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THE GREAT FAXES TRIBUNE
MONTANA'S BEST NEWS GATHERER
THIRTY-FOURTH YEAR
GREAT FALLS, MONTANA, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 20, 1921.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
PACKING HOUSE WORKERS FAVOR WALKOUT
Reports Received From Scattered Districts Show
Men Are Against Packers' Plan Which Would
Deal With Workers Direct But Would Not
Recognize Union Organization.
OTTUMWA PUNT CLOSED
BY STRIKE FOLLOWING
DISAGREEMENT ON WAGE
Ottumwa, la., Oct. 19.—Nine hundred workers walked out
at the John Morrell Packing company here Wednesday after
noon, according to P. S. Maldoon, local union representative.
The workers left after a disagreement over working conditions
and wages of women in the timming department. Thirteen
hundred workers are employed at the packing house.
John Morrill, president of the cnm-f
pauy, announced tonight that all kill
ing operations were suspended, but
that they would be resumed when suf
ficient help is available.
Maldoon refused to divulge the re
sult of the general strike vote taken
among the workers.
Officials of the Amalgamated Meat
Cutters and Butcher workmen's union
at Chicago, were out of the city Wed
nesday and no announcement could be
obtained concerning the strike vote
being tabulated. Announcement was
made several days ago that 85 per cent
of the votes counted showed the work
men who voted favoring a strike.
The strike vote grew out of failure
of the packers to recognize and deal
with the unions. During the war the
packing industry was operated under
the Alsehuler agreement. Judge Sam
uel Alsehuler acting as arbiter in dis
putes between the packers and the
workmen.
The Alsehuler Rule
The Alsehuler agreement, formed so
that there would be no stopping of
work in the industry during war times,
was continued for one year after the
war and expired on September 15 last.
At that time most of the larger pack
ing companies announced plans for
dealing directly with their employes in
all matters affecting them, refusing to
recognize the unions as such.
The same wages that prevailed under
the Alsehuler agreement were contin
ued. The unions then took a strike
vote to decide whether to walk out be
cause of failure of the packers to rec
ognize their organization.
The packers have asserted that the
union members are in the minority
while the unions bave claimed that à
strike of their organization will tie up
the packing industry.
Othars Favor Strike
Reports received at Chicago from
scattered districts showed the major
ity of the packing house employes in
favor of a walkout if such action was
deemed necessary to protect their
interests.
At Fort Worth. Texas, the majority
of the ballots cast b.v the employes of
the Fort Worth Packing company.
were in favor of a strike, declared
N. H. freeman, secretary of the
Butcher Workers' local. How strong
ly the strike was favored would not
be disclosed b.v Mr. Freeman, who an
nounced the figure would be given out
in Chicago later.
At Omaha, East St. Louis and Mil
waukee it was reported the men have
voted to authorize the executive board
of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and
Butcher Workers of North America
to take what action they thought
necessary to protect the rights of the
union.
Commission Acts
to Protect Silesia
From Boycott
Oppeln, Silesia, Oct. 10.—(By The
Associated Press).—An inter-allied
commission has taken the first steps
to counteract the threatened German
economic boycott in that part of Si
lesia given to Poland by arranging to
feed the population with provisions
shipped from Posen, where supplies
from Danzig are accumulating. A
British officer has charge of the ship
ping arrangements. The surplus pro
ducts in Poland, it is understood, are
being requisitioned to meet possible
emergencies.
German merchants have already be
gun a virtual boycott by holding up
shipments of goods destined for Kat
towitz and smaller towns in the indus
trial triangle, where the food situation
is likely to be serious soon unless
prompt rail communications with Po
land arc organized.
ORDERED TO CLOSE HOTELS.
Detroit. Oct. 19.—Michigan hotels
will lie closed for violations of the
national prohibition law, under instruc
tions received from Washington Wed
nesday by James K. Davis, federal
prohibition director for the state.
In a communication signed by R. A.
Heynes, national prohibition commis
sioner, Mr. Davis was instructed to
invoke the nuisance feature of the
national liquor law against hotel
proprietors.
LEAGUE ELECTS PRESIDENT.
New York, Oct. 19.—The League to
Euforce Peace, Wednesday elected A.
