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I Minad that the association must go.
HMttj were indications that the union
? will put up a stiff battle. The strikers
?Jaim 11,600 of the 12,000 employees of
r.ths company ara out The company of?
ficials maintain that only 8,000 are
?atoally on strike.
Taat the fight is taking oh a darker
r M>*ct is seen from the increased num.
her of arresta and acts of violence re
farted from all sections of the city.
he company officials, however, assert
that Cha backbone of the strike is
?roteen. They point to the increasing
number of trains and surface cars sent
i out daily. With adequate police pro
I tection. they declare they soon will
have the entire system working on a
: normal basis.
Yesterday, they pointed out, the see
j end day of the operation of surface
; cars, 170 were sent out, and to-day
I they will have 406, about 25 per cent
\ of the normal figure. Elevated and
subway trains, too, have been appear?
ing in larger numbers.
With 8,000 strike-breakers, consist?
ing, of trained and green men, in the
barns of the company and the number
being augmented hourly, the B. R. T.
heads say they have no doubt that a
I few .days more will see the strike com
i pletely obliterated.
Leaders Confer With Hylan
The negotiations leading up to the
[ determined stand taken by Judge
s JMayer began in the morning, when P. J.
[ Shea, chairman of the strikers' execu?
te tfve committee; Louis Fridiger, their
counsel, and James Sheridan, another
I loader, conferred with the Mayor and
I the Board of Estimate on the matter of
having their latest proposals presented
to the receiver.
The Mayor had agreed to act for the
Strikers, in view of Judge Mayer's pre?
vious statement that he would not deal
?rtth either Shea or Fridiger.
The strikers, headed by Shea, Fridi
| ger and J. H. Reardon, of Boston, were
' asked to place their proposition in a
more concrete form, which they did, in
the offices of their counsel at 51 Cham?
bers Street. They returned to City
Hall about 3:30 o'clock, whereupon the
Mayor, the Governor, the,Board of Es?
timate and the committee of the strik
i era went into executive session. After
?bout an hour the Governor and the
Mayor telephoned to Judge Mayer, with
the-result already outlined.
The union leaders are awaiting the
arrival of William D. Mahon, interna?
tional president of the Amalgamated,
who is expected from Detroit to-day,
before mapping out their plan of cam?
paign.
In the mean time three thousand
members of the Amalgamated, it was
reported, had signed petitions asking
for''? Federal investigation of Judge
Mayer's conduct and suggesting his im?
peachment if charges made against him
are proved true. The petitions were
submitted t?g the men as they entered
the Labor Lyceum, their headquarters
in Brooklyn, last night.
The petitions were directed to
?The Equality League, Inc., 26 St.
Mark's Avenue, Brooklyn." The strik?
ers were given postal cards bearing
the petitions and it was learned that
union heads had promised the Equality
League 25,000 signatures by to-day.
The beards also will be distributed
among strike sympathizers.
Alleges Fight on Unions
In presenting the latest developments
to the strikers at a meeting in the
Brooklyn Labor Lyceum last night,
Fridiger said:
"Our fight now is to maintain and
preserve this union, for which you
fought so valiantly last year. The fight
is for a principle, which, it seems to
me, "you cannot abandon. It is no
longer a B. R. T. fight, but a fight
against the entire trade labor move?
ment, of the country.
"The one big question at issue, "Lim?
ited or unlimited arbitration, has been
swept aside. Judge Mayer has stated
that tha>was the big obstacle to the
culmjnatioa of the strike, and we could
not ^urmouat It. We have met him and
beaten him at his*'own game. We have
told him to throw arbitration out of
the windoM?* and give us a flat wage
Increase.
'We find that even a Federal judge
has kept the truth from the people as
to the cause of this strike. It was not
money, not arbitration, but the fact
that Judge Mayer wanted to force*rt.he
Amalgamated out of Brooklyn which
caused the strike."
He pointed out the expense the B.
R. fT. is undergoing in aif attempt to
win the strike, but would not meet the
Strikers' wage demands, to substantiate
his'argument.
' Strike Leaders Defiant
Shea said: "This is the most suc?
cessful strike I ever have been asso?
ciated with. We can't help but win.
Not one man who went out has gone
back. The company is permitting
green men to run trains and cars after
only a couple of days' training, when
it usually takes three weeks to train
a man. The long accident lists be?
speak the folly of this policy."
The strikers place some hope in the
assistance of the Electrical Workers'
Union, whose international representa?
tive, James W. O'Donnell, arrived
from Boston yesterday. O'Donnell
?aid he had been in touch with the
Amalgamated leaders, but that no tie
up of the Edison plants, where many
ot the unionized electrical workers are
employed, was contemplated.
The attitude of the receivership to
the Amalgamated, as expressed by
Judge Mayer yesterday, was later am?
plified by Receiver Garrison, who said:
''Until the men return to work there
will be no increase in pay and there
will be no further discussion of the
subject. They are outlaws and we will
not. deal with them. They are irre?
sponsible and have broken every
agreement they made with the B.
R. T."
.A circular signed by the. United
Communist party of America made
its appearance around the car barns
snd headquarters of the strikers yes?
terday. After urging the carmen to
atisk until they win the fight, it read
in part:
"You see how your leaders have
aeted. Shea wanted you to give the
B. R. T. more time?that would only
mean time to break you. It's time ta
throw out your reactionary 1 .adera
who are working hand in hand with
the bosses! It's time to put an end
' to all the graft that ia taking place.
It's time to understand that we work?
ers are the only ones entitled to a
living. It's time to see that every?
thing is against us. The capitalists
and all their hangers-on are united
?gainst us. They've got their polic?
and their thugs and their militia, and
then the government and the United
Sutes troops to use against us. It'a
time to sec that we've got to organize
for something more than higher waget
and better conditions.
