The evening world. Newspaper, August 7, 1916, Page 3

“HOUR DAY OR STRIKE, RAILROAD MEN'S LAST WORD: LAUGH AT ARBITRATION TALK ———-- -- 202 -——- — 400,000 Ready to Walk Out, Tying Up All Lines, If Demands Are Refused—Employees Charge Overwork. twas je very clear last night that if the rallroad con os of the Wuited States do not grant the eight-hour day, with w penalty of time Ondo half for All overtime, the 400,000 trainmen of the country will go on trike, The Amsterdam Opera House in Weat Forty-fourth Street Billed last evening with trainme: . Who cheered wildly every of their ehiefs who uttered this idea Jaughed at the idea of ’rbitration The meet wa id prot to; - rive the raliroad ere an ide at least sixteen hourk a day of just how ¢ on the , find on the record Peial to submit th question of the spi Rid dag ntinuously, Caner of @ight-hour day to arbitration, That] men working fifty, y oF even seve dg what they will undoubtedly warn pile ape together are there, If the on they meet the t ti’ . | people of this country knew the true wh hep he tralnmen’s Fer °* | Pacts they would not tolerate them foal ives next Tuesday at & conditions one minute. Reers’ Club in thin city. TI “T often wonder where the ratironds Ne OMcial progeamme, and 1 |et their figures th 80 RII t metly wh mann | that It would 000 LO peveis tell exactly why the a the demands of the men, 1 don meeting called, John T. Gaffney of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers presided, and among those ho spoke were Dudley Field Ma- Jone, Collector of the Port of New York; Representative Charles Pope Caldwell of tho Second New York District, ox-Kepresentative Lathrop Brown of Long isiand and ex-Asaist- fat District Attorney Mobert Eider of Kings County. @-HOUR DAY OR STRIKE, SAY 97 Neve it would cost anything hike Tut even tf it pat $100,000 on in the tu ous Kons-in-law y more exclamations at is, and Mr, Stone quickly continued ven then they are not In the posi- jtlon of the yard 1 who heard his little daughter say: ‘Mother, who. is |that man who gets hin meals here kometimes™ ‘The ratlroads quote the figures that show a trainman mak via y-——but they don't show IER CENT. OF RAILROADERS, |!!!" bis salary j fact thi to make it he worked Phe heads of the Hig Four brother-|\n average of 142 hours.a day, hoods of trainmen were all there ox President of the RAILROAD MEN IN SCRAP HEAP AT EARLY AGE “Tho intensive system under which the raliroad men are worked to-day causes them | scrap ptle at a time when they ought to be at their best—forty-five, forty- six or forty-seven years of age. Out they go, and they can do what they like to keep alive. The railroad has 0 use for them. A million dollars year run through my hands pay ing for the lives of our men who lost thelr lives so that the directors can show big earnings. We keep records of all our men in our own insurance pian, and those records show that after becoming engineers our average life is eleven years and seven days, “The local railroad trouble is no affair of ours, I tried three years ago to organize those men. Well, all I have to say is that when Mr, Shonts makes those pathetic refer- ences to the ‘foreigners who inter- fere in the affairs of our happy fam- ily' Lam much interested. His ‘happy family’! I know if you work on his road you must call up your de- spatcher on the telephone and teil Ord heads of unions will meet, on - day, the representatives of the rail- companies, and announce to them the result of the vote that ha been taken throughout the United Btates on the subject. No offcial re- turns have yet been made, but it « Teported by those in a position to know that 97 per cent. of the train- men have voted for the eight-hour day or strike, Grand Chief W. S. Stone of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers ¢s* at the heart of his subjéct when} @ began to speak. “Sixty-five directors control the 148 | railroads of the United States,” he waid; “fifteen banks contro) the six- ty-five directors, and tnreo interests control the fifteen banks. The 400,000 railroad men of the United States are dependent upon the whims of tweive mm in one short block in W Street who control the 14% railroads, hen any of you