Ii. Lowell as president to succeed
Chief Justice Wm. H. Taft, and voted
to hold a national convention in
Washington while the armament con
ference was in session. The purpose
of the convention, it was announced,
would bß to emphasize the obliga
tions * of s fhc I'nited States in estab
lishing world peace,
STATE OFFICIALS
Temporary Injunction Prohibits
Institution From Accepting
Deposits of Any Kind.
Bismarck, X. D., Oct. 19.—State of-*
ficials will decide what action, if any,
they will take in the suit started in
Jamestown Tuesday against state of
ficials and the Bank of North Dakota,
a state owned institution.
The temporary injunction issued by
Judge Coffey at Jamestown prohibits
the bank from accepting deposits of
any kind and the state tax commission
er from certifying the state tax levy
to county auditors as well as restrain
ing the sale of state bonds.
Copies of the complaint and the in
junction were served upon state offi
cials or their deputies late Wednes
day afternoon by deputy sheriffs. The
'officials immediately began studying the
voluminous document to determine its
effect upon their department.
William Lemke, attorney general, one
of the defendants, came to Bismarck
from Ilatton and conferred with his
assistants.
"I will decide Thursday morning
whether I shall take any action," he
said.
While no official information was
forthcoming, it was reported that the
matter would bo brought before the
state supreme court at once.
Judge Coffey set November 3 as
the^ date for hearing on a motion to
—
make the injunction permanent.
"The order does not prevent us from
paying out money, but from receiving
deposits." said A. Johnson, director of
audits of the bank. "I presume that
if deposits come in we can set. them
aside. We have enough cash to pay
aJl demands which might be made be
tween now and November 3."
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President Asked Not to Let
Executives of Roads Bargain
Away People's Rights.
Boston. Oct. 19.—The directors of
the Boson chamber of commerce
Wednesday night sent a telegram to
President. Harding in which they as
serted that "refusal" by railroad em
ployes "to abide by a decision of a
tribunal to whom they submitted their
side of the controversy" was "sub
versive of all conceptions of govern
ment."
The telegram declared that railroad
executives would not "bargain away
the right of the public "by giving as
surances that they would not ask for
further wage decreases; that the
way to bring about government oper
ation of the railroads was by appeal
to congress and not by a bludgeon."
"We can assurp you that this com
munity which went through the ex
perience of a police strike will stand
steadily behind you and is prepared to
endure in the maintenance of similar
principles any suffering which may lie
ahead."
COMPLETING TEXT.
Paris, Oct. 19.—The council of am
bassadors Wednesday decided definite
ly upon the proceednre to be adopted
in puting into effect the decision on
the division of Upper Silesia. It met
again Wednesday night to complete
the text of the formal notification of
the decision to the governments at
Berlin and Warsaw.
SCORES WATCH ROBBERY.
Minot, N. D„ Oct.* 19.—While
scores of persons looked on, a man
held up L. W. Hoyt, jeweler, in his
store here Wednesday night, and es
caped with five diamonds, estimated to
be worth 81.000, and a quantity of
other valuables.
President Preaches to
People Benefits of a
World Without War.
Renews Nation's Pledge
for Participation in
Broader World Affairs
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viciions of a eiviiizaHon worthy of that
costly preservation will exalt peace and
warn against conflict for all time to
Yorktown, Va., Oct. 19.—A doctrine
of enduring friendship between the
United States and Great Britain was
pronounced by President Harding Wed
esday at a ceremony commemorating
the final surrender of the British ex
peditionary forces here to the revo
lutionary army of Washington.
Surrounded by high officials of his
administration and standing within
sight of the spot where Corwallis laid
down his sword in 1781 the president
declared in deliberately chosen words
a sentiment of peaceful relationship
between the two great English speak
ing nations for all time to come. That
either should ever again lift the sword
against the other, he said, must be
"unthinkable."
Are Working Together
"In the trusteeship of preserving
civilization," he continued, "we were
naturally arrayed together, and the
convictions of a civilization worthy of
that costly preservation will exalt
peace and warn against conflict for
all time to come."
In hi« address the president took oc
casion to renew the nation's pledge of
participation in the broader affairs of
the world and declared his belief that
the time had come for "essential co
operation" among nations generally
for the betterment of the world.
"We must not claim for the new
world," said Sir. Harding, "certainly
not for our colonies alone, all the
liberal thought of a century ond a
half ago. There were liberal views and
attending sympathy in England and a
passionate devotion to more liberal
tendencies in France. The triumph
of freedom in the American colonies
greatly strengthened liberal views in
the world. Inevitably this liberal public
opinion, deliberate and grown domin
ant, brought Great Britain and Amer
ica to a policy of accomodation and
pacific adjustment for all our diffi
culties.
