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SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1919
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TWO CENTR??.A?"^ ??Sr *2? ""'
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Kl?t*?h.r.
House Gives Up Recess to Meet Living Cost Crisis
Wilson Puts Railroad Wage Problem Up to Congres
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Plan to Make|
Reservations
Part of Treaty
Changes Offered by Seven
Republican Senators
?Safeguard Power of
Congress to Make War
U. S. Sole Judge in
Quitting League
No Monroe Doctrine
Arbitration ; Internal
Rights Are Protected
WASHINGTON, Ang. 1.?The reserra
tion proposal agrend to by seven Re
pabliean Senators as the basis of :
ratification of the league of nations
??Tenant is so worded, it became known
to-night, that the "reservations and
understandings'* enumerated shall be?
come "a part of the treaty" and shall
not stand simply as a detached inter?
pretation by the Senate.
While some of the sponsors of the
programme regard it as merely inter- ?
pretative in effect, clarifying the lan?
guage of the covenant without chang?
ing the meaning of any provision,
toners of the seven believe it goes fur?
ther and greatly softens certain feat?
ures which, they say, violate national i
rights.
The reservations as agreed to in
definite terms are embodied in a pro- '
posed ratification resolution reading as
follows:
"That the Senate of the United
States advise and consent to the
ratification of said treaty with the ?
foluowing reservations and under- 1
standings to be made a part of the j
treaty -by the instrument, of ratifica- ?
tion.
t U. S. to Be Sole Judge
"I-That whenever the two years'
notice of withdrawal from the
lecgue of nations shall have been
given by the United States, as pro?
vided in Article I, the United States
shall be the sole judge whether all
it? international obligations and all
its obligations under this covenant
shall hiu-e been fulfilled at the time
of withdrawal.
'<*>? That the suggestions of the
council of the league of na?
tions as to the means of carrying the ?
Obligations of Article X into effect
are only advisory, and that, any un?
dertaking uirier the provisions of
Article X, the execution of which
mty require the use of American
military or naval forces or economic
measures, can under the Constitution
be carried out only by the action or
the Congress, and that the failure of
the Congress to adopt the suggestions
of the council of the lergue, or to
provide such military or naval forces
or economic measures, ?hall not con?
stitute a violation of the treaty.
Safeguards Internal Affairs
440?The United States reserves
to itself the right to decide
what questions are within its domes?
tic jurisdiction and declares that
all domestic and political questions
relating to its internal affairs, in
clud'ng immigration, coastwise traf?
fic, the tariff, commerce and all
other purely domestic questions, are
solely within the jurisdiction of the
United States and are not by this
covenant submitted in any way either
to arbitration or to the considera?
tion of the council or the assembly
of the league of nations or to the
decision or recommendation of any
other power.
Monroe Doctrine Paramount
"4,?The United States does not
bind itself to submit for arbi?
tration or inquiry by the assembly
?r the council any questions which
in the judgment of the United States
depends upon or involves its long
?stablished policy commonly known
88 the Monroe Doctrine, and it is
Preserved unaffected by any provi?
sion in the said treaty contained."
The seven Republicans who agreed
to this proposal as a basis for the ef?
fort to bring on a middle ground,
Senators of both parties who favor the
k**o? plan in general outline, were
Senators McNary, Oregon; McCumber,
North Dakota;; Colt, Rhode Island;
Spencer, Missouri; Cummins, Iowa;
Kellogg, Minnesota; and Lenroot, Wis?
consin.
It became known to-night that the
Proposed resolution had not been pre?
texted either to Republican Leader
Lodge or to Senator Hitchcock, Adminis?
tration leader in the treaty fight, and
that the efforts of the group sponsor
lnZ the plan probably would be di
?octed for the present toward enlarg
% their number in order t? hold in
Continued on V^gs four
Martial Law Rules Shantung Capital;
Japanese Now Favor Speedy Return
HONOLULU, Aug. 1.?Serious anti
Japan.se disturbances are reported a.
Tsi-Nanfu, capital of the Province of
Shantung, China, according to cable
advices received here to-day from Tokio
by the "Nippu Jiji," a Japanese daily
newspaper. The cable added that the
commander of the Chinese garrison had
declared martial law.