"We workers have got. to form our
shop councils to take over the indus?
tries we are operating. We've got tc
put an end to exploitation."
B. R. T. Strikers Invited
| Bock as Individualt
Seniority and Right of Col?
lective Bargaining is In?
cluded in Court's Offer
Ths reason? which prompted Fed?
eral Judge Mayer to present his latest
terms upon which the strike, so fsi
?snhe court is concerned can be ended
?re contained in th? following lettei
sent last night by the Judge to Mayoi
Ifylan and, the Board of Estimate and
Apportionment:
' 'I <i\tiy received your letter of ever
??t*. informing mu that th? Board o(
JBstimato and Apportionment, togethei
Wft'j tri? Governor of the state, met
With representatives of the amelga
T""'"4 association snd were in receipt
*i an offer of settlement from th*
joint board of such Association, ? eop>
?sf which offer is contained in youi
gfittff.
*Tsa tbea refer to ? ?tetoesent mad?
i
by me over the telephone to you that I
would not deal either directly or indi?
rectly with the Amalgamated Associa?
tion, but would be pleased to state to
you and the Board of Estimate, if you
so desired, the terms upon which the
present strike might be ended, and you
request me so to state.
Mayer Gives Reasons
"At the outset I feel that I should
briefly state the reasons which actuate
me in the premises.
"The Amalgamated Association elect?
ed a committee which made a contract
dated December 16, 1919, with the re- j
ceiver, regulating wages and working:
conditions. That contract was violated j
by the action taken by the Amalga
mated Association sanctioning the pres?
ent strike. The present strike was
called in violation of every safeguard
contained in the constitution and by?
laws of the Amalgamated Association
to precipitate action, and was called
without any notice to the-management
or any notice to the public.
"I will be recreant to my obvious
duty to the people of this community
if I should ee&in place their vital in?
terests, involved as they are In this
transportation system, at the mercy of
any association that has proved itself,
faithless to its obligations and irre?
sponsible in its conduct. I cannot,
therefore, consistently, with my firm
conviction of my duty, permit negotia?
tions or agreements directly or in
/directly now or hereafter with this
association, and, of course, I cannot j
bargain with this association as to the
terms upon which the strike may be ?
ended. !
Offer Made to Men j
"If the men, .excepting those re?
sponsible for the present situation, re?
turn to their positions the'ir seniority
and other privileges will be restored
to them. They can return with the !
absolute assurance that the court will
see to it that the right of collective
bargaining will bo carefully safe-,
guarded and that representatives of
their own choice can have direct deal?
ings with the management.
"In working out the requisite meth?
ods to accomplish these things the
court and the receiver will welcome the
cooperation of the Governor, the
Mayor, the Board of Estimate, the
Public Service Commission and the
Transit Construction Commissioner.
"The receiver, on July 16 last, an?
nounced an increase of pay of 10 per
cent, over the wage scale of August,
1919, applicable to those under con?
tracts. The committee representing
the men on strike did not accept this
offer and it, therefore, did not become
effective as to these men."
In reply to the letter, Louis Fri
diger, counsel for the strikers, said: s
"To me it appears like the usual j
subterfuge employed by those who are j
bent upon the destruction of an or- I
gar.ization, an attempt to advance j
some plausible reason for so doing. We I
have exhausted every known and possi- j
ble means for the settling of this j
strike and the restoration of the ser
vice to the interests of the borough ?
of Brooklyn. It seems as though the
other side deemed the destruction of i
the men's organization more important
than the convenience and necessities '
of the citizens of the borough of
Brooklyn."
Mr. Fridiger said he would issue a i
more amplified and detailed statement!
on the subject at the Hotel Continental j
this morning. '
When P. J. Shea was asked if Judge I
Mayer's ultimatum meant fight to the j
finish by the union he replied: ?
"I am hot the men. I don't decide
that."
Normal Schedules
On 'L' and Subways
Predicted To-day j
406 Surface Cars Operated; |
B. R. T. Reports Many,'
Strikers Applying for I
Right to Resume Worki
Increased service on elevated, sub
way and surface lines yesterday |
marked the fifth day of the strike on !
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit lines. Re- ?
ceiver Garrison said numerous addi- i
tional men are in training and prophe- j
sied that the service on elevated and
subway lines will be normal to-day.
Officials of the company,said yester- I
day the offices have been flooded with I
calls during the last two days from
strikers who wanted to know whether
they would be taken back. Hundreds, |
they asserted, have expressed a rte- )
sire to return to work if the com?
pany would arrange police protection :
and transportation to and from their .
homes during the period of the strike.
They declined to say whether arrange?
ments to provide such protection are
under way.
406 Surface Cars Ruh
Gradual relief in the situation, offi?
cials said, will be brought about
through the employment of outsiil??
men and defections from the ranks of
the strikers. From this, it is thought,
preparations are being made to protect '?
strikers who desire to return as indi- ?
viduals.
It was promised that surface car;
service to-day would be 25 per cent
normal, with 406 cars running. Start?
ing with 121 two and four car trains
on the elevated, the number was in?
creased gradually to 180 trains. In
normal times the midday traffic num- \
bers about 166 trains, with 215 trains
during rush hours.
On the surface lines the company
started with eight cars and increat-ed
the number to 170.
Trains Better Patronized
There tws less congestion than on '
| previous aays of the strike and the
public indicated a return of confidence
' in the company by patronizing the
trains more freely.
Mr. Garrison says there are 3,000
i strikebreakers on the pay roll of the
company and that a majority of the
men are experienced street car oper?
atives recruited from other cities.
As the fleet of surface cars in- .
. creases demands for additional patrol- j
; mon to guard them are being met
; promptly, it was said. Two thousand |
. policemen were assigned to guard duty
i yesterday. i
?
