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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-06-08

\ PLAN for adjusting labor differences
through a board of arbitration has been
formulated by Representative Kiefer. of
Minnesota. The bill provides for the
appointment by the president of three
commissioners of arbitration. The
commissioner of labor is made ex-officio.
member of the arbitration board. The
governor of state in which a labor
controversy occurs is also a member.
The board of arbitration thus consists of
hye members. In order to secure the
offices of the board, the application is
first made to the governor, the form of
an application being set forth in the bill.
The application may be made by en-
ployers or employees. In the latter case
1t must be IN behalf of at least fifty en-
pioyeS of an organization having one
thousand members throughout the
country. If the governor is satisfied
that a conflict exists, which cannot be
amIcable settled, he applies to the ma
tIOnal board OF arbitration TO take cbaroa
=
OF the question. The board assemblies
IN the state capitol, hears evidence and
arbltrates the difference in the usual
manner. Its decisions are made as
binding as those of a federal court of
law. Provision is also made for en-
forcing the decision of arbitration
Tending the hearing of the board. the
governor is clothed with power to pre-
serve the peace and suppress the strike
Nr. klefer appreciates that the state
right ...rgument will be raised against the
bill He has conferred with number of
lawyers, however, End he is hopeful of
having the bill conform 20 all constitu-
tional requirements.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-06-08
A CONTEMPORARY states the case plain.

a CONTEMPORARY states the case plain
ly.
y tariff for revenue will put a stop to
charges of wholesale bribery around
Washington. Nothing else will.
The tariff lobby is the nursery of all
the other lObbies.
\ protective system without some
form of bribery cannot be conceived.
Interests whose profits depend upon rises
and falls in tariff schedules will put up
money to elect man to the house or
senate if they are sure of him and to de
feat another man who is dangerous to
their schemes.
Frank Hurd was one of the first vic
TINS of the protection policy of killing
off reform leaders. William r. Morri-
son was next. a mercenary still hunt
nearly captured Carlisle's seat.
Protection is necessarily bribery. No
body ever attempted to formulate an
equitable system for imposing tariff du-
ties. The question is always how much
the protected interest can get in the
general scramble. Protection Is essen
TALLY a mercenary transaction all
through. 1t was mercenary when SOW
ereigns could grant trade monopolies to
favored subjects and the royal hand was
held out for either payment in advance
n ~ ~ ha
change except as compelled by changes
in forms of government
We can look for little more than
scandalous charges and highly colored
rumOrs from the senatorial investiga-
ton. 1t can be believed, however, that
protected interests have been offering
bribes during campaigns and committee
hearings. They always have offered
bribeS and will never stop until the pro-
tective idea is killed.
Bribery, petty and occasional, will al
ways exist. Systematic, organized.
steady bribery is the distinction of the
protective system alone. No other pos
sible interest can afford so much for
bribery as the protected Interests.
Where hundreds of millions are in
volved there is no trouble about spend
ing million or two to get the necessa~
~ votes. Other interests might employ
lobbyists occasionally, but it is protec-
ton alone which must by the circum-
stances of its existence maintain a bic
lobby as an Indispensable adjunct of its
business. Government cannot be pure
while protection lasts.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-06-08

A DISPATCH from Peora, Illinois saws:
one dead body, several men on the verge
of the grave, a number of others seri~
ously injured, $50, 600 worth of proper
ty absolutely destroyed, and many homes
made desOlate, was the result of an at
tempt made on Wednesday by the
miners of the Peoria district to close
the mine operated by Little Brothers.
IN Tazewell county, a mile or more back
of Wesley City. The tragedy was the
sequel of meeting held at Bartonville
the other day, about which there was so
much secrecy. 1t was decided that the
Little Brothers mine must close. In
consequence of the conclusion arrived
ut by that meeting, about 400 miners
started out of Bartonville on Wednesday
afternoon. They came from nearly all
the mines in the district Every man
apparently came armed. They were
desperate and were ready to use desper-
ate means to accomplish desperate ends.
They were met by the sheriff with a
posse but forced their way and charged
on the mine. The Littles retreated into
the tower and opened fire on 1.-THE besie-
gers who riddled the tower with bullets
and set 1t on fire. The men in the tow
er escaped. There are a number of peo-
pie wounded.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-06-08
They Will Confer.

