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LABOR UNITES IN OPPOSING tg
WAGE REDUCTIONS IN MINES Wk
PACKING HOUSES AND R. R.'S
Packing House Workers Vote Almost Unanimously for Strike
John L. Lewis- President United Mine Workers, Announces
Resistance to Wage Reductions and Breaking of Contract
While Frank P. Walsh Starts Cross Examination of Rail
road Heads to Prove Bad Faith Toward Workers Labor's
Bill of Rights Offered to U. S. Labor Board.
CHICAGO, March IS. Railroad
labor 1111I0113 today presented what
they termed their "bill o rights" to
ihe rnilroadlabor hoard and then be
gan an attempt to prove the insin
cerity of the roads In their dealings
with the unions by cross-examining
high railroad officials who had been
' summoned by the board at the re
quest of the unions. .
Frank P. AValsh, labor attorney,
conducted the cross-examination. He
read correspondence between labor
leaders which was furnished by K. S.
JJinkerd, secretary of the Association
of Railway Executives labor commit
tee and which he said would prove
his case.
One letter from Mr. Uinkerd to T.
Dewitt Cuyler, chairman of the asso
ciation, reported that the committee
had voted In favor of one or more
national boards of adjustment, only
W. V. Atterbury, vice president of
the Pennsylvania voting against the
resolution.
Atterbury (Jains Point
Mr. Atterbury, the letter said, had
submitted a minority report against
the plan and this report later was
adopted GO to 41 by the railroads in
an individual iballot.
Mr. Walsh said tlint as a result of
V,this, Carl Gray, president of the
Union Pacific resigned as chairman of
the committee and Atterbury suc
ceded him.
Mr. Walsh had announced before
the meeting that ho would prove that
Mr. Atterbury, 03. T. Whiter, chair
man of the roads' conference commit
tee and a few others dominated the
policies of the roads.
The union's "bill of rights" was
presented by II. M. .lowell, chairman
of the railroad labor department of
tho American Federation of Labor
and outlined eleven points which Mr.
Jewell said could not be changed with
labor's consent. Thoy deal largely
with working conditions.
Mr. Dinkord, tho first witness call
ed, said tho association originated In
1912 and was formed "to deal with
the steadily developing railroad prob
lems in the United Stales."
Tho present association -was the
outgrowth of the 1912 organization,
ho said. He declarod It did not have
general powor over the ronds as each
road "acted on its own judgment."
"If It has no control over them,
why is Whiter here as their repre
sentative?" Mr. Walsh asked.
"He's hero as a result of a policy
adopted by the roads individually
through their association," Mr. Uink
erd replied.
Against Asi-cements
Mr. Walsh read from a file of cor
respondence brought to the hearing
by Mr. Binkard. He read numerous
letters, declaring that he wanted to
show by them that the executives' la
bor committee was originally organ
ized to deal with wage matters but
had hecomo inter-related w'th the
HOLD OF
LONDON, Mar. IS. A political
crisis of the first magnitude has been
created by the retirement of A. Bonar
Law from the British cabinet, it Is de
clared by the London Times. Other
newspai!is while less emphatic agree
in saving that Mr. Law's resignation is
certain to have considerable political
affect and that it probably will mater
ially weaken the coalition govern
ment. It is pointed out that no successor
to Mr. Bonar Law is likely to work
so well with Premier Lloyd George
and the Graphic even suggests that If
Mr. Lloyd George Is called upon to
face a prospect of unsympathetic asso
ciation he may find the of office
RETIREMENT OF BONAR
conference committee which wa3
formed to doal with national agree
ments and national rules.
One letter from Mr. Dinkerd to
Mr. Cuyler requested a meeting of
members of the two committees. It
inclosed a memoranda Wjulch. said
Mr. Whiter's object before the labor
board should he to eliminate the na
tional agreements and that it the
board took the attitude that some
uniform rules should be continued,
Mr. Whiter Hhould attempt to pro
cure elimination of as many objec
tionable features as possible. Some
objectionable features were said to
bo rules dealing with peice work, em
ploying men without regard to moral
or physical fitness, and the four year
apprentice rules.
l P. Men Oppose Cut
OMAHA, Neb., March IS. An in
ditlon that labor leaders will op
pose a proposed reduction in the
wnges of unskilled workers on-the
Union Pacific was given In a state
ment hero today by It. 11. llutzer ol
Omaha, general chairman of the
Union Pacific system hoard of ad
justment who represented members
of the Brotherhood of Hallway and
Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers,
Kxpres3 and Station Employes, in the
employ of that company.