K. of C. Visit Home
Americans Cheered on Way to
| Columhua'tt Home
GENOA, Sept. 2.?The American |
, Knights of Columbus to-day visited the
city of the birth of their patron, Chris- i
j topher Columbus, and deposited a mas- |
sive wreath at the foot of the statue
lof Columbus. The Mayor of the city"i
declared a civic holiday.
The knights visited ?he home of Co- j
lumbus and were followud ?v??rywh?'re !
by cheering crowds. In the afternoon ,
General Massone, Mayor of Genoa, and ?
i the American Consul, James J. Murphy
jr., gave a reception at the City Hall. I
Gathered around the statue- the ?
knights sang "The Star-Spangled Ban?
ner," Supreme Knight Flaherty raising !
the flag blessed by the Pope at Home.
The knights will leave Genoa for Nice
Friday. From Nice they will make a !
pilgrimage to Lourdes, returning to i
Paris September 7. /
Woman Shot; Man Hurt
! Harrington Parkway in East
I Providence .Scene of Fatality
PROVIDENCE, Sept. 2..Ko** V.
McKenna was shot to death ?nd Will?
iam J. Deignan, a wholesale be?f dealer,
was probably fatally wounded on the
I Barrfnsgton Tarkwsy, in Kast Provi?
dence, about 10(80 o'clock to-night.
B. R. T. Hearing Adjourns
P. S. C. Awaits City Officials'
Attempts to End Strike
The hearing of the Public Servies
Commission in connection with its in?
vestigation into the causes of the B.
R. T. strike and possible means of set?
tlement was again adjourned yesterday..
The inquiry will be resumed, subject t?>!
the action of Commissioner Alfred M.
Barrett. In adjourning the hearing
Commissioner Barrett said:
"In view of the efforts being made
by Mayor Hylan and members of the
Board of Estimate to end the strike and
the negotiations that are being carried
on to-day, and not wishing to embar
rnss the situation, the hearing is ad?
journed subject to the call of the chair?
man."
P. J. Shea, international organizer of
the Amalgamated, and Louis D. Fridi
ger, counsel for the association, aawell
S3 representatives of the B. B. T., were
present when adjournment was made.
125,000 Quit
Coal Mines on
Vacation Strike
(Ccntinued from pas* ?nef
in Taylor. From the time reports
began to reach him, he declared him?
self satisfied with the result. He
pronounced the "vacation" a success
in every way.
State troopers and deputy sheriffs
are in readiness if any trouble occurs.
Not a call reached the headquarters
of either force to-day, and for the
present at least no trouble is expected.
The sudden shutting off of the an?
thracite supply is expected to cause
a coal shortage, for operators said to?
day that none of the companies here
has any coal in storage and that in
recent months there has been no chance
to lay up a supply for emergency.
Insurgent Wave Spreads
Wyoming Valley, Hazleton and the
Schuylkill regions appear to be the
hotbeds for the insurgent movement.
The "vacation" order.of tho insurgents
found heartier acceptance in these sec?
tions than in the Scranton-Carbondale
district and in other parts. Late re?
ports are that the insurgent wave is
spreading and that nothing short of a
general tie-up is expected.
The union leaders are standing
firmly by their pledge to accept the
award and endeavor to keep the men
at work. Missionaries are in all parts
of the fS?ld, but the insurgents are
equally busy along this line.
The Lehigh Valley, the Lehigh and
Wilkes-Barre, the Su-quehnnna Collier?
ies Company, the Lehigh Coal and
Navigation Company, the Markle in?
terests, the Reading companies and the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
were hard hit. The Lehigh and Wilkes
Barre had only two collieries working,
and these with a decreased force.
Stven others were in idleness.
The Lehigh Valley had ten colleries
closed down and only one working.
One-half of the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western companies were idle. The
Susquehanna company had ten collier?
ies closed, while in Hazleton twenty
five collieries were idle. In the Schuyl?
kill region forty-five minus were not
operating.
The general responso to the insur?
gent call was far greater than union
leaders and coal operators had looked
for. Now it is beginning to be be?
lieved, that the walk-out was not so
much acceptance of insurgent policies
as protest against the majority award
of the anthracite commission.
?
Truce Is Signed in
Apartment House Fight
Tenants and Landlord Agree to
Settle Difficulties After a
, 24-Hour Siege
After the apartment house at 102
West Eightieth street had been in a
state of siege for nearly twenty-four
hours, during which the new owners had
attempted to take possession and the ?
tenants had refused them admittance j
fearing eviction, a temporary truce was i
signed yesterday by both sides after a
hearing before Magistrate Max S.
Levine in the West Side Court.
The truce was advised by the judge,
and both agreed to it when tenants ana
landlord declared they could settle
their difficulties out of court.
The Ormond Realty Company recent?
ly purchased the property known as |
the Anderson apartments. The tenants !
said the former owner had given them |
oral leases covering occupancy from i
month to month and refused to vacate
before October 1.
When tho new owners attempted to |
take possession the lease holders re
fused them admittance, and on Wednes?
day the house was in a state of siege, i
Sugar Bowls Cause Wild
Scramble of Immigrants
Russian Bolshevist Leads Raid
of Ellis Island Inmates at
Breakfast Table
Docile immigrants who have been
recorded in the notebooks of socio?
logical students as "the best type for
citizenship'' forgot their manners at
Ellis Island yester*day when bowls of
sugar were put upqn the tables for
breakfast.
A Russian who had been taught by
Trotzky and L?nine to grab everything
in sight and treat folks rough who in?
terfered was tho cause of the trouble.
