New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 11, 1919, Page 1

- Nev's of 1 l - the e | NJOW BRITAIN Herald Bu etter PRICE THREE CENTS. NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT. WEDNESDAY. JUNE i, 1019. _TWELVE PAGES. ESTABLISHED 1878, ELIHU ROOT iS MAN WHO SHOV ROOSEVELT I} WALSH QUOTES WALK-OUT OF OPERATORS PROCEEDS lANS[]NlA IS HOTBED |NO MANDATE GIVEN ACCORDING TO SCHEDULE; OFFICIALS SAY THEY ARE NOT AT ALL WORRIED | [ Union Leaders Say 60,000 . W. W. ORGANIZER T 7 s 3 ; REPORTED IN ANSONIA. Will Quit Before Night— it Ansonia, June 11.—Tt is said Electrical Workers to Join Joseph J. Ettor, an I. W. W. organizer, has been recognized . on June 16. here among the strike agitators. His presence was made known e by some who claimed they were positive in the identifica- Chicago, June 11.—The nation- tion, wide strike of telegraphers, called by 8. J. Konenkamp, president of the Commercial Telegraphers’ Union of America became effective at 7 o'clock this morning (Central time). BEm- A. F. OF L. ASSAILS ployers affected are the Western 5 Union Telegraph Co.. the Postal Tei- | BURLESON’S METHODS egraph Cable Co., the American Tel- ephone and Telegraph company and :’"“,;!\;mho\ of small telegraph com- | poquests Wilson to Remove Him— Union officials estimated that 60,- Monster Plea for Beer and «000 men would leave their keys dur- ing the day and that on June 16, Light Wines Advocated. 100,000 electrical workers would = . Atlantic City, June 11.—Nearly all strike. Western Union officials said that only a few of their employes “1}:“g;“"f_“‘v""""‘",‘(;{ f,““f °°““;““l“"h°£ were members of the union and that | \i% "““"‘“;(3“\_“. e cu°~1 e busineas Foverd iieinilines Swotiidsnot | B e iof M BRCELOR St SEayil bl be materially affected. e T ¢ 2 Issues imvelved im the strike in. |labor demonstration there in protest clude the right to organize and bar. | 28&inst enforcement of war-time pro- gain collectively, wages and working | Nibition. Virtually every delegate Conaitian. SARUAL S ® | today signed a card signifying his Konenkamp established headquar- | nténtion of going to the capital. e Another resolution requests Pres- A ident Wilson to remove Postmaster- Pickets Are on Duty. General Burleson. This was intro- Pickets were placed around the | duced by E. J. Gainor of the na- general offices of the companies in | tional association of letter carriers. T. the city. Leased wire operators were | F. Flaherty of the national federa- not involved in the strike but Konen- ! tion of federal employes and E. J. kamp said that it might be necessary | Rvan of the railway association. to call them out. | Tt says that Burleson has pursued « At Los Angel I.. . Marshall, first ! a labor policy in conflict with Pres- vice-president of the union, said that fillf‘m Wilson’s principles and has operators of the Federal Telegraph | characterized as “silly” the right of Co. would not be ordered out as an | collective bargaining. The postmaster- agreement had been reached | general is charged with having “ruth- Effcct Known in Few Days. {lessly invaded the rights of em- Mr. Konenkamp said it mo\mm_v‘;xflo.\f~s." will be two or three days before the { The resolution continues: full strength of the strike is known.| ‘“‘Burleson's archaic and autocratic “ An hour after the strike began the 'attitude has resulted in demoralized Western Union officials here said they | service, discontented employes, con- had not been affected. At the Postal | fused and choked industrial pro- there was a disturbance in which the | cesses, a people wrathful and indig- police were called upon for assist- [nant and a long series of administra- Sihce. | tive blunders.” Some Western Union messengers | = announced that they were on strike. | TRIAN A President Konenkamp said mp-v\AUs IAN LEADER operator employed by the Mack @elegraph Co. in Dallas and .‘ml‘ VOICES LOUD WAIL Worth., Texas, had struck | The Postal company’s general su- | perintendent, E. W. Collins said that { Karl Renner. Chancellor, Says “Hard about 30 per cent of his men here | were out H Conditions” Imposed Overwhelm — i New Yo Wite O e I Country With Despa New York, June 11.—Reports fxr)m! Paris, June 10.