The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 15, 1921, Page 1

. employes. . - resentatives should ha The Weather FAIR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE FORTIETH YEAR Last Edition \ _BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA,FRIDAY, “APRIL 15, 1921 PRICE FIVE CENTS BRITISH LABOR SPLITS; STRIKE IS CALLED OFF NATIONAL WAGE PACT OF RAIL MEN ABROGATED To End July 1 1, is. is Decision of Railway Labor Board in Chicago CONDITIONS, ARE SET, Both Sides See Way Opened for | Negotiating New Agree- ments Chicago, April 14—(By the Associ- ated Press)—National agreements de- fining working conditions for em- ployes on all American railroads for- merly under federal railroad admin- | istration were ordered abrogated ef-j fective July 1, 1921, by the United States railroad labor board. The board called upon the officers! and system organizations of employes of each’railroad to select representa-' tives “to confer and to decide” much of the rules controversy as po sible. “Such conferencees shall begin) When you think of the possibilities of war between Americ. the de-lacross the Pacific that d.vide the two continents. at the earliest possible date,” nO WAR WITH JAPAN UNLESS UNITED STATES STARTS IT BERING SEA KAMCHATKA * HONOLULU eo Tene Jaw oor” seer - UNITED wieserr™ “0 x STATES Avr ® 30" PACTFTC OCEAN ve = ees Py HARSHALL Inset in this map are picture sof President Harding and the Emperor of Japan. : a and Japan, with is eventualities, you must think of the great stretches ; MINERS AGTION " IS HELD WRONG BY RAIL UNION ‘ULSTER LORD IS SHOT DEAD NEAR DUBLIN: Dublin, April 14. —(By the Associat- ed Press.)-—Sir Arthur Edward Vicar: former Ulster King-of-Arms, was shot | dead this morning at Listowel and his; residence was burned. A tag was attached to the body ‘reading: ‘Traitors beware. We never|.7. , forget, I. R.A.” | Officials of That Body and Trans- BANK CASHIER "sauce OF 6 BANDITS Shoots From Vault After Dar- » ing Robbers Drive Victims | Inside port Workers Hold Miner. Should Have Conferred ners Delegates From all Over Field Are Called to Con- ference LONDON, April 15 (By the ; Associated Press) -— Announce- ment that the railway men’s j strike for 10 o’clock tonight had POLICE GET OTHERS! | been cancelled was made shortly before 4 o’clock this afternoon, Witowskl, ‘J. . Thomas, general secretary 0, | of the railway men’s union, said. No explanation was immedi- 16 of the state bank of Cicero, | suburb of Chicago, shot up and de-| feated a gang ot six auto bands to-| ately available on the action, but » Chicago, 8. ier April a cision said. | ‘ | IRR rr nnn nnn While the decision did not specific- | ally say so, members of the board said | that all disputes as to rules and york-| ing conditions automatically were re-| ferred back to individual conferences | between each individual road and its/ This method of procedure had been sought by the railroads, | whereas’ the labor side had favored} a national conference between repre-; sentatives of all roads and all unions. Train Men Excepted The decision affected all railroad employes except those in train serv- ice who are under separate agree- ments between individual railroads and the four big brotherhoods. In connection with the conference negotiations, the board laid down a set of 16 principles whith are to serve as a foundation for rules which may be agreed to in the conference. The present general rules hearing before the labor board, which has been in progress since January 10, will con- tinue until both sides have completed their testimony, following which the board “will promulgate such rules as it determines just and reasonable, as after July 1, 1921, as is reasonably possible and will make them effective Sixteen Prin ‘The sixteen principles outlined the board were drawn up by Hen T. Hunt of the public group to or. held the right of the employes to or- ganize for lawful purposes ,the right of employes to negotiate through rep- resentatives of heir own choosing, the and the principles hour day. It was speci- fied that “eight hours work must be given for eight hours pay.” Espionage should not be practiced by either side, the decision said, and employes’ rep- ve the right to make an agreement applying to all employes in the craft or class of the representatives. ADVANCES ES AGREEMENT Chicago, April 15.-Both railway ex- coutives and railroad w@rkers declared today the decision of the Labor board abrogating the war-time agreement would materially advance the making of an agreement satisfactory to all parties. Both sides hope to confer and agree on new working rules by July 1. Labor representatives said that many of the sixteen basic principles to govern the conference of new working agree- ments, especially the eight-hour day and the right of the employes to or- ganize and select their own represent- atives include principles they have been fighting for. Railway executives said the decision recognized their contention that many of. the roads should not have their wage scale fixed on a national basis. GOMPERS ASSAILS ACTION, New York, April 15.