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THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1922
NUMBER 206
' LA FOLLETTE ATTACKS SUPREME COURT
DEMOCRA TS SEE VICTOR YIN IOWA PRIMAR Y VOTE
M’CUMBER PRESENTS BONUS BILL; DEMOCRATS HALT IT
G. O. P. CANDIDATE IN IOWA
DEFEATED BY PROGRESSIVE
DES MOLVES. June 8—Col. S.
W. Brookhart. a progressive, has
•won out in a six cornered race for
the Republican nomination for U. S.
senator, to fill the unexpired term
of former Senator Kenyon, who is
’ now federal judge.
Brookhart defeated, among others,
the candidate of the G. O. P. or
ganization, but he has been assured
by Senator McCormick, chairman of
the Republican senatorial campaign
committee, that he will receive the
support of the Republican organiza
tion during the fall campaign.
Was A Great Victory
WASHINGTON, D. C., June S—
Chairman Humm, of the Democrat
ic national committee, has issued a
statement in which he declares the
nomination of Brookhart, in Iowa,
is “even a more emphatic repudia
tion of the Harding administration
and the Republican Congress than
Hie support given Beveridge and
Pinchot”.
Continuing, the chairman said:
“President Harding has said the
Cummins act is the greatest piece
^ of railroad legislation ever passed,
and Brookhart ran on a platform
pledged to repeal the act. His plat
form not only was progressive, but
progressive, in some features, to the
point of radicalism, including in
dorsement of the “agricultural bloc"
which was denounced by Harding;
co-operative buying and selling, con
trol of the federal reserve board
by the producers, and government
ownership of railroads”.
MOTHERS BREATHE EASIER;
* SWISS WOOER IS DEPORTED
WASHINGTON, D. C., June S—
August Probst, Swiss butler whose
heart affairs with Pittsburg society
girls recently caused widespread at
tention, was deported this week on
the steamship Mauretania. This ac
tion was taken by the immigratior.
authorities on the grounds that the
gifted wooer had entered the United
States without a passport.
While awaiting deportation at El
lis Island, Probst attempted to
commit suicide, but his action was
more spectacular than serious, and
did not delay his departure.
LEWIS WINS FROM CADDOCK
BOSTON, June 8—Strangler Lew
is. heavyweight wrestling champion,
defeater Ear! Caddoek, former title
♦ holder, in two falls out of three in ■
a largely attended bout here last
night. In the semi finals John Pesek
defeated Nick Davis Court.
AMERICAN MARINES DROWN
VLADIVOSTOK. June 8—Nearly
a score of enlisted men from the
gunboat New Orleans are believed to j
have been drowned as the result of
a sailing accident on Saturday in
Siberia. No trace of them can be
>. found.
DEPOSED MINISTER MOBBED
LAWTON, Okla., June 8— Re v .
Thomas Irwin, who resigned the
pastorate of the First Presbyterian
church several days ago, after he!
had been charged with conduct un
becoming a minister, was attacked
and beaten by unknown parties,
last night while motoring near the
outskirts of the town. The matter j
was reported to the police and an
investigation is now in progress.
BAD NEWS FOR DAWSON
DAWSON, June 8—Local officials
have been notified by Collector of \
Customs McBride, of Juneau, that |
an embargo will be placed on June j
15 on all liquor passing through
American territory for the Canadian 1
Yukon, except such liquor as may j
be intended for medicinal purposes, j
As all of the Yukon’s liquor now j
passes across American territory.
"f the embargo will have the effect of
drying up the country or forcing j
Yukoners to hunt out an all-Can
adian route of import.
SENATOR SENSES MENACE IN
RULING IN CORONADO CASE
SENATOR TAKES EXCEPTION
TO SUPREME COURT RULING
WASHINGTON. D. June 8—
Declaring that the decision of the i
supreme court of the United States
in the Coronada coal case, which
was handed down this week, is
“most ominous in what it foresha
dows for union labor in this coun
try”, Senator La Follette, of Wis
consin, made a statement here yes-1
terday in which he criticises the
jurists in no unmistaken terms.
The senator declared that the
opinion is “significant because of
what the court says on questions
not involved in the case rather than
because of anything actually decid
ed.” He asserted that the court
went out of its way to berate the
United Mine Workers, characteriz
ing the members as outlaws and I
murderers.
Companies Not Satisfied
FORT SMITH, Ark.. June 8—
Counsel for the coal companies in
terested have announced that they
will ask for a rehearing in the
Coronado coal case, in which the
coal companies sought to recover
from the international and district
organizations of the United Mine
W orkers.
