THE NORTH PLATTE SEMI WEEKLY TRIBUNE,
.FREE SPEECH IS
ISSUE-CONFERS
Head of A. F. of L. Tells Senators
War Is Only Excuse to
Curb Labor.
STEEL MEN ABUSE WORKERS
,Dcclarcs Union Employees Have Been
"Dogged" by Detectives Who Tried
to Force Strikes Open Shop
Misnomer.
Washington, Sept. 20. Tho Issuo In
the nutlon-wlde stool strike was dollncd
Jiy Samuel Gomper.s, president of the
American Federation of Labor, as
recognition of the right of employees
"to bo heard, to organize and to have
Eoiuo voice In determining conditions
nder which they labor."
Appearing as labor's second witness
In the senate labor committee's Investi
gation of tho steel strike, President
Gompers drew from his experiences ns
chairman of tho llrst committee to or
ganize the steel Industry and traced
the history of organized labor's efforts
jto unionize the steel workers.
When ho finished the committee ad
journed until next Wednesday, at
which time E. H. Gary, chairman of
tho United States Steel corporation,
has promised to appear.
' "Tho right to be heard Is what the
steel workers are asking above all
else," Gompers said. "The right to
speak with their employers through
their own representatives, to have
some voice In determining conditions
under which they work.
"The right of workers to association
has been denied, denied with nil tho
power and Influence and wealth of
the steel corporation, denied by brutal
and unwarrantable means.
! "It has- been said that most of the
;men taking part In this strike are of
tforelgn birth and not naturalized cit
izens. That may ho and no doubt Is
true. Tho largest proportion of steel
corporation employees are of foreign
l)Irth, but these men were brought
iiero by tho companies.
. "There wus for years a systematic
effort to bring In these gangs from
Europe. There was a systematic ef
fort to ellmlnnte Americans. They
havo a harvest to reap now. These
steel companies brought about the
state of which they now complain.
"Under the efforts of tho steel cor
poration the hours of labor were al
ways abnormally long. They never
seemed satisfied until they had their
men tolling seven dnys a week, 3G5
days a year." When the shifts changed,
from dny to nlght.-they got them work
ing 24 hours a day.
"Tho right of association, tho at
tempt to organize met with the stern
est opposition by the steel corporation.
"The nppeuls coming to us from
their employees were for help In or
ganizing. But most of the efforts were
slaughtered by tho detectives and the
agencies In the company pay. More
than 00 per cent of all the privnte de
tective agency effort In this country
has been devoted to spying on em
ployees, In mines and mills. They have
.been used ns agents provocateurs to
Induce men to commit some overt act ;
to get them to strike too soon."
"In tho steel Industry," bo continued,
"men were discharged for merely talk
ing of organization or for grumbling.
"There havo been numbers of men
watched so closely that when they
.rented a hall tho proprietor was told
,to lock the doors against them. Their
meetings on rented ground have been
broken up. The men were run down,
dispersed and some assaulted."
"Can you give Instances of that hist
practice?" asked Senator Sterling
(Rep.) of South Dakota.
"Yes, 'at McKecsport," Gompers re
sponded. "Since this strike the olllces
of the Iron and steel workers there
havo been closed against them.
"I suppose that has been done on
the theory that collection of crowds
would create disorder," Senator Ster
ling remarked.
"I don't know the theory," Mr. Gom
pers said. "But I do know tho pur
pose. It wns to prevent the leaders
from counseling with tho meu and
making tho strlko effective."
Only In the event of wnr, the labor
leader declared, should tho rights of
free speech and assembly bo restrict
ed. They should not ho, he said, for a
"privateering corporation."
"I know that many of the public
authorities In districts of Pennsylvania
,aro under the direct domination of the
'united States Steel corporation," tho
-witness declared, pounding the table.
"The whole conduct of tho strlko In
Pennsylvania shows," Mr. Gompers as
serted, "that whatever helps tho cor
poration against tho workers will hnve
the support of Pennsylvania authori
ties." Spanish Troops After Ralsuli.
