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with the companies of this system and
called you out In a sympathetic strike
three years ago and threw you down you
have remained independent of the various
brotherhoods, both national and local,
that have entered into the transit sit
uation. There seems to be ample evil
dence that during that time a spirit Of
cooperation and confidence has been de-
veloping between the management OF
this system and its employees, and If this
has been developed to a point where you
can trust the management to give you
square dead you do not need the
Amalgamated Association or any other
outside influence to control your course.
. "As you well know, the policy of the
Amalgamated Association has peen TO
start a strike almost Immediately after
It gets control of the employees of a sys-
tenn, and in your case they are even
now threatening to call a strike before
they get control of you, or even before
they get a representation among you,
trusting to the disorderly element In the
community to force you from your posi-
tons and into their control. You can
rest assured that the management of
this system will stand with you In your
efforts to keep out these professional
agitators and dismiss from the service
those who ally themselves with them"
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HEADS OF BOSTON
COPS UNION QUIZZED
Courts to Pass on Right to Or
ganize.

Boston, Aug 20.-Officers elected by
the new policemen's union to-day were
summoned to Police Headquarters for a
conference with Superintendent Crowley
regarding their activities in the organi-
cation, the joining of which had been
forbidden by Police Commissioner Curtis
No word as to the outcome of the con-
ference was available.
Later members of city council com
mittee met the commissioner to discuss
the situation. A statement by the
chairman said:
The commissioner. while admitting
the right of all employees to organize
and endorsing the aims and objects of
labor unions in general, holds that
police officers are not employed in the
ordinary sense of the word, but are
public officials, and In his opinion men,
bership in the labor organization Is not
compatible with their duty as such
officials.
He further stated that the question
as to whether police officers were en-
ployes or public officials would probably
be determined by the courts, and If
the decision was adverse to his con-
tention of course the rule he had
promulgated prohibiting membership in
the union would be Illegal and any men
discharged for its violation would be
reinstated."
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was not affiliated with the Producing
danagers Association.
The plays affected by to-day's strike
are "Scandaip THE Passing snow,
Take II from Me-" Angel Face" and
Honeymoon Town." Union officials de-
clared tonight that ION the Firing
Line" scheduled TO start at the Black
stone next week, and Three Wise
Fools" which was to open at the Powers
tomorrow, would not be able to show.
Representatives of the musicians anu
mechanics said the 800 members would
remain out until the actors ana man
ayers had adjusted their differences
They also threatened to close vaudeViile
and burlesque houses.
While managers were refunding ad-
mission money this afternoon the Idle
actors gathered before Master In Cham
Gerry Zeisler where members of the up
in Mabels Room" company continued
their testimony in connection with the
managers petition for an Injunction.
Tom Wise, member of the "Cappy
Kicks" Company and chief witness, an
swered questions in way that brought
loud laughter and resulted In warning
that the room would be cleared unless
order were maintained. Lawyers for
the managers accused Wise of evading
questions concerning the strike and Of
acting on the witness stand.
1.-THE only complaint have is that the
managers refuse to recognize the &C
tors organization" testified Miss Hazel
Dawn of up in Mabel's Room" She
testified she received salary of $500 a
week, maid and travelling expenses.
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THREE ARE INDICTED ,
ON SEDITION CHARGE
Russian Reds Accused of Ad-
uocating Overthrow.

Indictments against three of the four
Russians arrested last Thursday night
in the raid at the Russian Peoples
House, 1913 East Fifteenth street, were
returned yesterday noon by the extraor-
binary Grand Jury.
The three men, Peter Bianci, 26, of
316 East Fourteenth street, until recent
ly secretary of the Federation of Rus
sian Unions in the United States and
also editor of the Russian magazine
Bread and Freedom Naum Step
hanuk, 36. of $50 Avenue A, secretary
Of the publication: and Michael Krau-
chuck, 81, also of $50 Avenue A, were
arraigned in the criminal branch of the
Supreme Court before Justice Weeks
yesterday evening. The trio pleaded not
The sun., 1919-08-21
QUEENS DEMOCRATS
ON C.. o. P. BALLOTS
Forces Are Joined to Defeat
Connolly Ticket.

