The West Virginian. [volume], September 29, 1919, Image 1

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10 BE ORGANIZED
ROGERS DECLARES
^Protection From State
I HOI SHOT FOR GOVERNOR
|. .Delegate Reports to Trades
^Council on the"Steel
IT will be organized this
W. M. Rogers, Fair1
of the West Virginia
Labor, in addressing
agates at the meeting
bela Valley Labor and
In Willard hall on
that place" will be orhe
forces of the Amerof
Labor are necessary
that some of the FairDcates
might assist In
Mization.
ttimated "that the Loe
organized regardless
lace of any opposition
jrganlzers might have
lem. "Now that Govlas
his state police let
id get rid of the comidded
Mr: Rogers. The
will go peacefully to
0 organize the fields
the governor to give
g on the snbject Mr.
a staUmejQtt-made -by
ilUo labor'people that
bate police you could
igan fields In ninety
;oing to take the govword
and take up the
k,there In good faith,"
the course of his rent
made .lt plain that
work would be done
les. Law and order
1 and efforts will be
the work by peaceful
Dtrasted the working
? Fairmont field with
aunty and added that
of playing politics,
and/ declared that it
biggest achievements
the State Federation
ant the miners of Loive
better living conir
working conditions.
i issue with Governor
attack on the nationldustries
of the counlade
before the Naand
Varnish Associanlyhnr
Springs. One
paragraphs from the
governor, which was
era was "In order to
he labor leaders plan
intry Into submission
n-wide strike." Mr.
Jiat men In public Ilfo
a stand against the
sgardless of politics,
>est Interest of labor
to see labor receive
I from President Rogers' asihat
Login county will be orand
a general flaying of Don
the Logan county deputy
*bo was *h ot in Charleston
k By William Petry, vice presCUtrict
17, United Mine
, the principal item of inter
the discussion' of the steel
strike as presented by John
ltrick, present leader ot the
steel, workers, in a report be/jOonrention
of the American
on of Labor in Atlantic City
the time the Jtrige was called,
tuitions were reported as to
steel workers were handin
forming an organisation ana
pr of McKeesport, Pa., would
ait any meetings to be Bold,
ontlnued on page four.)
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210 Water street to 211
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BRITISH RAIL
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Distribution of .Food Goes
Forward Without ?
Friction.
LONDON, Sept. 29.?Improvement*
In <he situation created by the genoral
strike o nthe British railways
was anncmnced In official quarters
tbia morning. The distribution of
food was being carried out without
friction and volunteer help was being
freely offered it was stated.
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I Curtis Bay Has Its Permit
Shipments Cut
Off
i
Despite the steel strike and car
shortage several days last week's production
on the Monongah division o?
the Baltimore ^pd Ohio railroad ran
very heavy, there having been 6,015
cars of coal and coke produced?5,980
cars of coal and 35 cars of coke. This
is only 281 cars less than the previous
week, which was one.of the heaviest
of the present year. Last week's production
was but 682 cars shy of the
present year. Last week's production
was but 682 cars shy of the heaviest
! week erf- tb-o preaeat fiscal year, which
was that>ending August 23.
Considering the fact that on Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday the early
placement ranged between 600 and
715 the production 1b especially creditable
for the region. Last week production
was 331 carloads heavier than
the corresponding week in September,
1918. Actual ocal production was
24,900 tons heavier last week than the
corresponding week of September,
1318. Coke production last week was
35 cars against 202 cars during the
corresponding week of 1918. Coke
shipments last week were divided as
follows: West, 28 cars; east, 7 cars.
Production in the entlro Fairmont
region last week was a total of 7,429
cars of coal and coke?7,394 cars oi
369,700 tons of coal and 35 cars or
coke. The Monongahela Railway last
week had a production of 1,414 cars,
which is rather heavy.
Eastward coal loading last week totaled
5,212 carloads or 417 cars short
of the previous week while, western
shipments dropped to 775 cars, which
is 145 carloads shy of the previous
week although a right fair average.
Curtis Bay shipments last week
eclipsed all other previous weekly
shipment records at 1,719 carloads.
This is 599 carloads heavier than the
week of August 23, the record week
for production. Last week's totals ran
heavy dally with possibly one exception,
Wednesday, when the car shortage
of the week was at its' worst. The
dally totals for the week were: Monday,
276 cars; Tuesday, 248 cars;
Wednesday, 16X cars; Thursday, 295
cars; Friday, 336 cars; Saturday, 403
cars. I
Saturday's shipment to Curtis Bay
set a new dally record. As a result of
the heavy shipments to Curtis Bay today
the permits to that pier were cancelled
by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
Just how long this important
point will be embargoed is a question.