Tangier, Morocco, Sept. 29. Trav
elers returning from the Interior bring
accounts of tho beginning of military
fiperntlons by Spanish troops against
Jho bandit, Italsull, who Is reported
lo havo been wounded.
Hold Up Train; Take Meat.
Pine Bluff, Ark., Sept. 20. The
crew of n Missouri Pacific freight
train reported to tho local police that
their train wns held up by four armed
men west of hero and robbed of n large
quantity of meat.
THOMAS L CHADBOURNE
Thomas L. Cluulbourno of New York,
Is one of tho "representatives of tho
people," named by President AVllson
for the October conference on Indus
trial conditions.
YANKS HALT ITALIANS
U. S. MARINES STOP LATINS FROM
SEIZING PORT OF TRAU.
Order From Allies Stops Italians From
Annexing More Territory Must
Give Up Flume.
Pnrls, Sept. 27. Amorlcnn nnval
forces have taken a hand in tho swlft-ly-movlng
events along the eastern
shore of tho Adriatic, according to
advices from Copenhagen.
United States destroyers, appearing
off the port of Trnu, when Italian sol
diers attempted to force their way Into
the town, brought the nttncl; to a sud
den stop, tho Italians retreating has
tily, It Is said.
One Itnllnn armored car, with Its
crew of .in officer and three privates,
fell Into tho bands of tho Jugo-Slnvs,
who were defending tho place, but tho
prisoners were taken over by tho
Amorlcnn marines nud transferred to
an Italian ship.
Serbian troops nrrlvcd at Trail soon
after tho marines were put ashore, and
the town wns turned over to them by
tho mnrlnes who returned to their
ships, according to report.
Itomo, Sept. 27. Tomnsso Tlttonl,
foreign minister, declared during the
meeting of the crown council that the
peace conference would not permit
Itnly to annex Flume, because such
action would nuthorizo tho Czecho
slovaks to occupy Toschon; the Jugo
slavs to move forces.lnto Klngcnfurt;
tho Greeks to claim Thraco and tho
Roumanians to annex Bnnnt.
SLAYER OF CHILD MUST DIE
Thomas Fitzgerald of Chicago Sen
tenced to Hang on Friday,
October 17.
Chicago, Sept.- 25. Thomas Fitzger
ald, confessed slayer of slx-yonr-old
.Teannetto Wilkinson, must pay for his
crime with his life. He wns sentenced
by Judge Crowe to be hanged Octo
ber 17.
Before passing sentence, Judge
Crowe asked Fitzgerald if ho had any
thing to say.
"I am very sorry," declared the de
fendant. "I nsk the forgiveness of the
child's parents. I throw myself on Hie
mercy of tho court nnd I nsk mercy for
all of those who have injured me."
$235,000 BLAZE IN TEXAS
Fire Destroys Two Buildings In Busl
ness -Center of Greenville Dry
Goods Firm Hit.
Greenville, Tex., Sept. 20. After a
stubborn light firemen checked a seri
ous fire in tho business district here
after It hnd destroyed two buildings
occupied by tho Hudspeth Dry Goods
company, entailing a loss estimated nt
$2.'15,000.
FRENCH CLASH WITH HUNS
Many on Both Sides Are Wounded In
Encounter at Saarbrucken,
Berlin Reports.
Berlin, Sept. 20. In nn encounter
at Saarbrucken between bourgeois and
French soldiers ninny persons on both
sides were wounded, nccordlng to n
dispatch to the Loknl Anzelger. One
hundred Frenchmen participated In
tho conflict.
Secretary Lane to Resign?
Washington, Sept. 27. Franklin IC.
Lane, secretnry of tho Interior Is about
to resign from the cabinet to become
tho head of a largo Industrial concern,
nccordlng to strong rumors here.
Government to Sell Steel.
Washington, Sept. 20. Approxi
mate 11,000.000 pounds of finished nnd
unfinished steel will bo offered for
snle by the war department through
district ordnance officers at Boston ami
Philadelphia between October 1 and 0.
