New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 9, 1919, Page 10

. manage? -/ they adopt effective measur '/, employes RAILROAD MEN ARE NOT BLUFFING Now Railway Age Magazine Says Men Are Ready for General Strike That the leaders af the railroad la- bor brotherhoc fully prepared to call a for the purpose of forcing government owner- ship and employes’ agement of the railroads the American ple the xpressed by the Railway A an editorial in its cu rent “The railroad labor lead- er plainly tryir e a labor situation which w pub- lic and cong pri- vate operation naunced by tical,” the Age says, is beyond qu that are preparved to take t same st force con to adopt the plan of government ownership they took ta force congress to pa Adamson act. here have been for several weeks t the labor brotherhoc Preparing, first. prevent of the rilroads private and then to rovernment owne ship and employes’ m ment. The shop crafts and Rrotherhood of Rail- way Trainmen already have tice that they will strike mandgs which they have vre Tie railroad administration are acted upon, and of shop employ Among the statements which made by labor W oresident of the Brotherhood of il way Trainmen d hefore the board of railway v nd working cond tions in Washington last war is over, but peace is or I am a poor prophet er war taday, I believe, than when the kaiser threw down the gauntlet.' L. E. Shepard, acting head of the Order Railway Conductors, also said: that the railroads are go- January, but mark this prediction: While I am not a prophet or a son of a praphet, they will not go back January 1. Warren S. Stone, grand chief of the Brotherhood of Lo- comotive Engineers, was quoted in a newspaper interview as having said regarding the agitation for the em- ployes’ plan of government ownership: “We will go far enough to win, and we are going to win.' He was ced: ‘What if the roads arve turned back to their owners? He replied: ‘If they should be, they wouldn't stay there long, and it is not absolutely sure thaw they will be turned back by next Jan- eneral of railroa ke upon opinion in is ue are to cu ill convinc ss that a vetu anuary the to imy rand it they on he ilway serious president, is Plumb that ress sinister rumo the lead were quietiy the return peration, of to to force nless sented several most ominous are are b leaders. G. T.ee, week not befc We are of ing Kk in ago the country was of what Mr. Stane mean when they ‘We will go far enough to win.' Declining to submit their basic eight- hour day demand to arbitration 1 any form, the ‘Big Four’ brotherhoods frightened cangress into passing the Adamson law by issuing an order for a_tie-up of all the railroads of the United States and refusing to with- draw it until congress passed the legis- lation that they wanted. The man who doubts that the nation is going, | within the next few months, ta be i} brought face to face with a similar crisis is blind “Do the 110,000,000 people of the United States, of whom at least 80 per cent are opposed to government ownership and favor a return of the railroads to operation by the com- panies, intend to let the labor leade by threatening or calling strikes, for the tax paying public to buy the rail- roads and assume complete responsi- bility for their financial results, and then: force the public to turn the railroads over to the employes to If the public doesn't intend o' submit to this, it must begin very soon o manifest its purpose to the ¢ President and the congre of the United States and to demand that s for the “Three ven an example and his associates rea; public’s protection. “It is easy to sympathize with the complaint of the employes that the berefit of the billion-dollar a year _advance in wages which has been given them under government opera- tion has been nullified by the increase ¥ in the cost of living. The real que tion, however, is whether the railwa are better entitled to fur- ther advances in wages than the pub- lic is to immunity from the increase in taxes or in freight and passenger rates which a further advance in wages would make necessary. The ¢laim made for the employes' plan government ownership and em- management that it would in the general cost of of ployes’ stop increa GUTICURA HEALS PIMPLES ON FAGE Affected Terribly. Large,Redand techy. Troubled Two Months, “Pimples started on my face from bad blood and they affected it terri- biy. After a while the pimples be- gan to get large and red with white tops, and they would be itchy 21l the timme. I scratched, and then they would burst. This troudle lasted about iwo months before I began to use Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Inside of a week the pimples began to disappear, and I only used one cake of Cuticura Soap with the Cuti~ cura Ointment when I was healed.” (Signed) Abraham Rubin, 4 Centre St, Wallingford, Conn. For every purpose of the toilet and bath Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Talcum are wonderfully good. . Ointment 25 and 50c, Talcum theoughout the world. For unple!lcb roe address : “Cuticurm Lak- s, D PR Seap shaves whtheat muz. eps to | 1ss the | i } livir nd cause reductions in all claims that could be made the most preposterous. It that a large saving in the ra capital charge would be made this plan the govern- could issue honds bearing 4 per the roads. that the gove pay 4 3-4 per money to carry even of for it eciuse ment cent interest cverybody knows ad finally to ent on the av: and that Londs are 1ow selling in the m at rates that practic and is an of that be in- raise government vield Uiy 5 ent; nsult to zencc the ot aim raise at 4 that would ailroads, that if over American pec vernme could the mar required n Viltions *Second imed the the of railroun med to m nent of a board {wo-thire peo- | I