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New-York tribune., 1919-01-09
BOIsheuiki Never
To Control Labor
Here, Says Compers

Sane Americanism of the American
Federation of Labor will prevent the
spread of Bolshevism in the United
States, Samuel Gompers, president Of
the organization, declared yesterday
before he sailed on the Cunard liner
Carmania for Paris to attend the in
ternational labor conference to be held
during the peace conference. The
"Reds" in America will never get the
upper hand on labor, Mr.. Gompers
said, because the union forces will fight
them to the last ditch.
"American workers, by their un-
Ainching support of the principles of
democracy, by their inspiring loyalty
to the government and the nation. by
their sacrifices in toll" the labor chief
declared, "have earned the right to be
heard in matters affecting their well
fare. The howitzers and mortars that
were fired from the trenches of Europe
rcvcrbcratcd to the echo of the forges
and anvils of America"
To Discuss Vital Questions
Questions vital to millions of work
ers will be discussed and settled at the
peace conference, Mn. Gompcra said
and it is 10 have voice in these settle
New-York tribune., 1919-01-09
British Labor Party
SsOfficial Opposition
Leader Is William Adamson,
Who Worked as Miner for
IMenty-seYen Years

LONDON, Jan. s.-The English La
Dor party has decided to accept the
responsible position of official opposi-
tlon to the government. This is a
landmark in English Parliamentary
history.
The Labor party's position as the
largest body outside of the coalition
has entitled it to this distinction, and
its leaders will take their seats on the
front Opposition bench. Though the La
Dor party has this numerical advantage
there are numerous Liberals in the
coalition, and the total number of Lib
eral members of Parliament is we'll in
excess of the total number of Labor
members
The leader of the new Opposition
will be William Adamson, representing
West Fife, who worked as a miner for
twenty seven years. He has strongly
supported the government in the prose-
cution Of the war
John Robert Clynes, who held the
Office Of Food Controller, is to be depu-
ty leader. He withdrew from the gov
ernment in compliance with the labor
executive committees decision. Both
Of these members are looked upon as
MOderateS.
Three OF the seven officers appointed d
Dy the LABOR party, including the chair
man, are miners.
The situation is interesting because
the Labor party's action virtually side
tracks the Asquith party, which has
hitherto been regarded as the official
Opposition. Much will depend on the
decision of the Speaker of Commons
whether the Laborites are granted all
the privileges, including occupation of
the Opposition whips room and prece-
dence in debate, accruing to the official
Opposition.
1t is generally believed that some
compromise will be arranged which will
combine Mr.. Asquith's adherents and
the Laborites as the Opposition.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-09
Z. S. May Decide
utslre of World,
Says DIR. Slocum
No League of Nations Nor
Lasting Peace Possible
Without the influence of
This Country, His View

The action of the United States on
the league of nations may decide the
future of the world, DR.. William F.
Slocum, a member of the executive
committee of the League to Enforce
Peace, declared yesterday in an address
at Columbia University. This nation
had jumped into a prominent place in
world affairs, he said, and it's influence
as a leader was great. Unless it agreed
with other nations as to the formation
of a league there could be no lasting
peace. His address, in part follows:
"Threc things are evident to one
who is a student of international his
tory: first, if there is not a strong
of the world in the interest of the
higher welfare Of all nations, there
cannot be stable and lasting peace:
second, if the government of the
United States does not give its gener-
GUS and hearty support to a union of
nations, the union will never come into
existence; and third if the work of
such a league of nations is not broadly
and permanently constructive it will be
a failure even if it is organized.
Our Responsibility Grave
"This country has now taken, nolens
volens, such a place Of leadership
among the nations of the world that
its action IS crucial in deciding whether
this shall be the last great war. 1t
holds in its grasp in exceedingly i'm
rortant respects tho decision of the
future of civilization in the world. A
gravcr responsibility never rested upon
any single people. 1t is so serious that
if politicians use this present situa-
tion for partisan policies they are COM
Knitting a crime the Nervousness of
which is beyond estimate.
"The point of failure of other peace
treaties has been that the dominating
clement in them has been arbitrary
and negative, such as the unnatural
fixing of state boundaries or the clos
ing Of the Dardanelles.
Balance Of Power Failure
"The attempt to create so-called
balance OF power has never kept The
peace and is a misnomer and Il mis-
applied term, for such plan never has
made and never can make it Impossible
for one group of nations to impose Its
will uDon another. Sooner or later q
conflict will ensue, and the defeat of
one must follow.
"There must be some other principle
of action if lasting peace is to be es-
tablished. This can only come as all
the nations seek together by compact
and agreements to produce the best
possible condition for each. This can
and ought to be lone that the
strength and success of all are found
in the prosperity of each. This it is
which will bring a constructive life
into all the world and drive out those
destructive principles of action which
over in the end lead to war both in a
group of federated states or a feder-
ated group Of nations or empires"
New-York tribune., 1919-01-09

