The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 15, 1919, Page 13

By ALLMAN OW Cousnt Wa, ('™ SO GLAD To SEE You! ‘GMO see You- | see You cor DOOR BELL AND My _= Wite's NOT AT d I ANY OLD RAGE, BONES OR BOTTLES TO-D— SAY --- WHICH ONE ARE You- MY WIFE OR HER. TWIN) SISTER 2? GOLLY - ANNIE NEVER THOUGHT OF TH’ LIKENESS SHE BEARS To HER Twin ISTER, WHEN SHE STRUCK BY GolbY- 1 CAME COME HERE | NEAR SPILLIN’ TH’ A. MOMENT |BEANS MYSELF THAT TIME - WHEW =a LSS SS f Oil Company Finds Way to Settle All Disputes With Men; Boosts Wages By FREDERICK M. KERBY. later used as a lever to hold mem NEW YORK, July 15—One |4t employment for which hundred and nineteen possible | were underpaid after they had pase- causes of trouble between em- | the ordinary insurable age. The ployee and employer—potential | mount of insurance under the plan sticks of industrial dynamite— | cannot be less than $500 and camnot were rendered harmless and | ¢xceed $2,000. . turned into opportunities for The insurance does not mutual understanding in the | Plant other forms of relief. If year just ended for the Stand- |¢mploye dies of accident, his f ard Oil company of New Jersey | £ts the amount due under the state, and its men. | compensation law, as well as his That tells the story of the new|/nsurance. Under the group ft industrial representation and so-|@nce plan 9,251 employes cial relationship plans which the | #tually insured for a total sum company and the men jointly adopt. | $9,188,024 and of this number 146 ed as a method of industrial govern- nate and there was paid to their ment April 1, 1918, ‘when for the | Pendents $159,853, or an average f first time the executives of a great| ach deceased employe of $1,006: industry and its employes of all | About one-third of these men had classes voluntarily and jointly met | ther insurance “whatever, at 26 Broadway and erected an in-|7 Per cent of them had insu titution for the government of | “mounting to over $1,000. aah vy Under the sickness benefit more than $95,000 was paid out te SUBSTITUTE CO-OPERATION over 2,000 employes during the FOR STRIFE. year. And 39 employes were reti Industrial co-operation, instead | for age on annuities averaging of industrial strife has paid—hboth | per month. the company and. the employes.| The Standard Oil officials During the year 80 joint confer-| lieve they have gone a long - ences were held at the five refin-| toward “industrial democracy,” KEEPING UP WITH. THE JONESES— eries of the Standard Oil company. | the Standard Ofl employes agree Complaints were discussed and set-| them. tled. These questions ranged from u v MERE sanitation, housing and ascat ques. | EMPLOXES: SUSPICION tions to wages and hours, promotions fi and discharges, working conditions| “The joint agreement adopted: and methods of wage payments. In}year ago,” said President W. not one case did the joint board,, Teagle, “has been ratified by consisting of a representative for | sentatives of all the refineries, each 150 employes and an equal num. | as long as it continues to be in ber of officers of the company, fail| interests of all parties, will be to reach an agreement. Although the | basis of the company's labor poll board of directors of the Standard | There has been, I am glad to say, Oil retained the right to veto de-| reservation on either side, and in cisions of the joint conference, they | discussions a common ground of have never found it necessary to/| vantage has invariably been fou do 0. The true note is mutual advantage The Standard Ot! started the plan| and common interest. The i by asking the employes to elect| covering the initial year of the from their own number, by secret | eration of our plan afford abun ballot, men in whom they had con-| proof of the success of the ex fidence to represent them in deal-/ment. We are facing another ing with representatives of the | confident that only time, exp company. and co-operation are necessary The employes accepted, elected | demonstrate to American { representatives and adopted the joint | the success of industrial rep agreement, which contains aj tion.” ‘ specified list of offenses for which ‘What do the employes think men may be discharged, gives a|the plan? At first they were right of appeal, provides that all|picious; a considerable minority re wage adjustments shall be made/ fused to vote for representatives, But in joint conferences between the|at the election this year nearly 99 employes’ representatives in the| per cent voted. The labor turnover division affected and the repre-| of the Standard Oil company (always ~ sentatives of the company, and that | small) is now not over 2 per cent— all questions affecting the relation-| the most remarkably low record in ship of employes, to the company | America. Small labor turnover in- shall be thrashed out by the confer-|dicates employes who are satisfied ences, : with their jobs. Union and non-union men joined “The appeal the plan makes to the in electing representatives. Common | human side of us is one. of the lead- laborers rub shoulders with highly | ing factors,” said Joseph Burke, an skilled mechanics and highly paid ex-| employe of the Eaglo works and @ ecutives in the joint conferences. workers’ representative who , hag FIVE MILLIONS ADDED