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r : . - f They Found Dixie a Bit Chilly Tff y y-,' THE WEATHER. Fair Monday night and Tuesday; slightly warmer Tuesday. Tempera tures Monday (taken at A. K. Hawkes Co.’s store): 8 a. m., 26 degrees; 10 *. m.. 33 degrees; 12 noon, 38 degrees; t p. m., 44 degrees. The Atlanta Georgian “Nothing Succeeds Like—THE GEORGIAN” AND NEWS “Noshing Succeeds Like—THE GEORGIANV SPOT COTTON. Atlanta, steady; 9 1-16. Liverpool, steady; 5.24. New York, dull; 9.50. Savannah, steady; 9%. Augusta, steady; 9%. Gal veston. steady; 9%. Norfolk, steady; 9H. Mobile, firm; Houston, steady; 9%. Memphis, steady; 9%. VOL. X. NO. 87. HOME (4TH) EDITION ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1911. HOME(4TH) EDITION PRICE: LABOR LEADERS OF AMERICA OPEN THEIR COUNCIL PMUium i IS OUT FOR WILSON Noted Public Leader of Den ver, Colo., Pledges Support to the Princetonian. Opening Session of Labor Meeting MOVEMENT GROWING FAST Public Sentiment in All Sections Is Crystallizing in Favor of New Jersey Man. John E. Lothrop, Washington cor respondent of The Newark Evening Newe. wires the following from the national capital: The most consplouous recent '.addi tion to the force* that are backing Oovernor Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey, for the Dempcratlc nomination for president. Is Judge Ben B. Lindsey, of Denver. Judge Lindsey signed a telegram which was sent to Governor Wilson the other day, pledging him the support of the Wilson club, Just then formed-ln Denver. Judge Lindsey is admitted to exert very large Influence in every state and among all classes of citizens. His fight for the boys of Denver, thru the me dium of the Juvenile court, his writings and lectures In all parts of the United States, have brought him Into the pub lic notice. Washington correspondents have re ceived newspapers and clippings lately which have attracted general attention, and have been commented upon as In dicating that the Wilson movement Is gaining force In all parts of the coun try. Politicians, as a rule, In answer ing question* as to who Is In the lead for the Democratic nomination, name Wilson. This Is especially true since they have returned from visits to their home states during the summer, where they met the people and learned the state of public sentiment. SEAlfli DIE, GREETS Hi Mercury Dropped to 22 Above Zero After Damaging Wind Storm of Sunday. WARMER WEATHER AHEAD Autumn Leaves Cover the Car Tracks and Impede Progress. Trees Uprooted by Wind. •H-I-I-H-l-l-H-H-H 1 K"H"H4* WILL REMAIN COLD FOR + f TWENTY-FOUR HOURS f Washington, Nov. 13.—Generally + fair weather with continued cold + will prevail over the Atlantic sea- + board and middle Atlantic states + for the next 24 hours, according to + the forecast of the United States + weather bureau today, with the + exception of snow late tonight for 4 Indiana, Illinois, the upper part of + Mississippi and the upper lake re- 4- + glons. From the Mississippi val- + f ley eastward, generally, however. + + the skies will be clear and cold + T weather will continue throughout + + the night In the Eastern and + + Southern states. Freezing temper- + + ature will prevail as far south as + + northern and central Florida, but + T a rlso of temperature will be ex- + + perlenced in the middle WesL + Writ of Error Asked for by His Attorneys Is Refused by the Virginia Supreme Court. ELECTROCUTION ON NOV. 24 Only Governor Can Now Save Him—He Is Expected to Take No Action. Atlantans crawled out of bed Monday morning to find winter here In earnest. Ths thermometer registered 22 degrees at 7 o'clock and at this point It will remain until late In the afternoon, when, according to the local office of the United States weather bureau, tho Continued on Last Page. Photo by Mathewson. DELEGATES AT OPENING SES8ION OF FEDERATION OF LABOR. German Capital Is Backing a Project for Immense Trans continental Waterway. TO USE NICARAGUAN ROUTE Richmond, Va„ Nov. 13.—Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., must die for the murder of hie wife on the Midlothian turnpike last July. The supreme court of appeals of Virginia refused a,writ of error a»ked for by his lawyers. He Is under sen tence to be electrocuted November 24. Only the governor can now save him. and he is expected to take no action. ENGINEER MEETS DEATH IN WRECK ON SOUTHERN Greanaboro, N. C., Nov. 13.