Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 18, 1922, Page 1

PRESIDENT DECLARES FOR RAILROAD {PROTECTION OF ALL WORKERS IN- (GREEMENT FOR END OF STRIKE STILL LAGKING IN. CONFERENCE Locomotive Brotherhood Chief Optimistic, No Results Obtained To- day in Early Sessions NEW YORK, Aug. 18—At 4:15 p. m. the Jeatler of one of the shop fts, who ‘rould not permit his me to be used, sald after receiving a telephone message at labor head- quarters that he believed the strike soon would be settled. NEW YORK, Aug. 138.— (By The Associated Press.) — Belief that no definite agree- ment. for settlement of the shop crafts strike would he reached today was expressed by Warren S. Stone, head of, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, shortly before 1 o'clock on leaving the conference between brotherhood men and executives. “The strike must be settled.” he said, “and ft must be settled right here ‘at these meetings. Conditions r the country demand thar A ret. nsnt be made at once and we are optimistic that Jt can be done soon. The five brotherhoods are rendy to do anything possible to bring present conditions to an end.” Rajlway executives and prethernood chiefs wont into session at 10:tv o'clock. At a corference between Mr. Jewcil and the mediagion committee which preceded the session with the execu- ‘ives, it was understood a more defi nite pioposal for a settlement had been worked out,, but nothing con- cerning its nattire could be learned trom official so z re © that it can be done,” paid Mr. Stone and other labor men ethoed ‘his words, No statement was coming from reprosentatives of the rafiroads. Up town, at their hotel headquer- ters, leaders of the striking shop- crafts professed cont pce in the ability of the running trade, who have the operators would only extend the old wage scale agreement until next April. The point was understood to have beeh made that if mining were to be resumed with the old scale standing only until April, another pension then might have to be faced. Mine workers’ officials were said to be in favor of 8 two to three-year agreement. BROTHERHOODS SUBMIT NEW PRO! ' NEW YORK, Aug. 18—(By The Associated — Press). Brotherhood chiefs, acting as mediators in the shop- men strike, today Iaid a proposal for, settlement before a committee repre- senting the carriers. It then was de- cided to call a meeting of the entire (Continued on Page Ten) Che Caz Weather Forecast Fair tonight and Friday, except some- what unsettled tn south portion. Not much change in temperature. C@rthune CASPER, WYO., FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1922. sco-Datliy City Edition Circulation of The Tribune Yesterday 7,042 NUMBER 265. HAY SAYS HE WILL SLASH STATE BUREAUS IN HALF 4‘ People’s Candidate for Governor Leaves Economy Decision to the Taxpayer in Statement Issued Today Hon. John W. Hay, Republican candidate for gover- nor in the primary election to be held next Tuesday, has spent the past several days in the city meeting old friends and forming hew acquaintances. When approached last evening at his hotel by a representative of The Tribune he expressed confidence in his nomination. He is on his return from a tour of the Basin country and the north- eastern counties, having practically now covered the en- tire state and seen and talked with thousands of Wyo- ming voters. Treeed SOF a pees ne Hay said: “The question aske the Douglas newspaper, and so widely published by the campaign committee of Gov- ernor Carey savors a great deal more of campaign prop- aganda than any effort or desire to get the fatis before the people for their consideration. - “Previous to the world war we got along very com- fortably in our various affaira, social, business and gov- ernmental.! But during the period covered by the war, and I may say for a time subsequent to its close, we drifted from our moorings. We abandoned our old- fashioned, wholesome and life-time habits and ideas of economy, thrift and industry. In commercial and finan- cial matters we soared in the air, so to speak, while our social, business and political life was not only disturbed but uprooted. We entered upemedebauchwiweckless- ness, extravagance and irresponsibility, the like of which the world had never seen. We have been on the way to recovery now some time. There are still occasional! out- breaks. A recurrence of the old restlessness. It is evi- denced‘in governmental and industrial affairs more than elsewhere. It is a tortuous road back but we will make it, just as we have risen before from apparently hope- less and discouraging situations. “Our sorest trials have been in our public affairs . where we have bien the slowest in beating back to what the world has come to call normalcy. Out of the rush and excitement of the war period there grew up in the | WINDUP OF PRIMARY CAMPAIGN IS SCHEDULED HERE TONIGHT Jesse Crosby, all candidetes for state office. County candidates will also be introduced. Signal honor is paid the Casper candidate in designation of the rally as “Judge Winter night” and the istrict\courtroom should be packed for the occasion. Arrangements have been complet- ed for the final meeting tonight of *the Republican primary campaign when the Young Men's Republican club will have as its honored guest, Judge Charies E. Winter, candidate for congressman, in addition to I. C. Jefferis, Mi Cyrus Beard and WYOMING OPERATORS ‘ | Coal Strike in This State to Be Ended