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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 18, 1919)
- Hit! usui uiiAHA,.' bAibKOAi. OoVOBK'ii 18; lyiD. OPERATORS AND GOAL MINERS TO MEET TUESDAY -tr-; Secretary Wilson Secures An- other Conference After Day's Meeting Ends in Failure. Washington, Oct. 17. Failing .after an all-day conference to avert a strike of nearly 500,000 bituminous . coal miners, called for the very eve of winter, Secretary of Labor Wil ; ion invfted miners and operators to send their full scale committees to ' Washington next Tuesday, when an other effort to bring about peace in ;the industry will be made. r Both sides accepted the invitation. This did not offer any great hope, .however, for representatives of the operators stood firm in their de termination not to negotiate any de mand for a six-hour day and not to deal with the unions unless the strike, set for November 1, was called off. Union Head Agrees. John L. Lewis, acting president of the United Minf Workers of America, showed that he was labor ign under a terrible strain when he left the meeting. Speaking to a group of reporters, he said he had t told Secretary Wilson that the 32 members of his wage-scale commit tee would be here Tuesday to meet an equal number from the other aide, but that it would be useless to reconvene the joint interstate wage ' conference "unless the operators change their stonewall attitude" . and indicated a willingness to frame another agreement. No Beason for Advance. Indianapolis, Oct 17. That there ia no cause for a reported movement f to increase the price bf bituminous coal , is the assertion made in a tatement issued from the Interna tional headquarters of the United . Mine Workers of America here to day. . .. ' j "Since the call for a' strike of . bituminous coal miners was issued 1 by Acting President J. L. Lewis, of the United Mine Workers of t America, to become effective on No vember 1, press reports show that there is a movement on foot ' throughout the country to increase ! k. f - ... .l. vv va was j vuiiauilicta, UlC , statement reads. "It has come to our notice that in many places an- ". nouncement is made that the price i of coal will be advanced $1 a ton this week. It will be well for the public to bear in mind the fact that ; the strike does not take place until' i the 1st of November and that the j strike order directs all soft coal ! miners to remain at work until that j date. There will be no suspension' of operation in soft coal mines be- i fore November 1. Therefore, we wish the public to know that there . , is no reason why the price of coal should be increased at this time. Any such increase can only be viewed as plain, every-day profiteer Sng on the part of those who raise : the price, and that its only pur- j pose can be to put greater profits from the advance." ( Ask More Profit Bituminous Coal operators, who . were well content with a profit of not more than 40 cents per ton in Crewar times, are now and have een for the past two or three years, ' making a profit ranging as high as $1 per ton. The public should hold that in virw of thia fact tVnr i tin justmcauon tor a turtner increase in the price, of coal. Surely the operators cannot charge that the miners are responsible for the pro posed increase, because the oper ators have refused to increase the wages of the miners." I , Local coal dealers declare that, since the strike order' was issued, 'the price of coal has been increased at the mines from 25 to 50 cents a ton and say it will likely go even higher. One local operator ' said that retail' dealers and industrial concerns were offering higher prices j in order to get coal. Launch Movement to : Abolish Compulsory V School Vaccination . Pittsfield, Mass., Oct 17. 'Aroused by the death of a school girl by lockjaw which followed vac- ' cination, a movement is under way here to have the state compulsory vaccination law annulled. j The mayor has announced that ' he is against vaccination and has is sued a permit for" a public mass meeting at which the campaign for the repeal of the vaccination law ' will be launched. A former mayor Has volunteered to pay me reniai oi " the hall. ' The mother of the little victim in a letter to the local newspaper ; states that she has received so many i inquiries that she decided to place the facts before the public. She states that her daughter was per - fectly healthy until the time she was vaccinated. "I feel," she says in -"conclusion, "that the parents of " Pittsfield ought to rise and demand .that the compulsory vaccination law of this state be done away with." Germans Indignant at Cost ' Of Maintaining Allied Army ' Berlin. Oct 17. (By Associated rtress.) Indignation was expressed today by -members of the budget " commission of the national assem bly when the national treasurer an . nounced the cost of maintaining en- tente armies of occupation and vari ous control commissions would be from 2,500,000 to 3,000,000,000 marks annually. The minister added that the drain on the national defenses would "eventually react on the en tente" and expressed the hope that the size of the occupying armies would be gradually reduced. ; Tint Severe Frost Hits City OmahaV first severe frost ap peared Thursday night Damage : from the frost was slight however, mostly caused to flowers left uncov . ered by neglectful housewives. 