ments that he and five other represent
atlves will attend the meetings. He is
accompanies by James Duncan, OF
quincy, Mass, vice-president of the
federatlon and three other vice-presi-
dents-John r. Alpine, of Chicago;
frank Duffy, and Walter Greene, of
Indianapolis.
Never again will organized working
men and women watch with folded
arms while laws are made and treaties
signed which barter away their eco
nomic right" he continued.
New conceptions of right and JUS
tlce have grown out of this war. Labor
has assumed a new dignity, dignity
born from its splendid record OF
achievement during the last four
years"
Discussing his trip to Paris further
Mr.. Gompers said:
The French anti-war faction and
pro Bolsheviki practically obtained
control of the French Socialist party
at the end OF last July. At the national
congress OF the party in October their
control was reafirmed, and the official
party organ passed from the hands of
the so-called pro-war politician. Re-
naudel, into the hands of the anti-war
politician, Longuet, grandson of Karl
Marx.
Betrayed France, Says Gompers
"The armistice had not been signed
three days when the executive commit
tee of the French Socialist party met
and passed resolutions which betrayed
not only France but also the demo
cratic league of nations now in process
of formation 1t is evident that the
French Bolshevki are in earnest in
their proposed insurrection. They will
hardly act while President Wilson is
still in Europe, but there is every in
dication that they will attempt some
thing immediately after his departure.
The French Federation of Labor, if
true to its own highly creditable past,
will yet be able to foil this mad move
ment, which can result only in putting
French labor back for many years"
New-York tribune., 1919-01-09
Wife and 100000
Gone, Says Californian
Husband Sends $500 Check TO
Sheriff Knott To Be Cashed
if He Finds Her

A missing wife, carrying about with
her S1O,OoO,0oO in securities, sounds like
part of a moving picture story. Per-
haps it is, but the two figure officially
in matter which Yesterday came be-
fore Sheriff David H. Knott.
The wife is Mrs. May Allison H. F.
Pfaff, whose home until recently has
been in California, where her husband
is now living.
From Palo Alto Mr.. Pfaff has sent to
Sheriff Knott a check for $500, drawn
on the First National Bank of Mountain
View, Cal, which was intended as re-
ward The letter that accompanied the
check was so illegible that only a few
lines could be deciphered in the Sherff's
office
Mr.. Pfaff wrote that his wife had
left California with securities valued at
S1O,0O0,0O0 in her possession and other
valuable papers owned jointly by him
and Mrs. Pfaff.
On the check was an Endorsement
that the paper was not payable until
released by telegraph by Mr.. Pfatf
which would be done only after the
reward had been earned
The only description of Mrs. Pfaf
sent by her husband is that she is
five feet FIVE inches tall and sometimes
is known as Sunny"
Sheriff Knott referred the matter to
his counsel, who yesterday wrote Mr.
Pfaf, Enclosing what purports to be a
check for $500" and adding, 1--WE cannot
read your letter and would suggest that
if you have any further communication
for this office you send it typewritten."
New-York tribune., 1919-01-09
u. S. Born German
Editor Is Indicted
On Treason Charge
III. G. Scheffauer, Now in
Berlin, Will Have to Stand
Trial if He Ever Returns;
Germans Liked His PLAY

