EXPELLED DIPLOMATS TO QUIT GREECE TODAY
Greek Crown Council Decides “in Principle” to Reject Allied Demand for Armaments.
LONDON, Nov. 21.—A request for delay until Saturday by the diplomatic representatives of the Central Empires, who were ordered by the Entente to leave Greece, has been refused, and all of them will leave Athens tomorrow morning, a dispatch to Reuter’s Telegram Company from Athens says.
An earlier dispatch from the same source, dated yesterday, read:
“The main discussion at this morning’s session of the Crown Council was regarding the refusal of the Austrian and German Ministers to accept Vice Admiral du Fournet’s notice to leave Greece and the attitude to be taken by King Constantine in the event of their demanding his protection.
“It is learned that Premier Briand of France, in a telegram to the King, suggested that in order to emerge from his present difficulties he seek a reconciliation with former Premier Venizelos and declare war on Bulgaria.”
Other advices say that the Crown Council has decided in principle to refuse to surrender the arms and munitions of Greece to the Allies, as demanded by Vice Admiral du Fournet, commander of the Allied fleet. King Constantine, on leaving the Palace after the meeting, was cheered by a crowd. It is understood that Premier Lambros will remain in power for the present.
It is learned that while the suggestion of Aristide Briand, the French Premier, that King Constantine recall former Premier Venizelos is meeting with opposition in Athens, sentiment in favor of the King accepting the other principal suggestion, namely, that he declare war on Bulgaria, is growing.
As the Lambros Cabinet is a purely service one, it is understood to be the opinion of the King that it should be replaced by a Cabinet representing at least the present Boule, (legislative assembly.) Therefore the resignation of the Ministry is under consideration, to be followed by a reorganized Kalogeropoulos Cabinet along lines informally suggested by the King to the Entente Powers on Sept. 21.
It is further understood that the King proposes to consult with the Entente Powers with a view to avoiding such a failure as occurred in the case of the Ministry under Premier Kalogeropoulos.
War Sentiment in Greece Growing.
ATHENS, Nov. 20, (via London, Nov. 21.)—This morning the Secretary of the American Legation, Sheldon Whitehouse, had a conference with the Turkish, Bulgarian, and Austrian Ministers with reference to the United States taking over the interests of their nationals. The Dutch minister will be charged with the care of the German interests.
According to information from the highest source furnished to The Associated Press, King Constantine does not object to the departure of the Ministers, but does not desire to be put into the position of refusing to afford them protection if they demand it.
NEW ALLIED DEMANDS PRESENTED TO SWISS
Berlin Hears Quantities of Food Are Being Held Up Pending Switzerland’s Compliance.
BERLIN, Nov. 21, (by Wireless to Sayville.)—It is reported from Switzerland that new demands have been presented to the Swiss Government by the Entente Powers. Swiss press dispatches, as quoted by the Overseas News Agency, say that large quantities of food and other supplies are being held up in Italian and French ports pending Switzerland’s compliance with the demands, which are characterized by the Bund of Berne as “something unheard of in the memory of man,” and as “treatment which no one can endure.”
After long negotiations with the Entente powers and Germany, Switzerland entered into arrangements for the importation of food supplies through allied territory, and of coal, iron and other materials from Germany. A dispatch from Berne on Nov. 13 said a new dispute had arisen regarding the exportation to Germany and Austria of products made by machines lubricated with oil coming from Entente countries, and of electric power transmitted by copper wire purchased in these countries.
GERARD ON GERMAN FUTURE.
Expects Committee to Do All Foreign Buying After War.
James W. Gerard, United States Ambassador to Germany, speaking last night at a dinner given in his honor by Frank A. Munsey in the ballroom of the Ritz-Carlton, predicted that Germany, to encourage her home industries after the war, would probably do all her foreign buying through a Central Committee.
“If we are to give in this country an hour-hour day, then we must give to the manufacturer and the laboring man some measure of protection against those countries in which the laboring men work ten hours and over and where many women work,” the Ambassador said.
