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'"MWiJ"^* ■*■' ip.* ,fW»'!piWWl."»..'*«IW J, 'AJR-^.'.^Mf^^SIWIW f-w^muM,"?*' JI |<ijjii«MOT^pi i|,i..n.K..<«V.IH<«lll>IJ,liJ|^.HUHip.<l, I illl. iliinillljili \ R THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY. ^ '■Her. cJ r58. 'ACE to remindl •[e alwaysl »ng in the! >plies. No( >ortant orl >ur wants) |to get the >u can do CO,| Garage, iibsonville. $4.25 2.90 3.75 4.10 1.05 'ANY, Iboro, N. C. NTS to use >YEA*S ^ its fLD inge. ichine. lumi- Itchen, f JO.J ESTABLI5 *$&»!. ===^ X DAZED AT THE REYELAK . OF AN I.W.W.ATTORHEt SOfGHT AMD SECURED INDORSE- *" MEXT FOB STEEL STRIKE OF REVOLUTIONISTS. GREENSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1919. VOL. 98. NO. 85 X Washington, Oct. 20—While mem-bers ni the senate labor committee jr,esugating the steel strike sat .uily dazed and dumfounded, Jacob -iirgolis. of Pittsburgh, I. W. W. at-torney and admitted advocat-: of so- . •ial revolution, to-day told them a story ot ultra-radical activities which he said underlay and were as-sociated with the nation-wide strike of steel workers. Even more remarkable to his hear-ts was the Pittsburgh attorney's de-lineatii'i of a partially successful at-tempt •"vering the past two years to juse :ii Pittsburgh for an unstated but \ :iie hinted revolutionary pur-pose !'ie combined forces of the In-dustrial Workers of the World, bol-gKTik and Russian industrial work- (a whose imagination he acknowl-edged had been caught by the suc- Nsses of Lenine and Trot2ky in Rus-sia- All were working, he told the committee calmly, "to create a new society within the shell of the old." Throughout Margolis' story ran the name of William Z. Foster, sec-retary ot the steel strike committee, to whom Chairman Kenyon. of the labor committee, forced a frequent recurrence by a cross examination in which dictograph records of tele-phone conversations, photographed copies of Margolis' correspondence and similar matter played a large part. An "Anarchist Syndicalist." Margolis calmly classified himself as an "anarchist syndicalist." in which capacity he had worked with and fur the I. W. W. organization. and a "Tolstian anarchist." Govern-nents, he said, will be of no use 'when proper industrial conditions are established." he-put it. and these industrial conditions he predicted vould be established when workers, wzanized along I. W. W. lines, get ready "to take over and operate in-dustry for themselves, more efficient-ly tlun private ownership can." Secretary Foster came into the tes-timony not so much as a radical ag-itator himself, but as a seeker for IHp in conducting «he industrial fizht in the steel industry. Margolia told of a "union of Russian work-men" existing in and around Pitts- Imrsrh. revolutionary in its objects. and said at Foster's request, or with his cognizance, he secured the in-dorsement of that organization for :be steel strike. "The Russians had a tri-state meeting at Youngstown in August." Margolis explained. Chairman Keny-on leading and suggesting. "It was a delegate assembly. I went there and made a speech, asking them to indorse the steel strike and give it support. This they agreed to do." I. W. VV. Assisted the Strike. In a letter to President Wilson, •ritten in connection with the call- '»* of the steel strike, the strike committee had referred slightingly to 'he I W. W. and Chairman Kenyon tod a telephone conversation record on this. "Tell the boys not to get sore about tout." Foster at one end of a wire 1">d told Margolis. "I did not. have I'anything t» do with that letter. You now I have to go with the commit- — n.IISI of the time." "his language Margolis recogniz- " ''"'I admitted having conveyed the lessagf. tn nis associates. "You see. officially the strike com* ran tee dues not recognize me at all." ■Margolis explained to the senate com-mittei-. "fn, persona non grata to »«n." "Th ■ |. w. W. and the Russian bol- "bevi!; indorsed an(j assisted in the wise," he said after severe ques- •'onin; by Senator Kenyon. Ho ex- Hainen. likewise that the American deration of Labor was "too nar- ,0w" and -too lacking in vision" to *Womplish real pr0Bres3 for the jfWlters and thereupon Chairman °)n°" followed up the issue which e committee has previously had to Consider. Tin- Present Plan. '• true that Foster holds "on* exactly similar to you and ' k ""• - into the trades unions sole-ann"' lh" !heor>' of 'boring under' U| "ring through' and capturing ,.,".'' ">*"• for syndicalism?" the ^"•""ill asked. L.."."0 ' ''""! think he holds those "s "»ow." Margolis replied. "He ^jj^y** an ordinary trades union ^*> ..