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RAIL WORKERS BEGIN BALLOT ON WAGE AWARD
HADDING PROMISES
IMMEDIATE PEACE
if ram
Declares His First Task Will
Be the Restoration of Con
stitutional Popular Govern
ment
MARION, Ohio, July 22.—Imme
diate declaration of peace and a new
effort to form an association of all
nations, based on justice rather than
force, was promised by Warren G.
Harding in formally accepting the
Republican presidential nomination
here today.
Scoring the League of Nations
covenant as the “supreme blunder,"
he lauded the senators who opposed
its unqualified ratification as “senti
nels on the towers of constitutional
government.” The nominee said he
welcomed a referendum.
Senator Harding opened his ad
dress with a broadside at "personal,
dictatorial and autocratic govern
ment." He said "no man is big enough
to run this great republic.”
“Our first committal,” he contin
ued, “is the restoration of represen
tative popular government under the
constitution through the agency of
the Republican party.”
The speech delivered at Garfield
park here dealt with a multitude of
questions. Preserved nationality with
America retaining her independence,
although not holding aloof from the
rest of the world, should be the guid
ing policy, Senator Harding de
clared.
The candidate stressed the neces
sity of a return to party government
and pledged himself to co-operate
cordially with congress and to select
a cabinet of “highest capacity,’” in
which the vice president should sit.
"As to prbhibition, there is divided
opinion and the recourse to repeal
or modification is open, but we can
not nullify because of divided opin
ion,” he said, “and the law must be
enforced.”
“We must have a plain and neigh
borly understanding with Mexico re
garding American rights, but our re
lations should be friendly and sym
pathetic,” he said.
Touching on unrest, he said the
remedy does not lie in repression and
rights of assembly must be pre
served.
High wages should continue, but
with them full value for the wage
received, he said. Collective bargain
ing was indorsed.
Senator Harding then pledged a
sincere effort to stamp out profiteer
ing.
Reaffirming his opposition to gov
ernmentship of railroads, he de
clared the present transportation dif
ficulties are due partly to “the with
ering hand of government operation,”
and urged that the government do
its part in repairing the damage. He
indorsed the budget plan, a merchant
marine, ample naval preparedness
and a small arnfy, abundant aid for
ex-service men and woman suffrage.
As to formal peace, Senator Hard
ing said:
“I promise you formal and Effec
tive peace so quickly as a Republican
congress can pass its declaration for
a Republican executive to sign.”
Text of Speech
Chairman Lodge, members of tho
notification committee, members o»
the national committee, ladies and
gentlemen: The message which you
have formally conveyed brings to me
a realization of responsibility which
is not underestimated. It is a su
preme taslf to interpret the covenant
of a great political party the activ
ities of which are so woven into the
history of this republic, and a very
sacred and solemn undertaking to
utter the faith and aspirations of
the many millions who adhere to
that party. The party platform has
charted the way, yet, somehow, we
have come to expect that interpreta
tion which voices the faith of nomi
nees who must assume specific
tasks.
Let me be understood clearly from
the very beginning. I believe in
party sponsorship in government. I
believe in party government as dis
tinguished from personal govern
ment, Individual, dictatorial, auto
cratic or what not. In a citizenship
of more than a hundred millions it
is impossible to reach agreement
upon all questions. Parties are
formed by those who reach a con
sensus of opinion. It was the intent
of the founding fathers to give to
this republic a dependable and en
during popular government, repre
sentative in form, and it was de
signed to make political parties not
only the preserving sponsors but also
the effective agencies through which
hopes and aspirations and convic
tions and conscience may be trans
lated into public performance.
Popular government has been an
Inspiration of liberty since the dawn
of civilization. Republics have risA
and fallen, and a transition from
party to personal government has
preceded every failure since the
world began. Under the constitution
we have the charted way to security
and perpetuity. We know it gave
to us the safe path to a developing
eminent? which no people in the
.world ever rivaled. It has guaran
teed the rule of intelligent, de
liberate public opinion ' expressed
through parties. Under this plan a
masterful leadership becomingly
may manifest its influence, but a
people's will still remains the su
preme authority.
