New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 4, 1921, Page 3

qBoston Store The McCall Style Books carcy the Plan Is Publiskied Last Night designs for in styles, | messnge of tho latest yonr Summer Wardrobe Monday the International Union to ils members to strike un- | less a 44-hour week, was granted. { Knowing that the New Britain Record | employed ot least somec unlon print- Volles wo have In a large assort- | ¢™s and that newspaper offices which were run in eombination with job suggesting Organdies, Voiles, Swisscs, Ginghan and other materials. “ L2 Mot of novelty patterns, in light and that thero also knowing was no strike at the plant, the Horald snnounced that an agree- ment had been reached at the Record plant. However, the Herald, if it is wrong, i willing to correct its errors. We publish herewith a . so-called “denfal” which was published in the Recird last evening. The New Britain Herald that The New RBritain Record Jjob department had agreed to the 44- hour demand of the union. This is not a fact. The Record always has been and now is an open shop and employs men regzardless of whether they are union men or not. For years the shop has run 48 hours, and no agree- men: bas been mado to run 44 hours. Al our cepartments will run for 8 ours as in *he past. The Union requires its members to work *o more than 44 hours. The local Union submitted to the Record a scale for a 44-hour week which was at the same rate per hour, and makes a four hour deduction from former 4S-hour scalp. This was fair and’ leaves things just as they have been in former, summers when we ran only 44 hours. As the matter now stands Unlon men will not work for more than 14 hours, and The Record office is pay- ing them for, their 44 hours’ work. The Unlon inen on the newspaper are working 48 hours but they re- coive the 48 hours' pay, as hereto- fore, with no deduction as in the case of the job men. With the shortage of men for a long time past, The Record has had to hire men for any length of time they would work, some of them for only ‘half time, and there were very few men who worked 48 hours a week. For the present, The Record will lire men for' 48 hours a week |If they will work 48 hours and will pay them for 48 hours, and, in order to €t our work done, will hire men for | what honrs they will work and pay them for hours worked at same rate per hour. This has always existed. There is practically no change. If a man worked 48 hours in the past he got 48 hours’ pay. If 44 hours he got 44 hours' pay. This is just the condition now, as far as the Record is concerned, but the shop will be open and running for 43 hours a week as in the past, and, in fact, nearer 60 hours a week, paying the men for hours worked. If men will work 48 hours a week, all right; if | | they will workonly 44 hours it | | means that The Record will have to | employ more men to secure hours, | | the unlon, @urk colorings; also white and pl:ulnl colors, Organdy, imported and domcstic in | white, pink, peach, orchid, light blas, states taa and other colors. Dotted Swiss in white, pipk, green, 'yettow and blue dots; also sohd colors. McCall's Patterns are the only pate wins on the market having printed directions, making them the ~aslest patterns to use, b m—— PULLAR & NIVEN FREEZONE Corns Lift Off with Fingers ahrop a little “Freezone™” on un uch- & corn, instantly that corn stops rting, then shortly you Lft it right with fingers. It doesn’t hurt a bit. Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of reezone” for a few cents, sutilclent b remove every hard corn, so(t corn, jf corn between. the toes, and the lses without a partiele of pain. flluses, without a particle of pain. CORBIN MOTOR TRUCKING COMPANY LIVERY SERVICE FOR OCCASIONS HIGH CLASS CLOSED CARS ARCADE STUDIO Kodak Headquarters but at the same cost to. The Record. The local Union did not demand 48 hours’ pay for 44 hours’ work. Their scale asks only 44 hours’ pay for 44 hours' | work. Practically none of them has worked 44 hours regularly. The Record is neither a union or non-union office. It has no ‘label. It makes no distinction. The Record is an open shop and there is no change. We are hiring men for 48 hours a week. ust for the time being if we cannof secure men enough to work the 48 hours, we will be obliged to hire for 44 or whatever hours they will give us at prorata pay. There is a movement on all over the country and every- thing )s ' unsettled. No one knows just what the results will be. Meantime, The Record remains just as it was, an open shop, 48 hours o week, no increase in wages per hour, and there are only about four men who are affected by the 44-hour ruling, and they will get paid for ac- tual hours if they work, as always. Our condition has not changed. The Record (nowspaper depart- ment) is not affected and remains 48 hours, as also the pressroom and bindery. ‘The job composing room time will not be changed from 48 | hours, but any union man can work only 44 hours in a weeck, at present. If there are men who will work 48 hours those will be hired, but in any event The Record will pay only for the hours worked at same vate. The Record has not “given in" and has not changed from 3 48-hour office, is not a d44-honr sffica and the local union has demanded nothing but what they had before. We have all makes in stock it would pay you to look over our machines. Typewriter and Machines Supplies. New