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WILSON BACK, PLEDGES U. S. TO ALLIES »S ONE BIG UNION CONVENTION SELECTS

urm uLK from hurt GREAT FALLS FOR MEETING IN FALL NATION-WIDE BODY WILL

BE ATTEMPTED TO SET UP COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

Big Fleet of War Craft Meets Returning Executive 30 Miles at Sea and Escorts Him to Hoboken;

Reaches Washington.

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Carnegie Hall, New York, July 8.—President Wilson spoke only ten minutes, saying "a few words from my heart." In his address be declared:

"America will not fail to lend her hand in assistance to those she has made free."

Immediately after he finished Mr. Wilson started for the station to take a spécial train to Washington.

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Washington, July 8.—President Wilson returned to Washing­ton at midi.ight, after an absence of four months at the Paris peace conference. The presidential party was greeted at the sta­tion by a crowd of several thousand persons.

GREETED BY 10,000 CHILDREN New York, July 8.—President Wilson returned to the United

States today, and, in his first speech delivered on American soil since the peace treaty was signed, declared that the peace con­cluded at Paris was "a just peace which, if it can be preserved, will safeguard the world from unnecessary bloodshed."

The only ref ?rence the president made to his political opponents was when, in referring to the negotiations at Paris, he said:

"I am afraid some people, some persons, do not understand that vision. They do not see it. They have looked too much upon the ground. They have thot too much of the interests that were near them, and they have not listened to the voices of their neigh­bors. I»have never had a moment's doubt as to where the heart and purpose of this people lay."

The president arrived at the Hoboken army pier shortly before lock. The transport George Wash­

ington was escorted up the bay by the battleship Pennsylvania and more than a score of destroyers and smaller craft. On the New Jersey shore were massed 10,000 school children who welcomed the chief executive of the nation with the strains of the national anthem.

Thru the lines of the children, all dressed in white, the president passed to j

• the ferry which carried them to the Man­hattan side of the river. He arrived in New York at 4:15 p. in., where he was greeted by the official reception com­mittee bonded by Governor Smith and i Mayor Hylan. From the ferry terminal j to Carnegie hall, a distance of about j three miles, the presidential party passed | thru streets lined with cheering thou- • , , , f .-p . sands of men, women and children. : HeiSinglOrS I TOOpS Are

Anti-Bolshevik Greeting. From the upper windows of the busi- .

ness skyscrapers great showers of con- ! fetti rained upon the president and Mrs. Wilson, literally millions of scraps of ! paper floating thru the air carrying this; inotto: "Everybody's business: To stand 1

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Months Drops in as Tho From Clouds.

Special to The Daily Tiiî i> ' Havre, July 8.—As tho lie

ped from the clouds. Francis walked into the s!o at 10:."i7 today, and surrend being a fugitive from just fo l lowing h is convic t ion ou a horse stealing

Judge Ithoades immedia te ly - en tenced Francis to a term of not los than six nor more than twelve years in the pen­itentiary. J. P. Donnelly, as attorney for Francis, then asked for a certificate <>f probable cause, which Judge ithoades refused, but he granted a stay of pro-

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Noted Havre Fugitive Snapped in Steer-Throwing Stunt in One of Havre Roundups.

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TRIAL OF KAISER STRONGLY OPPOSED

BY BRITISH PRESS Feels It Would Do More Harm Than Good and

Upset London for Time; Lloyd George Had Tacit Consent Only of Allies.

Butte, July 8.—The "one big union" convention, holding its final session here this morning, chose Great Falls as the place for the next convention, which will be held before October 1, the exact date to be decided by the publicity committee. At that time it is planned to effect permanent organization, and delegates from all parts of the country are expected to be in attendance.

A motion to demand that the United States government imme­diately withdraw troops from Russia and recognize the soviet government of Russia was carried by acclamation amid great enthusiasm.

C. W. Hustin, an official of the United Mine Workers of Amer­ica. addressed the convention just prior to its adjournment and predicted complete failure for the one big union movement, stating that the idea was not new and that its failure was already a matter of history in the archives of organized labor. He was several times interrupted by open expressions of !

London, July 8.—Strong opposition ! last week wa* a tacit one, but from ! continues to develop in the Rritjsh press j American source it was learned, today.

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by our government. To he p the soldier get a job. To help crush bolshevism."

The head of the procession was formed by several companies of soldiers and marines, followed by some hundreds of sailors clad in white uniforms. Immedi­ately preceding the presidential car was an automobile filled with secret service agents and the car itself was guarded by the president's personal bodyguard t>f four picked men, one of whom rode t>n each running board thruout the trip.

