Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 19, 1923, Page 8

}PAGE EIGHT. OVER THE RIVER’ CLUB RA NKS HIGH IN BENEFIT PROGRAM INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS AT REFINERY Dependents or Relatives Assured of Tidy Sum If Member Passes On; New Building to Have Formal Opening There’s a big game going on down at the new Industrial Relations building of the Standard Oil refinery, and it’s a matter of life and death with pre heavily against death. This is the notorious gamblng riot known among the em- fployes as “Over The River.” the play drop into D. M. L's office and iplunk down 50 cents, 5 dimes, 10 jit-| , or just a plain half dollar. The st one of the players who js put “over the river” gets the pot—that is, his relatives get it. It's a regular “put and take” affair. There is, however, no partial playing of the game and you either win all in one jump by passing out and over, or you jose the half plunk and must re-im Durse the pot with another. No one wants to win though the stakes come im mighy handy for those in the fam- fiy still remaining after the winner is Seriously considered, the “Over the River” club is one of the outstanding features in the work being done by the Industrial Relations department of the Standard Ol! company of Indiana. It supplements the more complete Protection being offered workers at the refinery by the shiftmen'’s bene- fit association, and it adds some spirit to even the sorry matter of dying. This benefit association provides ompensation at the rate of $3 a day for the member who is ill and cannot attend his duties. Should sickness Prevent him from working for many days he will surely be paid $3 a day for each shift he has been unable to be on. And should death be the cli- max a sum of $100 will be turhed over at once to his fami! The pot of the “Over The River” club, if he had been a member of it, would also 1 to his bereaved, making a total unt of about $400 left his estate from these two sources. ‘The dues exacted for membership of the Standard oil shiftmen in the ben- efit association amounts to only $1 ® month and snce real protection is granted them it is a safe bet they areq “ eful not to let the payments run rears ese first matters provide for sick- fhess and death but there are many Other activities humming within the Wai's of the Industria! Relations ullding which are vitally concerned full time living aturally every means {s resorted to in order to eliminate accidents and for the purpose of promoting a gen- eral spirit of watchfulness and care- fulness on the part of the men, fre quent safety talks and demonstgations are held >.Committees are comprised of em. employers give diligent ions of fair prices, standings, wage grievances and 18 which are daily issues )0 men working at the inery. How best to or that knotty tangle, what ctual methods to apply to that situation, what most ber ul ways and means to adopt fn ain cases of ‘mportance to them all or perhaps only to a single wworker—these are recurring studies for the different industrial relations {fe of health and a good time all ind are still other and worth while ns dealt with. Several tennis | horshoe courts and a baseball @iawond are all nicely fixed and cared for Those empowered to hire, discharge y©r discipline employes are privileged “to take their noonday meals in the ylarge dining hall of the recently erect @4 edifice. This room is fitted out to Seed 150 men at a sitting. In this jhhighly efficient age of zip service it $s the last word in preparing and ving food. Potatoes are—former ax s e kitchen details please note this and what follows—are whisked through an electric peeler, and besides #il the other snappy methods used There is an electric dishwasher which 4s capable of washing and drying on September 4. some 500 men. But the odds Those who wish to join in on soon will be after he is on the pay | rolls of the refinery, and he knows }the I. R. men by their handles, too. | A howdy, howzis, howzat trend is | given to all that goes on. Things | often edge their way in sort of twist- |ed but most generally out they come all straighténed around and smiling. | The big {dea and incentive of the In+ dustrial Relations workers at the re- | finery 1s bring the men together, let them work out their own plans, and | let them proceed to enjoy the meafis | provided for their protection, welfare and pleasure as they see fit. Father- ing one thing and then another, and | constantly forcing themselves upon | the scene, is not a part of the code. CRIMINALS BRED IN LOS ANGELES IML, 1S. SLAM \Plans for Relief From Congestion Planned by “Scientific” Chief. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Aug. 18.— {United Press.