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slightly warmer. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended 2 p.m. today: High p.m. yesterday; lowest, 56, y- Full report on page 7. Closing New York Stocks, Page 26 No. 27,547. WEATHER. Fair, cooler tonight; tomorrow fair, est, 81, at 4:15 , at § a.m. to- ~ PRESIDENT CANCELS TRIP BY DR. GRAYSON’S ORDER; DUE IN CAPITAL SUNDAY Exhaustion Follows His Delivery of About Forty Speeches. WICHITAGREETERS ARE DISAPPOINTED - Party Coming Back by Way ‘ of Kansas City and St. Louis. By the Associated Press. WICHITA, Kan., September 26.— President Wilson today canceled the remainder of his tour under orders from Admiral Cary T. Grayson, the President's physician, and will return to Washington direct from Wichita. Admiral Grayson gave illness and Physicai exhaustion as the reason for his action: Due Here Sunday Morning. Leaving Wichita at 11:27 o'clock to- éay, after a stop of about two hours, the presidential special will reach Wash- ington Sunday morning. It will go by way of Kansas City and St. Louis. Although there was said there was nothing critical about the President's condition, Dr. Grayson, his physician, declared a nervous reaction affecting his digestive organs made suspension of his trip imperative. Statement by Mr. Tumulty. Secretary Tumulty issued the fol- lowing tement: “The ident has exerted himseif go constantly and has been under such a strain during the last year and has so spent himself without reserve on this trip that it has it on a nervous reaction in his digestive organs. peintments and his immediate return to. ‘Washington, notwithstanding the Presi- Gent's earnest desire to complete -his engagements.” Wichita Disappointed. The presidential train dig not pull into the station at Wichita, where a “large crowd was waiting to welcome the executive. Although he wanted t at least greet th he! tra! “To the people of Wichita: PRESIDENT “IUDGE” OF SENATE ACTION, ‘HE MAKES CLEAR Lawrence Says He Will De- cide If Pact Is Rejected by Changes. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Special Dispatch to The Star. EN ROUTE TO OKLAHOMA CITY, September 26. — President Wilson struck in Colorado practically the same-kind of apathy that he found in Ohio. Possibly there is today a re- tvived interest in Ohio, but it is never- theless true that until the President or his leading opponent, Senator John- hake of California, started making a plane of the country most people had aks only a casual interest in the league of nations and peace treaty. Colorado, for instance, has not been touched by Mr. Johnson at all, and un- til Mr. Wilson came the only utter- Jance of importance was one by Sena. {tor Thomas, who indicated that he {would not support the covenant with-. ont reservations. ut the President did enliven th debate and awaken. interest in the jleague of nations by his speeches at Denver and Pueblo. The demonstra- tion at the Auditourium in Den- ver when he ventured the belief that he was speaking for the American people and had their support was a very impressive one. It is interesting to note that even in cities where sca’ tering applause is given Mr. Wilso: arguments largely because tie sub-} Ject_ matter of world politics is still academic and remote to most of his hearers, there is always an outburst of enthusiasm as the President makes @ general statement dence that the people are behind him. ‘Women Interested. It is evident, too, that the women are especially interested, and the President never fails to. get a Tre- sponse when he deseril terrf- ble weapons of the last hap are een more destructive instruments ne dante tobe rid of si “dt is with sincere regret that tam | 274 ‘wnable byte the fine’ people of spect: Wichita ngas,- to lay’ them all the facts ret treaty of peace and the les tions. I know with what would desire to treat this imp matter, and 1 am confident what their Judgment of the facts would-be. . It is @ Teal di intment to me ‘that I must leave Kansas without having the pleasure of again coming into per. sonal contact’ with them. “wi ROW WILSON.” ‘Before tl better and sitting up. : Confinement Fatigues. Although outwardly the President had appeared to be standing well the} hard ordeal ef more than three weeks of travel and ‘speechmaking, it bi | ame known today that for some days he had suffered from headache. He also has been much fatigued by the confinement of hts special train, | interrupted only by brief stops, which have been spent mostly ‘in r'! through crowds and speaking to au- diences so large as to require all his exertion to make his voice heard. Made About Forty Talks. Mr. Wilson has made nearly -forty | speeches since he left Washington on September 30 and has spent all but! about half a dozen nights on the train. e addresses remained on his un completed schedule. After the two to-| day he was to have spoken in Little! Rock and Memphis tomorrow and in Louisville Monday morning, returning! to Washington on Tuesday. i It was declared