are travelling on the Limited you feel that your lives are sate in the hands of the engineer, who |s fresh and alert after & good night's slecp, and so you are safe—unloss perhaps there Is some- where ahead of you some poor devil of an engineer ing to dodge out of the way of ‘lie Livnited and not quite up to the mark after anywhere from sixteen to sixty hours of continuous duty.” A chorus of smothered exclamations i tt doubt ran chrough the crowded all. 60,090 VIOLATIONS OF THE HOUR LAW IN YEAR, “Oh, it’s true,” sald Mr. Stone, “I'm ing by the record of the Inter- Commerce Commission, There were 69,000 violations of the Sixteen Hour Law last year. We thought when we got the law amended so that no railroad could work trainmen more than sixteen hours on a stretch we had done something good for the men. But the companies seem to think that It meant they must work to-night. You must tell your de- cher who he is and what he is calling on you for. And when you |Teport for duty in the morning you must write on a card—fill out a reg- ular form—before you can go on your platform, a complete report of stayed and what his business was. Talk about peonage in Mexico!" THEY WON'T “FALL” FOR ARBI- TRATION. 16- Order of Railway Conductors spoke |he said, wa thei to the railroad executives on Tuesday. “They are foolish,” he exclaimed, “if they think we will fall for arbitra- tion by the Interstate Commerce Sapien.” here were whoops of applai all over the hall. enn “The question is frequently asked In the newspapers and elsewhere, ‘Is there any possibility of a strike?” A DURDASAATT ONG, of mine told me last week thd they have it in Wall Str that you men won't strike. I ask yOu~is it #0?” “No-o-0-0!" came thundering from all over the hall in @ deep, roiling chorus. “The conductors,” Mr. Shepard con- tinued, “struck a few years ago. lasted only three days. 4Ve wouldn't have had to strike if the companies hadn't thought we were bluffing, Now, it may be possible that we shall have to inconvenience the public for 4 short time, Would it not be better for every man and woman in this country to be inconvenienced for thirty-six or forty-eight hours to break the power of this Wall Street Qor90Q Every Night For Constipation RANDRETH PILL Safe and Sure Malted Milk IN THE SQUARE PACKAGE GRAND PRIZE | Ask f HIGHEST AWARD or It PANAMA EXPOSITION ANOTHER PROOF OF QUALITY the man going against the bear, who pr.yed: ‘Oh, Lord, if you won't help | me, please don't help that bear—and you'll see the darnedest scrap you looked at G, Lee, President of the Rrother- for the eight-hour day. to be thrown on the him if your own brother calls on you, who called on you and how long he Vice President L. E. Shepard of the jin place of President Garretson, who, | saving his ideas to tell | hood of Trainmen, was equally strong | 3 What Sort of Wife What Sort of Hubby ae ee ee ew renee rn mn we SBS BUBBEHS HV Mee, MUM wes, BYUBYwS ts Do You Want? vee vero ] 4 j wire Tee OL Onme y oo Teway ? | In answering the Second , Section of the Query) One Woman Manifests Deep Antipathy to the! Blond Man, Who Is In-| sipid and Conceited. Another Cries “ Buren! Me” in Considering the| Average New York Young Man as a Pos- sible Hubby. By Marguerite Movers Marshall. Beware the blond! That is the warning to young women {n search of @ husband contained in one of the cleverest and most amusing contributions to this discussion which I have received. The writer passes this cruel sentence on the hapless flaxen-haired male: “All | oF | | i} their mindi Now, then, what is the matter with the blond man? Cowper says about the person who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. (Oh dear, let me hasten to retrieve MNAQSWAL the implied slight by mentioning that the inventor of the superman always referred to him as “the blond beast.”) I think that this is the wrong cll-| young men—Do you want a mate for masculine blondne We| blonde or a brunette for a wife? And why? know that the lordly Norseman were, for the most part, yellow-haired and| CME ORAWS THE LINE AT THE FAIR-HAIRED BOY. blue-eyed; we imagine a similar color| _,, petal able | eeliemns for the Greek godn, Yet, bore] ont MACAMit I reed with inter. nee est your