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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-03
||REcE|VERsARE
LOCKED IN SHED
lnfuriated Italians of Isle Of
wight Then Threaten to
Blow Up Plant
TROOPS ASKED FOR
TO PROJECT PROPERTY
Unsatisfactory Proposition AS
to Settlement of Wages
Due Foreigners Leads
to Trouble

fDpocial TO Tho Richmond virginian.)
u BHfTfff4ELD, VA. Jan. 2.--Whcn
HAZARD and Reed, OF Norfolk. receiv-
81 OF the bankrupt Smithfield Mari
ana Clay Company. today made an
Unsatisfactory proposition regarding
thu payment Of wages duA eighty
nina Italian laborers. tho Italians
looked tho receivers up in = shed and
Declared that they would hold them
there until full payment OF waxes due
wAa made.
Upon promise OF payment and
further influenced by pleas made by
s labor agent, the company store
keeper and Sheriff Edwards. OF Isle
o. Wight county the Italians re-
LEASED tho receivers. but declared that
unless the promise to pay the wages
due was fulfilled in the afternoon
they would blow the plant up at
n3ght.
Receivers Heard and Reed. the la
Dor agent and store-keeper waded
the marsh 10 Smithneld. reaching
there. weary. hungry and scared. the
receivers having no means of carry
1ng out their promiNs 70 pay the ltsI-
iAns the wages due them.
sr8 Ask For Troops.
Az Q solution Of the dilsmnsa, II
was decided TO ask Governor Mann
70 send troops to protect the Ware
plant.
Later, however. negotiations were
entered into looking to q fun settle
mout with the laborers. whereupon
The situation cleared decidedly, and
tbs receivers authorized the sending
- the following message to Gov
Mann:
Wfll not urge the sending Of
froops today. Situation clearing. Ne
opttgxlons promising for q settlement.
ll wire later II troops are need
Iufarfatcd By Receivers.
tn italian iAborefs wsrs lntur-
NH ~I1xux11se wAea- tbs -
eyoeD caane over from Norfolk. Wis
~ ~ plant and offered 10 provide
wnuport1stou 10 Boston FOR the Ia
bcrota and promising to remit to
tAem IN Boston the amounts due them
A8tee tia receivers had closed up the
A6nirS OF the company. The lock
1T up OF the receivers in the shed
and the remainder Of the exciting
train OF the days events followed the
Indignant refusal by the foreigners to
acGspt the proposition OF the receiv-
eTa
Information which WAS received by
Governor Mann from Emithfield, ear.
~ last night. Was to the effect that
T1otous conditions at Smithfield
which had prevailed earlier In tha
day were subeiding and that the need
Tor troops which seemed pressing at
ono time during the day was not i'm
mndlately felt Governor Mann's In
formation came from a member OF
his staff. Col. j. w. Holloway.
The call for troops came from
Sheriff Edwards, OF Isle of Wis
who explained that the Ware plant
having hecn placed In the hands of
rScofvers. and having closed down
the Italian employees were out OF
work, destitute and In . state OF des-
peratiOn. At the time the plant wa
nhut down Judge Waddill entoined
tho AhofArs from interfering with
the mill property or destroying II,
but they did not appear to under
stand tho Significance of his injunc-
ton.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-03
SON Of DICKENS
DIES SUDDENLY
END COMES TO LECTURER IN HIS
APARTMENTS IN NEW
YORK HOTEL.
-
HEART FAILURE is CAUSE
FIRST ATTACK on NEW YEARS
NIGHT. nut RECOVERY FOL
EUwED-WAS PLAN
MING HIS TOUR.
HEART FAILURE IS CAUSE

