Evening Star Newspaper, October 25, 1921, Page 4

e oo sl A BTN The furniture in my abode I fear will break my heart, for when I sit upon a chair it always falls apart; the floor is dented here and there, in rather weird design, where 1. in falling from the chairs, have hit it with my spine.”. My tables all are wapper-jawed, they teeter to and:fro, the legs are always coming off and causing endless woe. My sideboard—when the thing was new, of it I used td,brag— is reeling yonder by the wall, as though it had a jag. And when I go to bed at night, and hope to sleep and snore, my befi proceeds to have a fit and dumps me on the floor. My wife is always saying things that fill my heart with woe; she shakes her finger in my face and says: “I told you sol” When we were buying furniture two years ago next May, my wife put up a lengthy spiel (she always has her say) : “Let’s get the good old LIFETIME kind, and then we'll know we’re right! Our neighbor Johnson has that sort, and truly it’s a sight. He’s had it now for many years, and it’s as good as new; he doesn’t have to fix it up with wire and tacks and glue.” “All furniture, my dear,” I.s:ud, “is merely made of wood, and there are forty other kinds I vow are just as good. I'll buy some tables, chairs and things for less than Johnson paid, and when we take our purchase home his will be in the shade.” My wife, §he wept and cussed and said 1 was a total loss, but when it comes to buying things she knows that I’m the boss; and so I went ahead and bought, and smiled to hear her scoff, and took home stacks of furniture—and all the legs came off. Oh, every time I take a chair it dumps me on the floor, and so my spine is telescoped, my pantaloons are sore; and every time I go to bed the bed rears up and bucks, and every time she hears a smash, my wife, she murmurs: “Shucks!” She follows me around the house, pursues me to and fro, and shakes her finger in my face, and says: “I told you sol!” SeasthSizc Mayer 6-77 CO. 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THROWN BY TWO LETTE A good ;deal of light on the view- wnter{l?dlflo !'he enlxtn‘ilfl)'f;ahl'::ni:::e R present .dispute wi = points of :the rallroad men who | FE o o e Jou heen to the pr threaten to strike October 30 and of | dent, the vice president and the gen- their employers is thrown by letters | eral manager in an effort wh u;}le published last week in the Chicago x{“"‘l‘:,‘fl'“m!- What is the dis- Lvening Post. The first letter is from ° % veteran ' railroad conductor, who The Norweglans are the longest| lived of European peoples, and he Spun‘ards the shortest. AINT NOW | and save repair bills later. | Joln the *Save the fur- || face” aryy of heme ownera. ! Interor and Exterler Work. T am yours most sincerely, = % FERGUSON, INC, 1124 ) “MARVIN HUGHITT, oth St Chairman Chicago d Northwestern Palating Departmient, Ph. N. 831838 tion of the United States Labor Board, without the approval of that body. “I was pleased to have you say that you and your fellow employes have always considered yourselves as of the Northwestern family, and it is my most earnest hope that you will continue to entertain this relation- ship, and that when you fully under- stand the issue as I have now stated it you will agree with me that the proposed strike upon the Northwest- ern is not Justified. further reduction in wages should be ordered, they will so decide. If, on the other hand, they should find thut | ditions have not so changed as to {Jdstity further reductions they will decide accordingly and dismiss the 'lgvllufion. ‘Whatever this may be, s railroad will obey fit. “We obeyed the decision of the board when in 1920 they directed us to increase wages approximately 22 er cent. We obeyed thiir decision n 1321, when they directed a reduc- tion of between 10 and 12 per cent. We will obey any future decision, and there will'be no reduction of your compensation, or that of any other employes coming under the jurisdic- Quotes Leaders. “The leaders of your brotherhoods says that in the present instance, for the first time in his life, he is in favor of going on strike. The sec- ond letter, published a few days later, is by Marvin Hughitt, chairman of the Chicago and Northwestern, in which the statements of the conduc- tor are taken up and answered and arguments presented to show that a strike at this time is unwarranted. Veteran Conductor's Letter. The “veteran conductor” writes as follows: “To the Editor of the Post: “Believing in the honesty and fair- ness of the Post, I am writing these lines with the.hope that the public will recelve them through your valued paper. “I have been in the operating de- partment of one of the great railroad systems of .this country for over thirty years as freight brakeman, freight conductor and passenger con- ductor, and have been a member of the Order of Rallway Conductors since my promotion in 1897. In all that time we have never had a strike, and on the two occasions a strike vote was taken I have voted against a strike, so neither 1 nor the organi- zation can be called radical, but in the present instance I am absolutely in favor of a strike of the transpor- tation brotherhoods if the roads in- sist on further reductions at this time. “This is the only time I have ever seen the old-timers lined up to a man on this proposition, and I want to tell you it means a lot to us who have worked over a quarter of a century under the Hughitt banner to take this stand and break ties that have held all ‘these years. We have known and respected our executive officials all of our working lives and know each oth- er by our first names, and have al- ways considered ourselves as of the family, and it is hard to sever these relations at this time, when many are growing old and can do