The Republican organization in Queens
has perfected an arrangement with the
anti Connolly Democratic forces, led by
Arthur e. Heating and James P. Hicks.
They have filled the vacancies on their
primary ballot by naming Democrats of
this faction, in return for which it is
expected that some OF the Republican
candidates will be put on the independ-
ent ticket that Heating promises to put
up for the general election.
The Democrats who have been desig-
mated by the Republicans are: For the
Municipal Court in the First District.
Andrew ]. Caplis of Long Island CITY:
for the Assembly in the Sixth District.
Henry Baum of Union Course; for the
Assembly in the Third District, Edward
J. Nearing of East Elmhurst: for Alder
man in the Long Island City District,
TIL 1mas ]. Loughlin.
The Democratic insurgents substituted
James E. Finegan on their ticket for the
nomination for Surrogate in the prima-
ries. He will take the place Of Theodore
z. Larson and will run against Surro-
gate George A. Wingate, who has re-
fused 20 ask John H. McCooey, the De-
mocratic leader, to resign as Clerk Of
the Surrogates Court.
Jacob b. Strahl. the Democratic des-
signee to succeed himself as Municipal
Court Justice in the Fourth District in
Kings. has entered the Republican prl-
nIaries through the substitution for
Samuel Duberstein. There are two Re
publicans contesting for the nomination.
Joseph De Grace, whose petition for
the Democratic nomination for the
Board of Aldermen in the Forty-eiRhth
Brooklyn District has been protested by
Alderman Alexander Bassett, seeking to
succeed himself. explained to Justice
Cropsey:
II am a newcomer in politics. I am
an actor in the Bushwick Theatre and
did not have time to see that all the
! signatures on my petition were wit
messed"
Justice Cropsey reserved decision.
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guilty to the indictment which charre,
them with printing. editing, distribut.
ing and selling n newspaper supplement,
advocating the overthrow OF organlzei
government by force in violation M
section 161 of the penal law" Thsv
we're remanded to the Tombs to awai,
trial when none was able to furnish bali
Of $1,000.
Carl Paivo, who was indicted week
ago together with Gustav Alnoen on a
criminal anarchy charge, appeared yes.
terday before Justice Weeks and pleaded
not guilty. On application of their
counsel, Walter Nelles, Justice Weeks
reduced the bail of both men fron,
$25, 900 to $4,000
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WILL CONFER ON WAGES.
Eastern Massachusetts Railway
Men TO Demand Raise.

BOSTON, Aug. 20.-Members of the
Joint conference board of union en-
ployees of the Eastern Massachusetts
Railway voted unanimously tonight to
attend a conference with the trustees OF
che road tomorrow to discuss the recent
wage award of the Federal War Labor
Board. The men are dissatisfied with
the award, which provided for a ~ per
cent. increase, and their leaders have
asserted that they. were with difficulty
preventing the r1en from going on strike.
The joint conference board announced
that 1t had agceed to meeting with the
trustees in the hope of obtaining an in
crease that would give the employees the
same wage as that paid the men on the
Boston elevated railway system. Pend
ing the outcome meetings of the local
unions set for tonight were postponed.
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SOME SHOE. WORKERS
MAKING $I2O A WEEK
Many Make 500, Boston
Grand Jury Learns.

Boston, Aug. 20.-Inquiry into the
high cost of shoes by the Suffolk county
grand jury to-day developed that some
shoe workers have been earning $3.50
week These instances were said to
be few. but 1t was testified that many
made $50 a week, while the average
was about $40. Unskilled help, formerly
paid $12 to SIS a week, has profited
most. last boys getting as much as
$50 a week.
1t was said that a pair of shoes sold
by manufacturer for $3.50 was dis
played in a store 400 yards from the
factory marked at $12.
The grand jury finished its shoe price
inquiry to-day and is expected to re-
port Friday
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ENGLISH RAIL WAGE FIXED.
Geddes, Engineers and Firemen
Agee on Scale.

LONDON, Aug. 2O.-An agreement has
been reached between Sir Auckland
Geddes. British Minister of Reconstruc-
ton, and the locomotive engineers and
firemen, settling the mems demands, 1t
was announced to-day.
The Government offered the locomo-
tive engineers and motormen OF electric
lines 1915 daily and the firemen $275,
these wages being a substitute for the
present system of wages and war
bonuses. Representatives OF the men
recommended acceptance of the Govern
ment scale.
The insistence of the railroad men on
August IA that the long pending wage
dispute be settled Immediately threat
ened for a time ia result in a strike that
railroad men said would have disorgan-
lied the entire railway system of the
country.
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TEN THEATRES IN
CHICAGO NOW DARK
Musicians and Stagehands
Strike to Aid Actors.