Herman George Scheffauer, an ed
itor of "The Continental Times" the
German propaganda organ which was
distributed behind the Allied lines III
France by aircraft, was indicted by the
Federal Grand Jury Yesterday on a
charge of treason. The indictment al
leges that Scheffauer, an American
born citizen, between April 6, 1917,
and November IL, 1918, was engaged in
spreading Teutonic propaganda, de-
signed to weaken the morale of the
soldiers and sailors of the United
States.
Assistant United States Attorney
Ben A. Mathews, who secured the in-
dlctment on information furnished by
the Military Intelligence Bureau, said
Scheffauer was born in 1878 in San
Francisco. In 1900 he came to New
York, and while living at the Univer-
5ity Settlement supported himself by
writing poetry and magazine articles.
play he wrote was produced in Ber-
lin in 1913, and since that time he has
been living there.
This Indictment" said Mr.. Mathews,
will give notice to American citizens
sojourning in other countries that if
they are engaged in enemy propaganda
they must subject themselves to trial
for treason in event they should ever
return to this country"
AS overt acts, the indictment speci-
fies an open letter addressed to "My
Dear V" and signed "Sagittarius,"
which was Scheffauer's pen name, and
two pamphlets, entitled "The Serfdom
of America" and "speak Out, Ger
many" These articles were violently
anti-American. They were sent over
the Allied lines soon after we entered
the war. In part the Dear w letter
read:
"You say l have turned upon the
country to which professed allegiance
in favor of country now its deadly
enemy. I have never professed allie
glance to any country. To England |
owed none; to America, as a born
American, l owed it only according to
the dictates of my conscience l op-
pose the policy of America now, or that
of the powers which have my unfortu-
nate country in thrall
Look at what were once the United
New-York tribune., 1919-01-09
ROGERS PEET COMPANY

States, where millions of the children
of all lands worked and lived peace
fully together, now a torn and divided
country, where madness and brute
force reign and every democratic in
stitution lies in ruins-where blood
glutted gold besotted money trust,
satanic press and dictator drunk with
power revel in orgies of oppression.
Even though millions may have been
infected with the falsehoods of the
Entente, vote of the people, as that
fearless man, Senator La Toilette,
proved beyond a shadow of doubt,
would have been overwhelmingly against
var. For less reason than formerly led
royal harlots to precipitate wanton war
out of injured vanity, with the horrible
recklessness of political snobs who
swim in blood because their master
has made it the fashion, the felons who
rule my great country have made her
vassal of yours. Poor, deluded
American boys are being shipped to
France to die agonizing deaths for
the sake of that scourge of the world
the Anglo American Money Trust"
New-York tribune., 1919-01-09
Broader Methods Urged
For Teaching of History

LONDON, Jan. 7.-History must be
taught in an entirely new way, said
Graham Wallas, professor of political
science at the University of London,
speaking here to-day at conference
of the Education Association. He said
that an advisory committee of London
University has found it impossible to
teach special subjects in history if
attention is concentrated solely upon
the British Empire.
"The world is now so closely knit
together that students must deal with
the whole earth" he said "History
must be divided into economic and
political branches, as economic facts
are necessary to an understanding of
political developments. of the times.
The principle of nationality, which has
had evil as well as good effects, and
which has shattered the world, and
may even shatter the peace conference,
requires closer examination"
New-York tribune., 1919-01-09
Bolsheviki CHARGE
Bakhmetief Runs
Own Money Plant
Soviets Say Russian Ambas-
sador Had 42,5OO, 900
in Unauthorized Bank
notes Turned Out Here