no more work, and a possibility of lean years before them, but we absolutely know we are in the right in this matter and we are willing to go far. Conductor Not Well Pald. “The passenger conductor {is not well paid when one considers what is required of him before he becomes a passenger, -conductor. We_are paid $192 per ifonth of thirty days—$6.40 per day, or 64 cents per hour, and ten hours before any overtime accrues. My necessary expenses away from home amoutit to $60 per month. Some spend less than this and some more. Muny runs compel a man to be away {ffom home three-fourths of the time. Ve were willing to take the cut of July 1. but certainly cannot take an- other one until the cost of living has gone down. *My rent was raised $20 per month the last year, my shoes that former- 1y cost $5 are now $10; $12 and $15, and not as good, either. Some gro- ceries went down a little, but are now going up again. Gas, electric d telephone service went up, as did Street car fares. Before the war we were pald $162 per month of twenty- six days, extra for Sundays and fifteen days per year vacation. We have lost that and work a thirty-day month {nstead of twenty-six. We are expected to be diplomats and Chester- fields knowledge of practical railroading, which we learn in a hard school. Nearly all the passenger conductors of today put in their apprenticeship braking on freight trains in the days {of hand coupling and hand braking, {an occupation more hazardous than { warfare, as statistics prove. | The next time you board & train {size up the conductor and see if he {logks like a radical, and remember ithat he has been on the job from twenty to forty-five years and has never been in a strike. Yours re- #pectfully. R.” { In answering the conductor's pres- {entation of the case, Chairman ijughitt says: Chatrman Hughitt Says, “To Conductor R.’: l “T read with great finterest your {I1otter published October 18 in the { Post. T regret that you did not sign amo in full, so that I might vou personally. iroud _for over a quarter of a centu L too, have spent almost my _entire business Toer ~on the N N April T will riod of time I have felt {ihat a spirit of comradship existed i beiween the Northwestern employes fand the executive officers, and have oxerted every effort consistent with in the in- | torest of the employes and in an ef- {fort to properly discharge the trans- portation obligations to the shipping public. “Tt is with a mingled feeling of re- ! zrot and sadness that I now learn ithat the Northwestern railway is to | be in the first zone of aitack In an eort to cripple and, if possible, vn and destroy the syst ¢ 1 ask what for? made agatnst the as well as having a perfect | 72 say you are striking against the wage award, effective July 1, 1921. But your representatives participated in the hearing before the Labor Board, offered their evidence, submitted their arguments, and, after full and com- plete hearing, the Labor Board, an instrumentality of the federal gov- ernment, in accordance with the law of Congress, made a decision regard- ing wages. And this railroad has complied with that decision. *“In your letter you say you are willing to take the cut of July 1, but that you cannot take another ome until the cost of living has been re- duced. Your officers have not asked you to take another cut at this time. We have not yet started negotiations with you upon this subject, and you have not met with your executive ofticers for the purpose of discussing any such question, as the law re- quires even before any application is made to the Labor Board, and yet you propose to strike in response to a call which bascs the strike upon the wage cut with which you say you are sat- isfled. “If you have fear of a further re- ductifon in wages, then permit me to call your attention to the record which the Northwestern company made at the last hearing on this sub- ject before the United States Labor Board. In his closing arguments at that time our Mr. Sargent stated that it was the purpose of this company to obey tHe decisions of the Labor Board | and to strictly observe the law to the minutest detail at all times and under all circumstances. That state- ment had my full approval, and still stands as the policy of this com- any. “There has been no intention of re- ducing wages further without first conferring with you and our other employes I{n the manner as pointed out by the act of Congress. If in these negotiations we cannot reach an amicable and friendly settlement, then there can still be no reduction in wages until after we have applied to the United States Labor Board and have certified to that hoard that we were unable to agree. The board will then set our pute down for a hear- ing. At such a time you will be rep- resented and will be given an oppor- tunity to be heard, just as you were when the board ordered reductions of between 10 and 12 per cent, effective July 1, 1921. “At this hearing you will be given the opportunity to ‘offer 1ll of your evidence, to present all the facts and all the arguments against a reduc- tion in wages, and the board will then decide whether conditions have so changed since their decision effec- tive July 1, 1921, that there should he & further reduction in wages. We believe that such decision will Le based squarely and impartially upon the evidence produced at the hear- ing. If the board is satisfied that conditions have so changed that some —ee ESTIMATES FURNISHED REMODELING——REPAIRING FRENCH FUR SHOP Call M. 1708 ] s —0) H Reflector Gas Heaters Also “Radiantfire” Gas Heaters and Majestic Electric | | | 1204 G St. 616 12th St. Phone Main 140 with this association. BASED uion: records that’ warm o o ter what the weather? 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