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Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-05-13

In the Republican presidential pref
erence primaries last year North Car
DINA went for Hiram Johnson. In the
Republican national convention Dele
gate David II. Blair refused to abide
by those instructions and voted for
Warren G. Harding. A few days ago
President Harding nominated Mr..
Blair for the important Office of COM
missioner of internal revenue and the
nomination came before the senate in
executive session. There was stormy
debate, the opposition being led by
Senator Johnson, who told of Blair's
action in the convention and asserted
that "a man who will violate his own
states laws is unfit to administer the
nations laws" A second objection
made by johnson was connected with
tax returns. He said: "Mr. BlaIl's ia
ther-n-law Is one of the richest men In
North Carolina and he sought, by
forming partnership with his family,
to lessen the amount Of his income
tax" The nomination was referred
back to the senate finance committee,
which, on Saturday, began thorough
investigation of Johnson's charges.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-05-13

holding futile sessions trying to frame
new Offer and on Wednesday Chan
cellor Fehrenbach, Foreign Minister
Simons and their colleagues gave up
and resigned. At this writing 1t Is
understood Doctor Stresemann leader
Of the peoples party, will be chancel-
Tor, and DR.. Mayer-Kaufbeuren, German
ambassador to France, will be foreign
minister. The collapse of the German
cabinet had no effect on the plans Of
the allies.
The United States doubtless will
take no part in the military occupation
of the Ruhr district, but 1t may soon
be Il party to the enforcement Of the
reparati0ns terms. The supreme coun.
ell has invited President Harding to
name representatives in the council
and the reparatlons commission, and
there is reason to believe the invita-
ton will be accepted. The administra-
tlOn, II Is said in Washington, desires
TO participate In the work of the com
mission to promote American interest
In permanent settlement.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-05-13

The little republic of Panama is
going around with a chip on her shoul-
der and is talking back to Uncle Sam.
Secretary Hughes warned Panama
that unless she acts voluntarily in
reasonable time the United States will
take steps to compel her to transfer
Jurisdiction of the disputed Coto terri
tory to Costa RIGA and TO abide by the
White award. President Porras asserts
that Mr., Hughes note has not changed
the attitude Of Panama and that she
feels backed in her right In refusing
the White award" her position being
supported by the opinion of Doctor
Bustamente Of the University of Ha-
vana, an authority on international
law. Porras concludes:
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-05-13

Now that the senate has adopted the
Knox peace resolution, it Is up to some
one to devise our further procedure In
the matter Of restoring our relations
with Germany In the final debate on
the resolution Senator Lodge admitted
the Versailles treaty could not be so
amended as to meet the requirements
Of the United States, as President
Harding hoped, and that a new treaty
must be negotiated. This, of course,
is pleasing to the "lrreconcilables,"
who now believe the Versailles pact
never will be resubmitted to the SEN
ate. And, as has been said before In
this review. tits difficult to see how
that treaty can be separated from the
League Of Nations covenant. The sit
uation Is not satisfactory to the ma
jorlty of Americans, nor to. our assocl-
ates In the war. German ofiicIaldom
was glad to hear of the adoption of the
Knox resolution, though there is no
hope there of an early resumption of
diplomatic and commercial relations
with America.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-05-13

The senate passed the Dillingham;
immigration bill, which limits imml-
grafton to 3 per cent annually of per-
sons of various nationalities In the
United States in 1910 Only Reed of
Missouri voted In the negative. The
measure went to conference and 1t was
expected the house would accept the
senate bill and that 1t would be signed
by the President. 1t becomes effective
within fifteen days after enactment
and remains in force until June 80,
1922. The measure would permit the
landing in America of about $4,000
immigrants In the next twelve months.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-05-13

