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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-05
Patrolman Swings His
Night Stick ON Chief
Brandishing Club, He Charges
Jersey City Official Interfered
i'm His Family Affairs

conference Of police inspectors and
precinct captains with Chief of Police
Richard T. Battersby of Jersey City in
Police Headquarters, that city, yester-
day afternoon became scene of wild
disorder, when Patrolman Edward
Burke, attached to the First Precinct,
rushed into the room brandishine his
nightstick over the chiefs head and
threatening to kill him.
Three police captains grappled with
Burke. He was overpowered after a
struggle and taken to basement cell.
where he was placed under suspension
and arrested.
According to other policemen Burke's
complaint against Chief Battersby was
that he interfered in Burkes "family
affairs" Discussing Burke's behavior,
the chief said he received complaint
some time ago from John Moran,
eighty-one years old, a relative Of
burke. to the effect that he recently
went to live with Burke and his wife at
298 Bartholdi Avenue, and drew from a
bank $1,000, giving the money to Mrs.
Burke for investment in mortgage.
Moran said he had not received the
mortgage and had nothing to show for
his money. Chief Battersby said he
sent for Mrs. Burke, who visited Police
Headquarters yesterday with two
women relatives.
Burke and his wife say thew refused
to discuss the matter Of Mora.,'s money
with Chief Battersby on advice Of their
attorney.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-05
La Toilette Calls Reeds
Triumph Peoples Victory

MADISON, Wis, Aug. 4.-The nomi-
nation of Senator James A. Reed, in
Missouri "is another significant VIC
tory for the people" said Robert M.
La Toilette, senior Senator from Wis
consin, in statement to-day. "It re-
fleets the resentment of the voters
against party bosses and party
domination" he added.
Zone of the important issues in the
Reed campaign" continued Mr.. La
Toilette, twas his stand for the repeal
Of the radical amendment of the Esch-
Cummins law. His denomination is
another indication of the hostility of
the people toward this special class
legislation for the benefit of the rail-
road corporations.
"The four-power pact was bitterly
OF posed by Senator Reed, and his
stand upon this treaty was used by
his opponents as an issue against
him. 1t is only fair to say that his
victory is a registration Of the peoples
adherence to the traditional policy of
Washington against entering into en-
tangling alliances with foreign coun-
tries"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-05
Wage Compromise Ends
Chicago Traction Strike


CHICAGO, Aug. A. Chicago's trac-
ton strike was settled this evening,
when the company agreed to pay the
men 70 cents an hour, with an eight
hour day. The union chiefs accepted
on behalf of the men. The propo-
sition must go to referendum vote,
but this is considered formality and
is now in progress. 1t is said the
surface and elevated cars will all be-
gin running Monday morning at d
o'clock. The men had been getting 80
cents an hour and the company pro
posed to cut them to IS cents an
hour.
The settlement came on The eve of
what promised to be a day of many
activities. The State Industrial Com
mission and the City Council we're to
meet tomorrow and take up the mat
ter. Mayor Thompson had arranged
for a fleet Of sixty auto busses to start
service Monday. Various citizens
bodies were preparing drastic action
and professional strikebreakers were
arriving on every train. In the midst
of it all the company and union of
ficials agreed the strike had gone far
enough and quickly struck a bargain.
The information was speedily dis
selninated throughout the city by the
blowing of whistles, the screeching of
fireboat sirens, the squawking Of
thousands of automobile horns and a
system Of fireworks signals from the
municipal pier.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-05
Strikers Hurl Gas Bombs;
u. S. Marshal Overcome
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

LINCOLN, Neb., Aug. Railroad
strikers to-day resorted to gas bombs
in their fight to prevent strikebreakers
from entering the Burlington Railroad
shops in this city. United States Mar
shall McClung and Earl Hanning and
II. G. Stewart, railroad guards, were
overcome by the fumes. None of the
three was seriously injured.
Earlier in the day the home of Louis
Brill, who had refused to join the
strike, was attacked with bombs and
Mrs. Brill and other members of the
family were made ill. Several other
attacks on the homes of strikebreakers
were made last nimht and this morning.
The gas bombs were use during an
attack made by fortd or fifty strikers
on group of strikebreakers being
taken into the shop. The police fought
them off for while, and then called
upon the United States Marshal for as
sistance. When McClung reached the
scene a gas bomb was thrown into his
car
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-05
Spencer Proposes a NeW
u, s. Cancellation Court
You'd Consist Of Three Judges
Named by Harding to Act if
The Dis putGnts Fail TO Agree