The American achievement under
the plan of the fathers is nowhere
disputed. On the contrary the Ameri
can example has been the model
of every republic which glorifies the
progress of liberty, and is every
where the leaven of representative
democracy which has expanded hu
man freedom. It has been wrought
through party government.
Representative Government
No man is big enough to run this
great republic. There never has been
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■ING BOWS TO
HIRAM JOHNSON ON
leagdeo*tions
Acceptance Speech of Re
publican Nominee Comes
as Surprise—ls Featured
by Tone of Dignity
BY DAVID LAWBENCE
(Copyright, 1020, for The Atlanta Journal.)
MARION, Ohio, July 22.—Senator
Warren G. Harding has surrendered
to Senator Hiram Johnson, and is
in favor of scrapping the treaty of
peace which contains the present
League of Nations. Mr. Harding pro
poses. If elected, to make a sepa
rate peace by congressional resolu
tion, and to ask the nations of the
world to create a different League
of Nations from that proposed by Mr.
Wilson.
Senator Johnson had threatened to
bolt the Republllan nominee if he did
not accept the interpretation of the
Republican platform which the ‘Cali
fornia senator had enunciated. Un
less Hiram Johnson reveals himself
merely as a poor loser, there is noth
ing in the Harding speech of accept
ance as it relates to the league Issue
to which he can. take objection.
Unquestionbly Senator Harding
doesn’t believe the league, which is
now in existence in Europe, has much
of a hold on the American voter and
takes his place, therefore, alongside
Hiram Johnson, who has managed, in
the east, at any rate, to rouse a con
siderable following for his views.
Speech a Surprise
But the speech of Mr. Harding
comes as a surprise to those who
had expected that the presence t>f
Elihu Root in Europe and the record
of the Ohio senator in voting for the
treaty of Versailles with reservations
would commit him to an endeavor
at least to fashion something out of
the present international structure.
But Mr. Harding rejects it absolute
ly and calls for “a new association”
of nations.
Irrespective of how many reserva
tions, interpretative or otherwise,
may be proposed by Governor Cox,
the Democratic platform commits
him to the present League of Na
tions and the ratification of the treaty
of Versailles.
To the extent that President Wil
son sought a clear-cut issue on the
league, his wish has been gratified,
for Senator Harding throws over
board the treaty of Versailles and
calls for a new peace agreement with
the nations of Europe. Naturally the
Democrats will say this means a new
peace conference and more inter
national negotiations and confusion
and delay.
Appeals to Farmer Vote
But the whole tenor of the Harding
speech of acceptance indicates that
he believes the Johnsonian view of
the league is more popular than any
other. He unhesitatingly subscribes
to it. As for the remainder of the
speech, the Ohio senator has written I
an eloquent oration, with solemn
warning to the ever-increasing de
mand of labor for more wages, which,
he says, cannot be heeded unless ac
companied by efficient services in re
turn. The Ohio senator goes into detail
skillfully on the subject of farmers’
co-operative organizations, thereby
appealing to the agriculture vote. He
goes back to the old Panama canal
toll fight of 191$ and practically re
verses the position taken by Sena
tors Lodge and Root at the time,
who claimed that for American ships
to be immune from the payment of
tolls was a discrimination against
British ships and a violation of the
Hay-Pauncefote treaty between the
United States and Great Britain.
However, the Irish voters opposed
the repeal of the Panama Canal tolls
act and the presumption is that they
still feel indignant about it.
Throughout the Harding speech
there is a tone of dignity and conserv
tism. Not a word of denunciation
of President Wilson by name occurs
in the speech. There are only im
plicit references to one-man govern
ment and autocratic rule.
Town Crowded
The Ohio senator gave in his ad
dress an imprssion of earnestness
and conscientious desire to do the
best he could if elected to the presi
dency. His phrase, “no man is big
enough to run this great republic,”
has its curious counterpart in Wood
row Wilson’s speech of acceptance *in
1912, when, in referring to the Roose
velt desire for a third term, the then
Democratic nominee said, "There is.
no indispensable man."
