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The First National Bank
1865.—OF GALVESTON—1919.
The Oldest National Bank in Texas.
Capital
Surplus
$200,000.00
200,000.00
R. WAVERLY SMITH. .. .President
CHAS. FOWLER..... Vice President
J. H. HILL..........Vice President
FRED W. CATTERALL.....Cashier
F. ANDLER......Assistant Cashier
E. KELLNER. .. .Assistant Cashier
VOL. 39.
GALVESTON, TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1919.—TWELVE PAGES.
NO. 284.
PRESIDENT WILSON MAKES ANOTHER EFFORT FOR INDI
MARSHAL PETAIN Railway Unions
RELATES BATTLE — —--
NEVER HEARD OF GLAND.
Describes Terrific Con-
flict at Verdun.
GERMAN ATTACK DID
NOT SURPRISE FRANCE
Knew of Impending Blow
Weeks Before.
By Associated Press.
Verdun, France, Wednesday, Oct. 22.
—Over the historic battlefield of Ver-
dun King Alfonso of Spain walked to-
day with Marshal.Petain, the chief de-
fender of the citadel during the tre-
mendous struggle fought in February
and March, 1916.
Along roads lined by thousands of
white crosses, marking the graves of
warriors who fell, and through sub-
terranean passageways, where the de-
fenders were marshaled preparatory
to counter-attacking the foe, the king
walked. As he went he plied his dis-
tinguished guide with questions.
Upon his arrival at Verdun, King
Alfonso at once proceeded to the mili-
tary cemetery, where he ‘deposited a
wreath of orchids.
The party then turned to the battle-
field, reaching Fort Douaumont at 10
o’clock. Great interest in the fort was
evidenced by King Alfonso, who asked
to be shown the underground passages
leading to the outer redoubts.
FRANCE NOT SURPRISED.
France was not surprised by the G9p-
man offensive against Verdun, Marshal
Petain told the king during their walk.
The latter expressed surprise when
given this information, as it has been
generally believed the Germans at-
tacked almost without warning.
“We knew of the enemy’s plan,” said
the marshal. "Six weeks before we
had received our first information
from learning of the construction of a
formidable system of railroads leading
to Verdun.
“As proof that we were not sur-
prised, I may say we sent for the
Twentieth corps, which reached Ver-
dun Feb. 25. It did not fall from
heaven. However, the fact remains
that when the battle of Verdun began
we had on the right bank of the Meuse
only two divisions opposing five Ger-
man army corps. These two divisions
held their positions for five days.
“Feb. 25 was the most critical day of
the battle. The enemy, by sacrificing
his best troops, had succeeded in cap-
turing Fort Douaumont, the day before
and the situation was grave. On Feb.
25 the troops which had been occupying
the Woevre sector (to the east .of Ver-
dun) were ordered to fall back to the
heights of the Meuse. The order was
criticised then, but its wisdom was
later recognized.
PETAIN TAKES COMMAND.
“Since I had received an order from
great headquarters to establish contact
with Gen. Castelnau’s division, which
had been defending Fort Douaumont
and now, was falling back to Verdun, I
met Gen. Castelnau at Souilly. All he
said was: ‘Take command of the
army.' Thus on the evening of Feb. 26
I assumed command. I distributed the
commands among Gens. Guillaumat,
Duchesne and De Balfourier, with or-
ders that not another inch of ground
be given up and that the defenders
Should reply to every
counter-offensive. .
“During the eight days
lowed the village of
attack by a
that fol-
Douaumont
changed hands ten times, but the Ger-
mans held the fort.”
“I now understand,” said King Al-
fonso, "why during those hours we
knew nothing of what was going on
here.”
“At last, on March 4.” Marshall Pe-
tain resumed, "the village was definite-
ly ours, and on March 6, when the Ger-
mans attacked on the left bank of the
Meuse, I was really to receive them. It
had always appeared strange to me
that an attack had not been launched
on the left bank of the river and
everything was prepared in view of
such an assault. It Was because the
enemy deferred that attack too long
that we were able to restore the situa-
tion. That delay saved us.
"Then came the gigantic struggle for
Hill 304 and Dead Man's hill. It was
then I issued my order of the day:
‘Courage, we will get them!’”
