Evening Star Newspaper, November 9, 1927, Page 6

L 6 - ————— PUBLIGAD URGED TOEND MINE VAR Filling Bins in Summer and Rate Reduction Would Help, Observer Says. BY WHITING WILLIAMS, (Note—T7. in arhich A partially is is the last of is ol coal expe years fru mean t “as th that's wh as you g get > lon, ' want and What d'va the same, it v trike? Al you must understand this “Though 1 have no dealinzs with the union myself, stll 1 know just 2s everyhody else in the business knows that the moment the union ceases to he a factor, then literally hell is going to break loose in coal. lvery mine in the country will try to cut the throat of every other “With no fixed wage scale ing coal a seliing nothing but flesh and blood, the flesh and blood of our workers. Every time the low- est bidder gets his contract. he willy holders would fill our bins in the | official, £o back to his mine town and tell his people that, of course. he's got to cut their wages, but that he fizured they’d rather work at any price than sit and starve. “Of course, that will mean cher al. but all the time vou users will be paying for vour coal through the | nose—I mean in the way of ahout | five vears of poverty, misery, radi calism xhere among our million and a half or s of mine folk in our coal towns. | mora of the coal they themselves use “After that the miners will probably form. properly enough, another union. And the leader of that union. you can bet. will be more radical and revolu- i than John Lewis ever dreamed of. As a matter of fact, exactly this i happening slready in the I W. W. outbreaks now reported in the mines ot Colorado.” Is he right? Can nothing be done by us of the public to cure an incus- try admitted everywhere to by so grievously afflicted? War Partly Responsible, Certainly the remedy is not easy, if, Indeed, it exists at all. But one of sev- eral facts every coal user. should know is that the most difficult factor be- hind the coal war is furnished by the Great War. Its hurry-up call for “more coal” | gives us today a thousand or two mines and 200,000 or more miners who would not be needed if the pits were to provide, say 290 in place of the present 200 days of work a year. This it is, of course, that chiefly causes| that war-making $7.50 base rate, To date nobody has found a way of curing this exaggerated case of_over- expansion, because nobody figured how to say, with proper jus- tice to all, that your pit must close down while my pit stays open. ‘When the Jacksonville scale was signed in 1924 it was largely because Washington exerted pressure in the balief that this would automatically eliminate the so-called high-cost mines | and thus leave the field free for the more effcient. H The plan put plenty of individuals out of business, but the mines them- selves ramained, to make even worse competition than before because oper- ated at_bankrupt valuation. Hopeful mines will always mean hopeful miners. With these mines running, those extra 200,000 miners also continued to stick around. One reason for that is the surprising way & coal miner hates like the dickens to work anywhere else. That's not be- cause of the high pay; mainly, it's his freedom from supervision, his inde- pendence. Prefer Working in Mines. Hundreds of miners also have told me how they “tried a job up outside, but there was too damp much weather.” A mine changes hardly 5 degrees in vear and is ordinarily much better Somebody Ought To Tell Him of These Facts “The Motorist Who Doesn’t Use Ebonite Is Missing a Lot! Ebonite keeps a heavy film of oil about the gears which absorbs shocks, prevents friction, and makes gear shifting easy at all in today’s congested One filling will last 2,500 miles. EBONITE (Combination of Pure Off) 20 Cents a Shot At Filling Stations and Garages BAYERSON OIL WORKS Columbia 5228 A Sneeze Calls for HILL’S A sneeze usually means a cold. And a cold may develop seriously. Take HILL'S Cascara-Bromide-Quinine as quickly as you can. Ends a cold in one day because it does the four necessary thinge in one—stops the cold, checks the fever, opens the bowels, tones the system. That’s safety as millions know. HILL’S Stops Colds — ventilated than is generally under- stood. In fact, a much greater weight | of air is pumped into the rage | mine every day than weight of coal is taken out of it. So, too, with the suggestion of Pres- ident Harding’s Coal Comnifssion that the Interstate Commerce Commission be empowered to refuse railway sid- ing to mines believed unnecessary in the district. To date the public has| nd industrial warfare every: |ine rajlways, first to give lower freight has vet| |eration is at this moment behind the [ felt that this gives too much power of industrial life and death into the hands of a small group. | Furthermore, of the country’s 4,000 {oad mines. almost one-half have no | railway siding anyway, If you are lucky enough to have coal on your farm, whom would you trust to de | cide whether you should or should | ot take a few truck or wagon