The evening world. Newspaper, November 1, 1919, Page 1

i { ‘The 4 i as Ro A a COURT IS ASKED 10 NULLIFY DRY LAV TO-NIGHT'S WEATHER—Cloudy, colder. lick RACING RESULTS (M [Pore FI TTT Fr i right, 1019) by The Press os Publishing _ cows fo. (Tbe ‘New York World). 1919. TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Pr Se SST PPE JN A722 st a | CMT: CH BEART ANN 10... ~ NON-UNION DISTRICTS IN OPERATION BREWERS ASK INJUNCTION TORESTRANN ENFORCEMENT —> Petition Directed Against Gov- emment Will Be Argued by Elihu Root Friday MORE SAL -OQONS a -OSE. New orl Leads in Obeying "Law, Says Chief of Rev- enue Agents, , Emory R. Buckner of the law tirm of Root, Clark, Buckner & Howland, equnsel for Jacob Ruppert and act~| fng for the rest of the brewing in- terests in the city, to-day filed an pplication for an injunction straining the Government re- from en- forcement of the War Time Prohi-| jeeretees under the direction of the Agreement with the workers, | bition. Judge Learned Hand of the United who heard the ng ‘erguments on the constitutionally of Veiday. ‘biates District Court, Application, set the hea on the law for next ted District the War Time injunction dir mnitta (Francis G MoElligott, mal Revenue. is against States Attorney Caffey Richard J. acting Collector of Inter- and will make brew- Elihu Root, it was said, ‘the arguments on ‘behalf of the ing interests » While liquor dealers in Manhattan Dave not voted to take concerted ac- tion in closing their places, the indl- tations to-day are that they are fol- owing the lead of the Brooklyn saloon men and closing, although not sur- ‘Wondering their licenses, 1 H.W. Mager, chief of Internal Rev- nue agents, giv New York, among All the larger cites, the palm as far es the enf@cement of the liquor law {a concerned, He estimates that 7% por cent, of tHe 5,598 saloons in vbe ¥ive boroughs are closed. ‘ Concerning various phases of the Bituation in New York Mr, Mager I estimate conservatively that 7 {per cent, of the 5.598 suloons in the Nive boroughs have closed their doors fend that the remaining 25 per cent. {wre doing only a legitimate business dn eoft drinks and lunches.” “Do you mean that there are now fo places where an old and tried fustomer can get a drink of what ffiow passed for whiskey?” was asked, . “By no means,” was the reply, “But ntinued on Second Page.) CLOSING TIME 7.30 P. M. Sharp on Saturdays for DAY WORLD WANT AD: Want Advertisements for The Sunday World must be in The World’s Main Office on or before 7.30 Suturday evening, Branch Offices before 7 Positively no advertisements will be accepted alter this tine Send Sunday World Want Advertisement in carly to make sure of its publication your OF WAR TIME PROHIBITION NORTH DAKOTA MINERS “ORDERED TO KEEP AT WORK {Continue Operations Under Plan | of Governor Concerning Lignite Coal. | FARGO, N. D., Nov. 1.—Lignite coal |miners in North! Dakota did not walk ‘out to-day, owing to orders recetved Just before midnight last night from Henry Drennan, President of District No. 27, United Mine Workers, counter- |manding previous strike orders. A telegram received in Fargo thi morning from Billings, Mont., was to the effect that Drennan is enroute to Bismarck to confer with Gov. Frazier lon the jatter’s proposal to President Lewis, of the United Mine Workers, that lignite mines in North Dakota be si in |the product to be consumers. sold only to state os \U, S, TRACES 21-CENT SUGAR | PURCHASE OF CHICLE CO, | 1,000 Barrels Said to Be En Route From Philadelphia; Food Au- thorities to Prosecute, Secret Service men Food Administrator Arthur Williams that the American Chicle Company had been offered 1,000 marrela of sugar at 21 cents a pound and that the sugar was now on the way to New York from Philadelphia in automobile trucks €, W. Snooks, wholesale food dealer No. 99 West Broadway, admitted he had made a deal at the instigation of DavDavid J, Lewis of ©, B. Richards & €o,, bankers, No. 29 Broadway. Lewia sald he had engineered the tranewction as a private venture, He aid @ man, whose name he did not