Marshal Petain then told the story
of Gen. Mangin’s offensive on May 22,
by which Douaumont village was
stormed, adding that the Germans put
five new divisions into the line during
the preceding fifteen days, and from
May 22 to June 28 hurled eight other
divisions into the fight, only to gain
but 500 yards. •
HUNS SHOUTED “VICTORY."
“The enemy after this fighting was
shouting ‘Victory,’" said the marshal
disdainfully. General Mangin’s offens-
ive on October 26 when Fort Douau-
mont was recaptured and the Germans
forced to evacuate the village and fort
of Vaux, with the loss of 11,000 pris-
oners, was then described.
“At the end of 1916,” the French chief
concluded, “our situation was favorable
on the right bank of the Meuse but
had on the left.' On August 20, 1917,
however, our offensive on both banks
of the Meuse brought us back to our
original line of February, 1916, and on
that day we gathered in everything
we wished.”
Marshal Petain and King Alfonso
walked out over what was once No
Man’s Land and which now shows no
sign of life.
The party returned to Verdun short-
ly before noon
HELP YOUR GOVERNMENT
by purchasing Thrift Stamps and
War Savings Certificates. For sale
at all banks and by all postmen,
4% Interest, Compounded Quarterly.
HUTCHINGS, SEALY & CO.
BANKERS
(Unincorporated)
24th Strand
I AI PTACF
Ready to Fight
For Higher Pa
By Associated Press.
Washington, Oct. 23.—Indications
that railroad employees will insist upon
the granting of their demands for in-
creased wages, time and a half over-
time, the eight-hour day and changes
in working conditions before the rail-
roads of the country are turned back
by the government to private control
is contained in testimony by Timothy
Shea, chief of the firemen’s brother-
hood, before the railroad administra-
tion’s board of railway wage and work-
ing conditions.
Mr. Shea fold the board during its
hearing of the firemen’s demands, ac-
cording to the testimony published to-
day, that to members of his brother-
hood was due an increase in wages,
which, he said, “if I cannot get it out
of this conference it may be necessary
to use other means, but I am going to
get it.”
In another portion of Mr. Shea’s tes-
timony, he is quoted as declaring that
if the firemen’s demands for a living
wage should not be met when the time
approaches for the turning back the
railroads to their private owners
the workers shall demand as a condi-
tion precedent to the return, the grant-
ing of this demand.
Although Mr. Shea appeared before
the board only in behalf of the fire-
men it is generally considered that
to increase the wages of the firemen
would necessitate a similar increase
to all railroad .workers and any action
taken by the firemen to enforce their
wage demands would involve similar
action by the other brotherhoods.
When Mr. Shea told the board he
did not think it possible for working
people to curtail expenditures any
more, W. F. Morse who was general
manager of a railroad before becom-
ing a member of the board, asked, “Do
you,represent any men who are buying-
automobiles and those things?”
“I do not hear,” the witness respond-
ed, “of any firemen buying automo-
biles.”
AUTOMOBILE A NECESSITY.
"You would not mark an automobile
as a necessity?” Morse again queried.
“Yes, I would,” was Shea's answer.
"Well, I have denied myself a neces-
sity all my life," Mr. Morse retorted.
“I think we have reached a period
of our life when the laboring man
must enjoy some of the necessaries and
luxuries of life,” Shea continued.
“I do not think the time is at hand
when the American working man
should be required to make any great
sacrifices now. They have made their
sacrifices.”
Shea and A. O. Wharton, who left
the presidency of the railway employ-
ees’ department of the American Fed-
eration of Labor, composed of the shop-
men, to join the board according to the
testimony, engaged in a controversy
over comparisons made between the
pay of firemen and shopmen.
Mr. Wharton declared he knew, of
inexperienced firemen who had re-
ceived pay increases of 140 per cent.
Shea protested .that this did not apply
to the majority of the men who had
received advances of only 50 per cent,
compared with 85 per cent increase in
prices.
“As a trade unionist,” Wharton as-
serted, “I have never dreamed that a
man representing a labor union would
bring before the tribunal data which
shows such an incorrect picture of the
conditions and the earnings of the men
as you have presented.”