Aside from a belief in the protec
tive tariff, efficiency in government
bureaus, a general proposal z about
more equitable taxes, a less belligerent
statement full of hope and toptimism
about our relations with Mexico,
which carries in it no threat of vio
lence, the speech of acceptance in
troduces a new suggestion that is
bound to make a popular appeal when
the stump speakers get hold of it—
namely, requiring the government to
make its Liberty and Victory bonds
worth all that its citizens paid in
purchasing them. Os course, bonds
ultimately will be redeemed at par,
but the Republican nominee hints at
a nbw fiscal policy that he hopes will
raise the price of bonds.
Thousands upon thousands of vis
itors crowded this little town to hear
Senator Harding speak. The whole
thing seemed more like an old-fash
ioned political rally in a state or
county than a national affair. It was
a gathering principally of plain folks
in which the visiting politicians from
the urban centers seemed a conspicu
ous minority. Senator Harding is in
the old McKinley atmosphere and to
day’s ceremony breathed the spirit of
the old days of Republicanism in
Ohio.
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TRUCE WITH RUSSIA
IS ASKED ST POLES
IS FOBJESS FALLS
Bolshevik Troops Already
Have Invaded Poland and
Are Also Close to the Ger
man Border
WARSAW, July 22.—(8y the As
sociated Press.—Poland has sent
armistice proposals direct to the so
viet government at Moscow.
After these proposals had been
dispatched by wireless at two o’clock
this afternoon by the National Coun
cil of Defense, a new coalition cabi
net was formed under the premier
ship of M. Witos.
The new cabinet has the support
of the Socialist party. M. Datzen
ski, the head of the Socialists’ or
ganization, is the vice premier. Aside
from these two changes the cabinet
remains the same.
The Polish line today still ran to
the east of Grondo, it is announced
in the official communique. The Pol
ish front was holding immediately
south of the Pripet and in Polesla,
but further down south a breach in
the line, effected by Bolshevikl cav
alry, is reported.
The direct negotiations begun with
the society are on the question of an
immediate armistice along the entire
front of about 720 miles. The pro
posals were wirelessed after failure
to reach any definite conclusion In
dealings with M. Tchitcherln, the
Bolshevik foreign minister, through
Premier Lloyd George of Great
Britain.
jJThe Polish message was short and
to the point. There was some delay
in dispatching it, owing chiefly to
hitches in the organization of a
coalition cabinet, with the peasant
party leader, Wintos, as premier. It
was decided that further delays
would be serious, owing to the sit
uation beyond Bialystok, and a de
cision was reached to send a wireless
note to Moscow at once. A reply
Is expected by Friday night.
PARIS HAS HOPE OF
ARMISTICE SUCCESS
PARIS, July 23.—Marshal Foch
will not go to Warsaw' unless the
report of the French and British
missions now en route indicate the
necessity of his presence and de
velopments show that military aid
by the allies is required to prevent
the Bolshevik! from overrunning
Poland, it was learned today.
* Some hope is entertained in offi
cial circles that direct armistice ne
gotiations between Poland and soviet
Russia may make allied Interven
tion unnecessary.
Wilson Asks Mediator
To Take Action in
Illinois Coal Strike
WASHINGTON, July 23.—Presi
dent Wilson asked Hugh L. Kerwin,
chief of bureau of conciliation of
the labor department, to offer me
diation in the Illinois coal fields.
The president’s action followed a
conference with Secretary Tumulty
and representatives of coal operators
at the White House.
Kerwin Bald he would appoint a
mediation commission to proceed Im
mediately to Springfield, 111., where
hearings in the wage controversy
will be held.
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BRYAN DECLINES TO
RUN FOB PRODIS;
OHIO MAUL NAMED
Commoner He Cannot
Leave Democratic Party (
but Declines to Say How
He Will Vote
LINCOLN, Neb., July 23.—Prohi
bition party leaders today began lay
ing plans for an aggressive campaign
for the election of Aaron S. Watkins,
Germantown, 0., as president.