Peace for Century
There has been honorable and un
broken peace for more than a century,
we came to common sacrifice and asso
ciation in the world war. and a future
breach of «ur peaceful and friendly re
lations is unthinkable. In the trustee
ship of preserving civilization we were
naturally arrayed together and the con
come.
"In our great crisis, nearly a century
and a half ago France came to our aid
and made our independence possible.
In her supremely anxious hour, we
gladly went to her support and did our
part to secure her liberty. A grateful
republic filled an obligation which the
passing generations had not dulled.
"Reflecting today upon the inevitable
rfss of our participation, on our ties
of kinship, friendship and .fellowship
and appraising anew the way the world
—God's good world—must share the
aspirations to realize the noblest ideals
for mankind, there is a fresh hunger
ing for understanding a new call for
co-operation, a clear conviction of pur
poses and devotions and loyalties not.
limited to sovereignties nor national
boundaries.
Shun Arms Alliance
"One need not picture a world sov
erei*ty, ruling over all the varying
Ttußf, traditions and national cultures,
because it will never be. No program
which seeks to submerge nationality
will succeed. This republic will never
surrender so priceless a heritage, will
never destroy the soul which impelled
our gratifying attainments. In the so
ber circumspection, retrospection and
introspection of these crucial times, we
do believe there is sanity and urgent
need in bringing the best thought of
all
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®_ î n i°__ un derstanding
and co-operative endeavor which shuns
the alliances in arms and strengthens
the concords of peace, so that each
may realize ita rightful destiny and
contribute its utmost to human ad
vancement and attending human hap
piness."
America Welcomes
Italian War Hero;
Has Great Reception
New York, Oct. 19.—General Ar
mando Diaz, who led the armies of
Italy to victory in the great war, was
welcomed to New York Wednesday
with cheering unsurpassed since the
city hailed the military men of
America on their return from the
battlefields of France.
Thousands of his own countrymen
resident in the Italian colonies of the
city, shouted "Viva Diaz" and "Viva
Italia," with volatile fervor as the
general rode through three miles of
thrf business streets to his hotel.
Office workers in downtown sky
scrapers showered the procession with
confetti, paper and flying streams of
ticker tape, reviving memories of the
great celebration when the armistice
was signed.
The ctty. state and nation were of
ficially «presented in the party tbat
welcomed General Diaz.
Little Girl Found
in Coal Shed; Was
Attacked by Negro
Chicago, Oct. 19.—Helen Fitz
Patrick, 10-year-old daughter of
J. K. Fitzpatrick, a Chicago police
man, who disappeared Tuesday
afternoon, was found unconsoious
late Wednesday in a coal shed at
the rear of her home. Physicians
said she had been criminally at
tacked. Between periods of un
consciousness, the little girl said
that she had been lured away by
a negro, who took her to a house
where he kept her several hours
and later brought her back to the
coal shed, where she was attacked.
Near the unconscious child when
searchers found her in the shed
was her dog. which also had dis
appeared yesterday afternoon, and
is believed to have found her and
remained by her side for hours.
Brumfield Guilty
of Murder in First
Degree Jury Verdict
Roseburg, Ore., Oct. 19.—A jury
In the district court Wednesday
night brought a verdict of guilty
of murder in the first degree in
the case of Or. Richard M. Brum
field, charged with the slaying on
July 13 last of Dennis Russoll, a
bachelor-farmer, whose headless
body was found beneath the smok
ing wreckage of Brumfield's auto
mobile beside a road near here.
The penalty for first degrtoe mur
der is death by hanging.
Judge Bingham will pass sen
tence on Dr. Brumfiela at 9 a.
m. Saturday he announced. The
Jury announced that it had arrived
at a verdict at 11:25 p. m., after
being out for 3 hours.
SMIGOUTOFUL
Sanders County Quartet Break
Bars and Flee in Stolen Car;
Posses on Trail.
Thompson Falls. Oct. 19.—All
inmates of the Snnders county jail,
two negroes, a white man and a boy,
sawed their way to liberty early
Wednesday. A posse has gone in pur
suit of them.