“If our demand’s for a living wage
should not be met when the time ap-
proaches for turning back the railroads
to their private owners,” Mr. Shea said
during his testimony, “we shall demand
as a condition precedent to the change
the realization of the fundamental
rights of labor, the living wage, the
eight-hour day on all federal controlled
roads, time and one-half for overtime
and other principles to which the gov-
ernment pledged itself during the war,
which have now been made a part of
the treaty of peace and which, so far,
the railroad administration has never
fulfilled.”
PREDICTS FURTHER DEMANDS.
While Mr. Shea was appearing on be-
half of the firemen only, it has been
recognized generally that wage in-
creases for any one class of railroad
employees meant an advance for all to
maintain equality between the work-
ers, Furthermore, Mr. Shea said he an-
ticipated that the failure of the gov-
ernment’s efforts to reduce the cost of
living would make necessary advances
in pay for all workers, and predicted
that by Nov. 1 the wage board would
be forced to consider “further, requests
for general increases” for the railroad
employees.
There were Indications of an ap-
proaching “show down” between the
railroad 'administration and the Brotn-
erhood of Railway Trainmen and En-
ginemen who asked increased wages
last summer. The report of the wage
board on the demands has been sent
to the director general, who will meet
President W. G. Lee and his committee
next Wednesday. The committee will
hold a preliminary meeting here Tues-
day,
"There is no ultimatum about our
meeting," President Lee said, “and it
does not necessarily involve a strike,
though the committee has been given
full power to take any steps necessary
or desirable.”
By Associated Press.
New York, Oct. 23.—A report
that Dr. Serge Voronoff of Paris
had discovered a method of re-
storing the vigor of youth to the
aged by removing the “intersti-
tial" gland of a monkey and
grafting it to a man is being
discussed by delegates to the
clinical congress of the American
College of Surgeons. Most of the
delegates disclaim knowledge of
any such gland as the ■‘intersti-
tial”
MINE WORKERS
REJECT OFFER
Turn Down Proposed Raise
in Wages.
ASKS PUBLIC DELEGATES
RAME
PROGRAM AND MAKE REPORT TO HIM;
LANE CALLS GROUP INTO SESSION
UNCLE SAM MULCTED
OF HUGE AMOUNT
Probe Chairman Makes
Charge.
By Associated Press.
Chicago, Oct. 23.—Criminal prosecu-
tion of at least a dozen army officers
and civilians and institution of a civil
suit for recovery of from $13,000,000
to $15,000,000, of which he said he fig-
ured the government had been mulcted
in connection with a $40,000,000 muni-
tion contract, involving the Standard
Steel Car company of Hammond, Ind.,
will be asked in its report to congress
by a subcommittee which has been
conducting an investigation several
days, according to Chairman William
J. Graham in a statement made public
today.
The big contract was for howitzer
gun carriages at $40,000 each, of which
only 20 were finished, according to
Congressman Graham's statement. Al-
lowing for the cost of preparation the
government still is mulcted of between
$13,000,000 and $15,000,000, as I figure
it, he said.
CELLS PAINTED BLACK.
Grey Fails to Bring About Remorseful
Attitude.
By Associated Press.
Chicago, Oct. 23.—Cells in the city
jail at Winnetka, nearby township,
were painted grey to bring about a
remorseful attitude for prisoners in-
carcerated there, but it conduced to
levity, so today the cells were painted
a dull black. William N. Peterson,
psychology expert and head of the
Winnetka police force, said he now
looks for true repentance.
NEGRO SLASHES CONDUCTOR.
Special to The Tribune.
Houston, Oct. 23.—J. B. Jones, a con-
ductor on a. Pierce avenue car, was
slashed in the throat by a negro
Wednesday night, following an argu-
ment because the negro persisted in
sitting in front of a segregation sign
in the car. Immediately after the cut-
ting the negro jumped from the car and
made his escape. Jones was removed
to his home at 97 N. E. Hutcheson
street. -The wound is not serious.
GAMBLE AT CAMP DOWIE.
By Associated Press.
