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Law ing Rail Strike Will Be Rushed Look around Omaha at the firms that advertise. They are the ones that have grown from little concerns to great big ones. 7 The Omaha Daily Bee THE WEATHER FAIR VOL. XLVI NO. 70. OMAHA, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1916 TEN PAGES. On Train., at Hottlt, Newt Standi, tc fro. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. Stopp GREECE SOON TO DRAW SWORD IN THE GREAT WAR King Constantine Will Receive the . French, Russian and British Ministers Very Shortly. FORTY-EIGHT HOURS Athens Dispatch Says Policy of Neutrality Will Be Soon Abandoned. - OFFICERS ARE RECALLED Athens, Greece, Wednesday, Aug. 30. (Via London, Aug. 31.) Rapid developments in the diplomatic situa tion here today make it apptar that within forty-eight hours Greece will have abandoned the policy of neu trality in the war. King Constantine will receive the French minister tomorrow (Thurs day) and the Russian and British ministers shortly afterward. - All staff officers on leave have been recalled for active service. The foregoing dispatch was filed in Athens at noon yesterday and in dicates that up to that time nothing had been heard there of the report sent to London by the official British press representative in Greece that the king had fled from Athens. This report was contained in a ' dispatch sent from Saloniki on Tuesday morn ing. .: FIGHTING ' IN MACEDONIA Fifteen Thousand Bulgarians Re ported Killed and Wounded. London, Aug. 31. The fighting is very severe all along the Macedo nian front, says an Athens dispatch to the Wireless Press, which adds that the Bulgarian regiments suf fered a severe check: at the hands of the Serbians on the entente left and that the Bulgarian losses are esti mated at 15,000. The Bulgarian regiments, says the dispatch, attacked the Serbians in close formation after the German style, near Lorovitz, and suffered se verely. ? They were compelled to ask for i reinforcements from Valbankeni and Kastoria. The Serbians appear to be masters of the situation at Gomichevo, says the Athens correspondent, and Bul garian officers of Roumanian origin who deserted said the Bulgarians called Gomichevo "another Verdun." Burlington Warns Men if They Strike Places Will Be Lost The Burlington railway issued a statement last night giving Warning to the trainmen that if they walked out Monday their places would be lost The statement follows:.:- - Chicago, 111., Auff. -31, 1916 To All Em ployes: W are notlfleil that the Brother hood of Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers, Order of Railway Conductors and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen have directed the employes of this company to m Tiki at 6 a. m., central time, September 14, me. To the extent that this order is rarried out It will automatically throw out of employment many persons connected with this company In there on In other classes of service. It Is, therefore, important that a full understanding of the conditions be eet forth at the outset. You are, therefore, advised that: First:, All persons employed by this com pany falling to respond to call for duty win thereby terminate their employment with this company Second! Men remaining In the service of this company will be properly protected In. iuch service during the period of the strike and In the retention of their positions and seniority rights after normal conditions are restored. Third: New men taken In by the com pany will be retained so long as their serv ices are satisfactory, H. E. BTRAM, Vies President. Santa Fe Lifts Its - TO An n TJnvioliolxloci Topeka, Kan., Aug. 31. The em bargo on perishables was lifted by the Santa Fe tonight, according to an an nouncement at the general offices. The road will accept freight, paid in advance, at owner's risk; live stock shipments are excepted. 1 Hughes Congratulates Johnson on Nomination Estes Park, Colo., Aug.31. Charles ' E. Hughes today sent to Governjr Hiram W. Johnson of California a telegram congratulating him on his nomination for the United States sen ate and expressing best wishes and hope for his election. The Weather for Omaha, Council Bluffi and Vicinity Probably unsettled tonight, Friday fair; no Importaot change In temperature. Temperatures at Omaha Hours. Deg.' 5 a. m . . . .' .66 6 a. m . . . 66 7 a. m 65 8 a. m. . 65 9 a. m 66 10 a. m 65 11a. m . 66 12 m 67 1 p. m -i. 68 2 o. m. -1 68 WMm. fl Local V rather Record. 11S. Jl. 1914. 1(13. l,oVt laat night.... tb 4a s ?n Precipitation ,2 - .00 .86 .00 h. A. WELSH. Meteorologtat. NEW CHIEF GREEK STAFF A PRO-ALLY. I " I I I . General Constantine Moschopoulos, commander of the Greek troops in the Salonica district, who has just been appointed chief of staff to suc ceed General Deusmanis, a pro-German, who has been granted an indefi nite leave of absence, is stronly pro ally. His appointment, according to experts on Balkan diplomacy, means that Greece is about ready to take the field against the central powers. FAIRBANKS ON THE CAMPAIGN ISSUES i , Republican Candidate for Vice President Reviews the Political Situation. WHAT 0. 