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Atlanta SYMlkcklj) Sfottrnal
VOL. XXII. NO. 105
NO FEAR IS HELD OF IMMEDIATE RAILROAD STRIKE
COX fflD ROOSEVELT
ID TAKE THE STUMP
ABOUTJUGUSTIS
Democrats Launch Vigorous
Campaign—Nominee As
sails Republicans for Big
'Slush Fund
COLUMBUS, 0., July 21.—The
Democratic stump campaign will be
opened simultaneously in the mid
dlewest and east—by Governor
James M. Cox in the east and in the
far west by Franklin D. Roosevelt —
about August 15.
Cox sal dthat this plan represent
ed the concensus of opinion of the
Democratic national committee and
that it undoubtedly would be follow
ed. The Democratic presidential
nominee said he expected to carry
his campaign further west early in
September.
The last of August Goxernor Cox
expects to spend in filling spo
radic speaking engagements in the
east. New England probably will
be invaded. A tentative engagement
already has been made for New
Haven, Conn., August 17. Governor
Cox expects to address the Demo
cratic state convention here. It is
evident the national committee fa
vors having him spend much of his
time in Ohio, New York, New Jer
sey, Indiana and Illinois. He may
make a flying trip to Maine. Mr.
Roosevelt probably will be sent di
rect to the Pacific coast, after his
notification, but Governor Cox also
is anxious to carry his appeal across
the mountains.
George White, Cox campaign man
ager, is rushing completion of the
campaign committee and may an
nounce part of its personnel before
leaving for his summer home at Ed
gartown. Mass., tonight. Among
those mentioned are Norman E.
Mack, of New York; Tom Love,
Texas; Samuel Amidon, Kansas; Wil
bur Marsh, Iowa; Senator Harrison,
Mississippi, and T. T. Ansberry,
Washington. Its membership will
be about twenty-five, with several
women members. Governor Cox will
start the writing of his speech of
acceptance within a few days and is
anxious to spend the week-end near
his home at Dayton.
Senator Pomerene, now in the
west, will confer witli Governor
Cox in the near future to frame
plans for carrying out the gover
nor’s plans for full publicity on cam
paign funds through a senatorial in
vestigation.
The Democrats’ campaign craft was
under nearly full sail today with
George Whfte, the new national
committee chairman and campaign
manager. Mr. White, a former Ohio
congressman and assistant manager
of the Cox convention campaign, was
elected late yesterday*, succeeding
Homer S. Cummings, of Connecticut.
“Fair weather and strong Demo
cratic tides,” were leaders’ predic
tions today as many returned home j
to organize local campaigns.
Governor Cox, Chairman White,
Treasurer Wilbur Marsh, of lowa,
and other leaders remaining over
today were to map out further or
ganization details, including ap
pointment of the special campaign
committee authorized by the nation
al body, location of several major
headquarters, arrangements for noti
fication ceremonies and finances.
Early announcements were planned,
Including definite dates for the notifi
cation of Governor Cox and Franklin
D. Roosevelt, his running mate, set
tentatively for August 7 and 9, re
spectively. The Interval of time, it
was hoped, would enable visitors at
Governor Cox’s notification at Day
ton to reach Mr. Roosevelt’s home
at Hyde Park, N. Y.
Itineraries Planned
Traveling itineraries of both can
didates also are being planned, so be
gin almost immediately after the
notifications. . Governor Cox plans to
address the Ohio Democratic con
vention August 17, possibly with one
of his first important addresses.
Campaign policies also are becom
ing cry®zuitlw®« as a result of the
national committee's meeting and
Governor Cox’s address, in which he
charged the Republicans with raising
a campaign fund "sufficient to stag
ger the sensibilities of the nation,”
and doasanded continuance of the
senate campaign expenditures inves
tigation, promising frequent detailed
Democratic statements of financing.
Although Democratic leaders ap
pear agreed that the League of Na
tions has a predominant campaign
place, they expect Governor Cox and
other party orators to press the par
allel the governor drew in hi*s ad
dress yesterday in which he pictured
the Republicans and their candidate
as the champions of reaction, with
the Democrats those of progress.
