The evening world. Newspaper, August 26, 1919, Page 2

ra avaning © ELL CHARGES BAKER HAD BUREAU TO STIFLE GRITICS Officers Who Attacked Justice | System Menaced, He Says— | Many Generals “Jokes.” WASHINGTON, Aug. %4.—Charges| that Se@retary Raker, Major Gen.’ Bhoch HH. Crowder, Judge Advocate General, and Col. John NH. Wigmore “eetgblished a propaganda bureau to| dincredit critics of the existing inill- | tary justice system and to defend the | system," were made before a Senate military, sub-Gommittes to-day by, Samact T. Ansell, formerly acting Joége Advocate General. The eom-| _ mittee is condidering thé Chamberlain | Dil for revision of the military jus-| 7” M j PRINCE'S. MESSAGE ARRIVES HERE AS g ¥ : $-23F53 i i cers who criticized the system were j ot ad- which the Adihin- | "| “menaced, threatened and dinci-/ tw f sae won-' plined,” wiiite those who defended it f im the as-| were ted, the thent brat! to call off the strike. Deput: ured ‘ublic Service Commissioner, Barrett ready y is oMears of the army lack ce in handling men and | their views of mili Justice should Rot be accepted because they are of bigh tank, the sub-committee Was told by Ansell. “Tt le well known,” said Mr. Ansell, “that the weakest grade in the army ie the general officer, Many of our genergis are jokes to everybody in the world except ourselves and them. selves.” Few general officers, the witness sald, ever commanded more than a odtipany of troope before the war and aa army post and departmental 0 they were swamped in “fed tape” of administrative routine. Ip the Spanish Wat, he continued, ‘Major Gen. Leonard Wood was only a fegiméntal commander while Gen. 'WILSON'S APPEAL TO PUBLIC — TRADF BOARD ASKS | REPUBLICANS VOTE | } | A | : tpl pt oo FIFTY CHANGES IN FOR TRUCE IN WAGE DEMANDS: / ro es | LANGUAGE OF TREATY elem Cost of Living Will Be Lowered and Condi- 0. i teregrain to the Toronto Flying Cl . in forenoon tions Improved Generally When Peace Ene a (Coated from Firm ane), | (Continued from Firet Fess) | Toronto mall pouch for, Waphiastn , . = | *< brought here by Col. Barker had been Treaty Is Signed, President Believes .Governitient Urged to Bréak four to reports on tals, protesting mental No. 6, for Major Gea. Menoher,|forwarded by Pilot BR: A. Hoinson WasHINGTON, avg. 26 | Controfgf Big Five in te'tsscue'at'nauna, ‘the commits" eannet hop but comment to vo | Statin a Sta coesitent se “ae "i s | * " 0 first internat } mal N his statement to the public outlining ule attitude on the increased , & ' i tee’s action wag based on the ground; the wonderful spirit of self-sacrifice _—_—_——Ss wage demands.of railway shopmen, President Wilson sald: . that India’ t Against being that Indl "Tho allroad shopanen ‘hx large inoxgase in — {fined into hs Sau ad ss nocondforsmoa ncn, to ptunge| WESTCHESTER CAR STRIKE rr opinen have demanded a large in od ‘a | forced into the League waa not héard | joa’s second foremost ace,.to pl wages. They are now receiving 54, 63 and 68 TI WASHINGTON, Aus. 26-—Dofior- y eGiite per hodr, They : jat Paris. over an t at the Albany demand 85 _ per hour, This demand has been given careful ot ie we pe ae y% a ae a $0.9 * While the amendménts were be- field rather than kill somo of the peo- MAY BE ENDED TO-DAY serious consideration by the board which was bonstituted by the Rall-_ the Eo the jing adopted, President Wilaon sum- ple in the crowd assembled to attend — Fond Administration to adjust questions of wages, a board consisting of Packing companjos, tho Mederal Trade | moncd Senator Hitchoook, Adminis the landing. |Company Officials in Conférence an equal number of representatives of employees and of the operating Commission i a spedial Peport to | tration leader, to the White House “Capt. Kindley ‘zoomed and} Maxi Wage * managers of the railroad companies. This board has boon unable (0 President Wilson to-day recommends | fF & conference at 5 P.M. stalled’ over the’ crowd when he| Maximum Wage Increases comme to an agreement, and.it has therefore devolved upon. the Director that operation of refrigerator cata RD expe Hitchcock ae vat jubcrd could not land without injuring some- to Be Granted. igora teambout aga! one, and plunged over the embank-| General of Railroads and myself to act upon the merits of the