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Arizona republican., 1920-03-04

The keynote of the meeting was tha there would be no trifling with thli question. but that, shoulder to shoul' der. without regard to personal losses or rnbarraSsment. the citizens pleosee themselves for free Phoenix, and T was evident from the enthusiasm witt which the decision was reached tha the campaign for industrial justice was commenced in earnest. It wil lack neither backbone nor hnancia support.
 What They Pledged
 In brief, all those who attended the meeting pledged that from Monday all construction work planned, or now in process of con- struction by them, would go for ward under the open shop prin-R cipie.
 E. A. Tovrea, president of the Arizona Packing company. which is doing the largest single piece of construction work in the valley at present under the closed shop sy5 tenn, pledged that from Monday on, all men at present employed on the work-nearIy 125 craftsmen-wcuid work under the open shop policy or not at all.
 R. D. Roper. head of the R. D. Motor company, which is building new home for the company. de- ciared that he would make certain that the construction of his new building would be operated under the open shop principle from Mon day The men, he said, would be informed Of this Saturday night when they draw their pay.
 "lnstead of saying on our sian that This is the future home of the R. D. Motor company" he de- cIared, "I will have a sign read ing, This building will be erected under the open shop principle, or not at aII.'"
 L. H. Rhuart declared that the craftsmen could stop work on his Building on Monday unless they carried on the work on the strictly open shop basis.
 The three building operations referred to employ the largest number of union men, and it had been pointed out at the neetinq that these operations were unwit- tingly and through no fault of their own supporting the Phoenix Build ing Trades Council in enforcing the building trades card system, the principle which excludes non union men from work in this city.
 A. G. Smith. who is buirdino 25 houses. also pledged that the con tracts would be carried out on the open shop principle.
 The meeting of citizens was called oy the Citizens Industrial Committee which for months has been laborins diligently with the question of the oper shop for Phoenix The meeting was no called with the idea of fighting trade unlonism of this city. but rather t, decide for all time whether Phoeni, would longer tolerate the destructive principle of the closed shop in the building trades.
 Vernon L.. Clark. chairman of tho Citizens Industrial Committee. who
Arizona republican., 1920-03-04
F FARME ERS IF 28 STATES JOIN IN
 NEW FEGtRAIIGN
Object of Organization Is to Protect and Represent Business, Economic, So- cial and Educational In- terests of Farmers - Has 100000 Members
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CHICAGO, March 3-The American Farm Bureau Federation was organized today at a meeting of representatives from 2S states farmers bureaus. J. F.. president, and J. w. Coverdale, Ames, Iowa, secretary.
 The objects of the federation, it was announced, are to correlate and strengthen the individual state farm bureaus and similar state organiza i tions into a national body to promote, protect and represent the business, terests of the farmers of the nation. and to develop agriculture.
 Fix Membership At 100000
 The membership of the federation was placed at 700, 900, which is divided into four groups, the northeast, the central, the southern and far western.
 Dr. A. c. True, director of the states relations service of the United States department of agriculture, praised the work of the new organization in an address.
 Agriculture must be made a prof itable industry and the standard of liv- ing must be raised on the farms" he said. Unless we can hold the intelli- gent, prosperous people on the farms we will not succeed We must inter- est women and children well as men and make home life on the farm more attractive and convenient
 He pointed out that this was an era of group competition which would af- feet agriculture and said that the farm CTS should take proper steps in de- veloping their own interests
 Introduces Resolution
 Resolutions introduced today in cludeoi the following:
 National legislation that will pre- vent strikes and unnecessary suffer ing. an income tax based on cash re- ceipts and disbursements, investigation of the tariff in relation to farm pro- duets. steps to protact the dairy in- dustry, potato growers and W0oi pro- ducers, and demand for an inter national conference of farmers to meet in America.
 One of the aims of the federation would be the establishment of a staff of experts at Washington to scan all legislation affecting producers of food
 Chicago or Indianapolis probably will be selected for the national headquar- ters of the organization. The execu- tive committee will make the selection.
 Among the delegates attending the conference are six women.
Arizona republican., 1920-03-04

