The evening world. Newspaper, October 14, 1919, Page 1

i ROUND UP NEW YORK BOMB PLOTTEHS WEATHER TO-NIGHT—Unsettled. PRICE TWO CENTS. ht, 101 ‘The Press Publish! hired "f (ihe 'New York World). 1 “NEW. YORK, TUESDAY, ‘OCTOBER 14, MOVE TO END DOCK INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE TANGLED AND CONFUSED OVER DEALING WITH UNIONS ciate David Lawrence Reports Dis- satisfaction Due to Effort to Sidestep ‘Steel Strike. LABOR RIGHTS AN ISSUE Form of Representation in Industry One of the Trouble- some Questions. By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The New ‘York Evening World.) WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct, 14 (Copyright, 1919).—Possibly it was the weather. Possibly it was an in- tuition of inevitable strife. But the Industrial Peace Conference at its Tuesday session got all tled up in sarcasm, Parliamentiary confusion | and entangling procedure, And the clearest thing visible was the disinclination of the employer! members of conference, including | some of that type.on public group, to take the Initiative in settling the big steel strike, ‘That is why Samuel Gompers spoke satirically of the innocuous resolutions that were adopted on ab- stract matters. That is why the group scowled as the Committee of Fifteen reported without recommen- dation the labor section proposal that a committee of six be appointed either from the membership of the conference or outside of it to settle the steel strike, LABOR OPPOSES SIDESTEPPING STEEL STRIKE. Labor plainly sees little value in the conference itself if an issue such as is involved in the steel strike js sidestepped. While many members of the public group realize this they are opposed to the mere appointment of a committee without some definite understanding as to the principles which would guide a committee, For it is argued that if a committee from the conference undertakes, for in- stance, to recognize trade unions the entire conference might be re garded as having sanctioned such a recognition. So to avoid such inferences or handicaps, the members of the public group prepared to consider a coun- ter proposition sponsored by Thomas L, Chadbourne, Chairman of the Committee of Fifteen. Mr. Chad- bourne's idea is that the committee should be appointed, but on the definite understanding that first the men shall go back to work and the employers shal! reinstate them, but that immediately an election should | bo held to choose representatives of | the workmen; that the Committee of | Six shall supervise such an election; | and that the company shall be re-| quired to enter into collective bar-| gaining arrangements with the rep- Tesentatives of the men, who r| they happen to be, abor | union men or not That avoids absolute recognition of the trade union and at the same time leaves it to the men to say | who shall represent them. Elbert H. | Gary, head of the Untted States Steel Corporation, has contended that the ey whether | Conference itself. depends upon’ the right of workers, union leaders did not*represent the workmen. Until the definite ques- tion of who the workers consider to be their leaders is determined, the futility of appointing any commit- tee to decide the strike is apparent. The Steel Corporation would con- tinually question the source of au- thority of those who professed to speak for the laboring men. RIGHT OF WORKERS TO REPRE- SENTATION IN {NDUSTRY, But incidentally the paint involved in Mr. Chadbourne’s suggestion goes 1919. AAA ARRAS AAA ARNO RR ROAD nnn een orld, “Circulation Books Open to All.’ | | 28 PAGES SOLDIERS SEARCH WOODS FOR LOST BAB ‘ WEATHER TO-MORROW—Showers. a* PRICE TWO CENTS. — a BY —. AND FERRY STRIKES HYLAN THREATENS TO VETO BUDGET IF NOT RADICALLY CUT Approves Salary Raises Only in $316,521,427 Estimaie for 1920, CALLS IT CONFISCATORY Owners of Small Homes to be Biggest Sufferers He Declares, Mayor Hylan served notice to-day at the first of a series of budget hearings that he will not sign tho 1920 budget, the highest in the history DOCK TIE-UP N TO ACCEPT 0 | PERT ERA | Conferences of Union Repre- sentatives and Officials Bring About Better Feeling. MEN TO VOTE TO-NIGHT. Food Shipments So Routed as to Prevent Shortage if Tie-Up Continues, to the root of the