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Atterbiiry Puts
Labor Dispute
Up to Public
Pennsylvania Official Says
Federal Board Exceeded
its Powers in Rejecting
80.000 Employees' Vote
Tells Balloting Methods
Does Not Look for Strike;
Present Difficulty Is
: Largely With Shop Men
From a Staff Correspondent
" PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 116.- General
VT. W. Atterbury, vice-president of the
!-<cnn.?-.viva nia Railroad, to-day took his
?^fjKft case fo the puW?y in an inter
~1oxv with newspaper men. After in- |
-Seating his belief that there would
DC no strike of Pennsylvania employees,
General Atterbury asserted that the
transportation act of 1920 provided
no way for the Labor Board to enforce
its decisions except through an appeal
to public opinion, and that the law
provided for no appeal by railroad
company or employees from its deci?
sion except to public opinion.
The Pennsylvania has asked the Labor
Board for a rehearing of the case in
which the board recently refused to
Rccppt the vote cast by 80,000 Penn?
sylvania employees in favor of accept?
ing new working condition?, because
the board did not approve of the way
the vote was taken. This refusal goes
beyond the powers of the board in
the opinion of the Pennsylvania man?
agement, General Atterbury explained,
because in undertaking to prescribe
the manner in which railroad employees
should vote on a question of working:
conditions the board assumed an ad?
ministrative function which the trans?
portation act did not confer on it.
Explains Controversy
In answer to questions, General At?
terbury explained in detail how the
present controversy had arisen. The
transportaion act provided that each
class of railroad labor might be repre?
sented before the Labor Board by rep- |
resentatives of its own choosing. The
Labor Board, in its decision reducing
wages, instructed the railroad manage?
ment to draw up a set of rules cover?
ing working conditions and submit
these rules to labor. If the rules were
not satisfactory to labor the repre?
sentatives of labor could take an appeal
to the Labor Board. This decision,
which became effective July 1, abro?
gated, the Pennsylvania management
?hinks, the national agreements there?
tofore in effect. Acting on this belief,
the management drew up a new set
of rules and submitted these rules to
its employees.
The company provided the machinery
for a secret ballot for the purpose of
choosing labor representatives. This
consisted of a ballot with blank lines
on which the employee could write the
name of any one he wanted as a rep?
resentative. The employee filled in his
ballot and inclosed it in an envelope
on which the class of employee?shop
man, clerk, or whatever it was?was
written. This envelope was in turn in?
closed in one on which the employee's
name was written. The outer envelope
was checked against the pay roll to
see that the man was actually an em?
ployee and then the outer envelope was
destroyed, leaving the employee's vote
unidentifiable.
Brotherhood Members Did Not Vote
General Atterbury said that there
were roughly 175,000 employees. Of
these about 40,000, he explained, were
members of the four brotherhoods, to
which the enginemen, firemen, conduc?
tors and trainmen belong. These four
brotherhoods had previously made their
agreement with the Pennsylvania man?
agement and therefore had no occasion
to vote.
When the vote was counted, General i
Atterbury said, it showed 80,000 em- |
ployees in favor of accepting the com- j
pany's plans, or a large majority of the I
total number that voted and a majority j
of all employees entitled to vote. Ac?
tually about 35,000 employees, mostly
in the shop crafts, refused to vote, but
General Atterbury pointed out that even
if all of these 30,000 men had voted in
the negative there would still have been i
a majority in favor of acceptance.
General Atterbury was asked whether
or not an employee could write in the
name of an officer of the union as his
choice for representative and he said
"yes." "In fact," he continued, "the
signal men elected a straight union
ticket."
He was asked if employees could have
written in the name of a union officer
not in the employ of the Pennsylvania
Railroad and he said "no." He ex
plained that the choice of employees'
representatives was limited to Penn-1
sylvania employees.
General Atterbury said that there !
"had been under government operation
as many as 205,000 employees at one
time on the Pennsylvania, but that
this number had been greatly re?
duced and that recently the company
had laid off 90,000 men. The manage?
ment had refused to let these men,
no longer Pennsylvania employees,
vote.
Appeal to Pobllc Only Recours?
General Atterbury was asked what
the next step would be if the Labor
Board refused to grant a rehearing.
The only recourse left, he said, was an
appeal to the public unless the law?
yers found some way, not now ap?
parent, of aDpealing from the Labor
Hoard's decision to a court.
When asked whether the Pennsyl?
vania would stand by its present plan?,
before the bar of public ??pinion, he
that it would. When asked
whether he thought this would mean
a strike, he said he hoped not and that
-' failed to- see what the men could
strike about.
