The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 2, 1919, Page 20

LEADERS URGE OBJECT TO NEW. QUICK ACTION RAIL WAGE PLAN Union Leaders Condemn Letting Congress Decide | Lower Prices or the Country Will “Go Smash” BY L. G MARTIN BY RALPH F. COUCH (United Press Correspondent.) (United Press Staff Correspondent! WASHINGTON, Aug. 2-H aa WASHINGTON, Aug. %-—-Com | three of the four big railroad unions Stes hag been hauled up short by | Sate —— ined org et yr nrest over hands of congress nds 0! ‘a be asy sername (hel thelr members for immediate wage high cost of Hving. Increases proportionate to increased Net only has the house's five | jiving costs. / ‘weeks’ recess been called off, but the; The house of representatives, on league of nations fight in the senate | request of President Wilson, last may be affected before long, senators | night canceled its proposed recess of maid today. five weeks, to take up consideration Leaders of both houses were con-| of the railroad pay increase prob cerned today with devising some | lem. plan whereby the insistent demand} The union heads opposing the plan from all over the country for adjust-| were W. G. Lee, president of the ment of wages in ptoper relation to| Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen the cost of living may be worked! lL, E. Shepherd, president of the out, they said | Brotherhood of Railway Conductors House and senate leaders were to| and Timothy Shea, president of the confer in an effort to lay the foun | Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen dation for action which they hope | 4nd Einginemen, will meet not only the railroad men’s | Organized railway workers wil! re problem, but the broader one which | fuse to be controlled, the official» affects all workers. said, if they become convinced their Unless this ts done, the country is | demands must be passed upon by « “going to smash,” Senator Cummins, | Commission which must first be cre Jowa, chairman of the senate inter-| Sted by special legistation tn con grees. state commerce committee, said to- een ae ten day. “We must give assurance to the workers,” said Cummins today, “that an equitable relation will be estab Ushed between the cost of living and ‘wages, We must do that immediate: | ly. Unless we do, the country is go- ing to smash. “I believe the time has come when the government must fix the wages the railroad workers, whether !t control of the lines or not. I to vote for such action the government should have the Wilson tn letters to house and senaty committers, in which he propose! creation of the commiasion to survey the wages of all railway z538 i power to raise wages to meet the liv- ing cost, or to bring the living cost down to the wage level.” The senate g E ; 3 it h i ! ag | Lt df | ii i if lis Hb th i i ! i f : 4 : i i re 33 l tt fear ana and bat only say that, in my opin questioning her fon, the railway workers of the coun- abouts last night try will not stand for another sur- ‘The child was the| vey of the entire wage situation.” hotel at 9 ac: | mld Warren 8. Stone. of the Brother. companied girl. Her | hood of Locomotive Engineers, parents an en-| “T don't know whether this ts the of the | president's answer to our statement child him that the cost of living must It ; | ii | F : itt i i | > i Hi Hy i +f gee : 333 i to which Hines has submitted the president's special wage commission plan. | NAVIGATION Fe er poe Baayen COMPANY answer ia not received by that time, or if no answer is received, the mat- ter will be placed before the men by their representatives. They will decide what must be done to gain the increases we must have.” Cotman Dock Main 3993 The Whole Family Will a boat ride to Tacoma Sanday. Take them on one of our fast and reliable steamers, Let the kiddies enjoy the fresh ale of the Sound. Steamers Tacoma and Washington Leave Colman Dock at 7, 9, 11 a m, and at 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 p. m., returning from Tacoma on the same hours. Running time, one hour and thirty minutes—just long enough. ROUND TRIP FARE, (Including War Tax).....2..00s00secseeeeees $1.00 _ PUGET SOUND NAVIGATION CO. COLMAN DOCK TH Freight Rate Change Now Would Be Dangerous, Says E SEAT IN THE LAP OF LUXURY TLE STAR Congress Gives Up Vacation to Probe High Cost of Living FOOD PURCHASE ‘NO SMASHUPS Corbaley; Scores Proposal Describing the present as the been located in Seattle onty after a ewttieal peried of the commer. |thoro investigation ef Coast terms dial Geveloprecet ef the Nerth (| nals and rates. west, Gerden (C. Corbaiey, mo Fisher testified that raftroaé off retary of the Seattle Chamber |cials had assured him that freight of Commerce, testifying before | rates on wheat as exixting would re the intervtate commerce com (main stable and that there wasn't a mission Saturday in the Federal (likelihood of Portland, or any other building, enld that s discrims (city, obtaining « discriminatory rata natory freight tavering lertiand Fisher testified he visited about 35 would be apt to “kmock the | millers of Portland and that he did bette” owt of further develep- (not find « single man who wanted ment af this time. the rate