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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-06-10
RESOLUTION
IS OFFERED.
IN SENATE
Republicans Take Definite
Action Against Pact.
LEAGUE ATTACKED ALSO
Separation From Treaty
Covenant Is Demanded,
lBy The Assoclat.d Pteml

NNStilN ~ ON, June lO-A reso.
luton 10 have the senate declare il
could not concur in the League of
Nations provisions Of the peace treaty
as now drawn, was introduced today
by Senator Knox. Pennsylvania, re-
publican, OF the foreign relation, COM
mlttee.
Separation From Pact Asked.
The resolutions which is expected to
bring to a more definite stage the
fight being made against the league
covenant. asks that the covenant be
separated from the peace treaty before
submitted to the senate for ratifioa-
tion.
AT the request OF Senator Knox.
who announced he would later disucss
II IN the senate. the resolution was re-
icrred TO the foreign relations COM
mittee
The resolution was offered by Sem
ator krox after a conference with
Chairman Lodge OF the committee and
there were evidences that il would
have the backing OF most of those who
have conducted the fight against the
league. II is understood TO be designed
as an Official notice to the peace con-
terence that ratification Of the treaty
III rs presen, form is opposed.
What Resolution Proposes.
The Knox resolution proposes that
the treaty shall be so drawn as 10
permit any nation 10 reserve without
prejudice 10 itself or future separate
ard full consideration by its people.
the question OF any league nations -
that obligations OF Germany and her
co-bellReren,s under the treaty shall
not be thereby affected.
The Knox resolution also would de.
clare i, the policy OF the United
States government in order to meet
fully and fairly our obligations ia
ourselves and TO the world. that the
freedom and peace of Europe being
again threatened by any power OF
combination OF powers, the United
States will regard such a situation
with grave concern as a menace 10 its
own peace and freedom"
In such an event the Knox re,olu-
tior propose that the United State,
VIII consult with other powers AZ.
iected with view to devising means
for the removal of such menace and
wall, the necessity arising in the
future, carry out the same complete
accord and cooperation with our
chief co-belligerenis for the defense
OF civilization.
Financiers Called TO Testify.
kilograms requesting J. P. Morgan.
Henry 7 Dawson, Thomas W. L.
mont, Jacob Schiff, Paul Warburs
and Frank A. Nanderlip. New York
tinancitrs, TO appear before the senate
foreign relations committee tomorrow
and testify in the investigation of how
copies OF the peace treaty reached
private interests in New York were
sent out today by direction Of Chair
man Lodge.
Meantime members of congre. had
ccples OF the treaty which were pub
li'hed today in the Congressional
Record. Senator Borah, republican.
Idaho who forced printing Of tho
treaty yesterday, was understood to
plan today to have the senate order
the text printed as public document
which would make il available for
distribution as complete volume.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-06-10

LOCAL FoNgcASv-unssttisd and
generally cloudy weather, with probably
showers tonieht and Wednesday; not
much change In temperature.
svATG FoHEcAsT-ronlpht and
Wednesday cloudy, with probably show.
kANsAs-PartIy cloudy tonight and
Wednesday, probably scsttsrsd thunder
showers, not much change In Wmpsrs.
turs.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-06-10
Wisconsis II Second State.

MADISON, Wis, June l0-The
Wisconsin legislature today ratified
the federal suffrage amendment, the
assembly voting 81 to 2 and the sen
ate u 10
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-06-10
Allies Well Prepared.

Continued on Page q. Column ~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12
Died 'sPumping'' Lewis Gun

One Of the Brooklyn boys who gave
his life to his country in the san
culinary fighting that marked the at
tack on the Hindenburg line of Sep
TENDER u last was jeremiah Bennett
Aitken, private in the 106th Machine
Gun Battalion, nephew of Mrs. Henry
A. King, of 1904. Hancock Street.
Aitken, whose mother is Mrs. May
Cornell Stoiber, reader in the largest
New Thought Church in the world, in
CINCINNATI, was only nineteen years old
and letter from comrade to Mrs.
Stoiber tells how he died at his ma
chine gun. 1t says:
"When we went over the top we
we're far below company strength, SO
we had to spread out, each man fifteen
yards apart, to cover the front we held.
| was hit early in the fight and lay
unconscious several hours. Jerry was
three men from me, holding our right
flank with his Lewis gun.
~ don't know just when or how he
was hit, but he was found with his
machine gun, and seemed to have been
using it to very good account before
they got him"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12
Police Clubhouse
Is Dedicated by
Members of Force
Deputy Ellen O'Grady Is
Invited, but Refrains
From Breaking In ON
Strictly Stag Celebration