—Karl Renner, the seven divisions of the Western | Austrian chancellor and head of the Union Telegraph throughout the | Austrian peace mission has sent a C entry and the maritime provinces | letter to the peace conference com- showed a full force of operators on | plaining of the “hard conditions” im- duty two hours after the Commercial i posed on his country, which, he say Telegraphers’ union strike order had | “is overwhelmed with despair.” gone into effect, Newcomb Carlton, | An American official who is work- president of the company, announced l “”fl "”]‘h" ':”""“‘" \"" ty, asked to- oy day when the rest of the summary The reports declared that the wires Would be available replied wpre clear and trafic normal, Mr.| There may not be any more. The S e \ustrians have more now, apparent- ‘We are handling business through- “‘\”'l“"‘w:‘“i‘\'i 1‘1‘;“”;”’:‘; “‘l" i ‘v the countr withe se s i - 5 (G 8 > e rontiers gufsn ntpygithoutisenlonelinter s o ol T o B Do i noer Aol ruption anywhere,” he said. “We have | 1 % B adenuate forch o carcy on ail oe|| therelsino expectation that thelcoun- ) S e s e | il will begin serious consideration of T e oh the Hungarian settlement until the Percy homas, vice-pr ident of the j Austrian and German pacts are out union, said no less than 1,000 were |of the way. oM in New York. | Ll A strikers' mecting was attended by | v T b e AN DTN TS SUICIDE The Postal company announced the ! e strike was not causing *“much trou- s Beautiful Dora Charlton, 24, Courted R | Allicd Officers, Prefers Death to Five Out in Hartford. Hartford, June 11 ive commer- | cial telegraph operators are out of Hggtford offices today a result of the wire strike order. Four are from the Postal office, representing prac- tically the entire operating force, only the chief operator and his assistant re- maining. Chief Operator Kroher ad- mits that the local office is practically | g up. Two postal clerks are out in sympathy with the strikers | One man is out from the \\'vxmvni Union—discharged. Thief Operator | Hall says the man was disloyal, but declines to give details. It was said at union headquarters that he was dis- charged because he refused to turn in his union card The local Western Union office employs about a dozen gberators. There are two or three| night men who have not been heard from concerning the strike order f[ teports Are Conflicting x Washington, June 11.-—Officials of | the Western Union and Postal Tele- graph companies and the Commercial Telegraphers' made widely W rgent to offect of the tern Union Page) l union di- today here ed on claims the strile i We Third (Contin Geneva, June 10.—Dora Charlton, age 24, a spy who travelled on a false American passport, committed suicde in Turin on Monday when she was ar- rested v WED COPY OF PLEA FOR LEAGUE OF N NATION-WIDE STRIKE OF TELEGRAPHERS IS GAINING MOMENTU! " OF LABOR TROUBLES ‘iS. 0. &C. Co. Men Strike and Novelty Co. Shuts Down MOVEMENT IS SPREADING American Brass Co. Entirely Shut Down As Is Farrel Foundry & Ma- chine Co., Ansonia O. & C. Co.— About 5,000 Workers Idle. Ansonia, June 11.—Employes of the O. & C. Co. struck at 10 o'clock this morning and added about 200 to the 4,600 already idle in Ansonia. The men have not yet presented demands. After the S. O. & C. Ca. men went out hundreds of strikers gathered out- side the Anscnia Novelty Co. and, blowing whistles and cheering, were trying to call the men there out. Po- lice were rushed to the shop to pre- vent a rush through it. The Ansonia, Novelty Co. closed down shortly be- fore 11 o'clock. It employs 60 hands. t Show of Force Today. | The first show of force by the strik- ers came this morning at 7 o’clock when over 1,000 strikers gathered out- side one mill entrance of the Ameri- can Brass Co. and kept office worke and foremen from entering the mill. It was a good natured restraint and the office help later started towards their work. The Farrel Foundry & Machine Co was unable to operate its foundry de- partment toda because of the 90 foundry helpers and furnace men who struck yesterda This throws out about 400 of the company's 900 em- ployes. Tr ing to Force Strike. After succeeding in getting the An- sonia Novelty Co. closed down the several hundred strikers moved up Main street to the Cameron Electrical Manufacturing Co. and yelled and beckoned to the men inside to come out. The Cameron Co. did not closs down and as the crowd of strikers dis- persed it was not thought necessary to close. The Cameron Co. has about 100 employes. The