Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 20, 1919, Page 1

VOL. LXI—NO. 225 o< RIFT BETWEEN CAPITAL AND LABOR OF STEEL INDUSTRY! Both Sides Are Making Preparations Begin Monday-—Representatives of Steel Companies In Pittsburgh District Intend to Operate Their Plants Mon- day—Organized Labor Leaders Predict That the Employ- ers Will Receive the Surprise of Their Lives—Commun- ‘ities In the Pittsburgh District Are Preparing to Maintain Peace During Strike. 19. —Preparations between org- in tne steel Pittsburgh, Sept for the test strength anized labor and capital indust throughout the United States to begin Monday went forward today with both sides apparently con- fident of the outcome. ‘Inere were no official statements forthcoming from either side, but informal talks indi- cated that they were ready for th contest. Representatives of steel companies in the Pittsburg district let intend and that known operate their let the im- do not look it be o also they that they plants Monday pression go out for large a as the umion lcaders assert will take place. Org- .zed labor expects a big turnout of men and predicted tnat the employe: will receive the surprise of their live: Neither =ide will wventure figures. Both frankly confess they do not know how many men will remain i work or fail to answer the whistle. Jionday only can tell, they said. It was s: tonight thal in a num- her of plants some men have alread: Quit and sought work in other place: It was expected by union leader here taat many men on ihe night shirts with ihe preparations in the Pitts- longings out of the milis at quitting lime tomorrow morning as many 9 rem do not work Jaturday and Sur- nig nawonal ved in the tonight day of unions left the respective plans fo. the activity the steel work- committee had to do toaig take their personal be- burgh district. While national head- Quarters are in this in charge o William Z. Foster retary of the national committee. it was - learned that much of the work will be con- ducted by districts. These districts and men in charge, Mr. Foster said, &re as follows . Chicago. Raisse: Cadden; inner oty tieir for to make and much offices of rinal of ke the national ght wiil ne abo! J. Bvans: Cleveland. H Youngstown, J. E. Me- Pittsburgh, J. L. Reaghan: outer Pittsburgh, J. Mec- Caig: Bethlehem. David Williams Buffalo, H. C. Thompson: Birming- Lam_ Ala: B. S. Ingram; Pueblo, Co., W. H. Young. Mr. Foster, in answer to queries. #aid that all men in non-union mills have been asked 10 strike. _ None will be left to Preserve company property, such as keeping up furnace fires and prevent ore from cooling, he 1t was portant council of given out here that an im- meeting of the executive the Amer: i“ederation of Labor and representatives of the unions in the strike would ‘be held probably in Pittsburgh within two weeks. Questions of financing the contest, it was said, would be' taken up. M. F. Tighe, international presi- dent of the Amaigamated Association of fron. Steel and Tin Workers, said today that his organization, which is the largest numerically in the steel industry, has made many agreements ROOSEVELT MILITARY ACADEMY ORGANIZED w York, Sept. 13.—The Roosevelt Military Academy. named in honor of the late Theodore Roosevelt and what stood for in American life, has been ed to ceeed the Sheldon for Boys at West Englewood It_was announced today that | Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. on behalf of the family, has consented 1o dedicate the school to his father. In a letter to Major Peter Bender, ‘headmaster, he said “You have the family’s permission to call the school after my father. No mere appropriate memorial, in our opinion, is possible ihan the educa- tion and better citizenship of the youth of the country.” Russell R. Whitman of New York has been elected president of the aca- demy: Major Bender vice president &nd_headmaster 2ng Wendell Andreas of West Englewood, secretary and burser. SITUATION IN HUNGARY GROWING MORE CRITICAL Budapest, Sept. 19 (By the A. P.).