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THE BEE: OMAHA, -VYErnTCSPAT,' TEBRUAUT 25, 1920.
LABOR HEADS
FIRE OPENING
SIIOTJN FIGHT
Central Unions Requested to
, Meet March 22 to Select
g vCommittees' for Po
litical Campaign.
Washington, Feb. 24. Central
-. labor union over the country were
"' requested today by the American
Federation of Labbr's political cam
paign committee to meet March 22
to Sfclect local committees of five to
conduct In their communities labor's
campaign "to elect its friends and
defeat iti enehiies."
r "Labor must make this campaign
memorable," said the request. V'lt
. must strain its every fiber to achieve
success. Your- organization has a
i place in the ranks; it has a respon
sibility to meet which must be met.
: In order that there might be nation
' wide action at the earliest possible
' moment, labor's national nonparti
; san campaign committee requests
. that every central body call a ffieet
! ing to be held on March 22, 1920, at
! which a committee of five of your
able and devoted members should,
be appointed.
"Your comcmittee will manage
the local nonpartisan political cam
paign in your district in accord with
the national committee."
' The request was signed by Sam
uel Gompers, Frank Morrison and
James O'Connell, composing the ex
ecutive committee of the general
committee.
The call to the central bodies bore
this slogan: ,
k "Stand faithfully by our friends
and elect them. Oppose our enemies
and defeat them, whether they be
candidates for president, for con
gress or other offices; whether ex
emtive, legislative or judicial."
DELEGATES INSIST
STATE BANKS ARE
. COERCED BY U. S.
Reserve Board Hearing ' Dis
closes No Agreemjcnt Made
With State Bank Committee.
Washington, Feb. 24. (Special
Telegram.) Members of the Ne
braska delegation from the house,
except Representative Jefferis, with
members of the federal reserve
hoard and representatives of na
tional banks in Omaha and Kansas
City had another setto Tuesday over
the dispute between "fne state and
national banking systems regarding
C ercive methods to force state
banks into the federal system.
In the absence of any representa
tives frohi state banks, the members
of congress bore the brunt of the
argument in behalf of the state in
stitutions, Representative Evans
making the argument.
Hearing was not concluded, today
and will be continued Wednesday.
It was productive of few new fea
tures, the delegation insisting that
improper ' methods are being em
ployed to get the state banks into
the federal system, and urging that
thiy have no legal authority for
their action.
The conference disclosed that an
eiror was made in a telegram sent
by the Kansas City Federal Reserve
bank, making it appear that an
agreement had been reached with
the committee of three from the
state banks, Messrs. C A. McCldud
of York, C. Qund of Bluehill, and
Woods Cone of Pierce. No such
agreement has been made.
Former Deputy Marshal
Held for Cattle Thefts
Middletown, N, Y., Feb. 24.
Charles G. Blankenship, 26 years old,
a tormer deputy marsnai in Mon
tana, has been arrested on a charge
of stealing 167 head of cattle from
a Montana ranch. He is held to
await extradition proceedings. .
FOOD SHORTAGE
WARNING ISSUED
FROM CAPITAL
Production on Farms Is Fall
ing Off Rapidly Accord
ing to the Department
Of Agriculture.
Washington, Feb. 24. Warning
that serious risk of reduced food
production impends because of high
wgaes demanded by farm laborers,
high cost of farm equipment and
supplies and pronounced movements
of people from the farms to the
cities, was given today by the De
partment of Agriculture on the basis
of reports and letters from ell sec
tions of the country.
"The most definite of these re
ports come from New York state,"
the department's announcement
said, "where records of 3,775 repre
sentative farms on February 1 dis
closed that during the last year the
number of people on these farms de
creased nearly 3 per 'cent aird the
number of hired men decreased more
than 17 per cent. This is a more
rapid movement from the farms to
other industries than took place in
the early part of the war.