"The Labor Board fixed wages and
the i .en have a right to appeal to the
board if they are not satisfied with
working conditions. What have they
to trike about?" he said.
The trouble, he explained, was large?
ly with the shop men. "i h?? Pennsyl?
vania has restored piece wo: k in many
of its important ?nop?. General At?
terbury was asked whether a striKe
of ?hop men could involve u sympa?
thetic strike or. the part of trainmen,
alno. He said that it could not und
explained that in the agreement with
the brotherhoods these men the train
and enginemen ? had agreed not
t? strike out of sympathy with some
other class of employees.
General Atterbury expressed optl
' in to the general railroad out?
look anil the prospects of larger
traffic raoven i * ' He said that freight
rates, like everything else, were
bo ? nd to come down in tl me,
500 Shopmen Repotted
Out in Cincinnati Area
Men (Are P. H. K. Fifteen Min
liten* Notice; Disregard of
Labor Hoard Pule.* Charged
A.""il OUpateh to The Tribune
CINCINNATI, Aug. 26. Five hun?
dred shop employ??* of th? Penns?^-'
day as a pretest against a wage rule
instituted by the company, according
to announcement of E. R. Smith, chair?
man of loca! Federation No. 9 of .Shop
Crafts Employees. Railroad officials
admitted a "number of men" had quit,
but said they ciid not know the exact
number. The men gave the company
fifteen minutes' notice, it was said.
According to Smith, shopmen from
UnderclitT, Pendleton and Fulton shops,
pass eng.';- yards and tho C. L. & !..
Division walked out. Employees leav?
ing, he said, included machinists, boil
I ermen, metal workers and electricians.
Smith charged the company has dis- ?
regarded the ruling of the Railroad '
Wage Board and had instituted its own
system of wage scales. Under the com-l
pany's system, he said, in some ca'ses ,
men received 1 cent an hour more than ;
the board's ruling, but, he asserted,
the company had eliminated payment I
for overtime and one hour a week
granted employees for checking in for i
work. Smith said that the company !
gave fifteen minutes' notice to twelve
men discharged Thursday.
Railroad officials said union employ?
ees were invited to appoint representa?
tives to meet with them on the ques?
tion of the new wage scale, but the
men disregarded the invitation.
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Several Hurt When Air
Breaks Train Windows
Atmospheric Pressure Shatters
(-lass and Hurls Fragments
as Expresses Pass
Ten pasesngers were badly injured
in an unprecedented accident which
occurred while two Long Island ex?
press trains were passing one another
on tho Jamaica Bay trestle near Broad
Channel yesterday.
As a result of the terrific wind pres?
sure caused by the trains, the glass in
the third car of the Manhattan-bound
express was shattered but did not
penetrate that particular car. Instead,
the broken pieces were hurtled through
the open windows of the fourth tar,
badly cutting the passengers.
By tho time the train was brought
to a stop at the Brooklyn Manor
station there was almost a panic in the
fourth car. A rumor quickly spread
that several persons had been killed, ?
and the reserves from the Jamaica and
Richmond Hill precincts had to be
called to hold back the crowds that
gathered about the station.
The injured finally were treated by
surgeons from Mary Immaculate and
Jamaica hospitals. Mrs. A. R. Camp?
bell, thirty-six, of 231 Beach 135th
Street, Rockaway Beach, was the most
seriously injured. She received a deep
gash in her left arm.
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Firemen Trio Drag Tea_n
Of Runaways to a Halt
One Thrown Against 'L' Pillar,
Another Into Pickle Barrel
on Careening Wagon
Thousands of persons were en?
dangered last night while three firemen
fought to bring a team of runaway
horses to a halt on Third Avenue near
Eighty-sixth Street. The firemen, John
F. Conner, Michael Macey nnd Frank
Barry, were on their way to the station
of Engine Company 22 when they saw
the horses tearing up the avenue with
a loaded wagon careening behind them.
Conner and Macey ?grabbed the bri?
dles, while Barry leaped on the rear of
the wagon. Just as he reached' the
driver's seat, the wagon gave a lurch
and G?nner was flung against an "L"
roud pillar, while Barry fell back into a
barrel of pickles on the wagon. Macey,
however, held on, and brought the team
to a halt.
The horses and wagon are the prop?
erty of Block & Guggenheim, pickle
manufacturers, of 237 East 103rd
Street. Jack Suckerman, of 920 Kelly
Street, the Bronx, tho driver, said he
had gone into a store in East Eighty
fourth Street to deliver an order, and
when he came out the vehicle was not
in sight.
