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a2 $L4 J TWO CENTS. “ Ciroulation Copentghty 3518, | AE OFL BY UNANIMOUS VOTE. PETITIONS THE PRESIDENT 10 ull POSTOFFICE CHIEF hodlonases General , Violated Wilson's Policy as to Labor. GHARGE' INTERFERENCE. Service Demoralized and Em- ployeés ‘Discontented, i Says Resolution. QtUAN FIC ciTy, N. 5, June 2— W'Peeclution asking President Wilson from office was to-day by the Federation of Labor in teem relating to democratization of Dased upon recognition of| brad ht to participate in deci- itp welfare, declares feat Mr. esod “has pursued a la~ hey poligy ia diredt conflict with this » Miapclation of principle,” and that Postmaster General “character iged ae,‘ailly’ the rights to collective yepolution calling for Mr. Burle- \._ goR’s removal reads: “Whereas, President Wilson in his| Méssage to Congress made this dec- : : | The question which stands| ‘At the font of all others in every | amidst the present great| is the question of labor. Wine object of all reforms in this es- @eatthr must be the genuine edt beace of industry based up-| 2% tw) recognition of those who/ ‘week, in whatever rank, to partici- tm opme organic way in every 4e-| wi directly affects their wel- tare or the part that they play in in- dustry.’ and “Whereas, Postmaster General Bur- | ral bag pursued a labor policy bed | t with this enunciation | Godacinlea 124 in answer to Prasi- a aaron of the American Fed- of Labor, has characterized as/ the Figbt of collective bargain. | | Mr. Burleson bas ruth- | jaiaty iawaded the rights of the em-| and bas interfered in deflance | “48 Wr with the proper functioning of organizition, and bas not only _tedubel t orépognize the accredited “redwasentatives, but has also sought | to heave repealed the employees’ con- \sitational right of direct petition | Ceingress; and “Whereas, thi labor policy—e pol- fastened upon every Govern-| ‘agency under Burleson's ih utter defiance of the wishes of the people and complete f “Whereas Burleson'’s archaic and fe attitude has resulted in a Gamparalized service, discontended ani Teseptful employees, confused and hatleed . tndusinal processes, and a erpathful in business at a long ! Of administrative blunders pe it resolved, that the American Federation of Labor in con- agsembled, speaking directly for 000 organized wage carners F firm in the belief that this re- the sentiment of the vast ma- ~<tonity of the American poople requests eaten Senne et POSTAL MOVES 10 ‘END STRIKE OF TELEGRAPHERS Offers to Take Back Men ‘Who Walked Out Up to June 20. CHICAGO, June 18—-The Postal Telegraph Company. with @ view to ending the telegraphers’ strike. so far as that company is concerned, to-day sent a notice throughout the i tad that strikers would be rétura “with continuity ef service” intendent of the company. in Chicago, He added that many workers already had returned and that the company Was operating on @ nortoal basis. U, S, 10 GET $131,000,000 AS PART OF ALLIED DEBT France and Britain Are to Make Initia] Payments for War Materials Supplied. France and Great Britain are to make initial payments of $131,000,000 to the United Gtates for war materials fur- nished during the struggle, with Ger- | many, Chester W. Cuthell, Gecretary to Secretary Baker, said to-day on his ar- rival aboard the transport Agamemnon. Mr. Cuthell, who is a New Yorker, spent More than two months in France and England negotiating the soettle- ments for the payments) He was ac- companied by a staff of twenty-five lawyers and sixty other specialists. Just defore he left, said Mr. Outhell, « $96,- 000,000 settlement with Brance and a | $35,000,000 setiiement with England were reached. DAYLIGHT SAVING FOES WIN FIRST TEST VOTE House Votes 103 to 34 for Immedi- ate Consideration of Repeal. WASHINGTON, June 18,—Opponents | ot daylight saving in the House today won the first test vote on the repeal of the law when by « vote of UB to 34 they ordered immediate consideration of the When the repealer, providing