TOKIO, July 29 (Delayed).?The col?
lision between Chinese and Japanese
troops in Manchuria, announced in an
official statement yesterday, is regard?
ed as significant in showing the extent
of anti-Japanese feeling throughout
China over the Shantung question. The
situation is particularly tense in Man?
churia, while news also has been re?
ceived of a clash between Chinese and
Japanese civilians near Mocheng, in
Shantung province, in which casualties
occurred.
In fact, all information reaching here
from China is to the effect that the
anti-Japanese sentiment is continuing
uninterruptedly, and th. Japanese,
judging from various expressions, ap?
parently see the necessity of arranging
the details for the return of Shantung
to China as quickly as possible.
Before returning to the United States
on the steamer Empress of Russia re?
cently William Potter, president of
Jefferson Medical College, of Phila?
delphia, and former United States Min?
ister to Italy, who had been spending
several months in the Far East, pub?
lished what he called a friendly warn?
ing to Japan. Mr. Potter in his state?
ment said that he had found in Corea
and China a universal distrust of
Japan and a rapidly growing, hatred of
Japan'? "military arrogance and aggres?
siven, ss."
Hammerstein
Dies at Lenox
Hill Hospital
Complication of Diseases
Due to Diabetes Attack
Brings End to Career
of Theatrical Manager
Oscar Hammerstein, veteran impre?
sario, died at 7:25 p. m. yesterday at
Lenox Hill Hospital, Seventy-seventh
Street and Park Avenue. His death was
due to diabetes and a complication of
diseases and had been imminent for
several days. Mr. Hammerstein lived
thirty-six hours longer than his physi?
cians had believed possible.
Nevertheless the end came suddenly
and comparatively unexpectedly. His
wife, son and two daughters, who had
been at his bedside for hours, were
absent from the hospital at the time.
Mr. Hammerstein's physician also was
away. Dr. M. Schevell, resident physi?
cian at the hospital, was with him and
summoned his family with all haste.
They failed to arrive in time.
Since Saturday afternoon, when Mr.
Hammerstein waa taken to the hos?
pital from his home at 949 West End
Avenue he had been making a hope?
less but brave fight for his life. He
conquered a similar attack a year and
a half ago and had told friends he
felt as well as ever. Tt was with out?
ward expression of confidence that lie
entered upon his last struggle.
Before dawn Tuesday physicians in
attendance gave up hope. Mr. Ham
nierstein, they believed, could live but
a few hours at most. He had sunk
into a diabetic ?<._ and his right side I
was paralyzed. im that timo on his |
family scarcely le.t nn> bodside. They ?
left the hospital ye-Uerday afternoon ?
for a short um?* in the expectation '
that no change wss likely for some j
hours. I
lir. Hammeratein never rallied from j
the coma into which he had fallen. It |
was only a short time before his death
that indication?-*, that the final coliapse
was at hand appeared.
The body of Mr. Hammerstein was
removed from the hospital to the
Campbell Funeral Church, 1970 Broad?
way.
Arthur Hammerstein said the body
of his father would not be taken to
the late residence and that burial
would be in Woodlawn Cemetery Mon?
day. He said the body would be the
first interred in a new plot purchased
in Woodlawn by the Hammerstein
family.
(The atom of Mr. Hammer stein'8
career it on page eight.)
Five Men Blown ?to Bits
In Dynamite Plant Blast
Fragments of Only One Body
Are Picked Up After 300 Lbs.
of Explosive Let Go
LANDING. N. J.. Aug. 1'.?Five men
were killed to-day by the explosion of
three hundred pounds of dynamite in
a small packing house of the Atlas
Powder Company's plant, at the south?
ern end of Lake Hopatcong, near here.
The cauBe of the? accident probably
never will be determined. The men
were at work packing, the dynamite
into stick?. The building was com?
pletely demolished and the bodies of
four of the five men were blown to
bits. . . '
Fragments have been retrieved be
lieved to be part of the body of Augus?
tus Madison, of Hackettstown. N. J. No
trace has bee.n found of Jesse Longcor,
of Newton, N. J.; Frank Linker, of Tn
maqua, Fla.; Martin Grogan, of Net
cong, N. J., or Charles SkKles, of Port
Morris, N. J?, who also were at work in
the building.
Within live hundred feet of the pack?
ing houBe were the mixing house and
several nitro-glycerine houses. These
were shaken by the force of the blast,
but not destroyed. The explosion waa
felt for many miles.
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Taussig Leaves Tariff Board
Chairman*? Resignation, Accept
ed by Wilson, Takes Effect
WASHINGTON, Aug. l.-Ths resig?
nation of F. W. Taussig as chairman of
the United ?States Tariff Commission,
accepted by President Wilson on July
19, took effect to-day.
