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MEDFORD, OREGON', FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1920.
NO. 16 :
IBUNE
RED FLAG
WAVES IN
R.R. STRIKE
Switchman Shot and Many Sluqged
at Chicago Meeting of Striking
Switchmen Radical Leader Ad
mits I. W. W." Aid Praises Sa
botage and Direct Action Points
to Success of Bridge Blowing and
. Property Destruction.
CHICAGO, April 9. (By
Associated Press.) John Gru-
nau, president of the - ln-
surgent , union of the Chl-
cago Yardmen's association, -de-
clared today that the question
' of wages and hours had becc'me
of secondary importance and
that the real fight was for su-
premacy over the older brother-
hood.
. "The fight has become one
for supremacy between the new
and the old unions," ho said.
"We railroad men are tired of
receiving nothing but promises
4 from our leaders. , We demand
results. Brotherhood officials
spend their time riding around
in automobiles, hobnobbing with
politicians in Washington, and
drawing good salaries. The men
won't, stand for any . more of
that stuff. The way thoy are
joining the new union -.. allows
they are determined to get sc'me
officials in Washington - who
see the workers ' get their de-
mands." " " '
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CHICAGO, April "u.Ohd switch
'man was shot and several sluggod nt
. meetings of the striking railroad men
last night, polico learned today.
4 Jolm Krintz, a striker who pro
posed that the men return to work,
was shot, it was reported. Ho was
spirited awav in an automobilo by
. friends. ;.
Sabotage and violence was advo
cated by ono of the speakers, E. 0.
-Esty, a C. Y. A. organizer who par
ticipated in the Garv steel strike una
several other labor disturbances here.
"They call me a rebel," he told
the strikers. "I'm proud to bo a
rebel. - In 1910 I hud chargo of n
railroad strike in tho' twin citicd
Minneapolis and St..' Paul. Tho men
all went out and staved out. I went
down to the I.' W; W, hoadotinrters
and got some help. Then ono day
four passonger trains wore wrecked.
Tho. next clay seven froight trains
wcro wrecked.- Thon wo sent word
to tho railroads that if thev didn't
como across we'd' tear down tho
roundhouse. Thev didn't answer we
did ! The roundhouse was torn down.
"Then tho railroads begged for
merdy and asked to moot us. Wc.toM
them to come to us. Thcro was a
meeting, tho union drew up a con
tract land the railroad refused it.
Tho next day we blew tin a bridge,
so thev don't know to this dav who
did the job. But we won the strike.
"I did ninety davs in inil for block
ing tho mails. I got off light be
cause I told the indue I didn't know
the law. But of course I knew it
then as well as I do now."
Men Begin to licturn
CHICAGO April ' 9. Striking
switchmen who have been on strike
here for nine days began returning
to work this morning.
.Brotherhood officials,, who have
been fighting the "illegal", walkoat
of their men do not claim that the
striko is .broken, but were much en
couraged by reports from several
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OF
LATIN LEAGUE
WASHINGTON. April 9. (Bv the
Associated Press) "After recoiving
the state department's interpretation
of the Monroe dootrine, the congress
of Salvador adopted a decree pro
posing a Latin-American league with
the United States excluded.
The decree also proposed aboli
tion of the Pan-American union, with
headquarters in Washington, the Cen
tral American court of justice and
the international court of arbitraliuu.
NO! SETTLE-ALL
L aECTIONS
ON OSTRUSKI PLAN?
GRAND RAPIDS." Wis., April
9. For the second timo John
Ostruski has been defeated for a
seat in the city by the toss of .1
coin.
Ostruski and Grant Babcock,
candidates for councilman, drew
a tic vote in Tuesday's elec
tion so it was agreed to flip a
coin to decido the honors. As
the master of ceremonies was
about to flip the coin Ostruski
said:
"What will vou take, Mr. Bab
cock?" -
"I'll take heads," replied Bab
cock. "Then I'll tuke what's left,"
said Ostruski.
The coin wus. flipped and fell
heads giving Babcock the seat in
the council. 4 Four vcars ago
Ostruski tied with Mike Lame
ncz for the scut and the tos of
the coin went against him.
E
LEADS TO DEMANDS
E
CHICAGO, April 9. Wage de
mands of five groups of railroad em
ployes numbering Osl.OOO will be
pushed immediately as the result of
the spread of unauthorized strikes of
switchmen and enginemen, . G. A.
Worrell, general ..chairman . of . the
railway 'clerks organisation - of-, the
Chicago and Northwestern system
said today.
