THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY,- AUGUST 26, 1919.
RUSSIANS ASK
FURTHER HELP
AGAINST REDS
Grave Consequences Predicted
in Message to Wilson
if Allied Support Be
Withdrawn.
New York, Aug. 25. Further as
sistance for the people of north
Russia against 'the bolsheviki is
asked in a cablegram sent to Pres
iiUnf WiUnn hv representatives of
the people of that region, assembled
at Archangel.
In this message the government
and peoples of all the allied democ
racies are addressed. It is set forth
that the fornicators of the message
were elected "by the entire popula
tion cf the region," and represented
its democracy .and were meeting in
conference of the zemstvos and mu
nicipalities. By this assemblage the
news that the withdrawal of the
British troops had been ordered
was received with misgiving, the dis
patch continues, and grave conse
quences for the people of north
Russia are predicted should all al
lied support be withdrawn.
After drawing a dark picture of
the bolshevik regime, which is charg
ed with having throttled the people's
will, introduced an autocratic re
gime of terror and bloodshed and
sold out Russia tfc "German and neu
tral bankers," the message points
out that insurrections have occurred
against the soviet government in dif
ferent parts of central Russia, where
the bolsheviki still hold sway.
To Make Stand on Ishim.
Vladivostok, Aug. 25. Siberian
forces retreating on the east Russian
front have planned to make a stand
on the Ishim river, which crosses
the . trans-Siberian railroad about
175 miles of West Omsk. Reports
have stated that the retreat would
ton mi the line of Tobolsk, about
90 miles further west.
Denikine Takes Berislav.
London, Aug. 25. General Deni
kine, commander of the anti-bolshevik
forces in south Russia, has cap
tured th town of Berislav. en the
Dnieper river in the government of
Kherson, according to a aispaicn to
day from Taganrog, in the Don Cos
sack territory on the Sea of Azov.
U. S. Will Not Boycott
Germans, British Say
London, Aug. 24. United States
. refuse further to co-operate in
a. . economic boycott of Gjrmany,
id matter what the allies may do,
according to Maj. A. M. Bertie, in a
British White paper, rep rting' on
hij visits to Berlin, east and west
Prussia and Courland. Major Ber
tie said in April American firms were
already busily engaged in rchemes
for cap'tring the '"err i trade for
themselves as soon as the blockade
is raised.
'Thus a Danzig shipowner in
fon led me that an Americ n iom;
l.....: .i, which recently visited Ham
burg trade a point of ascertain'
the names of firms on the British
blacklist with a view to establishing
&.. American trade . woly wl:h
tii e fiinis." Major Bertie reported.
"An official of the 'Inland Water
Transport' informs me that an
American chamber of commerce
has been founded in Berlin to
revive trade between Germany and
the United States."
Senate Resumes Discussion
of Oil Land Lease Bill
Washington, Aug. 25. The senate
today resumed consideration of the
bill for the leasing and development
of government-owned oil, gas, coal
and phosphate lands.
Amendments by Senator Walsh of
Massachusetts, to eliminate the max
imum royalty provisions under the
oil and coal sections and to reduce
the period for which oil and gas
leases would be granted were de
feated, as was an amendment bv
Senator Walsh designed to prevent
the "watering" of mining stock.
JOSEPH RESIGNS
AS DICTATOR OF
HUNGARYREGIME
Peace Conference Receives
Resignation Reports State
New Cabinet In Process of
Formation.
Paris, Aug. 25. The resignation
of the Hungarian government of
Archduke Joseph, previously re
ported in press advices, was an
nounced in messages received by
the supreme council today. The
messages indicated that the resig
nation occurred at 8 o'clock Satur
day night and that the formation
of a new cabinet had begun.