At last! Somebody has taken up
the police. In a really constructive
way, you know
1t remained for Special Deputy
Police Commissioner John A. Harriss,
who is in charge of the traffic squad,
to provide club with wholesome and
refining influences for the members of
the force. Two large houses at Jas
and lat Riverside Drive, between
Eighty sixth and Eighty seventh
streets, have been turned over to the
Police Department for a clubhouse
Nourishing meals will be supplied at
cost, and there will be magazines and
writing materials at his disposal.
There is gymnasium and pool and
billiard rooms, too, so that the patrol
man, longing for an hours relaxation
between burglaries, can have his little
game here in his own club.
TIE club was dedicated yesterday
afternoon in the smoke of hundreds
of long black cigars, and the fragrance
of hundreds of tall red roses, the gifts
of the members of the various pre-
cints. Police Commissioner Enright
and Mayor Hylan were present, and
Among the guests were Secretary of
State Hugo and former Fire Commits
sioner Robert Adamson.
Deputy Commissioner Ellen J..
O'Grady had been invited. and also
Miss Sophie Irene Loeb, but they both
refrained from attending, as this was
strictly a stag affair, and there may
be equal rights in politics, but not in
the smoking room.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12
$4,000 Women to
Strike if Demands
Are Turned Down
Garment Workers Issue Ulti-
matum for 44-Hour Week.
More Pay and Shop In
speciion; May Walk Out

New York will have another big
strike on its hands when 80 900 women
employees in the waist and dress trade
cease work this week, accor ding to a
statement given out last night by Ben
jamIn Schlesinger, president of the
Ladies Garment Workers. Union. The
statement alleges that the employers
"arrogantly' declined arbitration OF
The workers. demands.
The union, which has beer working
for almost six years under All agree
mcnt providing against strikes and for
matters as discharge Of employees and
general working conditions, has been
collecting large strike fund and pre-
pairing Tor the coming battle for many
months. Things came to q head last
week with the presentation to the Dress
Manufacturers Association Of The FOL
lowing demands
t. The 44-hour week.
2. Fifteen per cent increase in wages.
8. Inspection OF shops once u month
to ascertain if standards set in agree
ment are observed
The union claims that the employers
but have further insisted on modifica-
tons of the present agreement as to
working conditions
In a statement issued early yester-
day. President Schlesinger said
"In the interest OF all parties con-
cernod this unhealthy tension must be
cleared up before the opening of this
spring season. and in order to secure
q complete and speedy adjustment we
propose that our contentious be forth
with submitted to a board of arbitra-
ton under the Craftsmanship of any
person of recognized standing in the
community under the express under
standing, however. that such board rem
der its decision within no longer than
two weeks from the date of its selec-
ton"
Late last night President Schlesinger
issued another statement which read:
in letter just received by the
union. the Waist and Dress Manufac-
turers Association arrogantly decline
arbitration They have thus taken upon
themselves the responsibility for the
general strike of the $4,000 women
workers in the waist and dress trade,
which is now inevitable.
"Narious committees have already
been appointed to manage the huge
walkout. When the strike is declared
every one of the 900 waist and dress
shops in this city will become idle and
will stay idle for the duration of the
strike.
The union did not court this strike
and has done everything compatible
with its faith in the justice and moder-
alton of its demands to avert it. The
employers, however, have chosen the
method of blatant challenge. The work
F.. ers will take up the challenge"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12

