The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent., 1919-09-26

luo IHIIer uUlIlc Ill DuItIIlUJC.
ION. 3-Scene during the great oil
and that the employees Of the corpo-
ration are now compelled to resort to
a strike in order to prove to Judge
Gary the authority Of their selected
representatives to present their griev.
ances. In the Chicago district. at
least. strike-breakers will not he en-
plOyed. according to the company Of
ficials. The strikers will be paid of
and discharged permanently. and If
the waIkout is general, the mills Will
shut down.
Disorders in Boston. due to the
strike Of policemen. were largely sup
pressed by the military, but the stua.
ton otherwise was little improved.
The firemen, however. decided not to
quit. and the threatened general strike
was at least postponed. The attitude
of the American Federation Of Labor
toward the Boston case is peculiar
President Gompers. while defending
the strike. admitted the police were
given a charter on the express un-
derstanding that they would not strike.
Then Mr.. Gomper's secretary visited
| Boston to study the situation, and on
| leaving announced that the federation
| stood solidly behind the striking po-
/ licemen. He intimated that he did
not favor general strike at this time.
Chiefly because the police force OF
Washington also was unioniZed in the
face of orders to the contrary. PreSi.
dent Wilson took hand in the mat.
ter of police unions. He sent a tele-
gram to Commissioner Rrownlow of
the District Of Columbia in which he
said: II think that any association
of the police force OF the capital city,
or of any great city. whose
object is to bring pressure upon
the public or the community. such as
will endanger the public peace or EN-
barrass the maintenance of order
should in no case be countenanced
or permitted"
|
strike and consequent building indus
try tie-up in the Chicago district had
ended was not only premature. but
seemingly false. The carpenters wer.
ostensibly given a chance to vote or
the question. hut instead Of secre,
ballot, the voting was open. and thu
contractors assert that thus the lahO,
| hnSSaS OILY To ip,fi Oot1 q,
and obtain majority for rejection o
the compromise offered.
Two big meetings Of general inter
est were held in Chicago last week
The first was the annual convention o
the Zionists of America. at whicl
plans We're laid for the industrial in
vasion of Palestine by the Jews. Tn
first OF the invaders will be member
of the Jewish legion that fought in til
Holy Land under General Allenb,
Steps We're taken to raise the immens
sums needed to develop Palestine TIL
, executive committee expects to get a
much as S7.OOO.OOO in America durin
. the coming year.
The other meeting was OF some 30
, leaders of the AntiSaloon League q
, America. who were completing thel
, program for Il campaign designed
make the whole world dry. They d'
, cided they must raise at least $1,000
: GOO for the work and that prohibitio
must be enforced in American cite
+ as proof to the world that the sale {
liquor can be stopped.
e The gulf coast of Texas suffered s.
e verely from the tropical hurricane tn:
\ swept up from the Caribbean se
e Scores of persons were drowned an
e immense property damage was don
: especially in Corpus Christi and Il
e region roundabout.
5 Prosecution Of the packers by II
government proceeded apace with II
presentation of evidence to the gran
:. jury in Chicago. Notwithstanding t!
d Outcry Of Chicago organizations in d
.- tense Of the "big five," this eviden.
z and what Is yet to come is declare
d by Attorney General Palmer to |
4 ample to sustain the indictment of IL
q combination Of packers. and he addt
= that when the collected data "is la
o before jury the wrath of the Anne
= lean people will compel verdict
o conviction. The story will anna
l. America"
n Patriotic Americans were gratii,
e by the sentence imposed by Jud
Dean at Jackson. Minn.. on Preside
= f. c. Townley of the Nonpartis,
It league and Joseph Guilbert. form
manager. who had been convicted
q cOnsptring to teach sedition. Tn
were given 80 days In jail-the lin