—Samuel Gom- pres, president of the American Fed- eration of Labor, deviared today the railroad. been influenced by big business in or- dering abrogation of existing national working agreements between the car- riers and their employes. “The whole railway act,” he said, “once pronounced a perfect piece of legislation, now is’ denounced as an utter failure, Thé board evi idently was influenced by big business.” REDUCTION IN SHEET IRON IS ie labor board evidently, had; ‘jority of the comm STUTSMAN HITS COLLEAGUES ON PHONE INCREASE Says That Commission i is Wrong in Refusing General In- crease on Rates WOULD HIT FEW CITIES A dissenting opinion has been filed by W. H. Stutsman, railroad commis- sioner, from the decision of the ma- on refusing to permit’: genera] increase for exchange and tool rates tor the Northwestern Bell Telephone company. ing the general increase the commis- sion fixed rates on which hearings will be held on the question of raising rates of individual exchanges. M. Stutsman declares the evidence s conclusive that the applicant has failed by many thousands of dollars to earn during 1920 a fair return, or gny return, upou its capital invested fn its th Dakota telephone plant and equpment.” The rates fixed by the commis- sion and the constitution guarantees a r return, the commissioner and“ m return, we Coll The compan has not only f scute its property.” Mr. Stutsman says, led to earn operating the past s but has eaten dee into its surplus punt to keep its plant going. Jur duty under these circumstances is plain—the public that demands serv- ice of its utilities expects to pay for it; it has no desire to get anything tor nothing; it established public util- ity commissions to represent it in the regulation of these utilities, but it does not pequire o fthese commissions that they represent the public alone.” Mr. Stutsman takes exception to the commission plan of holding hearings in Fargo, Jamestown, Grand Forks and Rugby. “The city of Fargo had every. oppor- tunity to appear and contest the ap- plication—in fact, the city of Bismarck did appear and consented to leave the matter entirely to the commission, but Fargo, Jamestown and Grand Forks will be given another chance at their own gates; but, Squedunk and Jones’ Crossing and the other 638 villages that it will be absolutely impossible for the commission to visit and con- sult, will have to trust themselves to our tender mercies.” He says that to raise the necessary revenue: the commission should spread a thin blanket over the entire state and not pick out a few of the) more prosperous citi REGAN MAN IN HOSPITAL WITH DECIDED UPON | BROKEN JAW York. April April 15.—Price reduc- for sheet iron,were announced the American Tin Plate com- iary of the United States Steel Corporation. The reductions vary from $5 to $14 a ton on various products. Earlier this week the steel corporation an- nounced price cuts in other lines. New CONVICTION OF 7,1. W.W. UPHELD ympia, Wé ash, April of seven alleged T W. W. for fi shooting on Armistce day was upheld by the’supreme court. nowy OF HERO BURIED, D.. April 15.—The body of the first Dr world war, ary honors. action ia s buried here with milit Nehrenberg was killed in ‘ranve on May 2, 191, st degree murder for the Centralia’ Said to Have Resulted From a Fight Yesterday — One Man Arrested Arthur McCoy, of Regan, is in a local hospital today suffering from aj} broken jaw as the result of a fracas in that village ye s brought to the hospital A el Jonngon also came with him, and shortly before noon he was| arrested on a warrant charging him| _with uuawfully having liquor in his | vesterman, well know? citi zen of Renan, is the complaining wi and also is reported to have admin- istered the blows that broke McCoy The doctors thought it in two places and were to X-ray examination. ding to information to county trusion of the other men in of business and a fight de- Johnson will have a hearing veloped, | tomorrow. After deny- | SS | $|two countr President Harding has said: kind needs a world-wide benedict Shon of understanding.” Only such a bene- diction can avert the most ious eventualities between Amer: and Japan. ‘For those forces are at work wel all history shows, leads inevi- tably to war unless counteracted. ‘fo bring about a mutual understanding between the American and Japanese nations William Philip Simms has been sent to the Or: ings and conditions Simms is a newsp of broad éxperience at foreign assign- ments, He served through the World War and the Pe: Conference with world-wide ‘di is first re- port to the folks at home is printed herewith ‘today. Others will follow. You owe it to yourself to read them,— The Editor, BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS. (Written Especially for. The Newspa- per Enterprise Association.) Tokyo, April 15.