case. and of cars used for transportation{epple that the Senate will knock the! none at & “ a ee | Indications this afternoon were that “The substantial argument which the shopmen urge is the very committee's Shantung amendment | fe peril of almost instant tho strike on the New York, Westches- datiotin i ta Tes eval of 1 This ia & very potwht preemtat (Of meat animals be declared ® GO¥- |i), cocked hat.” |death, That he was not injured more|ter and Boston Railway system would indeed, But the fact is that th ‘ot Livia has rtal eached Its ‘,chument monopoly. [t. recothmends | meCUMBER ASSAILS SHANTUNG °°T/Ously is miraculous, No commen-|be settled to-day and that the cars peak, and will probably prptient ob the Gorts whick po nae every qturther thatthe shop bo sy 4 AMENDMENT. Pednaacias einer htod lelkee i befor hg ergo A % - “including icing tations and other ta- fn he Senate this! TH irregular electrical storms of| Ublon te awaited final where being concerted and carried out. It will certainly be lowered 0 tition as well as oe’ gare, be ace Pickton: | og leet: patiseap che ‘afternoon interfered with ali the} {em the company officials, who have woon as there are settled conditions of production and of commerce; quired by the Government and rall-| atta the action of the Foreign) “Yers in both directions. been In conference most of the day, as cked ion on to the maximum wage increase that that fs, 80 soon as the Treaty of Peace is ratified and in operation, And roads thereafter be. licensed to OW) Reintions Committee in adopting the! Major J. 8. Lyons reported that he | could de Grated. merchants, manufacturers, fafmers, miners, all have a certain basis of and operate them, |Shantung amendment. | Was down at Syracuse. she bwite a ng Ig calculation as to What their business will be and what the conditions | The big packers, the ert says,| Senator McCumber declared the Re- Lieut, Slater, starting from Syra-| to the ofect that 7) rms of wee com will be udder which {t must be conducted. now own #0 per cent. of all the ré-| publican majority of the committes|cuse to Albany, landed back at Syra-|Piny woul oe wend cen aes “Tt admis clear to mo, and 1 believe will seem clear to every ffigerator equipment im the country) was attemptiig by the Shantung)cuse, driven back by a thunderstorm, Fecal Suid If uch yas ca vs thoughtful American, including the shopmen themselves when. they | "ultable for the transport of frer!amendiment to drivé.a “poisoned dag. | Lieut. R. U. Brown was forced back | sistant grand chief of the Brotherhood have taken second tHought, and to all wi ery kind, tha, meats ger” into the Peace Treaty and to|to Syracuse by the samo storm. Demeter” second thought, age earners of every 5 yn iy Wwe DUgHE to postpone questions of this sort till normal conditions cone ‘The present country-widesystem of|pince the United States in the powi- {There was an unofficial report that again and we have the opportunity for cettain calculation as to the re lation betweun. whges and the cost of living, It is the duty of every citisen of the country to insist upon @ truce in such contests until in- telligent settlements can be made, ahd made by peaceful and effective common council, I Appeal to my fellowd@tizens of every employment to co-operate tn ingisting upon and matntniaing puch @ truce, and to co- ‘ also in sustaining the Government In what I conceive to be the only course which conscientious public servants can pursue. There is, however, one claim made by the railway shopmen which ought to be met. ‘They claim that they are got enjoying the same ad- vantages that way employees are enjoying because their hicepb reece: op Regeln ‘The wages of other rail- road employees are tipon the rule that they are to receive for eight hours’ work the same pay they received from the longer workday standard of the pre-war period. This claim is, I am { rts to be given the additional 4 cents an hour for will justify.” | distribution by the five big packers as grown up from their control of \reftigerator car lines in conjunction with various pools,” the report says im part, ' “In turn the volume of traffic of the five packers bas enabled them to secure from the ralltoads advan- tages over competing shippers. For- |merly in the shape of direct rebates