Evening Star Newspaper, November 8, 1927, Page 12

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A series of questions and a direct challenge to the suggestion that the | Dist i listen ty pub- | lic opinion re the automobile ked wddress before | parking situation ms Engineer | Commissioner Ladue | the Dupont Circle Citi tion in the Mayflower Hotel yesterday \fternoon, in which he expiained he ||\,h| come to deliver “an inform | friendly talk” and not to state | policy. At th | ascertain | association | Rodgers, if that was not standing_when he was invited to speak. Reing assured it was, Col Ladue continued, with fewer inter: | ruptions. | "The situation Ladue's question as to whether the citizens would expect the Commis- sioners to ignore three-fourths of the population in faver of the downtown parking of automobiles and listen to the one-fourth not in favor ns' Associa- a s point Col. Ladue paused to from the president of the Admiral William Ledyard the under- Tue asked m, declared m that. The s created Iy for the \ the course of his ad was not there e nal opinions. e al his_jesting, his address. t were re-elec Lloyd to succeed 1. The offi- state any per | had dectarved, ‘Let’s au before proceeding v | Al ofticers incum ed, while Mrs. Demorest president Wililam - nt: Gen, Georg P. Richard Wainwright prosidents; Mrs. Mz A preside Ars, Llovd, v Scriven and Mrs. | Endicott sistant {reasurer. P’. Pendleton nd Maj. Emis s to the Federation of | Citizen: tions. The tion adopted a resolu- tion opposing the development of the | Great Falls power project, offering as |an argument that it would do away with one of the greatest natur beauty spots in close proximity | Washington. The president was authorized to ap point a committee to study .the pro- posal of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission to borrow 1810,000000 from the United States Treasury for the purchase of park A. Dougherty on the American delivered address Red |CENTRAL CITIZENS URGE | BENNING AIRPORT SiTE| Association Wants Council to Press Aviation Field Plan Before 1 and |« arose following Col. | THE EVENIN BY WHITING WILLIAMS. Note—Mr. Williams is presenting im partially his observadions on the labor Lrisis in the anit coal field, stating the | viewpoint of both operator and union s first article, which appeared vester | iy, gave the miner's side. Today the | operator " is heard. " Mr. Williams, “an 1uthority_on econvmics and human reln has rorked as a soft coal miner nnsylvania. France and Wales, liv 0 as the miners live. Special Dispateh to The AND, Ohio, > We know | | C vember 8.-— “Coal nothing ¢ So ran the disconcerting reply of one of “those poverty-breeding companies” named by John Lew | mine workers' president, : arve miners s ervitude.” n « aid the company. operating with non-union miners thousands of them. Their coal does cost us more because we must pay to protect them from unioni who | won’t work and who stand ready to {assault those who will “But we are happy because of this fone single £ men we a zetting more coal | than when we were running full—full, |that is. of uni . Furthermore. | our men are earning all the way from | avound five dollars to”ten and more dollars a day. and working steadily, oo, : . t's close cither strike or ‘servitude | To such testimony the local union | leaders have just repligd with a forma Protest nnsylvania's to Pittshu commission of miners, the coal constabulary mentioned ¥ icle which app erday Other protests, also other war plans, doubtless will follow the conven f the American Federation of | leaders, beginning in Pittsburgh No- vember 14 | It r however, th: of Pennsyl West Virgin willingnes Lewis to . the nd iron police and the Stat Mr. Lewis | wed in this| Al but unthinkable, the embattled operator nia, Ohio and northern ia will show any great v than 1 reported for Mr. compromise on the vital| Jacksonville base wage o ay. With all their hearts| se operators believe they simply | e no liberty in the matier: That scale is for them a simple impo bility - Their best spokesman is S. H. Rob- hins of Cleveland, president of the Ohio Coal (Operators) Association. and one of the most highly respected leaders of the whole bituminous in-| dustry. Operators’ Position. According to him, few union op:| erators but have heen for most of the last three years in the same sit- uation as was described, not by a hard-boiled plutocrat, but by no less person than the late Warren Stone, | Lead of the Brotherhood of Locomo- | tive Engineers, and thus in charge of mines owned mainly by his indi- vidual members. Under the 1917 agreement," wrote to his union colleagu cost 2 per for Stone | Lewis. on I 1 on wages paid to Commission. A resol hington on