Fort Worth, Tex., Oct. 23.—Captain
O. L. Gamble of Camp Funston, Kan.,
has arrived at Camp Bowie to assume
the duties of utilities officer and to as-
sist in closing up the camp.
SPECIAL CONVENTION
OF LABOR IS URGED
Illinois Federation Takes
Initiative.
By Associated Press.
Peoria, Ill., Oct. 23.—Following the
withdrawal of the labor' group from
the industrial conference at Washing-
ton, the Illinois Federation of Labor in
convention this morning authorized
the sending of a message to Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, and to members
of the executive council, urging the im-
mediate issuance of a call for a special
convention of the American Federation
of Labor in Washington.
The message urges that the official
representatives of the railway brother-
hoods be invited to participate, the
object of the meeting to be "the per-
fecting of an offensive and defensive
alliance of the international unions of
the United States and Canada and the
railway brotherhoods more effective to
fight out the life and death struggle of
the workers now in progress and im-
pending."
WITHDRAW OBJECTIONS.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Oct. 23.—Republican
members of the senate naval commit-
tee announced today that their objec-
tion to confirmation of Admiral Coontz
as chief of naval operations had been
withdrawn. Confirmation of the nom-
ination at the next executive session
of the senate is planned.
“MOTHER”JONES AT GARY.
By Associated Press.
Chicago, Oct. 23.—"Mother” Jones,
the aged labor agitator, arrived in
Gary today, but Colonel Mapes, in
charge of the soldiers there, said she
would not be permitted to deliver any
public addresses. r
FUND FOR MEMORIAL.
London, Wednesday, Oct. 22.—
(By the Associated Press).—The
United States has been offered
$30,000 of the Dover patrol fund
for the erection of a memorial
to commemorate the co-operation
of the American and British nav-
ies in the war. The money is
offered without conditions, and
the United States officials may
decide where and what sort of
memorial shall be erected.
RUSSIAN FORCES
ADVANCE SLOWLY
Hard Fighting for Petro-
grad Continues.
By Associated Press.
London, Oct. 23.—Krasia Gorka,
fortified city on the southern shore
a
of
the gulf of Finland about thirty miles
west of Petrograd, has been taken by
antibolshevik troops, according to Hel-
singfors advices.
South and southwest of Petrograd
the northwestern Russian army seems
to be making slow progress. Advices
received here, however, would appear
to indicate a slight advance by Gen.
Yudenitch during the last few days,
it being said a severe struggle is in
progress six and one-half miles south
of the city. Soviet forces are reported
to have arrived at Petrograd from
Moscow and to be engaged in the bat-
tle.
Gen. Denikine has again defeated
the bolsheviki in the Volga region,
having driven the soviet forces back
near Kamyshin, north of Tzaritsy, ac-
cording to a wireless message received
from the Denikine headquarters.
The soviet government, on the other
hand, claims to have broken in the apex
of the great wedge driven northward
toward Moscow by the Denikine army,
the villages of Sievsk and Kromy hav-
ing been taken. It is said that the
Denikine Cossacks are being pursued
southward in this region.
MISSIONARY ACTIVITIES
Chief Topic at Today's Session of Con-
gregational Council.
By Associated Press.
Grand Rapids, Mich., Oct. 23.—Mis-
sionary activities of the Congregational
church were the principal topics be-
fore the biennial convention of the na-
tional council of the church here to-
day.
In connection with the proposal to
provide pensions for Congregational
ministers, Moderator Henry C. King
has launched a movement to fix a uni-
form age limit for retirement. He sug-
gests retirement at the age of 68, not
only of ministers, but all executive
officers of the national council
mission board.
ORGANIZING CAMPAIGN.
and
Te Raise Funds to Erect Hospital For
. Tubercular Patients.
By Associated Press.
Austin, Tex., Oct. 22.—The executive
committee of the Benevolent War Risk
Society of Texas met here today to
make definite plans and to organize
the state for the campaign to raise
funds to erect a hospital to care for
tuberculosis patients who have been in
military service. Plans call for the
raising of $500,000..
After the hospital is established and
equipped, the United States war
board will maintain it.
ATTACKS DEPARTMENTS
For
risk
Their Direction of the Public
Health Service.
