The evening world. Newspaper, October 16, 1919, Page 1

——— ———— PRICE TWO ‘CENTS, 10, by The Press Pablishing jew York World). err As YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, TWO oo 1919. 82 PAGES TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Showers colder, JERSEY BANK BANDITS GET $30 000 SHOT IN | W.W. RIOT WITH DOCKMEN Employer ‘Group a! at Washing- ton Gets Practically an Ulti- | matum, » Says La Lawrence. WANTS RECOGN \ITION, Accusations That Nat National Poli- | tics Is Playing a Part Denied | ‘ on All Sides. By David Lawrence. | (Special Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (Copy- right, 1919).—Fundamentals which must sooner or later be definitely} settled lest there be incessant con-| flict between capital and labor are| At last on the table of the Industrial | Peace Conference for final action. Shall the workmen of America have the right to organize into any asso- clations whatsoever or shall they be required to organize only in such associations as their employers may approve? That {s the point around whic) the success or failure of the} conference now hinges. Settle that| and the steel strike is settled. Settle} that and the principles governing other relations between employers and employees are admitted on all) sides to,be susceptible of easy solu-| Over night discussions and early | morning debates brought the two factions~-labor and capital—as rep- resented in the General Committee of Fifteen somewhat closer together in theory, but not in substance, for the employers were still arguing for the right to deal only with representa- tives of men employed in their own shops while the lavor members is- sued practically an ultimatum th they can go no further unless grant- ed the right to organize into trade unions or any other kind of associ- ations of their own chooSing, to- gether with the privilege on the part of workmen to go outside their shops to employ counsel or choose spokes- men. Inside the, Public Group the dis- cussion was carried on along lines simflar to that in the Committee of Fifteen. But the Public Group after all consists of men of employer type and some in close sympathy with them as well as socialist and academicians and a lawyer or two| in close sympathy with the Labor Group, so that agreement inside the Public Group is almost as difficult as agreement between the Capital and Labor Groups themselves. |the National [to-day by ‘Thomas L. Chadbourne, tion. \3 | mittee to-day ACCUSATIONS THAT POLITICS Accusations that National politics | is playing a part, in view of the sym- | pathy of some of the men on the Public Group with the demands of labor, have been stoutly denounced on every side, but few would dispute that there is a good deal of indus- trial politics involved, Foy instance there are employers who f that tt would not be appropriate f om to grant organized labor any clome or anything that might give PLAYS PART IN CONFERENCE. |” SQUARE ISSUE OF UNIONS AT LAST BROUGHT BEFORE WILSON LABOR CONFERENCE ‘ECOGNTION OF UNIOKS AGREED UPON BY TWO LABOR CONFERENCE GROUPS Collection Bargaining and Repre- | sentatives of Own Choosing Also Favored in Resolution. WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—The fol- |lowing resolution was presented to Industrial Conference Chairman of the Committee of Fift- “The right of wage-earners to orgunize’ in trade and labor unions, to bargain collectively and to be represented by repre- sentatives of their own choosing in negotiations and adjustments with employers in respect to wages, hours of labor and rela- + tions and conditions of employ- ment Is recognized “This must not be understood as limiting the right of any wage- earner to refrain from joining any organization or to deal directly with his employer if he so chooses.” The declaration was approved by all of the pu' nd labor delegates on the committee, but was strongly opposed by tives of capital, It was drafted at a four hour session of the com- nd presented when the at 2.30 P, M conference convened ‘The first move of the capital group was an a of the tempt to block presentation aration to the conference, dec but this fatled@ Chairman Lane ruled! that the question was one for indi- vidual and not group voting and the public and labor groups voted’ to re- the declaration vote John D, Rocke- of the public group, pleaded W spirit between the parties ceive Before the Jr feller, for a to industry,” ‘Those threatening to withdraw from the conference, he said, asumed, “an un-American and inte position,” able the impression of a surrender, and especially in moments when the employees are being convinced the public in America has tended to Swing away from organized labor on account of an imprudent call for a steel strike, as well as its vexing stand in the police strike in Boston, The feeling that organized labor is getting weaker and not stronger per- vades the Employer Group. But, after all, that is a minority opinion and if put to a vote there probably would be unanimous agree- ment on the part of members of the Public Group, as well as the Labor oup, that it is bad industrial poli- tics to regard the