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7irver-Noj58. Price Five cent, OGDEN CITY, UTAH, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 29, 1919. LAST EDITION 3:30 P. M.
i Order Railroads to Confiscate Coal !
I WaflEarners Plan Big Conference at Washington I
MINERS
; fk
" Executives to Take Final
ction on President's
Appeal
'Rl
j WEiCHTYQUESTION
j Representatives From
I All Parts of Country
II at Indianapolis.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind , Oct. 29 Ex
tip. pc'J,'vrP of ' h T "n i t rl Mine Yoik''S
jjjil of rnprira met hero todaj to takl
Blc.il action on Pi i-r-'jdpn L Wilson's ap
1Cf. ), ppal ih?i the na : ion - wide strik: of -wgj
luminous rord miners unlrivil fni N'o-
I. .; !" nii.-d orr with but
scou- ' J'ty nours lrfI heuore thr time for
leas- rrtnPPa&? f production of t nation'-
r.f Mipph . 1 1" m ".nir - i h"
S)- rs?r;trt r i si-., hit-, w ihi m :
h'Neh has yet bor n held in connect inn
0ff.. urh thy nunt'i demand- for a six
s hoi-r la . n ine-da v . ok and f.O per
r'-ni increase ',n ( u; of it
, C- tl""f,tabl v v p. , nnif ih.-. j inn I word co -ipln
fftnln- the siMiP. tion
jjjjg Rrpiesentsth es of coal miners in all
part of-the rountn v. ere here today,
Bor while it originally was planned to
I Bold only a meeting of the executive
i Rearcl cf the organisation at this tiinc, j
fin View of the demand of President
KVilson last Saturday that the strik
OVije; he rc-rinded. act in- President
wohn L. Lewis, broadened the scope j
rl : conference and ns a conseqiien, e
LjUI f::' ,Jl?,riri pr-identr. oi ihe mine
wkers, the full scale committee com-
mi -posed of 82 members, and the boai I
executives comprising a r pro' ent.
jtive from each ol the if 1 districts, are
1 In attendance. All of those present.
It ?;is Haled will ha- n ote
l "For the first time in the history uf
By'!' liif miners' wage conference." Vice
tiln r 'id-nt Lewis said, 'the opera! :-- !
leads h failed m of., r a "ust''uun. H i- -ede
,,J fore ne ha e been able -, sit down1
tsUal md pieo-nt our Me of the i on I rover- I
iMe and tin- r.p. rator.- tl.cir proposal.
Ottdle tot thl? time is unique
-.TV Pofsiblluy ni r.oerninr-ni operat.o-,
fores of the mine- has been advanced bj .
'c 'Kwe of ,h" delegates v.h0 apparentl :
.Whcr hand, high official? of the oic.m- '
'Iiiatloii scouted ihe id. a of u.ernmt nt
r:ri': I dd- ii..,i . !i. ,
toik- men v0rk whn they did not
rn' to work.
Practically Oo per cent of the in n-!
1 Ek!? roenibern of the organization
land dirertiy involved in the strlk?."
WJ William Greene, international
nti llp''-''er ,,f lb,- mine;
UN on?crlpiinK m-n to operate th
260 "--.Id ...si
po'UinK as ihsv would noi be enoui I
W Wi-n iu produce much coal '
I f-v.ry district of the international
j ionization of the minei-. waa called'
oa to send representatives to the
ti ij" r"n, r ''- '-xcpt hoe of r.ae
y;r
' n2AL SHORTAGE IN PARIS.
U J:)R - Tur-f-day, (es Is. fiovern,
J , , 1,n'! 'nuie.r,a! ho, i -e, and
W i lerrhants virtually admit the im
gwhlhry of finding a remedv for the
. "' '"' ' ! i' ' ' si .i; i.,..
bill v"Uj '0al snoriag". Although
IU leather has not v.s r-aib, j,raun
h" aln tdl f,-"lin- Hi- Pinch and
r rter.rthe3UcfU?nS i!' thC ';"
i25 rL0;, ,(ks ,n ''jri6 amount to ap
' t , ! ' on;.
;oUS ? ,'V"K djih The city needs
5 ' uw per da;, in rold wc-.tlr
J LETTS ARE RECOGNIZED. I
u? t,J;VARSAW' Tue.dav. Oct 2 s -K-
i0?r la" rarewsk.. premier
l f n l el2n mistor of Letvia,
I 1 ti" fa" ac,l,rded ! ..r, r.,!.on to
I orLL';"bh vernmen, al
Btlm! ons,ited. until such !
