YEAR 86: THE VE STATE PLATFORM They Have Formed 2 Municipal League And Will Nominate Civic Candidates. OPPOSED 10 ACCLAMATIONS WANT THE SELECTION OF BEST MEN POSSIBLE. To Establish Fair Prices Committee and to Stand for Fair and Equit- able Assessment of All Property. The Veterans of Kingston have taken the plunge into the sea of municipal affairs. During the past two weeks conferences have taken place between representatives of the local associations and as a result a Veterans' Municipal League, made up of the twe orgamizations, has been formed. At & meeting of the league held on Saturday evening the follow- ing platform was presented by a sub- committes, and was enthusiastically adopted The Veterans believe that with this broad platform they will ba able to elect some of their candidates to the city council, and a sub-com- duittee Is at present at work prepar- ing a list of candidates. "Believing taat the soldier who hag rendered every service and sacrifict for Canada has a perfect take every interest in the government of every part and portion of the country for which he fought, parti- cularly the part in which he and his family lve, the Veterans' Associa- tions have formed themselves into a Veterans' Municipal Committee for the purpose of endeavoring to give to the city of Kingston the best poss- ible and most eificient system of municipal govesnment, combined with reasonable economy, and with- out distinction of class, creed or ori- ginal nAtionality. Feeling this to be our auty, we 'nténd taking a part in the coming municipal election in an effort to secure the following bene- fits: 1--Capable men as aldermen for every ward. * 2~--No acclamations by arrange- ments or "slate making." 3+--A representation in the city council of the Veterans of Kingston without seeking to create a privi- ieged soldier class. 4--City government and adminis umtion tor the whole of the people. §---The selection of the pest poss- ible material for the Board of Hdu- cauvion and the Board of Health. "%--To see that every nomination right to | he Daily British Whig ey PAGES 11 | -- a -------------------------------------------------------- KINGSTON, ONTARIO,' TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11 , 1919, tte ------ [MINE WORKERS WILL | OBEY THE MANDATE MEMBERS OF ONTARIO'S NEXT CABINET. The Order For the Strike Has Been Recalled--Will Obey the Government. } (Canadian Press Despatch) Indfanapolis, Nov. 11.--The Unit- | ed Mine Workers of America through the general committee decided early today to obey the mandate of the | United States District Judge A. B. Anderson which means the recall of the order for the strike of 425,000 bitumipious coal miners. The decis- lon was reached at 4.10 o'clack this morning after more than seventeen { hours discussion. The - conference | then adjourned until two o'clock this | { afternoon ] | Tresidént John Lewis of Mine ; | Workers made the following state- ment: "Gentlemen, we will comply with the mandate of the court: we { do. it under protest. We are Ameri- | cans. We can not t our govern- { ment. That is all." i The original demands of the Mine | Workers of America, which brought | iabout the stnike of approximately 425,000 bituminous coal miners of the United St , were drafted by the scale committee of Cleveland con- | i vention of organization held last i September. The main points of the { miners' demands included sixty per jcent. increase of wages, six-hour day {trom bank to bank, a five-day week | and time and a half for overtime and on Sundays and legal holiday THE BONE-DRY BILLS HAVE NOW BECOME LAW They Had a Stormy Passage | Through the Senate on Monday. (Canadian Press Tiespateh) i Ottawa, Nov. 11 --Inquiries re-| celved lere indicate that confusion exists in the popular mind as to the! {Statutes of inter-provincial liquor | shipments The belief seems to be! held that the war time prohibition orders were made effective for twelve months after the declaration of peace, {but the legislation with that purpose Was never passed and, therefore, as Soon as peace is proclaimed importa- tion of Hquor by private persons will be permissible until such time as a provincial plebiscite, held by the Do- tminion Government upon the request | of a provincial legislature declares] against such importation, and