The statement made In connection
with a wage conference scheduled to
take place here March 24 between
representatives of the men and Un
ion Pacific officials, said at tho com
ing meeting "detailed facts and ar
guments would bo placed tending to
show that the present rates are In
every sense just and reasonable..' Ic
added that "every effort will be made
by the representatives of the employes
to adjust this controversy in a just
and fair manner."
Kill Ol KlRlHS.
CHICAGO, March IS. Eleven ba
sic principles satisfactory to labor
and on which labor would he willing
to negotlato agreements were laid
down beforo tho United States rail
road labor board today by 13. M.
Jewell, president of the railway em
ployes department of the American
Federation of Labor.
"These fundamentals, upon which
the national agreements are based
consist only of those elementary prin
ciples and safeguards which enlight
ened public opinion has sanctioned
and officially declared necessary to
the well being of the men and women
employed not only in the transporta
tion Industry but In all basic Indus
tries," ho said.
Arguments upon tho proposal of
tho railroad executives to abrogate
the national agreements has occu
pied tho attention of tho hoard since
January 21. when the request was
submitted by W. W. Atterbury, vice
president of the Pennsylvania rail
road.
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LLOYD-GEORGE GOVERNMENT
intolerable and will follow Mr. Bonar
Law into retirement.
There are many forecasts relative
to the new unionist leader whom the
party will elect Monday. Austen
Chamberlain, chancellor of the ex
chequer; Sir Hobert Home, president
of the board of trade and Sir Edward
Carson are given most prominent
mention as being probable successors
to Mr. Bonar Law.
Suggestions have been made In
'some quarters that Mr. Lloyd George.
himself, take command of the unionist
party. The London Times remarks
I that the unionists as a whole, while
w illing to make every use of him. are
I mo? t jealous nf his mwt.
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(imc'rul" of 'ml Miners. AYlm Is M:i
DEFENDERS OF
KRONSTADT FLEE
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STOCKHOLM, M:tr. 1 X Reports
tli at tho KUKHiun naval furtrcss of
KronHtatlt the ci-nter nf the revolu
tion aKaint 1 ho soviet Kovernment,
has been taken by the bolsheviki, ap
pear to bo confirmed in d ispn.tr lu s
reaching: here from Finland.
Leon Trotzky, Kussian bolshevik
minister of war, directed ihe assault
on the fortress, it is said, ai d hurled
upwards of tiO.000 meir at its de
fenses. Advices would seem to indicate that
communists within the fortress and
town of K roust ad t assisted the bol
shevik forces when the latter had
broken Into the outer forts of the
place. Tho garrison, mi inhering t
pruxiniately 15,0(10, is declared to
have become exha ust ed by t he con -stunt
bombardment of the place and
were poorly equipped in some places.
The defender of Kronstadt. to
gether wit h the commander of the
re vol u( binary t roups, are reported to
have escaped into Kin land.
LONDON, Mar. IS. ( lly the As
social ed Press) The Russian soviet
government, in confirming by wire
less today tho capture of Kronstadt
by bolshevik troops said M. Kusniin.
soviet commissar of the Maltle fleet,
and M. Vaslleff, chairman of the
Kronstadt soviet, who were arrested
at the beginning of the rising, were
released by the bolsheviki on their
entry into Kronstadt.
M. Kusmin participated in the final
liquidation of the rising, the wireless
adds.
liKTINK, Switzerland, Mar. 1 S.
(P.y the Associated Press) The cap
ture from the bolsheviki of Mohllev
and Jampol, on the Dniester river,
by Ukranian nationalist forces, was
announced by the Ukranian mission
here today.
The Ukranians shot all the bolshe
vik commissars and officers, the mis
sion declared.
P.EI1NB, Switzerland, Mar. IX.
City the Associated Press) The exec
utive committee of the International
Metal Workers union, which claims a
membership of 3,500.000. today
adopted a resolution declaring against
Lenine and the third Internationale nf
Moscow.