Hallway clerks, telegraphers, sig
nal men, maintenance of way em
ployes and stationary firemen and
oilers, the groups Involved will pre
sent demands to every railroad In the
United States within a week, Worrell
said. '
Wage increases of 20 cents an hour
and restitution of the pre-war differ
ential wage scale will be demanded
and fifteen days of grace granted for
complaince of the companies, ho said.
"The men are at tho end of the
rope," said Worrell. "President WH:
son promised to increase the wages
if in six months the cost of living was
not materially reduced. The living
costs are just as high if not higher.
We cannot llvo on our present
wages'."
CHICAGO, April 9. An uncon
firmed report that John Reed, maga
zine writer, had been executed in Fin
land, has been received here, Lloyd
B. Heth, assistant district attorney,
announced this morning.
Reed is under Indictment here,
charged with conspiracy to advocate
the overthrow of the government by
force. ,
Census Returns
Washington. April o Pomi
lation statistics announced todav by
the census bureau include:
Portland, Maine, 09,190, increase
10.625 or 18.1 per cent over 1910.
Biddeford Maine, 18008, increase
929 or 5.4 per cent.
Qtiiney, Mass., 47,011, increase
14,969 or 54.9 per cent.
Lancaster, 0., 14,706, increase 1613
or 12.3 per cent.
A
E
The United States was instrumental
in the organization of tho union and
of the two courts.
The decree proposes the creation of
a Latin-American court to settle dis
putes between the nations signatory
to the alliance. ' '
Copies of the decreo have been sent
to the Latin-American republics and
also to the state department, it was
learned today. The department, how
ever, has not made it public,
FRANCE IS
INCENSED
AT J. BULL
Paris Papers Attack Lloyd-George
Situation in London Delicate
Diplomatic Conversations to Be
Opened Washington Believes An
Adjustment Will Be Reached Soon
Paris Wants to Know Whether
or Not Treaty to Be Scrap of Paper
PARIS, April 9. The British atti.
tudo regarding tho French occupation
of Frankfort will cause the opening
of a diplomatic conversation between
tho powers of the entente concerning
the whole subject of action with re
gard to Germany, it was said toklay
in official circles.
In this conversation the French at
tltude will be based first on mainten
ance of the entente and. second on
strict enforcement of the treaty of
Versailles.
The French accepted the treaty as
finally signed and consider it a sort
of charter as regards relations with
Germany. Great Britain, it is thought
here, considers it rather as a sort of
elastic basis of settlement of Euro
pean affairs which is capablo of di
verse modifications.
Franco Is Nervous
Conciliation of these viewpoints
will be the object of the ensuing eon
versatlons, during which France, It
is stated, probably will ask Great
Britain whether it stands for execu
tion of the treaty. ,
It is recalled that articles 42, 43,
and 44 of the Versailles treaty de
fined "actions by Germany which
might be; rogarded as calculated to
disturb tho peace of the world and it
is pointed out that such action by
Germany was accomplished when the
rolchswohr ponotrated the Ruhr dis
trict. The opinion is expressed In official
circles that there appears 'to be a
need of readjustment of the relations
of the entente powers. The original
understanding having been to ward
off the menace-of aggression by Ger
many, It was continued during the
war with the view of winning the war
but was never adjusted to after-war
conditions, which, it is asserted here,
require a more comprehensive ac-
cCrd. ' .
America Neutral
WjASHlNQTON, April 9. Amer
ica's attitude towards any adjustment
of the new situation croated by the
entry of 'French troops into the Ruhr
district of Germany will continue to
be more that of an observer than an
Interested participant, from what can
bo learned In official circles here.
While recognizing the seriousness
of the situation created by the inde
pendent action Of France, officials
here. were not Inclined to regard It as
"delicate" as the British foreign of
fice indicated last night. It was ro
garded as one of those situations full
of potential danger but In which the
probabilities of adjustment was pre
dominant. Since the United States has no rep
resentative on the Rhine commission,
is not a member of the League ct
iN'ations.and the commander of the
little American army at Coblenz will
not act without direct orders from
Washington, any steps taken by Great
Britain or her allies to afreet a more
definite understanding with France
musf be without direct participation
of the United States, it was Indicated.
It was assumed, however, that Am
bassador Wallace would continue the
part of an observer with limited ad
visory powers.
Iloyd-Gcorgo Attacked
PARIS, April 9. -Great Britain's
attitude relative to the advance of
French troops Into German territory
east of the Rhine as defined In press
dispatches from London, Is viewed by
the newspapers here as a bitter pill
for France and It Is considered the
acti&ti of Belgium supporting the pol
icy of Fiance hardly compensates
for It. ... ,
"Pertinax," the political editor of
the Echo do Paris, writes an unusual
ly 1 savage article attacking Premier
Lloyd George, whom he calls a
"demagogue."