Indutsrtal Peags of the city, unless radical reductions| Efforts to end the horbar strikes of The whole affair to a representation In Industry. The employers’ group stands feddy, evi: dently, to grant representation, ‘but city {9 not only facing a money trust | the form of such representation {s| the heart of the matter. Shall each shop or plant be a unit? Shall workmen be obliged to select their representatives out of the shop to deal with their respective employ- ers or can they employ outside coun- sel, or agents or officials, as the cor poration do in dealing with the men?) The conference is tending toward a solution like that offered by thé Colo- rado Fuel and Iron Company after a distressful period of industrial warfare. Each plant elects their representatives, but there is no ob- jection to the selection of trades union men for representatives, The company is not required to deal with any but the chosen representatives of the men and a mutual agreement to submit differences to the State In- dustrial Commission for final ad- judication is binding upon both sides. In the creation of @ National In- dustrial Board with District and Local Boards for the settlement of industrial difficulties throughout the nation, a parallel to the Colorado plan only on @ large scale is being suggested. The plan to settle tho steel strike by applying at once the principles of democratic choice of rep- resentatives without coercion of any sort (for the election in this case would be supervised ‘by an impartial committee) is the first step that ward democratization of industry _ (Cc optinued os, on Second a Pag: PALMER SAYS FOOD PRICES HAVE DROPPED 25 PER CENT. THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY Beef on Hoof So Low -Producers Are Protesting, Declares Attorney General. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 14. (VING costs will fall soon, Attorney General Palmer predicted to-day, “Prices have dropped in all parts of the country,” he sald. “I am surprised that the same con- dition does not prevail here, But will come. “Throughout the United States the cost of foods has fallen almost Beet on the hoof has 23 per cent are mado. The Mayor obarged that the jacking of city expenses is an attack on tho! little property owners, He says the and traction trust, but a property trust aa well, The tentative budget amounts to $316,521,427.60 or $68,493,992.72 more than the final budget for the current | year which amounts to $248,025,434.88 If the tentative figures for the year 1920 stand, and it isn’t likely that there can be any radical changes, the 1920 tax rate will be the highest in history. ‘There 19 an increase for “personal service,” or salaries of $23,163,320.10, ‘The increases for other than salar- fes and now positions amount to $44,256,968.66. ‘This includes supplies, new buildings, sites, etc. MAYOR ACCUSES “FINANCIAL RINGS.” The Mayor hints that financial rings, through schemes to put the city in pawn, are hoping to force ten cont fares and other outrages. His statement follows: “The tentative budget insofar as it bears on the increase in pay for police, fire, street cleaners, laborers and underpaid civil employees, I ap- prove of, Otherwise thé budget Is entirely too high. This tremendous increase will place a tax burden on the little property or home owner to the point of confiscation and a bur- den on other property which the landlord will compel the tenant to pay, resulting in high rents and tak- ing from the wage earner the bene- fit of any increase he may get in ealary. “If the tax upon real property 1s continually increased rents will mount higher and real property will gradually go into the hands of the money lender and rent profiteer. Be- sides having a money trust and a traction trust, we will also be con- fronted with a real property trust. “No new activities should be started in any department while material is so high and there is such a sfortage of labor except vital necessitics such as additional schools to properly house the children and the repaving of streets, until prices are again nor- mal and the shortage of labor has passed. “Mandatory legislation placing mt}- long of dollars on the backs of the taxpayers of the city; the extra ordinary manner in which war