Evening Star Newspaper, June 20, 1922, Page 11

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Krow | Too BuSY To LOOKK ARy OF THEM uP CSal== CONGERTED STRIKE AGTION PLANNED Mine and Rail Shop Union Of- ficials to Confer in Cin- cinnati Tonight. _ Tis tha Assoclated Press 3 CINCINNATI, June 20.—Interest ere today in the nation-wide rail ~trike situation centered in the cons ference tonight between officlals of the miners and railroad shop craftsmen, when union plans for con- certed strike action between these organtzations will be heard.- B. M. Jewell, head of the’ railway employes’ department, and John L. Lewis! president of the United Mine Workers, at a conference yesterday dfscussed the agenda of tonight's meeting and mapped out a plan of action to propose to the officials of these two unmions. None of the “Big Four" or trans- portation brotherhoods was expected to attend the meeting, it was stated. Members of these organizations are hot affected by recent decisions of the Railroad Labor Board's wage- cutting déeision and altering work- ing conditions. However, they are members of the rail-miners’ alllance, having signed the agreement-at-Chi- cago last February. Power With Government. In a statement Willlam H. John- ston, president of the machinists, de- clared the only possible move that could prevent a walkout of approxi- mately 1,000,000 rail workers July 1) was_for the government to order | the Labor Board to suspend its order | reducing wages and for the board to enforce against all lines its order against the farming out of shop work by railroads. ‘We are determined to strike if the men authorize one.” declared Mr. Johnston. “Of the vote so far cast and received at headquarters only a imall per cent is against a strike. 1| have never seen such a determined | sentiment among the 'men for a strike” 3 > © The first move toward a walkout . of the clerks was the authorization | of a strike vote being ‘taken on the New York Central: system, Approxi- nately. 14,000 men will .be affected, it was:learned at the clerks’ hea quartérs here. - Thomas Healy, president sof the stationary ‘firemen and ollars, said the strike vote of his orgAnization.is returnable July 15 at Omaha. D. H. Helt. president of the signal- men, announced no action had been Laken by the general committees of is union, as the official decision of the Labor Board was not received | until Saturday. A strike vote among | the signalmen rests with the general committees on the various roads. he said, and it will take several days| to determine the sentiment of the regarding n wallout V- o are thinking.” he said. ~Edward Fitzgerald, president of the cierki. issued a statement last night declar- ing that if his men favor a strike | 3t the unjon will give their™ sanction. & BOARD DRAFTS REPLY. By the Associated Try CHICAGO, June 20.—A formal réply to the communication of leaders of ten raflway unions, who informed *he United States Railroad Labor soard that a railroad strike would authorized if the present refer- endum favored a suspension of work, is being prepared by the beard, was learned today. Thé reply to the unfon- chiefs will not be forwarded for several days, howeverit was sald. Meanwhile, unfon headquarters were speeding up the strike vote in an ef- fort to have it completed and tabu- lated by next Saturday, when the neral committee of ninety repre- enting the rail unions meets here to canvass the returns. ags * Fifty thousand ballots cast by shop- crafts employes have been “almost solidly for a. strike,” according to John Scott, secretary of the Rafiway Employes' Department of the Amer{- can Federation of Labor. \ Just where the railway employes ex- pect to go with their grievance against wgge requctions due July 1 is a puazle, according to H. E. Byram, president of the Chicago, Milwaukee ind St. Paul railway. “The only appeal is to the public 5_3? we felt in turning the case of-re- Adjusted compensation oVer to the Labor Board we were submitting it to the public,” he sald. “In all previous controversies—that is, In lhe past before the Labor Board D LRES jmeet the demands of the organization you'LL Be Coppricht. 1922, H.T. Wobstor was created—the disputes were be- tween railroad management and em- ployes, and when they could not agree there was always some further action or other place of appeal—to outside arbitrators—but now the Labor Board is the end and there is no place to go with an appeal. as the board was cre- ated by Congress to represent the | publ nd no appeal to any body is| provided for in that law. “The board's findings are based upon present conditions. and, therefore, are n ubject to immediate revision, which would be necessary in order to léader: STRIKE BALLO®S MATLED. CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 20.—Strike ballots ure’Béing malled to all mem- bers of the Brotherhood of Railway OLO MAN, J DINMER WITH ME To-DMIGHT - | WAMT To KMowW You BETTER. 'LL DROP AROUMD WITH THE CAR AnD PiCcKk YOU, 1 WiSH You D HAVE and Steamship Clerks. Freighthouse, Express and Station Employes on the New York Central railroad, according to an announcement today by Frank W. Grosser, general organizer of the union. The referendum will be taken, he id, in protest against a wage re- duction of clerks of 3 and 4 cents an hour, ordered by the Rallroad Labor Board last Friday, and against the private contracting by the New York Central of certain classes of freight- house and station labor. *Under th board’s ruling the wages of the clerks will average .5 cents an hour, ef- fective July 1. ——— Hub—I don’t helleve you can keep ac- count of the money ¥ou spend. ‘Wife—Oh, yes, I can. It's the money I can't keep. _ Today Use B0O-NO It Disinfects Pleasantly ‘ Most , disinfectants and deodo rizers leave an odor as dis- agreeable as the’one they dispel.. BO-NO Liquid is power- fully effective, yet pleasant and refreshing to smell. Spray ‘freely in=sick. rooms—in toilets, garbage cans and sinks, ‘B ."and other vermin. -BO-NO Liquid-is: the handy * helper for the housewife— Iet;us tell you about: it” here:, Pints, 50c ' Quarts, 85¢ Gallons, $2.75 wherevér there is contamination or foul air. 