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TEXT OF STRIKE ORDERS
AS SENT TO RAILROADERS

apply to their officers and committee
men for information and be governed
accordingly, and no member or non
union man will return to work until the
strike is officially declared OF. when
all will return to work at the same
time, without prejudice and with ali
Duties of Local Chairmen
First. The local chairmen of each
organization on each division Of rail
tion of the strike on the territory over
which they have jurisdiction.
Second. Local chairmen are expect
situation and use every honorable ef-
fort to further the cause, and will re-
port daily preferably by night letter
to the condition of affairs. Wherever IL
is possible for local chairmen 10 re"
port to the four general chairmen
jointly in one communication 1t should
Third. Expense incurred for tele-
grams will be borne jointly.
Fourth. When deemed advisable the
four local chairmen will agree upon as
stant chairmen for their respective or
ganizations. to be located at outlying
points, and said assistant chairmen will
report to their respective local chair
men.
loyalty or inefhciency on the part or
any representative of the organization
should be reported to the other organi-
cations and necessary action either as
Duties of General ChaIrmen
First. The general chairmen of each
railroad involved in the strike VIII
supervise and be responsible for the
conduct of the strike upon the line or
railroad over which he has .jurisdic-
tion, and will make reports by night
letter to the grand officer having gen
eral supervision over that line of road.
Expense incurred by so doing viii be
paid in accordance with the laws of the
respective organizations.
Second. On the roads where, because
of the number of strikers involved, 1t
becomes necessary for the general
chairman to have assistants, he may
designate other officers and members
of the general committee or JOINT
board, as in his judgment may be nee
essary, to successfully carry on the
Third. In the absence of instruction
from the grand officer in charge of the
district the general chairmen will agree
which they will be located during the
strike and they will Immediately ad-
wise the officer in charge of the dis
trict and each of their local chairmen
where they are located and proper ad-
dress The four general chairmen
should keep each other advised as far
as possible as to their location and
Duties of Grand Officers
The grand officers of the four or
ganizations will be assigned to certain
divisions, and each grand officer so as
the strike in his respective district ana
over all members on strike and others
associated with them in that district.
Grand officers will keep the eNecu-
tiVes of the four organizations advised
of the exact situation in their district.
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LEGISLATIVE MEASURES
INCLUDE EIGHT HOUR DAY
AND FREIGHT Sc

Washington, Aug. %. - After his
conference with President Wilson,
Senator Newlands said definitely that
the following measures were under
consideration:
An eight hour law for railroad
employees.
\ measure creating a commits
sion for the investigation of the
workability of the eight-hour day
and wage questions involved i'll
the present controversy.
An act similar to the Canadian
Interstate Commerce Commission
vestigation of disputes OH rail-
roads between employers and en-
ploycs and prohibiting strikes or
loclIoutS during the investigation.
y resolution authorizing the
Interstate Commerce Commission
TO take wage standards into con-
sideration i'll fixing freight rates.
Authorization for the President
to draft men into the federal sery-
ice for the operation of the rail-
roads in case of strike.
After seeing the President, Senator
Newlands went to the Department OF
Justice for a conference with the Act
ing Attorney General, Chairman
Adamson of the House Commerce
Committee, Commissioner Clark, OF
the Interstate Commerce Commission
and Commissioner Chambers of the
Federal Mediation Board.
The conference was for the purpose
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Of putting the bills into final form.
Provides Basic Day