The escape was made through help
from outside as a board was found
leaning against the jail window. The
fugitives stole a car in the vicinity of
the jail and were later seen near
Whitepine, going west. Shexiff Hart
man and posse went in pursuit.
After leaving the jail, the men broke
into a garage and stole a small auto
mobile. in which they are believed to
have started west toward the Idaho
the
state line.
The white man was in for burglary
and it is understood he had a pal,
is likely to have" furnished tue
with which the jail bars were opened,
The two negroes were being held on
bootlegging charge, and the boy for a
statutory crime.
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OF WESTERN STATES
Governors Would Take Off 6
Per Cent Quarantine Clause
of Esch-Cumjnins Bill.
Des Moines, la., Oct. 10.—Repeal of
that section of the Esch-Cummins
transportation act directing the inter
state commerce commission to fix
freight rates on a basis that will give
the railroads a G per cent return on
their valuations, was urged in a reso
lution adopted by the conference of
middle west governors nt its closing
session here late today. Guaranteeing
the railroads a fixed return is unwise
and uneconomic, the conference de- i
clared.
Resolutions were adopted asking "A
substantial reduction" in present freight
rates, advising congressional action to
remove doubt' as to jurisdiction over
state rates and services urging reduc
tions of federal reserve bank discount
rates in agricultural districts, indors
ing the movement for limitation of ar
maments, and asserting that, the gov
ernment of the United States should
collect the interest on its foreign loans
annually.
Lengthy discussion took place on a
suggestion that the conference should
express an opinion on the pending
railroad strike crisis but the view pre
vailed that it would be impolitic to
do so.
Action was unanimous on all the
resolutions that were adopted, though
some of the conferees said they would
have preferred stronger statements.
Governor J. J. Blaine of Wisconsin, in
the discussion on the resolution con
demning the forced earnings clause of
the transportation act, urged that the
total repeal of the law should be de
manded. He said it was "nothing
short of communism" to give private
enterprises a guarantee of earnings.
Such a guaranty, he declared, inevit
ably discourages initiative and effic
iency.
Democrats and G. O. P.
Members Attack Plan;
Moses Cracks Bloc.
Valuation Plein Will
Disrupt Measure Is
Charge of Underwood.
Washington. Oct. 19.—The com
promise tax revision bill was assailed
Wednesday in the senate by both Dem- j
ocrats and Republicans. j
Democratic lead^^cLracterized ,a ?& j
measure as the worst ever presented
to congress. No one understood it, he
declared, except the few treasury ex
perts who drew it, and he predicted
that if the bill became law, the courts
would be several years in interpreting
it.
Attacks G. 0. P.
Charging the Republicans with a
failure to be candid with the American
people, the Democratic leader said
they were trying to have it go out
that taxes were to be reduced, when as
a matter of fact they would be in
creased through the operation of the
administrative provisions of the reven
ue measure and the proposed Ameri
can valuation plan in the tariff bill.
Senator Mases, Republican, New
Hampshire, paid his respeets to the
committee bill and also to the amend
ments sponsored by the agricultural
bloc, which he termed the "Ken-Cap
Klan," a play on the names of Sena
tors Kenyon of Iowa, and Capper of
Kansas, leaders in the bloc. Consid
ering the Smoot manufacturers' sales
tax. Senator Moses declared the bill
"plainly was drawn under the inspir
ating inspiration of the slogan, 'Soak
the Rich.' "
Supreme court decisions in tax cases
got into the debate, Senator Nelson,
Republican, Minnesota, complaining
about opinions holding state and muni
cipal bonds exempt from the federal
taxation, and Senator Watson, Demo
rat, Georgia, characterizing as "per
jrotten" the recent decision that
stock dividends could not be taxed.
Vote Down Amendment
The senate, after a long technical
discussion voted dov^n, 56 to 12, a com
mittee amendment under which the
treasury experts had figured the gov
ernment would receive taxes on about
S5 per cent of the earnings of "close"
corporations accumulated prior to j
March 1, 1913. Senators Simmons of 1
North Carolina, and Reed of Missouri,
Democrats, and Kellogg, Republican,
Minnesota, led the fight against the
amendment.
Senator La Follette, Republican.
Wisconsin, renewed his fight against
.
j provisions of the bill which would ex
whojempt from taxation that part of the
saws'income of foreign traders and foreign
trade corporations derived from sources
outside of the I 'nited States
Senator McCumber, Republican, j
North Dakota, again defended the pro
visions on behalf of the finance com
mittee, contending that they were neces
sary in order that American concerns
might do business abroad on an equal
footing with fireign corporations.