— The situation here is growing more eritical. As the Rumanians withdraw they continme to requisition railway equipment of all kinds. It is stated in Hungarian quarters that the food in Budapest is insufficient to care for the needs of the people. Xot only have the Rumanians failed to arm the Hungarian police as they were requested, and promised to do, but they have looted the police equip- ment and arrested the policemen. The telephone equipment has been removed from the ministerial offices. so in case ©f disturbances the situation will be aggravated by lack of communication. CREDIT MEN RECOMMEND COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION Atlantic City J., Sept. officers and directors of the National Association of Credit Men in annual convention here today recommended commercial arbitration as an economic and expeditious method for settling husiness disputes rather than courts. With courts, it wa said. expensive de- lay occur in the adjudication of bus- iness controversies. The association urged commercial! bodies and boards of trade to give the| arbitration plan serious study and support 19.—The JEWISH BAKERS CANNOT RAISE PRICE OF BREAD New York. Sept. 19.—The Federation of Jewish Master Bakers, whose mem- bers have been planninz to increase the price of their bread, now selling at nine cents a pound, are prohibited from doing so by a decision rendered late today Ly a sub-committee of the fair price commities, of which Louis Marshall is chairman. It was said approximately 1,000 000 Jews in Great- wr New York arc affected by this or- e For Test of Strength to with emplovers and that none of these will be affected by the walkout. Man- ufacturers identified with the West- ern Bar Iron Association and em- ployers in the Western Sheet and n Plate Manwacturers' Associ: tion, scattered around the _country will not be affected because they hav working agreements with the Amalga- mated Association. Mr. Tighe, speaking of the issue in- volved in the strike, said the twelve demands voted upon by ihe steel workers are not ihe stumbling block to a setiJement. He said that the United States Steel Corporation is clouding the issue when it asserts that the unions are fighting for a ‘closed shop.” “All we want is a conference,” e he said. “They haven't even given us a chance to ask them if they are satisfied to have a closed shop.” He said the Amalgamated Association is working under union agreements with plants that are not closed shop: Some of the communities in Piitsburgh district are quietly paring to maintain peace during the strike. In Mcieesport the mayor, in connection with business men, has a volunteer force to assist the police. Plants that are not shut down will be picketed® by strikers, it was said, and Iocal police will endeavor to prevent clashes between men going to work and those who quit. Patrols of the Pennsylvania state police, it was said nere tonight,” have been selected and will be on duty in the Allegheny valley near Brackenridge: at Home- stead, betw: McKeesport and Du- juesne, at Clairton and about Ran- <in and Braddock. Word came from Monessen today hat the plant of the Pitisburgh Steel Company al that place was closed yes- terday after five hundred men, most- Iy foreigners, quit work. According to a superintendent of the plant, the shutdown was due to lack of orders, but men employed there said it fol- lowed ithe walkout of a foreigner who had been given the choice of either winding eight spools of barbed wire at one time other workmen were doing or quitting. According to some of the workers most of the foreigners employed at the plant favor the steel strike, while Americans generally are against it. the pre- HAS PRESIDENT SENT EMISSARY TO GARY?| i New York, Sept. 19.—Reports were current in the finnas 1 district today that President Wilson had sent Ber- nard Baruch, former head of the war industries board, to see Chairman Kl bert H. Gary of the United States Steel corporation and request him to meet a committee of steel workers in an effort to prevent the strike set for next Monday. When asked to comment on the re- port. Judge Gary said: Please do not ask me that question. | I would rather not make any comment whatever.” Mr. Baruch refused to deny or con- firm the report. RUMANIANS RETURNING TO HOMES IN TRANSYLVANIA New York, Sept. 19.—Carrying 1,750 Rumanians returning to their former homes in Transylvania and parts of | Hungary ceded by Austria to Rum. nia. the Ttaliun steamship Re d'Italia sailed today for Constanza, Rumania, the first passenger ship to clear from | New York for that port. The Ru- manians, who had come to America to escape Austrian oppression, depart- ed with Rumanian bands playing and native flags flying. Rev. Octavian Muresan. pastor of the Rumanian Orthodox church, War- ren, Ohio, for seven vears, was among the passengers. Consigned to ‘‘Queen Marie, Rumania,” were stk automobile trucks for use of the American relief committee. ‘ SAYS FRANCE IS MENACED BY WAVE OF IMMORALITY Paris, Sept. 19.