The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 29, 1922, Page 2

in oe training and skill re} ‘ "What's this railroad strike about, 4 anyway?” asks the man in the atreet, . R A brief w of an important s chapter in labor history unfolded in the last two years will help to an un ur Bandits Go back to the apring of 1920, jwhen the transportation act was | pansed by congress, In the riot of} : ‘government returned the railroads to | In Auto After tren srivce owners, this short sec ; 4 . tion was generally overlooked Mighting Posse {7.0 sna nenenbone snaest, of such wages and salaries or work July |ing conditions, the (railroad labor) — Marshal George Wil- into consideration, among other rele- | of Long Prairie, was vant ctroumstances: | and killed by bandits | ‘t1) The scale of wages paid for robbed the Hewitt state tries today. “() The rélation between wages x and the cost of living : and a deputy 1" i ment a | “ay The battle with four bandits. |. .;:04 1@ robbers escaped by aban- oA sere ®) The character and regularity | an auto and & | of the employment, and "(Inequalities of increases tn | ws previous wage orders or adjust | | | ments.” jal) The railway shop wokers, out on | bor board, in its decision reducing 1 thetr wages from July 1 on, violated | and ignored more than half of the 4 — i. v wages,” as laid down by congress. 's Hopes Growing This is the second railroad labor board decision affecting the ratiway bsg 4 May, 1920, raised their wages, Na’ ANGELES, July 29.—Sewen) yatiy, they did not object to that jen and five men today continued | decree, which the railroads accepted n of Madalynne Oben- fate, The 1920 activities of the labor re at 10 o'clock last night. /line. It began with the maintenance the jury had summoned & |of way workers, who are largely un and asked for a complete skilled, and who, therefore, receive ‘verdict would be rendered be-/{t is known. Since the element of ng. skill does not enter in this field, the Shenk, before he left, an.|whole fight i to secure for the for another 43 hours. ‘wages to support him and his family ‘Obenchain, tn her cell across | “an American standard of living Geclared that she had} A step higher is the shop crafts hope greater, and the rexponsibijities he ‘antil the ae ‘lag assumes are more important. Thus ” precedent in the railroud industry she said. j wages in his benalf, | <meel happens tear These the labor voard has recog-| tenga bese erage the | nized. It agrees that the skilled shop ts taken showed that very Iit-| us 9 percentage more as a reward dable information has seep | tor akili and experience. Beyond the the walls of the jury room. ! shop crafts are the brotherhoods, isponsibilities and are still more | nktiled, and therefore are considered SENATORS entitled towtill greater remuneration. Tn 1920 the rafiroad labor board the line, largely because of the ab- “T can't make head or tall of it.” derstanding of the strike, : Bank Raid FI} criticiam over terms by which the “Seo, 207 (ty) * % * In determin _§T. CLOUD, Minn., board shall, so far as applicable, take similar kinds of work In other indus- “@) The hazards of the employ: | posse engaged in a iS) The degree of responsibility. ; dense woods. wages or of treatment, the result of strike now, claim that the railroad la- foregoing seven principles of “just Jury Remains Out shop crafs. The first, rendered in without serious protest. } fury, reported to be deadiock-|poard boosted wages all along the of testimony, reporting /the lowest or the “basic wage.” as that he would not discharge | Maintenance of way man sufficient up hope of acquittal. man, His training and «kill must be ‘about the court room per. bullt up a certain differential in) Feports as to the number |worker ig entitied ton “basic wage” whose men assume still greater re E’S MORE ABOUT WAGE INCREASE OF 1920 notmal! increase in the cost of living. these working for ratiroads. Why Railway Unions Started Big Strike the shop crafte workers and the freight handlers. SAY LIVING COST REMAINS UP In the labor board matority de cision these points were olted in just! fication of the reduction 1; The cost of living down. 2: Ratiroad shop crafts workers are allowed higher wages under the de cision than they could receive in sim. Nar Induatries, %: Wages generally are coming down, Dinsenting, the minority members ot the board offered this rebuttal: 4) The cost of living hi Hot come bas come down sufficiently so that the reduced “decent wages would maintain « Amertoan standard of living for thie not satisfactory as & basis for com. puting present wages. 