The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 19, 1918, Page 3

) } TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1918 AGREED THAT EMPLOYES ARE NOT ABLE TO LIVE ON LESS Numerous Classes’ of Employes Not Properly Compensated, Says Walber $150 NOT LIVING STIPEND Greatest ‘Advances Should Be Given ‘‘Fellows Making Less Than $100’’ Washington, D. C The ne ity for in for railroad employes was con- ceeded today by representatives of a majority of the railroads of the United States, ‘appearing for tlic first time before the government’s railroad wage commission, They said they came not to oppose re- quests of the employes, but merely to aid the commission by giving information. Low Paid Men | ‘Need Help “Officials need no evidence that the cost of living has increased and that| - the low-paid man needs assistance during the war,” declared J, W. Hig- gins of Chicago, executive secretary of the Western Association of Rail- ways, speaking for the railroads of the western district. “No one recognizes .more keenly than the, managements that there are numerous classes of employes not properly compensated,” was the state- ment made forthe eastern territory by Jobn.G, Walber of New York, sec- retary of the bureau of information of eastern railways, F. W. Brown of ‘Washington, agsis- tant to the vice president of the South- ern railway, did not touch on the need for wage advances, but’ agreed that conditions outlined in other sections applied equally to the’ south: “The railroads in the eastern and western territory pay 85 per cent of the money earned by railroad employes in the United states. All Under $2,000 Affected. Mr. Higgins’ assertion that the low paid man should be helped drew from Secretary Lane, chairman of the com- mission, a query as to what he con- sidered a low-price man. “I would say. that all men receiving under $150 a month need more money. to meet the advance in prices of nec- essities,” Mr. Higgins replied. “Per- haps, the limit of those who need help should be raised to $2,000 a year, which seems to be the line drawn by the government in the income tax law. The greatest advance should be given to the nfén* ming “less than $100'a month, Those fellows must be having a strenuous time.” “The $2,000 limit would ‘include all laborers, trainmen, brakemen, mechan- ies’and clerks, and a great many en- gineers and conductors,” commented Mr. Lane, Mr. Higgins agreed that was true. He did not suggest any definite in- - crease, bit remarked that perhaps the increased living cost should be borne for the distressed emplo re during the war. Both he and Mr./Walber assert: ed that the ‘managements have not beén unmindful of the welfare of their employes in the past, and have given additional pay where their finances permitted. : No Distinction Made All the speakers were careful to state that they made no distinction between union mémbers and unorgan- ized: employes. The course of wages was declared to have been upward since 1910, when the concerted form of demand was firgt used by the broth- erhoods. Especially since 1915, the ascending trend has been noticeable, according to the speakers, who en- deayored to, show, that all classes of employes have received consideration in the matter of better pay. Mr: Wal- ber said that from January, 1916, to the latter part of 1917, the pay of skilled labor and clerks increased 15 per, cent in the eastern district and unskilled labor from 25° to 100 per cent. Between 1909 and 1915, Mr. Walber sajd,*; engineers received wage in- creases/of 18.3 per cent; firemen 25.61 per cent, conductors 23.32 per cent, and all other trainmen 29.91 per. cent, the increase having been afforded in large part by changes in the wage sckedules, and to less degree by: changes in the rules. Mr, Higgins said the average rate of increase for operating“employes in the western district between 1909 and 1915 had bene 13.23 per cent. Since that time the. wage increase on. nine representative 11,073- 094 in 1916 for 319,000 men and $3 113,612 Hh 4917 for 340,436. men, r the two years of $114.89, Ae the ratio wag te sl roads in the United States he esti- mated that the total added to J eye _thig would be between, $250,0 000 and $260,000,000, Of. the 1917 3 crease $19,921,00 was said, to havey by ration of the eight-hour ‘Then half the increase of that year went. to the trainmen,” remarked Sec- retary Hane. a In, reporting thelr pains increases, some. of the nine representative roads —Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Chica- go & Northwestern, Chicago & East- erp Uinois, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie, Northern Pacific, Chicago, Rock Tslan Paci ‘Chicago, Mil- waukee & St. ‘Paul, and Missouri Pa- cific—included the pay of officers in’ the total, Mr. Higgins said however, he thought the officers had received and called attention “Jasked Commiastoner: McCord. (not in a; | Higgins said. °*T “think that after ‘Tam ition: to. answer that,’ Mr. spending @. Utestme acquiring knowl: edge and) expe} (age 9, man is enti- tled to 1 t s engineer for the Great 01 scribed. the Work'dnd pay ‘of the men under hin}, He said overtime work by section hands was demanded chiefly men are foreigners and being away’ fiom home prefer to work Sunday rather tha rest in the: con- struction camps. NEW ACTIVITY PREGNANT WITH P OSSIBIL[TIBS -|Peutond # ‘Resvs ‘Operations on webler Dalek Crogs- _ ing at ying AIR RAIDS °\ON LONDON Hostile Planes Do Little Damage— ' Itallans Busy—Reds' Want''* Conference Berlin, London, Feb. 19.— Operations have been''reslimed on the Russian front, The Germans have crossed the Dvina. This an- nouncement was made by. general headuyarters last wight, < ‘Air Raid on London London, Feb, 19.=Ho-tile airplanes attempted a raid against London again last night,. making he third raid in as many, nights. No damage or cas- ualties are yet reported, d {Italians Active Rome, Feb. 19.—The Italian troors are showing much activity and harass: ing the enemy all along the line. There also has been considerable ar- tillery fighting, according to the re- port from general headquarters today, The, Ukraine Treaty © Amsterdam, Feb. 19.—According to the Cologne Volks Zeitung the Ger- man foreign secretary, Dr. Von Kuehl- mann, will address the Reichstag to- day when the first reading of the Ukraine peace treaty will'be taken up. Russian Evacuate Hungary Amsterdam, Feb. 19—A Budapest | dispatch to the Vossische Zeitung (Berlin) says the Russians have evac- uated the last section of Hungarian territory which they occupied, in the east corner of Transylvania. Germania learns from Ukraine that Bolsheviki guerrillas are_seting fire to the wheat stocks in many sections and are also systematically destroy- ing growing crops by plowing them out. Socialist Conference Called ‘Petrograd, Tuesday, Feb. 12—The central executive committee of the workmen and soldiers’ delegates has call ag eneral conference of interna- tional socialists. Among those already named for the mission is Madame Kor lontay, Bolshevik minister of public welfare. The mission will first go to Stockholm, then to Paris and London. Capt. Castle: Buried From “Little Church Around the Corner” New York, Feb. 19.—Private mili- tary services for Capt. Vernon Castle, of the Royal Flying Corps, who was killed in an aeroplane accident at Ft. ‘Worth, Texas, last Friday, were held her today at the Church of the Trans- figuration, better known as “The little church around the corner.” The rect- or of the church, the Rev..Dr. George D. Houghton, and the Rev. Dr. H. L. Shipman, chaplain of the 104th field artillery, U..S. A., officiated. A, detachment of the Royal. Flying Corps escorted the body to the church. The bearers were officers from the Flying ‘Corps, yy, with «her : , itis just.as, truly tae France marvelous population fe: ‘loot without ‘so, much as on, -falterin| despairs ee “hopes, populatic nian sto ‘the gr ee the most thril ON ALL FRONTS decided to send a mission abroad to Pa. FORTY NEGROES DENY GUILT IN HOUSTON RIOTS Civilian Colored Popu- lation of City San: Antonio, Tex., Feb. 19.—Forty enlisted men of the 24th United States infantry, negro,’ pleaded ‘not guilty to further charges growing out of the rioting at Houston, Tex., the night of August 23, Jast, when their court mar- tial'trial began at Fort Sam Houston heve today. Blame for negro residents of Hous- ton, ** who urged the goldiers to av- enge their real.or pretended wrongs,” is a, new’ feature in the agreed state cf facts regarding the‘rioting submit: ted to the court martial. 4 | The statement’ also contains a sum- mary. of military action’ taken ‘since the riots which was ‘not“ included ‘in the statement to participating in’ the uprising. , LEAGUE THINKS DANA DURAND IN BIG. BIG” PLOTS | *, i Pel eee *. Minnesota Regents, Decline to Consider N. P. Demand for ia. Discharge, Minneapo}is,’Minn., ‘Feb: 19%—De mand for the djischarge.of E. | from. his position in the economics | department of the university of Min-| nesota wag madé ata meeting of the} regents of that institution today ‘} a delegation of representatives of or-| ganized labor and ‘the Nonpartisan league, : Evidence given’ during the federal trade commission’s investigation of the packing industry that Durand, now. on leave from the university, had servéd as “confidential agent” of the packers, brought about @ demand. The delegates in a lengthy resolution, declare the connection “prejudical to the public interest he is presumed to be serving and an insult to the uni- versity.” No action was taken by the regents. GEN. PERSHING REPORTS DEATH OF U. S. TROOPS |Four Privates Die in Explosion; \ Lieutenant Suicides; Other Casualties | Washington, D..C., Feb, 19.