"The same conditions in varying
degrees exist in all . sections," ac
cording to the iederai bureau ot
crop estimates, although they are not
so acute farther from industrial, cen
ters. "Another New York report, ap
plicable in some degree in every part
of the country, is that farm wages
this year will average 14 per cent
higher than they were in 1919, al-
though in 1919 they were 80 per cent
higher than they were at the begin
ning of the war. - :
..Numerous letters to the Depart
ment of Agriculture from its field
GENERAL EXODUS
OF ALL RUSSIANS
IN U. S. PLANNED
,
Will Return Home as Protesl
Against Government's Action
In Deporting Aliens.,
New York, Feb. 24. A movement
with the avowed object of bringing
about a general exodus from Amer
ica of all Russians "as a protest
'against the government's conduct of
alien deportation cases, was an
nounced here by the Workers' De
fense Union, of which Elizabeth
Gurley Flynn is the head. The
union stated that'it had received an
invitation from a group oi Russians
to attend a conference in Washing
ton at some future date to discuss
details of the contemplated exodus.
The Russians back of the move
ment, according to the union's state
ment, disclaim any connection with
communist or soviet organizations
and declare thev are acting because
of "injustices inflicted upon foreign
ers by the government's conduct of
deportation proceedings."
i It was added, however, that the
soviet government of Russia had of
fered to provide 100 ships for the
general withdrawal, as soon as its
relationsAvith the outside world be
came more settled. Tentative plans,
it was said, call for'all Russian work
ers In the United States to quit their
task at a given hour and to as
semble at piers and wharves.
A company, claiming to represent
13 men held . for deportation
at Ellis Island, announced it had
sent a telegram, to Secretary of
Labor Wilson, demanding immediate
release or immediate deportation to
soviet Russia. The telegram de
clared the deportees are subjected to
innuman treatment on the island.
worKers or trom tarmers indicate a
widespread disposition to cut down
plantings so that the work of culti
vating, can be attended to by the
farmer himself or by members of his
family. .-.
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Only through the combined use of one with the
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Any Victor dealer will gladly play your favorite
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month. (-.
COMPROMISE WET
MEASURE PASSED
BY' NEW JERSEY
Bill Fixes Three and Half
1 Per'' Cent Alcohol as
Legal Limit for Bev
erages in State.
Trenton. N. T.. Feb. 24. Amid
scenes of' tumult and cries of recog
nition by members of the floor, after
two hours' debate the New Jersey
house oi the assembly late Tuesday
afternoon passed a compromise
"wet" bill fixing 3J5 per cent alcohol
by volume, which if declared to be
slightly stronger than the 275 per
cent beer ot wartime prohibition
days, as the Wal limit for beverages
in New Jersey.; The bill was agreed
to by wet democrats and wet repub
licans and had the sanction of Gov
ernor Edwards. It was presented to
the house in the form of a commit
tee substitute for the Barrett 4 ne
cent bill, which was the democratic
measure, and it was passed by if
vote of 37 to 21. The passage "of
the bill was prompted by the desire
ot Attorney General McCran to
have the measure on the statute
books in order to fortify him next
Aionaay to unset the orohibition
amendment and the "Volstead act,
wmcn proceedings he has been di
rected to institute by Governor Ed
wards, who was elected on a dis
tinctly wet issue.
It is believed the senate will naca
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. Hear Arguments March 8.
Washington. Feb. 24. Argument
onfthe ftovernment's motion to dis
miss the criginal suit Instituted bvJ
Knoae island to test the constitu
tionality of the federal nrohibition
constitutional amendment will be
heard in the supreme court on
March 8. Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Frijrson and Sojicitor General
King will appear for the government.
While the suit will be heard n
themotion to dismiss all the issues
involved will be areued. Mr. Frier-
son said today, and the entire ca?e
submitted upon its merits to the
court. A decision at this term
expected by court officials. v
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ALLIES WILL NOT
DEAL WITH REDS,
COUNCIL DECIDES
Horrors of Bolshevism Must
Come to End Before Rec
ognition Given.