of putting the bills into final form.
Provides Basic Day
Senator Newlands conferred with
Senate Cummins. a Republican MEM
Der of the interstate commerce COM
mittee, Representative Adamson, chair
man of the House interstate commerce
committee, and Democratic Leader
Kitchin. One bill discussed provides
for a basic eight-hour day, that the
Interstate Commerce Commission fix
the maximum wages in all cases of
dispute temporarily pending any COM
mission adjustment of rates and that
1T shall be unlawful for any employe
on any interstate railroad carrying
United States mail to quit service with
out giving six days notice except by
consent of the employer"
1t would prohibit any two or more
persons operating interstate railroads
or roads carrying the United States
mails from combining and conspiring
to quit at the same time and thereby
interfere with and obstruct the OPP
Grafton of such trains TO the loss and
detriment of the public"
The penalizing section of the bill
would make violation a misdemeanor
punishable by a maximum fine of
S10,0 or maximum Imprisonment OF
ten years.
There was some opposition to 1t in
the conference and also some oppo-
sition to the plan to amend the House
bill TO enlarge the Interstate Commerce
Commission membership.
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Washington, D. c., Aug. %, : The
strike instructions sent out by the
brotherhood leaders are add dressed TO
the four railroad brotherhoods and are
as follows:
In connection with the strike you will
observe the following instructions:
Duties of Members
First. No man in road service involv-
ed in the strike will perform any ser
he has already begun. his trip and has
actually left the terminal. If the train
has left the terminal he will complete
the trip and deliver the engine and
train at the end of the run or tie-up
point, if tied up under the law, after
which he will perform no further ser
vice until the close Of the strike. Men
In other than road service will leave the
service at the appointed time.
So far as your legal right to strike
is concerned, there is no difference be-
tween a mail train and a freight train.
You have identically the same right to
refuse to perform service on mail
train as you have to refuse TO perform
service on freight train.
Second. All men on strike will keep
away from the companies property,
tain duties to be performed by au-
thority of the organizations.
Third Every man should understand
that the laws of the land must be
obeyed. Acts of violence of any nature
will not be tolerated by the orSaniza-
tions.
will arrange for a hall for meeting
purposes at all terminals, using one OF
their own lodgerooms if available. I'M
mediately after strike becomes enec-
tive all men will assemble at the hall
secured for meeting purposes. When
thus assembled an organization Will be
perfected by the election OF a chalrman'
vice chairman and secretary No per-
son will be permitted to be present in
the meeting hall other than those who
are on strike, except by permission or
the assembly.
ganization on separate sheet. Roll
will be called twice daily, morning ana
afternoon. The names of the nonmem-
bers will be kept separate on the roll
from the names of those who are MEM
bers of the organizations. All strikers
will be requested to answer the rollcall
and also to be in the halls. where halls
are provided, during the day at all
times, unless excused by committee
action or by chairman of the meeting.
The secretary will also keep a reccru
of the proceedings from day to day.
Sixth. In the conduct of every strike
there are numerous irresponsible per-
who take occasion to engage in acts of
violence and disorderly conduct. and
such actions are usually attributed to
members of the organization; and great
care should be taken by every member
of the organizations to avoid associat-
ing with such persons and such con-
duct should be discouraged. so as not
to cast reproach upon the cause.
Seventh. Some railroad officials may
endeavor to coerce or mislead the melI
by asserting that men at other points
have not quit or that they have return
ed to work. Such information should
be discounted and all strikers should
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sherifrs Office. August IA.