race tr preferenc Point site w the Central t a meet Savings Bank tion included a zens’ Advisory serve his third successive term officers elected were Robert Mackin, vice president; John G. Me- Mahon, and H. C. Rein- harat, sure fr. MeMackin and Dr. William T, nealy were elected Federation of Citi- 0 adopted a reso- lution protesting ainst the use of |one-man cars on North Capitol strest | during rush hours, contending that | they delay, traffi |COTTON NOT AFFECTED BY RAIL FREIGHT RATES| Price Deviations Show Transporta- tion Costs Have Little In- fluence, Bureau Holds. Freight rates on the railroads have | a negligible effect on the price of cot- tun, when viewed from the standpoint | of consumer and producer, the Bureau of Railway Economics declared yester- | day in making public a study of com- modity prices in relation to transpor- tation cos The bureau said its ob- servations led it to the conclusion that transportation costs have but small effect on price movements, and that the transportation burden is moderate in_every Price variations paid to growers for cotton during the past four years have been in “marked contrast to the comparatiye stability of freight rates,” the bureau said. It held that fluctu tions in cotton prices “were caused by | other factors than cost of transporta- ion. Ceorgin Ave. Battery & Tire Shop 4306 Ga. ave, 7k Zellan A_& B Power B For Willard Power Units See Radio Service Studio Tivoli Bldg. Col. 9946 3319 14th Open Evenings Willard Power Units | On Easy Terms | Col. 6118 set It at GIBSON’S 917919 G St. NW. ar SALES—SERVICE Washington Battery Co. any charge for de- nead. Under the eement of 4 it costs §1.63 per ton—without any over- return on the invest- average price at which b. is $1.50 per Lucille Lachte, 232 Rugby Ave, Bethesda. Karl Nay, 4125 9th St. N.W. Maryjo Franklin, 632 Quebec St. N.W, Robt. Murphy, 319 Linworth Place S.W. Joseph Scagnelli, 313 13!, St. N.W. Ben C. Franklin, 632 Quebec St. N.W. Pattie Craver, 801 Mt. Vernon Ave., Potomac, Va. sharp you'll find one. let you get their milk for 1620 First St. 1164 19th St. N.W. Main 180 WAGE COMPROMISES SPURNED BY MINERS, SOFT COAL MEN SAY | 1 % Labor’s Demands Would Mean Ruin, Oper-| ators Declare—Workers Refuse to Help Reduce Costs on Present Pay Basis. |in | Robbin: per cent fewer | ) | differential. i Lots of Kiddies are finding the Lucky Caps on Green Meadow Dairy and Fairfax Farms Dairy Milk Bottles —and getting their ree Roller Skates Here’s another list of winners— The caps are plainly stamped—if you look 'G. M. D. on Green Meadow Caps F. F. D. on Fairfax Farm Caps —and when you find it—bring it to us and get a pair of these dandy Union Hardware Co.’s Ball- bearing Roller Skates—absolutely FREE! Buy Green Meadow Dairy or Fairfax Farms dairy milk—rich and pure—ask the neighbors to caps. You'll soon find a lucky one. "It your neighborhood store doesn't carry our brands of milk—phone us, Potmac 5630—and we will give you the address of one near you who does. Md-Va Milk Products Co. ton—not much incentive to open a mine or work it under those condi-| tions! We want to run a union mine, and expect to run ome if we run at all, but it is impossible to do v ields around | so much more | monopoly on the ! 1s this fmpossible situa- sksonville slowly stran- | s of operators and tens | ands of stockholders; it has caused enormous comme shifts entire districts with millions of inhabitants. “In Ohi for instance,” says Mr mine after mine has been three years in the grip of much the me costs as mentioned by Mr. Stone. In scores of our forfherly prosperous Ohio towns, the butche: bakers and bankers have been forced to join with the managers and miners in passing their time watching one long train after another go through | with nothing but coal. coal moving | from the non-unfon mines of Ken | tucky or West Virginia up to Lake Erle, and thence into exactly tho: thwest markets which were for merly supplied by these same un- happy onlookers “Similarly, in bursh suffored tons of soft 1 what could have 1 the normal operation, on a unionized in 1923 hat means for the nothii less than a loss in alone of fully $£50,000,000, o which undoubtedly rvepre nts 1 loss of two three times that imount in the normal passalong of the wage dollar in the st actories s stations, public ut the district.” Freight R Regarding freig te: s with Mr. Lewis Iy important, but he says f is too slow to bring th d help in time. The operatol | he insists, cannot afford to sit down and wait for the Interstate Commerce | Commission properly to increase the | eptable help recently given in the shape of a 20-cent advants their West Virg titors, especially now that even this entirely inadequite dvanta threatened by