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LOOK F00 PEACE
III IRISH HUM
Both Feel That London Confer
ence Will Settle Disputes
Between Countries.
i J
London, Oct. 19.— (B.v The Asso
ciated Press.)—Communications have
been exchanged between I'ope Benedict
and King George on the subject of the
Irish peace negotiations. The pontiff
in his message announced that he
prayed for the success of the con
ference and the ending of the long
dissension. To this King George re
plied that with all his heart he joined
in the pontiff's prayer.
The Pope's telegram read:
."We rejoice in the resumption of
tlie Anglo-Irish negotiations and pray
to the Lord with all our heart that
Ile may bless them and grant your
majesty great joy and the imperish
able glory of bringing to an end the
a ^e -long dissension."
King George replied:
"I have received the message of
your holiness with much plensure and
with nil my heart I join in your prayer
that the conference now sitting in Lon
don may achieve a permanent settle
ment of the troubles in Ireland and
may initiate a new era of peace and
happiness for my people."
ADVANCE CHURCH TRIAL.
Chicago. Oct. 19.—Trial of Harvey
W. Church. 18-year-old youth who re
cently confessed he murdered Bernard
J. Daugherty and Carl Asmus, auto
mobile salesmen, Wednesday was set
for November 28. Defense counsel
sought to have the trial set for late
in December, but the state objected,
contending Christmas sentimentalism
would binder a fair triaL
BOTH SIDES READY
TO COMPROMISE IS
GE NERAL OPI NION
"Big Five" Leaders Watching and Waiting for
Action of 11 Unions Now on Fence; Labor
Board Ready to Meet Men Half Way in Ef
fort to Avert Threatened Walkout.
Chicago, Oct. 19.—(By The Associated Press.)—Prepara
tions for the various moves through which it is hoped the
threatened rail strike will be averted, were completed Wednes
day, and Thursday the peace efforts will be in full swing.
Wednesday night heads of the unions and of the carriers
were silently alert with—figuratively speaking—one eye on
the conferences Thursday between the "big five" rail union
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j J £&ders &nu the railroad labor board, and the other on meet
j ings of officials of 11 unions which have not yet joined the
j conductors, enginemen, trainmen, firemen and switchmen in
a strike order, for both sides were agreed that out of these
conferences would come the final decision whether a general
walkout of rail employes would materialize.
Widow of Robber
Held For Murder;
Police Said She
Gave Hubby Gun
Chicago, Oct. 19.—Mrs. Charles
Shopes, widow of Charles Shopes,
alias Charles Rieser, notorious
safe blower who was shot to death
In a hospital here Tuesday, was
booked by the police late Wednes
day on a charge of murder.
Shopes was taken to the hos
pital with 14 bullet wounds, hav
ing been shot by unidentified men
who drove to bis boas« in an
automobile and oalled him to the
fttreet. Ha was killed with three
bullets from a pistol Mrs. Shopes
said she had taken to him at
the hospital to have him repair.
The fatal bullets entered his
chest, mouth and head.
Indications at first were that
Shopes had committed suicide
either because doctors had told
him he would be partly paralyzed
for life from one bullet which hit
his spine In the first shooting or
because he feared d«ath at the
hands of former friends who
thought he had turned informer.
The inquest Into the death of
Shopes was continued until Oc
tober 25 when Mrs. Shopes re
fused to testify.
j
«ED I6IIN
Former Comptroller Says Pres
ent System Is Extravagant ;
Several Members Attacked.
Washington. Oct. 19.—The federal
reserve board, "as the very core of
the business of the country" should
give an example' in rigid economy in
stead of standing as an instance of
wild extravagance, former comptroller
John Skelton Williams declared Wed
nesday. in a letter to Chairman Ander
son, of the joint congressional
mission for agricultural inquiry.
letter was in the form of a reply to
that of (ioveruor Harding, of the fed
eral reserve board defending the salary
schedules of certain reserve banks.
"No support or silence of myself
or anyone else," Mr. Williams declared,
"can justify continuance of the sal
aries paid by the federal reserve
board, x x x x
"I am sure that the congress and
the people will be glad to be informed
as to the process of reasoning by
which the salary list of the reserve
bank of New York was increased more
than 50 per cent between 1918 and
1920, although the actual number of
employes in 1920 was only 10 per cent
greater than in 1918."
