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VOL. XVIII
LABOR mmTE IN BALANCE AT CONFERENCE
Anti-Bolshevik Cavalry Enters Petrograd as Reds Fall Back
WILSON TOO ILL TO RECEIVE BELGIAN RULERS
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(By Universal Service.)
LONDON, Oct. 19—A private dis
patch to the Sunday Express from
Stockholm says General Yudenitch's
cavalry has entered Petrograd. Gen
eral Yudenitch is in command of the
anti-bolshevik army.
The British war office early in the
day received confirmation of the cap
ture of Gatchina, on the Petrograd-
Berlin railway line, 25 miles south
of Petrograd, by Yudenitch's troops,
but it wase understood that the bol
shevist forces were preparing for
sirong resistance just outside of Pet
rograd.
A wireless dispatch from Petrograd
today reported Trotzky as saying:
“A pack of bourgeois curs are wor
rying the body of soviet Russia, but
the curs will never take Petrograd.
The army defending Petrograd failed
to withstand the first blow, but Yu
denitch’s successes are merely those
of a cavalry raid.”
Washington Awaits
Official Bulletin
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—The state
Department was tonight awaiting of-
Ticial confirmation of the report that
General Yudenitch had captured Pet
rograd, the seat of the bolshevist gov
ernment, If it proves to be true, of
ficials regard as inevitable the early
capitulation of Moscow, the last im
portant city in the possession of the
bolshevists, and the end of the red
rule in Russia. \
The situation is being watched with
intense interest in government circles
and further developments are awaited
with an air of expectancy. A sum
mary of the day's developments was
contained in a bulletin issued by the
State Department. The bulletin read:
“The latest information received by
the department from Finnish sources
is that a British squadron bombard
ed Kronstadt, that the fortress capit
ulated and that the British ships then
entered the harbor. * Another reporti
states that Lettish troops have forced;
the Dvina River, and that a squadron
of 20 British and French battleships
had arrived in Riga harbor. }
“Although not officially confirmed,
reports continue to reach the depart
ment of state that Pet.ograd has been
evacuated following the fall of Catch
ina, which is 85 miles from the old
Russian capital on the main line be
tween Petrograd and Berlin, and that
Krasna-Gorka, a fortress near Petro
grad, was taken from the bolsheviki
by_the Russian white forces”
Bolshevik Forces y
Rapidly Crumbling
(By (International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—Rapid
disintegration of the bolshevik forces
in Russia was indicated in all reports
to the state department today.
Late reports declared Lettish troops
have forced a crossing of the Dvina
River and British and French naval
forces have entered the harbor of
Riga. ‘
The fall of Kronstadt after bom
bardment by a squadron of twenty
British ships was also reported to the
state department.
Numerous advices from Swedish
and Pinnish sources reported the fall
of Petrograd, Gotchina and Krasnaia-
Gorka to the anti-bolshevik forces.
FOURTH OF REDS TAKEN.
Mor® than: one-fourth of the entire
red army has been captured by antl
bolshevik forces, the Russian embas
gy announced this afternoom, and it
was further announced that between
September 20 and October 16 that
more than 134.000 square miles have
been captured from the bolsheviki.
“Phe situation on the whole east
ern front ‘3 excellent.” the Russian
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Full lntematibnal News Service
Von Kluck Says
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Fight Reds
(By International News Service.)
AMS’I‘ERDAM. Oct. = 19—
General von Kluck, com
mander of the German
army that invaded France
through Belgium in 1914, was
quoted in a dispatch from Mainz
today as saying that “German
officers would fight loyal'y by
the side of their former advgr
saries if the entente asks Ger
many’s help in an offensive
against the Bolsheviks.”
Von Kluck expressed the be
lief that the allies would be un
able to wage war successfully
iagainst the Reds without Ger-‘
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Further steps were taken by
the United States government to
reduce the high cost of living
Atlanta when it was announced that
more liberal rules will be followed
hereafter in the amounts allowed
each individual customer at the gov
ernment store on Stewart avenue. |
In addition, Attorney General A.
Mitchell Palmer called on Gov. Hugh
i M. Dorsey for the co-operation of the
iState of Georgia in the fight to re
i duce living costs and outlined to him
a definite program which he was
asked to follow. The attorney gen
eral asked Governor Dorsey to call a
‘conference of all interested officials
in Gecrgia with a view toward estab
!Hshlng closer co-operation between
federal and State officials,
i DORSEY ACTS.