ex- penditures were made by the Fed- eral Government, and a budget of this kind if approved of by the Board of Mutimate and Apportionment will place a burden on the people which kone down so low in some local- ities that the producers» are protesting. “The campaign in Pennsylvania for lower prices will have @ effect,” (Continued on Twelfth Page.) heh RE i longshoremen and port and terminal workers, which have paralyzed ship- ping aud local freight movements in |New York for a week, moved rapidly to-day toward clearing of the situa- tion in two directions. ‘The port and terminal workers em- ployed rail- road tugboats and in the Jersey ter- on ferryboats, lighters, minals of tbe railroads obtained this | | afternoon an offer of settlement from the United States Railroad Adminis- tration which will be submitted to the | unions for a vote at White Eagle Hall in Jersey City to-night. Meetings of the fifty-three locals in this city, Jersey City and Hoboken of theh International Longshoremen's Union will be held to-night and to- morrow and each loca! will vote on the request of President T. V..O'Con- hor that the men return to work at the 70-cent per hour rate fixed by the Wage Adjustment Board, O'Connor forecasts that the locals will repu- diate the mass meeting in Cooper Union last night which voted to con- tinue the strike, There were two meetings this af- ternoon between strike leaders of the port and terminal workers and the New York District Conference Com- mittee of the United States Rullroad Administration, The first was held at 1 o'clock, A. J. Stone, Chairman of the com- mittee announced previous to the 1 o'clock meeting that he had received from Washington full authority to make a settlement with the strikers. At the conclusion of this meeting which was brief, President: Abel of the Port and Terminal Workers’ Union, Joseph Stanton, business man- ager of the union and I. Faber Golden- horn, counsel, said they had been asked to return to No, 30 Church Street at 3 o'clock to Msten to the proposition of the Railroad Adminis- tration, “We asked for a flat increase of 25 per cent," said Abel. “We hope to get it, We feel confident that they will offer a substantial increase, even though they turn down our % per cent. dem: The position of the men ts much more favorable than it was yesterday.” Thomas L, Delahunty, léader of the Marine Engineers’ Union, and Wil- liam Maher, leader of the Masters] and Pilots’ Union, and Paul Vaccarel- FERRY AND TUGMEN LIKELY MISSING CHILD'S WILSON'S. CONDITION GOOD, SAY HIS DOCTORS; HAD A RESTLESS NIGHT Suffered From Swelling of »Pros- tate Gland, but Grayson Says It Was Unimportant. | WASHINGTON, oct. 14.—The fol }iowing bulletin, signed by Drs. Gray |son, RuMn and Stitt, was issued from tho White House at 12.15 this after- | noon “Tha Tresident did not have a restful night last night. Ils rest lessness was caused by a swell- ing of the prostate gland, a con- dition from which he has suaftered in the past and which has been intensified more or lesa by hie lying In bed. Ifls general condi. tion, however, is 00d, As noted yesterday, his temperature, pulac, respiration, heart action, and blood presstire are normal.” Rear Admiral Grayaon ald tne swelling of tho prostate glund was quite common and no importance ‘should be attached to it It is ox- pected that Dr. Grayson will call In a specialist in order that the President aey be made more comfortubla eee /GRAIN DIRECTOR ASKS END | OF WHEAT EMBARGOES EAR AN END: MOTHER RECEIVES MYSTERIOUS NOTE Hears Her Perfect Baby Was Seen in Gypsy Camp Near Reading, Pa. (Rrwctad Newatch to the Benning World.) HAMMONTON, N. J., Oct. 14.—! Every possible clue ts being run down in the widening search for George pal talae William Dansey, the two and one-half | i1oc@ Gets Bill to Levy Duty of year old son of Hercules Dansey, Ae DE Ve hlebeite missing since last Wednesday. 25 Per Cent. on Im- Investigators working on the case ports. | will to-day interview the Rev.