In the new cabinet the dispatches
state, Paul Garami, minister of jus
tice in the Peidill cabinet, will be
minister of commerce, vhile for
mer Premier Jules Peidll will be
minister of food. Karl Payer, min
ister of home affairs in the Peidll
government, is designated as min
ister of labor in the reconstructed
ministry, and Count Crany as min
ister of foreign affairs. The ether
places have not vet been filled.
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Army and Navy to Stage
Balloon Race for Prize
St. Louis, Aug. 25. A balloon
race between the army and navy
for the military championship, of
the United States will start from
here September 26, under the aus
pices of the Missouri Aeronautical
society. Each side will be allcwed
to enter three balloons.
Scout Car Arrives.
Placerville, Cal., Aug. 25.--The
official scout car of the army trans
continental motor truck'convoy ar
rived here Monday, seven days late,
on account of difficulties encoun
tered crossing the Nevada desert.
Would Have Teutons
' Held in Restraint
(Cntued From rc On.)
if it does not the world will be "no
worse off than before.
Replying to arguments that by
entering the league, the United
States would yield a measure of
sovereignty, he said in all treaties
and in international law nations
recognize the necessity of foregoing
in some degree their "right" of ar
bitrary action for the sake of inter
national amity. He declared, how
ever, that no constitutional power
of congress was contravened by the
covenant. ..
"The Monroe doctrine is rein
forced by the league covenant," he
continued, "because it is accorded
official recognition by any European
or Asiatic government for the first
time."
The contention that the door of
revolution is closed to unsatisfied
minorities of a state by Article X
is refuted,' the senator said, by the
terms of the article by which league
members undertake to preserve the
integrity of a state against "external
aggression only."
Replying to criticism of opponents
of the league that under its pro
visions the United States would
have to supply trops to "police Eu
rope," Senator Nugent said he "pre
ferred a thousand times over to
send 50,000 Americans to Europe
to preserve peace than to be com
pelled to send millions over there
to fight."
Army Orders.
Washington, Aug. 25. (Special Tele
gram.) Col. Charles 1 Foser, medical
corps, is relieved from duty at Kort Doug
las, Utah, on or about September 1. and
will proceed to De Moines. First Lieut.
Ermin Levi Ray, medical corps, now on
leave of absence, la relieved from station
.it Camp Dlx and will prooeed to Fort
Des Moines. Capt. Reginald N. Hmnll
ton, Infantry, is relieved from his present
duties as tone property auditor, Omaha.
Captain Hamilton, with ms assistants,
First Lieut. Joseph B. Jlskrs, air service,
and Second Lieut. Arthur F. Seldel, quar
termaster corps, will report at Chicago
for duty.
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LABOR DEMANDS
FOR MORE WAGES
President Tells Railroad Em
ployes' Representatives of
New Policy to Govern
Administration.
(Cm tinned from Fas One.)
his advisers said they would com
municate the decision to the union
locals for acceptance or rejection.
A strike vote completed yesterday
but not yet tabulated, was on the
question whether the men should
quit work to enforce consideration
of their demands by the railroad ad
ministration instead of by a con
gressional commission as first sug
gested. As this plan was aban
doned the vote, whatever the re
sult, is non-effective and the shop
men now have an entirely new
question before them.
This question they were asked by
President Wilson, through their
committee, to consider "in a new
light."
Facing Situation.
"We are face to face with a sit
uation," the president said, "which
is more likely to affect the happi
ness and prosperity and even the
life of our people than the war it
self." He thereupon outlined the gov
ernment's efforts to reduce prices
and the need for assisting these ef
forts by stimulating production and
maintaining transportation.
"A general increase in the levels
of wages might defeat this at its
very beginning," the president said.
"I believe that the present efforts
to reduce the costs of living will be
successful, if no new elements of
difficulty are thrown in the way.
I confidently count upon the men
engaged in the service of the rail
ways to assist, not obstruct. They
are good Americans, along with the
rest of us and may, I am sure, be
counted on to see the point.