To Julia Mccormick. Elizabeth McCor-
mick Phillips, Agnes Mccormick
Adams, and all other heirs of David
Mccormick, deceased, holders of the
mortgage hereinafter mentioned:
TAKE NOTICE that the Board of
Trustees of Grace Methodist Episcopal
Church of Harrisburg. Pennsylvania,
by Horace b. Mitchell, President, have
presented their petition to the Court
of Common Pleas of Dauphin County,
Pennsylvania, to No. 8, September
Term, 1915, asking that satisfaction be-
decreed on a mortgage given by J.
Vance Creswell to David Mccormick
now deceased, dated February 26 1870,
for the sum of $4,000. recorded in the
Recorders Office of said County in Mort
gage Book T. Vol /, p. A. etc, covering
the lot of ground at No. 2i6 State Street.
Harrisburg, Pa. fronting twenty
four feet on State Street and extending
in depth one hundred seventy feet
having thereon erected a brick dwelling
house with a stable in the rear as fully
set forth in said petition; and that said
Court will hear said petition on Mon
day, September 25, 1915, when cause, IL
any there be, may be shown why the
satisfaction of the mortgage should not
be authorized by the Court
w. w. CALDWELL.
sheriff's Office. August IA. 1915. 49,
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WHEREAS. the Hon. George KunkeI,
President Judge, and Hon. Samuel j. M
McCarrell, Additional Law Judge, OF
Oyer and Terminer and Quarter Ses-
sions of the Peace of the Twelfth Judi
cial District. composed of the County of
Dauphin having issued their precept,
bearing date the 18th day of August,
A. d. 1916. to me directed for holding a
Court of over and Terminer and Gem
eral Jail Delivery and Quarter Sessions
of the Peace of Harrisburg for the
County of Dauphin. and to commence
the fourth Monday of September, 1915,
being the 25th day of September, 1916,
and to continue two weeks.
Notice is therefore hereby given to
the Coroner, Justices of the Peace. All
dermen and Constables of said County
of Dauphin that they may be then and
there in their proper persons at 10
o'clock in the forenoon of said day,
with their records. inquisitions. examI-
nations and their own remembrances,
TO do those things which to their office
appertain to be done. and those who
are bound in recognizances to prosecute
against the prisoners that are or shall
be in the Jail of Dauphin County, be
then and there. to prosecute against
them as shall be just.
Given under my hand at Harrisburg,
the 22d day of August A. d. 1915, be-
ing the one hundred and forty-first
year of Independence of the United
W. w. CALDWELL,
sheriff's office. Harrisburg, Pa,
August 22. 1915.
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the controversy before the country
Situation Serious

the controversy belOIS IiS COuhtlS'
Situation Serious
Added evidence to the conclusion
that the brotherhoods had rejected
the latest offer of the railroads was
found in to-day's action of the leaders
who sent out new order which ac-
tually orders a strike on Labor Day
unless a satisfactory settlement is
reached to prevent IT. The previous
order merely made the strike order
tentative and required the transmits
sion of a code word to make it effec-
tive. 1t now requires no additional
word to put the strike into effect on
Labor Day. but it does require word
that a settlement has been reached to
prevent one.
The brotherhood leaders declared
after their meeting this morning that
nothing but satisfactory settlement
could prevent their men walking out.
Their action in changing the strike
order to require no additional action
to make it effective was also said to
have been taken to meet any con-
tingency that might arise to prevent
strike order being issued. The lead
ers took the position that with the
strike already ordered they could not
be prevented by legal processes from
making it effective while it left them
free to call it off if Il settlement sat
isfactory to them was reached
The developments of the early day
advanced the situation to the most
serious phase it has assumed
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-29
CHAIRMEN UNAWARE THEY
HAD SEPT. 4 STRIKE ORDERS

Washington, D. c., Aug. 29.-Not
even the $40 brotherhood chairmen
who left Washington for their baili-
wicks in all parts of the United States
knew that in sealed envelopes in their
pockets was an order for a strike on
September 4. That fact was known to
the four heads of the brotherhoods.
The sealed envelopes were not to be
opened until the receipt of a code word
on September /. One of the envelopes
was obtained to-day and here is the
strike order, dated August IA, it held:
All local chairmen,' members and
others employed in classes of
service represented by the
Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers, Brotherhood of Loco
motive Firemen and Engine
men, Order of Railway Con-
ductors and Brotherhood of
Railroad Trainmen:
Sirs and Brothers-This is to
advise that a vote of the employees
in train and engine service on the
eirht-hour day and time-and-one-
half for overtime proposition was
overwhelmingly in favor of a
strike.
notwithstanding this. your rep
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resentatives have been unable to
erect satisfactory settlement
and strike under the laws of the
respective organizations becomes
effective September 4, 1916, at
! a. m.
lmpart this information so that
those interested will understand
that they are to promptly obev
These orders were to be signed bv
the general chairmen and copies dis,
tributed to local chairmen.
The date of August Ia marks the
first day, two weeks ago. that the
President met the brotherhood leaders
and the railroad managers and bol-
sters up the assertion frequently made
by the labor men that they were ali
ready to strike when the President
intervened.
The brotherhood chairmen were
plainly perturbed when they found
their secret was out. Even with their
system of espionage the railroads did
not know until yesterday. afternoon
that the definite date had been set.
The traffic officials claimed last night
that the brotherhoods had released the
President from all obligations to them
by calling a strike while the White
House negotiations were in progress.
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Legal Notices

