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The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-09-05
Secretary of Commerce Red6eld
Has rendered His Resignation
Denies Any Friction With President

WASHINGTON, Sept 5.-(By United Press secretary OF
Commerce Reded today announced that he had resigned and
expected to quit his post the latter part of October
personal affairs demand my attention. Redheld sald deny
ing the reports of a friction with President Wilson.
Bernard NJ Baruch is mentioned possible successor.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-09-05
PRESIDENTS FIRST TWO
SPEECHES DREW FIRE OF
LEAGUE OPPONENTS
IN SENATE TODAY

WASHINGTON, Sept 5.-(By United Press. )The Presi-
dents first speeches drew the fire of the league opponents in
the Senate today. Senator Sherman, Illinois, opened the at
tack by denouncng Wilson demagogue and accusing him
of holding contemptous disregard of the Later
Senator Borah announced he proposed the Presidents
challenge to 'put up shut up
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-09-05
Introduction of Bill Creating
Permanent "Cost of Living"
Commission Being Considered

WASHINGTON Sept. 5.-(By United Press. 1.-The intro
ducon of bill creating permanent co of living commits
being considered today by Senator Rasde of Louisiana
Ransde would put consumers producers, manufacturers,
jobbers and retailers commission and let them govern
themselves
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-09-05
Gompers Asks President to Use His
influence to Arrange Conference
With Steel Corporation Officials

WASHINGTON, Sept 5.-(By United Press )-Acting for
the steel men, Samuel Gompers today wired President Wilson
asking him his influence arrange conference with the
steel corporation officials.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-09-05
Prominent Citizen of Memphis
IsMurdered and Robbed of $500

MEMPHIS Sept s. (By United Press George Cushion
murdered robbed of $500 and his body buried sandbar
Mississippi River here according to police report
today 1t was believed that booteggers committed the crime
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-09-05
Twelve Persons Killed, Forty Injured
in French Express Train Collision

TOULOUSE France, Sept 5-(By United Press s)-Twelve
persons killed and forty Injured when an express tram
from Paris to Bordeaux eoided near here today
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-09-24
TAXPAYERS
POSTPONE
NEW ACTION

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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-09-24
STANDARD
TURNS DOWN
The OFFER
Officials Insist that There is
No Need for a Bench
Arbitrator.

Insisting that there Is nothing to
compromise which would require the
services Of q Judge as arbitrator. the
officials OF the Standard Steel Car Co.,
OF Hammond have refused 10 agree to
the plan which was proposed in an or
dinance passed by the Hammond coun-
ell last week. The company's reply
was given at a meeting OF the officials
yesterday with the committee named
by Mayor Brown.
COMMITTEE ARRANGED MEETING
The committee composed OF Mayor
Brown and Aldermen VOORHEES,, Miller
and Skufakiss had been selected to
meet with the officials and arrange for
a meeting between them and a COM
mittee from the striking workmen at
which one of the court judges of Lake
county would be selected TO act as ar
bitrator. 1t was hoped in this man
ner to 60 over the situation thorough
ly and adjust the differences which
have been prolonging the strike. 1t
had been specified in the ordinance
that the meeting between officials and
the strike committee would not be con-
strued as a recognition of the union.
At the conference yesterday after
noon the Standard heads turned down
the offer and reiterated their former
statement that the gates Of the plant
would be open 10 the men whenever
they desired 10 return to work pro-
vided that they were willing TO come
in under the conditions which existed
at the time Of the strike. July Is
GRIEVANCES BEING SETTLED
rrrl, }, ,. tan
ances. on account OF which the strikers
had been holding out. had already been
settled with the men who are now
working in the plant and that further
adjustments would be made wherever
conditions warranted in favor Of men
who return in the future.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-09-24
LABOR LEADERS SEEK SYMPATHETIC STRIKES NOW
FLYER Hurls
Truck Into
Strike Group

one Of the most peculiar accidents
that ever happened in this locality took
place shortly before 1900 o'clock at
Burlington. resulting in the inhiction Of
serious injury on five men, two of
which doctors say may be fatally hur'
When a group Of 800 men were at the
Burlington mill gates awaiting their turn
10 draw their pay. a Lake shore pas
senger train. west bot@ld, approached
the road crossing at the same time that
a truck owned by NJ. c. Mcmillan went
over it. The train caught the truck
squarely, tossing it like ball into a
crowd of cement workers. Five of them
were taken out OF the group unconscious
and sent 10 the steel company's hospital
at Gary Serg. J. +. Bowling Of the
Gary police who was at the gates. had
warned the men not TO crowd near the
crossing. The train was No. $40. duo in
Chicago at 10:35 The engineer was
6. D. Schupert; fireman. a. D. Dussoai
conductor. H. ID. Mutton.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-09-24
CAPITAL SHOCKED
BY AUTO TRAGEDY
IINrERNATIoNAL NEws sERvIcEl


INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Sept. "a
Harold Steele. 26 of Marion. Ind. was
probably fatally injured here early today
when the high powered automobile in
which he was riding swerved into curb
at Meridian and Eleventh streets. hurtl-
cd on for distance of ESQ feet and over
turned on a lawn Steel is at the city
hospital where il is believed he suffered
a fracture at the base of his skull.
Albert Shingler. %. of Indianapolis.
who was driving. received scalp wounds
and minor hurts. Shingler is under ar
rest.
Steele formerly was an advertising
man for the Marion Chronicle and is a
member of "a prominent family at
Marion. He is a nephew Of Major
George Steel. former governor of the Ma
tonal Soldiers Home a Marion. former
representative in congress and one time
governo rof Oklahoma.
The license number on the wrecked
automobile indicated that ii was Steele S
machine Shingler asserted that a pas
sing automobile crowded the car into the
curb
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-09-24
tBULLEr1N.)

INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE
BUFFALO, N. r, Sept. ga runlor
that a concerted attack by striking steel
workers at Lackawanna, where the Lack
awanna steel plant, the Donner Steel
plant, and the Rogers Brown Iron works
are located, would be made At 500 O'Clock
this morning dtd not mateuahze. Chief
ellison, of the Lackawanna police de-
part1lent, had a not squad Of fifty men
in readiness and he was given assur-
ances of assistance by Chief Of Police
Higgins of Buffalo.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-09-24
INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE

FARRELL, Pa, Sept 24--Forty addi-
tional troopers OF the pennsy ivania state
constabulary arrived here during The
night to reinforce the twenty-five already
here in suppressing riots which already
have caused three deaths and many in-
juries in the steel strike They came
from Charlton
Today the streets were beng patrollcd.
Ii is said that house-to- house search
VIII be made for weapons IN the foreign
quarters under Capt. Adams Of the con-
stabulary.
The toll of last nights rioung was one
man dead and one man and woman
severely injured others suffered
bruises and abraisions state troops
charged into the crowds after beinE
showered with bricks and bottles II is
said they fred first in the air TO intimi-
date ~ mob and when that method
failed to disperse it. they shot to kill.
The town was quiet today.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-09-24
(RUnIETIN.l

INTER NATIONAL AEWs SERVICE
CHICAGO, Sept. Following an
nouncement that employees OF the Elgin,
Joliet & Eastern railroad "are willing
and anxious to join the steel strike .
claiming that they have been hauling
food, cots, blankets and "strike-breakers
into the CHICAGO strike zone, John H.
DeXoung, secretary Of the Chicago dis
trict committee of the national conf
mittee for organization Of steel and iron
workers, telegraphed John Fitzpatrick,
national organizer, now in Pittsburgh,
asking that .he matter Of railroad men
be made a subject Of discussion at the
Pitts burgh labor session today.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-09-24
How Plants
Line Up In
Big Strike
tBULLET1N.)