The coffee and tea of the immigrants
had previously been sweetened with
?volasses, and there never had been any
disorder. The serving of sugar yes- ?
terday, however, was too much for
those who had not tasted it in six or
seven years, and those with the Bol?
shevist instincts made a raid upon tho
bug;ir bowls. m
Officials on the island are inclined
to believe that it was not the sugar
so much as the way it was served that
caused tho scramble. Hereafter it will
be served in envelopes as the immi?
grants file in to meals.
-,?? ,
U. S. May Settle Doctors'
Bills for Service Men
Treasury Comptroller Changes
Decision Affecting Men Tak?
ing Vocational Training
From The Tribune's Washinr/lon Hureau
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2,--Former ser?
vice men now taking vocational train?
ing, who have expended funds for med?
ical and other services and sought a
refund from th* government, arc to
have their applications reconsidered
and probably grunted, according to a
decision to-day by W. W. Warwick,
Comptroller of the Treasury, who re?
cently ruled that the government would
not honor vouchers for theso expendi
tur?'s.
The Comptroller's decision was
brought about by the legislative com?
mittee of the American Legion.
In several instances the treatment
given theso men was of emergency
character, certified to by physicians ns
being ntSK'SMiry to save life. It is pro?
posed now, if the Comptroller does not
reverse his former decision, to submit
these vouchers to Congress und to ask
for authority to pay all bills of a char?
acter necessary to insure vocational re
habilitation to disabled service men
generally.
Police Check
Violence of
*
Car Strikers
Youth, Found Stabbed, May
Have Been Attacked in
Brooklyn Under Belief He
Was Non-Union Worker
Two Trolley Accidents
Patrolmen Are Injured in
Collisions; Wires Short
Circuited by Vandals
Although a man who is believed to
be the victim of strikers was found in |
the street suffering from serious stab \
wounds shortly before dawn yesterday,!
there was but little mpre violence i
along the lines of the Brooklyn Rapid |
Transit Company yesterday than oc?
curred Wednesday, owing, it is believed,
to the alertness of the police on guard.
John Kline, seventeen years old, of
1733 Norman Street, Long Island City,
is the man who was stabbed. He was
found in Broadway, near Ctlnway
Street, Brooklyn, where strikers had
been active Wednesday night, and is
thought to have been attacked by them
in the mistaken belief that he was a
strike breaker. He was taken to KingB
County Hospital.
Strikers Lose Ardor
The promptness and vigor with which ;
the police responded Wednesday to at-1
tacks made upon them or those under j
their protection dampened the enthu-1
siasm of the strikers' "entertainment!
committees," and there was much less j
rioting and stone-throwing yesterday. :
A few missiles were thrown at the first ?
cars to leave the barns, and here and
there during the day a striker plucked
up the spirit to yell "Scab!" when a1
street car passed him, but there was j
no repetition of the violent attacks
made at numerous points on the pre- ?
ceding day.
It was discovered that the strikers
had adopted means less hazardous to
themselves than fisticuffs to cripple
the B. R. T. system when two 15-foot
pipes were found short-circuiting feed
wires at Eastern Parkway and Broad?
way. Men of the emergency crew who :
were sent to make repairs found the |
wires sagging beneath the weight of
the pipes and expressed surprise that
some of them had not snapped and I
dangled over the sidewalk, a death
trap for pedestrians.
Pistol Carried by Boy
That even moro dangerous intentions j
were cherished by the strikers was in?
dicated by the story told by fourteen
year-old Tony Raffaelo, of 5(55 Myrtle j
Avenue, who was arrested at tho Gates j
Avenue station of tho Broadway ele- j
vated line with a revolver in his blouse. ?
He said that four men had given him j
50 cents to carry the weapon and hand '
it to one of them when they signalled i
for it. Ho had been riding surface !
cars and elevated trains with them all ;
day, he said, waiting for tho signal.
?Several arrests were made for ma-1
licious mischief and disorderly con- j
duct, and these prisoners, with those
arrested too late for arraignment in j
court Wednesday, brought the police
court cases up to thirty-four yester?
day.
Six of the prisoners were sent to j
the workhouse for ten days each with- j
out the alternative of a fine. All of-j
them were charged with resisting ar?
rest as well as with disorderly conduct, !
and two of them were intoxicated. |
Fines, ranging from $10 to $25 each, .
with the alternative of an equal num- I
ber of days in jail, were imposed upon !
six of the prisoners. The remaining '
twenty-two were held for further ex?
amination, all but one of them being
required to furnish buil or go to jail in '
the interval. One was paroled pending ?
further examination.
Prisoner Accuses Police
Joseph Laury, one of the prisoners,
complained to the District Attorney of
rough handling by the police. He made !
his complaint while waiting for his
case to be heard in the Fifth Avenue ;
police court and was told to return
after it had been disposed of. He was '
one of those required to furnish $500
bail for examination Wednesday.
Trolley cars were in two accidents nt ;
Fulton street and Hudson avenue dur- I
ing the day. In one of them, which '
occurred about 5:30 p. m., James Free- I
man, driver of a truck which was hit
by a car, suffered a fracture of the |
skull. He was taken to Kings County j
Hospital. He lives at 513 Wythe Ave?
nue, Brooklyn.
In the other two patrolmen of the
East 104th Street Police Station were !
hurt when the car they were riding on
was partly telescoped by a car behind. I
They were Patrolman Fagon, thirty-six i
yearn eld, of 108 Last 111th Street, and j
Patrolman John Murphy, thirty-eight ?
years old, of 52 East Eighty-eighth j
Street, both of Manhattan.
Both were cared for by Dr. Horn, an !
ambulance surgeon of Brooklyn Hospi- j
tal, and sent home. They suffered many j
lacerations from flying glass. '
Rail Guarantee Raises
{J. S. Debt $101,755,000 \
Treasury Certificate Issue in
August to Pay Roads Brings |
Total to $21,321,672,000
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. ? Federal j
guarantee of railroad earnings resulted I
in an increase in the public debt of ;
$101,755,000 in August, according to j
Treasury figures issued to-day show
ing the nation's gross debt to be !