WASHINGTON, Aug. "A plan for
settlement of disputes between employ
ers and employees through new Fed
eral court Of Cancellation was presented
iri%a bill introduced to-day by Senator
Spencer, Republican, of Missouri. The
court would consist of three judges ap-
pointed by the President, with the ap-
prevail of the Senate, and would take
jurisdiction in disputes after efforts of
employers and employees to adjust diff
ferences had failed. either on it's own
motion. or upon application of either
side Orders or DEGREES of the court
would be subject to appeal to the Fed
eral courts of appeal and finally to the
Supreme Court.
Senator Spencer, in am explanatory
statement, said:
when industrial disputes reach q
point where every voluntary effort to
settle the difficulty has proved unavail-
ing and the extent and character of the
controversy is such as to endanger the
general welfare of the country there
should be and there must be some i'm
partial government agency to promptly
and finally determine such Disputes
The bill was referred to the Ju-
dietary Committee.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-05
photographers Head Says
Situation Is Delicate
Insists Men DO Not Wish to Call
Sympathy Strike, but Do
Want to Back the ShODnen

ST. LOUIS, Aug. (By The sAssoci-
ated Press).-E. L. Manion, president
of the Railway Telegraphers, who yes
terday sent a letter to the heads Of
railroad unions that are not on strike
proposing a conference "to consider
strike developments and possible &C
tion," explained to-day that the situa-
ton was delicate. He insisted that the
men did not wish to call strike in
sympathy with the 100000 idle shop
men, but they did want to go to the end
with the strikers
"The purpose of the suggestion is to
have consultation among the presi-
dents of the railroad unions" Mr. Man
| ion said, with the idea of solving the
present predicament in which the men
not on strike find themselves.
THE primary consideration is, then,
the involving of the men in the work
of the strikers, the men being asked
to do work formerly done by the shop
men. This, of course, they cannot do.
Another grievance is the treatment
the men are receiving from the guards
at the shops, who interfere with their
free passage to and from work daily.
This has proved annoying and results
in growth of feeling against the rail-
roads"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-05
Brooklyn Moose
Asked to Support
Hearst Campaign
Caravan Partly Confirms
Colgan's Charge That He
Was Dropped Because Of
Refusal TO Aid PubIishe,

The charge of George A. Colpss
friend and supporter Of ex-Goyerns,
Alfred e. Smith for Governor, thar hs
was dismissed as Deputy Commissioner
of Markets because he refused to cam.
paign among the Elks for William Fsr.
dolph Hearst and Mayor Hylan, was
partly confirmed yesterday by William
Garvan, Dictator Of Brooklyn Lodge No.
IA, Order Of Moose
Mr.. Colgan charged that he had bean
asked by Francis P. Bent, the MAYORS
right hand man, TO organize the Elts
for the Hearst Hylan political machine,
and further, that Mr.. Bent informed
him that similar efforts to organize the
Catholics through the Knights Of Co.
lumbus were being made and that the
Hearst-Hylen organizers would seek 10
organize the Catholics through the
Masons, the Moose and other non.re-
ligious fraternal organizations.
Mr.. Garvan. who il one Of the most
prominent members Of the Moose In
this part of the country, said that net
only had he heard that an attempt was
being made by Mayor HyIan and his
friends to win converts to the Hylal.
Hearst cause in his order but that he
personally had been asked 10 work on
behalf of the editor politician.
"The ORDER" said Mr.. Garvan, wifi
never tolerate any such thing. They
are circulating a report that Mayor
Hylan once Joined lodge of Moose in
Woodhaven, but | have been unable to
find any record of his joining. Even II
he did it would not help him, to ssy
the least, if he sought to make polit-
ical capital out of it.
81 have heard that one of the minor
officers of the Brooklyn Lodge Of
Moose-my own lodge-had been asked
to see what he could do among the
il Mr. Hearst or Mr.. Hylan
were nominated. / am making a thor
ough investigation OF the whole matter,
Further, we shall make formal request
of our members not 10 be Influenced
by any such appeals.
"Our order includes members who
many political and religious
beliefs, and any attempt to inject re-
ligion or politics into it would not Do
tolerated for second"
Mr.. Caravan is q Democrat.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-05
Indiana Troops Fight
Night Shippers 2 Hours
Military Lines Extended Forty
Miles Into Coal Fields; Strik-
ere Refuse to Return TO Jobs
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

