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New-York tribune., 1919-08-27
President Of State Fedora.
ton of Labor Says 1t
Is the Only Solution Of
Unemployment Problem
Calls Situation Serious
Governor Smith Tells Con.
vcntion Workers Should
Stand by the Government
.ypvc;al Corrcspo,,dsncc

,oOec'ut correspondence
SYRACUSE, N, Y, Aug, 2e,-Solu-
ton of the unemployment problem Is
the six-hour working day, according to
James p. Holland, president of the
New York State Federation Of Labor
here to-day he declared that the un-
employment problem Is very serious
one, despite reports to the contrary.
and that the problem can be solved
by shorter working day, cutting down
the hours Of the employed to give the
unemployed chance,
However, If Mr.. Holland attempts to
have the federation go on record In
favor Of the six-hour day he will, it
Is said, encounter difficulty, as there
are many members who contend that
the eighthour day has not yet been
adopted by all the crafts, and that the
matter of the forty-four-hour week is
still to be worked out,
Mr.. Holland touched upon the shorter
working day in his annual message to
the convention, but did not specify the
number of hours until later, when he
took up the subject in an interview.
despite all optimistic calculations
and predictions to the contrary," Mr..
Holland said in his message, "the fact
remains that the unemployment that
developed with the signing Of the
armistice and the resultant cessation
of war industries continues and ap-
parently aims to be constant.
There is no possibility of our in
dustries, as at present organized on
peace basis, absorbing back to full
employment this great host of men and
women who must live by the sweat of
their brows. The only hope Of ending
the present unemployment and pre-
venting Its expansion to dangerous
limits is reduction of the working day
hours-a reduction Of hours that viii
be an honest and capable attempt to
avert the calamity of Unemployment
and its attendant horrors that CON
front US"
He asked the federation to reatfirm
ITS stand for fund insurance and the
elimination of private insurance COM
panies in the administration of the
compensation law.
Governor Smith told the federation
that profiteering would be stopped
whenever apprehended, and urged or
ganzed labor to stand by the govern
ment in these chaotic times He said
the enormous increases in the cost of
necessities was a direct result of the
war.
There has been profteerng, and
when 1t Is appre.hended it can and will
be stopped" the Governor declared.
eve are still and will be for some time
paving the price of the war. War is a
debauch, and the settling up is harder
than the racket which precedes it
In conclusion, the Governor said:
Let organized labor in this state be
any agency for carrying to our people
the message that every citizen owes a
duty TO the country at this time. Let the
slogan Of your convention be patriot
ism before personal interests'
The federation passed resolutions
declaring the actors league the only
Legitimate organization affiliated with
and recognized by the American FEEDER
alton of Labor.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-27
Colonel Survives War:
Storage Bird Kills Him
Two Others Dead. Six Seri-
ously Ill, After Turkey
Dinner al Ohio CIrh

ALLIANCE, Ohio, Aug 20 Colonel
Charles c. Weybrecht. who returned
only three weeks ago from France,
where he commanded the 10th In
fantry. died here to-day as result,
physicians believe, of eating cold stor-
age turkey at a dinner last Saturday
night at the Lakeside Country Club,
Canton.
Mrs. Helen sebrine Gahris, wife Of
William !. Gahris, OF Sebring. Ohio.
and Bob Jennings, q negro waiter at
the club, also are dead. Mr. and Mrs.
John c. Sharer are paralyzed and their
recovery is said to be extremely doubt
ful.
Sir. and Mrs. Louis II. Brush, of
Salem. Ohio; Mrs. Glenn Bates and
Mrs. Willis F. Sanford, of this city
who attended the dinner party, are
dangerously i'll.
W. D. McElboy, chef at the country
club, is another victim who may die.
Specialists from Cleveland and Alliance
were summoned yesterday to attend
the striker persons
Colonel Weybrecht served two terms
as adjutant general of Ohio. He was
fifty years old
New-York tribune., 1919-08-27
Mondell Urges Passage
OF Soldiers Land Bill
Opposition Develops Among
Republican Members of
the Committee