Enraged by reports that the allies
pleblsclte commission had recommend.
ed that only the Rybnik and Pless re-
gl0ns in Upper Sllesia be awarded to
Poland and that the rest of the terri
tory be given to Germany. some 10000
Poles, well organized and armed, in
vaded Upper Silesla, seized number
of important cities, cut the communi-
cations with Germany and at latest
reports were advancing on Oppeln,
north Of the Oder river. The French,
British and Italian control officers and
their small bodies of troops were un-
able to cope with the situation and
the whole region was overrun, the
peasants there siding with the Polish
invaders, At Gross Strehltz Italian
forces commanded by Colonel Bond,
an Englishman, resisted the Poles who
sought to occupy the city and an artil-
lery engagement ensued.
The German government, of course,
iWlhuhs piOtNoltu uSuIhSl llilS ultlou
of the Poles to the allied governments,
and the latter took immediate steps to
regain control of the situation, declar-
ing martial law In the pleblscte zone
and sending troops against the in
vaders. 1t was admitted that it would
be hard to GUST the Poles, and the al
legged fact thai their course was tacitly
approved by the French authorities
there created considerable i'll feeling
between the British and the French.
Premier Briagd, however, asked Prince
Sapleha, Polish foreign minister, now
In Paris, to transmit to the Polish gov
eminent a request to end the disturb
ances In Upper Slesia. When the al
lied supreme council adjourned its
London session 1t was said 1t would
soon meet again In Ostend to take up
the Upper Sllesia question.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-05-13

President Harding won the first part
OF his fight for big navy, the naval
committee of the senate having re-
ported the navy bill with provisions
for funds not only for completing the
l9l6 building program but also for a
personnel 10000 In excess of the 100,-
900 proposed by the house. Besides
this, the committee refused to incor-
porate in the measure the proposal of
Senator Borah authorizing and re-
questng the President to invite Great
Britain and Japan to a disarmament
conference in Washington. Borah will
make fight for his amendment on the
iloor of the senate and Senator Pom
creme also has a similar amendment
which he will introduce.
The senate committee increased the
house total of S396,000,000 to S496, 5OO,-
0oo, or the same figure In the bill as 1t
failed In the senate last March.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-05-13

panama feels sure that the Ameri-
can government will cease Its endeav-
ors In recommending acceptance OF n
decision upon which public opinion al
ready has uttered its last word and
which has become. an adjudged mat
ter. Panama refused the White decl-
sion with the same right and for al
most the same reasons that the United
States government declined in 1881 to
accept the decision Of the king Of the
Netherlands in boundary litigation
with Great Britain"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-03
10000 Quit in
Job Printers'
44l-IIo11r Strike
Walk-Out Partly Effective
ALI Over u. S.; New York
One Of ESQ Cities That
Concede Shorter Week
Small Newspapers Suffer
Situation Serious in Many
Upstate Towns; Albany
Offices Lose 1000 Men

Printers walked out yesterday In
commercial printing shops scattered
from the Eastern Coast to San Fran
cisco and from Halifax, N. S., to New
Orleans in an effort to force reduc-
ton in working time from forty-eight
hours a week to forty-four. Incom-
plete reports last night indicated that
close to 10000 printers had quit work
under the authorization OF the Inter-
rational Typographical Union to the
local unions.
Strikes were averted, according to
international officials, in about Zoo
cities, where the employers had signed
forty -four-hour week contracts with
the printers.
Among these cities were New York,
Cincinnati, Milwaukee and Indianapolis:
In New York City, it was announced
by the Employing Printers League, the
forty -four-hour week has been granted
$4,000 printers employed In book and
Job printing plants. 1t will become
effective the second week in May. and
has been approved by Typographical
Union No. 6 (Big Six), so no trouble Il
expected. The wage question is still!
open in New York City, however, and
the wage arbitration board Is reported
to have agreed on recommending
wage reduction of IL per cent.
Men Urged to Keep Contracts
Leon H. Rouse, president of Big Six
appealed yesterday to every man to
stick to his job" saying.
eve must give the employers no peg
on which to hang charges that we are
not living up to our contract. No man
can say what will happen in the print
ing situation in the next two weeks
| Newspaper publishers generally are
not affected by the strike, as they OPP.
crate under separate agreement. but
| hundreds Of small newspapers through
out the country were crippled. White
| Plains was one of the New York towns
hit by the strike, and The White Plains
Reporter tho only daily newspaper there
! appeared in greatly reduced size. Re-
porters worked as compositors to gel
the paper to press, after they had gath
! cred and written their news. Printers
| in White Plains demand more money
and shorter hours. Newspaper offices
were tied up as we'll in Lancaster and
Glens Falls. One Glens Falls paper
however, used electrotypcs made b,
photographing typewriter copy and
succeeded in issuing it's edition.
Upstate Districts Affected
The situation is more serious in
northern and eastern New York State
and 1900 men are affected in Albany
with others out in other northern cities
Men we've out on strike also in Niagara
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-03
Cre,os Of Three Steamers
Go Out at Baltimore
10 Vessels Get A,uay ahead
Of Wnlk Out; Police Hold
Reserves on Water Front

