The evening world. Newspaper, September 26, 1919, Page 1

PRICE TWO CENTS Steel Strike Is Defended By Gompers Betore READY FOR SUPREME TEST IN STRIKE Copyright, (The 1919, by New York World). Che Circulation Books Open to All| _ _NEW YORK, FRIDAY, ‘SEPTEMBER 26; "The Pres Publishing qt “Circulation Books Open to All.’ 1919. 32 PA GOES THROUGH FIRE * TO SAVE WIFE AND HIS SEVEN CHILDREN Brooklyn Man 1 Falls Fainting | on Window Ledge After CHILD ASLE Pp Clings to Narrow Coping Wi ith | Fingers, Four-Year-Old Girl in His Arms. IN BED. | Edward MoCusker, No. 166 Gold Street, Brooklyn, went through fire this morning to rescue his four-year- | old daughter, Catherine, succeeded, then fell into the arms of a fireman who carried him down a Indder to the ground, A dozen thrilling escapes marked the fire, It started the ground floor of a three-story building all of which was occupied McCusker, who used tho first floor as a 5 a, the second as living 1 the third as a rooming he quarters ani for sailors AINTS JUST IN TIME TO PREVENT ROBBERY OF i HER “L” TICKET OFFICE} WOMAN ‘L’ AGENT QUTWITS ROBBERS Hears “Faint Train Coming ’ Throwing Cash in fe as She Falls. HOLD-UP MEN ESCAPE. | | Young Bride. to-Be Also Saved Own Jewelry in Spite of Revolver’s Menace. Mrs. Emily O'Brien, ticket ageat ai the B. R. 'T. Chestnut Street Station of the Fuiton Street elevated line, outwitted two robbers late last night by “faking” a faint and saved the | evening's of $62 and her | Jewelry, which she said is worth $225 | Risking death from a revolver pointes | at her, she collapsed and slid from hr receipts chair, By the time sho had fasten to the floor she had thrown | me and valuables into a small and | PITTSBURGH DISTRICT LIKE | Coprrieat, Big St Their Own—Losses on Both Sides Offset (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) 1919. by The Press Publishing Co, PITTSBURGH, Sept. 26.—On this, the fifth day of the great strike | in the steel’ industry, the situation in the Pittsburgh district, ground where the struggle will finally be decided, might be likened to the} ituation on the battle front In France in April, 1918. Each side is waiting for the other to move and diligently preparing for defense at any point} which may be attacked. The strikers on the whole have not lost ground since Monday. Re-| AND OPERATORS LINED UP += Radical Element Under Control and eel Mills Continue to Hold by Recruits. By Martin Green. (The New York Evening World). the battle GES TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Fair; fresh winds. _PRICE TWO CENTS. Senators WORKERS’ RIGHT TO HEARING ISSUE, GOMPERS A ASSERTS Leaders Were Unable to Postpone Steel. Strike, CHARGES MANY ABUSES. Committee Deters Hearing Foster, Defended by Federa- tion Head, Calls Gary Next. WASHINGTON, Sept, 26.—After hearing Samue! Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor, for more than three hours, the Senat, committee the st strike to-day abandoned {ts plans to investigating examine to-morrow William ter, Fos Secretary of the Steel Workers’ Committee, who has been attacked in the House of Representatives as a radical and an I. W. W. PHYSICIAN ORDERS WILSON TO RETURN 10 WASHINGTON, | | | Tells peaenagare ate —- Investigators ABAND) ONING ALL SPEECHES Exertion During Tour Brought On Nervous Reaction, Says Secretary Tumulty — Word From Train Says President Is Resting Com- fortably This Afternoon. (Special From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World, WICHITA, Kass, Septt6.—ePhe spenking-tour of-Presidemt- Walser mesa Dr. Idiately s | comple: Grayson has been cancelled, cian, the President retu Under orders of Kear Admiral Grayson, his physi- announced ted his speaking tour, but t that the President's illne: rious and that it would have been possibl ns to Washingtya. 3 Was not iimme- for him to have illness. t Te ad | | ® The following statement was issued = scenes .|and locked jt. A train rumbled 1 i Chairman Kenyon announced that - Thomas Brown, a roomer, de : band ihe robbers died ports given out by the steel companies of men going back to work ard true ; wad | ° * tary ‘Tumulty smoke a8 he came down stairs, rouscd BIG ‘INGREASES AGREED ON and the robbers fled. ; : : heat the inquiry would not be resumed un- | dow Gives The Presid 1 all the sle then tured in an The two men, one in an army ser-| enough, as are reports given out by the strikers of new men joining their| next Wednesday when Judge El Oo | PFOMUORE RAS OXOrtEH BUT A ute after the alarm was at's uniform, stop at the win- alg tsi yi ‘ ‘ . be be jt. Dees so con a ind has been larm. A minute after sapdb FOR HIGHER OFFICERS OF 3 aie tha te As. Mrs.