President Wilson stepped from the gangplank of the transport George Washington, which brot him from France back upon American soil on the Ham­burg-American line pier at Hoboken at n :iîti p. in. today. He was preceded by Mrs. Wilson and Miss Margaret Wilson, who crossed with him. as well as by his two other daughters who had rushed aboard the ship to greet him.

As the transport passed Fort; Han­cock. the guns boomed a presidential salute, echoed ten minutes later by Fort Hamilton and Fort Wadsworth. The shrill whistles of harbor craft took up the din.

The president and Mrs. Wilson stood on the bridge of the George Washington

Paris, July 8.—Approval of a plan for a concerted attack upon Petro­grad by Finnish troops and the forces of the Kolchak government at Omsk was given, today, by the

council of five.

A Joint note has been sent the military attaches of the United States, Great Britain. France and Italy at Helsingfors. instructing them to support the Finnish Govern­

ment if it decided to accede to the request of Admiral Kolchak, to as­sist him in the campaign.

There is no indication that the allied and associated powers pro­pose to go further at this time in helping Kolchak's plan, but their ac­tion in suporting the Finns is re­garded as equivalent to assurances that they will see the Kolchak movement carried thru.

against the project of trying the former German emperor in London, or trying hint at all.

Paris dispatches saying that America and Japan are opposed to the trial and that Italy is lukewarm, apparently had an effect on sentiment here.

Liberal newspapers, such as the Man- j ehester Guardian, the Westminister Ga- ! zette and the Daily News, are leadings the way. with a part of the conservative ;

press taking the same view, that it would i , , ... , ! tend to make the kaiser a martyr among

cccdings, giving the defense fifteen days t l j (. <; (. rmans. prolong the passions of to apply to thp supreme court for a <vr- %var amj Uj )SOt the life of London. It is 1

tifieate of probable cause. Application ajso x\ i a^ the former emperor's ar-for bail for 1 rancis was also denied by j rjvai j i ere might cause unpleasant inci-tlie court pending his application for a dents.

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"Long George" Francis

EVACUATION DECIDED ON Washington, July 8.—Definite infor­

mation that the bolshevik authorities are planning to evacuate Petrograd has been received in ofieial circles here. Decision to quit the capital was said to have been violently opposed by some elements

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the vessel steamed slowly up the har­bor to her pier at Hoboken, convoyed j ëf the government. by destroyers and welcoming craft of all descriptions. The rails of the transport: REVERSES FOR ANTI-S0VIETS. were lined with returning soldiers cheer- r, . , c

ing and waving tbeir caps. j Copenhagen, July 8.—The Esthonian The battleship Pennsylvania bearing ) bureau announces the Russian volunteer

five members of the president's cabinet j jrmy which lias been advancing toward —Daniels, Baker, Lane, Glass and Wil- j Petrograd lias suffered a reverse, son -led the way followed hv the Okla- 11 ,0 volunteers have been obliged to homa with the G Washington at j abandon successively the fortress of her stern. ! Krasnayagorka. opposite Kronstadt, the

Except for the wide lane thru which p?wn °/ Loporja and several stations on the transport passed, the haibor seemed j Jae railway. The bureau says that the literally filled with small craft of every j Russian volunteers are now in full re-kind. A great crowd of weleomers also treat. had assembled on the Staten island shore j and the New Jersey side. ! A London dispatch under date of June

On the pier to meet Mr. Wilson were ! reported receipt of a Russian hoi-

writ of probable cause in the supreme court, on the ground that Francis was a fugitive from justice.

As soon as it became noised around Havre that "Long George" had returned, a big crowd gathered at the court house for a glimpse of this noted character. Francis was attired in a neat fitting blue serge suit and was still wearing the dark brown glasses he wore at his trial. His hair has been carefully clip­ped tight to his head.

Whereabouts a Mystery. Nothing has been learned, as yet,

as to where Francis has spent the last sixteen months and as yet he has re­fused to be interviewed on the subject.

On the eve of February 28, 1018, George Francis was convicted by a Hill county jury of the crime of horse steal­ing. after a sensational trial, in which dozens of witnesses were used by both sides.

At this trial Francis was ably de­fended by Frank Carleton and Joe Don­nelly. of Havre, and Mr. Donneley is still representing Francis. George Ilurd one of the noted criminal attorneys of

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The Evening Standard, conservative, pposes the plan. It says there are prac-

tieal difficulties in arranging the quar­ters for the prisoner and the place of trial, and there is also an unpleasant suggestion coinciding with pagan tri­umph in the project. If there must be a state trial it should not take place in London or any other great business center," it adds.