By Associated Press.
Louisville, Ky., Oct. 23.—Dr. Charles
A. L. Reed, Cincinnati, at the conven-
tion ofathe Mississippi Valley Medical
association, launched an attack upon
the treasury and interior departments
for their direction of the United States
public health service and other health
activities. He asserted that efficiency
of the bureau had been lowered ma-
terially “by those who meddled with a
subject with which they were not ac-
quainted and at a time when meddling
was dangerous.”
MUELLER, GERMAN DELEGATE.
Berlin, .Wednesday, Oct. 22.—Dr.
August Mueller, former food controller,
probably will head the German delega-
tion at the labor congress at Washing-
ton.
THEWEATHER
-----1 FORECAST.
TOLD Yo V So.l For Galveston
4 and Vicinity:
33 V A---• Cloudy and un-
settled tonight
and Friday;
probably with
occasional show-
ers.
For East Tex-
as: Cloudy with
local showers to -
night and Fri-
day; colder in
north portion on
Friday.
——_ For West Tex-
as: Cloudy tonight and
probably rain in north
colder tonight in north
Colder Friday.
Friday;
portion;
portion.
For Oklahoma: Cloudy tonight and
Friday; probably rain. Colder in the
west portion tonight. Colder Fri-
day.
Winds on Texas Coast; Moderate
southerly.
TEMPERATURES.
Minimum temperatures recorded
in Texas during the 24 hours ending
at 7 a. m. today include: Galveston,
78; Houston, 74; Abilene 64; Amaril-
10, 46; Brownsville, 76; Dallas, 64;
San Antonio, 74.
STAND BY DEMAND
FOR FIVE-DAY WEEK
Joint Session Likely to End
Abruptly.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Oct. 23.—The United
Mine Workers of America today for-
mally rejected the proposal by Secre-
tary Wilson for settlement of the coal
strike called for Nov. 1.
John L. Lewis, president of the mi-
ners' organization, announced that the
proposal was indefinite, inadequate and
failed to meet the situation. He added
that he would so report to the joint
conference this afternoon.
This was taken to mean that the
joint conference with operators would
end abruptly unless the secretary was
prepared to submit a new proposition.
Mr. Lewis reiterated that the union
would consider no offer - of settlement
that failed to grant the demand by
the miners for a five-day week.
Members of the miners’ committee
Said their meeting this morning- would
merely ratify' the informal agreement
reached last night to reject the offer.
Leaders said they would attend the
conference at 2 o’clock, as they had
been asked to do so by Secretary Wil-
son, but that if no new offer of set-
tlement was made they would start
immediately for their homes and make
ready for the strike called for Nov. 1.
GOVERNOR GIVES NOTICE.
Will Use Power to See That Coal Is
Provided.
By Associated Press.
Des Moines, Ia., Oct. 23.—-Gov. W. L.
Harding of Iowa will exercise what-
ever powers are necessary to see that
coal is mined in this state if the
threatened strike takes place and con-
tinues until the public begins to suffer
for fuel. Today he said: “If the strike
take's place and the public is without
coal and suffers, I will exercise the
necessary power to have coal mined.”
PRESIDENT’S* CONDITION.
Progress as Satisfactory as Could Be
Expected.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Oct. 23.—President Wil-
son Is making as satisfactory progress
as is possible in the circumstances,
his physicians said today. They issued
this bulletin:
"White House, Oct. 23, 1919, 12
o’clock.
"The president is making as satis-
factory progress as is possible -under
the circumstances. No new symptoms
have developed.
"GRAYSON,
“RUFFIN,
"STITT.”
REGRET IS EXPRESED
That Shipping Board Has Postponed
Inauguration of Service.
By Associated Press.
Buenos Aires, Wednesday, Oct. 22.-
Resolutions have been adopted by the
chamber of commerce of the United
States of America in Argentina ex-
pressing regret that passenger and
mail service between Argentina and
ports on the Atlantic seaboard of the
United States has been postponed until
next winter by the United States ship-
ping board.
Officials of the chamber point out
; that the infrequency of mails from the
United States is constantly proving a
serious handicap to business men here.
CONGRESS POSTPONED.
