New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 9, 1919, Page 1

Ay, “Ads” ean Better Business erald E\V BRITAIN, CONNEC TlCUT SATURPAY AUGU ST 'NEW HAVEN OFFICIALS DROP MORE TRAINS IN THIS CITY NEW SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED MAYOR PLACES BIG ORDER FOR FOOD WITH WAR DEPT Buys 15,000 Pounds of Ham and Bacon, Subject to Ap- Several Through Trains From Boston to New York Via Berlin A'so Discontinued Today Because of R. R. Strike Mayor George A. Quigley this EMBARGO AFFECTS morning announced that he has placed an order with the war depart- LOCAL FACTORIES { ment subject to approval by the com- ,mon council, which meets Tuesday TORRER i night for 15,000 pounds of ham and {15,000 pounds of bacon. The ham, Manufacturer Says That he suid, will be sold at 30 cents per S ) pound while the bacon will be d : e posed at 34 and 36 cents a pound. | Plants May Have to Close This food along with other (l')anned! . .| goods and foodstuffs can be obtained | Down Because Freight is ! una sold to the public at any time it g j the council sees fit, he said. | Tied Up. Lixplains Postponement. | | In reference to the postponed coun- | — { cil meeting the mayor explained that | 4 { he did not want to appear before the | Further curtailment of train serv-, council without having definite infor- | fce in this city occurred today when :mation regarding the food situaton, | another train which was scheduled , so he went to New York and made a | did not make its run. The situation | thorough investigation of how food became more acute this morning, ' could be purchased. The mayor said | when repor were received that he feels that he has received some | several more trains are tied up and | valuable information regarding the | will not make their runs today. The ' food question. The mayor recom- local station last cvening looked mcnded the approval of the prices at | somewhat deserted. Instead of the ihich.the ham and bacon were usually well filled waiting room and named and plans that the distributing platform there were only few people of the goods will be done by orders waiting for trains to leave the city. i hich will be taken at the war bu- Revised Train Schedule. ; cau. The payments will also be A revised train schedule has been | Made there. He said he favors a tick- issued to the local office by the New ¢ svstem which can be directed by Haven officials, indicating that nearly 'he council committee. three-quarters of the wusual trains Freight Tie-Up Considered. running on the main roads out of New IheAnecen o Ish (RCloupha sl sen Britain have been discontinued. Two trains out of New Haven were de- layed several hours yesterday after- noon as engineers, firemen and brake- men were unable to continue their work, hecause of the lebor shortage. | The local offiée reports that addi- tional passcnger coaches have been put on the trains, replacing the ‘parlor, dining and Pullman cars which have been taken off, so as to, ayoid overcrowding. * day, H +Sundays for - & Btor Waterbury . i Sungays for It was learned today the through trains New York via Berlin and Boston York via Waterbury have dis- continued the express baggage —serv- ice as to provide more for the passengers. that on several of from Boston and to New s0 room Embargo The New New Causes Hardships. | placing of an embargo on the | Haven road and on the Central England road will cause hard- ships throughout the state, according 1o the reports received from various manufacturing concerns A promi- nent d that fac- tories will have shortly un- Jdéss the embargo soon. Several engines are heing taken the freight service and are being on passenger t The tuation is becoming more since this plan was adopted New Train Schedule. local manufacturer s to is close lifted off put freight acute | schédule was New' Haven office including the list of trains been cut off: Waterbury £ it Hartford | Waterbury Dy Hartford Leaving, Hartford 10 a STor, ' Witerbury. . Leaving Hrtford The following nounced by he an- to- that hate Leaving Leaving m Sundays 1 m. Sundays p. Leaving New York p. m. Sun- ¢s for Springfield. # Leaving New York 5:25 p. m. Sun- | days for Springfield. | Leaving Springfield 6:40 a. m. Sun- | days for New York. Leaving Springfield 4:10 p m. Sun- days for New York. | Leaving New Haven 9:05 p. m. | Sundays for Springfield | Leaving New London 5:48 p. m. indays for Hartford Leaving Hartford 11:38 a. m. Sun- ! days for Putnam Leaving Putnam 7:05 p. m. Sun- days for Hartford Leaving Hartford 2:07 p. m. weck < for Boston will leave at 5.26 p. m GENR B % On the Central New England Division the following trains will be taken off: Leaving Hartford 3:38 p. m. Sun- proval of Common Coun-i cil, to Reduce H. C.. of L.) taken into consideration by the mayor. He said he plans to bring the food to added to empiy. 