—Engineer w. A. Kinney was killed and a fireman seriously injured when Southern pas senger train No. 37. southbound, left •he track at Benaja, sixteen miles north of Greensboro, early this morning. The engine and four coaches left the track. Several passengers and mall clerks nr * reported as seriously Injured. The train left Washington last night St 10:45 o’clock and was due In Atlanta tnls morning. WANT ADS Published by all the Atlanta papers for the week ending November 11,1911,6 days to the week: Georgian ads Journal . Constitution 3,059 .. .2,059 .. .1,276 On Saturday the Atlanta Papers carried Want Ads as follows: Georgian 817 Journal 310 Constitution 212 GEORGIAN prints no b«or, op “"Clean advertising. e .:,° * h oee who are out of a Twe °5 wh0 * better one, GEORGIAN prlnte want ada "fler the classification "Situations wanted* free. Other classifications l 0N E CENT A WORD London Globe of Monday De' dares That the Kaiser Has Approved the Plan. London, Nov, 13.—German capital Is backing a project to build a trans-con tinental American canal across Nicara gua to rival the Panama canal, accord ing to a story In today's Globe. The Globe declares that the kaiser has ap proved the plan and that It will likely be constructed along the San Juan river. Differences Growing Out of the Charter Election Settled by Fists at First Meeting. Charles T. Hopkins and Aldlne Cham bers engaged in & brief but vigorous fiat fight in the hall of the second floor of tho old city hall. Just outside Judge Bills' court room, Monday morning ■ about 10 o’clock. When they were sep-; arated Mr. Chambers waJTBIsedlng pro- j fusely from a cut about one-half Inch | long under his left eye. Mr. Hopkins I bore no scars. I "I am willing to shake hands,” said Mr. Hopkins, according to several who had come Upon the scena^^^H^^^H My statement stands," replied Mr. Chambers. Then I will light It out, shoot it out or make friends,” said Mr. Hopkins. Several standing between the two men urged that they shake hands, among them Luther Z. Rosser, Thomas JefTries and George Gordon. They shook hands. The tight grew out of the charter election campaign. Mr. Hopkins made some charges In a speech against Carlos H. Mason. W. C. Puckett and Mr. Chambers. The three replied thru the press to the effect that Mr. Hopkins was a liar. Mr. Hopkins' Statement. This affair settles my account," said Mr. Hopkins Monday morning, when seen by a Georgian reporter. I wrote Carlos H. Mason a letter ',•« •( Photo by Mathewson. GLIMPSE OF LABOR PARADE ON MONDAY MORNING. Head of Builders Trades Organ- zation Talks of Business and Praises Georgia Stone. HEAD OF THE HOD CARRIERS IS A REAL ITALIAN COUNT ’It has been one of the best building years In history In the United States, and the Indications are that ,1312 will making' Home "slight” couectlons' ln'tjbs I ••• continuance of the remarkable newspaper reports of my speech. He I building activity all over the country," Spalding Declares His Com pany Will Look After Inter ests of Atlanta. Argument was continued before the state railroad commission on Monday by Jack J. Spalding, of counsel for the Georgia Railway and Power Company, for authority to Issue 127,000,000 of | stocks and $10,000,000 of bonds, the hearing having gone over from last week. Mr. Spalding concluded the preS' entatlon of the company's side and was followed by Bernard Buttler In opposi tion. who declared to authorize these issues would be to create a power mo nopoly In north Georgia for 100 years and would cost the people of this sec tion $$1,600,000 to psy off the bonds and Ibe Interest thereon. The action of the special committee of tHfe city council of Atlanta on Satur day pointing out wherein the Interests of the city should be protected by the railroad commission was tiled with the commission. Mr. Spalding answered these suggestions separately and de clared that the consolidated company would be responsible for the Interests of the city Involved in the merger. It was brought out that the Bull Sluice power plant, which Is not now under the supervision of the railroad commission, because It supplies but a single customer, the Georgia Railway and Electric Company, would be brought under the commission's Juris diction as a part of the Georgia Rail way and Power Company’s holdings. The commissioners Informally asked Mr. Spalding many questions to throw mot-e light on the big corporation and Us plans. accepted the changes and the matter was mutually adjusted. “I slapped Puckett’s face and he jHd not resent It. 