Cudahy Company Fined.
Chicago, Sept. 20. Federal Judge
Evans fined tho Cudahy Packing com
pony $8,875 for .collecting excessive
damage claims from a railroad com
pany which the pncklng company al
leged had Improperly Iced meat curs.
CHOC
N STEEL STRIK
Authorities at Waukcgan. 11, Re
quested Militia Be Sent to
l(eep Order.
ANOTHER PLANT IS OPEN
Illinois Steel Company In South Chi
cago Puts Mills In 'Operation
Mob Stones Foreman's Auto
Pittsburgh Strikers Aided.
Chicago, Sept. 27. Two hundred
deputy sheriffs were sworn In nt Wnu
kegun to be In readiness to quell fur
ther disorders among striking employ
ees of the American Stool & Wlro com
puny. An appeal was made to Gov
ernor Lou-den for stnte troops, but
Adjutant General Dickson, nftcr n vis
It to tho city, decided that Sheriff El
inor J. Green could handle tho situa
tion by mustering a largo force of dep
uties. He declined to call out the
militia at present. All wns quiet nbout
the wlro works during tho morning.
Another mill of tho Illinois Steel
company's South Chicago plant wns
placed In opcrntlon todny and the act
ual manufacture of steel begun for
the first time since tho calling of tho
strike.
Even union ofllclnls admitted that
the activity In tho plant was no longer
cnmoullnge for the characteristic
glow of steel was In tho sky all
night and tho extension of activities
Indicated an Increasing oporntlng
force.
Tho duplex mill wns manned nnd re
opened nnd preparations made to fan
to flame the banked fires under two
more furnaces.
Pittsburgh, Pn., Sept. 27. Interest,
In tho steel strike sltuntlon In tho
Pittsburgh district centered today
about the fight of tho union for "tho
right of free speech nnd frco assem
blage" In Allegheny county, n question
which hns been prominent here for
many months and which wns brought
to a head' by the wnlkout of steel
workers.
According to union representatives,
authorities of certain cities and towns
In tho country have refused to grant
penults for tho holding of mass meet
ings, nnd have sanctioned the hrenklng
up of such sessions by stnto troopers
and local police In many Instances.
According to union representatives,
tho sheriff has given them permission
to hold Indoor meetings within the
county, nnd has promised protection
for "orderly gatherlugs" of strikers In
halls.
Youngstown, O., Sept. 25. Ohio's
greatest steel center, tho Mnhonlng
valley with ' the city of Youngstown"
as Its axis, is completely shut down.
No dark clouds of smoke Indicating
activity of thousands of workmen
obscure the skies. The sun shines un
obstructed. The steel strlko has resulted In tli
closing of every mill In the valley
Forty-four thousand men are Idle ami
weekly wages aggregating approxi
mately $2,500,000 nro unearned and
unpaid.
Pittsburgh, Pn., Sept. 25. Disorders
Incident to the strike continue In the
Pittsburgh district. The .most serious
outbreak occurred at Farroll, Pa.,
where two men were killed during
a clash between strikers and their
sympathizers and stnte troopers. In
tho disorders of Monday and Tuesday,
at Fnrrcll, Newcastle and other points,
four persons have been killed, more
than n score shot, many others hnve
been slightly wounded and hundreds
of arrests have been made.
Cleveland, Sept. 25. Four men were
stabbed, two probably fatally and two
others not so severely, nt tho entrance
of the American Steel nnd Wire com
pany's Neuburg plant In the first seri
ous locnl disorder of the steel strike.
iiio iroumo nroi;e out wnen a
stopped to lot off workmen.
enr
231 ON WRECKED LINER
Steamship Rosalind, Bound for New
York From St. Johns, Goes on
Reef Has Hole In Bow.