“If our peace and prosperity is to continue,” he went on, “we must give permission for business men to combine for foreign trade. Probably in Germany no one after the war will be permitted to buy anywhere except in Germany. Probably a buying committee will be formed to do the buying.”
This system, he thought, would be in vogue in other European countries. It was of advantage, he said, in that it allowed the making of better bargains.
“I thank you for this reception,” he said, before taking his seat. “Your welcome has given me a new strength to go back to Germany to stand up not only for the political rights, but the commercial rights of the United States.”
WILL DENY FREEDOM TO GERMAN POLES
Prussian Diet Pledged to Keep Eastern Districts “Sacred and Inalienable.”
IGNORES POLISH PROTESTS
Government Carries Its Motion Against Catholic and Socialist Opposition.
LONDON, Nov. 21.—Before the Prussian Diet yesterday, Count Friedrich von Loebell, Minister of the Interior, said no part of Prussian Poland would be incorporated in the new Kingdom of Poland, Reuter’s Amsterdam correspondent cables. The Polish question was debated by the Diet, and Count von Loebell, the correspondent says, made the following declaration:
“The Government takes its part of the responsibility for this step of world-historical importance in the confident expectation it will be to the advantage of the German Empire by closely connecting the Polish State with the German Empire and with the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. We hope the German Empire’s safety will forever be secured against the east. It is unnecessary to say that every inch of ground in the eastern frontier districts of Prussia is sacred and inalienable. No Prussian can think otherwise.
“The Government confidently expects that Prussian Poles, without prejudice to the Polish national feeling, will live more and more up to their duties as Prussian citizens.”
The Minister promised for the period after the war reorganization laws concerning Prussian Poles, and said future decisions of the Government would be guided by good-will toward the Polish population.
Dr. Pachnicke said that the legal privileges which Prussians enjoyed could not be denied to Poles much longer; but “we expect from Prussian Poles close co-operation for the economic and policical prosperity of the State.”
Herr Shyczynski, a Polish member, said:
“The manifesto of the Emperors fills us with satisfaction because it acknowledges in principle the right of Polish people to be an independent State; but there still is much apprehension that only a portion of the Polish people will have national freedom, and that only nominally, according to the wishes of those submitting the motion that so many restrictions should be imposed upon the Poles in military, economic, and political affairs that their free independence would be only a pretense.”
Herr Stroebel, Socialist, said:
“We also are for liberation of the Poles, but for their self-liberation without foreign assistance. It is desired to hold the Poles firmly in hand. Such liberation means nothing but annexation. The Poles fear the new State will fill gaps in our army.”
Count von Loebell, the dispatch continues, said he would degrade himself if he answered the last speaker, adding: “It is disgraceful in such a Parliament that such speeches should be made.”
A motion of the Conservative, Independent-Conservative and National Liberal members requesting guarantees that no portion of Prussian Poland would be incorporated in the future Kingdom of Poland was adopted by a vote of 180 to 104. The Center, the Poles, the Progressives, the Socialists, and the Danes voted in the minority.
PARIS, Nov. 21.—The Swiss Government has decided not to recognize the newly created Kingdom of Poland, according to a Swiss dispatch to the Radio Agency. The dispatch adds that the decision will not, however, be made public until after the war.
BRITISH POTATO CENSUS.
All Growers Ordered to Report on Stocks and Contracts.
LONDON, Nov. 21.—The Board of Trade has issued an order requiring all persons cultivating more than ten acres of in the kingdom to make a return of their potato stocks and contracts by Dec. 7.
Tanks Now Pictured In London.
LONDON, Wednesday, Nov. 22.—Notwithstanding David Lloyd George’s announcement in the House of Commons yesterday, in reply to a question, that the publication of photographs of British “tanks” in this country had been prohibited at the request of those responsible for the production and use of the machines. The Daily Mirror this morning prints three photographs of “tanks” in action. These are the first photographs of these machines published in a British newspaper. Mr. Lloyd George told his questioner that those published in America were “absolutely no resemblance to the actual machines.”
NEW GIANT GUNS FOR NAVY.
