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Show THE MAMMOTH RECORD, MAMMOTH CITY, UTAH nil MIES AS TO WAGE SETTLEMENT - , , r i Nationalizing of Mines Favored by erators' Head, Who Denies Combination Exists Among Operators to Fix Prices. Sasic Wage Questions Should be Deferred Until the Era of High Prices' ; Has Gone, He Says in Note to j the Public. Postponement of .the Washington. settlement of wage demands until normal conditions are restored was announced on Monday by President Wilson as the policy which Die administration will pursue in dealing with 'such questions, particularly .those affecting railroad workers. The president announced also that it was' neither wise nor feasible at this time, when 'the most important question before the country is a return to normal price level, to attempt to increase freight rates 'to provide funds for higher wages. We ought to postpone questions of this sort until vve have the opportunity for certain calculation as to the relations between wages and the cost of living, the president declared in a statement to the public explaining his decision as to wages, It is the duly of every citizen to insist upon a truce in such .contests until intelligent settlements , ean be, made, and made by peace and effective common .counsel. I appeal to my fellow citizens of every in insisting employment to upon and maintaining such a truce. Mr. Wilsons statement was Issued in connection with the decision of himself and Director General Hines on demands by railroad shopmen for a cent advance In wages, but the general policy announced covers also the wage demands of other hundreds of railroad workers, of thousands which are pending before the director general or about to he presented. It is to be expected that other unions trying to obtain more pay will be asked, as the shopmen, to play their reducing part frith other citizens-ithe cost of living by foregoing a temporary advantage which would add to , transportation costs. The decision of the president, and the director general vvas announced to a committee of 100, representing ' the shopmen. In reply to thbir dethe mands for a 25 per adan to wereasked accept shopmen justment of their pay to the basis of ten hours pay for eight hours work, which they contended - was given to other employees and denied them when the Adanson lav. became effective. This means an advance of the basic pay from 68 cents to 72 cents an hour, whereas an increase of 17 cents to 85 edits an hour was demanded. E 10 RECROSSED FORCES BENT UPON THE OF BANDIT BAND. BOUNDARY CAP-TUR- Six-Da- BY LOVETT BE E MEET EXPENSE Washington. Entering on an investigation of the increased price of coal, a senate interstate commerce on August 26 brought forth testimony that a shortage of cars and labor difficulties were hindering coal production, that certain elements in the miners union were intent on nationalization of the coal mines with day and a five-daadoption of a six-howeek plus a wage increase, and that, unless problems of production were solved, the country would be brought face to face with a coal famine In the coming winter. So emphatic were the witnesses that the railroads were at, jthe, .bottom of thf present low production that Senator Frelinghuysen, chairman of the committee, indicated the committees Intention of bringing Director General of Railroads Hines into the hearing. After detailing the effects of labor difficulties and alleged car shortage on coal production, Harry N. Taylor, National Coal assoof the president ciation, an organization of operators, declared a bill had been prepared for submission to congress providing for the nationalization of the mines. He wanted added that what - the miners , was not only that the government should own the properties, but that the mines should be turned over to them for operation. Denying that a combination amo'ng bituminous coal operators to fix prices exists, J. D. A. Morrow, of the National Coal association, told a senate coal Investigating committee that such a combination would be impossible It attempted. - Prices at the mines, he said, have declined under the competition' which prevails and are lower than they were a yehr ago.' There were 5000 separate commerHUN PLAN TO INVADE U., S. cial producers operating1 approximately 7000 mines, from which bituminous Plot of Extensive Nature in 'Mexico' coal is regularly shipped, Mr. Morrow Made Public by Officer.' said.