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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-25
Government Looking Into Charges of Denial
of Free Assembly and Activity OF
Radical Organizers.
ATTORNEY GENERAL TOBE KEPT INFORMED
Justice Department Inquiry Separate From
That of Senate Labor Committee Which
Opens Today.
[By Ralph F. Couch, United Press
Staff CORRESPONDENT.

[By Ralph F. Couch. United Press
Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-William
J. Flynn, chief Of the secret service
bureau of the department of justice
today was in Pittsburgh investigating
the steel strike.
Through Flynn and group of spe-
cial agents scattered through the
strike district of western New York,
Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio,
Attorney General Palmer fs studying
the strike and keeping in personal
touch with the entire situation, it was
made known here today.
Palmer and all other government
officials since the strike began have
been flooded with reports that ]. w.
w. leaders and other radical organi-
zers and agitators are trooping to
Pittsburgh in hope Of taking advantage
of the strike to stir up rioting.
Department of Justice agents made
clear today that they will not accept
without verification by their own
agents either the claims of the steel
company officials that the strikers are
radicals or the claims of the strikers
that the plant officials and steel town
officials are denying the workers the
right of free assembly.
The Justice department inquiry will
be separate from that which starts be-
fore the senate labor committee today.
Justice department officials already
have received many reports on the
strike situation These do not indi-
cate that radical leaders are more in
evidence in Pittsburgh than elsewhere
in the country, according to Assistant
Chief Burke, of the secret service.
Rotten Apple In Barrel. E.
IBy Raymond Clapper, United Press
Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON. Sept. 25-The steel
industry's "open oppression" Of labor
is the "rotten apple of the industrial
situation" John Fitz Patrick, chair
man of the strikers committee, told
the senate labor committee today.
Fitz Patrick was the first witness In
the hearing authorized by the senate
Tuesday when it passed the Kenyon
resolution.
"Just as rotten apple will contaml.
nate the entire barrel, so the steel
industry is doing to the entire labor
situation,'' he declared.
"This Is the reason" Fitz Patrick
declared, "why the steel industry must
be organized now. Bad conditions IN
the steel industry" he said were used
TO prevent getting better working con
ditions in other occupations"
Fjtz Patrick as Witness.
by Raymond Clapper United Press
Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-More
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-25

than the promise of a conference
with steel officials is now necessary
to get striking steel workers back to
the plants. John Fitz Patrick, strike
leader, told the senate labor commit
tee today.
Fitz Patrick, the first witness in
the investigation authorized by the
senate Tuesday, declared that the
refusal of conference was the
cause of the strike. But the work
ers now will not go back until they
get Justice he added.
Fitz Patrick made his statement
under questioning by Senator Ken.
yon after he had told the committee
that the steel officials took every
. means to prevent unionization of
their plants, - and declared that
bad conditions In the steel Industry
were used in preventing the securing
of improved conditions elsewhere.
w. B. Rubin, steel workers coun-
sci, told Of events leading UP to the
strike.
Would the strike be called off If
you had the consent Of the officials
for a conference?" Senator Kenyon
asked.
81 don't think So" Fitz Patrick re-
piled
! There is now ground on which we
can get together, but the mere fact
! of calling conference will not be
sufficient to recall the 100000 work
ers who have left their jobs, They
! have been subjected to brutality and
murder They resent that, and they
will not go back to the mills until
, they get justice. They are going to
ask the United States government to
give them ordinary justice, and until
that is accorded they will not go
back to the mills"
"Then the real reason for the
strike was the failure to grant con-
ference?" Kenyon suggested
yes" Fitz Patrick replied, and he
said if Judge Gary had consented to
! conference the strike would not
have been called.
Fftz Patrick declared that to go
back until justice is assured would
( pieces"
FTtz Patrick told of the Staying of
Mrs. Fannie Snellings.
"Our information is that the kill.
ing was done by a mill guard, Fi+z
Patrick said.
".Do these men act for the steel
company, rather than the pubiicT"
Senator Walsh. Massachusetts, asked
I, That's the system of terrorism
they use" the witness replied
''They made an example of Mrs.
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-25
PE FOR AID FROM WASHINGTON
ikers to Make Great Effort to Induce Rail-
road Men to Quit in Sympathy With
Steel Workers.

