Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1926, Page 5

STRIKE WILL CUT WORLD PRODUCTION Business Leaders, Attending Chamber of Commerce Meet- ing, Outline Views. ettable phase of the British vike is that the agsre means lost_ production, Julius < of New York. former presi the Chamber of Comme 1id today ngton attending chamber, chamber venue and s w 1e of the business men at- itional chamber out which grew With several others he drew up the L voicing the thought of a » of business men m 33 countr demanding a npt and effective settlement of the sarations problem. le is a former Bar dent of wrnes annual which ope Peadquarte 1 st group of ing the reeting in Rome the Dawes plar is he it ‘THE WASHINGTON MAN INVENTOR OF SUN COMPASS BYRD USED ident of the United States Grain Corporation, and is_head of nes- Ames Co. of New York, the largest United States grain exporting firm. > immediate effect of the strik Pritain,” he sald, “is a i timulation of order: m markets eat Britain, i steel indu B: drawing Iy the i finding emergency course export Means Loss to World. But this will be offset by other erican indus upon the British marke able phase is that in the ageregate it ns lost production and, therefore, ome damage to the egate trade of the wor ‘Perhaps even so high a price to Yy a knowledge of sound eco- nomics and sound industrial relations would be justified by the utcome. British employment ~ relations and British trade missions to the United recently were amazed at the conditions of workers here and their living standards, and returned with the rtion that all of America’s prosperity_rested on indu -oduction. The British strike s apparently a head-on_ collision be r concept, made effective through strong unions with a fallacious ideal, that wages and hours 2 are the ultimate terms of welfare for working peo; instead of Ameri proven philosophy of the effective re- suits of hours of work—namely, the production of more and more goods to divide, losses of depending he regret. dec odern Machines Needed. There have come also on the other strong employer combinations which have not vet fully appreciated that modern labor-saving machinery, making work more productive, is the truest path to industrial prosperity and not alone the level of wage scales. the economic truth that rial enterprise in equipping in- and a worker realization that not hours, mark their wage . 'will start Great Britain on a nd better day of industrial pros- perity. “In the meantime, every day of such suspension of orderiy employment is areatly to be deplored, but also to be Cndured if there must be settled the question as to whether any particu- ‘tion of a people, by the power of organization, n v force representa- tive government against the free judg- ment of its elected administrators “If the British strike lasts six weeks 1 do not believe it would have a serl. effect on American business in 1, but it might slow down our rt trade in pork produets,” L. D. Weld of Swift & Company, Chi- , de red. ports of cotton are unfavorably affected every day the strike contin- ues. George 11. McFadden of Philadel- ‘ge cotton exporter, said. :n, .managing editor of up the general tion in his monthly review conditions for the Nation’s ide he B y operation long enough to give a fair| line on its ultimate effects on Ameri- can interests. The first effects here were a. sharp decline in stocks, cotton and grain, but stocks rallied quickly hen dulied. Cotton and grain came k mor »wly, mainly on Ameri- \ weather reports, however. Some firming of pig iron prices is reported and there is some talk that American 1, steel and coke, and possibly some textiles, may tind wider markets if th strike is prolonged. Prophecy in a matter like this is proverbiall gerous, and rather savors of d D the clothes of a sufferer before he is actually dead. It might be easier figure out loss to Great Britain rom seizure of its markets by other countries than to just how possi ble gains to others will be apportioned ‘With reference to American par- ticipation in these profits it might be well to remember that Great Britain s a heavy consumer of American ma- terials which may or may not go else- where if that country is crippled. Then too, some continental goods in: tended for Britain but rendered sur- plus by strike might conceivably be thrown on our own markets, to the displacement of our own products. it may be that we stand to lose con siderable business in some directions even if we gain in others, and the rgin of net gain to our business interests given the possible early settlement of the strike seems highly speculative.” g e s MARYLAND CATTLE AND TIMBER LOST IN MOUNTAIN FIRE | First Pag 4% out for 10 miles from near Waynes- boro to me: rottoes on both sides the mountain before it was sub- ued. Tt was the worst forest blaze in this section in years. WOMAN FIRE VICTIM. Flames Which Destroy 16 Homes in New dJersey. BOSTON, May 10 (#).