presided. recited the history Of the local open shop movement, which had it's inception when the Building Trades Council of Phoenix first attempted to enforce upon the building trades of this city the building trades card sys- men could find no work in Phoenix. The movement began in earnest, said Mr- Clark, when the general con tractors called upon the citizens com mittee, chosen from the various civic organizations, to examine the question from all angles and pass judgment up on it.
 Impartial Judgment
 The impartial citizens committee ruled that closed shop principle was un American. promoted inefficiency, lowered the standard of work. and in general would be anything but a factor in the greater prosperity of the com munity. Conditions in other cities were examined by this committee. said Mr. Clark and both positive and neSa- tive sides thoroughly sifted before the decision was reached.
 Now. he said, the general citizens meeting has been called because re, cent developments in the building trades situation had made it imperas tive that Phoenix declare herself. ops way or another and he invited ths opinions of his hearers.
 Immediately many voiced their aps proval of the open shop and asked that it at once be put to a vote but the chairman suggested that before a vote be taken citizens should declare theiE opinions on the topic most vital in Phoenix today.
 The Session then became an "experi- ence meeting" From the moment the chair threw open the question, one man after another narrated instances where the closed shop principle had defeated the best interests of the city as we'll as his own.
 F. H. Ensign of the New State Electric company, declared that his company had reorganized its work upon the open shop principle He had told his men what the trouble was he said, and told them to go back 10 the Building Trades council and fix matters up there When they had done this. they could come back to work. Not a man appeared for work, he said, adding taht the company had been reorganiZed by obtaining the necessary skilled craftsmen from the coast-non- union men.
 Here a voice in the back of the hall cried:
 And a painter who was in France IT months, who went over the top six times, was fired off the job here in Phoenix because he didn't have q union card"
 Mir Clark referred to conditions in Miami, where the closed shop policy is rigidly enforced Material entering a building in Miami must bear the union label. he said, or the job is at once placed on the unfair list He said that the contractor for the fixtures of the new Gila Bank and Trust com pany building had unfortunately or dered some fixtures which did not bear the union label and the union ruled it off the job.
 Pardon me. Mir. Chairman" said F.
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Arizona republican., 1920-03-04
SAY ADDITIONAL AID
 ID EX-SERV|CE MEN WOULD RAISE TAXES
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WASHINGTON. March 3.-Appeals for financial relief for former service men were countered today before the house ways and means committee by statements that any money grant, ne- cessitating further bond issues. would be an additional burden on taxpayers.
 Representative Hull. democrat. Ten nessee, said $S0O.0O0,0 GOO increased taxes must be raised to meet present war expenditures without granting q cent to the service men.
 With a bonus we would be forced to establish the most oppressive sys- tenn of taxes in the world" he added.
 Members of congress will not be blacklisted if they oppose additional soldier legislation, Edward H. Hale of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. an organization of 750.- 900 men. told the committee.
 Representative Garner, democrat of Texas, said a bond issue in the inn mediate future would decrease 10 per cent the market value of present gov ernment obligations.
 This alone would result in an actual loss of $2,60O.O00 in the value of prop erty held by millions of people, he said.
Arizona republican., 1920-03-04
President Appears
 In Public for lst
 Time Since Illness