Governor Dorsey immediately car
‘ried out the request of Mr. Palmer
and wrote State Attorney General
Clifford Walker asking him to take
steps at once toward carrying out
any plan he deems feasible and to
communicate with the United States
iattomey general direct. g
\ Col. Jack Hayes, assistant zone sup
l ply officer of the Atlanta zone, made
'publlc a list of the commodities on
which the maximum limits allowed
each customer at the government
store were increased. Following are
the commodities:
Bacon, issue, 12-pound cans, maxi
mum thrée cases.
Beef, corned, 6-pound cans, maxi
mum ong case.
Hash, corned beef, 2-pound cans,
maximum one case,
Hash, corned beef, 1-pound cans,
maximum one case.
Beans, baked, No. 1 cans, maximum
ore case,
Beans, baked, No, 3 cans, maximum
one case.
Cinnamon, 1-4-pound tins, maxi
mum twelve tins,
Corn, sweet, No, 2 cans, maximum
one case. \
Peas, green, No, 2 cans, maximum
one case.
Colonel Hayes announces that it is
the desire of the government that all
money orders and checks'frqm people
desiring parcel post shipments be
made out in favor of the superintend
ent United States Army, Quartermas
ter Retail Store. He says thhz will
prevent unnecessary delays.
TO FILL BULK ORDERS.
It is also announced by Colonel
Hayes that authority has been re
ceived to accept bulk orders from
municipalities, districts and bona fide
community buying organizations for
freight shipments. A discount, of 10
per cent on the entire bjll is allowed
on such shipments tc cover the over
head charges that will be incurred in
distribution. It is necessary in these
cases that assurance be given that
the supplies will be delivered to the
consumer at the government retail
prices,
- (Colonel Hayes ca‘l}ieattent!on to the
fact that the depar nt has on hand
at thé store in Stewart avenue a
large supply of rubber boots and ar
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{Note.—Austria recently publishcd
a “red book,” full details of which
were exclusively cabled to Universal
Service by its staff man in Berlin. A
few days later, Count von Berchtold,
fornier Austrian foreign minister, who
was pictured in the “red book” as the
machiavellan arch-conspirator of the
great war, flung the charge back at
Berlin, saying his war driving was
due to Germany driving him. The
subjoined dispatch tells of a new
“white book,” in which Germany for
the first time admits officially at
least part of her guilt.—Universal
Service.)
(By a Universal Service Staff Corre
: spondent.) (
Speciai Cable Dispatch. |
BERLIN, Oct. 19+~The secret his-‘
tory of the “thirteen days,” as the
fateful period immediately preceding
the outbreak of the war, i 8 known in
Wilhelmstrasse, as compiled from the
archives of the German foreign office
and will be made public within a fort
night.
The seal of secrecy on these long
awaited records is to be broken at
last; the compilation is coinpleted and
about to be sent to the government
printing office.
Between ninety and a hundred doc
uments which for Germany played an
important role in these days will be
published. They make up a volume
large rthan the recent Vienna “red |
hook” or the British “blue book.”
Germany's new “white book,” T am
informed, will not be “white” in the
sense that they show Germany as
wholly free from guilt or that they
whitewash the kaiseir’s regime any
more than the color of the Vicnna'
book was to be taken as symbolic of
Austria’'s guilt revealed theresin, I
NOTHING SUPPRESSED. :
The fact that the secret files of the
Berlin foreign office bearing on the
pre-war days were searched by Karl
Kautsky,”sne of the radical Socialist
Jeaders, for these very documernts that
are about to be brought into the pub.
Tic light, is declared to be fairly good
proof that nothing is suppressed
which would tend to show the guilt
or incapaeity of the kaiser's adviscrs,
the German Socialists being not less
intent upen fixing that upon the ex
kaiser and his government than are
the allied and associated powers.