Reserves Decision on
Gbrario Receivership
Judge Takes Soviet Govern?
ment's Plea Against Picture
Producer Under Advisement
Justice McAvoy, in the Supreme
Court yesterday reserved decision on
the application of the Russian Soviet
government, to have a receiver ap?
pointed for several corporations in
which Jacques Roberto Cibrario, mov?
ing picture producer, is interested.
Cibrario is now under bail on a charge
of grand larceny, brought by the Soviet
government, that he misappropriated
.$900,000 belonging to the complainant.
AccordinK to counsel for the Russian
government, Cibrario obtained the
money for motion picture equipments
for use in the schools of Russia, and
then after placing the funds out of the
jurisdiction of tho court, furnished
equipment that was of no practical use.
Counsel for Cibrario argued that the
Soviet government had not been recog
nized by the United States, that it had
no standing in court, and that the
courts were without jurisdiction to en?
tertain any case brought by that gov?
ernment. The lawyer said the plaintiff
received exactly what was paid for and
that no money was drawn by Cibrario
until the goods were delivered.
Although Justice McAvoy took under
advisement tho question of the re?
ceivership, he vacated an order that
had been issued restraining Cibrario
from continuing his business pending !
the application for a receiver. Pending j
decision by Justice McAvoy, the de- j
fendant may pay his employees and I
otherwise continue his business. j
Action Taken to Get Rid
Of $1,000,000 in Rum
Storage Charges Pile Up, and
Liquor Will Be Destroyed or
Used in Industries
WASHINGTON. Aug. 2.. -Immediate
disposition of seized liquors on which
storage charges are accruing was or?
dered to-day by Prohibition Commis
sioner Haynes.
Instructions were sent to prohibition
directors and Internal Revenue collec?
tors to request the United States at?
torneys to petition courts for disposi?
tion orders for all seized liquors, auto?
mobiles, hoats or other vehicles taken
for violations of the prohibition laws.
Liquor, such as "moonshine," adul?
terated and low proof liquor, having
no commercial value, should be de?
stroyed, Mr. Haynes ?aid, while tho
higher pro'if an?! unadulterated liquor?
should be diverted to commercial, but
non-beverage uses.
Incomplete reports. Mr. Haynes said,
estimated tho total vaiue of good
liquors held by the government at
? about .1,000,000.
Broadway Store Looted
Of $10,000 in Clothing
Despite secrecy of the police it was
learned yesterday that burglars en?
tered the clothing store of Hock &
Weinstein, on the second floor of 1664
Broadway, last. Monday by cutting a
hoi?- through the ceiling and escaped
with clothing valued at $10,000.
Tho robbery was discovered by a
patrolman of the Weht Forty-seventh
Street station, who found the outer
door of tin' building unlocked. Just
?. y a the dooi lay a bundle of cloth
. i ;; ????, .< I I a. a . ?,?>. net s ut $2,000, In
the floor of an ei.?nty loft on the third
*'<,.?? *as found *; ;?i)le Unit, kuv? an
.i*<?..__>j t?. the <-l'-__iA'_; ?hop.
A. F. L. Rejects
Rules on Rail
Shop Overtime
Unions Warned Not to Strike
at Present, but "Prepare
for War" by Saving Cash
and Stocking Up Homes
Rates Called Injustice
Leaders Assert Seven New
Regulations Materially
Cut Employees' Earnings
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
CHICAGO, Aug. 26.?Rules govern?
ing the payment of overtime rates pro?
mulgated by the United States Rail?
way Labor Board last week to sup?
plant the overtime rules of the na?
tional agreement covering shop crafts
employees were rejected as "unjus?
tified" by a conference of regional ex?
ecutive boards of the railway em?
ployees department of the American
Federation of Labor to-day. A letter
was sent to all locals conveying the
results of a three-day conference just
concluded.
"By no conceivable line of reason?
ing," the letter said, "can Decision 222
(the labor board's rules decision) be
justified and this body declines to ac?
cept it."
Unions Remain at Work
All union members were warned,
however, to remain at work until fur?
ther official action is taken by union
officials. The letter advised that it
was considered best to wait until the
labor beard had issued substitute
rules for tho entire national agree?
ment before taking a referendum vote
on the matter.
Meanwhile, however, the letter ad?
vised the men "in time of peace to
prepare for war" by saving their
money, laying in stocks of food, fuel
and clothing and other household
necessities.