the platform: BY God. believe you
are traitors!'"
did he say this loud enough to be
heard?" asked Representative Browne.
Certain He Said 1t
~ am perfectly convinced he made
the remark" said Mr.. Menken, land
that ne meant it to be as he stated il
The Tribune interview. DR.. McElroy
has a popularity in his way of speak
ing, and those on the platform may
have thought he was speaking only in
general terms.
"Do you mean to say" interrupted
Representative Reavis, of Nebraska,
that DR.. McElroy, in public address,
speaking to the students of the Uni
versity Of Wisconsin while wearing the
uniform of their country, US d pro-
family and accused them of being
traitors 2"
"He did" responded Mr.. Menken.
The authors of the letters produced
by Representative Brown, Mr. Menken
explained, doubtless were positive in
their belief that DR.. McElroy had not
so spoken, "but l had conclusive proof
they were in error" he insisted.
He read into the record a letter
Colonel Roosevelt wrote to DR.. Noel
roy on June 6, 1918, in which he de-
clared the incident at the University
of Wisconsin closed, and added, in a
postscript: Good luck to you always,
and l wish we had more Americans as
fearless and staunchly patriotic and as
fully disinterested as you have shown
yourself to be-"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12

chairman. William kohn asserted that
the Labor party in New York had come
INTO being because the joint recon
struction committee of the Central
Federated Union the Brooklyn Central
Labor Union and the Woman's Trade
Union League had found, after much
thought and investigation of recon
struction programmes, that "the first
step would have to be putting labor
into politics"
Other speakers were John L. Jones,
an organizer of the British Labor
party, who explained its workings, and
d. II. Robbins, member of the Bridge
port Labor party.
The convention elected the following
temporary officers: Chairman, William
kohn; chairman, Edward l. Han
nah; recording secretary Ernest Bohm !;
reading clerk, Mrs. Maude Schwartz.
The following were chosen as chair
men of the various committees: Reso-
lutions, J. P. Coughlin; credentials,
Miss Ann Hogan; membership, NJ. Nc
MILAN; platform and organization, l.
2. Boyle.
The final meetings will be held at the
casino to-day at Il. m. and p. m.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12
Three British Delegates Are
Unable to Attend Con-
ference i'm Switzerland
All Strong War Advocates
G e IN an Representation
Also Is Impossible, at
Least Till After Jan. FL
By Chester NJ. Wright

Nem iork Tribune
Special Cable Service
Copyright 1919, New York Tribune lnc)
LONDON, Jan. 1O.-The plans of the
International Labor Conference at Lau-
same are in worse plight than ever
Three members of the British Trade
Union Congress delegation are unable
to 90 and have been replaced by dele
gates selected by the executive COM
mittec.
The Withdrawals are Colonel Will
Thorne, Arthur Onions and CHARLES
Bowerman, all stanch supporters of the
war, and bitter opponents Of Ramsay
Macdonald and extremist paciflsm. The
elected substitutes are X. Shlrkle,
Thomas Greenall and Miss Margaret
Bondficld The latter is one OF those
elected as fraternal delegates to the
American Federation of Labor conven-
ton, but failing TO secure a passport,
was unable to attend. Shrkie has not
come to great prominence IN the labor
world, while Greenal! is a miner who
stands in about the same position as
J. II. Thomas.
Family III, His Excuse
When asked Bowerman what
changed his mind about going, he re-
plied
81 have a sick wife and a sick mother
do rot know how long | would be
gone, and think | could do better work
here. Everything also looks very un-
certain"
The withdrawal OF J. r. Clynes and
Thorne, Onions and Bowerman is high
~ significant. removing as it does four
OF the most ardent and constructive
spirits from the British delegation.
J. H. Thomas is the only remaining
member of the delegation whose war
record is accepted at 100 per cent val
uation, unless Arthur Henderson is in
Guided in that category
Bowerman said this morning that the
trade union delegation would not leave
until Samuel Gompcrs arrives. The
executive committee Of the Trad Union
Congress- is arranging to meet Com
pers here January 20 for welcome and
d brief conference here before the dele
CATION goes to Switzerland Bowerman
has invited the French Confederation
of Labor to send delegates. to join in
the welcome to Mr.. Gompers.
Germans Unlikely to Attend
Great concern is manifested at Labor
Party and Trade Union headquarter RS
regarding the situation in Germany.
The opinion is expressed that possibly
no German delegates will be able to
attend. In view Of the condition of
civil war existing, it is thought that
neither side will dare allow its leaders
to be absent from Germany for any
length of time, for fear of being dis
possessed by the opposing side.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12
Miss Scott Urges
Women to Keep Up
Equal Pay Demand
Speakers at Reconstruction
Meeting in Washington
Tell of Difficulties Met
in Helping War Workers
Special Correspondence