The forthcoming “white book” is
divided into two parts. The first
contains the history of the “thirteen
days” preceding Atugust 1, 1914, as re
vealed in hitherto unpublished secret
records. The second contains a]l doc
uments bearing out the first part,
The documents do not show Ber
lin's” attitude in those historic days
in a wholly favcrable light. It is said
by those who know .that numerous
dispatches given strongly tend to
confirm: the recent telegram to me by
Count von Berchtold, the former Aus
tro-Hungarian foreign minister, in
which he told Universal Service
through me that he was given to un,
derstand that 3erlin wanted aggres
sive action by Austria aßainst Serbia.
BERLIN WANTED ACTION,
The “white hook” is understood to
reveal that Berlin during the first
half of July was pressing strongly for
quick and energetic action by Vienna
pefore Russia could intervene in Ber
lin und so that the conflict ‘w%uld thus
be kept localizéd.
Then, in the latter half of July,
Berlin exerted even strongér pres
sure in Vienna in an effort to hold
Austria back, fgg in the meantime
Berlin had seen tha’ Russia was
nearer ready for war than Berlin had
expected and refused to be bluffed. -
Berlin, now aghast at the situa
tion, tried to call off Austria and de
manded that the latter content her
self with the dipicmatic viotory (con
gisting in the Serbian acquiescence
with the principal demands of the
Austrian ultimatum), But Vienna
had the bit in her teeth. She would
net listen and could not be held back.
She took the role of the leader, with,
Berlin following.
The “white book” documents, it is
said, throw the burden of the .imme
diate cause of the war and blame for
the frustration of the elevnth-hour
peace efforts upon Rusisa, who is
represented as precipitating by her
mobilization the world conflict. Up
to that moment the documents tend
to show the crisis was still localized.
The degree of participation by the
kaiser, Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg
(then imperial chancellor), Dr. Gott
lieb con Jagow (them foreign minis
ter) and others in the ts of thoss
thirteen days js revea y the doc
uments given ih the “White book.”
ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1919.
Rendezvous
Of Kaiser Is
Royal Hotbed
(By Universal Service..)
PARIS, Oct. 19.—1 t is reported
that both Amerongen ard
Weiringen, the temporary
abiding places of the former
kajser and his son, the former
crown prince, are. hotbeds of
royalist conspiracy. Both have
freedoln of intercourse with
vigitors from Germany, the reg
ulations imposed by the’ Dutch
Ig(;‘vemment; being extremely
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(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—Verbal
warfare hetween coill operators and
miners continued with increased bit
ftemess today and, judging from
statements with which each side
f bombarded the other, the public can
find little hope in the situation.
Neither side mentioned arbitration or
compromise.
In a statefnent issued today from
offices of the National Coal Associa
tion, Thomas F. Brewster, chairman
of the operators scale commfitjee of
the central competitive coal field
said: ’ .
“The miners are doing thelr best
to blind the public and will strive to
freeze the people into submission un
less their impossible demands are in
stantly granted.” .
John L. Lewis, acting president of
the United Mine Workers of Amer
ica, said in answer:
“The coal operators are doing all
they can to force a strike. Thoy are
trying to sew the country up in a
bag ‘and extract enormous profits
from it before November 1, the day
for which our “strike call is issued.”
DENIES PROFITEERING.
*“We, the operators,” said Browster,
“deny taking advantage of the pres
ent acute situation to profiteer. We
would condgmn such action on the
part of any coal operators if we knew
of such cases.” .
Said a statement issued by Lewis:
“Mr. Brewster denies that the ope
rators are guilty of profitecring and
yet the recent report by the federal
trade commission reveals the fact that
never before in the history of the min..
ing industry have the operators been
making such astounding profiis upon
the coal produced. Neither Coes Mr.
Brewster's statement explain the
rapid increase in the price of coal in
many districts throughout the coun
iry since the present wage prices be
came acute, As a matter of fact,
railroads having contracts with (;/ml
operators at certain specific jrices
per ton are finding it difficult to ob
tain deliveries upon contracts because
the operators prefer to take advant
age of the more attractive and profit
able spot prices which are b2ing of
-I{‘ered them by an apprehensiva pub
c.
SAYS MINERS SUFFER,
*They prefer to bring upon the
country an industrial catastrophe
with opportunity for even greator
profits to them rather than recog
nize, the needs of the men in the
mines and grant them any corsider
ation in wages or hours of labor. The
miners have had no increase in wages
for more than two yeara. During
the past year they have suffered ter
ribly from unemployment; the chil
dren of the mining camps are under
fed and suffering from minutrition,”
Brewster also said: “To make thelr
action more effeciive they propose
to strike at the miaes not oniy in the
central competitive district, which In
c¢ludes Western Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois, but also other
mines employing members of the
United Mine Workers.”