articles in The Evening in New York, the blond male suggest*! wot, and am glad to be permitted a floorwalker or a chorus man #0) 97 su tt my saen of @ good hus- much more than a viking or a divinity. | 40.44, Of courae there are degrees of blond-| Ns 6 ate must be brunette, as all ness. Some of us prefer brown-eyed| yionq men are devoid of the good men; but even we would not affirm) qualities a man should possess, bein. that a pair of blue eyes suggests ef-| wither too insipid or too conceited to feminacy or narrow-mindedness, A allow anything worth while to de- man of sufficient inches 1s readily for-| \eigy in their min: given for a girllshly fair complexion.| \ “gecond. He must be able to take It 1s the yellowhead and the pinhead] @ joke as well as cive one; take a that are popularly synonymous, and) drink without becoming intoxicat- only when a silver crest replaces the} ed; stand a little flattering with- gold is intellect conceded to the man ut losing hie head; admit that @ with hyacinthine locks, woman can be blessed with looks Is this fair? Is the blond man and brains at th> same time; tol- likely to make @ conceited or an erate a little flirting on the part insipid husband? How many girl his girl without sulking for aders of The Evening World eight hours afterwa by all would be willing to marry him? means be broad-minded; not ex- And if he is present, he's invited pect to be placed on a golden to speak up for himself. Als: shrine all his life, but do a little here's anoth estion for all of the worshipping himself once in a while; earn @ good enough salary to permit him to buy a good dinner for two once in a fort- night without having to walk to work all the next week to make up for it, “Lastly, He must do a few things that 1 don’t like in order to keep me informed that he is human. “Are there any men like this in the universe? Vv BB A “SLOW” GIRL SEEKS A SENSI- BLE MAN. “Dear Madam: Since all your ar- ticles are from the man’s point of view, 1 should like to submit Lie op- posite viewpoint to any politically appointed board on earth.” have Wild hand clapping and whoops greeted this. | “Why should they,” Mr. Walsh con- | tinued, “surrender what they know to | be right not only for thelr own 400,- 000 men but for the entire people of the United States? The word arbitra. tlon has a delightful sound; but I'll arbitrate with no man for my life. ‘And when it comes to a question of whether I shall have time to improve my mind so that it shall be something better than that of the animal in the fields, by the eternal gods I will div fighting for it." Mr. Walsh declared his belief that National Chamber of Commerce combination? | the “Lam representative of a largo vl ry pit “has a design of prostituting edu- ‘ eps OF ® large viaey get the eight-hour day. We are like Your, situation will nob be under-| fi) C0 have had a Kood dis ation and whose principles revolt against this Bay, superficial life of the young people of twenty to-day, We don't feel that it is necessary for a wan to spend money on us to be entertaining. “We got in before us the publicity agent of the Rockefellers and we found that a man had gone to the Rockefellers and had tried to peddle 0,000 the publicity organ of the ceited to allow anything worth while to develop in |}, “I'm not one of thoseswho are look- | Ing for a struggle,” he said. been too long in the business for that. | L will fight for hours across the table, | \fiwhting honorably and looking for) jevery door rather than vote for @ istrike. I believe that the history and the records of our four organizations | will compare favorably with those of |any labor organizations as to justice and as to results, Unless we can |secure the eight-hour day and the | penalization of time-and-a-halt for all overtime we miht. as well not come here at all, We're asked every Dudley Field Malone eloquently hoped there will be no strike and said that the demand of the train- men was just. “it is not,” he said, “for an increase of Wages, Dut for a shorter period of labor with a penalty of time and a half if the railroads do not change their methods of management and their schedules so that the railroad employees Who are anxious and will- jing