After disposing of organization
matters, Governor Cox plans to se
cure a brief week-end rest by return
ing within a day or two to his home
at Dayton and next week he hopes
to begin work in earnest on his
speech of acceptance.
Governor Cox’s statement regard
ing Republican campaign funds and
h!« pledge of Democratic - conduct
were made in a half-hour address
upon the retirement of former
Chairman Cummings and induction
of Chairman White last night.
“We purpose to deal with eminent
good faith with the electorate with
reference to platform pledges,” said
Governor Cox, who was cheered re
peatedly.
Campaign Expenses
"We mean to let every vnan and
woman understand where every dol-
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Law at 100
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SCHNECTADY. N. Y.—Washing
ton Bissell, 100, is perhaps America’s
oldest lawyer. He received the de
gree of doctor of laws from Union
college here at its 124th commence
ment. He is the oldest alumnus,
having graduated in the class of 1846.
Dr. Bissell lives at Great Barring
ton Mass. He is a Chi Psi fraternity
man.
ERWIN BERGDOLL
NOW IS HELD AS
EVADER OF DRAFT
NEW YORK, July 21.—Erwin Berg
doll, younger half-brother of Grover
Cleveland Bergdoll, who disappeared
from his Philadelphia home about
two years ago and since has been
sought on charges of draft evasion,
today surrendered at Governor’s
Island.
With Bergdoll, surrendered Judge
James Roemig, of Philadelphia, a
personal friend of the Bergdoll fam
ily, who himself is under indictment
in connection with Grover’s escape.
Bergdoll probably will be tried
under peace-time regulations in which
case he will receive sentence of only
six months imprisonment in case of
conviction, army authorities said.
Grover C. Bergdoll was tried under
war-time regulations and was sen
tenced to five years servitude.
Bergdoll did not-say where he had
hidden nor did he intimate whether
he knew the whereabouts of his
brother, according to Major William
F. Kelley, assistant department judge
advocate general.
The surrender was voluntary, said
Major Kelley, and came as a com
plete surprise to army authorities.
Bergdoll will be questioned later in
the day.
Bergdoll also was accompanied to
Governor's Island by his brother,
Charles S. Braun, who had changed
his name.
Grover C. Bergdoll, brother of Er
win, escaped from two prison
guards in Philadelphia while on the
way to Philadelphia, where he
said he had buried $150,000 in gold
in the mountains while a fugitive
from justice during the war. When
he escaped, Grover was serving a
sentence of five years as a deserter
from the army in time of war. He
began serving his sentence March
30.
Bergdoll was said ot have had
the permission of the federal au
thorities to recover the gold he had
buried. When he arrived at the
North Philadelphia station with his
guards, I. C. Gibboney, an attorney
met the train. He is said to have
declared his automobile, in which
Bergdoll was to ride, needed re
pairs, and asked if Grover could be
taken to his home until the party
was ready to proceed. The guard
was said to have agreed to this, and
at 3 o’clock that afternoon when
the guards w’ere in the Bergdoll sit
ting room. Grover walked through
the house, jumped into an awaiting
auto and was driven away. He has
not been recaptured, although he
has been reported seen all over the
country.
ARMY OFFICER GOES ON
TRIAL IN BERGDOLL CASE
NEW YORK, July 21.—Lieutenant
Colonel John E. Hunt, commander of
the Castle William prison at Gover
nor’s Island, today faced an open
trial by court-martial here, charged
with responsibility'for the escape of
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, million
aire draft evader of Philadelphia.
Lieutenant Colonel C. C. Cresson,
trial judge-advocate, presided.
ERWIN BERGDOLL TO
GET EARLY COURT-MARTIAL
WASHINGTON, July 21.—Major
General Robert L. Bullard, command
er of the eastern department, imme
diately will summon a military court
martial to try Erwin Bergdoll, son
of a wealthy Philadelphia brewer,
and brqther of Grover C. Bergdoll,
who escaped recently while serving
a five-year sentence for draft eva
sion, it was said at the office of the
adjutant general of the army today.