had told him he had purchased the sugar at 91-2 cents and wanted to make a bonus of $40,000. He offered Lewis $3,600 to act as go-between. Food Administrator Williams gave to-day informed sive, Lewis until noon Monday to produce the actual seller, and aid if Lewis did not do so, he would turn the case over to Assistant United States Attorney Ben A. Matthews with a request that he proc Lewis “RED” CIRCULAR SEIZED IN PRINTING PLANT RAID Arrested for Distributing Pamphlets Urging Boycott On Election Tuesday. Acting Detective Sergeant Gegan and members of the bomb squad to-day ar- rested Maurice D. Newsim, No. 170 Epsex t, and Benjamin aback. No, 105 F reet, while it is charged they were distributing lara in the ed against Two |Bowery calling for a meeting at Rut gers next Saturday afternoon One cireular calied for the meeting to celebrate the second anniversary of Bolshevick Revolution and the was a proc tlon of the "Communist Party,” or t Left Wing of the So cialist Party,” calling on the people to boycot the election Tuesday Newsim's printing ¢ at Ridridge Street and that of Ta tek Service Printing Compan th Street, were raded a » circulars confis A permit. wh n 5 tha ~~ WORLD RESTACRANT, ity a hake dine 4 aus dows. “w. orld, ebind kde: MEAT DRIVERS ON STRIKE SEEK OVER S100 A WEEK PAY Some Would Recgive as High s $245.50, Says Adolph | Gobel. . Adolph Gobel, packer, of Brooklyn, declared to-day that if the| striking butchers’ demands | granted, wagon drivers em-/ ployed by him would recetve not less than $102 a week and as high as $245.50 a week. The meat drivers work on a com- mission basis and routes are as-| signed to them. Under the increased | commissions demanded by the Pro- visions Salesmen's Union, which are| coupled with the demands of Butchers” Union, No, 211, five of the Gobel drivers would receive $102 a week, twelve would recolve $130 a! week, fifteen would receive $159.50 a! week and one would be paid $245.50 for six days’ work. Mr. Gobel said the men openly de- clared their ultimate purpose was to| take over the entire plant, allow him six per cent, on his investment and| divide all profits among themselves, The drivers are now recelving from 149 to $80 a week. Mr. Gobel said that out of 350 men employed by him, 211, all salesmen, had gone on strike to enforce their demands. All of the drivers hud re-| mained loyal | The packing house of Max Trunz,| No, 2 Lombardy Street, Brooklyn, was hard hit. All of the forty butch- Jers walked out yesterday, leaving be- [tween 70,000 and $0,000 pounds of fresh meat on the fluor. Two en- gineers remained on duty and are lxeeping up the distribution of am-| monia through the cooling pipes, but in spite of this Mr. Trung fearg that the meat will be a total loss. Retail butchers in Brooklyn regard the strike as a fizzle. New York and Brooklyn meat pack- | ers, after a meeting held in the Hotel| |Commodore this afternoon, announced jthat their association had rejected the demands of the butchers, drivers and delicatessen salesmen, aaa MILK MEN TO ENJOIN DRIVERS Smith Gons Ask Court to Prevent meat were meat Strike. ‘Thomas O. Smith Sons, wholesale milk dealers, who say they do a busi ness of $1,000,000 a year, to-day applied to United States District Judge Augus- tus N, Hand for an injunction to pre- vent their drivers from going out on strike next Monday ‘The application for the injunction waa set for argument this afternoon, Delegates representing the 8,000 Jdrivers at @ meeting this after votd in favor of arbitrating the question {a six-day week and a week's vaca tiom. —_ PIMLICO RESULTS. SECOND RAC he Sunbrok; for | fillies and mai three-year-olds and upware Hin urse $1,637.31; one |mile,—Dottie Vandiver, 102 (ierce) $13.40, $6.00, $3.10, first? ed 2d, 110 (Weiner), $6, $8.10, second; Frigeur, 107 (ator), $2.50, third me, 143. Was | wabeck, Mary Be Miss ‘Bryn, Dor ‘ Lazy Lou also ran: THIRD RA The Inwugute chase for four-year-olda and upward purse, $1,600 i 149 (Chesne), $18 Weldship, 158 a 1; Blankenburg, 147 (Kenn third 4.02. Prince tora, also ran