1o this e the there New manufacturing These truck be loaded with foodstuifs city city at ritain York city if concerns by daily the would officials. anned Goods Displayed. \ display of canned goods and food products that can be purchased by the a mod erate auto are many fr concerns truck trucks that om the and he said, 1 re o co-operate price wer pl: He ocal turn ould ! and brought local manufactur- with aced on exhibition in Mayor Quigley’s office from today. ew York discussion Phe 1 las nayor t evening with the market men. returned after a BEGIN PROBE ON MEXICAN TROUBLE S cnator Brandegee Named on t Co hree ‘om- mittee to Investigate Infringements Washington, whole uncove tions Ame 5 between i the Aug. the n Rights. Det ry of th e United States ermined fo rela- and Mexico, including facts of Mexican in iringements on ! ing rccent years, the three members of | the sub-cemmittee named day by foreign were their and B licaps, W ed by ate and of American rights dur- late yester- Chairman I.odge of the senate relat of indeg and Smith, appointed was author While the investigation by committee will go into eve Mexican menths to complete, preliminary the many pected be the Tent et fi any of its citizens PITTSFIELD STRIKE ‘Walkout Operation Receivership Seems Only Solut dealt treaty ative plan held at member only with of hand t and all acts Mexico and the rights of of Ber ions e, under committee preparing preliminary work. Senator New 5 t Me: re oday plans for The sub-committee, Fall, Connectic Arizana, con- xico, pub- democrat, authority grant- situation pendi i wi it and 11 wit features will disposition with Germany. include hearings points along the border, as the committee desire a resolution adopied in the sen- which Senator King, Utah, the sub- phase of take ex- of to to information concerning of the governments its citizes in derogation 100 Trolleymen hire of the United States 13 and {alts System-— days for Millerton, N. Y. Leaving Millerton 7306 p. m. Sun- ! pisfield, Mass, Aug. 9.-—Every days for Hartford. A !wheel w idle on the Berkshirs Jitney Business Increases. street railway system today following Owing to the railroad tie-up in this a walkout of 400 trolleymen durinz city the jitney business is on the in- the night and a deadlock is promised, case. rPublic service cars are being - with & receivership for the road the 1 to Hartford, Meriden, Bristol, only apparent solution of the diffi- some are even going as far as culty. The road is admittedly unabie $faven, Willimantic and Spring- l‘) meet demands for a 40 per cent “"" {_During the past few days the ihcrease in wages, with shorter hours {er of oars about the station and which the men want. State Arbitrator . street have increased doubly Charles G. Wood is in charge of the drivers report that business situation here f, Truckijig business is also on The 18 shopmen employed by :he erease since the freights became RBoston and Albany railroad here s walked oul today, ' Steamship lines, STRIKERS HOLD MASS MEETING IN NEW HAVEN Optimistic Reports of Early Settlement Made—Meet Behind Closed Doors. New ear! Haven, not an Aug. While immediate out- return to if BROGKLYN STRIKE UROWS MORE AGUTE \Traffic on Suriace Subway and Elevated Lines Paralyzed HOLD CONFERENCES | 0 Public Service Commissioner Nixon to Listen to Gricvances—Tarrison Refuses (o Treat With Committee Mcrely Representing Union. New Suturday terminals Transit Co. lines Brighton Beach day. The strike York, Aug. 9 throngs of the usual at Manhattan Brooklyn Rapid Island and absent early to- of Brooklyn car men which for three days has paralyzed Itraffic on the surface, subway and | elevated 1nes of the company bids | fair to malke the tie-up equally as ' complete today Few elevated and subway operated during the (h( service was sporadic tronage extremely light. No surface cars were operated and the number ordered out of the barns this morning T to Coney were Trains Running. A few trair night but and the pa- k | of | the tions uf the strike of shopmen of the | was totally inadequate for traffi N. ¥.. N. H. & H. R. R. here today, | mands of the routes they traver the discussion of the strilke at a mass | As on the three preeding days of the meeting of the men forecast