Working Women to Hold Meeting at
Washington.
By Associated Press.
■ Washington, Oct. 23.—Owing to delay
in the arrival of Polish delegates, the
opening of the executive council of
the international congress of working
women, which was to have been held
here today, was postponed until Satur-
day.
Delegates from thirty-four countries
have been invited to attend the con-
gress which will convene Oct. 29 sim-
ultaneously with the assembling of the
international labor conference.
INSTRUCTIONS ISSUED.
Washington, Oct. 23.—Railroad offi-
cers and employees have been in-
structed to turn their watches back one
hour at 2 a. m. next Sunday when
the daylight savings law becomes in-
operative, Director General Hines said
today.
Trains in terminals when the change
occurs will be held until the scheduled
time of departure under the new time.
NO REDUCTION NEAR.
2 By Associated Press.
$ Washington, Oct. 23.—No re-
7 duction in prices of British wool-
$ ens is to be expected for at least
§ two years, according to a report
$ at the department of commerce
2 today. The woolen situation in
r England is more serious than it
3 has been for years, says the re-
S port and prices have advanced
2 within the last month.
C
Organized Labor Bolted Conference Yesterday Fol-
lowing Defeat of Collective Bargaining Reso-
lution-Gompers Makes Threats.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Oct. 23.—Out of the wreck of the national indus-
trial conference President Wilson today sought to build new ma-
chinery to bring about industrial peace in the country. In a mes-
sage to Chairman Lane he asked that the public representatives in
the conference continue their work and make a report to him.
It is the hope of the president and other administration officials
that the public delegates, who were appointed by Mr. Wilson and
who represent both employers and workers, can formulate a pro-
g-ram which will be acceptable to capital and labor.
After announcing that he had received President Wilson’s mes-
sage, Chairman Lane declared the national industrial conference as
originally constituted adjourned, and immediately called the mem-
bers of the public groups into session as a new conference.
President Wilson did not write a formal letter to the conference.
His wishes were made known to Mr. Lane through Secretary Tu-
multy who went to the conference roomi after a talk with the presi-
dent during which Mr. Wilson was informed not only of the events
in the conference, but also of the views of the conference leaders.
Organized labor withdrew from the national industrial confer-
ence last night after its final effort to obtain adoption of a collec-
tive bargaining resolution had been defeated by the vote of a ma-
jority of the capital group.
Withdrawal of the labor group was
announced by Samuel Gompers, presi-
dent of the American Federation 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 in-
evitable, had read a letter in which
President Wilson, dictating from his
sick bed, had appealed for harmony in
the conference and for the final work-
ing out of a program of industrial
peace. , 1
LABORITES DON'T APPLAUD.
Representatives of labor did, not join
in the applause which greeted the let-
ter, and Mr. Gompers characterized as
“most unfortunate” a motion by John
Spargo, of the public group, that each
group pledge the president it would
make every effort to accomplish the
work for which the conference was
called. The motion was withdrawn and
the conference recessed so the labor
group could meet to determine its fu-
ture eourse.
When the conference convened in
the afternoon, the labor group pro-
posed their resolution.
After a suspension of the rules, the
resolution was immediately brought to
discussion and vote, the labor and pub-
lic groups uniting in its support on
the roll call. The majority against
the resolution in the capital group was
one vote, but under the conference
rules this majority was sufficient to
defeat the resolution.
With the announcement of the re-
sult, Mr. Gompers told the conference
the resolution had been rejected “with-
out right or reason, rejected on grounds
so flimsy that the men sitting in the
employers’ group will have difficulty in
explaining their action to their fellows
in the world.”
GOMPERS MAKES THREAT.
“You have defeated the labor group
in its declaration,” declared the vet-
eran labor leader, "but we will meet
you again in conference, and when we
do meet you there you will be glad to
talk collective bargaining.
“I have sung my swan song in this
conference. You have by your action
legislated us out of the gathering. We
have nothing further to say, and it is
with a feeling of regret that we are
not able to remain longer. Our chief
regret is the defeat of every fair prop-
osition on our part. The die is cast.
We cannot remain longer.”