by members of the! President's party that one of the ordeals which seemed to be most try- ing on his nerves has been the auto- mobile parades through the cities he has visited. He has traveled many miles standing in his car and waving his hat in response to the cheers of ‘welcome. Trying to Mrs. Wilson. This feature of the trip also appar- ently has been very tiring to Mrs. Wilson, who has accompanied him wherever he went, and who, during the last few days has shown evidences of being anxious for the strain to end. In order to avoid the efowds the President has made several minor shifts in his schedule. At San Diego, Calif, last Friday he went aboard his train immediately after the informal dinner given in his honor instead of remaining for the night, and when he reached Los Angeles the next day he ted in vain to slip quietly to his hotel for a Sunday's rest. Later in the day, at Los Angeles, he arranged to take the air in a brief automobile ride by sending out per- sonally and hiring a taxicab instead of using the conspicuous flag-draped car that had been provided for his use. Sought Relaxation. In a number of other cases since then the President has tried to curtail his program and has seized every op- portunity to get a moment's relaxa- tion. His train was stopped for ‘more than an hour yesterday after leaving Pueblo, Col., while Mr. and Mrs. Wil- gon took a long walk down a dusty country road by the Arkansas river. The details of the President's in- disposition were not revealed, but it ‘was indicated that he had a slight touch of indigestion. Dr. Grayson thought it would pass away quickly it - Wilson remained quietly in bed, but said he would insist upon abso- lute rest. , Bulgarians Call Peace Terms Hard. PARIS, September 25.—The terms of peace offered Bulgaria are considered ‘by the Bulgarian delegations very rigorous, some of them completely un- * geeeptable, according to a statement: ‘ed by M. Theodoroff, head of the Qoigarian ‘watesion. prior’ to 1 ving Paris and which has just been made public. iding | Sut! was only when a new’ draft of article X_of the covenant was reported as agreed upon by Senator Lodge and the mild reservationists that the President thought he detected signs of defeating. the “treaty by indirection. He decided. it was time for him to make the issue clear. After declaring that “hyphens are the knives that’are being stuck into his document,” the President issued a challenge at Denver to his opponents to give the real reason for delay and defined his own future course in un- mistakable language. Time for Decision, He Says. “It is time that we knew,” he said, “where we shall stand,.for observe, my fellow citizens, the negotiation of treaties rests with the Executive of the United States. When the Senate has acted it will be for me to de- termine whether its action consti- utes an adoption or a rejection. I do not wish to draw doubtful con- clusions. I do not wish to do injus- tice to the process of any honest mind, but when that treaty is acted upon I must know whether it means we have ratified it or rejected it.” The foregoing paragraph is the key to the next steps in the great contro- versy now going on in the Senate. Mr. Wilson serves notice that he has no objection to reservations that are, he says, a “multiplication ‘of words, by which “you can make simple words speak their meaning more distinct: but he most decidedly opposes “quali- fications” which mean asking “special exemptions and privileges, for the United States. U In other words, the President, while not saying it in so many words, re- veals that while he would be loath to abandon his -original position in favor of an absolute acceptance of the treaty as signed at Paris, never- theless, he sees that he cannot yery well object’ to reservations that are simply a paraphrase of his own state- ments of interpretations in public speeches. “Practically Accepts.” Indeed, he practically accepts what formerly was the position of the mild reservationists, though he thinks some of their suggestions are super- fiuous, because already covered in the language of the treaty. It is when the mild reservationists appear to join the extremists in HMmiting the nature of America’s obligation under the covenant that the President steps in and calls a halt. People in the Senate may not think the President would dare to proclaim the rejection of the treaty, but he feels so intensely on the subject that he will unquestionably do sp if he thinks any reservations put into the ratifying resolution alter the mean- ing of the contract in the treaty. When the President reminded his hearers at Denver that the power to negotiate treaties rests with the Ex- ecutive he was uttering a warning to the Senate and the country as to the course which he would be compelled to adopt if the Senate changed the meaning of the treaty. Confusion Over Words. There has been much over the uge-of the terms, “ratifica- tion” and= “adoption.” As a matter of fact, the actual vote of the Senate