“Before I went into the conference
in Secretary Wilson's offlce yester
day,” said Lewls, “I s;:ltn-i to the
International News So-vice that 890,-
000 bituminous miners would g 0 on
strike. November 1. This means all
the bituminous miners in America,
And whatever wage scale we gain
will 'be the basic wage scale in all
the bituminous ricids.”
Lewis said Lhat all the thirty-two
members of the miners’ wage scale
committee in tha contral competitive
fleld would attend the confrence wish
Secretary of Labor Wilson and the
operators next Tuesdoy. In addition,
William Green, secroiary-treasurer of
thegUnited Mine Workers and Percy
'r:ch, statistician cf the orzanization,
will be present as representatives of
the miners.
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Iheld in connection with "the alleged
lembozzlement from the Fairburn
' Bank, was released on $5,000 Bail
!from the Atlanta Tower at 2 o'clock
Sunday morning.
Mrs. Bradstreet’s release followed
a midnight ride by her attorney, Fréd
Harrisoy, and Deputy McColl in an
automobile to Campbell county,
where the formal charge had been
made. Sheriff Lowry had refused to
l!iberate her without a formal order
from Sheriff Jenkinsh of Campbell
County, ;
The attornéy and deputy arrived at
the Tower with the order at 1:55 a,
m. and Mrs. Bradstreet, fully dressed
for the street, came downstairs with
her atrotn and was given her free
dom,
Mrs. Bradstreet thanked the jail
officers for their courtesy and said
that she wished to thank the news
papers for their treatment of her.
They left immediately for the home
of her father and mother in Pan
thersville.
Announcement that the money had
been raised for her bond came as a
surprise late Saturday.
’ Sheriff Jenkins of Campbell Coun~
‘ty telephoned to Judge Ben Hill and
Attorney Fred Harrison, representing
Mrs. Bradsrteet, telling them that the
$5,000 bond had been made. ;
ASKS FORMAL ORDER. |
He said that he had telephoned!
Captain Lowry to release Mrs, Brad. |
street. Lowry, however, refused to
accept the telephone message as suf
ficient guarantee for him to release
the woman and insisted on receiving
a formal order signed by Sheriff
Jenkins.
Attorney Harrison went at once to
Fairburn to get the formal order
from Sheriff Jenkins, who signed the
order and delivered it to the attorney.
TAXI WAS WAITING.
This caused another delay, although
a taxicab was waliting at the Tower
door to take Mrs. Bradstreet to her
father's home in Panthersville, De-
Kalb County, where she is to re
main until the case against her is
called on October 27 in Fairburn,
““This bond ‘for Mrs. Bradstreet
has been made and approved by
Sheriff Jenkins, and I will have her
out of jail just as soon as it is
possible to get the formal order to
Atlanta,” said Attorney Harrison.
There was a great deal of mystery
surrounding the signing of the bond.
Apparently friends of the ~woman
were working® at cross purposes,
Late Saturday afternoon Judge flllll
called at'the county jail and obtained
a blank bond for Mrs. Bradstroet
from Deputy J. B. Bazemore. l
However this bond was not filledl
out,
SAID TO BE GREEN'S FRIENDS.
"The bondsmen in Campbell County
were reported to be K. L. Cochran
and G, L. Kaisdr,
Both of these men are engaged in
the stock business. Both were said
to be close friends of Willlam B.
Green, vice-president of the Fairburn
Bank, who is accused of embezzling
funds from the bank and spending
the money on Mrs, Bradstreet.
NO BOND FOR OTHERS.
Attorneys Harrison and Hill in
Atlanta said they m not been in
formed of the intention of Green to
go to Mrs. Bradstreet's assistance.
The motive for Green's action in
persuading the bondsmen to sign the
bond for Mrs, Bradstreet, if the ru
mor to that effect was true, could
not be ascertained.
