Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 11, 1919, Page 1

DALLAS CLASH (By the Associated Press.) DALLAS, Texas, June 11.—A J. Fisher, non-union lineman em- ployed by the Dallas light and power company, was shot and kill tween strike and non-union men who are taking the places of the striking employes of the company OVER 4,000 COPIES of The Daily Tribune sold and delivered to subscribers every day. HAS RIGHT 10 TERMS MANDATE CASPER, WYOMING, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1919 NUMBER 199 REPOPTS ON WIRE STRIKE ARE CONF! CAS”ER MEN ONLY ONES IN STATE TO GO OUT Cas Key Men Out | But Service Here Is Maintained by) Machine Girls Upsetting predictions of Man-| So Says Former Sec- retary of State on ‘Admitting Posses- sion of Copy Brot From Paris FLICTI NG Colonial Propipail Dismissed; Def_~ Sum Not Fixed fo Reparations in Al- lied Reply Reports of Company and Unionists Do Not Agree on EFf- fect of Walkout (By Associated Prean. WASHINGTON, June 13.— Former Secretary of State Root told the senate foreign| relations committee today that | he had had a copy of the peace | treaty for several weeks. It) (ty The Assectated Prees) PARIS, June 11.-—The reply to German counter proposals agreed upon by the peace con- ference heads refuses the Ger- man request for a mandate 4 Press.) (By Ansoet was given him by Henry P. Davison | 88°F R. L. Forbes and confident of | NEW YORK, June 11.— over the former German ¢olo- f the M banking h | abil iti < President Carlton said that nies. A t emorandam gives o organ banking hous: lity to force recognition of their cnly 166 persons out of a total tHe reason nore eae Senator Root appeared at his own | claims. suggestion before the committee. D FY Gait of the Western Root remarked thet the German} Valon _ Casper this morning | government had made the treaty pub- joined the natior-wide strike of | lie in detail, adding: | telegraphers, but are the only ones! “It thereupon became public prop-| in Wyoming who have left their posts, | erty. : There are two parties to the| according to late reports. Service was negotiations. Either party has the far from being demoralized, however, | right to make it public. | because of automatic sending and re- should be inclined to resent any| ceiving machines operated by girls! suggestion that I am not entitled to; who had not joined the strike at 2:00 it and co use it as I see fit, which I) o'clock this afternoon. Supplement-| propose to do.” | ing this was the service of Manager “Then I gather,” Senator Knox in-| R. L. Forbes and S. W. Atkinson, terjected, “that you do not consider | division supervisor, ‘who took up the yourself in possession -of stolen) work at the keys to relay messages goods, obteined by bribery, as has! and keep the wires cleared. been charged on the convention; Four day operators, constituting floor.” the entire Western Union operating “I yepel the suggestion,” Setred | fore with the exception of the ma-| plains the ft the League of 40,000 employed by the Western Union throughout the * country were absent from duty. He termed the strike a “com- plete failure.” CHICAGO, June 11.—Com- ™* menting on Carlton’s state- ment Konenkamp said: thie “Such figures are ridiculous | .¢ and in line with the Western changed s said, Union’s usual attitude. If only that i« the best ple 166 persons are out that num- ber can be counted at the West- ern Union office in Chicago.” : PARIS ms nas (By Asseetated Pressel tion of CHICAGO, June 11.—The na- (Ry United Mress.) The big four reparttions sec German pro- Root with feeling. chine girls, were missing when the posals. . that the al- jabenaloe Loses said the cory he} office opened for business this morn- | tion-wide strike of union tele- |'°* refused to Mx @ definite sum for seen was shown to him by Root.| ing and one of the two night operat- graphers called b President ne * eae Henry P. Davison was callen when/ ors, it is understood, will be off duty. K - a f th ue al ; eer Tele Pity: Root was excused and said that he onenkamp 0 ie Commercia h peace delegates here. The sixth operator, who works the > t they P brought a copy of the treaty to| night shift is in doubt but fellow em- | Telegraphers’ union became cffect- hat they) wih ae ‘America, but. that it had never been| ployes believe that he will join the | eet ab 72008 Gtekeek Cz) moraling | eee ee ioean gene _ Tead by any man except himself and/| strike. teen | (central time). Companies against | will object to the Greeks occupying Root. Those who are striking include a. | which the strike was called include) Smyrna. J. P. Morgan, who followed on the] J. Arnest, J. K. Dale, who is a mem- \ the Western Union, Postal, American The Jewish ittee here is urge stand, declared that he had not seen} ber of the Order of Railroad Tele- | Telegraph and Telephone and a num- jing farther « the prin- a copy of the treaty. graphers, J. H. Stuart, E. K. Mancke, , Frank A. Vanderlip, former pres-| and W. L. Matthews. Efforts have ident of the National, City Bank, fol-| been made, it is understood, to get the lowed Morgan, testifying that.he had | machine girls to join the walkout and | never seen the treaty. should this be brot about the office, here would be swamped. The local management is authority for the statement that no interruption has ‘yet’ resulted from the strike, and as and of ber of smaller companies throughout cir; the country. 1 Union officials estimated that 60, 000 telegraphers would ieave the keys during the day and on June 16 more than 100,000 electrical workers would | join. Ww massacres SCOUT ORNE!N DAVISON DEFENDED BY ELIHU ROOT. (Ry United Prees. | tern Union officials said that only a few employes were members WASHINGTON, June,..11.