—There will be no war between the United States and Japan unless the United States starts it. After a careful study of the situation here, covering a period of several weeks, during which I talked with ,Tepresentatve Japanese as well as with Americans of many different types, 1 am convinced the Japanese are sincere when they say any war with America will be a “defensive war.” * But there is a catch in this state- ment. And here it is: Japan has, or is formulating her own policy in the War Kast—in China, Siberia and else- where—and there will be no trouble betwen America and Japan so long as the latter country is not molested in the execution of this policy. he finds them. rrespondent aper Immigration Minor Issue, There is not the slightest danger of} a war over the Japanege problem in! California and other Pacific Coast or western states. The United States will do the just thing by Japan though there will be an outery raised by the jingoes over the terms of the settlement, there will be no serious; trouble. While the leading Japanese here express the opinion that the agitation , in the Unted States is to a certain ex- tent racial, they admit at the same time that it is largely economical and that similar conditons obtain in Can ada, Australia and New Zealand—de- pendencies of England, her ally. So, she could scarcely go to war with one country for doing what another coun- try is doing without protest from Jap- an. eres Harding and Sceretary | of State Hughes hew, togthe line of absolute justice in dealing with Tokyo in the matter of immigration, and they undoubtedly will, remembering Jap- anese susceptibilities as they would have American susceptibilities remem- ‘bered the entire question tled once and for all to the sati of everybody save a few extremists in both countries. The real danger does not lie in Cali- fornia, but in the Far East. Asia is the new Balkans of the world the new breeding-ground of interna- | tional str And in Asia, China. Asia the Battleground, Brimming With Treasure, China, wtih her four hundred mil- a ae DeOle rich in natural re- most beyond conception and | sedrcely rene yet, by exploiters, is about to become an international | Klondik Just as soon as the business left over from the peace conference can be ad- |justed, the nations of the world wil! | begin staking out their claims in the | celestial republic. | Great Brtiain, the United States, | Japan and all the sea-faring count of the earth, will be on hand, seeking jconcessions and looking for trade. Some will deal justly with China, some | will try to take advantage of her. The {minimum any nation will ask for will | be its falr shape of business. pi & | “Clash of, Opinions, What would be, for example, Japan's r share” in China, and what Amer- | Hi a’s “fair share?” There room for a terrific differ~ ence of opinion right there, As a mat-/ {ter of actual truth a wide divergence! of opinion already ts between the es over this very question !_just how wide remains to be seen. Japan. of course, justifies her pres- ence in Shantung; opinion in the Unit. | whole Shantung occupation. . Viscount Ishii, in Washington in} {1917 “rather suggested that there | | (Continued on page 2) in this matter and: FORMER GOVERNOR WHITE ISNOMINATED B POSITION OF U. §. TREASURER nt, to report feel-, Washington, April 15.--(By Associ- ated Press.)—Frank White, of Valley City, N. D., was nominated today by President Harding to be treasurer of the United States. Mr. White is a former governor of ‘North Dakota, and was a colonel in the American expeditionary forces in} France during the World War. He is} to eed Guy I. Allen, who has been | serving as treasurer since last Jan-! uary when John Burke resigned. Mr. White's elevation will mark the | United States treasurership as a North Dakota place for several years, as former Governor John Burke, whose signature appeared on all United) currency only a few months ago. i eee CHARGES FUND — RAISED TO.PUT SALES TAX ON: Demand for Congressional In-! vestigation is Made by Congressman Frear Washington, April 14.