WASHINGTON, March 3-Lured by balmy spring weather, the first of the season, President Wilson went on a motor jaunt about the city today. It was the first time he had left the White House grounds since he was put to bed ga very sick man" five months ago today.
 MT. Wilson told Mrs. Wilson and Rear Admiral Gary T. Grayson, who accompanied him, that he felt as though he had been away from Wash ington a long time.
 For more than an hour the presi- dent drove along the speedway and through the city streets and the capi- tol grounds
 The president was recognized by many persons and returned their greet ings.
 Delighted and much benefited by his trp,' was the way Dr. Grayson characterized the presidents attitude when he returned to the White House.
Arizona republican., 1920-03-04
FACTS FRIENDS TO MAKE STAND r OR AGREEMENT.
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WASHINGTON, March While the treaty debate dragged on in the senate today without action, the treaty's friends began final deter mined effort to rescue 1t rom the deadlock toward which all Ieaoefs agree it again is headed.
 Republican and democratic senators joined in the movement. but they were only moderately hopeful of success Putting collateral issues aside, they addressed their efforts to the repupn- can reservation to article 10, long the storm center of the whole treaty flsht-
 Some compromise proponents pro fessed to see possibility that an ac- ceptable modification yet might be for mulated Others believed that despite assurances of democratic leaders, enough democrats to put through the reservation as it stands might yet be induced to quit the presidents lead.
 The confidence of the treaty's ire concila ble opponents apparently Was not shaken, and leaders or the two parties maintained that ratification would fail
 Reed Opens Attack on Hitchcock
 The subject technically before the senate all day, was the ShantunS res ervation. but it got only a passing men ton. Among other things, the Adriatic question again was brought into the
  of Missouri enlivened proceedings with 8 bitter attack on Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska. the administration leader.
 The course of President Wilson in condemning the proposed Adriat1c set tlernent was approved by Senator Borah, republican, Idaho, who declared the executive was right in asserting that the United States could not join in European settlements unless they were to be based on a new rule of justice in international contracts But the allies Adriatic proposal itself. the senator argued, showed that the old regime still ruled in European politics.
 In brief statement regarding his amendment to the Shantung reserva- ton, Senator Lodge, Massachusetts, republican leader, said the proposed modification which would eliminate specific reference to Japan and China. would really make no difference in the force of the reservation.
Arizona republican., 1920-03-04
DEMAND FOR EXPENSIVE CUTS OF MEATS BLAMED FOR HIGH PRICES

CHICAGO, March 3.-Southern lab- orers who are eating too high up on the hog and American housewives who "eat too far back on the beef are to blame for the continued high cost of living, the American Institute of Meat Packers announced today. With the export market for meat shat tered by adverse foreign exchange and wholesale prices back to where they were year and two years ago, the American consumer is chiefly respon- +ible. the institutes bulletin on Feb ruarv conditions says.
 Hog prices during the early part of the month were at the highest level of the winter, with receipts at the yards 15 to 20 per cent below normal,
Arizona republican., 1920-03-04
Cld121as Pdlmer's Settlement W1th Fuckers O2aly Political COup--Retd11 Hold 0m Public

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Arizona republican., 1920-03-04
MEXICO REFUSES. U. {. CITIZEN THE. RIGHT ID RETURN
Carranza Officials Make Ef- fective Order Directed at Persons Who Testified Before Senate Committee Investigating Mexican Sit uation

WASHINGTON, March 3.-Blunt re- jection met the effort of the state de- partment to induce the Mexican gov ernment to permit Henry Torres, an American citizen, to reenter Mexico after testifying before the senate sub committee on Mexican conditions. Answering a note presented by George T. Summerlin, charge at the American embassy, Hilario Medina, sub b-secretary of foreign affairs, said that, in view of , antecedents of Torres, his entry could not be permitted. Medina also charged that Torres had conducted propa- ganda against Mexico among persons attending the sessions" (of the com mittee).
 The American request, according to unofficial text, laid stress on the fact that American citizens could not re- fuse to testify before the committee under severe penalty.
 Tn view of these extenuating cir cumstances," MT. Summerlin's note added, land without denying the right of the Mexican government to refuse adnittance to undesirable aliens, the state department believes that in these cases an exception might be made which would not destroy the principles of international law"
 The Mexican reply dealth only with the specific case of Torres, whose home is at Matamoros, Mex, and who was refused passport wise by the Mexican consul at Eagle Pass, Texas, when he sought to go home after having testified.
 Set Forth Mexican Views
 Permit me to point out to your ex- ce1lency,' the Mexican reply said, 'sthat the said MT. Torres, in testifying be- fore the subcommittee of the United States senate, stated that conditions prevailing at present in Mexico were chaotic, exhibiting as evidence of his assertion that the president of the re- public, on occasion of his visit to Cuatro Cienegas, had been escorted by ' 706O soldiers. Furthermore, the said Mr. Torres expressed himself in harsh terms with regard to Article 2I of the constitution, stating it simply provided for confiscation robbery. In general his statements were not only deroga- tory to Mexico and this government, but were also sarcastic. Nevertheless, the said Mir. Torres has not confined himself to his false statements with regard to Mexico, but he has been en- gagged in active propaganda against Mexico among the persons attending the session, having, furthermore. of fered in a jocular tone to go to the Mexican consulate and advise himself as to whether the wise of his passport would be denied, confident that it would not be.
 ''In view of the antecedents of MT. Henry Torres, my government is pained to advise your excellency that it can not permit the entry into Mexico of the gentleman"
Arizona republican., 1920-03-04