"It goes without saying that if
our efforts to bring the cost of
living down should fail, it will be,
of course, necessary to accept the
higher costs as a permanent basis
of adjustment and railway wages
should be adjusted with the rest."
Increases Above H. C. L,
Mr. Hines' recommendations to
the president showed that the aver
age increase in earnings was in ex
cess of the total increase in the
cost of living from July 1, 1915, and
August 1, 1919, due to the fact that
standardization adopted at the re
quest of the employes had given
thousands higher classification and
higher pay than they previously en
joyed. -
"Wages paid for ..similar work in
shipyards, which workers the shop
men have cited as higher paid, Mr.
Hines said, were higher because
the work was temporary and car
ried on under greater pressure and
also the workmen were forced to
live in congested districts where
living was extremely high, while
railroad shopmen have the advan
tage of small or semi-rural com
munities. Private industries, the di
rector general found were paying
about 3 cents an hour more than
the railroad administration, which
difference will be equalized under
the 4-cent advance.
In addition to the 4 cents an hour
increase for most of the shopmen,
the director general ordered that
all freight car repairmen receive 76
cents an hour instead of 63 for steel
car repairers and 58 cents for wood
car repairers and that car inspectors
should receive 67 cents instead of
58 cents, with the exception in both
classes that 'the increase for men
employed at outlying points, where
the work is not continuous, shall be
4 cents an hoi"".
Statement to Shopmen.
The president in his statement to
the representatives of the shopmen
said:
"Gentlemen:
"I request that you lay this crit
ical matter before the men in a new
light. The vote they have taken
was upon the question whether they
should insist upon the wage increasP
they were asking or consent to the
submission of their claims to a new
tribunal to be constituted by new
legislation. That question no Ionger ,
has any life in it. Such legislation
is not now in contemplation. I re
quest that you ask the men to re
consider the whole matter in view
of the following considerations, to
which I ask their thoughtful atten
tion as Americans and which I hope
that you will lay before them as I
Here state them.
We are face to face wih a situa
tion which is more likely to affect
the happiness and prosperity and
even the life of our people than the
war itself. We have now got to
do nothing less than bring our in
dustries and our labor of every kind
back to a normal basis after the
greatest upheaval known in history
and the winter just ahead of us may
bring suffering infinitely greater
than the war brought upon us it
we blunder or fail in the process.
An admirable spirit of self-sacrifice
of patriotic devotion and ot com
munity action guided and inspired
us while the fighting was on. We
shall need all these now, and need
them in a heightened degree, if we
are to accomplish the first tasks of
peace. They are more difficult than
the tasks of war more complex,
less easily understood and require
more intelligence, patience and so
briety. We mobilized our man
power for the fighting, let us now
mobilize our brain power and our
consciences for the reconstruction.
If we fail it will mean national dis
aster. The primary first step is tp
increase production .and facilitate
transportation so as to make up for
the destruction wrought by the war,
the terrible scarcities it created,
and as soon as possible relieve our
people of the- cruel burden of high
prices. The railways are at the cen
ter of this whole process.
Pulling Down Prices.
The government has taken up
with all its energy the task of bring
ing the profiteer to book, making
the stocks of necessaries in the
country available at lowered prices,
stimulating production and facilitat
ing distribution, and very favorable
results are already beginning to ap
oear. There is reason to entertain
the confident hope that substantial
relief will result and result in in
creasing measure. A general in
crease in the levels of wages would
check and might defeat all this at
its very beginning. Such increases
would inevitably raise, not lower,
the cost of living. Manufacturers
and producers of every sort would
have innumerable additional pre
texts for increasing profits and all
efforts to discover and defeat
profiteering would be hopelessly
confused. I believed that the pres
ent efforts to reduce the costs of
living will be successful, if no new
elements of difficulty are thrown in
the way; and I confidently count
upon the men engaged in the service
of the railways to assist, not ob
struct. It is much more in their in
terest to do this than to Insist upon
wage increases which will undo
everything the government attempts.