The supreme court, wh'le holding
that labor organizations are liable
under the Sherman act. dismissed
the action against the international
organization on the ground that the
Arkansas strike of 1914 was not
authorized by international officers.
Review Of The Case
The ‘‘Coronado Case” was the
name applied to one of the most
famous proceedings to reach the su
preme court within recent years. The
fame arose not only from the long
period it remained on the docket,
but from its importance, involving
as it did the question of whether
organized labor, as represented in
the United Mine Workers of Ameri
ca, could be prosecuted under the
Sherman anti-trust law for restraint
of interstate commerce resulting
from strikes.
The coronado and associated coal
companies of Arkansas instituted in
the U. S. district court for Arkan
sas, civil proceedings against the
United Mine Workers to recover
treble damages under the Sherman
act for property losses suffered by
them during a strike in the Arkan
sas coal fields in 1914. The coal
companies alleged that the United
Mine Workers had unlawfully con
spired to suppress non-union com
petition, and that the destruction of
the property had been resorted to
with attendant restraint of inter
state commerce, to accomplish that
end. The decision of the court, dis- I
missing the suit, was set aside by,
the U. S. circuit court and in the1
same court, on second trial, before
a different federal judge, the jury j
found that the destruction of the
mine property was due to a con
spiracy to prevent the mining of
coal by non-union labor, and had re
sulted in a restrain of interstate '
commerce. The jury placed actual
damages at $300,000, which were
trebled by the court, under the Sher
man law. The award, affirmed by
the circuit court of appeals, was
brought to the supreme court by
the labor unions on the ground that
being incorporated, they could not
be sued.
The conspiracy was alleged by the
Arkansas mine owners to have been
an outgrowth of the standard wage
scale and hours of labor conferences
held by the labor leaders and the
mine operators in the Central Com- j
petitive Field, beginning in 1898.;
during which the union miners had j
mpressed upon them the importance
af removing the competition of non
anion mines. It was asserted that the j
aperators at these conferences em-'
ahasized that unless the competition j
vas removed, wage scale and hours
af labor agreements could not be
maintained. Union labor was called 1
jpon at these meetings, it was said, !
■o formulate a policy for reducing
.he competition, and announced that
he non-union mines would be union
zed or closed.
This decision by the United Mine
Vorkers constituted a conspiracy, it
was charged, which became unlawful
when the acts of the labor leaders
to suppress non-union competition,
failed to unionize the mines, and re
sulted in acts of violence which
caused a restraint of interstate
commerce.
Union leaders throughout the pro
ceedings asserted that labor unions
had been declared by the Clayton
act to be exempt from prosecution
as “illegal combinations or conspir
acies in restraint of trade”. They in
sisted that it was legitimate for
them to remove non-union competi
tion when possible by strikes aimed
to extend their organization. If they
had been guilty in 1914 of an un
lawful conspiracy under the Sher
man law, the suit against them had
been improperly brought, they as
serted, because the coal operators
of the Central Competitive Field had
not been joined with them as de
fendants, although they had been
equally as insistent and active at
that time as the labor organiratiofts
in having all mines unionized.
The destruction of mine property
during the Arkansas strikes was not
due to a conspiracy, the labor unions
insisted, but was beyond their con
trol, being an uprising of the en
tire countryside in protest against
depredations alleged to have been
committed by non-union workers
and by reports that women and
children had been insulted and at
tacked by armed mine guards. Offi
cers of the United Mine Workers
protested that the strike had not
been called, indorsed or financed by
them but was under the jurisdiction
of District 21. and that their failure
to discipline union miners partici
pating in the strike, or repudiate
alleged unlawful acts of their mem
bers, did not make the national or
ganization liable under the Sherman
law.
The coal companies asserted that
the national organization and none
of its branches at no time took any
action to expel, suspend or disci
pline any of its officers or members,
although its national treasury had
paid the counsel fees of union mem
bers "who had confessed their par
ticipation in unlawful acts”, when
criminally prosecuted, the fines im
posed. and extended union benefits
j to those imprisoned. This constitut
I ed, the mine owners insisted, a re
J cognition by the United Mine Work
| ers of the organization’s responsi
j bility for the acts of its members
| during the strike,
i The Bache-Denman Company and
| eight subsidiaries, five of them oper
| ating companies, closely allied by
j corporate ownership, all located in
• Prairie Creek Valley, Arkansas, had
| a group of mines in Arkansas which
! had been operated as union mines
until March. 1914, when two of them
w^ere closed temporarily, preparatory
to reopening with non-union labor.
