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NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1916. we of our raincoats at $5 to _$18 will save your clothes, worry and time. There are on an average 52 days in the year when you’ll find one of our raincoats an absolute necessity. _They are “gocd lookers” tco. Unmbrellas $1 and up. Everything for men’s wear for Fall now ready here. <5 NEW BRITAIN, CONN ‘Plainville News |Continued from Seventh Page.) offer on the subject and in fact Frank T. Wheeler, one of the two local dele- tes, states this morning that the Lonvention had not been call and would not be until word was heard from Charles T. Treadway of Bristol. Herald later learned from Mr. the convention would Jove stated. A. H. Con- dell, the local candidate for the office, is absent in Canada, having left Satur- lay on a ten days trip with Town Clerk Usher and President John H, Trumbull of the Trumbull Electric company. According to current re- Dort there is a deadlock between Mr. Condell and E. P. Rogers of South- ston and a dark horse will be chc Ex-Senator Claude W, Stevens of Berlin is spoken of as the compromise candidate. Notes. Prior left today trip to Poughkeepsie, ¥e, , Stephen Dietyko has returned irom his.vacation at Alton Bay, N, H. Raymony Cunningham of Maple reet is reported ill with diphtheria, A been born to Mr. and Mrs, Bottomley of Bicycle street. Jottomley was Miss Julla Cluc N. Robinson of New d@es a junk business in this place, reports that his outfit was stolen in Forestville yesterday afternoon, ing Circle will meet afternoon with Mrs. Jen- n 0f Greenwood street, New Leo for a week’s son has William M Britain, who Martha Wednesda nie Colemn Britain. The W. E. C. will hold a food and ibe cream sale Thursday afternoon at Mrs. Anna Hamlin’s home, corner w ngton and Academy streets, Forestville APPROVES LEASE OF PIER. K.’s Deal With Submarine Agents, Governor Holcomb O. - ‘Hartford, Aug. 28.—Governor Hol- coml today approved the lease of the siate pier at New London to the Easi ern Forwardi compan, at a meet- ing of the riv , harbors and br commission. The Eastern Forwarding com v takes undc the contract one-tenth of the space, or 35,000 re feet for a pericd of six months, rental. The com- spent in the neigh- $£40,000 in the construc- 1 ete iissioners do not pretend that the Bremen will dock at New London but they infer from the money which the company has spent in the development of the new dpck that they will it for their merchant submarin The commission awarded the tract for the building of the stafe sn- perstructure on the pier to the Scheid- lehalm Construction Company of New York for $135,000. The entire work will be finished by Jan. 1, 1917, Commissioner C. L. Avery of Groton was appointed a member of the sub- Gemm Y borhood of 1 of wa The co to know use con- | STRIKE MONDAY, S NEW ORDER TODAY (Continued From First Page). have been taken to make any contin- gency that might ar to prevent a strike order being issued. The leaders took the position that with the strike already ordered they could not be prevented by legal processes from making it effective, while it left them free to call it off if a settlement satis- factory to them was reached. Shortly after 10:30 o'clock a tele- phone call came to the White House from the railroad effect that the committee of eight would like to see President Wilson. He had engagements up until 1 o’clock, but informed the executives that he would see them if possible. Later the President sent word to the executives he would see them at 11 o’clock and postponed his cabinet meeting to do so. After a thirty minute conference with President Wilson the commit- tee of cight railroad executives an- nounced they would issue a stat ment later. They said that the state- ment would make thelr position in tho controversy clear. Executivi latement. Direct negotiations between the railroad executives and the employes through President Wilson were prac- ically closed when the executives refused to accede to a proposal made to them yesterday by Mr. Wilson and presented to him a statement of their position containing another argu- ment for arbitration. The statement presented to Presi- dent Wilson by the committee of eight denles that the judgment of so- ciety favors an eight hour day and declares that arbitration is the only proper way of settling industrial dis- putes. The suggestion of President Wil- son for a proposal including the prin- ciple of the eight hour day but pos poning its effectiveness for a year pending