- r ns('11" I" ' '' couf, ,fn. e a.
I K If"00 wlth fhfJ lshs of the 4
1i K tm I PCOplc A Ppll5h mission 4
,0i to L u,nt 10 Ria to set in
1 Wh VXh mP1"bers of the Let-
fct A fa cabinet ,
R. R. Administration's
Order Issued to Lines
in Colorado.
GARFIELD AT CAPITOL
Fuel Director May Be
Called to Exercise
Control.
DENVER, Colo, Oct. 29. The Unit
ed States railroad administration has
issued orders to all of the railroad com
panies in the state to confiscate all
lignite coal in transit and to be mined
in northern coal fields of Colorado the
rest of the week for emergency use'
of the railroads.
The order does not affect companies '
operating in fields in the routhern and
western part of the state as bltumUl
nous and anthracitr coal is mined in
that region. i
I Every coal company operating in the;
northern part of the state received the i
jorder yesterday fiom Hale Holden. re
Igjonal director of the middle western
irecion for the United Slates railroad ,
j administration.
I David W. Brown, president and gen
eral manager of the Rocky Mountain
Fuel company of Denver, said confis-j
cation of the lignite coal by the rail - j
roads waa not out of the ordinary, that
I the railroads took the coal every year!
i ben they needed a supply to run i
trains
Garfield at Capital.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 Federal j
' Fuel Administrator Harry A. Garfield!
'discussed the threatened strike of bit - j
luminous coal miners today with Sec-:
Iretary Tumulty at the White House.'
! He was summoned here from Williams
college, of which he is president.
Dr. Garfield, who still has authority,
to function as fuel administrator, said
ho wax in (lose touch with the strike,
i situation and expressed confidence,
that a settlement would be reached
! without a walkout of the miners.
The fuel administrator would not
diBCUSB his conference with Mr. Tu
multy but his visit to the White Housq
reylved suggestions that the fuel ad-!
ministration might again be called
Into existence to exercise the wartime
control over fuel provided for in th
Lever food control act.
uu
GERMAN BRIDGE
DYNAMITER IS
FOUND GUILTY
I I
FTtBDERICrTOWJi. N H., Oct. 20 j
Werner Horn as found g-ullty today on
the charpe thnt he dynamited the f a ,
nadian end of the International brides
nt St. Croix. X. B . February l 1!H5. The
Jury was out only ihirte. n minut- ,
Horn vlio conducted his own defense,
i snlrt ho was a German officer and wn
iietin? under orders o( Ihe Gsmn gov- ;
; trnineni In wartime
ENGLAND MAY
RATIFY PACT ON
I ARMISTICE DAY
I
LONDON". Oct 29. The German peace
treaty may eonie into effect on the. an
niversary of armlstire day. It was an-.
I nouneed by Ceell Harmsworth. under
I secretaiy for foreign affairs, in tbo house
j of commons today, thut the treaty would
bo formBll'- ratified on November 11 snj
com'- into force the same da.
SPREAD
Radicals Plan a Series of
Bomb Explosions in
United States.
LEADERS ARRESTED
Police Capture Large
Quantity of Explosives
and Guns.
CLEVELAND. 0 . Oct 28. Discov
ery of a radical plot to spread terror,
throughout the nation by another se
ries of bomb explosions m t spring
was announced by the police here to- !
day, following the arrest last night of
five men and one woman, suspected
of having planned the destruction of:
the central police station. Believing I
they arc members of an anarchistic
circle that has ben working in move
than one hundred cities, the police
questioned the group all night in an
effort to earn details ot then- plans,:
or the extent of their oi conization.
The arrest- wore made upon infor
mation that an attempt was 'o be
made to bomb the central police sta I
tion here.
With the .prisoners ihe police cap-1
tured a large quantity of high explo
sives, one complete bomb, several in
complete bombs a number of auto
matic pistol.-- and a supply of ammuni
tion and much anarchistic literature.
oo
Reval Reports State the
Yudenitch Attack on
Petrograd Fails.
BERLIN, Oct. 29 The unti-Bolsbe-vist
paper Prisyp (apparently an Es
thonian paper) prints a communica
tion from General Yudenitch, dated
October -7. declaring that the attack
on Petrograd was uusuccessful
Reports from Reval state General
Yudenitch is ralltna: back along the
I in ire. line.
