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6 la game of bilnd man's buff by some emen who have ploked our vat who now, through m lobby, ask us to HARDING PLANS NEW COAL INQUIRY car THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JULY 24, 1922. HARDING DOES NOT PLAN 10 SEIZE CANNOT CENSOR "TH NEARLY INSINE.” |°AUS% SEASON TEKFLD CABLES. Poss-2% "™* Pulpit, Movie and OPERATORS AGREE T0 HARDING PLAN ON PRICES AND COAL RATIONING the supply ahead of last year, the re- Speech Supervision a! geet tai) price of company anthracite ts — Tiiposaible .t tit was| higher to-day than it was @ year — Abnspabttean “teste Seeaal poss . (Continued From First Page.) cnet thet F ateey., The ie ratinen | AKO? (Continued From First Page.) Laetitia! bs LOS ANGELES, July 24. ’ e full story. The other cause “Here are the official Government > . inquire Into the coal situation in a —_—o Will Hf. Hay, : given were the means alleged to have Here ar! ni . - 1 : 7 1 . Hays, former Post- sally day: je eight Tn om.| figures fron the Monthly Review of (Continued from First Page.) t was Jearne ve aimed telegram sent lim last night by A.M.} 9 (Continued From First Page.) master Gener: conditions practically obtain to-day: | been used by th: rs it B' i as Jearned, were to he aimed at 50, General and now head of 1. A few coal barons controt almost | pantes to eliminate competition of the} the Bureau of Labor Stattatte oe famine ¥ scheme for emergency voal]/Osle, President of the National Coal ——— the Motion Plature Producers and the entire ovtput of anthracite In the | independent operator AVERA RETAIL PRICE OF AN-| whatsoever, irrespective of whether rol which would pot run co inter | Association. The -sesident announced Mrs. Zeigfeld has nothing to say?" Diatetwutors’ Aaaceiat United States Thus the Philadel-] The statement said the comp THRACITE FOR HOUSEHOLD they are employees of the road or d the law relating to monopolies andthe consideration of such a commis- Later the actress changed her mind ; Association, here for phia and Reading Coal and Iron Com-| were able to do this in the followin (Choestuut, per short ton): elected; but if that's the case, then|conspiracies in restraint of tritde, ion (ait: Week and balked again. a week's study in the stronghold pany control 2,000,000,000 avatlable | ways: City June 15, May 46, Inc, [under the Transportation Act the union operators attending the Z 1 vowed I'd never talk to another] of the Industry, sald in an in- tons of coal, the Lehigh Coal and] High demurrage charges on cars at 19201921 Railroad Labor Board can oR ce were inclined to attach] Mr. Ogle, in the telegram, also sug- | teporter,”’ she said . formal statement to-day that “the Naviention Company 600,000.000 avail-| tidewater awaiting aecumulation of| Ave $14.18 $14.87 nizance of the dispute and issue a de- |) condition to ther agreement | gested the appointment of one miner] “All this trouble has arisen from a , Ve . ete garbled interview. 1 only sald Tt principle of freedom upon which able tons and the Lehigh Valley Coa!]a cargo lot 1415 15.00 cision maintain the tale prices previo dy Tang one operator as technical advise . I only said T had y Company 490.000,000 tons Inability of the independent opera 13.50 12.94 The Pennsylvania claimed that the] fiver, and that was « requirement thet tee Gahan (aCHENS mae Sepee confidence in Mr. Zlegfeld.| this Nation was founded makes *. The largest company, the Phila-|tor to accumulate temporary surpluses 14.79 15.80 Labor Board had power only when| tho Government use avery effort to] °r. Put selther to Have the tq prcat Creat tana tay there grew a) public censorship of press, pulpit, @elphia Coal and Iron Company, has|in bins and storage yards, the rail- 16.48 17.32 there was n joint submission of the then: railroad servi ts * 2S CHINES film or spoken word virtually an Ftendily acquired available coal flelds}road producing companies Laving 12.81 18.12 controversy, Whereat the court point-| It is conceded that the price scales bumel. sais aa aeeey that ‘wotd of the cabte| (mposalbitity. until {t now controls 45 per cent. of |denied the independent operators the 1 11.83 12.3% 50] ed out that it would be easy for cither| set offer reasonable profits to all of sate Ne a d of the cable “State-wide or Nation-wide cen- the entire anthractte output in the| use of their facilities “D.C. 12.3% 19.63 lag] side to deadlock the matter and pre producers in the non-union dis-| MAYORS