The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current, October 30, 1919, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3

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PLATTSMOUTH SEM-WTTELY JOITRIiAL
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GOOD TIME TO REPAIR AND OIL
YOUR KARE3
BEFORE CORN HUSKING!
Complete Corn Elevator $275.00
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Stoughton and I. K. C. Spreaders!
ALL SIZES GASOLINE ENGINES
JOHN F. GORDER,
LEWIS SILENT
ON PROSPECT
OF THE STRIKE
ACTING HEAD OF MINERS SAYS
ONLY THAT SITUATION
IS UNCHANGED.
AN ACCEOENTAL SHOT KILLS.
LAYS BLAME ON OPERATORS
Defends Moral Eight of the Men to
Walk Out Says They've Of
fered Mediation.
Kearney, Neb., Oct. 23. Art
Meyers was accidentally shot , and
instantly killed this morning. Mey
ers entered his place of business, a
pump shop under the influence" of
liquor, it is alleged. He procured
a gun and it is asserted threatened
to kill someone. J. W. Lawbead and
Ed Wolford, in the place at . the
time, remonstrated with him and
when threatened proceeded, to re
lieve him of his gun. During the
scuffle the weapon was discharged,
the bullet enterng Meyers' body
under the right arm. striking a rib
and being deflected ended in the
heart. At the coroner's inquest
both men were exonerated from
any blame for the killing. On
Meyer's person was found' a bottle
partly filled with banana extract.
He had been drinking various ex
tracts heavily for weeks past and
when under their influence fre
quently procured a gun and threat-
RETIKES FROM BUSINESS.
Springfield, 111., Oct. 26. Reply
ing to the statement of President
Wilson that the proposed strike of ened to kill someone
soft 'coal miners, scheduled for No
vember 1st, is "unjustifiable and un
lawful." John L. Lewis, acting pres
ident of the United Mine Workers
of America, on his arrival here to
night from Washington, D. C. de
clared "the status quo" prevailed.
Asked whether the
Herman Diers. of Gresham. broth
er of our townsman, W. F. Diers, has
sold his business to C. A. Lindstrom,
a former clerk, who has been living
farm the past two years. Mr.
president's ' on a
declaration would act to suspend the Diers is well known in Louisville,
strike call. Mr. Lewis said he had j having visited here frequently and
nothing to say on this subject to- the news of his retirement from the
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FARM IMPLEMENTS
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W. E. Rosencrans returned this
morning on No. C from a visit out
in the state where he was engaged
in leoking after fomo land inter
est s.
District Judge J. T. Begley and
Court Reporter Earl Travis departed
this morning for Papillion, where
they .will hold a session of the dis
trict court.
Let our carrier boy deliver you a
Tournal each day. 15c a week.
A- 33-Year Loan
BUT WHICH CAN BE PAID SOONER IF DESIRED
No
Himessions
We place such loans through the LINCOLN
JOINT STOCK LAND BANK, of Lincoln,
Nebraska, which during the past year has
loaned over $8,000,000.00 to the farmers of
Iowa and Nebraska.
NO DELAYS! NO RED TAPE!
A FAIR RATE OF INTEREST
Ask Us About It
ank of Cass Co.,
Plattsmouth -:- -:- Nebraska
night. mercantile business will come as a
Mr. Lewis went to his home in surprise to his acquaintances here,
this city, shut himself off from com-j Mr. Diers is a pioneer merchant of
munication with the outside world. Gresham, having been in business
and 'left orders not to be bothered there for the past thirty years. He
before 11 a. m. tomorrow. jiias been very successful, conserva-
He refused to comment on wheth- five in his methods, but always
er further negotiations are possible. ' standing for everything progressive
- land for the betterment of his home
Refuses to Define Attitude. J community, and the people of Gresh-
Bloomington, 111., Oct. 26. -John lira yvill regret losing him as a busi
L. Lewis, acting president of the liess man of the town. The new pro
United Mine Workers of America. 1 prietor will take possession of the
(tonight declined to state specifically store on November 1st. Louisville
the attitude of the United Minn Courier.
