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Bitter Treaty
Fight Open?
^hen Senate
Meets To-dav
Democrats Ready to Ac?
cept Best They Can Ob?
tain, but Will Vote to Re?
ject if President Wishes
Battle Centers
About Article X
Hitchcock Hopes Execu?
tive Will Accept Modi?
fied Lodge Reservation
and AvertNewDeadlock
from The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. ? The
peace treaty with Germany will be
brought before the Senate again to?
morrow, with the Democratic Sen?
ators prepared to accept the best
they can obtain from the Republi?
cans in the form of modifications o?
the Lodge reservations.
The attitude of the Democrats,
however, does not assure in advance
that the treaty will be ratified even
if the Republicans agree to changes
in the Lodge reservations. A suf?
ficient number of Democratic Sena?
tors have assured Senator Hitchcock
that they will stand by President
Wilson in the treaty fight to make
ratification impossible if the Presi?
dent should refuse to accept what?
ever concessions the Democrats can
' obtain.
Fight Centers on Article X
Senator Hitchcock will lead most
of the Democratic Senators in a
fight to have the Lodge reservations
modified as much as possible. The
principal attack will be launched
against the Lodge reservation on Ar?
ticle X, which the President in his
letter to Senator Hitchcock made
public yesterday declared he could
not accept.
If the Republicans agree to mod?
ify the Lodge reservations, then Sen?
ator Hitchcock will submit the
changes to the President before he
will permit a final vote to be taken
on ratification. Unless the Presi?
dent signifies his willingness to de?
posit ratification with the modified
reservations Senator Hitchcock and
a score of other Democratic Senators
are prepared to join forces with the
"irreconcilables" and prevent rati?
fication for a second time.
Ratification depends entirely upon
the President's willingness to yield on
Article X, Senators of all factions in
the treaty fight declared to-night. Un?
less he yields another deadlock will
result similar to that of November 19,
when tho Senate failed to ratify the
treaty both with reservations and with?
out them.
Democrats Are Divided
There are eighteen or twenty Demo?
cratic Senators who are prepared to
Tote for the Lodge reservation on
Article X if it is slightly modified, but
"that number is no sufficient to insure
ratification.
On the other reservations, with the
exception of the one on the Monroe
.Doctrine, an agreement was virtually
reached between the Democrats and
Republicans in the bi-partisan confer?
ences that ended ten days ago. The
Democrats refused to agree to the
Monroe Doctrine reservation in the
conferences, planning to use their de?
mands for a modification of that reser?
vation to force the Republicans to
change the reservations on Article X.
Senator Lodge is keeping his plans
secret. He has not yet decided, he
said, whether the Republicans will
start the Senate battle on the ljasis
of the original Lodge r?servations, or
whether modifications such as were
agreed to in the bi-parrisan confer?
ences will be proposed by the Republi?
cans immediately.
Substitute on Article X
A modified form of the Lodge reser?
vation on Arti^lc X has been prepared
by ijinators Lenroot, of Wisconsin,
and Kellogg, of Minnesota, and it will
be proposed as a substituto for the
Lodge reservation later in th?.? fight
The substitute retains the principle of
the Lodge reservation, that the United
States assumes no obligation under
the league covenant, but alters the
wording of the original. The substi?
tute is acceptable to some of the
Democratic Senators.
Senator Lodge will move to call up
the treaty immediately after the Sen?
ate meets to-morrow. He will aslc for
unanimous consent to bring it before
the Senate again, and if that is re?
fused ho will then move to supend
the rules, so that it can be called up
by a two-thirds vote of the Senate.
The Democrats will support his ef?
forts.
Senator Lodge will move to have the
{?act recommitteed to the Foreign Re?
stions Committee after It has been
brought up. It is probable he will not
report it to tho Senate from the com?
mittee unti\ Tuesday, when the real
fight will atart.
The Republicans, with the exception
of the "irreconcilables," will be united
in the forthcoming battle, as the "mild
reservaflbnists" have notified Senator
Lodge they will support any move he
makes. Senator Lodge must win over
twenty-nine Democratic votes before
Vatification with modified Lodge reser?
vation* is possible. In order to block
Istification, Senator Hitchcock must
old only twenty Democrats in line.
Hitchcock 1? Hopeful
Senator Hitchcock was hopeful to?
night that the treaty will be ratified
in a form the President will accept.
Senator Hitchcock indicated that he
believed the President will accept a
modified form of the Lodge reserva?
tion ob Article X, if that is the best
tv
City Busses Owe
Thanks to B.R. T.
Mayor Hylan, who has been
proclaiming the superiority of the
city-operated bus lines in Brook?
lyn over the B. R. T. service, has
not said anything about them
since the big storm. They are
still running, but?