6t. Brlco of tho Journal with other
foreign specialists, is more impartial
and blames all of the allies of France
in more measured terms. He inci
dentally declares:
"It is shown that false repcrts
were spread by some American news
paper correspondent In Germany and
one of these, the rumor that Presi
dent Wilson had sent an ultimatum
to France, provoked the Frankfort
ncident." ' I
MAWS BRIDE
IS ROBBED BY AGILE
LADY PORCH CLIMBER
ICS ANGELKS, April 9.
The tomporary residence of
Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian
poet and playwright, at Santa
Monica, near here,- was robbed
last night and police of Los An-
geles and Santa Monica today
began searching for a woman
porch climber, reasoning only a
woman would steal the articles
the author reported missing
These articles included a pair
of silk hose a silver and gold
mesh bag, a pearl handled revol-
ver and a number of gold trln-
kets, all the property of the
poet's bride. -
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JAPS TAKE
RED CITY
BY
Well Prepared Surprise Attack on
Vladivostok Takes Bolsheviki Off
Guard Red Headquarters Sud
denly Faced by Net of Machine
Guns on Easter Sunday Japs Act
Quickly When General Graves
Leaves Jap Warships Join In. '-'
' VLA DIVOSTOK, Monday? April 5.
(By the Associated Pross)--Occri
palion of Vladivostok by Japanese
forces today was the result of well
prepared surprise maneuvors. . .
At one o'clock this morning, sand
bags appeared from every Japanese
station. The "red" - headquarters
was covered.. bv maohino guns' while
the Russians were celebrating Easter.
Hostilities opened at the railroad
station. The Zemstvo building was
shelled bv Japanese onc-poundcrs.
The Japanese battleship in Vladivos
tok harbor assisted the early morning
attack by use of searchlights, on the
buildings the Japanese shelled. . '
A severe brush occurred at the in.
tor-allied barracks compound. Thrcn
hundred Russians were penned in bv
mnchino guns apparently mounted on
tho Japanese Red Cross ' hospital.
Thev were captured and disarmed
without resistance. .
. Japs Use Illg Guns ' . - . .
Two unarmed Czech soldiers goint;
into thoir quarters' Wore killed bv
fire- from theso machine guns, along
side the American lied Cross bur
racks. Ju'pancso big guns shelled tho hill?
across the bay. Kxcept for activi
ties with tho shipping all- was over
within an hour. By daylight todav
the city was quiet with Oiipnnesc
patrols preserving strict order. Fli"S
wcro ordered replaced by the Japa
nese. Tho Japanese command presented
six demands upon the Russians the
day after Brigadier General William
S. Graves, commander in chiefof the
American expeditionary forces, left
Vladivostok.
A conference was held Sunduv,
when United States Consul Duvid B.
MacGownn, representatives of the
American Red Cross and Y. M. C. A.
and others visited Captain . W, 0.
Watts of the V. 8. S. Albanv ard
went ovor the situation.
Previous advices made public bv
the Japanese military attache ' at
Washington reported that the Japa
nese attack on Vladivostok resulted
from "threatening and aggressive ncis
of a portion of tho Russian nrmv."
The lust of tho American expedition
ary forces under Brigadier General
Graves left Vladivostok Thursday,
April 1, four days before the Japa
nese attack.
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registration, call The Mail Trib-
tine, and the information will be
given you.
G. KITCHEN
COLLAPSES
IN HOUSE
Former Democratic Leader In Con
gress Suffers Stroke of Paralysis
Following Speech Opposing Peace
Resolution Entire Day Taken Up
, In Debate Champ Clark Scores
Opposition for Playing Politics-
Peace Resolution Would Add to the
World Confusion.
. WASHINGTON, April 0. Repre
sentative Kitcliin of North Carolina
democratic leader in tho lust congress,
suffered a slight stroke- of paralysis
on the right sido today soon after
delivering n speech on tho houso op
posing tho republican peace resolu
tion. WASHINGTON. April 9. The
lioiise locked horns 'with tho peace
resolution todnv, prepared to com
plete action and send the proposal to
the senate beforo the session ended.
Debate will end nt 5 o'clock this after
noon. Representative Flood of Vir
ginia, leader of tho forces opposing
tho resolution, was expected to have
ready when the debate ended, tho mo
tion to recommit provided in tho rule.
Possibly an attempt to modify tho
terms of the resolution will bo made
through inclusion of a -substitute- for
it in proposed instructions to llio
foreign affairs committee to bo em
bodied in the recommitment motion.