The Coronado mine had a contract
with union labor which did not ex
pire until the following ,July. but
two days after one of the two closed
mines opened with non-union miners
in April, the union workmen of the'
Coronado mine struck. Disorders and
j violence immediately followed, com
pelling all the mines to close, a ban
j ner being erected bearing the in
iscription: "This is a union man’s
I country”.
Work was resumed under an in
junction, and there was no further
; trouble until the night of July 14,
w*hen an armed mob surrounded the
non-union mines. The mine owners
charged that arms and ammunition
were purchased by the secretary of
District 21, upon a check signed
by the president of the union. At
daybreak one of the mines was at
tacked, several of its employes killed
others driven away, the mine dyna
mited and flooded, buildings de
stroyed and a car load of coal set
on fire. Attacks upon other mines,
including the Coronado, followed It
was not until October that further
attempts, which also proved unsuc
cessful, were made to operate the
mines. In November Federal troops
arrived. In the meantime the leaser
of the coal companies had been can
celled and a receiver appointed.
NEW PLANE IS GIVEN TEST;
AXLE BREAKS IN LANDINC
CAMP LEWIS, June 8—After ;
successful flight, during which th<
machine reached a height of tei
thousand feet, a new army pursui
plane, the first of a number of net!
planes developed since the armistice
snapped an axle in making a land
ing and was completely wrecked
Lieutenant John W. McCready, pilo
was slightly hurt in the mixup.
The plane was being tested fo:
the first time when the accident oc
curred.
STATE OF WASHINGTON TO
EJECT JAPS FROM FARM'
SEATTLE, June 8—Prosecuting
Attorney Douglas has announcec
that he is ready to file the first oi
a series of suits to oust Japane
from agricultural lands in King
county, which they are now hold
ing in violation of the state anti
alien land law.
There are ninety-one cases unde;
investigation and some of the rich
est land in the county is involved
TAXES WILL BE REFUNDED
WASHINGTON, D. C. June S—
President Harding has asked Con
gress for a deficiency appropriatior
of twenty-eight million dollars foi
the refunding of taxes illegally coi
lected by the Government during
the fiscal year ending last June.
i PRESIDENT HOST AT PARTY
. TO CRIPPLES OF THE WAR
i WASHINGTON, D. C., June 8—
.j The lower house of Congress halted
i work yesterday while Representative
; Schell, of Minnesota, himself blind,
■ paid tribute to a large delegation
, of blind former service men who
gave their sight as their contribu
tion toward winning the late war.
Two thousand disabled Veterans
were guests of President and Mrs.
•: Harding during the afternoon at a
‘ garden party at the White House.
STEAMERS ENROUTE NORTH
WITH FIRST OF TOURISTS
SEATTLE, June 8—The Alaska
tourist season was inaugurated yes
terday when the steamers Alameda
, and Jefferson sailed for the North
with tourists from all parts of the
country, the majority of whom are
round trippers.
The J efFerson has a list of fifty
round trippers and the Alameda
twenty-six. Most of the voyagers
are from the West and Middle West.
PAPER PLANT BURNS
PITTSBURG, June 8—A general
alarm called of the city’s fire ap
paratus to the plant of the Young
Paper Company today. Five men,
including K. H. Young, president of
the company, were taken to a near
by hospital as the result of explo
sions in the tar section of the plant
immediately after the fire started, i
'SENATE COMMITTEE PLANS |
INCLUDE WORK ON SHIPS
—
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 8—!
Work on all naval vessels permitted j
under the Arms conference treaty, i
will proceed at the present rate,
with no reduction of forces in any;
private or Government yards, under i
the revised naval appropriations bill
just completed by the senate appro- j
priations sub-committee.
The bill does not provide funds fori
the three additional Pacific coast'
bases requested by the navy depart- i
ment.
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DAUUGHERTY LIKES HIS JOB;
SAYS HE’S GOING TO STICK
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 8—
Questioned today regarding reports
of his contemplated resignation as
a member of the cabinet, Attorney
General Harry Daugherty said “there
never was a time when I would have
given thirty cents to get the office
of attorney general, but I wouldn’t
take a million for it now”.