Racing 12, WE ABS SE Ia) Report Three Red Ship LONDON, Nov, L—An unconfirmed rt has feached the Globe that nee Bolshevik vessels sunk when the Bolsheviki attempted to land on the coast near Petrograd, the ves- wois being Gred on by @ British Geet | ‘ Ay STRIKE SHUTS DOWN MINES INALL UNION COAL REGIONS: NO EFFORT 10 RUN THEM Report From Vari Various State ‘MOVE IN CONGRESS FOR US, iow Genera uspension | T0 OPERATE COAL MINES of Industry. Tells PITTSBURGH, Nov. 1—Approxi-| Representative Baer House mately 42,000 miners in the Pitts. | Northern States Face | burgh district went on strike to-day | Fuel Famine. Fy in response to the order of the United! qwasnrtNGTON, Nov, 1—A_ renolu- Mine Workers of America, according | tion authorizing President Wilson to to officers of District No. & of the|{ake over the coal mines and operate hom until an agreement with the min- | organ H rassination, Zhe number representa». a, to wages and hours of labor practically one hundred per cent. of{untit the dispute between the men and the coal production of Western Penn-|the operators is adjusted, was intro- sylvania, Union leaders said 100,000) duced in the Honse to-ia yby Repre- men are out In the State, sentative Baer of North Dakot “A great many non-union men} Representative Baer declared the struck with the organized workers,”| Northern Centra! States are in danger sald President Philip Murray of Dis-|0f ® coal famine unless the supply tw trict No, 5. “This is particularly true} ™4@!ntained, of the West Moreland and Fayette] Below zero weather already has been County fields.” experienced in North Dakota, he said, In answer to this statement opera- tors declared that many non-union men were not at work to-day because 5,000 GET WAGE INCREASE: this is a church holiday. Reports FIFTH IN THREE YEARS j from the non-union miners in the |lower Allegheny Valley were that _ many of the mines were working.| Yale & Towne Co. Announce Many of the “country” mines also a *, were in operation. The villages of Boost of 10 Wer Cent, tarentum and Breckenridge were For All Employees. threatened with a water famine as] @paymmoRD, Conn, Nov. 1.—The the water plant serving both of these] Yule @ Towne Co. has announced a Places was almost without coal and|,eneral wage increase of 10 per cent. the mine from which its supply waaleffective to-day It applies to piece drawn was clo und hourly rates as well as to salaries —-—-- This is the second incre: this year ind the fifth within th last th OHIO. years, It affects upwards of 5,000 em Nearly All of 40,000 Miners Re- | joyeos ported Ow —_——____— COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 1—Un- cits, wntoreation” received bers| STRIKE. A PLOT TO SEIZE early to-day indicated that prac- Wy ast onze ann moni MINES, SAYS POINDEXTER miners answered the strike call. John Moore, President of the Ohio miners, Jd {t probably would late in the day before definite figures would be available. No statement from the operators was available, but reports indicated that in most of the districts the mine owners made no attempt to operate. No disorder was reported. No troops, either State or Federal, have been ordered out in Ohio in connec- tlon with the strike. Washington Siaicr Calls Part of Programme of Communism. BOSTON, Nov. 1—Spenking at a Republican rally here to-day, Senator Poindexter of Washington, declared the strike of coal miners ‘s part of a radical campatgn to seize control of the mines “It Is part of a programme of com- Move be Athens reported jast aight that|"unism,” declared Poindexter. “We nearly 8,000 men would fail to report |re approaching a state of civ!) war. for work to-day. The same report|The Coal strike is not a good faith stated, however, that a number of /c@mpaign for higher wages, shorter miners expressed themselves as will- {hours or better working conditions ing te continue to work if ordered to The demand for a six-hour day and do 90 by the Government. ‘These | five days a week and 60 per cent, in- men, however, are said to be In the| crease In wages in a mere subterfuge