- - "In addition there ato Asome New York. Revelation of extensive' two thousand operators with about ' 3000 mines who begin producing and German plots ih Mexico during, the, a proposed invas- included war, vyhich selling coal whenever the price goes ion of the United States by a German-Mexica- n to them. a and a offers little profit up army of 45,000 men, at the Moreover there are hundreds qf thou, sands of acres of coal lands' along same time that the Germans launched western front on the their drive last' railroads on which new mines can in July, 1918, was made here Saturday, readily and quickly opened by any by the National Association for the " obone so disposed. Such a condition Protection of American rights in Mex- to Itself restricnot does lend viously ' ico, which gave out a statement by tive combinations among producers. tlie of Dr. P. B. Altendorf, formerly dePREDICTS EARLY RATIFICATION. United States military Intelligence partment, reciting his experience as an in that Hitchcock Believes Treaty Will be Ap American secret service agent country. , . , , , proved During September. of the Washington. Ratification Ask Probe of Mountain Rates. peace treaty some time during SepThe Intermediate Rate AVashington Shanthe defeat of proposed tember, of railroad comcomposed association, tung amendment with the aid of at commercial organizations and missions votvotes and twelve least Republican Idaho, Utah, ing down of all amendments to the of Montana, AAashington,' and Arizona, Mexico New Nevada, sent to be cause it that might treaty commerce comback for renegotiation was predicted asked the interstate on August 23 to investigate mission of Hitchcock Nebraska, Senator by tersenior minority member of the foreign commodity rates to intennountalu is alleged, are unjust it which, confera ritory, after relations committee, and unreasonable as conlpared with ence with President AVilson. rates to he Pacific coast.- , SAYS ROADS CANNOT OPERATED UNDER EXISTING RATES. y Campaign Results in Killing President of U. P. Also Declares That Present Method ot Adjusting of Leader of Outlaw Gang and the Capture of Half a Dozen of Wages Is Unjust, and Would Put Ban on Strikes. His Followers. six-da- cent-increas- AVashington. Private operation of railroads cannot be restored at existing rates, Robert S. Lovett, president of the Union Pacific railroad, told the house interstate commerce committee during a discussion on Friday In which he contended the railroad problem is solely a question of railroad credit. Howard Elliott, president of the Northern Pacific, another witness', urged early adoption of a national transportation policy, declaring delay only tended to make all classes unIn adoption , certain and unsettled. of the transportation policy he thought congress should observe four princi. 7 ples, as follows: Government regulatory machinery to. encourage the present transportation system, so that rates will pay all costs', including new capital needed for expansion of facilities; abandonment of present method of adjusting wage and working disputes, with substitution of u'sahe method of deciding these quesol abolishment tions, including Sherman of the modification strikes; law to permit consolidations', and making of federal authority supreme in regulating rates, securities and ac- counts! Railroads should have the right to Initiate rates, Mr. Elliott argued, adding that the interstate commerce commission should have the ' right of suspension and review. , Trainmen Ordered Back to Work. Trainmen, enginemen AVashington. and yardmer oihgovernment controlled roads at Los Angeles, who recently went on strike in sympathy with the striking employees of the Pacific Electric, which Is not under government control, have been ordered to return to work, according to a statement by the railroad administration. EDWIN SAMUEL MONTAGU ,, tl , minister. c i ( '""o' ,,i ; - Scouts Return Visit of Flu. m Cincinnati. llecurrenee of influenza in epidemic form this fall Is unlikely, said Health Officer William II. Peters, taking issue with Dr. Itoyal S. Cope. land, New York health coninils.'