oVcCNL LtSpQtcIt co 4 ne 1Tt0unU
BALTIMORE, May Crews of
three steamships, the Western King
and West Celeron, of the Baltimore
Steamship Company, and the Sudbury,
OF the United American Line, walked
out to-day. Seamen's representatives
informed Shipping Commissioner Kir-
win that no sailors would leave this
port unless under articles based on the
1920 wage scale, and that the men re-
fuse to accept the joker rider. Police
reserves are held at stations near piers
to guard against trouble.
strikers arrested at Curtis Bay piers.
warned them that they would be pun,
ished to the full extent of the law If
they were guilty of disorder or violence.
Sixteen vessels, which were hurriedly
loaded in order to avoid strike diff
culties, cleared on Saturday and had
passed through the Capes this morning.
Since then there has been no outward
foreign movement ON Chesapeake Bay,
The Export Transportation Company,
which operates about fifteen United
States Shipping Board vessels out of
Baltimore, has only the steamship
Capulin in port. The Capulin recently
towed the disable steamer Coquitt 800
miles into Norfolk.
The new steamer Buckeye State, one
Of the largest built on the Atlantic
Coast, is due to start on her maiden
trip next Saturday to Hawaii, via San
| Francisco. She has booked ninety pas.
sengers, but as yet has not signed UP
4 q crew. Captain John Diggs said that
she would sail if she had to be manned
| by naval reserves.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-03
Chicago Yards Keep Cattle
Moving as Handlers Strike

CHICAGO, May 2.--Dcspite the
strike Of 1900 union livestock handlers
at the stock yards to-day there was no
halt in the stream Of cattle, hogs and
sheep moving to the slaughtering pens.
The yards provided 200 non-union
workers, many Of the officials rolled up
their sleeves and aided in the move
ment, and with nearly every one of
the 1900 carloads Of all kinds re-
ccived, the shipper sent sufficient men
to do the unloading.
union tonight declared, however, that
they would tie-up activities tomorrow.
Members Of the carpenters union
Joined the walk-out to-day and other
unions have the question under con-
sideration. The workers are obiecting
to proposed wage reduction Of eight
cents an hour.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-03
Shipping Board Vessels
Tied Up in Oregon
Private Graft, Hosoever, Haze
No Trouble Leaning Portland
H0ybor With Com DEefe Cre,gs

Srecid Dispctch to The ir,fosnc
PORTLAND, Ore, May 2.-The Ship
ping Board vessels are tied up here by
the marine strike, but private vessels
have experienced no trouble in leaving
the harbor with full crews. The YES
sells tied up are the Eastern Guide,
with cargo Of grain for Europe, and
the West Ivan and Pawlet, scheduled
for departure to the Orient.
A fourth vessel the West Himera,
has been delayed, but it was announced
late to-day that she had completed
signing. up non-union crew and would
Italy with a cargo Of grain.
No trouble has occurred when non
union men are taken on the different
ships. The three Shipping Board boats
that are detained have managed to get
part crews, and Ames w. Critchton,
district agent of the division Of op-
erations of the Shipping Board, said
to-day that 1t is possible to complete
the crews and get the boats away with
in the next few days
The unions are maintaining q vigi-
liant watch along the waterfront, and
Lieutenant Harold C. Jones, head OF
the local sea service, reported that his
movements in signing up non-unior
men nave constantly Decn checked.
There has been no difficulty in OBJ
tanning ordinary seamen, but practi
cally all marine engineers at THIS port
are union members. The fact thai
| few of the privately owned ships op
Grating out Of Portland signed on theiI
crews here, it is believed, will NEAR
that but few such vessels will be tiet
up, no matter how widespread tn,
strike may become. Officers and mel
signed for the entire voyage, and the,
cannot leave suddenly without layini
themselves open to the charge of de
! sertion.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-03