It was gonorully admitted, howovin',
that thero was no hopo of gottiug
favorable -notion on such n plan.--
Upniuutting tho view at opponents
of tlio resolution that it proposed an
invasion of the constitutional powers
of tho president, Representative Mad
den, republican, Illinois, said it did
not "assume to take away unv of
the president's treaty making rights."
"If the. treaty of Versailles had
been ratified as presented bv the
president," he said, "it is obvious that
an American nrmv of anywhero from
25,000 to 200,(100 would have been in
Armenia today and the nation obli
gated for an expenditure of not less
than $757,000,000 to maintain a man
date under tho League of Nations
ovor that country."
Representative Flood announced
that tho motion to recommit would
propose struight out repeal of all war
legislation.
' The motion will direct the foreign
affairs committee, ho said, to report
out a resolution repealing tho war
timo acts.
Representative Clerk of Missouri,
dompcrat lnudori declared that tho
titlo given tho resolution was "a piti
able misnomer,' that tho , measure
would bring "confusion .twice con
founded," and that it would lend' to
"nil sorts of international nuag
mircs." "Congress has neither mnndato nor
authority to do the tiling now at-,
templed," ho declared. "It's a futilo
performance, a work of supereroga
tion, full of sound and furv, signify
ing nothing except a desperate effort
and, ns I believe, an unavailing ef
fort not to mnke peace but to make
some political capital apt to act as a
boomerang." K
SEATTLE REFUSES TO
TAKE FRISCO BUMS
SEATTLE, April 9. Thirty-five
men, all of San Francisco, were pre
vented by Seattle police today from
disembarking from the stener Pres
ident which arrived last night from
California. Police Lieutenant G- V.
Hasselblad said soventcen of the men
were released recently from San
Francisco jails on their promise tc
go to Alaska to work in tho fisheries.
On arriving here, he said, the seven
teen and eighteen other refused to go
aboard the boat which would carry
them north. . '
"We do not Intend to see a load of
disorderly persons dumped Cn Seat
tle," he said.
Grab Portland Salesman.
I'ORTLAN'O. Ore., April 0. Au
gust Junge, sales agent for an auto
mobile truck agency here, for whom
the fihriril'f and privato detectives
have been searching for more than a
week, is under arrest at Scotland, S.
1)., according to word received bore
today by Sheriff IJurlburt, .'.:.
COMPLETELY TIED UP
BY SWITCH WALKOUT
i
SAN FRANCISCO, April 0.
Freight traffic of the Southern -
Pacific, Santa Fe and Western
Pacific was tied up as a romilt
of the strike of switchmen which
started yesterday. Yard crews
were out at Sun Francisco, Oak-
land, Los Angeles, Sacramento,
Stockton, Bakcrsficld, Fresno,
Santa Barbara and dthcr points.
Los Angeles reported ship-
meats of perishable vegetables
imd fruits stopped, preventing
daily movement of 2"0 curs from
southern California points. The
situation was said 'to bo serious.
The Southern Pacific is af-
farted from Los Angeles to
Ogden. .
Passenger trains were moving
but it was necessary to con-
soliduto ono overland train Icnv-
ing Oakland.
BY U. S. SENATE
WASHINGTON, April 9. Volun
tary instead of compulsory universal
military training as proposed bv tho
army reorganization bill, was adopt
ed toduv by tho senate.
.The vote was 40 to 9.
As adopted tho plan, which tho vur
department is directed to put in force
during tho oalondar yoar 1922, pro
vides that all men betwoon the ages
of 18 and 28 would ho oligiblo for
four inontliti training in anv one-war
they might solcrtt. . ,. , ', ; ,
WASHINGTON, April 9. Assur
uncos that horeal'tor thcro will be no
ground for complaint against United
Slatos Stoel corporation subsidiaries,
that American vessels were being dis
criminated against in' shipment from'
the Pacific, woro given the shipping
board today by Judgo Gary of tho
steel corporation.
Chairman Benson, of the hoard, re
cently asked tho officers of tho Stno!
Products company and the Illinois
Steel company if those concerns wcro
discriminating against firms on the
coast. ' 1
IS ASKED BY MINERS
8EATTM0, April 0. Resolutions
urging tho United States government
to protect American miners in Mexi
co und asking congress to repeal ex
cess profits and corporation taxes
wcro adopted by the international
mining convehiton hero toduy. Amoni
resolutions passed was ono nsking the
government to foster production of
minerals,
. S,idncv Norman, Spoknne.-chnirinaii
of the resolutions committee, pre
sided at tho morning- session and in
troduced the resolutions. Frank A.