merely “adopts” a treaty, and it diplomatic precedent for the Presi. dent of the United States to perform the act of “ratification” itself by for mal notice to other powers or by proclamation. If he considers that the Senate did not adopt but appar- ently rejected the pact, he would then notify the other powers that the United States Senate had “amended” the treaty, that he as signatory thereto must reopen the negotiation with a view to obtaining the ac- ceptance of the amendments by all (Continued on nfusion WASHINGTON, PRESIDENT IS FIRM AS REGARDS FIUME Rome Newspapers Announce Receipt of Decision Regard- ing New Proposals. U. S. MARINES ACTIVE By the Associated Press. \ PARIS, September 26-—Premier Nitti and Foreign Minister Tittont will make declarations of their policy in the chamber of deputies tomorrow and ask for a vote of confidence in the government, ac- cording to dispatch to the Temps fro: Rome. The entire ministry will attend the session, the dis- patch adds. ROME, September 26, via Paris— President Wilson's reply regarding the new proposals for the disposition of Fiume has been received, the news- papers announced today, and was found to insist upon his original view that the city should be internationalized and not annexed to Italy, becoming the center of a small buffer state be- tween Italy and Jugoslavia. The President does not insist, ac- cording to the press, upon a plebiscite in the buffer state at the end of fifteen years, as ht first proposed, and he con- sents to the rectification of the eastern frontier of Istria in favor of Italy, in the district of Albona. PARIS, September . 26.—American naval forces haye taken a hand in the swiftly moving events along the eastern shore of the Adriatic, accord- ing to advices from Copenhagen. United States destroyers, appearing off the port of Trau when Italian sol- diers attempted to force their way into the town, brought the attack to a sudden stop, the Italians retreating hastily, it is said. One Italian armor- ed car with its crew of an officer and three privates fell into the hands of the Jugoslavs who were defending the place, but the prisoners were taken over by American marines and trans- ferred to an Ytalian ship. Serbian troops arrived at Trau soon after the marines were put ashore, and the town was turned over to them by the marines, who returned to their ships, according to report. The crown council of Italy met yes- ff Kin, expret = cond. | ereey under the presidency o! 7 Vietor Emmanuel, and the belief is expressed that the council had before it a_reply from President Wilson to the Italian’ proposals intended to set- tle the problem of the disposition of Fiume. Advices from Rome do not indicate the nature of the reply, but in Italian circles here it is said that the propoeals were rejected by Mi Wilson, who also threatened an eco- nomic boycott if Italy persisted in pgaid to“havejextended their lines back of the city§ so to include high ground strat lly necessary forthe defense of the city. The city of Sus- sak, which is really a part of Fiume, is to-be taken over by Capt. D’Annun- zio. At present Sussak is occupied by the queen’s brigade of the Italian army, which has not joined the in- surgents.- Comparatively good order prevails in the city, it is said. Statement by Foreign Minister. ROME, Thursday, September 25.— Tomasso Tittoni, foreign minister, de- lelared during the meeting of the ®rown council today that the peace conference would not permit italy to nex. Fiume, because such action ould authorize the Czechoslovaks to occupy T the Jugoslavs to move forces into Klagenfurt, the Greeks to claim Thrace and the Ru- manigns to'annex Banat. Denial of Rumor. ROME, September 26.—Reports that Giovanni Giolitti, former premier, pro- posed to the crown council yesterday that Premier Nitti should dissolve parliament on September 28, after hav- ing explained the situation, are de- nied by the Gazetta del Popolo of Turin. The newspaper says: “It is certain the government will forces be replaced by regular troops.’ s|Senate Asks for Reports as to U..S. Marines Landing at Trau and Other Matters Secretary Daniela was asked in a resolution by Senator Knox, republi- can, Pennsylvania, adopted today by the Senate, to report whether Ameri- can marines were landed at Trau, Dalmatia, to compel its evacuation by Italian forces, as reported in press dispatches from Copenhagen and Paris. Under another resolution, presented by Senator Lodge of the foreign re- lations committee, also adopted with- out discussion, the State Department was requested’ to inform the Senate Henderson has been sent to Europe with marines to aid in carrying out provisions of the German pcace treaty for a plebiscite in Schleswig- Holstein. The Knox resolution incorporated the Associated Press dispatches reporting the incident at Trau. Another resolution bearing upon the Boindexter, republican, of Washington, being referred to the foreign relations committee on request of Senator Hit: cock, democrat, of