loads | down to the town siding to enjoy the velvet of a_peak-price market” Immensely les S ad should siven to the we taxpavers Government to borrow, sa lions from us, buy everybody's mine | and then close down whatever ones it | likes. Even then politically hired managers and miners would pretty surely push up production costs. The moment this price got above a certain world market level fleets of .coal-laden | ships would fill our harhors from the | nt and. therefore, cheaper mines | reat Britain or the continent The Coal Commission, nevertheless, | was certainly right in contending that the industry is definitely “tinged With | {2 public interest.” Such “tinge” may Inot show us how to get the miners out of the trenches by Christmas, but it does put it up to us consumers to | know how we can help permanently | | to get cheap and abundant fuel with {out compelling its producers, whether unionized or mot, to live below decent | | American standards. | Suggested Remedies. ! Here are some suggested remedies: 1. We could reduce ove; expahsion by regularizing mine oper: | | tion if we manufacturers and house. Summer instead of waiting till snow {flies In Januavy and February alone we burn eno coal to fill the Pana- ma ¢ in April and May. both | use fall off badly, | and the tripple whistle hegins to give | a spasmodic ecall to work. I We can work to the same end, | alo, hy fnstructing the Interstate Commerce Commission to authorize | rates in Summer. and, second, to store { (nearly 30 per cent of the entire sup- We can ask financiers and { business men why they don’t give to | coal thus stored the same kind and amount of credit and borrowing power they give now to wheat, for instance. (This is immensely more practicable than formerly, now that we know better how to prevent spontaneous combustion). . IV. We can get the Government to free the unionized operators from their recent fear that they will be punished under the Sherman anti- trust law if they get together suf- ficiently to meet a strongly organized | union of workers with a strongly or- ganized union of employers, or, for that matter, to join the farmers in trying co-operative marketing. All this would be possible without increase of prices. At present, the operators distrust each other more than they do the union. Unionized Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois fight non-union- ized Kentucky and West Virginia, and then each fights the other. Approves Conference Plan. All this is always true of every sick industry—dog eats dog to avoid starving. Secretary of Labor Davis is therefore right in proposing that the industry hold a Nation-wide con- ference to prove “that it knows fits own mind and its own business and can put its house in order.” Perhaps exactly this idea of co-op- convention of American Federation of Labor leaders November 14 in Pitts- burgh. As everybody knows, Wil- liam Green, president of that body, is eager‘u; extend ‘t‘n every fleld f[ Amer- ican industry the e wh have proved so amczfvdegq‘vhfi 5{21 management and the union workers ALPINE SPORTS, LTD. The following Hatels are rescrved ex- clusively for the Winter Season: BEI GEN Kurhaus: MALOJA. Palace: M hioss. Park: SICA" MARTA. Borblan: Al o A Gardens, London, W. C. 1. At Private Sale An unusual collection of Chinese Antique Furniture, Porcelains, Bro- cades and Rugs; also modern Hou: hold Furniture. Owner Leaving United States Articles Now on Sal 2168 Florida Ave. Tel. Decatur 4918 teas, theatres... woman wears The this shoe fits the action and repose. instep aches. i ko WNING MORE ARRESTED IN CAROLIST PLOT Rumania Seizes Army Officer and Wife—Dictatorship Predicted. By the Associated Press. BUCHAR Rumania, November Another alleged intermediary be- former Crown Prince and an political leaders was under arrest today with his wife, and this country was again thrown in a state of agitation and uncertainty. Censor- ship has been re-established over Ru- manian newspapers and the charge that Premier Bratiano was preparing to establish a dictatorship has been made publicly. When these known, Col. Carapancea missar of the 24 Arm on his way to Jassy, capital of Mol s to investigate further ramifi- ations of the Carolist plot for which M. Manoilescu, former undersecretary of finance, is under arrest. Seized at Border. occurrences became hief com- Corps, was The latest arrests, made at the bor- der town of Ceanat, were those of Lieut. Teodoru and his wife. On their way out of the country when seized, the couple were brought to Bucharest for further interrogation by the Ru- manian secret police. “Most interest- STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ing documents” were found in their autoriobile, authorities stated. It was said that Teodoru had an important mission to perform between Carol and certain Rumanian _political leaders. Teodoru, who was formerly attached to the aviation section of the army, of which Prince Carol was once chief, was declared to have acted as an independent courier for Carol. He was stated to have had no direct deal- ings with Manoilescu, who when ar- C., WEDNESDAY, lieved here. This would serve as a warning to other politicians, dissatis- fled with the present regime, not to espouse the cause of the exiled prince. (In Vienna it was stated that re- ports from Bucharest declared that Manoilescu would be put on trial next Thursday at Kishenev, in Bessarabia. There the government would be better able to guard the prisoner. It was also reported that Manoilescu's wife had been arrested.) NOVEMBER 9, 1927T. Students Held Under Dry Iaw. | AMES, Towa, November 9 (®).