The committee urged union mem
bers In all countries to oppose new
wars and militarism to the' utmost
and seek to achieve general disarm
ament to bring about permanent
peace.
PORTLAND, Ore., March IS.
Prank A. Spencer, a wholesale mer
chant, was lata yesterday appointed
receiver for the A. Rupert Company,
Inc., whose announced failure last
week involved a number of fruit and
vegetable canneries In Oregon and
Washington. Heavy cuts In prices
made by the Callrornia 1-acfcera asso
ciation, were declared by Kdtiar Sen
senfefe banker and witness at the re
ceivership hearing, to have caused
the Rupert failure. The Rupert com
pany he said was not In position to
meet the rut, which amounted from
27, to r,0 per rent.
rslinllin Knives for l,nbnr StriiECle.
ALLIES PROTEST
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UPPER SILESIA
PARIS, Mar. IS (Hy Associated
Press.) Tho council of ambassadors
today bunded a nolo to tho (lorninn
plebiscite delegation concerning the
concentration of German troops on the
upper Sileslan frontier.
Tho communication says Gormany
will be held responsible for any ills
orders arising from the entry of arm
ed Gorman forces into the plebiscito
area.
A similar note was sent by tho coun
cil to tho Polish plebiscite delegation.
IIF.IILIN, Mar. 1S. (Ily Associated
Press.) Tho inler-nllled plebiscite
commission has ordered a suspension
of telegraphic and telephonic commu
nication with upper Silesia from Sat
urday to Monday. A plebiscito will bo
held In upper Silesia Sunday to deter
mine whether Poland or Gormany
shall havo sovereignly over thu dis
trict. Press telegrams arc exluded from
the commission's order but will be
subject to tho approval of authorities
in Silesia.
21 Gallons Whiskey
Seized by U. S. Govt.
Labor Headquarters
DF.NVF.lt, Colo., March IS.
State and federal agents today
raided state headquarters of tho
American Federation of Labor
here, confiscated 2 1 gallons of
whiskey and ai'rested two mem-
hers of a committee named to
provide entertainment for tho
national convention of the or- fr
der here next summer on a
charge of violating the prohlbl-
tlon laws.
Sixteen gallons of liquor were
found at the headquarters and
five gallons were confiscated
when tho two men were arrested
In a building near by.
Sugar Goes Up
SAN KKANCISCO, Mar. 18. The
price of refined cane sugar at tho re
fineries Increased from 8.23 to JS.50
today, the second rise in ten days.
KM.KXKltritri. Wash.. Mar. IS.
.lames Cotter. 24. former Klltnshiirff
nianae- for the Western Cnlnn THp.
jrraph eonipnny. confessed he had
forged a telegraphic order on the
company for S1HO0. cashing It last
I December at San Francisco, offli-pr
here announced today. Colter start
ed for San Francisco last night In
custody, to face a charRe of grand
Inrceny In connection with the nl-
'legi'il llrnft.
Chicago Aldermen
Ask Portland How
To Spend Their Cash
POItTl.AND, Ore., March tS.
Thirteen aldermen of Chi
cago, comprising the committee
on local transportation of the
Chicago council, a number of
traffic experts anil newspaper
men, were hero today on a tour
on which they are seeking point
er son how to expend $29,000
which Chicago has in Its trac
tion fund, an accmulatiou of sev
eral years from tho gross earn
ings tax paid by surface trac
tion lines. They will leave for
Seattle at 1 1 tonight.
Government Report Shows
Marked Decline in Food
Costs Last Month Over Jan
uary Buffalo and Butte
Lead in Reductions De
cline in Portland 6 Per Cent.
WASHINGTON, March IS. Food
co3ts of tho avorago family decllnod
iiino per cent In February as com
pared with January, the bureau of la
bor statistics announced today. All
of 4 4 articles roported, except hens.
decreased In price, tho figures show
lug heiiH having Increased less than
G-lOth of ono per cent.
