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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-01
COAL CONFERENCE OPEN
Extreme Demands Of Both Sides Voted
Down

Buffalo, Sept. 30.-With the ex-
treme views OF both sides voted down,
the joint conference of miners and
field tomorrow will begin again at
zero to negotiate a wage scale and
new working conditions.
Following the rejection by the oper-
ators of the miners Original demands
for a so per cent. increase in wages
and 80 hour work week, the joint
conference today voted down the
operators maximum which was that
the scale OF 1916, called the Washing
ton agreement, be continued until
April l, 1920.
The olive branch came from the
operators side, the motion to proceed
to negotiate new contract in ac-
cordance with the call of the confer
ence' being offered by one of their
number. 1t was conceded that the
gap between miners and operators
was a wide one, but representatives.
of both sides expressed hope that it
would be bridged and that the threat
ened strike of 100000 men on Novem-
Der would be averted
The Washington agreement was the
only question before the conference
today. John T. Lewis. acting presi-
dent of the United Mine Workers,
first offered a resolution that the
agreement terminate at the end of the
next month. P. H. Penna of Terra
Haute, spokesman for the operators,
moved as an amendment that April |.
1920, be fixed as the date of expiration
as provided in the Washington agree
ment. When it came to vote oper-
ators and miners supported their re
spective delegates. The motion to
proceed under the call of the confer
ence was then unanimously adopted
and adjournment was taken until to-
morrow.
In the decision to proceed can be
seen the first compromise. the opera
tors apparently yielding, for the time
being at least, to the miners conten-
ton that the mine workers commit
tee has ample authority to- conduct
negotiations.
The other crucial point, the date of
the expiration of the present agree
Iment, according to William T. Brew
ster, chairman of the operators dele
CATION. will come before the confer
ence or one of it's subcommittee
later on.
The first demand of the miners to
be taken up for debate tomorrow
reads:
We recommend that this conven-
tion demand sixty per cent increase
to be applicable to all classifications
of day labor and to all tonnage, yard
age and dead work rates throughout
the central competitive field.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-01
NEED LAYETTE WORKERS
Old Bennington Red Cross Appeals to
Women.

People, who have been working on
the layettes will be interested in the
following statement made by Miss
Newell, who has just returned from
three months service abroad.
THE French are very grateful for
all the garments, sent over" Miss
Newell said, but they are perfectly
crazy about the layettes. They told
me they were made exactly according
to their patterns and standards.
visited the Red Cross workrooms in
the devastated areas and saw the gar
ments being given out. Every one
was absolutely satisfactory and moth
ing is wasted"
The Old Bennington branch, Ameri
can Red Cross, have undertaken fe
completion of a number of these lay
cites. B. sewing class from one Of the
local churches is also helping, but
still more laborers are needed in this
field of worthy work. VIII you help?
complete layette, or part of lay
ette. can be secured at the office of
the Bennington County improvement
association rooms in the Hawks
Block. Telephone 120 for any infor-
nation concerning the work.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-01
STRIKE AVERTED
Pacific Coast Ship Yard Workers Get
Wage Increases

Washington, Sept 30 Strike of Pa.
ciflc coast ship yard workers threat,
ened tomorrow, was believed here to-
night to have been averted by an
agreement reached after an all.day
conference, by which representatives
of the shipping board and the navy de.
partment agreed to permit acceptance
by the men of wage increases offered
by the ship yards on the western
coast provided the government would
share no part of the additional ex-
pense.
Notice of the conferences action i'm
mediately was telegraphed to all ship
yard workers unions and shipbuilding
companies nthe Pacific coast.
Representatives of the workers here
were confident that tomorrow's walk.
out, which involved the possibility of
strike also by workers of the indus
try on the Gulf and Atlantic coasts,
however, by some of those attending
the conference that the Pacific coast
companies might find themselves un.
able to pay the increased wage scale (;
amounting to an average Of about
eight cents an hour 70 rpractically all
employees without aid from the govern.
ment, and refuse to grant the increase
promised.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-01
RED CROSS MEETING
Prominent Workers to Speak Here
Saturday Morning.