16-Inch Type of 50-Calibre to be Tried for Battleships.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.—Battleships authorized this year will carry the most powerful guns of which the navy has any authentic information. Rear Admiral Strauss, Chief of Ordnance, told the House Naval Committee today he expected to complete and prove a sixteen-inch 50-calibre gun early next year.
“We have a very good sixteen-inch 45-calibre gun,” he said, “but the 50-calibre weapon will be the largest gun in the world of which we have any authentic information. We wish to build and prove the new gun, however, before adopting it for new ships.”
Four battleships, bids for which soon will be awarded by the Navy Department, will each carry eight sixteen-inch 45-calibre guns. The three ships Congress is expected to authorize this Winter will each carry twelve sixteen-inch 50-calibre guns if the department’s hopes are carried out. Admiral Strauss said of the 50-calibre gun would weigh 128 tons as against 100 tons for the 45-calibre weapon, and would have greater penetrating force and range.
The forgings for the trial 50-calibre gun already have been ordered, and it will be manufactured at the naval gun factory here.
RIFLE CONTRACTS GIVEN UP.
Action by Remington and Midvale Companies Reported.
Special to The New York Times.PHILADELPHIA, Penn., Nov. 21.—It was reported here today that the Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company virtually had relinquished its $60,000,000 army rifle contract, and that under an arrangement somewhat similar to that by which the British and Russian commissions took over the Russian shell contract from the Eddystone Ammunition Company, the British commission now has taken up the Remington Arms Company contract, which covered 2,000,000 Enfield rifles.
In both these contracts the Baldwin Locomotive Works had an interest in the way of royalties, and to get the huge buildings constructed under improvement lease arrangements on its Eddystone property. It is said that the British commission reimburses the Midvale to the full extent of cash, up to perhaps $10,000,000, which has gone into the Remington Arms operation.
There is another part of the agreement, it is understood, by which the Midvale is to get a specified profit on all rifles above 1,000,000 which may be manufactured at the Remington plant during the remainder of the war or such time as the plant shall be held under control of the British commission.
PREPARING TO COMBAT WORLD TRADE WAR
Washington Officials Believe Such a Struggle Is Brewing and Hope to Forestall It.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.—The prospective European commercial war after the war is being watched carefully by Consular officers abroad, and reports are being received regularly from many sources. All available facts are being sent to Washington. It is believed here that the country faces a serious economic danger unless it adopts means to forestall a war on its foreign trade. Legislation will be sought in Congress.
Reports to the departments vary widely in their interpretation of probabilities abroad. Some say that personal hatred among the masses may result in practical boycotts against goods from countries now hostile. Doubt is expressed, however, as to whether an actual trade war, as proposed by the London Chamber of Commerce, with different tariffs for colonies, allies, friendly neutrals, and enemies, will be decreed by official act.
Reports from investigators who have recently returned from Europe show that in England the “England first” campaign has been directed very largely against American goods. In Germany some of the largest companies are putting out advertisements decrying the purchase of American goods.
KING'S EMPLOYES TO COLORS
George V. Orders All Unmarried Men on Staff to Join Army.
Special Cable to The New York Times.LONDON, Wednesday, Nov. 22—The Times understands that the King has given orders that every unmarried man of military age in his household establishments at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, Balmoral, and Sandringham, no matter of what nature his employment, is to report himself to the military authorities for service with the colors.
From the outset of the war, adds The Times, the King set an example where military service was concerned. When war was declared he allowed as many men as could then be spared to go to the front, continuing their full pay.
LABOR ARMIES JOIN FOR RAILROAD FIGHT
Federationists Cheer Brotherhood Men and Leaders Prepare for Future Co-operation.
8-HOUR DAY THE GOAL
“Must Hang Together or Separately,” Lee Declares—Gompers Warns Men of Wealth.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 21.—Efforts to effect an affiliation between the American Federation of Labor and the four big railroad brotherhoods received a decided impetus today, when the federation convention here enthusiastically received speeches by the representatives of the brotherhoods and President Gompers of the federation favoring such action.