despite the fact that government re- ports show that there is probably a large surplus on the farms.
 In the beef market, a factor which has had great influence upon the beef trade has been the relatively strong demand for hind quarter beef and the poor demand for fore quarter beef,' the packers state
 The mutton situation is similar. There is shortage of lambs, due to the failure of many Colorado stockmen to buy at prices prevailing last fall, and as a result practically the entire market supply from now until the first Of June must come from the ScottS Bluff territory in Nebraska and Colo rado.
Arizona republican., 1920-03-04
ASKS COMM| TEE TO RESEAT FIVE
 N. r. SOCIALISTS
Nothing To It Says Hunt

ALBANY, N. Y, March 3-Morris Hillquit, Cumming in a five hour speech today in defense of the five suspended socialist assemblymen who have been under investigation for the past seven weeks, told the assembly Judiciary committee it had no right to impose upon these five men quali- fications for office not demanded by the constitution.
 Declaring that the whole proceeding against his clients was "a part of the national hysteria against radicalism,s MT. HIllquit demanded that the ju- dietary committee frame report recommending the seating of the five socialists and completed his summing up with a warning that if the assem- blymen are unseated that stain upon democracy will never be washed off, never be removed.'
 The precedent once created" he as- serted, will work toward the undoing of the entire constitutional represen- tative system, so laboriously built up and upheld in this country"
 Sums Up Charges
 Mir. Hillquit said that he had sum- marized all the charges under eight main heads, as follows:
 That the socialist party is a revolu- tionary organization.
 That it seeks to attain it's ends by means of violence
 
 political action and that it's politics are only a blind or camouflage. That it is unpatriotic and disloyal.
 That it is unduly controlled-or that it unduly controls-public off, cials elected on its tickets.
 That it owes allegiance -to> a foreign power, known as the internationale
 That it approves of the soviet gov ernment of Russia and seeks to intro duce a similar regime in the United States.
 That the socialist assemblymen per- sonally opposed prosecution of the war and gave aid and comfort to the enemy.
 Has Reply for Each
 Mir. Hillquit argued each of the first seven charges at length, saying Sey- mour Stedman, his colleague would reply to the last. Briefly. his answers were:
 That the the socialist party was revolutionary and that socialists are revolutionists in the sense that they favor a program that will take the in dustrial system out of the hands of private individuals and turn it over to the people to organize it properly.
 That socialism has come to build and not to destroy and that the mass action the socialist party has in view is the legal organized action of large mas asseS in the community.
 hae ehS >oSidiio' odi y uio ilS SdS- red duty to protest against the war; inasmuch as the socialist party did not believe that democracy would be assured as the result of the war.
 That the socialist party has a right to tell candidates elected on the so- cialist platform to get out of the party should they prove untrue to platform pledges and promises.
 That the socialist party is not an ti-national party and that if social ism is international, so is capitalism, art and modern life.
 That sthe socialist party does not ap- prove of the soviet government of Russia and does not seek to introduce a soviet form of government in the United States. although sympathizing with the Russian socialists in the of their soviet govern ment-
Arizona republican., 1920-03-04
PHOENIX STARTS WAR TO UPHOLD OPEN SHOP
BLANK CARTRIDGES IN ANCIENT PISTOL SCARE NEW WORKERS
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NEW YORK. March 3.-Armed with an old d-fashioned pistol and blank cartridges, Tony Oiadota. 14 years old, is alleged by the police to rave treated Brooklyn tonight to trolley car hold up" in true wild ye style.
 The youngster, according to the police, stopped the street car by firing three shots. The passengers were panic stricken when the boy leaped out of the darkness into the light waving the pistol. But before he could climb aboard. a special of ficer arrested him.
 Tony, who was locked up charged with juvenile delinquency, told the police he had meant no haun.
Arizona republican., 1920-03-04
CITIZENS IN PLEDGE AGREE NOT TO RECOGNIZE CLOSED SHOP IN BUILDING TRADES IN THIS CITY AFTER MONDAY