\—An immediate re- vamping of jail congestions is planned by August Vollmer, new Scientific chief of police,” imported from Berkeley, Cal. “Treat the criminal Ifke a human being,” is the chief's slogan. Vollmer has branded Los Jails “medieval” and. de- jail conditions breed more nals in Los Angeles than any pase and vermin abound in the | jail, and it is unsafe to place a de- cent citizen, imprisoned by some fire- eating magistrate on a speeding or| similar charge, in a cell with such persons for even a few hours, Chief Vollmer advises. Pending the erection of the new city hall, which will provide new and modern jail, Vollmer is making plans to alleviate present conditions as best he can. He will ask the city council imme diately to provide habitual quarters at the Lincoln Heights stockade. Vollmer declares that the stockad which is very overcrowded, is at present not fit to house hogs. It is expected that many persons incriminated on petty charges will be released at once, and it is under- stood that except in extreme cases Vollmer will request that speeders shall not be jailed. Vollmer has already worked out a plan whereby youths arrested for the first time will be confined in totally ifferent quarters from old timers and professional criminals and de- generates. ~ GEORGIA CHIEF GOES TOMAGON (Continued from Page One) would withhold any action until he obtained more detai's of the attack. State rangers were sent to Port Ar- thur because of the tense situation which has arisen there since the slay- ing of Detective B. A, Harris, Thurs- day night, by an assaflant who fired a charge of buckshot from an automo- bile into Harris’ body as the officer was walking down the street. Several arrests were made in con- nection with the murder and last night, Clay Dunn and his brother, C. H. Dunn, who were arrested and later released under bond, were selzed by several men as they came from the jail, whisked away in an automobile and badly beater. Davidson said that rangers would be sent to any point in Texas if they were needed to preserve law and order. HOUSTON BAND iol SEIZES NEGRO. HOUSTON, Texas, Ang. 18—Sam Bowdon, negro and a negro woman companion were kidnaped by a band of unmasked men in the suburbs here tonight. According to polics, Bowden, who owns @ taxicab, wes called to the negro section on a trip. He secured a load and was told to drive to Camp | Logan, near here. When he arrived at the camp, two carloada of men drew alongside and ordered him to stop. “Like Father. A policeman, to Young America , Like Son”s~— along Atlantic’ City's boardwalk, @he Casper Sunday qorntng crue May Rule Mexico * General Antonio Villarreal, standing here with his wife and son, Manuel. in front of their Mexico City home, may be the next president ticket, ot Mexico, being @ candidate on the Coalition OI KILLED, MANY ARE WOUNDED IN RUHR CONFLICTS WITH REDS Food Shortage Causes Dissension Throughout the Occupied Teritory; Britain to Wash Hands Of Whole Affair If French Persist. BY CARL D. GROAT, 4 (United Press Staff Correspondent). BERLIN, Aug. more than a dozen dangerous. 18.—At least six persons were killed and y, wounded today in conflicts between communists and police in the Ruhr, At Datteln, Westphalia, a communist meeting in the c called as a protest inst the arrest of the leaders of yesterday’s commun- istic outbreak, Police fired several volleys before the communists were dispersed. The reds fought back with stones and clubs. Many additional persons were arrested, In Hoerde the communists -man- aged to stage an extensive demonstra- tion by exhibiting a false permit from the French military authoritiés. When police learned of the ruse they charged the meeting. ‘Three people were killed in the resulting fight. Police patrolled the streets in both Datterin and Hoerde following the rioting and rigorous measures were used to prevent new outbeaks, Throughout the Ruhr, however, there was grumbling and discontent because of the food shortage and ad- ditional trouble seemed inevitable. BRITAIN TO PASS “BUCK” TO ALLIES BY JOSEPH L. JONES (United Press Staff Correspondent) WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Aug. 18. —The three-cornered controversy over reparations and the Ruhr waged be- tween British, French and German lecturers at the institute of politics here for three weeks drew into its final stages tonight with Sir Edward Gripps “declaration that if France and Belgium continue to prevent Ger- many from paying, that is their af- fair and Britain cannot be expected to make any further sacrifices her- self. “Britain {s the only nation which offered to make specific sacrifice on behalf of her allies, and her sacri- fices are very large,” Griggs, who was Lioyd George's political secretary, de- clared in reply to a statement made by Canon Ernest Dimmet of Paris, Dimmet accused the British of not being “willing