their | strike, the motor buses, jitneys, mov- ear if not an immedite return to | ing va and other similar convey- work. Telegrams were received from | ances increased in number as the day national headquarters of the brother- | advanced. As the larger Brooklyn hoods ordering the men of the local | department stores and many offices branches to return at once, adding | are closed on Saturday during August, | that if the strike is not ended here | thousands of store employes and within 24 hours the local branches | shoppers helped to decrease the size Wwill not be permitted to have a voice | of the carly crowds by remaining at When demands are formulated in a |home or sccking recreation at places regular way on September 2. The |on traflic lines not affected by the mass meeting which many hundreds | strike ulmomxnd was practically behind closed Arrange for Conference. doors as newspapermen who were i . s LS SYORaD, O Were in i Iy an effort to settle the strike iL at first were asked to vetire. Sev- | L.ewis Nixon bl : snokefdecianedinatin g siaire naal St SUiEEeS s s oo been made in precipitating a strike at el et iy T R ; t|an In view of the declaration of is time, and urged recognition of : ¢ the demands of the national orga | Lindley M. Garrison, receiver for the tions) organiza- | g R T, Co. that he would not treat Otber speakers laid stress upon sl | L0 & Somimitice which merely sep- legedl erievances and the lons e it | ne=ented Hiie funion it wes Commis 1 i = : & lime it § gjoner Nixon's plan to urge the strik- has taken to get action on them. An- | 4 el oin ooy A | ers to appoint a representative dele- other spenker said that {he men | iver’ B e S gation to meet the receiver’s demand sholldireslizefquicklyfinatibresidenin i g LTRSS NS ORI Wilson would not undertake e B - S 1 \indertaliel tolsettieli cai SalaTi L i e ona An e the shopmenis grievances| until all | Gec i SR G Salieed AORE0s those who are out to go back to work | 1 °F ™ e 2 and permit the issue to be handled | AT G (Con ke, through the .accredited representa- | Iollowing a conference with B. R tives of the crafts. H. A. Porter, general chairman of the strike committee, presided at the niass meeiing and advised men on the tloor to reak as fast as opportunity offered. The meeting lasted two hours and its only definite action was to provide a general meeting place for the men because comiplaint had come that many standing near tnion quar ters blocked the sidewalk Perfect order has prevailed but it happens that practically all the rooms of the several unions are in cne block close by the federation of lahor offices in Meadow street, and when several hundred men gather, trafiic is slow- ed up. After the meeting it was stated that irrangemenis were being completed for tem federation meeting here tomorrow. Telegrams have been sent out to affiliated local unions to send delegates to this meeting and it is believed by (he men that action would he taken which would bear up- on th: continuance, or abandonment of the strike. It was stated later that during the mass meeting an informal vote was taken on the question of returning to | work in case the men at the Readville shops return, and it was rried the affirmative. Some of the speakers had claimed that the New Haven shopmen had gone out to t the Readville men, andT 1T the latter go hack the men here should not car on the strike alone 1,100 WALK 0UT Underwood I assi More Employes Leave Places and Make Demu 1ds—2,000 of 1150 Workers Now Stri ing. 1,100 ad- Underwood the strikers marched from the Labor Union hall, were taken under consideration. They said they left the plant because they were given the choice between doing the work of the men already out on strike or get- ting through from lack of work, and they refused to be transferred to oth- er jobs. Just before noon 50 more men quit work. Approximately 2,000 employes the company are now out. Hartford, Aug. 9.—About ditional employes of the Typewriter Co. joined this morning and factory to Central where demands of Before the first of the strikers quit some weeks ago the company had about 4,150 | on its Hartford payroll. Just before noon the company gave out a statement in which it was claimed that only 700 went out today and that they quit “for various rea- sons.” They were all assemblers, it was said. The strikers insist the number is 1,100 INCREASE TRAN R CHARGES ARE GRANTED Washington, transfer charges Aug. 9.