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MONTREAL. Juno 0— Resolutions
covering political aud economic con
ditions in the United State*
and demands of labor were before
the American Federation of Labor
convention here today. A hands otf
policy in Mexico, home rule for Ire
land, public ownership of railroads,
impeachment of Palmer, condemnation
of Burleson and the industrial courts
and remedies for many other things
were discussed. The indications are
that Horn pets will not bo opposed for ;
re-election as President.
LABOR MAKES REPORT
MONTREAL. Que., June Ik- De
nunviation of Bolshevism, profiteer
inf, the action of the United States j
government in invoking the food con- ,
ttol law against the late miner's •
strike, and the failure of the Ameri- |
can Congress to take action to control •
the cost of living are among the out
standing features of the annual re- |
port of the Executive Council of the
American Federation of Labor pre
sented today to the annual convention
here.
With the council’s review of organ
ized labor’s position and activities iov|
the last year, was also presented “a
specific program for remedy."
The Cummings railroad law was de
nounced , as was the Kansas law es
tablishing the court of industrial re
lations. The high cost of living was
laid largely at the door of “big pro
fiteers” while the report declared the
United States government, principally
through the Department of Justice,
“ban conducted a campaign of stupid
ity”
Congress was assailed ror cutting
appropriations designed to carry on
the work of the collateral branches of
the Department of Labor and for var
ious proposals, such as the sedition
bill, which the report says the labor
movement was instrumental in de
feating.
In its references to the foreign
field, the report denounced what it
characterized as propaganda for Am
erican intervention in Mexico and de
clared that the exocutive council sees
“no justification for interference,”
which it argues would be in the inter
est “of the exploitation of its workers,
and its boundless wealth of oil and
minerals.”
The United States Steel Coipora
tion was assailed for its refusal to
deal with labor organizations in the
recent unsuccessful strike, and the au
thorities of Boston also were denounc
ed for their attitude in the celebra
tion strike of policemen in that city.
The workmen of Canada were con
gratulated for defeating “the one big
union” idea and their stand was char
acterized as “a magnificent triumph
for tiade unionism, and a vindication
of the purposes, policies and achieve
ments of the American Federation of
Labor.”
The industrial conferences called
by President Wilson were characteriz
ed as successful because ‘‘the employ
ers stubbornly resisted every attempt
at conciliation” and would not accept
any resolution on collective bargain-”
unless it was so worded as to be anti
trade union in spirit and to provide
encouragement and support for com
pany unions.” The machinery pro
posed by the second conference, the
report attacks, as in many respects
by the president's commission is en
tirely unfitted for the needs of that
life.”
Kxisting machinery the report de
clares ‘‘is superior in every respect.”
“Bolshevism has been a lure for
some of our people and its doctrines
have been propagated with great vig
or. This hidtM>us doctrine has found
converts among two classes of people
principally— those intellectuals, so
called, who have no occupation save
that of following one fad after anoth
er, and those so beaten in the game of
life that they find no appeal in any
thing except the most desperate and
illogical schemes. The rank and file of
the organized labor movement, as
was to have been expected, has given
no countenance to the propaganda of
Bolshevism, but has, on the contrary,
been its most effective opponent in
America.
“The propaganda of revolutionary
thought has not been limited to the
propaganda of bolshevism. It has tak
en other forms. The 'one big union’
idea has had its adherents, despite the
disastrous results of the experiment
in Canada with its treacherous ma
chinery during the year preceding our
1919 convention. It is gratifying to
note that everywhere the ostensible
strength of this propaganda has been
lost and that its fallacies are daily be
coming clearer to its former victims.
"Of more importance than the re
sults of studied propaganda of revolu
tion and extremism is the feeling of
unrest among our people which is due
to abuses in our political and indust
rial life, and which seeks relief and
freedom and not revolution and catas
trophe.
‘The written and spoken propagan
da of unreason and extremeism can be
met and defeated by truth. But legiti
mate unrest, by intelligent dealing
with conditions. Those who drink from
a poisoned well will be poisoned until
the well itself is cleansed.”
Covering nearly 2f>0 closely print
ed pages the report makes reference
to almost every phase of the organiz
ed labor movement.