—A Merriham, sec- retary of the Metal Workers' Union, created a sensation at the labor fed eration convention in Lyvons yeste day denouncing “the wave of im- morality which threatens to submerge all classes of society—the working| class more than any other.” M. Merriham, who is one of the so- cialists who conferred with the Ger- man socialists at Zimmerwald, Switz- erland, during the war. and who for- merly was one of the most aggressive labor leaders in France, took the floor |to defend the executive committee of the federation against criticism by the extremists for the fiasco which marked the proposed general strike of {July 21 last. | He ridiculed prete Nions of ex- | tremists in labor organizations who ‘talked of such plans as ur hour [day, and said what labor needed was to get DIFFICULTIES OF FLIGHT ACROSS PACIFIC OCEAN a organized to work. New York, Sept., 19.—No flving boat in existence is capable of crossing the | Pacific, cxcept by using the short cut from Alaska to the northern Russian line, Commander Albert . Read, T. S. X, of trans-Atlantic fame, declared at a luncheon of the American Flying Club here toda: in denying reports that he was preparing for trans-Pa- long distance. ALLIED WARSHIPS TRAIN GUNS ON TOWN OF FIUME London. Sept. 19.—After a confer- ence between allied commariders at Abbazia. allied warships have left the! harbor of Fiume and have levelled their guns on the.town. according to a German government wireless report quoting advices received in Berlin to Laibach and Vienna. The despatch states that.it is assumed an ultimatum will he sent demanding that Capiain I’Annunzio’s forces evacuate town within twenty-four hours. POPULATION 29,919 | Association Opposed to Woman Suf- | Francisco cific flight. He intimated, however, |setve Bank, was arrested here u)day. that perhaps some land flying ma-!and held in $25.000 bail for examina- | chine was capable of negotiating the|tion in connection with the alleged = Bulletin ~ s e - NORWICH, CONN. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1919 14 PAGES—98 COLUMNS PRICE TWO CENTS l Condensed Talegranis» | There will be no general strike in the Brooklyn shipyards. Five different kinds of curmency are reported in circulation in Poland. Price of linseed oil for September ?elia\;e{y was reduced 3 cents a gallon. o $2.12. .Consideration of amendments to oil lsn.nda leasing bill will be started om ept. 25. Departmient of Commerce reported seagoing flect of 2,245 ships of 5,100,- 000 tens Aug. 31. H Bar silver was unchanged at 6134 pence an ounce in Lonlon; New York price was $1.13%. : < General Pershing receiwsd the for- mal thanks of Congress for his ser- vices during the war. Steamship Aquitania and France sailed from New York for Liverpool i and Havre, respectively. Kennecott turned out 8,224,000 ; pounds of copper in August, compar- ed- with 5,873,000 pounds in July. Ohio organizer of union steel work- ers announced 30,000 men in that state were ready to strike Monday. Postage stamps of the new Re- public of Esthonia are being made out of maps of the German General Stafr. The University of the Sta York conferred the honorary of Doctor of Laws upon Mercier. of New degree Cardinal Bank of Frana: reported gold hold- ings on hand _week of Sept. 18 amounted to 5,573,300,000 francs, gain of 447,000. Committee of the Prussian Diet has under consideration a plan making Upper ang Lower Silesia independ- ent provinces. Sailors’” Union of the Great Lakes is voling on a strike in sympathy with the strike called for Sept. 22 by the steel workers. German trade unionists decided not to participate in the internaional labor conference to be held at Washing- ton unless invited. Two of eiaht Mexican soldiers found guilty of participating im the mutiny g e L Ceutornia, were executed at Mexicalif. According to reports, the potroleum law ot Mexico will not be furthe: discussed at the present session of the National Legislature. Proposals of establishmentf of a steamship service between Danzig and New York by American financiers are under consideration. Transpert Mount Vernon broke the record by bringing 106 war brides to this country irom — Brest. Several hundred troops were also aboard. Reports to the Department of Jus- tice from 12 states indicate there was a decline of 10 to 15 per cent. in food prices since investigations began. Consuption of sugar in the United States for the first seven months of this year was 362,000 more ons than during the corresponding period last year. Mrs. Jamss W. Wadsworth, Jr. wife of the Senator from New York, retired as president of the National trage. United Mine Workers of America