—Increased at Boston were granted by the Interstate Commerce Commission to the Clyde Steamship Co. and denied to the Eastern ’ in | T. officials Second Deputy Police Com- | missioner Wm. Lahey, declared there | was lack of co-operation between the company and police. Mr. Lahey said needed. 50 Cops Have Cars. |as were New York, Aug. 9.—At least 50 | New York policemen own their own | automobiles it was learned today when in a response from the police department that members of the forces who own cars lend them for | emergency use in the case of strike disorders in Brooklyn. half a hundred motor cars were forthcoming. The owners can operate their own cars if | desired and in addition to supplying | them with oil and gasoline the depart- | ment will pay them $7.50 a day for hire of the machines. - In a letter addressed to Commis- | sioner of oPlice Inright., Mayor Hy- lan declared that from personal obscr- vation and from reports from ind | pendent sources, he was convinced that “there is far less disorder in con- nection with this strike than in any other strike which has taken place in the city and that the failure of the company to operate its cars is not due to inadequate volice protection. U.S. MUST C0-OPERATE | American Forces to Be Retained in | France to Guard Prisoners Until } Treaty is Ratified. sociated Press) prisoners h in France was supreme couns | Paris, Aug. 8 (By As —The disposition of ! by American forces | dscussed today by the of the peace conference, and it was decided that it was mpossible to release such fprisoners until three { powers have ratified the treaty with | Germany. Tt will be necessary there- | fore for the United States to co- operate with France in guarding the { prisoners, and this will probably make it necessay to retain some American forces in France. During the meeting the council took up the assistance which Allied | armies will be called upon to give in I(‘onnechon with the restoration of cil France’s battlefields with German labor. It was decided that the vari- ous armies shall detail specialists to assist in the best means of handling which will arise. devising problems WEATHER. Hartford, Aug. 9.—Forecast, for New Britain Fair tonight light vaviable and vicinity and winds. Sunday —_—7 L == | he went over the plans with the com- | | pany officials as to how many poiice- | { men would be needed for the opera- | tions of their cars today and received | the reply that they intended to run | {54 trolley cars and 11 trains on the | elevated line The commissioner | said he promised the company that | he would furnish as many policemen | i i | vote PRI(I‘ IHPF!: CEN'IS :flRfiKE SITUAT[ON IMPROVES AS SHOPMEN HEED ADVISE OF WILSON AND RESUME WORK CONGRESS READY TO ACT ON HIGH COST OF LIVING T0 SECURE EVIDENGE AGAINST PROFITEERS Agents of Department of Jus~ tice to Assist Palmer in Investigation. Washington, Aug. 9.—All special agents of the department of justice over the country have been ordered to assist district attorneys in uncov- ering evidence cf profiteering in food- stuffs and other necessities, Attorney Gen. Palmer's tions were that the special should drop everything but pressing cases now pending and de- their entire attention to assist- ing in the campaign to reduce the cost of living. The result will be to put trained investigators in for men who have inflated orbitantly. While it was not instru agents the most hundreds ihe search prices ex- so stated, the im- pression was gained that nothing but investigation of radical propa- ganda which resulted in recent bomb outrages would be allowed to inter- fere with the efforts to punish profit- ecring. Numerous reports received at the department from cistrict attorneys in- dicated much evidence against profit- eers was being accumulated. Prose- cutions are expected to result soon in stricts. number of dis 47 KILLED IN EXPLOSION a Two Trains Carrying 3.000 Pounds of Dynamite, Near Main En- trance to Mine. Mexico City, Aug. 8.—Seventeen caused by a dynamite ex- in the Rosario mine, reports. deaths were plosion yvesterday Pachucha, accarding to latest Two trains, one carrying 3,000 pounc of explosives, crashed near the main entrance to the mine. It was at first feared that more than 1,000 miners were entombed Domestic Problems Now Facing the Country to Be Taken Up Direetly With People by President. Washington, Aug. 9.—Domestic facing the country may with the peqgle | problems now be taken up directly by President Wilson during his forth- | coming trip in ithe interest of the peace treaty. This was indicated to- day at the White House where it also was said that plans for the president's tour were going forward LABOR LEADERS EXPLAIN Claim That They Had No Desire “To Tmpress Upon the Public Violence By Threat.” Washington, Aug. 9.