PTTTsBURG, Pa, June 5.-One Of the
highest authorities in the ranks of the
western Pennsylvania coal operators has
received assurance that the Illinois oper-
atOrs, who have all along refused to par
ticipate in a joint conference of opera
tors aud miners, are now ready and will
ing to do 50, and that at to-day's meet
ing IN Columbus, O., President Mcbride
Will issue call for another joint con
ference to lac held at Columbus Friday
OF this week. The coke region opera
tors are arranging to employ men in this
city to go to the coke region to take the
places OF the strikers. An employment
office has been opened for this purpose.
This morning three car loads of work
men were shipped from this city to
various points in the coke regions.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-06-08

President CLEVELAND, SAYS a Wash
ington telegram, is angry at the way in
which the tariff bill has been bungled
In the senate. He Is particularly angry
at Senator German for having in his re
cent speech twisted the Presidents let
ter of acceptance into an endorsement of
the line of policy followed by
Mr.. German and his allies in making up
their compromise tariff measure. He
has expressed himself freely to some of
his most confidential advisers. and an
effort has been made to induce him to
come out In a statement, calling a halt
on the present course of the SEN
ate and demanding the passage of a gen
uine tariff reform bill. Should he do so,
1t will be so emphatic that there can be
no mistaking the Presidents dissatisfac-
ton with the German compromise, and
his disgust with the scandal it has
brought upon his administration.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-06-08
Excitement GrOwing Among Miners.

PHHIrsBURG, Pa, June 5.-James
PasSmore, of this place, who operates
the Urey Ridge mine in Indiana county,
Is reported to have started his collierv
this morning. a number of his old
employees returned to work under the
protection of the police. 1t is to that
mine that Captain Clark took a number
of coal and iron police this morning.
There Is no truth in the report of great
deStitution prevailing in this section.
IheeXcitement is steadily growing with
the miners. The leaders do not fear an
attempt as resumption in this region.
for the reason that the mines are com
paratlvely small and scattered.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-06-08

STRIKES have become such a contin
uous feature of the industrial situation
in the United States, says the Philadel-
phia Record, that the causes which bring
them about, and the means which may
be adopted to prevent them, are subjects
of vital interest. The present mining
strike seriously cripples nearly every in
dustry that depends upon steam power
or upon large consumption of fuel for
other purposes. Strikes upon great lines
of railway are hardly less disastrous
Millions of persons who have no direct
interest in mines or railways find them
selves injured 10y these quarrels, and
without means of remedy
Is it not time that a remedy should
be provided
There would probably never be a
strike but for the over supply of laborers.
The policy of employees of labor has
been to induce an over supply for the
purpose of reducing wages. The policy
of workingmen has been to combine for
the purpose of maintaining wages In
order to carry out their purpose the EN-
ployers have resOrted to the importation
of labOrerS. Pennsylvania is crowded
with solicited foreign miners aud factory
employees; and that they may protect
themselves against these competitors the
banded workingmen organize strikes.
The only effectual way to put an end
to any evil Is to remove the cause Of it.
There has been no effort in this direc-
ton, except the futile and easily evaded
law forbidding the employment OF alien
| contract labor.
As long as there shall he an over sup
! ply of labor a strike can only be effec-
tive by becoming lawlesS. When they
undertake to prevent others from taking
their vacant places, or when they under.
take to enforce their demands 10y intim.
idation, they themselves should be in
| stantly repressed. 1t is far less import
ant that they shall have work mt sucl
wages as they demand than that every
man who may desire to work shall bt
free to do so. If the immense sums o.
money that have been expended by
trades union in sustaining strikers out o
work had been used in finding new field
of labor for idlers, or in procuring tn,
deportation of excessive labor, some
thing in the nature of remedy wOulC
have been provided. Against the polio,
of importation a policy of expectation i
the true rejOinder.
Congress could assist depressed IabO
by stricter defensive regulations agains
induced migration. 1t has also beer
suggested that the states should act 70
their own protection. Why should no
the Overseers OF the poor in every cOun
ty of Pennsylvania that has been over
run by alien contract labOrers requir,
bonds from their employers to REIN
burse the taxpayers for expenses incurret
in support of pauperized employees or il
protecting the public against their de
predations?
The Federal government and tn,
state government have the power to eff
fectually protect the people against greco
on the part of employers and against
violence on the part of employees. .Sucl
disastrous conflicts as the one now de
ranging the business of the whole coun
try and occasioning loss of life and prop
erty in several states make the enforce
ment of law imperative. If the laws b,
inadequate they should be amended.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-06-08
here Il lob Ruies.