investigation, was rejected by the railroad executives at the con- ference this morning. The action of tho railroad presi- dents, taken In connection with the strike order of the employes, left President Wilson no alternative but to go to congress in a final effort to avert the strike by legislation. Brotherhood leaders, it was under- stood will fight the compulsory inves- tigation feature of President Wil- son's program but support his eight hour proposal. Every effort will be made, it was said, to get separate votes on the proposition in congress, and leaders were confident that could be done. Canadian Plan Labor Throttle, A. B. Garretson, spokesman for the men, said: “The Canadian compul- sory investigation plan has proved | the greatest throttle to labor that ever has been devised. Invariably— and I speak from experience—in deal- ing with railways, the railroad heads have used this delay guaranteed them by law to prepare for a strike. “The eight hour day proposal fail- ing to carry, as it will of course, any reference to wages would not em- brace our present demands and not be wholly satisfactory to us. It would have the effect, however, of bringing the unorganized 80 per cent. of rail- way labor of which the railway heads speak so feelingly under. an eight hour dajy It would be a step in the right direction.” In order to have an effect on the pres proposed strike the presi- dent’s legislative program would have to pass both houses and become a law before next Monday morning. Once the men have left their trains, compulsory investigation would not effect them, in the opinion of brother- hood officials. The officials declined to discuss this phase of the situation further. Status of Situation, A summary of developments in the strike situation follows: and the brotherhoods through Pres dent Wilson were definitely broken off. " The brotherhood leaders definitely order the strike to begin at 7 a. m., Labor Day, unless the order is coun- termanded and declared only a set- tlement favorable to the men could change it. President Wilson prepared to go before congress in joint session with proposals for new laws to prevent the strike. The latest authentic outline of the proposals is as follows: Increase of the interstate commerce commission from seven to nine mem- bers. An cight hour law for railroad em- tion. To empower the federal board of mediation to fully investigate opera- rail- o empower the interstate com- on to consider the eight hour day in connection with making rates. A measure similar to the Canadian industrial disputes act for an investi- gation of all disputes between rail- roads and their employes. A measurt empowering the presi- dent to operate trains with the pri- mary object of providing the Ameri- can troops on Mexican border with food. The brotherhood leaders favor the eight hour day feature but oppose the proposal to adopt the Canadian plan. Concurrent resolutions for the joint session of congress were quietly adopted in the hou and senate, Twenty-five seats in the gallery were reserved for the railroad presidents and twenty-five for the employes, Exccutives’ Statement. This statement to the public issued by the presidents: “We are unable, after the most carnest consideration, to agree with the proposal of the president of the United States, which is that we ac- was| committee of railway executives to the | Negotiations between the railroads | ployes in actual interstate transporta- | cept without arbitration, the substi- tution of an eight hour day for the present ten hour day in all of the existing practices and agreements.’ This is the main point in controver- sy and we cannot surrender it with- out an opportunity to be heard in some form of fair arbitration. “We do not assent to the state- ment that ‘The eight hour day now undoubtedly has the sanction of the judgment of society in its favor.” We believe that society has not vet re- corded its judgment upon this sub- Ject. “We are not in this controversy, however, dealing with the conditions relating to the eight hour day in the industrial world. The difference be- tween the eight hour day in business and manufacturing interests and in the railroad train service day h been fully explained. The railroad day is a basis for computing pay and overtime, the length of daily service being controlled by variable conditions, “The demands involved in this controversy have not been presented in our judgment, for the purpose of xing a definite daily period of labor nor a reduction in the existing hours of labor or change in methods of