Shipments to St. George's last week
totaled 35 cars, which is rather light.
Other totals last week were as follows:
Lakes, 161 cars; Michigan
nnlntu 1fl1? nhta nnfnto 990 mpb* mla.
cellaneous points, 21? cars.
Car supply- last week was fair although
It was bad in spots. The average
dally placement was 95^ cars.
Railroad fuel shipments last week
totaled 1,241 cars, the lowest for some
weeks . This Is 224 cars short of the
previous week.
The 8teel 8trike.
So far operators claim the steel
strike has not materially affected coal
shipments. They believe the fact that
the steel workers at Bethlehem did not
join the strikers strongly means that
the backbone of the strike Is broken.
If reports arc correct that the Bethlehem
plant has not been gro^tly affected
the coal shipments from the
i Fairmont region will continue to this
! and other eastern plants.
Saturday's Production.
Production, in the Fairmont region
on Saturday totaled 1,377 cars. Of
tnls 1,371 cars were con ana su c*ra
were coke.
Mines along the Monongah dlriaion
of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad on
Saturday loaded 1,162 cars ot coal
and coke ?1,-166 cars of ooal and six
cars ot coke.
The mines Along the Monongahela
(Continued on page four.)
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JRMONT, WEST VTRGINI
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A Leap in
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AFTER weeks of effort on the
uirli a thins Enaland is exoeni
which it much more* than just a (bike
the striken it is "an upheaval that is
but an attack upon the whole constit
It would be idle at this distanc
! late regarding the probable outcon
upon the existing order. But it wil
earnest thought that while the distur
prostrate; English people will suffc
effort that the public spirited and pal
making to recover for the empire
were at war, will be seriously retart
feated. For die sake of pushing the
1 power permits the English transports
risk of reducing the British empire
mainstay of Civilization during the
dinate position in the society of natior
Such a display of class selfishn
palling. It indicates that somewhei
unionism in England lost its soul; its
tjie power to drive any bargain they
inn nf iii leaders. What happens >
have seen in the case of Germany. E
ism fell it carried down with it prett]
central Europe after five yean attrit
elest war in history. What would
stance, if they won their fight to n
and the bask industries and set up a
they started England plunging dowir
and Portugal, where national mon
lack of individual initiative have be
labor leaders say their program poin
cannot prove it. And right there is I
which has suddenly been revealed to
Most of these new leaden, upon
seem to be hanging, are opportunls
with existing conditions and unwillinf
only way real progress is ever made,
and anarchy and fatuously trust that
cial wreck a better world would resul
this generation, and perhaps not for
emerged from the crash of Rome's
lor-g interval and tremendous travail,
restored the center of world power h?
people were dominant. If the radio
they are careful to keep the people
afiout it. Poverty, the natural resu
; fabric of the people along the Medil
civilized hordes of the north of Ei
Poverty will do it again if it gets th
corollary of the policy which the I
have adopted.
lhis is not a fantastic picture o!
English railway strike. It is but cal
the light of history. There probabl
present strike may be settled with a <
may continue to "muddle along" foi
??h'nn in which she' is traveling and
hasten the progress.
And what is happening on the
here where some labor leaders, althc
point where they are willing to avov
program. Revolution is not a won
country, but what intelligent fend ta:
Plumb plan for the management of I
at the United Mine Workers Conva
the statements of the leaders of the si
complete understanding and a comm
England and the radicals of the Unit
mMiHi
New Head of Allegneny
Region, U.S. Railroad Administration
Chosen.
Bearing upon the resignation of C.
H. Markham as regional director ot
the Allegheny region of the United
States railroad administration and
the appointment of L. W. Baldwin,his
successor C. W. Galloway, Baltimore,
federal manager of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad today sent tUe following
telegram to C. W. Van Horn,
Grafton, superintendent of the Monon
gah division:
"C. H. Markham, regional director
of railroads, Allegheny region, which
comprises the Pennsylvania and Baltl
more and Ohio systems, the Philadelphia
and Reading, Central of New
Jersey, Western Maryland, West Jersey
& Seashore and' Pittsburgh ami
Lake Erie and other railroad lines In
the same general territory, has tender
ed his resignation to the director general
of railroads, to take effect October
1, 1919, and the director general
has accepted same. *
"Mr. Markham has been elected
president of the IUnlois Central railroad
company?a position held by
him prior to January, 1918, when the
government took over the control of
the railroads of. the United States.