Shop Employees Affected
The. seven rules announced by the
board last week cover payments for
overtime, Sundays and holidays. A
number of radical changes were made
and labor leaders declared the new
rules would materially affect the earn?
ings of shop employees. A. C. Whar
ton, labor member of the board and
former president of the railway em?
ployes department of the American
Federation of Labor, published a long
dissenting opinion in which he refused
to sanction the majority decision.
The American Federation of Labor
asserts the board made a series of mis?
takes in issuing a decision which does
not deal with all the rules of general
application. Only 136 roads were
parties to the overtime decision, while
320 are covered in other decisions. The
shop crnfts declared there are still 184
roads which are holding conferences .
with employees over rules, and that
it cannot take definite action until all
are acted upon by the labor board.
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Jersey's Film Theaters
Will Defy Sunday Law
Managers Expect To Be Arrest?
ed, but Are Determined to
Put Statute to Test
TRENTON, N. J., Aug. 26.?Managers
of motion picture houses announced to?
day they will begin Sunday perform?
ances with paid admissions, beginning
next Sunday, despite state laws and the
Trenton City Commission's edicts.
The managers say they expect to be ar?
rested and are determined to make test
cases.
When the managers' attitude became
known the Intcrchurch Federation ap?
pealed to the city commissioners to
take action to prevent the perform?
ances, and demanded that the licenses
of theaters which hold Sunday exhibi?
tions be revoked. The commission
issued orders to the chief of police to
enforce the law against every manager
who opens for business on Sunday.
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Liner Brings Stowaways
San Giovanni Sets Immigrant
Debarkation Record
A quick transfer of immigrants was
effected yesterday from the steamship
San Giovanni to Ellis Island on the
vessel's arrival from Naples and Genoa.
Not for many months, it was said, has
the immigrant receiving station been
so cleared of incoming aliens as to per?
mit such a transfer the first day of
arrival.
The majority of the San Giovanni's
1,044 immigrant passengers were taken
off immediately after she docked. The
balance will be landed to-day.
Five young Italian stowaways were
discovered on the way overseas. They
were found hidden under tho covering
of one of the ship's lifeboats subsisting
on dry macaroni and water. They will
be deported.
One cabin passenger, Mrs. Maria
Checc, seventy years old, was hold by
the immigration authorities because of
her age.
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Young New Yorker Captures
Shorthand Championship
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont., Aug. 2?, -
Albert Schneider, twenty years old,
of New York City, is world's champion
shorthand writer, it was announced at
the convention of the National Short?
hand Reporters' Association here to?
day.
Schneider, tho youngest person who
ever won the title, established a
world's record when he wrote 175 '
words a minute in a state literary test
without making an error. On questions
and answers, jury system, he wrote?
280 words a minute, with forty-four
errors. On a charge to a jury he wrote
240 words a minute, with twenty-two
errors, and in one state literary test
he wrote 200 words in a minute, with
twelve errors.
Gcorg-o Daly, of New York, was
awarded a gold medal for proficiency
in combination tests.
Youth Accused of Forging
Employer's Name to 13 Checks
Morton L. Langer, nineteen years old, I
of 12.7 Cannon Street, who is said by :
the police to have been making his |
home in several uptown hotels during
recent months, was locked up in the
West Twentieth Street police station
yesterday, charged with forgery.
The police ?ay that Laugher, who
has been employed by Oscar Rosenfeld,
19 Madison Avenue, a skirt manufac?
turer, forged thirteen checks for sums
aggregating $067, between May and
.July. Ho will arrested when he wnlked
into tho Lincoln Trust Company's bank,
at 204 Fifth Avenue, yesterday and at?
tempted t,o cash h RosenfHd check
which is alleged to have been forged.
Langer is said to have made a com?
plut?- confession at the police station
la.st r* i_*h t.
Trades Re-elect Tom Moore
WINNIPEG, Man., Aug. 26. Tom
Moore wm re-elected president of the
Trsdes ami Lib'/r Congres? (,f Canada
to day bv unanimous choice of the con
v?. ition her?.
I in
Woman, Missing Since
June, Found in Syracuse
Mrs. Amanda Oakley Hunted
All Over Country Since Dis
appearinc From Atlantic City
MAMARONECK, N, Y.. Aug. 26.?Mrs.
Amanda Oakley, thirty years old, who
disappeared from the Hotel Dudley, At?
lantic City, June 30, and has been sought
! by the police of every large city in the
United States, is in Syracuse, N. Y.