2; The minimum “basic wage" for unskilled labor should be 50 cents an hour, upon whieh the differential would make the akilled shop wor! minimum not Jower than §7 cents an hour The minority members of the board l offered extended evidence to show if the reduction were put in force it would “mean that 72 per cent of all children in families receiving this wage will be inadequately pro vided for during at least five critical years of thetr lt “ They asserted “permanent traces of this mal nutrition will be left he physique of the next generation. DESIRE HUMAN NEEDS STUDIED It was natural, under the clreum stances, that when the reduction was ordered for July 1, the workers in the shop crafts should choose tc re- ject the majority report, in favor of the minority views of the labor board. ‘This they did, walking out on July 1. Their spokesmen made these do mands: 1: Reconsideration of both the re- duction in shop craft wages and of those for the maintenance of way men, who recetved the “baste wage” on which the differential was based. t: A further and exhaustive study of the needs of « human family and of the principles of differentials due skilled workers. ‘The labor board stood pat. It should be explained that the transportation ct, the It je the labor board authority to fix wager of ratiroad employes, provided no penalty for fatilure to accept them other than the condemnation of public opinion. TWO SIDES BATTLE FOR PUBLIC OPINION To date efforts to end the strike have centered largely upon the mobi!- ization of public opinion. Govern. ment offictals feel that the Inbor board must be sustained, whether it» decision is just or not, for the sake of preserving the only official me- dium of arbitration between railroad labor and operators. As this is written, the board has agreed to consider new evidence bear. ing on wages, cost of living, and dif- ferential from the shop crafts union, but only after the men have gone back to work, at the reduced wages, white the new evidence ts considered Labor leaders, not only among the which attracted laborers similar to! shop crafts, are Inclined to accept | this proposition, and are holding out | Now, in 192%, when it found the | onty until the railroads agree to re-| the picketing of the strikers by limit. cost of living coming down, accord: |ntore to men who walked out on tng the pickets to one at each en: | ing to ite statistics, the railroad labor | beard inaugurated « general reduc maintenance of way men, and then WOMAN WANTS | an additional reason for gation, for, if untruths have been spread about they ought to be glad to chance to tell the worid.” Nevada, who said his name tioned in the editorials, de- be did not own “one sheep am not interested in sheep, In so far as I am interested in ing up of the West, Just as or from Arkansas is inter. Arkansas rice.” interested in wool, and 1 E this qualifies me to vote tntelil y on the wool rates, perhaps intelligently than some other " said Stanfield, Oregon. ig persisted In seeking a rea- Caraway's vote on the rice of the emergency tariff bill. -. “It 1 had had a dollar in rice T i not have voted,” said Cara- that rule was followed would scarcely ever be a voting,” said Gooding. ing wnexpected strength on first roll call on wool rates, " republicans and democrats | by two votes, 26 to 24, the fight ee the finance committee's tes on woven fabrics weighing re than four ounces a square yard or In chief value of wool. eves Loot Store and Sub-Postoffice A branch postoffice station and a Susan C. Hohmann Files for Prosecutor Miss Susan C. Hohmann, Seattle on the republican ticket. | Miss Hohmann ts | against Prosecutor | Malcolm Douglas, | who is out for re- election. “I do not antici-| pate,” Miss Hoh- mann said, “that} the present prose. cutor will base his campaign for re- election on the Mine Hohmann fact that he hag served for one term, because in his) campaign two years ago he opposed | & predecessor who had held office | for a single term.” Miss Hohmann has beem a Seattle taxpayer for 12 years. She took her law degree at the University of store, robbed between Friday | Washington in 1920, Miss Hohmann and Saturday, netted approxi. | first came into prominence when she $200 to thieves. Most of the \defended Mrs. Ivy Osborne, charged ‘was in groceries and merchan-|Wwith murder, and secured a dinagree- from the Hull and Dayton gro.|ment of the jury. The case was later Peary, 7500 25th 8. W. The eub-post. |dismissed, located in the store, was —_——— PREDICTS BIG GROWTH HERE The automobile business is the most important business in the United States, 8. M. Vauciain, presi.) dent of the Baldwin Locomotive works, declared at a conference with (Starts on Page 1) from Indians in the~West you get in the way of their les. give at Seattle business leaders in the 7 like the Uttle flapper aa she|Chamber of Commerce Friday atter-| pada noon, pe sree the Sree, Vauelain said that he has seen} th her little sawed-off wrapper and her sandals nice and neat je8 a girdie and a werater and her | akirt is rather high, I've never acen ‘em better asa tonic for the eye. more industrial sites here ready for | | business enterprises, with railroad} facilities complete, streets paved, arid | water maing in, than in