certain railroad ing permi m to lower their own rates and thus wipe out this new | for Greater Pitts loss of 25,000,000 s compared with en expected from 1926, hasis. it t wazes sum or What tries us operators sorely.” that while our e to_work for_us FOR PYRAMID PILES Piles cannot be helped or aided with any imount ot phyvies while the veins remain swollen. Reduce them and stop their bleed ing and torture by introducing these famo: little suppositories. Easy to use and quicl in results. Worth their weight in gold— | price 60 cents. Druggists are happy to recommend PYRAMID. FREE PROOF BOX BY MAIL | if you write atonce. A trial box of Pyramid | by mail direct only. Address 1100-H Pyramid Bldg. Michig e Calvin Brown, 225 Melrose Ave., Bethesda, Md. Al. Sak 226 First St. N.W. Joseph Gramposli, 602 3d St. N.W. Edwin Rice, 4314 13th St. N.E. Gertrude Schindds, Brentwood. Frieda Schmidt, 51 K St. N.W. Edward Dehow, 101 St. Elmo Ave., Bethesda, Md. hayer Hoar, Seat Pleasant, Md. them—and give you the Potomac 5630 penny under the $7.50 scale, they don't hesitate a minute to go to work in droves for the lower wages, down sometimes to $3 a day. of our com- petitors. Sometimes, when they come hack, their home union tries to fine them $200. But that, if not rescind- ed. seldom does more than make a my loat around indefinitely or finally mo & back permanently into the non- union fields; ‘Our whole attitude would be differ- ent,” Mr. Robbins went on, thought- fully, “if it were not that 70 cents out”of everv dollar we pay for our coal is for wages, with about half of | that in turn for nothing more than | the lifting of the coal off the mine floor and into the mine car. at means that our bill for the Iy work of arms and shoulders is by all odd: ggest item of : if that item’s . then we're just out of luck s ther. If our men wanted to help us reduce costs, they could do a lot even on the pres: ent we just ean't re willing | Inter. to | could STAR., WASHINGTON, D. €. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1927. sit idly by while they ol ruin not only of themselves but of us and our stockholders, hesides mak- ing trouble for all the public we try to_serve. “We have no quarrel with unionism as a principle. It's only this vital matter of a wage which will permit us to operate. Every conceivable plan we have tried, one after an- other, with Mr. Lewis. First, we made studies of the increased cost of living over 1913. Then to this in- crease we added an extra 20 per cent, | making about $5 instead of 50 the base wage. Our offer was instantly refused by the union heads Compromise Rejected. “Then we offered to pay regularly a certain per cent above whatever aid by the most representative r non-union competitors in West Virginia. It wasn't even listened to. We were curtly told that if we could no. pay the Jacksonville scale and get at once the desirell rates from the e Commerce Commis we close down. Even that, you i | paying taxes and meeting other e penses of mine maintenance, often running to_hundreds of dollars a day. “What Mr. is seems not realize is that the count regular non-union mines are perfect able to supply the entire countr needs of around 10,000,000 tons weel ly. and this without makinz any great use of the 30-odd million tons in s ge. “That's practically a complete re- versal of the relative union and non- union strengths of a few vears ago. Incidentally, that is making the so- called union victory in Illinois and Indiana mean nothing at ail, for they ire running now under 40 per cent and that mostly bhecause certain pub- lic utilities can’ afford to operate their mines below cost 0. in the complete ahsence of the s willingness to consider our ulties, all ihis forces us to do exactly what we_are do run our mines open-shop.” Certainly. we have ne intention of cutting wages below decent American standards. What's HiRioe s B ully high scale if | nobody can operate on it” Assuredly, any industry s sick | when union head and operator leader can make such good cases for them- selves as have heen stated, first by { Mr. Lewis, in my article vesterda now hy Mr “ohbins Can we. users of their product, their indispensable product, help the legiti mate interests of both? About that | tomorrow. | (Conyright. 1007 countries. be North American e eu! n Newspaper Alliance.) | Remedies. | City Street Collapses. | ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo., November 8 (#).—A part of one of Rock Springs’ | principal streets coliapsed yesterday, | leaving a crater-like hole 30 feet deep. An automobile had just passed over the spot. The eavity, which reached A width of 40 feet, was the sits of an \bandoned mine. 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