OF FIVE CITIES — [hax leaked out. It was intended for! sorship,”” he said, ‘will fail in Palen hatte he "ddestesthuarianger ttitnder” What the explanations are] vent the Labor Board from taking a cven though some buyers un-! GONFER TO END STRIKE |*'° sione—set how the fuslic must) overything It undertakes. It 3. The two largest coal intereste|of the eight corporations, which, it | men offer for these ad. | hand—a situation which the law itself ure of imminent short- ayy thie ae Rid be hasn't been done successfully and are ow by the same tnterests}was charged, continually reach outy vance The high cost of matertals, a one intend puSnE follow ; on bi ing Dae Wists cusationa against him. Since our mar- never will be. ‘Too many people that own the railroads that carry the} and obtain all available unmined coal] dull market for steam sizes, an in-} So now workmen can elect their|icy 2 upon the producers riage eight ycars ago we have been who know nothing about the coal. and prevent the independent operator | creant in wats last summer, the in. {OWN representatives and choose an|cash offers far ubove the Hoover! sons smon, pa., July 4—Mayors ot| very happy, and Flo has always been| Dusiness are named on censorship 4. Other investors have been kept] from securing new land. Much of | crea freight rates—these oft. |organization to represent them if they | «cules 1 4| thoughtful and loving, boards. We are going to obviate from field by everlasting ob-|this Jand, the statement said, is repeated explanations are familiar, —|Wish, and the Pennsylvania Railroad] The producers asserted that if thetr| five clttes in the anthracite regions and} Tian ot ed or is| the necessity of censorship. psn s tained In an undeveloped stato by the} ‘The point | am m.king is that the | cannot set up its own group of repre s could not be kept in regular| District Presidents William J. Bren-} 4 tt ne Teel he my life| == bs escees Ww c tions. ublic has no means of testing the (sentatives through an its } oy . however, beeause railroads] nan, Thomas Kennedy and C. J. Gul- Ve, shitty Ne bh Nidal Cac EUR ea i sd et bes i Path of the explanations, Perhape itjown making and claim that It has inion districts where the| de cra" union, are tn cone{ae,2ve sways lived it. , Within | SHOTS KILL TWO GIRLS leases they are made with the prov!-|u¢iRCULAR PRICES" KEEP UP| truth of the exp Lat ad hl obinb tag esc it i in of the ininers! union) con-} short time I’m going to New Bruns- sion that the coal they mine must be Te the truth Perhaps it ie net, All fees VO US icnply becauen eilceed Vike Has been aimed at coal] ference here this afternoon on a pro-| wick to make a picture, and then I'll IN NORTH IRELAND carried over the railroad which 1 COST TO CONSUMERS. the public and the Catala know /no nontrowe ay ‘ai thy) pee Seine production: wenre sna 8 kee vg) posed olan (or Wringing about a uettlo- | hurty to’ New. York to reliearso’a play i ied r is orlly what the eight coal companies |SPokesmen of the ayeOR Nive ing, alternating shutdowns a 6 th sriting for me.| BELFAST, July 24.—Two girls, aged owned by the same interest which! The large corporations ulso were) (8 Only what the eg! nigned a wage agreement or any other|;rsumptions will increase the costs of] Ment of the anthracite wage contro mai abel be ie eee te. talk of | fifteen and sixteen, poluining trom res owns the coal from whom the opera-} charged by Senator Vardaman with] swe do not know because we are|Jocuiment governing working condi- r operation, destroy the morale of | Yersy. The meeting was called ‘by sins Santas nape Bitte. alk OF V state to Northern Ireland territory at tors lease. maintaining the sale price of coal tions. AG ing forces und make it neces- | Mayor John Durkan of Scranton after} Bis . ae ray Jonesborough, County Armagh, last 4.Bb close ‘ak Soloperation haa #-leurough publication of “otrcuige| Oot, Permitted: to) know: We cannot [i rie United States Labor Boa Ub RO His) Mtr coal at a | talk with President Harding. In the first place, I never sald the) jignt, were ordered’ to halt They ited fram these activities that the Dh " s_ | find out what the costs are because ieee tas te Wand sary for them to sell their coal at @]” Mayor Durkan sald that the outlook| things about her I was credited with | failed to obey and were fired upon and SHIN atta’ Naw’ Beda BROUENE 6° E86 Pent aad ware onat out th Fraud: the National Coal Asssciation has put Geonige Ge iva wosteon ne wie ne[lisher figure than tho levels Now| for a quick adjustment of the troubles|saying, and I won't exchange insults | Med. hole matte dw put by the < P ecist« ion now turns} yr ‘ Anat fe out the eyes of the Government by the ae i) voluntarily fixed {s bright, but would not reveal his plan.