Special Correspondence
WASHINGTON, Jan. II. = Labor
standards established for women wb;le
the war was on must be kept, accord
ing to Miss Melinda Scott, of the
United States Employment Service
Miss Scott spoke this morning ON
What Shall be Done With Our Women
War Workers at the reconstruction
conference of the National Popular
Government League. She is member
of the National Womens Trade Union
League, and has been for several
months in the United States Employ
ment Service of the Department Of La
hor
Eve must insist that all women keen
the standard equal pay for equal
work." said Miss Scott. Nothing in
industry is so cheap as the labor Of
women and children. And it must be
impressed upon the new women who
have come into industry since the war
that they must not sell labor any
cheaper than men would
eff it was necessary that standards
be established and kept up during the
war;" continued Miss Scott. at is lust
as nece ssary that they continue now.
The future of the race depends upon
the care of women in industry in peace
times just as much as in war times
The women TO be dealt with in after
the-war readjustment of business were
divided by Miss Scott into three classes
those who were not satisfied with
wages paid by their war jobs, those
who had left school to work during the
war and those who had to work. The
last class was the one with which Miss
Scott would reckon. The other two she
felt would eliminate themselves.
"The United States Employment Ser
vice has to solve the question of get
ting work for women who have been
in war industries" said Miss Scott
an some communities there is no prob
lem at all. There are actually more
Jobs than there are women to fill
them.
"To handle the problem of the war
workers in Washington, the employ
ment service has representatives in
every department. They find out
whether the girls who are being let
off want work here or in their home
cities. The employment service has
records Of where these girls can be
placed and whether there is work for
them in their home towns.
"The real difficulty at the present
time in getting work for women at
the wages they have to have"
Mrs. Florence Kelley, of the National
Consumers League, gave a concrete
example of the wage difficulty of which
Miss Scott spoke. At the time the gas
mask factory discharged its employees.
n, ost of whom had been receiving from
$50 to s26 a week, it was found that
the average non-war job for these
workers paid 50 week.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12
Menken Endorses
McElroy Interview
In The Tribune
Tells Congressional Commit
tee Investigating Security
League Wisconsin Stu
dents We're Called Traitors

The Congressional committee in
vestigating the National Security
League put questions to S, Stanwood
Menken, it's former president, concern
ing an interview with DR.. Robert NJ.
McElroy published by The Tribune at
Yesterdays session at the Bar Associ-
alton This was after Repres
Caraway, of Arkansas, had jotted down
il. I; yellow notebook Mr.. Menken's i'm
pressions of the milk price fight and
Scent trolley fares and had sought
to discover what he thought of Presi-
dent Wilson's policies and the harbor
strike
Mr. Menken declared he couldn't tell
him because he hadn't been able %
find out what President Wilson's pol
icies were and the committee hadn t
given him time to read about the
harbor strike. SO Representative Cara
way shut up his yellow notebook and
turned the witness over to Represent
tat've Browne, Of Wisconsin.
Representative Browne wanted to
know about the interview with DR.. Nc
Elroy published by The Tribune. DR..
ing tour for the National Security
League, during which he addressed
1000 students of the University of
Wisconsin. He said they were inatten-
tive and snapped their rifles while the
Presidents war message was being
read.
Called Them Traitors
He considered their attitude inten-
tional and tested this theory by call
ing them damn bunch Of traitors"
he said, an insult which produced no
results beyond few smokers in the
rear Of the room. Then, DR.. McElroy
said, he had told the students they
were like All audience Of Prussians.
did DR.. McElroy ever deny that
interview" asked Representative
Browne.
Or. McElroy denied certain details
Of the interview" said Mr. Menken.
He was unable to remember any pub
lished denial, and added: 81 have alb
solute evidence that DR.. McElroy, in
his interview, was not guilty Of telling
a lie"
Representative Browne read letters
from Chief Justice Bradley Winslow
of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Dr.
Charles NJ. Van Hise, former president
of the University Of Wisconsin, and
others who heard DR.. McElroy, who said
the incidents he described had not oc-
Cured.
well, l satisfied myself" said Mr..
Menken, that DR.. McElroy did say on
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12
Twelve States Report Surplus
OF Common labor