—Six | Towa State College students, charged with maintaining a liquor nuisance at | t-a Sigma Chi Fraternity house, yes- \urday were ordered held on bonds of $200 each, pending a preliminary hear- ing_tomorrow. The students were arrested Monday by prohibition raiders, who said they found a still and several bottles of liq- uor in the house. rested carried a proclamation address. ed by Carol to the Rumanian people. This was believed to he an appeal by Carol for a referendum about his re- turn to the throne which he renounced when he eloped with Magda Lupescu. Dictatorship Seen. In its last issue before the censor determined what went into print _the opposition Adevarul, calling upon the government to deny its rges if incorrect, declared that Premier Bratiano planned to establish a dictatorship along the lines of that operating in Spain under Premier Primo de Rivera. A project has been submitted to the National Assembly by the prime min- ister's order, the paper declared, “which will place Rumania under an exceptional regime. in which, Dr i shment will be applied to all 1-rs. All ess ntial pubic liberties, vhich until the present existed at least on paper, wil he abolished by this proj- ect, which will restrain the liberty of action of all citizens in intolerable fashion.” If a denial were not forthcoming, the paper urged the opposition and all democratic interests to prepare for a struggle “to the hitter end against the Tactors which constitute disaster to the country.” M. Manoilescu, also in the Averescu cabinet, will be sentenced to five years’ penal servitude by a court-martial at the government’s behest, it was be- e e Hearing on “Punch Boards.” The Federal Trade Commission will hear final arguments here Monday in its inquiry into the use of “punch | boards” to stimulate candy sales in | retail stores. The inquiry was brought | about in an investigation of the trade | practices of John 11. Deckman & Son | of Baltimors | A Choice of 40 Different Routes to ! California Given in This Free Book. “40 ways and more to California and | the North c Coast.” Select the route best suited for this season of the year. Detail maps indicating these routes from Chicago together with fares and other information sent free on application to R. O. Small, General Agent, Chicago & North Western Ry., 201 Franklin Trust Bldg, Philadel- phia. Pa.—Advertisement Make the Payments on Your House Easy Renting a Room. Describe well the attractive features of your room in a Rent Room advertisement in The Star. State the price. As The Star is read by prac- in Baltimore & Ohio Railway shops and elsewhere. Himself an ex-miner and mine union nobody knows better than Green the “barn door” opportunity for man and manager to help each other in every pit. including the com- mon practice’ which ordinarily leaves 35 per cent of the supply wasted in the ground. The first step. unfortunately, in this program, would require two new and very difficult factors. The first would be a leader among the operators who could hold them fogether to an agreed-upon program—a leader to date unfound. The second would be John Lewis' willingness to accept some modification of his beloved $7.50 basic wage, a willingness as yet unin- dicated. Conceivably, these two leaders could actually work together for getting freight rates, increasing mine ma- chinery, promoting storage, less wasteful railway shipment and home utilization. In =pite of the Illinois agreement to study some of these things, no- body in the industry appears hopeful vet. But, well, I “mind me” of the day when, in a black Pennsylvania mine, my companion proposed that we go hungry for a while, because— “If we work now—no catch din- ner,” he said, “den dees fellow, he no lose time and get two more car coal. Wat say?” So we went outside and ate he. | tween 1 and 2 o'clock instead of be- tween 12 and 1. When I returned to work I found that two tons of coal had fallen—between 1 and 2 o'cleck—exactly where I would have been working! My buddy's idea of teamwork had saved my life, ‘Who knows but that King Coal's present grievous malady may, with the help of us, his sympathetic beneficiaries, induce a co-operative spirit which will save not alone his life, but, as well, his soul. Copyright. 1 in all countries by Ne Amer Sbaper Alliante, T Don’t Fuss With " Mustard Plasters! 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