| with her now. Near Newry, a girl on her way home attention of the Supreme Court of]ing Company and were “the law of| Out (he eY*t Ofte qavectineds py ltt upon whether the Pennsylvania tail-|" sfucty of the West Virsinia produc-| It is understood, however, that he has] st deny that I have ever made any | from church with her father waw hit by the United States and startling | the business.” As an evidence of fur-| UCT o” oe cue nates POCK.| fd Will obey the Labor Board or has been strictly within the fair-| a proposal for the appointment of ant accusation against Miss Miller, and 1|# stray bullet and {s In @ critical charges have been made by the At-|ther exhaustive search into the coal E *Jcontinue its fight to a higher court. limite, but a general breaking | AF@itration commission of five members, /ACrusston Ueuine MISS UN) Ate” | condition. torney General and the Solicitor Gen- | industry, Senator Reed, of th ime ETED BY COMPANIES. Samuel Gompers has sald that if from ‘thes levele has been re-| one of whom would be aMiiated with | Will Mats Tone nee. eke Mr. Zieg. |, i Dublin early to-day two men were eral, Senate Coal Committee, presented to] “We may recall that if increased|the railroads were to obey decisions 110 officials (n the Western Ken-] ¢ miners or the operators, to make fed GAIy toceerenn fli ai minat the killed when an armed band attempted 7. Enormous royaltles are charged|Congress a few months ago the fol- ht tutes are an element in the|of the Labor Board it would be #/(iiiy areas supplying the midw a thorough survey of the coal industry ule fo Setene hin aeslnat Cie [to reid e publlo pues to leascholders—royalties that have |lowing pointed items: increased price, the increase has} factor which would contribute greatly | 4 shots : baad Ni Sidalag against him. Anything between us| THYAS RANGNHA ARe SENT TO increased from year to year and un-| ‘More than one-half of the coal of} jargely gone into the pockets of the|‘o the confidence ict workmen in the coal situation is understood to] pUMP AND FAN MEN QUIT O10 '{s of eo intimate a nature that I need : DENISON, - necessarily inflated the price of coa.|the world belongs to the United} anthracite coal-carrying roads which |board and in the Government's sense} nave been discussed to-day at the | MINES. scarcely say I cannot discuss it for] AUSTIN, Tex., July 24.—A force nz Some of these royalties alone have | States. y own the mines, and that these roads]! even-handed justice. The decision} 44. House by President Harding,| BELLAIRE, 0., July 24.—Pump and|newspaper publication State re ‘a amounted to $1.44 per ton, “These immense deposits aggregate} were already among the most pros-|of the Circuit Court is, therefore, a] Vie anger P. Moore, Pittsburgh pub-| ¢ Mea’ in lata Goa einen a8 — State rangers under Adj. Gen. Barton 8 The Philadelphia and Reading] between three and four trillion tons. is in the country. step which may help in restoring the} oo ana william Flinn, Pittsburgh, ‘anmen on duty i ne chet ee will arrive in Denison to-day to pro- om: | ‘‘At the present rate of consumption Jo do know, accordt confidence of those who thought the]! tie ded eh OA i + | this vicinity were reported leaving ‘heir N $10,000 tect shopmen dung the strike, Gov. Company has Been able to hold thes Pi We do know, according to the a former Btate Senator ither Mr. f , enormous: properties. by constantly | they will last for 6,000 years. For all] Raitimore Sun of June 7, that the|Tsllroads could, through the medium) 4) 00 0 ug, “iniinn would disclose | Posts to-day as # protest against the ON GIRL’S STORY | ¥* 2nneunced. keeping others out of the field in] Practical purposes the sipply may be] ppiladelph nd Reading Coal and }ot the courts, interfere with the work- An ative: OF the: diecusatone: “HOO bringing in of State troops. their district treated us inexhaustible Iron Company earned $7,882,000 in|!mgs of the United States Labor] (ne NUNIT | UMN UlMi nic Prosi-| The district President of the United a : Z at an] “The readiness with which the] i920, ay against $1,230,000 In Bourd. Ware LURES SI-| tine Workers sald that he had recetved|Irene Kafka Charges Youth 3 AES