Census of Southern
Counties Announced
By Federal Bureau
WASHINGTON, July 21. —Census
bureau today announced the follow
ing 1920 population results: * Glou
cester, Mass., 22,947; Mankato, Minn.,
12,469; Ogdensburg, N. Y., 14,609;
Panama, 111., 1,2£1; Shelbyville, Ind.,
9,701; North Mankato, Minn., 1,840;
Water Valley, Miss., 4,064; Ver
sailles, Ky„ 2,061.
Increases since 1913: Mankato,
2,104 or 20.3; Panama, 573 or 80.5;
Shelbyville, 201 or 2.1; North Man
kato, 561 or 43.9.
Decreases since 1910: , Gloucester,
1,451 or 5.9; Water Valley 211 or 4.9;
Ogdensburg, 1,324 or 8.3; Versailles
207 or
Desota county, Fla., 25,434; Os
ceola county. Flat., 7,195; Decatur
county, Tenn., 10,198; Edgefield coun
ty, S. C., 23,92; Giles county, Tenn.,
30,948; Polk county, Tenn.,. 14,243;
Robertson county, Tenn., 25,261;
Stewart county, Tenn., 14,664.
Increases since 1910: Desoto coun
ty, Fla., 11,234, or 79.1 per cent; De
catur county, Tenn., 105, or 1.0; Os
ceola county, Fla., 1,688, or 30.7; Polk
county, Tenn., 127, or 0.9; Robertson
county, Tenn., 155, of 0.6.
Decreases since 1910: Edgefield
county, S. C., 4,353, or 14; Giles
county, Tenn, 1,681, or 52; Stewart
county, Tenn., 196, or 1.3.
im
OWH CONGRESSMAN
BECAUSE OF CENSUS
Secretary McLendon Re
gards It Improbable That
DeKalb Will Be in Same
Congressional District
On the face of the census returns,
i it now appears most likely that the
county of Fulton, in the readjust
ment of Georgia congressional dis
tricts, will constitute by itself a
congressional district and have its
own congressman.
This interesting contingency de
pends upon the apportionment by
the national congress, deciding the
number of persons requisite for
each congressional district.
After the 1910 census, the appor
tionment was 211,877.
The 1920 census gives Fulton coun
ty 232,606. Unless the apportion
ment for 1920 is raised beyond this
figure, which is regarded as unlike
ly, Fulton county will have its own
congressman and will constitute its
own congressional district.
This result appears probably to
S. Guyt McLendon, secretary of
state.
Mr. McLendon considers it unlike
ly tliat the new apportionment will
go over the Fulton population. But
it it does, it is certain to be so close
to the Fulton figure that the next
readjustment of Georgia congres
sional districts will place Fulton
with the smallest adjoining county
—say Clayton county—in a congres
sional district by themselves.
At any rate, it i s regarded by Mr.
McLendon as next to impossible that
Fulton and DeKalb county, with a
joint population of 276,657, will again
be in the same congressional dis
trict. Their combined population, it
is practically certain! would be too
far above the apportionment.
The next national congress will
take the complete census figures and
fix the new apportionment for con
gressional districts, as it does after
evdry decennial census. The num
ber of persons constituting a con
gressional district of course has in
creased regularly and latterly with
great strides. Under the federal
constitution the first ratio was one
representative in congress to each
30,000 of population. If this ratio
had been maintained there now
would be more than 3,500 represent
atives in congress.
In 1860, there was one represent
ative to each 127,381; in 1900, one
in each 194,182, and in 1910, one
for each 211,877.
The Fifth district, now about to
be reduced to one or two counties,
at present Includes Fulton, DeKalb,
Campbell, Douglas and Rockdale,
with a population based on the cen
sus of 1910 of 234,357.
MANY NEW FACES TO
APPEAR IN CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, July 21. —Informa-
tio ngathered here today on results
of congressional primary elections
held recently indicates that the next,
house of representatives will con
tain a large proportion of new faces.
Political observers here last winter
predicted that there would be a con
gressional “turnover” in the 1920
elections and that it ■would hit Re
publicans and Democrats alike.
To date primaries have been held
In about one-third the congressional
districts of the country. A dozen or
more of the men now holding seats
in the house either were defeated or
declined to enter the primaries. Ex
act figures were not available.
