The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20
NEGROES LyNCHED BY FLORIDA MOB
Three Men and Two Women Hanged Following Kill
 ing of Constable

Gainesville, Fla, August 19.-Five ne groes, three men and two women, were taken from the jail at Newberry, Fla, early today and hanged by mob and another negro was shot and killed by deputy sheriffs near Jonesville, Fla, as the result of the killing yesterday of Constable S. c. Wynne and the shooting of Dr. L. G. Harris by Boisey Long, negro. The lynched negroes were ac- cused of aiding Long to escape.
 Posses consisting of several hundred men tonight are searching the woods about Newberry IS miles from here, for trace of Long. Further trouble is feared
 Dispatches from Newberry said that the mob which lynched the five negroes was composed of about 200 men and worked quietly and rapidly. After gain ing entrance to the jail they took their victims to a point about mile from town and hanged. them all on one large oak tree. Not shot was fired, the dis patch says
 The negro shot near Jonesville also was said to have aided Long to escape.
 Wynne and Dr. Harris were shot when they went to Longs home at Newberry early yesterday morning to arrest him  Long drew a pistol from his night cloth ing and fired Wynne was rushed to Jacksonville where he died yesterday at noon.
 Several hundred negroes are employed in phosphate mines near Newberry.
 ooo.~.~~~-o~ ment upon the importance of the diff ference between the eight-hour day as commonly understood in the build ing and manufacturing trades, and the so-called eight-hour basic day demand ed in this controversy-the eight-hour day is, in our mature judgment, when considered in connection with railroad train service, question upon which honest minds may differ and it is therefore necessarily a subject for ar bitration. In that manner the conten- tions of the parties may be consid- erad and a fair answer given.
 Social questions affecting the ordi- nary work day in which for six days a week a regular daily routine Is pur- sued, are those which determine how long, during each of those periods the laborer should work. and while in some states eight hours has been adopted as the desirable or compulsory maximum, this broad land is today teeming with the contented and efficient industry of millions of workers that are working more than eight hours a day.
 "The precedent, therefore, eXists-it exists in fact, and the right or wrong of it, as we feel. has not yet in this country passed beyond the realm of debate.
 RAILROAD DAY IS DIFFERENT
 But these are not our problems. The railroad day is a different thing, as has been patiently and, infer, al n run throughout the "A hour period-the public demands that they run on Sun days and holidays-they start at any hour that the necessities may demand they cannot stop until a terminal is reached and many conditions stated and accidental, render it impossible to restrict the hours of railroad labor to d fixed standard.
 'In a general movement of some years ago, the present 10-hour basic day was negotiated and approved by the representatives of railroad labor throughout the country and has con- tinued with some exceptions to the present day. These exceptions have been worked out under local condi- tions, different often from the general conditions affecting the question.
 "In several important arbitrations of railroad rates of pay and conditions Of service within recent years-the last within two years, involving 98 rail- roads serving the entire territory be- tween Chicago and the Pacific coast, the 10-hour basic day was incorpor- atted in the demands of the organiza- tion patries thereto and made the basis by them of the rates and rules awarded by the federal board.
 ANOTHER CONTROVERSY
 "At the present time, in controversy now pending over the identical questions involved here and in which numerous important railroads and national or- ganzation of switchmen are parties, an arbitration through the friendly offices of the federal board of mediation has been agreed to wherein the question of an eight-hour basic day has been submitted as an arbitrable question.
 We stand for the principle of arbitra- ton for the settlement of industrial dis putes Arbitration is the ideal toward which public sentiment and legislation of this country have been steadily tending for the settlement of disputes betweeen employers and employees, particularly in the case of public service corporations rather than the strike and the lockout with attendant disturbances and paralysis of public business Arbitration has been| provided by legislation, both state and national So late as 1913 the federal law was perfected or improved by amend ments framed in conference with some of the railroad labor leaders now refus- ing to arbitrate, and includes in it's scope all controversies in railroad service
 INVOKE PRINCIPLE
 We invoke that principle now and are willing for the interstate commerce com mission to arbitrate the whole question More than that, we are willing for the President of the United States to appoint commission of disinterested persons to arbitrate all matters in dispute, if neither the interstate commerce commission nor the machinery of the Newlands act Is sat