company bare ears et mines can be opened is shown by th eee eee ae — > dent 1 rts of pumpmen and fan Vith Robt estimated valuation of 2 per cent, of an be opened is shown by the] that on March 6, 1921, the Lehigh . ee. ee several repo! m \° With Robberv in the real worth of the property. So|fact that during the coal panic of 1920] ang Wilkes-Barre Coal Company paid PRESID NT TAKES — men leaving their posts, though not R i. in the |More than 1,000 new mines were opened slong the line of a single rail- re the Pennsylvanta “The principal mines have the best powerful i¢ this corporation county in which it operates that the people In this district have been un- a cash dividend of 150 per cent. That the Leligh Valley Coal Sales Com- pany paid 10 per cent, in each year ble to secure valuation Bina to ee rey yond. tThe peeduce para ae ereaclcien Hf OG eeninse SHORT OF WORKERS] tonvon, uly 24 (Assoctated Katia of We. iin New resent Dye: adjoining counties. The Heading een cacity of mines ia now and for| LONIRN Villey eon oe ee tant {Government Will Tandle ——_ — ‘ Press).—Important contracts have been B : Company owns and controls 194,000} aw Lette etesrobad: OF: ther ase 1e stock allotment of 25 per cent. In CRMs Strikebreakers Being Rushed placed In Scotland for immediate sh{p-|nue, Brooklyn, in a taxicab, Albert acres of land tn the Schuylkill region, | ears Mi : 1914, In 1917 {t paid a dividend of! Matter Until Settlement |Strikebreakers Being Wushed) nents of coal to the United States, and| qRosa, twenty-four of No. 24 Oliver of Which 109,644 acres contain an-|™8ne- 16 per cent. and Issued a stock allot Tat ied In by Special additional orders are under negotia-|° ; . thracite The ‘largeat, production oF Cou|ment of 69 per cent. In 1918 tt paid s Reached. Ff “ tion, ft was learned to-day. Street, was held in $10,000 bail by pia ever attained was In 1918, when itlig per cent. and an extra dividend of | CHICAGO, July 24. — Rail stril ‘pains. wean Magistrate Eliperin in the Gatse Ave- ONE COMPANY CONTROLS 81 PER| reached a total of 680,000,000 tons, orice : sea ete ‘ ais Mes OF TWO COAL MINERS CENT. OF OUTPUT. Sk GAUL ceemted im aerwne' Or |60)6tni> PA a dks bonds. In 1918] peuce negotiations have been taken! wir THE MILITIA IN THE | HOMES pes beans nue Court. Another man in the ma- COOLING 000, even under intense war activities. | pe Pelawure, Lackawanna and|ffom the hands of the Uniled Slat PMIELD, COREBURG, Ta., y tt PITTSBURGH, Jnly 24.—Homes of} chine, escaped, but the police say he Di 2 Oo} ow iS b re : HEN the thermom- ae Peat nave tos dacla red pie By actual performance for a given} western Con! Company paid 10 per|Rallroad Labor Board, Chairman Ben] frantic attempt to hasten fuel from | two coal miners, employed in non-union] will be arersted. eter mounts and anann “") period the mines, without reaching |eent. annually from its! inauguration |W. Hooper said to-day the tr-State region in an effort to] operations in| Patton township, near] According to the young man, G 0 coal trusts. their cupacity, have produced at aly qooo till 1912, In 1912 It pald 10 ; ee here, were dynamited early to-day, s themoraledroops, there's The extent to which the Reading | rate of over 700,000,000 tons per year. | ho ravaeea: Litt The Government will handle set-|stave off the threatened famine met F *Twent to Coney Island yesterad per cent., and In 1914 20 per cent. In 1915 it paid 30 per cent., and In 1916 ft paid 20 per cent. In 1917, it paid 100 per cent., 60 per cent. In cash and 40 per cent. in Liberty bonds and notes of Great Britain. In 1918 it paid 49 per cent., the 30 per cent. extra ing in Liberty bonds. In 1919 {t paid 10 per cent. and in 1920, 10 per cent. cas! and a stock dividend of 75 per cent “The people want to know If the high price Is reasonable. If it is, they will pay it. But If they are being gouged by the eight corporations that have a national monopoly of the an- thracite reserves, that produce 75 per cent. of the tonnage and that hold the so-called independents tn the hollow of their hand, they want to know that too."" GOVERNMENT CANNOT IGNORE ALLEGED COAL COMBINE. “Surely that 18 a reasonable ques- tion. Surely to answer It is a reason- able function of Government. But no man in the Government Is able to an- swer it. The coal lobby has tled the Government's hands and poked out its eyes. But it has not stopped the ques. tioning of the people, Neither can the Senate stop it by ignoring the