General Yudenitch has been com
pelled to abandon Gatchina and to re
move st a ft headquarters to Yamburc,
Bixty-eighi miles from Petrograd on
rhe road to Reval and ihere is con
jequently little hope of retaining a
ba-e ;or the idvance againsl Petro
grad, General Yudenitch in his communi
cation to the Prisyp declared that the
attack on Petrograd bad been unsuc
cessful because of h j lack of assist
ance.
PRESIDENT RECOVERING
WASHINGTON 29. President
Wil oh' a Improvement iia.j reached s
point v.liii" lib h si imiiv havo drrirlc.l
to Issue (to more dally bulletins.
During: the mornine1 some executive
business placed before th president
POTATOES.
CHICAGO, Oct. 29. Potatoes
Steady; arrivals 82 cars; northern bulk
and sacked whites $2 25(2?2 (6: Idaho
usscts ?2.5. '
i
Secretary Wilson Wel
comes Delegates of
36 Countries.
WILL BE CHAIRMAN
United States Not Repre
sented by Reason of
Congress.
WASHINGTON, Oct 20 Represen
tatives of labor and capital in the
United States will participate unoffi
cially in the international labor con
ference which began its sessions here
today, and Secretary Wilson, of the
labor department, who called the con
ference to order will be named presi
dent. Welcoming delegates from all parts
of the world, the secretary declared
that the conference represented 'he
first concerted effort in history to deal
with labor problems progressively.
Representatives of thirty -six coun
tries, -eated In alphabetical order in a
large citcle jn the same ball in the
Pan-American building wbre the na
tional industrial conference came to
grief, heard the secretary's address,
winch was translated into French.
Ambassadors and ministers of many
nations occupied places of honor on
either side of the chairman's nl.it
form
Whil the United States was not
represented in tbo list of delegates by
reason of congressional prohibition, a
number of officials were present as
gut si of the league of nations Sam
uel Gompers. president of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor and a mem
ber of the conference organizing com
mittee, also was present.
Germany and Austria also were
without delegates, but their repre
sentatives are now en route and the
question of seating them will be for
the conference to decide.
Countries Represented.
Countries having delegates pr sent
loday included Groat Britain, Franco,
Italy, Belgium, Spain, Holland, Swed
en, Canada. China, Czecho-Slovakia,
Switzerland. Denmark. Greece Nor
way and practicall all of the Central
and South American republics.
"Any conclusion that this confer
ence receives that does not give full
consideration to the fact that workers
are living, sentient beings, will fail of
its purpose," said Secretary Wilson In
welcoming the delegates
Declaring that the problem of the
relation between labor and capital was
the oldest in the world. Mr Wilson
said that "from the days of Moset
when the Biblical leader Bei out as B
walking delegate for the brick makers
of Israel, the best means of obtaining
a fair adjustment between emplovers
?nd employes and of securing the
acme of production while at the same
time protecting the workers has been
an ever-present question."
"On ihe proposition of ibis que 1 ion
depends the future prosperity of the
world ' he continued, adding a warn
ing that all social experiments should
be conducted so carefully that no "ei
plosions would takt place.'
While declining to enter Into the
technical questions Involved in the le
gality of the conference proceedings
Secretary Wilson held thai the organi
zation of the nicotine, with which the
1 nited States was charged under the
treajy, was a 'continuing process"
Which sras noi yet completed
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"f T T 4 TV T'T T.T
4- GERMANS TO BE PUNISHED.
T BRUSSELS Tuesday. Oct 28 J
(French Wireless Service.)
f The Belgian ministry has given -f
t Rs approval to a list of 1150 Gcr- 4
r mans, soldiers and civilians, who
will be prosecuted on charges
arisinu from violation of the laws
of war at the time of the invasion !
of Belgium or during the occupa-
v tion of this country by German
troops, according to the Inde-
pendence Beige. The. list will be
4 sent to the pence conference in
Paris
BITTER
ATTACK
Scores 'Soreheads' Who
i Failed to Get the
Contracts.
GOES AFTER PROBERS
Reflection Upon Men
Gave U. S. Valuable
1 Service.
NEW YORK, Oct 29. The con
gressional committee Investigating
'army air service was vigorously at
tacked today by John D. Ryan, for
merly direcior of aircraft production,
'for having made intimations against
"persons w-hose serices had been of
value to the government" on the tes
timony of "sore heads v. ho wanted to
obtain government contracts " Mr
I Ry an appeared as witness before the
J sub-committee of the special commi'
Itce which is holding hearing here.