that the Ce center: Mae hak, be Sires nently abandone: setts, La Guard!a, New York, tried delay consideration. Lcvad ” —S——— ae President Wilson to remove Pust- master General Burleson front office.” Among the resolution introduced and dofeated to-day were: One by C. A Strickland ef Portiand, Ore, seeking to place the federation on record @s approving election of foremen by the workers. One designed to obtain the federa- tion's approval of soldier, sailor and marine organizations. One by- Strickland, seeking to obtain the right for a voter to cast a ballot twenty-four hours after establishing residence in any locality An unusual amount of propaganda was being dissominated to-day. The Russian Soviets were represented by John Reed and others. The Kolchalt regime also was represented If you can save mone: you can invest while you sie doko A ‘tieulare of : Phd re 8 He ti tie arte tng eo 1 Open to All.’ sh, The, Frewe low York World). TWO ROCKETS HIN LIFE FOR DOOMED CREW OF DERELICT Hundreds Watch Rescues at Sea as Boats Take Men Off Stripped Ship. | LASHED TO THE RIGGING Liner Stavangerfjord Sees Sig- nals as Barkentine is Sinking, Lifeboats Gone. How the only two rockets on the sinking French barkentine Georges Clemenceau caught the eye of Capt EK & Irgens of the Norwegian- American liner Stavangertjord sev- took off the Captain of the Clemens coat and his forty-five mien, and how several hundred passengers lined the rail of the Scandinavien ship and cheered rescuers and rescued was told to-day in wireless measages to Nor- wegian-American line agents in this city. ‘The Stavangerfjord, fastest ship of Ber line, sailed trom Brooklyn lest Thursday with 1,100 passengers for Bergen, Norway. At midnight on Monday Capt. Irgens saw at a great distance what appeared to be the ez- plosion of a rocket Then be saw another, indicating ¢ ship tw distress. A heavy sea was running at the height of a northwesterly gale, but the Stavangerjord went considerably out of her course to the rescue AS she neared the barkentine in the early dawn men could be discerned lashed to the rigging. Distress signals were flying. The sailing vessel was down by the head “Try to lower your baste,” afb nalled the liner. Can't.” was the answer, “they have been swept away by the seas.” Brought aboard in lifeboats di- rected by the rst and second officers of the Stavangerfjord, the men of the Clemenceau told a thrilling story. ‘They had been on a long fishing trip, the Captain said, and were trying to make St. John’s when the ship was caught in the teeth of a northwester and practically stripped. Water tanks having been swept qway, thay hed been two days without fresh water. Then the lifeboats were carried off. Bvery rocket. on board was water- soaked except the two Captain Irgens had seen. ‘The Stavangertiord stood by tor some time, and when the Clemenceau did not sink two boat crews were sent back to put her out of the way a6 a menace fo navigation. They set fire tw her in latitude 45.27 N., longitude 42.38 W., and the Stavan- gertjord set off again for Bergen. NEW BEER AND WINE VOTE. oy 1S SET FOR SATURDAY WASHINGTON, Juné 18—The House Judiciary Committee agreed to-day to vote Saturday on @ proposal by Repre- sentative Gard, Democrat, Ohio, which ‘would authorize the Phesident by proclamation to modify the wartime Prohibition Law, in go far as it relates to the manufacture and sale of beer and light wines. The committee has eliminated section of the bill proposing that appoint- ment of a prohibition commissioner to have general charge of enforcement of \the law, and approved an amendment ‘turning ‘this k over to the Commis: ) Revenue. bob chia RS sioner of Int | special tot rene Were 1 Veal cutter, Dea ie wloate, ith (et. breaded, wepate Table NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, JERMAN CABINET GUARDED BY TROOPS (ILSON IN BELGIUM PRAISES ITS STAND IN WAR Prince Aage of Denmark Here, Gets His First Lesson in a Poker Game Royal Visitor Will Not Tell Whether He Won or Lost