"Mr. Markham began his service
with the government control of rail
roads as regional director or tho oOUvfi
era region with offices at Atlanta,
Georgia ,and waa later appointed regional
director of the Allegheny reaper
Containing Plet
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A, MONDAY EVENING, i
WORKI
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put of the government to prevent
Hieing a strike of railroad operatives
. By the admission of the leader of
not merely one of hours and wages,
ution of the country."
e from the scene of action to specule
of this frankly admitted attack
I be clear to every one who gives il
bance lasts English business will be
r in body and mind and the heroic
Erotic element of the nation has been
the ground lost while the people
led, if, indeed, it is not entirely dear
own interests as far as their great
ition unions actually are running the
which was the moral and financial
first three yean of war to a suboris.
ess and heedlessness is positively apre
along the line of progress trades
sense of moral responsibility. Might,
see fit, has become the ruling pasvhen
the theory is put to the test we
tut unhappily when Prussian militarr
nearly everything that remained of
ion m the most destructive and emit
profit the English strikers, for inationalize
the transportation system
new government if at the same time
ward to the plane occupied by Spain
opolies, political incompetency and
en the rule for centuries? Radical
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lie most sinister aspect of the project
an amazed world.
whose word die labor organizations
ts of the worst type. Dissatisfied
! to help work out better ones in the
they adopt a policy of inconoclasm
out of social, industrial and finant
Doubtless it would?but not for
the next one. Civilization finally
imperial structure, but only After a
And by the time equilibrium was
id shifted a long distance and a new
ds ever give thought to such matters
they AicJkadiftg from finding out
It of the smashing of the ccononjic "
enanean by the pressure of. the i/nirope,
brought on the Dark Age;,
e opportunity. And poverty is ihe
English trades unionists admit they
f the possibilities growing out of the
m reasoning from cause to effect in
y will be no sudden change. The
Mmpromise of some sort. England
decades more. But that is the dithe
present strike, lost or won, will
other side is of the gravest moment
High they have not yet come to the t
it, have embarked upon a similar
d that may be lightly used in this
ir minded citizen who has read the
lie railroads, the policy worked jut 1
ition in Cleveland or read carefully j
teel strike, can doubt that there is a
on purpose between the radicals of
td States?
gion when it was created in June,
1918, with offices at Philadelphia.
For some time the Illinois Central j
Railroad company has been urging
Mr. Markham to again become '.ts
president and on this account he requested
that hlB resignation be accepted
at a thne convenient to the director
general. ^
"He will resume his residence In
Chicago which city it was necesary
to leave in order to perform the service
of regional director of the region
to which he was asigned.
"The director general in accepting
Mr. Markham's resignation Has ex-|
pressed keen appreciation of the nr.-1
portance and self sacrificing service!
which has Mr. Markham has rendered I
to the government and greatly regrets i
the conditions are such to Justify Mr.
Markham in resigning.
"To succeed Mr. Markham. Mr. L.
W. Baldwin, now assistant regional
director has been appointed regional
director of the Allegheny region at
Philadelphia and his appointment will
take effect October 1,1919. Mr. Mark
ham bas been engaged in the railroad
business twenty-thre years and prior
to the government's operation of the
railroads was succeeively, "engineer,
maintenance of way, and general superintendent
of the Illinois Central
railroad; general manager and the
ice president of the Central Georgia
railroad.
"When Mr. Markham became regional
director of the southern region
Mr. Baldwin was appointed as his assistant
nad in June, 1918, went from
the Southern region to the Allegheny
region. Mr. Baldwin Is a graduate of
Lehigh university.'
Italian Chamber
Asks for Fiume
Paris, Sept. a resolution demending
that Flume be' . made an
Italian city hu been adopted by the
Italian Chamber of Deputies, according
to information received by the]
Italian Delegation Here.
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Mil IK
IODAY AFTER
MK NIGHT
Negro Lynched, Man Shot,
Forty Injured, and Court*
House Burned, Is TolL
TRIED TOJTOH MAYOR
Rope Was Thowsi About
Neck When He Argued
With Mob.
CBx Associated Press)
OMAHA,. Neb., sept. 29. ? After a
night of mob rule daring which a negro
was lynched and attempts made to
hang the mayor of Omaha, Edward T.