Mr. Williams called specific atten
tion to "payment of $12,000 a year
to a man with no claim of banking
knowledge to put literary finish to the
public outgivings of the reserve bank:
of another instance of a salary of
$22,000 a year to a gentleman who
had never worked as much as one day
in a bank" and cited several instances
in which minor clerks had received
what he alleged to be inordinate in
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creases.
Miles City Aviators
Offer to Carry Mail in
Event of R. R. Strike
Miles City, Oct. 19.—In a tele
fram to Postmaster General Will
lays, Washington, D. C., for
warded Wednesday, the Aero Miles
City club offers tne services of Its
two experienced army aviators,
each with more than 1000 hoars
In the air to their credit, and two
standard planes with O. X. X.
motors, for use In carrying the
malla in the event their servioes
art required.
<£ In
the conference with the labor
board rested the possibility of the
"big five" being persuaded to cancel
their order for a walkout, while in the
meetings of the 11 unions, which actu
ally started Wednesday, was to be de
cided whether these organizations,
holding the balance of man power
through numbering three-fourths of the
nearly 2,000,000 rail workers in their
membership, would join the "Big five"
if they walked out October 30 as
planned.
Union Chiefs Ready
Warren S. Stone, president of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers;
W. G. Lee. president of the Brother
hood of Railroad trainmen; W. S.
Carter, president of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Fireman and Engine
men; T. C. Casben. president Switch
men's Union of North America, and
E. P. Curtis, vice president Order of
Railway Conductors, left Cleveland to
night for Chicago to meet with the
labor board at the latter's request. L.
E. Sbeppard, president of the con
ductors' organization, also is expected
to be here Thursday.
While this conference was looked
on as the most important of the peace
moves, railroad men professed to see
signs of a peaceful settlement of the
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other than to call m the conference
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ri«n >«' 1 f a stri{ ? e
® ... . i defer action by
calling in the 1-000 general chairman
™' av when the final
attitude of these groups probably will
be made known.
The maintenance of way executive
council met only informally, the formal
meeting coming Thursday when all
of the members are expected to be
present.
Do Not Want Strike
"I cannot speak for my entire or
ganization now, but personally I will
say that we do not want a strike, that
we would never strike on the wage
question unless forced to. and that we
will not go into any walkout with the
brotherhoods unless we have dofinit«»
promises of co-operation which so far
have not been forthcoming from them."
said J. C. Smock, maintenance of way
vice
Mr. Jewell repeated his statements
that lie was opposed to the strike. The
labor hoard will go into conference with
assurance of full support from every
interested governmental department, its
members said, following an executive
session at which they went over the
case. One member intimated that he
believed the hoard had found a legal
I method of enforcing its ruling. Here
Itofore the board has maintained that it
had no power to carry out its decisions
and the unions and railroads each have
charged the other with violating the
board's rulings.
The board had no announcement to
make Wednesday night as to its pro
cedure Thursday, other than to say
that the situation "would be gone over
thoroughly." It was understood, how
ever. that a plan similar to that pro
posed by the public group in Wash
ington—calling for acceptance of the
last wage cut and cancellation of the
strike order of the men with the roads
immediately reducing freight rates and
temporarilv postponing further wage
cuts—would be the basis of discussion.
Fighting for Life
Board members admitted that they
realize the board renlly is fighting for
its life and that much of its future
depends on its ability to handle the
present situation.
In connection with the possibility of
this conference averting a strike it
was pointed out, however, that many
railroads have announced positively that
the public group proposal is impossible,
their opinion, wnile labor leaders
have expressed very warm approval
of it.
In this connection, Samuel O. Dunn,
editor of Railway Age, issued a state
ment following a conference with local
roil heads denouncing the plan as "in
volving n complete surrender by the
roads to the labor uniotas."
The statement said that "labor lead
ers' opposition to the plan was a bluff,
as it was exactly what the unions
want."
Possibility of immediate steps to
bring about a labor board hearing on
the proposed 10 per cent wage cut
which tne roads recently announced
they would Seek, was reported in rail
circles, but locally no action yet bas
been taken to this end. i
Doctrine of Might Is
Right Was Always
Preached Says Tardieu
Teutons Expected to
Make French Invasion
a Military Parade.