7ir anrl warmer weather is promised for Saturday, however, by j '' Weatherman Welsh, wno says tnai heavy frosts have been common for &nna time in the. north and north west J. N. Titamore, Who Is Representing Farmers At Industry Meeting K"fe.i? tii 1 J. N. Titamore, representative of the National Farmers' union, photo graphed on his arrival at the Pan American .Building to attend a ses sion of the .national industrial conference. German Soldiers Go to Brazil Rio Janeiro, Oct. 17. Among the passengers of the Dutch liner Hol landia arriving here today from Amsterdam were 406 former Ger man officers and soldiers. Of these 23 will remain in Brazil, while the remainder will go to Argentina, where they will become settlers. U.S.RED CROSS IN SIBERIA TO . BATTLETYPHUS Work Has Been Undertaken at Request of Kolchak Es tablish Several' Quaran tine Stations. x Omsk, Oct 17. (By The Asso ciatefl Press.) The American Red Cross has undertaken to establish and admit. ister quarantine stations a'ong the Trans-Siberian railroad in an efiort to stamp onf typhus, which t spreading at an alarming rate. This work was undertaken at the requct of Admiral Kolchalt. Thq visit of Col. Rudolph Balling Teusler, in charge of Red Cross work in Siberia, to Omsk has re sulted in a plan of co-operation be tween the Russian civil and mili tary authorities. The latter will as sume the burden of keeping up not only proposed quarantine stations, but hospitals already established. Conditions may be judged from observations made by Colonel Teus ler enroute to this city, from the east. At Inokentievskaya, near Ir kutsk, lie found 300 patients without blankets, in barren barracks and at tended by convalescents. In filthy boxcars in front of the barracks were 1,000 other patients, among whom there are from 20 to 30 deaths daily. Several thousand more in a similar condition were found between Irkutsk and Omsk, all be ing virtually without attention. In talking with Colonel Teusler, Admiral Kolchak spoke words of highest praise for the work of the STARS "REGISTER" FOR BELGIANS AT SCREEN VILLAGE Skip Receptions and Train Hurries to Grand Canyon. On Board King AlGert's Special Train, Oct. 17r-(By The Associated Press ) The royal Belgium special was headed Friday night for the Grand Canyon of Arizona after a long run through southern Califor nia. The weather is very hot and their majesties were glad of an op portunity to rest, as were the other memb-rs of the party.' ' The tram arrived at Los Angeles at 9:15 a. m. and left at 1:40 p. m., more than half an hour behind the schedule. Virtually all the time there was spent in motor cars and Queen Elizabeth was the only woman in the party who had a parasol to ward off the scorching rays of the sun. There was a reception at the sta tion at which King Albert spoke briefly. Then the procession moved through miles of streets lined with citizens. Belgian day had been pro claimed a holiday in the schools and thousands of pupils waved tiny Bel gian flags as the motor cars went by. A stop'of half an hour had been arranged by the reception commit tee, at a motion picture studio, where some of the stars of the screen registered their emotions for Red Cross in Siberia and asked that forma! thanks be transmitted to Washington. Colonel Teusler reports having outfitted 10,000 beds in Russian hos pitals, in addition to nine hospitals with 3,800 beds under the manage ment of the Red Cross. V the monarch. The procession then was piloted through another screen village, from which it went to a mo tion picture aviation field- It pro ceeded while a motion picture avia tor was performing thrilling feats in the air. Mrs. 'Anita Baldwin, daughter of the late "Lucky" Baldwin, had ex pected to have the royal party ex plore her ranch on the way to Pasa dena, but no stop was made there. Mrs. Baldwin has been a- large con tributor to Belgian relief. A luncheon had been prepared at one of the Pasadena hotels, but that also was skipped. Crowds had gath ered at stations, through which the train passed, especially San Bernar dino, but few stops were made. Produce Flax. Flax is the only textile raw ma terial that the Netherlands produces, and efforts at spinning it have so far proved unsuccessful. Practically the entire domestic production of flax is exported as well ts flax im ported from Belgium. . . PROPOSED BILL WOULD PUT SO C1R ON THE MARKET - ii , Embargo for Six Months Against Export Would Alle viate Shortage Now Exist ing In United. States. troduced a bill placing an embargo on sugar exports. The embargo would include both raw and refined sugar and sugar cane and would continue in effect for six months, "and for such furth er period as the president may de termine." Heavy penalties are pro vided for violations of the act Mr. Dallinger also introduced two resolutions designed to force on the market any surpluses of sugar that the army and navy may have. "The embargo is a drastic method to be sure," said the Mat sachusetts member, "but it is th only one which will fill the Amerp ican sugar bowl. "The embargo bill, which proa vides for the consumption by Amen ica and Americans of all the stock! of raw and refined sugar now in thia country, or which later may b brought into the country, would, if enacted, immediately atop export tion and thus increase by many miW lion pounds the supply available lot cur own people." s By ITnlversa Service. Washington, Oct. 17. Declaring it is time for the United States to look after its own people before providing for the rest of the world, Representative Daflinger, repub lican, Massachusetts, yesterday in- Hew is your health? we advise you to try If It ia not what it should be, Doulae S54T. DR. FRANK F. BURHORN (Palmar School Chiropractor) Adjuatmanta 13 (or $10, or 30 (or $2S.0O. Suita 414-19 Sacnritiaa Bldg Cornar 14th end Fern am Sta. Lady Attendant. 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