The Lafayette Avenue bus
line since Wednesday has been
using De Kalb Avenue. This lat?
ter thoroughfare has been cleared
by the B. R. T. for its cars. La?
fayette Avenue, left to the care
of the Street-Cleaning Depart?
ment, still is impassable.
The Marcy Avenue line has de?
serted its route along Roebling
Street, which will be cleared
when the street cleaners get
around to it. These busses are
using Broadway and Driggs
Avenue. These are open to traf?
fic, thanks to the B. R. T.
Girl Unharmed
As Subway Car
Runs Over Her
Dazed by Fall From Plat?
form, She Rests Safely
in 23-Inch Trench While
Wheels Pass Just Above
Josephine Matrezzo, of 848 Mott
Street, eighteen years old, who had
been to a party in Harlem, was waiting
for a southbound Jrrain last night in the
subway station at Lexington Avenue
and 110th Street. She was standing
close to the edge of the platform and
leaned far out to see if a train was
approaching.
As a train swept into the station the
girl lost her balance and fell squarely
between the rails. Cries of, horror
went up from the score or so of per?
sons waiting in the station. Louis
Ruton, motorman of the train, threw
on the brakes so suddenly that passen?
gers who had risen to get out sat down
immediately wherever they happened
to be.
In spite of Ruton's endeavors the
forward car, showering sparks from
every locked wheel, slid over the spot
where the young woman lay. The for?
ward truck of the second car also
passed over her.
Patrolman Hood, of the East 104th
Street police station, peered under the
second car, where he could see the
huddled heap of clothing, and called i
Hook and Ladder Company 43.
"There's a chance that she might be !
alive," he said.
The firemen worked for twenty
minutes. By that time Dr. Williams, i
summoned by the sanguine patrolman,
had arrived with an ambulance from
Harlem Hospital. Women looked away
as the limp form was lifted to a
stretcher, where Dr. Williams stood
waiting.
After what seemed to the watchers
to be a prolonged examination, the
ambulance surgeon looked up.
"Why, she isn't hurt to amount to
anything," he said. "She has a cut on
her head that might have come from
falling from the platform, and it's just
possible that she's hurt internally, but
there doesn't seem to be anything seri?
ous the matter with her."
She was taken to the hospital, where
Dr. Williams's diagnosis was confirmed.
She had falben right in the center of
the space between the rails where there
is a shallow trench to carry away water
Beeping into the tunnel. There is a
space of only twenty-three inches be?
tween the bottom of the trough and the
lowermost part of a subway car, but
the girl, momentarily stunned by her i
fall, had remained in a posture that !
rendered her perfectly safe. Although I
one car and part of another had passed j
over her, neither had touched her. ;
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U. S. Facing Grave Crisis,
Speaker Gillett Asserts j
People Must Save to Avert
Panic Similar to the !
One of 1893 !
SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Feb. 8.?The
United States is facing the worst finan- I
cial crisis in its history, declared '
Speaker Frederick H. Gillett of the i
National House of Representatives this
afternoon in an address before 5,000
persons. The present high cost of liv?
ing he ascribed to the greatly inflated
conditions due to the floating debt of
$4,000,000,000 in Treasury certificates.
The principal means of bringing
down the high cost of living, the Speak?
er declared, is by thrift on the part of
the public, and unless the people save,
this country will face a panic similar
to that of 18?8. Speaking of the finan?
cial interests of the countrv, he said
they are built like a pack of cards. It
is up to the public to practice due care
and eliminate luxuries, so that the
present conditions may be bettered.
Like the problem of years ago, when
the government was forced to fight
trusts, the Speaker said that to-day
Congress faces a new question. "It is a
question whether the combinations of
the employed are not more threatening
to our business life than those of the
employers," he said.
p-'??
70 Sinn Feiners Deported
Prisoners Taken to England on
Naval Vessels
QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 8.?Seventy
Sinn F?in prisoners, strongly guarded,
were shipped for England to-day
aboard two naval vessels which sailed
from this port. An airplane accom?
panied the vessels until they were well
out of sight of land to guard against
an attempt to escape.
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Astor Picked as Food Chief
Viscount Slated to Succeed
Roberts as Comptroller
LONDON, Monday, Feb. 9.?Viscount
A*tor has been invited to succeed
George H. Roberts as Food Comptroller,
according to "The Mirror."
Viscount Astor has been serving as
parliamentary secretary to the Min?
istry of Health.
