Evening Star Newspaper, September 12, 1921, Page 5

D. C, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12,” 1921." NEW YORK TACKLES PROBLEM OF HALF-MILLION TO BE'IDLE ol THE" EVENING STAR; WASHINGTO NAVY YARD MEN SEEK PRESIDENT AS FINAL APPEAL IN.-WAGE CUT sentatives and the sident of the United States Senate. A committee, representing the ma- chinists’ union, presented coples of the resolutions today to Secretaries Denby, Hoover and -Davis. The com- mittee was composed of John Ander- son, E. C.. Davison, Edward R. Wil- "~ | SINGERS QUIET -CROWD: WHEN TRAGEDY STIRS BAPTIST SESSION Birmingham No-Axle Automobiles Representatives, Bearing Resolutions Adopted by 3.000 at Mass Meeting, Try- ing to See Executive in Atlantic .City. Armed with resolutions adopted by | since the signing of the armistice, 3,000 Washington navy yard empldyes at a mass meeting in the Avenue Grand Theater yesterday, representa- tives of the men today are in Atlantic, City seeking to appeal to President Harding for a reyiew of the recent wage reductions ordered by the gen- eral navy 'wage board. - The em: ployes’. representatives, Willlam H. Johnston, president of the Interna- ticnal Association of Machinists; N. P. Alifas, president of district 44 of the International Association of Ma- chinigts, and Herbert P. Leeman, pres- ident of Columbia Lodge, No. 174, In- ternational Association of Machinists, lefc last night for Atlantic City, where they will make an effort to present personally to the President the rcsolutions adopted at the fnass meeting. % The resolutions protest against “in- justices which are being imposed upon navy yard employes in the guise of ecor " and_urge the President to direct the adoption of a wage schedule commensurate with facts which have been gathered “or at least allow the present scale to remain in effect until the cost of living is actually reduced.” Called Arbitrary Reduction. Invade " 'Washington Next Evergreens, Shrubs, Per- ennials and Hedge Plants BLACKISTONE 14th and H Sts. N.W. bringing the weekly earnings for skilled mechanics down to_the $29.20 per week, which is $14.48 per week less than the minmimum required to support a family of five in health and decency as determined by the Depart- ment of Labor, or $14 per week be- low the figure necessary to maintain a family of five in accordance with pre-war standards obtaining for navy yard mechanics; “Therefore, Members of Columbia Lodge, 174, I. A of M., in mass meet- ing assembled, September 11, 192 hereby earnestly and emphatically protest against this apparent disre- gard of previgus governmental polici unjust interpretation of the wage law and disregard of facts and figures fa- | vorable to the employes; and resolve jto call upon the President of the United States to direct the adoption of a wage schedule commensurate with the facts as herein set forth or at least allow the, present scale to remain In effect until the cost of liv- ing. is actually reduced, which the wage board has admitted is abnor- mally high and on the increase, and thus carry out the real wishes of the masses of the people of the United States as against the insistent and well defined "plans of minorities of our population who desire apparent- !GEN. BANDHOLTZ LEAVES NEW. 7YORK, September 12.— Half a million men will be idle in New York this winter, in the opin- fon of reliable investigators, and the city has set machinerv in mo- tion to meet this Situation. In addition to relief measures planned by a special city commit- tee named by Mayor Hylan, fifty- three charity organizations have decided to pool their resources and establish a general cleating house liams, James L. Johnston, Hugh F. Rankin, T. J. Hughes, B. L. Rhine- hart, Willlam W. Keeler, R. D. Cole- man and William McIntosh. WEST VIRGINIA MINES Starts for Washington After committee. He said 75,000 former soldiers were out of work during the summer and he fears the num- ber will be increased to 100,000 or 125,000 by midwinter. “We aave mno funds to help them,” ne said, “but we never let a man go away without help, even if we have to dig in our own pock- ets to help them.” Down on the crowded FEast Side the Bowery lodging houses are already filled to capacity each night.” “Men out of work are sleeping everywhere in the open, | in every park, on every pier, in ai- crowd, and officers of the organiza- tion circulated amon:z the throng exhorting all to be calm. At the hospital the dying woman made a stutement that her hus- band had been following her all day and that she went to the tab- emnacle to escape him. NEW ORLEANS, September 12.