at} Conference Scheduled Tomorrow Between Parties to ‘Agreement MINERS GATHER SIBERIA WILL | KIDNAPPING WARDEN, REPORT federal government at Washington a reckless extrava- gance and a wanton waste of the people’s monéy and a disregard for their rights scarcely believed possible in more orderly times. This same spirit of heedlessness and disregard perméated the whole country. It came into state, county and municipal government. Along with it came regulation of the personal lives of the people. To a degree we abandoned democratic forms for arbi- trary ones. The national executive, the congress, the legislatures have all been inclined to set up codes for the regulation of the. people and have delegated powers to commissions that were intended and should remain in the hands of elective officers. “When-I assume the duties of the office of gover- nor I will do everything in my power to get back into the hands and under the control of the elective officers of this state, the duties shat were intended to be per- formed by them by the framers of the constitution. That is what I have in mind when I speak as I do about abol- ishing commissions... As to which commissions to abolish, that is a matter to be determined by a proper survey of the situation when time for action arrives. At least half the number of commissions, or bureaus, which ever you choose to call them, can be dispensed with without the slightest injury to the administration of the peoples’ public business. By the transfer, discontinuance or consolidation of commissions indicated and “by a close, economical man- agement of official business a saving of 33 1-3 per cent of the money now expended in conducting the state’s business can be saved to the people. And I believe the people will be perf: willing to forego many of the new fangled and expensive ideas that have-grewn up under our state government and at the same time be con- tent to return to the plain every day notions of transact- ing business by reason of the reduction of tax bills that will be made to the individual. “The notion which has been prevalent too long, that it makes no difference as to costs so long as the bills are against the state, is all wrong. The state’s business should and must be conducted as carefully and economi- cally as the best managed private business. Taxpayers’ money is a sacred fund and should be so regarded by every perscn charged with its disbursement. “T have observed with considerable regret the ex- tremes to which some of the newspapers have gone in conducting the primary campaign. Nothing is gained by personal villification and nothing is proved or settled by unjust or uncalled-for criticism.” FOUR CONVICTS ESCAPE FROM SOUTH DAKOTA PRISON AFTER SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Aug. 18—(By The Associated Press.)—An all-night search by posses formed by state, county and city officers and members of the local post of the American Legion had failed early today to pick up the trail of four convicts who late yesterday escaped from the South Dakota penitentiary here, kidnapped Warden George T. Jameson and severely wounded Dep uty Warden Arthur Muchow. Muchow was reported recovering ' trom knife wounds received when he attempted to quiet a commotion that occurred yesterday afternoon in the |prison tailor shop. The convicts, | Henry Coffee, coloret. Joe Forsman; | Joe Teel and J. B. King, assaulted the |deputy and when Warden Jameson, [who had heard the cries of Muchow, rushed to the shop, he was held up at the point of knives and forced to lead. the way for the quartet through |the prison gates. - Fleeing north, the convicts ab oned their stolen automobile at Ellis and appropirated another car. At Crooks, S. D., the warden was bound and placed in @ country church from which he escaped an hour later. Jameson, upon his return here early today said that he had not been man handled by the convicts who even took steps for his comfort,” preparing a rude bed on the floor of the church, He sald that they could not have traveled far, as the automobile was giving them trouble. The convicts all were serving s¢n congress and the nation that tain transportation and su: desired to cure s with each other must be recog nized “Government by law must and wil be maintained,” the president said, “no matter what clouds may gather matter what storms may ensue, matter what hardships may a or what sacrifice may be necessary ating that. sypathetic railroad strikes had developed and :mpaired interstate commerce seriously president sald that trains deserted the western desert had cruelty and contempt for Ia part of some railway employes who have conspired to paralyze transpor tation.” Asserting that the striking unions in some instances had not held their forces to law observance. Mr. Hard. ng sald “there is a state of lawless. ness shocking to every conception of American law and order” and an nounced his intention to invoke laws, ivil and criminal, forbidding conspir rcles hindering interstate commerce ard requiring safety in railway serv ce. In declaring positively for the of men to work the president said that in both the coal and raflroad strikes right had been “dented by assault a violence” and in some cases winked at by local authorities. He added: “It js fair to say that the great mass of organized workmen do not ap. prove but they seem helptess to hind- er. These conditions cannot remain in free America.” “Surely