crowd then moved up Main street to the Ansonia Electrical € and is still trying to get the workers out there. Another Plant Closed. The Ansonia O. & C. Co. where 159 weavers struck yesterday afternoan at 4 o'clock, s closed today. The plant employes about 350, the rest be- ing mostly girls and women. The American Brass Co entirel shut down There was no conferenc between the strikers' committee of 19 and the company today and the tuation is unchanged. Mayor Wi is is Calls for Help. Mayor Mead, fearing that the strike | situation would get heyond control of { local authorities, called on County Sheriff Thomas L. Reilly for help this noon. Sheriff Reilly and 50 deputies were expected to reach Ansonia at 2 o’'clock. The police arrested was using force to a striker who prevent men from returning to work at the Farrel foun- | dry at 1 o'clock | Some 1. W. W. propaganda was | scattered throughout the city. Situation in Seymour. Seymour, June 11.—No change was noticeable here today in connection with the strike at the Seymour Man- | ufacturing Co. The strikers had a | mass meeting when several of the ! leaders tried to explain to them a ituation which has arisen. The gov- ernment has a quantity of materials in the plant, mostly fittings on guns and it wishes to remove these. The strikers for the most part could not understand the intended action of the government. They thought it loaked like an attempt to introduce workmen. The speak at the mass meeting gave an explanation as well as they could but there are so many nation- alities among the strikers that it was She made frequent trips between | NOt easy to make all understand Italy and Germany by way of Switzer- — land during the war and is said to $oldier Guard Organizing. have obtained important military in- Watic - formation from Allied officer friends SSh R L Underioders by whom she was nicknamed ‘the | cccived from - Sheriff Thomas L. lady of the Camellias” because she al- | RelllY; Deputy Sheriff John D. Tier- ol el ney of this city today recruited 19 ex- She was beautiful and posed as an |501diers for strike duty in Ansonta, American, She was a guost of the |ACcompanied by Demity Sheriffs best hotels, had plenty of money and |3l Summa and Joseph Bauby, the wore the latest Parisian gowns, which | PArty left for Ansonia early this were supplied by the German politi- | Afternoon. Nearly all the ex-soldiers e who volunteered have had overseas service and Deputy Sheriff Tierney | AMBASS ADOR LIAVES Was a sergeant in the tank corps. On | FOR SPECIAL WORK, | #'TVal in Ansonfa the men will e | sworn in as special deputies. ! Paris, June 11.—John W. Davis, - American ambassador to England left | RO for London today, his work on the VICTORY FOR BOLSHITVIKI. special commission to arrange for the | London, June 11.—Bolshevii forces civil regime on the left bank of the | yesterday captured Ufa, one of {he Rhine durfig the period of occupation | cities recently taken hy the troops of having heen completed. The report of | Admiral Kolchak, after three days of the commission has heen represented | sanguinary fighting, according to a to the council of four, | I Ru ian wireless dispatch. OLD HUN COLONIES Peace Conference Refuses Re- quest Presented by Germans ‘Wanted Allies to Name Fixed Sum for German Reparations But Clemen- ceau Carries His Point in Opposi- tion. Paris, June 11.—The reply to the German counter proposals agreed upon by the peace conference heads refuses the German request for a mandate for the former German col- onies. A lengthy memorandum gives the reasons for the refusal and explains the operations of the league of na- tions on colonial matters. Text Is Not Changed. The reparations portion of the re- ply, which has reached the printer, does not fix the total sum which the Germans must pay. The text of the treaty itself is not changed, but the reply contains assurances to Germany | method of explaining angement Wilson Wanted Fixed Sum. President Wilson fought strenu- ously to include a fixed total sum in the reparation clause and the close the that regarding the tions process. workable ar rep: it AL is a of the discussion leaves him un- changed, it is said, in the belief that that is the best plan It is understood, however, that the president said that inasmuch that Premier Clemenceau had insisted to the contrary and also that he had signed