0. P, PROPOSES Indianapolis, Ind., Aug., ,'31.-r Charles Warren Fairbanks, was noti fied formally this afternoon that he had bSen nominated for the ; vice presidency by the republican party. United -States Senator Lawrence Y. Sherman of Illinois delivered the ad dress and Mr. Fairbanks made reply, accepting the nomination and discuss ing the issues of the campaign. . Republican leaders from different parts of the country attended the ceremonies, which were held on the lawn at Mr. Fairbanks' home.' Mr. Fairbank's Statement. Mr. Fairbanks said in part: ' "I am deeply sensible of the high honor of the commission which you bring me. To be chosen as the can didate of the republican party for the vice presidency of the United States is a distinction which any patriotic American may well covet. I accept the nomination and pledge yoif my utmost service during the campaign. If the people ratify the choice of the convention I shall consecrate my best efforts in the discharge of my official functions. As you are aware, this is a call which was unsolicited by me; that fact intensifies my sense of duty to those in behalf of whom you speak. ' ;' "The platform adopted by the Chi cago convention has my hearty ap proval. Carried into the public ad ministration and written . into the statutes, it will insure indusrial and national prosperity during the years of our ascendancy. I Free Trade or Protection. "What protection and free trade mean we know from our actual ex perience; they are not in the domain of the academic. : "The present free trade, or tariff for revenue law, which democracy re gards with such high favor, has work ed indefinite damage. This law, which is to be maintained it democracy triumphs, must stand or fall not by what democratic conventions say of it, but by what it has said for itself under normal trade conditions. Even before it was approved by Mr. Wil- son, who took pride in the executive act, business began to furl its sails. The coming storm was apparent and prudence took possesssion of our peo ple. The certainty" of the new law spread fear among us. Our compe titors in Europe and in the Orient were filled with joy. ' Commercial travelers from England, France, Ger many and elsewhere were put. upon the road in the United States and promptly began writing orders. The slowing down process began with a wrench. The workingmen, who were the first to feel the blighting effects of the reversal of our great economic policy, began to lose their jobs; fac tories we're closed; trains were taken off our railway schedules; thousands of idle cars accumulated upon the side tracks; mines were closed; the work ers in our charities eceived increas ing appeals from the unfortunate vic tims of the. free trade policy. That democracy was again in power was made evident throughout the repub lic. Effect of Underwood Tariff. "So strong was the pressure of the unemployed that the administration was obliged to organize for the pur pose of securing them work and wages. This seemed like mockery. To close the field of labor's oppor tunity and rob them by the thousands of their chance for wage, and then to organize search for work among those who were holding fast to what (Cantlnuetl Oa Page Versa, Colirma Jlvg,) No Strike if4ght-Hour Brothrod Chiefs Agree to Stop if Given this Point; Congress Speeds Up to Put Measure Through on lime RAILWAY MEN SAY THEY HAVEN'T AUY ORDERS TO GO OUT Conductors, Engineers, Firev men and Brakemen Run- ' ning Into Omaha Deny Any Direot Orders. ONLY READ IN THE PAPERS Northwestern Engineer Says He Thinks It is Nothing But ' a "Lot of Talk." 'J- MEN ARE NOT WORRIED No orders for a strike of railway men have as yet been issued to in dividual engineers, conductors, fire men and brakemen running in and out of Omaha, according to a survey made by The Bee yesterday, Numerous of the men working in these varipus capacities were ques tioned in the railroad yards on their engines, in their Pullmans and on the steps of their cars during the fore noon. , ". ' , The engineer c a Northwestern train which just pulled in from Sioux City was sitting in his cab, quietly scrawling off some kind of a report in a little book and making a carbon copy. "I think it's a lot of talk," he said, when-questioned about the situation. "I haven't got any orders in regard to a strike. I haven't heard aching about it officially. No order has been issued to me, and I'm running an en gine her all the time. I think I'd know about it at soon as anybody. v f : Want Direct Orders. ' Though the men would not be quoted on the matter, they gave the general impression that they cannot feel justified in striking merely on what they have read of the orders in newspapers, but must have orders di rect from the headquarters of their various local orders and brotherhoods under whose jurisdiction they come. In the conductors' room of the Bur lington station a- dozen conductors wen playing cards and plugging lit tle iron pegs in the cribbage board. "Have you fellows any, definite or der to strike on Labor day?" they were asked. "None whatever," was