The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 7, 1919, Page 16

Peer een tS ee ANE CHIEF OF “ROUND TABLE” a of Interior Heads “Industrial Conference | WASHINGTON, — Oct. Press.-—A fight over the of procedure terminated forenoon session of the in- conference today, Strong | jon developed to the rules tee’s proposed method. A was ordered to give each represented — employers, and the public — a to discuss the committee's outside the conference WASHINGTON, Oct. 7—(Ry nited Press.)—Franklin K. seoretary of the interior, elected permanent chairman the round table industrial con | as the first business of second session which opened morning. Beconding Lane's nomination Gompers of the American tion of Labor said he wished 19 make clear that the assent of the) DF Group of delegates in Lane's Was no reflection on Secre of Labor Wilson, of the conference. word from the White House eS be possible for the president to before the conférence closes,” Lane told the nferees: ing the chairmanship. id. Cotter, Lance's secretary, and Brown were chosen joint of the conference. Were many vacant chairs the conference opened. | Tules committee plans to pre-| discussion of the issues of the) | strike in the conference, it was committee report was to ree | that hours of meeting be} BH 9:30 a. m. to 12:30 p. m. and| B 2:30 to 5:20 p.m. No mentio to be made of the questioa of sessions proposed by T. L. Feport of the rules committee, led late yesterday, and whose ® members worked far,into the. Preparing a program to guide | ference, will be considered to- | he committee had a heated dis- it was learned, over a pro- f to bar the public and news- ‘representatives from all meet- bof the whole conference. A members of the committee, jo fought the proposal, sald the | Al vote was 7 to 2 against secret to present plans, the! will not get down to the, of industrial peace until late ely after the organization | fs finished. more than 200) Presented to the conference, one suggested by Charles Says Utiliti Called as a witness for the | city in the telephone probe be- fore the state public service commission here Tuesday, B.D, O'Brien, assistant superin ent of public utilities, aro: the consternation of telephone officiais when he declared the company ts paying insufficient wages to “hello giths” te je service to the ion sald he considered S126 a month net too much to pay for efficient telephone operators, Rasing hia testimony on the re suits of an investigation covering a period of several weeks, O'Brien! graphically onditions in telephone thruout the city, declared the company, despite poor service, is handling a less num ber of calls than in 1916 when serv ice was good, and blamed low wages for the conditions as they now are ‘The telephe hearing, the com mission said, would be concluded by ‘Tuesday night. Decisions in the gas }and telephone cases will be handed down late Tuesday or early Wednes day, it was stated, before the com mission departs for Wenatchee to} hear another case. O'Brien's declaration wage paid telephone girls the that | the by temporary| company i# too small, came as a/that your switchboards were then surprise to the group of company officials grouped about the room in /Morning is so cheering that it|the county-city building, where the |Parried Sheppard, hearing is being concluded. City Pays More “The city council," said O'Brien, “has adopted a scale for telephone | operators in the city's service. This | rossed. scale gives a chief operator $1,560 a year, or $130 a month, and six oper ators a total of $9,065 a year, or $126 & month per girl. ‘This includes full pay for 15 days’ vacation during the summer.” | “But, Mr. O’Brien,” quizzed Attor ney Otto B. Rupp, counsel for the telephone company, “would you may | the company should pay its oper: rm a similar wage?” | “The company,” retorted O'Brien, | “as a public utility corporation, | owes a duty to the public higher) than that owed by the city in this regard, In view of this duty, the | company should pay as much to ite) employes as is required to render efficient service. If the company were to pay in excess of what the city pays, that wage would not be too much. | Should Enjoy Life “It is my belief.” he added, “that & telephone operator, who at best can last at her occupation but 10 or 15 years, and give satisfactory service, should be paid enough to al- low her to live respectably, enjoy some of the luxuries of life and. | at the same time, lay aside during | that 10 or 15 years enough money to insure her proper care in the years of her inefficiency.” Third Add Girl Operators—30 — | for settling industrial issues | tant superintendent of public Util Q week. ties?” O'Brien was asked. “1 get $200 a month,” he replied. “If telephone operators are paid FER TODAY s Condition Is Showing )—“The president’ has continued,” said