■'believed, I know, that he jtain his integrity as a syncti-c- out the position into which he is fo.ced as a strike organizer now does not allow that. He has not changed the Amercan Federation of Labor organization; that organiza-tion has changed him." The Plumb plan, for the operation of railroads by the employes and their purchase by the government, he said, was "the first step towards the new future." while the soviet government in Russie he classed as the most forward looking creation on the globe, tar better than any-thing in America. Margolis' testimony practically completed the committee's examina-tions though an executive session will be held tomorrow at which a definite decision will be mCe. Mem-bers of the committee expect to commence work on a report imme-diately. TO BRING BACK OUR DEAD BURIED IN FOREIGN SOU;. Washington. Oct. 22.—Arrange-ments are being perfected by the war department, in co-opera! io^ with the state department, for the return to the United Stat.<M of the bodies of American soldiers buried in Great Britain, Belgium. Italy. Germany. Luxemburg and North Russia. The war department will await the action of the French gov-ernment with respect to our Jead buried in France. "The project," said Secretary Baker, "is so extensive and presents such different phases la the various countries involved :na: it cannot be carried into effect precipitately and without well perfected arrange-ments. "It is expected that the relatives ; nd friends of the dead will be coin forted by the announcement that the movement has been determined upon, and that they will be willing to accord such time for its comple-tion as may be required. "Regardless of whether or not the return of these dead has been re-quested, no bodies will be left in Germany. Luxemburg and North Russia. All bodies vfrom North Russia will be returned to the United States if they have not al-ready been re-interred in France. "France has been purposely omit-ted from the operation of this plan for the reason that the problem in that country assumes an interna-tional aspect, the determination of which is still a matter of diplomat-ic exchange. Many inquiries as to the removal of bodies from France are being received by the war de-partment, to which « :s necessary to reply that nothing can be aone at present, and that due announce-ment will be made when it becomes possible to do so." GOVERNMENT LIKELY TO TAKE HOLD COAL NINES EXPECTATION THAT IP DISPUTE IS NOT ADJUSTED CONGRESS WILL ASSUME CONTROL. Stolen Tobaroo Sold Here, Reidsville. Oct. 21.—Carl Richard-son, a young negro, was given a hearing before 'Squire W. D.fl High-tower and sent on to the county grand jury under a $300 bond. The warrant charged Richardson with stealing tobacco from J. F. Oakley, near Benaja. The tobacco was sold in Greensboro, the 110 pounds bring-ing $58. Officers believe that Rich ardson has been guilty of similar of-fenses a number of times, but his smooth method of purloining the weed made it difficult to catch up with him. The defendant was rep-resented by J. R. Joyce and J. M. Sharp appeared for the state. Possibility of a Compromise. Washington. Oct. 21.—Possibility of a compromise between senate ad-vocates and opponents of reserva-tions to the German peace treaty was said to have received serious consid-eration to-day at a conference of Democratic leaders held after Chair-man Lodge had called a meeting to-morrow of the foreign relations com-mittee to consider new reservations and modification of those reported out by the committee September 10. "Isn'i Large Single toad Tobacco. Danville, Va., Oct. 22.—What is believed to have been the largest single load of tobacco ever brought into Danville arrived to-day when I. E. Woody, of Toshes, in Pittsyl-vania county, drove here a motor truck carrying 4.300 pounds. Ow-ing to the congestion on the market' it will not reach the floor for some days. Washington, Oct. 21.—Failure of operators and miners to settle their differences after a four-hour confer-ence to-day with Secretary WHSOD may force the government to step in and prevent the strike of half a mil-lion bituminous coal miners called for November 1. Although another effort will be made tomorrow to bring peace to th' industry, the strike tonight loomed big and close at hand and leaders ot the two sides, speaking frankly and gravely, said there was little hope. While the full scale committees representing miners and operators were fighting their buttles to-day li? hind a closed door, a strike storra raged in the senate, and federal agencies looked up the law, firmlv convinced it would have to be invok ed to save the country from untold distres. sand suffering, with mines shut down and less than a month's stock on hand to keep fires burning. Neither Side Will Talk. Filing out of the meeting place, the miners and operators, nearly 10t> of them, went their separate ways to discuss the crisis, the former led bv John L. Lewis, president of thi United Mine Workers of America, snd the latter by Thomas T. Brew-ster. head of the Coal Operators' As-sociation. Leaders and members of both were extremely reticent. Both leaders and Brewster refused