Nebraska. It re- quested the President to transmit copies of cables from the American minister to China and American at- taches to Tokio and Peking last January making reports on Japanese-Chinese relations. Navy Department Uninformed. Secretary Daniels said today the Navy Department had no information regarding the landing of American naval forces on the eastern Adriatic coast. Press reports some days ago that marines had been sent to Fiume prompted Mr. Daniels to cable an in- quiry to Rear Admiral Andrews, com- manding American naval forces in the Adriatic, but no reply has been re- ceived. Reports today that American m: rines had been landed on the Dalma- tian coast resulted in the dispatch of ing for a complete report immedi- ly. While Admiral Andrews has authority under “exceptional circum~- stances” to use his forces as he ma: see fit, Mr. Dani said, the Secre- tary was inelfi to count that erican marines ashol ee vening Star. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. PARK CANTONMENT TD BE ABANDONED Troops Camped Near. River Will Go to Meigs and Madi- son Barracks. { i } | | SALVAGING TO BEGIN, 3 y G, : Y) . Yai |CRANK OFFERS TO SELL U. S. CAPITOL FOR-$14 Brooke Gott, deputy- clerk of the District branch of Police Court, received a unique letter today from a crank who offered to-sell him the Capito? building for $14. } Washington date line and went on { to expiain that the writer, having inherited the United States Capitol building from ‘the late Russia, discovered, when he took possession of the structure, that it was not furnished as it should be, and as he did not possess the money necessary to furnish the many rooms he would dispose of it to Mr. Gott for the sum of $14 The writer offered some criticism WAR C.,. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1919—-THIRTY-TWO PAGES. Oi Y Yiy B : tj HY YYW g Z WALLLUFSELLEELLEEZ: hs YELLE MY yp VALUE” '$6.219.160 TAXES FROM REAL ESTATE The letter was written under 2 |Personal Levy in District Amounts to $2,675,151, Assessor’s Report Shows. IGNORED VITALLY BEARING ON STEEL CONTEST Workers at Bethlehem and Lake Shipping Union to Decide Action. {MAHONING VALLEY MEN TO DISCUSS RETURNING in Struggle Are Made Today. Three important developments were pending today in the steel strike, any one of which may have a vital bear- ing on the outcome of the great in- dustrial struggle. In Pittsburgh ‘the national steel workers’ committee was to meet late today and a definite decision was ex- pected in regard to calling out the 40,000 workers in the Bethlehem Steel Plants Monday. Although the com- pany officials have so far whown no inelination to compromise, local ‘union officials at Allentown expressed opti- mism over the prospect of a strike be- ing averted. / Meetings at Youngstown. In - Youngstown, where the strikers have succeeded in completely the stcal industry in the Mahoning val- ley district, meetings were announced of unskilled and semi-skilled workers to discuss the question of returning to work. Some mystery enveloped meetii as both the strike leaders and the mill managers professed to know nothing of their origin. if The third development was promised at Cleveland, where the executive com- ittees of the great lakes Zalpping unton, claiming to represent 18000 sea~ men and men of allied trades, met to decide whether their organiza- tions would declare a sympathetic strike, Such a strike already has becn authorized by the internstional unions. In meantime the usual conflicting claims were made by the opposing Ken- erals in the pivotal battlegrounds Pittsburgh ahd but an Yesterday's Net Circulation, 93,308. THREE MOVES PEND | Conflicting Claims by Both Sides! ing up | f | steel companies brought about TWO CENTS. RIGHT TOBE HEARD — MAIN STRIKE ISSUE, GOMPERS ASSERTS Says Steel Workers Demand Voice as to Conditions Un- der Which They Toil. DENIED THIS, HE TELLS SENATE COMMITTEE Holds Companies Responsible for Majority of Employes Being Foreigners. The right of the employes to~have some voice in determining the cond& tion under which they work is the paras mount issue in the strike of the steel workers, Samue. Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, told the Senate investigating committee te= _ day. Appearing as the second witness for labor, Mr. Gompers was first asked ty Chairman Kenyon to define the issues. in the controversy. Ask Right t0 Be Heard. “The right to be heard is what the: steel workers are asking above all else, Gompers said. “The right to speal with their employers through their own representatives, to have some voice in determining conditions under which they” wor! =, it k. e right of workers to associat has been denied—denied with the pot and influence and wealth of the corporation—denied by brutal and means, | warrantable “It has been said that most of pani fe . “There was for years a systemat effort to bring in these gangs from Europe. There was a systematic ¢ eas 2 fort to eliminate % ier * state of which they now complain. E