these advantages are now usually in expedited service to the big packer cars: In favorable mixing rules which include all thelr diversified products and even many articles not related to the packing industry; by allowances paid to some of the big packers by carriers for a part of the transportation service; by favorable arrangements and lease of stockyarda by the railroads to some of the big packers; and by the @ale to the rail- 's Philippine experience wan Govern- | the whacking of guerilla war- fare.” “1 have had one hundred times the cburts martial expyrience of most of- fivers,” said the “‘@ wreat gulf” existed be- tween army and civil court pringiples and procedure, Mr. Ansell said “the #o-oillied lawyers of the War Depart- ment" contendéd that none of the jsreat fundamental principles of the Constitution or the Bill of Rights cbuld be maintained in court martial trials He added that American court martial except in rare _}nmtances, wert not subject to review by civil courts and that to ‘this ex- 9.000) bit tho rights of military defend- ants were al BiTUMINOUS COAL LOWER; | Vige President of National Associa- tion Declares There Is No age! | Combination. WASHINGTON, Aug. %6.—Denying that @ combination wipong bituminous coal Operatore to tx prives exists, J. D. r A. Mofrow, Vice-Preskient of the Na- tlonat Coal Association, told\@ Senate | Coal investigating conimittee to-day dhat such & combination would be im- ‘| poaaibid if attempted. Prices at the mines, lie sald, have declined under the gompetition stich. prevail and are ower fran khuy Weru & Your ado, “Thare are about 5,000 separate com- mercial. produvere operating approx!- mately 1,000 mines, from wlileh bitum!- hous coal ts regularly shippe fow waid, “in addition the: 2,000 aperatore with about * mines who begin producing and saliing cout Whdnéver the price Hoes up @ Little and offers a profit to them. “Moreover, there ure lundreds of thousands of actex of coal lands along fallroads on Which feadily and quickly In vpening the ipvestigation, Chalr- nan Frelinghuysen eaid |. would be conducted Ip & bro init withowe prejudice for the purpose of devising the best method of preventing « cou! shortage thie winter, Among the thing: commitern vr, hy ald, Witt be tren portation var facilities aod distribu. ton aod export situntions pel ~ the Pittsburgh, Assistant President of|roads of bumping poste manufac- the irdn, Steel and Tin Workers'| tured by a subsidiary of one of the (Continued trom First Page.) —_ Union; William Foster of Pittaburgh, William Hannon of Washington and E. J, Bvans of Chicago, president of the Internationa} Electrical Workers. Mr. Gompers wrote to Judge Gary Yast June asking him to receive a committee of workers for a discus- | Gary 4id ndt reply to the letter, Wh this was reported to the full com- mittee which met at Youngstown, O., two weeks ago the sub-cunimittee the Preuident's offer to the shopmen| was appointed to ascertain Judge of additional pay is hot satisfactory and thet a referendum would show |90 per cent. of the men to Aus acopptance and jn favor of a atrike, * Another committee charged witht looking atter the interests of the em- | ployees of the United States Steel Corporation claimed Mr. Gompers's iminediate attention becityse | this committee must report back to the Waln committee at Youngstown, O., on August 80 whether or not Judge Hilbert M, Gary, Cfiitrman of the Hoard of, Direstors of the United totes tee] Coporation, will recog- | nize the unions in the steel industry to the extent of receiving and tront- ing with ® committée representing RAILROAD SITUATION 1) NEED OF QUICK ATTENTION. ‘The railroad situation also requires quick attention but It is so involved that definite action will be neces- urily delayed. Leaders of the twen- ty+four unions in the United states | Steel Corporation say the men in the steel mills and on the ore boats and in the mines have the strike fever and will not listen to compromise talk that does mot oome pretty close to meeting thelr maximum demands, | Glenn 1 Plumb, counsel to the \enilroad brotherhoods and author and advocate of the Plu . plan, which advocates Government owner- ship and division of profits with the employees, headed the railroad men's committee, Another prominent me