Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-06-07
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Of the steamship! Eastland at Chicago,
in 1915, with loss of S12 lives. With
in: the last ten Ssags R2Es 5R}H NY m;y9
lions of dollars Worth *of property de-.
stroyed by floods of American rivers.
The most memorable were: the
overflow of the Mississippi, in April,
dsafust5h dsas w{ 25 SS eos ee @5a 4S 'sf g.
pr6perty in scores of towns and cities
inTTI.ouisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas
andi Tennessee.
v5iIe gh 2SAssa 2 sss srRsstsa aa fPfs afs
beiug held for investigation as sus-
peSE in connection with the race riots
he4E Police Chief Gustafson an
noM Mcebs sthi2 a fnossn: lAndfaer syhtte!
man arrested bys State guar lar rdsnieif on
a Complaint of melting riot is sbstng;
held. Police officials refused to reveal
thefi names: of thet rtien. The thirty
whites, under arrest are alleged to
have been found plundering the de-
wasted negro district. About seventy
five. men, We're :salzsR iH5e custody the
last two days on Various charges, but
many of them have been released.
Chief Gustafs09 29 desGH SsSt drastic Ira tic
cord of, all property recovered" he
said, land as negroes identify their
belongings we will demand that they
swear to warrants foy the arrest OF the
vandals.. Prosecutions will follow"
Sympathy for Armenia in Ger
many, which was Turkeys ally in the
war, was responsible for the not guilty
verdict given Salomon. Teilerian,. the
self-confessed murderer of >ViZer
Taiaat Pasha. The most remarkable
feature of stfe, defenSe swasr the';read-
inga of Turlsis sh 1 orders for massccres.
One said: "'fhese Afmenfans are to
be&transported into eternity" Pro
fessor Leipius, !. a!renounced Oriental
scholar, testified that iDasmuch as IT
was the German custom to call all
sorts Of witnesses he would give his
views. Leipius recounted the Turkish
official orders of April 1915, signed by
Talaat and EnyeE Rasha, .for'the evac-
MeSopotamic desert. Later tele-
gram changed the direction. literally
into no where" The professor es-
tinated the Turks were responsible
for:millions of deaths by disease. star
walton and massacres.
With approximately $17,000,000 Of
the SSo,oVV,VVV luiiu alieiuS 'el,oi 'Su
and several Sections yet to be heard
from fen oTemsn 1saSsrs tn ts ns'sn cSupch s%1sS
South, believe the entire amount will
be:secured during the additional week
which has been allowed for. the solicit
tations: of funds tssasaiagzte a,state-
merit issued in NaShTilTe Saturday
night. Conferences leading in the
subscription are Alabama S600.000;
Central Texas, $474000; Florida $685.
SsS;,i;H ;Holston, .S6oT33T;'.rEtttle Rock,
$43O,725; North Alabama. s652,O00;'
North Carolina >SSS$, ,o15:S North Geor-
gia s525,00O;- .EpFti5 TeYaSf $4,000;
Northwest Texas aEBs als8s South Car
DINA $332,117: South Georgia. $751;
679' upper South Carolina, $3O6.664;
Virginia :. s1.001 IL s.. = Nestern North
Carolina S4630o0; West Virginia $685.
000., From last reports, the Eennessee
conference had pledged $3d5,7S1.
Practically 100000 operatives in
tho spinning and weaving sections OF
eeS eeSse aaaSaSStSf %Sfe ay Pa sG}SSn GtSae @T o
failure to reach hn agreement with the
Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers
association, overra proposed reduction
of 80 per cent. in wages. The COM
mittee which had been trying to ad-
just the wage dispute: on Friday an
nounced its failure to bring about an
. agreement. Therefore, all the cotton
mills closed with the termination OF
the old agreement. The employers
have made q concession. OF a 20 per
cent reduction instead of 30 per cent.
as: announced May II, but the onerh-
tives declined to agree to a cut OF
more than II II per cent. The oper-
atives declared q reduction OF 20 per
cent. would bring. their, standard OF
living below the ipie-w;tr scale and
that the present depression in the cot
ton cloth industry is only temporary
and largely due to the strike of the
coal miners, and other industrial cir
cumstances. The operatives an
nounced that they were willing to
accept the cut of 12 1-2 er.'cent IL
the mill owners would review the
wage scale three months from now.
- Charlotte, n. c., June 3: The chief
development of the day in connection
with the strike of approximately 9,ooo
textile workers at Charlotte and three
nearby points because of alleged
drastic" wage reductions was the an-
pcaslnce of representatives Of both the
employees and striking operatives OF
the Sarona mill here before the police
officials both sides asking for, pro
tection." Public Safety Commission
er Huncycutt instructed Chief of Police
Orr to give attentionEto the situation
at the Savona mill and TO arrest any
person ,Yiolating.the, law: 1t. was, an:
nounced that ambTa Police force would
he. on hand ori1orrGN-td-handle the
situation. Several fistic encounters
were reported at the mill carly. today
between strikers gathereRVn the out
side of the plants and workers enter.
ing the mill. "I'oacefu1. -picketlnG.
has been in effect at the mill since
Thursday morning. according to union
officials but represe ntItiNes or the
mill management told inc Spolice that
interference on the part OF members
of crowds gathered outside the mill
with workers entering and leaving the
plant was causing nigh Ply: tJlction i;,fn,! anu
the representatives OF the strikers
.countered with the charge that work
ers were going armed with pistols
and asked that all persolfs found about
premises be disarmcd by the police.
The Savona mill was the only one OIL
more than IL score affected by inc
strike Wednesday that WAS not closed.
Only part of the workers walked out
ano the mana cement announced later
that part of the strikers had returned.
Pueblo, Colorado suffered horrible
disaster last Trridny night and -Satllr-
day as the result OF ) flood in the