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TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1920
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TWO CKNT8 | THRKE CENTS I FOrR ?TEXT?
In Cireater Now York | Within 200 Mil*? | Klsewb^rc
B. R. T. Strike a DeadlockT^wide^e^HTnt?d
Hays Says Wete Help to Raise ?10,000,000 for Cox
Charges U.-SJ
?Cash Is Used;
Bv Democrats!
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Hays Shows Letter From|
New Jersey Saloon Men I
Hailing Cox as Cham?
pion of Cause of Wets
Asserts Banks Are
Made to Contribute
Senate Inquiry Finds That
Republicans Got Small
Amounts by Party Call
Special / '?patch to Tht Tribune
CHICAGO, Aug 30.?The charge
of Governor James M. .Cox that the
Republicans were seeking to raise a^
$15,000,000 fund to buy the election
tfcis fall was met with a counter blow
to-day by Chairman Will H. Hays
when he took the stand before the
Senate campaign fund investigating
committee at its opening session
kite.
Mr. Hays charged?
That the Democrats were plan?
ning a $10,000,000 campaign fund.
That the liquor interests were
soliciting funds to elect Governor j
Cox, and admonishing voters by |
letters to "help elect men who will
kill prohibition."
That government funds are be- :
?ng used to help spread Democratic
propaganda.
That the banks throughout the j
country have been called upon to
honor the ? rafts of the Demo?
cratic National Committee for
campaign purposes.
Cox's Charges Called False
Mr. Hays, who was on the stand \
ail day, with the exception of :
a short time in the aftermjon, ?
?hen the Senators questioned Homer
S. Cummings, former chairman of
'.he Democratic National Committee,
took the charges of Governor Cox
and piecemeal branded them "false
and libelous."
The session throughout the day -was
? ?'?e!y llr. Havs time after time cor
rec.?d the ^nators. His rephes were
at limes sensational.
When questioned by Senator Kenyon,
chairman of the committee, Mr. Hays
adorned that the campaign fund for
Shis year might De almost double that
of 191o, but denied vigorously any
tftarge that the fund was being raised
? for the purpose of corrupting the elec
' torate.
In answer.ng i question put by Sena?
tor Reed, Mr. Hays'denied that corpora?
tion? or other agencies were working
in conjunction v/ith the Republican
P?iv to place the Republicans in
power.
Senator K?rd asked:
"!f there are organized a thousand
agencies all driving to one point and
?!! working in complete harmony, but
*ith no actual connection, do you think
?at hasn't anything to do with the
'?penses of the movement? Isn't that
commonest subterfuge that is ever
adopted to cover the expenditure of
?noney ?"
"Senator, I know nothing of subter
JJiges in politics," replied Mr. Flays.
"o added that it was not in his power
-? keep other agencies from trying to
elect a President. He said that news
Papers, for instance, were taking ac- !
?W part in the election, but that I
tiiey were in no way connected with j
uie national committee.
Jersey Liquor Men Accused
Of ail the counter charges made by
V. Hays, the one that caused the
greatest uproar was that alleging that
?w New Jersey liquor interests were
wing used by the Democrats to obtain
campaign funds for the election of
W'ernor Cox in hopes of overturning
we Volstead act.
The evidence that the Republican
"airman presented was contained in a
Personal letter addressed to Cabain
"r?s., a New Jersey liquor establish?
ment, and signed by George T. Cflr
?l0". as president of the New Jersey
association of Liquor Interests. The
'?terhead bore a red hand and the
*rrds. "Help elect men who will kill
??onibition."
:'Ir. Hays, in presenting the letter,
mo :
I have here an original letter, and
j submit it for your inspection and
SJ5*f investigation." The letter was
2*a July L"2, 1920, and read as fol
*ws:
2???r Sir and Brother:
I, ihe organized liqdor trade of New
I ?rsey has set out to do its part to?
il tkl thft election of Governor Cox as
, *,next President of the United States,
j JP n becomes my duty to call upon
?*?* to help. More than that, we are
y^lS to fight as we never fought be
St to keei> tne hirelings of the Anti
?loon League out of office; to elect
V'ngressmen in twelve Congressional
:*tr'?? of the state who will vote to
*?n?J the Volstead act 80 as to per?