To William T. Bishop. Julia Bishop.
Caroline w. Congdon, and all other
heirs of William T. Bishop, deceas-
ed. holders of the mortgage herein
after mentioned:
TAKE NOTICE that the Ministers.
Trustees, Elders and Wardens of Zion
Evangelical Lutheran Church, by
Charles A. Kunkel, President, have pre-
sented their petition to the Court or
Common Pleas of Dauphin County,
Pennsylvania, to No. 8, September
Term, 1916, asking that satisfaction be
decreed on mortgage given by Edmund
Franciscus to William T. Bishop, now
deceased, dated December 10, 1868, for
the sum of $4,000. recorded in the Re-
corder's Office for said County in Mort
gage Book r, Vol. /, p. 659. covering the
lot of ground at No. 212 Pine Street,
Harrisburg, Pa, fronting twenty feet
seven and one-half inches on Pine
Street and extending in depth one hun
dred feet, having thereon erected a
three story brick dwelling house. as
fully set forth in said petition; and
that said Court will hear said petition
on Monday, September 25, 1916, when
cause, If any there be, may be shown
why the satisfaction of the mortgage
should not be authorized by the Court,
w. w. CALDWELL,
sheriffs Office. August IA. 1915.
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Brotherhood Men Open
Bureau of Information

In order that members of the trans
NAV keep in touch with conditions at
Washington, d. c., information bu-
reaus will be established For the
beneht of the men employed on the
bureau will be opened at 10 O'clock Fri
day morning at Facklers Hall, Thir-
teenth and Market streets. The COM
Ira ]. Mosey, Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers: w. NJ Aughinbaugh,
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Enginemen; n. II. Levy. Order OF
Railway Conductors. and Harry How
ard, brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.
The headquarters of the general chan
man will be at Reading
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Legal Notices

In the Estate of KATHARINE
THOMAS, late OF the Neunhofen, VIII
lage of Dambach, District of Hagenau,
Alsace Lorraine, Empire of Germany,
deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given that Letters
of Administration. c. t. a. have been
for Dauphin County. Pennsylvania, to
the undersigned. All persons indebted
to the said Estate will please make pay
ment promptly and those having claims
HARRISBURG TRUST COMPANY.
ADM c. t. a.,
16 South Market Square,
d. S. sEITZ, ESQ.
Attorney,
222 Market Street
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means of transportation must be avail
able. and available without delay. The
power conferred in this matter should
be carefully and explicitly limited to
cases of military necessity, but in all
such cases 1t should be clear end am
pie.
Make Awards Judgments
There is one thing we should do II
we are true champions of arbitration.
We should make all arbitral awards
judgments by record of a court of law
in order that their Interpretation and
enforcement may lie, not with one OF
the parties to the arbitration, but with
an authoritative tribunal.
These things | urge upon you, not
in haste or merely as a means of meet
ing present emergency, but as per-
manent and necessary additions to the
law of the land. suggested, indeed. by
circumstances we had hoped never to
see, but imperative as well as just. IL
such emergencies are to be prevented
in the future. | feel that no extended
argument is needed to command them
to your favorable consideration. They
demonstrate themselves. The time and
the. occasion only give emphasis to
their Importance. We need them now
and we shall continue to need Them
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-29
"Aldy" Walter Now
Editor and Publisher

"Aldy" Charles P. Walter, Eighth
Ward, contractor and Republican leader
added editor and publisher" to his list
of jobs and accomplishments to-day.
The genial magistrate of "de Ate''
bought the Pennsylvania Post at
Sheriff's sale. The consideration was
sS5.
The Alderman. IT is understood, will
continue the publication and its policy
will be largely given over to advance
negro. 1t is doubtful If the present
reportorial and editorial staff will be
changed. at least for the present The
various parts had been put off Ten
dollars was bid for the press. The big,
gest item chargeable against the Post
it Is understood. was about $500 foi
rent
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-29

