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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-29

one of the organizers of the steel
industry.
/"ltegarding Foster" said Mr..
Cooper. II wish to say that Mr..
Gompers acknowledges this man an
/. w. w. and the author of the
revolutionary pamphlet "Syndical-
ism,' but contends that Foster has
been converted to labor union prin-
ciples.
'In this connection I quote from
letter written by Foster in 1911,
now on file in the office of the United
States District Attorney in Chicago,
in which Foster said:
81 am satisfied from my observa-
ton that the only way for an I.
w, w. to have the workers adopt
and practice the principles of revo-
lutionary unionism which l take is
its mission, is to give up the attempt
to create Il new labor movement,
turn itself into propaganda league,
get into the organized labor move
men and by building up better fight
ing machines within the old unions
than those possessed by our reac-
tionaries, realize their unions, ever
as our French syndicalist fellow
workers have so successfully DONE"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-29
Fifty of 5000 Men
Fail to Report at '' ee.
SparrOws Point MIL

Baltimore, Sept. 29.-The strike or
der of the national organizing com
mittee at Pittsburgh, calling out the
steel workers of the Bethlehem Steel
Corporation at 6 a. m. to-day had no
effect on the Sparrows Point branch
OF the company, according to General
Manager w. +. Roberts, of the local
plant this morning Every depart
ment Of the steel works was running
with full forces, he said, except the
tin plate mill. where so of the work
men failed to report for work.
Between 5000 and 5000 men are
employed at the steel plant.
Later in the morning twenty of
the fifty tin plate workers who failed
to report, returned to work, it was
stated at general manager Roberts
office.
All the departments of the Bethle-
hem Shipbuilding Company at Spar
rows Point We're in operation as US
ual to-day with no signs of troubk !.
the management said. There had
been rumors of a possible sympa-
thetic strike of the ship workers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-29
Influence of Pastor
Causes Wavering Men
to Remain at Work

Baltimore, Sept. %. - Only four
of hundreds of the steel workers en-
ployed by the Bethlehem Steel Com
pany at Sparrows Point here at
meeting yesterday voted to obey the
strike order from the national COM
mittee..
The influence of Rev. John Gay
nor, pastor of st. Luke's Catholic
Church at the Point caused many OF
the, wavering men to decide to re-
main at work. At all the masses this
morning the priest told the men and
their families there would be no
strike. He condemned the members
Of the national steel committee and
branded William Y. Foster, secretary
of the international Association of
Steel and Iron Workers, as a Boil
sheViSt.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-29

men at work, corporation officials
reported.
The EIcKeesport Tin Plate Com
pany, at Port Vue, resumed opera
tions in the finishing, department
with a complete personnel, officials
stated. The mill was shut down Il
week ago.
Picketng was done on large scale
in the lower Monongahcla Valley
scale in the lower Mongahela Valley
where the Homestead, Braddock and
Rankin plants of the Carnegie Steel
Company are situated. In some in
stances, specially at Rankin, the
picketing prevented many men from
returning, officials claimed. 1t did
not deter those who had worked last
week and a small number of addi
tional men, it was said.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-29
STATE CHAMBER
MEETING HERE
Continued. from First Page ]