Mr. Watkins, keynote speaker of
the national prohibition convention
here, was selected as the presiden
tial candidate last night on the sec
ond ballot. His nomination followed
word from William J. Bryan that
he could not sever "connections with
the Democratic party.” The choice
made the third Ohioan nominated as
a presidential candidate.
D. Leigh Colvin, of New York
City, was selected as the vice presi
dential candidate. His nomination
was uaninmous. *'
Robert H. Patton, Springfield, 111.,
attorney, and Daniel O. Poling, inter
national president of the Christian
Endeavor society, also were placed
in nomination for the presidency.
Mr. Bryan, in declining the unani
mous nomination as standard-bearer,
declared he did not know how he
would vote in the coming elections
but said "other reforms which make
it impossible for me to focus my at
tention upon the prohibition Question
alone” demanded that he not affiliate
with the party.
The text of Mr. Bryan’s telegram
declining the nomination follows:
"Please deliver the following mes
sage to the chairwoman of the Pro
hibition national convention, now in
session at Lincoln: Having been away
from the railroads and telegraph fa
cilities for the past twenty-four
hours I have not Received your tele
gram notifying me of the nomina
tion tendered me by the Prohibition
party convention. But reading a
copy of it in the Bozeman Chronicle,
I hasten to reply. I profoundly ap
preciate the honor done me in ten
dering this nomination and I fully
share in the convention’s interest in
prohibition as the permanent policy
of our country and in the strict en
forcement of the Volstead act with
out any weakening of its provisions, ,
I also share the convention’s disap- I
pointment at the failure of the Dem-|
ocratic and Repirtlican parties to
pledge their candidates to such a
policy, but I cannot in justice to the
Prohibition party nor to myself ac
cept the nomination.
“My connection with other reforms
would make it impossible for me to
focus my attention upon the prohibi
tion question alone and besides, I
am not willing to sever my connec
tion with the Democratic party,
which has so signally honored me
in years past.
“I have not decided yet how I
shall vote this fall, but whatever I
may feel it my duty to do in this
campaign, I expect to continue as a
member of the Democratic party and
to serve my country through it.”
The telegram was addressed to Mr.
Bryan’s brother, Charles Bryan, at
Lincoln.
Music for Prisoner
OSSING.—Mrs. Hattie Dixon, who
is in the death house at Sing Sing
awaiting execution for the murder
of Margaret Morton, is to be enter
tained with a phonograph during her
solitary confinement. The machine
has been provided for the woman by
the Mutual Welfare.
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DRYSNOTTOBACK
OR OPPOSE EITHER
COX OR HARDING
(The Atlanta Journal News Bureau*
623 Riggs Building.)
BY THEODOBE TILLEB
| WASHINGTON, July 23. The
I Anti-Saloon League of America will
I not attempt to defeat either Senator
Harding or Governor Cox for the
presidency. This was decided Thurs
day evening after an all-day discus
sion here of the records of the two
presidential candidates by the na
tional executive committee of the
league, i
However, John Barleycorn is not
sufficiently "dead” to justify the
league adopting a “hands-off” policy
in the next election. Though the
presidential candidates will be
neither opposed nor supported by the
Anti-Saloon league as an organiza
tion, the league will go gunning after
senators and representatives who
have been too damp in their votes,
or are suspected of favoring a modifi
cation of the Volstead law.
Fear of bringing dissention be
tween the Democratic and Republican
members of the league, and the pos
sibility of a division between the
northern and southern branches of
the organization, was largely respon
sible for the decision not to espouse
the cause of either candidate nor to
oppose either.
Bev. Sam Small’s Views
There was talk of opposition to
Governor Cox, but the Rev. Sam W.
Small, of Georgia, a personal friend
of the Democratic nominee, assured
the committee he had been in corre
spondence with Governor Cox and
that he was dry—at least sufficiently
dry to enforce the Volstead law.