Britain Typewriter Exchange 73 WEST MAIN STREET. TEL. 612. Adding WOMEN WIN VICTORY. Sisterville, West Virginia, Fair Sex Elect Two of Their Members. Sistersville, W. Va., May $—Women voters here have won their first vi tory at the polls. When candidates for (wo seats on the school board were named, the women voters asked In vain that one of their sex be placed on the ballot. The city election wns held yester- | day. and beforo the polls opened P 4 | many women workers were on tho | Job, urging that the female voters cnn their ballots for Mrs. Thomias | Bell. Practically all the women votcrs | wrote in the name of Mrs. Bell, who wos elected to the board by two to one over her neareat opponent. RITAIN STAMP WK g\va AMPS M Q] EEL 0GCSLHECKS STIND FRITZ & BERNDT SIIARPENED ALL KINDS OF EDGE ! ~TO0LS REPAIRED— | Avnid the Rush. Cali Now 1 11 Greenwood St. Tel. 153-12 “OXY” WELDING CARDON BURNING the order went out from | Typographical | shons were affected by the edict of | NEW BR!TA!N 'RECORD'S EXCEPTION LOWER LEVELS FOR | T0 HERALD ST[IRYl PRICES INEVITABLE Explanation of 48 Hour Week Nothing Can Stop Graded Re- adjustment, Banker Says Pinehurst, N. C.., May 3i.—Neither money, ‘transportation costs, taxation nor Jabor can effectively or perma- nently avoid the irrestible forces that are working toward readjustment on a lower level, John S. Drum, San Fran cisco, president of the American Bankers' association, declared 4n a survey of the economic situation in the United States submitted to the association’s executive council here today. M:. Drum'’s statement was based on more-than 1,000 replies to a question- naire sent by the association to bank- ers, heads of transportation compan- ies and other business, leaders asking for authoritative opinions as to finan- cial, commercial, industrial and asgri- cuitural conditions in the nation. All elements in the nation’s eco- nomic life must fall into line in the T"']‘:"' of readjustment, the report sa. “It would work to the disadvantage of.factors that would, if they could, keep out of line with the . rest,’ 1t added. “The weight of opinion is that this tendency toward stabiliza- tion will not be accomplished in the year or the two years that lie just ahead of us.” “The process of readjustment must be gradual,” Mr. Drum said. “First, one elément, then another, feels the opermtion of the inexorable forces that are working to restore normal conditiona.” Commion sense, and a knowledge of fact, with clear vision, Mr. Drum de- clared, must guide the nation in its struggle to solve the broad economic problems that have grown out of the war 'and the peace. - “Our survey has shown that the great economic problems fall into two classcs which may be expressed in terms of the problems of production and those of costs and markets,” the survey said. Discussing labor, the survey said wages did not rise as rapidly as com- modity prices during the war and the inflation period ‘and their general tendency will be the last to fall with readjustment. Wage reductions have been accepted in many industries, but not in ‘the building trades and among railway employes, Mr. Drum said. “The effect of this resistance to the economic laws working toward stag- nation i1 apparent in comparativa stagnation in most parts of the coun- try in all except essential building construction and in the great decrease in railway traffic because of high rates caused by operating costs,’” he added. Under the heading of ‘‘Materials” the survey said they were the first of the elements t6 feel-the: upward im- pulse when the war came and al- ready were the first to respond toward . a new lower level. Touching on the railroad situation, | Mr. Drum declared rate increases at a time when other services and com- modities were falling, had a disas- trous influence on the nation’s busi- ness. The so-called liquidation of la- bor has been perhaps the principal cause of these strangling freight rates. The survey showed there is dis- content with systems of taxation which Mr, Drum said never were just in principle, nor scientific in method of collection, There is _virtually unanimous opposition to the excess profits tax. Majority sentiment favors a sales tax to replace the excess profits tax. Answers to the questionnaires, Mr. Drum said, ‘showed there ‘is reasoned opposition ' to _cancellation of the Allied debts to U. 8., based chiefly on the argument that can- cellation would greatly increase tax- ation in this country. Despite a buyers’ strike, many re- tailers were unwilling to take their losses and sell for lower prices, Mr. Drum said, in discussing domestic markets. This condition has changed and now many retailers are marking down prices to a basis of present costs. Cancellations of orders followed re- duced sales and, as a result there are now great quantities of all kinds of manufactured goods for which there is no demand, lying in the hands of manufacturers. Opinions indicate that the decline in domestic markets to a great extent has been caused by, and is a reflec- tion of, an even more serious fail in forcign demand for American goods. *“We must help the countries of the world finanecially,” Mr. Drum said, “so they can become customers by using our raw materials and our manufactured goods in such quanti- Ues as will keep American capital and American labor and American natur- al resources employed to their full capacity. We must become a nation of foreign traders.” The bankers of the nation, Drum concluded, must take leadership. Mr. the 2 Ibs. best butter $1.00.