For the benefit of all who have TAX
en- part or who are interested in any
way in the Red Cross, there has been
arranged meeting to be held on
October 4th at 10 o'clock at the High
school hall, Bennington. Among the
speakers is Miss Lavinia H. Newell of
Boston, who has recently returned
from a three months trip abroad
where she made careful study of
conditions among the refugees and
other war sufferers. Miss Newell has
been appointed national director of
the bureau of chapter production, and
is an intensely interesting woman.
Other speakers are James Jackson,
{ vision manaer; Miss Elizabeth Ross
director of bureau of nursing and
Cheney Jones, director of civilian re-
lief. These men and women are max
ing a tour of New England, planning
to visit a greater portion of the 10S
chapters of Red Cross within the New
division The public is urg-
ed to attend this meeting and become
informed on the future work of the
American Red Cross.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-01
MAY lNoIcT soPHMoREs
Inquest Is Held over Death of Col
gate Student

Utica, N. Y. Sept, 3O.--The indict-
ment OF many members of the sopho-
more class cf Colgate university on
charges of assault, second degree for
participation in the hazing of Frank
Mccullough o. September "a. result
ing in his death, is a possibility. Dis
trict Attorney E. A. Kiley intimated at
the conclusion of the inquest at Ham
ilton today. The ma ter will be pre-
sented to the next grand jury, he said.
The inquest practically established
that Mccullough was attacked by
cramps while swimming from an isl
and in Lake Moraine, where he had
been marooned by the sophomores to
prevent his participation in the an.
nual proc" rush. DR.. Elmer B. Bry
an, president of the university, stated
on the stand that plans are under way
tosabolish the annual class rushes. A
message to the student body from the
mother of the dead youth in Kane,
Penn, advised them to stop all such
practices and | will feel my beloved
boy did not die in vain'
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-01
COVE RNOR TAKES
HAND IN STRIKE
At LOCAL PLANT
Directs Sheriff to Prevent All
Disturbance
VIM. fKEARNs CONVICTED
Was Charged With Disturbance Of the
Peace-Exceptions Taken and
Sentence Not Given

Governor Clement today took hand
in the local strike. He called up
States Attorney Graves and Sheriff
Gardner and directed them to take
every means to preserve order and to
prevent friction.
The Governor promised that the
Board of Control would provide the
necessary money to pay for extra de-
puties in case they are needed to keep
order.
The trial of William Kearns, charged
with disturbance of the peace by mo-
Testing Miss Agnes Horton ended last
night with verdict of guilty. The
jury was out about an hour and half
Sentence was not pronounced by
Judge Meagher as Attorney c. A.
Maurer desired time to prepare his
exception to be taken to the supreme
court
The other cases have been delayed
for few days partly at the request
of Mr.. Maurer and partly because the
court room is too cold for use and it
cannot be warmed at present as the
heating system is undergoing repairs.
There is said to be nothing new il
the strike situation and no new
charges of molestation on either
side
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-01
SONS TO RUN BUSINESS
viii Manufacture the Famous SIM
mons Boilers.


When II. C. Simmons of North Ben
nington died last winter his three
sons, w. b., III. NJ. and F. NJ. Simmons
were all in the army and there was
no active member of the family left
to take charge of the business.
Attorney W. B. Sheldon was named
by Judge Bennett of the probate court
to look after the estate and has been
doing so up to the present time.
The three sons are now all home
and beginning today have taken over
the business and will conduct it un-
der the name of II. @. Simmons Sons
All of the young men have been
brought up in the business and are
now ready to go ahead from where
their father brought the business.
The Simmons boilers are famous
wherever known and thousands of
them are in use particularly in New
England and New York state The
business has been an important man
ufacturing enterprise for the town of
Bennington for many years and
the new firm expects to still further
enlarge the output of the plant.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-01
TO MEET IN ST. ALsANs
State Association of Vermont Insur.
ance AGENTS.