any city he has visited “Siberia in certain to become one of the t markets in the world, | he and Seattle will certainly benefit by | Forests!” shrieks an editorial. |tne interchange of goods between the H, we've done our part; we killed jtwo countries,” he stated | of woodpeckers once. | Ase - mia Miner up! The typer of nie |Girl Wins Riding | Title at Roundup} CHEYE snuff! Wyo., July 29-—Ma- | may know you're out of gaso., bel Strickland, Fort Worth, Tex., to: | but it won't help you start the 4¢y was the champion all-around ‘ [Cowgirl of the world, She won the 4 wee | McAlpine trophy as the best svoman Hive a0 that when you come to die} rider at the Frontier Days’ celebra- | death notice won't appear|tion, which closed here yesterday the list of town improve Lorena Trickey, Pendleton, Ore.,! ,' Wie the 1921 champion, went the Destruction of Our inowledge is not always power. | ed several Medford citizens, has strike their seniority rights and priv: | lowes. 2 fine point which hoatile oper | tance of 560 feet tion of wages, affecting, first, the ators are exploiting for the aake of) discrediting the unions. SHERIFF RECALL DOUGLAS’ JOB] SOUGHT BY KLAN Strife Rends County While Grand Jury Probe Is On MEDFORD, Ore, July 29 | Its attention at the polls tn the recall | election of Sheriff C. EB. Terrill, of the first candidate | Jackson county, whose removal {8 /joxses they sustain as @ result of the fo enter the lists | sought by a faction allegedly loyal to | strike, the Ku Klux Kian, Candidate D. Lowe, reputed Klans man, seeks Terrill’'s office. Feeling here is running high. Friends of years are estranged by division of sentiment. Sworn enemies are unit ed in support of Terril! or In favor of hin recall. Angry discussions rage on every street corner. Result of the vote probably will not be known be fore Monday. Meanwhile, the grand jury, In nes. sion to take evidence against night riders, claimed to have roughly treat pont. poned its hearings until Monday, out of respect to one of its members, » Seventh-Day Adventint Arthur Burr, negro bootblack, who claims to have been roughly treated by men he claims to be members o' the Ku Klux Kian, will testify before the jury Monday, Burr returned here from Modesto, Cal., under the protec tion of pence officers. He was re ported to be missing yesterday, but last night it was learned that he had dropped off the train at an unnamed place, there to awaft the arrival of his safety escort, fearing to enter Medford unattended HERE’S MORE ABOUT POLICE STARTS ON PAGE ONE Captain of Detectives Charles Ten nant has been most prominently mentioned in this connection, on ac count of his refusal to accept the grand jury's verdict that Legate was murdered. It is known, however, that Chief Severyns does not believe he has enough “on” Tennant to warrant his removal as yet Several other high police of- ficials, who have led the move ment to declare Legate a suicide and halt all Investigation, are also stated for the ax, according to popular rumor. Another important change whieh in duw next week is in no way con nected with the Legate case, This ta the removal of Hans Damm an in apector of ° Vieut. Harry O'Brien tn frequently men most tioned now as his successor, “This | torney, filed for prosecuting attorney | Jackson county town today centered | t | THE SEATTL WARNS COAL PROFITEERS Operators’ “Organ Caustic on Rise in Price BY ©, C, LYON WASHINGTON, July 29.—-Com- wenting on the soaring prices for cont, “Coal Age” in ite ourrent ts sue, anya “With @ speed that takes away | the breath, coal prices last week | soared to levels no one ever expect ed to wee again after the orgy of| 1920, ‘The majority of the «pot coal} reaching the market In priced at the level peaged by Secretary Hoover tn June ($3,560 a ton at the mines) and it is a amatler portion that in rising | to the bait of the long green held al-| luringly before the eyen of the oper: | ators by the hungry buyer “The average spot price on Mon- day, July 24, was $5 compared with $3.69 a week preViounly.” | “Coal Age.” long an official mouthpiece for the operators, warns profiteering operators against taking | unfair advantage of the coal-buying public, “What ta the public mying about | an industry that stages a strike to) lower the wages of its work at the same time extorts huge prot. {ta for coal? There ts no fairwess in that. “Whether some producers Ike It or not, they must be protected from themaeclven and those prédycing the greater part of the current tonnage who have and will continue volun: | tarily to maintain a falr price are! entitled to protection from those who | wit not.” | During the week, Weat Kent | lump soared to $12 a ton at "the! mines: Southeastern Kenticky lump to $9.75; Weet Virginia mine-run to and Pittsburg No. & lump to SAYS “BIG 4 ROSEVILLE, ‘Cal, July 29.