Encouraged by the friendly reception of the plan, the leaders of the two organizations tonight were preparing for better working conditions, particularly for railroad workers of all classes, and against all compulsory arbitration measures, just as if an official affiliation had been perfected.
Both sides hope that they will be able to gain much, particularly in the way of favorable legislation during the coming session of Congress and in preventing the breaking down of present favorable labor laws, by presenting a united front. They believe, too, that official affiliation only awaits certain formal steps to be taken by the brotherhoods at their next convention, to be held next year.
Other than to say that they would oppose all compulsory arbitration bills in Congress, the speakers were rather indefinite today as to what they expected to do for the great mass of railway workers. Federation leaders, however, said frankly that the primary object of the proposed affiliation was to bring about a universal eight-hour day.
Brotherhood leaders left here after the meeting undetermined as to what their next step would be. If they should decide to call a strike because the railroads do not put the Adamson law into effect on Jan. 1, they probably will ask a conference with federation officials. They also will seek conferences, it is believed, if the present injunction suits of the railroads are successful.
Joint Action Planned.
The only definite plan the leaders of the two organizations now have is to confer immediately upon the presentation of any proposed compulsory arbitration bill in Congress, or any other bills which they believe will prove detrimental to their mutual interests.
No conferences followed the meeting today. Shortly after the speakers had addressed the convention all of the brotherhood representatives left here for various cities. William G. Lee, Warren S. Stone, and L. E. Sheppard of the trainmen, engineers, and conductors, respectively, returned to Washington, whence they came by motor early today, and W. S. Carter of the firemen went to New York.
Mr. Lee, who made the chief address to the convention, sought to make it plain that the brotherhoods were not coming to the federation to obtain help specifically for their fight against the railroads over the Adamson eight-hour-day law. He said that the brotherhoods were willing to assume all responsibility in that struggle, but he held that the time had come when it was to the interest of all railroad workers to unite for their mutual advantage.
“We must hang together, or we will hang separately,” he shouted amid great applause. Continuing, Mr. Lee said:
“I am about anarchist enough, to say that we are going to work for the eight-hour day for all classes. If we can’t get it peaceably, we will fight for it.”
Mr. Lee said that some sort of affiliation should be effected to fight any proposed arbitration legislation which might be unfair to labor. President Wilson planned such legislation, Mr. Lee said, and it should be carefully watched. Congress had no right, he said, to pass any law compelling a man to work, provided he was not in prison, if he did not want to and Mr. Lee did not think it would do so.
Praises the President.
Prolonged cheering followed praise of President Wilson by Mr. Lee.
“It took more courage,” he said, “for him to write across the front pages of the newspapers of this country that he was for an eight-hour work day than it would have taken for him to have written that this country was at war with Mexico.
“Our principal object now is to help the President and the men in both branches of Congress to make good their promises to us. I believe they will do it.”
“I know that a large percentage of our members,” Mr. Lee continued, “will be glad to know that we have been here and spoken to you today. It is absolutely necessary for us who are organized to get together and I say that we shall go to the limit to obtain better conditions, particularly for men on lines that the railroads now will not permit to organize. We will not strike, or go out to help them, but we will use our best efforts to obtain better conditions for them.”
Mr. Lee paid his respects to the “Wall Street crowd,” and said that now that an election had been won without the assistance of New York, Indiana, or Illinois, labor should not fail to retain its power thus gained. Mr. Lee reviewed the conferences which led to the enactment of the Adamson eight-hour day law in September, and charged the railroad heads with playing unfairly with the President at that time. The brotherhoods, he said, had no desire that the Adamson bill be enacted into law, but, inasmuch as it had become a law, they were trying to live up to it.
W. S. Carter, President of the Brotherhood of Railway Firemen and Enginemen, addressing the convention, said that the danger that confronted all working people today was the “coercion or subornation of the public press by the master class.”
“The coming of the penny paper,” he added, “has done more than anything else to place the press under the domination of advertisers. Unfortunately, labor has but little to do with advertising; practically all the advertisements come from the master class.”
Mr. Carter declared that when the railroad brotherhoods began the eight-hour movement a year ago, “a few men in New York City who direct the affairs of all the railroads” undertook one of the greatest publicity campaigns the world ever has witnessed.
