Omaha daily bee., 1920-06-07
Disclosure of Plank to Curb
Wa|kouts in Tentative Plat
form Of Republicans EnIiv-
ems Proceedings at Chicago.
BUTLER RE|TERATEs
CHALLENGE ON LEAGUE
Renews Offer to Johnson and
Borah for Showdown Over
IrreconCiIabIe Attitude
Towards Covenant.
BY GRAFTON WILCOX.
Chicago Tribune Omaha Bee Leased Wire.

chicago Tribune-Omahn bee Leased Wire.
Chicago, June 6.-Republican con-
vention proceedings were enlivened
today by the injection of a new issue
into the platform deliberations.
President Wilson's defiance of con-
gress to strip him of autocratic war
powers, disclosed that the tentative
platform includes plank for gov
ernment curbing of strikes which is
certain to provoke desperate opposi-
ton from labor. Continued efforts
of party leaders to reconcile all ele-
ments to the tentative league of ma
tions plank, and revival of the fight
against Senator Watson of Indiana,
for chairman of the resolutions COM
mittee, also enlivened the prelimi-
naries.
DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler, New
York's candidate for the presidential.
nomination, reiterated last night his
challenge to Senators Johnson and
Borah for fight over their irrecon-
cilable attitude toward the league of
nations, but at the same time de-
clared that, the league would by no
means be regarded as the prime
issue of the campaign. The high
cost of living and economic prob
lens before the country, he said.
must be given careful attention by
the party in its declaration of prin-
ciples,l and the presidents retention
of war powers through his veto Of
the repeal resolution, he insisted,
must also be given attention.
Makes New Issue.
"President Wilson has made
new issue" said DR.. Butler, (which
the republican party cannot afford
to ignore. His defiance of congress
in its effort to take away from the
executive powers of an autocrat
which were granted him in war,
must not be ignored. The presi-
dents action is a culmiRation of a
long series of congressional def
arces by the chief executive which
this convention must consider"
That the tentative platform franz
ers had completed an anti-strike
plank with teeth in it had not been
generally known until last night.
This resolution is certain to start
the fur flying when it reaches the
resolutions committee, and will
send the labor leaders scurrying
toward Chicago from their conven-
ton in Montreal. q
The antistrike clause deals pri-
niarily with settlement of transpor-
tation industrial disputes and is said
to go even farther than the indus
trial court proposal urged by Gov
ernor Allen of Kansas. 1t cites
fcrcibly that strikes which interfere
with traffic and are fatal to peace
full industries should be restrained
by government means, recommends
the creation of an industrial rela-
tons court, patterned after the la
Dor war board, but would create a
court with a punch in it and with
power tosenforce its DEGREES through
application of the commercial law
and authority to protect employees
at their work.
No Changes in Plank.
The arrival of Senator Lodge,
leader of the senate league reserva-
tionists: Senator Borah. the treaty
irreconcilable. and others interested.
primarily in the treaty issue did not
serve to clear up the differences over
the peace treaty, although party
leaders wereled to believe that cont
ferences which began mmediatelJ
would result in final acceptance bg
all factions of the tentative league
plank. which would leave the candi-
date to be nominated to give it his
own Interpretation. No changes
were made in the league plank by
the preliminary trainers during the
day. 1t stands where it was, re-
pudiating the Wilsonian league.
commenting the senate for its,
course in rejecting the peace treaty..
urging establishment of an indus
trial court for adjudication of jus
ticiable disputes and reaffrming the
policies of Washington and Monroe
III international relations.
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