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FISH QUOTATIONS
SEATTLE, June 9— Halibut is
quoted at seventeen and one half
cents; sable at eight cents, red and
ling cod at two cents.
KETCHIKAN, Prices yesterday on
halibut firsts was ten cents and on
halibut seconds was six cents.
C. P. R. OFFICIAL DEAD
VANCOUVER, B. C., June 9—
Richard Marpole, many years a promi
nent executive of the Canadian Pacif
ic railroad here, died last night of
heart trouble.
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CABINET
HAS QUIT!
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ROME, June 9— Premier Nitti nn- J
nounced in the Chamber this after-!
noon that the members of his cabinet I
had all resigned.
BERLIN, June 9— All government!
officers have tendered their resigna-!
tions to President Ebert who has re-!
quested them to remain. The prov s- i
ional Reichstag will be summoned im
mediately and election results estab
lished.
robTank
PITTSBURGH, June 9— Masked
bandits entered the Hayes National
Bank at Hayes, Pennsylvania, this
forenoon, locked the cashier in the
vault and escaped with large loot.
2 AVIATORS
Kill ED
SAN ANTONIO. Texas, Juno 9— 1
Aviation cadets Hoy Wellington, of
McKay, Arkansas, and Harold Crow
ley, of Milford, Montana, were killed
at the Kelley fields this afternoon
when the airplane they were in wentj
suddenly into a tail spin and fell 2000 ]
feet. !
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RECESS APPOINTMENTS
WASHINGTON, June 9- President I
Wilson today made recess appoint
ments of Henry Jones Ford, of New
Jersey; Mark W. Potter, of New
York, and James Duncan, of Maasa
chussets to be members of the Inter
state Commerce Commission; Marston
Taylor Bogert, of New York and Sam
uel McCall, of Massachussets were
x.amed members of the Tariff commis
sion. Nicholas Kelley, of New York,
whs appointed Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury.
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ELECTION RETURNS
RALEIGH, June 9— Johnson leads
Woods five to one in the presidential
primaries.
DES MOINES, June 9— Cummins
is 2000 ahead of Smith W. Brookhart
for the Republican nomination for
Senator. The returns are only meager.
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Hans Lumbers was arrested last
week in Juneau and sentenced to pay
a fine of *25 and spend twelve days in
jail for drunkeness.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 9— Jack
Dempsey’s trial for evasion of the
draft, has opened before Judge Dool
ing. Many American Legion men are
present at the court trial.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 9— The
draft evasion charges against William
Harrison (Jack) Dempsey, heavy
weight champion boxer of the world,
and iack Kearas, his manager, wore
filed here in the United States District
court The statute covering them car
ries a maximum sentence of three
years and a $2,000 fine in Dempsey's
case in the event of a convictioa
There are two charges resting against
him, one actual draft evasion and the
other conspiracy to effect such evas
ion The Kearns case is covered only
by Ihe latter charges.
On the direct evasion charge Demp
sey can be given one and on the con
spiracy charge two years and a $2,
U00 fine.
The indictments weTe returned
February 27 following statements
to the fedeial grand jury by Maxine
Wayne Dempsey, divorced wife of the
pugilist, that he sought her. sworn
testimony as to her dependence on
him in order to avoid military service,
and had given such testimony against
her will. Subsequently she retracted
her charges in a signed affidavit sub
mitted to the United States District
Attorney's office here, but despite
such retraction the grand jury return
ed the indictments.
The Dempseys were married in
Salt I^ake City, Utah. Following the
divorce Mrs. Dempsey was employed
in a dance hall in Wells, Nevada, and
made her charges from that place.
Dempsey was charged with having
falsely sworn that his father, mother,
widowed sister and her two. children
were dependent upon him and that he
had contributed $20 a month each to
their support during 1917 and that he
had lived with hi$ tfife. for 18 months
before being called up before the
draft board.
Ream’s part was alleged to have
been the coaching of Dempsey in his
supposed act of draft evasion. Both
denied emphatically that they sought
such evasion and introduced state
ments from draft board officials to
substantiate their claims.
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SCHENECTADY, June 9— Eleven
were killed and 21 injured when an ex
press train crashed into the rear of a
passenger train on the New ^ork Cen
tral at noon today.