the original draft, he would sign the reply as formulated SCHOOL WRANGLE IS REVIVED ONCE MORE P. & T. Assn. Supports Two Teachers Who Are Dropped. A meeting called for the purpose of losing up the business for the past ar and elect officers for the ensuing vear, which instead is said to have resulted 'in_an indignation session on behalf of Miss Irene T. Byrne and Miss Julia T. Dunn, two school teach- ers who were not reappointed, took place last evening at the new Elihu Burritt school. The parents, it is re. ported, waxed indignant over the leged unfair tactics that have used against the two teachers by school board Principal Fowler is reported to have been the center of the attack of the irate parents who demanded an explanation of the head of the Burritt school for the drop- ping of the two school instructors from the teachers’ staff. Instead of proceeding regular business of the said that the parents spent three hours discussing the Dunn case. The clection of officers for the ensuing year was postponed until next fall. Principal Fowler when asked what occurred at the meeting replied that he was ‘not going to give anything to the public.” al- been the with evening, the it is about Byrne- When asked if a session was held at the Burritt school last evening he answered that “ a regular meeting of the executive committee was called. Tt transacted business and then adjourned.” He also admitted that a lengthy sion followed, dur- ing which the case of the two teach- ers was discussed, but he refused to comment on this, saving that he had “no official statement to make.” Miss Byrne and Miss Dunn were not reappointed by the school board at its session iast month., as both teachers were said to have been im- plicated in making alleged statements against Superintendent Stanley H. Holmes and the school administra- tion. ANOTHER NEW REPUBLIC., Copenhagen, June 11.—A movement has started in Schleswig-Holsten aim- itng at the creation of an independent republic, Berlin newspapers say. The republic would be separate from Rus- sia and would cede no territory to Denmark. [ WEATHER. H Forecast for New Britain || and vicinity: Faiv tonight and || Thursday. J -= P = — | MONTANA DEMOCRAT HITS AT OPPONENTS Compares Covenant With Famous Treaty of Panama WILSON WORSTED IN FIGHT FAVORED BY 6.0.P. THEN Senator Walsh Declares That Iodge, McCumber, Nelson, Penrose, Sim- mons, Smooth and Warren All Vot- ed For Rooscvelt’s Plans in 1904. ‘Washington, that opponents June of the 11.—Asserting league of na- tions had trumped up many unsup- portable objections Senator Walsh, democrat, Montana, defended the league covenant in the senate today against charges that it subverted the American constitution. Answering Senators Lodge, of Mass., Knox, of Penn., and others who have urged constitutional objections, Sena- tor Walsh declared their arguments founded on theories long since dis- proved me As Other Treaties. The celebrated article ten, he con- tinued, certainly would bind the Unit- ed States to make in certain in- stances, but he added that the same obligation had been assumed by this government in various treaties in the war He cited the treaty with Panama, ying “‘we go to war with any coun- that attempts Lo reduce the repub- through whose concession we built lic the Panama canal. Favored By Republicans. “That treaty was entered into in the year 1904, the late Theodore Roosevelt being president and Philander C. Knox, now a senator from the state of Pennsylvania, his attorney general and official legal adviser ““Among those voting to rati it were the following, still members of the senate: “‘Senators Liodge, McCumber, Pen- ! rose, Simmons, Smoot and Warren.” Quotes Rooseyelt’s Speech. Senator Walsh quoted a speech by Theodore Roosevelt accepting the No- bel Prize at Christiania in 1910 as fol- lows: “It will he a master stroke if those great powers honestly bent on peace would form a league of peace,not only to keep the peace among themselves to prevent, by force if necessary, broken by others.” but its being LOSES HIS ROL Aslcep in Cafe Broad Street Man Fal and on Awakening He Finds His Money Has Departed. 