Hylan Bars
Trucking to
Open Traffic
Order Permits Only Haul?
ing of Milk, Food, Coal
and Newspapers To-day
in Effort to Clear Streets
17,500 Join Task
Of 'Diggiiig'Out'
Prospect of Moving Trol?
ley Cars Stalled Since
Blizzard No Brighter
Still choked with ice and snow, de?
spite the Sabbath efforts of 17,500
street cleaners, New York's streets will
be closed to-day to all vehicular traffic
Baye that for the transportation of
food, fuel, mail and newspapers. The
police were directed last night to en?
force this rule, which puts the request
contained in tho Mayor's proclamation
of last week into mandatory form.
The order is more drastic even than
any issued during the war days of fael
control.
Fifth Avenue, from Forty-second
Street to Washington Square, will be
?closed to all traffic except that of the
snow removal trucks. The thorough?
fare was got in shape from Fifty-ninth
Street south to Forty-second Street
yesterday to permit use of those seven?
teen blocks to-day by the carriers of
essential commodities. South Street is
to be barred to all vehicles, as is West
Street, from Fourteenth Street to the
Battery. Unless the sun gets in some
good licks within a day or two, Broad?
way and Madison Avenue likely will be
fenced off, while an army of shovelers
is turned loose on them.
"Notify all stables and garages that
no trucking will be allowed Monday
except for cartage of milk, foodstuffs,
coal, snow, mails and newspapers," ran
the order given to every patrolman in
the greater city last evening.
Order Follows Mayor's Tour
Street Cleaning Commissioner Ar?
nold B. MacStay explained that Mayor
Hylan had decided on this course after
a tour of inspection of the city's high?
ways. He said the order was issued
under the police power of the city.
The carrying out of the no-traffic
rule will paralyze building activity and
cripple operation of industrial plants
that have no reserve supply of raw ma?
terial. Ambulances and express wag?
ons, delivering baggage to terminals,
ai*e not exempted in the order, but
Commissioner MacStay was convinced
the police would exercise reasonable
discretion in such cases, lt is sup?
posed that department store delivery
trucks, in the event they carry goods
from their grocery departments, will
not be interfered with.
The prospect of moving the stalled
trolley cars that stood in every section
of the city last night, just where their
crews abandoned them Thursday, did
not seem any brighter after four days
of "concentrated effort" in that direc?
tion.
Surface Transportation a Riddle
Progress in the movement of cars,
as reported during the day, was hardly
sufficient to warrant any guesses as to
the time necessary to get the surface
transportation facilities back on a
normal basis. The Lexington Avenue
line, from Forty-second Street north,
was reported in operation most of the
afternoon.
At the offices of the Third Avenue
Railroad Company it was announced
service had been resumed from the Fort
?Lee Ferry to 162d Street and Amster?
dam Avenue. On Fifty-ninth Street
cars were reported running from
Broadway west and on Grand Street
from the East River to Broadway. Offi?
cials of the company said service would
be resumed to-day on the 125th Street
cross-town line. The Third Avenue line
is expected to be operated from Sixty
fifth Street north.
The closing of many of the city's in?
dustries, particularly the work along
the river fronts, resulted in the or?
ganization of the greatest army of
snow fighters ever recruited in the
city. In addition to the 2,500 men regu?
larly employed by the Street Cleaning
Department, 7,500 men were employed
by that department during the day.
City contractors, using every truck
and vehicle that could be found, em?
ployed 2,000 additional men. The
emergency organization brought about
by business men employed another
army of 2,000 men. These, with the
volunteer organizations that helped
wherevor they were needed, brought
the number of men thus employed up
to the total of 17,500.
To prevent the threatened food short?
age, due to non-delivery of perishable
products that have been delivered to
Manhattan during the last four days,
efforts of the Street Cleaning Depart?
ment were concentrated on the streets
about the market districts particularly
West and South streets. Volunteer
workers, many of them clerks and
bookkeepers from the offices of com?
mission houses along those two street*,
wielded shovels throughout the day.
Fifth Avenue, as announced Satur?
day, was closed at 10 o'clock in the
morning and remained closed while
shovelers worked along itB entire
length. Last night it was found that
that portion of the avenue lying north
of Forty-second Street had been
cleared sufficiently to permit its re?
opening to necessary traffic to-day.
Private passenger vehicles were
warned away by both Mayor Hylan and
the Street Commissioner, who urged
that the workers be permitted to do
the "polishing" there to-day.
But the portion of the avenue below
Forty-second Street still held so much
snow and ice that it was decided to
close it again to-day to give the clean?
ers opportunity to work. This was de?
cided after Mayor Hylan and the
Street Commissioner had driven over
! the street in a tour that took them as
far north as Broadway and Ninety
sixth Street.