il tne sale of light wines and beer;
? elect Assemblymen and state Sena
"? ?ho will keep New Jersey from
"??lying the Eighteenth Amendment
*** Prevent the passaee of any law
furring i? the Volstead act in its
Resent form.
j, ?h? nomination of Governor Cox for
j** "residency by'the Democrats is a
* victory for our interests, and it
(Co?tinue4 ?n p?o? thrM)
> Jij^T--?
oaT?!^* ?r ^uPPly and Demand can fre
C?ifcL y be faced to the Help Wanted
ViJVl"* Consult Thti Tribune'? Help
?VfcuOColumn? f?r PoaiUon? of the bet
400 Armenians Slain;
Children AreJBurned
PARIS, Aug. 30.?Dispatches
from Constantinople %-day re?
port the massacre of 400 Ar?
menians by Kurds in Anatolia.
The Kurds shot the men, but the |
women and children were locjced
I in a church and burned to death,
the dispatches say.
Wilson Grants
Miners Raise
Of $50,000,000
Favors Majority Report of
Commission; Deiies An?
thracite Men Who De?
mand Minority Terms
! Strike Still Threatened
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j Increases Average 17 to 25
Per Cent; Powers of Mine
Board Are /Increased
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j From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Aug. SO.?President
Wilson to-day approved the majority
report of the Federal Anthracite Com?
mission, granting the miners a retro
! active increase in pay ranging from .1.7
! to 25 per cent and other concessions
? for which they have been fighting.
The President, in a message to the
! Pennsylvania miners, answering their !
threat of a general anthracite strike
I unless he reject the majority report of
j the anthracite commission, declared he
| could not and would not set aside the
I judgment of the commission.
The President told the miners he ex
| pected them to live up to their agree
l ment of last spring to abide by the
I commission's findings and accept its
decision as final.
"But if your communication is in?
tended as a threat," he telegraphed,
"you can rest assured that your chal?
lenge will be accepted and that the
people of the United States will find
i some substitute fuel to tide them over
: until the real sentiment of the anthra?
cite mine workers can find expression
; and they ave ready to abide by the
i obligations they have ? itered into."
Wage Increase 3'J,000,000
The majority award of the commis
j sion provides:
Wage increases ranging from 17 per
I cent to 25 per cent, aggregating about
! $50,000,000 a year for the approximate?
ly 175.000 men employed.
Back pay amounting to about $20,
i 000,000, as the award is retroactive to
! April 1.
Substantial modification:; of the "in
i dividual contract" system, or as some
? of the miners have referred to it, the
, "sub-contract" system, whereby every
| individual man affected is assured of
? protection and relief where nece.ssary.
Broader powers for the Board ?f
Conciliation, half of whose members
are miners.
A two-year contract, ending March
31, 1922. as demanded by the miners.
Payment for tools lost through ac?
cidents for which the miner h not to
blame.
Extension of the eight-hour day to
pump runners and hoisting engineers.
Protection for contract miners en?
countering abnormal conditions in
their working places, assuring them
reasonable remuneration.
Investigation of the practicability of
establishing a uniform wage scale at
all collieries.
Formal recognition of the United
Mine Workers of America as a party
to the wage contract.
A meeting of representatives of the
miners, operators and others interested
I was called for Scranton, Pa., next
j Thursday, by Secretary of Labor Wilson
I soon after the President notified the
| commission that he had approved the
award recommended by the majority of
the commission.
At this meeting the miners will be
asked to accept the majority report in
principle. The details will be worked
out by the Board of Conciliation,
Ferry Pledges His Support
The President's telegram to the min?
ers follows:
"Replying to your telegram of Au?
gust 29, your attention is particularly
directed to the following language con?
tained in the minority report of Mr.
Ferry, of, the anthracite coal commis?
sion
?''In conclusion, Mr. President, we
? Continued en paga soven)
Steamship Philadelphia
Rams Whale Off Ireland
Sea Monster Disappears When
Vessel. Goes Back in
Search of It
A whale that lost his chart and sail?
ing directions for the happy feeding
grounds spent too much time in the
westbound transatlantic lane last week
and was rammed by the American liner
Philadelphia, which arrived yesterday
from Southampton.
According to the ship's officers, the
vessel was steaming at seventeen knots
about 800 miles westward of the Irish
coast when she hit the creature. There
was a slight jar when whale and steam?
ship came together. An abundance of
blubber on the girth of the sea monster
served as a cushion and few of the
passengers were aware that there had
been a collision.