Prohibition is not the factor in
the south that it is in the north
and west. When primaries are held
In these two latter sections, it is be
lieved here that the liquor question
will be the rock on which many
candidates’ hopes will stand.
Industrial unrest in the large man
ufacturing states and dissatisfaction
among farmers in the western agri
cultural states is also expected here
to play a large part in defeating
for renomination men who have gorte
contrary to the wishes of the farm
ers and working men.
Congressional campaign committees
of both the parties are now gather
ing data on how many former serv
ice men are seeking seats in con
gress.
Only one woman nominee has been
reported here so far. She is Dr.
Esther Lovejoy, of Oregon, a Dem
ocrat.
Senator Smith Will
Speak at Forsyth
Senator Hoke Smith has accepted
the invitation of friends in Monroe
county to make a speech in Forsyth
on next Saturday and will address
the people of Monroe county at the
courthouse at 2:30 p. m. Senator
Smith’s speech will deal with his rec
ord in the senate and with other
questions of nation-wide importance.
Senator Smith spent Tuesday in
Carrollton, where he went as the
guest of J. J. Thomason, to attend
the barbecue given by Mr. Thomas
son to the members of the Georgia
Weekly Press association, which is
meeting in that city.
HEALS STOMACI-TfROU-
BLE AND TAPE WORM
AT HOME
A sample home treatment which
gives quick and, lasting relief in all
forms of stomach trouble, including
tape worms or other worms, is being
supplied to sufferers by Walter A.
Reisner, Box C-64, Milwaukee, Wis.
He is so confident of results that
he guarantees absolute satisfaction
in every case or there Is no charge
for the treatment. If you suffer
from stomach trouble or any kind
of worms, send him your name and
address today, as this notice may
not appear again.— (Advt.)
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1920.
IPROHIBITIONPAIITY
OPENS THIRTEENTH
■ILMENTI
W. J. Bryan Is Discussed as
Candidate Hinshaw
Praises Accomplishments;
Watkins Delivers Keynote
LINCOLN, Neb., July 21.—The Pro
hibition party opened its thirteenth
annual convention here today pre
pared to give over much of the three
days of day and night sessions to
jubilation over the downfall of John
Barleycorn. To this end, several
celebrations have been arranged and
a dozen or more orators have pre
pared speeches felicitating the party
on its fight against liquor and con
demning the Republican and Demo
cratic conventions for lack of def
inite action on the question.
Indications were that such matters
as nominees and platform planks
would give way for at least two
days to the jubilee .
The opening session, however,
found the delegates apparently fac
ing the peculiar situation of being
almost unanimously in favor of Wil
liam J. Bryan as their presidential
nominee, and yet being divided as .to
whether the convention should name
the Nebraskan as its leader in the
fall election.
The Bryan boom today had become
the foremost question before the
delegates. Mr. Bryan’s friends here,
who claim to be speaking for him.
firmly reiterate previous statements
that he will not accept the nomina
tion, will not .run on any ticket and
feels that the party should not name
any candidates, confining its activi
ties instead to local campaigns.
Groups of delegates yesterday plan
ned to try to have Bryan nominated
unanimously regardless of his own
views. A series of night conferences
by other delegates resulted and to
day there was a. definite movement
to prevent Mr. Bryan’s nomination
on the ground that he should not
be placed in an embarrassing posi
tion, although the delegates working
•a&M>t bis . nomination, declare they
personally favor it if he would ac
cept. Nominations are not scheduled
until Friday.
Hinshaw Opens Session
The convention was called to order
by Virgil G. Hinshaw, national com
mittee chairman, and the usual pray
ers and singing followed. Aaron S.
Watkins, of Germantown, 0., was
made temporary chairman and de
livered the keynote address. Com
mittees on credentials, organization,
rules and resolutions w«?e appointed
and at the afternoon session it was
planned to hear their reports.
Calling the thirteenth quadrennial
convention of the prohibition party to
order here this morning, Virgil G.
Hlnshawq chairman of the prohibition
national committee, told the dele
gates they had come together to "se
lect a burial lot for John Barley
corn.” The other political parties, he
said, “out of respect to John’s rela
tives have voted that he shall lie
in state for another four years to be
viewed by the American people.
