Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1921, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1921. Cigarette To seal in the delicious Burley tobacco flavor. | it’s Toasted | CIRCULATING LIBRARY FICTION AND NON-FICTION. PEARLMAN’S BOOK SHOP 23T G St. N.W. Open Evenings. CURIOSITY - induced me to determine wi ¥ the crowd went to GROVE'S, 1210 G, for developing and printing. One lot of pictures made me a regular follower. (Signed) Amateur Photographer. WALL PAPERING TIME Competent workmen, beautiful assortment of mewest patterns and paper to be found in country. Moderate Prices—Best Workmansh, Estimates cheerfully furnished. CORNELL WALL PAPER CO. 4 13th n.w. M. 5373-5374. Washington—the Most “Livable” City in America HEY say “Compe- tition is the Life of Trade.” Com- petition is the best Booster we know for our “Maximum Serv- ice”. It shows conclusively what an organization like ours accomplishes in the way of RESULTS. Our Listings of worth-while Homes can use at once just such a property as you have for sale. FOR AUTO OWNERS By Edgar A. Drumm, Principal Y. M. C. A, Auto School. ‘Tuesday, April 12, 4:45 P.M. at 1728 G St. N.W. Subject: “The Operation and Care of the Gasoline Engine” Other evening classes for own- ers and mechanics now forming. For particulars call or address Y. M. C. A. AUTO SCHOOL 1736 G St. N.W. Main 5250 SPECIAL NOTICES. CUTTING OF RAILROAD WAGES MAY BRING CRISIS IN PROBLEM ?Condifions Among Shopmen and Track| Workers None Too Good—Increases | Have Just Kept Pace With H. C. L. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. (Copsright, 1921, by The Washington Star.) cember and June. The June, 1920, fisures were not ready in time for the labor Board's use, and it was has occurred since June, 1920, has vorkers v a 0o good, the an woskers [Coday aceinongiitoo masdy the i it (ontie BilivIn T men say, notwithstanding the in-)thay it was in December. 1919, In creases allowed last July. In the December 1919, the increase in the £ 3 so COSt of iving was 99.3 per cent over At e ere so i : frst place, many of them were 1912, and in June, 1920, it was 116.5 grossly underpaid prior to the war|per’eint over 191 (This is the eighth of a series of ar- | necessary to use those for the pre- | ticles on the acute railroad and railrond | ceding December. Now the Gost of Iabor problems. The next will appear in | living increased oonsiderably from sujearly lssu December, 1920, to June, 1920, and Conditions among the railroad| the men Say that the deorease that POLICE CLAIMING CLUE TO SAFE-CRACKING JOB Believe Ralph Green, Arrested for Attempted Robbery, Looted To- | bacco Company Week Ago. Capture of Ralph Green of Boston, Mass., following an attempted rob- bery at the Columbia Hotel Supply Company, 216 10th street, Saturday night, it is believed by the police will throw light on the safe-cracking job of a week ago at the Capital Cigar and Tobacco Company, when $1,500 in liberty bonds was stolen. Green was quiszed by the police at headquarters for more than an hour yesterday. During that time he denied any knowledge of the tobacco company robbery, which was accom- plished 'by breaking the combination knob from a safe with a sledge ham- mer. A sledge hammer, with short- ened handle, was used for the “crack- ing” of the safe at the supply com- pany. Green was finger printed, photo- graphed and measured by Fred Sand- burg, bertillon expert at headquarters. Sandberg later produced a card from the ragues’ gallery answering the meas- urements, and containing a photogrtph- ed likeness of Green, Inspector Grant of Abe Martin Says: { hetel supply nled that the plcture was of himself, and sald he had never before been arrested. The picture bore the name of John Smith, alias Charles Davi Nine hundred and elgh found strapped to “‘Smith 07 dollars were upper arm, 0000000000000 00000000000000000000000 the police s: The strongest connecting clue, a cording to the police, is in the fact that | the sledge hammer handles used in both the tobacco company robl and_the company attempted rob- bery were sawed-off pieces of an or- iginal long sledge hammer handle. PLEASING TO POINCARE. \ Former French President Recalls " Herrick’s Activities in Paris. PARIS, April 10.