The chief officer, who went out on
the liner's bowsprit, saw a huge tail
flapping rapidly just under the surface
and reported that the stem of the ves
i ?sel had cut into a whale. Captain
I Candy slowed down, stopped, and then
backed away, and the whale disap^
peared for parts unknown.
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Liberty Bonds
\ Bought?Sold?Quoted
I John Hair 4 Co.. 61 Broadway.? .'-drt.
U. S. Accuses
114 Firms of
Trade Plot
Grand Jury Here Returns
Bill Against 39 Big
Steamship Companies,
75 Brokerage Concerns
150 Individuals
Also Are Included
Conspiracy to Fix Import
and Export Rates and
Form Monopoly Charge
One of the most far-reaching indict?
ments ever returned here for alleged
combination and conspiracy in re?
straint of trade was handed up yester?
day by the Federal grand jury to Judge
William B. Sheppard, in the United
States District Court for the Southern
District of New York.
Thirty-nine steamship companies, in?
cluding such corporations as the Inter?
national Mercantile Mariis Atlantic
Transport Company, Anchor Line, Cu
nard Steamship Company, French Line,
Furness, Withy & Co., the United Fruit
Company and the National Steam Navi?
gation Company of Greece; seventy
five freight forwarding and freight
brokerage concerns, and more than 15C
individuals, officers or agents of the
defendant companies, are named in the
indictment.
They are charged with conspiring
through membership either in the
Transatlantic Associated Freight Con?
ferences, an organization with office;
at 59 Pearl Street, or in the Steam?
ship Freight Brokers' Association, tc
fix both interstate and foreign imporl
and export rates on lumber, coal, oi
and grain "and other commodities," ir
violation of the Sherman law.
Indictment No Surprise
No great surprise was manifested ii
shipping circles over the indictment
Charles C. Burlingham. attorney fo
the Transatlantic Freight Conference
said that more than a year ago th?
government asked for the minutes o
tho conference, with all documents re
lating to freight brokerage.
The request was complied with, h
added, although, In accordance with th>
shipping act of 1916, all minutes an?
agreements had been transmitted regu
larly to the Shippi-'f; Board at Wash
ington.
Simultaneously with the handing u
of the indictment, United States A -
torney Francis G. Caffey and Spccit
Assistants Guiler and Joyce filed a sui
in equity, praying for a permanent in
junction against the defendants an
askinir the dissolution of tho Tran;
atlantic Associated Freight Confer
enees, representing the steamship coir
panies, and the Steamship Freigr
Brokers" Association, which is mad
up of the defendant forwardiiig an
brokerage companies and their officer
and agents.
The indictment recites that upwar
of 50 per cent of the interstate an
foreign commerce of the nation "move
to or passes through the Port of Ne
?York;" that 30 per cent "of the sai
I 50 per cent is handled by freieht brol
ers and forwarders," seventy-five <
whom are members of the Steamshi
Freight Brokers' Association, and "thi
practically all of the said 50 per cei
is transported by the steamship con
panies herein made ? defendants."
It is charged in the true bill that th
acts complained of had their origin i
January, 1917, and that the defendanl
have conspired to monopolize the in
port, export and interstate busine:
"continuously thereafter to and ii
j eluding the date of the filing of th
indictment."
The means by which the objects i
the conspiracy alleged were carri?
out are recounted briefly as follows:
Holding meetings of represent
tives of virtually all of the defendai
steamship companies.
Conferring and communicating I
letters and otherwise.
Agreeing to revive the said Stear
ship Freight Brokers' Association.
Agreeing not to permit any freigl
(Continued on page six)
500 "Armored Cars'9
May Run To-morrow
Closed surface cars in the B.
R. T. barns are being equipped
with heavy wire screens. These
will protect the windows and the
front and rear platforms. Offi?
cials of the company said last
night that the chief purpose of
the "armored cars" was'to ease
the minds of passengers, although
they were confident that the
screens also would deflect any ,
missiles that might be thrown.
They expect to have nearly five
hundred of these cars ready for
operation to-morrow, and if
enough trained men are available
by then- the cars will be started
from the various barns along
their various runs. While the
strike lasts the company will
operate no open cars, nor any
closed cars except the "armored"
ones.