issued at 11:30 a. m, by President Wilson's phy appetite is decidedly bet- he is sleeping well,” the C said. is to be brought to his at- however, because it is feared matters are put before him it be possible to keep him from to others. president himself does not leave Washington, it was feeling that ty for it, and his doctors and believe he can be kept quiet ctually at the White House as bulletin was signed “Grayson, Stitt” and was issued after a jthe fact that there are 10,644 more telephones. “I found,” he said, “that theré are | | many on the switch: | boards.”” | there is no} $136 a month, don't you thi are underpaid in comparison Strain Tells on Girts “Perhaps,” he said, “I am under. paid. But it is my contention that | the telephone girl, whose duties keep her under the strain of nervous ten- sion, should be well paid. My duties are civersified and the strain not so * great.’ vata, 0 in telephone ex- changes, O'Brien said, showed that | as compared with an investigation | made in October, 1916, there is a less | number of calls at this time, deapite | “About one-third of the girls em- ployed are 100 per cent efficient, one-third are 85 per cent efficient, and one-third 70 per cent efficient, | making an average switchboard ef- ficiency of about 85 per cent. I) noted delay in answering calla and delay in connecting and disconnect- ing. Pay the Lowest “Girls employed on the night shift are higher paid than girls on the day shift, altho the peak load, the hardest work, occurs in the day- time. It is conspicuous that at a/ time when mercantile establishments | and others competing for female| help, are offering highest wages, the | |telephone company is offering the | lowest.” A careful check on the time re- quired to complete a call, O'Brien| said, was made by employes in his) office. “This check was made,” he said, “by calling a party first and asking | the party to remain at the phone for | @ second call. In that way delay on the party answering was avoided. A second call was then made. Our test record shows that in 388 calls! the party answered in from two sec tion among these doctors. physicians, it was No intention of giving their per. to Wilson to take part in the conference or to interest actively in any other public man Lane of the conference this morning Wilson might to appear before the sessions rest cure, which ft was stated t 98 per cent of the treat- will be continued. on and the other doctors feel * encouraged, but they will "take no risk and permit no exertion ich might cause a relapse. They Dare “still in the woods,” it was said " elally. ong the messages received at President Ador deration: Swiss federal council 4 to hear of your iliness of the Swis« truly begs message came from Pres Eartiguenave of Hayti It most sincere wishes for recovery, send to his excel ency, th resident of the United t sentiments of genuine iy in which the government of Hayti heartily join.” ‘ORTA, Ore, Oct. 7.—With battened down and other- prepared for rough going, the n submarine UB-88 was nos- her way thru the open sen for found today and was to ar- in Beattie sometime Tuesday noon. She will romain in El- Bit bay three days. In command nt Commander J. L. UB left Astoria at and cleared the ame abe learned, | White House was the following) onds to five minutes and 44 seconds.” | Despite the telephone company’s | promised “millions for additional fa- | | cilities," and the “first automatic system in the world," Assistant Cor- poration Counsel T. J, L. Kennedy, | |conducting the probe for the city, | | was not satisfied Tuesday that prom: | |ises would remedy immediate condi- | tions. “You talk about what you are go- ing to do in 1920, or a year from now, | or at some time in the future,” de- | clared Kennedy, during the examina- | tion of company witnesses Monday | afternoon, “You talk in generalities of ‘facilities,’ ‘outside plant’ and ‘in- side plant.’ But what the people who use telephones want to know is |how soon are we going to get nor- mal service, good service, and how you are going to give it.” It was testified that the company now has orders to install 2,189 new telephones, including 434 “delayed | orders,” the delay being due to lack of “plant facilities.” All these phones will be installed within 60) days, it was promised [thelr old jobs in that union girls THE SEATTLE STAR Girl Operators Underpaid, es Chief Here to install—well, you understand, there will always be orders on hand They never can be completel cleaned up, of course, But at the end of 60 days we will be In shape to handle new orders promptly—that's | what we mean Ne ordera will be | handled as they come In-without de | lay | Have 66,000 Phones H. J, Sheppard, plant enginesr for the company, in detail told of im] provements under way and projected for giving normal service in 60 days. These