question at this time. “| say that the question of whether a gigantic combine is demanding ex- tortionate prices for a necessary of life is one that no demopratio Government can ignore and live. “will you turn on the light? Or will you go back to your people and when they ask ‘Why, why?’ refer them once more to the coal operators?" With all of the above and volumos besides now Defore Congress, are the people to be made to suffer with another so-called ‘investigation’? DEPUTIES UNDER GUARD AT MANSLAUGHTER TRIAL Hornell Strike Mob Thre: bat No Violence Ocon: Holding Company, through the Read-| actual autharities estimate 1! ing Coal Company, dominates the pro- | capacity of the mines now opened ciation ee eroeation ale sit running at full time, in excess of anthracite for mines i 800,000,000 tons per year. region tributary to the lines of the! “The labor supply ix not only sufti- Reading Coal Company shows that/cient, but probably excessive. coal produced from the land of the) The facts are that, with the mines Reading Coal Company oconetitutes|running and labor employed two- more than 81 per cent. of all the coal |ihirds of the working days of the Sa pelea over Abe: line of BL year, more coal can be poduced.”* i aerate Was made by the Attorney |FRELINGHUYSEN — PREDICTED Goriera\ ae far back an 1916. MINE STRIKE IN DECEMBER. Senator Vardaman of Mississippl,| senator Wrelinghuysen, in urging a who was Chairman of the Coal Cor regulative power such as @ commiis- mittee, In making a partial report Of sion, last December presented to the the committee to Congress, because) senate the following important items a ont ned pee eet Lbidh ances as a result of another investigation: printed, stated tha oa es i esalty in common tne that i eaaeees lane die felts wa Maen a Yutely monopolized as the satiety 1922. On that day half a million men oa) production. Shortage of sat) ing {Come UP for settlement. It is clear cite during the war and bein eed that we are approaching a big labor high prices for the com: yoni readjustment, an adjustment fraught eaid, ers alia seurey’ dus to with poesleiiteg of profonged indus- monopolistic control. rial upheaval. ‘Transportation corporations beg “Yet we are doing not one thing to trolling production tn the Pennsy! 4 forestall a break, We have not taken nia field—the only source of market-| one step to alleviate the condition of able anthracite in North America— the miners. Instead, we have let tho were named in Senator Vardaman’s| situation drift until the mine workers statement as follows: have endured the longest siege of un- ‘The Reading (the holding neageed employment since the panic of 1893. of the Philadelphia and Reading ‘What happened? At the end of the and Iron Company and the Jerseyisix months Production was 41,000,000 Central, which in turn own all of the} tons behind. Instead of increasing in stock of the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre! yuly, as it normally does, production Company), the Lehigh Valley, the) rel off and the total for the month Delaware, Lackawanna and Western. | was only 30,000,060 tons, the smallest the Delaware and Hudson, the Lehigh] of any July in several years. ene control ty 0 tons ind normal... ° New England), the Erie and the New) = In this condition we entered Aug- York, Ontario ang, Western. ‘ ust and since then production hes Although contré@fting but 72 per cont./}.en slipping further and further be- of the actual production of anthracite, hind. True, picked up, slightly in the statement assefted, the eight com-| ine second week of August, but | am panies have mate tt impossible for} informed that the recovery was short- independent operators to Compete} iived and that the latest telegraphic with them on any fair basis. returns show production again de- PENNSYLVANIA CONSTITUTION | clining. Here is the account up to VIOLATED, SAYS REPORT. Aug. 18: js “Produced in the year 1921 to date “Notwithstanding the fact, =+242,000,000 tons, which 1s 96,000,000 ning, sald “that the Constitution abt HORNELL. » July 24.