Motorcycle bandits, said to BIO oper-
ating extensively in suburban and up
state districts, were encountered last
Saturday near Mount Kisco by an auto
mobile party Of city officials from the
Department Of Finance. The story Of
the attempted hold-up on lonely road,
and the quick dash for safety by the
party under fire of two highwaymen,
was brought back yesterday by Charles
F. Kcrrigan, secretary Of the depart
ment
Mr.. Kcrrigan, accompanied by former
Lieutenant Colonel r. j. Moynahan, OF
the old Goth Regiment, collector Of
city revenue in the Oomptroller's Office;
II. T.. Rim, real estate appraiser;
Walter O'Neil. special investigator,
and William O'Neil, chauffeur, all from
the Finance Department, we're on their
way Saturday to Mount Kisco to attend
a public auction sale OF some city
owned property in that town.
A short distance this side of Mount
Kisco, according to Mr.. Kerrigan, as
their car was rounding sharp curve,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-03
600 at San Francisco
Strike, but S Ships Sail
Fourteen VesseIs, 9 Shipping
Board Graft, Tied Up; Union
Men DENY Benson Statement

Special OfGpdtch to inc IftcEne
SAN FRANCISCO, May 2.-Five yes
sells cleared from San Francisco to-day,
as against seven last week, indicating
that the maritime strike here is not yet
ir full swing.
The Master, Mates and Pilots Asso-
citation Of the Pacific Coast, in tele-.
gram to Admiral Benson, chairman of
the Shipping Board, to-day took Ben
son to task for his reported state
ments that the board had taken con-
ciliatory view Of the marine wage Dues
ton. Tho association, with member
ship of 1900, denied it had been given
an opportunity to negotiate, although
conference was requested several weeks
ago.
With the ship owners and the Ship
ping Board preparing to send the ships
in the harbor to sea with new crews and
the marine workers unions claiming
that none of their members would sign
on vessels Offering wage reduction,
shipping in San Francisco harbor was
sonly partially tied up to-day.
Four Shipping Board vessels were
tied up here. The crews Of these YES
sells walked out at midnight on Satur-
day. Captain j. W. Jorys, supervisor
of the sea service bureau, said the
board could furnish all men needed.
IL was SAlu tlldJ many VI VIC iAAoA - y
engineers would refuse to obey the
orders of the union.
An entire new crew was being re-
cruited to take the place of the men
who refused to sign articles to sail en-
the Shipping Board vessel Eastern
Sailor, which is due to leave to-day
for Puget Sound. From 500 to 600
men quit fourteen ships here to-day.
Nine Of the vessels belong to the Ship
ping Board. The only American vessel
sailing scheduled for to-day was that
of the Admiral Evans, whose crew was
signed before May !.
The Los Angeles Steamship Company
announced that the steamer Yale would
sail to-day from San Pedro on it's
initial trip to San Francisco to in
augurate the new service between these
points.
The Southern Pacific Railroad an
nounced that it's steamer line between
New Orleans and New York, comprising
seventeen freighters, FIVE passenger
ships aud two tankers, was in opera
ffOn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-03
n. Y. City Officials Speed Away
Amid Highwaymen's Fusillade

two men lcaped from behind 4 large
bowider, f!ourishing what Mr.. KerriEan
observed were "ugly looking automat-
les" and shouted to the party to stop
and put up their hands. !.
II took in the situation at glance,
said Mr.. Kerrigan, land told Bill, the
chauffeur, to go to it. Bill stepped on
the gas, and we shot from forty miles
an hour to seventy. Nobody was hit by
the reckless shooting Of the bandits.
We saw them drag up couple Of mo,
torcycles from the side Of the road and
speed away, but not in the direction to
give chase to our carr
Upon arriving at Mount Kisco the
members Of the party related their ex-
perience to the local police officials and
various citizens. Mr.. Kerrigan declared
that no one seemed surprised or much
interested, and theirs were no volun-
teers for a posse to chase the bandits.
"sThat's nothing one Of the Oldest
residents remarked Mr.. Kerrigan said.
Motorcycle bandits are SO common IN
these parts nowadays that automobile
parties are getting used to them
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-03
Dauis Hopes TO Settle
Ship Strike By Himself
From rhe J~iDansss Waskinoton Bxyeo