The Rev. Small also told the ex
ecutive committee that h had ad
vised Cox not to reply to Richmond
P. Hobson’s telegram demanding that
Cox state his attitude on prohibition.
However, the executive committee
voted to examine the records of both
presidential candidates and make
them available for the dry s through
out the country. It was plainly
stated that battles would be con
ducted to prevent election of a
"moist” congress.
Split in League Feared
The decision of the committee to
adopt a non-committal attitude re
garding presidential candidates was
largely due to the fear that a con
trary decision would split the or
ganization of the league.
Dr. Small even went so far as to
say that he had personally advised
Governor Cox to disregard the at
tempt made by Captain Richmond
Pearson Hobson, of Alabama, to get
him on record on the liquor ques
tion immediately following his nomi
nation. He wired Cox, he said, that
inasmuch as the Democratic platform
had remained silent on the question
there was no reason for him to ex
press himself, and he displayed the
following telegram which he said he
had received from Governor Cox:
“Many thanks. I will follow your
advice.”
Cox subsequently wrote him, Dr.
Small said, that he had shown Dr.
Small’s letter to Franklin D. Roose
velt, his running mate, and that the
latter had agreed with him to ig
nore the Hobson demand. Dr. Small
indorsed the view that the league
should confine itself to a fight to
preserve' a “dry” majority in both
branches of congress.
Germany to Oppose
Movement of Allied
Troops in Country
BERLIN, July 23. —Dr. Walter von
Simons, German foreign minister to
day declared the German government
would not consent to movement of
allied troops through German terri
tory fnr the purpose of assisting Po
land. - -
HARDING SPEECH
PROVED PLEASING
TO REPUBLICANS
BY DAVID LAWBFNCE
(Copyright, 1920, for The Atlanta Journal.)
MARION, 0., July 23.—N0 one who
heard the speech of Senator Warren
G. Harding accepting the Republican
nomination for the presidency could
have failed to be impressed with the
utter earnestness and good intention
of the man.
Entirely apart from the skillfully
worded phrases and well-balanced
sentences, almost scientifically com
posed to give the minimum of of
fense and the maximum of comfort
to the great body of voters whose
ballots are wanted next fall, the Re
publican nominee revealed a person
ality of simple but solemn appeal.
He pledged himself in prayerful
tones, not to achieve the Impossible,
but to do the best he could with
the immense job of the presidency
if elected.
The speech satisfied its hearers,
who were mostly Republicans. It
did more than that —it thrilled and
enthused them. With all due respect
to the length of time Senator Har
ding has been in public life, he still
was an unknown quantity to the Re
publican leaders. i
Approve Front Porch Caanpaign
Every man is an unknown quan
tity so far as presidential campaign
ing is concerned until he is once
nominated. The Republicans came
here to size up Harding. Was it wise
for him to stay on the front porch?
Was he a mixer? Was he capable of
the task entrusted to him by the
Republican national convention?
And the answers to all these ques
tions were enthusiastically in the af
firmative. More than one Republi
can who had been urging that Mr.
Harding leave the front porch and
go touring, went away believing that
if the senator would confine his cam
paign speaking to a dozen or so pre
pared speeches either in Marion or
in three or four big cities like New
York, Chicago and Boston, he would
make just as effective a campaign as
could be made by back-platforming
all over the country.
The speech of acceptance was ac
claimed by the Republicans who
heard it as a masterpiece of expo
sition, an eloquent and thoughtful
presentation not only of Republican
doctrine but of the pathways of safe
and sound administration in a trou
bled era.
Books Backward for Guidance
It was apparent that the portions
of the speech referring to foreign
policy struck deep chords of ap
proval. Unquestionably as time has
elapsed since the first presentation
of the covenant of the League of
Nations, the wearisome debate on
the Lodge reservations and the vig
orous campaign conducted by Sena
tors Borah and Johnson, has im
planted certain impressions of new
and strange ways for America in
her foreign policy under the league,
so it was easy for Senator Harding
to touch the notes of a foreign pol
icy of McKinley's day and gain there
by a hearty response.