voted down a resolution indorsing the League of Nations and calling on the Senate to ratify it without further delay. Roland Rohlife, test pilot of the! Curtiss Co., broke the world's altitude record at Roosevelt Field, L. I. when his machine ascended to a height of 34,610 feet. Julia Heinrich, a former leading Metrop#tan opera soprano and daughter of Max Heinrich, composer, was killed in a railroad accident at Hammond, Ind. Immigraion authorities issued Fed- eral warrants for the detention after release from ail of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman. They will probably be deported. Uni¥>d States gold coin amounting to $150,000 was withdrawn from thz Sub-Treasury for shipment. A trans- fer of $500,000 in gold coin to . was announced. Five masked men bound and the mail clerks on the Ocean Limited express of the Canadian ational Railway near Harlaka, Canada, and robbed the mil car of $75,000 in silver. French newspapers, in commenting on the occupation of Fiume by d’An- nunzio, declare Premier Nitti burned his mridges when he characterized the Fiume adventurers as “traitors and deserters.” After a conference with republican Leader Lodge, Senator Borah tele- graphed Senator Johnson to return to Washington so that the Senae might vote on his amendment to he League o Naions equalizing the voteing pow- er o the United States and Great Britain. Gov. Runyon, repudiated the act of Attorney General Gilkyson in p paration for mobilization of the State militia to guell mobilization of | the State militia jto quell disturbances at Camden and Burlington because of enforcement of the fare zone system. the e bCur- 1(fd th A RAILWAY MESSENGER CHARGED WITH $17,000 ROBBERY | New York, Sept. 19.—George C. Nn-l tice. a railway messenger who was! reported missing September 4 with $17.000 belonging to the Federal Re- 1 robbery. Notice had left Port Jefferson, Long | Island, with the currency entrusted to his care. When the train arrived ini Long Island City Adverse to Votes For Women.’ Paris, Sont. 19.—The electoral com- mittee oi tne senate has decided to re- port unfavorably on the chamber of deputies’ measure which would give votes (o women. r President Wilson “Quotes Roosevelt In Support of League of Na- tions, Refers to a Magazine Article Written By Roose- velt in 1914. San Diego, Calif., Sept. tract from a_magazine in 1914 by Theodore Roasevelt was read by President Wilson in an ad- dress here today as an_argument in favor of the League of Nations. Speaking to a cheering crowd which filled the great San Diego stadium, the president also quoted from Sena- tor Lodge, one of the most bitter op- ponents of the treaty in s present form, and declared that in framing the league covenant, the Versailles conference had followed the advice of these and other republican states- men. “1 am glad to align muvself with such utterances.” said Mr. Wilson, while the crowd cheered. “Here in concrete form is the fulfillment of the plan they advocated.” The address was interrupted many times by applause from the crowd, which local officials estimated at more than 30,000. The great ampitheater with its seating capacity of 40,000 was packed, thousands standing Tn the aisles and on the terraces above. Speaking from a slass-enclosed platform. the president's words were carried out to the distant rims of the stadium by means of an electrical de- vice. Only part of those present could hear him. however, and before he finished there were many empty seats. The president also discussed at length the objection that the British empire might have a preponderance of voting power in the league assem- bly. It was a “delusion” to be fright- ened at any such préspec’ he said, be- cause there could be no % portant ac- tion by the assembly “ituout the con- 19.—An ex- cle written | In Florida Quicksand Believed to Be Spanish Passen- ger Liner Valbanera—Had 300 Passengers and Crew of 150. Key West, Sept. 19.—Imbedded in quicksand under forty feet of water off Rebecca Shoals lighthouse, divers today found the hulk of a vessel be- lieved to be the Spanish passenger liner Valbanera, which has been miss- ing since the eastern portion of the Gulf of Mexico was swept by a hurri- cane ten days ago. No trace, however, was found of the 300 passengers and 150 members of the crew reported aboard the Spanish liner when she left Spain for Havana. The steamer found off the Rebecca Shoal lighthouse, which is forty miles from here was 3.291 tons net. Further invsetigation however, is expected to clear beyond all doubt the identity of the wreck and if it is proven to be the Spanish liner throw some light on the fate of the 450 persons aboard her. WITNESSES TESTIFV IN DEFENSE OF BURLESON 19.