-;ner- Utahan Opposes Kenyon Bill. James A. Henderson, a Morgan, Utah, canning' ,man, who said he was both a competitor of the five big packers nnd a source of supsenply for products they sell, told the ate agriculture committee that regulation proposed in the Kenyon bill for the packing industry was unnecessary and dangerous. AVashington. Americans Ordered Overseas. The Fifth infantry AVashington. regiment at Camp Taylor, Kentucky, and the Fiftieth at Camp Dix, New Jersey, have been ordered to prepare to go overseas to aid in the policing of Silesia during the plebiscite prot vided for'under the peacd treaty. Bolshevik) Fleet Disabled. Stockholm. The Bolshevikt fleet In MaJ. Gen. James W. McAndrew, former chief of ataff of the A. E. F., has the gulf of Finland, defending Pctro-graBelgians Approve Peace Treaty. returned to Washington as president bus .been disabled completely, Brussels. The r.elgiun senate on of the War college. The name the, newspapers here report. The deArmy August 26 unanimously approved the of the Institution will hereafter be the fenses of Kronstadt, which were The peace treaty with Germany. General .Staff college, and it will be by British warships, have been chamber of deputies ratified the treaty kept separate from the war plana dl dest royed. . August 8. vision. Triple Tragedy In Chicago Cafe. Economic League Favors Treaty, But Two of A. E. F. Missing. Entering the Royal Can-Economic Chicago. National York. The New Washington, Only two men of the AVIlliam E. Stewart, Private ton Its cafe, league announced Monday that thousands of the American expeditionIn n returned overseas snldlei', Saturday 160, to 519 had voted, ary force who went Into battle against members shot and killed Ills wife, Mrs. Emma the treaty peace of favor unaccounted for, ratifying remain the Germans her comwithout complicating, delaying or in Stewart; Charles Schools, according to n casually list issuml by himself. then and panion, validating reservations. the wap department. Court Reserves Decision. Seattle Commission Men Arrested. Denies Guilt of Cavell Murder. The supremo court, which Seoul. commission Seattle Ten Seattle. Paris. After a plea for a postponethe hoard appeal of tho Itcv. Ell Milwere arrested hero Monday, ment of trial had been overruled, tien bf Mansfield, O., a PresbyMoavIYi lain several ler with hoarding with from conviction on a Georges Gaston (Julen, charged In missionary, terian 20 dred thousand pounds of potatoes sheltered Korean botmvlng Edith Cavell, on Augusttend- - an of having Four to increase (hargo prices. attempt decision. answered negatively all questions reserved has agitators, of the ton were Japanese. Wflcuittea. Ing to Involve him In -- ... Berislav Falls to Reds Foes. General' Doniklne, com London. forces mander of the in south Russia, has captured the town of Berislav, on the Dnieper river in the government' of Kherson, according to a dispatch from Taganrog, in the Don Cossack territory on the Sea , . . ; of Azov. Members of Utah Legislature Will Consider High Cost of Living. ' Salt Lake City. Members of the Thirteenth legislature will convene in special session Monday, September 29, at noon. Proclamation to this effect was issued August 25, by Gov. Simon Bambergor. The object of the session is to net upon the Susan 15. Anthony amendment to the constitution of the United States providing for unhersnl suffrage and to eorsider matters in connection with the high cost of living. Only these two matters are mentioned and tlds indicates that the session will not be long unless consideration of the high cost of liv'ng is extended. Shah to .Visit U. S. Constantinople. -- The Shall of Persia will go to the United States aftei he lias visited Pans accord'ng to a statement made by the Persian foreign , Business Prosperous, Jewelers Say Chicago Prohibition and high v ages paid during the war have combined to make the jewelry business more pros perous than ever before in its history, according to delegates attending the annual meeting of the Amerjpn Retail Jewelers association, in session here. , ,, i . j n Los Alisos ranch, thirty miles south of the border, were found in a calm One had been slab on the randi. the other with an ax, and knife with q on Peace Voting Democrats Against . - Proposed Change,- if.:; The Shantung decision AAashington of the Paris peace, conference was reversed by the senate foreign relations committee on August 23. By a vote of 9 to 8, the committee decided to amend the treaty to provide for the restoration of Shantung to China. The change made was extremely simple; it merely strikes out' the word Japan and substitutes the word China in the section which , disposes of Germanj s former rights in the Shantung peninsula. Senator McCumber, North Dakota, Republican, voted with the Democrats against the' Shantung amendment. ' .Otherwise, the vote was of a strict . . party nature.' Action Presages Further Delay. , The effect of the committes action, if sustained by the senate, wilf be to send the peace treaty back to the other principal allied powers. As Ja- - ' pan, according