CHICAGO, Aug. 20.-"Legitimate" the
atres in Chicago with one exception
were dark tonight as a result OF the
strike of musicians and stage mechanics
in sympathy with striking actors.
The theatres affected by the walkout
which took place just before the after
noon performance are the Garrick,
Studebaker. Olympic, Palace, Colonial
and La Sale. The Woods, Cohan's
Grand and the Cort have been closed
several days by the actors strike, The
Olympic. where Down Limerick Way
is playing. was reopened tonight after
it was explained that the management
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DRY DOCK MEN GO OUT.
Strike to Force Removal of Nom
Union Workers.

Three hundred and fifty boiler makers.
machinsts and other union workers en-
ployed by the New Jersey Dry Dock
Company in Elizabeth went on strike at
noon yesterday in sympathy with eighty
five carpenters who failed to report in
tn, morning. and to compel the company
to dismiss a number of carpenters who
are not members of the Snip Carpenters
Union.
No demands for an increase in wages
or shorter hours were made by the union
men Apparently the only thing they
want is the removal of non-union car
peuters employed by the New Jersey Dry
Dock Company.
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U. s. Mission Leaves for Turkey

PARIS. Aug. 20.-Majo r-Gen. James q
Hartford and the other members of the
American mission of inquiry into condi.
lions in Armenia and Asia Minor. left
Paris tonight for Brest. The party
will sail on the American steamship
Martha Washington for Constantinople
probably leaving Brest tomorrow.
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TROOPS CALLED IN
HAMMOND STRIKE
Compromise Rejected by
Workers; Rioting Feared.

HAMMOND, Ind, Aug. 20.-City and
county authorities here tonight called
upon Gov. Goodrich at Indianapolis for
troops to aid in coping with the situa-
ton here due to the strike Of employees
Of the Standard Steel Car Company,
VINO last Friday stormed the streets in
the vicinity of the car company in de-
fiance of efforts of police and Deputy
Sheriffs to maintain order.
The action of the authorities followed
rejection tonight by the strikers of a
compromise offer of the car company
officials made at the end of series of
conferences which began last Friday.
Disorders more serious than those of
Friday are feared by the officials and
i,aders of the strikers, who have tried
tc COnciliate the men. ana declare that
the situation is beyond their control.
The strikers, whose women relatives
have Joined in previous disorders, are de-
Glazed to have notified the police that
they will permit no one to enter the car
works tomorrow morning.
Sheriff Lew Barnes of Lake county.
and Mayor Dan Brown of Hammond
were notified tonight by Adjt.- Gen.
Harry B. Smith at indianapolis that
earliest possible moment and that all
ten companies might be expected by noon
tomorrow.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Aug, 20.-Ter
companies of State troops tonight were
ordered. modified for transportation to
Hammond, Ind. where efforts to end a
strike OF employees OF the Standard
Steel Car Company are said to have
failed to-day.
The call for the troops was received
tonight by Gov. James p. Goodrich from
Sheriff Barnes of Lake county and
Mayor Dan Brown of Hammond. who
stated they believed the situation would
be beyond their control by tomorrow
morning. The troops are expected to
reach Hammond by noon tomorrow.
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Says He Prevented strike.

Fridiger said ne had dealt with Judge
Mayer "honorably and respectfully and
that he would not permit his clients to
be blackguarded." He credited himself
with having prevented a B. r. T. strike
in March at the request OF the Judge.
and also a subway. elevated and sur
face strike in Manhattan last week.
He complained that the men of the
Amalgamated had been ''blackguarded,
abused and held up to ridicule and con-
tempt" ,...
He challenged Judge Mayer to have
hearing in court in which the 200 or
300 men discharged by the receiver or
companies for Joining the Amalgamated
could testify 80 that the public could
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BRITISH COAL STRIKE SETTLED
Yorkshire Pits to Resume Work
After Long shutdown.

LONDON, Aug. 20,-The strike OF
Yorkshire coal miners, which has been
In progress for many weeks. has been
settled. 5
All the Yorkshire pits will resume
work as soon as practicable.
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Listeners Cheer shea.