—Former President Poincare, writing in the Temps to- day, expresses satisfaction with the nomination of Myron T. Herrick as United States ambassador to France. He recalls the numerous proofs Mr. Herrick has given of his sympathy for France since the beginning of the war. - Like his predecessor, Hugh C. Wal- | lace, M. Poincare says, Mr. Herrick | ¢ will be a good worker for tightening | & the bonds between France and Pooss000000000000000t00e Inspirational Conference BAPTIST April 12th and 13th Calvary Baptist Church 8th and H Streets N.W. otbucn) Program: Tue: April 12, 7:45 P.M. 6 to 7130 P.M. Song Service. | Business Men' Addresses: i Tickets, DPr. J. F. Love | (Limited to Dr. John Y. Altchison | Speakers: Dr. Sumner R. Vinton (Miustrated) Wednesday, Women's Meeting Addressen: Dr. J. F. Dr. Jonep April 13, 11 oM. Devotional. Dr. Joseph C. ove . Robbins | Hon. Henry Dond Dr. L. R. Searhoro Song Service. Addreanes: Robhine Dr. L. R. Scarborough Every Loyal Baptist Should Attend i s $00000000000000000000000000000000000 President, delved pretty deeply in the conditions of labor on the railroad: The voluminous testimony taken shows cases of men who av raged §$34 a month—men with families to bring | up. The men are paid by the hour, and 1if they do not make time, they are not paid i H. C. L. Got Jump on Men. I The cost of living, in its upward | flight after 1914, got the jump on th imen. Increases came along later. | There were stretches of evil times to make up. They were eighteen months getting the last raise—allowed by the labor ~board—and they had seen mechanics and other labor receiving far higher wages in other industries. were Last fall, when the railroads handling a vast amount of busin more than ever before in their history —the men with the increased wages. were making good time and good money. But conditions have changed since then. Since the peak was reached last fall, the number of men employed by the roads has decreased some- where between 400,000 and 500.000. Thousands of men who are still at work are working only part time. Of the workers who have been laid off, | many are in desperate straits, and have been out of employment for weeks and months. 'The shopmen have been hit particularly hard in the reductions in the forces of the roads. In some instances—and 1 am told they are not few—many of the men are working part time, so that their féflows may work the remainder of the time and not be laid off al- together. Trainmen Feel Slump. The trainmen, though they have not been hit so hard as the shopmen and others, nevertheless ave felt the slump in busin the When- ever a train is cut off, it means that the crew does not make the time they would have made if the train had run. i And many trains, particularly freight | trains, have been eliminated. | The situation simmers | this. down to If the men were making full {time, with their present wages they | would be in good shape. But a very | large number of them are not making jthe time. It is the hope of the roads jand the men that business will pick up {in_the coming months. | _Talk to a railroad worker and you {will find that he does not take mucn |stock in the report that the cost of {living has come down. He will ad- jmit that it is possible to buy some {commodities cheaper than a few months ago. But he will point to rents and to many articles that still are very high in justification of his demand that the cost of living be allowed to come down before his wages are cut. The conservative men realize that with the fall in the cost of living, there must be a readjustment all along the line and that wages will be readjusted along with other things. But they do not see why the railroad workers should be the “goats” as they put it. Labor Board Decision Hangs. No one knows definitely what the Railroad Labor Board is going to do in regard to the wage question and the natfonal agreements with the workers. The wages were fixed by the board eight months ago, after a careful investigation. These wages were accepted by the roads without delay, though the men held off for |twenty-four hours or so. not heinz |entirely satisfied. Now it is urged that big cuts be made in these wages because the earnings of the roads are insufficient to pay the expenses of the roads and a fair return on the investment. ‘The claim is made by the workers, ltoo, that when the Railroad Labor Board fixed wages July 20, 1920, | granting the increases, the cost of living figures used by the board were those collected by the bureau of labor statistics, Department of Labor, as iof December, 1919. The bureau puts out its stat a year, De SPECIAL NOTICES. ONE OOAT OF LIVE OAK ASBESTOS ROOF- ING OEMENT is equal in thickness to more thap 6ty couts of roof paint. ' Only coating puf on with a brush that will stop leaks in roofs. I apply same and guarantes roof for Bve years. Produet also sold in balk. MADISON CLAKK, Sole Diatributor. ve. se. (m¥1®) Line. 4219, OLD FLOORS PLANED, SCRAPED AND R polished; sample closet done free bad. C. 