MCKEEsPoRT, Pa, June l5.-The big
strike ut the National Tube Works as
sumed a serious aspect to-day. This
morning a sufficient number OF the
strikers went to work to get IN operation
two lap weld furnaces and the butt weld
mill. Upon hearing this the strikers
quietly met and decided to use every
possible endeavOr to have the men quit
work again.
AtIl:3O clock the works were sur
rounded by mob of fully 1000 men
and bows and trouble was looked for.
When the whistle blew at Il O'Clock
Thomas Milligan, one of the striking
welders who had returned to work with
two companions, tried to leave the mill
yard. Their appearance was greeted by
deafening yells, and as they attempted to
90 through the crowd the men made for
them. Milligan was struck in the face,
but before any more harm was done he
had been secured from the mob by com
pany officers and Superintendent Pat
terson, who retreated back to the mill.
Several bricks and stones were thrown at
them No more men attempted to leave
the works. but the crowd remained to
watch every entrance. At noon the
boilermakcrs marched out in a body and
said they would stay out until the strike
was settled.
The company is going to make every
attempt to run the works with whatever
men will work. 1t Is expected that the
company will this afternoon secure a big
force of deputies, as more serious trouble
Is looked for The widest excitement
prevails and the streets are packed with
people, the entire police force trying to
keep the streets. clear. W. II. Sims,
vino was suspected of being a deputy.
was run through the streets by several
hundred men. He was roughly han.
led.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-06-08
Boys Crushed Under Failing Rock.

SHEPHERDsvHLE, Ky, June ed
ward HOrtz and Thomas Hart were
killed near here by the carelessness of
Lee Eckert, companion, with whom
they had been playing. The three BOYS
went to BuZzard ROost, a high bluff. and
rolled large stones into the valley below.
After enjoying the fun for while Hortz
and Hart went below to view the damage
done by the rolling rocks. While they
were In the valley Exert pried off ledge
of rock hanging on brink, which went
down with "A tremendous crash, tearing
down trees and shrubbery and crushing
the two boys to death.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-06-08
COniesses killing His Child,

Harry Johnson, under sentence of
death at Allentown, Pa, for murder.
has made full confession of the crime.
He made the statement over his sigma
ture that IN July last he took his four
year-Old daughter to the Lehigh liver
and threw her in to get rid of ner. be-
cause she had become burdensome to
him. Johnson and his wife lived sepa-
rate. She sent the girl to him at the
stable where he worked. He was tired
keeping her and drowned her. John
son said he took her about the waist
and threw her in the river at a secluded
spot after dusk.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-06-08
Washed Away by the FlOoI.

BOULDER, Col, June 3-The pipe fac
tory, five houses, the railroad tracks, and
all the city and railroad bridges have
been washed away by the flood in Boul-
per creek. No lives were lost The
towns of Crisman and Salina, mining
camps in Boulder canal, the former six
and the latter eight miles from Boulder,
have been wiped out of existence. They
had a population of about 200, who are
now all homeless. Many placer mines
are ruined. The total loss around BouI-
der Is estimated at S500,00O
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-06-08

PETITIONS are in circulation over the
state to be presented to the next legisla-
ture-asking ''for the enactment of
such measure as may result in the col
lection of all public revenues-state
county, township, and municipal from
the value of land, irrespective of i'm
provements IN or on it, and for the
abolition OF all other taxes now levied
for this purpose. D" The petitions are
circulated under the auspices of the sin
gle tax league of New York and il is
proposed that they shall bc signed bv
both men and women.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-06-08

CONGRESSMAN BELTZHoovER of the
Nineteenth Pennsylvania District has
been laid on the shelf. He was a candi>
date for denomination but on Monday
the district was carried by Peter Strubin-
ger who Is genuine Democrat. Mr..
BelzhOOver was one of the Democratic
congressman who opposed the Wilson
bill and favored protection and his con
shtuents have concluded that his proper
place Is in the Republican camp.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-06-08

An exchange remarks: Il trusts and
combines are able to hang out 800, 900
for senatorial vote they can generally
get few takers. Here appears the
moral side of a tariff for protection A
nation cannot afford to subject its public
men to such temptations. There should
be IN public life no opportunities fol
amassing fortunes in exchange for votes
Clean out the tariff robbery by making
revenue the rule of all tax laws.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-06-08
Entire Family Commit Suicide.

