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So speak ye, and so do, as they
that shall be judged by the law
liberty.—Epistle of James.
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of
Oklahoma Leader
Full Leased Hire United Preta He port—.V ember Federated Fret*.
FIRST EDITION
Vol. 1—No. 102
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1920
PRICE, THREE CENTS
EUROPE CANT PAY U. S. TEN BILLION
War Hero Confesses
Part in 83,500,000
Train Robbery.
Alleged Slayer of Millionaire
Oil Man Fails to Sur-
render.
WIDOW ANI) SISTER OF IRISH MARTYR
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ARDMORE, Okla.. Dec. 11.—(By
U. P.)—Clara Smith-Hamon, sought
on a charge of murder In connection
with the death of Jake L. Hamon.
Oklahoma millionaire and politician,
is either in the West Texas oil fields
or In Mexico, according to the belief
expressed today by Russell Brown,
county attorney.
Brown was inclined to discredit
reporth that the woman intends to
surrender and intimated that "forces
that do not want her apprehended."
are seeking to create a "false trail."
"If the woman was In Juarez when
El Paso authorities said she was. it
would be very hard for her to have
crossed the border again inasmuch
as immigration officials and consular
agents were on the watch for ler,"
said Brown, commenting on the In-
sistent reports that she will sur-
render either through Fort Worth at-
torneys or to Aramore officials.
The Carter county attorney pointed
out that the West Texas oil fields
where the woman has many friends
would be logical place for her to
hidr.
"On account of her knowledge of
the oil country ami the many people
who would probably give her «*efuge
it would be the hardest kind of a
thing to locate her there without
employing a very great number of
men.
"Certain people conected with the
case here seemed to me to evince
just a little too much credence in I j""*' artnK detection.
the reports the girl would sur- j J-^l-r-n-'-'-r^-rr""
render," Brown said in commenting
on the ' false trail" theory.
Brown said he tried to learn of
the source of the information pos-
sessed 1* Fort Worth individauls
who started reports that Clara i
Smith-Hamon would surrender with-
out avail.
lie declared he had heard nothing I
further frdun El Paso after w iring I
the warrant which Sheriff Orndorff j
there demanded and said it was ap- I
parent the trail there had grown J
"cold," for the time being at least.
FORT WORTH, Texas, Dec. 11.
If Clara Smitli-Hamon comes to Fort j
Worth to surrender as was persist-
ently reported she would yesterday.
officials here will not take her in
custody\J)ecause they have no war-
rant, they declared today.
Following failure of the girl to ap-
pear yesterday as it was reported
she might by apparently authentic
sources, a watch for her continued
today owing to the possibility that if
she left El Paso Wednesday ninht as
reported she is making the trip by
auto.
Lawyers connected with the case
here continued to maintain they have
no information of the girl's where-
abouts other than they advised her
Keith Collins, of Council Bluffs.
Neb., former captain in the U. S.
Air Service, who has been arrested
in Westville, Okla., charged with
having participated in the robbery
of the Burlington fast mail train at
Council Bluffs recently, in which
bonds and currency of an estimated
value of $3,500,00') were stolen. Col-
lins is the sixth man arrested in
connection with the crime. Reports
state that he has confessed his part.
He claims he burned his share of
Indirect Taxes Add to Burden]
of Living Cost Is Claim
of Expert.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (By I*.
P.) — Approximately $2,000,000,000
can be lopped from the cost of liv-
ing bill of the American people in
^921 if congress works along right
lines in revising t he-tax laws. In the
opinion of many government offi-
cials.
Abolition of many indirect taxes
on business is the method which will j
affect the reduction, it is explained.
"indirect taxes are paid several i
times by the consumer," said Com-
missioner Ethelbert Stewart, head of j
the labor statistics bureau of the la-
bor department, today. Approximate-
ly $5,500,000,000 was collected by the j
federal government in taxes for the 1
fiscal year ending June 30. Most of
this came from indirect taxes, such
as the excess profits tax. tariff and
high sur tax rates on income from J
business operations. For every dol- >
lar that went into the government
pocketbook, several others went into
pocketbook of the business man j
who collected the tax on the article «
he manufactured or distributed, gov-
ernment economists say. According I
to their rule, indirect taxes multiply
the prices of most'commodities from
two to five fold.