— Janie Miller, a New Orleans wom- i i i an, and Rev. C. J. W. Boyd of Nashville, Tenn., were shot and fatally wounded at last night's closing session of the national Baptist convention of negroes. and a number of persons barely missed | Semious mbury o ehe pumse chat on. |CHARLES 1S TAX-EXEMPT. sued among the 2,000 persons crowded into the auditorium. iSwin Council Accords ex-Emperor Thanking Governor and State for Reception. CHARLESTON, W. Va., September 12.—Brig. Gen. H. H. Bandholtz, com- manding troops in the southern West | Virginia coal fields, where recently disturbances and clashes occurred be- tween armed men on the border of Logan and Boone countles, left to- day for his headquarters at Wash- ington. The 10th, 19th and 40th Regi- ments remain in the fields, under the command of their respective colonels. The 19th, however, has been desig- nated as a headquarters outfit, with regimental headquarters at Kanawha City, near Charleston. It is com-; manded by Col. (. A. Martin, with! Capt. John M. Hite, chief of staff.! The regiment allocated to the Coal River flelds has seen service in the southern West Virginla_ fields before, having been on duty there for sev-; eral months under the command of Col. Herman Hall, when martial law was declared in Mingo county in No- vember, 1920. | Before his departure Gen. Band-' holtz addressed a letter to Gov. Mog- gan, thanking him and the residents effort and handle the problem ef- Aciently. Chamber of Commerce have joined ‘Trades I leys, in storeyards and any place they car huddle out of the way and rest|” said Maj. Underwood of the ation Army. ‘“They can- not do #o when it becomes cold.” KILLED BY 3NAKE BITE. MOBILE, Ala., September i2.— | Barney Waters, thirty-five, a farmer, projects, thug glving employment | gjed. here yesterday irom the result “’-;,E‘;’“;:L‘{,‘,’Zm of the ex-service ;ul the bite of a five-foot rattlesnake. He was bitten Saturday morning man is at the heart of the entire situation, sald Maj Willlam 1. |.pq every known remedy to science was applied without result. Deegan of the American Legion. one of the members of the mayor’'s in order to avoid duplication of Association of The Merchants’ the Brooklyn York and 2 hands with the Central Trades and Labor Council and the Building Council to formulate a practical program. These organi- zations believe the situation can be met partly by pushing building 1% a é,y and 5c¢ Sunday David Miller, the woman's hus- band, is held fér the shooting, the motive of which, the police say, was jealousy. According to their reports, all the five bullets fired by Miller were intended for his wife, and Boyd was the victim of a stray shot. Rev. C. J. W. Boyd is secre- tary of the Baptist Training School. He is wounded in the | i breast and at Charity Hospital was ! =aid to have no chance of recovery. i . The big chorus of singers, which | has played a prominent part in the nven:ior ang to quiet the Used Buick Care { | Special Rights. GENEVA, September 11.—The Swiss federal council has accorded extra territorial rignts to tormer Emperor Charles of Hungary whereby he will be exempt from taxation. It is stated that the former Hun- garian monarch’s annual expenditures in Switzerland amount to $1,225,000 Swiss francs —_— Oysters can on least in water t contains at v alt to We have for sale a few rebuilt Buick cars of different models—all of which are real values for the purchaser. Remember, if you want a used Buick, when you one from us, we are Buick Dealers. To look a needs. {Purchase ter your Speakers at the mass meeting de- |1y tc see the wage earner reduced clared that the department’s scale{to poverty, want and subserviency; was an “arbitrary reduction” from a|and be it 1 scale of 80 cents an hour recommend- | “Resolved further, That our protest ed by the navy yard authorities and {and the detailed reasons therefor be by the local wage board. Under the |given publicity throughout the United which they received the federal sol- diers during military occupation. “The federal troops have been shown | only the utmost courtesy.” Gen. Band- holtz remarked in his’ letter to the | of West Virginia for the manner in 5 I ! The Star delivered by regular carrier to your home every evening and Sunday morning for 60 cents a month costs you about 1% cents a day and 5 Emerson & Orme may be economical- - new schedule, it was asserted, week- | States in order that the workers of | Sovernor. ly and conveniently 1y carnings ‘of a skilled mechanic | the nation and the public at large : ts Sundays Buick Retail ler. y iiled u & cents Sundays. uick Retail Dealers arranged. Perhaps would be $29.20. “which is $14.48 a|may know the real injustices which BURGLARS KILL MARSHAL I8 i = week less than the minimum required | 8re being imposed upon navy vard A | Telephone Main 5000 and 1 M St. NW you have a suit or g | dress that would be attractive and serv- iceable if you per- mitted our experts to dye it one of the new Autumn shades. Our autos call and deliver. CALL MAIN 4724 employes under the guise of economy, and that copies of these resoluti be sent to the President of the United States, members of the cabinet, to the Speaker of the House of Repr LYONS, Ga., September 12.