“The Democratic platform is silent,
the Republican platform is silent,”
the prohibition national chairman
continued. "Harding owns brewery
stock, he is not a prohibitionist at
heart. Cox is wet. The future is
before us, the campaign is upon us.
“We want to do the wisest thing,
the best thing for the prohibition
movement and-, for the country. It
was our fervent wish that every po
litical party -would this year fall in
line with the Constitution of the
United States, with the congress of
the United States, with the supreme
court of the United States, and rec
ognize openly an davowedly the set
tlement of this question. The other
parties have failed. What shall we
do?”
Other Measures Discussed
Turning to measures other than
prohibition which the party had
championed, Chairman Hinshaw said,
“As we assemble here for the thir
teenth time In fifty-one years we do
so with a realization that we have
had part in more than one battle and
for the solution of more than one
problem. While we have been a
party with an single to the so
lution of one great problem we have
at the same time aimed at the solu
tion and reached the solution of
many problems.
“For example, we stood for woman
suffrage in 1872, which was forty
years before the Progressive party
was born and forty years before any
other party assumed the same posi
tion. W’e advocated civil service re
form the same year and thus pre
ceded the Democrats by four years
and the Republicans by twelve years.
We championed the direct election of
United States senators in 1872. The
Republican party never championed
that issue and the Democratic party
not until 1900 or twenty-eight years
thereafter.
“We favored two-cent letter pos
tage in 1872 and thus beat every
other political party to that propo
sition by the space of sixteen years.
We stood for international arbitra
tion in 1876; the Republican party
did not advocate it until 1904, or
twenty-eight years thereafter and the
Progressive party not until 1912, or
thirty-six years thereafter. We op
posed lotteries and gamblers in 1876;
no other political party ever opposed
such in platform or In convention.
“We went after the land grabbers
and speculators in 1876 and thus
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Business Shoved Behind,
State Editors Enter Upon
Merry Round op Pleasures
BY WARD GREENE
(Staff Correspondent of The Journal.)
CARROLLTON, Ga., July 21.
With all business shoved behind
them, with the election of officers and
the naming of next year’s convention
city, the editors attending the thirty
fourth annual convention of the
Georgia Press association tills after
noon turned their thoughts exclusive
ly to pleasure.
The regular order of business was
suspended Wednesday morning and
the association voted unanimously
to accept the invitation to meet in
Washington, Wilkes county, In 1921.
The Invitation was extended by Will
Bruner, editor of the News-Report
er, and Bush Breeland, teacher of
agriculture in the Washington high
school, an-d secretary £>f the Wash
ington-Wilkes Board of Trade.
To repeat, plenty of pleasure
awaits the editors. It began at noon
with a basket luncheon at City park
served by Carrollton’s fairest, than
whom there are few fairer. I t was
continued with a fish fry this after
noon at Bowdon, site of historic old
Bowdon college, where Uncle Jim
Williams, of Greensboro, managed to
show as much prowess among the
fish as he has among the chickens,
both fried and frilled.
The editors will Carroll
ton to spend the night, but bright
and early Thursday morning they
will start anew on the round of en
tertainment awaiting them. Their
first stop will be Villa Rica, next
Douglasville, where the populace of
both cities is said to be ready to
turn over everything to them except
the kitchen stove. Thursday night
they will be treated to Rome hos
pitality. Then, if any of them are
still surviving, they will depart Fri
day morning for a sightseeing trip
athrough Chickamauga park.
Were it not for the milk and
honey in the promised lands ahead of
them, the convention would adopt a
motion to spend the rest of the
members' days right here in Carroll
ton, for they have found here such
a spirit of kindliness and hospitality
as no other town in the country, un
less it be another Georgia town, can
boast.
This reached its height yesterday
when many well-meaning members
who had come with the best inten
tions in the world of attending
strictly to business, succumbed to
subtle influences. Thus, when the
name of Otis A. Brumby, of Marietta,
wag reached on the program yester
day afternoon, there was no re
sponse.
And again, when Johnny jones be
gan to talk on the subject of head
lines and makeup, he was prone at
times to mingle in his oratory sun
dry flowery references to cheeks and
eyes, which proved that the style of
make-up in vogue in Carrollton has
not been without its effect on the
editor of the LaGrange Reporter.