—Demand for congressional investigation to show in- terests trying to put through a sales tax was made in the house today by Rep. Frear, of Wisconsin, of the ways and means committee. He mentioned Jules Bache and Meyer Rothschild, of | New York, as prime movers in the campaign and charged that a huge fund’ had been raised “to shove athe big ‘man’s tax onto the poor man.” HOME BREWING CHARGE IS LAID AGAINST FARMER can be set-' | Anton Oberg, of Near Sterling, is Placed Under Arrest Anton Oberg, « farmer living near Sterling, was lodged in the county jail last night. Oberg charved with “keeping and maintaining a nuisance.” The con- tents of the charge are to the effect that he made home brew and sold it. Authorities are said to have a state- ment of Oberg admitting that he made thome brew wand sold it. County At- torne F. McCurdy and Deputy Sheriff Ed. Kafer spent three di sifting evidence before the arrest was made. The warrant was ed out of the [court of Justice of the Peace Dolan. ' Oberg was said to be trying to ar- range for bond today. Baltimore, Md., April Activic| ties of the N ‘onal Civil ice Re- | ‘form League in combatting appoi t= | jment of “loss and inefficient prohi ition enforcement ‘ review- are ed in the report of the council of the | 3 Westerman objected to the | ed States is directly opposed to the league read at the annual meeting alle; here. ' Reiterating charges that the en- forcement personnel includes many | Idishonest men and women, some with! ‘CLAIM ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE FAVORS GETTING AGENTS BY SPOILS METHOD ; The six men drove up to the bank at 9:45 this morning and five entered | the bank with drawn revolve’ The! leader approached the cage of Wit- owski und ordered him to the rear of the bank. Another bandit compelled ten other persons to follow Witow-| i. The bandits then forced their captives in the vault. While two bandits stood guard and! others scooped up the money in the Mr. White is 65 years old. He was cashier's cage 2s they turned to escape educated in the University of Illinois Witowski pushed the door of the vault ajar ani fired. Y HARDING FOR to become a civil engineer, degree in science. territ in 1882, legislature in 1891. the National Guard and was commi taking his “One bandit fell with a bullet in his He came to Dakota head and two more staggered to the He served in the floor, seriously wounded. He was active in’ Meauwhile the Chicago police re- s-; sponded to the bank’s burglar alarm sioned major and served in the Span- ‘Just in time to fire at the fleeing ban- h-American War. He served the dit.. The other two bandits were cap- ate us governor fo rfour year, being tured after a running fight of two elected ii 1900. Mr. White commanded | blocks. " a@ regiment in franc ¥ o Wi regiment in france during the World GET CANCELLED CHEC War. He was a candidate for United States senator in the June primary Chicago, April 15.—Six armed ban- of last ur against Dr. E. F. Ladd dits who held up two bank messen. gers on an Illinois Central train, cap- and A. Gronna. He has devoted much time to ex-| tured two satchels filled with worth- less cancelled checks, ‘tensive farming interests and is head of an insurance. company. The robbery was elaborately plan- ned. It was staged while the train’ “ \ | was running through the Sixteenth | COUNTIES TO ' street railway yards. The men escap-| HAVE AGENT ed at Tw enty-second uy fecond atrest, _ Fargo, N Dd, April 15.—Two more | rsgunty gent wou and agente will be appointed this spring, according to jJohn W. Haw, state county agent leader. ‘ With these two counties, and Fos- .ter and Wells, which voted two weeks ago to employ egent tS, the work _ is ‘now being carried on in 34 North Da- kota count Mr. Haw announces that this department is making Hl rangements to employ tive new county agents. Near East Relief Headquarters | Believe They Got Thou- sands of Dollars 2 Fargo, April 15,—Authorities believe that two Syrians, representing them- i selves as collectors for the North Da-; kota division of the American Commit- | LADD ASSERTS. ‘lars. | The men were arrested by the sher- | ‘iff's department at Hunter, N. D., Fri- day. William C. Green, state’s attor- ney of Cass county, and Rev. Shuder. head of the Near Kast Relief Commit- tee in North Dakota announced that investigation showed the men —~ Wil- liam Karkos and John Simon—were not connected with any branch of the official Near East Relief committee, Permits from at least 20 secretaries of states were among the credentials alleged to have been carried by the men. North Dakota credentials wére included, ‘ BURLEIGH C0. TO DO LITTLE Senator Charges Reactionary Legislature wth Blocking Program Washington, April 15.—North Da- kota was prevented by a reactionary group in the legislature from carry- ing out her industrial and agricultural program which hdd been approved seven times by the people, Senator: K. FP. Ladd de 1 before the Peo- ple's Reconstruction League confer- | ence today. “Can the sovereign rights of a great state be destroyed by outside inter- ests which seem to boycott her and! destroy the industries the farmers have tried to develop after a quarter century of abuse,” he asked. The sen- Lid ator asserted that speculators and gamblers in necessities of life had | h grown rich, while if it had not been for the continued rise in the value of the land the farmer would have gone bankrupt. The farmer now, he said is taking steps which