Four Villages
Taken in Reds'
Counter Attack
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Moscow Reports Sharp En?
gagement Near Lemberg;
Trotzky Seeks to Unite
His Scattered Divisions
Northern Base at Minsk
General Savinkoff Recog?
nizes Wrangel Leader?
ship in Southern Russia
LOND?N, Aug. 30.?Russian Soviet
forces engaged in a counter offensive
against the Poles east of Brest-Litovsk
have occupied four villages in that
vicinity, according to a Soviet wireless
report from Moscow, dated yesterday.
Near Lemberg heavy fighting is going
on and in the Vlodava and Grubeshoff
' regions there is local fighting.
WARSAW, Aug. 29 (By The Asso?
ciated Press).?An official communica?
tion issued to-night says that General
Budenny's drive, designed to cut; the
Polish front, has made further prog?
ress. The Budenny forces are moving
j slowly in the direction of Zamosc,
, northwest of Lemberg, despite Polish
I resistance.
The lighting in Galicia has taken a
i favorable turn for the Poles, according
; to the statement The Po!<v, in Galicia
] have occupied a series of places.
"On the northeastern front," con?
tinues the communication, "the Polish
i vanguards on the line et Grajevo, Osso
weti, Bialystok and Brest-Litovsk have
? occupied Sokolka, Loginka, Orzeschovd,
I Czachy, Podborzo and Werchowiecie.
: Along the Bug the loczl fighting has
leen favorable to the Poles, who have
regained Horodlo and Matcze."
Bolshevik officers taken prisoner say
the Polish tray will not meet serious
i resistance until it reaches the line run
! ning through the railroad points of
i Vilna, Lida, Baranovichy and I.uniniets.
Wireless messages have been sent
! broadcast to scattered units of the
; Bolshevik army remaining in Polish
| territory asking them to try to rally
l"it Minsk and outlining the work of re
! organizing these Soviet troops, accord
j ing to a Soviet wireless message inter
! cepted by the Polish General Staff. It
? is urged that this reorganization be
1 pushed at all possible speed.
This intercepted message also noted
I the complaint of Bolshevik division
commanders that they had received un
? armed soldiers as reinforcements.
The message indicated that the rem
| nants of the Bolshevik troops operat?
ing in Poland, as well as the recruits,
| will be divided into two armies. A
j northern headquarters would be es
: tablished at Minsk and a southern
! headquarters at Rovno. Leon Trotzky.
j the Soviet Minister of War, is expected
I (Continued on page five)
:
Mayor Hylaii, in Helpful Mood,
Poses as Crossing Semaphore
Mayor Hylan, who rejoices in show
I ing street cleaners how to shovel snow
j when there is a snowstorm, and traffic
| policemen how to handle traffic when
j there is a traffic storm, was caught in
a jam of vehicles at Delancey and Nor?
folk streets on his way home about G
o'clock last night and decided that
Steve Stadmiller, the perspiring patrol?
man on duty there, required some help.
The Mayor was in a helpful mood. '
He got out and made his way to Steve, i
His son-in-law and secretary, James
Sinnott, and his brother-in-law and
body guard. Detective Sergeant Irving
O'Hara. also alighted. Their function,
however, was merely to stand at the
curb and admire. The center of the
stage was the Mayor's.
He supplied a deficiency from which
Stadmiller has suffered since birth, and
furnished him with a second pair of
arms. When Stadmiller faced south
and beckoned eastbound vehicles on?
ward, the Mayor faced cast and with
! upraised palms halted the vehicles
i coming up or down Norfolk Street.
Some of the drivers failed to recog
! nize the ruddy-faced man who stood
| gesturing in the middle of the street
| r? apparent mockery of the majestic
?ve Stadmiller. Two of them, after
.siting for several minutes iii hope of
a break in the steady stream of east
bound cars, tried to jam their way in
from the north.
Not. only the Mayor, but his admir?
ing audience, bore down upon them
with gestures of indignation. While
the Mayor's secretary and his body
guard demanded in horrified accents to
know if the drivers had failed to rec?
ognize the Mayor of the city th?.- Mayor
seized the bridla of one driver's horse
!with one hand and laid the other au?
thoritatively upon the hood of the other
driver's car.
The authoritative hand was with?
drawn quickly, the radiator being hot,
but by that time neither hand was
necessary, both drivers being convinced
that here was a born traffic cop, even
though he wore a sack coat and turned
up troupers instead of a blue uniform.