Johnny’s presence at the convention
was all the more welcome in that it
was feared for a time he could not
be here. No press meeting would be
complete without Johnny Jones. And
when a telegram arrived from La-
Grange yesterday morning, announc
ing his illness, there was general
woe. Hardly had the wire been
placed in the hands of President
Kelly Simmons, however, when John
ny appeared at the door.
“I Just couldn’t stay away,” he
declared. There are three doctors on
my trail, but I don’t care.”
Several members made interesting
speeches. Johnny was one among
them at yesterday's business ses
sions. The others Included Sam
Hyman, of the Sandersville Prog
ress; Milton L. Fleetwood, of the
Cartersville Tribune-News; W. H.
Blinn, o£ the Dublin Courier-Herald:
J. F. Shannon, of the Commerce
News; Jack McCartney, of the Rome
Tribune-Herald; Miss Emily Wood
ward. of the Vienna News; Dudley
Glass, of the Atlanta Georgeian;
George H. Carswell, of the Irwinton
Bulletin; John L. Herring, of the
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M. E. FOSTER, OF
HOUSTON, ELECTED
PUBLISHERS’ HEAD
ASHEVILLE, N. C., July 21.
Marcellus R. Foster, of Houston,
Tex., was elected president of the
Southern Newspaper Publishers’ as
sociation at its closing session here
today. Other officers elected were W.
A. Elliott, Jacksonville_Times-Union,
Jacksonville, first vice president;
Charles R. Stewart, Lexington Her
ald, Lexington, Ky., second vice pres
ident, and W. C. Johnson, Chattanoo
ga News, Chattanooga, re-elected sec
retary and treasurer.
Preceding the elections two ad
dresses featured the program. One
Agencies of America, and others by
was by Harry Dwight Smith, presi
dent of the Associated Advertising
William J. Page, of Waterbury,
Conn., and Jason Rogers, of New
York, on the publishers’ buying cor
porations.
George E. Hosmer, of Bradentown,
Fla., chairman of the legislative com
mittee, National Editorial associa
tion, spoke on co-operative buying of
newsprint..
Following adjournment at noon,
the southern division of the Asso
ciated Press began Its annual meet
ing with H. C. Adler, of Chattanoo
ga, Tenn., chairman, presiding.
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TOBACCO SEASON
USHERED IN WITH
RUSH AT TIFTON
BY XAMBBXH KAY
(Staff Correspondent of the Journal)
TIFTON, Ga., July 21. —Tifton’s
third tobacco season opened' auspici
ously at two o’clock Tuesday after
noon with Ideal weather, a satisfac
tory volume of excellent product
drawn from a wide radius, and with
buyers representing the leading to
bacco manufacturers of the world of
fering favorable prices.
While Tift, county growers, who
have close to fifteen hundred acres
of tobacco in fine cultivation, as
well as planters in adjacent coun
ties, are 'apparently inclined to feel
out the situation at the opening of
the market, it was predicted that
more than fifty thousand pounds of
leaf would be auctioned on opening
day. The year’s business is expect
ed to pass a million and a half
pounds, worth probably more than
$450,000.
Tifton’s magnificent new stem
ming plant and warehouse represent
ing an investment $300,000 by the
Imperial Tobacco company, limited,
will be completed by August first,
making Tifton the central clearing
house of tobacco growing Georgia.
The opening of the season has at
tracted many distinguished visitors,
Including leading officials of the At
lanta, Birmingham & Atlantic road,
county demonstration agents and
leading business men and planters of
south Georgia.
A public program, Including chick
en dinner, commenced at 8:30 o’clock
last night on the courthouse
lawn with Frank Corry, of the Tif
ton trade extension bureau, presid
ing. J. L. Edwards vice president
of the A. B. & A.; Irwin Myers, fa
ther of tobacco growing in Tift coun
ty; W. E. Algee, secretary o f the
Tifton Board of Trade, and others
spoke.
5 CENTS A OOFS.
$1.50 A YEAH.