Americans. have a harvest to reap now. Arrangements are being made at the ‘War Department for the abandonment of the cantonment in East Potomac Park and the transfer of the troops now quartered there to Camp Meigs, on subd! into a. bi of the architecture of the build- ing and its interior arrangements, but pointed out what he termed a big advantage possessed by the property in “that the basement and basements could “be converted ig automobile garage or nite news Real estate taxes in the District for } the fiscal year ended June 30 last; amounted. to $6,219,160.37, according to the annual report.of Assessor Wil- liam P. Richards, submitted to the indicated change in cozdtiions. Pittsburgh District Sees Little Change in Strike; all ‘ae important “Hours Always Long.” “Under the efforts of the steel poration the hours of labor were ways abnormally long. They ne’ | ing the war. whether the United States steamship | peace treaty was introduced by Senator ; Florida ayenue northeast. The cantonment ¢onsists of nearly fifty frame buildings, constructed dur- clerical di in this city. iF and transfer, of those Toi Five Companies There, ~ Five companies of that regiment are ‘ow quartered on East Potomac Park. One of them is to be sent‘to Madison. barracks, N. Y., and the four other companies, comprising a battalion, are to be transferred to Camp Meigs, as a permanent garrison, The War Depart- ment has just renewed the lease of the ste of that camp for. another year. ‘The quartering thereof the 634 Infan- try Battalion, it is stated, will not i terfere with the operations of the tachments of the Motor Transport Corps and the Quartermaster Corps already stationed there. It is ‘stated there is ample room for alk Prospective Cost-Guides.. The abandonment of the East Po- | tomac Park cantonment is stated to; be due to the fact that it would cost @ great deal of money to put the buildings there in proper shape for occupancy during the winter, and also because of the debire of Col. Ridley, the engineer officer in charge of pub- lic buildings and grounds, to resume the work of improving the grounds for the use of the public, which work necessarily was interrupted by their construction and occupancy. = It is expected that the work of re- moving the buildings and salvaging the material will be fully completed during thé next few months, and that the work of preparing the reclaimed area for purely recreational purposes, started at the opening of the spring season. Good progress has been made in the construction of a public golf course just east of the cdntonment, and it probably will be opened to the pub- lic early next year. SENATE VISITORS WHO "APPLAUD 10 BE PUT OUT Senate. gallery visitors ' were warned today that violation of the standing. rule against applause would be followed by instant ejec- tion. By direction of the Vice President the sergeant-at-arms gave each doorkeeper a pocketful of printed slipg for visitors, reading-as as fol-~ lows’ “Demonstrations of approval or disapproval by the occupants of the galleries are forbidden by a rule of the Senate, Persons violat- ing the rule will be ejected.” Vice President Marshall gave the doorkeepers oral instructions Wed- nesday to remove persons who ap- plauded speeches on the peat treaty, and in his order today he took the bull by the horns after the Senate had failed to consider @ resolution calling for enforce- ment. ACCUSED OF KILLING WIFE, Chauffeur for “Dry” Agents Charged With Murder Arrested. RICHMOND, Va., September 26.— J. 8. Williams, chauffeur for the Vir- ginia prohibition agents. whose trial at Manassas recently for the murder of two alleged blockade run- ners resulted in a mistrial, today also ig, facing a charge of murder. He is accused in an indictment returned by grand jury with causing ‘the death of his wife on September 2 Following the death of Mrs, y|tion and she died from. concussio: of the brain. Evidence at a cor- oner's inquiry wae that Williams had struck, his wit ~betore.| the paises ofthe ‘so Loft New-York is chairman. were prac- | subcommittee to hold one more hear- i airplane hangar. ‘Mr. Gott wants to. Know why this. fellow should: pick .on ‘him asa capitalist in & position to os and fe ding. fo Commissioners today: The total personal tax levy for the last fiscal year amounted to. $2,675,- | BY the Associated jthe two sources of $8,894,811.41. An outstanding feitdre makifg:: ‘of ‘the re- er ra sement and A sessors did not appraise | | property -at the abnormal pi [they ‘by the war, but follows e8 Cre- | what | except that a few more men continue they believed would be a. fair value The much-talked-of investigation of the police department by the Howse District committee is not going to develop at this time.’:The police arings: which have been in progress for three days before. the subeom- mittee of which Representative Gould { tically concluded yesterday. It is the present intention of the ing the latter part of next week, when several members of the police force will be