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.-Republican
Leader Mondell outlined to the House
to-day the provisions OF his bill en-
bodying Secretary Lanes project for
farms for soldiers and sailors. He said
the measure had the support of soldier
and labor organizations and should be
enacted without delay
Opposition, Mr.. Mondell said, has its
origin largely in the assumption that
legis lation should benefit soldiers Of
the Spanish and Civil wars as we'll as
those Of the great war.
Opposition to Mondell's plan develop-
ed among Republicans of the Public
Lands Committee, which is discussing
the bill. Representative Nichols. Re-
publican, Of Michigan. SAID few SOL
diers would be attracted, as an outlay
OF $1,000 was necessary.
Repre- White Republican. of
Kansas, said the project was largely an
experiment and "in buying land under
the bill and recaiming it. soldiers
would begin work knowing there were
small chances of making good. because
all fertile land is now cultivated"
Representative Scott, Republican. of
Michigan, charged that land owners had
come to Washington to insist on the
passage of the bill.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-27
Labor Leader in Dramatic
Debut at Lexington Thea
tre Gets Storm of Cheers
in Surprise Appearance
State Federation to Help
Equity ENJOYS at Syracuse
Win Strike Endorsement:
Governor Cheers Them

All the power OF the American Fed,
era;ion Of Labor was promised the
striking actors yesterday afternoon by
Samuel Gompers-
The appearance of the labor leader
on the stage of the Lexington Theatre.
where the members of the Actors
Equity Association were holding a
meeting intended to sustain the morale
Of the organization, WAS as effective a
stage entrance as any ever made by the
artists who formed Mr.. Gompers's audi
ence.
Francis Wilson, president of the Ac-
tors Equity Association, was in the
midst OF explaining to the actors why
Mr.. Gompers couldn't come to the Lex
New-York tribune., 1919-08-27
State Labor Federation
IndOrSes ActOrs' Strike

SYRACUSE, N. Y. Aug. Go The
striking actors were the heroes Of the
convention of the State Federation of
Labor, which opened here to-day. Ed.
Wynn, Marie Drcssler and Dewitt Jen-
nings addressed the labor representa-
tives, and among those who applauded
them were Governor Alfred Smith,
Mayor Stone Of Syracuse and James
?. Holland, the state president of the
Federation.
After Wynn had attacked Arthur
Hammerstein and J. J. Shubert. the
atrcal producers. in his speech and
Marie Drcssler, the president of the
Chorus Equity Association, had re-
counted some Of her experiences
with managers while she was a chorus
girl. the convention adopted resolutions
indorsing the strike of the actors. This
was done with roar Of cheers that
fairly shook the Hotel Onondaga.
The three stage people were intro
duced by Charles Shay, who, as presi-
dent of the International Alliance of
Theatrical Stage Workers, was more at
home on the platform of labor con-
yentiOn.
Wynn Tells Tales
Wynn, in denouncing Hammcrstein
and Shubert in particular, and all
managers in general, cited instances in
his career to show why he considered
they had cheated him out OF money he
said they had agreed to pay him. He
said he had given up vacations to work
on play manuscripts for them, convert
ing failures into successes and playing
hls father-in-law, Frank Keenan,, who
has been on the stage for forty years,
knew enough about most producers to
put them in Jail.
Miss Dressler was the first of the
EQuity's representatives to speak. She
said
"Thirty years ago I was in the
chorus. In fact. in the old days most
of the talent came from the chorus,
but it does not come from there now.
Talent must have brains, and condi
tions in the chorus tod ay are such
that brains will not start there.
II have seen managers in their greed
rush theatre for a production so as
to have seats for the audience ready
for an advertised date, and yet when
the show opened there was not a single
dressing room for the actors"
Committee Appointed
In addition to the resolution ex-
tending the sympathy Of the conven-
tion the convention ordered the ap-
pointment of a special committee to
consider all matters relative to the
actors strike and the sympathetic
strikes of other crafts, this commit
tee to report to the convention with
recomm endations.
This committee is composed of State
Industrial Commissioner James NJ.
Lynch, Of Syracuse; Charles C. Shay,
of New. York, president of the Inter
national Alliance Of Theatrical Stage
Employees; James Lemke, of New York,
general organizer of the same as
socation; Ernest Boehm, secretary Of
the New York City Central Fedora
tion of Labor; Edward Canovan, Of
the New York Musicians Union. Rob
ert Brudell of the Dock Builders
Union of New York, and Dewitt c.
Jennings, of the Actors Equity Asso-
citation.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-27
| can say what think Of the Actors
Equity Association"
Speculative n Fined