When they had explained that their
destinations were just across Delancey
Street and that they had been waiting
already for some ten minutes to cross,
the- Mayor graciously beckoned them
onward, Stadmiller supplementing his
gesture in the nick of time to prevent
a collision.
For nearly half an hour the Mayor
stuck to his job. Then he and his ad?
miring audience got into the car and.
inviting several young women who had
been waiting in vain for a seat in a
truck to ride across the bridge with
them, set out for Bushwick Avenue
and a bathtub.
MacSwinev's
Death Due at
Any Moment
j_
Doctors Assert He Cannot
Live Now, Even if He Is
Given Food; Family toi
Stay in Cell to End
Five Slain in New
Rioting in Belfast
Women Battle Hand to
Hand in Street; Shops
Closed; Hospitals Full
LONDON, Aug. 31.- At midnight
Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of
Cork, who is on a hunger strike in
Brixton Frison, was still alive. He
was conscious, but unable to speak.
This was his seventeenth day without
food.
MacSwiney had not been expected to
live through the night. Father Domi?
nic reported at 9 o'clock last night
when he left the prisoner's cell that
he was weaker and expressed the opin?
ion that he might die at any moment.
Father Dominic was .with MacSwiney
more than an hour.
Mr. MacSwiney's sister passed two
hours in the prison yesterday after?
noon. She said she found her brother
so weak that ho was unable to give her
several messages he desired her to con?
vey for him.
Brothers of the prisoner have ob?
tained permission to remain %vith him
till the end.
Mayor MacSwiney is coughing a
great "deal, causing anxiety because of
the bad" condition of his lungs.
Food Useless Now
The hunger strike of the Lord Mayor
has progressed so far that, even if he
took food now, it would do him no
I good, according to a statement by the
Brixton prison doctor to MacSwiney's
wife, v,ho visited her husband this
morning.
Mrs. MacSwiney remained with her
husband for three hours. She said he
was conscious and recognized her, but
was unable to speak. Mrs. MacSwiney
was pale and showed evidence of the
terrible strain she is under.
The members of organized labor com
: posing the Labor Council of Action
I sent a message to-day t.o Premier Lloyd
George, who is in Lucerne, Switzer?
land, saying:
"The whole organized British iabor
asks you to reconsider the govern?
ment's decision to' allow the Lord
Mayor of Cork to die rather than re?
lease him. His suffering is greater
than lengthy imprisonment. His death
would make an Irish solution more re?
mote. We have appealed in vain to
the Home Secretary. We appeal to you
to do the big thing."
Belfast Riots Resumed
From The Tribune's European Burr.au
Copyright, 1920. New York Tribune Inc.
LONDON, Aug. 30.?Five persons,
including a young woman and a child,
were killed and fifty-five wounded in
street battles in Belfast to-day. The
city's death roll from rioting in the
| last three days otals sixteen, with
other casualties ::ggregat!ng nearly
150.
Shops and shipyards were closed to?
day, tramway service was largely sus?
pended, additional military reinforce?
ments were pouring in and hospitals
were overcrowded. A curfew law
I will be imposed to-night, from 10:30
o'clock until 5 in the morning.
Belfast's main thoroughfare-- Roya!
Avenue?was the scene of tierce fight?
ing this afternoon, the military in
armored cars finally controlling the
situation. Unionist mobs attacked
Catholic workers in several quarters
of the city, the lighting finally center?
ing in the York Street area, which to?
night almost amounted to a state of
siege.
Women Fight Hand to Hand
Catholic and Protestant women in
gangs fought hand to hand, while the
air was thick with "Belfast butter?
flies"?deadly steel rivets thrown by
shipyard workers. Four policemen
were dangerousl. wounded n the
fighting in Royal Avenue, which for
an hour was a mass of struggling
humanity, into which military putrols
(Ccntlnuod on page five)
Zamora in Flight;
American Set Free
Mexican Bandit, Who Con?
ducted Kidnaping Raids,
Only Has Sixty Men
Sprcw: Cable to The Tribune
Copyright, 19-0. New York Tribune Inc.
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 30.?Pedro Za?
mora, the bandit who recently con- j
ducted a wholesale kidnaping of Amer?
icans and a Briton in the State of
Jalisco, is now in flight, with only sixty
men remaining of his band. This news
was contained in a message sent to
Provisional President de la Huerta by
General Calles, Secretary of War, who
has been in Guadalajara for the last
; week directing the extermination of
Zamora's band.