$24,324,672,000.
Treasury records charge the increase !
in the public debt to an issue of cer- |
tificates of indebtedness ofTercd August !
16, sohl to cover payment to the rail- ?
roads under the guarantee provisions '
of the transportation act. i
Advances to the carriers against !
probable deficits during the month were
said by Treasury officials to have j
reached nearly $100.000,000, und on this
basis they figured there would have [
been a slight reduction in tho public
debt had not the earnings guarantee |
been in effect.
Payments to the roads in August do
not correctly indicate the amount to
which they w?ll be entitled when a
final accounting for tho six months' pe?
riod over which the guarantee extended
is mude, it was added. As a result the
drain on the Treasury probably will
continue for several months, but offi?
cials believed it would be possible to
clear up all transactions with tho rail?
roads with the exception of the revolv?
ing fund by the opening of tin; new
year.
The* figures made public to-day show
redemption of approximately ?'.! ,500,000
in Liberty bonds ?luring the is 't thirty
days, about $1,500,000 of winch were
of the third loan.
Gold Found in Irelunil
LONDON, Sept. 2. According to an
Athionc dispatch in this morning's
newspapers, American mining rngi
neers hnvo discovered gold deposit? in
the hills near Horuelcap, County West
meath, Ireland.
' New Yorkers in Army
Here and Abroad to Vote
Permission Granted by War De?
partaient; State Will Furnish
Instruction for Ballot
From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON,' Sept. 2. ? New
Yorkers who tire members of the
American military forces in this coun-i
try and in Germanv will be allowed
to vote at the November elections by
an order issued to-day by the War De?
partment. '
Commanders of military forces in
this country and Germany are in
formed that all instructions concern-;
ing the methods of taking the votes '.
will be furnished by the ?state of New
York. The officers concerned are di?
rected to cooperate with the Empire ?
State authorities to facilitate this
work.
Chicago's Sheriff
To Hung Twelve
Men in Two Daysi
- ?
In Addition Two Other Slay
erg Are Awaiting Sen?
tence, So List May,Be In?
creased to 14, Breaking
Record
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CHICAGO, Sept. 2.?All records for I
legal executions in Cook County and j
possibly in the State of Illinois, will |
be broken here October 14 and 15, |
county officials believe, when twelve !
men jfre sentenced to be hanged for
murder.
Eight of the men are under sentence
to die October 14 and four on the fol?
lowing day. In addition two other i
slayers who have been convicted are
awaiting sentence and it is possible
that they also may hang on one or
the other of the two days.
Chicago has had several wholesale
executions in the past the most not
able on November 11, 1887, when four
of the Huymarket anarchists were
hanged but nothing in the memory of
jail officials approaches a death list of
twelve in two days.
Hangings in the Cook County jail
take place in the corridor of one of
the main celt blocks. There is just ?
room for a double gallows, so it is j
probable, according to George F. Lee,;
tho jailer, that the men will be ex?
ecuted in pairs. The hangings will
cost the state approximately $3,000,
including a $100 fee for the sheriff for ?
each man hanged.
Those to be hanged October 14 are!
Sam Cardinella, leader of a "black-!
hand" gang, whose members confessed j
several murders; Nick Viani, Thomas
Errico, Frank Campione, Sam Lopez, !
Joe Castanzo, Sam Ferrara and Henry
Reese, the latter a negro.
The October 15 list includes Arthur i
Hnensel, Richard Wilson, Harry Andre I
and Frank Zager. Haensel, who killed j
his wife, was to have been executed
last spring, but was granted a reprieve j
five minutes before he was to have ?
marched to the gallows. Andre was ?
convicted of killing a watchman while
robbing a factory safe. Wilson was
found guilty in the same case, although !
he was on another floor of the build- j
ing when Andre, his partner, killed |
the man. The jury decided that as an :
accomplice ho was equally guilty. j
Piermen Ask World-Wide
Strike to Free Ireland j
Labor Is Urged to Force Eng
land to Allow Mannix
to Visit Erin
A world-wide strike of labor to force
England into permitting Archbishop |
Mannix to enter Ireland; to force the
liberation of Terence MacSwiney, Lord
Mayor of Cork; to withdraw British ?
troops from Belfast, and to recognize j
the sovereign rights of the "Irish Re- :
public," was promised at a meeting '
held last night in Veronica Hall. More ;
than 2,000 of tho .1,000 longshoremen
und dock workers employed on Brook- :
lyn piers where British ships are ?
?locked were in attendance.
Telegrams were read by Francis !
Ryan, the chairman, stating that port !
workers in Boston, Philadelphia, St.
Louis, Now Orleans, Newport News and ?
Galveston would go out on a similar,
strike against England within twenty- I
four hours.
When Ryan announced that labor"
throughout the world hereafter would ;
refuse to load British ships, he was
greeted with cheers which lasted for
several minutes. I
A resolution, which was adopted
unanimously and which will be sent ?
broadcast to labor, follows:
"We hereby pledge our undying ad?
herence to cease work on British ships
throughout the world until England
recognizes the Irish Republic, bows her
head on the altar of labor, and takes
the terms handed down by American
labor, whose voice we here speak. We
also pledge that until Archbishop Man?
nix enters Ireland, the Lord Mayor of
Cork is released and British troops nre
withdrawn from Ireland, means will be |
found to compel tho British govern?
ment to do so." j
It was announced that this protest
would not affect American ships.
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2,000 Piermen in Race
Riot Block West Street
Fight Started by Animosity
Caused by Importation of
Negro Strike Breakers
More than two thousand white and ;
negro longshoremen, working on Pier i
50, N. R., became involved in a fight '
yesterday. Reserves from four police
precincts were called before order was
restored. Animosity had existed be?
tween the two factions since the im?
portation of negro workers to break a
recent strike. |
As a result of tho clash the Morgan '
Line, which uses the pier, dischar?,??!