tt&ftlHQBc1 l10f&QN
WASHINGTON, May Ait is un-l
likely that President Harding will be
asked to name mediation commission
to adjust the marine workers strike.
Secretary Of Labor Davis expects to
hold final conference with represent
tatives Of both sides tomorrow, when
an effort will be made 80 settle all
grievances. Tho Presidents attitude
that the proposed strike should not be
allowed to come to the White House
has been reflected in the labor groups,
who, in their recent conferences with
the Cabinet chiefs, indicated desire to
adjust their differences without re-
course to q commission to be named
by the President.
Secretary Of Labor Davis said to-
day that he was working on the new
wage scale put into effect Saturday by
Admiral Benson, of the Shipping Board.
AT the White House 1t was stated that
the President would not name COM
mission until he was assured that the
ship owners as we'll as tho marine
workers would abide by the decision Of
such q commission. Secretary Hoover
said to-day that the government hoped
to find some solution for the marine
labor difficulty. "Nothing will bring
greater difficulty to America CONNER
cially than long continued shipping
strike," he said.
Traffic would be backed up on the
railroads, export contracts would be
broken, unemployment in other lines of
industry would be created and the
strike would come at a time when the
country could least afford it."
Secretary Davis is studying, in ad-
dition to Admiral Benson's latest wage
cut, the prc-war wages paid marine
workers, and also the war scale.
Secretary Davis said to-day that
should a commission be named and
come to decision in regard to wages,
accepted by both sides, it would be
retroactive. A final conference will be
held by the Secretary tomorrow before
| the labor chief will ask the President
! to name a commission Secretary Davis
is confident of adjusting the strike
! without the aid Of the President. He
feels as the President does about the
situation, that 1t is up to the Labor
Department to do all in its power be-
| fore seeking the intervention Of the
| White House. The President is de-
termined to dissuade persons and
parties with labor grievances from con-
veying their troubles to the White
House without first consulting the
Labor Department and other govern
| ment agencies involved. The strike has
not yet affected the shipment of fruit
J and vegetables from the Pacific Coast
through the canal, 1t was learned here
| to-day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-03

many of the marine workers were not
actually in favor of striking.
AS seen through the eyes Of the vari-
Gus unions the situation is entirely
different. The Marine Engineers Benc-
fetal Association to-day instructed it's
delegates to call out all ship engineers
Similar Instructions were issued to
members of the Eastern and Gulf
Sailors associations, Masters, Mates
and Pilots Union, tho Firemen's Oilers
and Water Tenders Union and the
Cooks and Stewards Union. Accord
ing to statements by the heads of the
various organizations, approximately
2,700 marine workers are "locked out"
tonight" said Frank Libby, business
manager of the Firemen's, Oilers and
Water Tenders Union, to-day.
1--WE have about 1900 members of
this union now in the stream or at the
docks and by morning we will have all
our men off the vessels"
John P. Dukes, business manager Of
the Marine Engineers Beneficial As
sociation, declared more than 700
MEMBERS of that organization had
Joined the ranks Of their protesting
mates early this evening. Estimates
by the heads of other marine workers
unions were that no less than 800 of
their members will have left their ships
by tomorrow morning.
II don't know anything about the
claims Of the union leaders, but as yet
the strike, which is said to be in full
sway, has not affected any Of the Ship
ping Board vessels in this port" said
Captain ]. E. Gately, in charge of the
division of operations Of the United
States Shipping Board here.
There are only few of our YES
sells now IN the river, and as they are
not loaded they will not be affected"
According to the records of customs
officials not few vessels are either
loaded or being loaded and are ready
to sail. Only two seagoing ships sailed
from this port yesterday, and but two
others cleared. The test Of the strength
Of the strikes backbone" will be to-
morrow and Wednesday, according to
ship owners, and the result will be
shown by the number of vessels leav-
ing the harbor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-03
Falls, Jamestown, Buffalo, Gloversville

Falls, jamestown, Buffalo, Gloversville
and Auburn.
Many printing Offices in various
towns and cities Of Massachusetts, and
Connecticut were seriously affected
and several publications were tied up.
Chicago was hard hit and between
four and FIVE thousand union printers
were reported out. More than 1000
men were out in Cleveland; 1000 In
Pittsburgh. 400 in Baltimore, 200 in
of the uniea printers in Philadelphia.
Two hundred men have struck in New
New Orleans, 1900 in St. Louis, 725
in Denver and 400 in San Francisco.
Kansas City escaped a printers
strike, the employees there deciding
to stay at work pending arbitration.