'I wrote Mr. Chambers a latter, also. Judge Candler sought to Intervene aqd submit the matter to a board of honor. I would not consent to this. Mr. Cham, bers replied that he stood pat- on : his statement 1 had been out West for several weeks and this morning was the first opportunity I had had of meeting him. I saw him In Judge Ellis' court room, but wanted no difficulty In there, so I waited on the outside for him. “When he had come Into the hall I said: ‘All right, Mr. Chambers, I am ready to settle.’ He said ’All right,’ and we went together. He fought vigorous ly,"but I knocked him down and -saw the blood come. Almost Immediately we were separated. “I told him I was willing to light It out, shoot It out or shake hands. ' He shook hands and I consider the matter ended.” Mr. Chambers’ Statement. Mr. Chambers gave The Georgian, the following written statement: "A few minutes after the completion of the jury and the making up of the day’s calendar by Judge Ellis, I started to the railroad cothmipilon’i' meeting, and as I closed the court room door heard these word*: ’AH right. Brother Chambers.’ I turned to my right and saw Mr. Hopkins coming at me with his arms raised to strike. I am not. a practiced boxer, so I threw up my hands and warded the first blow di rected at me, and then rushed at him. My weight Is superior to his, and I forced him back Into the corner, strik ing at him as fast as I could use my arms. I had. only a very short distance for my arms to play, and could not hit said James Short, of Chicago, president of the building trades department of the American , Federation of Labor, when asked as to the conditions exist ing. "Everybody seems to be working,’ he continued. Ho Is the executive head of about 300,000 of the world’s workers, and has served one term. No candidate has developed against him and the unanimous re-election of ‘‘Sunny Jim” Is predicted by his friends. Atlanta almost looks like home to President Short. He belongs to the stone cutters craft. Back In 1901 he came down to Atlanta and helped to build the Carnegie library. Then he worked a year at the mar ble quarries at Tate, In Pickens county. "Georgia has the greatest stone and mal-ble deposits of any commonwealth. Why, they're going to build that $5.- 000,000 Marshall Field museum out of Georgia marble from Tate. They're cutting It now up there,”, he said. "You folks ought to use more of the native stone and marble In your own buildings. I was surprised when t got off the train to. see the Terminal station built of terra cotta, when you have the finest stone right at your doors.” . The building trades department will meet November 27, Immediately after the.adjournment of the American Fed eration of Labor, and will be In session a week or ten days. It will Act mainly on matters recommended by the Amer ican Federation of Labor. One of the big questions that Is going to come before the American Federation of Labor will be brought on the floor by the carpenters—200,000 of them— who were suspended from the building trades department at St. Louis last year. There waa a dispute about award. Ing certain classes of work to certain very bard. Just as we had got Into the I trades—the carpenters wouldn't bow to corner I slipped and fell and waa then their parent, the building tradea depart thrown off my guard to catch the rail. Ing of the stairway with my right hand While In this position Mr. Hopkjns hit me one lick, the only one that touched any part of my body, except my hand and arms as I warded them off. I drew myself up and Just as I got on my feet some gentleman stepped between us and several others came Into the pas sageway. Mr. Hopklna then stated that he waa willing to shake hands, aqd J stated that I had made my position clear and had nothing further to say. He extended hla hand and stated that he would shake If I would. We shook hands and the matter la over so far I am concerned. I struck him three Continued on Lsst Pegs. Tho the hod carriers union hsa per haps the humblest name. Its general president possesses the most distin guished title of any president of a na tional or International union In the American Federation of Labor. For the Cavalier Dominick D'AUessandro, of Boston, Is a real live count, knighted by Victor Emmanuel, king of Italy, be cause of eminent services