Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-10-21
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for foreigners who are not well vouch-
ed for to get,ss admission into the
United States. IL The legislation is
based upon the Idea Of making 1t
more difficult for agitators against, the
social order in the United States,
most, of these agitators being .foreigp,,
ers. ',-'' ~
} . The actual number, of American
troocs now In France is less than
1900 and Is rapidly dimishing,( Gem
eralpW. D, Cenn95 eqmmandins the
American ytrSops 2in' Franco, repbrted a
few days ago. Withinsa month, De
stated, virtually all the soldiers WIZ
be gone, az the task ;of repatriatng
the tGerman prisoners is now COM
pleted. Only four or five Germans
now remain under he,.charge of the
American forces and these are i'll in
HOSPITALS. They will be sent home
through Coblen2 as soon as they can
travel. The work of completing the
liouidation OF army supplies, squaring
accounts and the policing of American
peace conference headquarters, are
now the only tasks OBTAINING the SOL
dlers and officers in France, and CEN
eral Connor said he expected that TINS
liquidation work too will be terminat-
ed within one month.
- The right of laborSini the matter OF
collective bargaining is the greal Is.
sue before the industriai coIieIehoe
which has been in session in Washing
ton since October s. Samuel Gompers,
who had been i'll for three days, ap.
peared In the conference again last
Friday, and made vigorous replies TO
the employers VINO naQ op!scteu W tlie
right of labor to deal with us EN-
ployers through duly constitu.eu sep. 5ept
resentatiyes. /. F. Loree, preslaent
{ OF the Delaware and Hudson river
railroad, one CT the leading Tepressn.
tatiyes OF capitai, nad on aursuay eS
charged that labor MAD curing lne va
used ITS power to coerce tne county
into granting concessions tnat Couiu
not have been obtained unner norma,
conditions Mr.. Gompers denounced
this statement with mucn neat pr
testing that the LABOR OF the county
had been patriotic from staft 70 Iii.S,t a'.t,
and that.1t mad IaitPluny carIieJ ou.
the promises IL NAG shiaue W t.ss thl
wilson Deiore tne .,sSaet 0I' that tbere
war; It became evident Ihat ~ treIe nnI
would pe no agreeens oai.,or om ond
lecttve bargaining pIopost;, ras @
there was an auJouFn.nsh. en- Ill unt h;,;t,
terday. Tnere is taik oI tne p.ooaDx i;. nj,
that the iapor repre represeh'a'i'ee w.
leave the conIerence.
- The long debated Shantuns amend
ment to the peace treaty, presented py
Senator Lodge ana approved py tne
Foreign relations conlmittee, ~ ~nnau9
: was re9ecteo an tne senate on nua oaso
day with q majority ol an sNen So
against IT. In the Vote ol 90 70 90,
Republicans swung over 10 tne plo-
treaty FORCES %nlie .nree .Lo 10 a.'
3nned up Win thoSe suppoI.ins 'nI pr
posal. VI the SIX seha.ors ase a.5
Two Repuphcans were puC vi te.o,S
as In fayori OF tne aInenor,lens sua ~
one Repubiican ana tnree DeinoSIass
: as opposing II. Ihe ron cail, WHICH
came at the end OF anotner SIX anu
half hours OF sharp oepate, IN led,Ny
swept away SIX amenoments nlseeau 10. y.
one, eacn cnange IN sthe treaty. tSAt
having been numbered separately py
the committee In It's decision 10 strike
out the word Japan" and SUBSTITUTE
tine word. "Chine" throughout the Sec
tioIis relating to the province. of shan
tung.!. BY unanimous consent how.
evef, fhe sif chanees were debated ana
voted ON as oneA only tnrce OF tne
committees 45 amendments now re-
main to be acted on by the senate, 80
previously having been rejected VI
those remaining, one relates to Ameri-
can representation of the reparations
commission, and two to equalization
OF voting power in the league OF ma
tions assembly.
80 A tentative agreement on collec-
tive BARGAINING was reached by the
general committee Of the national in
sdustrial conference last Saturday
might after an all day session. The
committee agreement was reached ny
taking the declaration OF the pupiic
and labor groups as a OASIS ana ADD
ing to the sentence recognizing tne
right OF wage earners TO organize IN
trade and labor unions the words
shop and other industrial assocla-
/ TONS" The proposed compromise
also substitutes for the sentence of the
original declaration recognizing the
right of organized labor TO be repre-
sented by representatives OF tDeir
own choosing the words py repre-.
sentatlves CHOSEN Dy majority Oh
their own members. The tentative
declaration retained the form OF the
original, and was broken up into
twelve different parts, each item stat
ing a specific principle, in order to be
readily subject to amendment. The
discussion IN committee which totaled
eight hours, hinged almost entirely on
the right OF outsiders" to represent
employees IN negotiations with en-
ployers. 1t was a day OF ups ana
downs during which at times the