200 of the negro participants. The fight
halted traffic along West Street.
It was reported that friction reached '
a crisis when eight negro longshoremen
on their way to Pier 48 were attacked
by a croup of whites. Seven of them
fled, but Erank Brown, according to the '
police, whs captured. Word of Brown's
plight spread among his fellow work?
ers and ihev rushed to his rescue.
A white longshoreman was severely
beaten in retaliation. This was the
signal for a general attack by hun?
dreds of whites, who rushed into West
Street, where n crowd of negroes had
gathered. j
Hayward to Speak Here
Convicted I. W. W. Leader to
Champion Political Prisoners
William D. (Big Bill) Hayward, sec?
retary of the general defense commit?
tee of the I. W. W., will plead for fel?
low members of his organization and I
other political prisoners now in jail in
New York on Labor Day.
He announced yesterday that he
would speak at four meetings on Mon?
day. These will be at Park Circle
110th Street and Fifth Avenue, at 3
p. m.; at thj; Labor Lyceum, Eighty
sixth Street and Third Avenue; the !
Labor Temple, Fourteenth Street and
Second Avenue, and tho Broadway Ca?
sino, Brooklyn.
This will be his second appearance in
New York since his conviction at Chi?
cago with ninety-seven others for vio
latlon of the espionage act. He ap?
I pealed his conviction. '
Smith Urges
The City to
Build Homes
(?Continuo?! from paje ene)
...iiiator Walters, "Has the present;
hi.-Th cost of things taVen the American
breakfast from the table?"
"It has."
"Under the same theory the city
would be justified in going into the
food business ?"
"If 'c ?i ?it.ons continue, absolutely
yes," insisted Mr. La Guardia. "We
must provide for the welfare, health
and peace."
"Build a lot of houses and imme?
diately you will see the rents adjust
themselves becaus-e of the increased
supply," interpolated Frank Mann,
Tenement House Commissioner.
La Guardia's Plan Opposed
Edward P. Doyle, secretary of the
Mayor's Housing Conference Commit?
tee, entered a vigorous objection to
thn city's going into the bu-.aing busi?
ness in any degree. H? said that on
July 1 last buildings were going for-*
ward to house 12,262 families at an in?
vestment of $60,000,000, and that he
did not. think favorably of Mr. La Guar?
dia's scheme to build houses on a $20,
000,000 investment of city money. He
said tha city on August 1 did not
have more than $10,000,000 borrow?
ing margin'.
"What we need for building is about
$600,000,000," said Mr. Doyle. "The
city has commitments now amounting
to $189,000,000. There have been two
sessions of the Legislature and none
of the legislation that has been passed
has solved this problem, because you
are up against it to-day, as you were
in the beginning. I do not want the
Legislature to go on passing foolish
legislation."
"Do you make that statement as a
representative of the real estate in?
terests or as a member of the Mayor's
committee?" asked Assemblyman J.
II. Caulfield.
"I make it as E. P. Doyle, who has
thirty or forty apartments he rents
and is a taxpayer."
Governor Smith asked: "Have you
any objection to the Legislature em?
powering every municipality to handle
i this question of housing, and, if a
: great public necessity require, to build
I houses?"
Wants Private Individuals to Act
"I am not in favor of it," answered
Mr. Doyle. "I am a Jeffersonian Demo
; crat and believe in the least possible
government. I believe that if you
, allow private individuals to do those
: things they will be done much better."
"But thoro was no shortage of
houses in J??fferson's time," said Gov?
ernor Smith. "Is there any harm in
giving the city the power? In 1913
we passed a home rule law that to
my way of thinking is broad enough
even to 4et the city handle this situa?
tion, b\jj, for fear it may not be I
would like to see the Legislature re
confer the power on the ground of
publrc health and public welfare, so
that we wouldn't have any trouble if
we went before the Court of Appeals.
Do you think the city ought to go
into the business of lodging people?"
"I do not."
"Well, it did," said the Governor.
"Do you think it ought to run a ferry?"
"I do not."
"Well, it did."
Few Suggestions Considered
Mr. Doyle said he read in the Book
of Deuteronomy that municipal opera?
tion of public utilities was attempted
unsuccessfully four thousand years
ago.
"But that was written so long ago it
doesn't meet the housing situation,"
said the Governor.
Commissioner Mann said he believed
municpally built houses would cost
much more than privately built ones.
"And the same objection would prevail
hero as prevails in Europe, where the
people who occupy those houses are
looked upon as semi-paupers," he added.
Only a few of the proposed sugges?
tions to the Legislature were consid?
ered yesterday. The rest are to be
taken up when the committee resumes
this morning.
About a (lozen witnesses were heard.
Mrs. Henry Moskowitz, secretary of the
Reconstruction Commission, reviewed
the commission's proposals for a con?
stitutional amendment to provide for
home building by the state, for legisla?
tion to permit cities to rent vacant lots
and for the establishment of local hous?
ing boards to deal with rent profiteer?
ing.
Add a Storv Plan Advocated
John P. Leo, chairman of the Board
of Standards and Appeal, outlined his
scheme for a lifting of tenement house
restrictions which would permit land?
lords to t'dd a story to each apartment
house. Objections to state aid were
voiced by James J. O'Brien, of Astoria,
and Robert E. Dowling, who declared
all the state could borrow in the next
live years would not provide enough
buildings.