Statement by Mayor
After the tour the Mayor gave
out the following statement:
"With Street Cleaning Commissioner
Arnold B. MacStay I made an inapec- :
tion of many streets of the city and
found that ? great deal has been ac- ?
compllshed by way of cleaning up: im?
portant thoroughfares in the 'last
twenty-four hours. The street clean?
ing forces are to be commended. Many
of them are almost exhausted because
I of the long hours of labor, but are
Btill sticking to their job.
"I wish to thank the business men
of the city and the people generally for
their cooperation. Their assistance for
Continued on page thr?
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Germans Guard
Allied Missions
BERLIN, Feb. 8. ? The
"safety police" are understood
to have been detailed for sur?
veillance of hotels and palaces
occupied by French and English
commissions to protect them
from possible attacks.
Miss Knowles
Is Married to
Guy S, Spiker
By the Ceremony English?
woman Gains Name for
Child and American Citi?
zenship for Herself
Special Dispatch to The. Tribune
FALL RIVER, Mass., Feb. 8.?Emily
Knowles, who came to the United
States from England with her name?
less baby at tho invitation of Mrs. Per
ley Spiker, of Baltimore, whose hus?
band is the father of the child, was
married here to-day to Guy S. Spiker,
of Baltimore, the brother of her baby's
father.
The baby, held by Mrs. William H.
Battersby, at whose home the wedding
took place, crowed and laughed through?
out the ceremony, making futile dabs
Jtvith his plump fingers at the motes
dancing in the sunshine that filled 'the
room. By virtue of the ceremony the
bride not only gained a name for her
child but American citizenship for her?
self. Her husband has promised to
adopt his brother's baby. The doubts
of the immigration authorities as to
her being a suitable person to enter
the United States will be allayed auto?
matically.
It was planned at first to have the
wedding to-morrow. There was some
question as to whether a clergyman
would agree to perform the ceremony
in such unusual circumstances. The
Rev. Henry Arnold, pastor of the Bogle
Street Christian Church, declared his
willingness to do so, however.
"I shall be glad to do it for this
young woman," he said when he called
at the house shortly before church
time this morning.
, In fact, the clergyman was for hav?
ing the wedding forthwith, a sugges?
tion which caused the bride to retire
hastily. She was discovered in tears
in her room. She said she must have
more time to think about it, that the
actual presence or the clergyman had
brought home to her suddenly the seri?
ousness of the step she contemplated.
Mr. Arnold had to go to his church
to conduct services, but he promised
to return this afternoon. The wedding j
took place at 1:45. Neither Perley
Spiker nor his wife was present. Mrs.
Spiker sent a congratulatory telegram,
however. The bridal couple will start
for Baltimore to-morrow with the
baby.
Steamship Believed Lost; |
25 of Crew Rescued
The Bradboyne, New York for
Cherbourg, Reported Fonn- j
dered, With Loss of Life
HALIFAX, N. S., Feb. 8.?The British !
steamship Bradboyne, from New York
for Cherbourg, is believed to have
foundered in mid-Atlantic and. some
loss of life is feared, according to
radio messages received here to-night.
The British steamship Oxonian, from
New Orleans for Liverpool, reported
that she had rescued twenty-three of
tho crew, and the British steamship
Monmouth reported picking up two of
the crew. The Bradboyne registered
3,190 tons.
The Bradboyne, which wasjoriginally l
called the War Panther, left Dart-1
mouth for New York December 24 and I
stopped at Louisburg, N. S., January
16. She arrived here January 24. On
the following night six apprentices,
each about sixteen years old, called
at The Tribune office to ascertain how
to exchange Canadian money for
United States money: The Bradboyne
left New York for Cherbourg Janu?
ary 29.
The Oxonian left New York for Liv?
erpool January 24 and the Monmouth
left New Orleans for Antwerp and Dun?
kirk, January 28.
Church Women to Fight
Jazz and Jingle Tunes
Mothers in Every State To Be
Organized; Indecent Clothes
Also Marked in Campaign
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.?At to-day's
sessions of the National Conference of
Church Women plans were made by
women -representing twenty-eight or
more religious denominations and
faiths to combine to overcome what
was characterized as the dangerously
insidious modern tendency toward in?
decent clothes, indecent dances and
"tunes of African jungle syncopation."
The conference decided unanimously
to convene in every state a series of
mothers' meetings, at which it is* pro?
posed to enlist every woman? in the !
campaign, and at the same time a com?
mittee was appointed to consider the
advisability of making the issue an in?
tegral part of^the interchurch world
movement. &
Announcement also was made that
various boards, cooperating with the
interchurch movement, Intend to spend
$600,000 for the evangelization and care
of children. In an effort to make re?
ligious services entertaining to chil?
dren it i? planned to introduce mov?
ing pictures in Sunday schools.