St. Adams, Sept 30.-The State AS
sociation Of Vermont Insurance
Agents will hold its annual meeting at
The Tavern in this city Tuesday, Oct
Z. The association numbers about
100 members and already large mum
ber have signified their intention of
being present A business meeting
will be held on the roof garden in the
afternoon and banquet will be held
at 7.3O O'clock in the evening. The
women have been invited and some
special entertainment viii be arrang-
ed for them in the afternoon.
People of local and national promi-
nence will appear on the program OF
after-dinner speaking. Among the
speakers will be Chauncey S. S. Mil
Ter of New York, secretary of the Ma
tional Association of Insurance
Agents, Mr.. Mckee of Wisconsin, sec
retary of the National Insurance fed
Grafton, Joseph G. Brown OF Mont
pelier. state insurance commissioner
and also president of the National AS
sociation of Insurance Commission
ers, and F. d. Hopkins OF Montpelier,
treasurer OF the Vermont Mutual Fire
Insurance company. Some of the
more important local and special
agents will also appear on the pro-
gram.
S. s. Watson of this city is presi-
dent of the Vermont association and
L. l.. Walker of Bellows Falls is sec
retary.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-01
KING SENDS REGRETS
TO PRESIDENT WILSON
Queen Elizabeth Gives Dinner in
Honor of Sophia kieI, Chief
Nurse on Ship,

On Board the U. S. S. George
Washington Sept 80. (By Wireless to
the Associated Press THE greatest
interest continues to be displayed by
King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of
Belgium, now far on their way tow
ard New York, in the condition of
President Wilson. A wireless mes
sage sent by King Albert to the Presi-
dent read.
The Queen and | greatly regret
to hear of your illness and wish
you speedy recovery. We thank
you for the trip you have plan
ned for us and look forward to
our meeting in Washington.
Queen Elizabeth gave a dinner last
night in honor of Sophia B. Kiel, the
chief nurse attached to the George
Washington, and decorated her with
the Medal of Queen Elizabeth for her
war services. The Queen expressed
to Miss .Kiel her gratitude for the
devotion Of the women of America to
the Belgians She alluded to the
many organizations founded by the
women of the United States, in their
generous ardor, which in every pos
sible form had brought relief to Bel
guim. The Queen expressed her
great pleasure in the knowledge that
she soon would be able personally
to thank great number of these
women
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-01
TEN THOUSAND
PRESsRO0M MEN
ARE LOCKED OUT.
$50 Printing Rooms in New York
Are Short Handed
PUBLICATIONS TO MOVE
Employers Refuse to Deal with Local
Unions "outlawed" by Inter
national Union
PUBLICATIONS TO MOVE

New York, Oct 1.-The press rooms
OF $50 printing plants, other than
newspapers, including those of maga-
zines, trade papers, and periodicals
in New York City, will close this
morning for an indefinite time, as a re
suit of the failure of the employers
and the pressmen and feeders to
agree as to the demands of the local
unions for a forty-four-hour week and
q wage increase of $14. 1t is estimat-
ed that 10000 employees will be made
idle. The two local unions are not
recognized by the International Union
and the employers refused to make a
new contract with them for that rea
son, and posted notices in their plants
yesterday that those without interna-
tional cards would not be employed
today.
While the list of publications affect
ed could not be obtained last night, 1t
was said by representatives of both
employing printers and the unions
that practically all the periodicals
printed in New York would suspend
indefinitely. This is in accordance
with a decision reached at a meeting
OF 152 publishers some weeks ago,
who said they would suspend indefin
itely rather than submit to the de-
mands of the union, which would
make their labor cost approximately
Sc 2-3 per cent more than at present.
The Literary Digest is one large
publication that will not be affected
it was said. The Publishers Print
ing Company which prints it. had
strike some weeks ago, and, through
the help OF the international union
officials, has force supplied by the
new locals established by the inter
national union, 1t is the plan of the
international union to recruit men as
rapidly as possible TO operate the
plants that VIII be closed today
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-01
OMAHA RIOTERS
BEING ARRESTED
FOR THEIR DEEDS
General Wood Gives Orders for a
Roundup
SOLDIERS GUARDING CITY
Mayors Condition Is Improving
: Negroes Are Fleeing from City
Order Is Restored

