The evening world. Newspaper, January 25, 1915, Page 2

ov Mar dames soec ad rat and ore La Grurie, epirited. i Hi 2 rt Sen Sane ;Von Bethmann-Hollweg Scores Grey’s “Magnanimous Ap- IDEFENDS AIRSHIP RAID. ATL 275 allowed to command if it had de- clared an effective blockade which, OS AIRGHIPS’ BOMBARD. MENT OF BRITAIN. “I rather admire the facility, which intensity - our threw ‘bombs at the fortified town of Great be living there’ LASHES THE CONCENTRATION J (6 FRANCE. z al j 2 ii i ; i if Fi eit ear Hes is $34 238 #33 i ef VENING WORLD, MONDAY, JANUARY, 90, 1918. ~~ | British Vice Admiral, Who Won Sea Victory, And His American Wife and Their Son Cawim Baar? ORs ened to clear the room). A, I do. @. Do you not think that men like yourself who control, directly or in- directly, great numbers of workers jought not to give especial study to these labor problems? A. It is for that very reason I have asked my jasecciates in the Rockefeller Founda- tion to make such a study and make it more comprehensive than I as an individual could ever hope to do. WANTED TO MAKE REONAL INUIRY IN COLORADO. Mr. Rockefeller said that he had wanted to go to Colorado for per- sonal investigation and might have @one had it not been for the hearings ‘@f the commission. Mr. Walsh ques- @} tioned the sincerity of this declara- tion by several questions. Mr, Rocke- feller said that he might go yet. Q. Do you think any man ought to work twelve hours a day, seven days @ week? ©, Year in. and year out, it would be a hardship. I frequently do it myself for shert periods. Q. Ever work 'tu' a blast, furnace? A. No. Q. Do you know what conditions in & blast furnace or open hearth plant are? A. No. “1 do not want to leave with you the impression,” sald Mr, Rockefeller, “that € believe in seven days a week work for myself or anybody else, I do mot believe any man ought to un- dertake such a task even if he could stand it.” In a firm, deep voice Mr. Rocke- feller gave his name and address. ‘The young millionaire amiled and replied: “That would be rather difficult to LABOR COMBINES AS PROPER AS CAPITAL ComBiNas. “An attitude teward industry my titude toward laber unions: | be- Neve it te be just ae preper and sented, and before which at etated intervals questions affect- ing conditions of employment can be discussed and grievances e: amined,” “In reply to this communication the president of the company indicated that measures of the kind I had sug- gested were in contemplation, but that thelr adoption while the atrike was on would only serve to embar- rasa their successful introduction. “I believe that a prime considera- tion {n the carrying on of industry should be the well-being of the men and womer engaged in it. “In order to live, the wage-earner must sell his labor from day to day, Uniess he can do this, the earnings from. that day's labor are gone for- Capital can defer its returns porarily in the expectation of future profits, but labor cannot, “Wi, therefere, fair wages end rea- sonable living conditions cannet etherwise be ‘previded, dividends must be deferred, or the industry abandened.” When he had finished reading Chairman Walsh began what might be called the croas examination. He learned that Mr. Rockefeller was now 8. director in only the Manbattan Railway, the Merchants’ Fire and Colorado Fuel and Iron Companies, Mr. Rockefeller said he could not well give, offhand, the names of various industries in which he was interested or the extent of his hold- ings and control. Mr Walsh wked just how Mi Rockefeller occupied himself as a rector, The witness said hi the monthly meetings of the = = the Interboro' went through the form of @ quar. The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com- ny kept him more busy, he said. rectors’ meetings @re now held foley A tn Loge oe ie sence of Kastern tore main. utes are sent Mast for approval. WANT “BILLY” SUNDAY TO PREACH IN NEW YORK (Special to The Evening World.) PHILADELPHIA, Jen. 25.—An- nouncement was made to-day thet a call has been formelly decided upon MAKES LAST STAND ee oY FOR ESA. RATE $25 0 APPROVED Lawyer Pleads New Law Preé-| Aldermanic Finance Commit- vents Company From Mak- ing Contracts, CITY DEFENDS THE LAW. Justice Hotchkiss of Appellate Division Tells of His Ex- perience. Evidence that the Mason-Seaman Transportation Company te still atits old game of exacting excessive fares from its patrons while it does not op- erate under the Public Hack Ordinace, ‘was presented to-day to Supreme Court Justice Cohalan by Assistant Corporation Counsel Terence Farley at the hearing of the injunction suit ‘brought againet Mayor Mitchel by big taxicab company in its last di perate attempt to have the amended ordinance declared unconstitutional. Justice Henry D. Hotchkiss of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court and many other citizens prom!