—Elihu Root energetically defended Davison as a man who abandoned his private business and gave his time to the Red Cross. He said it was his official duty to keep track of the new relations the Red Cross was to assume under the treaty. “So he was entitled to have that treaty. It was a matter of no idle curiosity or ulterior purpose,” Root stated. Root said he proposed to do what he saw fit with the'treaty. Senator Lodge admitted that Root showed him the copy. Davison then testified that he got the copy from Thomas W. Lamont, another Morgan firm member, who} was financial advisor to the American | peace mission. Davison said he sent | the copy to"Root because Root’s opin- jon was sought and given by the American peace mission, Morgan and Vanderlip alse testi- fied. They defended their interest in| the treaty on the ground that the/ money resources of the United States must be pooled and poured into Eu- rope to rebuild and resture it. They | declared that the United States gov- ernment must cooperate with Ameri- ean bankers and Enropean govern- ments in mobilizing America’s dol-} lars to help Europe. Davison said: | “If American people knew how, serious conditions are in the world) they could not sleep.” | According to Vanderlip France and | England think the United States | should never ask the repayment of | over nine billiev:ss loaned them by the United States because the United States got into the war late and there-| fore ought to bear a heavy share of | the money burden. Se prolific is the common or do- mestic fly that in a single season one while Casper is the relay point for messages to central Wyoming points, the present force has been able to keep the wires clear. “Altho four Morse operators went out this morning we have moved all business out of Casper promptly,” said R. L. Forbes of the Western) Union at 2:00 o’clock today. A full force will be available within the next 24 hours.” “I may not be able to beat all the dirt but Pll mend the furniture all right.” | None of the men in Casper are ‘ affiliated with the Commercial Tele- graphers’ union and only one is a member of the railroad union, but the strike was decided upon in sympathy | with the general walkout over the, country to help force recognition of | the following seven demands, upon which Atlanta operators originally | walked out: “First—The right to belong to a labor union without pny restrictions and no interference with legitimate trade activities. “Second—The right of collective bargaini:,, thru the trade unions rep- resenting the telegraph and telephone workers and not thru company con- trolled associations organized to de-| feat the aims of the workers. “Third—The reinstatement of all workers discharged in 1918 and 1919 for the reason given above. | “Fourth—Compensation for time lost by all workers who were dis- charged for the above reason. “Fifth—An increase in pay suffi- cient to meet the increased cost in living since 1915. “Sixth—Standardization of salar- ies with a wage scale which will stop the individual wage reductions now being put into effect. “Seventh—Rules governing work- ing conditions whereby the rights of the workers will be defined and guar- industrious female could count herjanteed, which is the only means of stopping petty tyrannies and perse- progeny to twenty millions, if all sur- - . a vived and followed her example of, cutions now being practiced in many maternity. | sections of the country.” AUSTRIA SOBS IN THIS STATE WITH NO GENERAL UNEMPLOYMENT, HOFFMAN STATES Many Jobs Unfilled and Industries Are Now Making Good Progress with More Employes in State Than Ever Before, Says Commissioner. CHEYENNE, Wyo., June 11.—(Special) —“There is no gen- eral unemployment in Wyoming,” said Harry C. Hoffman, state commissioner of labor, in commenting today upon the Asso- ciated Press story that there are 4,500 men out of work in Utah; “in fact, there are many jobs unfilled. In all parts of the ‘state the various industries are progressing splendidly. Meny communities are contemplat-| -————————————_ ing extensive road building programs and others are undergoing building booms, due to the developments of the oil fields. “Another encouraging sign is the scarcity of labor, especially for farms. Practically all returning sol- diers and sailors are finding work readily in their chosen occupations, and the farmers and ranchmen are ous and abundant than for ye Definite and conclusive evidence that such is the case is furnished by the vast amount of calls for labor in all branches of industry. “Wyoming coal miners are work- ing fewer men than in former years, due to overproduction and the de velopment of new workings, but they are managing to give those em- of the Canmmercial - Teiegraphers’ union and*that business was not ma- terially affected. | ‘The issues involved include the | right to organize, bargain collectively, wages and Working conditions. Soon after the hour set for the men to strike Konenkamp said probably would be two or three days before the full strength of the strike was known. Reports indicated, he said, that the men were going out | steadily. £ It was estimated in this district, | comprising Illinois and part of Indiana | and Wisconsin, about* 2,700 men both IN SEPTEMBER | inthe Western Union and Postal com ee be | panies would strike. In Chicago it The (By ‘The Ancocinted Pree.) ' was said that from 800 to 1,000 would urna CHICAGO, June 11.—A plan to| be out tonight. 