The sub-committee is inquiring
: particularly into the construction of
a government spruce railroad. 38 mib s
lone, at the cost of $1,000,000, in the
Olympla peninsula, Washington, con
necting with the Chicago, Milwaukee
& St. Paul railroad. Mr. Ryan Is a
director of the railroad
Intimations In Charge.
Referring to a telegram sent by the
committee to Secretary Baker fr m
Portland, Ore., urging that a proposed
sale of the government railroad iu
Portland at 8 pcr cent of its value b
held up, Mr. Ryan said, he thought
, it was outrageous and scandalous and
an abuse of the congressional pri' 1
lege to make charges in that telegram
without giving the persons involved
a hearing.
1 He read a telegram from Secretarv
Baker to the committee, dated Sep
tember 1, last, saying the committ 3
was making assumptions and giving
I widespread publicity to intimations
against persons whose services had
; bi en of value to the government
"Soreheads" the Cause.
"A lot of soreheads who failed to
joblain government contracts on the
coast, ' Mr Ryan said, "rushed to you
with suspicions."
He said he had Informed Secretary
Baker that he could have nothing to
do with negotiations on extending the
Milwaukee road because of his con
nection with the Milwaukee. Secre
tary Baker then directed Assistant
Secretary Stottinius lo conduct the
negotiations.
The only thing Mr. Ryan had to do
with the spruce railroad, he testified,
was to telegraph to Colonel Bryce P.
Disque that the cost of the road must
be ki pt as low as possible.
Don't Want Road.
Mr. Ryan said the Milwaukee road
l.ad never to his knowledge considered
purchase ot the government Bpruoe
railroad. President Byron of ihe Mil
waukee told hfm, be testified, that the
Milwaukee would not bid as the spruce
railroad was of no use to it.
At a conference With Byron at Ry
an's home In Butte, Byron told him.
the witness lid, 'hat Colonel Disque
had decided to built, the, government
spruce railroad line via Lake Crescent
ovei Ryan's protest. Ryan told Dis
que the Milwaukee never would be In
terested in th" Lake Crescent toiiM as
II wanted to extend its lines from Deep
( reek to Lake Pleasant. The railroad
administration would not permit this
Disque thought the Lake Crescen
route could be built more easily.
Asked about 7900 timber holdincs
ol the Milwaukee Land company,
owned by the Milwaukee railroad, he
said that the proposed Deep Creek
route would have been ten times as
valuable to those holdings as the gov
ernment railroad is.
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BULLARD GIVEN COMMAND.
WASHINGTON. Oct 28. Mo lor -General
Robert L. Bullard, who com
manded the second army in France,
has been assigned to command the
department of the east with headquar
ters at New York. Secretary Baker an
nounced today He will succeed Major
General Thomas H Barry, retired
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BAR SILVER.
NEW York. Oct. 29 Bar silver
$1 23 1-4.
Mexican dollars 97c.
Finding of Bodies With
Life Preservers Dis- ;
closes Catastrophe.
ROCHESTER, N. Y., Oct 29 The
finding at daybreak of two bodies on
the shore of Lake Ontario, wearing,
life preservers bearing the name of the
steam barge Homer Warren of Toron
to, revealed the total loss of that ves
sel with her crew of eight. The chore
was strewn with wreckage.
GREAT
ROYALTY
I
Every Hour Filled With
Engagements for
Belgians.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. With a
lis! of engagements that filled every
(hour of the day. King Albert. Queen
Elizabeth and Crown Prince Leopold
! started early this morning upon tbe
activities of the second day's visit of
the Belcian royal family to Washing-
! ton.
The day's program included a jour
jney to Mount Vernon on the May -tlower.
the presidential yacht, accom
'panied by Vice President Marshall and
other high officials. At the tomb of
I Washington the ruler of the Belgians
was expected to pay tribute to he
founder of the American republic.
A formal dinner in honor of the dis
tinguished visitors will be given ,0
: night by the secretary of state.
I While Albert, king of tne Belgians,
inspected the work Icue at the burr am
,' of engraving today. Queen Elizabeth
, went driving with Mrs Wilson. The
drive was a feature not included (n the
regular program and was arrange! so
as to give bhe queen n opportunity to
ree the capiinl without having to face
constantly the eyes 0 thousands who
'lined the route announced in the pub
lished urogram
Before Mrs. Wil80n and t'.e queen
started on the ride, the royal party vis
ited the headquarters of the A.eri'.an
'Red Cross to express appreciation of
the society's work m behalf of Pel
1 gium.