3ezrundezyk of 53 Broad reported to the police early that he had heen robbed of $850 while asleep in Walter Dona- hue's saloon on Washingtan street. According to the story related by Steve h: went into the saloon about 9 o'clock last night and fell asleep. On his person W the above sum tied about his waist. When he found the money gone. Mr. Donahue told the police that Steve was in the place from 9 o'clock until closing time at midnight. He did not see anyone around him while he slept. Sergeant Kelly advised Steve to go home and sleep off the ef- fects of liquor he showed and to re- port at the police station at 8:30 o’clock which Steve failed to do. Steve was arrested a short time ago and on his persan was found over $1,200. 10 BUILD $50 000 ADDITION Steve street, this morning 1S he h awok Fafnir Bearing Company Applics for Permit—Total of Over $250,000 in Permits Granted This Month. The Fafnir Bearing company through the James H. Crozier Build- ing company of Hartford today ap- plied for a permit from Building In- spector Arthur N. Rutherford to erect a four-story addition to the local fac- tory on Orange street. The cost of the structure will be $50,000. Building Inspector Rutherford pro- phesied today that the next few months would the biggest build- ing boom that this eity has had in years. So far this month 28 permits have been granted with a grand total $25 OFf this total only seven have added to this see of tenements been city. PORTED AS MIXING WITH TRISH, A HOUSE 11 Dublin the dispatch Journal Col England during the urge upon the Brit- the necessity tling the Trish question. The dispatch says he also intends to visit Ireland. June 11 IFreeman’s will visit fortnight and zovernment Paris o says House next ish of set- TREATY | { | Joint Movement of British, TREATY IS STRIKERS IN FIGHT; ONE MAN IS KILLED. S Dallas, Tex., June 11.—A. J. Fisher, a non-union lineman employed by the Dallas Light and Power Co., was shot and kilted today in a clash between strike syrapathizers and non- union men taking the places of strikers. DR. BRAY RECEIVES COMMISSION TODAY New Britain General Hospital Desig- nated as Government Institution to Treat Local Soldiers. Dr. Henry T. Bray received a com- mission this morning from Washing- ton appointing him acting assistant surgeon of the United States Public Health Service. Dr. is to look after all casualties in city, make examinations for vocational training of disabled soldiers and determine the degree of disability and compensation and assign all cases for proper treat- ment. Dr. Bray today completed arrange- | ments with the directors of the New | Britain General hospital whereby the | local institution is to be designated as | a government hospital. Local sol-| diers suffering from any ailment will | now be allowed to convalesce here in- stead of being sent to government hos pitals in Boston, Providence, and elsewhere. Dr. T. Eben Reeks, formerly super- intendent of the board of health, is assistant surgeon of the United States Public Health Service for the State of | Connecticut. NGLAND JOINS IN PROTEST OF SENATE News Accuses Wilson of Making Many Mistakes—Post Admits Suspi- cion of League. London, June 11.—The action of the | United States senate in making pub- | lic the text of the treaty with (3(‘(—' many receives sympathetic comment in the London press and there is some ! sharp criticism of President Wilson. The radical Daily News, his warm- est admirer among London journals soyi “It must he unhappi the president of the task of many mistakes. y admitted that in his personal conduct peacemaking has made The Telegraph thinks the senate! action may encourage Germany in the hope for a grave difference among the Allies. It regards the action of the senate as “a manifestation of the uni- versal dissatisfaction over the in- terminable length of the proceedings in Paris The Post says that there is ‘as much suspicion of the league here as in America LOCAL PEOPLE ELECTED Charles J. Symonds Heads Tempie of Honor of This State and Mrs. John Sloan ‘is Grand Chapiain. Hartford, June 11 At the annual meeting of the grand temple of Con- | necticut, Temple of Honor, held here | today the following officers were elect- | ed: | Grand chief templar, Charles J Symonds, New Britain: vice chief templar, A. J. Te: 11, Ansoni: recorder, J. A. Clark, Ansoni: | urer, O. M. Williams, Anson and | chaplain, Mrs. John Sloan. New Brit- ain; grand usher, Liouis T sonia: grand guardian, ard, Portland JUNE 44 1S DATE FIXED ! Card, Harry Ttalian and Belgian Labor Organizatlons Set For This Day. { { Paris, June 11.