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Four Adrift 3 Weeks
On Ship Locked in Ice
Captain, Wife and Two Children
Weak From Hunger When
Police Boat Makes Rescue
The B. F. Jayne, a stventy-ton
schooner, whioh had been adrift in the
ice for nearly three weeks, was picked
up yesterday in Flushing Bay by the
poliee boat Patrol and towed to a safe
anchorage off 151st Street, East River.
On board were Henry Van Wien, the
master, his wife and two small chil?
dren, who were in poor physical con?
dition through lack of food and fresh
water.
Van Wien said the schooner" had
broken adrift near Riker's Island three
weeks ago, and that his distress sig?
nals had been overlooked by various
steam craft that passed him daily.
Food and water were put aboard the.
schooner soon after she was brought in I
by th? Patrol.
Berlin Fears
Civil War in
Call for Guilty
No Soldier or Policeman
Would Arrest Luden
dorff, Hindenburg or
Mackensen, Papers Say
Demand of Allies
Called Vengeance
Likened to Romans Drag?
ging Conquered Rulers
inTriumphalProcession
By William C. Dreher
Special Cable to The Tribune
(Copyright, 11)20, New York Tribune Inc.)
BERLIN, Feb. 8.?German press com?
ment on the list of persons demanded
by the Allies for violation of the laws
of war is keyed largely to the note that
the Entente is disgracing itself by
making such demands and that it
would prove an indelible stigma oa
Germany to moot them.
The newspapers urge that the Allies
misconceive the situation in Germany,
failing to seo that any attempt by the
government to meet the demands would
usher in civil war. It is pointed out
that no German soldier or policeman
could bo found who would obey orders
to arrest men like Ludendorft*, Hinden?
burg or Mackensen.
The moderate arose insists that Ger?
many, by offering to try the accused
men with the participation of repre?
sentatives of the Allies, goes further
than Serbia did in answering the Aus?
trian ultimatum in 1914.
On all sides the demand is inter?
preted as a thirst for vengeance and
is compared with the lust of tho Roman
Emperors to drag the rulers of con?
quered countries In their triumphal
processions.
A few of the newspapers like the
"Tageblatt" try to find an excuse for
the list by saying that the passions
of the war have been kept up by the
ruined villages of northern France and
Belgium. Several express satisfaction
that the United States and Japan are
taking no part in demanding "crimi?
nals." This is taken to imply that
the United States and Japan agree with
the German view that the list is in?
finitely stupid even from the point of
view of Entente interests.
An outstanding development in the
German reaction is the attempt being
made by the so-called nationalist
press to make party capital out of the
affair. The old conservative organs
are attacking the government as re?
sponsible for the list through not hav?
ing shown sufficient energy in resist?
ing previous demands of the Allies.
Even supporters of the government
believe the Entente's action is doing
much to strengthen the old junker
party.
In all this wide outburst of passion,
however, none of the newspapers at?
tempts to forecast the probable result
of Germany's refusal to produce the
men demanded. Some of them insist
that no possible material result could
outweigh Germany's moral degradation
should she yield to the demand.
LONDON. Feb. 8.?The Exchange
Telegraph's Copenhagen correspondent
says the Berlin government is resolved
to call a meeting of Parliament imme?
diately upon receipt of the Allied note
'"'demanding the surrender of those
guilty of war crimes.
A semi-official statement issued to?
night speaks of a "misunderstanding"
with regard to the list of Germans
demanded. It says that the French and
Belgian portions of the list have not
been seen in England, and therefore
it cannot be assumed that Great
Britain will lend full support to such
unknown lists, which are bound to be?
come the subject of communications
between the Allies and the Germans
The British list, however, it adds,
remains without modification and holds
good.
BERLIN, Feb. 8? The Allied list of
war criminals and the covering letter
were handed to Premier Gustav Bauer
at 9 o'clock Saturday night by M. de
Marcilly, French Charg? d'Affaires. A
letter from Premier Millerand accompa?
nied the note and list, explaining the
new procedure of the Allies as the out?
come of the refusal of Baron Kurt von
Lersner to transmit the list to the Ger?
man government.
Premier Bauer expressed to the
French Charg? the government's disap?
proval of von Lersner's action. The
Cabinet is sitting to-day to discuas the
Allied demands.
German Evidence Demanded
The covering note says that not all
Germans guilty of infractions of the
laws of warfare are included in the
: list, but for reasons of practicability
| only those are cited to whom the great
! est responsibility attaches. The al
: lied powers, however, do not propose
| amnesty for those not included,, but re?
serve the right to prosecute them in
the event they are apprehended in their
territories. Possession of all German
documentary evidence and access to the
archives are also demanded to facilitate
prosecution.