Mrs. Oakley went to Atlantic City
with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Charlotte
Oakley, of Mamaroneck. She had been
in ill* health since the death of her
nine-year-old son. She ?eft the hotel
saying she intended to go bathing and
! was not seen after that.
Mrs. Charlotte Oakley left here for
? Syracuse to-day in response to a mes
i sage from Mrs. Henry S. Scalemm, of
Syracuse, who is Mrs. Oakley's god
: mother, stating that Mrs. Oakley had
arrived there yesterday. The telegram
said Mrs. Oakley appeared to be suf?
fering from mental depression and loss
of memory.
Lawrence Oakley, husband of Mrs.
Oakley, is employed by the Schults
Bread Company of Brooklyn.
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Miners Revolt
After March
Is Called Off
(C-ntinuoil from pioe onel
to enter the park, but immediately the
meeting was over Mr. Keeney instruct?
ed the guards to let them pass. It
was he who gave them the report of
what had 'taken place. Mr. Keeney
talked freely to them of the march and
explained that as he and Secretary
Mooney rode along from Charleston
this morning they had urged many of
the miners to return to their homer, at
once. This, he said, he believed they
had done, or would do so as soon as
they were rested.
He said it was expected that the
men would be out of the county within
tho next two days.
Lcicis Asks President to
Call Conference on Mingo
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 26.- President
Harding was asked in a message sent
him late to-day by John E. Lewis,
president of the United Mine Workers
of America, to call a joint conference
of mine workers and operators of
Mingo County, W. Va., with the view
of reaching an agreement that would
end the industrial conflict that has con?
tinued there for several months.
Six Liners Sail To-day;
Diplomats on the Baltic
Belgian Amhassador, Japanese
Attaches, Persian Minister
Among the Voyagers
Among the passenger ships that will
sail for Europe to-day are the Baltic,
j of the White Star Line, for Liverpool;
the Oropesa, of the Royal Mail Steam
Packet Company, for Hamburg; the
America, of the United States Mail
Line, for Bremen; the Rochambeau, of
the French Line, for Havre; tho Fin?
land, of the Red Star Line, for Ant?
werp, and the Presidente Wilson, of
the Cosulich Line, for Italy.
Baron de Cartier de Marchienne, Bel?
gian Ambassador to the United States,
is booked on the Baltic. Other pas?
sengers will be Mizra Abdul Ali Khan,
Persian Minister to Washington, who
has been transferred to Spain; Mr.
Yano, first secretary of the Japanese
Embassy at Berlin; Mr. Otaki, attach?
of the Japanese Embassy at Berlin;
Kanaki Kuniabe, Shunichi Kase and
Shunsuke Naruse, attach?s to the Jap?
anese Legation at Berne; Thomas B.
Welles, Major H. L. A. Swann, Miss
Genevi?ve Forbes, Elmer Davis and
William Tucker Lindsay.
Among those sailing on the Oropesa
will be the Earl of Dundonald and his
sister, Lady Elizabeth Cochrane, who
are returning to England from Peru,
where the carl represented Great
Britain at the centenary celebration in
Lima.
Among the. passengers on the Amer?
ica are Norman L. Gould, Mrs. William
Bayard Hale, William H. Hale, Bayard
H. Hale, Mrs. A. H. Dorian, Mr. and
Mrs. Garrett W, McEnerny, Mr. and
Mrs. S. L. Mayer, Miss Anna Walsh,
Percy E. Simon and Miss 0. A. Singer.
Saloon passengers on the Rocham?
beau include Baroness de Coriolis,
Major A. F. Drake, F. Bishop jr., A.
Oppenheim and Mr. and Mrs. L. E.
Lernard Zagarriga.
Sailing on the Finland are Ward T.
Van Orman and Willard P. Sciberling,
of Akron, Ohio, American entrants for
the international balloon race to be
held at Brussels.
The Right Rev. Thomas W. Drumm,
Bishop of the Catholic diocese of Des
Moines, and a group of priests will
sail for Rome on the Presidente Wil?
son.
Narcotic Vendors Turn
Roof Into Sales Garden
Woman Traps Negroes Accused
of Using Fashionahle Apart?
ment House as Drug Depot
John Douglas, negro, of 2,371
Seventh Avenue, and Charles Barnett,
a West Indian, were arrested yester?
day by detectives under Ralph Oyler.
director of the Federal narcotic squad,
charged with running a narcotic drug
depot in a fashionable apartment house
without the knowledge of either the
owner or tenants. They were arraign?
ed before United States Commissioner
Hitchcock and held in $1,000 bail each.