manufacture and commerce, bring
ing them together.
Here Two Days
The meeting will last for two days
and tonight Governor Sproul, w.
c. Culkins, director of Cincinnati
street railways, and Newton w.
Gilbert, of New York, will speak at
the annual banquet.
The opening session was largely
devoted to agriculture. Mr.. Johnson
said that "All laws and regulations
relating to food production should
be based on the fundamental propo-
sition that returns to capital invested
in agriculture should be equal to the
returns of capital invested in other
Industries and business. The prices
of farm products should be sufficient
to assure production and to pay the
wages essential to that end" He
criticised the makeup of the ma
tional industrial conference saying
that only three men were assigned
to represent 30,000,O00 who gain
their livelihood from agriculture,
while 15 were named to represent
two to three million organized lab
orers supplemented by 15 theorists
and uplifters appointed by the presi-
dent" He also called attention to
the necessity of better housing con-
ditions Immediately and urged close
attention to this problem.
$4,000 Farms in State
Secretary of Agriculture Fred Ras-
mussen said that Pennsylvania had
$4,000 farms and its farm products last
yeaS were worth Ss4S.oo0, eco, corn alone
being S103.000,O00, and the labor ex-
pended on the farm represented a quar-
ter Of billion dollars. After outlin-
ing the organization of the department
and the campaign against the potato,
wheat and other pests he urged sup
port of the new bureau of markets and
enforcement of the dog law in interest
of sheep raising. The secretary said
there was a field for farmers organiza-
tionS and that businessmen should work
with them, declared that prices for food
stuffS would have to be made so that
it was worth while to produce them.
"1f serious economic disturbances are to
he avoided labor must realize that the
progress of the world is measured not
by the wages paid, but by the work ac-
complished' said he. "It is only recently
that some manufacturers have come to
realize that food is fundamental to the
labor problem. Agriculture is no longer
of interest only to the farmer, it is of
interest to the whole world"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-29
Small Change in
General Strike Situation
Reported by Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, Sept. 20. = Reports
from corporations, union head
quarters, police and other sources
in the Pittsburgh district to-day, did
not indicate a substantial change in
the steel workers strike which has
now entered upon it's second week.
No serious break was reported at
the large independent plant of the
Jones and Laughlin Company in this
city, against which the unions had
announced an intensive campaign
shut down the works. A company
representative said that about the
same number of men as reported
last week were at the work to-day,
while at union headquarters tt was
reported that fewer workers
answered the whistle than on any
other day since the strike started.
The Pennsylvania works of the
National Tube Company in this city
which closed last week, opened for
operation to-day. but whether pro-
auction Will amount to much can
not be stated until late in the day.
Homestead, Braddock, Duquesne
and Clarion plants of the Carnegie
company were reported as operat-
ing on about the same basis as last
week, though there were conflict
ing claims, by each side as to the
number of men in the works.
Rod Mills Resume
The American Steel and Wire
Company announced that the rod
mills in its plants at Braddock.
Rankin and Farrell resumed oper-
ations to-day. The rod mills were
closed last week. The company's
plant at Donora, also closed last
week, reported men returning there
Tor work. In the Cleveland field
the company announced, the nail
department of the II. p. Works be-
gan operations. The company stated
that it had plenty of men in the
Chicago district ready to report but
operations will not be attempted un-
til after pay day, which is to-mor-
row.
Reports from Johnstown. Pa.
snow no change in conditions there.
The Cam bria plant of the Midyale
steel Company, which shut down
last Tuesday, is still idle and will
not resume, officials say until a suf-
ficient number of men Indicate a
desire to return. The Lorain Steel
company in the Johnstown field con-
tinued to operate, though strikers
claimed it was working with "only
a handful of men,"
Continue Operations
At New Castle the various plants
of the Carnegie Company and the
American Sheet and Tin Plate Com
pany, continued operations, in some
instances departments showing more
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-29

the "Y" had not forgotten to make
provision for their enjoyme ent dur
ing the afternoons sports. Through
the courtesy of V. Grant Forrer, the
refreshment booth, near the grant
stand, had been secured as the base
of operations, the large sign on
which bore the announcement: "Y.
NJ. G. A.-Refreshments- Free to
All Service Men" This, of course,
at once caught the eye of the boys,
and some real work was done by the
" girls who were kept busy the
entire afternoon handing out eats to
the men.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-29
Bethlehem PlanS Is
Very Little Affected
by Strike Summons