ber wav Charles Roberts, statistiolan lor the American Federation of La- bor, who had ready to hand all the | Information Mr. Gompers might as': | gor in velgtion to the railway situa ton, “We did not expect thw plan to be adopted by the present Congress.” jald Me. Plurnb, “but we are pushing ‘it hard, and we hope to win for it the support of the Anterican Fedor. Gary's attitude before September. “Our object in coming hore.” said Mr,’ Fitspatrick, while waiting for the afrival of Mr. Gompers, “is to confer with Judge Gary or find out if he will confer with us, If | he refuses to receive us or confer | with ts we will order a strike of the! American Meat Packers, commented 400,000 employees of the United States Steel Corporation and tle up ‘all their mills, mines and ore boats. “Among the unions represented in | the body of workmen employed by ‘the United Stites Steel Corporation aré the Assoolation of Iron, Steel and Workers, Machinists’ Union, Blectrical Workers’ Union, Moulders’ Union, Boilermakers’ Union and the ‘Mill, Mine and Smelters Workers’ Union. These are only a few and im the list are some of the most powerful untons in the United Stated, “Jud Gary has taken the position all along that the United States Bteel employees are not sufficiently organised to cause a tie-up, Well, wé have enough men in our unions to close every plant and every mine and tle up every ore carrier belong- ing to the United States Steel Cor- poration on the Great Lakes, And we represent the non-union as will a8 the union workers, ALL UNIONS JOIN FOR EIGHT- HOUR DAY. Where there is such @ diversity of trades there is naturally @ diversity of grievances and demands. All the unions join in the basic demand for an eight-hour day. Wage increase demands vary from something below 26 per cent. to something ibove 50 per cont, Varying scales in the different unions make an average ‘neaning- tens,” “Will the strike extend to the Beth- lewhem Steel Corporation?” Mr, Fits patrick wus asked, “It there is a strike,” he repiied, “Yt Will be confined at thts time 10 the United States Stee! Corporat! big five. ‘The small independent packers cars are misused and diverted, fre- quently being out of bib service for extended periods, in several instances as long as six months.” PACKERS ATTAGK REPORT BOARD) ° . Too Few Refrigerator Cars, bul Government Manopoly Won't Help, Says Wilson. CHICAGO, Aug. 2%—Thomas B. ‘Wilson, Chairman of the Institute of to-day on ownership of refrigerator cars by packers as follows: “The packers are willing to submit the justice of the Federal Trade Com- mission demands in Its report on pri- vate car lines to the common sénse of the American public. After an inves- tigation by men inexperienced in transportation questions, the Trade Commission presented a report dia- metrically opposed to that handed down by the Interstate Commerce Commission, composed of men trained in railroad work, after @ six-year study of the question. phere are admittedly too few re- frigerator cars. Greater mileage of packer cars was possible because a load was waiting for every car 365 days a year. “Spread the use of the packer- owned cars among shippers over the entire couatry and mileage will be reduced with a consequent increase im cost of meat foods or & necessary reduction in live animal prices, It would seem that if @ real solution is sought it might be found by some agency bullding onough additional cars to meet the deficiency.” J. Ogden Armour, President of Ar- mour & Co. declared to-day that the whole country would protest against the passage of the Kenyon ol for regulation of the packing industry \“when the people understand what the Dill really holds.” tion of a “big bully.” Mr, McCumber was the odly Republican_on the com- mittee who voted against the amend- | ment. The speaker said “no greater blow could ever be struck against the real interests of China” than by the Com- mittee amehdment, the actual pur- pose of which, he asserted, was to kill the treaty and the League. The amendment provides that tie old German rights in Shantuog Province shall go to China in plade of Japan. “Why did the majority of this Com- mittee pause in the midst of their hearings to make this particular amendment,” he coritinued, “ then proceed with the usual leisurs