“I have positive evidence from one of the leading advertising agencies,” Mr. Carter said, “that provision was made to advertise in 3,000 daily and 14,000 weekly papers. Think of it—many millions of dollars’ worth of advertising to prejudice the public against the brotherhoods.”
Gompers Promises Support.
President Gompers, in the course of his remarks, said:
“We expect that the railroad brotherhoods will on Jan. 1 inaugurate the eight-hour work day, and I think I can truly say to you that whatever arises, whatever betides, you have the undivided support of the organized workingmen and women as represented by the American Federation of Labor.”
“When the money power of the United States failed in the attempt to corrupt the electorate, and when their plans were upset by the votes of the citizenship of the United States, the capitalists showed their colors. They met and gave out a declaration that they were going to antagonize every effort put forth by organized labor.
“But men of wealth, I say to you, be careful how far you go. There is a limit even to human endurance. You throw down the gauntlet and we accept the challenge. When the time comes, it will be another case of ‘lay on MacDuff and damned be he who first cries enough.’”
At the conclusion of his address, Mr. Gompers was overcome by his emotions, and was obliged to retire to an anteroom, where he lay down for fifteen minutes. He afterward returned to the platform.
Supports Injunction Report.
Andrew Furuseth of the International Seamen’s Union of America, Chairman of the committee which recommended yesterday that organized labor disregard injunctions based on the dictum that labor is property, told the convention today that the recommendation was “not a joke,” as some seemed inclined to regard it.
“Every word written in that recommendation was meant,” he said, “and if any member of the federation is not willing to take the consequences of disregarding such injunctions, the sooner he gets out the better.”
This statement was brought out during discussion of a resolution which Mr. Furuseth’s committee had recommended should be referred to the Executive Council for consideration. The resolution provided for the establishment of a central bureau for all legal matters affecting the interests of labor. One delegate argued for the immediate passage of the resolution on the ground that, if the recommendation that the convention adopted yesterday was obeyed, many federationists would need legal assistance to get them out of prison. It was then Mr. Furuseth insisted upon a literal application of the clause in the injunction recommendation, “let the consequences be what they may.” The legal department resolution, by vote of the convention, was referred to the Committee on Laws for immediate consideration and a report before adjournment of the convention.
RENT DUE, KILLS HERSELF.
Mrs. Wallace Drinks Poison and Dies Clutching an Unfired Revolver.
Miss Clara Frazee returned home to her apartment at 164 West 147th Street yesterday afternoon and found her friend, Mrs. Mabel Wallace, 24 years old, who lived with her, dead in bed with a revolver clutched in her right hand. The revolver had not been fired, Coroner Feinberg said later, but evidence that Mrs. Wallace had taken cyanide of potassium was found in a glass on a dresser near the bed.
Miss Frazee explained that Mrs. Wallace had been unable to pay the rent of $9 which fell due yesterday, and had become morose when her husband left the city to find work several days ago.
cided again to urge that Congress make all arbitral awards in such disputes judgments by record of a court of law.
Brotherhood Leaders Active.
The chiefs of the railroad brotherhoods, Lee of the trainmen, Stone of the engineers, Carter of the firemen, and Sheppard, acting for Garretson of the conductors, returned here from Baltimore this afternoon, and three of them left tonight for Kansas City, where they will attend the hearing of the injunction suit brought by the Union Pacific and Santa Fe Railroads. They have made no arrangements to appear before the Joint Congressional Committee which has begun an investigation into every aspect of the transportation problem. Their interest at this time lies in the effort to prevent the Adamson law from being abrogated, and from what they say, they seem to be prepared to go to extremes to make the eight-hour railway day a permanent thing.
Just how the brotherhoods, supported by the Federation of Labor, will proceed to carry out their attempt to make the eight-hour day effective if the United States Supreme Court should declare the Adamson act null and void or the injunction against putting the act in operation should still be in force on Jan. 1, has probably not been determined. The brotherhoods and Federation leaders, however, appear to have reached a firm intention to make the fight of their lives to obtain the eight-hour day not only for railway trainmen, but for all other organized workers.