om>4aIs Of the Inland steel Co., in
y,a4aaa Earbor, admitted today that the
furnaces are banked and that no bust
,sss ia beiu~ carried on except shipping.
At the same time they fatty denied
reports that the plant was to be closed
for two months unless men return to
work. They said 1000 of the 5000 work
ers are on duty in the plant.
Reports were circulated that 1000
men returned to work today in the q. 8.
steel Corporation IN Gary; tEat they
were rushed In through the gates In
AFtv or more automobiles. There were
also runors that re-opening Of some OF
the mills was contemplated after rollers
had been hired back at 5000 month
THE report lacked confirmation, however
The steel and iron industries of the
n,t.on coutirued In the grip of the strike
today.
r outside of the immediate Pittsburgh
0,gtrict the strikers appear to have
forced general shut-dovvns in the pT1n-
cipaI steel centers of the country -
ngstown. Chicago, Gary, Cleveland,
ard smaller Industrial towns.
Il Pittsburgh continued to be the strong
hold Of the operators. The factories
there and az Homestead, Duquesne, Brad
dock, Charlton, McKeesport and New
castle. which form a giant backbone for
tho huge industry, continued operations.
MANY mills in the district reported 100
per cent; others ninety per cent and a
few as low as fifty per cent.
r some mills reported that men who
quit work on Monday are returning to
their tasks.
The claims of the operators in the
Pittsburgh district are disputed by union
onacials. w. z. FOSTER. who is directing
the strike In Pittsburgh, reported to
President Samuel Gompers, of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor. that there
were 100000 workers out in the country
and that Pittsburgh was CLOSING down
The full national organizing committee
Of the iron and steel workers met in
Pittsburgh today under the chairman
ship of John Fitzpatrick. Reports will
be made and a general checking up had
on the results Of the strike to date.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-09-24
GARY MILLS
WILL SHUT
DOWN SOON
If Men Do Not Return to
Work, Plants Will Close
Down for an Indefinite
Period.

That the great Gary steel mills.
the pivotal city in the country-wica
industrial strike, will close down
completely for an indefinite period
within the next few days, uness the
working forces are greatly increas-
ed within the next forty-eight
hours, was the unofficial announce
ment that was secetly learned at
noon today. In this region they
will follow the rule at the manu-
featuring plants of Indiana Harbor,
where the production of steel is at
and end and not a wheel is turning.
That the Gary works are still is
shown by newspaper pictures taken
in the plant yesterday afternoon.
This was secretly rumored this
morning. despite the stories given out
by the steel corporation officials earlier
in the week that the Gary works and its
subsidiary plants would attempt 10 or
CRAZE. even on a small scale There *
also no need Of denying the fact thai
when the furnaces are permitted 10
grow cold. it VIII mean a long and
drawn out fight and the steel company
wiz not resume operation until the pre-
ent controversy is settled for once lnd
for all.
The production Of steel has practically
ceased In Gary now. Only three heats
were tapped in the open hearths yes.er-
day and on Monday there was nine
Previous to the strike the daily average
was a little better than forty in the
four open hearths- That the steel come
pany does not know which way 70 turn
IS given fact. Today the mills are
being manned by bosses. foremen. super
intendents and small scattering OF
negroes. the majority of whom are being
fed and quaTtered inside the plant The
negroes are keeping the four open
. hesrths going that supply tho city with
water power. heat light and electricity.
SITUATION Is TENSE.
The strike situation IS tense in Cary
I and during tho past twenty four hours
has remained at a deadlock Conditiol.S
seem TO be growing worse each hour and
the crisis is expected al most any tiua4.
Although tho story gained circuIatic;,
from the mills that several department
had resumed operation al the Gary
o-ks yesterday morning, II vas ds-
lCen.inuec on page six-l
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-09-24
lIN1EsNA1IonAL NEWS SERVICE

PUEBLO. Colo. Sept 24-The third
day Of the steel workers strike here
found that the men determined to re
main out o. = ork until their demands
have been granted By the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Co, owners Of the Min
neoua Steel plant here President
Weiborn said the company had no in
tention OF recognizing the union. de-
clarng that the plant would be closed
indefinitely
1hcle rave heen 70 Disturbances OF
an. character.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-09-24
BY GEORGE =. HOLMES

FsIAFF CORRESPONDENT T. N. sERvicEl
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept. "a
With the strike situation in the
Pittsburgh district practically dead
locked, so far as extension of the
tie-up here is concerned, labor lead
ers today turned their attention to
other methods to force the steel
operators to deal with them.
Their chief weapon is the sym
pathetic" strike. BY effective use
of this method they hope to bring
the mill owners to terms. Already,
according to directors Of the strike
in this district. the switchmen and
yardmen who operate the cars
which feed the mills are growing
restless" in sympathy with the
strikers.
INDICATE E. r. RESTLEssNEss
Our reports said Wm. z. Foster
secretary OF the strikers organ a eANi4'
show that yardmen and switchmen are
getting restless. They are becoming in
censed over the treatment accorded US II
this district-suppressio Of free speech
.Cossack' methods of oppression, arrest
Of union men. and denial Of the right of
free assemblage We have reports that
the railroad workers in Youngstown ana
cleveland already have refused - cper-
ate the cars which take raw products
into the mills and bring out the finished
material
TO COME BEFORE COMMITTEE
The extension Of the strike 70 thceA
CONTINUED on page six.)
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-09-24
2,5OO MEN
REPORTED
INSIDE MILL
Officials of Illinois Steel Co.
Refuse to Comment on
Situation.
IIkrERNATloNAl NEWS Service

INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE
CHICAGO, Sept. 24.-The first
sign OF weakening among the steel
strikers in the Chicago district were
noted today when four large blast
furnaces, banked by the steel
strike, resumed operation in the
plant of the Illinois Steel Co. at
South Chicago.
At the mill it was announced that
steel slab mill and blooming mill
will resume operation late today.
Between 1000 and > 500 men were r.
ported inside the Mill. The number II,
The mil, late yesterday was placed Il
500
STRIKE LEADERs INTERVIEWER.
Officials Of the steel company refused
70 comment on the situation. Strike
leaders are emphatic in their denial thu
the men are returning TO work but sifng
Of operation Of the four blast furnaces
were plainly visible from outside the
plant today.
While the South Chicago plant showed
the first signs of resuming operation tc-
day. twelve Lake boats loaded with ar
proximately 100000 tons OF ore. wcre
tied UP in the outer harbor at South CHI
cago.
member Of one Of the boats crew
said the crews refused to dock the boats
on the ground that before they started
on the trip they had voted to strike
Right now We do not know If We are
on strike or not he said. .'and for that
reason We will not dock the ships"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-09-24
THE GREAT
UNREST
(BuLLETIN.)


INTERNATIONAL NEWS sERVIcEl
NEWCASTLE, Pa, Sept. 24.--After a
night Of peace In the strike zone and
the entire city, American workmen Of
the shenango and Newcastle plants of
the American Sheet and Tin Plate Co.
today returned TO work in greatly in
creased numbers.
The tin plate mills were operating
about forty per cent Of capacity last
night and better than fifty per cent Of
the sixty hot mills Of these plants were
in operating today. The Carnegie steel
plant is operating near capacity.
The police have the situation wen in
hand
The Shelby plant of the National Tube
Co., at Elwood City, is operating as usual
today. The city is quiet.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-09-24

CHICAGO, sept 23--John titzpatrick.
head of the Chicago Federation of Labor
and chairman of the national committee
of organizers for steel and iron workers.
has been summoned TO Pittsburgh for a
special conference Of the committee to-
morrow. at which it is believed plairs
for spreading the strike 10 ore carrying
steamers and railroads 10 -tie up every
thing" are TO be discussed. according TO
an announcement at steel workers head
quarters here today.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-09-24
R. R. MEN
BECOMING
RESTLESS
Extension Of Strike to Come
Up Before Committee of
Union Heads.
tEUL1ETEN.l

INTERNATIONAL NEWS sgRvIcEl
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.-There are
now 100000 steel workers on strike and
the ranks are being constantly augment
ed, according TO Vim. z. Foster. secretary
treasurer of the national committee in a
telegram today to Samuel Go1nperH,
president Of the A. z. OF Z. The Honle-
stead district is dead Foster asserted,
"and the plants in the Pittsburgh dis
trtc+ are being closed rapidly.
Poster asserted that the press Is con-
quoting campaign of lies TO conceal the
extent Of the strike.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-09-24
RuLNrTrN.l

INTERNATIONAL NEWS SEsvICEl
YOUNGSTOWN, o., Sept. 2z.-Strik-
ers and mill operators are marking time
today in the big steel strike. The men
received their pay for the first half of
the month as usual and long lines of
workers were at the various plants to-
day getting their envelopes.
The tie-up in the Mahoning and shsn-
ango valley IS complete. Not a furnace
Is working and the only men on the JOB
are those who are looking after the fires.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-09-24
GARY REFUSES
TO SAY A WORD
TtNTERNArIoNEL NEWS SERVICE

NEW YORK;. Sept. 24.-Judge EIbort
H. Gary. chairman of the board Of di-
rectors of the U. 5. Steel Corporation.
refused to break his silence on the
strike today. Persons close to officials
of the steel industry. however. claimed
that the situation is Showing steady
improvement" 1t was declared on good
authority that strike-breakers would not
be used
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-09-24
LABOR TROUBLE
CAUSES SHORTAGE
rINrERNATIoNAL NEWS SERVICE