the threatening conditions must impress the congress and the country,” the president went on, “that no body of men, whether limited in number and responsible for raflway management, or powerful in numbers and constituting the necessary forces in railroad operation, shall be per mitted to choose ,a course which so impertis public welfare.” President Harding declared that the right of employes and employers alilc to conduct their business must be rec ognized and he also deplored what he termed “warfare on the unfons of la bor.” The president declared a national ir vestigation for constructive recom mendations as to the conduct of th coal industry to be imperative an’ recommended a government commis sion to advise as to falr wages and conditions. Immediate establist legislation to temporarily a “national coal ager with necessary capital to purchase sell and distribute coal also was urged by the executive. Stating that the Esch-Cummins act In establishing the railroad Inbor board was inadequate, being with lit tle or no power to enforce its decisions the president recommended action t: make the board's decisions “enforce able and effective against carriers an employes alike. Other legislative recommendations were for “better protection of aliens and enforcement of thelr treaty rights through a measure to give federal courts jurisdiction tn protecting aliens } In discussing the coal situation, the president referred to what he termed |the “shocking crime at Herrin, 11 which so recently shamed and horr fled the country” and added the in cident was “butchery of human beings wrought in madne: Other than the amendment to the Esch-Cummins law to make the ra road board's decisions enforceab | the president did not recommend aj LAW MUST BE UPHELD HE TELLS CONGRES All Powers of Government to Be Invoked to Maintain Trans- portation and Sustain Workers’ Rights; “Crueity and Contempt for Law” by Some Flayed WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—(By The Associated Press. no | OPERATION AND SPECIAL MESSAGE 9 )—President Harding today told he was resolved “to use all the power of government to main- in the right of men to work.” The president in an address to congress in which he recommended specific legislation e nation’s industrial ills, ers and employes alike to establish their methods of conducting business, to choose their em- joyment and to determine their rola- | declared with emphasis that the right of employ- Complete Text of Harding Message t WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—(By The Associated Press.) — The text of President Harding's address to congress on-the industrial situation was as follows: PAY ONE. included many districts in the bitum: inous field where there was neither Gent o 5 ntlemen of the congress grievance nor dispute, and effected a Tt ts manifestly my duty to bring|complete tleup of the production {im to your attention the industrial sttua-|the anthracite fleid tlon growing out of the prevailing railway and coal mining strikes is s0 PART TWO. serious, so menacing to the nation's} It is to be noted that when the sus welfare, that I should be remias if 1] Pension beg large stocks of coal failed frankly to lay the matter before| Were on hand, mined at wages higher you and at the same time acquaint} than those paid during the war. There was only the buying impelled by ne- cossity, and there was a belief that you and the whole people with such efforts as the executive branch of the government has made by the volun-|coal must yield to the post-war re- tary exercise of ite good offices to ef-| Adjustment When the stocks on fect a settlement. hand began to reach sich diminu The suspénsion of the cos! industry | WO" as to menace industry and hin dates back to last April 1, when the|?*F tansportation approximately Jun working agreement between mine op-|/: OVertures were initiated by the g erators and the United Mine Workers | °Tnment in the hope of expediting sot- came to an end Anticipating that pemient Nonp of ‘these a led in- expiration of contract which was ne. dividual and district tenders of settle. ment on the part of operators—in gotlated with the government's sanc- ton in 1920, the present administra tion sought, as early as last October conference between the operators and miners in order to facilitate either aj new or extended agreement in order} to avoid any suspension of production when April arrived. At that time the mine workers declined to confer, though the operators were agreeable, the mine workers excusing their de clination on the ground that the union officials could have no authority tc negotiate until after their annual con vention some instances appeals for settlement 4nd groups among the operators wero (Continued on Mage Ten) GREETINGS Casper taxpayers who bh had the pl blic serv “A short time prior to the expira- tion of the working agreement the nine workers invited a conference with the operators in the central com petitive field, covering the states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and I! linois, and in spite of the union de clination of the government's informal suggestion for the conference, five months before, the government, in formally but sincerely, commended t erence, but {t was declined by n groups of operators, and the mining controversy ended in the ke of April 1. It was instantly ade nation-wide, so far as the organ mine workers could control, and opportunity