operation, but for the real purpose | of accomplishing an increase in wages of approximately one hundred mil- lion dollars per annum, or 35 per cent. for the men in ruilroad freight train and yard service represented by the labor erganizations in this matter, “After careful examination of the facts and patient and continuous consultation with the conference committee of managers and among ourselves we have reached a clear understanding of the magnitude of the questions and of the serious con- sequences to the railroads and to the people involved in a decision of them. “As trustees for the public served on our lines and for the great mass of the less powerful employes (not less than 80 per cent. of the whole number) interested in the railroad wage fund—as trustees also for the millions of people that have invested their savings and capital in the bonds and stocks of these properties and who, through the savings banks, the trust companies and insurance com- panles, are vitally interested to the extent of millions of dollars in the integrity and solvency of the rail- roads of the country, we cannot in conagience surrendar, without a hearing, the principle involved, nor undertake to transfer the enormous cost that will result to the transpor- tation of the commerce of the coun- try. “The eight hour day without puni- tive overtime involves an annual in- crease approximating in the aggre- gate sixty millions of dollars and an increase of more than 20 per cnt. in the pay of men already the most highly paid in the transportation service. The ultimate cost to the railroads "of an admission in this manner of the principle under con- tention cannot now be estimated; the effect upon the efficiency of the transportation of tho country, now already under severe test under the tide of business now moving and at a time when more instead of less of- fort is required for the public wel- fare would be harmful bevond cal- culation. “The widespread effect upon the in- dustries of the country a a whole is beyond measure or appraisement at this time, and we agree with the in- sistent and widespread public con- cern over the gravity of the situation and the consequences of a surrender by the railroads in this emergency.” Employes’ Statement. The brotherhood heads, Garretson, Stone, Lee and Carter, issued the fol- lowing statement explaining their op- position to any legislation along the plan of the Canadian commi “Since the abolition of slavery no more effectual means has been de- vised for insuring the bondage of the workingman than the passage of com- pulsory investigation acts of the char- acter of the industrial disputes act. The writers speak from their personal experience thereunder, as these Or- ganizations are all international in their jurisdiction. To cite an actual occurrence: “In 1910 the men railroads in the eastern territory of United States presented to railroad companies of that territory a demand | £or on increase in wages. The compan- | ies refused to deal concertedly with proposition, and it was therefore tak- en up with the individual roads. | Three of the properties were Cana- dian, and two days after negotiation was opened on January 7 on the first ! road in the United States, negotiation opened on the three Canadian prop- erties. The negotiations in the United States included federal mediation in the first instance and arbitration in the third case. “On the nineteenth | following settlement was the last of seventy-seven American lines involved. On the same date at 6 p. m., a strike took place on the Grand Trunk Railway, one of the Canadian railways, settlement not yet having been effected on any of the three, this growing out of the delays which the employers were able to interpose under the industrial dis- putes act. “Moreover, the period of investiga- tion is eternally utilized by the em- ployer to intrench himself in his ef- fort to defeat the demands of men, no matter how just their cause may be, and in a majority of instances where a verdict by an investigating commission has been favorable to the men it has been repudiated by the employer. In consequence of this attitude, disregard for and the ignor- ing of the provisions of that law has led to placing thousands of men in the attitude of lawbreakers. The pas- sage of laws which induce men to open violation thereof is a deadly in- jury to a nation because it breeds uni- versal contempt for law. “In the present strife, if such an act were passed all that would be necessary would be for the power of attorney to be withdrawn from the national conference committee of managers by the individual roads,and then immediate necessity would arise upon eighty of July: made on day a the | for 250 investigating boards to be created, or if only a limited number were provided for, men would be compelled to remain for years in in- voluntary ervitude, if they obeyed the provisions of such a law.” HARTFORD STGCK EXCHANGE REPQRT l Hartford Stock Exchange quota- tions, furnished by Richter & Co. members of the New York Stock Ex- change. Represented by E. W. Eddy, Manufacturing Companies. . Bid Asked Adams Express Co .. 