to Prsident Wilson, refused to sign the treaty unless given Shantung, and as France, Great Britain and Italy are bound by their sec-- , ret treaties to support the Japanese claims to Shantung, it is considered extremely probable that the amend- ment, if sustained in the senate, would create a deadlock among the powers. Says Senate Will Reverse Action. Senator Iopierene ,of Ohjoj Democratic member of the foreign relations committee; declared the' committee's action had no significance anil predicted the senate would reverse it- Senator Johnson of California, Republican, praised the action of the committee In wiping out the proposal to guarantee the infamy of the Shan-- 4 tung settlement by our treasury and by our blood. . v. With y 25-p- Chinese! Ranchers Murdered. mutilated Nogales, Ariz. The badly Vm the bodies of two Chinese-lessee- s First Direct Action Taken Treaty, , One Republican Op- -- Three hundred Marfa, Texas. American soldiers who invaded Mexico M an endeavor to capture the bandits who held for ransom Lieutenants Peterson and Davis, are back on American soil, and the invasion of Mexico is a matter of history. The American punitive expedition came out of Mexico on Sunday. The column, making an early start, crossed the Rio Grande and arrived at Candelaria on the American side at nightfall, having m&rched over sixty miles since morning. Officers and meti were y tired with the strain of the over not were downcast but Campaign their failure to find all of the bandits. They make no excuses, but their experiences speak for themselves of the encountered tremendous difficulties in the hunt for the fiend and his folPLAN TO LOWE RELIVING COST,. lowers. And they have, moreover, six prisoners and four 'dead Mexicans in Government to Establish Stores and their game bag. ' Sell at Cost. The six prisoners are leading a sad life. They are at lluidosa, the base Washington. A radical 'project, "Of of the expedition, and they are chopvast proportions, to' force down prices of Die necessities of life and hi, id (hem ping wood and washing dishes. Jesus Renturia, the bandit leader, ip cheek pending the restoration of was shot and killed by Lieut R. H. normal prices' and production condiby the adtions, is be j fig considered' Cooper when bandits fired on Coo' ' ' pers machine, according to Lieut. Harministration. Urges Abolishment of Passports. old G. Peterson, vvlio returned with the The proposal is that the' govern' Chicago. A campaign to abolish expedition. ment establish retail Stores throughCenout the country, purchase food, Oloih pnsspotf I'fsgltlflfj.ons tQ South and StariwU was1 MEXICO TO TAKE NOTICE. ing and other necessities in immense tral American republics ii Consular and resell them to consum- Friday by the ProteC-- i association of Chicago, ers at cost. Begins to Consider Plans for tion of Americans. A ktep in tills direction was taken Rumors of Lifting of Dry Ban. Mexico City. The highest Mexican on August 20, when the war departWashington. The capital is alive government officials are making a ment announced that it would open with rumors that the president plans close study of the principle points at September 25 fourteen or more retail to lift wartime prohibition, which went issue between the Mexican and Amerthe peoto the sale stores for directly Into effect July 1, on the first of ican governments with a view to ple of surplus army clothing, blankets, October. will satisfactory to Sales articles. arrangements other reaching soap and the United States without impairment be made by the government at cost, MAJ. GEN. J. W. MANDREW of Mexican national interests and Mexeither over the counter or on cataican sovereignty, according to declar'.W6Tv logue order!, deliveries to be made counmade Saturday by Luis Cabof the ations to any part by parcel post of the treasury and deteris it secretary counter if rera, at prices. try member. cabinet the undertake to mined leading larger project These points are petroleum legisof the government regulating prices retailer and middleman lation, indemnification, frontier vigiby acting as lance and guarantee for the safety of anil selling at cost, the war departwholesale resume ment will purchases foreigners and foreign interests in Mexico. on a large scale, continue the store after the siirplus .s'upplies are disposed .J SPECIAL SESSION CALLED. of and open many other sales centers i a - SHAMS SENATE COMMITTEE VOTES TO -- AMEND TREATY TO RESTORE PROVINCE TO CHINA. BLES ARE HINDERING PRODUCTION. ' 1 Secret Balloting to Start at Once, the