—-al! j ioeat ratiroad today waiting | the answer of thern Pacific | to thelr dema: "the railroad | disarm their guards or face a walk.) out of the Big Four, ‘The ultimatum was served upon ratiroad officials last night after an exeoutive meeting of representatives of the Rig Four. | ‘Three hundred armed guards are said to be employed here watching the yards, It is claimed that the presence of there guards has caused a bitter fee! ing among all the railroad workers jand that disorder ts the only thing ithat can come out of such « condi tion. Injunction in Strike Argued ‘Tedious legs! sparring marked the opening of the Great Northern Railway's fight to make the tempor. ary restraining order now tn force |againet the striking shop craftemen ja temporary Injunction, when Fed- feral Judes Jeremiah Neterer’s court lopened Saturday morning. ‘Thomas Balmer, representing the | Great Northern, sought to restrain | trance to the local yards at a din “ee * Blame for Strikes | : Laid to Daugherty} SAN FRANCISCO, July %9.—At| terney General Daugherty, thru his/ alleged failure to carry out the President's instructions to investi gate charges made 14 monthe ago that the retires. were muicting the! | public, wee held respensibie for. the railroad strike tn telegram to [President Harding today by Ren \farntn C. Marsh, managing director lof the farmers” national conference | of Washington He anked Daugherty’s removal and urged that the president recommend | an appropriation to compensate | produce and fruitgrowers for any | \No Mine inv. sion, Sheriff Declares | TAZEWELL, Tenn. July 29.—De | nial that striking miners from the Kentucky fields had invaded the min. | | | ahead of the atrikebreakers STAR WOULD PUNISH MEN ON STRIKE Oppose Seniority Rights on Railways BY CHARLES KR. LYNCH CHICAGO, July 29. = Leading Western ratiroad executives will! strenuously oppose any settlement of the shopmen's atrike which would re- store seniority rights to the men who walked out At the conference next Tuerday, New York, to consider President | Harding's proposal to end the din pute, the Weatern company mana | worn will stand pat on their demands | t the strikers must go to the bot-! tom of the list on their work That was the stand, as outlined to the Unt Prong today by « high of: | ficial of the leading transcontinental | ronda, At the name time, the general opin fon in union circles here was that the meeting of the 90 shop craft chairmen, to be held in Chicago, st multancously with the New York ex: eoutlver’ conference, would be will ing to accept the president's propos al seniority standing of the atrikers be placed junt behind the old workmen who did not strike, but return to} | ‘The Western roads, which have taken the strong stand against res toration of seniority rights, have been regarded as leaders in the open shop fight for many years, Other lines which have been strongly organized, and which have made Mttle effort to employ strike. breakers, are willing to give the a their old standing. HERE’S MORE ABOUT STRIKES STARTS ON PAGE ONE toward peace, administration offi-| cialis said. On that day the execu-| tives of 148 railroads, members of| the aesoclation of railway executives: meet in New York to pass on the Harding compromise plan, On the same day the 90 officers of the shop crafts unions will meet in Chicago te decide whether to accept. The exact text of the president's com. Promise will be placed before the two groupe. COAL EXPORT IS UNDER BAN’ WASHINGTON, July 19.—A ban on the exportation of coal, except in eases of great emergency, has been decided upon by the government, Becretary of Commerce Hoover an nounced today, ‘This ix part of the government's fuel conservation plan during the mine strike, COAL PARLEY ON WEDNESDAY PHILADELPHIA, July 29.—Direct parley to bring about peace in the coal war, now In ft 130th day, will be begun on Wednesday when operat conference here, it was reported to day Refusing to confirm the exact date. John L. Lewis, miners’ chief, an nounced the hour of settlement was “at hand.” eee IN CHICAGO) CHICAGO, July %9.—Serious rioting broke out here today In the railroad shopmen’s strike, CHfford Bailey, a picket, was shot and seriously wounded by United States Marshal Morgan, Morgan sald Balley was a member of a gang which threat. ened to beat up sirikebreakers guarded by the marshal, at the Burnside shops of the Mlinois Central, reported Raliroad officials George Wilson, a strikebreaker, had been seriously beaten, thrown Into an auto and kid. naped. No trace has been found of him. New York's leading critl, Hey- | 1 | homes were tnundated and several | | ] DIMOCK ASKED TO QUIT POST J. D. Blackwell to Be Named to Succeed Him Rearing out the prediction made exclusively by ‘The Star several weeks ago, Mayor M. J. Brown has anked for the resignation of Arthur H, Dimock an city engineer, Coincidentally he announced that he would appoint James D. Black: well to succeed him. ‘This Announcement came as some: thing of a surprise at the eity