Stamford, Conn., Sept. 20. The
steamship Rosalind of the Red Cross
line, bound from St. Johns, N. F.. to
Now York, with a crew of 90, and Ml
passengers on board, many of them
American tourists, ran on Cowo's reef
off Shtppnn point In a heavy fog In
the sound off here., A big hole wns
stovo In the bow of the stenmer. The
pnssengers, It Is said, remained calm
after the accident nnd tho pumps were
Immediately set working anil are keep
ing the ship afloat.
Britain Extends Food Control.
London, Sept. 25. The British gov
ernment 'has extended the control of
food prices to fish, fruit and vege
tables. Cranberry Crop Nearly Doubled.
Washington, Sept. 27. This year's
crop of cranberries, according to the
September forecast of tho dopnrtment
of agriculture, will be about 537,000
barrels, as against 850,000 barrels last
year.
Chief Flynn In .Pittsburgh.
Washington, Sept. 27. William J.
Flynn, chief of tho bureau of Investi
gation of tho dopnrtmunt of Justice, is
In Pittsburgh. It was said ho proba
bly would look Into tho strike situation.
TOfmOP DC
C. F. REAVIS
Representative C. F. Roavls, Repub
llcali of Nebraska, la chairman of tho
bouse subcommittee which is investi
gating expenditures In tho quartermas
ter department of tho army, no
charges that tho wnr department has
17,000 motor vehicles which have been
declared "surplus," many of them
high-priced trucks nnd passenger cars,
many of them unused since tho nrmls
tlccs with thousands of them exposed
to the weather; tliat notwithstanding
this big oversnpply, tho dopnrtment ac
cepted deliveries of new cars ns Into
as May 31 last and that no effort has
been made to sell nuy of tho 17,000
cars. He and' other members of tho
committee hnve held hearings on tho
subject and have Investigated personal
ly at Camp Ilolahlrd. nenr Baltimore,
where 11,000 cars nro In open storage.
TROOPS END RIOTING
MORE STATE SOLDIERS READY
TO ENTEft DRUMRIGHT, OKLA.
Further Trouble Expected From I. W.
W. Members Who Are Trying to
Incite Oil Workers.
Oklnhoma City, Okln., Sept. 25.
Should It become necessary Adjutant
General' Barrett of Oklahoma Is pre
pared to rush addltlonnl troops to
Drumrlght, the oil town In Creek
county where rioting has been In prog
ress Intermittently since Monday night
In connection with a strike of girl tel
ephone operators.
One ofllclal was quoted as declar
ing further trouble was expected on
the part of members of the Industrial
pWorJcers of tho World among the oil
field laborers.
Orders for sending tho troops to the
town were Issued by Governor Rob
ertson after he had been advised that
conditions there were dangerous. Tho
original trouble Is said to havo fol
lowed the clubbing of a strlko picket
by a pollcemnn. In the demonstration
that followed members of tho police
force were driven from tho city and
the mayor and chief of police threat
ened with death unless they resigned.
Several alleged leaders of tho mob
hnve been arrested and taken to Jail
at Sapulpa.
GOMPERS BACKS1 STRIKERS
I I
Head of American Federation of La
bor Approves Walkout of
Men.
Washington, Sept. 20. Responsibil
ity for tho steel strike was placed
squarely upon E. II. Gary, head of
the United States steel corn.orallon,
by Snmuel Gompers, president of tho
Amerlcnn Federation of Labor, testi
fying before the senate Interstate com
merce committee.
Mr. Gompers asserted that Mr.
Gary's refusal to deal with tho union
heads left the worklngmon no alterna
tive !but to strike.
Mr. Gompers gave bis npprovol of
tho steel strike, but snld hp would
hnve preferred to have had It post
poned until after the conferenco be
tween capital and labor In Washing
ton next month.
JOHN D. GIVES $2,000,000
Northern Baptist Convention Receives
Gift From "Oil King" for
Indigent Ministers.
Now York, Sept. 20. John D. Rocke
feller today contributed $2,000,000 to
the ministers and missionary hoard of
I ho Northern Baptist convention. No
restrictions are made ns to tho use
of tho principal "and income, which
will bo expended to take care of In
digent Baptist ministers of tho north
ern district. Tho nnnouncement of tho
gift wns made In n letter to Rev. E. T.