forcing the proclamations and de.
crees which the strikers are attack
ing. In telegram to Foster. the gov
ernor said information had been re-
ceiyed that efforts were being made
for EVIL disposed persons at points
in other states near our boundaries
to collect armed mobs TO come across
the state line to oyerpower our mu-
nicipal authorities in attack on our
citizens and destroy their property"
If any such attempts are made we
shall be compelled to regard these
mobs as armed invaders OF Pennsyl-
vania and we shall deal with them
as SUCH" the telegram continued.
Responding to the telegram Foster
wired the governor that he had been
Imisinformed as to the circumstances
LOT the Charlton riot, which prompted
Foster to send message of protest.
I'm substance the affair was moth
ling else but deliberate and premedi-
tated assault upon peaceful and legal
assemblage of working men by the
state police" Foster wired.
Unions participating in this strike,
all of which are affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor, are
doing their utmost to preserve order
in the face of most fragrant disregard
of their fundamental rights Of free
speech and free assemblage and of
unwarranted attacks by the state po-
lice. Our whole group Of organizers
are willing at all times to give the
most active assistance to the consti-
tuted authorities in maintaining order
in this commonwealth
Today opened quietly, following
minor clashes between police and
strikers at McKeesport and Natrona
late yesterday in which shots were
fired when the state police broke up
crowds.
Against the claim of the union
leaders that men are slowly leaving
the plants, the companies reported an
increasing number returning to work.
The Carnegie plant at Clarion ex-
pected to fire another furnace today
and restart its 21-inch mill. From
Duuuesne, Hon estead. Braddock and
Rankin. the reports were that the
number of men returning today was
far greater than yesterday.
Only One Mill Running.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 25.-'
SJnlY OIlt oItti iiii'i "'Aa 80 ~
here today, on the fourth day OF the
steel strike.
It is an independent, unit OF the
Empire Rolling Mill company.
The one unit of the Otis Steel com
pany that continued in operation
after the strike went into effect clos.
ed today
Henry w. Rasse, strike leader IN
the Cleveland district, said the clos
ing Of the Otis unit added 1000 work.
ers to those already out. The total
number out here, he said, was 26,ooo::
Score OF Shots Fired.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept 26.-A
score Of shots were fired today al
three employees OF the Clarion steer
plant and policeman, enroute TO the
mills. The men were carrying S2oo,-
600 in wages to be paid workers. NO
ono was injured.
Comeback by Mills.
CHICAGO, Sept. 25.-Steel mills
began a comeback in the Chicago
district today. The Gary plant al
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-25
TABLOIDS
FROM FAR AND NEAR

thousand husband-hunting British
girls are coming to the United States.
Love Powders for $40.
NEW YORK, Sept. 25.-Mrs. Rose
Campagnaro is under arrest because
she is alleged to have made a COM
pound of licorice and sold it to Harlem
girls as "love powders" for $40 an
ounce.
Motorcycle Cops.
CHICAGO, Sept. 25.-"Pull over to
the curb and stop" commanded two
motorcycle "cops" of Daniel Upton.
They got a $500 diamond and some
cash.
Real Jazz Music.
LOS ANGELES, Calf. Sept. 25.-
Try this on your piano. Sam Beth
bought his piano from Chicago mail
order house. He laid a cigarette on
one of the "ivory" keys and-well
they saved the house.
Danger In Overalls.
PORTLAND, Ore, Sept. 25,-Mrs.
Peter Poslyn alleges her husband tore
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-25
lOTHER SACRIFICES LIFE
TO SAVE HER BABY

dead today, but her two year old
daughter lives, because of her sacri-
foe.
When the child toddled upon the
Northwestern railroad tracks, which
border the Stanfeld farm, as pas.
senger train approached, Mrs. Stan
field dashed forward ana pushed her
daughter out Of the trains way. The
mother, however, was caughS under
the wheels of the locomotive and
ground to death.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-25
Accept or Reject.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
PARIS, Sept. 25.-Premier Clemen-
ceau, answering interpretations in the
chamber of deputies today with re-
gard to the peace treaty, told the
chamber 1t only had the right to ac-
cept or reject the treaty as whole.
.You only have the right to accept
it or reject 1t as whole without
amending It," he said.
The treaty as whole is a good
one. Clemenceau said
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-25