Douglas, it is nlleged, was employed
at the apartment as elevator man, while
Barnett held a job as janitor in a
nearby drug store and is charged with
stealing the drugs, which Douglas iatcr
is said to havo sold to a fashionable '
automobile trade.
According to Federal agents it was
Douglas's custom to meet, his custom- ]
ers at the front door of tho apart?
ment and take them up to the roof in I
the elevator, where his alleged supply j
of drugs is said to have been hidden.]
A handsomely dressed woman, whom '
Douglas mistook for a prospective drug
purchaser, was used ns a decoy by the
agents in effecting the arrest of the
two.
Triple Police Guard
Convoys Field Day Gash
Captain Takes No Chances
With Bandits tin Trip
to Headquarters
There is one policembn in this city
who baa tho burglar 'situation sized
up correctly, it transpired yesterday.
When Police Captain Abraham L.
Stewart of the Astor a station was
ready to .send $1,000 receipts from the
anle of Field Day tick'ets to Police
Headquarters be remembered the sto?
ries of daylight hold-ups and decided
that it was a risky undertaking for one
stalwart policeman.
In consequence of t.hcso fears a
bodyguard, consisting of two Blx-foot
two policemen, _cavi_v armed, was as?
signed i" nccompany the husky bonier
ai tin' field Day receipts,
The three men arrived at Headquar?
ter.?? without mishap und telephoned
the glad newR of their safe arrival to
their captain.
Labor Charges
Congress Seeks
Rule by Judges
A. F. L. Executive Council, in
Protest, Declares Nelson
Measure Would Mean
"Legalized Kidnaping",
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Death of Habeas Corpus
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Increased Power Given to
Courts Formerly Held
by Kings, Goinpers Says
From a Sin ft Correspondent.
ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 2?;.? Congress |
was accused of attempting to set up a
i "judicial autocracy" with a view of
? "legalizing kidnaping" by the execu
! tive council of the American Federation
i of Labor in an attack made to-day on
a bill introduced by Senator Nelson, of
Minnesota.
The bill, passed by the Senate and'
now pcn.ling in the House, would give
any Federal judge the right to issue a
warrant for the arrest of an indicted
person who may live in a distant state I
and transport him to the place of in-!
dictment without the process of a pre
liminary hearing or defense, according;
i to President Samuel Gompers and his
? associates, who assert that this vir?
tually would nullify the principle of
I habeas corpus.
The increased power for the Federal1
?judges provided for by the Nelson bill, j
Mr. Gompers said, was "formerly pos?
sessed only by kings," and is directly j
aimed at wage earners.
"In other words," says a protest;
adopted by the council, "this bill has
for its object the revival of legalized :
! kidnaping and taking the heart out of '
the habeas corpus, one of the great I
! writs wrested by the people from the j
I kings. The bill intends to grant to the |
i judicial brunch of our government a I
| power which will place the liberties of i
; our people under its complete domina- |
tion.
Drifting to Judicial Autocracy
"It is difficult to understand the ;
i causes or grievances which should now
' prompt the removal of these safeguards i
to the rights and liberties of all our j
people and which have been in force ;
ever since our nation was founded. It
is inconceivable that the rights and '
liberties of American freedom shall be ?
left to the complete and exclusive I
mercy of judges clothed with such '
: extraordinary power. We are drifting :
altogether too rapidly toward judicial ?
autocracy.
"Having just emerged out of a sue- !
cessful war to make secure the prin- I
ciples of democracy and to wrest the j
sovereign power from the hands of |
royalty, it is inconceivable that we
should now willingly acquiesce in dele- ?
gating such powers into the hand-- of
a court. Wage earners of our land j
are urged to help arouse public indig
nation and resentment to this latest |
and most subtle and pernicious attack j
yet made in the history of our land
upon the constitutional rights and lib?
erties of American freedom. '
The council, which is in session at
Hotel Ambassador to carry out work j
left unfinished by the Federation con- j
vention in Denver in June, to-day de- i
cided to reopen negotiations with the
International Federation of Trades j
Unions, whoso headquarters arc in !
Amsterdam. The obstacle in the way ?
of any closo affiliation with tho Amer- '
?can organization and the International,
it was said, was that the European or?
ganization had been too much identi?
fied with the Socialists and their inter?
national convention held at Moscow.