Bethlehem, Pa, Sept. 90. - The
Bethlehem plant of the Bethlehem
Steel Corporation was very little af-
fected this morning by the strike
which had been called from Pitts
burgh and there was no scmblanCe
of disorder at the entrance to the
various plants when the shifts
changed at and 7.30 o'clock.
Virtually the same number of en-
ployes appeared in the various de-
partments as did last week, save
that number of machinsts left with
their tools. The latter were mostly
of the floating order who had been
employed during the war. 1t could
not be learned how many men came
out at the 7.30 shift. The test is
expected to come this afternoon and
this evening with the changes of
shifts.
Gatherings Refused
Mayor Johnston, who issued q
proclamation calling upon the citi-
zens to be law abiding and to assist
in the maintenance of peace. was
upon the scene early. He will not
permit gatherings of any kind. The
police department is well equipped to
cope with. the situation should any
trouble arise as many additional Of
ficers have been sworn in. Repre-
sentatives of organized trades who
met here last night announced that
reports received stated hat from so
to 80 per cent. of the men will
walk out, but this fact was not borne
out this morning. The police took
into custody William ]. Bohning.
secretary of local union, for pre-
Vailing upon employees of the steel
company not to 20 to work
from reports of the shop committees
of the labor unions at noon to-day David
Williams, who is in charge of the local
situation. maintains that 10 per cent. of
the mer are out and that the Bethlehem
plant is completely crippled The Of
hcials of the steel company claim that
every department is running.
1t was ascertained here that reports
have been received at the office of the
Bethlehem Steel Company from their
plants located at Sparrows Point. Md,
Steelton. Lebapon, Reading and Titus
Vile. All of them substantially report
full operations, exceptions to this being
only in unimportant isolated units. in no
way affecting the larger and important
operations. There is nothing to indicate
that there will be any curtailment OF
production.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-29
GRATEFUL CITY is
ACCLAIMING HEROES

time and form up with the Iron
Division crowd.
The formation of the parade to-
day was as follows:
Platoon of Police.
Captain Joseph Thompson.
Spring Garden Band.
Chief Marshal
George w. Rhoads.
Department Commander G. A. R.)
Chief of Staff,
Captain Francis II. Hoy, Jr.
Aids
Captain George G. Jack.
Captain A. NJ. Porter.
Captain f. Laubenstein.
Captain Walter X. Thrush.
Lieutenant Samuel Fitting.
First Division
Division Marshal,
Harry S. Watson.
Aids
Michael Floyd.
Francis II. Hoy, Sr.
Joseph Runkle.
James Auter.
G. A. r. in autom obiles in double
column.
Moose Band.
Post No. 81, Foreign Service men,
United Spanish War Veterans.
Middletown Band.
Company /.
Pennsylvania Reserve Militia Truck
Company.
Pennsylvania Reserve Militia.
Motor Trucks.
Second Division
Old Eighth Regiment Band.
Division Marshal,
Colonel Frederick NJ. OFT.
Aids
Captain Paul w. Harm.
Captain Ross A. Hickok.
David Mcconnell.
Harry E. carp.
Howard Myers.
Overseas Army Camp and Military
Post War Workers.
Army Nurses.
Y. M. C. A.
Y. w. c. A.
K. of c.
Jewish Welfare.
Salvation Army.
War Camp Community.
War Library Association.
World War Veterans.
Commonwealth Band.
Overseas Veterans.
New Cumberland Band.
Service Men who served in armed
forces in United States during
Worlds War.
"Y" Docs Splendid Work
In the greatest celebration Har-
risburg has ever seen, the "Y" took
a prominent part and from early
morning until late at night, rem
dered a real service to the thousands
of men in whose honor the great
event had been staged.
At l o'clock while the second divi-
sion was forming in Chestnut street
the "Y" auto appeared on the scene
loaded with cigars, cigarets, choco-
late almond bars and apples These
wares were distributed among the
boys by seven "Y" overseas service
girls, every one of whom entered
the service from this city. They
were Harrisburg's own. There were
all told twenty "Y" secretaries, men
and women. in the line of march of
the great parade.
When the second division reach
ed the Island, the men found that
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-29

is being emphasized in the care
that is being exercised in the selec-
ton of the delegates. Each post is
picking it's strongest men and many
of the posts have prepared resolu-
tions on questions of public moment,
such as the enemy alien Stacker,
the matter of the treatment of SOL
diers and sailors and marines, war
risk insurance, vocational training
and bonuses for those who served
in the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-29
Fosters Methods
Revealed in House

Washington, Sept 20. - That I.
w. w. and other radical leaders laid
plans to work themselves into con-
troll of the country's labor unions
and dominate them, was charged
before the House by Representative
Cooper, Republican, Ohio.
He made public a letter to the
secretary of the Mahoning county
(Onio) Central Labor Union, which.
had criticised a recent speech by
him attacking William u. Foster.
The union defended Foster, who was
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-29
MANY MORE RETURN
TO WORK AT SHARON
I'm Associnted Press