on Board Ship. Prince Aage, a member of the! reigning family of Denmark, who ar- rived in New York to-day on the transport America, to spend several tcomths: in this country studying! American customs, told reporters thet he bad got away to a flying start while en route from Brest. “On the way over,” be said in per- fectly good English, “some American Officers taught me your great game Of poker. It*doesn’t matter whether I lost or won, but to learn such an exciting game was quite worth’eny price.” , The Prince, who was dressed tp & steel gray uniform of a Weutepapt in the Danish Army, is accompanied by Capt. Styrmer and Lieut! Knydtson of the Danish’ Army. In the em | twenty-second birthdey ahuiversary aboard the america, lett Copenhagen April 3 for England, where he was the guest of his frst cousin, King George. Then followed a tour of the dattiefields of France and Belgium. ‘While in the. United States he will visit West Point, Annapolis, Mount Vernon and the larger cities. He RED MOB AT BREST TRIES TO FREE SAILORS Frustrated in Effort to Enter French Naval Jail—Situation’ Stil) Serious. BREST, June 18—Tro hundred French sailors, carrying a red flag. at- tempted to enter the naval Jai] here yesterday to rescue imprisoned satlora ‘The attempt failed. There ware no cas- ualties. ‘The imprisoned sailors ware from the French battleship Justice, which arrived here from Sebastopol, a Russian Black Sea port ‘The city is more calm to~lay, but the situation is considered to be still serious. Brest has been declared out of bounds for American soldiers an4 sailors. ————___ MRS. LUND AGAINST LANE. ee, New York Backed “arms tor Soldiers” Opposition. ‘WASHINGTON, June 18-—Mr. Haw- fland D. Lund of New York, Secretary of the Forward to the Land League, told the House Public Lands Committee to-day she was responsible for issuance of propaganda to defeat Secrotary Lane's project for farms for soldiers and sailors Sinnott, Mrs. Lund, who appeared to oppose the measure, said press matter charging the Commii with failure to'give T. C. Atke: repre- tenting the | National Grange,’ a fair hearing, had been prepared and sent out by her direction. WOULD BAR FOES 50 YEARS. Drestic Immigration Restrictions Urged the House. WASHINGTON, June 18.—Bills pro- | posing that periodicals in German or other foreign languages ‘be barred from the mails were introduced to-day by Senator Myers, Democrat, of Montana |He also presented a bil to probibit all jimmigration for twenty years ¢nd that| |from Germany, Austria-Hungary, garia and Turkey for fifty years. | FLYNN SEES MORE BOMBS, Bul- Es-| Believes New Outrage» May Ne | pected on July 4 | WASHINGTON, June 18—Whiiam J. Flynn, chief of the Bureau of Investigation of tne Department of Justice to-day said he believes the jcountry may expect additional bomb ‘outrages in connection @lanaed Jug + a Wt hopes he will be able to do as nruch toward cementing the friendship of| Denmark and the. United States as| (Asi 4id his elder brother, Prince Axal, | who visited this country about a year 13 OF FRENCHMAN'S 36 CHILDREN KILLED iy ON FIELD OF BATTLE Father and One Daughter Shot by Germans, and Second Girl Sheil Victim. (Cocenpendance of the Amoniated Pram) PARIS, June 10. HIRTEEN sons killed on the feld of Ddattle, three dis charged with grave injuries, ene wounded four different times, the fatber and one daughter sum- marily shot by the Germans for going to Lille to celebrate the centennial anniversary of a reja- tive, and anotber daughter killed by. a German ghell at Dunkirk is the record of the family of M ‘Vanhee, a French farnier of Rem- inghe, near Ypres. M. Vanbee had thirty-six chil- dren, twenty-two sons and four. teen daugbterp, gl of whom weze ving when the war broke out. One of bis sons was valet to Pope Pius X.; be returned to France to fight and was wounded in each of four different engagements. One of the sons lost. both legs,-anot ier returned from the front blind and @eaf, and another underwent the tropanning operation. FORD ACCUSED OF SAYING FLAG WOULD COME DOWN Wise Wood Quotes Him as Calling It “Something to Rally Around.” MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. June 14.