the reply. "We have nothing except what we saw in the papers. We have received no orders personally at all." And the cards were dealt again and again the little iron pegs were plugged into the cribbage "hoard. No Orders to Strike. A Union Pacific "brakeman just mounting a coach for a run to North Platte said, "I don't know a thing about it. We haven't any orders for a strike." A Union Pacific conductor just after hopping off a train at the Union station said, "I don't know whether the order has gone out or not. I1 haven t got any order. Charles Bogue of North Platte, chairman of the Brotherhood of Rail way Trainmen for the Union Pacific, is registered at the Carlton hotel, but refuses to be seen by newspaper men. Two other officials of the orders and brotherhoods on the Union Pa cific line occupy adjoining rooms and. all are in conference almost constant ly, but refuse to grant audience to the press. Charles H. Friday, chairman of the general committee of adjustment of the Order of Railway Conductors of the Union Pacific lines, is among those registered at the Carlton hotel. Telephone .calls to his room bring the answer that he is not in. Cotton Crop Report is ; Lowest August on Record New York, Aug. 31. The govern ment crop report, indicating a condi tion ot bi. per cent, or the lowest on record for August 25. and a lint cron of 1 1,800,000 bales, was followed by a violent advance in the cotton market today. December contracts sold up to 16.10c or about $1.80 a bale above yesterday's closing price. : ' HERE YOU ARE! FREE-FOR-ALL CONTEST v $10 IN CASH PRIZES , Just tell us ' Which is the best advertisement in The Bee next Sunday $5.00 to first best answer and $1.00 each to five next best. WHAT YOU MUST DO-Look th paper over carefully, pick out the ad of some Omaha retail merchant, send it in with a statement of not over 300 words, giving the , reason why it strikes you as the best for its purpose. ; ' Addresst Contest Editor, The Omahat Bee ' 'VU. Answsrs must b fas fcy September S Awards tha following Sunday. Latest Strike tyew$ Brotherhood officials will call off strike if eight-hour day law passed, which, President Wilson and congressional leaden plan, will be done today. Railroad officials lining up forces preparatory to a strike Monday. Trainmen lay they have not re ceived strike order. Embargo placed on live stock shipment. Brotherhood leaders conferring here. President Wilson appeals to brotherhood chiefs to delay strike until congress, hat time to act on legislation he has proposed. Grand Chief Garretson and President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor ad dressed the senate committee on interstate commerce in opposition to the proposed compulsory inves tigation proposal. Railroads centering at Chicago are arranging to pool their re sources to keep traffic moving. RAIL LINES ARE JOINING FORCES Presidents of Roads Centering at Chicago Arranging to Hire Strike Breakers. WILL POOL ALL RESOURCES Chicago, Aug. 31. While the statement of W. G. Lee, president of the Order of Railway Trainmen, that passage of President Wilson's eight hour day bill would be regarded as satisfactory adjustment of the strike situation was regarded as important by ' railroad men here, preparations against a strike . on Monday pro ceeded without abatement. ' ' '?' Embargoes covered freight : ship ments on practically, every mile of main track in the country and presi dents of railroads in Chicago met at the Chicago club to discuss their problems. It was said they would hire new men through a general com mittee and would co-operate to run trains where most needed. The wheat market, which broke extreme 4;i cents on the Pennsyl vania road's embargo yesterday, opened without important recessions today. The Chicago Grain Receivers' association notified country shippers to withhold shipments for the pres ent. Live Stock Prices Higher. The live stock embargo was re flected in an advance in prices of live stock at the Union stock yards today. Hogs advanced 25 cents, cat tle 10 to 20 cents and sheep 20 to 40 cents higher than yesterday'! aver age. Practically none of the railroad heads shared in the optimism ex pressed in some quarters in Wash ington that passage of the eight hour bill by congress would avert a strike, and according to E. P. Rip ley, president of the Atchison, To peka & Santf. Fe, spokesman for the patty of railroad presidents, who returned from Washington yesterday, the railroads will proceed on the as sumption that the strike will come on Labor day. Embargo on All Trunk Lines. Embargoes begin today on every trunk line in the country. The em bargoes, according to present plans, will become effective in the follow ing order: Effective at the close of business tomor row an embargo on all shipments of ex ploflveo and Inflammable of every kind. Effective a't the clone of buxlneaa tomor row an embarro on all ohlpmenta of perish able freight, including llvo atock, dressed beef, live and dreeaed poultry, fresh, frulta and vegetables. Effective at the close of business Saturday an embargo on all frotght of all kinds from all Joints to all