Charges that Russian paper money to
rubles ($42, 500, ,OO0) had been printed in
New York by the American Bank Note
Company on the order of Ambassador
Boris Bakhmeteff, without consent of
the Russian government, were made at
the convention of Russian Soviets of
America and Canada at Manhattan
Lyceum, in East Fourth Street, yester-
day.
Alexander Brailovsky, editor of "The
Workman and Peasant" in making the
charge, said the proofs were in the
hands of Professor Kwasha, former
professor in the Russian Mining Insti-
tute, who is now in this country. Pro-
fessor Kwasha, according to Brailovsky,
also has evidence to show that the re-
cent drop in the value of the Russian
ruble in the money markets of the
world was due to the flooding of Russia
with unauthorized paper money printed
in England and Japan.
1t was explained that under Soviet
rule Russia prints money as it is re-
quired for governmental use, and, un-
lire other currency systems, notes are
backed only by the good faith Of the
government without an intrinsic equiv
alent in the treasury
The unauthorized printing and cir
culation Of Russian notes was described
as pure exploitation" of the Russian
people.
The convention also was urged by
one Of the speakers to ask Senator'S
JohSson and La Toilette to work for
che freeing of all Russians held in
American prisons as German spies on
the ground that their arrests had been
caused by the Vaccinations Of German
agents.
A resolution was adopted calling
upon all the recent bellgcrents to re-
turn TO Russia all shipping seized by
either side during the war
The convention decided to appeal to
steamship companies to cooperate in
aiding Russians to return.
A dispatch from Washington last
night announced that Ambassador Bak-
maticff was in France, but that tire
money printed here is now in the hands
Of United States representatives in
ViadiyOgtOk.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-09
Hays Will Not Postpone
Meeting of Committee
Roosevelt Would Have Opposed
Delay, Declares Republican
Chairman
Special Correspondent


INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. S.-W Will H.
Hays, chairman of the Republican Ma
tlonal Committee, declared to-day the
meeting of the committee will be held
in Chicago on Friday as previously
scheduled. Mr.. Hays said:
'I am thinking of what Colonel
Roosevelt would have counselled from
my knowledge of his actions at other
times when grief lay upon his own
heart, and believe he would not wish
postponement on his account. We will
postpone the dinner at the Hamilton
Club which was to have taken place
Friday night and the other social fca-
lures but we will 60 ahead with the
business session"
II had luncheon appointment with
Mr.. Roosevelt on the day the news first
came Of the death Of his son, Quentin,
in France. l presumed the arrange
msnt for our meeting would be called
off, but it went right on. Colonel
Roosevelt was engaged in work that he
believed to be essential to the country,
and he would not permit even go poig-
nant Il personal grief to interfere with
his pressing forward with his task
"A few days later the news of the
death of Quentin Roosevelt was con-
iirmed. l had an engagement to pass
that Sunday with Colonel Roosevelt
and his family at Oyster Bay. hesi-
tated for while about going. but
finally decided to proceed. | found he
would have had it so. He bore this great
grief stoically as warrior, although
! have no doubt it was this sorrow that
hastened his end.
"In recent months I have seen and
talked to Colonel Roosevelt frequently
! have been deeply impressed by the
thought that his heart was on fire in
behalf Of the country. In him the
everyday people Of the nation had their
best friend His thoughts were Of the
human atoms in the great mass of the
HeDublicn
New-York tribune., 1919-01-09
Carranza Floufs Wilson
Mexican President Oppose
Message of Generalization

WASHINGTON, Jan. Information
has reached Washington that after
Senator Lugo, in the Mexican Congress,
introduced a resolution on December
l3 congrntulating President Wilson on
his international policies, President
Carranza sent for the chairman of the
Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs
and strongly opposed enactment Of
such n resolution.
The resolution failed of passage
later. 1t was called up in the Mexican
Senate toward the close Of the session,
but WAS sidctrackcd when enough SEN
ators left to prevent quorum.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-09

month, when outdoor jobs are scarce.
The country has approached close to
the saturation point of labor with the
release of men on large scale only
just begun.
For situation which threatens to
become dangerous there are two pos
sible remedies.
The first way out lies in a rapid in
crease in industrial activity. Lively
retail buying gives promise, but large
orders from manufacturers still hang
., back. Any day the engine may stare,
the wheels begin to go round and the
rapid progress toward the great indus
trial prosperity we are all confidently
expecting get under way.
1t serious unemployment occurs, how
ever, some change will have to be made
in the methods of demobilization The
army has indicated to the United States
Employment Service that if the present
rate of rehabilitation causes dangerous
unemployment it will seriously con-
slider slowing down the speed.
From the employment point of view
it is not likely that this will prove a
necessity, for there is much more
efficient and wholesome remedy avail
able. Reports from Employment Ser
vice Offices indicate very large demand
for certain types Of workers, notably
in the skilled trades, and for the kind
of farm worker who is used during the
winter season.
This points the remedy. The army
is being demoblized almost wholly on
the basis of military units. In other
words, in each squad of men released
are some who have positions open and
are needed now in industry, and others
who are not now and will not be needed
until spring. On the other hand, in the
units which will not be discharged for
several months are men whose posi-
tlons are now awiting them. Just what
percentage of the men in the army have
jobs open has not been determined with
accuracy, but indications are that a
guess of about 60 or 70 per cent would
not fall wide of the mark.
If rehabilitation could proceed with
those men first, holding back the Job
less until the last, rehabilitation could
go on with equal rapidty and the great
danger of unemployment be reduced to
a minimum.
The objection made to this plan by
the army is that it involves a great
amount of administrative detail which
would result in delay. An order, how
ever, has been issued under which a
soldier may be released on his own
application, so as to resume business
or occupation in which he is urgently
needed.
Any moment the time may come
when conditions may make it impera-
tive that the army give heed to the
industrial and social needs of the
country.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-09