This was an audience that seemed
tired of present-day troubles, domes
tic and foreign, ana appeared eager,
ever so eager, to go back to the old
days, if it was only to speak of nor
mal times in a fond reminiscence
that might bring realization itself.
It was backward that Senator
Harding looked to get guidance for
the future, back to party traditions
and party principles. And as he de
nounced by implicit and sometimes
explicit allusion to the conception of
leadership in the presidency which
Woodrow Wilson had introduced, the
crowd seemed to grasp readily the
<kind of an administration which
Senator Harding was visualizing.
Hearers Satisfied
Senator Harding plainly marked
out as his policy an unceremonious
end to the method and manner by
which Roosevelt and Wilson sought
to dominate congress and those
about them. He promised reversion
to the calm councils of Harrison, of
McKinley, of Taft—all four men in
cidentally having derived that in
spiration of the presidency in this
mid-Western atmosphere.
Perhaps it was the series of par
agraphs on labor, perhaps it was the
advocacy of a return to intense na
tionalism and an interest in world
affairs of only the most general and
least entangling kind, perhaps it was
the implied denial to railway em
ployes of the weapon of the strike,
perhaps it was the peroration prom
ising fidelity and honesty—it would
be difficult to say what part pleased
the gathering of plain folk and pol-
GASOLINE RATION
IS CONSIDERED BY
LEADING REFINERS
WASHINGTON, July 23. —A gaso
line rationing system to be applied
throughout the entire United States
now is being considered by big re
finers.
The rationing system is designed
by the refiners as a last resort to
curtail consumption and to keep the
price from being forced to more than
40 cents a gallon, government offi
cials here have been informed by
the representatives of the refiners.
Vice President T. A. Dines, of the
Midwest Refining company, is one
representative of the big refiners
now here who has discussed the ra
tioning system with government of
ficials. Another is C. G. Sheffield,
of the Standard Oil company, of New
Jersey.
Refiners say curtailing consump
tion is the only way to keep down
prices. Before adopting the ration
ing system they plan to issue a na
tionwide appeal to the countr yto cut
down joy riding.
As devised by the refiners the ra
tioning plan would be a voluntary
one by dealers in which the gov
ernment would have no hand. It
would mean that gasoline would be
doled out to dealers under a fixed
quota for each state or locality.
California now is on gasoline ra
tions.
Gas now is selling from 31 to 39
cents a gallon. Consumption is now
reported by refiners as 13,000,000
gallons a day. Production Is 2,000,-
000 less or 11,000,000 gallons a day.
Reserve stocks therefore are being
drawn on at the rate of about 60,-
000,000 gallons a month, according to
producers’ figures.
Refiners say it is Impossible to
increase production. They say oil
is being produced faster than ever
before.
Wireless Telephonic
Conversation Is Held
With Ship in Midocean
ST.- JOHNS, N. F., July 23.
Wireless telephonic communication
between the signal hill station here
and the steamer Victorian in mid
ocean was established for the first
time today. Conversation was main
tained for several consecutive
minutes.
Voice transmission was perfect.
Experts were making no adjustments
of apparatus and communication
was possible several times. The
management of the wireless tele
phone company would make no of
ficial statement pending permanent
establishment and maintenance of
telephonic conversation, which, it
was believed, would be effected
within a few hours.
There was no confirmation for the
statement that the human voice had
been heard over the wireless tele
phone across teh Atlantic ocean
yesterday.
Jury Can’t Agree
In Beckworth Case
SWAINSBORO, Ga., July 23.—Aft
er being out for sixty hours the jury
in the case of the state versus Ben
Beckwortn, charged with murdering
Arthur Tanner in April( this year,
reported to Presiding Judge R. N.
Hardeman that they could not agree,
and a mistrial was ordered.
iticians. the strategists and man
agers, the inspectors, so to speak, of
the new candidate’s personality.
But nine-tenths of them went away
very happy and completely satisfied
that the Republican national con
vention, whether by intent or acci
dent. had contributed a straightfor
ward, wholesouled, dignified and h orf
es t candidate for the presidency.