They are good Americans along
with the rest of us and may, I am
sure, be counted on to see the point!
Wait and See.
It goes without saying that if our
efforts to bring the cost of living
down should fail, after we have
had time enough to establish either
success or failure, it will, of course,
be necessary to accept the higher
costs of living as a permanent basis
of adjustment, and railway wages
should be readjusted along with the
rest. All that I am now urging is,
that we should not be guilty of the
inexcusable inconsistency of making
general increases in wages on the
assumption that the present cost of
living will be permanent at the
very time that we are trying with
great confidence to reduce the cost
of living and are able to say that
it actually is beginning to fall.
I am aware railway employes
have a sense of insecurity as t0 the
future of the roads and have many
misgivings as to whether their in
terests will be properly safeguarded
when the present form of federal
control has come, to an end. No
doubt it is in part this sense of
uncertainty that prompts them to
insist that their wage interests be
adjusted now, rather than under
conditions which they cannot cer
tainly foresee. But I do not think
their uneasiness is well grounded.
I anticipate that legislation deal
ing with the future of the railroads
will in explicit terms afford protec
tion for the interests of the em
ployes of the railroads, but quite
apart from that, it is clear that no
legislation can make the railways
other than what thtv ir ? rrr.-,
public interest and it is riot likely
that the president of the United
States, whether in nncc;nn
- v.iiu.i nnu
control of the railroads or not. will
lack opportunity or persuasive force
to influence the decision of ques
tions arising between the managers
of the railroads and th nil.,,
employes. The employes may rest
asauicu inai, uuring ray term ot ot-
nce, wnetner 1 am in actual posses
sion of the railroads or not, I shall
not fail to r-xert the full inf1,-.
of the executive to see that instr're
is done them.
I believe therefore that they may
be justified in their confidence that
hearty co-operation with the gov
ernment now in its efforts to reduce
the COSt of livinc will hv tin moono
be prejudicial to their own inter
ests, but will, on the contrary, jjre
nare the wav fnr mm- farriK!
and satisfactory relations in the fu
ture.
I confidently count on their co
operation in this time of national
test and crisis.'
After their visit to the White
House the shopmen's representatives
conferred with the rfirertnr ewner
at the railroad administration. Later
tney went into conterence at the
Amriran PVrlprn finn r( T qUp UoiA
quarters, and at midnight, so far as
coum oe learnea, sun were discuss
ing the recommendations to be sub
mitted to the union membership,
which numbers about 250,000.
Acting President Jewell said a
statement setting forth the attitude
of the union' heads would be issued
as soon as a decision was reached.
Pittsburgh Mob Wrecks
Cars and Ties Up Traffic
Pittsburgh, Aug. 25. After the
first three cars they operated were
stoned and one wrecked in a down
town street, the receivers of the
Pittsburgh Railway company made
no further effort to break the strike
of 3,000 motormen and conductors
which has tied up trolley transpor
tation here for the last eleven days.
More than a score of persons
were injured in rioting which broke
out as soon as the cars left the
barns. Several persons were hit
by shots fired by rioters who fol
lowed the car in automobile trucks.
Many arrests were made.
Second New Comet
Within Three Days
Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 25.
Discovery of a second new comet
in three days by the Rev. Joel H.
Metcalf was announced Monday by
the Harvard college observatory.
After picking up in the eastern sky j
on August 20 the first of the year s
new stray stars, he reported that I
on the night of the 22d at 11 o'clock I
he found in Bootes constellation in ,
the western sky another uncharted
body more conspicuous than the
first. He said it could be seen with
a small telescope.
Judge Orders Release
of Cold Storage Food
St. Paul, Aug. 25. Judge W. F.
Booth, in United States district
court issued an order releasing 137,
000 pounds of cold storage poultry
belonging to Armour & Co.
seized at Duluth last week. A simi
lar order was issued releasing the
16,000 pounds of butter held in St.