Mr. Tau?sig's resignation was sub?
mitted to President Wilson in Paris
May 81. In accepting it, to -take effect
to-day, the President expressed deep
appreciation of the services performed
by Mr. Taussig.
Gem Burglars
Torture Woman
Take $26,000
4 Masked Men Hold Lighted
Candle lo Sole of Her Foot
in Effort to Find Jewels;
Husband Bound, Gagged
ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. l.--Pour
masked men entered the home of
Charles H. Beck, at Somers Point,
eight miles from here, before dawn this
morning. They bound Beck and his wife
to their bedB and started to scorch the
soles of Mrs. Beck's feet to make her
di*cioso the hiding place of her jewelry.
They departed with $25,000 worth of
jewelry and nearly $1,000 in currency
and have not been caught.
Mr. Beck formerly was the pro?
prietor of a hotel in Philadelphia. He
retired from business a year ago, and
has been spending the summer with
his wife in their Cottage at Somers
Point. Last night they went to a mo?
tion picture theatre in this city, Mrs.
Beck wearing some of her jewelry.
When they emerged from the the?
atre ?-a storm had set in, which grew
worse as the night wore on. Owing
to t(he dampness or a defect in the lock
they found that the front door of their
cottage .could not be entirely closed,
and went to bed leaving it ajar.
Storm Aids Them
Tho burglars, who are believed to
have seen Mrs. Beck's display of jew?
el in this city the preceding evening
and to have followed the couple home
in a motor car, opened the front door
and walked in. They closed the shut?
ters and drew all the curtains in the
house to prevent the escape of a ray
of light, the turmoil of the storm con?
cealing their movements.
.Mrs. Beck awakened to find the
lights in her bedroom switched on and
a masked man bending over her. He
demanded to know where she kept her
jewelry. Half terrified and half obsti?
nate, Mrs. Beck kept silent.
"You might as well tell first as last," j
came'from behind the mask of another i
man in the background. "We got ways j
of making them talk that, won't."
He struck a match and lighted the j
stub end of a candle which he drew i
from his pocket, and the next moment
Mrs. Beck felt the heat of the flame at ;
the sole of one of her feet. At that ;
moment her door opened and Mr. Beck,
who had heard voices and noticed the |
gleam of light at his wife's threshold, !
entered.
Knocked Unconscious
As his figure appeared the burglar j
beside Mrs. Beck's bed drew a black-'
jack and brought it down on .her head, j
She lost consciousness. Two men flung j
j themselves upon Mr. Beck and pinned
him to the couch in the room. Sheets i
were torn into strips and picture wire !
ripped from pictures to make bonds
with which Mr. Beck was lashed to the
couch and his wife to the bed. The
candle, flickering on a bureau top, was
seized by one of the men with the
apparent intention of trying its effect
on Mr. Beck, but just then another ?
who had been busy at a dressing table
held up a jewel case with an exclama?
tion.
His fellows left their victims, one
of them flinging a towel over Mrs.
Beck's face, and clustered about him
pawing and peering at the rings, pins
and necklaces. At the same moment |
a fourth man who apparently had been
searching the rooms on the first floor,
entered flourishing a roll of bills.
Mrs. Beck, beginning to recover ?or
senses, moaned to the men to leave her
a pair of opera glasses set with pearls |
by which she set great store, but at
which pawnbrokers might look askance
unless assured of true ownership by
the possessor.
"That's all right lady," said the man ?
who recently had .held a candle to Mrs. j
Beck's feet. "We don't scarcely ever
use those things."
They left the opera glasses, hut took
everything else they had found. Hnlf
an hour after they had left Mr. Beck
wriggled loose and summoned help, j
The Beck cottage is 200 feet from its i
nearest neighbor.
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Silk Worth $45,000 Stolen
Silk estimated to be worth nearly
$45,000 was stolen from the loft of the
Victorv Waist Company, on the fifth
floor of 16 West Nineteenth Street,
last Tuesday, it became known yester?
day.
"It couldn't have been worse," said
| an ofliciul of the company. The place
1 was nearly cleaned out.
The police were notified on Wednes- ;
' day, as soon as the robbery was dis
j covered. The door to tho loft had
! been smashed in, but no one knows
? how the burglars got into the building.
i Robert Davis, night watchman em
? ployed by the Merchandise Exchange,
on the first floor, says no one could
? have entered without his knowledge,
and he saw no one all night.