the! {Dominion Government thereupon is- {sues a oclagation forbidding it. Survivifg a stormy passage through the Senate, the (Government's two measures to enact conditional pro- 'hibition fon Canada became law when the governbr-genmeral afixed his sig- nature after five o'clock yesterday af- | {ternoon, The Semate vote was 18 Whom Mr. Drury ito 12, Sm ---------------- ! STOCK MARKETS, {Quotations Fumished by iF. member for North Wentworth, On the lower left is Beniah Becretaryship of the Province. | bers In the House, and who is to be the Minister of Labor, is shown ims . Manning Doherty, Above are photos of six of the nine men who will constitute the U. O.-Labor Government of Ontario, under E. C. left is Premier Ernest C. Drury, of Barrie, Centre Simeoe in the House. Immediately below is F. Drury. On the upper who will likely represent C. Biggs, N. F. 0. who may be Minister of Public Works. Bowman, U. F 0. member for Manitoulin, announced to have accepted the portfolio of {ests and Mines. Peter Smith, U, F. O. : r | Perth, on the upper right, is the itkely choice for the For- of or mem- and Labor ba | Bongard, | mediately beneath. Bagot i nd on Ryerson & Co., 237 centre iu the eity I¥ properly manned | Street. | mext Minister of Agriculture, Sa whom Mr. Drury also named as THE NEXT STEP 1S DEPORTATION 'Raids And Amests Throughout United | States Checkmate Bolshevik. HLS ISD CROWDED WITH ALLEGED REDS AWAITING i DEPORTATION. Prisoners Claim They Entered States Illegally in Order to be Deported Instead of Having to Face Charges of Anarchy. Washington, Nov. 11.--Raids on | headquarters of members of the Union of Russian Workers, who plot- ted to destroy the Government, are practically complete and the next step is deportation of the ringleaders, {it was learned at the Department of | | Justice. ) | Immigration Commisloner Camin- {ette already has obtained a number of deportation orders and more will {be issued as soon as tabulated. | The further Federal agents went | into the Russian conspiracy the more {they were impressed by the serious- | ness of the plot, according to word |to-day. There is no idea that their | revolutionay move would have had a | chance of success, but it is admitted ! { it would have caused many riots and { probably great destruction and loss | | of life if not halted. i Deporting the 'Reds." | New York, Nov. 11.--FEllis Island {18 "crowded" with alleged "Reds" {awaiting deportation, according to {immigration officials. | This statement was informally {made in' explaining why they con- {ducted fn New York police head- | quarters the examination of thiFty- {seven additional prisoners taken in { raids by the 'police yesterday. They {refused to say how many deportees were held at the island. Prisoners taken yesterday claimed that they had entered this country i1- legally in order to be deported rather than face charges of criminal anar- chy. It was to determine. whether thelr claims were true that immigra- tion officials examined them. After the Ringleaders. » Chicago, Nov. 11.-----Sedarch for five dlleced ringleaders, believed to be in '| hiding here, continues in the drive against "Reds" under Edward J.f Brennan, Department of Justice chief wa; 1 ue this will be carried out LAST EDITION. {MAY UNITE TERMINALS i OF G.T. AND C.N. RS. wea sees rs HIE COMMISSION rami |) BE RETAINED Brockville, Nov. 11.--In local rail. | | road circles it is regarded as highly i bable th ith th sition | (bythe Goversment of" the. Graga | II 106 Management of Gas And Water As Well as Eleciricity. -- | Trunk Railway system now assured, (COUNCIL 1S UNANIMOUS i ------ {one of the developments of im. | portance to Brockville will de a un- IN DECIDING NOT TO PUT BX. LAW TO PEOPLE. sion of the terminals of the G. T. jand the Canadian National Rail- in { futfire, possibly within the next few {mionths, is regarded ws almost a { certainty, in view of the fact that jah roads will be under the con- itrol of the Government, and that - a { consolidation of the two terminals | Chairman R. F. Elliott Defends the { will mean considerable saving in Work of the Commission--Gas and the way of maintenance. - The con- Water Rates Shortly to be Reduc- { clusion of the scheme hinges on od 1 | what disposition may be made of | Soi . : | the proposal