improvements include added | cable facilities leading from all ce tral stations You now have 66,000 telephones | in the city?" asked Kennedy "Yes,”” answered the witness, “Would you say the installation of ) these telephones would increase traf fie thru your switchboards to the sat: | uration point?" “Oh, no," said Sheppard. “Do you remember the company's last hearing be the public serv: | ice commission, in Olympia, last Jan- u ry “Yeu.” “Do You remember that your In- side plant engineer testified at that hearing that at that time you | had only 64,000 telephones near the saturation point?" “I don't know what he testified,” “You are acquainted with Inside plant conditions, are you not?" Many Girts Quit “Not intimately,” Sheppard con-| J. H. Cochrane, superintendent of traffic, whose chief duty is keeping a sufficient force on the switch- boards, testified that many girls had left the company during the July strike and had not returned | to work, Other conditions, he sald, made it hard for the company to keep the boards filled. Neverthe lens, he promised, a full force would be at work inside 60 days. It was Miss May Duffy, business agent for the telephone operators’ union, who punctured Cochrane's testimony. “One of the reasons,” she said, “why more girls don't apply fo are barred from becoming super- visors, If every girl when she went to work as an operator knew! she had a chance to become super- visor of sometifing better that would pay her more money, there would be more girls apply. Got $17.10 a Week “Another reason,” she added, “is that union girls who have worked on ‘A’ boards are put on ‘B was carry! led gun whe foards. when they ‘return to the) Was,CATving & loaded gun when ar company. They are told they can| "ir, samitted havi Or take the ‘B* beard or quit. 1 work-| bs Os Dare earvee varaes ed for the company 13 years an when I quit I was getting $17 1 guess 1 could have worked 13 years more at the same salary.” <BEAN PH Os and |G jtoldiers, wearing United States army TWO MEN SHOT | IN STEEL RIOT Revolvers Used in Fight at Buffalo Plant BUFFALO, N. ¥., Oct Two men were shot, several were | beaten and over a hundred re volver shots were fired near the Steel plant this " rr attacked a Huffalo & Lake Erie traction car en route to the steel working employes. lowed the breaking r of 500 men eartier In the day, Lackawanna GARY, wis rest martial law Ind, Oct, 7.—Order miler the reign of Calumet steel ents, whieh had | terrorized Gary, East Chicago | and Indiana Harbor since Satur. day ev ng evidently lost all in- clination for fighting when 4,000 General Leonard Wood, assumed control of the situation, The first regular troops arrived! early lant nt fram Fort Sheridan Governor on P, Goodrich nent for the regulars when 800 state militia had been unable to stop outbreaks, The militin waa openly defied by a parade of striking steel workers and sympathizers, Scores of discharged uniforms, participated in the parade BIND AND ROB LOCAL GROCER Ex-Convict Held in Seattle. Jail ! Joe White, exconviet, ts in the city Jail Tuesday while the police are searching high and low for his com panion who aided him tn holding up| ©. Kurishi, a Japanese grocer, in his store at 534 Summit ave. late Monday fternoon | White, the police say, has ad- mitted to the robbery. He had a watch belonging to the Japanese in his possession when arrested by fed- eral authorities late Monday after: oon on &@ charge of selling nar coticn. | White and his companion entered the grocery store about 2 p. m. Mon. day and bound the grocer. They | rifled hin pockets and the till, ob taining some jewelry and $460. White jat Sing Sing and Clinton, N. Y., the police declare, He refused to divulge the identity of his partner. It was explained that operators on “A” boards communicate direct- ly with the public, while “B” board operators work on “inside boards” only and do not come in direct touch with the public at any time, “I understand,” said Miss Duffy, “that the company ts firing all but apprentice giris so they won't have to pay more than the mint- mum scale.” Telephone officials present tn the courtroom smiled sheepishly. and shook their heads. “I know one girl who gets the minimum wage,” Miss Duffy went on. “She told wpe she has to work outside to earn enough to clothe herself and pay her* room and board. I don't know how a girl can make ends meet who ts get- ting only the minimum wage.” These were some of the reasons, Miss Duffy said, why the company io having such extreme difficulty getting a working force and keep- ing it. NEGRO GETS 30 YEARS IN CELL Porter Charged With Attack on White Woman CARROLLTON, Mo., Oct. 71.—Fol lowing an alleged attack upon a white woman Sunday night aboard a train of which he was porter, Wil- liam Wardlow, a negro, was sen tenced to 30 years in the state peni tentiary Monday. The negro denied the charge, but pleaded guilty to an- other crime. 