NEW YORK. Jan. 2.--Alfred Ten
nysnn Dickens son Of the famous
English author. Charles Dickens, and
godson of the late poet laureate.
Alfred Tennyson. who arrived in this
country from Australia last Octo ber
for q lecture tour. died suddenly to-
night at his apartments in the Hotel
AStor.
Overcome by weakness while seat
ed In the hotel smoking room. Mr.
Dickens was escorted o-his rooms
by William q. Glass. manager OF his
lecture room. Or. Burt, house ply
stefan. quickly reached him. but he
soon expired. Afterward the doctor
said death resulted from heart fall
ure. superinduced by acute indiges-
ton.
On New Years night Dickens re-
turned from q theater quite Ill. but
declined to summon a physician. as
friends advised This morning. how
ever, he was very Ill. and DR.. Burt
treated him for Indigestion. He was
that he came downstairs and con-
tinued the plans for his tour of the
country, which was interrupted. by
the fatal attack
Came Here Desrondent-
Dickens had reached. this country
in a respondent frame OF mind, from
Australia. where he had resided for
years. His first comments in Boston.
which were turned into criticism OF
womens' ankles, caused him annoy
anos. and for q time after reaching
New York he declined to discuss
Americans
But he did talk about himself. and
one of the most pathetic interviews
related to tina tragic death OF his
wife, who was killed in a runaway.
He said he had never told the story
.bzfoTe n th:s country but that her
premonition OF the approaching end
had recently returned to him. He
speoke of two young daughters at
this time. Also that he had suffered
serious financial reverses and trou-
bies in mutations
Relatives Of Dickens who re-
side In this country were notified i'm
mediately after the death and are
expected to take charge OF the ru-
neral arrangements. -z r.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-03
CAPTAIN swAINE, NATIVE
u, ENGLIHH1TAN.. rs NO. MORE

CASCADE. VA. Jan. 2.--CAptain
Sanaes J. SwAine. who died here iast
saturday In the SEVENTEEN year Of
~ ago. was = native Of Yorkshire.
sHnG1And. He came to this country
ghen = child and settled in New
York. Later he went to Baltimore,
WKof0 he established himself In the
ktH bu1tuUsx ff6 Was nrst mar
191d IN Norfolk. and In June. 1908.
HI KiGa died. TKn yeArs -lAter-he
married. Miss Lillian Stone, Of Cas-
eade, and from that time had made
~ home IN this place. He IL sur
gxtsed by his widow and two chill
lfon3frS. J. knight Thomas. OF
aKInchesker. Va. and James william
VAine, Of Baltimore.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-03
Millions of Dollars of Trade
Interrupted When Rus
STA interferes
NEED BIG LOANS TO
BUILD RAILROADS
Large Commercial and Manu-
featuring Plants Are Also
Prevented from EStab-
fishing Branches

WASHINGTON. Jan. 2.--As a d.
rect and iuaInedfHts result OF failure
BY the American government to stand
behind w. Morgan Shuster whom II
selected as treasurer. general OF Fer
sia or To express the smallest - m
patty with Persia ia her present dir
nistrsss tuut-ftattuI1 mas PRACTICALLY
terminated negotiation already Tar
advanced wltn American pankers.
notably l. ceiigman 4 Company OF
New York, Tor preliminary loan OK
s50oQo.U0e for the construction OF
railroads In Persia.
Negotiations are pending looking
toward the physical construction OF
n railroad from Kasht to Teheran.
$50 miles in length fer the physical
construction OF tran-Persian rail-
ROAD, suv miles long; Tor TIE con-
structiou of system of electric
street railways, electric light and ice
plants for Teheran and vicinity.
All Of these xast- enterprises that
would have required more than $780,
100000 OF American capital and em-
ployed American contractors an
American engineers were under way.
Only Needed An Expression.
Had the United States expressed the
least dissatisfaction with Russia
her tnhuman campaign aimed at
Shuster and the Persian people every
dollar OF the business would have
coms to America.
Not only that, but negotiations
were far progressed with Montgomery
Ward q Company. OF Chicago. one
of the greatest mail urffef houses
In the world. with Market 4 Ham
macher and A. NJ. Sinck & Com
nany. OF New York. the latter dealers
in agricultural imp sments. to open
branches of their business through
out Persia, and estoblish American
manufac tures In that country.
These negotiations have also pra
tically terminated ana Will not DO
reopcnet. The opportunity to Amer
icanixo Persia, that can never come
again, u gone.
Newr al these facts was srcceived.
In washing ten from the Persian Gem
trai Committee In censtantinople this
Need Backbone.
.Your State department is either
sadly lacking IN diplomacy or II with
o,,f sufYictent sptne,.1 said = somewhat
blunt member OF the diplomatic corps
With 4 cynical smile tonight
MT had every opportunity to make
Persia tho greatest outlet for Amert-
can capital, and the American man
ufacturer In the world. It made
good start by selecting Shuster and
then II laid down on the job.
I'm every diplomatic campaign you
lose. For instance what happened to
you recently In Turkey! A railroad
was to be built In Asia Minor. Ad-
=
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-03
ADULTERATION is
CAUSE OF DEATHS