to electrify the Brock-| Government of Kingston's three j ville and Westport sub-division of | public utilities by commission is to [Be ON. Raflways, a scheme intro-| continue, and the ratepayers are not UC some months ago by Mayor W. % » a {A. Lewis, and regarding which muni- | '° D® asked whether they Fould lke { eipalities along the route of the rail- | 10 divorce the gas and water depart: | Way are being consulted ments from the electrical part of the . Should electrification of this | utilities. After an able defence of ranch line be carried out, as the taxi ~ > | bBosters of the scheme hope. the C hi C ommission by Chairman R. ¥ {N. Railway terminals will no doubt | Elliott, Ald. Graham withdrew the | remain where they are at present lo- | by-law he presented to city couneil cated, and use of electric locomotives Monday night for a second reading on the line would result in a saving 2 it t r ) . through anion of the engine shops. | y Place the matter before the elect | ors at the January elections. The debate upon the guestion 'was | BRITISH LABOR full of "pep," and the two council } WINS OUTWORKS| veterans, Elliott and Graham, play- - ° season- |p paratory to Storming Main| 4 up 30 tach other like 3 ae n Defence at General Ja LE en mat Election Elliott had the floor for an hour and shibubderigin a half, and his presentation of the | London, Nov. 11.--The view held | matter won over all those aldermen | in some quarters that the next Brit-| who had felt inclined to place the | ish Government would be a Labor gas and water depiftments hack un- j one, or in any case a coalition of La- | der council management. Ald. Gra- { bor and Liberalism, was strengthen- | ham heckled the utilities chairman {ed last week by the remarkable! for nearly an hour, with Maydr New- | gains made by Labor candidates in| man doing his level best to keep the | the borough council elections in Eng- | Board of Works administrator in or- { land. As compared with the former |der. Chairman Elliott stood the { total of forty-eight seats in London, | gaff like an old-time aldermanio i the workingmen's representatives | fighter, and met retort with retort. {BOW have 573, while only a few Finally as he proceeded to show how | towns in the country failed to show | well the utilities had been managed, | Labor gains, even such centres of! that reductions in gas and water | culture and fashion as Oxford and | rates were shortly to be made and | Cambridge, and Bath and Brighton | how costly it would de to separate | following the general lead. The the management of the utilities, the Times' comment was that Labor had council was unanimous in deciding carried the outworks of the Govern-{ that it would not be in the interests ment, SE {of efficiency or economy to make Labor matters were generally in | any change. the limelight during the work. Ani Chairman Elliott made .a telling industrial measure providing for | defence of the body over which he voluntary arbitration of wage and presided, although he. clearly inti- hour disputes; but compulsory ag! mated that it did not matter to the cqfitance of ar don decisions was; Commission wh 3 ot, introduced by thé Government, but | reiteved of the gas an®l water 5 was emasculated as the result of the | Commissioners Rigney and Hewitt emphatic refusal of the Laborites to| were also present, and General Man- ---------- X nin | relinquish the strike weay - It will | ager Folger throughout the discus. | now provide only for permanent in-{ sion aided the chairman in present: is in the lower right of the picture, SAY GEN. YUDENITCH WILL RESUME FIGHT Bolsheviki Harder Hit by Cold Weather Than Their Opponents. investigator here. A dozen of Department of Justice agents attended radical meetings here yesterday in an effort to locate several members of the Union of Russian Workingmen. A big meeting of 2,500 radicals was held in Carmen's Auditorium with "Big Bill" Haywood as princi' oh Bomingtion day so us to make fm- | possible such acclamations as may |* Tesuit in placing incompetent men in | the city council or the Board of Edu- [Atchison . cation. iB. &O. +... 