Evening Star Newspaper, November 25, 1930, Page 10

A—10 = RAILWAY SHOPMEN SEEK S:DAY WEEK Unions Adopt Program, With! No Pay Reduction, as Job- less Relief Measure. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 25.—The five- day week for railway shopcrafts was | added to the six-hour-day program of | the brotherhoods today in the move- | ment to relieve unemployment ‘in rail | transportation through shortentng hours | of labor. The six shopcrafts unions, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor,| in adopting & program for the five-day ‘week with no reduction in pay, an-| nounced they had no. agreement’ with | the five brotherhoods, embracing oper- | ating personnel, who last week took initial steps toward a six-hour day for their members without pay reductions. The two organizations represent a majority of the 21 railroad workers' un- fons of the country. Railroads have dropped 210,060 of their members since 1323, a shopcrafts official sald. The shopcraftsmen also adopted a program favoring the regulation of all classes of transportation by the Inter- state Commerce Commission, as rail- roads now are regulated, and urging also that Federal and State laws gov- erning railroads should apply to all other common carriers. $100,000 TICKET SALE Broker Buys Block of Charity Benefit Game Seats. NEW YORK, November 25 (#).—The | Army-Navy foot ball Benefits Commit- | tee yesterday - recelved an order for| $100,000 worth of tickets for the unem- ployment benefit game on December 13. It came from Joe Leblanc, cut-rate ticket seller, who will handle the seats at box-office prices without commission. Other applications yesterday came from Attorney - General Mitchell, Sec- retary of War Hurley, Secretary of the Navy Charles Prancis Adams, Post- master General Walter Brown, Secre- tary of Commerce Lamont and Senator am Reed, all mailed from Washing- ‘Whatever POLICE CAPTAIN REFUSES GIFTS OF POLITICIANS Orders Philadelphia Magistrate and ‘Ward Workers, Bearing Pres- ents, Out of Office. By the Associated Press. ) PHILADELPHIA; >November 25, Police Capt. John Lyons, newly aj pointed commander of & West Ph*laei‘ phia station, asserted yesterday that he won't have politicians bearing gifts cluttering, up. his place. “T'll take no gifts and no orders from politicians,” he said. Capt. Lyons ordered Magistrate E. T. Pennock and 30 ward workers out of the station house when they called to pre- sent him with a gift. “It was & mean trick to come here the first night on my new job and plaee me in an embarassing position,” said the captain. * S Natives of the Philippines are attend- ing English talkies to learn Englis] THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C WATERWAYS GROUP AGAINST RAILROADS Mississippi Valley Association Scores Carriers for Stand on Barge Line Projects. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, November 25.—A rising tide of sentiment emong inland water- way advocates against opposition of railroads to Government aid for wa- terway development was seen today in the attitude of leaders of the Missis- ;’pri Valley Association in convention ere. The sentiment was defined by W. R. C O A Il — SPECIAL NIGHT PHONES For Delivery Tomorrow Phone Us Tonight Nat’l 3068 —To 11 P.M.—Met. 4500 Give Your Thermometer a Rest! 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