135 140 Aetna Nut Co : American Brass Co American Hosiery Co Am Hardware Co ... American Silver Co Am Thread Co pfd Big-Htd Carpet Co pfd. Big-Hfd Carpet Co com. Bililngs & Spencer Co. . Bristol Brass Co ... Broad Brook Co ... The Edward Balf Co Case, Lekwd & Brd Co . Collins Co Colt! Arms Co Eagle Lock Co : Gfn-Nbgr Tobco Co pfd. Holyoke Water Pwr Co. Int Silver, pfd .... Int Silver com ... Johns-Pratt Co Landers, Frar J R Montgomery & Clar Co New Brit Machine Co .. New Depar Mfg Co pfd. North & Judd Mfg Co.. Peck, Stow & Wilcox. . Plimpton Mfg Co 5 Pratt & Whitney Co pfd. Russell Mfg Co Smyth Mfg Co ... e Stand Screw Co pfd A.. Stand Screw Co pfd B.. Stand Screw Co com,. Stanley Rule & Level Co. Stanley Works ... Swift & Co ...... Taylor & Fenn Co Torrington Co pfd Torrington Co com Union Mfg Co N B .... U S Envelope Co pfd..11 U S Envelope Co com. . Terry Steam Turbine Scovill Mfg Co 5 Niles-Bement-Pond cm .166% Railroad and Street Railroad Hfd & Conn West R R. 48 WY W H & H R 1. 59 Bank and Trust Companies. City Bank & Trust Co.131 Conn River Banking Co.145 Conn T and § D Co...505 Fidelity Trust Co ..235 First National Bank ...200 Hfd-Aetna Natl Bank ..215 Hfd Morris Plan Co ....110 Hartford Trust Co ....45 Natl Exchange Bank 87 Phoenix National Bank Riverside Trust Co Security Trust Co B State Bank & Trust Co United States Bank N B Trust Co Land Mortgage Title Co. Fire Insur Aetna Fire Hartford Fire National Fire Phoenix Fire Standard Fire Life and Indemnity In: Aetna Life caea 165 Aetna Acc and Liability. 425 Aetna A and L warrant 40 Conn General Life 630 Hartford Steam Boiler .420 Travelers PR 30 Public Utilities. Farm River Power Co .. 20 Hfd City Gas Lt Co pfd. 50 Hfd City Gas Lt Co com. 64 Hartford Elec Light Co.290 S N E Telephone 147 200 403 65 Companics. MILK STATION NOTES, Alterations are going on rapidly in the Boys' club new building at the corner of Bast Main and Center streets and it is expected the station rooms will be moved to that about September 11. Miss Kiniry, who has been assisting Miss O'Dell during the summer has completed her duties and is now enjoying a vacation. Kiniry i the regular school nu and will commence her work with the opening of the public schools, Mis SIX NEW PLAGUE CASES. Hartford, Aug. 29.—Six additional cases of infantile paralysis were re- ported to the state board of health to- day, making a total number in the state to date 442. Dr. Black the sec- retary of the board said today there was every reason to think that the worst of the epidemic was over. 25 Am. Brass place | Mary | vacation, i | | posed upon itself in consequence of a e 5 Michael Maloney and Samuel Zitlin. i tional aspirations. 30 Am. Hardware 20 Stanley Rule & Level 25 Landers Frary & Clark 25 Staniey Works RISBIE. & CO. L. W. Frishie, C. G. Frisbie, C. R. Knapp. Telephone Charter 1706-1707. RICE C[@ 114116 AsyLum St. \_9 HARTFORD. @»4 Suits for Stout Women a Specialty. R]TORD o H. 0. P. FALL SUITS $14.95 to $75.00. ? SHOWING A DISTINCTLY > LINE OF EARLY FALL City Ifems Dance tonight at Bungalow.—advt. The Bodwell Land company today transferred property at Belvidere to All members of Court Charter Oak and of other courts are requested to meet at the club rooms tomorrow afternoon at 1.30 o'clock to attend the funeral of Edward Weigand. sued an in- cle riders Monier Brothers have is ftation to Harley mator to attend the annual outing. All in- terested should mect at Monier's store on Tuesday evening, September 5, at 7:30 o’clock. PERSONALS | Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Hannon of RICHTER & CO. Represented by 81 West Matn St., City Hall Building MEMBERS NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, E. W. Eddy. Telephone 1840 50 Am Hardware 50 Stanley Works 50 Union Mfg Co 50 North and Judd 50 Traut & Hine 50 New Britain Machine 50 Landers, Frary & Clark FINANCIAL NEWS MARKET AFFECTED BY R, R. SITUATION Heavy At Opening, Selling Be- comes More General Wall Street.