By ANDRE TARDIEU
Castaln of Mm Franck Army; Franck Hl|k Ccnmli
•tancr I« A merle*; Clenanerau's Ri(ht Hart at
the Ccafcrcnet al Varialllu
Copyright. 1921. by The Great Fall« Tribune
Copyrighted bj the BobU-Merrtll Company
(Continuing bis story of Ger
many's preparation for "the day,"
M. Tardieu brings the narration
of events down to 1911. The Ger
man people have been educated by
the government, and Just as soon
as the government decides to pass
from the notion to the act of war,
the whole people will unhesitat
ingly follow.)
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CHAPTER IV.
Germany's Book of Hours.
Turn now to Germany's book of
hours for 1911. written by Bernhard!,
a soldier, save the mark! "It is
enough to examine with unflinching
eyes the function of the sword and it»
terrible effects to see dearly that war
is a task which, divine in itself, is as
necessary as eating and drinking."
So much for the principle, now for
its application: "We cannot by any
means avoid war . . . and, we must
by no means delay it unduly but on
the contrary provoke it in the most
favorable circumstances." As earlv as
1848, the parliament of Frankfort,' the
first manifestation of German unity,
cheered the bombardment ot Prague by
the Austrians and some rears later
Treitschke. the master of German his
torical science, wrote: "It is not fit
ting that Germans should repeat com
monplaces of peace apostles nor thst
, - — —
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: is an ® 0 ? I.j-»" 1 "
! o^lie trin^nnf! «f th J' ?u'
j wea k is ^he ineMrahfi ^tal "
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nSOl that Metternich, who knew what
j, P was talking abouti showed Prussia
, "emancipated from all sense of duty,
-i exploiting the misfortunes of others.
j without the slightest regard for her ob
ligations or her promises." Cast your
eyes down the line of Bismarck's suc
j cessors. Might always placed above
j r jght, with Germany applauding. The
j elegant skepticism of a von Billow
j by far the most distinguished of the
, lot—is but a mask.
In might he trusts! It is upon the
presumption that none will dare to
defy German power that he rests his
whole diplomacy, all the while pro
claiming it devoted to peace. But
the day when the others neither will
nor can give way any further, it will
be war. and war is thus in fact at the
very basis of the system— war and
j «'t>nt.en»pt for right! Bulow, a true
disciple of Biritharck. aays: "In the
hard world in which we live, one must
be either anvil or hammer." Hia choice
is quickly made. Kuhlmann, a pupil
of von Bulow, echoes the same senti
ments» "I have waged relentless war
upon principles. They are justifiable
in morals, but not politics. Here it
is a question of aims, not of means."
i (Jermanv, be it not forgotten, liatena
, 0 a u ,j,i s an( j applauds.
Trained For War.
And to sum up this cynical profes
sion of faith, tnis is how the last
chancellor— Bethmann-Hoilweg, a me
diocre and for that very reaeon a
thoroughly representative official—ex
presses himself: "Necessity knows no
law." The unanimoua approval wbich
this axiom elicited in August, 1014.
shows that Germany, industrious and
painstaking but wrought tip by that,
"moral wickedness" of wbich Neit
zsche speaks as "flowing in ber veins
with the blood of her ancestors," the
whole of Germany was long since ready
to accept it. From 1S70 on, the Ger
man received training for war from
the cradle up, training for war at his
mother 's knee, training for war at
school, in the university, in tbe army,
training for war in every walk of life.
Germany turned towards war aa flow
ers turn towards the sun.
In France there were some wbo took
heart, saying, "Germany Is too rich
to make war." A poor understanding
indeed of the nature and origin of her
wealth. Germany has accumulated
prodigious wealth in less than half a
century. But this result, too rapidly
attained, has not been unaccompanied
by crises. The first hsd fallen in 1901.
memorsble year of bankruptcies and
failures.
. Considered as Business.
In 1911 and the following months
the situation, although less critical,
remained tense, so tense indeed tbat
more thau one German, familiar with
history and remembering the great im
petus given by victory in 18TO, began
to believe the normal play of competi
tion to Be neither the best nor the
surest means to conquer markets, set
tle balances and feed the treasury.
Such Germans saturated with their
national traditions looked upon war as
business; just as their government
conducted business aB if It had been'
war. • Thus grew up that close union,
of politics and economies which is so,'
typical of tkfi German public mind.;
dream «f of domina ting an en-i
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