The Westminster Gazette is one of those holding that the best punishment for the ex-emperor is to leave him in obscurity and the Times gives promi­nence to a letter from Sir Valentine < 'hired, its foreign editor, expressing a fear that the trial might create a "Ho- i henzollern" legand like the Napoleonic | legend and bring upon Great Britain ; odium in Germany and in some neutral | countries and if the prosecution should j fail, it would mean ridicule."

SILENCE TAKEN AS ASSENT. Paris. July 8.—The agreement reach- |

ed by the allied council that the trial j

of Former -Emperor William would be j

held in IAMIOII as announced hv Premier ! Llovd Greorr. in the house of

that the agreement was reach.-d as bald­ing.

VI at purports to an authentic ac­count of the incident in the couo' il upon which the British premier unsed bis statement has become available from a usually reliable source. It is stated that at a meeting of the council last week, the British premier said to his feiiow conferees something about as follows:

"I suppose you have no objection to the trial of the kaiser in London."

The premier looked around the circle, the account continues, and no one ob­jected. Indeed, it is said. Premier Cle-

j menccau gave his verbal approval. ; This tacit agreement was never re-j corded in writing and Sir Maurice Han-I key, the British secretary, did not in-I elude it in his regular report of the | proceedings in the council. The assump-

j tion is, however, that Premier Lloyd j George later had unofficial conversations I on the subject with one or more mem-j bers of the council.

AMER0NGEN NOT DISTURBED. Amerongen, July 8.— (By The Asso-

j ciated Press).—Former Emperor Wil-! liam and his wife are apparently unper-; turbed by the possibility that preceedings ' will be brot by the entente for the ex-; tradition of the former ruler from Hol-| land.

Members of the former monarch's : suite have indicated in conversations with ; the correspondent that it was their opin-j ior. that any proceedings from allied ; quarters would be protracted for many : months, without any certainty that the

Netherlands government would consent to hand the former kaiser over for trial.

They are almost unanimously convinc­ed that they are here for a long so­journ and are making preparations ac-

disapproval and ridicule. The attendance at today's session was ;

a little lighter than yesterday, when j about fifty delegates were seated. The

; delegates represented unions in Butte. : Great Falls, Livingston, Miles City and ! l.ewistown. Points in Oregon. Idaho, j | Washington and Arizona were also rep- ; i resented by a few delegates. Most of ; ! the men seated in the convention were j ; metal or coal miners. The I. W. «W. ! j was represented by a committee, and ! ; members of the organization took a j j prominent part in the sessions. I.W.W, i organizers from outside of this state also j were present.

Among the leaders in the movement j here are Canadians, more or less prom- ; inently identified with the one big union organization of Canada. Joe Knight, a member of the carpenters' union at Win- ; nipeg, took a leading part in the conven­tion and advocated the adoption of the j Winnipeg plan. C. W. Sellers of Wash- j ington and Arizona, who said he was an ' I.W.W.. and C. S. Gatemun of Edmon- ! ton, Alberta, were among the leaders.

Butte Behind Whole Move. Speakers at the convention included

W. F. Dunn of Butte, convicted on ai sedition charge and fined $5.000; It. B. Smith of Butte, recently convicted at Helena on a sedition charge and fined $4.500: J. II. Fisher, a Canadian, and s Tom Campbel l , who, l ike F isher , came j here from Canada.

The one big union convention was I cal ler ! bv the Metal Mine Workers' Union

ITALIANS BITTER

Dozen Colonials Killed; Cry 'Away With Pro-

vocator* Raised.

Paris. July 8.—A commission com­posed of four generals, representing France, Italy. England and the Unit­ed States, has been appointed to in­vestigate the recent incidents at Fiume.

No. 1 of America, of Butte, an independ- | ent organization, of which Campbell is j * 4 ' the leading head. The sessions began ; Sunday and were concluded today. Most of the time was spent in considering the j plan of organization. The constitution j of the Canadian one big union conven-: tion with its preamble were adopted al- i most word for word, the principal change ! being in the amount of pay provided for members of the executive committee. The constitution contains some of the phrases sent out broadcast by the I. W. W.