Strictly fresh eggs were down 3!)
per cent; storage eggs :)" per cont;
potatoes 13 per cent; rlco 12 per
cent; pork chops 9 per cont; plato
beef and sugar 8 per cent; chuck
roast, lamb, butter, alrd and prunes
7 per cent; round stoak and frosh
milk 6 por cent; nlrloln steak, rlli
roast, oloomargarine, crlsco and on
ions 5 per cent; nut margariuo and
cornmenl 4 per cent; bacon, flour.
rolled oats, navy beans, cabbage
baked beans, coffeo and oranges 5
per cent; bread, canned corn, canned
peas, canned tomatoes and bananas
2 per cent; canned salmon, evaporat
ed milk, cheese, corn flakes, macaro
ni, tea and raisins ono per cent.
All articles of food combined de
creased 21 per cent during the year
but five articles which increased dur
ing tho porlod wero raisins 25 per
cent; macaroni 7 percent; rolled oats
3 per cent; cream of wheat 2 per
cent; tea less than 5-1 0th of ono per
cent.
During tho eight year period from
February 1.913, the Increase In all
articles of food was 03 per cent. The
greatest decrease In average family
expenditure was In Buffalo and
Butte, Mont., at 1 1 per cent for the
month. Other decreases were:
Chicago. Denver, Dallas, Kansas
City, New York, Omaha and Wash
ington 9 per cent; l.os Angeles, Port
land, Ore., Salt Lake City and San
Francisco 6 per cent; Seattlo 4 per
cent.
For tho year all of tho Til cities re
ported showed a decreaso In food
crsts, Memphis and Minneapolis lead
ing with 20 per cent.
liAKKR, Ore., March 18. The
resignation was announced yestrtr-.
day of o. U. Dewey, coach of the Ba
ker high school basketball team.
Withdrawal of the Baker team from
the Oregon basketball tournament
at Salem last week was forced after
the team had attained the seml-rinala,
on tho ground that an Ineligible play
er was a member of the team. Dewey
sold today that he felt his rcglsna
tlon was in order because or this cir
cumstance and so had tendered It.
The resignation wiir nceepted.
H.C.L.DROPS
It PERCT
IN FEBRUARY
CLARA SMITH HAMON MAY FILE
I AGAINST
FOR SERVICES SHE RENDERED
Pretty Defendant Undecided As to Future Plans, But Friends
tit
Urge Her to Present Claims for Services in Building Up
Millionaire's Estate Other Charges Against Principal in
Murder Trial to Be Dropped Charge Against Ketch as
Accessory After the Fact Is Still Pigeon Holed Said to Be
Considering High Salaried Contracts. .....
AKDMORK, Okla., March 18.
Thoro probably will 1m no aftermath
to tho trial of Clara Smith llanion.
acquitted yesterday on a chnrgo of
Laving murdered Jake 1,. llanion in
tho mailer of prosecution on the
statutory charge filed against her and
llanion two days after sho shot him
November 2 1 last, according to in
formation obtained in the office of
tho county attorney of Carter county
today.
Such action, following tho young
woman's acquittal, probably would
be rogai'ded as persecution, It was
said.
An Information charging Frank L.
Ketch, llumnn's business manager,
and now administrator of the llanion
estate, with being an accessory after
the fact In that ho gavo Clara llanion
$5,000 and told her to leave Ardmore
alter tho shooting, still was pigeon
holed in tho otrico of Joseph 11. Math
ers, county attorney, toduy.
It still was undecided whether tho
Information would ho filed formally.
Clara Jlamon and her staff of at
torneys held a conference this morn
ing. It was said that she Was con
sidering a number of "business prop
ositions," somo of which Involved
high salaried contracts.
It also was said Hint nothing had
been decided as rogarded suits
against tho llnmoii estate undor
claim that a great part or It was built
up under cooperation or Clara llamon
In Mr. Damon's business, but friends
are urging her to take action.
"I cannot say anything as to my
plans for tho future, for I havo none,"
Clara llamon said. "I am Just rclax-
lug today and want to get a good
GOV. HART VETOES
BLUE SKY BILL
OLYM PI A, -Wash., March 18.
Governor l.ouls F. Hart, today an
nounced the veto of the blue nky bill
passed by tho recent session of the
legislature. Ho round tho bill un
satisfactory becaues It eliminated
from supervision stocks ill mining and
oil companies.
"Thero is perhaps no cluss of
Blocks and securities sold in this
stato In which there Is ns much
chance of fraud as In mining and oil
stocks." tho veto messugo said.
"Millions of dollars aro taken from
the stato annually by 'wild cat' oil
companies, it would bo difficult to
Imagine a moro obnoxious provis
ion than the section eliminating this
clnss of stocks."