Ned Press Leased Wire Service. ]
bwrnment investigation of the
strike opened In Washington to.
with John Fitx Patrick, chairman
no strikers committee, on the
4. He told the senate labor COM
he that postponement Of the
Ee would have meant demoralixa-
Of the union.
ports today showed little change
be situation, although the opera
declared some men we're return.
% work in the Pittsburgh and
districts.
hsr were new disorders in Far
md Charlton, Pa. IN the former
one man was killed and one in
when state police raided a
fnm which II was alleged men
firing upan the. mills.
humber Of shots were fired upon
h Charlton carrying $500, 900
MI 70 the plant.
strike decision will be reached
ut by employees OF the Sparrows
plant Of the Bethlehem Steel
pany at Baltimore.
Fred s. Ferguson, United Press
Staff Correspondent
TTSBURGH. Pa. Sept. 25.-The
Der marks OF a protracted indus
struggle were settling upon the
fongehela valley today.
far as permitted by rigid police
flations, picket lines were begin
to appear about the big steel
2 From inside the plants came
heavy pounding. rattle and noise
work, while outside great num-
Of men moved through the
(eu or loitered about their homes,
Fously idle. Mounted state police,
Fheir gray uniforms and helmets,
iull cartridge belts about their
|ss rode through the streets.
pea deputies stood about the
very one was kept moving.
'Vas were not permitted to gather.
m the plants came word that men
Z returning to work IN constantly
Ieasing numbers. The steel com
,es regarded the situation as ex-
lingiy favorable. but the tense
OF the big struggle that is being
'eo nung over the valley.
eanwhile the strikers are hoping
sia from Washington in the fight
nave now begun against the
On, pms Of the state police and denial
lignt OF free speech and assem-
: under the proclamations issued
'ocai authorities. John Fitz Pat
, chairman Of the steel workers
mittee, will tell the strikers side
y. .eats OF the last few days to tho
We committee today.
ae greatest speculation was
''ea today by the announcem ant
subcommittee OF the steel
!, naa been appointed to meet the
= ol four railroad brotherhoods
with the strike. Rail.
men IN the Youngstown and
a'.o*n districts are said to have
ssa TO move trains in and %ut OF
i ,,ue Irom constant efforts to per
y to,. men to leave the mills, the
10y enort OF the strikers will
W made in their fight against
,,,.y ,aey term violation of their
rights.
,ans A = Walsh has been summon
= ~ ana viii take charge Of this
=, = OF the struggle. Governor
NJ ~ Is on record as solidly backing
Ae state police and sh n1-iffs IN en-.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-25
Gives Two Millions.

NEW YORK, Sept, z5.-John D.
Rockefeller contributed S2,000,000 to
tho ministers and missionary board
of the Northern Baptist convention.
No restrictions are made as to the
use of the principal and income,
which will be expended to take care
OF INDECENT Baptist ministers of the
northern states.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-25
Some Short and Snappy Items
Which Make News Wire
Sparkle.

[United Press Leased Wire SerVlce.l
NEW YORK, Sept. 25.-Emery TIT
man was ordered to Jail FOR passing
worthless check, but he can't get
in. He weighs COS pounds and the
doors are too small He's in the hos
pital
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-25
Three Eeet of Whiskers,

NEW YORK, Sept. 25. = Henry
Koser must keep his three feet long
beard and hair until the film company
which pays him $3.50 week for wild
man roles, says he can have it cut, the
Judge said.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-25

NEW YORK, Sept. 25-Mrs. S. c.
Seymour, back from aiding foreign
brides of American service men to
embark for this country, declared five
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-25
Speech In Denver.
[By Hugh Baillie, United Press Staff
COrrespOndent1