to lay out dates for further hearings which will consume a woek or #0 more? “The purpose is apparent. It is to signify to the country that the Senate Is hostile to this treaty. It is to put Japan in @ position where she canno:, without an ap ve act of true friendship Or & mere political sponse! and openly pledge that if Japan is driven out of this treaty, then the United States. will proceed singie- anded and alone to drive Japan out hina—will renew this world war and send our soldiers into the Orient to fight for her, then by this act Lom d are betraying China with a false a8. “They know and we know that thi country will never go to war agatn: Japan to prevent Japan from doing Just what we have allowed every other nation to do in China, without a protest. “With the Leagtie of Nations China obtains an assurance which is tanta- mount to a guarantee by all the world that not only wil) Japan return to China what Germany wrested from her in 1898, but henceforth and #0 long as this league shall last no other nation shall rob China of one Inch of her territory or exercise any contro} over her people inconaistent with the claims of complete independ- ence and sovereignty.” oader a TREATY BEFORE DEPUTIES. —r- Clemenceau Presents It to French Ohamber for Ratification. PARIS, Aug. 26.—The peace treaty with Germany and the other conven- tions simultanously signed at Versailles were presented for ratification to the Chamber of Deputies this afternoon by Premier Clemenceau. T! Premier handed the documents to Paul Des- chanel, President of the Chamber, at 45 0" immediately upon the open- 3. ing of mS presen the treaties to the cr Premier Clemenceau called for ir discussion by tary body. the parllamen- Teanesseeans Ask: Feree Sea- ator Shields’ Resignation. CHATPANOOGA, Tenn., Aug. 26.— As a result of the reported views of Senator John K. Shields on the League ot Nationa, former Attorney General Matt N. Whitaker annognced that “in res) various secti call & make effect! Senator.” Mr. to-day 3 from Whitaker charged that Senator Shields was “lending ald and comfort to Senator Lodge" in his efforts to diacredit the work of President Wil- gon and that he wae “misrepresenting . of the people of Tennes- He denied any employee of his com- | s#¢. pany “is engaged In wiring in pro- feuts against the bil and signing Other people's names,” as has been charged against some of the packers, ~The iniquities of this bill ave so sien of Labor.” M, F. Garett, President United Association of PI Bteamfittera of Thode La five A, MoGarry, Vice President of the 119 (Mussrave).| Muode Island Federation of Labor, 4 here f; Providence to get on Mr. Gompers’s belp in averting a FY general strike in tho pullding trades, Me Seo rs E which is threatenéd throughout Mmile M. Heth Leaven 85.000 4 Veur Mhote Isiand. 10 His Granddoughs The United States Steel employees The \Avome df the estate of Lilo were reproveated by a sub-committee MH. Hous, corset manufacturer, fled | National Comitteo Bor Or I Gurroguic’s office gods to tio g « the Tron and Btoel Workers, Widbw, after $1,000 bequests to rolk- join Fitzpatrick, president of . the lives, Mt, Binal Hospital, the Cuavity Orminlzation | ageiety, "ak John's Ch.cag» Federation of Labor, the|und the defeat of the radical German oa lirechnicnt taetlecte aie auld Migcal lwdor federation in the coun-land Dutch elementy which hud atid $50, Year i# puid to 4 grand- ty Is chajraan of the sud-committes.| planned to control It, Press de- dubia Hoth. | The value si), Gompers is Chuliman ex+oMleto, spatehes sent to this country duriug » Other members are D. J. Davis of the session of the conference covered Rethehem Steel will come in later. SARATOGA RESULTS. vILT RACK-—For maid year-olds; claiming: purse $1,091 furlonge—-Bift Bang, Beh Jo? Mack Ori jaate ry Ads ‘Test, tw | Steel Corporation, No, 71 Broadway, Gary caine ance Committee, It was about the stee} Jabor situation. It could not be learned whether Mr, Gary intended meeting the workers’ representatives, or What stand tho corporation Would take, Mr i Understood tobe over At the office of the United Staves it was sald this afternoon that Mr, ! ras In session with the Fin- wald be might have something to say later Gompers this afternoon gave out & long statement about