Sharon, Pa. Sept. 20. Officials
of the Carnegie Steel Company an
nounced that many more men returned
to work to-day that two blast furnaces
are in full operation at the south works
at Farrell, and that the bar and blooming
mills have practically full quotas.
The north mill of the Carnegie Com
pany in Sharon is still closed down. Of
ficials of the Sharon Steel Hoop Com
pany reported that more of its employees
had returned to the mills.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-29
TUG MEN STRIKE

Duluth, Mimi, Sept. 20. - Tug
men of the Whitney Brothers, Barnet
and Record Companies, New England
Towing Company went on n strike here
this morning in response to a call for
a strike on the Great Lakes. The in
dependent ferry companies are not af-
fected. The Harbor practically is tied
up by the strike and by a storm.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-29
INJURED IN QUARREL

John Kellerman and Charles Kel-
lerman, POLL North Sixth street and
Charles Miller, 1916 North Third
street, were treated at the Harris
burg Hospital, for severe decorations.
following an alleged fight with five
negroes. The affair is supposed to
have taken place in the 14O0 block
of North Sixth street.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-29

At New Castle the various plants
of the Carnegie Company and the
American Sheet and Tin Plate Com
pany, continued operations, in some
instances departmen showing more
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-23
AT. STONE SELLS
NEWSPAPER STOCK
Retires from Daily Newspaper
Business to Run Government
Employment Office

Because he felt that a vacation
would not come aniss after the siren
uous work Of managing The Evening
Caledonian during the absence abroad
Of w. D. Pelley, president and former
manager Of the local publishing con-
cern, and because some time ago he
received the appointment as manager
Of the local government employment
bureau, which for the present at least
provides him with a congenial job,
Arthur F. stone.has disposed of his
holdings in The Evening CAledonian
to Mr.. Pelley.
Mr.. Stone, who did excellent work
on the paper during Mr. Pelley's alb
sence, retiIes with the gratitude of
the other members of the company
for his faithfulness and loyalty during
the past six months and with the
best wishes of the staff for his success
in other lines of work.
Mr.. Pelley this morning resumed
the place which he left vacant on
the 28th of last May to go abroad.
He will personally manage the con-
Germ hencetorward.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-23
INFLUENZA RACES
ON MURMAN COAST
WITH 1000 CASES
Peasants Dying By Scores
in Regions Near Our
Soldiers

Archangel, Nov. 20-Via London,
IDec.-(Cor1 pondence of the Asso-
ciatcd Prcss)-The Murman coast,
the Kola peninsula and the entire
district of the White Sea Ncoast have
suffered heavily from the influenza.
IN, the regions Of Omega and KEN, the
population of entire villages and
counties are i'll with the disease.
Along the shore of the White Sea
there are only three or four sanitary
OF dispensary points and in many
cases those are without medicines.
In the county Of Nimensk there are
houses where the entire. family has
died and the houses are empty and
closed. The peasants are burying
their dead without cofins, no one be-
ing available to make them. A writer
in the Arclangel newspaper says
"The streets OF the villages of the
seacoast make an awful impression.
Everybody is Ill. Children are crying
and the cattle are lowing terribly, no.
body being there to feed them"
Archangel also has suffered consid-
erably from the epidemic. There were
at one time 1000 cases there. A. san
itary commission was formed, with
power to exercise summary judgment
against violators Of laws of health.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-23
Virginia Captain Arrives
Home With GruesOme
Story of TeutOn
Methods
BODIES IN BIG KETTLE
Germans Had Been Boiling Bodies to
Obtain Fats and Used Bones
for Fertilizer