| Tanks, The mills in the Pittsburgh district are losing very few skilled em-| bert H. Gary, Chairman of the Board given the stairwary was in Mames. dow to ask the tir dae DiRect h . er a inder such a strain during tha Ladders were put up to the second | POLICE AND FIRE FORCES O'Brien looked up she found a revol-| ployees, and for every unskilled or half-skilled laborer who goes back to| Sto Gare nen “at Ke nites . ia : sd) héa’Gn 'onatst: bene and third floors and the lodgers were ver pointed at her and heard the}" * ‘ e ia 7 AEH ey hs eel Corporation, will be hea: © yeu ’ ims the first to come down, McCusker | oe command to “¢ across.” About| Work a man walks out there or in another plant included in the crucial | gave no reason for not hearing Foster or $10 0,000 eserve on this trip thet stood at a window and handed six of that time the bell which indicates | district. to-morrow, but other members of the} ight on a nervous reas his seven children ty a firéman, then’ Chief Police Inspector Gets $1,000 the approach of @ train rang. Mrs.| Aan organizer brought into a union committee said later that Fster would} 5 ALIA RGRAAL Lee cia ie helped his wife out and came down Melee O'Brien, seeing a chance to balk the}. 0; ai fee ae be called before the comimttee at} | pl che a ds himesif, A moment later Catherine} Raise and Deputy Fire Chiefs | robbers, took off her rings and began| °Adquarters at Braddock to-day some future time, Allows | ite Husband’ s Brother AM Adel dal ML toate inant was missed, i | Win $500 Increases, putting the money in a bag the men| £3,000 in small bills, which he sald had Foster was defended before the} {Q Adopt Child and She Will a ee ee ‘McCusker broke away from men 11H following increases in {had a8 slowly ag she could, She had| been collected from men joining the committee to-day by Mr mpers, | maining appolatmenta and hie late who tried to hold him, Saybia ne | salaries for cuperior officers 24st put the last coin in the bag when! union and entering tho striko in tac who siid the union committee secre: | Return to England. High ri eeap 1 s head, and ed t ¢ ame ¢ station— ary had ¢ se . \ ear comniaicainieiat twithstanding: the Oak ape Win Dane, 908 ree Oe oe of both the Police and F the train came into the station—then| Do two days, Experience down here tay Dad) QUA ROO. She, Tadion! viaws earnest desire to compl burning stairs. He found Catherine} J). tments have been practi. j#he decided to faint, | | he held some time ago and that had! NEWARK, N. J, Sept. 26.—For i ke to. complete hia 40> asleep in her bed. First he smashed) cai yecidea upon by the ‘ cra (2A: the: men ran dows the states) Steers one to scepticiem: fn assaying he not done so the witness would not! 10,000 a mother to-day say hee ce @ window with a chair, then caught | of Estimate x ~~" Mrs. O'Brien telephoned to the B, R.| information from either side, but) have consected to serve with him 18) ona a ace ie ait va WILSON ANNOUNCES REGRET up the child and climbed ont, Bear POLICE DEPARTMENT. |T. offices and gave a good deserip- | there was tho organizer, and he bad the gteel strike : G: DRERMEE OS . cnet AT ABANOONING TRIP. There was no ladder at that window nt Ine {ton of both. Ihe hd Whlon He Gitlin Wane (16 Mr. Gompera recited in detail the} »¥ Jt# uncel and aunt in the Orphans Latter hg statement, ad- and fo time to put one there. Me- | Rank pee ie | Mrs. O'Brien is twenty-five and) ine Beale AEHBEADAMDIA eatietn causes leading up to the strike of ates! | Court before Judge Fred Stickel jr. 4 ople of Wichita, was pared a ee Nae eis leon: Chief Inspector 6,000 $1,000 ass ye aie wid ameg nthe at Np, leetha uni AGS a hhka! te Rhos workers, and told of his efforts to pre- | The application for the adoption of : ‘ ae aif, handed tho child to a| #pector-—Brook ont oar 0 be mar. {initiation fee, this would indicate the Mon op \W Work Atel ail upon the workmen's cominittee| the child was made by Wilwyn I t iw wit regret that oon iy Naas Bee He vould have| ,.72.4nd Queens 4,200 600 jeanatete et tue he wat” | accession of one thousand men be n ay to or ~|to comply with the President's request | bert, manager of the Lverlastile Com 1 am unable to meet the fine reman and fa! . He would have | /ried, and that the valuables she wore | * 4 ton 4 San reople of Wichita and Ka fallen to the ground had not the fir paineoetaiied Rar nreeanta tom neeaiae ' Asa matter of fact tho atrike nas| tacked, but Police Send Fu- | that the walkout be postponed until] pany, Inc. of No. 295 Broadway, and) people of Wick e ve sbild Inspectors, ... 