New York. Aug. 29.-Railroad traffic
officials indicated here to-day that
every effort would be made in event of
nationwide railroad strike to op-
crate sufficient trains to transport milk
and perishable foodstuffs through q
system of promotion of men from
other departments to fill the places OF
the men who walked out. Skilled
machinists and engineers in other in
dustries would be employed to operate
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-29
RAILROADS WILL MAKE
EVERY EFFORT TO HAUL
MILK AND FOODSTUFFS

these trains, 1t was asserted. together
with the most efficient of the railroad
employees who remained loyal.
An appeal was mailed to the presi-
dents of alf railroads by the New York
Milk Committee to-day urging that
operation of milk trains be continued
If a strike takes place. To repre-
sentatives of the employees a similar
appeal was directed. Many babies will
die if the movement of milk supply is
stopped
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-29
Police of N. Y. Learning
How Long City Can Subsist
if R. R. Strike Comes
By Associated Press

New York, Aug. 29.-To ascertain
just what the food situation in New
York city will be in the event of a gem
eral railroad strike, the police depart
ment has sent out several hundred let
ters to wholesale dealers asking for
statistics regarding foodstuffs now on
hand and in sight. From the replies
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To-DAYs, REALTY TRANSFERS

Realty transfers recorded to-day in
cluded the following:
Caroline A. Hess to Edridge Pugliese,
Steelton, $4,000; Edwin +. Doehne to
Emil Eggert. Susquehanna street, $1,000;
Joseph Young to Sallie j. Hoverter,
Hummelstown, $500; Sallie J. Hoverter
to John W. Henry, Hummelstown,
SlO77; Levi w. Henry 20 John b. Askin,
Humme lstown, S1100.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-29

received, Police Commissioner Woods
expects to learn just how long this city
can subsist if the railroad trains of the
country come TO a standstill.
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WILSON REVIEWS
ENTIRE STRIKE SITUATION
In ADDRESS TO CONGRESS

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CONTINUED From First Pagcl
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IhIs last Suggestion I make be-
cause we cannot in any circumstances
suffer the nation to be hampered in
the essential matter of national de-
fense. At the present moment circum-
stances render this duty particularly
obvious. Almost the entire military
force of the nation is stationed upon
the Mexican border to guard our ter
ritory against hostile raids. It must
be supplied. and steadily supplied. with
whatever 1t needs for It's maintenance
and efficiency. If 1t should be fieces-
sary for purpose of national defense to
transfer any portion of 1t upon short
notice to some other part of the coun-
try. for reasons not unforeseen, ample
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-02-03
ESTATE OF JOHN CONE

State of Vermont, District OF Ben.
nington SIS.
The Honorable Probate Court for
the District Aforesaid
To the heirs and all persons inter.
ested in the estate of John Cone late
of Bennington in said District, de-
ceased, GREETING;
I WHEREAS application hath been
made to this court in writing by the
Administrators praying for license
and authority to sell all pf real estate
OF said deceased situated in Benning-
ton in said District, to wiz 1she.
home farm OF about "a acres, with
dwelling house, barns and ontbuld-
ings thereon situated, representing to-
said court that it would be beneficial
to the heirs and all persons interest
ed in the estate of said deceased, to
sell said real estate and convert the
same into money.
And bringing into Court the consent
and appreciation in writing, of all the
heirs to said estate residing in this
State, and setting forth the situation
of the real estate.
WHEREUPON, the said Court ap
pointed and assigned the cath day Of
February 1916 at the Probate Office in
Bennington in said District. to heV.
and decide upon said application and
petition, and ordered public notice
thereof to be given to all persons i'll.
terested therein, by publishing said
order, together with the time and
place of hearing, three weeks success
sively in the Bennington Evening
Eanner, newspaper which circaiat-
.es in the ncighborhood OF those FER
sons interested in said estate, all OF
which publications shall be previous
to the day assigned for hearing.
THEREFORE,. you are hereby mott;
fed to appear before said Court, at
the time and place assigned. then and
there in said Courttto mako Your OBJ
iections to the granting OF such Ii
cense. ii You see cause.
Given under my hand at Bennins-
ton in said District. this 1st day OF
February 1916
Amy H. Harbour, Register.