3 Beout call an international working men’s! An hour after the strike Western 6 and 7 was announced today by the | Union officials said they were not af- conference on peace here September | fected. They showed newspapermen speakers’ committee of the Chicago| through their operating room where Labor party, which is erranging for|™any men were at work. a demonstration of labor interests here in September. - — Half-Billion-Dollar Banquet Eaten by | Plant Pests Yearly WASHINGTON, June 11.—(Unit-| ed Press.) —There is a pest for everx| plant and they a $500,000,000! banquet in the United States every year writes Charles Lathrop PACK, president of the American Forestry Association, in the American Forest- ry Magazine. Pack reaches the con- clusion that Adam must have attained a great age if he named all the insects CASPER OPENED TUESDAY MIGHT Reid io National Republican, out of this, LABOR MEN TO DISCUSS PEACE Money and Memberships Pouring in and Campaign Receives | petus from Demonstration on Center tart of an STRIKE NOT JUSTIFIED, BURLESON DECLARES WASHINGTON, June 11. Postmaster General Burleson de- clared in a statement today that € no amount of pressure would avail to make the government wire con- trol board “extend or go beyond the rules and regulations of the war labor board, which have been strictly observed since the govern- al ring ple 4 dollars. i fire 1 ander declared the Burleson strike of wire employes which be- omra i gan this morning was “wholly without justification” and added that information he had was that “telegraphic traffic had not been delayed ead would not be delay constantly calling for more men to care for the crops and livestock. High wages are being paid. “Probably at no time within its history has Wyoming had within its borders so many employes. This statement is based’ upon the unusual and widespread improvement in bus- iness and industriel conditions, op- portunity for employment, with in- creased wages for nearly all branches velopment of our latent resources, and the general and material pro- I re EA i Y e G pee i E F :: labor, prosperity of farmers, de- pices 5 Meee, Austria, owing to the urgency of completing negotia- tions with the Germans. One American official who is working ov. the Austrian treaty was ed when the rest of the summary would be available and replied: | “There may not be any more. The Austrians have more now apparently than they are able to sign.” (By Associated Press.) greater PARIS, June 11.—Austrian | Chancellor Renner in a letter to | the peace conference complains | of “hard conditions” imposed | upon his country, which he says | ‘overwhelmed with despair,” | d points out the complexity of | the Austrian frontier question. PARIS, June 11.—Little prog- is being made in drafting articles of the treaty with rei |ming during the past two gress which has been made in Wyo- years. There can be no doubt that in most lines of industry in the state e& much better condition exists than for some years past. In some lines, notably the oil industry, the development has been more substantial and marked than in others. “The condition of labor is satis- factory and encouraging. It is no ‘exaggeration to say that employment ployed three and four days’ work a week, One of the most important fields for this surplus labor will be the big state highway program au- thorized by the last legislature and by the commissioners of the various counties. Organized Iebor is en- thusiastic over good roads. It feels that there are two big reasons why labor should be back of the good roads scheme: First, they realize that prices on farm produce are ng to be lower to the consumers when the stuff can be brought in every day of the year rather than a comparatively few days; and, second, they are anx- ious to push anything that makes for public improvement. “Much of the farm work in Wyo- ming is seasonable, and it is im- possible to have a supply of men available for immediate service when |needed, as men must work at other |times besides the rush period on the |farm to maintain a healthy existence. | “Increases in the cost of commodi- and fungi injurious to plant life. oa}? Moor The ‘“‘seventeen-year” locust has com n for a great deal of publicity By this year, but he is a piker in doing, CHICAGO, re damage, Pack says. There is more, Ports gathered by the United Press interest this year in tree pests be-| Show that Pe cause thousands upon thousids of| The Postal is harder hit than the people are planting, or will plant in the fall, Memorial Trees. Due to a lack of shipping these pests from Europe were kept at home for a while during the war. In the meantime the scientific sharps are working over time to find the poison gas or anything else that will put a finish to the pests. _ = uur. Carlton Murphy of Fayette- ville, Tenn., is spending a few days in Casper on business. beginning of the European war in 1914 have been enormous, according to figures compiled by the state de- partment of labor and_ statistics. From this report it is clearly per- missible, in all cases where averages are used, to state that the average increese in the cost of living in a family of average size amounts to | at fair wages has been more continu-'ties and food in Wyoming since the|fully 55 per cent.” (Continued on Page Six.) OMSKREJECTS ALLIED OFFER (By United Press} PARIS, June 11.—A 1 K fer of conditional recogniti refusal of practically all the cond laid down, The reply refuses to recogr it recognizes Polend's indepe Kolchak s reply to the rover The reply refuses to summon the are Bolshevik. cause it claims that a majority LONDON, June 11,—The after three days sanguinary fi Monday captured Ufa BY REPLY © ONE KILLED IN |GERMANY - EFUSED © —— ES a ee