In a supplementary note the allied
powers reply to the German communi?
cation of January 25, which explained
Germany's reasons for not carrying out
the extradition provision. Premier
Millerand, in a letter to Gustav Bauer,
intimates that he does not hold the
German government responsible for
Baron von Lersner's action in quitting
Paris, because he assumes that Ger?
many will not attempt to evade a
treaty obligation to which its signature
was affixed.
Official quarters thus far have de?
clined information regarding the size
or nature of the list.
Agree Not to Surrender
A secret meeting of army and navy
loaders a month ago, in anticipation
of a demand for extradition, compiled
a set of regulations for common action.
These instructions, which are signed
by Generals von Heeringen, von Kluck
and Fajkenhayn, as well as others, de?
clare it is .no violation of honor for
one to place himself outside the pale
of seizure by his own government or
the Entente. Therefore they must re?
fuse to surrender, refuse to recognize
the legality of a foreign court, and do
nothing in the shape of personal de?
fense, or otherwise acknowledge such
. i Continued on next page
H
'Not a Candidate,' Hoover "
Says; To Support Party
That Stands for League9
Labor Fights
For Control
Of Congress
American Federation Is?
sues Statement Outlin?
ing Plans for a Nation?
wide Campaign
From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.?Scoring Con?
gress for its failure to enact the legis?
lation organized labor has demanded,
the American Federation of Labor to?
night issued a statement announcing
its intention to wage a non-partisan
campaign for the election of a Con?
gress next fall that will represent
union labor.
"It is the duty of trade unionists,
their friends and sympathizers, and
all lovers of freedom, justice and
democratic ideals and institutions to
unite in defeating those seeking public
office who are indifferent or hostile to
the people's interests and the rights of
labor," the statement declares.
"Wherever candidates for reelection
have been friendly to labor's interests
they should be loyally supported.
Wherever candidates are hostile or in?
different to labor's interests, they
should be defeated, and the nomina?
tion and election of true and tried
trade unionists or of assured friends
should be secured."
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor; Frank
Morrison and James O'Connell have
been selected as an executive commit?
tee, to manage labor's political cam?
paign. They were chosen by a general
committee composed of the executive
council of the ?. F. L. and representa?
tives of ten labor unions, including
railroad employees' organizations.
Labor's Statement
The statement of labor issued to?
night reards in part as follows:
"In compliance with the directions
of the last convention of the American
Federation of Labor and of the Decem?
ber 13, 1919, conference of representa?
tives of labor and the farmers' organ?
izations, a three days' conference was
held at the Federation headquarters ir
this city to consider the part which
labor should take in the coming cam?
paign, primaries and election.
"The following declaration wat
unanimously adopted:
" 'The inherent rights ?nd principles
of our people are threatened.
" 'The free institutions of our coun?
try are menaced.
" 'The ideals of democracy ar*e in dan?
ger.
" 'The Congress of the United States
has failed to do its duty. It has failed
to meet tho emergency. It has given
encouragement and support to auto?
crats and reactionary policies. Its
dominating thought has been the re?
pression of labor.
" 'Every effort to secure remedial and
constructive legislation has been
strangled. Every appeal for redress has
met with subtle and open hostility
The halls of Congress have been used
by labor's enemies to foster and spread
a vicious propaganda against the efforts
of the toilers to exercise their normal
and lawful activities for the protection
and promotion of their interests and
welfare. Labor has appealed for re?
lief in vain.
" 'The hour has arrived when those
who believe in the maintenance of dem?
ocratic institutions must marshal theii
forces in defense of their rights and
ideals.
Labor Demands Ignored
" 'It is intolerable that a people whc
spared no cost to make the world saf<
for democracy should be forced to sub
mit to any restriction of the gloriou;
liberties inherited from the founders
of our nation. The perpetuation of oui
fundamental rights and the enactmen'
of essential constructive legislado!
demand the election of men, regard?
less of their political affiliations, wh(
are truly representative of Americai
ideals of liberty.
" 'No favorable legislative action upor
the recommendations contained in th<
American Federation of Labor recori
struction program, or those expresse<
at the December conference, has beei
taken by Congress. Instead, man;
Congressmen have endeavored to enac
legislation providing for compulsor;
labor. Despite the patriotism and sac
rifice of the masses of labor of Amer
ica during the World War, under th?
guise of anti-sedition laws the effor
has been made to repress free asso
ciation, free speech and free press.
" 'Scorned by Congress, ridiculed ant
misrepresented by many members o
I both houses, the American labor move
ment finds it necessary to vigorous!
apply its long and well-established non
partisan political policy.