AUDITORIUM, DENVER, Colo,
Sept. 25.-To the music of Onward,
Christian Soldiers" played on a
great pipe organ, President Wilson,
cheered by a crowd estimated at
eleven thousand, entered the Audi
torium today to make his appeal for
ratification of the peace treaty.
He spoke from a high pulpit, tow
ering ten feet above the heads of
those seated on the platform. The
pulpit was adorned with white COW
ering upon which were the shields OF
the United States.
On his way to the hall, Wilson
spoke few words TO thousands OF
school children massed before the
state capitol building,
The president started speaking at
9:56, after having been introduced
by Judge Harrison S. White, of the
Colorado League to Enforce Peace,
as "the first man Of the world"
Wilson declared that many of the
objections to the treaty had been re
moved. The treaty will not work,
he said without the covenant of the
league of nations.
I'm glad to see the issue clearly
drawn" he said, asserting that the
fight was centering on the league
covenant, and the question whether
the United States would stand by
the liberties of the world.
With regard to the six British
votes, he said:
"They have six votes in the league
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-25
President Will Consider Treaty
Rejected if Congress
Adopts This Res
ervation.
SPEAKING IN COLORADO
Morning Address In Denver and After.
noon Talk at pueblo in Cam
paign for League Of
Nations.
[By Hugh Baillie, United Press Staff
Correspondent.1

[By Hugh Bairlie, United Press Staff
Correspondent
DENVER, Colo, Sept. 25.-Avowed-
ily ready for finish fight on the issue
Of peace treaty ratification, President
Wilson carried his campaign into
Colorado today. He was to speak at
Denver, this morning and at Pueblo,
this afternoon. Colorado is the state
of Senator Thomas, who has just de-
clared for reservations.
Wilson says the treaty fight is cen
tering on Article x which he regards
as the heart of the Gocument. 1t
was considered today that he had
thrown down challenge when he
said at Cheyenne that he, az presf-
dent, would deem the treaty rejected
IL congress adopted the proposed
reservation to Article x.
This reservation stipulates the
United States assumes no obligation
to carry out any Of the provisions OF
Article X and also says the United
States will not use it's troops under
any article of the treaty without the
consent of congress.
The president, in discussing the
attacks on the treaty, said he never
would turn back In his fight for rati-
fication. This led to some gossip to-
day as to Wilson's probable course
should the senate adopt the pro-
posed reservation. One suggestion
was that Wilson'S friends would urge
him to run for a third term on ratt-
fication platform which possibly
would have the support of Taft and
other republican leaders.
However, Wilson has repeatedly
urged that the treaty fight be kept
out of politics and has bitterly de-
nounced those who sought to make
it party issue.
Wilson's answers to objections to
the league covenant are in substance
as follows:
1.-THE covenant says nothing in
it shall be construed as affecting the
validity of the Monroe doctrine"
2-"We can withdraw from the
league upon two years notice when
we please"
3-"There is nothing in the cove
nant to interfere with the right of
seli-determination."
4-"The covenant expressly ex-
cludes interference with domestic
questions"
5-"The one American vote in 'he
league council offsets the six British
votes in the league assembly"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-25
|.sned Little One from Rail.
'oao Track as Locomotive
Came.

|LAlrr rress c Leased Wire Service. ]
AM 9. OIIf. Iowa, Sept. 25.-Mrs.
S'anneld, wife Of . farmer, is
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CONTINUED on page %
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Comeback by Mills.
CHICAGO, Sept. 25.-Steel mills
began comeback in the Chicago
district today The Gary plant at
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-25

The Telegraph Service Of The
naily Gate City and Constitu-
.;on.Democrat is received over
onr own leased wire.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-25

Fair and Warmer. Local temp.
Z p. m., II; Z a. m., 53.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-16
FOUNDATION OF
JEWISH NATION
Zionist Convention to Adopt Resolu-
tions Approving Proposed Form
Of Government of
Palestine

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
CHICAGO, Sept. determination
stones of the Jewish nation We're to
be laid today by the Zionists' organiza-
ton of America, in session here.
The foundation stones" are the rcso
lutions to be adopted by tie conven-
ton. These are expected to include:
one introduced by DR.. stephen s.
Wise, New York. calling meeting OF
the American Jewish congress i'm
mediately after peace treaties have
been ratified. A second outlining the
extent of Jewish relief in Europe and
the third approving American plans
for financing relief work in Palestine.
The convention is also expected to
approve the proposed form of govern
ment for PALESTINE partial demo-
cracy, ruled by a encouragement and
two commissioners.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-16
EATLESSAND take
BITRO-PHOSPHATE
TO PUT ON FLESH
A PHYSICIANS ADVICE.