Paul by Charles F. Kiewel, a
Crookston, Minn., bank cashier.
Ship Ooes on Rock.
Halifax, Aug. 25. The Royal
Mail Packet company's steamer
Shaudiere struck a rock in "Two
Rock passage," of the port of Ber
muda, Monday, tearing a hole in
her starboard side, but made dock
safely, according to messages re
ceived here. Considerable water
entered No. I hold and the steamer
will be unable to continue her voy
age to Barbados and Demerari. The
Chaudiere left here last Fridav with
88 passengers.
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Senate Foreign Relations
Committee Announces Sched
ule of Hearings That May
Last Two Weeks.
Washington. Aug. 25. Extending
the scope of its public inquiry re
garding the peace treaty, the senate
foreign relations committee an
nounced Monday night a schedule
of hearings tha't promise to occupy
most of its time for the next two
weeks and to lead into the intricacies
of political and territorial prob
lems in several parts of the world.
The disputed questions to be
touched upon in the eight-day sched
ule include the disposition of Fiume,
of the Aland islands and of the Ger
man colonies in Africa and the
claim of Ireland for independence.
On the list of witnesses are repre
sentatives of the Italians, Jugo
slavs, Hungarian-Armenians, Irish,
Greeks, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Es
thonians, Letts and American ne
groes. Under the arrangement the time
to be devoted to work pn the amend
ments to the treaty this week will
be reduced from three days to two,
Thursday having been set aside to
hear the negro delegation on the
question of the African colonies.
Chairman Lodge announcing the
decision, after consultation with
other committee members, said the
hearings seemed essentia) to an in
telligent judgment on the manifold
provisions of the treaty. Demo
cratic members, however, who said
there had been an understanding
that the committee would complete
its report to the senate this week,
charged again the treaty was need
lessly held up by the committee ma
jority. It was agreed that if the plan were
carried out the treaty probably
would not come out of commit
tee before the end of the week.
Confers With Swanson.
Late Monday President Wilson
drove to the capitol and conferred
about half an hour with Senator
REPORT SAYS v
SERBIANS ARE '
MOBILIZING
Do So to Counteract Rouman
ian Mobilization on Bonat
and Temesvar Line
Paris, Aug. 25. A report re
ceived in Paris says that the Serb
ians are mobilizing their forces in
Banat and Temesvar. N. P. Pac
hitch, ex-preniier and head of the
Serb delegation, says that the Serbs
are reinforcing their troops on the
inside line through Banat, estab
lished by the supreme council, be
cause the Roumanians are concen
trating on the other side, causing
great agitation among the popula
tion of a considerable part ot the
territory which is preponderated
Serbian for a considerable distance
inside the area attributed to Rotl-mania.
The talk of mobilization, however,.
M. Pachitch declares, is exaggerated.
There are. no Serbian troops in
Banat except in the territory at
tributed to Serbia by the supreme
council, and the number there, he
says, is only such as prudence demands.
Austrian Treaty Will Be
Given to Envoys Tomorrow
Paris, Aug. 25. The treaty with
Austria will be considered by the
supreme council this afternoon and
will probably be handed to the Aus-'
trian delegates tomorrow. Five days
will be given for consideration un
less the Austrians ask for a longet
delay.
Swanson of Virginia, a democratic
member of the committee, and it
was assumed they discussed the
committee situation and the new
turn of events. . Senator Swanon
declined to talk about the confer
ence. It was reported that the pres
ident desired to see also Senator
Hitchcock of Nebraska, but found
he was not in town.
At the committee hearing the case
of Egypt was presented by Joseph
H. W. Folk, counsel for the Egyp
tian peace delegates, who, he said,
were in "virtual imprisonment" in
Paris. He declared Great Britain
had seized Egypt without excuse
and was seeking by the treaty to
legalize its act.
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