Smith, the county court house burned,
one man shot and killed and perhaps
forty others Injured, the city was quiet
today under patrol of federal troops
from Fort Cook and Fort Omaha. The
mayor is at a hospital in a serious
condition today as a result of the attempt
made by the mob to hang him
because he advised against the lynching
of William Brown, a negro, who
w" in the fail charred with attacking
a white girl.
The fire that was started In the
court house left that structure a mass
of ruins. The property was valued at
a million and a half dollars. (
For several hours the lives of more
than one hundred prisoners in the jail
were endangered by the flames in the
lower floors of the building. It was
finally necessary to send them all to
the roof. Sheriff Clark stood off the
oners to take*actimi.''at first
decided to throw the negro from the
roof to'the pavement l>ek>w and-leave
him to the destruction, of the mob. It
was at this moment that the mob that
had gained entrance to the building
pushed past the sheriff and his deputies
and forced tjiey -way to the cells.
Here the negro was turned over to
them.
Throwing a rope around his neck
these men, numbering about fifty,
dragged him to the ground floor.
Brown was practically dead before his
form strung to a pole. His body was
mutilated beyond recognition, riddled
by 'a thousand bullets it was first
placed over a fire of tarred fagots and
then dragged through the streets at
the end of a rope.
DM OFFICIALS i
I IN CITY TODAY
i i
| Included in Party is E. T.
Horn, Supervisor of
[?' Terminals.
Officials o fthe Baltimore and Ohio
railroad are in Fairmont today on an
inspection trip. Included in the party
are E. T. Horn, Baltimore, supervisor
of terminals} J. M. Scott, Wheeling,
general superintendent of the West
Virginia district, and C. W. VanHorn,
Grafton, superintendent of the Monongah
division. The party will remain
over in Fairmont for a portion
of the afternoon, going to Grafton later
ia tho day. Mr. Scott came hare
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R. E. Thomas, Baltimore and Ohio
supervisor at Fairmont, returned to
duty today after having spent fifteen
days' vacation in Atlantic City.
T. V. Mt Joy, Brownsville, Pa., conductor
on the Short line of the Monongalia
Railway, is in Fairmont today
on business,
John Kirk, of Brownsville, Pa., master
carpenter of the Monongahela Railway,
wa? In Fairmont today.
Harry Henry, chief clerk at the
Fairmont ticket office of the Monongohela
Railway, returned today from a
businees trip to Brownsville, Pa.
J. D. Hecker, B. t 0. ticket agent
at Fairmont, was in Morgantown on
Sunday.
E. J. Walker, chief clerk at the
freight station of the Monongahela
Railway, and Mrs. Walker and son,
Charles Albert, have returned from a
two weeks' trip to Mr". Walkers' former
home! " at Morris, W.. Va., and
Charleston.
Train No, 3 was delayed behind a
wreck on the Cumberland division and
as a result the sleeplrig coaches were
not attached to the Sunday morning
vain. A special train waa made up
at Grafton and brought the Pullman
ooaches here. On the train there were
a nnmhpp of West Vh*taln soldier boys
who were only recently discharged it*
eastern army camps. }
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TODAY'S XKWB TOPA
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Bethlehem Incdie
Crisis of Battle
ers And Stee
STRIKE Hpf
i Steel Mill Officials at Nei
bone of Strike Has Be
Men Returning to
!
(B\> Associated Press)
BETTKLEHEM, Sept. 29?Th
Bethlehem plant of the Bethlehei
iSteel Corporation waa very littl
affected this morning by the strik
which had been called from Pitts
burgh and there was no semblanc
of disorder at the entrances to th
various plants when the shift chang
ed at six o'clock j and seven thlrt
o'clock.
READING, Pa. Sept. 29?Th
order to strike at the local plant c
the Bethlehem Steel Company wa
practically ignored this morning ax?
cording to the management.
^ JJARR1SBURGH, Pa.. Sept. 29.Bvery
department of the . Steelto
plant of the Bethlehem Steel Com
pan is operating this morning witl
but slightly impaired forces accord
ipoi^ir
READY AT mm
COLUMBUS, Sept. 29?Ohio Na
tlonal guard troops mobilized at thei:
armories last night by order of Gov
ernor Cox were today being held li
readiness for further instruction
While the reason for assembling thi
12th infantry and three other com
panies was not made public it was on
derBtood that the order was given t<
keep faith with Governor Cornwell o
West Virginia who feared an invasloi
of his state by striking steel worker]
from Steubenville aftd Mingo who ha(
planned to march today to Wcirton
West Virginia 10 induce sieei women
to quit work.