—Charges of Washington. Sept. former member Charles M. Gallo of the civil service commission, that Postmaster General Burleson was “debauching” the civil service system by undue interference In the selec tion of postmasters, together with in- sinuations by Herman W. Craven of Seattle, Washn.. another former com- mission member. of alleged irregulari ties in civil service examinations were vehemently denied today by witnesses before the senate postoffice sub-com- mittee considering contested postmas- ter nominations. The charges of both former com- missicners brought spirited replies from J. C. 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During the past week the following matter has appeared in The 3 Bulletin «; Telegraph Local Total Saturday, September 13 . 112 126 408 646 Monday, September 15 173 96 252 521 Tuesday, September 16 125 132 267 524 Wednesday, September 17 17 88 336 541 Thursday, September 18 110 122 384 616 Friday, September 19 110 104 450 654 747 for as high as $30 a copy? 1t ought to, because it shows that the people must have the news The daily newspaper is the only advertising medium to the con- to modern life. The price of your e greatest service to the greatest talize such a necessity in advertis- t distribution and service in Nor- daily: “General 668 2007 3512 currence of the American representa- tive. The assembly, asserted Mr. Wilson, was largely a debating body, and as such it was only fajr to give mem- bership to tho British colonies. It would b® unju™ he said, to give votes to the small independent nations and exclude such great dominions as Canada. Declaring the people had not been told the truth about what the treaty contained. Mr. Wilson added. while the crowd gheered. again. that if the American public_did know the truth, no man would have the audacity to take the risk of trying to impair such an_effort toward liberty and justice. Praising the Jabor and self-determi- nation features of the treaty, the president declared that, without the Teague of Nations, the other peace terms would not be worth the paper they were witten on. It was a “final decision” which the United States now must make,” he added. Some of the changes proposed in the treaty, the_-resident said, seemed to have it as @ °r object to upset the theory of cqua ..y amons the nations| and put the United States in a special position of privilege. He declared that to go into the league without assum- ing an equal responsibility would be a ‘“mockery.” - - 3 “I will not join,” he said. “in claim- ing in the name of justice an unjust position for the country I love and cherish. Neither am I afraid of re- sponsibility. Neither will I scuttle. 1 will mot be a party to belittling Ame- T Emphasizing the arbitration feature of the covenant, the president said an example of the eficiency of discussion was shown in labor controversies. 16-YEAR-OLD GIRL CONFESSES 50 BURGLARIES IN THE BRONX 18.—Charged with being a girl “Raffles” and confess- ing the police say. that during the past three months she had robbed fif- ty apartments in the Hunt's Point sec- cion of the Bromx. Molly Rosen. 16 years old, was held in $2,500 bail here today for examination next Monday. The girl according to her alleged confession, said that when she “worked” she averaged about three apartment house burglaries a day and that lately her operations had been on the basis of an eight hour day and six days a week. Sundays, she said. she “rested” because her mother, to whom she paid $20 of the week, supposed she was employed in a downtown store and neeoed to recuperate for Monday morning. Her raids, she said. act- ually netted her $3.000 in cash and $3.000 worth of jewelry. Pretending to be calling on one of the tenants, Miss Rosen said. she gained access to many buildings and entered unlocked apartments. Once or twice she was interrupted whereupon she wept that she was stealing for a “sick mothet” and, after returning the victim's property, was permitted to go. " Last night the girl entered the flat of a sleeping subway motorman. The motorman had hung Nis trousers over the back,of a chair and the girl. he New York, Sept. Unles to . burn you have money the [don't try to keep the pot boiling in a |awoke. poker zame. said, was rifling his pockets when he He chased her to the street, where she was arrested. master general, and Martin A. Morri- son, president of the civil service com- mission who