BERLIN. Jan. 2.--As no deaths
from poisonings have occurred
among the inmates of the municipal
shelter house since the arrest Of tho
dealer who had been selling cheap
groceries. wood alcohol and adulter-
a.ed whiskey to the vagranta. the an-
thor1ties believe the cause Of the III
ness has been found and the eui-
demic stopped There have been
1872 caeex and - deaths reported
since December cs, and there are
twenty persons still seriously Ill In
the hospitals.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-03
MIX 6TALLo, LATE HANNA,
DRINt3S SUIT FOR DIVORCE

xIxRHntA1Jh. o.. ian. 2.-3ra.
1Sty Harrington 6tAilo, former wife
N pan e. Hanna, this afternoon flled
IiIk Tor divorce and other relief from
- &Srney now . resident Of New York
lGfs. G&allo alleges failure to
Soot& gross neglect and extreme
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-03
Revolutionary Troops Begin
Advance On Han Yang.
Washington Hears
DOWAGER EMPRESS
FINANCES CAMPAIGN
-
Advances 81, 100000 to I'm
perial Army-ChiLiPro
vince Comes to Aid
of Throne

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.--Fighting
has been resumed at Han Yang, ac-
cording to advices received late this
evening by the Navy Department.
An attack. the report says. by the
revolutionary forces prevented the
withdrawal OF the imperial troops
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-03
R,,~~iu Not to Interfere.

ST. PETERSBURG. Jan. 2.--Ac-
cording to a dispatch from Kalgan,
in the Chinese province of Chi La,
the princes OF Southern Mongolia
have decided to support the imperial
Chinese government against the -rar-
olutionaries. and in the eevnt Of the
establishment Of a Chinese republic
to declare their independence.
1t is semi-officially reported that
the Russian government will not in
terfere In the Chinese situation and
Will recognize the new republic IL 1t
becomes firmly established.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-03
Money for Imperialists.

= PEkiN., Jan. aa-Ff he fsfnpress
Dowager today advanced 5000, 900
taels tabout $2.o00.00o) to Premier
Yuan Shi Kai to carry on the war
against the revoIutionaries. A re-
sumption Of hostilities by the impe-
rialist troops in the north 10 ex-
pected at an early date.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-03
SOLDIERS REPORTED KILLED
IN WRECK OF SPECIAL.

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan Ait Ia re-
ported here that q west hound Meatern
Pacific Soldiers special has been wreck
d near Elko. Neveda. by reAr-end coll
ltsi0a with another passenger train. A
number are reported killed.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-03
lhDESCR|bAb[E
ENTHUSIASM n !
CIVIC MEETAIG||
Richmonders Filled With the
Richmond Spirit Pack
Auditorium
GREAT PARADE A
NOTABLE FEATURE
Cabell, Dabney, Calisch and
Montague Given Ovation.
Contribution of $50
tor Public Library

More than two thousand nseQ
"WAlked for RtchnonA."
An audience Sf nearly 5,o0o
packed the City Auditoffun.
Everybody was AIleA with tho
Richmond splrit-te the briW.
A gift Of e1Sy0O0 was announce
"a from q frienA for q free /
Public Library.
The City Council heard many
good thlngs said Of Ats vote for
the four ward plan.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-03
Troops March on Pekin.

: LONDON, Jan. 2.--According to q
news agency dispatch received here
today from Lien Tsin. a march on
Pekin will be begun tomorrow by
Wang VIE. Tae. whom Premier Yuan
Sht Kali sent to Lanchow as an i'm
perial peace delegate, but who joined
the republicans and was elected COM
mander Of the troops in Chi LII. He
has teiegraphed to the foreign minis
ters at Pekin and several foreign con-
suls asking them to urge their gov
ernments to observe strict neutrality.
The dispatch also states that tho
Imperial tEeePs sarFssenine Hanchow;
composing one Of the most efficient
forces in the government army. are
IN saver Of i republic and are ex-
pected to join Wang's command,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-03