It was just a week ago Suturd’é
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(By International News Service.) ’
, WASHINGTON,; Oct. 19.——Tlmll
President Wilson is making fairly
good general progress in his distress
ing fight for the recovery of his shat
tered health was the expressed be]iot‘
of those close to his sick room at the
White House. At no time has
Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, his
\physivian and personal friend, sald
lthut the President is “out of the
woods,” to the comtrary he has spe
‘citlcally stated time agd again that
there was no prospect of immediate
recovery.
Further indication that the Presi
dent is gtill a very sick man, with
s',vmptomg growing out of his nervous
and physicil collapse which fluctuate
}betwecn the serious and merely pain
ful, was given today when Sccrctary‘
‘Tumulty announced that there was
no hope of the President being able
to receive the king and queen of the
Belgians when they pay official visit
to the seat of the national govern
menit, though their arrival is not ex
pected until October 27—ten days.
| CHANGE UNEXPECTED.
Until today, no change had been
made in the original plan that the
President and Mrs. Wilson would per
sonally extend to the Belgian royal
party a welcome to the capital. '
‘ The announcement that the Presi
‘dent's illness would not permit this
}came as a surprise to White House
officials.
Today is “the best day” the Presi
dert has had since he was taken ill
Doctor Grayson said after issuing his
official statement.
Possibilities of an operation upon
the President for his prostatic trou
ble were dispelled for the time being
by the announcement that no change
is contemplated at the present time
in the simple treatment being used.
Thig announcement followed an ex
amination of the President made this
afterooon hy Doctor Young of Balti
more, an expert on the prostate gland,
It was understood that the examina
tion showed the President is main
taining his own against the suffer
ing which thHe inflammation of the
prostate gland has caused him,
chifly through lack of rest. |
The fact that the President hak
gained strength was encouraging to
those at the White House.
“REAL GOOD PATIENT.”
“Phe President has been a real
good patient today,” Doctor Grayson
said and he appeared to be better
gatisfied with the condition of the
President than he has been for some
days.
Although the condition of the pros.
tate gland is not giving cause for
worry now, Doctor Grayson sald, it is
a condition that must be closely
watched and he admitted that the
physicians were not taking any‘
chances in allowing that condition
to get away from them. Dr. Fowler
will be called in each day to watch
the progress of the prostatic trouble
andy Doctor Young, the Baltimore ex
pert, will be a frequent visitor at the
White House.
The President was in ' excellent
humer during the entire day and ap
peared to have come to the realiza
tion that his condition is such that
he must submit to the wishes of his
physicians. .
Football Player Scores
Touchdown; Drops Dead
(By 'n;{m-tioml News Service.)
TRENTON, N. J.,, Oct. 19.~1n the
presence of more then 1,000 specta
‘tors Joseph Carangelo of Newark, N.
J., dropped dead of heart dilation this
}aflerfloon just as he scored a touch
‘down for the Newark High School
footbajl team in a game with the
Trenton High School eleven.
MORNING
EDITION
Issued Dafly, and Entered as Second Class Matter at
the Postoffice at Atlanta Under Act of March 3, 1879
Log Kept by
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Maynard on
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Long Flight
M INEOLA, L. L, Oct. 19.—An
unofficial log on Lieut. B.
W. Maynard’s history mak
ing flight from the Atlantic to
the Pacific and back again, fol
lows:
Oct. B—Left Mineola 9:24 a. m.
Oct. B—Arrived at Chicago at
5:53 p. m.; B§o6 miles,
Oct. 9—Arrived at Cheyenne,
Wy0.,'6:27 p. m.; 788 miles.
Oct. 10—Arrived Salduro, Utah,
6:03 p. m.; 287 miles.
Oct. 11—Arrived San Francisco
1:12 p. m.; 518 miles.
Oct. 14—Left San Francisco at
1:20 p. m,
Oct. 14—Arrived Battle Moun
tain, Nev.,, at 6:41 p. m.; 856
miles.
Oct, 15—Arrived Sidney, Nebr.,
5:54'p. m.; 642 miles.
Oct. 16—Arrived Wahovo, Nebr.
(forced landing with broken
crank shaft), 12 m.; 345 miles,
Oct. 17—Arrived Cleveland
5:30 p. m.; 766 miles.