" 'Sinister forces are already activel;
engaged in efforts to confuse and nul
lify labor's political power. Their ot
ject is to divide the labor vote so tha
the election of reactionaries and en?
mies of labor will be afcfcured. Unies
labor holds steadfastly to its non-pai
tisan political policy, the enemies c
labor will be successful in their eJ
forts. Labor cannot, labor must nc
permit its political strength to be d
vided in the present crisis. Organize
labor owes allegiance to no politic!
party. It is not partisan to any polit
cal party. It is partisan to principles
the principles of freedom, of justu
and of democracy.
To Begin in the Primaries
" 'Complying with the instructions c
the last convention and the labor an
farmer conference of December l;
1919, the American Federation of Labe
announces its determination to appl
every legitimate means and all of th
power at its command to accomplis
the defeat of labor's enemies who ai
pire for public office, whether they I
candidates for President, for Congres
for state Legislatures or any other o:
fice.
" 'The American Federation of Labe
calls upon all affiliated and recognize
national, international and brother
hood organizations, state federations <
Continu?e on page three
Sakhalin 'Reds9
Attack Japanese
TOKIO, Feb. 8 (By The Asso?
ciated Press).?Bolshevik upris?
ings against the Japanese on the
island of Sakhalin are reported.
Important Japanese mining and
petroleum plants have been at?
tacked. A rescue party in thirty
sledges has been sent to the scene.
Italy Prevents
U. S. Loan,
Asserts Nitti
Premier Says Rome, by Low-1
ering Credit, Forces Re-!
fusal; Deplores Attacks
on American Attitude
ROME, Feb. 8.?Premier Nitti dis?
cussed the Italian foreign policy in the
Chamber of Deputies yesterday.. He
began his speech by asking for a sus?
pension of the work of the chamber
for a few days, as he had to be in
London on Thursday at a meeting of
the allied Premiers.
"In the critical hour of our history,"
said the Premier, "it is indispensable
to tell the entire truth, even if we
have to do so with an aching heart.
Foreign policy has an influence on home
policy, and home policy on foreign
policy, so the two must harmonize.
"Those who most insisted that we
enter the war render now the worst
possible service to the war by saying
that we obtained nothing. We must
remember that almost all Italians who
desired war asked only for Trent and
Triest. It is therefore a mistake to
say that nothing was obtained.
Sees Two Solutions
"In other questions, where Italy is
most interested, namely, the Adriatic,
Constantinople and Asia Minor, Italy
must be guided by the broadest prin?
ciples of n ^ionality, the spontaneous
plebiscite at Fiume, declaring a desire
to join Italy, created a new political
situation, which caused a series of dif?
ficulties.
"There can be only two solutions?
either the Pact of London, which we
claim as our right, or the solution we
invoke in the name of justice, consist?
ing of harmonizing the interests, tend?
encies and aspirations of the Italian
people with those of the Jugo-Slav
people.
"It would be dishonest if I accepted?
the Pact of London without pledging
myself to evacuate Fiume, even by force
if necessary," said the Premier.
"A curious state of mind has been
gaining strength in Italy. Instead of
subverters there are Conservatives who
incito the army against discipline."
Decries Slurs at America
Loud protests from the Conservatives
followed, but the Premier, raising his
voice, continued?
"Those who called themselves de?
fenders of our institutions are ac?
tually undermining them. We are wit?
nessing a revolting spectacle?generals
allowing themselves to be captured
while the Conservatives applaud.
"This is a cause of weakness. Noth?
ing has more damaged the prestige of
Italy than these facts, together with
unbridled language by the Conserva?
tive leaders, which is imitated by the
press. It is not America which refuses
to lend Italy, but it is Italy which is
lowering her credit that prevents
America from lending us now."
Signor Nitti deplored the attacks on
foreign countries and foreign rulers,
especially America, saying: "I deplore
the attitude of the Italian press in
sowing the seeds of poison despite the
censorship. This is so stupid."
The Premier continued: "Yesterday
Signor di Cesaro ^read a secret docu?
ment, again proving that there is a
Conservative who can accomplish revo?
lutionary acts. I am glad that that
document was brought to the Chamber
by an opponent, as it shows with what
idea I protected Italian interests in
America.
Sees Bright Day Ahead
"Did the Conservatives expect me to
act like a Don Quixote? Did they expect
me to declare war on America? I
spoke as an honest man with perfect
sincerity, making an appeal to the
American sense of justice.
"We must avoid exaggeration, such
as calling the Adriatic an Italian lake.
In doing so we are committing a crime.
Some have reproached me for not sit?
ting tight and continuing to occupy
the disputed territory. But do you
know what it costs?
"The feeling prevails that America
will not lend us money unless the war
spirit is over, unless the money spent
is employed in reconstruction. We
must work to bring about true peace?
not one for the victors, not one for the
vanquished. We must forget all rancors
and bring about in our foreign relations
a broader sense of humanity."