UNIONSCONFERRING
ONUCCEraCEOF
WAGEBOAMfIRD
Pesent Scale May Be Ac
ceded to With Fresh
Demands for Increased
Pay Later
CHICAGO, July 21.—Danger of an
immediate strike of railway workers
of the country apparently had dissi
pated when the 2,000 representatives
of the sixteen railway crafts re
sumed their conference here today to
consider the $600,000,000 wage In
crease granted by the railway labor
board in its decision handed down
yesterday.
In addition there appeared to b®
less dissatisfatcion over the amount
of the award on the part of the union
men.
Yesterday’s group conference ex
tended far into the night without
any decision as to acceptance or re
jection of the award having been
reached. At the close of last night’s
conference, however, W. G. Lee, of
Cleveland, grand president of th®
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen,
emphasized that no Immediate strik®
was in prospect.
No Immediate Strike
"There will be no Illegal, outlaw,
rebel, sporadic or immediate rail
road strike,” Mr. Lee said. "Whether .
the railway wage award is accepted
or rejected, the union action will be
concerted and deliberate.’’
When the grand council met to- »
day four courses were under consid-,
eratlon:
An acceptance of the award under
a "protest”—a registration of their
dissatisfaction over the terms as
compared with the original demandsj
Acceptance of the award, with a
proviso that preparations for new .
wage demands be immediately start
ed, these demands to be filed with
the railway labor board as soon aS
practicable after September 1, the ‘
date the roads emerge finally from
government control;
Tentative rejection of the award
and a recommitment of the strjk®
Issue to a referendum of the rank
and file;
Flat rejection of the award and an
exercise of the extraordinary plenary
powers resting in the grand council
toward a strike.
Will Have Soothing; Effect
With the board’s award made ,
retroactive to May 1, uplon officials
today estimated approximately $14,-
000,000 would be distributed, in ad
dition to the wage increases granted.
Union officials pointed out this would
have a soothing effect and had done
considerable to allay
because th© full demands were not
granted.
Mr. Lee intimated today if a strike ’
was resorted to. It probably would
not be ordered before September 1,
when government support is to b®
withdrawn from the railroads. Other
union officials indicated new wage de
mands might be presented immediate
ly as a means of averting a general .
strike. i
To Hear Express Men
The railroad labor board planned
to reconvene tomorrow to begin con
sideration of demands of express
men, who were not dealt with in the
award. .
WILL ASK FOR INCREASE
IN PASSENGER CHARGES
WASHINGTON, July 21.—Rail
road executives met with passenger
and freight traffic managers here
today to consider means of raising
additional revenue to meet the $600,-
000,000 wage increase awarded rail
workers.
Those attending the meeting said
it would probably be decided to ask
the Interstate commerce commis
sion to raise passenger fares a half
cent a mile.
An official of one of the big east
ern roads said that the previous in
creases asked by the road had been
entirely on freight rates. Railroad
officials felt, he said, that it was
fair to ask passenger rates to bear
a part of the increased burden.
Immediately after the -railroad Ex
ecutives reach a definite decision,
they will begin preparing a. plea to
the interstate commerce commis
sion, which is now considering the
requests for freight increases. »
U. S. Canned Meats
To Be Offered at
Below Pre-War Cost
WASHINGTON, July 21. —In an
effort to combat the high cost of
living the war department soon is
to place millions of dollars worth of
canned meats on the market at prices
below even pre-war quotwiions, said
an announcement today from the of
fice of the division of sales.
The meats, which will be offered
for domestic consumption exclusive
ly, are stored in every .section of the
country and will be disposed of
through wholesale and retail stores
from one end of the country to the
other. The division of sales also an
nounced that it had enlisted in this
work the services of 60,000 post
masters, 5,000 bankers and the may
ors of every city and town.
Included in the meats are canned
corn beef, beef hash, roast beef and
bacon.
“Every dealer, from the largest
wholesaler to the smallest retailer,
fs being given an opportunity to
make purchases at prices which are
considerably below the prevailing
market ones,” said the announce
ment. , ’
“The canned meats are the best
that the American packers could prer
pare. Their quality is the highest.
They were packed under government
supervision and the war department
is standing back of every can sent
from any army supply depot.”