That a general railroad strike may be called if the Adamson law is not put into effect on Jan. 1 is inferred from the remarks of the brotherhood leaders.
“There will be an eight-hour day on the railroads or there’ll be some unfinished business before this country,” was the way Chief Stone of the engineers put it when he was asked whether a strike would be called.
The belligerent attitude of the labor leaders has impressed observers here with the belief that they will have the eight-hour day or take radical means to obtain it.
URGES QUICK ACTION IN 8-HOUR CASE
Government Presses for Decision in Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf Injunction Proceedings.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 21.—The fight of the railroads of the United States against the Adamson eight-hour law was brought to a sudden issue today by a motion filed by the Government in the United States District Court here, which it is expected will result in a decision on the constitutionality of the law by the Supreme Court of the United States before Jan. 1, when the law is to go into effect.
“Prolonged, unnecessary and scattered litigation should, if possible, be avoided, otherwise injury may result to the public and the railroads and their employes,” the Government says on its motion.
The Government’s motion, made by Frank Hagerman, as special counsel, was directed against Alexander New and Henry C. Ferris, receivers for the Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad, and embodied two distinct requests of the court, as follows:
1. The Government asks an immediate decision on the injunction petition filed by the receivers for the Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad, in which the Adamson eight-hour law was attacked as unconstitutional, and an order required forbidding its enforcement. The Government contends that the injunction petition should be dismissed because the law is constitutional.
2. Should the law be held unconstitutional, the Government asks that the court direct the receivers for the railroad to join the Government in getting the case advanced immediately to the Supreme Court of the United States for final decision.
May Give Decision Today.
Judge William C. Hook, sitting in the case, took the motion under advisement and announced that he would render a decision tomorrow.
While the Government’s action was taken in the case of only one railroad company, every railway system in the country is affected and eventually may be a participant. Judge Hook, from the bench, said that if the motion were granted, he would require the receivers of the Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf to invite the legal representatives of all the railroads in the United States to take part in the proceedings before the highest court.
Should the law be held constitutional by Judge Hook, it is expected that the railroads will appeal. In any case, the Government plans to have the constitutionality of the law before the Supreme Court when that tribunal reconvenes on Dec. 4 and to urge that it be advanced for immediate hearing.
Federal Court Controls the Road.
Action in the case was taken on the injunction petition of the Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad rather than on similar petitions of scores of other railroads throughout the United States because the Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf is in receivership and under the direction of the Federal court. This enabled the Government to ask the co-operation of the railroads in obtaining a final decision of the case before Jan. 1. This assistance can be ordered by the court, and, as indicated by Judge Hook, will be so ordered if he decides to grant the motion. Had the Government proceeded against a railroad not in receivership, it was pointed out by a member of the Government counsel, the railroad might have chosen to combat the law through various legal manoeuvres which would have delayed the final decision indefinitely.
Like many other injunction proceedings filed by many railroads, the Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf’s action against the Adamson law contended that it was unconstitutional because it deprived the railroads of their property without due process of law and compelled them to pay large sums of money to employes without receiving anything in return.
The decision on this point tomorrow will be watched eagerly by lawyers and railroad interests generally, but it will have no binding effect outside of the Western Missouri Judicial District, and, whichever way it goes, will be nullified by appeal action to be filed immediately in the Supreme Court.
“There is no use to be excited about this action,” Mr. Hagerman said today. “It is simply an action to advance the case quickly to the Supreme Court, which will be the final arbiter in the case.”
The same view was expressed by Arthur Miller, attorney for the Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf receivers, who said that the only thing to be done was to await the Judge’s decision.
DEPLORES PUNITIVE LAWS.
Railroad Spokesman Urges Encouragement of Transportation Industry
Special to The New York TimesWASHINGTON, Nov. 21.—At a long conference today the railroad executives now in Washington arranged the order in which the testimony of the companies should be presented to the Joint Committee on Interstate Commerce, which yesterday began an investigation of the transportation situation. The committee decided that the representatives of the railroads should appear first.