differential. He denied that He testified the present grouping|Prtiand millers controfied Seattle Of freight rates as applied to Bast, | Mlle. ern Washington districts, to Port- Called It “Little” land and Soynd terminale was the; Miss Anna M. Bruegerhoff. a grad- best system for « favorable growth|uate student at the University of i i H Fy i : 3 z H i : i if i i : ge i gtk. g °f a 93 i ; : 3 s 5 i is : 3 z : S38 k tet gE : | i HG i] A HI aT i 5 F5f i F § -| completion tonight. |Frisco Teamsters It showed that $597.000,000 worth | of materials, excluding the bonded | silk, passed thru Sound ports during 1918. Of this amount Seattle handled $406,000,000 and Tacoma $141,000,000. Miss Bruegerhoff's testimony tickled the commission when she referred to “Tacoma and other little ports.” Robert Rachelor, another Univer sity student, was called to the stand to expiain a map made by bay and lintroduced as evidence sfewing the route, elevation and population of cities on each line from the con- tested districta In Eastern Washing: ton to the Sound. The hearings are scheduled for May Go on Strike SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2.~Two thousand, five hundred teamsters will strike Monday if their demands for a $1 « day increase tn pay is not met, John T. McLaughlin, business Jected to a change in wheat rates! agent of the Teamsters’ Union, an- between the Palouse counties and! nounced today. The demand has been Sound and Portland terminals be the subject of a number, of confer- cause of what he termed the con-lences with the Draymen’s asnocia. ington, witn: for Seattle, was not called to the stand after the commission and Portland interests allowed to go on record the statement that Croms would testify the union, as @ whole, was opposed to a rate reduc tion. J. 8. Goldsmith, of Schwabacher Grocery company of Seattle, was called to the stand. His testimony favored the present rate parity R. C. McCrosky, a Palouse wheat grower, operating 3,300 acres, testi- fied Friday a discriminatory wheat Tate from sections bordering Garfield would practically ruin the Northern Pacific as a wheat carrier. He said that the immense wheat warehouses ‘would become empty barns while the storage houses of the Oregon and Washington line would become con gested. He said that a reduced rate at Monday‘’s meeting with the em- ployers’ committee, a walkout is cer- tain.” McLaughlin declared. “The men are opposed to further arbitra- tion, and it was only by diplomacy on the part of executives that a strike was averted at the end of the first conference.” ; f Wagon Hit; Driver Is Killed by Auto PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. 2.—Fred Goodfellow, 65, driving a wood truck, was instantly killed late yesterday |when an automobile hit his wagon and threw him to the pavement. Clayton Miller, 21, driver of the automobile, is being held on a man slaughter charge. Witnesses of the accident claim Miller was intoxt- jeated and driving at the rate of 40 miles an hour. MUST VACATE favoring Portland would throw the! wheat industry in a chaotic condition | and would probably reduce the price | By September 1st of wheat. In all, he said he favored wil he the i | the existing scale, latter part | e September bafere I cam move to || Would Narrow Market my new lecation at Third and || E. J. Doneen, an Oaksdaie ware- Pine Street. * house operator, testified the wheat Rather than store my stock, 1 growers thruout the wheat section of Washington were anxious that the existing rates continue, He pointed LABOR OFFERS RAILROAD PLAN Wants U. S. Ownership to i! | | oe f iF Ef il ee ations courts. 2. Operation by a directorate of 15, five to be chosen by the preal- dent to represent the public, five to be elected by the operating of- ficlals and five by the classified employes. 3. Equal division of surplus, after paying fixed charges and operating conta, between the public and the employes. 4. Automatic reduction of rates when the employes’ surplus is more than & per cent of the grom operating revenue. determined finally by the as a unified system. 6. Bullding of extensions at ex: pense of the communities benefited, in proportion to the beneff. 7. Payment for the roads made thru government bonds bearing 4/ per cent interest. ‘The plan will be considered by the house committee next week with various other proposals made. “I believe the plan of organized labor,” said Sims today, “would es tablish harmony between the public interest and the tnterests of the wage-earners and capital. It would protect the public against exploita- tion for the benefit of either capital or labor. “It would aasure the public reduc tion in rates equivalent to any tn-| crease in earning power which the! employes might create for them- selves by the efficiency of the or| ganization or the skill in manage- ment. This would be the first step | in solving the problem of the high cost of living, as the cost of trans-| portation enters into the price of every commodity. “Protection against increased rates, assurance of reduced rates would inspire industry without con- fidence, would increase the purchas-| ing power of the dollar and would| break the vicious cycle