—Russell Bross.—advt. MRS. RANKINE’S BODY . FOUND IN HARBOR New York, May 4.—The body ' of Mrs. Annette K. Rankine, wealthy widow, who disappeared here on April 1, last night was found floating in New York harbor, near the south Brooklyn shore. Identification of the body was made by Miss Spink, who was Mrs. Rankine's nurse and companion, and Frank Clout- ing, her chauffeur. Physicians at the morgue, who viewed the body, declared that a cursory examination had falled to dis- close any sign of violence, indicating that the woman probably had committed suicide. However, three rings, two of them set with diamonds, which she is supposed to have had on the day of her disappearance, were missing. v — DAILY HERALD, | l WHY DON'T ‘ You ASK HER | - THE FRAME yp - STEEL WAGES WILL BE REDUCED 20 P. C. Adjustment Include'Salaries Too—135,000 Are Affected. New York, May 4.—A reduction of about 20 per cent. in wages for day labor, effective May 16, and an equit- Effective on May 16, to .able adjustment of other rates, includ- ing salaries, at the plants of the United States Steel corporation are anfiounced by Elbert H. Gary, chairraan of the corporation. It is estimated that be- tween 150,000 and 175,000 employes of the corporation will be aflectied by- the cut. Mr. Gary also stated that the corpor- ation had been unable to find a practic- able basis for the entire abandonment of the twelve hour day or jturn in the immediate future. He arlded that the twelve hour shift already had been eliminated in certain departments and that efforts would be continued with the expectation of entirely eliminating this feature during the next year. said that he did not believe the corpor- ation could satisfy the employes with any shorter limit. During 1920 the average'daily wage of employes was $6.96 as against $6.12 in 1919, according to corporation fig- ures. Total salaries and wages dis- tributed by the steel , corporation in 1920, when the total number of em- ployes was 267,000, aggregated $581,- 556,925. On the basis of the reduction an- nounced today, corporation officials estimated, the average cut in wages a* approximately $1.40 a day per man. Roughly, this will affect a reduction in the payroll, calculated on the pres- ent number of employes of not less than $150,000,000 annually. WOMEN APPOINT MEN. Thayer, Call Upon Males for Help. Coffeyville, Kas., May 4.—The new- 1y elected mayor and city council of Thayer, one of the first entirely fem- inine city administrations elected in the country, compliment to the men for their honors. J. Dunsmore, dubbed “the. bald hornet of the Neo- : sho” in the populist party days when he served as speaker of the insurgent house of ‘the Kansas legislature, was appointed city treasurer. In view of the “‘strenuous program” expected to ' be adopted, especially in the matter of civic cleanliness, a young man was sclected as marshal. WILL INVITE AMERICANS. Indian Polo Players Plan to Ask Yankees to Visit Their Country. London, May 4.—The Indian Polo association intends inviting a team of American polo players to visit India in the course of the next year or two, according to the Daily Mail paper points out, are composed of native Indian players and it is con- sidered that India undoubtedly would be able to put a formidable team in the fleld as the sport has been much in vogue for a long time not only among the British army officers but among the aristocratic Indians. ACTION IS POSTPONED. No Decision Taken on Plan to Hold : World’s Fair at Boston in 1925. Boston, May 2.—A proposal to hold a world’s fair here in 1925, in com- memoration of the Pligrim tercenten- | | ary, has been postponed for executive Ioon-denflon next year. The house . w-yl and means committee voted to ?o action on the report of ‘a -peela commission which urged the project, but recommended appoint- ment of a new commission for further study of the plan. WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, THE GREAT AMERICAN WELL, MOTHER, WAS NORMAN A GOOD BOY TODAY ‘He | Kansas, Female Politiclans last night returned the | responsible | today. ' The strongest Indian teams, the news- . 1921, HOMF = S ASE| ULL| Speci fo Tomo Special PETTICO . Sateen Petticoats black, blue, green, ruffle, adjustable el value up to $2.45, wi our price 85¢, 95¢, P YES,HE WAS A VERY GOOD BOY ALL DAY - KEPT HIMSELF CLEAN AND MINDED WELL! IF HES AS GOOD TOMORROW 1 THINK You’LL HAVE 70 GET HIM THE BICYCLE NEXT WEEK! 25% Off | KITCHEN Childre ROMP: ciry ITEMS May Victor records are here, Pierce’s —advt. New hours are in effect at the P. u.nd.F. Corbin Division of the Amer- ican’ Hardware Corporation. The . office opens at 7:30 o'clock in the morning and closes at 4:30 in the afternoon. While working on the roof of the boiler house of the Corbin Cabinet Lock company plant yesterday after- they last, our price slipped and fell to the ground. He 49¢ suffered a fracture of the left leg and minor bruises. Dr, John Purney attended hm. He was removed to the || hospital. An automobile belonging to John Carbo of”6 Erwin place, which was stolen Sunday night, was found late yesterday afternoon on Blake road by two boys picking flowers. The police were notified. The machine had crashed against a tree and was badly da,maged. 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