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ACCEPTING SCALE
Decision Not Expected Before
September I—Oppositionl—Opposition
Is Developing to Increase
in Passenger Rates
' CHICAGO, July 23.—Railroad work
ers of the country today started a
referendum on whether the $600,000,-
000 award made by the railroad labor
wage board Tuesday is acceptable.
Conferences of the railroad labor
executives broke up late last night,
with a decision to submit the ques
tion to the rank and file. The de
cision followed an unsuccessful at
tempt to reopen tHe wage matter be
fore the labor board ; and threats of
some unions to flatly reject the
award.
Labor leaders, in ordering a refer
endum on the acceptability of the
award, will make recommendations.
Seven unions, it was understood, will
be asked to act favorably. The
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
Employes was understood to favor
such action
Complete by September 1
Tabulations of the referendum will
not be complete before September 1,
rail leaders here anticipated. They
pointed out railroads would then be
without government protection and
union labor would feel freer to take
independent action.
Federal officials today were report
ed taking a hand to end the railroad
congestion attributed to unauthorized
strikes and labor troubles. Major
E. Leroy Humes, of the department
of justice, conferred last night with
the heads of the sixteen railroad
unions. He was reported to have de
clared the brotherhoods must force
the return of strikers or fill the va
cancies. Reports were that Humes
threatened court proceedings against
the leaders unless strikers returnee!
before Monday.
The Order of Railway Expressmen
was to continue today presenting its
claims for increased wages before
the railroad labor board. The hear
ings were opened yesterday.
Favor Accepting Award
The following unions were said
to have unreservedly accepted the
award:
Engineers, trainmen, switchman,
firemen and enginemen, conductors,
shopmen, clerks, freight handlers, ex
press and station employes.
The Order of Railroad Telegraphers
has ordered a strike vote.
PETITION FOR INCREASED
RATES TO BE OPPOSED
WASHINGTON, July 23.—Opposi
tion toincreased passenger, freight,
baggage and Pullman rates asked by
railorads was developing today.
The railroads, in a petition filed
with the interstate commerce com
mission yesterday, said they needed
the higher rates to meet the $600,-
000,000 wage award granted work
ers. Opponents of the proposed
raises will try to show that they are
unnecessary and that increased
freight rates asked several weeks
ago are sufficient for railroad needs.
Organized railroad employes
themselves may join the fferot to
prevent the increase, it was learned
today. It is known that the em
ployes have collected information
which they say would justify
charges that the roads are now run
ning up a big bill of expense to
show the necessity of increased rev
enues,.
Once the railroads get the in
crease, however, the union heads an
ticipate that thousands of men will
be laid off and other economy meas
ures taken, according to John Scott,
secretary of the railyway depart
ment of the American Federation of
Labor.
The railroad executives deny
these assertions and say the raises
sought are absolutely necessary.
The proposed 20 per cent increase
on passenger and 50 per cent in
crease on Pullman fares is ex
pected to be attacked by the United
Commercial Travelers.
Farmer organizations will inquire
into the necessity of a raise of ap
proximately 40 per cent for carry
ing milk. This wpuld increase the
price of milk without corresponding
advantage to milk producers. At the
national grange here, it was said
the raise would not be opposed if
that organization found it necessary
to the roads.
The shippers will ask to be heard
on the proposed freight increases,
although It is not certain they will
oppose them.
It is estimated that the total of
increased freight rates now being
sought by the railroads would, if
granted, take from the pockets of
the consumer between six and ten
billion dollars a year.
Priority Coal Order
For New England Is
Asked of Commission
WASHINGTON, July 23.—New
emergency orders directing priority
in the movement of coal to the At
lantic seaboard for trans-shipment
to New England to meet the fuel
situation there were asked of the in
terstate commerce commission today
by coal operators and dealers and
railroad executives.
The order, it was proposed, would
require a half score of railroads
tapping coal fields in West Virginia
Maryland and central Pennsylvania’
to give the right of way to the’
movement through Hampton Roads
Baltimore, Philadelphia ' and New
York.