1
President
Blamed for
Conditions
Economie His of Country
Developed While . He
Was Abroad, Republican
Whip Knutson Declares
Bills Offered
In Both Houses
Committee of Three to
Report to Cabinet on
the Remedy Monday
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.?Develop?
ments to-day in the efforts of the
government to reduce the hig*h cost of
living were:
The House, at the request of
President Wilson, agreed to defer its
planned five weeks' recess and con?
sider demands of railroad employes
for increased wages to meet the high
prices.
The national officers of the
Brotherhood of Railway Conductors
conferred with President Wilson re?
garding increased wages and the cost
of living.
The Senate again discussed in?
creased living costs, but postponed
action on the Myers resolution, pro?
posing reduction in currency circula?
tion.
The committee of three, appointed
yesterday to consider means of re?
ducing living expenditures and re?
port to President and) Cabinet Mon?
da.-, began work.
The House Interstate Commerce
Committee reported favorably a
resolution directing the Federal
Trade Commission to investigate the
increased price of shoes.
Resolutions and bills designed to
alleviate conditions of living were
introduced in both houses of Con?
gress.
House Complies Quickly
Of the half-dozen important develop?
ments, however, the request of Presi?
dent Wilson that the House forego its
recess a*- least temporarily to consider
wage requests of the railroad workers
and to study economic conditions was
the most unexpected.
The alacrity with which the House
complied with the request was taken as
an indication of the deep impression
made on members of Congress by pleas
for relief from all parts of the country.
President Wilson, it was said at the
White House, had the subject of eco?
nomic conditions before him in a va?
riety of phases. In making his request
to the House, he said that he expected
important recommendation* "within a
fortnight" from his advisers.
?Shortly before the President sent his
request to the House it was learned
that the conference of Cabijiet mem?
bers and other officials assembled yes?
terday by Attorney General Palmer to
initiate measures for relieving the
average man from high prices would
reassemble Tuesday and would have a
new member in the person of Julius
Barnes, director of the United States
Grain Corporation. An invitation to
him to attend was interpreted to-day
as meaning that serious consideration
would be given to the proposal to sell
wheat at the market price, allowing the
government to absorb the difference
between that and the $2.26 guaranteed
the farmer.
Would Cut Other Prices
Several officials have expressed the
opinion that a free market for wheat
would result in declines in the price of
flour, which would bring down other
staples materially.
The Department of Justice is under?
stood to be prepared to put the entire
law-enforcing machinery of the govern?
ment back of any campaign that may
be decided upon to stop extortion in
the prices of necessaries.
The President's letter urging post?
ponement of the recces was addressed
to Speaker Gillett, Republican Leader
Mondell, ?Senator Cummins, of Iowa, and
Representative Esch, chairman of the
House Committee on Interstate and
Foreign Commerce. The lateness of the
request brought an outburst of indig?
nation, divided almost equally between
Democrats and Republicans.
Representative Kitchin, of North
Carolina, Democratic whip, declared
himself 'not surprised," but voiced the
sentiment of many Democrats by say?
ing the House should have been told
sooner.
Turn of the Republicans
Representative Kitchin told the Re?
publicans that after the Democrats had
been led about at will by the President
for six years, it was now the Republi?
cans' turn to mark time at the Presi?
dent's whim.
Representative Knutson, Republican
whip, declared the President's prolonged
absence from this country and his un?
pardonable failure to call Congress in
extra session immediately after March
4 undoubtedly caused the very condi?
tions complained of in his letter to
Mr. Mondell.
"Most of the large committees in
charge of important bills which will
tend to cortect the condition which the
President mentions are not ready to
report," he said, "and greater speed
would be made if the House will re?
cess and allow the committees to work
without molestation."
"It will take jg. month for the rail?
road bill to be reported out," Repre?
sentative Anthony, of Kansas, said. "It
will take three months to report out a
bill to reorganize the army. The Sen?
ate will not consider anything but the
Continued on next page
Watch for the Casualty List Among the Innocent Bystanders
Says Carranza
P?aos to Expel
Anglo-Saxons i
Archaeologist Asserts Mex?
ican Takes Advantage
of Germany's Sowing
Se e d s of Bolshevism j
New York Tribune
Washington Unreal
WASHINGTON, Aug. I. -Germany ?
planted the. seeds of Bolshevism in
Mexico as early as 1915, and Car?
ranza, aided by Bolsheviki and syndi?
calists and without a real Mexican
constitution, is planning to exrel the
Anglo-Saxon from Mexico, declared j
William Gates, archaeologist and i
writer, testifying to-day at the House '
Rules Committee, hearing on the Gould j
resolution concerning a Mexican in?
quiry.