asserted th:w neither Mr. Burleson nor any other postoffice de- partment official had attempted to e ert any influence over the commis- sion’s action in the certification of postmasters or that politics in any way controlled the commission. Mr. Craven, who appeared before the commiitee in connection with a contest over the postmastership at Moorehead City, N. declared that the commission’s examinations in some instances were a ‘“sham.” In making the assertion he said he in- tended it for the members of the com- mittee ands asked that it mnot be placed in the record. “I object to that statement and it won’t be borne out by the facts,” de- clared Mr. Koons, jumping to his feét. * A similar denial was made by Pres- ident Morrison to which Craven an- swered that what he said not ap- ply to postmaster examinations for of- fices paying less than $2400 annually and added: “I don’t say it does apply to all cases above that amount but exami- nation could be made a fake when- ever the postmaster general wants them to be.” g Senator Simmeons, democrat. North Carolina, asked Morrison whether the postmaster general or any other post- office official had sought to “improp- erly influence the commission” in ex- amination of postmaster candidates. Not to my knowledge,” replied Mr. Morrison, who said the postoffice department or any other interested persons had a perfect right to ques- tion the commission’s actions and the returning of examination papers for re-classification was not looked upon as an attempt to influence the com- mission. “The commission,” he added, no attention to polities. It business doing that.” END OF BUILDING STRIKE IN CHICAGO Chicago, Sept. 19.—Chicago’s build- ing strike and lockout, which for more than two months had made idle more than 100,000 workers uand halted con- struction on contracts aggregating $50,000.000, was announced as ended tonight when the construction employ- ers yielded to the demands of the un- ion carpenters for $1 an hour. DEATH, TOLL OF TEXAS COAST STORM NEARLY 400 Corpus Christi, Texas, Sept. Recovery of ninetyv-eight additio bodies today along the north shores of Nueces Bay brought the known dead as a result of Sunday’s storm to nearly four hundred and causcd fears that the total death roll misht reacn double that number. WARNING OF NORTHWEST STORM ALONG COAST ‘Washington, Sept. 19.—Warning of a northwest storm which will st the Atlantic coast from he Delawat Breakwater fo Boston 'late tonight and contfnue all day tomorrow wus issued tonight by the weather bu- reau. Steamer Imbedded | f TOINSIST ON EQUAL VOTING POWER WITH GREAT BRITAIN Republican Leaders In the Senate Claim Votes Enough to Pass = Amendment to the Covenant of the League of Nations Which Will Give the United States as Many Votes as Great Britain In the League Assembly—Spirited Attack Made By Senator Wadsworth On the League Covenant Was Vigorously Applauded By Crowded Galleries. Washington, Sept.'19. — After the covenant of the League of Nations, a part of the German peace treaty, had been read late today in the senate, re- publican leaders claimed votes enough to pass, probably next week, an amendment which would give the United States equal voting power with Great Britain in the league assembly. While confident the amendment will be adopted, it would not redpen the whole ques- tion of peace nad’force the return of the pact te the peace conference at Paris, as President Wilson and demo- cratic leaders have predicted. There will be no ion of the sen- ate tomorrow, but the fight will open Monday in earnest, with prospect of a vote on the British-American amendment, proposed by Senator Johnson, republican, of California, the end of the week. Telegrams were sent Thursday to Sénator Johnson by enator Borah of ldaho, after a con- by ference with Senator Lodge, urging his| immediate return here, but today Sen- ator Lodge, chairman of the foreign relations committee, in charge of the treaty on the floor, and Senator Knox, republican, of Pennsylvania, tele- graphed him that he might proceed with his western trip and keep on raking the league fore and aft, as he has been doing for the last ten days.; It was umed by republicans to- night that Senator Johnson would con- tinue his speaking trip. Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, leader of the administration fight for ratification was as steadfast as here- tofore, however, in the belief that all amendments would be rejected. Demo crats made no attempt to disguise the feeling of elation that their cause was in good shape, citing the hurry call sent to Senator Johnson as evidence of doubt in the opposition camp. It was while they were still discussing this phase of the situation that word reached them of the Lodge and Knox message to Johnson to stay on the trail of the vresident in the west. For three hours today the treaty had the right of way, starting' with a the republicans hold that; bitter denunciation of its league ocov- enant by Senator Wadsworth, repub- lican, of New York, which was vigor- ously applauded by crowded galleries Senator Nelson, republican, of Min- nesota, belonging ‘to the “mild” reser- vation camp, attacked the reservation reported out by the foreign relation committee relating to the refusal of this nation to assume foreign terri- torial guarantees without sanction of congress under Article Ten. Scnator Nelson upheld the right of the govern- ment to send and keep American sol diers in Ru thus taking sharp is sue with Senators Johnson, Borah and other republicans, who have been fighting to_zet them home. Senator Wadsworth, in a spirited at- tack on_ the league covenant, declared it would have keot this country under British domination and that if it ha, been in existence at the time o the revolutionary war it would have sent every FEuropean nation at the throat of France because of the aid France rendered the American eol- onie: With the formal addresses out of the way, Senator Hitchcock called for the formal reading of the pact, and wher the senate quit work it had heard the last article of the league covenant with less than a score of senators m the chamber. Republican leaders refused today to consider shifting the British-American voting amendment under the head of reservations, Senator Lodge announe- ing that they would stand out flatly for amendments and reservations pre- cisely as written in the majority re- port. | SENATOR JOHNSON TO ABANDON COAST TRIP Duluth. Minn., Sept. 19. — Senator Hiram W. Johnson announced tonight that he had abandoned his proposed trip to the Pacific coast to answe President Wilson's speeches on the League of Nations. He will speak at St. Paul and Minneapolis tomorrow and leave for Washington, D. C. Sun- day. WAGE SCALE DEMANDS OF SOFT GCOAL MINERS Cleveland, Obio. Sept, -19.—The wage scale demands to be presented to the soft o operators. in the cen- tral competitive field of Ohio. Illinois and western Pennsylvania, which will serve as the basis of relative wage scales in all the bituminous fields of the country, will be submitted to the convention of the United Mine Work- ers of America Monday or Tuesd: morning at the latest. Attempts will be made to make the instructions of the convention on the principal de- mands regarding the amount of the increase (presumably about sixty per cent.) and the shortening of working time to six hours daily five days a week absolutely mandatory upon the entatives in _the j . conference at Buffalo September 25 and to direct them either to obtain recognition of these principal de- mands without change or to call out the bituminous miners of the country in a general strike November 1. The men who are formulating the scale demands on which the question lof a general strike of coal miners this fall will devend. ar~ Frank Farring- ton of Sporir~field W nd Phillip Murray of yurgn, presidents of the TIliinoi 1nd Western Pennsylva- nia district organizations, to whom this has been referred by the scale committee. General agreement as to of the wage demands is said to exist in the committee and the general nature of the demands has been determined, although no formal statement will be given out before the committee reports to the convention next week. As stated earlier, however, it is admitfed that a sixty per cent. in- crease in wages will probably be de- manded. An amendment making the six hour day the eight hour 4. one of the organization was toda E LENOIR ESCAPED gisnn FROM A FIRING SQUAD P.).—The the extent instead of the aims of adopted. Paris, Sept. 19 (By the A. ramatic esca (l!"(:rrn Lenoir from death at K!