minority, It is manifestly uneconomic and un- Wellston reported thig morning |reasonablg. .It is simply a part of a that the 2.0 0 miners of that district lcampaign fomented by radical com had laid down their tools at the 7,000 |unista for the purpose of breaking union miners in the Steubenville dis- {down industry and securing the con trict would walk out to a man. From |trol of the mines. Redge port Oa oF at Liverpool came se eports tha i “3 em reer at een a hemees anuid obey |U. S. TO HAVE 100 GENERALS. the order, ‘a. all mi) on- , SCTON 1 etrict which um Hot unlonized, |, WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—Under au ported, would continue to|therity given by Congress to retain i “Union miners of the din- [18.000 commissioned officers in the army eported on etri until the end of fiscal year, the —— War Department haa dee d to retain ILLINOIS. | in their present eme 90,000 Reported Ont by Utimote |A00U 100 Keneral offic Stree. Leneey: Liggett and Robert L. Bullard. SPRINGFIBLD, Ill, Nov: 1—The | “anere will be Atty-fve Major 4-tumJnous coal minors of Llinols, 90,- |orais, headed by Leonard Wood, © 000 of them, are “100 per cent, idle" |munder of, the Central Department to-day, in response to strike call p auaaata alain effective at night, ac Bomb Explosion at Tokio Foreitga ling to F rington, Pres om fent of th Ihnois district TOKIO, Nov. |, (By e AS Farringto: this morning, had not |Press)—A bomb was exploded ¢ me the forelan office here to-day (Continued op Second Page.) fatalities resulted. / POLITICS IGNORED BY BOTH PARTIES IN‘COAL CRISES Stern Measures to Protect Nation Utterly Disregard Effect on Vote. By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 (Copy- right, 1919).—President Wilson ts getting better in health, Congress ts still dawdling along on the peace treaty, the International Labor Con- ference is debating in French and English all the abstract problems af- rr ooo WORKERS IGNORE U. S. COURT AND WALK OUT AT TIME SET; UNION TO FIGHT INIUNCTION Walkout Begins Without Disorder, But Troops Are Held Ready to: Avert Trouble in Several Dis- tricts—Leaders Keep Hands Off. WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—Reports to headquarters of the + (ecting the labor situation in all the countries throughout the wide world and the entire power of the! Government of the United States is) being exertod to make the leaders of the coal strike obey the injuno- tion of the courts against the carry~ ing out of the strike order, That might be a surface picture of the national capital but it would hardly reveal the cries: | crosses of purpose, the mixed ambi- } the parties and the general undertone of apprehension the way the| United States is slowly drifung into an era of industrial warfare. Take the Internationa! Labor Con- ference as an example. The pro- visions of the treaty calling such a conference are being severely attacked in the United States Sen- ate. and distinct courses of opposition are to be found —those who think such an interna tonal concert of labor means disad- vantage to employers and those who think it means a labor of all the rights it now enjoy Both cannot be right. AMBIGUOUS LANGUAGE IN LA- BOR CLAUSES CAUSES TROUBLE. Ambiguous language, or rather failure on the part of the Peace Con- ference at Paris to say definitely how an international conclave could affect internal questions like labor jexcept by moral influence of the most genera) character has left the whole thing rather vague, England had to do something to satisfy’ the craving of her labor classes for recognition, So did France, The International Labor Conference was the best suggestion that could be offered in answer to the rising clamor of the proletariat. | But just as the Japanese do not for @ moment believe It possible for them, in the present stage of their economic development, to adopt the eight-hour day, so do certain Ameri- can labor leaders fear that in an in- ternational gathering the already ad. vanced position of American labor might have to be te own to mect| foreign