to dis-cuss the situation beyond saying there had been no change in the at titude of either group. Informed ot the attack on the unions in the senate by Senator Fro-lmghupsen, ot New Jersey, strike leaders said there was a bare chance ot some encouraging developments tomorrow, but the strike order would stand. Secretary Wilson left the meeting without giving the least intimation as to what was in his mind as to hope of settlement. The two committees, in separata groups, filed into the asesmbly hall of the Red Cross building and sat down shortly before noon while Sec-retary Wilson went to the front, and without ceremony announced that they had been asked to meet and ad-just their grievances. Pleading for immediate settlement of the strike the secretary showed how it would affect the public, how it would close industrial plants and stop freight and passenger traffic, because of the lim-ited coal stocks held by the rail-roads. Pointing out that the matter was one of vital concern to the people. Secretary Wilson explained that as executive officer ot the government and trusted with the function of me diation of such disputes, he felt that every possible effort should be made to induce the miners and operators to see the importance of early ad-justment.' The secretary said lie gave full weight to the statement of the operators regarding contracts and to the importance of rescind\ng the strike order and to withdrawal ot demands for a 30-hour week, just as he gave weight to the statement of the miners that there must be "a disposition to really negotiate" be-loie it would be worth while for them to go into conference. President Lewis then spoke for the miners. The old wage agreement, ne declared, has expired and the opera-tors, he characterized, had refused to consider a new one. The side of the operators was prs-seated by P. H. Penna, of Terr.i Haute, Ind., who charged that the miners had violated their agreement, that the operators had adhered to the principles and practices of col-lective bargaining, and that the unions were at fault. Then with-out consulting the leacers. Secretary Wilson suggested an adjournment until tomorrow, as casually as if the conference had planned to run for a week. The secretary, it was said, indicated a desire to present the views of the government, after each side had been given a full hearing. • CONFERENCE SPLIT ON COLLECTIVE BARGAINING LABOR DELEGATES WITHDRAW AFTER RESOLTUION WAS DEFEATED. Washington, Oct. 22.—Labor withdrew from the national indus-trial conference tonight after its final effort to obtain adoption of a collective bargaining resolution had been defeated by the vote of a ma-jority of the capital group. Although the representatives of both the public and capital an-nounced their intention of remain- Rich Man Lost His Booze. Miami, Fla., Oct. 21.—Federal of-ficers to-day brought to Miami from West Palm Beach a truck load of high grade liquors valued at JR.000. which they say was taken from the basement of a millionaire winter res-ident's palatial home. in the effort to restore industrial peace to the country rested with President Wilson. Mr. Lane will make a personal re-port ot the situation to the Presi-dent, but neither leaders in the con-ference nor officials generally would venture a prediction as to what course Mr. Wilson would take. Meantime the conference will be called together tomorrow, as usual. Gompers is Dramatic. Withdrawal of the labor group was announced by Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federa-tion of Labor, after a dramatic speech. It came only a few hours after Secretary Lane, in an effort to prevent what many from almost the first had regarded as the inevitable, had read a letter in which President Wilson, dictating from his sick bed. appealed for harmony in the confer-ence and for the final working out of a program of industrial peace. Representatives of labor did not join in the applause which greeted the letter and Mr. Gompers charac-terized as "most unfortunate" a motion by John Spargo. of the pub-lic group, that each group pledge the President it would make every ef-fort to accomplish the work for which the conference was called. The mo'itin was withdrawn and the conference recessed so the labor group could meet to determine its future course. Capital Defeats Resolution. When the conference convened in the afternoon, the labor group pro-posed a resolution recognizing the right of collective bargaining. Under a suspension of the rules, the resolution immediately was brought to discussion and vote, the labor and public groups uniting it its support on the roll call. Th" majority against the resolution in the capital group was one vote, but under tho conference rules "hi", ma-jority was sufficient to defeat the resolution. With the announcement of the re-sult Mr. Gompers told the confer-ence the resolution had been rejectel "without right or reason, rejected on grounds so flimsy that file men sitting in the employers' group will have difficulty in explaining their action to their follows in the world." Gompers "Swan Song." "You have defeated the labor group in its declaration." declared the veteran labor leader, "but we will meet you again in conferen.ee and when we do meet you there yo" will be glad to talk collective bar-gaining. "I have sung my swan song in thi.