— Henry A. Wise Wood of New York test- fied today ip the libel suit of Henry | ig against the Chicago Dally Tribune ‘Wood quoted Mr. Ford as saying in jew on May 18, 1916, that after the Stars and Stripes would come down, never to go yp again; that also “somet ‘Witness paid at the F Ford to be a mantarian n that it intens! fied production and decreased overt expenses — nn 1919. Bec i a WILSON WELCOMED TO BELGIUM BY THE KING AND QUEEN President Issues an Address to Belgians Expressing Pleasure at Visit. | MOTORS TO BRUSSELS. Visitors Go Through Devas- tated Section, Passing Yser and Zeebrugge. BRUSSELS, June 15 (United [“Cirenlation Books Open to All. 7] 24 PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS. SPARTACAN MOB AT WEIMAR ATTEMPTS 10 SEE EBERT, |Troops Called to Prevent a More Serious Uprising — Members of * German Government Fear Re- fusal to Sign Treaty May Bring Worse Fate. Press).—Presidént Wilson to-day de- Uvered the following message to the Belgian people: “1 am happy at the opportunity to visit « nation whioh defended the barriers of civilization under the most erushing difficulties, | strongly desite to meet King Al+ ” bert Cardinal Mercier, Burgo- master Max and Gen, Leman, and te 066 the damage to the country whos only faylt is absolute loy- * alty to its conception of national honor and fidelity to its pledges.” . hyena, sg f4 ociated Press).—Presi Mrs. Wilson and their party ny aivteed here from Paris at 8.45 o'clock this Morning. They were bre Neat — and Quéen Eliza! gium and at 8.50 elect ote a pon tor for a trip over the Belgian front. Miss waren ‘Wilson, bea be rat W. Harts w of the presidents party. The meeting between President and Mra. Wilson and the King and peti was informal. Both the Queen entered the Bates. Rigg to greet their guests. School children who ‘had gatiered at the station cheered when tie President descended from his car. The officials of the province also were present with a bend. King Albert and Queen Fiizabeth were accompanied by Baron Mon~ cheur, former Belgian Minister to the caus States, dnd Gen. Joostens and Count Rensse, who have been ss signed to personally accompany the President during bis stay in Belgium. Madame Wouters Doplinter will ac- company Mrs. Wilson. ‘The local authorities were repre sented by the burgomaster and te commissary of the district. A com- pany of the Bixth Chasseurs was drawn up to salute the Presidential party. Brand Whitleck, American mini- ter to Belgium, who came to greet the President, together with Major Hoffman, Gea Joostens, and Lieut Count Renase, will accompany the| esident during his visit in Belgium. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson motored with the King and Queen through the | devastated region of Belgium, passing \the Yser district and ending the trip at Zeobrugge. From that city a spe cal train brings the party to Brussels. ‘When the train arrives at the Quartier Leopold Station here @ regi- ment of infantry, with a baad, will render military honors. Mr. and Mrs Wilson wi with the King and Queen to the Brussels palace, close | by, passing the en route. After the usual presenta- tion of court dignitaries, the King Jand Queen will accompany their| American Legation | WRIMAR, June 18 (United Press).