standards Usually the argument nowadays, confused tions programmes of over peace Two separate loss to American winds up ighth P uahter a Bride’ (Continued on Bi _ Di e.) Seoretary Gia WASHINGTON Nov 1 Miss y t easury und John r w 1 of Danville, Va the A.B. FP, asa lew { infantry, wore married in of the Covenant here to brilliant company witnessed | the ceremony, coal operators here to-day said that in the union mines the strike was generally effective, but that in the non-union field many-thou- , sands of miners remained The great Pocahontas field p work, ji in West Virginia was reported working at practically full capacity, and in Pennsylvania 110,000 of 180,000 non-wi reported at work. CHILAGO, Nov. 1.—The nationwide strike of bituminous coal miners entered its first day with more than 400,000 miners idle, accord- ing to estimates by United Mine Workers of America officials through. out the country. Coal operators,:for the most part, were not inclined to dispute this estimate, and giving full allowance for all claims by operators which * had been reported at noon to-day. just short of 400,000, The total of striking miners falls The number of men claimed by the unions to be on strike co- incident almost exactly with the paid up memberships on file at national | headquarters at Indianapolis at the end of August, namely 401,480, In ten or more States the unions reported more men out than the total August paid up memberships on file at naticnal In moat these discrepancies were in the TRAIN SERVICE CUT BY STRIKE OF COAL MINERS Lackawanna to Drop Eighteen Suburban Runs—Through Lines Affected. headquarters. instances covered union claim of an ave age 15 per ¢ North Dakota ent. of urrears. reported its 1,500 ignite miners ut work, in response to orders from Indfanapolis head- quarters, North Dakota expected w& use this coul itself, om headquarters here of the 1 Department of the United Which embraces most of the nation’s great bituminous coal fields, no reports of additional move- ments of Federal troops into the min- ing zones has been announced. Fed- eral troops from Camp Zachary Tay- lor, Louisville, Ky. to-day were on duty in the West Virginia coal nelds and others were held in readiness in Announcement of @ curtailment of train service in this district was made t Director A: P. ay by Regional Hardin, The step te taken to con-| Oo) 2 ler wor ‘ serve coal during the acute period of | rennessee mini eae a the coal strike. The details of the! Im Colorado and Oklahome State cutting down of trains will be an-| troop, iad beed ordered into the coal nounced to-morrow, when the various | aeiag railroad officials will Wnish a task! partial mobilization of the Alabama they have been working at since last | National Guard has been ordered by miwsatay harain & r ' Governor Kilby. ctor Hardin, tn making the an- would Hot interfere greatly with) anroushout the country the putting n or fixed traMe, but would, nto effect of the walkout was pa to & great extent, consolidate theliy” No reports of violence of de runs on in arto tru Mnes: struction of property were received ; oe ' e ih salah - sigs @D-land in many instances a sufficient eaance’ 1 wih vo are eae quota of union men was left at the MRE various properties to prevent acel- The Lackawanna Railroad wiit dlscon- | 228% oF the damages that would re: inue eighteen of its, suourban. trains |2¥lt from stopping the machinery, dafluw tke Wonceaah bonke Comments of the mining district Summit, Montclair, South Orange,| presidents upon being informed of Morristown and intermediate points] issvance of the injunction at Indlan- will be affected by the new achedute|apolis ranged from mere acknowledg- which takes ¢ foot on Monday. | Notiee font of the Information to statements be posted in the various stations lute | (hat no judge in the country was “big to-day me enough to call off the strike," and fat TAKE BELL-ANS BEFORE MEALS | the restraining order “only mak and how flue Good Digestion makes vou eave that much more determined to poh ee a ee SE TT TT a poset stint ie ieme >