mistakes of orga- nized labor in the | police strike as a fair basis for the denial of nets that sooner or later | organized labor is going to be strong enough to ebtain The words of Secretary of Labor Wilson are still pertinent in that {they express the fears of a majority of the conference ae well as the Peo |ple in the Government itself an be ho permanent jndus “There trial peace that le uot based won & majority of the repre- | stee! strike or the | ‘HOUSEBARS ALENS: 11,000,000 INU. S. UNNAMED Agattgt Saosin Passed, 284 to 1. SOUNDS WARNING NOTE, Naturalization Chief Says Number of Foreigners Here Is Dangerous Element. WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. overwhelming majority, — By an the House to-day passed the bill extending for one year wartime passport restric- tions, so as to keep radicals and undesirable aliens out of the United , States, ‘The House action was taken after j the State Department had let it be | known that consular reports showed large numbers of radicals already come to the conclusion United States at the of peace, expecting war- time regulations to be lifted. ‘The vote on the measure 284 to 1, Representative Gallagher, Demo- crat, of Ilinois, voting in the nega- tive. Hearings on immigrution legisla- tion were continued to-day by the House Immigration Committe, with Raymond F. Crist, Deputy Commis- sioner of Naturalization, testifying that 11,000,000 aliens in the United States were not citizens, “Such a large undigested popula- | tion," he said, “creates un alarming situation.’ Mr. Crist estimated that 2,500,000 of the aljens had declared their intention of becoming citizens, He disagreed with Chairman Johnson that the as- similation of the foreigners was “hopeless.” In the Senate, Senator McKellar, Democrat, of Tennessee, introduced a bill prohibiting aliens from remaining in the United ‘States more than five years unless they become citizens. Under the measure, membership in any anarchist or ralical Socialist or- ganization. or belief in anarchistic doctrines would disqualify an alien from citizensh| | Jeollected at foreign ports waiting to industrial justice, international wrongs late to the accumu- point where war is nec- essary to bring relief so industrial may wronga may make industrial conflict preferable to the further endurance of the wrongs impoged. Nor is it sufficient that either side to an in- dustrial controversy should be the sole judge of what constitutes jus- tice, The means must exist by which all men may know that justice has been secured. So it is a fundamental ROBBERS SHOOT POLICEMAN — IN ROSELLE BANK HOLD-UP: ications One of Seven Bandits Wound- ed by Victim, but All Escape in Auto, |$30,000 CASH MISSING. | Young Woman Clerk Steps on Burglar Alarm While Forced | to Hold Up Hands. Policeman Keenan was} mortally wounded by a band of seven | automobile bandits who took $30,000 | from the First National Bank of Roselle, N. J., at midday to-day The robbers escaped. It is believed one of them was struck by a bullet fired by Keenan before he fell with a bullet in his head and two in breast, A touring car in which seven men were seated drove up to the bank at a@ little after 1 o'clock. There were few persons on the streets. Five of the men left the car and walked | briskly itno the bank. Keenan, who | sat at a desk in the window of Police! Headquarters, saw them enter, but there was nothing in their behavior which made him suspicious. On entering the bunk the five men crossed the lobby te the window be- hind which Paying Teller Percy Ban- nion was standing, The first man to reach the window thrust a revolver through it pointed at Bannion’s head and cried “Hands up.” The teller at once raised his hands. So did a girl clerk at the back of the room. The four other robbers ran to the door through the partition All of Ahem hud travelling bugs or sult cases, Two of them went to the paying teller’s cage and swopt all the money on the counter and.in the drawers into their bags. Two others went into the vault and began filling suit es with Fenton | his | packages from the money chamber, which was open. | Meantime the girl clerk, with her hands up, was backing away from|! the teller’s cage as though trying to got further from the me: macin re- volver, At the same time she (Continued on Second Page.) 'E. F. BOYLE ELECTED BOROUGH PRESIDENT | | Chosen by Manhattan Members F) Board After He Resigns From ! the Municipal Court issue of justice that is up.’ . Edward F. Boyle, who resigned to- Action on the resolution proposed | the f BY cite tee by Samuel Gompers, asking that the|("¥ from the Municipal Court, was q «i this afternoon elected President of ConferenGe request the steel employ-| i)" yo ecuen ot Manhatt ers and cmployees to go back to nor- ct CERUEN OF coma et nae mal conditions till the issues of the The gira iig by ! a Mana tian industrial conference are settled, hay | Members of the Hoard of Aldermen, been indefinitely postponed, he | Boyle recelvin 4 votes to 6 for Conterence is trying, im the meun-|Mlor Henry H. Curran, and 2 for | time, to get harmony on the principle | mie) Eh a arene Crganinear for f collective bargaining. ‘The Puy. {the iternational Jewelry Workers n its discussions of what should be 4 > |the principle of collective bargaining | Woman Prisoner Flees Frem Court than ix the general Committee of} House. Fifteen. In the latter conference the! Sarah Goldstein, alleged shoplifter, ea employers stoutly oppose anything | caped from the County Court tn Brook but an organization ¢ ted by their lyn to-day and was recaptured only after } a wild scene in Livingston Str own men their ow ope and bh : May a Ae a taken off a strmet ca iis Cd wo of “When taken. back to. court her bel op'nion. prevail, these who Would nereasnd from. $1.30. to. $0,008 gramt t ght of wage-eurners to) 4 bb “ AGE OY Lewis sald sh for ail bonds on similar (Cununued op Second Page) charges A Manhattan aad ia Chi NO FM GIFTS WHEN MRS, PRATT MARRIES GIBSON Engagement of Rogers Grand- daughter to Playwright Disappoints Mother. Thora will be no family gifts, flowers and no wedding presents from the Rogers und Benjamin families when Mrs, Beatrice Rogers Benjamin | Pratt of New York and Newport be- comes the bride of Preston Gibson, playright and author, The wedding is scheduled to take place within a few days in this city. Mrs. William E ts Benjamin of No, 2 t 89th Stre sentiments this afternoon, asked if her daughter and Gibson were engaged, at the Plaza Hotel where she is temporarily staying, hey are,” she replied emphat- cally, but there was no gladness in her voice, and she continued: “It is a great dissappointment, and you may say from me that the cn- Kugement ix most emphatically dis- Approved of by both the Benjamin and Rogers’ families.” Mrs Pratt, who lives at the Hotel Devens, No. 70 West 55th Street, it was sald, was in Newport. Her two children are in the city, Mrs, Pratt is a grand. She was ughter of the late H. IL Rogers and heiress to many millions, She is popular in New York und Newport, where she has hand: ine homes, and in Wash- ington. She brought suit for divorce while her husb Alexander Dallas Bao he Pratt, was 4 Lieutenant on in- on duty in Callforala, and won ee in Newport June 13 of this i) \¥ > MON BUTCHERS STRIKE ‘BECAUSE NON-UNION MEN EAT Walk- a in South Chicago Due » Feeding of Steel Mill Employes. CHICAGO, Oct, 16,—Union utchers employed In meat markets in sgh chi cago went on strike to-day /ollowing reporta that the markets were ‘fur work: 8 insite the ir plants $1,500,000 NB BONUSES TO BE GIVEN WORKERS BY MARSHALL FIELD CO, CHICAGO, Oct. 16 HE first unnouncement by Christmas bonus for em ployees came to-day from Mar shall Wield & Co. Officials an nounced $1,500,000 would be split amons workers receiving less ade in MEALS jou makes no t, mother of the} bride-to-be, Kuve expression to these) «| TEMPERATURE NORM | Ing meat to steel mills feeding non-union LAST STAGES OF “SHANTUNG DEBATE licar Oppose Lodge Com- mittee Amendment. SHARP THRUST &T KNOX, | McCumber Quotes From His Speech Characterizing Treaty as Cruel to Germany. VASHTNGTON, Oct, 16.—Debate on the Sbantung amendmuent to the Peace Treaty in the Senate to-day with leaders hopeful that a final vote on it would bo had before adjournment. At the outset of the debate Senator Kellogg, Republican, Minnesota, ab- nounced his opposition to the amend- ment, declaring it would be in:on was resumed ate in the Far Kast now, silent while Ger- sume to dic after remaining territory there in yeara past. The Shantung settlement was con- sota Senator, who said he would sup- |port a reservation by which the United States would decline to be a party to the transaction Senator Hale also announced he | would vote against Amendment, and added that hoe ex- pected to vote against Amendment for equalization of vot- ing power in the League of Nationa He said he favored a reservation dealing with Shantung and would vote against the treaty unleas such @ reservation were adopted. In urging defeat of the Shantung Amendment, Senator Phelan of Call fornia declared American interests were not only embraced in the preser= vation of peat ut in ridding Amer+ ica of the Japanese incubus.” Senator McCumber denied that there had been bad faith in the Shan- tung settlement. pan hold the Ger- man 3! tung concessions by right of arms, he said, and the Allies were un- der no obligation to reveal to the United States their secret treaties on the subject, Defending his recent assertion that there seemed to be more solicitude in some quarters for Germany than for America's associates In the war, Sen tor McCumber quoted several extracts: from a Senate speech by Senator Knox, Republican, of Pennaylvani:, characteriaing the peace as “Lard and be suld Senator for stand hat sounds to me,” MeCumber, “like some solicitud Germany, and I'm willing upon my statement that It ix ‘WILSON GETS ; RELIEF; HAS GOOD NIGHT'S REST; WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—[resident Wilson, relieved from the glandular swelling ‘om which he suffered for) two days, had a good night's rest last night, said the bull issued to-day by his physicians, Oo bite letin, signed by Drs. Grayson, Ruffin, and Stitt, and issued at 11,65 o'clock, mud M, discomfort which