served for a year on the joint boards, TO ANNUAL PAY ROLL “In urging on us the necessity of tion the delegates represented | rust fall,’ is in fact the truth, We ; . ;|do not agree. As to wages they have During the year wage increases and | kept at a high level, ericvanoan hoe adjustments have added $5,000,000 t0| een fairly dealt with, the health of the annual payroll of the company. : ‘The adoption of the joint agree- | ‘he men has been cared for. The plag ment marked also the adoption of | '# still in its infancy. Is it a sus - life, old age and sickness insurance | Cos BO pop enrtin Berne os es Soldiers to Guard | BARTENDER IN DRY NEW YORK July 1b-—Tee trop |s provided without phyalcal extant ae Alaska Fish Traps FRISCO HIT BY HEAT | snip viuia dockea at Hoboken today | ation, all premiums are paid by the| Arthur Farron, arrested at Tops he| SAN FRANCISC 5.—wit.| With 47 officers, 397 Americans re-| company, and any employe leaving |penish Thursday, suspected of being In response to a telegram from the) SA} NCISCO, July 15.—-Wil'| turning from service with the Brit-| the service is guaranteed the con-|the murderer of Thomas Ryan; for= Hunter Bay cannery, of Alaska. to| liam Hohnman, a bartender, is recov | ish army, and 600 soldiers. tinuance of the insurance upon as-|rent car driver, whose body was Capt. E. L. McNoble, of the Pacific|ering today at the Emergency hos-| suming the premium liability. found on the banks of the Du. Steamship Co. asking him to dis-| pital from the effect of heat pros-| ‘This meets the criticism urged|wamish river June 30, was released $1 000m car and wettle $100,000 a4 {Patch “ten or more honest, reliable | ttation, he being the fiest victim “| He Quit Tobaeco against company insurance in the|by Sheriff John Stringer Monday, " y : men for guards on fish traps,” 1|Old Sol this +year. Hohnman was! past that the seeming benefit was ‘as he is not the man wanted. They May Go to China Now, Freckles. Y HopD on THERE—t! NOU DON'T WART To PUT A TWO-CEAT STAMP ON POST CARDS — NOW Ya DUANIT!! You WANT Wy! You Poor Fish, Im THE LaDy CHAMPION SWINNER OF THE UNITED STATES : CONE ON ouT A LITTLE FARTHER AND TLL TEACH you How To swan! res “SQUIRREL FOOD— PTD DROP A COUPLE BUSHEL EN. MW’ ANDREW VISITS SEATTLE 62 and Girl, Revealed in Court Suit || SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., July 15, Chief of Pershing’s Staff| A contract marriage, whereby C. B.) 00 oom, Won Decoratidns Maj. Gen. James A. McAndrew, chief of staff to Gen. Pershing for the last two years, and recently ap- pointed chief of staff commandant of the General Staff College at Wash- ington, D. C., is in the city on a 30- day leave of absence. Maj. Gen. Mc Andrew, who has a number of per- sonal friends in Seattle, was sta- at Fort Lawton from 1905 to 1909, part of that time as acting commandant at that fort. As chief of staff of the A. EB. F., he the chief advisor to Gen. Persh- , Ye had a large part in the map- out of the St. Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne campaigns, and for his work in this connection he was | decorated by the allied governments and received the distinguished serv- {ee medal from the United States, Ward, 62, wealthy of] man with a wife and family at Queens, L. I., agreed to marry Alice Wilson, of San Francisco, within a year, and also to provide and make cash set- tlements upon her two elsters came to light today when the contracting parties fell out, Ward; who lives in Humboldt county, secured a warrant for the arrest of Mrs. Alice Wilson, mother of the girls, charging she per- formed a criminal operation on Alice ‘Wilson, his contract “wife.” ‘The Wilson women retaliated by charges that Ward, in addition to being responsible for the girl's con- dition, deceived them all when he promised to marry her within a year, because it would be impossible for him to be divorced from his wife in that time, They declared his charge was spite because they had grown to hate him, Both sides agree a contract was signed whereby Ward was to give MONEY FROM HOME IS KEEPING WILLIAM BERLIN, July 15.—Willlam Ho- henzollern is a “remittance man” now, ‘The league for the protection of William II,” founded six months ago, has been sending him money regularly. An intercepted letter from the league's secretary says: “I sent to Holland 1,000 pounds thru an Essen clergyman who is in with the right people there. But 1,000 pounds in these days is not much, We shall have to dip deeper into the lucky bag.” order to cope with the bold gang of | fish pirates who are daily robbing the traps and attempting to terrorize the company's doughty soldiers, all overseas men, recently returned discharged from | service, and unmindful of the dan- gers of the mission on which they are about to embark, will sail Tues- day on the Admiral Southeastern Alaska. The following men were selected | for the work: Joseph A. King, wearer of the Croix de Guerre, and hampion heavyweight of the A. .; Sam Morris,( 1221 Yesler wa Dewey Hayes, 1533 Grandview ave Jack Simmons, Soldiers’ and Sailors’ club; E. M. Hussey apa Peter Wil- laims. The love of money is also the root of much matrimony. watehmen, — six | - Evans for) overcome while riding on a street} car. 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