invited to testify in regard to the proposed salary in- creases. The present intention is not to go into any other phases ‘of the police work or administration of the department—at least, at this time. Chairman Gould expects to meet this afternoon with his subcommittee to prepare a tentative draft of the bill for salary increases, which will be offered to the full committee after the members of the force have hadj their hearing, next week. WILL COME DIRECTLY HERE. Viscount Grey Expected to Land in New. York Today. Viscount Grey, newly . appointed British ambassador to the United States, who is expected to arrive ati New York today, will come directly to Washington and. spend the next few days “in familiarizing ‘himself with the state of the business of the embassy before the return of Presi- dent Wilson, when he will present his! under sessm: being entered upon the ledgers. lowance ordinary conditions. The as- ts, for the next two -years| fe been completed and are’ now a axeat te 1 Increase in Value Shown. The report states that the assess- ment for the present fiscal year, end- ing June 30 next, ‘shows increases in ground values in the business section, particularly in the squares lying just ‘The assessor calls. attention to the fact:that the field work was finished and open for: inspection In January last and was subject to appeal until the first Moriday of last June. In ex- plaining how the new assessments ‘were arrived at, the report states: “It is obvious that to give full weight to high: prices in building ma- terial and labor would raise the as-| Manufacturing Company, sessment value of nearly every home! Workers, closed down last night: in the District, both. large and small, and put a price on it far above what :no material changes, according to re- could be obtained. The board of as-|port. The sheet mill of the West Penn sessors had to weigh carefully thi condition in making their new assess ment, as the first consideration is the! all other departments were said to be equalization of taxation following the! in operation. requirement of law that the assess- ment shall be not less than two-thirds of the true value. ‘The assessors were confronted with the choice of two propositions, either to appraise the dwellings at the ab- normal prices created by the war, or at-what they considered wauldbe aj} fair value under normal conditions. “They adopted the latter course. ‘The selling value of property previous to the wgr, together with a certain al- or the probable condition of the market after a number of years, Will have to be the clue for present) value.” \ credentials. Admiral Sims’ (Continued on Second Page.) Own Story ‘The Sunday Star has obtairied for exclusive publication in Washington Admiral Sime’ per- sonal tive of the vital part the Amefican Navy played: in’ winning the world war. - It is a story that will thrill American ‘with pride~ and -grati- tude, and is told now for the first time. y Admiral Sims’ story will amaze the world, and the reader will hold his-breath as he realizes how close to disaster we were, all unsuspecting. He gives for the first-time details of the American invention which, at the time the armistice was menace. signed, practically had the U-boats bottled up in the North sea—an invention much speculated upon, but never before ~ explained in print. Many other things which have mysti- fied the world are explained and secrets are revealed which have been kept locked in the breasts of. cabinet ministers. The Sunday Star will publish Admiral Sims’ story in weekly installments, be; of the most thrilling and most ginning next Sunday. In order to make certain that you will not miss eo ten , Msebectinc a’ “ath ys NOM PITTSBURGH stantial cha: jand about Pittsburgh today were few. sife: of the city-of Pittsburgh, te- Ported conditions virtually unchanged jto return to work, according to com- | pany officials.” At the Braddock plant of the Amer- ican Steel and Wire Company ‘an ‘ef- fort to start up failed, it was report- ed from that town. When the whistle blew some laborers ‘responded, but. hot in sufficient. numbers to begin op- erations. Policemen’ guarding .the gates said that between sixty and sixty-five men entered ready ‘for work. 3 i Two Plants Close. - In Glassport, near McKeesport, the Pittsburgh Steel Foundry Company, employing 300 men, and the Severance with 250 | Up the Allegheny river there were teel Company remained closed today, | | it having shut down yesterday, but At the Allegheny Steel |Company works the sheet mill was | Working in full and practically all other departments were in operation in varying degrees. One of the Garrie furnaces. furnish. ing material for the Homestead works {of the Cornegie Steel Company, was | put in operation, according to of- ficials at the plant: Thousands Paid Off. Thousands of men are being paid off at plants, including thgse in op- eration and others that were closed. | Strikers and. non-strikers are min- gling in the pay lines. Secretary William Z. Foster of