"What underlying purpose seems to
have animated the Carranza govern- |
ment?" he was asked.
"I separated the other day from the
general officials of Mexico two mjo who
had political dreams," replied Mr.
Gates. "These are Alvarado, the first
maker of a Bolshevik and syndicalist
state, and Carranza, who hoped to be?
come the Ceovge Washington of the
Latin-American "indication against the
Saxon, to expel An^lj-Saxon invest?
ments and influences from Mexico."
"And Anglo Sqxons also?" he was
asked.
"To weaken them to the extent that
they counted for nothing." was the an?
swer. "That is Carranza's reaction."
"I wish you would explain just what
you base that statement on," said j
Chairman Campbell
' "His own declarations, his conduct.
and also a number of documents, a
treaty entered into in 1015. an offensive
and defensive alliance between the
Carranza government, fi^nr?] by the
: head of his Cabinet and the Bolshe
: viki and I. W. W. organizations, the
i immediate and constant going on of
I Bolshevist propaganda."
Raisuli in New Revolt
Men in European Uniforms He
ported in His Ranks
MADRID, Aug. 1.?Tho situation in
the Spanish zone of Morocco, where the
bandit Raisuli recently was reported
to have begun a new revolt, was de
j clared durin? debate in tho Cortes to
I day to be growing serious. Deputy
j Barcia called attention to disquieting
; indications reported in engagements on
' July 10-12. He said men wearing Eu
! ropc-an uniforms and using hand gre
'?? nades of the latest model were araon?
the contingents fighting against tho
Spaniards.
The Marquis de Lema, Minierer of
Foreign Affairs, in response to the Dep?
uty's statement, questioned the accu?
racy of So?or Barcia's information.
Peace Treaty Approved
By French Committee
?ARIS, Aug. 1 (By The Associated
Press).?Ratification of the Ger?
man peace treaty was recommended
to the Chamber of Deputies to-day by
the Peace Committee by a vote of
34 to 1. Two members were absent.
The Polish Parliament yesterday
ratified the German treaty and also
the treaty for the protection of
minorities bv a vote of 245 to 41, ac?
cording to dispatches from Warsaw.
Daylight Repeal
Passes the Senate \
WASHINGTON, A-ig. 1.?The Senate I
to-day decided to have the proposal
for repeal of the daylight saving law :
again run the gantlet of Prenden: [
Wilson's veto. By a vote of 41 to 12 I
the Senate passed and sent to the
President the separate House bill re?
pealing the daylight saving measure.
During brief discussion of the ilou^e
bill several Senators predicted that the
measure, like the daylight repeal i i. i e r '
on the agricultural appropriation bill/
would be vetoed by the President. The
separate House bill wns pas0ed June
18, but action in the Seriate was ;i?>
pendeil until to-day and in tho interim
U..' President vetoed the rider and the
House was unable to enact it over the '
veto.
The Sonnt?1'.-; action now places vir-I
tually similar repeal legislation again
before the Pre: ?dent, The only differ?
ence in th?' vetoed rider and the bep
arate bill is that tho latter would not j
interfere with standard zone? of time.
Senators who voted to-day againh?, I
the new repeal measure were: Repub?
licans, Calder, Colt, Elkina, Lodge, Mc- '
Nary, Phipps and Sutherland; Demo- ?
erais, Gerry, Phelan, Pittman, Thomas |
and Wal -h I Mass. I.
Many Democrats joined with Repub- j
licans in favor of the repeal bill.
Possibility of Nationalist
Revolt in Berlin Hinted
LONDON,, Aug. 1.-Reuters* Berlin1
correspondent, in a dispatch dated
Thursday, hints at grave political ten- j
sion in Berlin and the possibility of |
an attempt late in the summer b> the
Nationalists to carry out a military
rnnp.
"The political atmosphere in Berlin,";
sa; s the correspondent, "has become :
surcharged owing to recent disclosures i
and recriminations following them.