London, Feb. 24. The. allies will
decKne to deal with soviet Russia
''until they have arrived at the con
viction that the bolshevists horrors
have come to an end." it was an
nounced alter a meeting of the allied
supreme council today.
The decision of the supreme coun
cil, it was recognized, preclude
diplomatic relations between the al
lied governments and the Moscow
administration in, the immediate fu
ture. The council expressed itself as
pleased that the international labor
bureau had decided to send a dele
gation to Russia to study conditions,
but it stated its belief that supervi
sion of the delegation should be un
der the council of the league of na
tions, giving the investigators
greater authority.
The councfl. it was stated, de
cided that the allies could not accept
the responsibility of advising the
border states to continue war
against the bolsheyiki. If the bol
sheviki attack within the, territory
of the border states, however, the
allies promise every possible sup
port. . ' x
Grocers Fire Opening
Gun in Fight on H. C. L.
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Illinois Will Place Whisky
On Federal Fair Price List
Chicago, Feb. 24. Whisky for, me
dicinal purposes will be placed on
the federal fair price list for Illihois,
along with butter, eggs, flour 'and
other necessities of life, it was an
nounced by Harry Mages, collector
of internal revenue. The action was
decided upon at the conference at
tended by Mr. Mager, District-Attorney
Clyne, Hubert Howard, state
prohibition commissioner, and A. A.
Sprague, head of the Illinois fair
price commission.
The price p be set on whisky was
not decided, but according to Mr.
Clyne it probably will be leSs than
$5 a gallon. It was said druggists
were reported to be profiteering in
whisky.
Brotherhoods to Ask
, Veto of Railroad Bill
(Continued From First Pae.)
plained to be aside from any ques
tion of the validity of the bill and
they therefore proposed to carry
the opposition through to the finish.
The next step in the union pro
gram which will not be -developed
definitely unless the bill is approved,
is to test the constitutionality of the
law. Various methods of bringing
this about were suggested, but all
will be held in abeyance pending the
president's action.
Reach Decision Suddenly.
Decision of the union officials to
present their views to Mr. Wilson
was reache'd suddenly. The course
was not decided on, it was said, until
it appeared no other plan would be
generally accepted by the rank and
file.
Labor provisions of the bill ad
mittedly would be the most bitterly
assailed by the unions, but the plan
also contemplates attack on the fin
ancial sections, which labor holds
to be "unfair to the taxpayers and a
burden on the government." The
dividend provision of the law also
will come in for condemnation, it
was indicated.
Building Lot Awarded -
As Market Week Prize
W. H." Puis, a hardware dealer of
Murray, Neb., won the Minne Lusa
building lot, one of the main prizes
offered during the Spring Mer
chants' Market week, last night at
an entertainment given for the vis
iting merchants at the Hotel Fon
tenelle. , '
- Other prize winners were H. H.
Albers, Gilead, Neb; S. Y. High,
Bloomfield, Neb.; J. W. Broodhead,
Sedgwick, Colo.; M. H. Cutler, Mo
dale, la.; Conrad Immelman, Ster
ling, Neb.; Mrs. Hattie Norris, Ash
land, Neb.; Mrs. S. E. Clements,
Neb.; Mrs. J. J. Ellerbrock, Hart
ley, la., and Mrs. F. J. Suchan,
Leigh, Neb. v
Joseph Kelley had charge of the
prize distribution and elaborate
refreshments marked the evening's
entertainment.
Officer Finds Pocketbook
Lost by Man He Arrested
Jack Malone,, 406 Cuming street,
was arrested last night at Eleventh
and Farnam. streets by Policeman
Charles Geiselman on, a charge of
being drunk. When searched at
th station $4.90 was found on Ma
lone. - . .