NANktNG, Jan. China has be-
gun new year with most OF the
ether countries ~ the world. the
changing OF the Chinese calendar be-
ing the first act of DIR. Sun Vat Sen.
who took the oath of office OF pro.
,vissonai president IN this city yeater-
day. The change has -heen- received
with general appreciation throughout
the republic.
The new cabinet has been completed
and will be announced in the follow
Ing form as soon as all the appointees
have accepted the portfolios rendered
them:
Vice. president. Ii Yueng Heng:
premier and war minister, Huanx
,Sins. finance minister, Gsftn chin Toa.
attorney general. DR.. WI Ting FANG;
FOREIGN minister. Vans Chung Wei:
marine minister. Captain Wing; chief
AZ star. Gen Hsu.
Plans for New Government.
After the inauguration DR.. Sun
proceeded to outline his plans for
the new government. He promised
To diaenthrone the MAnchua tn nro.
mote peace and re- esta blish trade. He
declared he would restgn his provi-
sional port ~ soon aaethe republic OF
China becomes firmly established
and has grained the RECOGNITION 81 the
powers. He said the foreign policy
ofthe Eovernment would BE- conduc1no
to the, peace Of the World. He sald
Marking would remain the ooak OF
government for the preeont, but ik n
understood that WIN ChaHR may be
selected ~ the permanent capital.
President Sun u the IDOL of the
populAce and q bein9 recetved WITH
GcAnttAsAA - AAAnnA r.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-11-30
10000 v|RG|N|ANS
FIGHT PRISON LABOR.
Strong Petition Filed in Old Do
minion Against Contracting
State Convicts. - 80

RICHMOND, Va, Nov. 2S.--A
voluminous petition against prison
contract labor in this state has been
presented to the governor by Presi-
dent Davidson, of the State Federal
ton Of Labor. Thirty THOUSAND Vir-
ginians protested against the continu-
alton of the present convict contract
system.
1t has been the policy of the state
to lease convicts to private contrac-
tors for manufacturing purposes. The
legislature of Virginia created board
of charities and corrections in the
belief that their Investigations and
recommendations would be profitable
to the state.
The board of charities and correc-
tons, in making it's report, made the
following recommendation: IF it is
contended that some of our convicts
cannot be controlled on farms or on
the roads, we reply that if, after
experiment, it is found that some of
these men cannot be safely or sue
cesstully employed as above suggest
cd. they can be put to work inside
the walls of the prison in the manu-
facture, of clothing and other MARTIAL
used by our state institutions, and
thus be made profitable without being
brought into competition with honest
labor"
The matter of leasing convicts has
been placed in the hands of the board
OF charities and corrections, of which
the governor is an ex-officfo member.
The petitions now being sent to the
governor are indicative of the feeling
among the people of the state and it
is hoped, at least, that the board hay
ing the matter in charge will decide
to abandon the system which has
been in vogue.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-11-30
TO GIVE employees
EFFICIENCY TEST
Federal Civil Service Commission
Arranges to Garry Out
New Law.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2S.-The test
ing of government clerks to ascertain
their efficiency will soon be begun by
the civil service commission in COM
pliance with laW recently passed
by congress.
This efficiency test is provided for
in a provision Of the legislative, judi
cial, and executive bill which re-
quires that the civil service commits
sion shall, subject to the approval
of the president, estab lish a system of
efficiency ratings for the classified
service in the several executive de-
partments in the District of Column
>bia, based upon the records kept in
each department and Independent es-
ia blishments, with such frequency as
to make them as nearly as possible
record of fact.
All notions, demotions, and dis
missals will be governed by provis-
ions of the civil service rules. It is
stated by one of the government Of
ficials that great care is being exer-
cised in making the system as nearly
perfect as possible, in order that it
may be both fair to the employees and
at the same time serve as correct
means for determining the fitness Of
employees and the work performed by
them. s5T j5..5 F
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-11-30
SYSTEM
J0LTED IN SAGINAW
Automobile Employees speeded Up
to High Hension, Strike for
More Pay.

SAGINAW, Mich. Nov 2S.--The
metal .polishers. and other employees
of local automobile company have
been successful in securing an agree
ment, which eliminates what was
termed the standard SYSTEM
This was only another name for
the much-heralded Taylor SYSTEM
Of efficiency, although the stand
ard system went the Taylor system
one better. Under it, man with q
stopwatch stood behind the metal
polisher and timed him. while per-
forming the operation. Picking up
the material and placing it in the
machine or laying it down did not
count, and was called "unproductive
labor"
If. the machinery went wrong or
the power stopped, this was also de-
nominated reproductive and the
time not counted. The time was
taken according to this plan on three
or four pieces of material, and then
it was figured out how many pieces
could be made in a day at that rate
of speed, which was called 100 per
cent of efficiency.
Over 100 per cent efficiency men
were to be paid a bonus, but those
reaching the 100 per cent mark were
paid only $1.75. This situation be-
came intolerable, and the men found
1t impossible to even make $1.75, as
the speed under which the ratings
We're based could not be maintained
for an entire day.
Owing to the dissatisfaction arising
out of this system strike was called.
and all the employees came out. These
men were unorganized but since they
have been successful in their strike.
efforts are being made to form a
permanent organization.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-11-30
I, W. w, LEADERS
FREE OF MURDER
Continued from Pare