Shea got his listeners to cheering
madly when he acclaimed:
I'VE serve notice that the AmalKa-
mated has extorted from the INTERIOR
ough more wealth than the courts. more
than the newspapers could ever get
when We got rs per cent. increase"
This assertion that the menace of the
Amalgamated was what caused the sud-
den end of the marlborough strike
when the company agreed to the wage
increase Is a repetition OF what organ
lied labor Is saying generally.
Shea talked more about intimidation,
which he said was not an effective club
He pictured those bosses outside the
hall" as waving "a starvation whip"
over the heads of the street car men.
Those gentlemen over on the corr er,"
he said. who are cooperating with the
misleaders of the workers-we tell them
that we are here, and that we are here
To stay" More cheers.1
- He said-that- 4oo men from a certain
shop had been expected at the meeting
but were scared away by a report that
everJ body who attended it would be ar.
rested. He also said that the men who
recently got wage increases are full OF
bitterness and hatred instead of feeling
satisfied. Another of Collins's asser
lions was that the full story OF the In
terborough strike was yet to be told
time and the District Attorney woulc
tell II.
Louis Fridiger then talked for half ar
hour. He charged Judge Mayer witt
bad faith, said there were 400 or 5Ot
plckets IN the street. and asked. DO ycl
want to know what is breeding Bolshev
ism?"
Right outside" roared an Amalga
mated conductor amid yells from man!
voices.
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FEAR OF INJUNCTION
COOLS STRIKE TALK


was going to put the strike idea up to
the men at last nights meeting.
81 will call 1t at midnight or any other
time IL they say the word" he said.
Judge Mayors threat will have no ef-
feet upon our actions or plans"
He was referring to the letter the
Judge sent on Tuesday to Fridiger, the
Amalgamateds lawyer, upholding Re-
ceiver Hedges in discharging men who
tried to disrupt the green car brother
hood and telling him that the people
of New York were tired and II there was
strike the people would know where
to place the blame.
A lot of police in Elghty-sixth street
In front of the Lyceuni refused to let
any one stand still Oh the sidewalk.
This rather interfered with the pro-
gramme of the railroad bosses to iden-
tfy those who went into the meeting
and, as charged by the Amalgamated
orators, to intimidate them.
However. Thomas Delaney, superin-
tendent of the New York Railways lines.
and part of his group managed to keep
themselves posted from the seats of an
automobile. Another group represent
ing the surface car companies stood on
the opposite size of the street.
Some of the Amalga!nated men sput-
tered "scabs' and spoilers" from the
hall of the Lyceum, which is on the
second floor.
William Collins, a fluent organizer
for the American Federation of Labor,
was the first speaker, rising after the APP
pearance of Messrs. Shea and Fridiger.
who had been over in Brooklyn address,
ing the b. r. T. men, among whom the
Amalgamated is now established as a
trolling power of labor.
Collins, who was greeted with shrieks
OF approval, said he could speak Just as
frankly in court room as he was going
to speak at this meeting. He said that
nobody understood the spirit of Ameri-
can laws better than he did. He roasted
the management of the street railways
for having picketed the meeting and said
It made him cynical to see the gentle
fnen with large corporations who were
wandering around outside"
He charged persons, whom he did not
name, with interfering with the right
of free assembly. and shouted: IF
that is a crime then the Constitution
under which we live is not constitu-
tion."
He characterized the service of Judge
Mayors order as bad craftsmanship"
and called the street car bosses "a
pack of parasites pursuing their liveli-
hood to the clink OF the dollar" He
visioned organized labor as working
out its destiny and said there was no
stopping it by the process of intimida-
ton and Injunction"
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MOVIE ACTRESS MISSING.
Producers Seek Ethel Clayton, Last
Heard of in Japan.

Ethel Clayton, heroine of many a
thriller of the screen in which mys-
terry. disappearance and similar melo-
dramatic ingredients were plentifully
mixed, is herself a real life central
figure in a mystery which is causing
CONSERVATION among officials of the
Paramount-Lasky Picture Corpora
tion and no end OF speculative gossip
in Filmland.
Miss Clayton has vanished COM
pletely, and all efforts to locate her
whereabouts have failed, according to
word received here from Los Ange-
les and New York. She was last
heard from in Japan, where she had
gone for a vacation and to assin1ilate
some of the atmosphere of the Orient
for use in future productions.
The beautiful picture star was due
to return to Los Angeles on June l..
When she failed to do so the New
York headquarters of the Paramount
Lasky firm were consulted and the
cables kept hot with messages to
Japan in an effort to locate her. But
from the land of Nippon word came
back that nothing was known of Miss
Clayton.
There is a chance that Miss Clay
ton may have gone to some out-of-
the-way corner of Nippon and been
unable to return on time, or that she
may be making the return trip on
some tramp steamer. But, while mys-
terry surrounds her fate, her produc-
ers are making every effort to find
her.-San Francisco Bulletin.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-07-24
CRIMES INCREASE IN STATE.
Board OF Charities and Corrections
Gives Statistics.