| WagHINGTON, oct 14. — Julius Thomas Sparks, who is reported to have said that on the night of the di appearance he saw a little boy being Jed by @ map up a dark street and heard the child ask plaintive “When shall I see father A house in which a medium ts re- ported to have said the child was be- ing held will also be visited to-day, as will the callar of a tenantless house into which it has been reported that @ heavy burden was dragged Under the leadership of Thomas Delker searching parties composed of former service men and militiamen | will go carefully over the woods in| the rear of the White praperty and | will make a detailed examination of | all pools and excavations in their ef- | forts to find the child's body |Pilot Lyman W. Doty Plunges After searching every square foot | ‘ of ground within five milos of this | Down Near Baltimore and Oil Tank Explodes, town, the authoritica to-day ap-| pealed to the Governors of New Jersey and Pennsylvania and to|,"AVTIMORN, Oct. the Mayors of many cities In these [20% Biot of one of the New Terk- a | Washington mall airplanes, was bummed States for ald in finding the child and |tq death to-day at tho Rolling Rood his supposed kidnappers. | Gout Club, Catonsville, a suburb, when At the same time, the theory that the|his plane crashed nose first into the boy, pronounced a “perfect baby” by leegund and the gasoline tank exploded, experts may be dead is not abandoned| The plane left Washington for N and the search of marshes and thick-|York a short time before it fell, qt is ets continues. |beileved that Doty was attempting to A number of supposed clues from |land here because of the clouds and Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Atlantic |he@vy Weathe As he gilded toward City and Jersey City have been run |the &round one of the wings of the ma- | Rarnes, Director of the United States Grain Corporation, has asked Presi- } dent Wilson to raise the Bk ae import embargoes on he House was informed to- fe fy Rep. resentative Young, Republican, North Dakota. Mr. Young introduced a bill levyin, @ duty of 25 cents # bushel om wh imports, Hesides the levy on the wheat im- ports, Mr. Young's measure also | would levy a duty of $1.32 1-2 @ bar- jrel on wheat flour, and 10 per cent. |ad valorem on otter: wheat products, AIR POSTMAN Bl BURNED TO DEATH IN CRASH 14.—Lyman W. out, but none of them so far has| ht against a tree. It is bee proved of much help in solving the ® was alone in the machine, mystery. The latest clue came in al —— letter received by Hercules Dansey, | BANK ROBBERS GET $30,000. the boy's father, signed "L. W." 1 _ letter was in a Woman's handwriting | Wacape im Auto After Hold-Up in and said the writer had seen a child| Detroit. answering the description of the DETROIT, Mich, Oct 14.—Three the Avenue missing boy in a gypsy comp out- | bandits esi Union, said they the 3 o'clock « uits pointing to the trike ‘ “If the men vote to accept the Gov- Harbor Boatmen's Atisfied that » would bring | were onferen settlement of | ernment’s t A ald Abel, he will go back to work on the ferries and tugboats to-morrow morning. | Mr, Stone, enting the JBrie| i (Continued on Second Page.) ~— TONEWYOR Perfected Infe ———-—=4 U. S. Authorities Searching for Alexander Ivanoff, Said to Have ca ie ee ee HOME-WRECKING EXPLOSIVES © MADE IN GARY WERE SENT. KIN SUIT us tnal Machines in Factory and Home--—Chicago Post Office Plotter Seized. ‘ CHICAGO, Oct, 14.—Military authorities at Gary. announced toe day that they hoped to have more makers of bormbs which were mailed from New York in Gimbel Bros, wrappers,, and other plotters which have bombs. ate the Mayor of Gary, discovered declared they ‘nad arrested the me Chicago Post Office a year ago. JERSEY PLANTS AFFECTED BY STRIKE MAY CLOSE DOWN Mayor Hague will Appeal to Own- ers in Interest of Public Order. After @ conference with pon te sioner of Public Safety O'Br and Chief of Police Buttersby, Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City announced this morning that in the interest of public order he was going to ask the owners of all plants now affected by strikes to close their places of business rather than to try to operute with strike- breakers. Tt was pointed out that Jersey City has but about 600 policemen, half of whom are now required to be om duty at the four important stations of the Hudson Tube System. Less than half the usual number of © now on duty In the ection of Jersey City, where the larger industrial plants, in- cluding the Swift and Armour packing