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Medical Society to
Plan Hospital Change
A meeting ot the Marlon (- ouat;
Medical society will be held tomdrrov
evening at Cook hospital when thi
matter 'of appointing a staff (or thi
hospital will be considered and per
haps acted upon. This matter hai
been talked ot for some time and i
meeting was' held recently at whlcl
time a circular letter was addressee
to the members of the organlzatioi
asking for their cooperation in thi
matter. The appointment of a staff
it is believed, will greatly add to thi
dignity of the institution and will leat
toward the employment eventually o
a resident physician and lntefne. I
is desired that all the members wh<
can possibly do so will be present a
the meeting tomorrow evening at th<
hospbal.
The report of the committee whlcl
issued the letter will be heard at thli
meeting.
Alpha Straight Dies
in His yard rear
Alpha Straight, aged 98, died yesterday
at his home la Mannington district
after an illness with diseases Incident
to extreme old age. He hai
been a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church for a period of 54
years'and was a man well known and
highly respected.
He Is survived by three sons J. C.
Straight and Jacob Straight of Mannington
district; William Scotl
Straight of Dent's Hon and by one
daughter Mrs. Ellen Baker of Fairmont
He is survived by 38 grandchildren,
43 great grudchildre* and
dz' great great grandchildren.
Short services-will be held at the
residence of J. C. Straight on Tuesday
at eleven o'clock and the body
will be taken to Dent's Bun Baptlsl
church at ode o'clock. Interment will
be made In the Jones cemetery bj
undertaker Hney.
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v Castle Declare That Back*
en Broken at That Place
e,'.Frank A. Bobbins Jr., general manshutdown."
. . ..
^Jlu?? been brp^n. mill 1 ^fowla^cl
I.?- ?-a.'jv ^Ihni'
j LOAD BUU.J/VI1VV yH^B
indicate a substantial change teSfc^B
steel workers strike "which hfitffllj
|| entered upon its second week.
No serious break was reports
I the large independent plants in this
I city against which the union had announced
an intensive campaign to
. shut down the works. A compai}]^3|
r i\pre>entatiTe said that about t?|H
. same nnmber of men as. reported lasfiM
! week were at the wofks to<
. at union headquarters it was rc3
ported that fewer workers answer
ed the whistle than on an;
- since the strike started.'TjiJK
3 The Pennslvania works of .the 1^9
f tional Tube Company in
i closed last week, opened for open?
s tion today but whether prodUctttj^H
i will amount to much can not jJBH
. stated until late in the day, '.p
Homestead, Uraddock^tcflfl^^^^H
and Clalrton, of the Carnegie
hore reported &a oper.-uin ;
i.'ne same basis ns lint week,' iliough
there were conflicting claims Sfl^H
.leach side as to ilie number ormedH
I j in these work!. .
3 j no signs of acttrity appeared at^O^fl
> Ohio works of the Carnegie Steel COmjH
. pany here at tlie normal opemiFflof^H
i this morning, groups of.
t gan to enter the plant later
i ets who bad begun.to disperse galhffr^B
1 ed again in augmented cumtttrt.'I^H
i view of tbe mill from outside indicated, as
i that (team was up in sotae
, ments,
I received here today that the hotSlBl
of the Welrton Iron, and Steel tSOHM
, pany at Welrton, yf*4t Virgfftia^^^H
; fecting three thouaand men are ?wh Jfl
, ed today. The steel works
about 6,000 are in operation. TwyjS
, the fjtat agalaat which theJ3teub?|M
march last week If .the mea>2p?j39
respond to the strike call.
the propowd^parade to
steel strikers from SteubenvUBcSMHH
other nearby Ohio towns calle?jHH
the strike situation' was qulgt HBH
today.
The Miners" union of Ro*
Mine* at Van Voorhls, MoMmmB
county, hare been notified o
on Friday of Jbhn Biatnicki, a'RwjrtM
miner, whose death occurred at Co?lr
hoeplUl and no funeral arrangement*
ror me man win i?b?m penning woru
(rota this union of which
: member. He was employed as * bUHKgg
. smith and was sixty yean of in SH
waa admtttefl to the hospital for^an
prepared for b?rial by Undertaker C,