In America for the uplift of the hordes of his country who have swarmed Into Ameri ca thru the immigration ports In the past ten years. The Cavalier Dominick D'Alessandro Is at ths Kimball—and he Is much of a man to look at. He Is a big fellow phyalcally, a congenial companion, and a doer of deeds In the world's work. At the annual convention of the Inter national hod carriers and building laborers union of America In Septem ber, he was honored by re-election, end Is just entering upon his fifth term. This union Is composed of hod carriers, excavators and concrsts mixers, and Has 28.000 members. It was organized In 1903. In that time the union has succeeded In Increasing its wage scale from twelve and a half cent* per hour to 36 and 40 cent* per hour. Their pay now ranges from $2.90 to $4.60 per day. Count D’Alessandro lives In Boston, but the headquarters off his union are In Albany. N. Y. * “Just think of It. Atlanta, the most progressive city in the South, ha* no local In my union.” said the count. T am going to look over the aftuatlon In Atlanta, talk to the men, and will probably organise a local here before I leave. There are hundreds > of these workers here who would be eligible.” Count D’Alessandro was knighted .by the king of Italy because he, more than any other man, abolished the Infamous and Iniquitous padrone system, - which leached on thousands of Ignorant Jtal- lans in the early part of the present decade. Pad rones or bosses would meet and secure hordes of the Italian Immigrants upon their arrlval ln this country, get them Jobs and take most of their wages. The count went • after the padrone system good, and strong and-after a Gompers, Head of Nation’s Labor Organization, Wel comed by Followers. MAIN SESSIONS HAVE BEGUN Governor, Mayor, and Officials of Local Unions Greet Dele gates at Armory. + GOMPERS ARRAIGNS JUDGES 4- AND POWER OF INJUNCTIONS + 4* "In this country we attempt to 4* 4* crystal l ze this unrest In labor, but 4* 4* our efforts are attempted to be 4« 4* outlawed by the Judiciary, which 4* seeks to Invade the domain of the . other two arms of government. I 4* 4* deny the right of any Judge to en- 4» 4* Join me from doing anything which 4* 4* tho constitution guarantees me as 4* 4* .-i right. On »hl* point niv fur has 4* 4* been rubbed tho wrong way, and I 4* 4* speak with a certain amount of 4- 4* authority. There Is no yellow + 4* streak In me or my colleagues, 4* 4* and If we must go to Jail we can. + 4- Better men have gone to*Jail be- + *** fore us for the right."—Samuel 4* Gompers* In address Monday. 4* T-H-H-H-HH-l-l-H-H-H-H-H"H-l4i ■ two or three-year battle he vanquished and drove them out of business. All of this came to the ears of the king of Italy, and he knighted’D'Aies- DOMINICK D'ALLESANDRO. The hod-carrier count, given title by king of Italy for services to hi* compatriots in America. sandro, Jn recognition of his services. He Is also the president of one of the largest Italian societies In America, and Its agents are now at every immi gration station to help the Incoming Italians and guard them against those who would beguile them. In the past year , the hod carriers union has gained 1,766 members, and Issued 73 new charters, won twelve out of sixteen strikes, compromising four; 4,060 persons were Involved. The prohibition question cam* before the Baptist Ministers conference Monday murnlns and the following resolutions were adopted: It having come to the attention of this ment, and were suspended. The steam fitters were suspended, too. This dis pute will go to the A. F.-of.L. for Anal settlement. President William Hubers and Secretary Frank Duffy, of the car penters, are here now. The building trades department com prises the asbestos workers, bridge t __ , and structural Iron workers enrpentera "°7 h ' n cement workers, electrical worker*, ele- | upon oS^ sestutSs fn valor constructors, steam engineers. wn « n - n " DMn “i”” 1 " ur ,or granite cutters, building laborers and hod carriers, lathers, marble workers, sheet metal workers, painters and dec orators, plumbers, gas fitters, steam flt- s ters and helpers, composition roofers, r stone cutters, ceramic and tile layer?, plii.