General Calles said that Zamora had
; lost more than half his men Wednes?
day, when he was routed by an attack
j of Federal troops. The rest of his
troop are now so scattered that any at
! tempt to reorganize the band would be
' futile. General Calles asserted.
General Calles added that it was rea
'? sonably certain that the two remain
i ing foreigners held by Zam?ra, the
; American, Gardiner, and the Briton,
Johnson, had gained their freedom
1 with Zamora's defeat.
Traction Chiefs and Labor Leaders
Alike Confident of Winning Strike
LINDLEY M. GARRISON, receiver of the B. R. T.: "Without
committing me to any definite promises, you can say that eventually
we expect to run our system from stem to st?Vn on a normal schedule.
I am going to put into operation all the trains and cars I can get
properly equipped."
FEDERAL JUDGE JULIUS M. MAYER: "I am willing that there
shall be submission to a board of arbitrators of the financial questions
involved in the requested increases, and that the fullest opportunity
be afforded to such board to ascertain the financial condition of the
receivership. It must be understood that any and every award must
be within the financial ability of the particular receivership to meet.
... I decline to see the men responsible for a shocking breach of
contract and whose misconduct has visited so sudden and great a
hardship on the public."
WILLIAM S. MENDEN, general manager of the B. R. T.: "I can
only tell you we are planning to win this ?strike."
LOUIS FRIDIGER, counsel for the Amalgamated: "We will abide
by any award of the arbitrators, even if it grants us not a nickel of
increased wages, but we demand that the company abide by the agree?
ment concluded with us on August 9, 1919, and signed, among others,
by Judge Mayer himself."
\ P. J. SHEA, vice-president of the Amalgamated: "This strike was
forced by the B. R. T. Saturday night when they locked out the men.
We are going to push the fight to the limit."
Strikers Attack
Shop Workers;
15-Minute Riot
Police Rout Men and Sym?
pathizers After Clash
Near Car Barns; Two
of Assailants Arrested
Hundreds Witness Battle
Policeman Is Beaten by
Crowd When He Goes to
the Rescue of Conductor
Forty strikers and strike sympathiz?
ers clashed with thirty shop workers
of the B. R. T. at Ninth Avenue and
Eighteenth Street shortly after 6
o'clock last evening. There was a riot
lasting fifteen minutes. Seven detec?
tives, five of them of the strong-arm
squad, in charge of Sergeant Sheridan,
finally routed the strikers and their
supporters.
Hundreds witnessed the battle from
a distance. Blackjacks, lead pipes and
bricks were used by the combating
forces, the police say, but no serious
injuries were reported. The battle was
the most serious outbreak of the strike
so far.
The thirty employees attacked had
been engaged in adjusting wire net- ;
tings to surface car3 in the barns at
Ninth Avenue and Twentieth Street.
The strikers, it is alleged, waited for
them.
Police Enter the Fight
The workers were loaded into a sin?
gle motor truck at (5 o'clock, and were :
two blocks from the car barn when the .
strikers, it is said, opened the attack.!
Sergeant Sheridan and his men had i
been traveling in a motor car a short;
distance behind and rushed to the en?
counter. They were joined by Detec?
tives McGowan and Fitzgerald, of the
Fifth Avenue station, who arrested two
alleged members of the attacking crowd.
The prisoners were taken to tne Fifth
Avenue station and locked up on
charges of disorderly conduct. They
described themselves as Fj-ank Phillips,
twenty-one years old, of 135 Cumber?
land Street, an?l John Davis, eighteen
years old, oi 27U Ninth Street, both of
Brooklyn, Davis is said to be the son
of a striking conductor
The shop workers were given police
escort for the rest of thir journey.
Crowd Beats Policeman
James Veito, forty-two years old,
a conductor on the B. R. T., living at
18 Mauger Street, was sevecely beaten
last nifirht by five strikers as he left
the car barns at Kingston Avenue. Pa- I
trolman Frank Crossbach, of the At- |
lantic Avenue station, u>ho went to his j
rescue, was set upon by the crowd and
received several scalp wounds and i
abrasions.