21.at $3,900 600 ep . not as yet reached the stage where 1 after the industrial conference which | his wife, The child ty Marietta Her lay befor m all the facts Pee man caught him. He and the child], Drs > a i ’ sillade Into Mob, ages ae Aygo Pes oat arding: the Treaty of Bake treated by an ambulance phyai- |C2Ptins «..s+++. 90at 8120 380 ene may venture to determine the is to be held here Oct. 6, by call of | bert, two and a half years old, daugh y of Peace and were treated by an 4 vai | : sep ~——— the President. ter of Mrs. Evelyn Ryder Herbert, of | the League of Nations, 1 know clan for suffocation. Both quickly re- | Lieutenants.... strength of the opposing factions. ai Me en oe | Workingmen in great industrial cen.| PITTSBURGH, Sept, 26.—Steel| Some members of the committee | 7th Avenue and S7th Street w caudor they would de- ‘The property loss is estimated at| S°rseants 1,950 300 TO BE KEPT AS RUINS! tres are not averse to a holiday, and Mike sympathizers engaged in af were favorable to postponement, he| Her husband, Harold, a broth ' mportant mate $7,000, ‘The cause of the fire, which |, /'" sabe this applies especially to workmen of | long-range gun battle with State and ety they reported that ev AE - ‘ q . a rh be * yi ne MOSS uy . should they vote to hold up the strike, |} . Oo Ast y ud facts woul Cee ee ne oh hat POF ioatrolmen, 9.87 Cloth Hall and Cathedrat’ Wil Be| {Ors birt such 8 are out tn the} iocai poltce at Clalrton early to-day.|ine men woula not eomnirs Gens: | ihe bulk of which he willod t qv ik a teal Ulan pROINKGaek toe e od ' ) ull and Ca a | steet industry e Men would not comp onse- | the bulk of which he wi ° , vtinent to 650 t ten. All paths A dozen men ure alleged to have be- | « ata ca lai prother a: Drov an annuit t Il a ante ——+——__ SL.85D ire | Maintained as Shrines of MOST WORKINGMEN DRESSED quently, he said, the issue b brother and provided 1 } with: Bars Teachers’ Union, | $1500 for second grad increased : IN SUNDAY CLOTHES. gun firing on men en route to the}committee was that of an u $600 for his widow and child it havin f \ cain Sept. 26.—Lynn school | $1,450 for third grade | $250 Pilgrimage. In the mill towns, where the strike! Mills. It was dark and the flashes] and leaderless strike, or an « Mrs, Evelyn Herbert it ng in 1 atact with imat Lass a evdey sven S106 for teursh meade } Sept The famous] ig in effect, nearly ev workingman , {U0 th ns revealed the attackers’ orderly atrike that she was unable Appot aes ‘that ‘aay nN ns b ha hy ee fo een = | ith the} on th: reets is dressed in his Sun- | WNeresabouts, ‘he right to be heard is what the | self and t ! fl WILSON, lowed to join @ union af ee a at * Fel aay clothes, and the Maygars, Turks,| State and local police, lying In} steel workers are asking above all| had # un agreement pert y Ww ih apeelat tikin any outside organ Chaplains Bat 1,00 4 to | Greeks, Slovaks and P present to| Wit, returned the fire, Then, giving | els pers said. “The right| the of enile the | wa 1 frequi >» various ef Labor. No increases for lef, whose Ee RaCRA RPE tit pega eel an array of’ neckties which reminds | 20%" UB. they said, had been fired| their own representatives, to have | $10,000. Sh vidh anted t ve ring and dist (iicac remy coum malary in now $10,000, oF for DEP” IDeputies to-day, oclared the decision |one of Longacre Square at 8 0 and reloaded some voice in determining conditions | back to England. ‘Ce appli MME! ty Chiefs of Brooklyn and Qu: | . ¢ le ni nown whether any o lah (heer uAwel e adc noft 1 € W a 1 that Preate Horsford’s Acid y : v.11 {had been reached after a conference {at night, when all tho electric signa! ., it {% Bot known whether any of the r which they work the ad t ne Presi Wepieatel, and mort agrrenble w | Increases agreed upon are - the B h au t and that! aro working trike sy thizers were hit, Several) “The right of workers to associa. | = yi . resort and and tnvigora a lows | taair ic) preserva. the ha aac calthe Genurecsional ins | ee ard tion has been denied—denied with all} PALMER DEFINES HOARDING. s but Dr, Present 3 from vandalism, anlinatlencieeWoahineton nieeedon Little rioting |the power and influence and wea'th of | sould immes Pan . 14 Deputy ¢ $4,500 onstitute # place of pilgrimage bene tet d the past twenty-four | prutal an pra le me: : \ » tra } 14 uv he men who had fallen lance. ‘The comm ' they utal and unwarrantable means May We 2 CLOSING TIME ||| 1 bme,cucts ste fe Jase cenit at RATES nn tho comme ding no {it Su hen twentyfou arma ang cowareaatanis mana” | ; 2 eee “ 2 Capt ns 800 ' a . re * nis her ¢ Waukegan and one} > m t r { t 7.30 P. 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