IRISH ELECTION DIVIDED
DUBLIN, June 8—Complete re
turns of nominations for the forth
coming Irish elections show a total
of thirty-four candidates for mem
bership in Dail Eirreann, of whom
seventeen are pro-treaty and seven
teen opposed to the treaty. There
was no opposition.
GOVERNMENT MAKES EFFORT
TO END THE COAL STRIKE
WASHINGTON. D. C., June 8—
Secretary of Commerce Hoover, in
a report submitted to the senate
yesterday, disclosed for the first time
that he and Secretary of Labor
Davis had sought recently to pre
sent suggestion which, they hoped,
would lead to a settlement of the
coal strike. He informed the senate,
however, that their efforts thus far
had been without result.
The report gave the members of
the senate their first intimation that
the Government had sought to inter
vene in the coal strike.
DAWSON REPORTS BUSINESS
BOOMING ALONG THE YUKON
DAWSON, June 8—With the gen
eral opening of navigation, business
is booming in the Yukon section,
with more freight accumulated at
WTiitehorse for various Yukon points
than has been recorded any spring !
during the last ten years.
Unusually heavy bookings of pas
sengers are reported by the White ‘
Pass Route.
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JAP CRISIS NOT IMPORTANT I
TOKIO, June 8—The treaties and <
igreements reached at the W'ashing- <
ton Arms conference will not be af
fected by the Japanese cabinet <
rrisis, according to a decision reach- 1
;d by the privy council. i (
M’CUMBER PRESENTS BONUS;
DEMOCRATS BLOCK ACTION
Vr ASHIXGTO... D. C., June 8—•
The soldier bonus bill was formally
presented in the upper house of
Congress today, but efforts to place
the measure on the calendar for
future consideration were blocked
by Democratic leaders.
Taking advantage of the senate
rule requiring unanimous consent to
place a bill on the calendar, Sen
ator Harrison, of Mississippi, pre
vented progress of the bonus bill
beyond presentation and, when Sen
ator McCumber announced that he
would make another attempt later
in the day to place the measure on
the calendar. Senator Oscar Under
wood, Democratic leader, declared
that he would block *v" bill. He ex
plained that he would be glad to
have the bill lay over until after
the November election so that the
people of the country might have a
chance to voice their sentiments.
Senator McCumber explained that
he hoped that reductions in the ex
penses of the Government, plus the
interest payments on the foreign
debt, would prove sufficient for the
financing of the bonus without the
imposition of additional taxes.
In presenting the bill to the sen
ate, Senator McCumber submitted a
a report in which he placed the
probable cost to the Government at
$3,845,659,481, with the payments
spread over a period of forty-three
years from next January. This is
approximately two hundred and fifty
million less than the estimate under
the house bill, which spread the pay
ments over a period if twenty years.
LUYALIPI Uh IKLLAlVU AKt
FORCED TO JOIN REBELS
LONDON, June 8—-Advices re
ceived in this city from Londonder
ry state that several thousand Re
publicans have concentrated at Rap
poe, County Donegal, armed with
the latest American rifles. It is al
reported that the Republican force
on the northern side of the Derry
Donegal border are conscripting the
Loyalists, who believe they are go
ing to be used as a screen in an at
tack on Londonderry.
British Troops Advance
BELFAST, June 8—The British
troops have advanced and captured
the Belleek salient from the Repub
lican forces.
The Sinn Fein invaders also have
been driven from their main posi
tions in Ulster territory and a large
part of the border between North
ern and Southern Ireland. The bat
tle front is growing shorter daily
How Can It Be
LONDON, June 8—-According to
official announcement made here
this afternoon, the Irish negotiations
ire proceeding satisfactorily.
HARTMAN TAKES OVER CABLE
SEATTLE. June 8—A Washingtor
special to the Times says Colonel
John S. L. Hartman, of the cavalry,
las been detailed to duty with the
dgnal corps and ordered to assume
,-harge of the Washington-Alaska
military cable system, with head
quarters in this city.
UJM1RERS OF AUTO MAKER
START NATION-WIDE MOVE
DETROIT, June 8—Plans for a
lation-wide movement to bring about
he candidacy of Henry Ford for
iresident, were mapped out at a
nass meeting held at Dearborn last
light.
The Ford-for-president club, re
ently formed by neighbors of the
iUto maker, was made a permanent
irganization and it was decided to
iring about the organization of
imilar clubs in every congressional
listrict in the United States.
The Dearborn club has not adopt
d a platform, the members pre
erring to leave Ford free to work,
ut his own ideas.