Herbert Phillips, theatre ticket spec
ulatop was fined $25 In the West Side
court yesterday by Magistrate William
ticket for the Actors Equity benefit
performance at the Lexington Theatre
Tor $4.> The complaining witness was
Richard Gordon, a striking acton who
bought the ticket from Phillips.
Gordon told the magistrate ne was
assigned by the strike leaders to get
evidence against ticket sellers who
charge more than 80 cents profit on a
theatre ticket.
Morris Gest, manager Of the Century
Theatre, was discharged in the West
Side court yesterday on a charge Of
assault made by Alexander Frank, an
actor, of 2ol West Eighty-fourth Street,
Frank said Gest threw him into the
gutter in front Of the Century Theatre
August while he was doing picket
duty for the striking actors
Julia Dean Sends Denial
Julia Dean, who Is IN Washington
at present sent kilograms here yester-
the board Of directors Of the newly
formed Actors Fidelity League She
sent this message to the Actors Equity
Association; III find myself listed on
the board Of directors Of the Actors
Fidelity League Was not present at
Shc meeting. Know nothing about It,"
AS for the Actors Fidelity League, 1t
announced total membership at
o'clock last night Of 1919 members.
One Of these members, according to an
announcement, is Miss Adelaide Will
son (Mrs. Russell Biss), the daughter
Of Francis Wilson, president of the
Actors Equity Association,
The press department. Of the Actors
Fidelity League quoted Miss Wilson
as follows:
81 do not like the actors present
attitude. For many years I have heard
strike talk in the family. But I never
approved Of it. Father thinks he is
doing what Is right and am doing
what I think Is right. l signed con-
tract in June and l am going to live
up to it. A contract is not a scrap
Of paper and therefore it should be
respected"
Fidelity Claims Recruits
At the meeting Of the Fidelity at the
Biltmore on Monday night Louis Mann
announced that Jane Cowl had Joined
Yesterday Miss Cowl sent to The
Tribune this telegram: 81 have not
Joined any other organization, though
l deplore and condemn the Equity
course in breaking contracts"
Other actors who Joined yesterday
according to officials Of the Actors
Fidelity League, were: Efingham
Pinto, William Hodge, Bessie Mccoy
Davis, Maurice Mouvet, of Maurice and
Walton; Jess Dandy, Gilda Grey, Jane
Gray, Josephine Drake, Peggy Hopkins
and Diana Lumeley.
The following letter was sent yes
terday to the vice-p president of the
Fidelity, Louis Mann, by sixteen actors
among them Conway Tearlc and
Charles c, Winninger:
"Sir: You are quoted as saying. 4
have the good will of every actor with
whom | have worked. knowing your
reputation for strict veracity and the
value you set upon your reputation
generally, we feel that you may have
been misquoted.
On the opposite event, however. and
assuming the transcript Of your re-
marks to be correct, the undersigned d
wish to register emphatic denial Of the
above statement, having been unfortu-
nate in various times TO have been as
sociated with you in different plays"
New-York tribune., 1919-08-27
Du Pont Co. Will Bid
For S7O,O0O,O 900 Town

WILMINGTON, Del, Aug. 2e.-One
bidder for Nitro, ". Va. the govern
ment's S70,OOO,OO town which is to be
sold at auction, was assured to-day
when the du Pont Chemical Company
announced that it would put in bid.
The company has sent to Nitro
corps of experts. who will make an in
ventory Of the big smokeless powder
plant around which the town is built.
The du Pont Chemical Company has
already taken over from f. l. du Pont
de Nemours & Co. all its military
plants and is developing some Of them
industriallT
New-York tribune., 1919-08-27

will be permanently outlawed, the car
mems international executive board an
nounced after a meeting here to-day.
The men struck twelve days ago IN
violation, it was said, of their arbitra-
ton agreement with the operating re-
ceivers of the Pittsburgh Railways
Company and the War Labor Board.
international President w. D. Mahon
intmated that failure of the men to
return to work may result in the union
forming a new local at Pittsburgh to
cooperate with the company in reopen
ing trolley service.
Temporary suspension of the local
New-York tribune., 1919-08-27
Two Who Shield Children
In Mine Riot Shot Dead
Woman Organizer and Striker
Are Victims at Plant Near
Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 2s.-Mrs. Fan
ME Selllns, of New Kensington, an or
ganizcr Of the United Mine Workers
strkns st mner sna We're s'sp hpt to pes death and
others injured to-day in labor riot at
the entrance Of the Allegheny Coal
and Coke Company mine, near Brack-
enridge.
Mine guards attempted to disperse
miners on strike. Rioters on hill
side above the mine entrance began
firing, but soon fed.
Mrs. Sellers and Spicenkt were at
tempting to protect children who were
spectators of the clash.
According to latest reports several
hundred foreigners have gathered near
the mine and deputies are attempting
to hold them off.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-27
Wreck Inquiry Shows Train
Ran Past Danger Signal.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2e.-Prelimi-
nary reports to the railroad adminstra-
ton to-day said the tenth section of the
Washlngton-Atlantic City excursion
train on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
which crashed into another section on
Sunday at Elwood, N. j., ran past a
caution signal, 5000 feet from the other
section, q stop signal 1900 feet distant
and torpedoes and fuses 1900 feet dis
tant. One person was killed and seven
teen we're injured in the wreck.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-27
Serbia's New Premier
Denies Selfish Aims