may, with perfect safety, carry | day, ‘Are you going to refuse arbitra~ Heat business of thin 6 y tion thie Lnpiganas forged five information, I came here to get where now it takes ten hours’ time, mailed te 5 his Would not merely mean that the gan Sars pew FEDERAL OFFICIAL 18 FOR AN|men who handle the traing would ever § get more rest and time in. their Evening World, Ge per week EIGHT-HOUR DAY. | Momes but It would also mean that Frank P. Walsh, Chatrman of the) the general public would recelve its Dally World, 126 per week Federal Industrial Relations Commis. | eight with faster ervice, 1 A ‘ eo eight-hour day Is recognized Sunday World, Se per Sunday |] sion, declared that @ working day of! yy tho ‘United Stutey Government she hot ‘more than elght hours Is noces-| DY ai great enterprises one Zou can, eupecribe for for men's proper development: LRU RSRAee Inia nenhenney Gare ice coe ur four organizations,” no ad ony we. will change your Sften as you desire, regular ne eat celal justice our count omy for the in the industrialism of and will be sound econ- Hroads, for It will pro. , “can express their demands n. only with justice but with the pow They have the ‘Tell want id to mail to enforce them. duc sted and stronger employees, Bees: ajmet io Cag power in thelr brains and their arms better able to arrve the railronds 4 Vultaer Busding, to enforce justice, and they will nvt the public with safety and expe surrender the least atom of what they | tign.” ! yal Chamber of Commerce. But| but believe that an evening spont in D. Rockefeller would not buy it,| broadening conversation on dilterent Hie naid it was a poor bargain,” toples Would be just aa enjoyable. r _| However, I don't think there are I have DEMANDS ARE Vet, Gave COL- | inany young men in New York who LECTOR MALONE, are interested in reading good lito} ature, or reading anything at all are not prudish, Still, young don't seem to be attracted to Us he type of man we would like is the intelligent man, not too carried away with his own im- portance—one with a sense of hu- mor and the rare faculty of un- derstanding that not all girls like ‘kidding’—a man who We men ia per- fectly honest and genul with himsel with ot And he need not have barrels of money. “H. ob. KENTUCKY GIRL STANDS UP FOR THE NEW YORK SISTER, “Dear Madam: Belng from Ken- tucky und entirely outside the local zone, L can speak freely, 1 have been |in your clty for two weeks and can jsay 1 have met some beautiful and jal#o very sensible young lilies, who, |I'm sure, Mr, Loeb or any Now York | gentleman might be proud to own as nia w | “My expertence in travelling over our falr country is that unk clxm of either sex ts usually t | flection of the ianer If of the critle, “My ideal as @ husband must “ALL BLONDE MEN ARE DEVOID THE GOod QUALITIES A MAN SHOULD Possess “ be clean in person, honest in bus- her hi i never suit, ,| THIS ONE FEARS SHE'LL BE AN OLD MAID. “Dear Madam: In reply to your blond men are devoid of the good qualities @ man | question, ‘What kind of a hubby do should possess, being either too insipid or too con-| 0" 1 want? I wish to say I have hed the age of twenty-six and ve not found my mate. I have had several offers of marriage, but excuse me. From what 1 have seen of young men and considering the qualifica- re It's rather a delicate subject to discuss, for each of | tions I want, | suppose I'll die an ‘Old us knows one or more of him, and you remember what| Maid.’ But better an old maid than & discontented, unhappy old married woman, “| don't want a man familiar ith the life of Broadwa: it a pal or 6, a good, loving and kind husband, a good provider, and one who ie poing to si } the pleasures, &c,, with and not with the boys or other women: “What @ man wants In his future wife is all right, but T guess if she starts to enumerate her wants his will fall to pieces, What right has a man to expect more than he gives, any- way? MUZZLE THE MAN.” YONKERS STRIKE PUT UP TO P. S, COMMISSION Mayor Says Trouble Would Have Been Ended Had Action Been Taken as in New York ‘The trolley strike in Yonkers was put before the Public Service Commlis- sion of the Second District to-day by Mayor James T. Lennon, He sent a letter to the