Liberty IIoiiiIh.
NEW YOltK Mar. 18. Liberty
bonds closed: ,1V4'h $90.3li: first 4's
$87.20; second 4's $87.00; first 4 A 's
JH7.40: second 4 V, 'a $87.04; third
4 '4's !I0.20; fourth 4 i '8 $87.24;
Victory 3i's $!I7.24; Victory 4 'u
$97.22.
h'KLHD, Wash.. Mar. 18. Mystery
surrounds the disappearance of Fred
L. Stewart, last seen on the ferry
Queen at !:30 last night on its trip
from Cioble. Ore., to Knlnma, Wash.
The Columbia river is being dragged
today on thy theory that the missing
banker mny have Jumped or fallen
into the stream,
Mr. Stewart was cashier of Ihe Kel
so Slate bank, closed yesterday noon
hy Claude P. Hay, stato bank exam
iner. No charges had boon made
against Stewart. Mr. Hay said tho
bank was closed because of misman
agement nnil possession of poor paper.
Ml ESTATE
rest. I expect to visit my father 'lit
F.l Paso soon and it s qulto proba
hlo I shall leave here Within tho nox(
week or ten days for HI Pnso and.
go from thero to California to bo
with my sister who lives there."
She apparently was In high spirits
today and had doffed the rather som
ber blue tailored suit and blue tail
ored hat sho wore all through tho
trial for more colorful garments.
ARDMOK1C, Okla., Mar. 18. Freed
of tho charge of nuirdor for tho shoot
ing of Jnko D. Hamon, by the jury's
verdict yesterday, Clara Smith Hamon
today was planning to leave Ardmore,
the scene of her ten yoars association
with Hamon which culminated In tho
shooting last November. Sho probably
will go to Wilson, Okla., for a short
visit with her sister and later proceed
to HI Paso, where her father is Ber
lously ill.
Alter a trial lasting a week, tho jury
in tho Hamon case debated Its verdict
only forty minutes, agroelng upon
ucqitlttnl on tho first ballot.
"I am tho happiest woman in tho
world," Clara llamon said, with tears
streaming down her face when sho
heard tho verdict. Mrs. Jako L. Ha- '
mon, tho widow, who attended nearly
nil sessions of the trial, loft the court
room when tho Jury retired, and mem
bers of her ramily said sho had not
been told tho verdict.
Tho state's final plea attacked tho
theory of solt defense on which Clara
Damon's caso had been built, but loss
than an hour after Attorney Genoral
S. P. Freeling had made the final ad
dress In tho trial, the defendant was
receiving tho congratulations of scoron
of the attendants at tho trial.
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CASE IS UP AGAIN
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WIDTH PLAINS, N. Y., March 18.-
Tho possibility of Indefinite post"-1
ponomont of arguments on' two nio-
, . '1 1 'i V. n li
Cons in tho dlvorco suit of James. A,.
Stillinun, prosidont of the ."National,
City bank of Now York against tho
formal' "Fin" Potter, was onded to
day hy John F. Brennnn, counsel for
Mrs. Stlllmnn. (Ho obtained from
Supreme Court Justlco MorschauBor
an order directing that next Wednes
day morning urguments shall be made
on tho motion of Mrs. Stillman to
require Mr. Stillman to show his fir
nunclul status and on the motion for
$10,000 a month alimony and 125,
000 counsel roes.
SADISM, Ore.,' March 18. Tho
Rt a to land hoard at a meeting held
here yesterday authorized loans to
farmers of Oregon In the amount of
$184,000. This money -was derived
ri oin the sale of school district bonds
out of funds belonging to the state
Industrial accident commission.
Ho believes It can bo ro-npened Boon.
Mr. Stewart was seen on the ferry
before It reached Knlama, Captain
Pomeroy saw him walking; nervously
to the stern of tho boat. It has been
surmised that he leaped or foil Into
tho wnter. Ilia suitcase was iound
on the ferry.
The Kelso State bank has boon
established 28 years and Stewart was
connected with It 22 years. Ho for
merly was a member of the state sen
ate. Ho has a wife and child. Tho
bank hns $25,000 capital and deposits
of $340,000, according to its last of
ficial stnlement,
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