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This was true | o Yot (he Labor Board is apparently jin the ¢ of the workers other than [ 'L if w > . ith e proposition b ihe e nmen—many of them then| (hAL If wase ipire not cut the roads unorganized. The trainmen. members| ANOLUVE The men have advanced of the four big brotherhoods, had proparly mamaged coutd” sar o bilt s otk selves. But that propositi dustrial relations, appointed by the| ¢ "G, BUL (AL Probosition has not And_ the situation {1s one that must be faced immedi ately. If the Labor Board reduces wages annuls the wtional agreements, what are the Iroad workers going to do? Are the going to quit work and tie up the . Let it be said ! he nd now, that the great majority | of the work are hoping that such ey will not arise. and they be faced conting | with such an al- will not ternative, If you happen to tackle a radical j{among the workers, he will tell you | the men will strike and fight it out to the limit. The radical element is not limited to any locality. but is more in evidence in the west. The more conservative men are ot mak- |ing predictions. But they are apt to say: The best way to judge the future is by what has happened in the past.” and then to point to the recent strike on the Atlantic, Birmingham and At- lantic road, where the men's wages were cut by the receiver, after the road had been declared insolvent. There the men struck and Fave kept up the fight. They point also to the outlaw strikes which occurred last SPring in many parts of the country, when the men grew impatient be- cause their demands for an increase in wages were not granted. Rules Oppose Sympathy Strikes. The trainmen—the members of the four brotherhoods—the men who ac- tually operate the trains as engineers, firemen, conductors, etc., will co-op- erate as far as they can with the shopworkers and other employes if wages are cut. Tke brotherhoods do not countenance “sympathetic” strikes. Their rules are against them. Th. controversy must be between th trainmen and the road they are ac- tually employed by before the strike is permitted. In ‘this connection it may be said that instructions have gone out that the trainmen will co- operate with the other workers tke best they can where wages are cut, but where the cuts do not apply di- tly to the trainmen, and that here wages are cut all along the line, including the trainmen, there will be full co-operation. The question of wage reductions has been taken up by the roads all over the country with their employes—in many cases no attempt has yet been made to cut the wages of the train- men. In each case, the road is acting alone, and each case will go to the Labor Board—if no agreement can be reached otherwise—as an individual case. But if the board decides, in the case of one road, that wages are to be lowered, it may be taken as a criterion of what will happen on all the roads. The piecemeal manner in which the matter may come before he board for decision may make it imposeible for anything like a nation- wide strike to occur. But if a strike occurs on any of the great systems, any great connecting link in the transportation of the country, great hardship may follow. Public Support Sought. In the controversy between the roads and the workers both are seek- ing the support of the public. If the Dpublic, as a general proposition, should be against the workers, their strike would be doomed to failure before it ever began. On the other hand. if the public supports the workers, the rail- roads will have a tremendous task to beat a strike, a task that will cost hundreds of millions of dollars and put them still further in a financial hole. One difficulty the men face in win- ning support of the public lies in the fact that wages in many other industries are going down. The peo- ple generally are making less money than they did a few months ago. The farmers, particularly, have been hard hit in the