- conference. You have by your ac-tion legislated us out of the galb-'v-ing. We have nothing furthei to say, and it is with a feeling of re gret that we are no: aole to remain longer. Our chief regiet is the de feat of every fair proposition on our part. The die is cast. We can-not remain longer." Representatives of the Tour rail-road brotherhoods remained in the conference until the session adjourn-ed, but they announced that they did so "out of courtesy to the other del egates," and that they were in ac-cord with the main body ot the la bor group. Before the labor delegates left th« hall Mr. Spargo asked them not to make their decision irrevocable, but to remain with the understanding that the conference "would proceed to develop and formulate a general program which will clearly define and establish the right ot collective bargaining." Dr. Eliot Attacks Rules. Calling attention that only a "very small majority of the mem bers had voted against the collec-tive bargaining resolution, wh'le about 50 favored it. Dr. Charles W. Eliot, of the public group, said this inconsistency was due to the "im-possible rules" under which the convention worked. Harry A. Wheeler, chairman ot the employers' group, in announc-ing the intention of his group to re-main here for further work, said capital representatives would not accept the responsibility for break-ing up the conference. He declared they had worked sincerely for what they considered just principles and that they were willing to stand on the record of the conference. CONES CONTRIBUTE LIBERAL. LY TO Y. W. C. A. NEW HOME. At the close of a highly inspira-iin„ g„ ^in tthhe. con#ference, .t.h.e next. move ,t_ion,a.l m„e_et,i,n.g o„f camp.a,ign .wo„r„kers in the Smith Memorial building Monday night R. G. Vaughn, chair-man of the initial gifts committee, read a letter from Julius W. Cone in which the latter, speaking for his associates and himself, offered to contribute toward the $125,000 building fund of the Y. W. C. A. "one dollar for each four dollars raised from other sources, our total cntributoin to be $25,000 in the event the entire $125,000 is rais-ed." The announcement was followed by rousing cheers for the Cones. A moment later the campaigners sang "America," Rev. Cuthbert W. Bates asked the benediction and the crowd filed out of the building, fired with enthusiasm that must inevitably re-sult in successful consummation of the financial campaign, according to observers. Plans for Monday night's session were developed by the executive committee of the Young Women's Christian Association, of which Mrs. J. M. Millikan is chairman, the car-dinal object of the gathering being to project a working prograei for the campaign which will be waged next month to obtain funds to de-fray the cost of a modern Y. W. C. A. home in Greensboro. The goal is $125,000 and every speaker at Monday night's luncheon-meeting expressed the conviction that the money will be procured without ex-treme difficulty. Mrs. W. H. Osborn. president of the association, presented Mr. Vaughn, who presented Mr. Cone's letter to Mrs. Millikan and here is that document: "We appreciate the fine spirit with which the women of Greens-boro have devoted themselves to every patriotic and humanitarian call during the past two years. Now that they have enlisted in the cam-paign for funds to build a home for the Young Women's Christian Asso-ciation, we feel that every citizen of the community should rally to this cause. "It the goal ot $125,000 is to be reached, our generous hearted citi-zens must contribute more largely than in any previous campaign. "Speaking for my associates and myself, as an encouragement to the cause, we will contribute toward the fund one dollar for each tour dollars raised from other sources, our tola1 '"••iitribulion to o' $2",, OuC in the event the entire $125,000 i« raised. "With sincere good wishes for the success of your campaign. "Very 'truly yours. "JULIUS W. CONE." Rioting at Steel Mill. Pittsburgh. Oct. 21—Rioting broke out in the steel mill district at Brad-dock shortly after noon. According to reports received by the police here, a mob of 1.000 persons gath-ered in the vicinity of the plants and fighting resulted in which a number of rioters were injured. One state trooper was seriously hurt and brought to a hospital here. A troop of state police was rushed to the scene from Rankin, nearby, and at 1 o'clock was engaged in driving back the crowd. Charlotte Recall Badly Beaten. Charlotte. Oct. 81.