Cat Saves Woman's Life
Mews Call Aid to Mistress, Over?
come by Gas, but Dies Itself
Joseph Taylor heard a cat mewing;
plaintively last night as he passed the
door of Mrs. Bridget Shay's apartment
in the house in which he lives at 182
Kingsland Avenue. Taylor knew that
the cat, which was the sole companion
of its aged mistress, never had cans?
to complain when all was well with
Mrs. Shay.
When there was no response to his
knocks, he forced the door. An odor
of gas met him and he ran inside and
opened the windows. Mrs. Shay wee
unconscious in her bedroom. After
turning off the gas she is thought to
have turned it on again by mistake.
She was token to Greenpoint Hospital,
and Taylor looked around fat the cat?
which he meant to cara fee.
The cat wee dead. 1
Ex-Food Chief to Decide
His Affiliations After
Studying Platforms^
Won't Vote 'Blindfold'
Firmly Against Any
Kind of Socialism
Opposes Dictatorship by
One Man, but Favors
Free Speech Principle
"I Jiave not sought and am not
seeking the Presidency," said Her?
bert Hoover in a statement given
out in this city last night. "I am
not a candidate. I have no 'organi?
zation.' No on? is authorized ? to
speak for me politically "
As to his political faith, Mr.
Hoover said that persons in "both
parties had urged him to declare
his allegiance to one or the other,
but he was going to keep still unti'
he found out what each party stood
for. No one was going to make
him vote "blindfold," he said. If
the-league of nations should be a
campaign issue, he continued, hj
would vote for the party support?
ing it.
Mr. Hoover said that while he
"took a day off" from the industrial
conference in Washington to come
to New York, his purpose was solely
to straighten out some tangles in
the relief work for children in
Europe. While he was here, he.
said, he would take the opportunity
to "answer a large number of ques?
tions all at once."
Stands for the League
"As an American citizen by birth and
of long ancestry," he said, "T am nat?
urally deeply interested in the present
critical situation. My sincere and only
political desire is that one or both of
the great political parties will approach
the vital issues which have grown out
of the war, and are new, with a clear
purpose looking to the welfare of our
people, and that candidates capable of
carrying out this work should be nom?
inated.
"If the treaty goes over to the
Presidential election (with any reser*
vations necessary to clarify the
world's mind that there can be no
infringement of the safeguards pro?
vided by our Constitution and our na?
tion old traditions) then I must vote
for the party that stands for the
league.
"With it there is nope, not only
of the prevention of war but als?
that we can safely economize in mili?
tary policies. There is hope of earlier
return of confidence and the econom?a
reconstruction of tho world.
"I could not vote with a party if it
were dominated by groups who seek
to set aside our Constitutional guar?
antees for free speech or free repre?
sentation, who hope to reestablish con?
trol of the government for profit and
privilege. I could not vote with a
party if it were dominated by groups
who hope for any form of socialism,
whether it be nationalization of indus?
try or other destruction of individual
initiative.
Believes in Two Parties
"Both these extremes, camouflaged or
open, are active enough in the country
to-day. Neither of these dominations
would . enable those constructive eco?
nomic policies that will get us down
from the unsound economic practices
which of necessity grew out of the
war, nor would they secure the good
will to production in our farmers and
workers or maintain the initiative of
our business men. The issues look for?
ward, not back.
"I do not believe in more than two
great parties. Otherwise combinations
of groups could, as in Europe, create
a danger of minority rule. I do believe
in party organization, to support great
ideals and to carry great issues and
consistent policies. Nor can any one
man dictate the issues of great parties.
"It appears to me that the hope of a
great majority of our citizens in con?
fronting this new period in American
life is that the great parties will take
positive stands on the many issues
that confront us, and will select men
whose character and associations will
guarantee .their pledges.
"I am being urged by people in both
parties to declare my allegiance to
eithet one or the other. Those who
know me know that I am able to make
up my mind when a subject is clearlj
defined. Consequently, until It more
definitely appears what the party man?
agers stand for, I must exercise a pre?
rogative of American citizenship ant
decline to pledge my vote blindfold.
"I am not unappreciative of th?
many kind things that my friends hav<
advanced on my behalf, yet I hop?
they will realize my sincerity in nor
tying myself to undefined partisan?
ship."
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Bomb Damages Buffalo Shop
BUFFALO, Feb. 8.?A bomb earlj
this moraine wrecked the front of i
grocery on Vermont Street, occupitx
by Louis Castiglione, doing $800 dam
age, bat causing no injury to thoe?
sleeping in tfee building. The owner
had received a Black Hand letter de
standing money.
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