not to discuss anything without che
introduced in the case.
Ettor, half rising in his seat, nodded
assent and then rose to his feet. Every
eye in the court room was upon him.
The usual crimson flush in his cheek
faded. Pale and quivering he stood
for a moment and then in a. clear,
bell-like voice, began to speak.
Deliberately and cody he analysed
his case, declaring that he had been
tried, not upon his acts, but upon ais
views. Once in his statement he hesi-
tated, saying: Perhaps His Honor,
the court, will not let me say what I
am about to say-it is in line with
what I have said about the agents
OF the mill owners planting the dyna-
mite in Lawrence and causing the
street car riots to discredit the strik-
ers."
You may proceed said the Court.
and then Ettor declared with empha-
sis that ''his sister, Giovannitti's sis
ter, Caruso's sister, Anna Lopizzo,"
had been killed. as he believed, as a
result of another plot of the mill
owners to break the strike.
Ettor protested innocence Of mur-
der or melting to riot, not only for
himself, but for his comrades. He
urged that if the jury thought them
guilty they should be given the death
penalty, not shut UP in prison where
they could not continue their work
for the betterment of the working
class and ultimate attainment of their
ideal. a condition where laborers
would earn all the profit of their la
Dor. He pictured the cross, the gull
lotine, the gallows and the electric
chair as unable through all history TO
choke the righteous cause, and ended
in a plea for simple Justice
Men and Women in Tears.
AS Ettor sat down scores of women
were weeping. Even men were in
tears, among them leaders associated
with the defendants in the Lawrence
strike. . 4. g
Then Giovannitti rose from Ills
place beside his comrade. His face
seemed swollen with emotion, his eyes
yelling with tears. He said that he
was about to make the first public
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-11-30
GOMPERS BETTER;
HAYWOOD BEATEN
Continued from paxo 1,

Continued from paEo 1.
stood at the doorway Of convention
hall, listening to the closing clamor OF
the big convention.
To the door came Bill Haywood,
Come in and get your trimmings"
said Barnes, the Socialist.
"Humph, I guess you got yours all
right said Bill, truculently.
Bill weighs $50 pounds. Barnes
weighs perhaps 125.
We'll, I'm a good trade union man.
anyway" returned Barnes in the
tones that turn away wrath.
Wrath didn't turn, however, and
Barnes rebounded from the business
end of Bills right arm, and his head
cracked up against the doorway.
Big Bill turned and went away from
there in hurry. But Sam Gompers
had seen the incident. Down came
his gavel as it has come down often
this week.
There's Bill Haywood he
roared.' He's just assaulted one OF
our delegates"
Several active delegates passed out
into the night.
They Get to Haywood.
Presently from the front of the
Rochester laundry, some 200 feet rom
the hall, rose the sounds of row. One
Of the delegates was James P. Iol-
land, New York, large and active
man.
The noise was made mostly by Bill
Haywood and the crowd which gath
cred. Holland was not making sound
with his mouth: Haywood, was beg
ging the crowd to make him quit what
he was doing with his fists and the
crowd was clamoring for more of the
same.
Haywood finally broke away and
rushed into the laundry, where he
begged the laundry girls to protect
him from the mob.
The girls locked the doors. Hay
wood was finally rescued by a patrol
man who responded to a riot call.
Thfther also came the auto patrol
from headquarters and the entire pro-
cession marched over to convention
hall where the tangle was Strengthened
out Barnes refused to press the
charge of assault against Haywood.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-11-30
EASTERN TRA|NMEN
SEEK new SCHEDULE
General Managers of 50 Railroads
East Of Chicago to Meet
Employees.

NEW YORK, Nov. 2S.-It is stated
that the committee of general man
ayers, representing the fifty-two rail-
roads east of Chicago, will receive
shortly the demands of the conduc-
tors and tratnment on their lines for
q new schedule Of wages, which was
recently drawn up at joint conven-
ton of committees representing the
Order of Railway Conductors and
Brotherhood Of Railway Trainmen.
The conductors and trainmen have
followed the action of the Railroad
Firemen. in drawing up new sched-
ules, which they will seek to have ac-
cepted when the result of the arbi-
tration of the demands of the locomo-
tive engineers is made public.
w. G. Lee, of Cleveland, Ohio,
president of the Brotherhood of Rail-
way Trainmen, has charge of the ne
gotiations. -. $500 g."