- nent In business laid before the Court affidavits telling how excessive fares had been extorted from them by Ma- eon-Seaman machines. Justice Hotchkis letter to the Bureau of Licenses, in which he com- Dlained of high charges, caused sone surpriee to the legal representatives of the taxi company, who were head- ed by State Senator Edgar Brackett, who came from Saratoga to renew the attack upon the ordinance. The letter, written on Oct. 18, 1914, follows" “On a number of occasions with- in the last few months [ have used taxicabs between my house, No. 815 West Seventy-fitth Street and the Pennsylvania station at ‘Thirty-third Strect and there has been such trregularity in the amount of fare in excess of the legal rate, that I beg to call the matter to your attention. I have paid all the way from $1,20 to $1.80. On the afternoon of Sept. 30 I paid the driver of cab No. 684, a Yellow cab, taken from the inside of the 20, On the evening of . I called a Yellow cab and $1.20 and on the afternoon of Oct. 10 I took another Yellow cab, No. 3288 from inside the station and paid $1.40. By the most gener- ous reckoning I cannot make the distance over two and a half miles, which as I reckon it, would make the -fare $1.10, My experience probably not exceptional, but it is common to the public in gen- eral, and if the matter interests you I would be glad to have you give it such attention as it de- serves.” Similar experiences were related in affidavits by H. Edwards-Ficken, an Bankier of No. 10 Brid, Hi bert Falck, a lawyer of No. 115 Brond- way; Jacob Marks, Justice of the Mu- nicipal Court for the Sixth District; H. C. Spear of Spear & Co., Wood- of No. 43 Exchange Place. “These men,” said Mr. Farley, ‘“con- tinue the old of making con- tracts with hot and paying the hotels # commision for the privi- lege of havi a man—a runner— stand inside hotel who accosts persons leaving the hotel. If the per- pon wants & taxicab the runner rings @ bell and there is a taxicab in front of the hotel entrance. In this way the public is misled and defrauded.” Senator Brackett said that it waa absolutely impossible for Mi Seaman Company to operate under the new ordinance, for it took away the right of the company to make contracts. Senator Brackett asked for addi- tional time to file jefe, Justice Cohalan said that in a few days he would decide the question. tee. Unanimously Indosses Evening World Plan. : ij The Finance Committee of, the, Board of Aldermen’ this x ‘passed unanimously a favorable re- port upon the Curran resolution for the appropriation of $26,600 for «he equipment of public schools with kitchens. Thue The Evening Word's | plan for bringing penny lunches to necessitous school children «received the first official sanction on its way to approval by the Board of Alder- men and the Board of Eatimate, To-morrow the Board of Aldermen, will receive the Finance Conomittestai- report, and It is confidently,expected the resolution will be unanimeousip passed. co At the public hearing prior to-the- vote The Evening World's.” penn? luncheon plan received heaty indorse« ment from numerous infivential sap~ Dorters, Both city officials and prt- vate individuals who tiad seen the penny lunch scheme in operation tr the public schools already equipped with kitchens told the Aldefmen::et their unreserved sanction of theCur+ ran resolution. ' Superintendent of Schoole William Maxwell said The Evening World's campaign had his unqualified ep proval. * “The work is already beyond the experimental stage,” he added. »! has shown that by the installattoupf kitchens in schools located in the, poorer districts hundreds of ehildren. may be made physically At for the work of the day’s instruction by being able to get a hot and wholesome mea}, denied them by poverty at home.” Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, 4 member of the Co-operative Commit~- tee, said she had gone with Miss Sophie Irene Loeb, The Evening Worltt writer, to visit the schools where kitchens have already been establighet by The Evening World's efforts, and that she knew of nothing more {r- portant that could be done with the city’s money than to help neces Established 53 Years. ,... New York: 184 B'way,at John St. 223 Sixth Av., 18th St. 380 Sixth Av., 2234's. BEEF AND LAMB STEWS are most delicious when flay vored with @ dash of The relish for everybody. 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