Workers toward the statement of;
President Wilson yesterday regard- J Mrs. Frank D. Burgess departed
ing the proposed strike of the bi- this morning for her home at Cedar
tuminous coal miners of the nation. Rapids. Nebraska, after a short visit
here with her father, A. W. White
and sister, Mrs. J. A. Donelan.
OPERATORS
BLAMED FOP.
COAL STRIKE
MINERS' OFFICIAL ANNOUNCES
WALKOUT WILL
OCCUR.
NOVEMBER 1ST SET FOR DATE
Unless Managers Relent 500.000 Men
Will Quit the Soft Coal Fields, as
Orders Are Still, in Effect.
j In regard to this Mr. Lewis would
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i "I am an American, free born.
.with all the pride of my heritage. I
love my country with its institutions
and traditions. With Abraham Lin
coln. I thank God that we have a
country where men may strike. May
the power of my government never i
be used to throttle and crush the
efforts of the toilers to improve their
material welfare and elevate the
standard of their citizenship."
j No Word from Washington. , j
Mr. Lewis said that he had not
received any message from Wash-:
ington, that he had been traveling'
Jail day. He left Washington at C!
o'clock Saturday evening to return i
to his home at. Springfield, which he SATURDAY, NOV. 1ST, 1919.
left October C. He added that he at which time I will offer for sale
I had yesterday morning at 10 o'clock! at public auction to the highest
called a meeting of the national ex-! bidder, the following described
ecutive board of the United Mine J property, to-wit:
Workers to convene at Indianapolis . Jjye Stock.
at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning, j Qne pair of Shetland ponies, mare
He explained that the meeting was an(j Colt.
caiieu Deiore - president w lison s one pair of black horses, coming
statement was made public. The 5 vear old.
Father F..F. Suesser of the Holy
Rosary Catholic church, departed
this morning on the early Burling
ton train for Ord. Nebraska, his'
former parish, for a short visit.
PUBLIC SALE!
To be held at my farm of a
mile east and 1 V miles south of
Union, Nebraska, and 10 miles north
of Nebraska City, on the old K. C,
road, on
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-arm csargains:
1 240 acre farm. 12 V2' miles from town, fair improvements, 30
acres in cultivation and 1 CO acres more can be broke. $35.00
pf-r acre.
2 "20-acre table laud farm. 1 4 miles from two good towns, three
qu:trterf. of a mile to school, two miles to church. Good im
provements. 200 acres under cultivation; SO acres in fall
wheat. This is a bargain at SH2.50 per acre.
?, 22H-acre lable land farm. 15 miles from town. Good improve
ments. 100 acres under cultivation and more can be broke.
A bargain at f 05.00 per acre.
4 1 CO-acre farm 9 miles from town and 12 miles from rail
roud billing. One-ialf mile from school. Mail route and tele
phone rights. 0 acres cultivated; 10 acres alfalfa and 70
cover- pasture. A bargain at $55.00 per acre. Good improve
ments. ', T20-:!cre farm 10 siiles from town. Good improvements. 150
ceres under cultivation and SO acres more can be broke up
very easily. 1 Is mile to school. Mail route and phone rights.
.Subject to lerise on .6 0 acres. 20 acres in alfalfa fenced hog
tight. Only ?52.f0 per acre.
6 4 75-acre farm. 9 miles from town. CO acres cultivated. Fair
improvements. This would make a fine combination farm and
stock ranch. Only 117.50 per acre.
7 4 0-acre table land farm. Good improvements. 169 acres
under cultivation and about 100 acres more can be broke up.
10 nies from town and a bargain at $40.00 per acre.
8 4 SO acres of ttble land and pasture land. 14 miles from town.
7 0 acres broke and more can be broke. A good wind mill and
t.'.r.k :ir.d fenced. A bargain at $27.00 per acre on easy terms.
SoO-aere farm 7 miles from town. Good improvements. 130
acres cultivated and a lot more can be cultivated. Phone rights
and a genuine bargain a $52. j0 per acre.