—Forest fires iu the E: rn States today had claim- ed at least one life and had caused vamage estimated well in excess of £1.600,000. In Pennsylvani; D students of Buck- nell University were back at thel hooks after having rendered cou mgeous service in halting a fire that swept into the mountains three miles om Lewis. State foresters placed he loss at $100,000. New Jersey was hardest hit, with ihree serious fires and the loss of wne life. A woman was burned to «<eath when fire destroyed 16 houses n Atlantic County. The flames were lashed by a stiff wind and_rapidly swept along a 10-mile front. In other wections of the county three other were raging. In northern New five separate timber blazes, several of considerable extent, were threatening areas at isolated points from Greenwood Lake to the Delaware River, near Blairstown. In New England thousands of acres of ruined timberland testified to the destructiveness of the flames over the week end, but there were no serious blazes which had not been effectually halted. Lieut. Comdr. Richard E. Byrd, (right) examining automatic sun compass made by Albert H. Bumstead, (left) this compass was first used on the Mac- Millan-National Georgraphic Expedition to the Arctic. Albert H. Bumstead, inventor of the sun compass which Lieut. Comdr. Byrd relied on for naviga- tion during his flight over the North Pole, is chief cartographer of the National Geographic Society here. he instrument which Comadr. Byrd used was made by the inventor himself and presented by the Na- tional Geographic Society to Comdr. Byrd. The sun compass was devised for use during the MacMillan Arctic ex- pedition of the Natlonal Geographic Society last Summer, upon which Comdr. Byrd headed the naval unit | nd eight men. orth the sun is visible for 24 hours y in Summer. The compass depends upon the fact that the sun moves regularly around the sky in 24 hours and, by having the clock with a 24-hour dial, the pointer can be kept following the sun while the instrument remains in one posi- of three plan: In the far Bumstead, the inventor of the s, was associated with the National Geographic Society a the cartographer of its expedition to | Machu Picchu, home of an early Inca Peru, where the ex- pedition found traces of marvelous hanging gardens and the probable origin place of the potato and Indian corn. Upon his return from the expedi- tion Mr. Bumstead became chief car- tographer of the National Geographic Society, and he has devised new pro Jections for use in the maps, of which the society has distributed milllons of coples among its world-wide member- &hip. Mr. Bumstead comes of an old New England family, and was the son of Horace of Boston, sident of At- a graduate Polytechnic Institute and also took courses at Harvard. He was sociated for some year: the United States Geological § whero he devised instrument processes still in use by the survey, notably an instrument used for lay. ing down parallels and meridlans on | feld sheets of topographic maps. 1t is possible to use the Bumstead sun compass at all times when the un's position in the sky is discern- ible, even though it is too cloudy or hazy to cast a shadow. civilization, in of Worcester MORE TROOPS USED TO ASSURE LONDON AMPLE FOOD SUPPI ___ (Continued from First Page) shoppers, due to the better services | from the suburbs. In the labor district of Poplar all the public houses and closed today. The majority of the licensed premises ceased business Saturday noon when their supplies of liquor were exhausted. Thirsty ones rushed to those places where it was reported bottled drinks were still avallable and these were soon cleaned out. A similar state of affairs prevailed in the Stepney dis- trict. Both districts were quiet this morning and no _interference with vehicular up to noon. More Constables Sought. The government still is lacking its full requirement of special con- stables, and the second edition of the British Gazette prints an appeal from Home Secretary Joynson-Hicks for more men. It recalls that on Friday he asked Londoners to bring the week end enrollment up to 60,000. “I am delighted to say they are " said the home | still a few thou- sand short. I want you to realize that protection is one thing that will kill the strike and restore England to its normal life. “Give the government enough spe- cial constables to enable me to allot two to every vehicle that is, or thinks it is, in danger, thus releasing the regular police for sterner work. Give us men in such numbers that we may have moblle forces of young and vigorous constables in any Lon- don area where trouble is expected and there will be little fear of serlous trouble. Gratified With Situatlon. “Everything 1s going wonderfully well. I was naturally anxious the first day or two over how the gov- ernment organization would func- tion, but you who receive your milk, bread and other necessities with punctuality little realize what it has meant to