the President suffered for two days has been relieved to a very Kreut extent, He had a good night His temperature, pulse, respira tion and kidney function continue normal A measmage ayinpathy was re ceived to-day from the Mayo: and Corporation of Carlisle, England, bigthplace of the President's mother, the Shantung | the Johnson | Riots in Thre Atlempts by longshoremen of brought about riotous disturbances SENATORS REACH TWO SHOT, SCORES INJURED AS LW. W. DOCKMEN BATTLE LOVAL MEN ON WAY TO WORK |Bullets and Stones Fly When Radi- | cal Longshoremen Precipitate e Boroughs—Man With “Red” Card Seized. foreign birth affiliated with the 1. W. W. to prevent loyal members of the International. Longshoremen’s Union from returning to work in compliance with the orders of their locals to-day at the Bush terminal-in-Souta Brooklyn, at Pouch’s terminal on Staten Island and at the United Fruit pier at the foot of Wall Street. Two radical longshoremen trying to In- duce men to quit work in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, were sliot by the busi- sistent for the United States to pre- Ness agent of a longshoremen’s local, | A pitched battle between Italians from Brooklyn and American-born many and other nations had selzed Jongshoremen at Clifton, S. 1., in which at least 100 men were involved, resulted in probably fatal injuriesto Lee Anderson, No. 333 Van Duzer REDS HELD IN GARY FACE DEPORTATION; WARRANTS ISSUED 'Col, Mapes's Report Said to Contain Proofs of Revo- , lution Plot. GARY, Ind., Oct. 16.—Investigation of radical bomb and anti-Government plots and surveillance of suspected Reds continued to-duy in Gary, where army Intelligence officers and Federal operatives already have uncovered @ number of alleged plots and arrested a score or more agitators. Seven men taken in a series of raids Tuesday night are held on deportation war- rante, it stated to-day, three others remain in custody, An official report by Col. W. 8. Mapes, commanding the Federal troops here, presenting what was sa:d to be documentary evidence of the connection of radical leaders with the steel strike in Gary and elsewhere, to-day was in the hands of Major Gen. Leonard Wood, Commander of the Central Department, Gen. Wood ed Gary is a hotbed of an wus and re hy." The evidence submitted In the re- port was sald to contain proof of the Jalleged radical plot to capture the jeivil government of Gary and other steel cities in the strike area. No of- jficlal announcement regarding the report has been made, but it was | stated !t might be made public later. | Anton Gorsko, detained and ques- | oned by the military authorities in | connection with the bomb plot of last », denied plicity in the con- racy and also disclalmed informa- | tion that Alex Ivanoff, for whom the | authorities are searching, had taken | Jui | part in it | Cubbage. (Us eRe Wa ing cds % K ee \™ z _| the business agents of the longshore. Bystanders say that” jemned as immoral by the Minne- | Street, Stapleton, and injuries to a score of others. $< > Numerous shots were tired at af | the centres of disturbance and heace were broken. An Itullan carrying red curd establishing membership in the LW. W. wus arrested at the Bush Terminal after he had tired sev- ral shots at a longshoreman whe had indicated his intention to retuen to work. Tho fight at Clifton, Staten Island, was the most serious disturbance of the day. The Staten Island veal voted to return to work last night wad. At 6.45 o'clock this morning twenty five men who had been employed ua Pier B, Pouch's Terminal, guthered at the pler entrance ready to begin | unloading three Japanese steamships. Suddenly there appeared a crowd df j about seventy-five Italians who had Just arrived from Brooklyn, Most of the new arrivals were strangers to Mrank Warum, the piér superintendent. They cunfined thelr efforts at first to shouting und cure- ing at the loyal men. But when Wate rum blew a whistle at 7 o'clock aad the Staten Islanders started to go om the pler, the Brooklyn crowd attacked them with knives and bale hooks. The latter are particularly malicioas aud dangerous weapons when used mae fight FIGHT BACK WITH HOOKS, BALE | r STICKS AND STONES. ~ The Staten Islanders tought back with hooks and bale sticks and stones, © Some of the Italians drew knives, The Staten Islanders were gradually forced onto the pier, where they were « unexpectedly reinfurced by thirty Japanese sailors, Warum telephoned to Stapleton for | policemen and the Brooklyn rioters, | learning of this, disuppeured, taking thelr wounded with them, When the policemen arrived they found nearly all the Staten Islanders suffering from minor wounds and Anderson with bis abdomen torn open by @ jab with a bale-hook. He was bure ried to the hospital at Stapleton, Benjamin Brittini of No. 206 East wth Street, Manhattan, and Nicolo Carcanuto, also of Manhattan strikers, crossed over on the 83d Street feriy to Greenpoint at 9. o'leek and were leaving (he ferry house at the | fout of Greenpoint Avenue when they | were stopped by a man deneribed by as Gi | the police vrge Jacobs, one of unton, Jacobs questions the two men why