plants, now Ued up by strike, are lo- It was expected that the laundry strike would also reach Jersey City to- day and add to the unrest whi h, friends of the Mayor say, has already reached an acute stage. THREATENED GOAL STRIKE TAKEN UP BY GABINET Members Also Discuss Means Ending the Shortage of Sugar. WASHINGTON, Oct. of W—The ge industrial situation over the country, the threatened strike of bituminous eva miners and the sugar shortage \rere among topics discussed to-day at the Cabinet meeting, Secretary Lansing presided and all members were present except Attorney General Palmer and Secretary Wilscn of the Department of Labor, It was sald that Secretary Wilson would measures to avert the threatened strike of ininers if negotia- tlons between miners and operators ait nt of Agric woures for re: aide of Reading, Pa. | bran h Commonwealth Fed- A detective has gone to Pittsburgh | ¢ 1 banks here to-day of bonds worth to Investigate the theory that a|® efits MASRER ORG Gacaped former suitor of the boy's mother,| we caith who had sworn rev tole the boy, There is also earch Auantic COURT MAKES RENARD PAY, City, where a boy answering "Billy's" - description was n with two men,, Wife to Get 8100 a Month Pending evidently strangers to him, Then in| Trial paration Sult, Philadelphia the police are running} Maur proprietor of Mal- down a clue that a Woman was seen mn Renard at N bol Witth Avenue, to alight from a N n with | Was od by Bure: Caury ask how to reach an outlying tagal tia ee Plans are also being perfected to for separation, make @ thorough search of the wood uses her husband|" jin the rear of th estate of Edward second establish. H, White, a dahlia grower, including I pools and ex to asce: TAKE BELL AME BRPORE MEAIS 7 Good Digesiion makes 5 in by. bent Py yo on, Now m milttes'toveatigating the ‘coal el and traced the printing of Red ci Startled the country in the past year, under arrest within a few hours, One man said to have-aided in making the bomb is reported in custody, Secret Service men say they know the name, habits and manufacture ing methods of the individual who they cluimed has made most of these They announced also that they had uncovered a plot to assassin great stores of dynamite near Gary, irculars to Indianapolis. ‘They alse n who blew up an entrance of thé Premature announcement tn a Chi+ cago paper this morning of some feas tures of the bomb story, mill uuthorities at Gury suid, had partly | thwurted thetr plans for clearing ou what they had reason to belleve was one of the central committees of dy; namiters in the country. ‘This suld that Alexander lvanoft had arrested 4s the principal bonvom Col. Mapes, commander of the Fed eral troops at Gury, announced morning that Ivanoff had not arrested, but that authorities looking for him. Army Intellf Department officials said that I was the Gimbel bombmaker, Near the scene of the explosion one bomb some months ago, these au: thorities sald, was found @ serap & newspaper printed in Chicago, paper's entire subscription lists obtained and the subscribers’ n: studied, Selections were made am |these names as likely to lead to jVelopments. One such name was exander Ivanoff, who, it was ni was not only a subscriber but a con: tributor of radical articles. IVANOFF MOVED THRICE IN MONTH, Ivanoff lived in Gary, first, intelli Bence officers sald, and it was discovs ered that he had moved three times ia one month, because his neighbors ig Gary professed to be scandalized ap the number of strange men, each ears rying @ sult «. seen entering Ivamp off’s place. Some neighbors complained that they were sure he was a boot! Ivanoff finally moved to Miller Gary suburb. There a Secret Servi man took a house from whence might observe the Ivanoff domiell This Federal agent, Intelligence partment announced, dia about two weeks ago. The cause his disappearance and what of him are unknown to his bi officials, They are conducting a wid spread search for him. During the time that Ivanotg wi under observation, the intelli men sald, It was discovered that was a manufacturer of bombs, bomb. sald, were tl became knew! hroughoat the country as the Gla bel bombs, because they were thd officers six whigh in wrappings purporting te. | from Gimbel Brothers store. ‘