BELGRADE, Aug. 26.-Announcing
in the Chamber of Deputies Monday
the governments policies, Liouba Da-
vidovitch, the new Premier, said,
among other things, that Serbia in
the impending reorganization of the
Balkans would not seek special priv
ileges, but would base her claims upon
the principles of international jus
tice."
"Serbia nevertheless must defend to
the utmost her just demands wherever
they are threatened" he said. When
peace is concluded Serbia should pur-
sue policy of reciprocal confidence
with ner neighbors and cultivate III
innate friendships. CzechoSiova0ia
ard Poland seek good relations with
US, as do Greece and Rumania.'
New-York tribune., 1919-08-27
Chevrolets at OLYMPIC Field

The Chevrolet ball team, ono Of the
strongest semi-professional clubs, viii
play the Lincoln Giants the opening
game at Olympic Field, 136th Street and
Fifth Avenue, on Sunday next at p. m.
the Lincoln Giants this season. In the
final game the Robins Drydock club
will meet the Lincoln Giants.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-27
Los angeles Strikers
To Stay Out: Order Of
Chiefs To Be Ignored

Los ANGELES, Cal, Aug 26.-All
striking railroad men here will ignore
instructions of their national chiefs
that they return to work, and will con-
tinue their strike, according to a de-
cision reached early to-day after an
all-night meeting.
The men based their action on a
phrase of the orders to return to work
which said they need not submit them
selves to danger of mob violence. They
said to return at present would be dam
gerous in that respect.
The strike began last Thursday when
the railway men of the Southern Pa
cifc. Santa Fe and Salt Lake roads quit
work out Of sympathy for striking en-
ploycs Of the Pacific Electric Railway,
an interurban line.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug 20
The walkout of trainmen, which has
tied up railroad traffic between Fresno,
Cal, and Yuma. Ariz.. and virtually
isloated Southern California. tonight
spread to San Francisco, when yard
men Of the Southern Pacific Railroad
went on strike.
Yardmen of the Southern Pacific in
Oakland also began leaving their work
tonight.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-27
India's Women Ask Vote

LONDON Aug. II Correspond
ence of the Associated Press). An
Indian suffragette, Mrs. Sarojini Maidu.
garbed IN Oriental dress, told the In
dian Constitutional Relations Commit
tS tee IN the House of Lords yesterday
the vote and that if granted it would
make for unity
New-York tribune., 1919-08-27
Shopmen Of Santa Fe
Cold 10 f-Cent Raise

TOPEKA Kan, Aug. 26.-Emplo
of the Santa Fe general shops here
show no snclination OF accepting Presi-
dent Wilson's offer OF a Accent increase
an hour as settlement OF their de
mands. David Chandler, chairman OF
the carmen'. local union here, said to
night that his organization almost
unanimously voted for the strike, and
not a man who voted would favor &C
cepting a settlement as offered by the
President
New-York tribune., 1919-08-27
only 2 u. S. Soldiers
Are Unnccounfed For

WASHINGTON, Aug. se.-only
two men of the thousands of
'ne American expedltionary force
who went into battle against the
Germans remain unaccounted for,
according to a casualty list Issued
to-day by the War Department. A
previous list showed more than 100
missing In action,
New-York tribune., 1919-08-27

was announced week ago. This is
the first time in the history Of the
union local has been threatened with
permanent emulsion
New-York tribune., 1919-08-27
Amalgamated May Break
Pittsburgh Car Strike
Local Union Is Threatened by
Head of international Body
With Expulsion

DETROIT, Aug 26.-Unless striking
street car men in Pittsburgh return to
work Immediately, the Pittsburgh local
of the Amalgamated Association of
Electric Railway Employees of America,
New-York tribune., 1919-08-27

Boys clothing g ct IS
harder wear than most
grownups'. Yet the poorest
clothing in the world is
mostly boys.
Four things to look out
for.
Quality. We do not know
how to make better CLOTH
ing. No extravaganza; no
meanness.
Variety. Never were we
more abundantly supplied
with new suits for starting
the Fall term.
Price. AS low as large
and first hand handling e
can make it. We are our
own manufacturers.
Fairness. Moneyback, if
you want it. We try to be
more than fair, even more
than generous.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-04
For Supervisor, Beat Five
W. G..