to sacrifice a farthing for the sake of settlement." where severe rioting occurred yesterday, there was renewed fighting when . Police charged enter of the city, which was will meet Prime Minister Baldwin o Great Britain, to discuss reparations following the British leader's returr from his vacation in Aix Les Baines caused considerable excitement in of ficial circles here tonight. Many observers saw in the an nouncement indications that the French premier {s willing to make a final effort to prevent a complete rup ture-in the Franco-British entente holding at least a semblance of united front toward Germany, Joe Miller was never known tc utter a jest and his demeanor wa: so grave that friends, in jest, ascribed every new joke to him. UNEMPLOYMENT ON INCREASE IN UNITED STATES CHICAGO, Aug. 18.—Unemployment —almost forgotten in the recent wave of prosperity over the middle west— is again increasing. Chicago's West Madison street labor market for the Great Lakes and up per Mississippi Valley sections, is teeming with thousands of men in search of work. Employment agen- cles report “jobs are practically un- available. Black rust in the wheat fields in Minnesota and the Dakotas is said to be one of the chief reasons for farm laborers returning to the Elis. Many farmers too, are refusing to pay high wages and hundreds of “hands? have abandoned their pilgrimage from Ok- lahoma to Canada in the wake of the wheat harvest. The “army of unemployed™ ts in- creased by slack labor conditions in other industrial centers of the middle west. Hundreds have come from Ak- ron, Ohio, where 8,000 men are said to be out of Jobs. Adding further to the number of unemployed in Chicago is an increas- SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 1923. ing migration of southern negroes, who are deserting the plantations in search of work in the northern cities. ‘Three thousand negroes arrive in Chi- cago each month, social workers fig- ures show, The only hope of averting a serious depression is by diverting the stream of unemployed to the steel mills of the Gary, Ind., district where inaugu- ration of the elght hour day has open: ed many jobs for common labor, iead- ing employment agencies say. © ——$<—<$<— ___—_ American-made goods, including cooking utensils, and office supplies, were displayed at the recent seven- teen annual fair at Johannesburg, South Africa. ———$ ‘Try a Tribune Classified Ad. Monday Morning, August 27, We Start Things Humming! ; That is the day of our Fall Opening, and there will be many bright and happy young men and women who will start on their journey, and on to a SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS. CAREER. through the Casper Business College Typewriters clicking in response to the touch of willing hands; shorthand writing at all speeds; bookkeepers busily engaged in pleasant tasks done by strument—the pen. that most powerful ‘in- 4 All will be willing and pleasant-faced, for they will know that they are starting on a short journey tg a goal of success. Just think of it! A few short months and they will all be able to proclaim to their own souls, and to the world, that they can do something for which the world is will- ing to pay money. “INDEPENDENCE” that’s it. \ that’s what every American youth longs for. That’s what brought the United States into existence, Why not DO IT NOW? It takes but once and lasts a lifetime and gets better and better the older you grow—A BUSINESS CAREER—that’s what we are talking about. Let us reserve a seat for you August 27. CASPER BUSINESS COLLEGE: Inc. PHONES 1325 il My a IN YY, Ys\ hi iH} ye ili i} a 1,500" dishes an hour. Practically all of the second floor of the LR. building ts devoted to the means a man who goes along ordering women bathers to don more clothes. So what was more natural, when Edward Mathis got @ police man's uniform for a birthday present, BY WEBB HULLER (United Press Staff Correspondent fuditorium. General airings of plans and difficulties ar here. Cor era or s and ente ents full sway at specified times in hall and gatherings of every de scription and ir find that they now have room, seats Plenty of both Offhand, one is first tmpressed Upon entering the new building by the employment department. Here is the place where all workers at the refinery get thelr first {dea of just kind of a place they are earning their pay at. And it is here that those who, for some reason or other leave, go for their money. If any grievance is being held by the dis. rged employe he has his chance to speak his mind before the employ: ment department. If he has not een at fault he is then returned to ‘ork tn the refinery, If he has been Wrong he is told why. It’s a prop. sition of a good, straightforward dealing both coming and going—tho. bec: of such relations there