Colum bia, July 20.-That homi-
eide, assaults, larceny and other fell
onies are increasing in South Caro-
lima is established by the Board OF
Charities and Corrections in its anal
ysis of reports from jails and chain
gangs of South Carolina for the quar-
ter ending June 80. According to the
boards information, based on accu-
rate reports from IS per cent of the
jails, there were during the last three
months eighty-one arrests for homi-
eide, and, according to the law of
percentage, there must have been
10S homicides in South Carolina.
This might be compared with twenty
five homicides reported in December
and eighty-one in March. Violation
of the prohibition law also showed
rapid increase. According to the De-
cember reports there were twenty
two commitments on this account; in
March forty-six; in June 145. The
number of assaults reported for the
June quarter shows IT'S, while eigh-
ty-six were reported for the March
quarter. The June quarter shows
240 commitments for larceny, which
might be compared with the March
quarter, which had 215. June re-
ports show 2,024 commitments; the
March reports show 1902 commit
ments. From these figures it is evil
dent that crime is on the increase in
this State.
G.. Croft Williams, secretary of the
State Board of Charities and Correc-
tions, said that there were four main
causes for this state of afairs-first,
that there is a psychological reaction
from the war, which cheapens human
life, that the people have read so
much of slaughter and have gotten
their minds atune to the theory that
wrong must be stopped by physical
force; second, that the men returning
from the war were of the age at
which most crimes are committed,
the reports of South Carolina show
ing that third of the crimes in this
State are committed by negro males
from seventeen to twenty-nine years
of age; third, that the enacting and
enforcing of prohibition laws in other
States, diminishing the supply of in
toxicating liquors and forcing the
price therefor to an exhorbitant
height, has encouraged those who
were determined to use or sell such
to manufacture them or to employ
extracts, patent medicines or other
substitutes; fourth, that the instabili-
ty of prices and the restlessness OF
the population always have ,refec-
ton in the acts of those that are
passionate or of a weak will.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-07-24
Patron Saints.

Two sailors, an Irishman and a
Scotchman, could never agree, and
the rest of the crew had become
adopts in starting them on an argu-
ment. One day "patron saints was
the subject of which the Scotchman
knew nothing and the Irishnan just
little.
"Who was the patron saint of Ire
land?" said Jack.
"Do you mean to say that you
don't know?' said Pat. "Why, the
holy St. Patrick"
"Well," said Jack in deliberate
tones, hang your St. Patrick"
In a towering rage the Irishman
hesitated a second while he thought
of something equally offensive, and
then burst out with, "And hang your
Harry LauderH"-London Tit-Bits.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-07-24
Baron Sato.

There still lives in Japan the single
Japanese, in all probability, who was
in the Franco-Prussian war, for he
is also the first japanese who ever
obtained a passport to go abroad for
study. Circumstances however, de-
prived him of the distinction of be-
ing the first japanese student in Ger
many, for he found on his arrival that
two others had smuggled themselves
out of the country as a stowaways and
we're there a year or so before him.
The adventurous student is now
Baron Susumo Sato and the difficult
ties of his adventure have recently
been told by him in the Japanese
Magazine. He started from his native
town of Sakura wearing a topknot
on his head and carrying the two
swords of the samurai, and had
much trouble at Yokohama in secur-
ing the first student passport that the
government had ever issued. He sue
ceeded in the end, however, and then
he cut off his queue, discarded his
swords, arrayed himself in western
costume obtained from a foreign tail
or in Yokohama, and took ship for
San Francisco, whence he crossed
the continent and eventually reached
Berlin from New York. In Berlin
he studied medicine, and later served
as a doctor during the Franco-Prus-
sian war. AS he set out on his
travels in 1869, Baron sato can re-
view the whole period from the end
of feudelism to the present position
Of Japan as a world power.-Chris-
tian Science Monitor.