the { steel workers’ national committee | said the situation con:inues satis-| factory to the committee. More men | are Joining the strikers, he said, and j some small plants have been com- | pe.led to shut down. McKeesport’s Mayor Firm. Mayor George Lysle of McKeesport | declared today that he hag as much power as the sheriff of Allegheny county under the third-class cities | act and would not permit striking steel workers to hold meetings | within the city, whether in the open | or in a hired hall. “We had trouble and riots before the strike at such meetings and we are| not going to take any chances,” said Mayor Lysle, when informed that a committee of union steel workers had anounced that Sheriff Haddock had given them permission to hold meet- ings any place within the county where they could obtain a hall. The| sheriff also promised such meetings | protection from interference, the union men said. Will Befuse Permits. “We will positively refuse to grant permits for such meetings,” sald Mr. Lysle. “And I wish to make it clear that we are ready to enforce thet order. I have the same authority ax the sheriff in this matte: 5 Mayor Lysle said that all was quiet Dig plants in 5 ied until they had { Seamed Aree many a week, eir ployes were for h in Sling wat mast ‘of the. ett were slanughtersd by the detecti and the agencies in the company More than 60 per cent of all the vate detective agency effort in country hes been devoted to 6 on employes in mines and mills. have been used as.agent provoc: to induce men to some overt act, get them to strike too soon.’ ‘Tells of Dogging. As he described the “dogging” | } employes by detectives Gompers phasized. his words by pounding juently.on the table. F rin Rn steel industry,” he cont! n were discharged for mer of organization or for ued, “mi talking bling. “There have been numbers of m watched so closely that when they rented a hall the proprietor was tol jto lock the doors against them. Thell meetings on rented ground have broken up. The men were run do dispersed and some assaulted. Gives an Instance. t n you give instances of that 5 practice?” asked Senator Sterling, reel publican, South Dakota, “Yes, at McKeesport.” Gompere rér sponded. “Since this strike the of-' fices of the iron and steel worker there have been closed against them,’ “{ suppose that has been done the theory that collection of crowds: would create disorder,” Senator Ster-~ Mr ling remarked. : “But I do know the don't -know the theory,” Gompers said. | purpose. It was to prevent the lead~ ers from counseling with the men and_ making the strike effective. z ‘Only in the event of war, the labor — leader. declared, should the rights of | ™ free speech. and assembly be restrict=,- ed. They should not be, he said, form | “privateering corporation.” % “Public Officials Controlled.” “t know that many of the publié uthorities in districts of Pennsyly surg’ are under the direct dominati of the United States Steel Corpora=, tion,” the witness declared, pounding, the table. “The whole conduct of the strike im: Pennsylvania shows,” Mr. Gomper asserted, ‘that whatever helps corporations against the workers have the support of Pennsylvania to keep a closed shop—e against the union, closed against union men. “In response to the many requests) for organization from the men wi sent a few agents into the field soi ear! They were arrested, r en out of the towns, one of them bludgeoned that he died. That four or five years ago, He was J ferson Davis Pierce of Worces! Gompers told of the final deci: of the American Federation of Lal 5 ae in 1918 to organize the men and de=;% scribed the methods used to finance) in McKeesport today and that he did not anticipate further trouble, as his men had the situation “well ‘in hand.” He declared that a number of. the striking workmen were returning to the steel plants. oi Edward D. Jackson, who has just been appointed a member of the state industrial commission, has begun an| investigation of Tuesday's’ rioting, | which resulted in the death of two men, Wire Company. Optimistic. The American steel and wire com- pany offices gave out word that the situation so far as its plants are con- cerned in the Pittsburgh district is better today than ever. A few more men are at work, it was announced, the’ company’s works at velat and Chicago, it was said. Sheriff Whlliam Eiaddock Ststement relative to halal ectings fi ce zones had of -Alle~ Same = :, of thi at th the work. oe “You have dealt with the policy, Ci the-steel companies trying to exch union men.” said Senator Phipps, re. publican, Colorado. “Is the policy a the unions to try to exclude non- ~ union men?” “It is the policy of the unions try. te organize all workers.” Gomp jing that in all his exp ence he had never known of a wot man “voluntarily refusing to union of his craft.” Quotes Mr. Wilson of 1900. © Senator Phipps read ‘Woodrow Wilson in 1 or the open atop.” and open pes attitude of labor in fe. steel. unio! jat til y represent hie attitude news