The federal government this year
must collect at least $4,000,000,000
In taxes, according to Secretary
Houston.
This means the American people
must pay from $8,000,000,000 to $15,-
000,000,000 In increased taxes If In-
direct taxes are retained, it is es-
timated.
CAPITAL TALKS
Mrs. Theodore Roose-
velt, Jr., Is Stricken
After Fox Chase.
s 2YTr=.5'.li.ur-wI
Farmers' "Strike" Believed to
Be Achieving Its
Purpose.
BY PAUL HANNA.
Federated f'resin C'orreapomlent
WASHINGTON. Dec. 10. Victor)
for the striking farmers of America
is now in sight, if they hold out an
other thirty days In their refusal to
oc'.l crops for less than the cost of
producthh. they will get all the re-
lief they could ask
If the farmer had "held the bag"
and gone to ruin alone nobody in
Washington or Wall street would
have moved to save him. But when
Uncle SI refused to sell, and put his
fingers to his nose at the country
, bankers and merchants who had
J
SENATE TRYING
Simmons of North Carolina
Would Have Americans
Take Up Loans.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 11.—(By tT.
P.) Tho method of how Europe's
indebtedness of nearly $10,000,000,.
000 to tho United States can be
utilized to relieve the strain on the
| treasury will be considered soon by
; the senate finance committee, Sena-
McCumber, acting chairman of
I the committee, said today.
1 Senator Smoot, • epubllcan mem-
' ^ her of the finance committee, also
odoi*®KDASWell.Said the question would be taken up
soon, hut neither he nor McCumbep
Miss Anna MucSwiney, sister ot tho late Lord Mayor of Cork, and
Mrs. Muriel MacSwlney. his widow, photographed at tho Hotol St. Regis,
in New York, where tiiey are staying prior to their departure for Wash-
i'lston to testify l'<- ore t!.e Amerlroo Committee on Ireland
HID THREAT
Public Pays a Steep
Price for Kansas Coal
Roads Obtain At Cost
Roads Get 80 Per Cent of Kansas Production, Public 20 Per
Cent, But Public's Share Pays Profits on the Total—
Roads Get Clean Coal, Public Must Take Fuel, Dirt
and All.
Banners ana more*.... -.... , Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.. who I think anything can he_ done.at this
-iven htm credit he lighted the fuse Was taken suddenly 111 following a session of congress. It is believed,
of a general bankruptcy bomb which long fox chase at the Hartford Hunt | however some plan may he decided
financiers and government official Club, Baltimore, Md Mrs. Roosevelt On at this session foi execution
know they must stamp out without and her husband had been spending ben President-elect Harding takes
(jpiav a few days at the club. Following office.
There Is already talk at Washing her sudden illness she was taken to One plan or realizing on the ni-
ton of a national moratorium a the Hospital of the Women of Mary- lied debt Is to arrange for convei-
general suspension of debt payment land, In Baltimore. Mr. Roosevelt | sion of certificates or indebtedness
for six months or a year. But It accompanied his wite to the city and j of the forelBn nations held by the
may not come to that, exactly. It | spent all of the night at her bedside, j treasury into bonds of these govern-
is more likely that bankers all
LONDON, Dec. 11.— (By U. P.)—
Martial law in Ireland, initially ap-
plied to a limited area In the south-
western portion of that country, will
be immediately extended "should
conditions develop subsequently jus-
tifying it," according to the latest
proclamation issued by the British
government.
The proclamation. which was
supplementary to Premier Lloyd
George's announcement in the house
representatives that she should sur- I of commons yesterday, stated:
render. "Martial law will be initially ap-
| plied to a limited area in southwest
THIRD MAN IS ARRESTED 'Irclund where <™t-
U. S. SHOULD HAVE PUT
FIXED PRICE ON STOCK
KANSAS CITY. Mo.. Dec. 11.-The
government erred in not establishing
a guaranteed live stock price at the
time a guarantee was placed on
wheat. M. L. McClure of the local
federal reserve bank told the inter-
national farmers' congress. He
blamed Herbert Hoover for the cat-
Military Rule Established in llrnTstJit^a^MTt™^
Southwest Ireland by herds had been depleted, hence there
Prnehmofinn ' "frould be an immediate live stock
rrucidinaiiuil. market for many years while herds
were rebuilt.
