The Prescott daily news., November 21, 1919, Image 1

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(CAL CONFERENCE
MAKES PROGRESS
Operators Offer Advance Which
Miners Take Under Advise
ment—The Miners May Back
Down.
Washington, Nov. 20.—Though op
erators and miners of central com
petitive fields remained deadlocked all
today in their negotiations for a new
wage scale contract, prospects for an
agreement, that would settle the coal
strike were considered brighter to
- night than at any other time since the
strike was called.
The operators offered to the miners
rrepresentatives a flat increase of 15
! jgnts a ton on coal mined and 20 per
-cent increase for day workers. John
L, Lewis, acting, president of the mine
workers of America, outwardly stamp
ed the concession as wholly inade
quate, but both sides plainly took the
offer as a breaking of the ice and an
opening for trading tomorrow.
Meanwhile, the government con
tinued to hold hands off, and Fuel Ad
ministrator Garfield took no steps
openly to ration or restrict coal con
sumption.
President Lewis of the mine work
ers, after the close of the long session
today, said he considered that the op
erators’ proposal had “contributed
nothing to the settlement of the diffi
culties,” but at the same time indi
cated that miners were preparing to
come down a degree in their demands
for a six hour day and a'sixty per cent
[ increase.
[ “The operators are proposing some
f thing that they know can’t be accept
i ed,” he said. “The increase they
f would give they simultaneously ar
| range to take back in increased charg
es to miners for supplies. Then they
haven’t talked the question of hours
at all. It is not necessary to take up
the six hour proposal. We have many
of our men who work nine and ten
hours a day under present cohditions,
because the present eight hour day in
many mines is nierely a basic theory
and not an actual fact.”
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The proposed wage advances are the
maximum to be offered, W. T. Guth- •
rie, member of the operators’ wage
scale committee, representing west
ern Pennsylvania, and George B. Har
rington of Illinois, spokesman for the
operators, said. Failure on the part
of the miners to accept the proposi
tion would mean mediation* by the
government, Guthrie said.
They estimated that the p?ice of
coal at the time it leaves the mines
would be increased from 32 to 401
cents a ton as a result .of the offered j
advances, but declined to speculate as
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UNIQUE MEMORIAL TO HEROES OF THE GREAT WAR !
1 his unique memorial uml honor roll of the six men who dieil in the world war mid the 4t) men front the church
w ho were in the service was recently dedicated in pretty little Trinity church, Newton Centre, Mass. The memorial
covers the entire rear wall of the church and Is carved from oak. At the sides are figures of General Pershing and
Admiral Sims.
THE WEATHER
Friday and Saturday generally fair,
little change in temperature.
Maximum .67
Minimum .;.42
to how much might be added by mid
dlemen before the coal reached the
consumer.
The position taken by the opera
tors’ representatives wsa that their
offer was strictly in line with the
statements of Secretary of Labor
Wilson, and Fuel Administrator Gar
field.
Little Rock, Nov. 21.—R. R. Thomp
son, president of Crescent College, has
written to Gov. C. H. Brough stating
that unless some relief is offered be
fore the end of the week that not only
Crescent College will be in darkness,
but the entire town of Eureka Springs
because of lack of coal for the light
plant. President Thompson states
that there 4s ample slack coal at the
Sebastian county mines, if it is load
ed on empty cars which are at the
mines. This statement is borne out
by the operators of that district, and
Gov. Brough is now endeavoring to
find a way to supply Eureka and other
points which will soon be suffering
with cold.
YOU NEVER KNOW
what’s going to happen from one day
to another—that’s why this Bank ad
vises you and everyone else in this
community to save.
It’s the easiest thing in the world
to start a Savings Account, and thiB
bank will co-operate with you in every
way to help you create a systematic
habit of adding to it each week.
We believe you’ll like it once you
get started. No matter how large or
small your idle funds may be, bring
them to our Savings Department and
get the saving habit.
B ANK OF PRESCOTT
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FARMERS UNION
CLOSES SESSIONS
Is Opposed to Universal Train
ing and Advocates Advanced
Legislation—Improved Farm
Loans.
Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 20.—The
Farmers Educational and Cooperative
Union of America, at the closing ses
sion of its annual convention here to
day, went on record as opposed to
universal military training, urged
that the federal farm loan act be
amended to permit loans to farmers
who do not own land as well as to
land owners and proposed that only a
practical working farmer be appoint
ed to the office of secretary of agri
culture.