Tomllnson, executive secretary of tho
board.
Attack Foster In Senate.
Washington. Sept. 20. W. Z. Fos
ter, secretary of tho national commit
too for organizing tho stool workers,
wns attacked In tiro sennto by Sena
tor Pomcreno of Ohio as an "autocrat"
whom luborlng men should beware.
Lansing Issues Injunction.
Chicago, Sept. 20. Tho local steel
strike became a federal matter when
.Tudgo Landls issued nn Injunction for
bidding strikers to picket tho plnnt of
tho Pollute Steel compnny nt Ninety
third street nnd Baltimore avenue.
FAIDYTAIF 1 1
I MIIS, I HLL B Y
6y Mary Graham Bonner Mm
BLUE MOUNTAIN SHEEP.
"Dear Mr. Blue Mountain Sheo;,
you are n handsome fellow," snld Mrs.
Blue Mountain Sheep.
"And you're n handsome creature,
too," said her mate.
"I wouldn't llko to be ugly," she
snld.
"Yon need never worry about thnt,"
he answered her. "You most certnln
ly could never bo called ugly."
"Well, I hope not," she snld, "for It
would not be nice to be ugly when I
have such a hnndsoine mate."
"One of tho reasons I want to be so
handsome Is to look well beside you,"
he said.
"That's n noble reason," she nn
Buered, "and It shows thnt you havo
not been spoilt by your beauty."
"Neither have you," Mr. Blue Moun
tain Sheep answered. "I have heard
of creatures who f think they nro so
beautiful that they can be horrid and
selfish. They may be beautiful but
they seem to think thnt Is nil they
need bo. Now you nro not that way."
"Neither are you," said Mrs. Blue
Mountain Sheep. "We certainly got
out of bed on tho right sldo this morn
ing." "Oh, denrl Oh, dearl" said Mr.
Bluo Mountain Sheep, "whatever do
An Exquisitely Sweet Expression.
you mean? Have you a bit of a head
ache, or a fever? What Is tho matter
with you?"
"Nothing, nothing," laughed Mrs.
Blue Mountain Sheep.
"What do you mean then?" asked
her mate.
"When a creature says she gets out
of the bed on the right side It means
thnt she got up feeling happy and
pleasant and all of that."
"Then It . doesn't mean . that you
think you got out of a real bed, does
it?" 1 ,
"No, no; don't be worried; I'm not
losing my wits," .laughed Mrs. Bluo
Mountain Sheep. "It's u saying, that's
all." -
"Ah, I see," he said. "I see; It
menus people and creatures begin tho
day right. It moans that tho day Is
supposed to begin for creatures when
they get out of bed so they start tho
saying at that point."
"Right," ngreed Mrs. Bluo Mountain
Sheep. "Do you know I heard Mrs.
Arcal Mountain Sheep admiring her
mate tho other day and I had to
laugh?"
"Did you laugh?" asked Mr. Bluo
Mountain Sheep. "I suppose you did
as you said you had to."
"Yes. I hnd to nnd I did," said Mrs.
Bluo Mountain Sheep.
"And pray tell me whnt was tho
cause of your mirth?" asked Mr. Bluo
.Mountain Sheep. '
"I beg your pardon," said Mrs. Bluo
Mountain Sheep, "but did I hear you
correctly?"
"I asked you what was the cause of
your mirth," said Mr. Blue Mountain
Sheep.
"Yes. I heard correctly enough,"
said .Mrs. Bluo Mountain Sheep. "But
the truth Is, I don't understand."
"I asked you what was tho causo
of your mirth, which means that I
would like to know what was tho rea
son for your laughter. Mirth means
fun nnd laughter and such little
things."
"Oh, I see," said Mrs. Bluo Moun
tain Shoe)). "Well, I hnd to laugh
when 1 heard Mrs. Arcal Mountain
Sheep you know them, or at least
you knew who they were when we
used to live In India praising up her
mate and telling him how beautiful ho
was.