REVISION III Mi IT MONDAY.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Hear-
ings on revenue revision will be
staried next Monday before the
house ways and means committee,
Chhifman Tordney announced to-
day.
AMONG THE
"DIZZIES!"
BY EDMUND L. HAWKS Jas $3.90 per ton for coal, but this is
i Staff Correspondent,'Federated Press denied by President Howat and bis
| PITTSBURG, Kan., Dec. 11. Why (friends. "We have it from two of
is it that the railroads of Kansas the largo lines." said Howat. "that
get. their coal at cost and the Kan- they purchase their coal at $2.75 to
| sits commission on industrial r-da- $2.80, which is pructtcally cost of
! Hons allows fully 80 per cent of the production. I do not think any of
coal mined in Kansas to go to tho the larger railroads pay any more
! railroads on this basis? Cost of pro- .than $3 at the outside for their coal."
duction of black diamonds in the It is stated that certain of the
| Kansas liclds is $2.75 to $2.85 per "dinky" companies of tho district, the
ton, f. o. b. Pittsburgh or at the owners of whom are union men, have
mine, loaded on flats. admitted that they can produce coal
Why is it that the consumer has as low as $2.65 and have sold to
to pay enough for the remaining
per cent of Kansas-mined coal to
make up for the loss of profit to the
coal companies on the 80 per cent
which goes to the railroads?
The cost of coal to the consumer
at Pittsburgh is $7 per ton at retail
and in more distant parts of the state
lit range from $12 to $16 per ton for
good grade lump.
Some Tough Nuts.
These are nuts, which Alex Howat
of Pittsburgh, president of District
the country, acting on Instructions
from the federal reserve board, will
adopt a so-called volunteer policy of
not trying to collect money from I
persons or firms that cannot pay.
General Credit Extension.
During the next fortnight you will
be instructed through the newspa-
pers that any special extension of
credit to farmers would be "class
legislation." That talk will pave the
way for what In effect must be au
extension of credit to all the small
business and banking groups which
have been caught in the collapse of
prices on agricultural products.
With a very interesting variation,
southern farmers are following the
refusal of Dkkota wheat growers to
sell their crops for less than it cost
to plant and harvest. With their cot-
ton still unpicked in the fields, the
southern planters are going to court
and declaring themselves bankrupt.!"
This transaction leaves the planter 1 n,ietl "
in possession of his domicile and
turns the machinery, land and un-
picked crop over to the local mer-
chant and banker.
As ready money, such a farm is
as worthless to the local banketr and Wa'b aml other bankers meet-
merchant as a steel mill «ithoi', hor„ ,ol|uJr lmp, (.omplelo
workers would be to an abaente. j t|)(, C0,.p0ratt0n before
stockholder. Bankers and store-
ments.
I "The debts are secured by demand
certificates of Indebtedness, subject
to payment on demand," said Sena-
I tor McCumber. "But the foreign na-
I tions have no money and 1Mb no
use to demand the payment. In
negotiation with the foreign nations,
I believe it could be arranged to
change this paper Into government
bonds."
Senator Simmons, democrat, North
Carolina, suggested that the Ameri-
can people could take up the foreign
j bonds, hut Senator Smoot. while
_ . . . -r i ri~ ju.1, * emphasizing the foreign people are
Breaking of Trade Deadlock jin no ^hapc to underwrite such
Denencis on $100,000,000 | <onds. questioned the advisability of
r 1 putting the burden on the people of
Corporation. Plea. ! ihe niiteo states.
I While there is an evident desire on
CHICAGO, Dec. 11.—(By C. P.)—Uhe part of congress to reduce the
World foreign trade Ir deadlocked | allied indebtedness, it was made
and It 1 < up to the people of tho
to break it through
giving its wholehearted support to
the proposed establishment of the
$100,000,00^ foreign trade finance
corporation, Paul M. Warburg said
plain today by Senator Smoot thafc
there is no possibility of congress
rescinding the debt or any part of
it without proper liquidation.
railroads at $2.75 to $2.85 per ton.