Officials to Abide by Decision, , Having Declined to Assume ' Responsibility. Washington. There will be no immediate' strike of railroad shopmen as a result of the administrations announced policy to grant- no general wage increase while endeavoring to drive down the abnormal cost of liv' ing. This was determined on August 26, when the executive committee of the railway employes, department of the American Federation of ..Labor asked the 600,000 railroad shopmen. of the country to decide' for themselves whether they should strike . for the increase turned. down by the president and railroad administration or keep in a general truce oyer wage disputes until1 normal living conditions can be restored. The committee 'of 100, representing the trades affected a by the governments, decision, voted to reject the proposal' made by the president and Director General Hines for an equalization of wages, but Informed tiie government that they would not" assume full responsibility for a strike--undethe circumstances, and had therefore referred the issue to the affiliated unions. The organizations are to take a strike vote by secret ballot as soon as possible, and upon the decision of the majority the executive committee and committee of 100 will abide. The issue thus presented to the railroad shopmen is: To accept in lieu of a 25 per cent increase in wages which 'they demanded an equalization of pay on the basis of eight hours of work for ten hours pay, which amounts to iinincreasp of 4 cents an hour, anil thus to yield, to the presidents request for cooperation in a general truce over wages while the government is waging its fight against the high cost .of living, or- to strike to enforce acceptance of the demand for 85 cents an hour. LACK OF CARS ANd LABOR TROU- PRESIDENT DECLINES TO FIX PAY FOR THE RAILWAY SHOP MEN PROPOSAL' OF PRESIDENT CAST ASIDE AND STRIKE VOTE ORDERED TAKEN. PRIM ALTER Summer Indoor Sport . , bom-bante- d 1 Edwin Samuel Montagu haa risen steadily since he became under secre, tary for. India in 1910. Ha ia now sec-retary for India, having succeeded Austen Chamberlain In 1917. Arrest Man Who' Stole $45,000. Denver. AValter It. O'Rourke of Toledo, Oldo, wanted in that city In connection with the theft June 19 last in United States currency of from the American Railway Express company, was arrested here Friday. ' Wound a Mystery. coro a Nev. by Investigation Ely, tier s Jury failed to disclose how the which gunshot wound was inflicted by Jonn S. Wright was fatully injured wnen leaving his home on n hunting trip. Fatal Americans Compliment Frenchmen. Paris. The officers and soldiers of the First division of the American- exon the are who force,' peditionary point of embarking for home, have sent an open letter of farewell to the French soldiers. The letter expresses' admiration for (he courage and sacri-- 5 troops. fiees of the French " ' ' L ' - Park Closed to Tourists. reHelena The Two Medicine lake been has national In park Glacier gion closed to tourists and campers have been excluded from UPkW-'1,irlK!;- s Unit locality hecause'f the forest fires are destroying some of the most boun.1 tiful country In the purk.v Tampico Robbers Executed.- f -- I Galveston, Texas. Seven of tlu Mex; from sailors robbed who Wildcatters. bandits Texaa lean Investigating the United States crulsey (heyenpe soiqe off Tampico last month have been ap- fifty complaints: of--, the) fialq of wild b.v (lie prehended and jPUt to deatlj, cat" oil stocks In the Texas oil fields Carranza authorities, according lo an have been started by the federal trade official report. v t' t commission. 2 J S i It Kaisers Nephew to Change Name. Detroit Count Johann AVIHiolm von ' Lowenel-- i Brandeuhurg-Ilohen.ollern- . said lo be a nephew of the former kaiser of Germany by his own, tidjids. slon, has filed application In the probate court to hnvo hls.nuipe cbujiged to Vaughn Lionel. Two Dead In Riot. m ' nttsbuig. Two persons were ulmt to death and a number of others Injured in n labor riot at the entrance of tho Allegheny Coal & Coho urns ps'v mine near Krakctuiilgc. Plan to Float Irish- Loan. New York. The Irish republic mission bus announced the opening of headwork of quarters here to carry on the Irish republic' $1J,000,0(KI the floating bond Issue to be undertaken by ua American commission. . Wales to Make vwahda. York. Members of tho 27ll division who won British medals tot bravery during tho war will receive their awards at the hands of the Prince of AVales when the royal visitor arrives in New York. t New |