7--To co-operate with all classes iICPR. ... of citizens for the purpose of estadb- (Ny. .. a lishing and meintaining an efficient Southern Pac. and creditable municipal government So. Railway { dustrial court of arbitration with no! ing the faéts. compulsory features. NP A REVOLUTION P07 DOCUMENTS SHOW BLOODY New York Stocks. Opening 90 te <- BROKEN HEADS; es i Chairman Elliott Opens, Chairman Elliott ssid he did nol appear to make any apologies or to defend any action of the Commission, | which was, like ths council, respon- sible to the people and the people te ven wy in keeping with the requirements of our city. 8§--To secure the appointment and maintenance of an industrial com- missioner whose entire time and energy shall be spent in seeking and securing new and profitable indus tries for the oity of Kingston. $--To have the city council take advantage of existing federal legis- dation and establish a "fair prices" mmittes to prevent unjust inflation a exaction in all~things essential to decent living. 10---To stand for fair, honest and equitaMle assessment of all property, #0 that the burden of taxation shall | . be equally distributed, and to ask from the Dominion Government re- imbursement for all losses in taxa- tion on Government property, follow- ing the trestment of the city of Ot- tawa in this particular. 11+-~To favor any practical and ble scheme which will provide omes for our needs and provision for a greater growth in our popula- tion. 12--To secure the co-operation of the public press in every effort to awaken the public conscience to the need for a bigger and better city, which we feel confident is possible, SOLD VE CORK ERS GIVE CON ANiNG {Lalon Pacific ... jatluntic Guif ..., .. Marine ... ... ... {Maxine prd. ... . Gen. Motors .... ,. | Maxwell Motors ... {Studebaker ... ,.. | Willys-Overland {Am. Loco. As Result of Pica in 'France. iilalawin Loco. -s : . EE THE WORDS OF A SOCIALIST 683 i jApaconda ... ... . } i | i Came... ... ..... a {inspiration ... ... 571 "PEASANTS, THE LAND IS YOURS; 1 § : YOU MUST TAKE IT." 101351 {Ttah Copper... .. Batkhlehem, Steel, "B ), ------ Crucible ... .... 225°; | The National Council of Women is [AHavale ... .., .. a3 | Appealing to the Voters Demand: iRep. Steel ... .... 1058 ing the t [AllisChalmers .. . 45% 44% 1% the Right to Vote--Prohibition Am. Cas. ... ... a Plank in Its Platform. 58% | (Am. Car Fdy. . 135 Canadian Despatch) {Ind. Alcohol ... Parls, Nov. 11 political cam- 113% | | Am. Sumatra ... baign continués with unabated T {Tobacco Prods. ... throughout France. M. Brien | of the most extreme Socialist depu- ties in the last chamber, who is seek- Ing re-election, sald at Moulins yes terday: "Peasants the land is yours. You must take it. No more chateau 3 no more landlords.' Although many riots and personal encounters have taken place, mo deaths have been reported, but there Yo Kagidiy 1 - have been many broken heads ¥hd s y roving. ital o Ottawa, Nov. Sir Rost Bor. Rosai Nat Council of Women in den is understood to be improving under presidency of Mad~ rapidly in health, and is expected We of back in Ottawa before Christmas. His has peal to the voters deman return is expected to be followed hy 1 a numer of important developments. | right of women to vote, This placarged ; 128% 1.35: Bs | 108 | HOSPITAL CASES I rE ALTE egg. "sw Brompton ... ,. +s 82B, Can. Steamship, pd." 8535 Can. Loco. ... .... 100 Can. Cement. .. .. TI Domi. Steel ... .... 71% Quebec Ry. ... ... 240. Steel of Canada . 74% 0. Wabasso Cotton ... 1040. Reval, Nov. 11.--One of the re- fugees who escaped from Gatchina when it was evacuated and joined Yudenitoh's forces, said that when Yudenitch took the offensive against Petrograd the Soviets decided that it was impossible to hold the entire city, and intended to evacuate the southern half and hold the northern bank of the Neva. Barricades were erected in the Streets and the bridges were mined. Women were not mobilized by sol- diers, but were made to perform all manner of work. Some of the Soviet commissioners committed sui- cide, and the Bolshevik soldiers were disatfected for 'a time. Later, how- ever, discipline prevailed, and they fought well. : 3 General Yudenitch informed the Associated correspondent that after the retreat his troops lacked food and munitions. The general, however, did not think the operations would be to the cold weather, which. pal speaker. "'The American Legion are cooties," was one of Haywood's