volunteers and officlals who have made all go smoothly. Every day the engine is working better and I have no doubt whatever as to the victory of common sense.” The British Worker, organ of the strikers, a convoy of cavalry and armored cars which yesterday guard- ed food trucks from the Victorla dock Hyde Park was an attempt to de- de the public into the belief that | the country is in danger. “There was no risk of attack what- s the newspaper. “The lor- s safe as ordinary traffic times. The object of this ridiculous and unnecessary demonstra- tion was to make the people afraid by creating a belief that the strike has reached violent proportions.” Agitator Urges Steadiness. A sidelight to the movement of the foodstuffs through the streets was an agitator éxhorting a crowd of people on the sidewalk to “stand fast and never mind the troops.” The agitator was reproachfully interrupted by an- other man with “You told us they would be on our side.” Under convoy of 16 armored cars and flanked by cavalry, 158 motor trucks loaded with food were moved through the streets from Victoria docks to Hyde Park. An official re- port says it was the hostility of the docl: workers and their comrades in the Fast End to releasing the food in the dock warehouses, which made necessary the spectacular military dis- play. The government has given assur- ances that the food supplies in Great | Britain are adequate for many weeks, and troops have reopened the Victoria docks, so that food which arrives there is assured of distribution. Other Big Ports Open. Southampton, Liverpool and other great food-receiving ports are open and the military are standing by, as- suring that they will not be closed. There are many indications, however, that the British diet may be somewhat restircted if the general strike contin- ues long. The typical English breakfast of bacon and eggs is in danger, as the supply of both ingredients, which are largely drawn from Ireland and Den- mark, has been greatly curtailed, the workers in those countries refusing to load them aboard ship. Fish destined for En&md. also are traffic had been reported | ypal_provincial “towns, AY being held up in Ireland, Norway Holland. British trawlers cannot get coal in Holland and are consequent handicapped. | Eggs in Donegal, Ireland, have dropped to 2 pence (3 cents) a dozen, due to the impossibility of shipping to England. French Prices Slump Poultry, vegetables and fruits in France, which usually have a big out- let to gland, have flooded the French markets, forcing prices down. Dairy products in Denmark and He land arc piling up, with disastrous ef- fects on prices. Sailings have been resumed regu- larly between England and the Chan. nel Tslands, from which England gets much of its milk, and road transport is becoming so well organized that it Is effectively distributing all the food- stuffs which ordinarily move on the railroads. A section of railway clerks who have refused to leave work defend their position on the ground that the | general strike is not only illegal, but | that it has placed the railways at a disadvantage in their struggle with their greatest opponent, motor trans- | port. Provocative Tactics Seen. The headquarters of the Trade Union_Congress intimated attempts were being made to provoke attack upon the busses run by volunteer workers. A labor spokesman said it was re- ported that many busses were moved very slowly, as though the drivers | had been given orders to provide op- vortunity for an attack by any strike sympathizers in a certain district. One bus, it was stated, was driven very slowly past the Trades Union Congress headquarters, in the Eccles- ton Square. Twenty-six vessels docked or sailed at Liverpool over the week end and 30 vessels were being loaded or dis- charged at the Liverpool and Birken- head docks today. The White Star liner Baltic and the Cunarder Caronia arrived from New York. Motor coaches were wait- ing to convey the passengers to their destinations, Students Help on Docks. ‘Work on the Avonmouth docks is proceeding satisfactorily with the help of a large number of Oxford and Cambridge undergraduates. Hundreds of troops, with an armored car, arrived at Bristol yesterday. Many bus and tram men are return- ing to work at Bath and other cen- ters, including the South Wales coal fields distrist, where the strikers are conducting themselves moderately. * Eight food ships are being dis- charged at Glasgow and two are being loaded with foodstuffs for the Western Highlands. Seven arrests were made in Edin- burgh street disturbances during the week end, but tramway service in the Scotch capital is nearing normal. A number of food trains are work- ing between London and the princi- and the rail- (way companies claim a considerable increase in train service with many men returning to work. Food transportation in Manchester is improving with the help of volun- teers but a new development occurred with a strike