destinations. The railroads willl not carry on the fight single handed, but according to tentative plans will pool thejr re sources.' Strike-breakers, it is understood, will be hired not by individual roads, but by a central committee of all the roads and distributed where they are most vitally needed. If one road succeeds in moving trains while the tracks of another are stalled, the successful road will end a helping hand to the road in distress. Law Passes WILSON RENEWS EFFORT TO DELAY . RAILWAY ACTION President May Appeal Direot to Members of Unions to Wait Until Congress Can Act. MAKES , TRIP TO CAPITOL House Leaden Announce That Eight-Hour Measure Will Be Passed Friday. MAILS MUST BE MOVED Washington, Aug. 31. Congress put all other affairs aside today and devoted itself to enacting President Wilson's legislative program to avert the railroad strike. But the president, overlooking no possible means to prevent the threat ened public calamity, did not depend on congress alone and continued un ceasingly his efforts to get the broth erhood heads to postpone their strike order. Just before noon the president went to the capitol and, conferring with the leaders, urged them on to the need ot speed to get the bills through the legislative machinery of house and senate before Saturday night. Then, returning to the White House, he called the four brother hood heads before him for another appeal to delay their strike, while congress, by law,, provides what the railroads have refused. : May Appeal to Rank ind File. : Although the brotherhood leaders reiterated that only a "favorable set tlement" could delay the strike, and that they were powerless to postpone it, one of them admitted he believed the rank and file of the men, in view of the efforts being made in con gress, would vote to delay if1 there was time for them to express their wishes. Back of it all President Wilson was holding another card a direct appeal to the rank and file of the rail road men to realize that congress is about to give them what they ask and to stay to tneir posts. The president was still determined today to do this, if necessary, but was hopeful that it would not be. , House Agrees on Bill. While the ' senate interstate com merce committee was hearing the rail road heads and the brotherhood lead ers the house managers got into ac tion and agreed on a bill, introduced by Representative Adamson, and ap proved by President Wilson, provid ing the eight-hour day, pro rata pay for overtime and a commission to in vestigate the nw conditions. They planned to rush it through while the senate was working. Ituid not in clude the compulsory investigation features of the president's program, but there were indications that he would be satisfied with enough to prevent the men from striking and take up the remainder later. Meanwhile employers and men had a public hearing on the president's legislative program before the senate interstate commerce committee. The men opposed the compulsory inves tigation feature and the employers the eight-hour day. -After the conference between the president and the brotherhood lead ers it is said at the White House that the employes "had given no assur ances of any kind." Senate Leadera Accept Bill. Later formal announcement was made that the president and the sen ate and the house leaders had agreed on the Adamson bill as a comf misc bill. It makes violation of its provi sions a misdemeanor, punishable by from $100 to $1,000 fine, or not ex ceeding one year imprisonment, or both. The labor leaders insisted on having a penalty attached. A special rule will bring the bill up for direct action by the house. It would make the eight-hour day effective Decem ber 1. Congress at RAILWAY DISPUTE IN THE SENATE As chairman of the In terstate Commarce committs, Senator Francis Nawlands of Ne vada, heads any movamsnt in the senate toward putting through legislation to avoid railroad strike. ' SEivaa rsMKii Vcwunds. 8-HODR LAW WON'T SATISFY RAILROADS Oppose Pending Bill in Con , gresa, But Will Take No Precipitate Action. STATEMENT BY H0LDEN Chicago, Aug. 31. Hale Molden, president of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad, who was spokes man for the railway magnates at their recent conferences with the president, declared tonight that paa sage of the Adamson compromise eight-hour bill by congress would not be satisfactory to the railroads and would not settle the pending con' troversy. ' "The railroads would take no pre cipitate action in event the bll was passed," said Mr. Holden. "We would not be hasty because we would consider 'the interests of the public No Power to Fix .Wages. "It is my understanding that the supreme court of the United States has held recently, in two- cases, that the congress of the United States has absolutely no power to fix wages. That is what the Adamson bill amounts to, according to my under standing." Presidents of Chicago railroads met at the Chicago club this after noon. Hale Holden, president of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, who headed the committee which con- fcrred with President