-—Leaders of the 15 organizations of the employes united today in a ‘‘definite assertion” that they had no desirc and have had none “to impress upon the public by violence or by threat,” their proposal that the railroads be nationalized under tri partite control Declaring that the requests of the { men that living costs be reduced or their wages increased, was aside from the question of the future disposition of the railroad problem. the labor leaders said that if President Wilson and congress could not meet this re- quest the men would “have to try to find another solution.” GENERAL STRIKE ENDS to Spread Strike Plan Throughout Switzerland is Defeated—Predicted Swiss Soviet. 9.--The today general strike in complete one Zurich The wind the extremist :rs who hoped to spread all the country even establishment of ! been entirely de- Berne, Aug. at Basle ended failure, like communist labor lead the strike over predicting the soviet, a the party 1t have SMITH NAMED. 9 ishington, Aug Additional su- pervisors of the census just announc- od inelude: Connecticut, first district, Thomas J. Smith, New Britain; se. ond, John P. Kemple, Bridgeport, Steps By Executive Depar- ! ments of Government to Reduce Prices Have Been Started. | AL TN, | Washington, Aug. 9.—Congress got | down today to analyzing and digesting | President Wilson's recommendations | for reduction of the increased cost of Iliving. Neither hranch of congress ! was in session today, but leaders pre- | pared to take action at an early date on the living problem i President Criticized. | Suggestion by the president for federal licensing of all corporations engaged in interestate commerce and for extension of the food control law ; i e Imet with the greatest opposition in tinues in Effect. | congressional circles Many of the 3 s | opponents of the league of nations in | the senate criticized the stress laid Chicago, Aug. 9.—While improve- | by the president on early ratification | ment in the strike of federated rail- | of the peace treaty, some of them in- | road shopmen was indicated today by { cluding Chairman Lodge and Sena- | reports from central west poi oth- i tor Harding, Ohio, of the foreign re- | ers showed that at some divisional | lations committee declaring there was | points the men were not inclined to | no connection between ratification of | heed the advice of President Wilson | the peace treaty and the cost of living. | and their grand lodge officers to return | To Limit Wheat Shipments. to wark pending a wage settlement. | New steps by the executive depart- j"“‘i bt e midale wem: NN ments of the government to reduce | S2id upwards of 20,000 shopmen had { it : '©® | gone back in response to the warning the cost of living were expected today | E4F PECC (7 FeSEOREE B0 (e Wart to be started at once along lines laid : g ) : ances would not be adjusted untif down by the president who ]u(\nn.\mIJ thev retorngd ts werk: Mool immediate steps to-limit and control | 4, 4, [€ RN (0 WOk, Sappiem enied wheat shipments and credits so as to | (o) facilitate the purchase of wheat with DemanaWhe T a view to lowering the price of flour, Fromil st donth ot to sell surplus government stocks of | oot came reports that the inen had food and clothing, and to force With- | gecided not to return to wort untll drawal of foodstuffs from storage. thelrwage demanda were wmatel ol Price List Given Out. vices from Aglanta; ‘Ga,, were | that Coincident with the president’s ap- | the executive committee of the afiii pearance before congress the war de- | €d craftsmen had adopted resolution partment announced the prices at] NOt to resume operations until thein which its surplus food stocks would | Wages had been adjusted. Denver re- be sold. Price lists are to be sent| ported a:similar attitude on the. part to postmasters throughout the coun- | of more than 3,500 men in the railway try through which the consumers may [ Shops there, and Little Roc Ark., place their orders beginning August messages stated that 800 workmen 18. Under the department's price there had decided not to go back to list, the consumer will be able to buy | their jobs until they were assured of bacon for 25 cents a pound, baked | More pay. Indianapolis shopmen also beans for 5 cents a pound, flour at | Were holding back, while in the east ! $6 per 100 pounds and other com- | Many shopmen ‘near Boston decided