The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-12-04
ENDORSE WILSON,
WOOD AND FRAZIER
ERAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE
AMENDMENT
THE COAL SITUATION GROWS SERIOUS
Industry Threatened as Factories
Close For Lack of coal-Steei
Mills Close.

The lower house of the state legisla-
ture yesterday ratified the federal
woman suffrage amendment. The vote
was unanimous. Just the required
number of members were present to
make quorum. The senate meets to.
day to act on the resolution and the
final vote is likely to be taken just
before midnight tonight.
Major General Leonard Wood, Presi-
dent Woodrow Wilson and Governor
Lynn ]. Frazier of North Dakota to-
day had the endorsement for president
of the United States of the republicans,
democrats and non-partisan league, re-
spectively, Of South Dakota. The en-
dorsements were made at the state
conventions Of the three parties under
the Richards primary law.
The democrats also endorsed Vice
President Marshall for a third term,
while the republicans gave their en-.
dorsement to Governor Calvin Coolidge
OF Massachusetts for the vice presi-
dency. The non-partisan league did
not select a candidate for that office.
After candidates for United States
senator, representative in congress
and various state Offices had been nom.
mated. and platforms adopted, the
three conventions adjourned early to-
day.
The democratic platform had for it's
keynote permanent peace under the
league OF nations, while Americanism
stood out as the permanent issue Of
the republican resolutions, Both DEM
ocrats and republicans endorsed the
league OF nations covenant, the form
er unreservedly and the latter with
proper reservations" The non.parti-
san league platform favored national
ization of public credits and resources
and public ownership of public utili.
ties.
Eight thousand steel workers were
thrown out of work today when
the American Sheet & Tin Plate Com.
pany, the largest manufacturing con-
cern of its kind in the world, was
forced to close, because of the coal
shortage.
All the mills of the company were
forced to shut down completely and
reports reached here that the CON-
pany's plant at Elwood, Ind, employing
from 1000 to 5000 persons, also had
banked its fires.
Further disruption of national indus
try nccause of the fuel shortage
brought about by the strike OF bitumi-
nous coal miners was in prospect to-
day. Regional directors of railroads
had authority to annul passenger
trains where the public would be the
least inconvenienced and many addi-
tional manufacturing plants through
out the country faced shut-downs.
State executives who, under appeals
from their constituents for aid, anxi-
ously have sought ways and means
for replenishing the rapidly dwindling
fuel supply. today virtually were with
out encouragement as regards increas-
ed production. Only in isolated in
stances were there reports of change
Of front on the part OF the miners
Generally the workers obstinately ad.
hered to their attitude Of remaining
away from the mines until better terms
than the IA per cent wage increase de-
creed by the government, were forth
coming.
A slight ray of hope, however, was
found in optimistic reports from op-
orators of the district embracing south
eastern Kentucky, Tennessee and Vir-
ginia that the backbone of the strike
there had been broken; the return to
work of miners at one Missouri mine
with the statement that they as Amer
leans could not see their neighbors suf-
fer.
On the other hand, cutting off of
electric advertising and other non-es-
sential use Of power and fuel with the
added prospect of further curtailment
of industry, brought to the general
public a rather gloomy outlook. 1t
was estimated that with the reduction
Of working STATS already made or
threatened, should the strike not be
broken Immediately, the number Of
employees thrown out of work soon
would surpass several times over the
approximately 100000 mine workers
involved in the walkout.
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