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind Sept 2l.-La-
Dor. troubles caused the school book
shortage in Indiana and other states. v.
B. Conkey. president of the Conkey CO.
publishers. Hammond. told l.. y. Hines.
state superintendent of public iustruc-
ton in a conference at the state house.
Mr. Conkey was requested 10 appear At
the special meeting of the state board
OF education Friday when the tex book
shortage will be probed.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-09-24
SAYS RED
FLAG NOT
PERMITTED
Farrell Mayor Says There
Must BE Only Ameri-
can Flag There.
lRuLLET1N.l
INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE I
ARIEL, Pa, Sept. 24.-"Th

TINTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE
FARRELL, Pa, Sept. 24.-"The red
flag must CO." said Burgess j. n. Moody
today. There must be but one flag in
Farrell and that must he the American
hag."
The mayor refused several permits
to hold public meetings today. ne is
sued strict orders that everyone in this
streets must be kept moving and that
no congestion Of any sort be permitted.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-09-24
ATTENTION, LEGION!

The Hammond Post Of the American
Legion will hold a meeting at eight
o'clock tonight at the Chamber of
Commerce to elect OFFICERS for the en-
suing year and adopt constitution.
All members are urged to be present
at the gathering at which i import
ant.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-09-24
TInTERNArIoNAl NEWS sgRvIcEl

OANLOrsI o. Sept. TT CtlcaIT q y
of the 10000 employees of the Canton
Sheet Steel Co, who quit work Monde ,
in response to the strike order. have
voted to resume work Sunday.
The action followed an appeal Of the
ofacials OF the company.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-09-24
q MEN
HURT WHEN
GOING HOME
Steel Workers Forced to Run
Gauntlet at Indiana
HarbOr Plant.

The first violence of the steel
strike in Indiana Harbor occurred
last night about six o'clock when
about twenty-five men who were
leaving the Mark By-Products
plant were set upon and badly beat
en- by strikers who had congregated
near the gate.
The trouble began when two men
left the plant and being accosted
by the pickets with the question.
Why are you working" either did
not understand or were unable to
give any answer.
MEN ESCAPE TO PRAIRE-
The strikers began to 1eer. then push,
and finally started to beat the two men
with firsts, clubs. and stones. Tho men
ran through the prairie and escaped
without serious injury. The strikers
then lined up near the gate in two lines
facing each other and as the remaining
twenty or twenty-five men came from
work forced them to run a gauntlet be-
tween the two lines while the strikers
used fists and sticks freely upon the
heads and shoulders Of the workers.
While many suffered painful bruises
none were injured seriously and none
were taken to the hospital.
RIOT CALL SENT TO POLICE.
The workers left the vicinity and wen.
to their homes before their names could
be obtained. riot call was sent to the
Indiana Harbor police station but the
strikers had disbanded before the patrol
arrived.
Chicago morning papers report seri-
Gus riot between police and strikers with
numerous shots fred at Indiana Harbor
but Acting Chief Of Police Edward
ODonnel states that not only were no
shots fired but that there has not been
an arrest in Indiana Harbor in connoc-
ton with the strike.
CARRIED A REvoLvER.
Wider Howatt, a Croatian, who was ar
rested by Sheriff Lew Barnes for Great
ing a disturbance at the Burlington plant
Of the Portland Cement was arrested IN
Gary territory and placed in the Indiana
viii be taken 10 Crown Point today,
When arrested Howatt carried re-
volver. william Griffin, colored S6OS
Alder street, Indiana Hsrbor. was ar
rested on the b. & O. tracks near the
Portland Cement with a Winchester
rife. He is somewhat Of a puzzle 70 the
police since he said he was guarding his
home" at the time Of his arrest While
he lives in Indiana Harbor he has no
family and merely rooms at 360S Alder
ct The police do not believe that be
was planning any violence.
SCATTERED DISORDER REPORTS.
Other scattered reports Of violence
we're not reported to the police and can
not be confirmed. One Of the workers at
the American Steel Foundry was seized
by the pickets but no violence was com
TContfnued on page six)
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-09-24

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