wi members their g oxpC were appointed vast economies ould be effect- | and better co- officers and | unified oper. 99 ms on roll. yors 1568« od unitied operation operation between ut, we ha 1 at d operating officials o are of the Plaii would de- of efficiency in railroads .Now, efficiency in ilroads would | the cost ve least per opin- | tion of 1 would destroy ition of the r nec arily. tend to | of living ‘If the wer pro increase railroad labor to rely organizations entirely upon for the promotion of the | their rdvocacy of it no ground for concern. with ove elementary sconomics and railway that the unsound its adop- to the railway unfortu- sed Plumb Plan would afford Any pe Knowled operation c Plumb Plan is economically in every particular and that tion would result disastrously public the long run to employes the But daily becoming more evi- dent that the railroad labor o tions do not to rely entir wzanda to secure the adoption plan.” IS SHOWING SIGNS OF REVIVAL son an demonstrate nd in nately it is intend on pr of their LENS This City Was Most Thoroughly De- vastated of Any During the Great ‘War. Pari 16, (Correspondence of the' Associated Press)—Lens, the most thoroughly devastated town of the war, is showing signs of revival. the ociated Press correspondent visited this erstwhile busy coal mining center of the department of the Px de Calais early this year, it still loo} ed as though a sct of giant sledge- hammers had pounded the whole place to atoms. To the west of us lies the grim battlefield of Loos, which has the curious appearance of a petri- fied sea. The soil has been plowed up in an extraordina manner by thousands of poisonous gas bamb which have tinged the sparse vegeta- tion an unhealthy gray Before the war Lens had 20,000 in- habitants. When the correspondent visited the locality in its state of hope- less desolation, there were only thres sturdy optimists left, who led a cave man's existence among the ruins. Their ne: point to get food was Bully-Gren ten miles away, and there was no transportation Thin ve been mending since. Today 000 of the exiled inhab- itants returned. They housed in corrugated iron hutmen formerly used by the British army. The cleaning up of the place, by Chinese and German prisoner squads, is taking on more speed approaches have been laid bare to cel- lars and underground shelters which have been accupied by Thomeless “house-hunters.” en building of sort is going on: the material used be- ing such odd bits of wood, stone and iron were still serviceable in the about have ar fs he But | nment | arms: | officer | gunne I When | ploved begun | work | huge rubbish heap that once wa Lens. In alone, in the s so. The t fit to live in Labor is available bers, but to lodge the Pas de Calais department! 150 townships and villages are | ame plight as Lens, or nearly | k of making these places! \gain is a herculean one. | in adequate num- | and feed the men is a t problem. The latest sug-| gestion is to use covered army motor | trucks as temvorary shelters for the workers by whose efforts Lens is to arise from its ashes, | JAPAN’'S SILKS RI Yokohama, Aug. 9 rades raw silk which dropped disastrousily with the beginning of the war have since mounted far above the high tide of the last ten years. Japan expo rted $190000,000 worth of | silk last year, it is announced —Prices of all of | | ROPE i GOOD SHOT OF = THE NexT, TeE - IV DuBBED)| BVERY DRWVE SO ri AT = LR s | DOINGS OF THE DUFFS MARVELOUS EXHIBIT il- | OF ORDNANGE WORK Caldwell, N. J., Chosen as Place for Government Exhibition Iour offi- States Caldwell. N. J., Aug 9. men of the United the machine guns, cers and 36 familiar with construction | of vifles field here, it is announced, to the American public for the time since the beginning of the war, what have been regarded hereto- fore as -highly important ordnance secrots The detachments will be in charge | an exhibition of rifles, 3-inch mor- Chauchat machine guns, hand ades and 37-millimeter field piec to be held in cannection with the na- tional rifle matches which are to be contested on the United States navy rifle range here during August. It will be the purpose of the forty experts to lay bare the most minute working de- tails of the weapons, large and small, that played such an important part in defeating the Central Powers. They will illustrate, in a specially construct- ed building, by means of lectures and objects, how the United States went about the task of building up her ordnance department after it entered the war. They also will describe to the civilian visitors the art of ‘gun-| smithing. Lieut. Col ind operation pieces have been to ex- and long range detailed plain of tars William C. Harllee of the | United States marine corps. i of the 191 national mn who is now here, said that heretofore the rifle contests, which have been participated in by several thousand have been held on ranges | {hat have been more orless inaccessible to the general public but that this r they would be only 20 miles from ew York and within easy reach of 10,000,000 people. ‘Another interesting feature of the matches will be the a meet in which not less than six army and navy flyer: and including, possib Lieut. Ormer Lockyear, the mid-air acrobat, will participate by authority of Major Gen. Charles T. Menoher, director of the United States air service. Two two-seated and four one-seated air- | planes will be provided by the federal authorities. The air meet ground W ork and cl ation there of ammunition, synchronizing gea cent telescopic sights. Methods em- in bore sighting, it is said, will be explained in detail. Aerial photography and its application to surveying, civil engineering, the loc tion of fires and other purposes, will be another feature. The flying