CRY "DOWN WITH FRANCE." Rome, July 8.-—About a dozen men,

mostly French colonial soldiers, were killed at Fiume during the disorders there in which allied forces and Italians

General Strike Its Principle. The prevailing idea is an organization

to oppose employers and provides a plan for collective bargaining, the demands of one labor group to be supported by every other, and the general strike to constitute a weapon to force compliance institute a weapon to force compliance •

•ii the part of employers. The preamble i ^„a ' , icgins with these words: .

According to dispatches to Giornale D'ltalia, two Frcnch soldiers are alleged to have insulted Italian grenadiers, who remonstrated. The French fired on the grenadiers and then fled to their bar­racks, from which they fired into the crowds that gathered.

In a cafe, w-here many Frcnch congre­gate, and a Jugo-Slav beer garden, one Italian officer, two French soldiers and-several civilians have been wounded.

Altho General Savy, commander of the allied forces in Fiume, ordered his troops to remain in their barracks, three hours later they escaped and became intoxicat­ed and are said to have insulted Italians sitting in cafes. They are also alleged to have fired on a patrol of Italian gren­adiers. who returned the fire, killing one Frenchman. The other two were

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II BITTER DEBATE

LEAGUE DOORS OPEN TITEE TO FROZEN TO AUSlülA LATER; SPITZBERGEN TAKEN

TREATY IS HELD UP UP IT PEACE TABLE

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into two class« societv is divided

news reached the French troops, they rushed to the spot and en-

aged in a violent fusillade with tho 0» Tb. „„„bor «f

and do not possess. Reference is then t i e s in »»»Ipiowii, but it is reported that

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be indescribable. General Graziole, into whose hands

the national council of Fiume placed the control of the city, has arrived and tem­porarily re-established order. There aro repeated cries by the crowds of "Down with France! Away with the provo-catorl"

Vice President Marshall, members of h : s cabinet and scores of prominent govern­ment officials. An army band stationed on the end of the pier played the Star Spangled Banner ns the ship swung in.

Once on the pier the president was greeted by Mr. Marshall, the cabinet of-

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j shevik government wireless message ! claiming the recapture of Krasnavagorka •fortress by the bolsheviki. j An Esthonian dispatch, reaching Lon-j don the same day by way of Stockholm admitted the evaeuatiou of Krasnayagor

j ka after the guns and fortifications had i been destroyed.

Delay in Passage of Enforcement i Boundaries Ques tion Again I Repatriation of Russian Armen-Legislation Will Be Sought

by Opponents.

LOYAL T0WNLEY SPEECHES CANNOT OFFSET DISLOYAL,

COURT SAYS, BARRING ANY Jackson, Minn., July 8.—Efforts by

the defense in the trial of A. C. Town-ley and Joseph Gilbert, Non-Partisan league officials, charged with conspiracy to advocate disloyalty—to place large number of witnesses on the stand to testify as to addresses of Townley which the defense claims were in support of the government during the war, were denied by a court ruling today.

" Local hotels are crowded with Non-Partisan league adherents who have

statements of Townley or Gilbert other than speeches and on occasions specified in the indictment. If the defendants have or have not violated the law on the oc­casions charged, their subsequent acts would have no bearing."

Gilbert, while on the stand, took the league's war program and statement ot principals and analyzed it to tin- iury. He was allowed considerable latitude and at times the defense asserted he was making a speech to the men in the box.

Gilbert declared that the program was heard Townley speak in various parts ' real patriotism as opposed to urofiteer-of the state and who expected to testify

) 1 that their chief had not voiced any anti­war sentiments in their localities. Vi cannot see," said Judge Dean, "that

^j2G>9 courl can allow evidence regarding

ing, and severely censured eoroorations for alleged excessive war profits, made, he said, while washerwomen were asked to buy government bonds on the install­ment plan.

Washington, July 8. —By a vote of j to •"»!>, the house today adopted a I resolution providing for immediate con­sideration of prohibition enforcement j legislation, as recommended by the i judiciary committee and limiting gen-j eral debate to l 'J hours.

The resolution was passed after a I sharp debate. House leaders expect that ! a vote on the bill will be reached either j

j Friday or Saturday, after a bitter tight. I ; Every sort of delay was brot into action ! today. i There was every indication that op-j ponents of prohibition would exhaust every effort to delay passage of the measure. Because of the tactics of op­ponents, some members said it. was doubtful whether a vote would be taken this week.

BOSTON TO TEST BEER SALES Boston, July 8.—Five hundred liquor

dealeijß who received new licenses, yes-terda£, permitting the sale of beer, ale and Might wines, re-opened their places of business here, today, and sold 2% petf cent beer. They had been warned by thé Fnited States district attorney's of-ficr that one of their number would be arrested, today or tomorrow, for viola­tion St the prohibition act in a test case.