Wilson, was present, as was J. W. Higgins, chair man of the Association oi Western Railways. A brief statement issued after the meeting said: "Methods of dealing with the con ditions which will be created if the strike comes were discussed, but no definite and final plans were adonted." Similar meetings will be held daily until the situation has cleared. Advertise for Breakers. T he railroads of the country coiti' pleted embargo preparationi.' Em- nloyes were advised to take soDer second thought as to the future be fore striking, and advertisements for strikebreakers appeared in news paperst hroughout the country. As sociated Press dispatches showed that everywhere communities were organizing motor trucks and inter- urban lines tor emergency transpor tatiou service.! Wellfare Board Finds New 'Disease in Garages but not excited, over "petronitis, said to be a disease which affects workers in garages. . According to reports of an investigator of the board, this malady prevails to a con siderable extent in Omaha. The explanation is offered that gasoline not readily released creates a poisonous gas which strikes at the vitals of victims and does not always show effects until after a period of time, this varying according to the constitution of the worker. Express Companies Are Enjoined in South Dakota Sioux City, la., Aug. 31. Federal Judge Henry T. Reed has issued a temporary iiucnocurury injunction restraininc: the exDress companies operating in South Dakota from put ting into eltect on September is a new schedule of rates to take, the place of the tariffs declared discrim inatory by the Interstate Commerce commission. . ' Once; EIGHT-HOUR DAY LAW TO SATISFY BROTHERHOODS Measure Approved by Wilson and House Leaders, and it Is Planned to Pass it . Today. IS INTRODUCED AT ONCE Trainmen Officials Agree to Accept it as Basis for : Calling Off Strike. ' PROVISIONS OF THE BILL Washington, Aug. 31. Railroad brotherhood ' officials, Iste today. through A. B. Oarretson, agreed to accept as a basis for calling off the strike the Adamson compromise eight hour bill, already approved by Presi dent Wilson and house leaders. The measure was introduced immediately by Representative Adamson with a view to have it passed. md approved by the senate tomorrow. ' Washington, Aug. 31. In spite of the fact that the brotherhood leaders gave no- assurance to President. Wil son, it is certain that the strike would be called off immediately if congress passed the eight-hour law, which will be taken up in the house tomorrow. The brotherhood leaders are reluct ant to take steps to cancel the strike order until congress has acted. . , , The president told the 'leaders he was doing everything possible to have congress legislate to meet the situa tion and that, it was, their duty as American citizens to postpone or can cel the strike order pending its ac tion.' Uses Strong Language. The president was said to have used some "strong language" in talking to the labor leaders. ., ." r '. , President Wilson plans to. spend practically all of tomorrow forenoon at the capitol in constant touch with the legislative situation. Tomorrow's cabinet meeting has been cancelled to allow him to give his entire attention to the efforts to avert the strike. The Adamson bill would provide for an eight-hour day at the present ten-hour day pay, effective next De cember 1. Employes would be given the pro rata rate for overtime. A commission of three, to be appointed by the president, woul report to him and congress in not less than six nor more than nine months the effect of the eight-hour day. Expenses would be paid by a federal appropriation o( $25,000. 'n. . r. j determined ' to introduce a similar measure in the senate tomorrow for immediate action. It will be finally drafted by the senate interstate com merce committee tonight. Senate Meets at 10. It was agreed that .the senate should meet at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning to begin consideration of the oui. rresioent Wilson win be in his office at the capitol at the time. uaaers agreed upon a rule provid ing for a vote on the bill in the house not later than 4:30 p. m. tomorrow. , Freight Rate Bill Later. The portions of the president's recommendations providing for a bill similar to the Canadian industrial dis putes act, for making arbitral awards court records and tor empowering the Interstate Commerce commisson to grant freight rate increases are to be taken up separately. Majority Leader Kitchin, who also conferred with the president, said he thought the egiht-hour bill, with some modification, could be put through the house before Saturday night without encouraging serious opposi : tk. u t : . :.i nun iiuui i'iv , cjjuuinan siuc. Mr. Kitchin directed that the house eight-hour bill should be carefully re vised and submitted to the brother hoods for approval and assurances that it satisfies them , before it is passed. ;,,' . . ' It is an even chance that many people have solved problems exact ly similar to those that now confront you, by the use of Bee Want Ads. "Think it over." ; Call Tyler 1000 for Bee Want-Ads. .