Omaha, Neb., Sept. 3O.-General
Leonard Wood, commander of the
Central Department, arrived in Omaha
this morning and took command OF
the situation. He announced that
every individual who had hand in
the lynching, or in abetting the
lynchers in any way whatever, is to
be arrested. Prosecution is to be
swift and sure. Already arrests have
been made.
General Wood brought with him or
ders from General March, Chief OF
Staff of the United tates Army, to
proceed to Omaha and restore and
maintain order regardless of the cost.
Within an hour of his arrival, General
Wood was in consultation with Gov.
ernor McKelcie, the City Commission
er, the Police Department of the
County Orders followed thick and
fast
One of the first issued was for the
transfer of the city Police Department
to the military commander, Colonel
Morris of the Goth Infantry. Command
ing officer at Fort Cook. Immediate
ly thereafter Colonel Morris moved his
office into the police station and took
control of the situation.
An Investigation of the riot was start
ed Orders to obtain all pictures and
plates made by photographers during
the riot were issued These will be
used to assist in identifying those who
took part in the lynchinM Detectives
were ordered to obtain the names of
and evidence against every one pos.
sible. All means are to be used to
identify rioters Persons identified
are to be arrested by the military al
once. After the arrest the county
authorities will be notified, of the
name of the prisoner and charge and
tion will follow.
Those arrested for storming the
Court House and even for melting the
lynchers will be charged with murder.
Under the Nebraska law every one
who participates in any way in a mur.
der is guilty of a principal offense.
The charge of arson will be placed
against the names of those who threw
gasolene into the Court House. As.
sault with intent to commit great
bodily injury, punishable in Nebraska
by a penitentiary term, will be the
charge against those known to have
attempted to lynch Mayor Smith as
well as these who assaulted police
men and deputies All trials will be
under the Nebraska law No military
courts martial will sit.
Twenty-eight are already under ar
rest for rioting, but these arrests were
made Sunday night and most of the
charges are for carrying deadly weap.
ons. The authorities fear that when
the wholesale arresting begins. riot.
ing will break out.
Those who attempt to interfere with.
the military authorities will find them
selves fighting the United States
Army, said General Wood this after
noon,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-01
ALABAMA COURT ACTS
Grand Jury Summoned to Investigate
Lynching of Three Negroes.

Montgomery, Ala, Sept 30.-Notice
was given today by Judge Leon Nc
Cord of the circuit court that a spe-
cial session of the grand jury would
be summoned Thursday to investigate
the lynchings of three negroes here
yesterday and the wounding OF a
fourth today.
This action followed conferences be-
tween Gov. Thomas E. Kilby, circuit
court judge and the sheriff. Gov.
Kilby declared special state agents
would be employed to secure evidence
for the grand jury, and that the full
weight OF the state would be placed
behind the Investigation.
No further trouble was experienced
races. Negro leaders and prominent
tonight by the white and Negro
white citizens conferred today on
methods to prevent repetition OF
yesterdays outbreak, which had it's
origin in the lynthing of two Negroes.
charged with assault upon white
women. This was followed by the
killing of a policeman. the lynching of
his slayer and by the wounding of
fourth negro.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-01