The king appeared again icda' in
khaki while the queen wore .1 while
i turban and white dre?s. Her uaajes
! ty's interest in the Red CBross work
jcaused her to request an alteration of
,the program for tomorrow so 'hat she
might visit a hospital in Baltimore j
: While she is Ihere Kin Albert will
jiil the naval academy at Annapolis
AOd review the midshipmen.
An hour before the visit to he Red I
Cross building the king had begun his!
sightseeing. Aceoinp'inied b .1 M
Ne, the chief spec'al agt n. of 'ho
state department who has accompa
nied him on his tour throughout the
United States, drove to Rock ('reek
park Their automobile waa halted
while his majesty and Mr. Nye walked
along the park's loncs climbiUfj one of
tbe hills to got a better view of the
i surrounding country.
UJ
England Preparing
To Fight Influenza
Again This Winter
LONDON, Oct. 17- (By The Associ-,
ftted Press ) England is preparing for
LABOR I
MEETS I
DEC. 13 1
Important Conference of ' IB
Union Chiefs Called at H
Washington. l
1 H
W ASHINGTON, Oct. 29. Chiefs ot
'he national and International unions
affiliated with the American Federa
tion of Labor were called today to
meet here December 13, "to formulate
such action as may be essential to
safeguard and promote the rights, in
terests and freedom of the wage csrn-
The call, issued by the federation's
executive council and the heads of the
tour railroad brotherhoods, declared
labor was confronted with "grave dan
gers affecting the very foundation of
its structure," and that It was impera
tlve that the responsible representa- , M
livs of the workers agree upon ' fun
damental principles " which will main
tain the right of free men "
No specific topics for discussion
were outlined, but it is known tha
pending anti-strike legislation will be
one of the principal subjects. Other
matters expected to be taken up in
clude collective bargaining and the I
right of organized labor to choose its j
own spokesmen as il sees fit, subjects
which finally resulted in the dissolu
tion of the national industrial confer
ence called by President Wilson.
The text nf the call follows
"Nearly a month before the declar
ation of war by the United States gov
ernment, the executives of the nation
al and infernational unions met in
conference in Washington and then
and there declared labor's attitude to
wards our government whether in
peace or war. and labor made good.
"The armistice was signed Novem
ber 11, 1918. Automatically hostili
ties have ended. Technically we are
yet in a state of war. The return of
industry from the war footing to a
peace basis is not readily accom
plished. The patriotic fervor of our
country in peril, brot'.ght about by the
dangers which threatened the over
throw of democracy and freedom, seem
to hae subsided
' In this critical reconstruction peri
od labor is confronted with grave dan
gers affecting the very foundation of
its structure. So grave is the situa
tion regarded that at its recent mee
ing, the executive council of the
American Federation of Labor and the
representatives of the railroad broth
erhoods agreed that the executives of III
the national and international unions
should be invited to participate in a
conference at the headquarters of the
American Federation of Labor at 10
o'clock on the morning of Decemboi
13, 1919. and there to take counsel and
to formulate such action as may be
essential to safeguard and promote the
rights, interests and freedom of the
wage earners, the workers who form
the great mass of the people of our
republic.
' It Is imperative that the responst
ble represent nt Ives ot the labor move
ment shall, therefore, consider th
situation in the industrial and legis
lative field and agree upon funda
mental principles and a program which
the wage earner will accept in per
forming their duties as citizens and
at the same time maintaining the right
ol free men 111 order to conserve hu
man interest and welfare
' W' e inferred with th.- representa
tives of the arious farmers' organiza
tions The conventions of these seve- .'I
ral bodies will be held within the next
30 days. The representatives of the
farmers, while In sympathy with the
purposes of the conference, did not
feel that they had the authority to
append their names to this call. Ho -ev.er,
the formal communication will ba
sonr to their convention inviting them
to appolni representatives to partici
pate in the conference of December 13
with authority to speak in the name
of the organizations they represent.
You are earnestly urged to attend
the conference in person and thereb'.
give the most effective and responsible
expression of the needs to meet the
situation."
a recurrence of last winter's epidemic
of influenza. A vaccine is being pre
pared in large quantities at St. Mary's ,
hospital and other bacteriological cen
ters in London for distribution
throughout the United Kingdom. In
oculation with this vaccine against
influenza and common colds is now
being widely practiced by doctors all
over the British isles.
Scores of test cases designed to
pro s its effectiveness are said to have
. iulted successfully
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