which now exists whereby every increase in| wages i» reflected in an increase in the cost of production.” WANTS $1,000 FOR FALL FROM CAR| Grace Smith, of Mount Baker) park, filed a claim Saturday with the city clerk against the city for $1,000 damages for injuries she claims resulted from her being thrown from a Mount Baker car on July 2. The accident, according to i il i i out that a differential rate would ing the seventeen yéars that || remove the competitive angle and | I have been in business in this that the growers would be thrown on | “tty, this te the first sale I have the mercy of a single market. | | ever had. J. 8. Klemgard, a Pullman far- My customers know what to ex. || mer, substantiated Doneen's testi | Peet when I say— mony. “Tm Offering Great Bargains” O. D, Fisher, vice president of the Fisher Fiouring mills, testified that L M. BENNETT his company operated a flour mill in Seattlo valued at nearly $3,000,000, including holdings, and that this had | i | street car started just as she was the complaint, resulted when the stepping to the ground. She suffered internal injuries. TWO SHIPS ARRIVE, THREE OTHERS SAIL ABERDEEN, Wash., Aug. 2.—The steamers Charles Christensen, San Jacinto and Svea arrived here Fri- day from California to load lumber for shipment to California ports, The steamers Idaho, Raymond and Shasta sailed from here Friday load. share of the) 5. Regional operation of the lines) WINS APPROVAL Both Committees of Council Favor Buying Indorsed by both the finance and public safety committers of the city council, the plan to pur- chase excess stores of army food stuff by the city needs only the sanction of the city counell. support of the council is the opinion expressed Saturday by various coun cilmen. No suggestions were made by the finance committee for the purchase of the food. It will be the mayors problem to solve this phase of the purchase, Corporation Counsel Walter F. Meler has given an opinion that the city council can make such a pur chase by the tewtiance of utility or general revenue bonds, but that a time Considerable @incumion an to the methods of disposing of the food was held. A plan to sell the goods dtrect | to the public market was one sngrestion, while another proposed the mie 4- }rect from the warehouse where the food in held in storage It was de to the mayor. Dr. H. M. Read, city health com minstoner, is having his inspectors examine the foodstuffs, and sometimes te_gives Safety Week Ends With a| Woodland, Volunteer ‘Thursday were reported up to Fri day. That Mayor Hanson will have the| 007, saents to be reported for any day of “Safety Week.” aceidents were of minor nature. Four people were lightly bruised. brighter than the law allows, the following autoists are betng sought by constables armed with warrants: Ni; J. W. Egley, 6251 23rd ave. N.: J. 8. Harding, | Leon HB. Rice, 919 Ravenna blvd.; J. |S Hansen, 141 Past Gist et; J. A these methods would require too long | sonnsem, 6236 17th ave. N. E.; D. C Keeney, Gunther, College Club; W. B. Mitch en, 126 West fist at; J. 5 wary ; K O. Gabrieison, citizens from stalls tn the |£12', lous bulldings HL. ¥. Bradshaw, 527 North 73rd at. John B. Gordon's court as part of the cided to leave this problem, also, "P| Glaring headlights are said to cause many of the accidents. | than other people know him; there | fore, every man ought to swallow | including houses in New York, Rillence sometimes ctves consent flattery with peveral grains of sodl-{ delphia and London. He thon, » ‘BANDS TO PLAY TO MAR DAY, IN CITY'S PARK Alki Get Concerts Providing the motwture remaing, in the clouds Sunday, be soothed at Volunteer and We land parks and at Ald Poing band inuxic, according to the plan of the park board. “Dad” Wagner's band will from 7230 p. m. unt 9 p.m. night at Volunteer Park. Adams Vend will entertain bathers at Alki bething beach | day afternoon, trom 220 o'clock. Few “Clear” Hours No accidents were reported to the police Saturday morning to mar the last day of Safety Week. Only 13 automobile § accidents ‘This was the amaliest number Most of the Because their headlights were Sunday evening from 720 clock. Carabba was ton | band leader at Camp Laws, HAMMERSTEIN FUNEI |WILL BE HELD MON NEW YORK, Aug. 2—~The fam of Oxcar Hammerstem, vet era manager, who died last | will be held Monday. Death Lenox HiN Hospital, following fness with diabetes and a tion of Gineases. Hammerstein was bora ta in 1847. He came to this when 16 years oid and for years worked as a cigarmaker, | entered the theatrical business carty seventies. He buflt 11 f Harold Kock, 2225 Boylston ave. 2227 10th ave N. 2201 Western ave; L. C B. Tolsin, ‘The warrants were inwued in Jodge “Safety Week" operations. lost several fortunes. = te ANOTHER ed with lumber for California, SHOW STARTING WITH A GONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE SUNDAY AT 2:30 P. M. PRINCESS WHITE ELK AND THE GIRLS THE BIG SPECTACULAR NOVELTY—THE BARE- FOOTED DANCE WITH i} EW WHITE Popular Hebrew Comedian and a Large Cast of Favorites in “PLL SAY SHE DOES” SUNDAY 35c RPHEUM THIRD —- AND —- MADISON BIG AND ENTIRELY NEW ATURE FUN—MELODY AND GIRLS FOR THE KIDDIES (Se)