Berlin. June Carl Seegera. a
master painter, with his wife and four
children, committed suicide last night bv
taking cyanide of potassium. The six
unfortunate persons were found dead
\ paper signed by the whole family
showed that they had all consented To
die 10y poison.
The cause of this wholesale suicide was
the fact that Seegera was without means
on account of his failure to collect
money due him for work done upon
some new buildings.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-06-08

MCKINLEY and Reed are both to the
front as presidential candidates. Nc
Kinley has the sole right to the use of
the high tariff process while Brother
Reed has patent financial policy called
international bimetalism" recently in
troduced by the Republican convention
of Maine with which he expects to cap
ture the silver states in the West
Brother Harrison is also expected to be
heard from.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-06-08
Interest OH His Debt

ALLENTOWN, Pa, June G.-Because
David Schomoyer owed two wears dues
and had therefore been debarred from
membership IN the Union church, at
Cetronia, his funeral yesterday was held
out of doors. The church authorities
would not allow the body to be taken
into the church, although Mr.. Schomoy,
er had been an elder and a deacon of if
for a number of years. The funeral ser
mon was delivered in the cemetery.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-06-08

The end of the Mckinley experiment
begun in 1890 will have been reached
June 50, 1894, the termination of the
fiscal year. The deficiency at that time
will be in the neighborhood of SO, 900, =
600. This Is about as much money as
the sugar trust has been enabled to
fitch from consumers during the past
four years.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-06-08

The motion of the government to
prevent the construction of an electric
railroad on the Gettysburg battlefield has
been denied by the L. 5. court at Phila-
delphia.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-06-08
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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-06-08

IT i estimated that the losses in the
state fsom the flood are s., 900, 900.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-06-08
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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-12-26

paste mould ware about three-fourths
of the entire force worked on this line
of ware) and to make an unlimited
number per day on iron mould ware, in
stead of q certain number per day as
in accordance with the union list, VIZ
tually meaning q heavy reduction on
this line of goods. Besides this reduc-
ton. we infer from as much OF the
situation as we have had explained"
to US, that we were TO leave 10 to 70
per cent of our wages stand as stock.
Is there any need OF argument? We
think not.
During the past eighteen months we
gave studiously avoided any news
paper controversy. We have made 1t
point not to push our battle for the ex-
istence of union principles before the
public. Had the firm not made those
incorrect statements, as we have con-
clusively shown, we would not have
appeared In print, but in justice to our
selves the firm compelled US TO place
our side before the public They have
tried TO make it appear that the men
have refused TO work cooperative.
Such is not the case, as the firm well
knows. No proposition of any kind TO
work cooperative has been offered to
the men through this local. We have
tried to conduct this lockout In
quiet. orderly manner, and would beg
our friends and sympathizers TO refrain
from any acts of violence. Let the
poor, deluded beings whom the COM
PAW may have secured to replace union
men, ply their arts (?) In peace. They
will soon flock to another fold. Local
Union No. Is, American Flint Glass
Workers, OF Martins Ferry, has passed
a resolution unanimously condeminG
violence of any kind during the pres
ent lockout. We ask all honest men to
keep away from the Buckeye glass
works until the difficulty between the
men and the firm has been adjusted,
and ask for the moral support OF all
friends of organized labor.
Com L. u. No. Is.
December "a, '94. Martins Ferry, o.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-12-26

manifest. il turns out to be veritaole
tornado. houses are torn asunder and
blown, away. great trees are taken up
roots and all. and waited into space,
lightning flashes and thunder peals.
The scene is one of awful Intensity and
truthfnlness. Then follows the deck
OF grea. ocean steamer. the grand
rigging scene with six sailors on the
yard arm of q mast, furling sail; col
lision OF two steamships, scene show
ing the open sea tossing lone man
about on the waves, which run as high
as the stage will permit. Chicago har-
Dor at night, a dissecting room in q
medical college, and beautiful autumn
nal scene in the Wisconsin woods.
1.-THE Tornado" is the Opera House at
traction Thursday night
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-12-26
FABIo RoMANI.

ABlO hOMANls
Manager Feinler offers the patrons OF
the Grand for the last three nights OF
this week Alden Benedict's "Fabio Ro-
mani" spectacular scenic production
which is well spoken OF by the critics.
There are also number OF pleas ng
specialtles and the famous living pict-
ures which have created a sensation In
the East.
THE NOMINEE.
One OF the best attractions which
Manager Reister has booked for the
Opera House this season, is the ster-
ling comedy, 1.-THE Nominee, in which
bob" billiard appears in the title
role. 1t is said to be especially inter-
esting to lovers and matrons, as the
hero of the piece meets with many
amusing experiences in his efforts to
disentangle himself from unfortunate
love complications. The comedy is re-
fined, and OF high order, and the
company which will present The
Nominee" includes some Of the best
comedians on the stage. THE Nomi-
nee" should be greeted with a crowded
house.
THE TORNADO.
The scene Of Lincoln ]. Carriers rev
play, 1.-The Tornado, is laid In Wis
consin village, on the Fourth of July.
An approaching storm soon becomes