\(: hands of a firing squad in the incennes woods was the subject of fively con- versations in political circles today. Lenoir had been tried with Senator Humbert and other defendants on a charge of having communicated mili- tary intelligence to the enemy and was sentenced to death. The firing squad already had taken its place and preparations were being made to escort Lenoir out to meet death from a volley of the riflemen when the condemned man begged to be confronted with former Premier Caillaux, who is under charges simi- lar to those on which Lenoir was con- vieted. The execution was suspended and the condemned man remanied in his_cell. Nothing has been officially given out concerning the personages who may be affected by Leno death-door accusations, but memibers eof the chamber of deputies, in discussinz the matter today, declared that the Cail- Jaux case was mentioned and also that the name of Ernest Judet. former own- er of the Paris newspaper L/Eclair, came up. The arrest of an6ther mem- ber of the chamber of deputies and also of a prominent newspaper owner is said to be expected shortly in con- nection with Lenoir's statement, and it was even asserted that his revela- tions might cause a reopening of the Humbert case. SWEDEN TO GET 5000000 TONS COAL ANNUALLY FROM U. S. Stockholm. Sept. 19. get five million tons of coal annually from . g@:crica under an :w eement reached with American expor.. -s, ac- cording to the Dagens Nyhete]. Al- thouzh the freighl charges on the coal will be about $25 ton the agree ment is welcomed here, as Sweden is beginning to feel the luck of coal due to British restrictions om its shipment from Germany. Sweden is to to the constitution | > early this morning of | PRESIDENT’S LETTER TO SCHOOL CHILDREN New York, Sept. 19.—A letter from President Wilson to school children in New York, New Jersey and Connecti- cut, urging thém to join the Junior Red Cross, “which has planned a work for peace times even larger and more systematic than the work done during the war,” w de public here to- night by the ican Red Cross. A ampaign for 2,000,000 members is now being waged by school children in the three states. _ The president's letter, ing& that miilions of childr after recall- en joined the Junior Red Cross last year, and that what they did “is warmly appreciated 1 by the whole country,” suid in elosing: “Your education will not he com. plete unless you learn how to be 2{'01! citizens, and the Jnior Red Cross plans to teach you simple lessons of { itizenship through its organization and activities. It is your generation which must carry on the work of our generation at home and nbroad and You cannot begin too soon to train vour minds and abits for this respon- sibility. By doing what you can te make ‘happier the peonle of vour own lnx'hfl!h(\l‘htfinr] Vour state, vour coun- try, and also the peosle lands. you will i K i L sl i make yourselves hap- DEATH SENTENCE FOR FORMER SPARTICAN LEADER SEIDL _Munich. Sept. 19.—(By The A. P.) Fritz Seidl, the former Spartacan leader. and five of his associates were sentenced today to pay the death pen- alty, having been found guilty of the murder of hostages during the soviet regime. The others sentenced 1o death were Josef Seidl and Herren Sickerhofer, Widl, Purzel and Fehmer. Seven others were sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude as accessories Three were discharged. The prison- ers received their sentences calmly and afterwards were removed by a military guard, trial of Bavarian communist on the charge of having mur- |dered hostages taken during the up- risings of February last opened on | September 1. The prisoners were ar- {raigned before the people's court. The indictment against them charged that the hastages were housed in a cellar jand were fed bread and water during their imprisonment, and later mur- dered, OPPOSED TO FIXING PRICES BY LEGISLATION New York. Sept. 19.—Retail dry- goods merchants, members of the Na- tiona] Retail Drygoods Association, b a referendum vote of 317 to 60, have {8one on record as opposed to fixing prices by legislation, it was an- nounced here today. Tew Hahn, executive secretary of the association, in a statement giving . the result of the vote. declared there had been no combinations of any kind |among drygoods retailers to fix price: or stop competition. He said the as sociation desired to ‘“preserve the freedom of the market against such legislation as the Stevens-Ashurst and the Kelly bills. The statement also objected to a de- cision attributed to Atforney General Palmer that “the fair price committee jmust not countenance the setting -up lof higher prices even if it is proved they are fair.” REPUDIATE STRIKE OF JC3 PRINTERS IN NEW YORK New York., Sept. 19, Despite the action yesterday of the heads of four international printing tradc _unions affiliated with the Americin Federa- tion of Labor in repudiating the, sirl in New York job and hook ¢f- fiees set for’ October | Ly the “Mig Six" representatives of tie loeal unions, atter a conferenc Loday with employe showed o di=posi- tion to recede from their position