is Very little going. Things have been gota> full blast @t the new building for some time but as yet, in a ceremonial sense, it has never been opened sterday's and today’s pressing problems though pave not waited upon rituals and ora tory in order to avail themselves of its conveniences for discussion and thrashing out matters. «However, the official seal will be cast from its doors and there will be a formal open- ing of the Industrial Relations hom mber fourth. here and 186 This home is one the others having been outgrown rapidly, It has been built from the ground up for the men and odern in all All those employed directly in the work of full time attention to its various activi In fact usly boun of several, respects. he w Hie first known name {i (Walsh with a curt order to “roll up th than for him to approach Mary hem socks"? We needn't say a word. timonials of scores of Casper citizens speak for us, The people are be hind the “Drive right- Walk Right!’ campaign in a solid mass. Not a day passes in which the mails are not choked with commendations, opinions and ideas for the future safe ty of the city. It is the plan of the Tribune to publish as many of these as possible during the drive. Read the following carefully. It repre- sents the thought of your neighbors; An unknown worker for the cause, who refused to reveal his name drop: ped in at the Tribune and expounded the following rules for stopping and rounding corners; 1. In stopping put your left arm straight out and hold {t there rigidly In making a left turn—put the left arm straight out, then drop it at an angle of 45 degrees and hold it there until the turn {s complete. 3. In making a right turn place the ieft arm straight out, and raise it to an angle of 45 degrees and hold it there until the turn is complete. SAFETY RULE FOR PEDESTRIANS Both sexes are working tirelessly in Casper to make the city safe. Grace Mortimore sends us the following ad- vice to pass on to the general public: "Don't just say, ‘Look Both Ways’ before crossing a street, but be sure ft, until the reached, and the remainder | your The tes of the distance. PARIS, Aug. 18.—A sem!-official an: nouncement that Premier Poincare In this way a pe- destrian can safely cross through heavy traffic with a high degree of safety. You know we can find a right and wrong way for everything, even to crossing the street. WYOMING DORT FIRM SPEAKS “Our loyal suport ts pledged you tn your campaign to curb the speeder and warn the pedestrian of their Jay-Walking tactice writes the Wyo- ming Dort-Sales and Service. A human life sacrificed on the altar of reckless driving fills the hearts of all even the speed maniac with the deepest sorrow, knowing that a crime has been committed for which no sacrifice can be made. “The average perwon does not seem to realise the responsibility assumed when they get behind the wheel of an automobile, Not only are the lives of the passengers riding with them entrusted to their care, but also the lives of hundreds of fellow autoisty and pedestrians encountered on the average trip. “Most of us are rather touchy about the word “don't” but neverthe less it is a very important word to the automobile driver. Before start. ing on a trip fix these important “don'ts” in your mind: Don't sacrifice safety for speed. Don't trust too much in the driving ability of the other fellow. Don't think that the pedestrian has no righta TESTIMONIALS SHOW NEED OF TRIBUNE'S BIG CAMPAIGN; ADVICE IS CONTAINED IN COMMENT Don’t walt for the other fellow to dim his lights first. Don't start out on a trip with faulty brakes. “Yours for a long life.” CASPER SUPPLY COMPANY APPROVES “A ‘Drive Right Campaign’ ts a campaign which deserves, practical support from driver and pedestrian alike, and common sense and the law of self preservation should be all the rules necessary to cause every driver to Drive Right all the time. “Observance of the rules tssued by the Stato would eliminate the major- ity of accidents and our suggestions would be: First: That every driver read these rules once each sixty days and be thereby reminded of the thing or things he slips up on. “Second: We suggest that papers publish at regular local traffio regulations, “Third: ‘That every time we cuss the other fellow for turning a corner or coming to a stop without a signal, or holding more than half of the road, stopping in the middle of the road for repairs, backing out suddenly from a curb, not dimming his lights, trying to beat us to a bridge, ing or any of the thousand othe tfiable occasions for profanity, we reflect a moment and how often “The other fellow who al ways does these things is the fellow | in the car ahead of the car behind u: local intervals that discover | too, in Ti /, ! 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