At the Swedish Hospital, where Veito j
was taken, it was said he had a broken :
nose, a fractured jaw, concussion of the I
brain and internal injuries. Crossbach
was treated by an ambulance surgeon
and went home.
Reserves who hurried to the scene ar?
rested live strikers. Only on': of them
was identified. Hd was Edward L. Roth,
a conductor, of 1591 Sterling Place. The
five were held, on a charge of felonious i
assault.
Motorcycle Policeman John Sadlo '
wa.i showered with buns and rolls |
shortly before midnight at Broadway |
and Lafayette Avenue by a group of
fifty strikers when he attempted to j
serve a summons for reckless driving j
on a chauffeur who was operating a i
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Bernhardt ill From
Congestion of Lungs
Inflammation of Kidneys Also j
Said to Bo Due to Re?
cent Motor Trip
PARIS, Aug. 30.--Sarah Bernhardt,
the acrtrcss, is suffering from a conges- \
tion of the lungs and an inflammation ;
of the kidneys, and is confined to her!
bed.
Her illness is due to a motor trip |
which she took a few days sgo from i
her summer home at Belle Isle to
Paris.
The attending physicians are not ap?
prehensive of serious developments,
but the start of Mme. Bernhardt's
English farewell engagement will be
delayed for several weeks at least.
Mayer Refuses
To Negotiate
With Strikers
Tells Hylan He Also Will
Discard Any Proposal-for
Arbitration Unless He Has
Right to Review Result
-,?^?
Garrison Stands Pat
Promises Better Service To?
day and Says Company Is
Determined to Win Out
Federal Judge Julius M. Mayer an?
nounced yesterday that at no time in
! the future would he hold conference
' with any of the leaders of the B. R. T.
1 strikers who conducted negotiations
between Receiver Garrison and himself
? preceding tho walk-out.
In a letter to Mayor Hylan he re
| fused also to consider any arbitration,
! the result of which he would not have |
? the right to review.
It was said that Judge Mayer will
| not recede from his insistence that the
; Federal court review any awards made
by the arbiters with a view to deter?
mining the financial ability of the re?
ceivership to meet them, as he con?
siders it would be exceeding his i
powers to do so.
To a question as to whether Federal
troops would be called out to guard
the company's property. Judge Mayer
remarked that such a suggestion was
absurd. He added that the police were
handling the situation satisfactorily.
More Cars Promised To-Day
Meanwhile Receiver ?Garrison prom
' ised increased service to-day and said
that normal operation would be re- I
sumed as quickly as possible. He said j
that the company, although operating j
less than 10 per cent of its lines yes- j
terday, showed an improvement over
the first day of the strike. I
"Without committing ?ne to any d?fi- i
nite promises," he said, "you may say!
that eventually we expect to run our j
system from stem to stern on normal !
schedule." He did not indicate, how?
ever, when this would be.
Mr. Garrison denied that the com- ;
pany had helped to precipitate the !
strike and said: "I am going to put in i
operation all the trains and cars I can j
get properly equipped." j
Mr. Garrison reiterated his determin- |
ation to stick to the proposal of Judge '
Mayer that the company accept arbitra- |
tion only on condition that the award !
be subject to review and approval of
the Federal court.
"All I can tell you is we are nlanning
to win this strike," was the comment
of William S. Menden, general manager
of the B. R. T.
Breach of Contract Alleged
Officials of the Brooklyn Rapid !
Transit Company made it plain that j
they not only intend to win the strike, !
but also to eliminate the Amalgamated i
Association as a factor in the system's j
operation. Judge Mayer cited the as- ?
sociation as guilty of a "shocking ?
breach of contract."
If the employees, through a med?ary j
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Jersey Girl Found;
Man Re-Arrested
Miss Dickinson Located
As She Seeks to Wed ;
Accuses Realty Man
Alice Edith Dickinson, the fifteen
year-old school girl, of Park Avenue,
Cliffside. N. J., who disappeared from
her home last Monday, was found last
nigfct in New Brunswick. X. J. She had ?
gone to the marriage license bureau ;
there to obtain a license and marry j
William S. Dickc-rson, a sailor.
Following her disappearance, the po- \
lice of Cliffside arrested William I
Bowne, a rial estate operator of Cliff- i
side. When the girl was found last '
night, the story she told the police of '
New Brunswick resulted in the imme- i
diate re-arrest of Bowne, who had been \
out on $2,500 bail. He was held with- '
out bail until the girl's charge can be
vernfied.