To cleanse the blood, strengthen
the kidneys and regulate the stem
acn, liver ana bowels, Prickly Ash
Bltrers is a remedy that has proved
is worth. 1t promotes activity III
body ana brain. Price S1.25 per bot
tie. Rond's Drug Store, special
agents.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-04

After a long winter the system be-
ome filled with impurities caused
by dry, strong diet. In hot weather
these impurities cause sickness. Get
rid of them now by taking Prickly
Ash Bitters. It will purify the blood,
liver and bowels and put the body in
shape for summer work. Price $1.25
per bottle. Bonds Drug Store, spec
ial agents.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-04

A system regulator" is a medicine
that purifies and strengthens the Gv-
err, kidneys, stomach and bowels.
Prickly Ash Bitters is one of the
best of these. 1t drives out unheal-
thy conditions, promotes activity of
body and brain, restores good appe-
tite, sound sleep. and cheerful spirits.
Price $1.25 per bottle. Bonds Drug
SteEs, special sgeatk
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-04
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
Primary Election 1919

Primary Election 1919
For Governor
HON. A. H. LONGING
$50
For District Attorney
4th Judicial District
WILLIAM T. WYNN.
of Washington County.
J. M. FORMAN.
of Leflore County.
For Representative
W. M. WELLINGTON
W. S. BARRY :
For County Attorney
MEANS JOHNSTON
M. F. PIERCE
For Sheriff and Tax Collector
W. S. VARDAMAN
S. 1. BROWN
j. T. FLANAGAN.
f. H. CRIPPEN
SAM COLEMAN, JR.
+ - x +
For Chancery Clerk
ROY BEW
For Circuit Clerk
CHAS. V. WILLIFORD.
G.. SHARKEY PATE
For Supt. of Education
j. R. HUGHES
For Tax Assessor
j. E. DENNIS.
J. K. PROPHET
For Supervisor, Beat Two
H. Y. FRASER
II r. = X X
For Supervisor, Beat -FOUR
w. P. KIA3ROUGII.
J. l.. HALEY, SR.
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For Supervisor, Beat Five,
W. G. POINDEXTEP.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-22
MINE LEADER IS
GIVEN TIME TO
PREPARE DEFENSE
But Judge Warns Howat Must
Restrain From Activities
or Go TO Jail
By Associated Press

indianapolis, Dec. %. - Declar-
ing that violations of the Federal
courts injunction under the Lever
act against furthering the coal strike
in Kansas must stop, if persons
guilty have to be put in Jail and
kept there. L. S. District Judge A.
Ii. Anderson to-day permitted Alex
ander Howat, president of the Kan
sas district of the United Mine
Workers until next Monday to pre-
pare his defense of charges of con-
tempt of court.
law Defied
Henry Warrum, chief counsel for
the international organization of the
miners, and Howat were given until
o'clock this afternoon to present
to the court some evidence that vio-
lations of the injunction charged
against the miners district official
will not be continued during the in
terim from now until the hearing on
next Monday. otherwise. Judge An
derson declared, he would be forced
to send Howat to Jail.
This man." Judge Anderson de-
clared, has openly and defiantly
disobeyed the law
This court and the law has been
defied and fiouted. I've got to stop
it, if the law is to be upheld. Either
| must do it or We mUst acknowledge
that the organization for which he
stands is supreme to the government
This mans violation must stop OIL
/ will put him in a cell and keep
him there"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-22
SEVEN HUNDRED
TAKE PART In PAGEANT
[Continued from First Page. |

ed on al sides by thousands of Har-
risburgers who will converge at that
point to watch Harrisburg's first
municipal Christmas pageant.
The pageant has been designed
to carry out the real significance of
the Christmas day, and the music
and action will be arranged so that
the real spirit of Christmas will not
be lost in the enactment of the story
of the First Christmas.
Wednesday morning the stage and
manger will be erected in front of
the main entrance at the Capitol,
and the lighting connections made.
These lighting connections will en-
nance the pageant and afford means
for illuminating the action with
shaft lights. and with final set
piece in which the words 10y to
the World" will be set forth to, a
vocal and instrumental musical ac-
mpaniment.
One hundred and fifty school
children will compose the juvenile
chorus, which will furnish q part of
the vocal musical accompaniment
Clarence E. Zorger, in charge of the
Department of Special Activities of
the School District, arranged for
this chorus. Many of the details of
the huge spectacle are being ar
ranged by V. Grant Forrer, assistant
of parks. who has
lent his active assistance throughout
The spectacle is under the direc-
tion of the Community Service
Bureau of the Harrisburg Chamber
of Commerce.