of 1,000 men in five flour mills there. Potteries Are Working. Some of the big potteries are work- Ing at North Staffordshire. The col- lierles and iron works, however, re- main silent. At Carlisle the train service is get- ting_better and a loaded express left for London this morning. The train and tram service # Glasgow also is reported improved, numbers of the strikers returning. .Work in the abattolrs at Birkhead is proceeding despite a strike of slaughterers and a telegram has been sent to Belfast reading “You may ship all the cattle offered. The authorities are not allowing speakers at public meetings to say exactly what they please, John Headley, a communist, speak- ing at Merseyside Saturday night, was arrested on a charge of sedition under the emergency act. At Winlaton Mullin, Durham, two well known local labor leaders, Will Lawther and Harry Bolton, were af EVENING AR, MRS. CONBOY QUITS ABOR COMMITTEE Charges Woman’s Party Has Violated Understanding in Seeking Hearings. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May Conboy, representin Federation of 1 as withdrawn from an advisor imittee organized by the Women’s Bureau of the De. partment of Labor, charging the National Woman Party with viola- tion of an understanding. Alice Paul, Maude Younge: other leaders of the Woman have conducted propaganda against pending legislation to regulate em- ! ployment of women, Mrs. Conboy said in a letter to Willlam A. Green, presi dent of the Federation of Labor, made public vesterday. The party, Mrs. Conboy declares, “is composed mostly of women who never knew what it meant to work a day in_their lives. Mr. Green approved the withdrawal on the ground that the Federation of Labor “refuses to be a party (o the destructive endeavors of the Woman's Party.” : 10.—Mrs. Sara the American and Party “IMuminating Denomination By the Associated Pre f Withdrawal of of New York, with bers sharing her views, from the ad visory committee on speclal legisla tion_for women in industry appointed by Miss Mary Anderson, director of the Women's Bureau of the Labor De- partment, was d ribed tod: Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, president of the National Woman's Party, as illuminating _demonstration” of attitude of the American Federation | of Labor toward women. Mrs. Conboy is secrets of the United Textile Workers' Union and was appointed to the advisory committee as a representative of the labor federation. In withdrawing, she and Miss Mabel Leslie of New York, representative of the National Wom en's Trade Union League, and Mrs. Maud Wood Park of Washington legislative counselor of the League of Women Voters, cha bad faith on the part of the Natior Woman's Party representatives, Alice Paul, Maude Younger and Doris Stevens. Wanted Public Hearings. The committee was appointed aid the bureau in studying the eff of legislation for women. and thc withdrawing said they did so becau: the. representatives of the Woma Party, which s advecating an “equal rights” amendment to the Constitu- tion and is opposed to special laws of this kind, insisted upon public hear ings instead of “scientific presentation } of the facts.” “Such hearings, while providing a forum for the National Woman' Party at public expense,” the “would make impossible the taking of testimony from working women who favor the legislation, because to testify in public would endanger their jobs. To this Mrs. Belmont replied: ny charge that the Woman's {Party is making use for propaganda | ¢ the work of the advisory res strangely from the Labor, in| of its own repeated use of offi-| of the women's bureau to further | tion to efforts 1o equalizo the | industry and the profes-| Mrs. Sarah Conb two other mem -treasurer real aim” of the organized labor leaders who oppose efforts to help women “‘compete on equal ter with men in every fleld of activity she charged, is rimination again and not protection of women.” P Supreme Court Decision Favors U. S. in Rent Dispute. 1‘ Joseph Leiter of Washington and | other heirs of Levi Z. Leiter lost & Supreme Court suit today to recover, from the Government rent claimed under a lease of office rooms in the | Leiter Stores Building in Chicago. | made by the Veterans' Bureau, the lease being canceled when it had a year to run. The Government contended the lease was invalid because made with- out Congress having made an appro- priation available for the rental. rested under the same act and re- manded without ball. The third and largest convoy of | flour from the Victoria dock to the Hyde Park distributing center w operated successfully this morning. The flour was transported in 220 lor- ries, escorted by armored cars, troops and police. The committee in charge says Lon- don’s flour supplies now are fully secured, as 483 lorry loads have been removed from the docks in three days. Supplies for the Hyde Park milk pool are coming in so freelv by rail that lorries are being released