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VIOLENT DEMONSTRATIONS
VIENNA, June 9— Violent demon
strations over the high cost of food to*
' day resulted in the killing of seven
and the wounding of 23. Many arrests
I have been made by the government
authorities.
NO LEADER 1$
TAKING HOLD
IN CHICAGO
CHICAGO, June 9— There appears
little prospect of a ballot on a Presi
dential candidate before Friday.
CHICAGO, June 9—Chairman Lod
ge called the Republican National con
vention to order at 11:20 o’clock this
forenoon. Senator Lodge was greeted
with three cheers and a tiger. Invo
cation was made today by John Timo
thy Stone.
Chairman Duffield, of the credent
ial committee submitted his report.
Missouri got back two lost dele-;
gates when the credentials committee j
reversed the action of the National j
Committee thus restoring the total
number of delegates to the convention
to 984 making the number necessary
for a nomination 493.
Today is cool, a lake breeze making
the weather ideal.
CHICAGO, June 9— The report of
the credentials committee was accept
ed making the temporary organization |
permanent.
The report of the rules committee,
which was also accepted, increases the
executive committee of the Republic
an national committee from ten to
fifteen members to provide for women
members.
Chairman Lodge, in taking the per
manent chairmanship, said he would
enforce a rule limiting speakers to
five minutes and to only one speech
on the same subject in the same day.
Responding to insistent calls, Dc
pew made a brief address, followed by
Mrs. Margaret Hill McCartiier, of
Kansas, the first woman to address a
National convention.,
' The resolutions committee reported
progress but was not ready to make a
report but will present the platform
tomorrow.
. The convention ther
til 11 o'clock Thursday forenoon.
* CHICAGO, June 9— The general
delegates, including the women del
egates, arrived at the convention hall
early this forenoon. The men talked
about everything but no politics. No
two politicians or newspaper writers
appear to agree on anything. Each
man has his own version of what is
likely to happen. The spirit of uncer
tainly is stronger than ever and the
feeling is becoming general that the
League of Nations must not reach the
convention floor.
President Gompers and Matthew A.
Woll, through a communication, have
presented “demands" to the resolu- j
tions committee stating legislation
proposing to make strikes unlawful or
compelling wage earners to abide by
certain industrial serfdom and slavery
| legislation, would hot be tolerated by
labor. The “demand" is also against
unwarrantable issuance of writs of in
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junction asks that immigration should
be regulated, profiteering checked,
cost of living reduced and force of
arms should not be used to compel
Mexicans to meet demands of those
exploiting the country’s resources.
SEATTLE, June 9— A special to
the Post-Intelligencer from Wall
street says the odds on Johnson have
lengthened from even money to three
to one against.
SANTA BARBARA, Cal.Jfuitt 9
“The nation is praying for peace and
the Republicans offer war. The Re
publicans killed the peace treaty
which continues the war in Europe.
Senator Lodge would give us more
war by fighting Mexico. I can under
stand why the Chicago convention is
bewildered and leaderless. No definite
or constructive program has been of
fered. The Republican national con
vention is one of negation only." Hom
er S. Cummings, on his way to Sau
Francisco to attend the Democratic
National convention made the above
statement here this afternoon.
ADJOURNMENT YESTERDAY
Chicago, June 9— After only two
hour’s session yesterday, the Repub
lican National convention adjourned
until 11 o’clock this forenoon. Confus
ion and uncertainly marked the deli
berations yesterday and characterized
the attitude of the delegates around
the city last night. The lack of leader
ship is felt by everybody attending
the convention. All delegates and oth
ers are waiting for the first ballot to
gee how the situation stands.
George C. Hazelet, of Cordova,
Alaska member of the committee on
resolutions, is here and taking an ac
tive part in the committee work.
WIND STORM
IN THE EAST
ST. PAUL, June 9— Four were kill
ed and thirty or more injured and the
property damage is heavy as a result
of a wind and electrical storm which
swept Northern Minnesota last night
Four cars of a Northern Pacific west
bound train were blown from the
track near Foxhome.
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FIRE AT SEATTLE
SEATTLE, June 9— An over-heat
ed kilm set fire and destroyed the
Seattle box factory early this morn
ing. The loss is estimated to be over
$75,000.