hall, as it was generally known that Mayor Brown favored Carl F. Uhden, Skagit engineer, for the po nition. It been reported, however, that Uhden was loath to accept the appointment because of his personal friendship for Dimock. In some quartera it Is belleved that Mayor Brown ta getting around this by appointing Blackwell w hold the office just long enough to re ;move the onus of forcing a friend! out of a job. Others, however, believe that Ubden definitely declined the po and that Blackwell will be a per. manent appointee. Removal of the city engineer ri quires no action by the council, #0 Dimock is expected to comply im- mediately with Brown's request. HOMES FLOODED: BY CLOUDBURST Bridges Washed In Big Storm Near Denver DENVER, July 29.—Scores of bridges were washed out by a severe flood in Cherry creek, following a cloudburst near bere jast night. The South Platte river went out of its banks and caused considerable damage to property in the river bot- tome Damage will amount to thousands of dollars. The flood was receding today. HERE’S MORE ABOUT CAREY STARTS ON PAGE ONE which from a» distance would give the appearance of the facial muscles becoming distorted.” Tworoger also states that he spoke with Judge Carey after the case was concluded, and during tts progress visited the home of a witness to take a deposition, In company with Judge Carey and Henry Worthman, asso- clate counsel for the plaintiff, and with others Interested in the case. Altho he ant within three feet of him, Tworoger says, he noticed noth- ing untoward in Judge Carey's con- | dition. ‘The other affidavits, which are lors from central competitive fields | unanimous in giving the Ile to the and mipers come face to face tn a) charges against \signed by FE. Judge Carey, are Taylor, Warren 1 | Lewis and John J. Jamieson, all local attorneys. Jamieson states that Judge Carey in “inclined to be of nervous tempera- ment and some people might think him unduly impatient, and from these charncteriation it might be possible that some people on first meeting Judge Carey might terpret these characteristics.” ATTEMPTS TO OUST MURPHY CHICAGO, July 29.—A shake-up In Chicago labor organizations, to get “Big Tim" Murphy out of the saddie an crar of unioniam here, was under wry today. Fred Mader, placed at the head of the Chicago Butiding Trades council by Murphy, presented hin resignation at a stormy seasion of the council. Mader, who is now on trial with Murphy, “Con” Shea and other labor heads on charges of murder in the connection with the killing of a po Neeman, objected to resigning while on trial, for fear his action might in- miain. ing districts of East Tenenses and | wood Broun says “"The Red House | fluence the verdict precipitated riots wag made by Sher. iff Williams, of Cla here today. / | Mines in Clafborne county are tale | while miners are on atrike, but there | has been no disorder, Wilfiams said. | | | ‘SHIP DISASTER | TESTIMONY IN’ | Testimony of Capt. N. Willa, |pilot of the Hawaii Maru when that | ship collided with the Island Trans. | iportation company's ship Calista in [Elliott bay Thursday, ended the hearing held before Federal steam. | |boat Inspectors Capt. Donald 8. [Amer and Harry C, Lord Saturday morning Wills wax the last of a number of witnesses heard in an effort to place blame for the crash, in which the} Calista was sunk Final decision will not be arrived at until early next week, Lord said | Saturday, as the stenographic reports of the testimony will be passed upon by Capt. Willlam Fisher, supervising |inapector of the district |Wallingford Club Lays Picnic Plans | Pienic plans have been com: | pleted by the Wallingford Comm cial club and the celebration will be held Thursday, Aug. 3, it was an. nounced Saturday. The picnic will be in the form of ® banquet, prepared in Woodland park, after which games and sports will be held. A ball game between the Wallingford merchants and the Rolcom-Cannal Lumber Co, team will be a feature. Mayor J. Brown will speak briefly after the banquet. | EARLE CASEY, of the Casey | Advertising agency Seattle with hin wife and son after five-week business and pleasure | telp in California, has returned to | Mystery’ In the best murder story we borne county,| have read since Sherlock Holmes | whereby Mader was named “tempor. shut up shop.” The Star prints the first installment Monday, July 31. A compromise was finally reached ary president,” pending the selection of his successor. Me | A drama worth seeing! Another triumph for Anita Stewart! With Anita's handsome husband, ‘The book read throughout the world and now retold by the screca. COLISEUM CONCERT ORCHESTRA + COLISEUM. re Coser Li A Liberty Guest Enjoys the Best Buster Keaton in First National's “MyWite’s Relations” 4. P. Morgan can't devote much time to fletion. When he does, he picks the best. That's why he select- ed A. A. 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