given an equally warm reception.
In discussing the regulation of cold
storage and profiteering. Governor
Cox said there were "entirely too
many turnovers between the producer
in the country and the consumer in
the city."
Praising labor, the governor de
clared that a great factor in the win
ning of the war was "the patriotio
endeavor of labor everywhere."
COX ACCUSATION' IS SCOUTED
Coal Operator Answers Charge of
$80,000 Assessment.
CHICAGO. Scot. 6. In reDlv to
I charges by Governor Cox that an at
tempt had been made to levy a, re-
publican campaign assessment of
JSC, 000 aga-inst certain coal operators,
J. IC Dering, named by the governor
as one of the principals, in a state
ment today said: .
"We never held any s-uch meeting as
Governor Cox described. The com
mittee of which I was chairman met,
but we never assembled even the
committee alone in the Auditorium
hotel. Generally, the committee met
in my office and generally it was I
who had to run around to the coal
men and pry the money out of them.
We raised between $18,000 and $20,000
and turned it over to Fred W. Upham,
treasurer of the republican national
committee."
FLU CUTS RACE fN HALF
EPIDEillO FAST WIPLNG OUT
POLYNESIAN'S IX PACIFIC.
TALIAW FACTORIES
SEIZED BY WORKERS
Struggle. Between Capital
and Labor On.
MOVE FOLLOWS LOCKOUT
People Once Dominated Empire
4 000 Miles From Xortta to South,
7000 Miles East to West.
HONOLULU, T. H., Sept. 6. Influ
enza wiped out half the members of
the Polynesian race, according to the
statement of Dr. Herbert E. Gregory,
director of the Bishop museum here
and chairman of the pan-Pacific
scientific congress In session In Hon
'The big, vanishing problem of the
Pacific is the Polynesian race," de
clared Dr. Gregory. "The Influenza
epidemic removed half of the Polyne
sian inhabitants. That means that
we must go to work if we ever are
to solve the mystery of the origin
of the race.
"I have been told of four Islands
in the Pacific where the last words
of the native dialect have been
spoken. That part of the race Is
gone.
Dr. Gregory then told of the ar
rangement under which Yale univer-
ity Is turning over to the Bishop
museum a fund of $50,000 yearly to
id in the search for the Polynesian
origin. .
Many pages of the story of the
Pacific are lost or obliterated, .de
clared A. G. Mayor, director of ma
rine biology, Carnegie institute, but.
he added, enough remained to solve
the mystery of the whence, what and
when of the Polynesians.
'In every fundamental thing on
life the Japanese and the Polynesians
are the same," asserted Dr. Mayor.
The relationship is so close that It
must -be due to blood ties.
'When an English prince of William
the Conqueror's line was drowned in
attempting to cross the English chan
nel these people dominated a vast
empire 4000 miles from north to south
and more than 7000 miles from east
to west."
That geology holds the key to the
locked door of Pacific information
was the declaration of Dr. Frederick
Wood-Jones, professor of anatomy at
the University of Adelaide, Australia.
'I believe we shall end this con
ference with the feeling that we
really know very little about man
in the Pacific, said ur. wooa-jones.
Our knowledge is so scarce. If any
thing Is done as an outcome of this
conference the first thing should be
in regard to the races of Polynesia.
Metal Workers In Three Cities Be
solve to Operate Plants; No
- Violence Is Reported.
LONTJON. Sept. . Seizure of Italian
factories by metal workers as the
starting point of a general taking
over of industry was advocated by
Italian extremist at the meeting of
the heads of the General Federation
of Labor and the Metal Workers'
union and representatives of the
Italian socialist party at Milan, says
a dispatch to -the Daily Mail. Mod
erates have insisted upon an agree
ment with employers. No decision
has as yet been reached.
In the meantime workers are In
possession of virtually all metal es
tablishments in Italy. Strikers at
Turin have announced that if troops
are sent against them they will wreck
all machinery.
Italian metal workers, says a Rome
dispatch to the Herald, organ of labor,
have decided that all factories which
deny them necessary materials will
be occupied.
The Rome newspaper Avantl Is
quoted as saying if the government
Interferes a general strike will fol
low. NEW TORIC, Sept. . The Italian
newspapers here print this communi
cation from the Italian ambassador,
Baron Avezzana:
"In consequence of a shortage of
raw materials, lack of coal and high
cost of labor, the metallurgical indus
tries decided to effect a lockout. Fol
lowing this decision, the workers
seized the factories at Milan. Turin
and Genoa, in order to prevent the
lockout and to operate the factories
directly.
"Such ' a move Is a new form of
struggle between capital and labor,
but preserves the character of an
economic struggle. Inasmuch as it is
developing without resort to violence
and without bloodshed.
"The situation is not alarming in
the least."
