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*" MEXT FOB STEEL STRIKE OF
REVOLUTIONISTS.
GREENSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1919.
VOL. 98. NO. 85
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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.
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