No shall the closed shop in the building trades throttle industry in Phoenix Sentence has been passed and it will take effect Monday morning The business men, the builders property and bankers material and contractors, served notice the closed shop last night when of them pledged themselves permit construction work proceed under the closed shop principle
 In a rousing meeting held at the chamber of com merce these men, representative of the entire citizenship of the city, took positive unqualified stand for the open shop principle in the building trades of Phoenix in the this principle Speaker after speaker declared that no longer could Phoenix with any selfespect submit to the arrogant n-Amercan and unfair tactics of the closed shop policy demanded by the Phoenix Building Trades Council and that with united front the business inter and property of this city prepared to fight the issue to a finish.
Arizona republican., 1920-03-04
SELECT DELEGATES AT LARGE

LOUISVILLE, Ky, March 3.-The Kentucky republican state convention today endorsed A. T. Iert, Governor E. r. Morrow, Mrs. John Glover South, and Dr: s. H. George, negro, Paducah, as the four delegates from the state t-large to the republican national convention in Chicago. The convention voted that they shall be un- instructed
Arizona republican., 1920-03-04
Nebraska Tn Storms Grip
BREAD PRICES JUMP

NEW YORK, March 3.--A 2-cefit-a loaf increase in bread prices was an- nounced today by the Master Bakers of Manhattan, an organization controlling about 400 shops. Doughnuts and fancy cake prices will be increased accord ingly. The price increase is due to the demand of bakers and their helpers for q raise in pay of S1 day. ii was stated.
Arizona republican., 1920-03-04
GALES ARRIVES AT MORALES

MORALES, Ariz., March 3.-Signifi- canoe is attached to the arrival here today of General Plutarco Elias Gales, former governor of Sonora, who re- gently resigned office in the Carranza cabinet to enter the political campaign in behalf of General Alvaro Obregon. candidate for president of Mexico. General Gales was met at the train by General Pima, military commander of northern Sonora, and an escort of troops.
Arizona republican., 1920-03-04
ROYALTIES NOT EXEMPT

WASHINGTON, March 3-ROyaIties received by authors, artists, composers and others cannot be classed as divi- dends and are subject to nominal tax as well as sur tax, Internal Revenue Commissioner Roper ruled today. Divi- cends are subject to taxes paid by the commissioner explained while royal ties constituting an expense of the paving concern aye subject to taxes levied on those benefiting for them.
Arizona republican., 1920-03-04
3 DIE IN TRAIN CRASH

ELIZABETH, N. J., March 3.-Two engineers and a fireman were killed and dozen persons were injured today when the Hampton express of the Central Railroad of New Jersey crashed into a work train at Eliza bethport and the engines blew up.
Arizona republican., 1920-03-04
sovlETs vlcroRs AT POLLS

LONDON, MATCH 3---The OfficiaI re- suits of the recent soviet elections at Moscow give the communists so per cent of the 1,461 deputies. according to wireless dispatch from the bol- shevilS capitol today. One hundred and twenty eight af the successful candidates belong to no party, the dis patch says