Police Chief John McAvoy of New j
Brunswick telephoned Mayor Kadien i
of Cliffside that he had found the girl
and officers were sent at once to bring
her home.
Miss Dickinson disappeared after her
, mother had gone shopping.
City Baff?e?
By Walk-Out
In Brooklyn
1,500 Buss?es and Extra
River Craft Unable to
Cope With Crowds to
and From Manhattan
61 'V and Subway '*
Trains Operate'd
Union Leaders to Appeal
to I. R. T. and New York
Railways Men to Quit
The strike of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit employees was 90 per cent
effective yesterday. Sixty-one sub?
way and elevated trains carried on
the only servie* maintained by th?
company. Officers predicted hourly
improvement in those branches, how?
ever, and expected to send out 600
surface cars late to-day or to-mor?
row.
James Sheridan, a strike leader,
addressing a union meeting in
Brooklyn, declared that soon the
strike might spread to Manhattan
and the Bronx, as P. J. Shea, of the
union's executive ?committee, and
Louis Fridiger, its attorney, were
conferring with employees of the
Interborough and the New York
Railways Company concerning a
sympathetic strike.
"I hope in a few days," he said
"that the whole City of New Yorl
will be tied up as tight as Brooklyi
is to-night."
His statement concerning th*
probability of a sympathetic strik?
on this side of the East River wa
denied by Shea. Shea declared tha
he had been in consultation wit]
members of the Brotherhood of Nev
York Railways Company Employees
but only as to unionizing the em
ployees. The proposition of a syn*
pathetic strike was not discussed, h
said, nor were any representative
of the Interborough brotherhoo
present.
The Public Service Commission bi
gan hearings in an investigation of th
trouble. Receiver Lindley M. Garriso
spoke for the company and Patrick .
Shea, vice-president of the Amalgama
ed Association of Street and Electr
Railway Employees of America, for tl
strikers. Beyond airing charges ar
counter charges, nothing definite tov
iird adjusting the controversy was a
complished. The hearings will be coi
tinned to-day.
Hylan Seeks Arbitration
Mayor Hylan continued his efforts
settle the strike on his own accour
?requesting Federal Judge Julius '
Mayer to modify his stand with rega:
to arbitration. This the judge refus?
to do, and added he would no long
meet the union heads because they h;
broken their contract with the coi
pany.
There were comparatively few ac?
dents or acts of violence. Evidences
sabotage, however, cropped out, a
arrests were made.
Sheridan's announcement concerni
the likelihood of a sympathetic stri
in Manhattan and the Bronx was ma
at a meeting in . union headquarte
Brooklyn Labor Lyceum, Myrtle a
Willoughby avenues. The 1,200 m
at the meeting received it with w
cheers and threw their hats into 1
air.
"We don't want to inconvenience I
public," said Sheridan, who presid
"but we're going to win this strike,
to-morrow we may know whether th
is to be a sympathetic strike."
There was more cheering and h
throwing at this, but the approv
yells took on a belligerent tone w]
Sheridan proceeded to read a letter
had received from the Brooklyn Chi
ber of Commerce. That body took
union to task for calling u strike,
daring that it was a violation of
agreement with the company and a
pudiation of the principle of collec
bargaining, for which it pretended
be fighting.
The Chamber of Commerce urged
men to return to work and submit
points in dispute to arbitration
Mayor Hylan and Judge Mayer,
appointed the receiver for the linea
City-wide Tie-up Predicted
"Yah, yah!" howled the audit
"We'll never go back!'"
"We won't go back till we've
the strike," .Sheridan amended. '
we're going to win, for we've got
road tied up now."
After the meeting he said that
had received information that the n
bers of the Interborough Brother;
were dissatisfied and ripe for a si
that would tie up the subway and
vated lines in Manhattan " and
Bronx, ?e thought that the sur
car men would do likewise.
These statements were flatlv coi
dieted by Shea. He said that'the
ference at the Hotel Continental i
solely with a project to dissolve
brotherhood of the New York
ways Company employees and e
its members inythe Amalgamated
sociation of Street and Electric
way Employees of America, the oi
ization which called the strik
Brooklyn.
"There was no strike propositio
at the conference," he said. "We
ferred with members of the bro
hood of the New York Railways
pany about joining the Amalgam