Bethlehem, Penn, Sept. 30.-Faced
with almost certain defeat in the
strike itself, the striking employees of
the Bethlehem Steel Corporation,
who walked out at the behest of the
American Federation of Labor with
out a vote, tonight turned to the Gov
ernment to save the situation for
them The strike committee, headed
by David H. Williams an organizer of
the American Federation, voted to re-
quest the Senate Committee which is
investigating the earlier steel strike
in the western part of the State, to eX
anime into the whole Bethlehem case.
This action was ratified at a mass
meeting of the strikers tonight in Al
lentown.
Back of the appeal to Senator Ken
yon's committee lies the hope on the
part of the leaders that in some way
the industrial conference called by
President Wilson at the Capital on
Oct 6, may result in some sort of
constructive victory for the federation
itself. So far as the Bethlehem
strikers are concerned they them
selves recognize that some of those
who have played conspicuous parts
in the walzout may have to suffer,
but they feel that if they have to be
sacrificed in this particular bit of in
dustrial warfare all is we'll provided
the national cause of organized labor
Is advanced.
The rank and file of the strikers are
basing all their hopes on the Wash
ington conference. Just how it is to
help them they do not pretend to
know.
The strikers know that the whole af
fair for them If they are left to fight
the company with thier own resour-
ces, is a question of commissary. AS
one of them expressed it today, If an
army travels on its belly, so does a
strike"
And they are we'll aware the com
pany can hold out longer than they
can, particularly as cold weather Is
approaching rapidly and coal bins
must be filled and winter clothing
bought. There is, in fact, no pretense
even, that this strike, considered as
an entity was brought at favorable
time for the strikers. But, as pointed
out in these dispatches last night, the
industrial conference was approach
ing and in the belief of many close
students of the situation here it was
necessary for the federation's purpos
es that the entire steel industry be
prostrated if possible.
The strikers by no means con-
ceed their defeat. Leader David H.
Williams asserted tonight that from
rs to 80 per cent of the men are out
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-01
SITUATION is IMPROVING
Government Report on English Strike
Is Favorable

London, Oct. 1-While delegates
of the Transport Federation were as
sembling to decide that the three hun
dred thousand workers whom they rep
resented should go out in sympathy
with striking railroad men, the govern
ment's official report on the situation
at noon announced continued improve
ment in actual conditions.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-01
LEAVES ESTATE. OF s25o,ooo
John Mitchell, Labor Leader Drew
own VIII.

White Plains, n. Y. Sept. 30--John
Mitchell, former president of the Uni
ted Miners of America, left an estate
of $250,000, mostly in stocks and
bonds, according to letters of admins
tration fled in the surrogate's court
OF Westchester county today.
In a will written in his own hand
shortly before his death, but believed
to be invalid because it lacked wit
nesses. the labor leader bequeathed
all but $40 600 of his estate to his
wife and children. The $4,000 was
to be divided among other relatives
and close friends.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-01
COLLEGES RECEIVE GIFTS
Yale and Colgate Each Get 100000
Eeuuest.

Newark, n j., Sept 29.--Yale and
Colgate universities each received
100000 by the will of Richard NJ,
Colgate. soap manufacturer. of West
Orange, N. j.. which was filed for pro
bate today.
The income of the gift to Yale is to
be used to establish professorships
for the advancement of the intellec-
tual teaching of freshmen students" +"
and shall not be applied to any per-
son who have passed his intellectual
prime of influence as stimulating
teacher
Colgate is to use its 100000 for
erecting a dormitory. An additional
bequest of $4,000 is left the Samuel
Colgate Baptist Historical collections
a part of the institution.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-01
NORMAL CONDITIONS RESTORED

Street Fighting Had Occurred in spal-
alto Between Italians and croatians
Fiume, Sept. 30.-Normal conditions
have been restored at Spalato, where
street fighting has occurred between
Italians and Croatians. The feeling
between the two races is bitter, how
ever.
D'Annunzio's army in this city num-
bers fifteen thousand officers and men,
according to information from officia
sources. There are constant additions
to this force from deserters who have
left their units along the armistice
line.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-01
TAKES HER OWN LIFE
Suffering ST. Johnsbury Woman Dies
on Doctors Steps

St Johnsbury, Sept. 29.-Mrs. A. l..
Bigelow met death by her own hand
early this morning and was found on
the doorstep of the home of Dr. A. A,
Catney Mrs. Bigelow shot herself
with a revolver She had been suffer
ing for some months with neuritis and
did not retire until nearly midnight
as she had been quite i'll all day. It
is thought that she went to DR.. Cat
ney's house for medical attention and
then took her life.
Mrs. Bigelow is survived by her hus
band who is conductor on the Bos
ton and Main railroad