the work of the Amsterdam Labor Conference | evident.” sald Arinour, “that when its \ possibilities are made plain, protest» naturally po.r in. Sa pretty thoroughly the points brought ‘out by, Mr. Gompers, but the de- \spatohes referred only incidentally to the Bolshevist-Socialist plan for an international and revolutionary strike throughout 'Hurope and America oi July 20 and 21. Advoentes ‘of thiy strike, Mr. Gom- ‘pore sald, boldly submitted thelr plan to one of the committees of the om- vention for indorsement It was unanimously voted down by all the fourteen nations represented at convention with the exception of the Bolabevik! minorities of Holland wnd f Serbia Seeks No Special Priviteges, Says New Premier. BELORADE, Monday, August 25.— Aunouncing in the Chamber of Depu- tles to-day the government's policies, Liouba Davidoviteh, the new Premier, said, among other things, that ‘Serbia in the lmpénding reorganization of the Balkans would not seek special privi- legea, but would base her claims upon the vrinciples of international justice.” Aw Allied & PARIS, Auge26.—Discussion of the Austrian peace treaty continued by the Supreme Council! of the Peace Con- ce orning, the response to {rreUe attiane to bermade by the Al: *s not having been ‘completed: an airplane had been wrecked at | Morrisville, N. Y, From Albany came despatches that Lieut. Logan, who reached Albany yesterday with a damaged plane and had been obliged to fy back to Long Island for a new genorator and a fresh start, had gone on his way to- ward Toronto at ten minutes after noon, Rudolph Robifs, Sergt. Coombs and Major Schroeder, who came ‘hrough Mineola from Toronto yes- terday, were out of Albany on their way back ahead of Logan, Licuts, Roullot, George, Honsiger, Kirkpat- rick and Lawrence Sperry were close behind him. All day to-day flyers competing for the International endurance and speed trophy of the Hotel Commodore for the round trip Might between New to arbitrate. PSC? Ostermoor Mattress built for your Sleep Comfort —in sheets layer-wise—not, just stuffed, Uke hate; is:the bess over! eopecially fine — assortment at 130, now on display at ‘our Block - Show Roonis— ts worth a visit, Springs, Pillows Cushions, Deg Beds OSTERMOOR & CO. 114 ELIZABETH ST. Phone 5 Spring ‘Entrance also st 133 Rowery, near Grand Street. York and Toronto, both ways, were alighting at Roosevelt Field, near Mineola ahd starting back for Toronto, while ten belated starters who were not sent away yesterday went into the air on the first leg of the trip. foun! Posi yn se Asay Montpaad elt ot |e a. BENNET? BISCUIT 0O,, ¥. ¥. “The streets are packed,” sald one y dewpatch. “The hotels are over- crowded and visitors are camped out in tents in the back yards of private homes. The city was lightod all night by the searchiights which ware to guide the flyers from New York to the landing field, and most of the population stayed up all night to talk about the race and the visit of the Prince of Wales.” COOMBS'S ACCIDENT AT START NEARLY PROVES SERIOUS. The start on the return trip of Master Signal Llectrician® G. R. Coombs of the American Air Service on the return from Roosevelt Field to Toronto came very near to a ser- fous accident when he took off at the first time at twenty minutes past nine. As he shifted his planes to leave the ground, 200 yards from his j starting place, one of the tires on | the left side of lis ground gear blew up with a terrific report, throwing the machine up ip the air at an acute angle to the ground and causing it to flop like a woufided giant snipe un- til he manoeuvred it to rest. A new wheel was attached by a squad of mechanics in short order and be was off at 9.27 on hij ifort to maintain for the return trip the record which he made in coming from Toronto to Leroy teed Fit. 621 miles in 211 min- utes flying time. Services at the CAMPBELL FUNTR, Bert A arrived trom Toronto at CHURCH, Broadway and @6th ag Roosevelt Field at 9.11 o’ctoxk and Was Tuesday, at 10.80 A, M. SPECIAL NOTICES. . HORLICK’S THE ORIGINAL MALTED MIL) Avoid imitations end MPBELL FUNERAL th et, on PURMAN.—Monday. - 36, London, Conn,, after a brief + MARY M., widow of Charies Furman and mother of Claudia B. Gilroy and Samuel G. 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