The material thus far produced is frag
mentary, but the government parties!
are in ire advantage over their oppo- j
nents in having control of official docu
ments. No one has come out of the i
affair well, but the Nationalists prob- ?
abiv have beer, injured most.
The real import of the campaign i?
more significant than might appear at
fil.-. .-ight. It. is not merely a squabble
aoout past lustory. Both sides have
been sparring for an advantage be?
cause of the expected decisive political
struggle that is approaching.
"Despite tho superficial tranquillity ?
of life ner?, the inner tension remains
us great as ever, and possibly the late |
shmmer will see an attempt at a mili?
tary coup by th? Nationalist?."
World Pool to
Halt Profiteer
Is Allied Plan
Supreme Economic Council
Asserts Prices Mu*, Go
No Higher and (.alls on
America to Help Out
LONDON. Aug. 1 ? Ry The Asso.-i it<
Press). -Steps toward international
collective purchasing of foodstuffs to
check profiteering and speculation, i
which are declared to be rife in all '
countries, were taken at to-day's meet
mg of the ?Supreme Economic Council.
The return to the system *n vogue
during the war was proposed by the
British, French and Italian representa?
tives. The proposal waa referred t<> a
committee, which will coordinate the
plan and present it to the America
government, with an invitation for it?
cooperation. ?
The members o" the i-nanci! _1 it d
they rec-'gn.zed that pi f.troring; and
speculation had been golf.,!* un general?
ly for some time, t, it >" .-?,.
toward ?in<*Birutited price raising dur?
ing th* last thirty days are consider? :
alurming. This was r! i??. th" members
believed, to a sharp fall in the I
prospects in tho last month
Callad treasonable
It was pointed out. however, that
while the harvest prospects were leas
favorable now than they ver? Juif I,
there was no reason to believe there
was not sufficient food to last throusrh
out 11)20, and there ?ras no reason Por
the undue advance o' prices.
Ail the members o? the council
igreed H was n< essary for tin*
States to cooperate ?n the collect!vi
buying plan, because at the present
time the United States la sopplying
such gr?"Ht quantities of food to I
that the -ollective system *?
I'rited States would virtually bi
t'.nr the buyer af.Rin*<t the .
As tho food restrictions in the I ? ?
ed S ??tes ended with the coming of
peace and the food sdministratl?
demobilized, it wan pointad on?
Herbert Hoover, representing th?
ed State?, was not authorized to hind
the country to snj ?;'r".m?*iit, and
that reason it was decided to ;
the plan in the hand* of the commute?
Halt !h (ailed
The members of '.lie < <
after hearing evidence of Em
conditions that the natio':
can not and will not in the pre*
eial condition b ? subjected to *>.
increases in the *_>????"__ of nee?)
It was mair.taineil by soma
that unless something wa? don? 'he
Allied nations would Rnd thi m te
a position <>f be?ng ah ?? to ?
purchases of food staff a for Germany
through the Separat o is ? n
but unable to control I a r ??-?? they
themselves must pay.
The member? despaired cf red |
prices much below the level obtain : j.
three months ago, but they were, deler
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RR, Shopmen
Start Strike;
35.000 Out
450,000 Involved in Call
for Walk-Out in Demand
for Wage Increase to
Meet Cost of Living
President \ppeals
For Law to Help
Seeks Riglit to Arbitrarily
Raise Kates if Needed
to Meet Men's Demands
WASHTW.roV. Aug. 1. A new
labor crisis, growing out of the hgh
cost of living, is f.-icing the riu roarl
administrai
So pressing are the demand? of '!?*
railroad employes for more pay to
maintain their standard of living that
President W Ison, ving extended
conferences with Director Ge-iera1
Hinos, to-day House of Rep?
resentatives I ? "'d r*
???H of v ve we? I .- Io mor?
row and r< m "? ton 1
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which would
i.'?? uing the i '? i ?ork
ers
T -.? House to-night i he ev<
planned i ? ...
the Pr ? ? '
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the i,' pub
committee at i
Shopmei Oui
Meanvt le the Fed ?'s
' Union ?
order, affe I 7
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five ' 1 ousai
d?sl riel ai e n p< 1
walked out.
The i'1 - - t tool
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Cnnt et to crea
j comm ission
| of thai bodj
making bod
sary, increa ? ? ; rates cov?
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there for? ? 0 g th?
railroi .
Th is was t h< ? I ? ? ? ' ?
ever was as^< d b; ' I e
to order the Jntei
mission to advance rates. Mr Wil?
son's letter
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