Other resolutions adopted at the
final session of the convention urged
vigorous enforcement of all federal
laws to prevent immigration of unde
sirable aliens and immediate deporta
tion of “all aliens seeking to over
throw our government;” favored con
tinuation of the “highest rates” of
taxes levied during the war on in
comes, corporations and excess profits
until the full cost of the war is paid
and the levying of a tax on land and
other natural resources held for spec
ulative purposes, and advocating adop
tion of a policy of reclamation of
waste lands throughout the country.
It was recommended also that con
gress appropriate sufficient funds to
put into operation the nitrate plant
at Muscle Shoals for production of fer
tilizer. In the amendment asked for
the farm loan act it was urged that
the maximum of loans permitted be
increased from 50 per cent of the as
sessed valuation of the land to 75 per
cent, and that the maximum annual
payments on loans, including amorti
zation, be fixed at five per cent.
The Kenyon-Anderson bill, intended
to correct alleged abuses in connec
tion with the meat packing industry,
and the Capper-Harshman bill to give
farmers the right to conduct collective
bargaining associations were approved
The convention adjourned early to
night, leaving in the hands of the
board of directors selection of the
next meeting place.
Charles S. Barrett of Union City,
Georgia, who was re-elected president
at last night’s session, tonight entered
his fifteenth consecutive term in that
office.
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| We are expecting another advance
on Valley Lumber Company lands
after first of the year. Now is the
time to get in on the present prices.
Moore & Martin. 11-3-tf
WANTED—26 or 30 calves. High
est price paid. A. G. Stuart. 19d2.
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ANOTHER DIGEST OF THE
STATUTES OF ARKANSAS
Little Rock, Nov. 21.—Shawl straps
will be necessary to remove from the
state capitol the digest of the statutes
of Arkansas which is now being pre
pared by T. B. Crawford and Hamilton
Moses, for the volume is to contain
3500 pages. The work of compilation
will be completed within forty days,
and a system of checking is being em
ployed which is expected to prevent
error, as well as simplify the statutes
in many particulars. _ The digesters
have referred to the departments of
education, banking, insurance and ac
counting, the statutes affecting these
subjects. The heads of the depart
ments have checked them thoroughly
and assisted in the arrangement so
that even the novice will have no
trouble of finding what he desires in
the digest. C. C. Reid is the attorney
appointed to check the digest, and
hife work will be completed very soon
after that of the compilers, so the
digest will probably be on the market
io the early spring.
APPLES, APPLES
A fresh car of apples, including the
Black Twig and a variety of eating
apples, has been received. Also apples
for canning, cooking and preserving.
If you will look my stock over, yop
will buy. L. E. Mullins, the apple
man, West Main street. 18d6
WILL NOT LIFT
PROHIBITION BAN
President Sends Word That the
Peace Treaty Must Be Signed
First—Is Before the Supreme
Court.
Washington, Nov> 20.—While the
supreme court was hearing argument
today on validity of the war time pro
hibition act, word went out from the
White House that President Wilson
will not rescind the “dry” act until
peace formally had been declared.
This was expected to set at rest
the ever-recurring rumors that the
“dry” ban would be lifted, by the
president irrespective of early ratifi
cation of the rteaty of Versailles.
Failure of the Senate to act on the
treaty at the extraordinary session
was regarded by many administration
officials as precluding the ending of
the technical state of war much be
fore the constitutional prohibition
amendment became effective next
January 16.
Should such prove the case, the only
possibility of a “wet*’ Christmas
would be for the supreme court to de
clare the war time act unconstitution
al. Arguments on the pending cases
will be concluded tomorrow, but as
the court begins a recess on Monday,
no decision is expected until it recon
venes December 8.
The right of congress to prohibit
the manufacture and sale of intoxi
cating liquors was sharply attacked
and vigorously defended during the
arguments.
Elihu Root and others contended
that the war time act and the Vol
stead enforcement measure not only
violated the fifth constitutional amend
ment, prohibiting the taking of prop
erty without jjist compensation, but
were inoperative owing to the cessa
tion of hostilities and the demobiliza
tion of the army, which were respon
sible for their enactment.
Solicitor General King and William
L. Frierson, assistant attorney gener
al "for the government, however, ar
gued that a state of war still existed,
and it was congress’ intent to provide
war time prohibition until the peace
treaty was ratified.
The arguments, which will be con
cluded tomorrow, were in appeals
brought to the supreme court from
Kentucky, where the war time pro
hibition act was declared unconstitu
tional, and from New York, where
federal court decrees sustained both,
the war time and the enforcement acts
and dismissed injunction proceedings
sought to enable Dryfoos, Blum and
Company, to remove whiskey from
bond, and Jacob Ruppert, a brewer to
manufacture beer containing more
than one half of one per cent alcohol.
Old papers for sale at this office.
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