16 ARRESTED IN GAMBLING RAID Columbia Cigar Store Closed by Officers Sixteen men are in the city Jail Tuesday and the doors of the Columbia cigar store at 215 Columbia st. are held closed by police lock as the result of a gambling raid upon the resort at midnight, Frank Adama was charged with conducting a gambling game, while Nick alls, a cook; William Bell, laborer; Charles Shofer, salesman, and Harry Lawrence, a printer, were charged with gambling. Eleven others were charged with being in a place where gambling was being con- ducted The police obtained $100 in cash Will They Cateh Up? “Kut at the end of that 60 days, | your figures show you will have ap: proximately 6,000 more telephones to install—new orders that will come | during that 60 days. How ye ng to take care of thore orders Kennedy asked, } “I must confess,” admitted Public | Service Commissioner Clelland, “that | I can't quite see how you are going | to catch up.” There was momentary confusion on the part of the telephone com- pany’g experts, ‘The withers was at} a lons to st ghten the problem out. | | But Otto &. Rupp, counsel for the} company, came to the rescue. “Let's wee juet how we are going | to catch up,” be said. going 10 catch up qn this 2,189 or- ders. Then we will pave 6,000 more a “Birat, we ania war against Gen, and several decks of cards as evi dence, The cash is said to have been used ag stakes and was found on the tables where the men were playing when the officors surprised them. ‘The raid was conducted by Patrol man W. S$. White and Motoreycle Officers W, Dench and_N. P. Ander. son, Petlura at War on Denekin’s Forces BASLE, Oct. 7.—(United Press.)- Advices from Vienna today med the report that Gen, Simon Petlura, leader of the Ukranian forces, has Denekin, anti-Bolshevik leader in the south of Russia, BOY OF 71S DOOMED TO DIE oe | Roy Wolff Is Sentenced to, Hang for Murder BAKERSFIELD, Cal, Oct. 7.— Roy Wolff, 17 years of age, whore home ia in Yakima, Wash., was sen tenced here yesterday afternoon by | Judge H. A. Peairs to be hanged at San Quentin prison for thé murder of | Elmer EB. Greer, Taft, Cal, rent car driver. | | Greer waa killed with a hammer. | | The youth was accused and convict ed during a trial here, | Young Wolff showed no signs of emotion when he heard his doom and was the least concerned of those in the courtroom. | His attorneys gave notice of an} appeal from Judge Peatrs’ ruling denying the prisoner a new trial. | JOHNSON WILL MAKE 2 TALKS | cia Overflow Meeting at the! Metropolitan Arranged Seattle wants to hear what United States Senator Hiram Johnson has to say against the League of Nations | when he takes the platform in the Arena Wednesday evening | In fact, #0 many Seattleites want | to hear Johnson that it has been nec eusary to arrange for an overflow meeting In the Metropolitan theatre. 80 great has been the demand for seats at the Arena that there are only 2,600 unreserved seats left for the general public. The unreserved | seats will be available Wednesday night after 7:30 o'clock Ticket holders who are not in their | seats by 730 o'clock Wednesday | night will forfeit their right to them. | JAPSINFIGHT ON BOARD SHIP One Sailor Is ‘Dying From Knife Wounds TACOMA, Oct. 7.—1n a fight with | knives on t d the steamer Africa [ Maru here Monday, Hirashuka Yuzo, sailor, was cut so badly that he ts close to death. Kobayikawa Shizuo, fireman the vessel, is in the county jail, held under $2,500 bail, and charged with assault with a deadly weapon, British Worried | About President LONDON, Oct, 7-—(United Press.) | ‘The Briti#h press shows great con-| cern over President Wilson's con dition The Chronele says: “It fs not too much to say that no sick bed in our time, perhaps in any other time, has commanded such universal concern and sympathy. Not only America, | but all of mankind ts involved in Wilson's welfare,” | ‘ t Britain,” the Daily Matt} ya, “awaits the news of President | Wilson's condition no less anxiously than the people of America, A jstrain on the nervous system ts the penalty of the conscientious fulfill ment of any giant task.” i WILTON BODY BRUSSELS OCTOBER HOME-FURNISHING DAYS AT THE BON MARCHE New Rugs for Your Home New Rugs for the New Home New Rugs for the Old Home Because we planned ahead for these October Home-Furnishing Days we can give you rugs with better wools in them. Rugs with more permanent dyes than we could procure for the money today. The patterns and colors are a revelation of the advances made by American weavers in the art of rug making. , Rich Persians, Samarkand, Herati and many other beautiful designs can be procured today in the less expensive weaves of rugs as well as the more costly sorts. 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