Representatives of the four railroad
brotherhoods remained in the confer-
ence until the session adjourned, but
they announced that they did so “out of
courtesy to the other delegates," and
that they were in accord with the main
body of the labor group.
Before the labor delegates left the
hall, Mr. Spargo asked them not to
make their decision irrevocable but
remain with the understanding that
the conference would “proceed to de-
velop and formulate a general program
which will clearly define and establish
the right of collective bargaining.”
Calling attention that only a “very
small majority” of the members of the
conference had voted against the col-
lective bargaining resolution, while
about fifty favored it, Dr. Charles W.
Eliot of the public group said this in-
consistency was due to the “impossible
rules" under which the convention
worked.
STAND BY RECORD.
Harry A. Wheeler, chairman of the
employers’ group, in announcing the
intention of his group to remain here
for further work, said capital repre-
sentatives would not accept the re-
sponsibility for breaking up the con-
ference. He declared they had worked
sincerely for what they considered just
principles, and that they were will-
ing to stand on the record of the con-
ference.
The resolution offered by Samuel
Gompers follows:
"The right of wage earners to or-
ganize without discrimination, to bar-
gain collectively, to be represented by
representatives of ,their own choosing
in negotiations and adjustments with
employers in aspect to wages, hours
of labor, and relations and conditions
of employment, is recognized.”
In introducing the resolution Gom-
pers declared President Wilson’s letter
to the conference demonstrated . the
“mind of the president is as clear as it
ever was during his entire life, and it
indicates to us that he will soon be
restored to the nation and to the world
of the full power of his wonderful
mind and intellect.”
WILL REOPEN EMBASSY.
Britain to Re-Establish Diplomatie Re
lations With Germany.
By Associated Press.
London, Oct. 22.4-Announcement is
made that the mission of Walford H.
M. Selby to Berlin will be the reopen-
ing of the British embassy and the re-
establishment of diplomatic relations
between Great Britain and Germany.
This will be followed by the appoint-
ment of a regular British charge
d'affaires and the subsequent selection
of an ambassador to Germany.
It has not been decided when Fran-
cis Oswald Laundley, British high com-
missioner at Vienna, will assume his
duties, but it is believed he will go to
the Austrian capital within a few days.
WILL MODIFY CLAUSES
As Soon as Rumania Is Ready to. Sign
Treaty.
Paris, Oct. 23.— (Havas).—The su-
preme council, having considered the
report of Sir George Clerk, who was
sent to Rumania as commissioner for
the council, has sent to Bucharest a
note stating that the council is ready
to consider a modification of the
clauses of the’St. Germain treaty with
Austria guaranteeing protection to
racial and religious minorities as soon
as the Rumanian government is ready
to sign the convention, according to the
Petit Parisien.
HONOR KING ALBERT.
Former Residents of Belgium Unite in
Entertainment.
By Associated Press.
Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 23.—Former res-
idents of Belgium from all parts of
Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio
and West Virginia joined the people of
Pittsburgh today in honoring Albert,
king of the Belgians, and Queen Eliza-
beth.
King Albert received an honorary
degree from the University of Pitts-
burgh. The party drove to the Du-
quesne plant of the Carnegie Steel
company, where the king was shown
through the mills.
SWISS WON’T JOIN.
Have Already Cut Off Intercourse With
Russia.
Berne, Wednesday, Oct. 22.— (By the
Associated Press).—The Swiss govern-
ment decided today not to join in the
collective reply of other neutral states
regarding the Invitation of the allies
to participate in the blockade of soviet
Russia. It is pointed out that Swit-
zerland long ago had broken off re-
lations with the then existing Russian
government and that there are no com-
mercial or financial relations of any
kind, so that the situation intended by
the allies has been reached already as
far as Switzerland is concerned and no .
change in Swiss policy is now needed.
REDUCING BRITISH STAFF.
War Secretary Sends Notice to Of-
ficers.
By Associated Press.
London, Oct. 23.—Colonel Winston
Spencer Churchill, secretary of state
for war, has sent a memorandum to
the general staff giving notification of
a drastic reduction in personnel by the
end of the year.
The staff will be reduced forty per
cent below the number of officers en-
rolled August 1, at which time the
staff had been already reduced by 5,000
men.
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