Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-15
Ask For Conference With
Police Commissioner to
Effect Compromise.
SYMPATHY STRIKE
MAY BE AVERTED
Leaders Move Slowly in Considering
Plans Of Radicals to Call Out Other
City Employees Steel Workers to
Hold Conference to Take Action
Upon Recommend atons Of Samuel
Gompers to Delay Strike.

! pafyn to regain for striking policemen
the places officially now declared to
have been lost was expected to begin
! today. This action was to depend on
/ the result of conference between
union labor leaders and commissioner
! Curtiss. The commissioner at the re-
quest of the union heads consented to
| the conference on an official basis.
The extent to which the American
! Federation of Labor would support the
! fight was in doubt today. Immediate
| danger of a general strike in support of
| the patrolmen appeared removed by
/ the disposition of the leaders to move
! slowly. ...
Coolidge Replies TO Gompers.
Mr. Gompers Is considered certain
to attempt to see the governor before
Police Commissioner Curtis confers
with the committee representing the
striking policemen.
No steps toward general strike
will be taken until the result OF Mr..
| Gompers' visit is made clear.
Governor Coolidge. in-his telegram
to Mr.. Gompers, said he proposed to
uphold the sovereignty of Massachu-
setts at all costs in dealing with the
police strike.
| The message said:
"Replying to your telegram. I have
1 already refused to remove the police
commissioner of Boston. did not ap-
point hir1. He2can assume no position
| which the courts would uphold except
! that the people have by the authority
Of the law vested in him. He speaks
only with their voice.
Tho right of the police of Boston
to affiliate has always been questioned
never granted, and is now prohibited
| The suggestion of President Wilson to
! Washington does not apply to Boston
There the police have remained on
| duty Here the policemen's union left
their duty, an action which President
| Wilson characterized as a crime against
civilization.
"Your asseration that the commits
sioner wos wrong can not justify the
wrong of leaving the city uneuardod
That furnished the opportunity. the
criminal element furnishedL-the action
There is no right to strike against the
public safety by anybody. anywhere,
any time.
Men to Be Replaced.
"You ask that the public safety again
be placed in the hands of these same
policemen while they continue in dis
obedience to the laws of Massachusetts
and the orders of the police depart
I l. t,,ia ~
ard removed. Others having aban-
doned their duty. their places have
under the law been declared vacant or
I! the cpinion of the attorney general
can suggest no authority outside the
courts 20 take further action.
II wish to join and assist in Ntakina
a broad view Of every situation. A
grave rnepons'bi''tv rests on all of us.
"You can depend or me to support
/ ror IN every legal action and sound
policy
| 81 am equally determines to defend
the sovnrni~rtv Of ssachusetts and
! to maintain the AUTHORITY and iuris-
dictior over her public officers. whore
it has been r'ared. by the constitution
and laws of her people.
! Calvin Coolidge.
i Governor Of Massachusetts"
| The state guard has been increased
SO that the men patrol in eight-hour
Shifts Tha>cavalrv company has been
| au@mented to 100 men.
The governor was in cornnlete COM
mand of,the situation TODAY. Police
! Commissioner Curtis went to bed in
his own home for the first time in a
1 week.
shop Windows Unboarded.
! Fewer shop windows were boarded
up today. Here and there on the COM
mon some of the subway entrances
were closed, hut for the presence OF
the soldiers in larger numbers than
usual 1t was typical Boston Sabbath