It was decided by the railroad executives that the presentation of their side should be begun by A. P. Thom, counsel to the Railway Executives’ Advisory Committee. He will address the Newlands Committee on Thursday Morning.
Frank Trumbull, Chairman of the Railway Executives’ Advisory Committee, and other executives returned home tonight to await their turn to appear before the committee. Prior to his departure Mr. Trumbull, in answer to a request to define the position of the railroads to the inquiry, said:
“The railways naturally desired to co-operate in this inquiry in whatever way the Joint Congressional Committee considers most helpful. We regard the inquiry as one in which all those whose study or experience may throw light on the problems involved should participate, to the end that a plan may finally be adopted which will, in the President’s phrase, make the railroads ‘more useful servants to the public as a whole.’
“The representatives of the railroads have no completed plan or program to submit at this time and do not wish to appear as the advocates or opponents of any special plan. It is natural, however, that men who have been in daily contact with State and Federal regulation in the operation of the roads should have formed some conclusions as to particulars in which existing methods of regulation are unduly burdensome to the commerce of the country. In doing this the railroads do not oppose public regulation. That is not now a question for debate. But if, as we feel, some features of the existing system are defective, wasteful, and uneconomic, it is a matter of public duty to call attention to this fact.
“Many of the existing laws relating to railway regulation, especially State laws, are primarily punitive and restrictive. They were enacted to punish the railroads for actual or alleged past wrongdoing. The difference in spirit and purpose between our railway laws and, for example, those governing our banking system, which are designed to serve the public by encouraging and facilitating banking operations, is obvious. The railways hold that it is to the public interest as well as to their interest that the system of regulation be framed with the purpose of encouraging railway development and efficient service along legitimate lines.
“By far the greater part of the railway business of the country consists of the transportation of interstate commerce, and the regulation of this is properly a Federal and not a State function.”
FEARS INDUSTRIAL BOARD.
Trainmen’s Official Warns Against Corporations’ Organization.
G. H. Sines, Vice President of the Railroad Trainmen, in an interview last night, said that it was the belief of the responsible executives of the four railroad brotherhoods that the recently organized eight-billion-dollar National Industrial Conference Board was a conspiracy of corporate interests to offset the sweeping tide of progressive legislation and the Adamson eight-hour law in particular.
“The railroad brotherhoods,” Mr. Sines continued, “are cognizant of this enormous combine and what it portends. It contains all the elements of reaction, elements which, if allowed to prevail, will result in an industrial upheaval of the gravest consequences. The National Industrial Conference Board is likely, more than any one thing else, to bring the grievances of not only the brotherhoods but the entire laboring class of the country to a crisis.”
The reason the brotherhoods were opposed to President Wilson’s suggestion for Federal investigation before the calling of strikes, Mr. Sines said, was that experience had shown that the railroads utilized that time to prepare for trouble which rendered them invincible. The brotherhoods were helpless under such conditions.
Mr. Sines denied that the brotherhoods intended to fly in the face of injunctions and call a strike if the Adamson law was declared unconstitutional. Such action, he said, might have been taken if the law had been repealed by a hostile Congress, but the Supreme Court of the United States was the last rsort.
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Cross Dog Collars
Collar—(at right) Of round solid leather, name plate attached . . . . . . . . . . $3.00
Collar—(centre) “Bulldog” design, double stitched leather, two rows of brass studs, 1½ inches wide . . . $4.00Engraving name plate, each letter 5 cents.
Cross Lined Gloves
For Men
Tan cape, silk lining . . . . . . . . . . $2.75
Grey mocha, silk lining . . . . . . . $2.75
Tan cape, chamois lining . . . . . . $3.00
Tan cape, knitted lining . . . . . . . $3.50
Tan cape, lambswool lining . . . . $4.75
For Women
Tan cape, silk lining . . . . . . . . . . $2.50
Grey mocha, silk lining . . . . . . . $2.50
Tan cape, chamois lining . . . . . . $2.75
Tan cape, knitted lining . . . . . . . $3.00
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