Tbey say they can sell at $3 and
make money.
Cost of Production.
Some comment was aroused tn the
Pittsburg district by a statement is-
sued by the industrial commission
from Topeka in which the financial
status of 38 coal producers operating
in Kansas was reported. The com-
mission stated that the information
for the report of G. A. Engh of the ate committee on agriculture on De-
Industrial court was obtained 1 cember 3. He told of a hotel guest
! night.
keepers can't go into the country l"4®^ United States has to organize I
and pick cotton, and even if they did11 |Uelf fo remler 8ervice to the world," the corporation will be beneficial to
mobilize our financial resources, and
"2. On Europe's ability to create
conditions which are prerequisite for
extension of credits on a large
scale."
"We must also have an actual
peace restored," he said.
Warburg expressed the belief that
"And. on the other
e to which
14 of the United Mine Workers of through answers to questionnaires i who said to the man in the next * itnited States nroducts."
America, is giving to the Kansas sent out to the coal companies, oper- room: "Why did you walk the floor 1 afojuty to break the d
rages have been especially preva-
lent. The government hopes it will
be possible to confine its application
to that area, but without hesitation,
tho area will be immediately ex-
tended should conditions develop
sufficiently requiring it."
A dispatch from Plymouth said
IN BARTON MURDER CASE
KAN8A3 CITY, Mo., Dec. 11.—
Third arrest in the murder of Miss
Florence Barton, young society
leader, was made here last night
when a pal of Dennis Chester's was j
taken Into custody on the %-ength that the second battalion of the
of dictograph records of alleged in- Scottish borders and of the first
criminating conversations in his j battalion of the Yorkshire light in-
rooms. ! fantry have been ordered held in
l'olice assert they have enough I readiness to proceed to Ireland,
evidence against the man to send | The premier's declaration that
him to trial. establishment of martial law in a
' j portion of Ireland should aid rather
COVLGATE BANK IS S0I.1 . than retard "peace negotiations"
COALGATE Dec. II.—Wilkin- with the Sinn Felners is welcomed
Hale and others of Oklahoma City by the London newspapers. They
yesterday sold the Security State j say suppression of crime should en-
bank of this place to Thomas Pope, courage the people, and agree that ]
Tom Mltcham, Frank Cook and othei martial law properly administered is
Coalgate citizens. The Security to be preferred to reprisals and ter-j
State bank recently look over the rorism as it should permit the mod-
affairs of the defunct Citizens' State | erate elements to work for peace
bank here.
without fear.'
Fight in Congress
On Big Army Plans
BY PAUL HANNA, to explain (in secret, if he prefers)
Correspondent of Federated Press. i which country he is preparing to
wAQmN:rTn\ Dec o —War with the bi& arm-v hc Js dtu
WASHINGTON, Dec. . . manding at once. A like invitation
broken out In c°°g™^d, n to the secretary of the navy is pro*,
those who want a big standing army ..
and a navy "«>c°nd to""J japan is feverishly adding to her
those who demand "nlversalmiita.y ^ nobodj. can gay whethor jt
training for the youth of the land, j ^ ^ rpsjst ,utack from the Unlte(i
Poverty has produced this conflict. | ^latea or to launch an attack herself.
There is not enough money in sight others profess to see an early war
to pay for both systems of "prepared- jth Qreat Britain. America having
ness." By March there may not be |t.merge(j from the world war as the i
euough in sight to pay for either sys- L,.atje "menace" to England which
tem, as planned at present. j Germany was in 1914.
The array and navy departments still others imagine that the next
are asking for some $l,500,00o,0U0 for administration intends to "clean up"
the "regular'' armed establishments Russia, but Russia is 6.000 miles
during the next fiscal year. < on- aWa>. As a republican politician
gressman Julius Kahn, leader of the puts it, "the indecent glee of Japan
militarists, says his universal train- alu| Great Britain would be our only
ing scheme would cost a mere $50<V , ,,Wiird for trying to conquer Rus-
OoO.OOO, but floor leader Mondell d< Kia."