Specfdt OtSDQtch to The Tribune
STANTON, Ind, Aug. 4-Indiana
National Guardsmen in the coal fields
here to-day were on their toes fol-
lowing a skirlnish shortly after last
midnight between troops about
quarter of a mile west of here and
providers who fired on military out
post. No casualties were reported.
After the sniping there was almost con-
tinuous firing in various parts Of the
district for two hours.
The military lines to-day extended
about forty miles into four counties,
Clay, Owen, Green and Sullivan.
General Tyndall has sent strong
force to the mines in the vicinity of
Clay City and Jacksonville. The
move was taken by General Tyndall
because he feared the projected opera
ton of two strin mines belonging tn
tho Rowland Consolidated Golfers
Company near Stanton would result
in retaliatory measures being taken by
striking miners in other fields.
1t was said that no attempt would
be made to operate mines in the new
ly occupied territory. The move is to
protect property.
Attempt to open strip mines Nos. 8
and 8, by inducing former employees,
Gil oHioH iiiSi|y " WOIk Ialleu. IL.
Rowland, superintendent, said he had
seen some of his employees but that
without exception they had refused to
return to work. All morning he and
his mine boss sat in an automobile
near Mine No. waiting for men to
return to work, btu only FIVE, none
Of them former workers and none
residents Of the neighborhood, ap-
piled.
Late in the afternoon sixth rode
in on bicycle and asked for work at
Stauntcn. The opinion is expressed
freely that the mines never will be
opened with Clay County labor.
Superintendent Rowland said the old
men. would be given until Friday in
which to come back to work and il
they did not take advantage Of the OPP
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-05
Menace of Rail
Strikes Spread
Averted Here
Walk-Oui of Clerks and
Freight Handlers on New
Haven Headed OFF by
Compromise With Road
Union Still Hopes for Aid
Loree Says Men Are Licked,
and It's Time TO Take
Story Off the FRS, Page

The most immediate danger of a
spread of the shipments strike to other
classes of railroad labor in this section
apparently was dispelled yesterday
when the New Haven reached tenn
porary agreement with it's clerks and
freight-Kandlers who are understood to
have voted overwhelmingly in favor OF
walk-out because of the recent Labor
Board rulings. The men agreed to take
no action on the strike ballot until fur
Their word was received from Chicago
as TO the reconsideration OF the wage
reduction which went into effect July
l. The company in turn Professionally
restored the vacations. the Saturday
half holiday and the sick pay allow
ances which prevailed at the beginning
of the year.
Strike Leaders Still Hopeful
The shipments leaders here. however,
continued to talk of the solidarity Of
railway labor and pointed hopefully to
the projected conference of twelve
railroad unions to consider possible
action, made doubly desirable, ac-
eoAuihs ~ tHe sGFlke commlttee,
by the solidarity shown by the carriers
in pooling mechanics to keep the
Southern coal lines from breaking
down. Company officials were too busy
telling of the ease with which they
were taking on this extra load to admit
that they took any particular interest
in the threatened labor combination
They declared that the shipments
wages rose under government control
so much faster than those of the train
men that the big Four" hardly were
likely to come to the assistance of the
repair forces. They added that there
tween the striking electricians and the
signalmen. and let it go at that.
The question of Federal intervention
still doomed so large in the minds of
both parties, however, that the ques-
tion of the possible spread of the
strike was submerged by mass Of
statements. The roads turned out more
statistics than on any preceding day
since July l to show that there was no
situation calling for government action
and that the situation is improving
more rapidly every day. The unions
came back with the charge that they
had documentary evidence that the
company statistics were deliberately
misleading and that the situation was
fast becoming dangerous.
Would Take 1t OFF First Page
L. F, Loree, chairman of the Eastern
presidents conference, took the lead
in minimizing the walk-out, declaring
emphatically that strike stories no
longer deserved q place on the first
page of the newspapers. He supported
his assertion on three grounds
In the first place, he declared, in the
peak year of 1920 the movement of
928,4l8 cars in the week ending July
q brought forth a report from the car
In, the corresponding week \during the
strike the loading of S61.124 cars left
4l7,OO0 idle and several thousand loco
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-05
Women Just Hound Him
cd ~, FInwers and Candy.
So Wife Seeks Divorce