Arises After Printers Have Set Text of Terms.

Paris, July 8.— The council of five de­cided. today, to inform the Austrian dele­gation that their government would be admitted to the league of nations as soon as it complied with the necessary conditions. This notification will he in reply to the Austrian note on the sub­ject. The reply will be of a friendly character.

A decision of the council of five to devote further time to consideration of Austrian territorial questions has re­sulted in the Austrian peace treaty be­ing held up after the printers had set the type and handed oyer the proofs.

The boundaries question will be taken tip tomorrow, and it is said that the treaty will not be ready for presentation before the end of the week at the earli­est.

ians and Norwegian War Claims Considered.

Paris, July 7.—A Norwegian note on war claims, and the repatriation of Ar­menians were among matters considered today by the council of five.

The Norwegian note was one present­ing claims for ships sunk during the war by submarines and damages for sailors' loss of life. *

The supreme council has also decided to appoint a committee of four members to inquire into Norway's claims to iSpitz-

can be no compromise and which can be I won by the workers only thru organiza- j tion.

Thruout all of the sessi<»n of the con- • vention antagonism was expressed' toward the American Federation, some ; of the speakers denouncing that or- j ganization in the most spirited terms.

The leaders express satisfaction over ; the work of the convention and say that !

t h e y b e l i e v e t h a t i t i s t h e b e g i n n i n g o f ' a movement that is destined to spread thruout the Fnited States, llepresena-tives of various international unions, with headquarters at Indianapolis and elsewhere, came to Butte to watch the proceedings. These men had no part in the convention.

ITALIANS FEAR FRICTION. Paris. July 8.—'Tomasso Tittoni. th*

Italian foreign minister and head of the Italian delegation to the jieace confer­ence, is anxious to have the Adriatic problem settled as quickly as possible. Signor Tittoni. who has gone to Home

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PROBERS PREFER RETURN TO U. S. OF SURPLUS ARMY EQUIPMENT TO CUT PRICES

Bonds for Release of Haywood Are Approved

Chicago. July 8.—Bonds for the re­lease of William D. Haywood, leader of the ü.'{ I. W. W.'s convicted before E'ed-eral Judge Laudis, here, last August, have been approved by United States District Attorney Charles F. (Jlyoe and the court of appeals.

Haywood was sentenced tij the federal penitentiary 000 last October by Judgi

The matter of the repatriation of Ar­menians in Armenian Russia was re­ferred to Viscount Milner. British mem­ber of the committee on mandatories.

Decision was reached today by the council of five to lift the commercial ccn-sorshiip on communications with Ger­many simultaneously with the lifting of the blockade. This decision will not af­fect the censorship on matters of a political nature.

MAKES 610-MILE NON-STOP FLYING RECORD ON COAST

Washington, July 8.—A new non-stop speed record was established yesterday between San Francisco and San Diego, the army air service announced today,

'hen Captain Lowell H. Smith flew LO miles at the rate of 148.44 miles an

f'aptain Smith was alone in u h^H^Uand "blue bird."

Washington. July 8.—The French gov­ernment having offered only $300,000,000 for American army equipment in France costing $l,« r»00,000,000, the war depart­ment has ordered that a sales organiza­tion for disposal of the property be formed in France, Director of Sales Hare told a special house committee investi­gating war department expenditures abroad.

Director Hare said the French offer included all materials—ship docks, rail­road works and equipment, automobile trucks and textiles.

planned, he said, while horses and mules may be sold to Rumania and Poland.

Members of the sub-committee, in their discussion with Mr. Hare, made it plain that they favored returning all possible supplies to this country "to break the high prices." as Chairman Johnson of South Dakota said.

Mr. Hare outlined his sales policy a« not to preserve high prices for the bene­fit of manufacturers, hut to prevent un­necessary industrial disturbance and sac­rifice in prices that would result from "dumping ail surplus goods on the mar­ket."

Referring to the meat packers and vegetable canners, he said:

V.LL Sale offices and organizations will be .

maintained at various places thruout | We have told them we don't intend Europe, the director said, and much of ; to save them, but to play the game for the material may be returned to the i the best of all." Fnited States. Ships for return of goods from abroad

"If France will not pay a fair figure." ( are expected to be available about Sep-the director added, "we will sell it else-1 tember 1, the director said. where." American aircraft in Europe will not

Sales of machinery- and tools worth. bejsubject to his disposal, the directus $20,000,000 to £50,000,000 to Belgium are