10 1120-acre farm C miles from town. Well improved. 800 acres
cf bottom land. Own ditch and appropriation for 630 acres.
100 acres under cultivation. Five sets of good improvements.
A b .rgain for the man who can handle this. $150,000.00 for
all of it. Party wants half cash but would consider less.
11 1C0 acres of table land- 60 acres can be broke and is a real
bargain at $3,500.00. It is 11 miles from town.
4S0-aere table land farm. Good improvements. 150 acres cul
tivated. 10 mile; from town. $80.00 per acre.
025-acre farm 10 miles from town. 600 acres under cultiva
tion and about 4 00 acres in fall grain. Three good granaries
on the place i.nd all Jenced. A bargain at $80.00 per acre.
CI. "-acre farm six miles from town. Fair improvements. 160
r.cres in crop. Only $27.50 per acre on easy terms.
320 acres close to Plattsmouth. Well improved. Will sell
all or in part. An excellent farm.
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Off ice-Waner Hotel Building. .
Phone 108 Plattsmouth, Neb.
gathering had been called primarily
to formulate details of the strike.
When asked to make a statement
on the right of the miners tp strike
November 1, in the face of the criti
cal conditions, he said:
"The coal operators have not of
fered a single constructive sugges
tion designed to avert this catas
trophe. All through the negotia
tions at Buffalo, later at Philadel
phia and still later at Washington.
the miners waited in vain for any
counter proposal to be submitted by
the operators. ' During the confer
ence with Secretary Wilson at
Washington, we said many times
that we were willing to re-enter ne
gotiations with coal operators with
out reservations to conclude the
making of an agreement with them.
"The offer that we made was re
peatedly declined. The responsibil
ity for the stoppage of work in the
bituminous coal districts must neces
sarily lie with the coal operators."
"What right have you to ask so
large an increase in wages as 60
per cent," he was asked.
"Subject to Negotiations."
"Well, now we are willing to
stand on the merit of our proposal,"
jhe replied. "This 60 per cent in
crease is subject t negotiations, as
are other demands of the United
Coal Miners, but they will not even
negotiate.
I "During the past twelve months
the miners of the United States have!
averaged only $75 a month, or $800
for the entire period. The men have
worked on an average of less than
three days a week since the armis-
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One black horse, coming 4 year
old.
One bay mare, 8 years old. "
Six milk cows, some good ones.
Two stock cows.
Three coming 2-year-old heifers.
One 2-year-old heifer.
Ten good calves.
One Polled Durham bull, 17
months old.
Twenty head of Duroc-Jersey
gilts; these sows ure thoroughbred,
i but not registered.
One registered Duroc boar.
One Duroc boar, not registered.
Four dozen chickens.
Farm Implements.
One lumber wagon.
One hay rack and wagon.
One spring wagon.
One 7-foot Deering binder, a good
one,
One 5-foot McCormick mower.
One hay rake.
One Janesville Broadcast seeder.
One disc.
One Janesville gang plow, good
one.
One riding Badger cultivator.
One corn planter.
One riding lister.
One three-section harrow.
One single corn drill.
Two sets of harness.
Two sets of fly nets.
One gasoline engine 2 n. p.
One pump jack.
Many other articles too numerous
to mention.
Sale to Commence at 12:00 Sharp.
TERMS OF SALE:
All sums of $10.00' and under
cash in hand, and on all sums over
$10.00 a credit of eight months will
tice was signed.. Men with families be glveilt purchaser giving, good
bankable paper, bearing eight per
Springfield, 111., Oct. 27. Ready
to leave Springfield early tomorrow
morning for Indianapolis to assume
active charge of the threatened
strike of soft coal miners, beginning
Friday at midnight, John L. Lewis,
acting president of the united mine
workers of America. declared to
night the strike order was still is
effect and that the 500.000 miners
in the bituminous field would wall:
out to a man, unless the operators
made concessions.
"The statement of President Wil
son opposing the strike has thus far
had no results so far as we are con
cerned." ' Lewis said. No word
reached him. he stated, from gov
ernment sources during the day.