—Vincent }, 82,000, ons hehin (9] Rutski, Erie Ratlr suarde who were tation company from engaging in ané 79,000,000 tons behind 192) “To put it another way, the total cutput for the year, If the rate so rushed to the County Jail at Bath yes- terday after their arrest on a charge of manslaughter, first degree, following a mining, these transportation com- panies are in this business of not only Nc me rting this coal but of mining] (+ 1s continued, will be only $90,000,- | 8U" eet Tee the: Erie atone early i t the eight-year Sunday morning, were returned here ‘Bxpressing the hope that Congress C00 tons. But the eight-year average} iy)!" forenoon. ‘Under @ heavy guard © 600,000,000 tons a year. ‘To equal ‘hat record in the four and one-half remaining months would mean pro- ducing steadily at the very maximum would enact legislation to protect the Beople of the United States from what might be described as “the greed, upidity and avarice of there soulless} jatq ever handed by our trans er hy by porta- Gorporations” the Mississipp! Senator }tion system. That. with the 15 per Fegommended that “If the Conatitu-)rent, pad order coal curs, would: be they were brought from the County Jail and arraigned before Recorder Fay P. Ra'hbun, They demanded examt- nation A crowd gathered in front of the City Hall, but no violence was Offered. Plans were made to-day for a public funeral tion of Pennsylvania, which forbids for Frank Ardiduni. o etriker, who was practically impossible ¥ A . the transportation companies to mine “England liquidated her wartime killed In thy Ns feh It will be held coal, is a dead letter in that Btate, ®}on Wednesd harles Cresso, a striking car repairer, who shot, to out of danger to-day. NEGRO KILLED; TWO SHOT IN STRIKE. MEMPHIS, July 24.—Frank Jenkins, a Negro. said to have been a railroad employee, was killed and W. S. Record, policeman, and Dan O'Kane, employed as a special agent by the Illinols Cen- tral Railroad, were wounded in an ex- change of shots here to-day between a squad of police and Jenkins and a companion miners’ wage acale only after a three the Federal Government, under the| months’ atrike which paralyzed all her igterstate commerce clause of the] industri id deal r Nation's Constitution can compel the - pol yebhed heen fiat: sxbary trey divorcement of transportation com- “Our liquidation remains ahead of Dantes from mining corporations. And] us 1 am not predicting a strike. I although the Supreme Court has thus} nope and trust that some honorable ardered, the interlocking interests are] settlement may be worked out which Rot sufficiently altered. will safeguard the interests of the The statement made the additional | workers, the operators and the pub- recommendation that the pi of coal] ic, be fixed by the Government at a rate} “aut 1 submit that with no real {n- which would guarantee # fair return} formation about the issue at stake, to the fining companies and whieh} about wages, about costs, about prof- would ‘vouch te the people ofits, about prices, about supply and America an ple supply of anthra- demand. we, the public, are im the elite coal at a reasonable price.” worst possible state to meet the ts- While payment of excessive r™ -!-} sues. ties—said to amount In the case of the Mountain Coal Company tu COAL INDUSTRY CALLED GAME conn, Girard estate to 91.66 a tom ia OF BLIND MAN’S BUFF. 1918, and more each year—constituied| ‘We are in the dark No, more the first cause of the high, price of] than that, we are being led aroupd in was also RATLWORKER'S ROME MITED, MEADVILLE, Pa., July 24.—The rea- idence of Wilbur T. Byham, a workman at the Erie Rallroad shops WAS dynamited to-day. The house was dam- aged and buildings within a radius of a mile were shaken by the blast. Byham, a machinist, has been working since the strike of the shopmen was called. ‘DYNA~ tlement efforts direct from Washing- ton, Hooper indicated, putting an end| gearcity of men to op the] cot. RORERT W. GUTHRIE OP Tans. OR the way he Hed panes’ to be poured out of an to reports he had brought a peace} mines forced delay. Strikebreakers| seeded ot Oly 24.--cor, [her home, she said, and asked to get Ovington refreshment plan from the White House. were being rushed into the district by|_P!T feet if ,Jout. She adds that d'Rosa grabbed SOME MINES OPEN U. S. FLAG FLYING; Taxicab. Charged with assault, and robbery, it being alleged he tried to gag Irene ordered out by the unton. STRIKE SITUATION FROM RAIL BOARD UNITED STATES COAL ORDERS PLAOED IN SCOTLAND. causing Injuries to two, a lot of good cheer and met d'Rosa and his companion sted a concentrated coolness night they suggeested a with only partial success to-d: service, OVINGTON'S Robert Walker Guthrie, for many years an outstanding figure im the business her and stuck a handkerchief in her mouth and struck her. She also 'No further steps are contemplated|the