Oct, 18—Arrived Mineola, 1:50
p. m.; 498 miles, ;
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—Further
shipments ©of arms and munitions
to Mexico for thé Carranza govern
ment awaits a “definite statement
and decision” from President Wilson,
according to belief expressed in a
letter from an American gun manu
tacturer to H. T. Oliver, head of the
Oliver An\eric:m Trading Company,
Kagle lass, Texas, and read by him
at an executive session this after
noon of the sub committee of the
Senate foreigm relations committee
investigating Mexican affairs,
Oliver was said to have tumlahedl
the committee with “considerable in
formation” regarding a traffic ln‘
arms and munitions by Amerlcana‘
with the Carranza government be
fore a ban was placed on it by Sec
retary Lansing recently.
~ R. B. Sutton, the author of the let
ter, wrote that upon his visiting Sec
retary Lansing on October 9 with “a
United States senator ard a member |
of the House of Represgntatives,”
Henry P. Fletcher, the American am
bassador to Mexico, upon being sum
moned into their presence, opposed
the shipment of arms and munitions
to the Carranza government.
“Mr. Fletcher refused to recom
mend or sanction the shipment of any
munitions, rifles, ete, to Carranza,”
Sutton wrete. “Mr. Lansing finally
decided that the matter must be held
up temporarily pending the decision
from higher authorities.
“Where Mr. Lansing might have
permitted the shipment of 800 guns
now pending action Mr. Fletcher ef
fectually stopped the shipment of
even this smal! lot, ridiculing the
ability of the Carranza forces to pro
tect the shipment and stating’ that
these guns were more apt to be used
against Americans than in safeguard
ing the lives and interests of Amer
icans now in Mexico. Mr. Fletcher's
talk certainly killed all chances of
immediate shipment.
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By WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD, |
Staff Correspondent of the 1. N. 8.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—The clash!
of individuals which for two weeks'
kas kept at a standstill the industrial/
conference which Pr?sldent Wllaon]
called at Washington te liquidate the
unsettled industrial conditions of the
country, has come to an end, i
A mightier clash has come—a clashi
of systems. When the conference
meets Monday morning to consider a
compromise -resolution which the
“committee of fifteen” has prepa.red.;
lthe impact of this clash may resound
through the fields of capital and labor
!in the United States.
‘ One of the systems is made up of
unliberal employers of the Unitéd
States who 8¢ in the conference at/
the employers’ table. s
The other gystem is the American
Federation of Labor.
FACTS DISTINGUISHED.
That the sole conflict of the confer«
ence was between these two systems,
with the steel strike as the issue, was
a fact that had been disguised in the
early days of the meeting. It has,
however, come to light in the past few
days.
The committee of fifteen adjourned:
tonight after tentatively agreeing on
a resolution in favor of collective
bargaining. The resolution which has’
been tentatively accepted provides!
that employees shall have the! righti
to choose their representatives for
collective bargaining by the vote of!
“a majority of their own number™
The committee,will meet tomorrow
night in a ‘urther effort to iron out
the resolution for presetnation to the
conference on Monday.
It is not too much to say that, in'
this conference, the labor leaders be-|
t”eve that the future of organized la~
lb‘”“ as it is represented by the Amervaf
ican Federation of Labor, is at stake.s
' The employers, in their turn, feell
that to give an imch might results in
their yielding their whole position in'
regard to unionism.
With Judge Elbert H. Gary of the
United States Steel Corporation con
ferring with his directors in New York
on the issues of the convention, and:
with Samuel H, Gompers conferring
almost nightly with the executive
coundl of the American Federation of!
Labor in Washington, the two geners
als of the two great forces are in con
stant touch with the elements which
they represent,
| MUST APPROVE TRUCE.
\ Neither Judge Gary nor Samuel
iGompeu can effect compromises
Lwithont the approval of the men who
3keep them in their respective posi«
tions of power,
It.is difficult to ascertain what
standing Judge Gary has with the
lmen and interests he represonts on
matters that are discussed in the
‘conlvrence, or to what extent they
\would permit him to compromise on
the issue of strike arbitration. But
Gompers’ situation is apparent. The
fact stands out that he can compro
mise no longer, and that he has
reached the elastic limit of his auas
thority over organized labor. i %
The steel strike, up to now, has
been the only issue before the confer
ence. The steel strike was brought
into the conference by Gompers him
self. Men at the labor table in the
conference say that if Gompers had
not raised this issue at the opening
of the convention he would have lost