Lewis expects to reach Indianapo
lis at 2:40 p. m. where he will make
preparations for the meeting Wed
nesday of the international execu
tive board. He said tonight he ex
pected no developments prior to
this conference.
Stories of Larg Pay Abroad.
Branding statements that coal
miners were earning $10 or $15 a
day as "absurd," Mr. Lewis Eaid
the average pay of miners in the
bituminous field for the year 191S,
which he declared was the best
.twelve months in mine workers' an
nals, was $1,22S a year. He de
clined to make a statement as to
what the maximum earnings of a
miner under favorable circumstances
might be. but said the earnings of
"day men" amounted to between
$4.25 and $5 a day. These include
traclf layers, drivers, mechanics and
laborers. Coal diggers, he admitted
can make more money than that.
He explained, however, that wages
for miners were curtailed by the
fact that mines operate on the aver
age of only three or fcur days a
week. This condition, he said, made
necessary a short day and week in
order to furnish continuous employ
ment as embraced in wage demand?
suggested by miners early in the
conferences. Other demands in
cluded CO per cent increases in
wages, time and a half for over
time, and elimination of the strike
penalty clause.
In a statement issued tonight, he
said, to clear up popular misappre
hensions about exactly what took
place in the joint conferences. Mr.
Lewis again placed responsibility
for the strike on the operators.
The statement follows:
"At the biennial convention of
the United Mine Workers of America
at Cleveland, September 9 to 23, at
tended by 2,04 6 delegates a wage
program and policy was outlined
and scale committees were selected
who were instructed to present de
mands to the operators.
"On September 25 at Buffalo, the
miners and operators met in joint
committee. The miners presented
their demands and were met by a
statement that the Washington
agreement had not expired because
the war was not ended and peace
had not been promulgated by the
president.
"No counter proposals were sub
mitted by the operators, who seem
ingly were determined avoiding
making a new agreement. This
committee adjourned for a week
and reconvened in Philadelphia on
October 9. where the same circum
stances obtained and sine die ad
journment took place on October 11.
"The miners insisted at all times
that they were ready to consider
demands from the standpoint of
merit alone. But consideration on
this basis was denied by the operators.
"The government in conferences
with operators and . miners last
week in Washington, endeavored to
secure a re-opening of negotiations.
The miners consented without reser
vation. The operators declined ex
cept under conditions which rend
ered negotiations impossible."
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feg." in a statement issued here tonight.
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Miss Celia Palasek departed this
morning for Omaha where she will
visit at the Immanual hospital
with her father, John Palaek. Sr..
Tacoma. Wash., Oct. 26. Cover-j who is recovering there from a very
nor Louis F. Hart in u statement to! serious operation,
the Tacoma Ledger tonight, declared !
the full power of the state govern
ment would be evoked if necessr. ry
in support of the staiul cf the fed
eral government against the strike
of the soft coal miners called for
November 1.
Mrs. Earl Stanfield was among
those going to Omaha this afternoon
to visit for a few hours with friends.
Dr. P. J. Flynn and Father M. A.
Shine departed yesterday afternoon
for Pacific Junction where they met
the train carrying Eamon DeValere,
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pleased to meet all our old patrons, as well as all new
ones who may have business in our line.
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cannot live on this amount. Child
ren in mining camps are unaer- cent intereBt from date. All prop
nourished. This is a matter of life erty must be eettled for before be
and death to the women and child- inB removed from the premises.
ren of the miners families as well
as it is to the public.
gins at home. JACK PATTERSON, Clerk.
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classy cars and take in your used car at prices
you can't afford to turn down. All factories
are speeding production and each new car
means another used car placed on the market.
What will result?
With a steel workers' strike, prices of steel
are not going to decline to say the least. Now
is the appointed hour to make your purchase.
FOR DEMONSTRATION CALL 79
Charity be- l. j. HALL. Auctioneer. s
Springfield, 111., Oct. 26. Full co-'g
operation of the state of Illinois
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dent's announced Btan(F against the
strike of soft coal miners scheduled
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