Frederick s. Kolle, M. D., Editor
of New York Physicians Who's
Who" says that weak, nervous
people who want increased weight
strength and nerve-force, should take
a 5-grain tablet of phosphate
just before or during each meal
This particular phosphate is the
discovery Of famous French scien-
fist, and reports of remarkable re-
suits from its use have recently ap-
peared in many medica: Journals
If you do not feel well; if you tire
easily; do not sleep well, or are 100
thin; go to any good druggist and
get enough Bitro-Phosphate for a two
weeks supply-it costs only nifty
cents a week.
Eat less; chew your food thorough
~, and if at the end Of few weeks
you do not feel stronger and better
than you have for months; If your
nerves are not steadier; II you do
not sleep better and have more vim,
endurance and vitality. your money
will be returned, and the Bitro-Phos-
plate will cost you nothing.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-16
INVITATION
TO FOLLOWERS
Italian Gogernnnsnf's First ycye To
re Suppression II Fs-scgs
Poets Adventure ~
rigrre

RO7rg. Sept ls-The goTe-nnent's
first move toward the GupCress5oa Of
Gabrielle DA--przto's adventure II
Fiunne xiii 5e directed " General
Badaglio. deputy chief ot stz1 IN
Official statement announced to1ay
that Immediately upon hjs zr-ival ~
T'Iurne hz would issue z proclamation
inviting Ann 1rzio'E followers 70 return
TO their regi- sutS.
D'AnnunzIo'g torces total 1850, 81
was stated to-day. raogt u WHOM aeto-
maticaIly followe1 t.asiy efsaseerS be
cause they were tc31 The goysrsr,ssrl.
approved the Ffz1ae coup.
Government officials as1d tD1ay tat
several OF the post'E followers a3res.6Y
had returned 10 tae@r rsgiIaenGa, Tas
garrison at FfDrus. II wa s.d6sd, has
refused to join DEnaaazl9,
Information received 10y fne goa>
eminent today SAID tazt 80 au frpsT
to excite public feeling gas sS1g&.ors
at Fiume had circElzted lesgeHs &c
claring the Nittf cabinet aa,> Resigned.
British and Amerc2n tsDops hare
embarked from Flung Tor Ffsz1,sn
contingent has returned ~ "a Dass,
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BRITISH WORLD
IS POSSIBLE
Continued from page ID

about the time the Lusitania was
sunk. while now, he said, they are
seeking to commit the United states
to IN exactly opposite policy.
He quoted literally from the prest
dents pre-war speeches in attempt'
ing to prove his point.
Referring to the presidents state.
ment at ST. Louis that the United
States should advance four or nve
billions to rehabilitate Europe, Sher-
man said:
where are the four or ave billions
10 come from? Taxes, more taxes,
Europe's rehabilitations, taxes; the
worlds ehahilitation-taxes without
end"
President Wilson's statement at
Kansas City that the league OF ma
tions is a cause greater than the sen
ate or the government drew from
sherman the charge that the presl
dent had adjured his oath OF allegi-
ance to the constitution, and sworn
anew allegiance to an allied govern.
ment. created in Europe, whose capi-
raj is Geneva. We would rather De
sert our president than desert our
country"
sherman said the president as no
longer Wilson, the American president
of the United States. Now he is VIII
SON, the internationalist aspirant for
first president of the worlds league OF
nations"
Referring to the presidents con
temptible cutters" charge. Sherman
said:
The president denounces all who
do not follow him as contemplate quit
tiers and vacillating time servers as
ostriches with their heads in the SAND.
The president himself. is the crowned
of cutters, without nyai
in the western hemisphere. No man In
life ever quit quicker, or
oftener, or so profoundly His silence
and speech when escaping from his
principles OF yesterday is
So abysmal and silent. as primal chaos
or fallen angel sweeping to his pre-
destined doom.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-16
Grain Review.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service, I
CHICAGO, Sept. 16.-Lack of sell
ing power and Jack of demand due TO
The impending steel strike. was the
cause of an irregular market en- the
Chicago board Of trade today
Provisions were irregularly lower.
September corn down IL at the
opening Of 1888. was up q before
the close December corn opened
down "a ct 30 but gained ~. May
ccrn opened at 119A. UP Il but lost
rs later.
September oats was unchanged at
the opening at $50 and gained be-
fore the close. December oats open
ed down u at 67A, but gained r..
May oats was unchanged at the open
ing OF 70A but was up q before the
close.