slump of business. Then, too, a railroad strike that makes a shortage of supplies, with accompanying suffering and a jump in prices, would of itself be unpop- ular. Also there is the question of law. The law provides for a labor board to decide these controversies be- tween the workers and the roads. It does not make the decisions of the board binding, but the implication is that, after a fair hearing, the board will decide justly and that the force of public opinion will back up the board. Agreement Relates to Shopmen.: The proposed elimination of the national agreements does not affect directly the four brotherhoods, but relates only to the shopmen and other employes. But the abrogation of these agreements would lead to a bitter struggle, just as surely as a cut in wages, it is said. The na- tional agreements cover a vast num- ber of employes who are vitzl to the operation of the roads. Should the Labor Board decide against the roads in regard to the na- tional agreements and the wage cuts at this time, it may be expected that the roads will, in the great number of instances g0 into the hands of re- ceivers. In some quarters that would not be regarded as an unmixed evil. For instance, the failure of the road would be regarded as a signal for the government to step in and oper- ate. The proponents of government ownership of the roads could scarce- ly be expected to grieve, therefore, if the roads were forced into a po- sition where the government would have to take this step. Unless there is some relief for the roads in. the next few months, it may be expected that the smash will come, there is no other way out. On the other hand, there is a large number of people in this country op- posed to government ownership of Mulched ears fer girls “Il con- tinue t’ be th’ rage. Who remembers when only fellers that looked good in stiff hats wore ’em? (Copyright National Newspaper Service.) ship and operation of the roads than there were a few months ago. _— EVANGELINE BOOTH CITES WORLD’S GREATEST STORY Salvation Army Commander, Intro- duced by Gen. Pershing, Addresses Meeting. Taking as her theme ‘“The World's Greatest Sto Commander Evan- geline Booth addressed a capacity au- dience at the Salvation Army mass meeting held in the Belasco Theater yesterday afternoon. Introduced by Gen. Pershing, who lauded the work done by the army during the great war, Commander Booth traced the history of the or- ganization and spoke feclingly of the days when they were hailed With abuse: of the days, when her father, Gen. William Booth, with a little band of supporters, began a battle for Christianity. 'She said that in spite of the fact that their motives were questioned and they were looked upon with suspicion by governments, the Ivation Army had crossed the seas and girdled the world. She detailed the practical work done by her co-workers, and declared that, aside from establishing rescue homes for girls throughout the cow: try and hotels and free dispensar for poor men and women, the organ. ization had cared for more than 43,000 neglected children during the past year. Frequently during her address Commamier Booth knelt at the small table in front of her and prayed. while the soft music and low intona- tions of the bandsmen's voices added to_the solemnity of the occasion. Invocation was pronounced by Rev. James E. Freeman, rector of Epiphany Church, and the benediction by Rev. Wallace Radcliffe, pastor of the New venue Presbyterian Church. oner Thomas Estill, ter- ritorial mander of the eastern section of the United States, spoke on the work of the Salvation Army in this part of the country Many distinguished Washingtonians, includ- ing the pastors of several prominent churches, with their wives, occupied seals on the platform. Commander Booth spoke also at a joint meeting held in the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church last night, after which the convention, Which has becn in session since Thursday, adjourned. LAUDS THE ENFORCEMENT OF GEORGIA MURDER LAW Colored National Associatiou Ex- presses Appreciation of Gov. Dorsey’s Recent Action. Appreciation of “the efforts of Gov. Dorsey of Georgia in seeing that the law as to murder is enforced in that mtate” was voiced at a mass meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People at the “The recent revelations as to the practice of peonage in Jasper county, Georgia, have