LONDON, Sept. 6. Sunday passed
quietly in Italy, according to a Stefani
agency dispatch from Rome. Many
metal workers remained in the fac
tories they had seized, without their
occupation giving rise to any disturbances.
state senator, that Governor Hart's j
and Colonel Hartley's campaign man- I
agers are spending huge sums of
money in their efforts to land the
repuDiican nomination ror governor,
Edwin T. Coman, state senator, issued
a statement protesting against the
lavish use of money by his opponents
in the race for the republican nom
ination. John H. Gellatly, representa
tive, has made similar charges in his
campaign speeches.
Senator Coman' s statement In part
follows:
"There is a state law covering the
amount of money that a candidate for
governor can spend, and I have, in
my campaign for the Vepublican nom
ination, held ato the spirit as well -as
the letter of this law. I do not believe
that people of the state of Washing
ton want to see the governorship go
to th highest bidder. I am in the
contest to win, not to buy the support
of Washington voters.
"There are men among my oppo
nents who are bidding higher than I
shall bid. They are spending sums
far in excess of the letter as well as
the spirit of the law. The people
should know what Is going on. I
know what they are spending because
I have had prices quoted to me on the
various mediums and methods of cam
paigning employed by my opponents.
Therefore, I am in a position to make
a fairly safe calculation as to the
expenditures of other candidates. I
do not hesitate to estimate that at
least two of these" candidates will
have had from- 50,000 to $100,000
spent in behalf of their campaigns." .
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CAR SUPPLY IMPROro
FREIGHT MOVEMENT IX
N'ORTHWEST EXPEDITED.
Transcontinental Roads Now Said
to Be Supplying 50 to 75 Per
Cent of Requirements.
SEATTLE, "Wash., Sept. . Trans
continental railroads entering Seat
tle are now filling at least 50 per
cent of car orders, indicating- a pro
nounced improvement in the car
shortage situation, according to an
nouncement . made today by the spe
cial committee created to expedite
freight' movement in the Seattle ter
ritory. The announcement was made
by Macy Nicholson, western manager
of the Milwaukee railway, as spokes
man for the committee.
"The roads represented on the com
mittee were filling hardly more than
20 per cent of car orders when our
committee began work some four
months ago," said Mr. Nicholson. "Our
daily reports since that time have
shown a gradual improvement and
now the roads are furnishing cars
up to between 60 and 75 per cent of
requirements."
LAVISH OUTLAY CHARGED
AXOTHER WASHINGTON CAN
DIDATE PROTESTS.
CHINA CIVIL WAR SPREfflS
REBELS SURROUND TOWN 100
MILES EAST OF CAPITAL.
War Minister of Cantonese Govern
ment Mobilizes Forces; Guns
Are Sold by Italians, i
PEKIJf, Sept. 4. The new civil
war against the Canton military by
General Tang Chieyao, Yunnan leader.
is growing in magnitude.
Kwang-Tung province troops were
reported today to 'have surrounded
Waichow, 100 miles east of Canton.
Taking advantage of the engagement
or itwangsi province iruupo in. ue
fending Waichow, General Tang Is re
ported preparing to invade Kwangsl
province from several routes through
Yunnan province, supported by Gen
eral Li Hsien-Shih, military governor
of Kweichow province.
General Lu Yung-Ting, . war minis
ter of the Canton military govern
ment. Is hastily mobilizing Cantonese
forces for defense of Kwangsl prov
ince against invasion by Tang's Yun
nan forces.
General Tang has informed the
Pekin central government peace ne
gotiations between the south prov
inces and the north will not be re'
sumed until the Canton military gov
ernment has been suppressed.
Governor Li Hou-Chl of Kukien
province has declared his province
neutral.
General Lu Yun-Hslang, military
commissioner of Shanghai, has pro
tested to the Pekin government
against the sale by two Italiati war
ships in the Huangpu river, contigu
ous to Shanghai, of arms and ammu
nition to persons without authoriza
tion of the Shanghai military admin
istration, according to an Asiatic
news agency dispatch from Shanghai
$50,000 to $100,000 Too Much to
Pay for Governorship, Declares
State Senator Coman.
SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. 6. (Spe
cial.) On top of the sensational
charges made by George B. Lamping.
SPOKANE WINS CONFAB
Columbia River Conference of
Methodists " Ends.
MOSCOW, Idaho. Sept. 6. Next
year's session of the Columbia River
conference of the Methodist Episcopal
church was awarded to Spokane at
the closing session of this year's con
ference here today.
Reports submitted today showed
that the membership of the conference
had increased 1951 during the past
year, with a total of 19,920 members.
Gifts to the centenary fund and other
benevolences of the church during the
year were $153,618, an Increase of
$66,000 over last year.
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