Clares it would cost $1,300,000,000. There remains Mexico. Mexico's
Mondell is frightened by the state of falCi jn one important respect, has
the treasury and wants to slash ap- been settled iu the minds of tho.- e
propriations all around. who will assume charge at Washing-
Secretary of War Baker will be ton next March. She must submit
called before the house military com- to an American protectorate or to
inittce at an early date and asked I outright annexation.
N K W YORK.—-The shocking
shake oi Tom Tee's shimmering
silken shimmie shattered the se-
renity of Magistrate Leviiie*s
West Side court and convicted
James Lock wood of disorderly
conduct.
Tom Yee, a chop suey magnate,
complained that Lock wood had
shimmied in his restaurant.
**l show Mister Honorable
Court how this man do,** said
Tom. rippling his oriental smock.
"l'.nough," commanded Judge
l.evine. "Five dollars or three
days for 1-ockwood.**
DALLAS, Tex.—■"Skillet" hasn't
laken any "blue ribbons" yet
but he's revived Interest in 'pos
sum hunting: around these parts.
"Skillet" treed nine gallons of
moonshine in a hollow tree.
Sheriff Harston eontiscated the
"corn,** but the dog's owner says
the "booze hound" isn't for sale.
SOUTH IIFN I), Indr-An epi-
demic of crime in South Bend
and Mishawaka has lead to the
formation of a gun club by
women of- Mishawaka. The
women have formed a "battalion
of death" to put an end to hold-
ups and robberies. The women
meet regularly and take part in
target practice under competent
instructors. Several of the
women have been victims of
"stick-up" men.
YORK.—IVm. liirth had
a stroke nine years ago and for-
got he had in u bank
here. He remembered it today
and found $16,1)00 left. A hank
clerk i* alleged to have the rest.
He is jailed.
CLKVKL A N11.—11 encef orth A.
M. Lemay will keep his flash-
light locked up. While explor-
ing his yard la*t night a police-
man arrested him slid held him
in a cell for three hours.
M BA, Kan.—K. K. (tenuis, lo-
cal barber, driven to the neces-
sity of putting his whole family
in jail, did so with much good
humor.
Landlords uould not rent hiin
quarters becanse he had chil-
dren. So he put his lamily in
iail and went out to try his luck
at hoii! e hunting once more.
state commission on industrial rela
tions, to cra^k.
1 p to date the Kansas coal
consumers are holding the sack,
according to Howat, and the
profiteers in coal are getting the
gravy. Meanwhile the cost of
fuel goes blithely up and appar-
ently nothing is done to stop its
ascent.
ators and retail dealers. According
jto this computation, the averaga
; profit on a ton of coal at wholesale
for the quarter ending September 30,
120, was 46.7 cents. The expenses
follow:
| Mine operating expenses $3.01
Other expenses of operation 38.1
General expenses 10.9
Si lling cost OS
Howat first brought this matter to j Net income debits 1.5
the attention of the Kansas consutn- ; The reports claim that 80 per cent
bo the cotton would not pay off the ^
debt at the present price. . .. d
Hurtling States the realize our power depends on the
W. G. P. Harding, governor of the i . countries
federal reserve board, stated the case - n„. >U(.l('lls.
frankly to the joint house and sen-1 rop; that ,.eapect is „
nucleus, or unless Europe can buy
Argentine goods, Argentine can not
ed States producti
i deadlock
all last night, neither sleeping your-
self nor letting mo sleep!"
"Our ability to
(depends on two things:
On our mobilization for the
I must meet a note for $1,000 at;^ and the deKree to which we can ; session.
farmers.
farmers Should Hack It.
"The farmers should be behind tho
corporation for its effect will be to
help setting idle bands in foreign
countries to work and to feed empty
stoinaches and in doing that our ex-
cess supplies will be moved from our
markets," he said.
Crystallization of plans and Iuea
for the formation of the corporation
is expected to be reached at today's
the bank this morning, and I haven
got a cent."