arrested public atten- tion “only because accompanied by wholesale murders,” it was pointed out. “The example set by Gov. Dor- sey is worthy of emulation, and we do not hesitate to recommend it to the one who is soon to succeed to the place now held by him. It is the duty of the negro,” reso- lutions that were adopted said, “to seek by every peaceable and civil- ized methods to defend himself against the invasion of civil, political and economic rights by acquiring the power that comes from knowledge, solidarity and the will to be free.” Archibald H. Grimke, president of the local branch, presided, Rev. James L. Pinm delivered the invoca- tion and Walter F. White, assistant secretary of the national organiza- tion, and J. E. Milholland of New York were the principal speakers. Selby J. Davidson, chairman of the membership committee, outlined the work accomplished in the drive to increase the membership by 25,000 now being conducted by the associa- tion. A_musical program was presented by Prof. Wellington A. Adams, Miss Ethel Hardy Smith of Boston and the Woody Quartet. Announcement was made that the final mass meeting for the “drive” would be held at the same theater next Sunday. HERE TO PRESENT STATUE NEW YORK, April 11.—Dr. Estaben Gil Borges, foreign minister of Vene- zuela, arrived here today at the head of a special mission representing the Venezuelan government, which, will present a statue of Simon Bolivar to the city of New York on April 19, The mission, which expects to pass several weeks in this country, came on the steamship Tulore from Pan- ¥ e > The American 'i'enant v X % —will pay a good price in RENT, povided he gets his money’s worth. We are frank to say that we have seen many cases where property owners seem to overlcok this fact. Our Property Management Department —strongly advocates satisfying the American Tenant, both business man and home renter. We have proved that it pays the owner to make a satisfied tenant. : Sh. & Luch Property Management Dept. 713 14th St. N.W. { E; 3 G A the roads. Government operation was not popular ar ago. The cry was to get the government out of busi- Iness, and this feeling has not vet | subsided. But there are more people’ | who today feel that the situation is tending foward government owner- Howard Theater yesterday afternoon.! the detective bureau the | $ id. United States. 4 40000000000000000004000000000000000000000000000. Green de- AT 2 i 00000000000 NEW YORK. THURSDAY, APRIL 7. 1921 Prices Are Now At Their Lowest, U. S. Carrency Controller Holds | SARER S Wesbiagion. April & — Prices are | out there will Be & a4 che lowest new. and am wpward| from thowe who wam: to take ad- tarm may be expected at any time. | vantage of G lew prices. just as Reprodaced according o Controller of the Cur- | thefe was & rusb of selllng orders a. from the rency Crissenger AW that 1e Deeded 18 a alight buylag movement, he said Reeple whe are waiting for pritcs 1o tall tower are Mkely to lose, he potnted out. ¥y watting too long. fpr. whea the buytng returna. it will car- y frices Digher Mr Crissenger sratea When tbe buying starts. he peinted - - Men--Here’s a Worth While Opinion About Low Prices Every man in Washington—and most of the women—are interested in low prices for men’s Clothing. year ago, whev specuintors and wholesaltrs suddenly realived that the peak of prices had been reached and all tried to sell at the ton. and this seling wave sent prices tum- bling down. Just as the upware price | trend went 100 fac ir. most commod)- tics. the comggolier thinks, the price Pendulum has ooy swug too far in the opposite direcpion s “Daily News Record” of April 7, 1921 The opinion of the United States Currency Controller, reproduced above, speaks for itself. Read it! Read it again! Then—when you’re ready—come in and see these Hart Schaffner & Marx Spring Suits a 340 Similar Qualities Were Modestly Priced at $75 and $80 in 1920 No matter what your idea of price is, we want you to see these suits at $40. We want you to compare them with other suits at $40 to $50. Let us show you the remarkable variety of patterns and fabrics at this price—Grays, Blues, Tweeds, Herringbones, Serges, Unfinished Worsteds, Brambleproof Cloth. If you have any idea of buying a Suit this Spring— Our advice is to BUY NOW. Prices are WAY DOWN and in our opinion at LOW EBB! 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