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Henry Ford's offer to purchase and lease the government's power and nitrate projects at Muscle Shoals, Ala., was attacked today in a report to the House prepared by Representa- tive Kearns, republican, Ohlo, and signed by Representatives Morin, Pennsylvania; Parker, New Jersey; Crowther, New York: Frothingham, Massachusetts, and Ransley, Penn- sylvania, all republican members of the House military committee. The report declared dissatisfaction with ¢pinfons already presented to the House by other members. of the com- mittes, "and announced that the signers were determined to tell “the people” the “real facts about Muscle 8hoals and the so-called Ford offer.” Little Underatood. Declaring the belief that “the coun- try little understands what it Is that Mr. Ford is offering to do, or what, if anything, he Is offering for this great plant,” the signatories first de- nounce what they describe as “one of the most insidious propagandas that the nation has witnessed for many a day.” Many of the Ford advocates, the re- port says, are honest and conscien- tious, but have been misled as to facts of the offer made. In this con- Dnection, it points to the provision by { which fertilizers would be manufac. tured and says that, despite »persist- ent reports that he will compel the fertilizer manufacturers of the coun- try to sell their product at on of what they are now selling it, fertilize: nd sell them cheaply or what meal he would employ. The bold claim is made, and Congress and the country must take the statement as absolute truth or ge forever con- demned by this crowd of wicked propagandists.” Propagandists also have the unemployed, the report says, add- ing that they “do not only try to thus bribe the sympathy of the farm- er, but try thus to elicit the atten- tion of the unemployed by painting a rosy picture of the great activity that is to be started overnight at Muscle Shoals, where they promise a million men will be given employ- ment.” After explaining thelr attitude in opposition to the Ford offer, the com- mitteemen declare they are not “be- llevers in fables” nor have “faith to belleve in the pranks of fairies” nor .|do they think “that Mr. Ford is the REPRESENTATIE C. C. KEARNS, Ford “does not.-agree to make fer- tilizers at all unless he can make them with & profit to himself.” The committeemen declared “this is a hollow promise made to enlist the support of the farmer and not founded on any fact either contained in the contract or existing outside the con- tri to tell the people that “the principal business of Mr. Ford, should he get this gigantic plant, would be the manufacturing ~ of = other artic which he would be allowed to sell at any prices that he might see fit. Seout Fertllizer Claim. “The only thing that is kept be- fore the public,” the report continues, “is that he is to make fertilizer and sell it cheaply to the farmer, only charging for himself a profit of 8 per cent on the production. No one has ever suggested how he could make and charge propagandists fail | reincarnation of Aladdin plus his lamp. The properties for which Mr. Ford offefs the government $5,000,000, the report says, already have cost the government $85487,900. It declares the amount offered “seems wholly in- adequate when it is remembered that Mr. Ford could immediately dispose of the Gorgas plant to the Alabama Power Company for $2,500,000" and thereby obtain “the Waco quarry, nitrate plants Nos. 1 and 2, with all their innumerable railroad en- gines and steam frelght cars, steam shovels, concrete mixers and other surplus property that could readily be sold for several additional mil- lions.” LEAVE WAR COLLEGE. Lieut. Col. Willlam T. Merry, infan- try, and Maj. John Scott, infantry, { dent officers at the Army War College, | Washington barracks. Col. Merry has been assigned to duty at Fort Sheri- dan, 111, and Maj. Scott to duty with | the organized reserves in the 3d Corps are PROMINENT BRITON DEAD. LONDON, June 20.—Admiral Sir Lewis Beaumont, seventy-five, re- tired, former first lord of the ad- miral and high commissioner to Egypt. died at his home in Hurst- pierpoint, Sussex, last night, have been relieved from duty as stu- |a | AMUSEMENTS |. KEITH'S—Van and Corbett. Billy B. Van put over a new Ford last nigit at Keith's with so Imuch success that be rounded out his lact with a knockout punch which em- phasized the fact that he is one of the most popular comedians in the country. He is assisted by the ex- champion_prize fighter, Jim Corbett, but the boger is only a ciever foil for a cartload of Billy's new jokes, and the pigmy spice box deserves all the credit that goes with the act. Be- ing topliners of a good program kept Van and Corbett back until the sec- ond half of the show, but waiting only added to the enjoyment of what the pair had to = nd a tremen- dous hit was Another good act is the sketch en- titled “When Love Is Youns. edy of youth that was interpreted by ople with unu- Herbert Hod part of the ere, and won Jue Quon Tal, act that is richly cos- tumed and set. She has & good con- tralto voice and captured the audience in her imitations of the mannerisms of American song and dance artists. For an encore, the Princess intro- duces, with great success, a younger sister, just over from China. The lat- er's volce is a clear soprano which b Ihas an unusi Lucas and Inez present a novel ath- letic act wherein the muscular devel- opment of both is shown with force Their two-y. v trated the value of at Airing. A well performed dancing tu presented by and Harris. Pressler well re ve n a funny mak P and opera and popu- ated the wide sister act from pened the bill, proving a acrobatic stunts, and the D , Current Topics and Aesop Fables in animated cartoons lcompleted the program. : | Three waite m INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL : 1y REPORT BEING DRAWN Board of Charities Considering Details at Meeting at District Building. A report is being drawn up by the board of charities today at a meet- ing in the District building on the jquestion of the maintenance of the Industrial Home School, on Wisconsin avenue. 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