states~California, Colorado, Idaho, IL
linois. Indiana. Iowa, Missouri, Mon
tana. Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon
and reported a surplus of com
mon laborers to the Department of
Labor this week, as compared with
seven the week previous. Weather
conditions stopping lake navigation arc
believed to be in a measure responsible
for the growth Of unemployment.
In the South there is a general
shortage of labor in all trades, while
the belt from Connecticut to Mime
apolls shows SURPRISES in specia
branches.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12
International Body Like the
Federal Reserve Board
Favored by ]. J. Arnold
Needed to Insure Peace
Financial Imperialism Is
Declared as Dangerous
as the Political Type
Nes0 York Tribune
Wushi1,0tOn R1freUn

w dSRtngtOn Bureau
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE first
authoritative American declaration in
favor Of the French proposal that all
national war debts be made an interna-
tlonal obligation was made here to- day
by John j. Arnold, vice president of
the First National Bank of Chicago
addressing the reconstruction confer
cnce of the National Popular Govern
ment League.
Mr.. Arnold did not go SO far as the
French suggestion that the war debts
be pooled, internationally Endorsed and
then distributed among the nations pro
rata, according to wealth and popula-
ton. He contcnted himself with urg-
ing that the obligations be funded into
an International debt, but with an ar
rangement by. which each nation would
bear it's own burden. Such an inter
national underwriting of the war debts
would restore international confidence
and insure the stability Of finance, ma
tional!y and internationally, he con-
tended.
lnperialistic Finance Condemned
international Democratic Finance"
was Mr.. Arnold's topic, and he took the
position that abolition of financial i'm
perlallsm as we'll as political imperial
ISM was essential to the success of the
League of Nations. The cooperation
of the nations in supporting the credit
of the league that won the war for
democracy would be the beginning Of
democratic international finance as OPP
posed to the systems of imperialstic
finance that have hitherto prevailed.
Gong step further, Mr. Arnold
would have, as part of the machinery
OF the League of Nations, the creation
at once OF an international board of
financial governors, similar in its func-
toms internationally to those of the
United States Federal Reserve Board
nationally.
This would put an end to the much
talked of competition between London
and New York as to which should domi-
nate the world financially. The Fed
cral Reserve system had ended the
financial domination of New York in
America, and similar international
system would make it impossible for
any city or nation to dominate the
finances Of the world.
Precedent Made by Wilson
To President Wilson Mr. Arnold ac-
corded the distinction of having been
the first national leader to oppose in
ternational financial Imperialism This
he had done when he broke up the pro-
posed five-nation loan to China His
purpose and its correctness were now
clear. though obscure at the time
Mr.. Arnold added that, although he
did not vote for President Wilson and
perhaps lad shared the frivolous opin-
ion of him as the school teacher Presi-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12
President Thanks Farmers
For JndOrsino League pIar

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1l.-Pres dent
Wilson has cabed officers of the
farmers reconstruction conference an
acknowledgment OF resolutions adopt
ed here this week indorsing his stand
for league of nations end which it
forwarded to him at Paris.
"Your message and the action of
the farmers reconstruction conference
has given me the profoundest pleas
ure," the Presidents message said,
land I beg that you will thank your
associates for me for this evidence of
their confidence and DISTINGUISHED pa
triotism."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12

dent, he was forced to say that Presi-
dent Wilson actually stands to-day as
the teacher Of the world. It was the
President who defined the purposes of
the war az one to make the world safe
for democracy, it was the President
who perceived that the great lesson Of
The war was international cooperation,
and it was the President who, by be-
coming spokesman Of all the peoples,
had compelled the statesmen of Europe
to abandon their traditional imperial
ism and profess enthusiastic conversion
to his views, Mr.. Arnold said. Two
conspicuous words stood out in the
war-democracy and camoufage. Tn
less the President was right the war
was one of camouAage instead Of for
c. ocracy. Fundamentally the causes
of the war lay in international eco
nor1ics ard a misconceptions OF what is
economic wellbeing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12
Transports and Hospital
Ship Bringing 5000 Here

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11-Sailing of
five transports and the hospital ship
Mercy from France with approximately
5000 officers and men was announced
to-day by the War Department. They
will arrive at New York as follows:
Pueblo and Wilhelmina. January Il:
Hampden and General Cocktails, Jan
uary 21; Ice King. January "a. and the
Mercy. January 20.