statements. Brennan refused to give out any information regarding "Reds" seis- ed in raids up to date. | NEWS IN BULLETIN. The Prince of Wales entered the United States at Rouse's Point, N.Y., Monday night and was greeted by Secretary Lansing. Three hundred and one anarchists have been rounded up . throughout the United States and are being held on deportation charges. Two men were killed near Parry Sound on Monday while hunting deer. One was from Detroit and the other a resideat of Parry Sound. After signing the conditional pro- Sibitian measures, the Governor- prorogued Parliament at five o'clock Monday Totals of the Victory Loan appli cations to Monday night are: On- Sa aT haa1.000; Canada, $346,- » . Stats only, but he would be glad to give all\thé light possible. It did not matter to the Commission what se- tion was taken in regard to taking the gas and water departments from commission government. H the council, after due consideration, and eliminating the petty criticism heard, thought that the Commission hed not done its duty in its management of the public utilities then it would only be doing its duty in moving inst 'it. Aga 18 there had PLANS OF RUSSIAN WORKERS Armed Revolt of Masses Advocated ==Purpose to Destroy All Property Rights and Authority in United States Revealed. 'Washington, Nov. 11.--Plans of the Union of Russian Workers to bring about an overthrow of the gov- ernment through a general strike is revealed in documents. seized in the nation-wide raids of federal authori: Mr. Elliott said that ties, Friday and Saturday nights and been many mis-stitements made made public by Assistant Attorney | ahout the Utilities Commission by General Garvan. i people who did not take the trouble With the government overthrown | to find out the real facts .One com- and everything "wiped from the plaint made in the council was that earth that is a reminder of the right the Commission was stealing water to private ownership of property," | from the waterworks by pumping the the Russian workers, according to gas holder full of water. What are their manifesto, looked forward to the facts? The gas & ment pays the magnificent beautiful work, of | for the water pumped into the tank. an without a God, without a mas-| The utilities accountant had prepar- ter and free of authority." ed a statement showing that the gas The documents and publications | department was charged with $365 obtained in the raids, officials said last year for water pumped into the today, are of the most inflammatory | old gas tank. This Year $100 had nature and make no effort to conceal | go far been charged 19 thinfus depart- the union's programme of destruc-|ment for water pi into the new tion and death to achieve its ends.!tank. "Much of the material made public "Where did we is old leaky is of such a nature as to cause gas tank?' Mr. Elliott hsked. "We any newspaper reprinting it to be| got it as a legacy from barred from the mails. council," he repted. Included among the documents! It has been charged seized, all of which are printed ia! mission has sq Russian, is Novomirsky--manifesto! the new gas tank, Mr. J of anarchists communists." This| But what would have said had publication, the most recent put out | the Comm! not aw the con- by the union, way sald by Mr. Garvan | tract to the lowest tenderer, who was to be the most dangerous piece of | $7,000 below the nest tenderer? da ever disseminated by any | The contractor bulit & isaky tank, | organization in the United | and the Commission Had to put in & 0. steel lining. The contractors on this The manifest outlines the purpose | steel work 1 that they of the movement inaugurated by the | would make the union as "complete destruction of | afl private control of natural resources | issio and capital and complete destruction; $3.000 above the of of rule and the institutions invested | tions. At present w powers to enforce rule of one the tank, the I over another." \ t the Com- monéy on jott sald. it 'would be absolu tight. . Regandin Sin Hecti ing the wu - onl on , Mr. Eiliott ssid that the ob- of the removal Was to get a de on for 'electrical ap- 3 ro-Ejfctric dofie so People up town yy esting against having to downtown to the city buildings fo their month iy accounts, and A central of tice this city.