carloud, further endangering the by the board at the present time,"| already strained peace prevs y “5 o “]ilfe of Pittsburgh, died at his home|stated he took $10 from her purse. ” the Chairman announced ute troopers were fed on bY lho. today, aged seventy-alx. Col. |” Misa Katee oh) hom a aioe “The Gift Shop of Fifth Avenue Secretary of Labor (Davis: returned] sniners at the Denbo mfhe on the} Guthrie was prominent In the ofl busi- FIFTH AVENUE AT 39TH ST. tives Smythe and Dwyer of the Gates r to- Several Monongahela Riv nees and 4 brother of the late George to Washington yesterday after confer-]}undred shots, tired in vol in-|Guthrie, who dled in Japan while |Avenue fon stopped the machine. ences in Mooseheart, Ill., with W. L.| tervals, came from different direc- dor to that Th Ce McMenimen, Labor Board member,| tions, according to Capt, McLaughlin commanding Troop FB, No casualties and the six shoperaft leaders. He was ; Sniping chan to submit a report to the President. Ja house to house search by guards- It is reported that President Jewell of the shop crafts has received ‘fair offers" from more than a score of roads, most of them in the Northwest. Another Illinois National Guard regiment was ordered mobilized to re- lieve troops on duty at Aurora and Bloomington. Asked whether any new plans look ing toward a settlement of the strike had been made, Hooper dictated the following formal statement: “My trip to Washington was malu- ly for the purpose of furnishing the President with the fullest information Possible in regard to the etrike situa- tion. “As might be supposed, the. Presi- dent seeks to know this situation from every angle, from the viewpoint of the carriers, the employees, the Labor Board and the public. ‘ “There is nothing else that can 02 said just now other than to answer the question asked me by saying that no further action by the Labor Board is contemplated at this time."* CHICAGO, July 24 (Associated Press).—The 10,000 untonized rail- road station egents wil! not be called out on strike, W. J. Noone, President of the organization, announced to-day after a conference with W. L. Mc- Menimen, labor member of the United States Ra!lroad Labor Board. “T will instruct my men to remain at work and order that commuittees confer with the road managements over all points at issue,’ *he said. podbot NEW HAVEN LEASES GROTON IRON WORKS Railroad Had Found It Im- possible to Have Repair Work Done. NEW HAVEN, July that the New Haven Rallroad had found it impossible to have certain grades of repair work done In local shops, an official of the road an- nounced last night that a lease had been taken of the Groton Iron Works at New London. The Groton Iron Works {8 an ex- tensive plant and during the war em. ployed about 5,000 men. The concern recently was tn financial difeulty and a receiver Was appointed. P. Leroy Harwood represented the receivership in the negotiations with the railroad. The railroad plans to employ be- tween 600 and $00 men, ft is said, and will make repairs on locomotives which cannot be handled by the Bald win Locomotive Works and other men. ‘The State militia patrolled all the roads in Washington County, break- ing up every gathering, and a near condition of martlal law existed. Sheriff Luellen of Washington County issued an order forbidding the sale of firearms in this vicinity. State Troopers occupied every impor- tant town and pedestrians of the streets are scrutinized carefull Agents have been sent to varlous sections in the surrounding region to mobilize enough men to mine coal in large quantities, Special cars have been obtained from ratlroads to trans- port the strikebreakers. Large American flags flying from coal tipples singled out those coal operations which reopened under the “Harding plan.” The Wilson mine, which resumed several weeks ago, flew the Stars and Stripes to-day, and other miens, reopening were to follow, KITTANNING, Pa July t4— Notices were posted by the Allegheny River Mining Company to-day asking its 4,000 striking miners to return to work under the 1920 wage scale ios MINE OWNERS ASK NON-PARTISAN BODY FOR STRIKE INQUIRY Fact-Finding Tribunal to Look Into Coal Situation Urged on Harding. INDIANAPCLIS, Ind.. July 34 As- sociated Press).—President Harding was urged to appoint immediately a of I. Miller Shoes No previous Sale has ever seen ' so delightful a variety or such fresh, charming styles. 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