—-Foreign Minister Brockdorff- Rantzau arrived here early to-day. He refused to make any comment ou the Allies’ reply to the German counter-proposals. Government troops reached the city during the pight, apparently to guard against a possible coup d’etat. “The melination certainly is all against signing the treaty,” said an official, “‘Absolutély the on'y detérrent t6 such a course is donsideration’ of whether the fate of Germany would be worse through refusing to sign than through signing.” UNLOAD CARGOES, WILSON ORDER TO SHIPS IN GERMANY Directs That American Vessels Disregard British Action Re-establishing Blockade. ADINKEREE, Belgium, June 4— President Wileon bas ordered all American vessels unloading in Ger- map ports to disregard British orders to cease discharging thelr cargoes. American nava) veasels, it was said, ‘were also ordered to disregard s Brit- igh order for re-establishment of the Dlockade of Germany. ‘The President's action was under- stood to have been taken prior to his departure froc, Paris lest night. News of the British move was sald to bave aroused feeling, since the Supreme Economie Council—wtich has charge of blockade operatione~ is said not to have been consulted. Through modification of the Ger- man blockade, the Allies have been sending food into Germany for some time. Much of this food was shipped from the United States in American bottoms. The above despatch is the first in~ timation received in this country that Great Britain had undertaken to re-establish a complete blockade. It was understood that re-establishment refused to sign the peace treaty, would be directed by the Supreme economic Council, in which the prin- | guests to the Bellevue Palace, | will be President W during bis stay in the which | ® residence | i | —— ——- — y|Messachusctts Urged to Hasten Suffrage Vote. BOSTON, June’ 18.—The Committee on Federa! Relat to-day voted 9 to | 1 to report to the slature a recom: | mendation in favor of the i:amediate | ratification of the Woman's Suffrage te igs Assendiment to the National Constitue Bas tiahs ire ia'6 lelpal associated powers are repre- sented Eight Ships With Food for Ger- many Held for Peace Treaty. PBAL, England, June 18 —Bignt American ars laden with provi. tions f y are detained in the Downs pen gning of the Peace Treat aprotinin THE WORLD TRAVEL BUREAU. Areaieg Pulitaer (World) Butidieg S30 Park Row. WN. ¥. Oly. ‘Telephone Beekman 4000, Check yoom for baggage and parcels ore day and Riga, Maney orders nd tometer’ checks Oe te ee | | WEIMAR, June 18 (Associgted Press)—Fitty Spartacan and Com- munist prisoners, recently released from the Weimar jail, shortly efter midnight this morning attacked the castle where the mombers of the Gor- ernment live They were repulsed by ® lone guard, who stood by a ma- chine gun until he had driven * the mob. The attacking party mado prise descent upon the castle i) disarmed the guards at the entrance. They fred through windows and this aroused the castle troops, (t was apparently the intention of the party to seize President Ebert, Premier Gchiedemann and Gustav Noske, the Minister of Defease, bul they were foiled through their pre- mature shots revealing the attack to the troops within the building, _—_—— GERMANS NOT READY FOR FINAL DECISION, SAYS SCHEIDEMANN Tells National Assembly the Ques- tior Must Be Discussed With Open Mind, WEIMAR, Tuesday, June 17 (Ae scctated Press).— Philipp Scheide+ mann, head of the German Cabinet, 1p speaking to the Peace Commission of the National Assembly here to-day: said the Allied reply, without the complete text, did not yet permit of final judgment and that premature judgment would be @ mistake, “In view of the obscurities at pres ent,” the Promier said, “and the fact that all the material {s not yet o hand, @ decision canno be taken to- (Tuesday) only the final and complete text of the enemy's answer can fir- nish @ basis for deliberations between | the Government and the Peace Com- of the blockade, in the event Germany | mittee.” “The German nation, the Nationa! Assembly and the Government are confronted with the most momenty. ” ous Gecision. Tt is their duty, what- over as individuals they may think of the peace question, to approch this decision with an entirely open mind No one must have any doubts that the nation ts confronted with very hard umes.” Scheidemann deplored the absence of adequate protection for the Ger- man delegates on their departure - from Versailles. He said a protest had been made, but that the Govern. ment would reserve its attitude until | an offiela) report 2 bad been received,