—Heaviness ruled at of market, the acute railway situation contributing the opening today’s largely to that codition. Reading and Union a point or with equal declines Studebaker, Marine mon and American Can, e Copper yielded onver two points. more, | in 1 com- Ten- Pacific lost or greater Crucible, while e Other metals were more steady. “S00” preferred exceptionally rose over four points, and Pacific Mail gained al- most two. Selling became more precipitate later, Marine preferred proving the only noteworthy exception on its ad- vance of 1 3-8 points. Declines were accelerated by the vague character of the news from Washington which found further reflection in the heav] ness of rails and other high grade is- sues. Pressure relaxed somewhat be- fore midday with moderate rallies. Bonds were lower. Trading slackened perceptibly in 95 % 117% 583 95% 453 9654 L1118 58% 95 4 6 118 68 9569 16 Steel Steel pfd Westinghouse Western Union Willys Overland S s s DEATHE AND FUNERALS Edward Weigand. The funeral of Edward Wiegan will be held from his late residend 71 Wallace street, tomorrow afternool at 2 Rev. Howard S. Fox off ficlatir Interment will be in Fal view cemeter: o'clock, Card of Thanks. We wish to express our thanks # the kind friends and neighbors fo their sympathy and many kind deed oftered during the sickness and deat of our beloved mother, Mrs, Elizabet] Schleicher. Also for the many flora tributes. Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. John Sunburn Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Dimock Mr. George Schleicher Mr. William Schleicher. Willlam McCleery| TOO LATE FOR CLASSIFICATIO! WANTED—Tenement. rooms, Adults. Hereald. Five or sl Address Box 32, 8-29-34 the afternoon, with a further gain in Marine preferred and strength in motor accessories. Close.—Obscure mining shares were liquidated in the later dealings with recurrent declines in The closing was heavy. Camp street have returned from a va- cation at Norfolk. John Kelly at the Great York eity. of this city i Northern hotc William H. Egan of 23 sircet will leave Saturday for New York, whence he will proceed to Scranton, Pa., where he will attena the Catholic Foreign Mission seminary. Broad Miss Margaret O'Leary of Smalley street and Mis Margaret and Anna O’Leary of Wilson street have re- turned from a two weeks’ stay at Bantam Lake. DESPERATE FIGHT ON BALKAN FRONT (Continued From First Page). must direct she her efforts in new paths, especially as the work under- taken Aust the interests of Rumania and her na- Consequently Ru- by -Hungary threatened mania resumed her liberty of action. The neutrality which Rumania im- declaration of war made independent- ly of its will, and contrary to its in- | terests, had been adopted as the re- sults of the ¢ urances that Austria- Hungary, in declaring war agains Serbia was not inspired by a spirit of conquest or of territorial n. These urances have not been realized.” 36 PEARL ST. HARTFORD | Max Motor com New York Stock Exchange quota- tions furnished by Richter & Co., members of the New York Stock Ex- change. Aug. High 871 1614 28, Low 1916 Am Alas Am Am { Am Am Am Am Am Anaconda Cop ... A T 8 Fe Ry Co.103% Baldwin Loco 783% B&O ... 351 BRT 85 3% Beth Steel c...485 Butte Superior 663 Canadian Pacific .177% Central Leather 614 Ches & Ohlo 61% Chino Cop x 532 Chi Mil & St Paul. 933 Col F &I . Cons Gas . Cruciblo Steel Distillers Sec rie Erie 1st Goodrich 4 Great Nor pfd ...116% Gt Nor Ore Cetfs. 38 Tllinois Central ...101% Tnspiration 56 Kansas City so 25 Lack Steel Tay Lehigh Valley .... Beet Sugar ka Gold Car & Fdy Co. Tee Can . Can pfd . Loco .. . Smelting ... Tel & Tel .... 86 pfd 5 Rub T 116% 116% | 37, 80 829 Mex Petroleum National Lead N Y Afr Brake ... N Y C & Hudson..1041% Ne Cons NYNH&HRR b9 Northern Paciflec .1103% Norfolk & West ...1293 Pac Mall S S Co. Penn ' B'R . oo ed Steel Car. 11034 110 129 2614 Reading o Rep I & S com... Southern Pacific Southern Ry Southern Ry pfd. Studebaker Tenn Copper . Utah Copper TUnion Pacific United Fruit U S Rubber leading issues. | Represented by E. W. Eddy. | Close | Deposited In Qur ESAVINGS DEPARTMENT On Or Before i \ \ | [ ¥ Will Bear Interest From Sept. 1st 37TY% I { 19% ' & TRUST CO. 274 MAIN ST. ASSETS OVER $600,000 trustworthy service, to act a Executor or Administrator. CAPITAL $750,000. M. H. WHAPLE Connecticut Trust and Safe beposit Co. A STRONG, RELIABLE CORPORATION organized and qualified through years of efficient, s Conservator, Guardian SURPLUS $750,000 Connecticut Trust and Safe Deposit Co. HARTFORD, CONN,