CHICAGO, August "A Grand Rsp.
ids (Mich.l Beau Brummel, who is 30
alluring he out-sheiks the sheik OF ds..
ton, was described in divorce bill
filed here to-day by Mrs. Emily Stew
art Jones. of Chicago. against Benjsc
min c. Jones, a Grand Rapids msHa-
fscturer.
Women, the divorce bill says, Aoek
about him, eagerly listening to every
intonation of his voice when he ap.
pears in society; they send him love
notes, flowers and candy and beg to
hold his hand When he appears IN
the street, Mrs. Jones AYERS, strange
women whom he has never met stop
their automobiles TO watch him pass
and frequently order their chauffeurs
to follow him in order that they mar
invite him for a ride. The Grand Rap
ids manufacturer, his wife says, en-
joys the Hattery of the fair sex and
coasts Of his conquests.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-05
Harding Coal Pla,, Waits
On Cleueland Conference
Special Commission Not TO Be
,8Appointed Until the Result
OF Letuis Meeting Is Kno,pn

WASHINGTON. Aug. 4.-President
Harding probably will withhold ap-
pointment of special commission to
effect settlement of the coal strike
until after the conference in Cleveland
Monday of miners and operators from
the central competitive field, it was
indicated tonight in Administration
circles.
Considerable Importance was under
stood to be attached by the Admins
tration to the outcome of the Cleve-
land conference in relation to the ma
tional fuel situation, and it was
thought no move would be made by the
Federal government toward putting
an end to the controversy until the
outcome of the Cleveland conference
was made known.
Congressional participation in the
coal dispute also will await the results
Of the Cleveland meeting, officials be-
lieved. Senator Borah, Republican.
Idaho, saw the President to-day and
discussed his proposed bill to authorize
the Chief Executive to appoint a Fed
eral commission TO arD1trate the mine
disagreement. A decision was reached
not to introduce the measure into the
Senate until next week.
Meanwhile further steps toward in
suring coal distribution during the
emergency we're taken by the govern
fnent. Supplemental orders were issued
by the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion giving bituminous coal for house
hold uses and for manufacturers Of
food ard medicines priority status,
while the central distribution commit
tee completed the formation of it's
regional committees which are to begin
ON Monday to distribute the flow Of
coal from the various producing dis
tricts to consumers designated by the
Washington headquarters.
Current car loadings in the produc-
ing fields. according to telegraphic re-
ports gathered by the railroads, showed
some Improvement during the last few
days.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-05

motives in white lead. For this i'm
provement in conditions, despite the
walkout, Mr. Loree gave most of the
credit to the success of the executives
in retrieving the roads from The
"wretched condition In which the Di-
rector General returned them"
In the second place, he quoted Public
Service Commission figures to show
that in July, 1920, 20.5 per cent OF all
late and that available figures for the
same period this year indicate that the
average rose to only 21.4 per cent.
In the third place, he cited the
steadiness of railroad stocks this week,
declaring that they were affected
neither by the Washington dispatches
indicating that settlement was at
hand nor by the action of the execu-
tives here in rejecting the government
terms. This seemed to him proof that
the best business observers in the
country believed that the roads have
already won.
The Association of Railway Execu-
tives backed Mr.. Loree by announcing
that the total Of 1904 bad order loco
motives reported by the roads on July
is was less than the number at the
beginning of February, March, April,
May and June, and less than the aver
age for 1919, 1920 and 1921.
Strikers Assail Figures
The strike leaders pounced harn on
the executives figures for motive DOW
err July Is, producing apparent copies
of the reports of the association to
show that the totals Of sixteen roads
hardest hit by the strike are not those
of the date in question, for one reason
or another. Footnotes we're pointed out
IN each instance remarking previous
figure or previous figure used on ac-
count of strike"
Among the roads whose reports are
qualified in this way are the Boston e.
Maine, where a double strike is re-
ported; the Norfolk & Western, one of
the lines being assisted by the strong
Eastern carriers; the Baltimore & Ohio
and the Southern, which have offered
terms to their men, and the Delaware g.
Hudson, the Chicago & North Western
the Chicago. Minneapolis g. St. Paul
and the ST. Louis Southwestern.
I'm the case of some of these roads"
the union attack concludes, "the sub
stitution of old figures makes it ap-
pear that bad order cars have actually
decreased; in the case of others the
figures for the Immediately preceding
period are used, showing no change It
is entirely possible that if the correct
figures for those roads were known the
increase in bad order cars for the coun-
try as a whole would prove to be
double the amount claimed by the ex-
ecutives.'
Local reports from the carriers were
that all Lehigh Valley roundhouses are
now manned 100 per cent; that the
force at the Lackawanna back shop at
kingsland, N. j., is recruited up to 80
per cent of its normal strength; that
the pennsylvania moved record crop
OF Virginia and Delaware potatoes last
month without difficulty; that for three
been Oh. time, and, that there are actu-
ally twentysix less bad order cars on
the New Haven than at the outbreak
of the strike,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-05