Officer Geiselman returned to his
beat, and as he was passim? the call
box, from which he had sent in the
call tor the patrol wagon, he saw
a pocketnook on tne sidewalk. In
it was $150 in bills and $247 in
checks and the name of Charles Ma
lone. The officer took the money
to the station. x ,
Bobbed by Footpads.
J. WT Jones, 2633 Chicago street,
was held up last night between
Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth
streets on Davenport and robbed of
his watch and ' silver cigarette case
by three "jigg oca aXmH with re
volvers. " v
(Continued From Fuwt 'e.)
and retail ortces recently, but the
grocers refused. I believe the con
sumers as a whole will be glad to
bake their own bread, especially
when they can get their 'flour at
wholesale nnces. ' - -
) "This is not a fight on the baker.
It is simply an attempt on the part
of the retail grocers to help the con
sumer and to put themselves in the
right light. We will hold another
meeting at the Chamber of Com
merce in two. weeks and complete
our plans against the high cost of
living." ,
Commenting on the proposed ac
tion of the grocers, President Buffett
explained that the grocers hoped to
secure the co-operation of other re
tail merchant dealers in downing the
high cost of living.
No False Bottoms.
A committee to see that no false
bottoms were placed in berry boxes
to "short-weight the customer" was
appointed during the meeting last
night. Ben Newmah was elected a
director of the association for the
ensuing week. E. W. Pitch. Omaha
insurance man, urged grocers to
cover 80 per cent of their property
with insurance.
At the suggestion of Secretary
Cameron, the city was divided into
20 districts and a chairman was ap
pointed for each division. A meet
ing of the grocers In each division
will be held each week, it was de
cided. The Daily News fish'sale was de
nounced by several members of the
association, who declared that the
fish sold was of the cold storage
variety, which discriminating cus
tomers would not buy, and that the
price charged allowed more than a
reasonable profit, according to Sec
retary Cameron.
"Pershing Kept His
American Head," Is
Stated in Congress
Washington, Feb. 2 The cut of
General Pershing's coat and trous
ers was debated today in the house.
He and other American army of
ficers were charged by Representa
tive Connally. democrat, Texas, with
having "aped" European fashions in
their uniforms anJl in carrying
canes.
"General Pershing's coat is split
up the back and his trousers bagged
like the English uniform," said Mr.
Connally.
"He kept his American head,"
Representative Witlgo, democrat,
Arkansas, interjected, "but I, too,
noticed that his tail was very Eng
lish." Deploring the adoption of foreign
fashions, Representative Connally
moved to abolish the title of under
secretary of state and substitute the
former title of counsellor, invthe ex
ecutive appointment bill, but the
motion was defeated. 39 to 21.
Dnring the discussion -Represcnta-
tive Greene, republican, Massachu
setts, referred to former Secretary
Lansing's retirement from the cat
inct.
-'What's in a name?" Mr.'Greent
asked. "A secretary of state by any
other name would have a, row with
the administration."
When the republicans " cheered,
Representative Connally brought a
reply salvo from the democrats by
retorting that the republicans ap
plauded internal difficulties.
Postpone Opening of Babf v
Station Here Until March 2
The Visiting Nurse association of
Omaha will not open the baby sta
tion . at 1510 North Twenty-fifth
street until next Tuesday morning
at 10. This station will be open
every Tuesday morning thereafter,
10 to 11. . t
The station in the South SideVity
hail is open every Wednesday morn
ing) 10 to 11, and the station at th
City mission every -Thursday after -noon,
1 to 2. j
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Boosters.
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toil
Figured Silks, for
Spring Apparel
Printed foulards, taffetas and' Georgettes are
much in favor for combination with plain silks
and for entire dresses and blouses. . . . "
We hav6' color combinations and odd designs
that you'll find extremely interesting, and the
quality of these fabrics is altogether dependable
: such makes as Cheneys and Malliftsdn's make
up the showing.
You will find a visit to
the dress good department
particularly interesting now.
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