—The deaths of four privates as the result of an explosion, the killing of Cadet Lindley H. DeGarmo, Ridgewood, N. J., in an airplane accident last Satur- day, and the suicide of Lieutenant Gordon Loring Rand, Lawrence, L, I. dopacturent today by General Persh- ing. The privates killed in the explosions were: Herbert E. Koch, infantry, Ashley, Mike Duda, infantry, St. Clair, Pa. Paul H. Herrick, infantry, Dunlow, Pa, Joseph J. Chorba, infantry, whose mother lives in Kefarhee, Austria. ‘No details were given but it is as- | sumed the explosions were of hand grenades. Deaths ‘From Pneumonia. ~ The deaths of the following privates from natural causes wer reported: Charles Wright, pnedmonia, . Pitts- town, N. J. Gardner H, Bennet, pneumonia, Sut- ton, Vt. Stephen’ ‘Bvek, pneumonia, ton, Pa. } EE a NS ky D.D.D. ‘The Liquid Wash fer Skin Disease | We have witnessed’ such remarkable (results with’ this soothing wash of olla: \ithat we offer.sou a bottle on the guaran- tee that unlegg it does the same for you, it costs you nota cent. $5c, 60¢ and $1.00. JOS. 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Mary, wnknown to Rimrock has tak- en the long Journey to New York and} had specialists perform a operation on her ears Which restored her hear- ing, and it is, by pretending still to be deaf, that she plays the final *win- ning card in their Bame. “Director Donald’ Crisp has secured | some unusual ‘effects. in this picture, including magnificent western scenery and scenes at the mines actually film- ed in Arizona, MONTANA WILL: ACT ON PROHI ‘QUESTION TODAY | Senate Adjourned Last. Night with Olear Slate—Many | Bills to House *° | Helena, Mont,, Feb. 19—The Mont- ana senate adjourned Monday after-! noon with practically a clean slate, | every bill but one that had originated | in the upper house, but one by Senat- or Muffly, designing to make the pen- alty more severe for malicious des- to the lower chamber. The senate’s most important action was pasage of the. Muffly sabotage bil, which will come before the house for final action today. The O’Connor seed grain act was sent back to conference, after amend- ment. One change provides that any money appropriated under the act and not used is to go back into the gener- al fund of the county. | The Crismus sedition bill passed the senate on third reading yesterday | afternoon, which practically disposed | of another important war measure asked for by the governor, as it has al- ready passed the house. The house pased the state council of defense bill, rejecting an amend- ment which would have confined the} governor to certain walks of life in appointing the personnell, The house also cleared the way on a number of other bills. / The prohibition amend- ment, it is said, wil be finally.acted on today. Bills have passed both houses and one or the other will be concur- red in. Higgins of Missoula introduced a memorial asking congress to enact’a ‘law conscripting all fortunes of more than a million dollars and also con- scripting all war profits for the prose- cution of the war. THE LAND OF HISTORY'S HEROES Ned NAPOLEON, can today be chronteled. master hand can paint a Matas of such yast design and vivid color. The Bismarck Tribune, realizing this, selected the great- est reporter in America, George - Randolph Chester, creator of the notable» “Get-Rich-Quick Walling- ford” stories, to go to France to ,Teport just. this untold aspect, of ‘the . world . war. “is now in Paris, from where he is sending to this abwspaper a series of articles which have started in. The Trib- jain, said to be an I. W. W. j lade of shots which struck S. B. 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Ilness and broding over the death of his son a year ago are be) lieved to have unsettled Nylund’s | mind, as his family and other rela-) tions are said to have been normal. | Nylund had apparently. killed - the children, two boys and two girls first, as they lay in their beds upstairs. Each was shot in the forehead. Then; he had gone downstairs, killed his wife, shooting her in the head also, and then himself. His wife’s body lay on the sofa and his body on the floor, while nearby is what is said to have been Nylund’s revolver, empty. / Thoroughbred Men Growing Anxious) | | | 1 i | Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 19.—Breeders | of thorough3red horses in central Ken-; ucky are anxiously watching the pro- gress of whatis known as the Helm race track bill before the upper branch of the Kentucky legislature. 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