Referring to a tenants' organization,
which is said to be fostering a strike
among its members, Aaron J. Levy,
president of the municipal court
judges, said: "There are tenants in
this town who are organized by a
vicious agency for purely political rea?
sons. That agency has sought to 30w
the seed of discontent .so that unrest
might be followe?! by revolution. It
was hoped to enlist a largo number of I
tenants so that the? courts might bs
rendered impotent and the machinery
of the law made ineffective. But.
thank heaven, their plan has thus far
failed."
5 Killed by Autos in j
Day; 4 Are Children!
Motors Take Heavy Death Toll |
in Manhattan antl
Brooklyn
Rosana Patterton, eight years old,
of ?1.1 Old Broadway, died in Knicker
bockor Hospital last night of injuries ,
:<he ruffe red when run down by an au- !
tomohile in front of her home. The
voll icio war, owned by R. II. Macy -f
Co. and driven by Spencer Corwin, of
631 Fifty-si ?ctn Street, Brooklyn.
Daniel Shoren, of 6? , uma Avenue,
Biuoklyn, who .ull from a, wagon at
Third Avenue and Fifteenth Street and
was run over by an automobile driven
by George. Danncr, of 00 Sr.ediker Ave?
nue. Brooklyn, died irom*lns injuries
ill Bellevue.
Anthony Di Nicola, six years ol?i. of
17! Forsyth Street, was run down
and killed at Forsyth and Rivington
streets.
John Pit i gun*, five years old, w.is
killed near Ms home, 51 Carroll Street.
Brooklyn, by ?in automobile owned and
driven by Charles Depresso, of 234
Hamilton Avenue, Brooklyn. Albert
Mmrdarellc, two years old, fell beneath
a motor truck near his home, 678
Glonwood Avenue, Brooklyn, and was
kille?!. Th vehicle was driven by
William Named, of 2755 Fulton Street, i
Benjamin Paterson, of Hasbrouck,
Heights, N. J., suffered a fracturo of j
the skull in an automobile collision
at Ridgewood, N. J.
Douglas Gibbons & Co
?E. 45th St. Vand. 626
Choice itlection Apartneatt and H osa?
Farainlud and anforaiiktd for Oct. let.
Statas or year, PARK AVE. ?ad vkisHy.
; Gompers Would Mortgage
Labor to Cox, Potts Says
Carpenters9 Chief Accuses Fed
eration Head of Unfair*
n?s* in Speech
John Potts, vice-president of the In?
ternational Brotherhood of Carpenters
ar.d Joiners of America, yesterday
charged Samuel Gompers with trying to
mortgage American labor and deliver
it to Governor Cox.
"This recent statement of Mr. Gom?
pers is absurdly unfair." said Mr. Potts.
"In lauding the Democratic platform
and the Democratic nominee, he is
proving what many of us have long
suspected, that his so-called non-par?
tisan campaign committee is merely
a tail to the kite of the Democratic
party. His analysis of the Republican
platform bristles with misstatements.
He says that the Democratic platform
is far more favorable to labor. But
where? Let us cite the clauses.
, "He indictfc the Republican platform
; for 'denying rights to strike against
the government.' But what does the
Democratic platform Btate on the same
subject? Here it is: 'With regard to
government service we hold, distinctly
that the rights of the people are par?
amount to the right to strike.' There
is here only a difference in wording.
The substance is identical with the
Republican platform. But Mr. Gom?
pers inveighs against the one and ac?
cepts the other."
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Roosevelt Says He
Was Misquoted on
U. S. League Votes
- ,
Expressed Belief We Would
Receive Ballots of Other
American Republics if
Interests Were in Danger
KITTERY, Maine, Sept. 2 ?Franklin
D. Roosevelt began to-day a three-days'
speaking tour of Maine in connection
with the state campaign. Addresses
were scheduled to-day in Kittery, Old
Orchard, Westbrook and Portland.
On his way here Mr. Roosevelt made
the following statement:
"On my return to the East T fine
that wide publicity has unfortunately
been given an erroneous report of t
speech made by me in Butte, Mont,
nearly three weeks ago in regard to thu
votes of various American repub
lies in the assembly of the League
of Nations. I feel certain that th<
misquotation was entirely unin
tentional.
"It has been charged that I d?clar?e
that the United States would, if i
member of the league, 'control' or hav<
the votes of at least twelve West In
dian, Central or South American re
publics.
"I should think it/ would be obviou
that one who has been so largely ii
touch with foreign relations througl
the Navy Dspurtment during the pas
seven years could not make a deliber
ate false statement of this kind.
"What I actually stated, and what
have continued to state, is this: Th
League of Nations assembly gives
vote to all nations irrespective of thei
size. Every American republic, in
eluding the smaller ones in the Wes
Indies and Central and South Americi
could have such a vote by membershi
in the league. History has shown tha
the international interests of th
United States and at least a dozen o
these republics are broadly id?ntica
Our course has been their course an
theirs ours. This has been abundani
ly proved in the past. It is also tru?
in my judgment, that in any grave ir
ternational question coming before th
assembly of the League of Nations th
?United States would vote with thes
republics and they would vote with th
United States. This is based on tli
fact of common interest and of hii
torical precedent.
"I feel certain that if in the assen
i bly the British Empire with six vote
! were to cast them in a manner coi
trary to American interests the Unite
States would find the great majorii
of the other American republics wou!
be in accord with our position becau:
of mutual interests."
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War Record Saves Burglai
Because of his war record, Albe
Kinsella, nineteen years old, of 25(
Devoe Terrace, the Bronx, received
suspended sentence yesterday fro
Judge Mclntyre in the Court of Ge;
I eral Sessions. Kinsella pleaded guili
I to a charge of unlawful entry. f
August 23, 1919, Kinsella, with Willia
G. Gilmore, broke into the apartmei
of Harry Bopgett, at 526 West 13?1
Street, and stole clothing and hous
hold articles valued at about $250. Gi
j more also has pleaded guilty.