modities are correspondingly low | o remain out prices. To the price quoted by the _ Craftsmen Hold Out. war department will be added parcel At Kansas City 4,000 of the craftss post charges from the nearest army | Men were reported at work, whiley depot which are to be paid by the | Similar action was taken by 10,000 s .nn,;\ at Council Bluffs, Ta., and Mil W ukee Ready to Act. Limited embargoes on freight were| Republican Leader Mondell de- | continued on nearly all roads but the| clared in the house today that con- most pronounced freight regulations| gress was ready to act promptly on | incidental to the strike were on the such legislation as was needed to | New England lines carry out the suggestions made yes- - terday by President Wilson for re Freight Embargo Declared, ducing the high cost of living Boston, Aug. 9.—The shopmen's el strike on the New and railroads [ = caused further curtailment of passen- BURGLAR SHOT II\ ger train service and additional de- lays in (he movement of freight to= ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE! day. Suburban trafic suspension on the New Haven and the Boston & Maine lines continued aind the ex- pected walkout of more riechanics on | Man Shot by Policeman Had $100 in | the Boston & Albany led officials of that ‘road to fear the regular service Belt and Pocketbook—Outfit they have beeh able o raatateis o e S GRS Er ‘(;:v\ would be impaired later in the Greenfield, Mass., Aug. 9 An uni- The freight eml > declared by dentified man believed to have been | the New Haven and prospects of sim= Harry Moore Simon of Ashland, O., | llar actfon by the Boston & Maine was shot and killed by Capt. P. Fitz- | caused New England manufacturers gerald of the police department here | considerable concern. Road officials carly today after he was caught |said every effort would be made to emerging from a window of a resi- | continue food and ice shipments dence. Ordered to throw up his hands | _Summer resorts in Mass., Maine and the man obeyed. While being searched | New Hampshire were particularly af- however, he struck the captain in the | fected by the situation. Many of the face and started to run. Fitzgerald | Special trains were cut off the sched- then fired twice, the second shot kill- | ule. ing the burglar. New England boat lines did a ca< A draft registration card gave the| bpacity business 1. nig and toda supposed identity of Simon, who was | but passenger agents said thousands about 30 vears old. He had $400 in!| of vace sts were unable to obtain a belt and $300 in pocketbooks. | cither train or hoat accommodations Strapped to one ankle were two hack- | Boats arriving at New England ports saws and he also carried a search- [ from New York were crowded. iight and revolver Conscrvative estimates placed the “Communication by the police with | number of men from New England the authorities of Ashland, O, brought | shops on strike at about 12,000. Union the information that Harry M. Stmon, | reports indicated double that number. whose draft card was found on the| Iurther curlailment of passenger burglar shot here is alive and now | service on the New Haven system was in Ashland and therefore it is believ- | announced by officials today after a cd the card was stolen number of roundhouse employes quit L3 work. The Sunday train schedule, the e manazement said, would be very ma- terially reduced and if strike condi- | many more trains would be discontin-. | i ued. Inter-Allied Commission Reports That | Upwards of 400 roundhouse eme res also quit the Boston & Entente is I Full Accord With | D19Ve% fiso auit the Bosic Jy‘:{n:]:;:anai New Hungarian Government. | ton & Albany siid some of their firet cleaners and coal pocket men had Geneva, Aug. 9.—The Inter-Allied | joined tie ke. The Boston's & mission at Budapest, after a confer- | Maine announced that the Sunday ence with Archduke Joseph and Pre- | schedule would be reduced about one= mier Iriederich, has forwarded to M. | third. No reduction in service has Clemenceau, president of the peace | been made by the Goston & Albany. conference, a report that the In- tente representotives arc in full ac 102 Trains Discontinued, cord with the new Hungarian oV~ New York, Aug. 9 Several loca ernmeat, according to a Vienna dis — l patch reccived here, Upwards of 20,000 Men Return in Re-: sponse to Warning: that Wage Grievan-} ces Would Not be\ Adjusted STRIKERS IN FAR WEST REJECT OFFER; (Continued on Tenth Page) 2 e Freight Embargo Ordered Yesterday On All But Perishable Products Con-