of meeting most of them today for they are all here from the governor down to “Red” Hill whooping it up for the gover ner and attempting to perpetuate themselves in office. All these birds have contingent expegses and are strenuously endeavoring to re duce taxation against the people In the true Carey way. Casper taxpayers will enjoy hav: Ing the state employes in their midst and also enjoy paying thelr hotel bills and traveling expenses, while the state's business is+neg lected at Cheyenne. GREAT SUB-SEA GUSHER FOUND Skippers’ Logs Reveal Consistent Per- formance of Oil Flow Off Texas, Oil May Never Be Controlled tonces for grand larceny and were re- garded by prison authorities as among the most desperate inmates of the legislation to deel immediately with the railroad strike. In asking for coal A tourist’s car, parked outside the prison walls, was commandeered by |the convicts who forced the warden | TOKIO, Aug. 18—(By The Aseoci- ated Press).—The far eastern republic of Siberia witht headquarters at Chita, CHEYENNE, Wyo., Aug. 18.—(Special to The Tribune.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—A score of years ago a skipper Wyoming coal mine operators began arriving.in Cheyenne! legislation of the British steamer Etolia cruising 200 miles off the Texas today for the conference'Saturday with officers of district 22, | will claim one hundred thousand gold|to get into the machine with them.| prison. Coffee is a negro. | president said that the administration |coast and with more than a mile of water between the ship’s United Mine Workers of America (Wyoming), which is ex-|T2lts trom Japanese on account at] A guard on the wall who witnesse!| Although a near riot followed the | had sought sarneatly “to restrain prot-|{ea] and the ocean floor passed through patches of oil on the pected to It i ti Patni in thi SE | oaaee, consequent on Japanese oc-/the escape, was unwilling to risk a | outbre: the tailor shop, prison |iteering and to secure the rightful " al result in a resumption of mining in this state next! cupation of portiond of Stberia, accord-' shot at the convicts, fearing bullet officials said today that none besides | distribution” of coal but was withou:| Surface of the sea. week on the basis of the Cleveland agreement. About 8,000) ing to reporte received here. might strike the warden. ‘the four had atttempted escape. legal power to control prices. “The oil appeared to be bubbling up from the sea,” said miners will go buck to work in Wyo- aan - ——— the note in the shi log and since ming. Mertin Cahill, president; George n the ree- Young, vice president, and Arthur Morgan, secretary-treasurer of dis- trict No. 22 arrived from Cleveland Friday. ANTHRACITE MEET CONTINUED "TODAY. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 18—Mem- bers of the negotiations committee of | the anthracite miners and operators “each with a sincere determination to effectuate an adjustment {f at all to quote the words of the joint statement issred at the conclu-! sion of yesterday’s parleys, ‘were to| meet again today. _ Both miners and operator todav| held optimistic attitudes after the first | onference, but both turned deaf ears! to questions | “No you think it will be possible to) (Continued on Page Ten) : woobs, DULUTH, Minn., Aug. 18.—{By The Assocjated Press.}—Thousands of men, womgn and children living in towns and villages and isolated sections of the north country men- aced by forest fires yesterday were removed to safety without a single Casualty, it was revealed today when a check showed that all of thi Jutant General W. F. Rhinow con tinued today the work of succoring the refugeés, more than 2,000 forest rangers, settlers and others redou- bled their efforts in fighting the flames. Cotton, and Central Lakes and ‘White Face have been de- stroyed. Only rain or a calm day can save ® score of other towns. Terrific ten persons reported missing last winds were the chief enemies of the Mindful “of the 1918 holocs night were accounted for. fire fighters. northern Minnesota when mo While . 400 Minnesota national ‘The first ray of hope of prevent 400 persone lost their lives, hu guardsmen under command of Ad- | ing further serious loss was received | of persons abandoned their at district headquarters of the state mid- forestry service shortly after night when rangers at Kelse: miles north of here, the cent the worst blazes, reported the situa tion much improved with the wind subs!ding and a heavy dew Simtier fires were reported early today in several sections, however Myestock and everything they owned. Women and children rushed Yo safety while most of the men re- meined to ald fire fighters. Last night and today all main roads leading to Duluth, Eleveth and other northern villages were crowd ed with fleeing women and children Chief among the scores direct this work was vernor J. A Preus. of Minnesc speeding NO CASUALTIES IN FOREST FIRES OF MINNESOTA REFUCEES FLEE FROM FLAME-SWEPT AREA The governor stayed up most of the night arranging for cots, food and other comforts at the Duluth arm. ory for the arrivals from the fire country. BIG PLANING | MILL DESTROYED, LACLEDE, Idaho, Aug. 18.—F starting from overhead mach » planing mill. be $700,000 plant and lum k of the A. C. White Lum practically de \ thelr treasure of ene of manki The ber company here last night and was still burning earl residences veral were company had dcalite color a dart caught