"I had to laugh, because goodness,
old Arcal Is nothing compared to you.
You have such an exquisitely sweet
expression. Your horns, which are so'
large and which point In such nn In
teresting way, are really lovely..
"And your beauty Is especially fine
because you're small. It Is true you
aren't as strong na old Arcal, hut
you're more dainty and delicate- nnd
far more stylish. Oh, fur more styl
ish. I did hnve to laugh when I heard
Mrs. Arcal praising him up."
"I thought It wns funny when ho
praised her." said Mr. Bluo Mountain
Sheep, "for she Isn't bnlf as graceful
and lovely as you are, Lady Bluo
Mountain."
Animals With Luggage.
Which (liilmal travels with the most
nnd which with tho last luggngo?
The elephant with tho most be
cause It has Its trunk, and tho fox
nnd the cock with the least, becnuso
they only have ono brush and comb be
tween them.
'A 3
MADE-TO.ORDER INFORMATION.
"I understand you hnve been going
to n fortune teller?"
"Yes," replied Mr. Growcher.
"I'm surprised thnt a person of your
sense should bo willing t. listen to nil
that trash about having a sy.iAthetlc
nnture and being nbout to tnVe n Jour
ney nnd meeting some ono who will
inenn much In your llfo's happiness,
nnd so forth nnU so on."
"Well, I get rather lonely Bomo
times and like to hear a llttlo good
news, even If I hnve to ony for It."
Turned Out Badly.
"Does Mrs. Dubwnlte, In tho courso
if n llttlo disagreement, over remind
you of tho men she might havo mnr
Wed?" "No," nnswered Mr. Dubwnlte. "In
nn ' argument like thnt I would have
i decided advantage."
"Why so?"
"One of Mrs. Dubwnlto's former
niltors Is now doing tlmo In tho peni
tentiary for embezzlement and two
others nro prominent bolshevlkl."
PREVAILING FUMES.
"Do you praotlco doop breathing-,
as I told you?"
"Can't do It, doctor, without get
ting your lungs full of gasoline."
Words Instead of Action.
Thoro was a man whose nature balked
And tempted him all toll to shirk.
Vbout "elllclency" lio talked
And thus avoided real work.
No Repairs.
"Why. don't you fix up this house n
bit?" demnnded tho Irnto poet. "It la
tumbling down. Some dny peoplo may
bo pointing It out ns tho phico whero
I onco lived."
"In thnt case," said tho landlord
easily, "we'll want It to havo nn an
cient and antique effect."
In Good.
"Thnt writer has become Immensely
popular."
"I suppose ho gets many requests to
write for various mngnzlnes?"
"So many that he has to use a
printed slip of refusal, tho kind ho
says ho got so many of "during his
early struggles."
Equals.
He Your cousin refused to recog
nlzo mo at the Jazz last night; thinks1
I'm not his equal, I suppose.
Slie Ridiculous! Of courso you nro;
why, he's nothing but n conceited
Idiot." Blighty (London).
CRUEL WOMAN.
Mr. CJieapskato: I think I shull
buy myself an auto coat.
Ills wlfo: Why don't you buy a
Jitney coat It would be nearer your
speed?
Like Umbrellas.
If o'er In blimps and aeroplanes ,
'Twill bo ihan'n lot to roam,
I now believe name fools will leave
Tliolr parachutes at homo.
Consistency.
"Mighty hot weather we'ro having."
"I should say so. I wish winter
would coino again."
"Why?"
"So I could go down South In, search
of warmer weather."
The Law's Delay.
"What's your grudge against Judgo
Wombat?"
"Too hasty; too hasty. Gives a
man no time to prepare his cases.
Caso of mine hns been nn the docket
only ton years and ho insists on my
going to trial."
Overwhelming.
Maude You may havo noticed thnt
Mr. Drlggs found my argument too
deep for him. Ho simply gasped.
Henry Yes, I noticed him coming
up for air. '