Vanderlip, New York financier' hero
on his way to the Orient, will address
the convention late today.
A committoo of five was named to
recommend the 1921 meeting city.
Spokane and Portlnnd asked to be
named.
LEADS TO PROBE
. NEW YORK, April 0. The New
York Stock Exchange today started
an investigation of this week's trad
ing in Stromberg Carburetor and re
fused to accept Allan A. Ryan's terms
for settlement with other members of
the exchange who wore short in Stut.
Motor when trading In ttie latter was
suspended bv the 'cxcliange. Both
Stromberg and fcituti nre controlled
by Ryan.
The committee on business conduct
of the exchange ordered membors to
report immediately nil their trans
actions in Stromberg from Mondnv
to Thursday inclusive with prices and
names of customers.
' With tho announcement that
Charles A. Morse, president of tho
association of stock exchange firms
LEADER IS
JAILED FDR:
COURT DEFY
A. Howat, Mine Leader, Refuses to
Recounize Anti-Strike Law and
With Aides Is Sent to Jail Unfit
Such Time as He Will Obey tha
Law Action Starts Fight ,to De
termine Validity of Much Discussed
Kansas Statute. r' . '
PITTSBURG, Kas., April 0. Alex
andor Howat, president of the Kan
sas cc'al miners, was sentenced to jail
for contempt of court by Judge AnV
drew. J. Curran of tho Crawford coun
ty district court today. , '-' J
Tho judge sentenced Howat and
til i-oo associate union officials to tha
county jail until such time as they
will testify beforo the Kansas court
of industrial rolations.
Under the order ot Judge Curran,
Howat and the other offiplals will be
taken to the county jaiv at Olrdrd
immodlutoly. , . -
Four mines of the district -"wereM
Idle this morning on account of the
Howat hearing, It was announced at
tho headquarters of the - operators. ' .
Don't Kocogiiizo Court' -,-
HrAvat shortly after he reaohod hla
nfflna ma.lA ttin u n nman t ' V. i
"Our position is unchanged, ' Wo
stand whore we stood. We refuse to
testify before this court because, we
do not recognize the court. It is an
.institution founded to enBlave the
working man." . V, ', '
Howat was. found guilty, of con (
tempt for refusing to obey, an order t
of Judge Curran Issued Tuesday, that
.he anneal' with iour. other raff Icera ,ofi
the United Mine Workers of Amerto
of tho KanmiH district, and testify lji
the Investigation of the coal mining!
Industry now being conduotod by the
Kansas court of Industrial relations
hero. In addition to Howat, Judga,
Curran also ftund August Dorohjr,
vice prosldont; ThomaB Harvey,, sec
retary treasurer and Robert Poster,
district auditor, guilty and gavb.theni
tho samo sentence he gave Howat.
Counsol for tho miners in an omena
ed answer filed this morning made)
numerous attacks on the KAnsaB in
dustrial court law, alleging that It
violated not only the Kansas bill of
rights and constitution, but that'll
vlolutod tho fedoral constitution. .', ;
LYNCHERS BE TID
POHTLAND, Oro., April'! pi Or
ganized labor in Portlnnd (ant niahfc
went on record to demand, that the
slavors of Wesley Everest, ! W. W,.
who was taken from inil add.hangod
at Ccntralia immediately piter thb
Armistice day outrage, be' brought to
trial. .'-- ;:'H':-'y ' -
The resolution, which - was origi
nally adopted by tho Metaii Trades
couneil in this city, was presented-to
tho Central Labor council last night
and adopted bv a heavy -majority.. "
Tho resolution condemned what it
termed mob rule in no nnoertain'
terms, and the full support -of-' or-i
gatii?cd labor of Portlond was'
pledged to thoso who are endoavoriqs'
to havo tho Blayors of Everest prose
cutcd. ' '' I - .'.
, BY A. A.
BY STOCK EXCHANGE
had been selected chairman of a
committoo to handle tho interest of
the shorts in Stutz, it was rovoalud
that the stock exchange had a list oC
names accounting for a shbrt interest
of more than 10,000 shares. .
When Uvan's plan forrSettlement ;
was rejected overtures wefe niado for
a compromise. ! ' '
The opinion in the street today wa
that if no agreement could ba reach od
legal proceedings would bo instituted
by tho calling for delivery of stoolc
hy shorts. Evan today withdrew hii
advertisements offering to; buv Stutr'.
Stutz wns quoted nt 391 when trad
ing was suspended, having risen from
100. Recently it sold at auction at
701. Stromberg opened at 110 to
day, half a point off, then declined
eight points, '. . ', V ."; " ; , ' 1,
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