should and I enable him within the next two years to market his products under condi- tion which will insure him a reason- able price and at the same time furnish | articles at a lower price to consum- ers, No Money Available in Funds at Present Time, it is Stated Little road construction work be done in Burleigh county this Some grading now is being done on the Red Trail east of the city. The; commissioners alsohave ordered a sur- ; vey made preparatory to the building of a federal aid highway to the new} Missouri river bridge. There is no money in the county 1 fund at the present time. About warrants have been issued, which e been registered. These include ad, bridge and drainage fund war- arrants have been i January 1, it is si mated to amount to about criminal records, the report urges) support of a bill before Congress re- quiring that all dry agents be placea under Civil Service regulations and subjected to the customary examina- tions. The $50,000. Part of the warrants are for work in the Rice Lake drainage proposi- anti-saloon league, the report zed, prefers to “let these places | continue as politica! spoils rather than | to the normal method of providing | for their compe! 4 ation un-; pected to meet the present outstand- tion. on this during the summer. No work is expected to be done } Tax collections in the fall are ex-j day. ‘it was thought i Cea ‘ In some quarters He killed one robber and wounded | we ede one nm anc Wouncec’ that it might indicate a split in ‘the “triple alliance.” The transport workers’ strike has also been called off, Mr. Thomas announced. Miners Send Letter, “As far as the railway men and transport workers are concerned the | strike is cancelled,” he said. The prime minister, Lloyd George, read in the House of Commons_a let- ter from the Miners Federation stating that the only condition demanded was one which made concessions to the two principles of national wage board , and national pool. TRIPLE ALLIANCE SPLITS, London, April 15—An unexpected and sensational split in the ranks of the powerful triple alliance of labor this afternoon completely changed the ; complexion of the blackest industrial crisis Great Britain had ever faced and averted the projected strike of railway men and transport workers in sympathy with the striking miners set for 10 o’clock: tonight. Events developd with. such sudden and startling changes as to leave the public in a maze, Simultanéously with the announcment in the house of com- mons that the miners had declined to accept his invitation to reopen nego- tiations with the mine owners on the terms advanced last evening by Frank Hodges, the miners secretary, came the announcement that the railway men and the transport workers had “cancelled” the strike called for tc- ee Call Miners Together. The calling of a conference of ren- resentatives of miners from all the coal fields at a date to be fixed to- morrow was decided upon by the ex- ecutives of the miners federation this evening. It took this action after hearing the decision of the_railway men and trans. port workers to cancel their sympa thetic strike. Frank Hodges, the miners secretary, when questioned regarding this deci- sion, said.it meant that the miners strike would continue, Hits Miners Action, George Moore, acting; general secre+ tary of the Amalgamated Society ot Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, | Said the decision to call off the rail- road men and transport workers was reached because the other union in the triple alllance was considered wrony in refusing to resume negotiations ou the lines indicated by Secretary Hodges last evening. It appeared that the conference throughout the day among the mem- bers of the alliance had developed + heated conference over the proposals of Secretary Hodges. The miners condemned them with the assertion that Secretary Hodges had conceded too much in offering 10 discuss the question of raises without raising the controversial issue of a national pool while the railway men and the transport workers said the proposition was reasonable and tie miners should renew negotiations, FRANCE WARNS AGAINST UNION QF AUSTRIANS Will Not Tolerate Joining of German and Austria Nations Paris, April ‘Warning has been given the Austrian government by the French minister to that country that if that country is unable to ‘render null and void plans looking to the fu- sion of Austria and Germany, Franc2 suspend any contemplated assist- ance to Austria, it is said. in a mes- sage received from Vienna. The British and Italian ministe _jare declared to have associated Zher- ation. selves in this decla On Editorial Staff. Kenneth Allen, editor of last vea~ 1 “Pep,” the Bismarck high school + lication, is on the staff of Mic Chimes, a humorous publication of tha University of Michigan, says the lat- der the Civ ling warrants. est issue of “Pep.”