Evening Star Newspaper, December 31, 1934, Page 5

RAIL PAY INCREASE BEGINS TOMORROW 1,000,000 Employes to Have $3,250,000 a Month Restored. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, December 31.— More than 1,000,000 employes of the United States railroads will be bene- ficiaries of a pay roll increase amount- } Storm Center l AUNT CHARGES CHILD WAS HELD FOR BILL. | ing to approximately $3,250,000 a ' month which takes effect tomorrow. It will be the second one-fourth re- | duction of a pay cut imposed Febru- ary 1, 1932, which since that time has cost these workers, members of the 21 railroad brotherhoods, a wage loss estimated at nearly $400,000,000. The original cut, amounting to 10 per cent, was accepted by the brother- hoods only after a long controversy with the railroads’ managements, which was renewed again last Spring, only to be settled by an agreement to reduce the amount of the slash in three stages. Next Restoration April 1. Toruorrow’s pay roll increase, under terms of that agreement, comes six months after the first one-fourth re- duction of the pay cut. The final § per cent will be restored April 1, 135, at which time the brotherhood em- ployes again will be back on a pre- depression wage basis. The brotherhoods, however, do not intend to rest upon this basis. In line with the Federal administration’s policy of spreading employment by a shorter work-week, representatives of the brotherhoods say they will con- tinue their fight for a six-hour day at the same wages now paid for eight hours, At the same time they will press Congress for enactment of the “full crew” bill, which in some cases would increase the number of men required to operate a train. “We have ample justification for pressing for these measuves,” David B. Robertson, president of the Brotherhood of Firemen and Engine- men, said today. Points to Rail Hazards. “Greater efficlency in railroad equipment—bigger and faster locomo- tives, longer and heavier hauls—has been increasing technological unem- ployment for many years, and unless some better way is found to take care of the men thus thrown out of work, the relief should be accomplished by putting a shorter work-day into effect.” A reduction of railroading hazards, both for employes and passengers, is sought in addition to economic bene- fits through the full crew bill. Some of the electrical and oil powered trains, Robertson explained, are operated with only one man at the controls, whereas the full crew bill would require the employment of an additional man as a helper. WHERE TO DINE. THE WILLOWS 5324 Wisconsin Ave. New Year's Eve Celebration Special Entertainment. Dancing Till Dawn. %1.50 Cover Charge P. P. 31° Steak S12° rutkey Special New Year’s Day Dinner 12 to 8 P.M. 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Mrs. Viola Ne- ligh, Ruth’s aunt, has hailed the boarding house keeper into court on a charge of holding the child for an unpaid board bill. Court turned the girl over to the Omaha juvenile authorities.—A. P. Photo. SPLIT ON NEW DEAL IN D. A. R. DEEPENED Mrs. Roosevelt Is Injected Into Election—Mrs. Magna Bans Political Activity. By the Assoclated Press. The injection of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt in the forthcoming D. A. R. election and the edict of Mrs. Russell William Magna, president general, that the D. A. R. must “keep out of politics” appears today to have accentuated the | rift already existing in the organiza- tion over the New Deal. Mrs. William A. Becker, a candidate for president general of the D. A. R., has praised a book which listed Mrs. Roosevelt and a number of other high officials in the Roosevelt administra- tion as radical sympathizers. But Mrs. Flora Myers Gillentine, op- position candidate to Mrs. Becker, has | informed Washington members of the patriotic organization that she would “support the President of the United | States to the last ditch.” Only this week Mrs. Roosevelt quietly but emphatically denied some of the statements made about her in the publication which bears the in- dorsement of Mrs. Becker upon its jacket. © 1935, Licezrr & Myzzs Tosacco Cov THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1934 . Speedy Action Pledged on Law | v AN“—EI'ERIES K"'I' Against Gambling in District FNE WORSHPERS One of “Red Shirts” Beaten to Death by Crowd. Outbreak Feared. By the Associated Press. MEXICO, D. F., December 31.— Armed reserves held back aroused residents of Suburban Coyoacan today as 57 young members of a revolu- tionary “Red Shirts” organization, charged with slaying five defenseless Catholics just outside their church, were transferred to the Federal Peni- tentiary. One of the Red Shirts was beaten to death by the townspeople, and au- thorities ordered the prisoners re- moved after reports that residents were arming for an attack on the jail. Four men and a woman of the crowd which emerged from worship fell dead under the volley fired at close range. ‘The Red Shirt group was holding an anti-clerical demonstration almost at the door of the church. General Conflict Feared. Serious developments, including the possibility of a general religious con- flict, were feared as a result of the killings. President Lazaro Cardenas was ex- pected to take a vigorous stand against the Red Shirt organization and prob- ably order its dissolution. _Govern- ment spokesmen denied the Red Shirt group is an official organization and said it would not be protected. The outbreak was the culmination of a campaign against “the church, re- ligion and God,” which the Red Shirts have been carrying on for a month. They first made their appearance in the capital as an escort for Thomas Garrido Canabal, Governor of Ta- basco and secretary of agriculture in the national cabinet. One Beaten to Death. As the crowds left the church after hearing mass yesterday, they encoun- tered the anti-clerical demonstration, hissed the speakers, and, according to numerous witnesses, the Red Shirts then drew revolvers and opened fire. The assailants, all of them between 17 and 22, fled to the police station. When searched by federal authorities, only one pistol was found, but wit- nesses testified arms previously were | carried away by several friends. The] angered crowd later seized one of the Red Shirts and beat him to death on the church steps. From the penitentiary, leaders of the imprisoned youths sent a message to the President in which they con- tended they fired in self-defense after the town priest had urged the crowd to attack them. Effective Weapon for War on Numbers and Other Games of Chance Provided in Amendments. Obvious holes and faults in the present District laws against gam- bling operations, through which many racketeers have slipped in the past, would be plugged by the terms of an amendment to the code of laws pro- posed by the Commissioners as an im- portant feature of their new legis- lative program. Congressional leaders in charge of District matters have promised to push the measure up for early consideration by Congress in order to place more effective weapons in the hands of police in their campaign against gam- bling, convinced that the numbers games and other gambling operations have swelled crime here. . Definite and repeated provisions to hit at the numbers game operations were inserted in the measure, drafted for the Commissioners by Corporation Counsel E. Barrett Prettyman. The proposed bill, however, goes much further than this. 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