-terere, slate and tile roofer, and BAPTIST MINISTERS TAKE HAND IN THE CAMPAIGN machlnfats. President Short la a likable peraon- aJIty—a huatler. and a man who growa on farther acquaintance. K jcted, we. therefore, go on record aa flng heartily In favor of retaining that which we have already gained and fur- aa will strengthen same. “We, ther« tatlon which * * at ©. _ ntereats, who are outlawed from borifto _ __ sentiment of - this stats/but "from the liquor r ’ • * Oils stats. "In consequence of this we should de plore the election of any man to the of fice of governor who stand, as a friend to the liquor and brewery Interests, be lieving that It would be a step backward year, of hard work lo Ladson Atlanta extended a royal welcome to the thirty-first annual convention of the American Federation of Labor, which convened at the Auditorium-Ar mory Monday morning at 10 o'clock. Throe hundred and seventy-live ac credited delegates from the 115 lnter- nsllonnl unions, .18 slat, federations. 634 city central bodies. 493 local trades unions, 187 Federal labor unlona, a to tal of 1,464 affiliated bodies, were pres- hen Samuel Gompers, the revered president, ascended the stage. These accredited delegates represent about 28,000 local unions In the Jurisdiction of International unions, which com prise J.800.000 men. Besides the offl- elal delegates, there were present hun dreds of visitors, many of them or ganizers, others labor men who came to look on end hear the report* and dis cussion. and scores of Atlanta people who wanted to see the labor giants of the world in convention assembled. The body of delegate* Is composed of able and serious mm, with great national and International questions to solve, to take further marked steps for the uplift of the world’s workers end the betterment of every condition af- fertlng them. Among these great questions to ho discussed here ore: Questions of Convention. Extension of the eight-hour' law as applied to work done for the United States government. Further investigation of women and child labor conditions. Establishment of a child labor and children's bureau by the government Employers’ liability-workmen’s com pensation. Locomotive holler Inspection by gov ernment provision. The Gompers-MItchell-Morrlson con tempt case. Modification and ohanges In the ap- f .Mentions of Federal Injunctions. This s termed relief from Judicial usurpa tion. Abolishment of the third degree by the police. Regulation of extradition from one etate to another. Suit of C. W. Post against the Amer ican Federation of Labor for $750,000 damages. Aid for the McNamara brothers now on trial at Los Angeles. Amendment of the Sherman anti trust law. Opposition to ths adoption of the Taylor scientific shop management sys tem by the government. Extension of the American Federa tion of Labor thru the countries of ths world. Many political changes affecting la bor. Sanitation and better protection for miners. Elimination of convict labor. Uniform laws to protect human life. Rights of civil service employees to enable government clerks to unionize. Establishment of a department of labor by the government. Seamen's right*. Insurance laws, rail road track Inspection, loading vessels, second-class postal rates. Immigration and other matters. The suspension of 200,000 carpenters and steamfltters from the building trades department at St. Louis last year, for technical disobedience, will be settled by the convention. Parade Thru Streets. The great occasion was Initiated by* a splendid parade, which even the icy hand of winter could not mar. Atlanta realised that the eye* of the labor world were concentrated upon her. and ths gathering here magnified the city, and paid tribute to the procession of notables who rode thru the streets. Tho parade formed at 9:30 o’clock on North Pryor-sL, proceeding to Peach tree, to Whitehall, to Hunter, to Wash, lngton, and thence to the Auditorium. There were men In It from every state In the Union, some of them grizzled veterans In labor’s Titanic struggle* of the paet, and whose names are known thru all the world. Atlanta Musicians union. No. 148, furnished a band that rendered Inspiring music, and lent a touch of cheer aqd life. Vice Chairman L. P. Marquardt called the convention to order for Its momentous two weeks' session, and In- tVoduced President Samuel Gompers. of Washington, who assumed the gavel. Governor Hoke Smith, Mayor Court- land S. Winn. Congressman Wn Schley Howard. N. H. Kirkpatrick, presi dent of the Atlanta Federation of Trades: Jerome Jones, president of the Georgia Federation of Lat he Federation of Continued on Lsst Page.