personnel, in perhaps to Lieut. Lockyear, clude veral other *“aces of the American expeditionary force all of whom, it is expected, will give demon- strations of the accuracy obtained in (Lerml machine gunfire during hostili- ichutes and captive balloons erve as targets and now are be- ing made to incorporate the air shoot- ing into the list of events scheduled by the National Rifle association. While the primary purpose of the air service participation is not to have the flying personnel enter the rifle matches as individ or in teams, the men selected for duty, it is said, will be chosen with a view to their qualifications as marksmen, Gen. Men- oher having expr ed himself, it is id, as being desirous that they par- ticipate in actual firing. include both In the first exhibition armaments, the most r will flights. will Lerial nd be addition will in- . S. AND BRITISH COTTON. Anxious Over Amc Control Law. English Become can Exportation Aug. 9. asked -A member of the other London, parliament government representatives steps, if any, had been taken ‘‘to pre- vent the exploitation of the in- cashire spinners by the cotton export corporations now being formed in the United States with the object of con- trolling the raw cotton exports to Great Britain.’ The parliamentary secretary to the | British board of trade replied that corporations in the United States were outside the jurisdiction of the Brit- ish government but that the govern- ment was fully alive to the impor- tance of extending the cotton-grow- ing arcas within the British empire. He added that the cotton owing committee appointed in 1917 was making a systematic survey of the cotton-growing possibilties within the empire. | the day what \F Yoo’ CK A ATTTLE YoLL Do 2 ° BET TER,TOM @, S < THE METHODIST CRURCH Rev. Warren F. Cook, the minister, will speak tomor- row at 1045 A. M. All welcome. The Grain Corporation is prepared to divert from its flour purchases to sell and deliver to wholesalers and jobbers straight wheat flour in one hundred and forty pound jute sacks basis at ten dollars and twenty-five cents delivered in carload lots on track in territory east of the Illinois and Indiana line and east of Mississippi river from Cairo to the Gulf and at ten dollars delivered in car- load lots on track west of that line but not applying coast territory. purchasing flour from the Grain Corporation must guarantee not to sell at more than seventy-five cents additional and wholesaler and jobber in turn requiring that the retailer will not sell at more than to Pacific salers Jobbers and whole- one deliar and twenty-five cents additional to whole- salers price in original packages at a price not higher than seven cents a pound for broken packages of any size. Grain Corp., forty For further particulars apply to United States two Broadway, New York City. ASIATIC PAPER SAYS JAPAN AIDS CHINA Japan Is, However, Not Wholly Un- selfish in Her Attitude Toward Her Southern Neighbor. (Correspondence of )—*Japan does Tokio, June 12. The Associated Press not pretend to be wholly China,” says unselfish her policy toward Herald of nal of Japanese Asia, a thought. protecting China chiefly for the conservative jour- “Japan the sake paper con- is of her own security,” tinued. cannot allow China to bar- her birthright if she is simple enough to engage such folly. If China wants to test Japan's sincerity let all further concessions to nations and secure for all time her territory, and Japan's task gard to China will be finished. “It is a question, however, whether China is vet able to do without assistance of Japan in keeping foreign nations at bay; and this help, strange to say, is just what China does not want. Is it that China would rather be a slave of the white races than the equal of Japan? We can hard- ly credit this. “There is no “Japan ter away even in her refuse occidental in re- to be Kiau- to re- just as need for China anxious about the return of chow. Japan has promised store the territory to China soon as China is able to guarantee that it will not again 1 into the hands of a third party. What more can China desire? And Jjustice require mor China talks as if she were an absolutely independent na- tion, granting concessions to no coun- t If she will take this atttude to- ward all western countries will be ready to concede China new status. But to show a desire to cast out Japan while leaving the others in place, is something no one can expect Japan to approve.” REMEMBER WRAT | SMD-COME BAcK S1OW NOW AND KeEP' NouR EBYE OAl THE in | the | I ness of | gloomy the inalienation of ! the | 'vent of a | a bomb Japan | her | | GLOOM PREVALENT IN BRITISH HOUSES | Reporter Makes Tour of Investigation and Finds Many Sorvowful Looking People. London The read in an American paper of a cam- July 25, (Cor of Associated Press.)—Having paign launched over there to promote cheerfulness, a London reporter made a tour to see if such a campaign would help this metropolis. “It would do no harm,” was the upshot of his impr sions. A superficial ivestigation in the city, he writes, “revealed the presence of a surprising number of people who appeared to be feeling the serious- their position.” The most looking were restaurant floor s unde; ound lift attendant policeme: for: [uh(‘ gatemen, tram conduc- [s; messengers in government offices, theater booking office jewelers, tea shop waitresses, railway porters and sentries outside Bucking- ham palace. “Not one,” he says, e to smile. Teashop waitresses peared to be suffering from sickness.” Assistan in most (an American department store e cepted) appeared to regard the ad- customer as a flippant in- trusion on their meditations.” ‘soul shops EXPLOSION Lisbon, IN LISBON. 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