"Well," said the first man. "why ,
didn't you go to sleep and let the ;
banker walk the floor0'' And Gov-
ernor Harding, himself from Ala-
bama, added:
"That Is the situation, gentlemen. ;
There is no need for debtors tc
ers today in an interview with the of the operating expense is paid out excited. Bankers want to remain in
Leader correspondent. He has been to miners. This statement is ridi
following the coal situation, both as ruled by the union miners as being
a miner in Oklahoma and Kansas i out of reason since it would make It
and as an official of miners' unions, appear that the average cost of pro-
for more than twenty years and tojducing coal is $3,585. If this is the
use his own phrase, MI can't for the]case, then at least two large rail-
life of me see why the railroads 1 roads are getting their coal supplies
should get it all." #i at 58.5 cents per ton less than the
Why Doesn't Allen Act? actual cost of production, if the basis
"There is no justice to the public of sale to railroads is as high as $3
in allowing this condition to con- per ton, which President Howat and
S tlnue," said Howat. "There is some- his friends deny is the case. The committee of five members <<
thing for Governor Allen to remedy,, miners assert that it is hardly rea-[fr«m« legislation for the relief of
the banking business. They can't
take over farms and stores and run j
them. They will arrange to postpone
collections. The general situation j
requires it."
SUBCOMMITTEE WORKS
TO AID THE FARMERS
Negro Unions Aid Whites
In Battle on Open Shop
1st. Louis Unions Find They Arc Halting Scab Influx by Way
of Colored Organizers.
10. A White I bring the hotels to terms will be a
inHuutri'ii comparatively difficult task, he ad-
union, engaged in an industrial | m(u^. bu( the d|ce not ,oade<|
WASHINGTON, Dec
A special
GT. LOUIS,
trad
conflict at the gateway to
west, has learned that th<
tion of the black man
requisite to vi
1'Ui lesion
south-i
-opera-
nst the unions as they were in
1913. In that year the hotels and
man is a pre-j restaurants of St. Louis had full
j crews of negro scabs in forty-eight
besn impressed hours.
«.th particular foice upon th<
Louis local of the Hotel and Res
.if he wants to do the people of '.lie sonabletosuppo.se that the railroads farmers who have been hit b> ro- rant Employes' International
authorized
agriculture
j state of Kansas a service. There are taking four-fifths of the output of j c«nt price decline
should be a searching investigation the Crawford-Cherokee counties dis-i today by the hou:
and the public's Interests should b« ;trict at a loss to the producers ofjmittee.
guarded. more than 58.5 cents per ton on One of the first proposals to
"There is one thing certain,w every car handled. considered will be the revival of
tenders
together with tho I
International league
the local branch
known as the Bevera
said Howat, "and that is that la-
bor is not (retting any.benelil
from such nil arrangement. It
cannot be laid at the doors of tho
organized workmen of the min-
ing craft that the cost of coal to
the consumer is needlessly great.
The labor charge is stationary.
The coal digger gets #1.25 per
ton gross and pays for all of nis
powder and equipment and Hie
lay men get their $7.50 per day.
"There is no justice in making
the public pay the operator*'
profit for practically every pound
ot' coal that is used by the rail-
roads. That is what is being
done under the present arrange-
ments and I have no doubt that
«hat is being done iu hunsas
is being done in a greater or
lesser degree in every coal pro-
ducing state in the union."
Itnilroads t«et Clean Coal.
From the statements of other ir
fluential miners of the Pittsburg dis
'he I'uhlic Pays. 1 war finance corporation, Represt
That there is little room for doubt tative Haugen, chairman of the co
as to the accuracy of President < mlttee, said.
Howat's statement is further indi-
cated by this significant part of the ( MRS. II A>I0> IN I H1CAGO.
industrial court's report:
"The prices prevailing in July,
August and September. 1020,
were such that they enabled the
operators to make five-sevenths
of their total profits on less than
one-fourth of the total business."
The "less than one-fourth" is
evidently the 'Jfi per cent that
President Howat says was sold
to the public at a profit sufficient
to make up for any loss In
plotits caused by selling the rail-
roads the other SO per cent of
the output on practically a cost
The Engh statement also says ihat house next wee£
the thirty-eight Kansas coal com-1
panics made but $791,130 profits on I questionnaires. In order to nakc it
i a gross business of $18,113,113 dur- ; complete it is stated that the op-r-
ing the fifteen months. The strange ators should have been placed under
statements as
CHICAGO. Dec. 11. Mrs Jake
1 Hamon, widow of the wealthy >il
; man and politician killed at Ard-
more, was closely guarded at her
I home here today. Mrs Hamon ar-
rived secretly from Oklahoma City.