—The general labor ! federation has fixed June 14 s the | 1 date on which fo initiate a foint move- | ment with BEritish, Italian and Belgian labor organizations Yesterda 1 fter- noon strikers stopped a train on the | Paris-St. Germain light railway at | Courbevoie, forced the passengers to | i alight, overturned the cars and set fire to them, - % TO LODGE; PUBLIC PROPERTY, ROOT INRORMS SENATE PROBERS; SAYS HE RECEIVED COPY SEVERAL WEEKS AGG | came public property ' parties Declares He Resents Suggestion That He Had Stolen Goods or Obtained it By Bribery. Washington, June 11.—Elihu Roo told the senate foreign relations com. mittee today that for several weeks he had a copy of the peace treaty with Germany given him by H. P Davison. Mr. Davison, chairman of the council of the American Red Cra is connected with J. P. Morgan a Co. Mr. Root appeared before o committee at his own suggestion. Chairman ILodge read a tel from Jacob Schiff saying he n “absolutely nothing directly or indj rectly” regarding the treaty, then called Mr. Root to the ohair. Root Recetves Treaty. “I have a copy of that so-callel treaty, have had it for several weeks,’ Mr. Root said. ‘It was sent to me| by H. P. Davison. I stand upon my] right to have it. I assert the entire propriety of his giving it to me. He had it because of his legitimate iIn: terests in the Red Cross, involved fii the treaty. Mr. Root said he understood Mr. Davison had the copy in Paris in| connection with Red Cross affairs and brought it away with him “there being at that time no injunction against bringing copies to the United States.” Says It Is Public Property. Mr. Root remarked that the Ger- man government had made the treaty public in detail “thereupon it be- There are two the negotiations. Bither party has the right to make it pub- lic. No longer can any diplomatic secrecy attach. The German govern- ment having the full right to make public this paper made it public and it is public ‘I should to be inclined to suggestion from anybody not entitled to it and to see fit which I to resent that I use it do. any am it as I propose Resents Bribery Davisor of idle duty on Charge. ion was curiosity, but of of- the part of the man who is abandoning his great business and giving his great powers to organ- ization and execution of the great Red “Mr. matter ficial ne Cross activities.” “Then I gather,” Senator Knox in= terjected, *‘that you do not consider vourself in obtained possession of stolen goods, by bribery as has been charged on the senate floor?" “I feel a sens of trong resente ment to repel such a suggestion from. any source,” Mr. Root answered. “Nothing could he more baseless than such a suggestion.’ Senator Lodge seen was shown ¥ said the copy to by he had Mr. Root. avors A1l Publicity. him Mr. Root thought the United States had 1,400 men on the payroll at Paris and of these probably 200 or 300 had coples of the treaty “We ate is entitled to a copy Borah. “Do have contended that the sen- said Senator ou regard that as a cor- rect position?” “I do. I think every American cit= izen was entitled to see a copy of the paper made public by the German government.’ Senator Harding remarked that some newspapers were saying the. treaty text did not correspond in some respects with the summar Summary Was Correct. ‘I didn't notice anything which I thought especially important was not e summa replied Mr. Root "he copy he saw was dated April 0 and bore the imprint of ‘“home la- hor organization ‘Do you think ked nator Brandegee, “any dam was done to | the negotiations of the treaty by its publication in the congressional rec- ord? “I think no damage could have been done,” replied Mr. Root, “unless it was throuzh withdrawing the attention of the senate from the various import- ant matters awaiting action.” Won't Criticize President. When Mr. Root was asked if he thought President Wilson had acted properly in not consulting the senate more closely he said The president cxercised his consti- | tutional power 11 do not want to criticize him. It would have facilitat- ed public business and made progress ! towards @ solution of a treaty satis- “But it was not his dut 1sked Senator Williams “No “There was nothing material in th copy T had not seen in the papers, Mr. Root added Knowledge is Widespread, he believed was not (Continued on Third Page) —— He suid secrecy —