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I IF YOU Kt.AU i nr, aihwTIMES YOU WILL KNOW KINGSPORTmsSVUU4Svol.. {) NO. 771THE KINGSPORT TIMES,* KINGSPOFG0MPERSMAJORGERMAN ORGANIZEDWARPresident American Federation oi‘ Labor Says German Unions Faile dDismally at Critical HourWAR CONTRACTSDispute Over Border ;Mars FederationHAYNESILuiKheily T*s Organizing Special ' Bureau to Handle the Investigation WorkHEAR BRITISH LABOR HEADWarns Workers of America Thai They Cannot Solve the Irish Question—Favor Home RaleUnion of Four Central American Re-publics, Long Sought For, 1» Menaced at InceptionAMERIHELPNew Fedei Formal(By Associated Press)Denver, dune 15.—Blame for the went World War was placed square-V on ho shoulders of organized labor u Germany by President Samuel tampers in an address to the Amei-can Federation oE Labor conventionu«re today.“I hold, and I accept full responsi-ilitv for what I ant about, to say, mid* President Clampers, “that the organized labor - movement of Dcr-lYiany failed dismally at the cmiealhour. -“if it had taken the situation mhand it. might have meant the destruction of a few thousands but it would have stopped the war. The tmhue of men to act at a time of crisis is faithlessness to -n common chuse.”In his address, which was a response to those OV fraternal delegates from fire at Eritu.n and Canada, President Gompevs dwelt upon the altitude of the federation and himself both during the war and since, during the period of reconstruction.W lv. Bush, fraternal delegate representing the Canadian. Trades and Labor Congress, told the assembled delegates that despite difficulties, or-ganiv.ed hibor in Car aha was at leastholding its own. Be reviewed Um m-cipiency of the “one big union move-ment and prediiitod its Diu’ly death-A resolution was adopted by the con-Wasliing-ton, June 15. — Investigation by the department of justice of all major war time contracts with the government lias been begun, Attorney General Daugherty announcedvei ter day. ,To handle the work, which has the approval of Pre-ideal Harding, Mr. Daugherty said a special bureau is being organized vhrtfh will have us its head*some well known man of proved ability anil a stall of experts in different lines of business.The purpose of the investigation,he explained, is to sift the war-timedealings of business concerns and individuals with the government so those-guilty of dishonesty may be punished and those whose dealings have been fair may be cleared from what he declared were suspicions prevalent in the public mind that all of the government's war contracts areonen to question.‘ Declaring th.it the investigation is. - t 1 k . 1 i I 1 1 1cien«He Says TJBreakinPreac Resnot directed principally at the “little follows. the attorney uey signeral ^aidwe will throw buck any minnows we cilU'h in our neu and Ujt them startover againAt the con el n.-ion of the work Mr, Dauirhi*rty said he would submit a re-wori to the president, but nfcanwhiie ‘v.juld not disclo.-e the progress- of the. investigation lest the government’s work be hindered.Mr. DaugherLy expressed confidence that the great majority of the bu-imu-s, men who had dealings with the government vero beyond-re-pioach in •their methods, but that there undoubtedly had been a great many in.-tan cos* whole business had beeh done on an unfair basis.•(By Associated Press)Guatemala, June 14.—-Just at the time that the union of four of the Central American republics is being announced by its supporters as a fact, a question of the boundary betweenHonduras and Guatemala has come.to the front. It is reported here that armed forces from Honduras have occupied the disputed territory. _ U r,T'T'T'7Ti,'W«l Honduras lays claim to a strip of j CIIIZKJNk*territory to the south and east of the j Motagua river which has .been in the possession of Guatemala, if not since time immemorial, at least 3ince Guatemala became independent, it consists for the most part of a tropical wilderness covered with interminable forests. A range of mountains forms .the 'southern? boundary of^this wilderness. With the building of the railroad from Puerto Barrios to Guatemala City, aud the develajMWAj (orma, ^ of banana plantations along its lootet , dera) tfiui on the Motagua river, settle-men! have naturally sprung UP in the V®wilderness, and purchases of the va- public to hacant lands have followed. law as setNow Honduras bases its claims to amerjjmentthis territory on some old Spanish The watcmaps and surveys said to have existed bition admnwhS the whole of Central America, ^ency.addiwas known as the Kingdom of GuaieJ enforced e ^city STSSSfJSL? V,Cer°y ministration Sensational reports have been pub- Haynessaic lished in two of the daily newspapers! gospel of th here recently concerning- this claim of* If there eve Hunduraa in which insinuations are; of America made that representatives of Guate- should unit mala actually sold the interests of enforcemen Guatemala to the Honduranians.WashingtcNEW ROW DEVELOPSINVOLVING HARDINGSIMS STARTS TRIPTO STATES TODAYGiven Rousing Send-off by Big Group of Friends—Says He ‘Has Nothing to Retract”school, in ti it is today, ing of one servanee of un-America lieve, fora as vigorous of the dry always bee toward law means bols “I am a si on. I hs power of t ally to the to the carlthe scenari
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