—Andrew 3. Collins, city marshal, was shot and | | killed yesterday in a pitched battle | with a gang of burglars who were oting a local store. to support a family of five in health and decency as determined by the De- partment of Labor.” “Why the Washington navy yard employes should be compelled to work for a maximum rate of 73 cents an hour when thousands of men within a radius of 150 miles are getting any- where from 90 cents to $1 an hour is difficult to harmonize with facts and justice,” declared Mr.. Leeman. To make the employes’ wages equiva- lent to those received in 1914, he said, ' they should be paid about 90 cents an | hour. Alifas and Johnston sustained | Leeman's remarks and approved the adoption of the resolution calling for a review of the award. X The resolutions upon which the navy yard workers are basing their hopes for executive action in their favor reads: “During the period of the war,! when ‘approved views of progress in normal times' were not sought, the! National War Labor Board, the ship- | building labor adjustment board and olhgr boards, representative in Wholel or in part of the government, laid do\\'}l the following principles in the selung_of wages, both in government private employ: The right of all workers, in- cluding common laborers, to a living Delivery Will Start at Once . ! o 566666660000 00058823333333228828282222233232383300808000000004 O'pen N]ghts Unt_]l 9 P,M. 20 02888823388300000000¢ ounuononowwwoo»oooo“ / Every PIANO and PLAYER on Our Floors REDUCED on This CLEAN-SWEEP SALE New Knabes and Ampicos Alone Excepted Never in the history of this institution have we laid a foundation so broad—made an effort so intense or this one. That you may grasp the idea and aim of the President of this institution as announced in last Sunday’s press, please remember that we have made 333888 3833883 initiated such an immense selling campaign as THE wage is hereby declared. . 3 g . M. L SCHARR Electric Co. |scxiy Bii i THeSihis SR Reductions That Should Move Every New and Used Player and Piano on Our Floors and his family in health and reason- able comfort. “'3. The relation between wages and the cost of living should be a factor in determining wages. “‘4. Inequalities of increases in wages or of treatment, the result of | previous wage orders or adjustments, should be considered.’ “Since the war many pronouncements | have been made by. the President of | the United States, cabinet officers and other high officials of the United| {States government to the effect that it is desirable that the wage earner should maintain an ‘American stand- ard of living,’ be able to live in health | {and decency, and properly educate his i ; New Knabes and Ampicos Alone Excepted These prices, these terms enable almost every one to buy an instrument at last. Look for a moment at the values listed below. Some Used and Slightly Used Players and Pianos on Sale Tuesday and Wednesday Partial List of Used ~ Partial List of Used Players and Uprights Players and Uprights Free Delivery Within Radius of 50 Miles %ll * DOWN Take Long Time to Pay Balance Trunks Repaired and Made to Order 80 L Street N.E. ic not enough.. We need to hear some- thing of the saving wage. It is not enough for a man merely to exist, to ! meet the cost of living, whatever it is. to pay the fent, and buy food and clothing for his family. A man like; the American workman needs, he | earns and he demands something more ; {than this. He wants to save, and he should and must be able to do it “The bureau of labor statistics of children, the latest of these pro- . . Save money ana manemans [[|32" SR REREDY, e S Acolian Player, $198 Crippen Pinyer, $395 Pprofits by coming to the factory. il;ry of Lahox;,‘luhr.h.vam:: .z Davtls. in Mahogany........... TOA roved Mahogany. ... 2 etroit, i i i against the living wage. It Behni“g Player' p P Schencke Player, =5 5429 S Mahogany:- Emerson Uprigh Ebony : Franklin Upright, Mahogany. ... Brown & Simpson Uprigh Mahogany Stuyvesant Player, Hallett & Davis & Co. Upright, $l 53 Tophams Trunks Made in Washington No Branches Walnut. “Formerly James S. Toph: the Department of Labor, in_August, . Entablixhed 66 Yenrs {1919, calculated the cost in Washing- Sohmer Upright, ton, D. C.. of an exceedingly modest = e ORIy e 5353335550 i Mahogany............ o e e R b= = lhudgcl tor a workingman's family, cooenEe Hai Uprigh - N = ol ting of usband, wife an re * - 1t Will Cont ¥ou Nothing to Get | UTHPLr o Beoti s Sianiard o Kranich & Bach Upright, aines Upright, ur imate.’ living that they termed a standard of Ebony 2l e Mahogany............... SR S , Iol’:)l:: :‘“':I;‘-‘nllx;'and w;'ll b-"ghd, indeed, [ health and dc(‘en(‘y.'llghz?l n}'e;asoi cost e b S S T G AR5y % T . er, who will give you & | of which in May, the lower i « peasenable “price "un “aus - Faintine. Paper. | point. mark in the downward trend | Ackerman Player, H. P. Nelson Upright, want. SOFREING (hat Jou ma¥lin the cest of living). in nineteen soa- Mahogany.......... S eBECaRARaRORaRos Oak..... A TE N AL gt as nA cost cities of the United States would | e been $2,276.68, this budget pro- HARRY W. TAYLOR CO., Inc. 2 SEESEN ing absolutely no luxuries, con- Heinekamp Upright, $98 Emerson Angelus Player, Phone Cal. 1077 templateainofsasinesiand fEsenses Rozew00d Lr . n b bies i, S8 Mahogany. . .. 5 3 sion household goods. The cost of - Lawson Player s Eyes Examined this budget, when reckoned by the| hour for an employe working full| time throughout the year, would be' 91 cents. “During the hearings accorded the navy vard employes and their repre- sentatives by the navy wage board of review the facts were brought out that: “(a) It would take a wage of 91 cents an hour to provide a budget for the worker’s family in health and decency, and (b) wage data presented by the employes' representatives showed that many employers were paying 90 cents an hour to first-class | meohanics, this being the average first-class ‘rate in many ‘localities; and “The Secretary of the Navy, actiig upon the recommendation of the wage board, acknowledged that— 1. If wages were to be set in ac-| cordance with the increase in the cost of living as compared with the pre- war costs mechanics would' be en- titled at the present time to about 90| cents per hour. “‘2. Many private employers are still paying rates of 90 cents per hour and over. ‘3. The cost of living is nmow on the upward trend;’ and “Notwithstanding the fair and just attitude which the government has usually heretofore manifested in the setting of wages and the facts which the workman's representatives pre- sented in support of their claims, the Secretary of the Navy rendered a de- cision granting only 73 cents per hour as a maximum rate for the basic trades and proportionately less than this for other less skilled groups, it being__ acknowledged o board’s report that this new scale represented an increase .of only 45 per cent above the pre-war wage level to meet an Increase in the cost of living amounting to 80 per cent above that level. “It appears that the prime reasons which prompted the puttnig into ef- fect of this drastic cut in wages were— “1. The desire of the administra- tion_to economize in government ex- penditures and a willingness to fol- low the methods of certain private employers who are treating labor as a commodity to be purchased at the Jowest price obtainable even though the department thereby makes it im- possible to maintain pre-war stand- ards of living. “2. The insistence on the part of some members of Congress that rigorous economies be put into effect with a view to make a record tm-l ... $143 $139 ... $339 . $265 Graduate MoCormick Medical College Glasses Fitted DR. CLAUDE S.SEMONES 10th and G Sts. N. Phone Main T3l Mahogany Story & Clark Player, Mahogany. ... Hampton Player, Mahogany....... Story & Clark Player, Mahogany....... Story & Clark Player, Mahogany.................. Haines Upright, Ebony........ Solo Concerto Player, Mahogany. ........ New England Upright, Ebony - Seeburg Upright, Oak. Knabe Angeius Player, Malogany.—. .- .. lGi.llloisllh Everard Player, Mahogany............... 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Peerless Upright, St & Clark Pl 3 ; ol:.l{hoglnyarayer 3398 Underwood Player, - Mahogany . Every instrument in this store, whether new or used, positively protected by writ- ten guarantee for from 1 to 10 years, according to condition. economy with the same object in view as hereinbefore. stated; and “The commandant of the Washing- ton navy yard approved a Tecom- mendation of 80 cents per hour for first-class mechanics, which recom-' mendation was supported by data col- lected by the local wage board, which'| recommendation has been arbitrarily 1330 G St. N.W. SRS eseessessessesseseesesetssssessessesssess seessesessessessessessessesssessessessesstsssssessessesss $08088ssssssessssssssssssessssesssssesesssessessssssssiss decreased by the department to 73 cents per hour. 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