Nothing to Do With Bolshevism
Mr. Gompers has asserted that the
A. F. of L. will have nothing to do j
with Bolshevism. "Wo want a labor or- I
ganization untainted by any of the isms ?
which create strife and dissension,"
said Mr. Gompers. The council, how- j
ever, made public to-day a letter which j
Mr. Gompers was credited with having
written to the International at Am?
sterdam.
"The particular purpose of our writ?
ing," said the letter, "is to suggest
that we endeavor to reach points of
contact and if possible agreement
rather than to attempt any carping n.nd
unnecessary adverse criticism, so that
the legitimato purposes which we as?
sume we have in mind in common may
bo consummated, that is, an interna?
tional federation of trade unions in
fact as well as in name; that we may
jointly use our united influenco and
powers to protect and promote the
rights and interests and welfare of tho
toiling masses of the world."
Japan has apparently refused to ap- ,
point a labor leadpr on its delegation I
to President Harding's conference on j
the limitations of armaments, called j
to meet in Washington in November. I
The council to-day received a cable ]
message from B, Suzuki, the labor
leader of Japan, in response to a mes?
sage sent by Mr. Gompers asking that)
Japan appoint a labor delegate. Mr. |
Suzuki said: "I will work on your pro?
posal, but I think its realization will !
be hard. Please prevail upon your)
government to convey your wishes to !
the Japanese government." Mr. Gom?
pers in his message said it was essen?
tial to the welfare of organized labor
that it be represented on the Japanese
delegation.
The Stage Door
William A. Brady will present a new
play ."Personality," to-ni^ht it tho Play?
house. Tho principal members of the cast
are Henry E. Dlxey anil Could Bennlson,
who will have In their s pport I>orr?thy
Bernard, Dodaon Mitchell, John Cromwell,
Albert Sackett, Eveta N'udsen. Robert
Vivian. William J. Florence, Freddla
I.awshe and Frank Peek.
"Just Married" will be transferred to
the Nora Bayes Theater on Monday to
make room for the "Greenwich village
Follies" nt the .^huhert on Tuesday.
A Choir selected from the PntiiiMt Chor?
isters, under the direction of I.oy.l Rand,
will sine the Incidental music for Sydney
Howard's play. "Swords," opening Ht. tho
new National Theater next. Thursday.
Malcolm Fassen will have the lead np
poslle Olgn Petrova In 'The Silver Pea?
cock," In which the Relwyns will ?t.-ir this
aotross when she returns to the speaking
?tage n?xt month.
Eddie Cantor will begin his second sea?
son ?h a Shoberl star In "The Midnight
Rounders," opening to-morrow night ?n
Detroit
A tentativo r?ate In late September has
been set for HMas?*o'ji revival of "The Re?
turn of I'eter Orlmm," which will bring
David Warfleld back to the New Yorlt fold
again.
Augustin Duncan, who staged 'Tho
Detour," In which he plays the lendin
male role, will direct several production
'or tho Shubcrta during tho new renn.?n
itensle Barr?scale wo? presented b.
Rloharil (7 Herndon In n comedy bv How
ar?l mrlcinnn, entitled "Tho Ruirt " last
i.? ?.iiln*.- at th- l.yrli: Theater, Allentown
Tho supporting caul Includos Metty Aldan
Catherine Mulquoen, Merle Blnntnn, 1'nti
liai voy H..U ??.i IllcUni in, Hurry Hol
llngiworth, A .1 H? ilen. F .1. Wooils
Rodney Ranous, Fred Strong, Harry ?in
cha?an, Ton Mc'.lulro, living HiooWa an
VViilUm .Nli.l-r.
Dinner Given Balloon
Team Which Sails To-day
Aero Club Entertains Flyers
Who Wijl Compete in Ben?
nett Cup Races in Belgium
A farewell dinner was tendered last
night by the Aero Club of America to ?
the American balloonists who will de
part for Belgium to-day to participate
in the international balloon race for the '.
James Goraon Bennett trophy. The ;
dinner was served in the garden used
by the Committee on Devastated
France, in the rear of the clubhouse, '
at U East Thirty-e.ghth Street.
The members of the balloon team,
which will man three balloons in the
race, who were present were Ralph .
Upson, ranking pilot of the team, and
C. G. Andr-us, of the United States
Weather Bureau, aid; Ward T. Van
Oiman,- pilot, with Willnrd B. Seib.r- ?
ling as aid; Bernard T. Homan, the .
third pilot, with J, S. McKibben as:
aid. ?
The team will sail to-day at noon on '
the Finland from Pier 59, North River.
Dr. Jerome Kingsbury, who was a i
member of the team that finished sec
ond in the las. international race, |
presided.