for other purposes. King’s Mediation Proposed. An unofficial sugegstion has now been put forward that as nelther side will budge from their declared inten- tions, the King might usefully take a ! hand in the dispute by- calling a con- ference of the rival parties. It is not apparent how the monarch could take such a step without seeming to disavow the government, which has declared that the calling off of the general strike is essential to further peace discussions, but in some quarters the belief seemed to prevail that some way might be found to have King George imtervene. Sir William Joynson Hicks, the home secretary, says the government will win. The Earl of Balfour as- gerts that the country is threatened with revolution, and that success of the strike would mean that the coun- try would be ruled by a relatively small body of extremists, who re- gard the trades unions as a political instrument by -which the industrial system itself might be destroyed. Cardinal Bourne has called upon Catholics to side with the government. The Archbishoprof Canterbury, in a sermon which was broadcast, urged the people to make Christ’s principles their own. Strikers’ Views Stated. On the other hand, C. T. Cramp, president of the National Union of Railwaymen, in an address to strikers, declared it might be necessary ‘“to take further steps” to win victory for the striking miners, J. H. Thomas, secretary of the National Union of Rallwaymen, reiterated that the strike \\x'as not a challenge to the constitu- tion. Secretary Cook of the Miners’ Fed- eration announced readiness to make an honorable peace immediately. “All we ask is a living wage,” he said. Thy persons who are opposing the strike are making much capital out of the assertion that the strikers are try- ing to starve the country by prevent- ing distribution of food. Tt is declared by them that all sorts of obstruction and intimidation have been used in the neighborhood of the London docks to prevent the withdrawal from stor- age of stocks of flour badly needed for public use. They assert that the call- ing out of the flour mill workers at Birkenhead la‘\ further indication of this intention, WASHINGTON, Titled and Rich Women Fry and Serve British Transport Workersf | for cooking sausages in her particu- | Gazette, strike organ of the govern D. €., MONDAY, By the Associated Press LONDON, May 10.—Lady Louls Mountbatten, cousin of King George and famous for her fried sausages, has become the chief cook at the Hyde Park canteen for feeding men in’ charge of the government’s food distribution. Some 600 transport workers sleep in the park in a cir- cus tent, which in the daytime serves as a dining hall. Lady Mountbatten's sausages and mashed potatoes have a popular call the first thing in the morning and all day long. The titled lady was awarded a diploma some vears ago larly helpe: original way. She and her composed of soclety girls, | MAY 10, 1926. Sausages debutantes and housewives, work on six-hour shifts. Lady charge of cleaning and polishing the knives. knives. They seem to whet thelr appetites,” said Lady Forbes today. The quartermaster is Lady Cun- 1liff-Lister, wife of the president of the Board of Trade, and one of the wealthiest women in England. Lady Arthur has charge of the tea and cocoa making departments, which operate 18 hours daily, not far from Rotten Row, a favorite spot for aristocratic horseback riders, but which today is filled with lines of lorries, loading or unloading 17-gal- lon cans of milk. STRIKE ORGAN BOOMS. Circulation of 1,000,000 Daily‘ Expected in England. LONDON, May 10 UP).—The British | ment, expects that shortly its circu- lation will exceed 1,000,000 daily and that it will be available regularly in all parts of the country. Last Satur- 836,000 coples were run off the A large part of the issues ‘e being sent by airplane to the remoter parts of the country, and the remainder are Deing transported by motor cars. The newspaper declares that the workers in the plant are receiving the mnor- mal rate of pay and are not asking for more. $2,000 Fire on Tenth Street. Fire started in a shed on the un- accupied premises 923 Tenth street | vesterday afternoon and gained such | pid headway that it reached 925- Tenth street and sheds in the - of them. Maurice Solomon oc- jes 925 as a_fur reparing is the home | Damage to contents of Miss E. M. the several structures and amounted to $2,000. People of Germany are again buy- ing automobiles to a marked extent. ‘ D.l J Kaufman1 1005 Pa. Ave. Getting Busier STRIKERS URGED TO PLAY. Labor Committee and Government Promote Games to Keep Peace. CARDIFF, Wales, May 10 (®).— The central strike committee here to- day fssued an appeal to all trade unionists to maintain p “Keep smiling, refuse to be pro- voked, participate in games, get into your gardens, forget the pubs, look | after the wife and kiddies,” the appeal said. 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