Grue5ome details of the conversion
of the bod1es Of German soldiers in
to fats were given by Capt Robert
w. Hudgens of Lawrence, Va, a
member of the 18th Infantry, Both
Division, which fought alongside New
York's 9th, and who arrived in New
York yesterday on the transport Lap
land.
His tory was corrorborated by pri-
Yates of the 9th, who arrived on the
transport Wllhelmina. They said they
had seen the same thing when they
captured Bellecourt, with the 30th Di-
vision in September.
:ff.What l tell is not hearsay; I saw
ibo' emphasized Capt. Hudgens
s"Whon we entered Bellecourt we
came upon tunnel that had been
constructed by the Germans. In it
we found Il chopping block and cleav-
ers and other butchering instruments.
Scattered around were human
limbs. We came upon a huge caul-
dron, packed with members of human
bodies. In the town we found canal
barges packed with bodies of German
soldiers. There were hundreds of
these bodies. We investigated and
learned that the Germans had been
boiling bodies to obtain fats. The
bones were used as fertilizers.
Il had heard about this before. A
French soldier had shown me a car
die and declared it was made of hui
man fats. l would not believe him
but he said he had been told what
it was by Il German prisoner. This
French so-6ier explained to me that
the fats were used chiefly for guns
and for making soap"
Capt. Hodgens was on crutches
his right leg and arm having been
fractured. He received fourteen
wounds from shrapnel on Oct. IA.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-23
ANNUAL. BUSINESS
TOTALED MILLIONS
i. 5. IN INSURANCE
Company Has Crafty
ing Business Past
Year

The annual meeting of the Nation
al Life Insurance Company was held
at the office of the company in Mont
pelier On Tuesday. Gratifying alike
to offers e1d policy holders are the
statements made of the past years
business, showing that while great
waves OF war and pestilence have
dashed against the good ship Insur-
ance, no tremor of discomfort has
come to the families of its policyhold-
er passengers who embarked upon the
National Line"
Three hundred twelve deaths from
Influenza, calling for payments OF
$660,7S9.91; eighty-four deaths from
war, calling for $196,919.22 and over
800 deaths from other causes, calling
for an additional $1,989,223.27, in
creased the mortality experience of
the National Life Insurance Co. of
Montpelier, Vermont, to 84.05 per
cent of the expected, but even these
unusual 10 5ses, did not prevent that
good Vermont Company from main
taining its usual prompt service to
policyholders, paying back during the
year, S5,02O, GALA additional policy
benefits; setting aside for dividends
to be paid policy holers in 1919, ST.
072,632.90, an increasing its general
surplus by $114218.06.
The company's statement, just
published, shows a gain in outstand-
ing insurance of $9,830,510, and an
increase in assets of $2,433, ,178.3 38
notwithstanding the fact that its as
sets, including s3,103, 800 of United
States Liberty Bonds are listed upon
the Actual Market Value of Decem-
Der 81 1918.
The company wrote over one mil
lion dollars of New Insurance (paid
for basis) in Vermont during 1918,
and Vermonters everywhere should
feel just pride in the progress of an
institution seeking to distribute its
benefits into every home where the
bread winner can make provision
against the day when he can no lonp-
er guide the destinies of his family
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-23
HEARST IN WRONG
Poughkeepsie People Bar His News.
paper from Date in
that City

Poughkeepsie, N. Y, Jan. 21-At a
public meeting this afternoon, at
tended by representatives of various
churches and organizations of the
city, at which prominent men made
addresses, the Rev. George H. Ches-
bro, pastor of the Hedding NJ. E.
church, denounced the Hearst publ
cations and commended the GA. R.
for their recent action In buying up
and publicly burning all the Hearst
papers on sale in the city.
Il do not see," said Mr.. Chesbro,
how any right-minded, conscientious
person can continue to read such a
publication. Every citizen of Pough-
keepsie should stand behind the
Grand A1mv in its fight against Viii
nam Randolph Hearst and refuse to
read any paper in which his views
are expounded. I am glad to see the
number of buttons proclaining, DO
Not Read Hearst Papers growing
more numerous on our city streets. y
1reat applause greeted his statement.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-23
PLOT TO KILL ALL
PEACE DELEGATES

Geneva, Sunday, Jan. Several
German and Russian Bolshevih have
been arrested by the Lausanne police.
1t IS said that the men in custody
were bearing false passports and
were on their way to Paris. The Ga
zette of Lausanne says:
The Bolshevik under arrest plot
ted against the lives of Premier Glenn
enceau, President Wilson, and Pre-
mier Lloyd George. The plot was
backed by German gold.'