I Kinsella enlisted at Fort Slocum :
the early days of the war and fougl
overseas. He was wounded during tl
fighting at Chateau Thierry. He ah
fought in the second battlo of tl
Marne and in the Argonne-Meuse a
tion.
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Councils of Defense Calle
KANSAS CITY, Sept. 1.?Secretan,
of all state councils of defense liai
bc">n called upon to meet here in an e
fort to consolidate more than 5,000 o
ganizations in different parts of tl
country who cla'.m as their object tl
combating of Red propaganda.
Call for the meeting w?.s issued 1
J. J. Metcalf, of Des Moires, s?cr?tai
of tli? Iowa State Council of Defen
?luring the war, and by J. C. Mohle
formerly secretary of the Kansas cou
cil. Many of the state councils ha'
ceased to function. The object of tl
meeting here, it is stated, is to dete
mine so f;?r as possible what nlleg?
patriotic organizations are descrvii
of support, as well, as to formula
"Americanization" plans.
5,000 Painters j
Strike; Metal
Men May Quit
I Van Workers and Plumbers
Still Deadlocked With
Employers;' Latter Say
Demands Cannot Be Met
| Walk-Outs May Spread
i -
? Decorators Throughout the
Country Ordered to Hold
Up New York Contractors
! The housing situation was further
? complicated yesterday, wnen more than
5,000 painters, employed by member??
; of the Building Trades Association, de
; serted their Jobs.
No agreements were reached in the
? deadlock between striking van men
i and plumbers and their employers.
'1 he Plumbers Association said 565 of
its shops in the metropolitan district
were still closed.
? W. J. Kelly, secretary of the Arnal
: gamated Metal Workers, announced
: last night that 75,000 members of this"
union would strike this afternoon un?
, less demands for increased pay were
i met.
Charles Morris, president of the
Van Owners' Association, said the
owners would not accede tp the new
demands of the men.
"We have given them three raises,
aggregating $12 a week, in the last
i year," he said. "On April 1 of this
year we voluntarily gave vhe men a $5
1 a week raise and signed a contract to
hold good for at least a year."
James McKeniia, chairman of th*
Teams!crs' Union Local No. 273, saisi
I the van owners were awaiting the out ?
I come of the hearing which tho Boa- J
; of Aldermen will hold September *
relative to requests for increased btor
age and van rates.
Say Employers Signed Contracts
After a special meeting of the board
of governors of the Building Trades
Association yesterday afternoon an?
nouncement was ijiade that painters
and decorators would continuo to ho
hired by tho employers' committee at
the rate of $9 a day with a 44-hour
week. A statement issued by the
board said:
"As far as the American Fedw.-Jtt'.on
of Labor is concerned, there is no sytn-.
pathetic strike on at the present time
to benefit the Brotherhood of Painters,
Decorators and Paper Hangers. Inves?
tigation has shown that strike agita?
tion among electricians and carpenters
is going on only r.mong the smaller un
affiliated unions of the city. The Build?
ing Trades Association is not taking
their threats seriously."
Reports from the District Council of
the Brotherhood of Painters, Deco?
rators and Paper Hangers said 140
more contractors have signed the
union's contracts. About 600 firms are
said to have met the demands for a
$10-day. It is the intention of the or?
ganization to continue the fight against
contractors still holding out. A strike
assessment was authorized at a mass
meeting of the membership Tuesday
night, with the result that $65,000 has
been raised to finance the walk-out.
In a statement issued by Philip
Zausner, secretary of the district coun?
cil, these facts are set forth:
"Painters received $8 a day last Sep?
tember. Prior to the present strike
they wcro getting $9. All that we are
asking is that vvc .shall be as well off
now as we were ?'i year ago. A 25 per
cent increase in wages over last year
to meet the 24.2 increase in prices.
That is the issue in this strike, and no
amount of falso propaganda on the
part of the employers can blur it."
The International Brotherhood of
Painters, Decorators and Papcrhangers
has ordered all locals throughout the
country to call out their members who
are working on contracts controlled by
New York employers, against whom the
battle is being wages).
The Association ot' Master Painters
and Decorators, a subsidiary of the
Building Trades Association, said im?
provements to buildings will be luid
up because the association refuses to
consider the demands of the striking
? painters.
"The limit has been reached," said
j R?ssel 1!. Herts, a members of the
i labor committee. '"Ten dollars a day is
! absolutely preposterous as reminburse
l ment for merely slapping on paint on
interior walls for eight hours a day."
'Crowd Rushes for Malt
As Brewery House Burns
Strike Breakers, in Threatened
Quarters Across Street,
Look On Enviously
A fire in the malt house ot the Weh
& Zerweck brewery, Wyeoff and Myr
; tie avenues, Brooklyn. destroyed the
i building \n-t night, threatened the
j Ridgewood trolley terminal, where tiOli
i strike breakers are quartered, and sup
i plied the neighborhood with m;.!t
' enough to make home brew for weeks
: to come. ^
The malt was washed out of th?
j building by the hose streams and, the
, structure being upon high ground.
i floated away for blocks, borne high and
I dry on the gutter floods. Men, women
and children were out with buckets
i and baskets, gathering malt. Latei
: there was much debata on the best
| recipe for homo brew.
The engineer and his fireroom force
stuck to their posta until they wer?:
flooded out, as the stopping of the dy
| namo meant that the lights would bf
' extinguished in many buildin :s in the
i neighborhood, including a sub-statior
I of the postofiice. diaries Zerweck was
I unable to make any estimate of th<
? damage done, hut the firemen fcaid it
was at least ?100,000.
The trolley depot is across the street
from the brewery, and its windowi
were filled with strike breakers. Strik?
headquarters being only a few blocks
away, the police were strict in keeping
spectators behind the firo lines. Thre?
alarms were sent in for the fire.
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