Ford Builds 317,587 Cars
And Trucks in 3 Months
Plants Break Record for Any
Similar Period Since Organi?
zation, Officials Announce
Special Dispatch to The Tribun?
DETROIT, Aug. 26.?Official &n-.
nouncement from the Ford Motor Com- ;
pany to-day showed that during May,.
June and July the company turned out j
more cars and trucks than in any other i
three months period during its history. '
Total production was 317,587 cars and '
trucks, a monthly average of 105,862.
"The exact output of the American !
plants for July was "107,149 cars and |
trucks," the announcement says. "There
are twenty-seven working days in!
August, and it is expected that June's
record of building 10S.962 will be i
eclipsed. June was the highest month :
in production the company has so far i
experienced, and there are possibili?
ties that August will establish a higher!
figure. The schedule fox August calls j
for 109,700 cars and trucks."
Kansas Miners to Quit Work
While How at Remains in Jail
TOPEKA, Kan., Aug. 26.?From the
day Alexander Howat goes to jail, Sep?
tember 8, until he is released not a
ton of coal will be dug by union min?
ers in District No. 14. William Howe,
secretary of the Kansas State Federa?
tion of Labor, declared in a statement
to-day.
Predicting thnt the state would have
to take over the mines if Howat re?
mained in jail long, Howe declared the
state could mine coal only at an ex?
orbitant price, and that probably a spe?
cial session of the Legislature would
grow out of the situation.
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ANITA STEWART in
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PUT and TAKE
KpecUl M litn !i ht P ertormMir? ??err Friday
?CJ??5,Y THE VVHtil PLACI
? URF AND TOOL _ATHI_i
New York Offered
Chance to Inspect
Shrine of Tibet
Museum of Natural History
Has Placed on Display
an Unusually Fine Col?
lection of Religious Art
The American Museum of Natural
History, Seventy-seventh Street and
Central Park West, announced yester?
day that it has opened to the public
a Tibetan temple shrine, embracing
the finest collection of Tibetan relig?
ious objects probably ever assembled
for exhibition purposes.
Alexander Scott, a British artist, who i
made his home for twenty-six years at
Darjeeling, India, on the. highway to
Tibet, purchased the shrine from
Chinese members of an expedition
which penetrated Tibet after the Brit?
ish under Sir Francis Younghusband
had left Lhassa.
J. H. Davies, of the American Mu?
seum, said Mr. Scott conceived the no?
tion of assembling an altar and fur?
nishings in such a way that would give
Westerners an idea of a Tibetan '
shrine.
The central figure is that of Padma
Sambhava, "the lotus-born"?the great
"guru" or saint, who 800 years ago en.
tered Tibet and became the first teach?
er of Buddhism in that land. In the
figure's right hand is held a "dorje" or
thunderbolt, implying divine protection
and eternal life. The left hand grasps
a skull bowl containing blood or "ami
ta" (sweet dewl, the ambrosial food
of supernatural beings. The image is
finely wrought in copper, and the face
is coated with pure gold, highly bur?
nished.
Flanking the image on either g:je
are great sacred lamps of brass of
exquisite workmanship. On the steps
leading to the altar are brass dogs, or
lion-like figures, elaborately designed
and inscribed. These are the guardians
of the temple. Stretched on the steps
is a Ming prayer mat at least 400 yearn
old. The side walls are hung i? the
sacred colors and symbols of th?? tribe.
One of three Tibetan carpets known*
to exist and which for 100 years were
in the palace Tosha Khana or store?
house in Kashmir, was purchased by
Mr. Scott and is in the exhibit. The
carpet and mat show Chinese taste
blended with Tibetan symbolism and
were doubtless made in Tibet by
Chinese weavers.
On the shrine as votive offering? re?
pose many smaller images, some of
gold inlaid w-ith turquoise and lapis
lazuli.
Dunn Summer Home Burned
HYANNISPORT, Mass., Aug. 26.?
Fire destroyed the summer mansion of
Harry T. Dunn, of New York, automo?
bile manufacturer, early to-day, with
loss of about $150,000. The family was
absent, but the servants were driven
out by the flames. The cause of the
?ire is not known.
Amerlc?'? For?nio?t Theatre? *"d Hits I nder the Diiwtion of I.ee & 3. 3. Shuhert
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MATINEE TO-DAY. BOc. TO ?2.00.
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Wed. and Sat Mattneea Hart Been Resumed.
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MARCH HARES
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HELEN MACKELLAR
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