—The Charlotte city commissioners were given a ma-jority ot 1.435 in the recall election here to-day. A total of 5.272 votes were cast, the largest on record here. The dayjiassed without any disturbances, and reports that cot? ton mills would close down and op-eratives flock to the polls proved untrue. One or two individual fights occurred, but these had no serious results. METHODIST FAYOR WORLD LEAGUE AT CONFERENCE RESOLUTION PASSED AT SION OF WESTERN N. C. CONFERENCE. The following resolution present-ed by C. H. Ireland, was adopted unanimously by a rising vote of the Western North Carolina Conference to-day: "Resolved, that the Western Nortk Carolina Conference of the Metho-dist Episcopal Church, South, repre-senting over 110,000 members, be^ lieving in the efficacy of prayer and appreciating the unselfish, patriotic and Christian sacrifice that has been put forth by our worthy President. Woodrow Wilson, and whereas, he has been stricken by sickness and his health impaired by reason of his herculean and unselfish effort in be-half or humanity, we therefore move that the work of this conference he adjourned lor a suitable time In wlii -h to bow MI intercessory praver for the speedy and permanent re-covery of our beloved President. "Resolved, second, that this con-ference go on record as favoring a League of Nations and that our sen-ators and congressmen be approved for the support given to the enact-ment of the League of Nationas into law. "Resolved, third, that the secre-tary of the conference be instructed to forward to the President a copy ot these resolutions. "C. H. IRELAND, "IRA ERWIN. A. W. PLYLER." Following the adoption of the res-olution Bishop Darlington led the conference in an earnest prayer for the recovery of President Wilson. WESTERN N. C. CONFERENCE CONVENED HERE YESTERDAY. The first day of the conference, following Bishop U. V. W. Darling-ton's impressive opening address and the organization which includ-ed the election of W. L. Sherrill, secretary, the conference ran swift-ly yesterday enlivened at times by vigorous discussion ot questions in hand. By unanimous vote the league of nations was indorsed, the conference stopped in the midst of its activities to offer prayer for the recovery of President Wilson, the 11 presiding elders submitted the reports from their respective district, the confer-ence authorized the trustees of the children's home to institute a cam-paign to secure $175,000 for that worthy institution, a proposition to put in the field a commissioner to push through a hospital enterprise was sent over to to-day's session an<f numerous items of business of a mi-nor sort were transacted at the morning and afternoon sessions. The afternoon session ws for the special purpose of hearing the chil-dren from the Winston-Salem home sing and to pass upon the trustees' recommendation that the conference raise $175,000. The evening exer-cises were given to the Sunday school work and were largely attended. One of the unusual features of the first session was the large num-ber of visitors in attendance and" from the opening at 9 o'clock till the adjournment at 12.30 they seemed intently interested in every-thing that transpires. DRIVER OF CAR HELD ON CHARGE OF MURDER. Attorney General Palmer says re-tail food prices have been reduced 15 per cent. What does Mrs. Pal-mer say?—Wall Street Journal. Probable cause was the finding ot Justice of the Peace D. H. Collins yesterday in the case against Sbnbe Anthony. Guilford county white man. charging murder. Bond for Anthony's appearance at the Decem-ber term of Guilford Superior court was fixed at $8,000. The case grew out ot an automo-bile accident which occurred abont five miles south of the city, on the Greensboro-High Point boulevard, last August, resulting in two fatali-ties. The car. driven by Anthony, overturned and a woman passenger was killed almost instantly, white another woman who was riding in the car suffered injuries which re-sulted in her death a few houi-.i later in a Greensboro hospital. Anthony also was fined $50 for operating an automobile in a reck-less manner while drunk. Notice or an appeal was given by the defend-ant. - ■ . 11 r'thi'ifii iriiiShri i i i ' - i1
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Title | The Greensboro patriot [October 23, 1919] |
Date | 1919-10-23 |
Editor(s) | Mebane, C. H. (Charles Harden), 1862-1926 |
Subject headings | Greensboro (N.C.)--Newspapers |
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Place | Greensboro (N.C.) |
Description | The October 23, 1919, issue of The Greensboro Patriot, a newspaper published in Greensboro, N.C. by Patriot Publishing Company. |
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Original publisher | Greensboro, N.C. : Patriot Publishing Company |
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