There is not even the complication of
putting the men who remained faithful
ahead of the striking shopmen, since
the Southern has made practically no
attempt to operate it's shops, and there
fore has no such large percentage Of
loyal men as the Pennsylvania, for ex-
ample.
That the President personally has
made no further move to end the strike
was indicated at the White House.
Reports that T. De Witt Cuyler, of
the executives, and B. M. Jewell, of
the unions, had been summoned'to meet
him were denied, and it was intimated
the President has no present intention
of calling either of them here.
Attempts on the part of some of the
railroad executives to make it appear
that President Harding changed his
proposal on seniority between the time
it was submitted to Mr.. Cuyler last
week and in the letter to the execu-
tives Tuesday were branded at the
White House as spurious.
The exact statement of the three
proposals as submitted TO the execu-
tives was shown to Mr. Cuyler in writ
ing at the White House, it was ex-
planned. There was absolutely no mod
ification of the third proposal. There
was modification of the second, relat-
ing to withdrawal of lawsuits, but this
was explained fully in the Presidents
letter to Mr.. Jewell.
The President, it was said ac the
White House in answer to these re-
ports, never permits deception CT mis-
representation. Mr.. Harding, it was
emphasized, took every precaution, in
Guiding writing out the proposals in
advance, to insure that there would be
no misunderstanding by either side
The denial that there had been any
modification ends that phase of the
speculation as to why the executives
did not accept the Presidents sugges-
tions. The President and some Of his
Senatorial advisers were led to believe
by Mr.. Cuyler, it is said, that the plan
would be accepted by the executives.
Unanimous rejection of the third clause
in such circumstances came as a shock
to the Administration, as we'll as to
some Senators.
Cuyler Not Spokesman for All
The statement now makes it quite
clear that Mr.. Cuyler was not in posi-
ton to speak for all the executives.
He perhaps thought they might accept
under protest. But when the execu-
yves met III new L oTK the west was
heard from. When such roads as the
Great Northern, Northern Pacific,
Union Pacific, Santa Fe and others de-
clined to go back on their seniority
promises to faithful old employees and
new men there was nothing for the
meeting to do but reject the Presi
dents seniority proposal regardless of
what Mr.. Cuyler or any other executive
told the President on his individual re-
sponsibility.
The President was displeased at the
action of the executives, but he re-
allies they were free to make whatever
decision they considered to their best
interests and the best interests of the
roads. Voluntary mediation was offered
by the President. This having failed,
he does not feel there is any bar to
further action under the transporta-
ton act. In other words, the Labor
Board can go right ahead in its efforts
to end the strike.
President Harding and his Cabinet
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-05
Oklahoma Democrats TO
Get Another Chance

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Aug. A BY
The Associated Press].-The Demo
Gratis who were swept out of Congress
in the Republican landslide of 1920,
two others, whose aspirations to repre-
sent their districts in Washington were
cut off by the same avalanche, and
three Democrats who now hold seats
in Congress will enter the November
elections in Oklahoma, returns from
Tuesdays statewide primary indicated
tonight.
Manuel Herrick, Republican, of
Perry, was the only one OF the eight
present representatives from the, state
who appeared to have been defeated.