Taxing the country as whole, while
there is still a shortage Of labor, the
margin is growing narrower. When the
armistice was signed large shortages
of labor existed practically everywhere
throughout the United States. day
these shortages have been reduced untll
they have in many places disappeared.
Reports from lis industrial commu-
mites throughout the country received
by telegraph December % showed all
excess of labor in thirty-six, practical
equality of supply and demand in fifty
eight and unemployment in twenty-o one.
Similar kilograms four weeks earlier
from 106 of these communities showed
surplus of labor in twenty-seven,
practical equality in sixty-eight and
unemployment in only eleven.
Applications from employers for help
wanted to the Offices of the United
States Employment Service, during the
week ending October 26, called tor
-375.239 persons. During that week
140,230 registered as wanting work.
The percentage of the excess of jobs
open over registration was 167. For
the week ending December 283, ,536
opportunities were listed in the offices
of forty-six states (reports from Ala
bama and Arizona not yet having been
received). There were 147,060 appn-
cants for positions. The percentage Of
excess jobs over applicants has fallen
in five weeks from 157 to 92 Incom-
plete reports for the following two
weeks show a persistence of the same
tendency.
The effect of contract cancellations
is only just becoming apparent, as some
have been so handled that it has been
possible to shift from war work to
peace production without reducing the
force of employees to any considerable
extent, while in other lines, such as the
making of arms and ammunition, where
such a course is not possible, the plan
adopted has enabled the munition
plants to taper off gradually and the
reductions of force have not yet become
fully effective
The full effect of the release of muni-
tion workers and soldiers will first be
largely apparent during the coming
New-York tribune., 1919-01-09
Smith Gives Ferrara Reprieve

OSSINING, N. Y, Jan. S.-Frank Fer
rara, who has been in the deathhouse
for the last two years, was granted
stay of execution to-day from January
13 to March 49, This is the first re-
prieve to be given by Governor Smith.
Ferrara was convicted of driving the
automobile in which the murderers of
Barnet Baff rode to the scene of the
crime. and in which they subsequently
made their escape. This is his fourth
renrieye
New-York tribune., 1919-01-09

late suffrage leader, lnez Milholland
bolssevain, said the public was not
taking just attitude toward the con-
troversy. She said the refusal of the
hotel Mems Association to agree to
submit the matter to an impartial board
of arbiters was unreasonable.
after the war we have lust ponc
through" she said, "it should surely
strike all thinking men and women
that arbitration is a better means of
settling problems than violence.
don't blame the women filling the
mems jobs, although l do not like the
idea OF women acting as strike break
erS" N
New-York tribune., 1919-01-09
Woman Beaten and Robbed

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., Jan. S.
Mrs. James Lewis, of Sewaren, was
bound, gagged and tied to the newell
post of her own house to-day in broad
daylight by three robbers who repre-
scnted themselves to be telephone in
spectors. AS Mrs. Lewis started to
show them the location of the wires
they attacked her. She resisted and
gave one a severe cut in the face. In
retaliation, they beat her severely.
They obtained $1,000 in Liberty bonds.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-09
Nicolson to Command Upton

Officials at the port Of embarkation
in Hoboken announced last night that.
beginning today, General William j.
Nicolson. U. S. A. will be in full com
mand at Camp Upton during the demob
ilizing period. The command has been
filled during the last few weeks by
Colonel Lacrobe. The camp viii be
beehive of returned soldiers until late
in the fall.