Every effort was made to keep all
but a few close friends from seeing
her.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 11- Expedi-
| tion of the resolution repealing the
war laws whh put on the house rules
i committee today by Representative
j Volstead. Minnesota, its author, it
! is planned to bring it up in the
jet.n. rrutei
l~gue. Wo 511
lockout of
l.c6taurant Men's association
od October 1.
a review of the fac< of tL
• t conflict and the strike
«no*e the contra t between
cus.rial conflict in which th<
:e a co-operator with the
workman ;.nd «
shunned by the
ed by tho employer.
No Negro Scabs in 1920,
! These ;ire the fact;
f report
Iccount-
etailers
jtrlct it was ascertained that the rail-J part of this statement is, however. | oath
roads in buying their coal require ,'hat Aecountant Engh says at its to actual sale conditions.
that 27 per cent of the slack be ex- outset that there was a total prolit The incompleteness oi
tracted before delivery. But the or- of $506,247 on gross sales of only is practically admitted by
dinary private buyer has to pay at $1,400,500 in the months of July, ant Engh as far as the eoa
wholesale $5 a ton for the run of .August and September. During the statements is concerned. The com-
inine coal with the 27 per cent of last quarter of 1919. the operators mission may make another invo.; iga-
slack in it. if he wants the nut or | claim a loss of $380,558. tion of the retailers' 'in which total
lump, he has to pay $6 to $6.50 per \nother Investigation Possible. income and total expense will be
ton wholesale. Union miners assert that this Engh Iasked for and in which th
In certain quarters it is asserted , report is by no means complete since , perts will
Ithat the railroads have paid as high jit admits that its basis Is answers to profits."
That prolonged the struggle,"
ller asserted.
And now"
Can't Get Scabs.
'They can't get scabs, because the
hich ; organized negroes won't let them.''
rage Dis The negro union. Keller went on
anil Benevolent to explain, sends its organizers to
|jy<i be-n lighting a speak to the negro scaba "wherever
st. IxjuIs Hotel and there are any) and appeal to them,
.> association, start- not as workers (for they have no
class-consciousness), but as raem-
ic facts of the pres hers of the same race.
f 1913 It was only at the 1919 conven-
an in- tion of the Hotel and Restaurant Em-
ntro ployes' Alliance at Providence, R. I.
.vm -o six years after the St. Louis strike
.vhicb h n that it was decided to permit
anil o<ploit-, negroes to join the international and
that negro unions were organized
ind negro organizers appointed.
Trying to Organize Bellboys.
Eifteen The St. Louis local is now making
d forty- an attempt to organize bellboys, por-
J . '0 ters and elevator men. most of whom
- -.md whit- . are negroes. Keller save a dramatic
ifd n open- example of the effectiveness of the
unions. Of St Louis workers' struggle this year,
and on* oaf- as contrasted with that of 1913. that
ices and havt spoke volumes in advocacy of the
t, rn > of tlif union of whites and negro workers.
;in. W aii-i On \ eiled Prophet s Night, which
,,s cnion No. occurred October and may be cora-
rs' Protective pared to the Mardi Gras or New York
No. 51. < ooks Kve celebrations held elsewhere, the
in .03. and Hotel Statler, at which 900 seats had
ce No. .'153. In been reserved at $5 apiece (minus
and restau service), was forced to cancel all its
vith the two reservations.
- agreed to Veiled Prophet's Night occurred
ving confer four nights after the lockout had
secretary of been declared. In 1913, full crews
..n.i tn whlCh tlle stale ex-line local Joint executive board,"de- of neuro scabs were on duty lorty-
determlne th- costs und j dared that the cafes and restaurant eight hours after the declaration ot
have been virtually whipped. To i tile strike
lockout
hotels, t
Octob.
emplo
shop ultin
epted
and Bern
stored Walte
Idition, seve
open-shop
the new s
Waitr
folio
Kellei
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