Commission requesting action on a complaint filed two weeks ago by him against the Yonkers Rail- way Company for failure to operate its cars, The Mayor said in conn tion with the letter: “If the Com:is- sioners of the Second District hud acted as the Commissioners of tho First District did in New York, they could haye settled the strike in Yon- kers two weeks ago. bd ———___—_ SWITCHMEN AGREE TO SETTLE TROUBLES BY ARBITRATION George W. W. Hanger of the United diation announced here to-day that as a resudt of a conference between representatives of the Switchinen’ Union of North America and the rail- roads both sides had agreed to settle their differences by arbitration, The differen between the switch. men and the ratiroads are in no way connected with those pending between the four railroad brotherhoods of firo- men, engineer nductors and train- mon, The der presented last March, are, however, same a8 those of th an eight-hour day and a half fer overtime. Bastern and Mid- dle West roads are involved, —_ owntng in a Day. Second Double | ROCHESTER YY, Aug. 7—A second double drowning here within twenty-four hours was revealed this morning, when the father of Nell and Charles Warring, aged fourteen and seventeen respectively, found their | | clothing on the banks of an abandoned stone quarry in Atiantle Avenue. The bodies of both boys were found in pool in the quarry SPEEDILY, PLEASANTLY POSLAM Heals the Skin It is a delight to find, after a few applications, that your Eczema or other unsightly, bothersome affection has disanpeared, Itis a welcome aljht to see daily improvementinsome stubborn skin disease, whieh has endured for weeks, perhaps for years, ~ Advi, 4? ALL DELUGISTS, States Board of Conciliation and Me- | ” BR T.WILRAISE WINTRIDCE GAVE PAY OF EMPLOYEES PLEDGE IN FAVOR BEFORE MANY DAYS OF ARBITRATION A ) ay m New fot 3 wl’ Then ut \A Na mise Made GOOD WORK REWARDED \GREEMENT WAS SIGNED riand b | lent Hasn't Heard Anyi tn 1 Third Avenue President! #i nor ery ( 7 r 1 Demand mm Sad He Would Arbitrate plaints Being Adjusted All Future Ditliculties : ~ York would be abesiutetly to : P - bie and he ot live here. The Krowk Nop 7 a Sof the Publite Ber Com 7 id be pulsed ; 2 y short time ; i oaaeGhl aiat would be ostracized ele = } men he how President Frederick W. Whit-| - ao of the Third Avenue Ta ora Wer oer voutz| REMEMBER sie aa taiies a rn y¥ sted hie promised te ar a y sade t Hitercnces between | to-day when ordering your n . employ = food supplies to wie pubtie t by ibite Her 2a View nmine f the Piret Distetet « 4 worked Hefore 199m, ie yorland, am ASK YOUR GROCER Ff ure Wuey y with the plan 404 | rooviver of the Yonkers Ratlroad, now Austin, Nichols € J Are preparing « new wage seule | bart of the Third Avenue Byatem, en ae that the) ¢¢ On written agreement to deat valine iu not t by reason of} with th non the line through their the the ned but as repa | ganization and with committoas of! ment fe fficlent work the Men the mon employed on the line, Bimilar| are now doing and) because the reoment Was made with Mr. Maher, nok Tt aking — MONeY. lthen manager of the Weatchenter linen, | it wasp out ieee se In 1913, the mon claiming that these! PURE FOODS ane oof omen) 6 onow employe PY Jagreoments had been in certain re.) [ the company la superior to that cts violated, a strike took place in The World S Best Which ran ite system at the time CCl Yonkers, resulting in tying up the ay eyes the 1895 strike, It Is expected that) ontir stroet car aystem for a period] Everything fer table is innouncement of the new seale Wil) oF fourteen days, On January 15,| Up under the “Sunbeem” Lakel bo made within Lal AE eee fal W918, the Public Service Commission | That what it perity, | ghclesmesess | thy villians, President) oe ine 1 Diatriet, | Jot the H.R. 'R, satd to-day that MO) dietion oy falta tke cee theme railway lines, sum. h the President of the road, lok W. Whitridge, and the men, were urged to return to work had not yet recelved any demands or ulUimatums or anything else from any labor organization concerning the men | of his company. He said also that he} had not heard that any lubor mon had come over to Brooklyn to organise his men, “John J. Dempsey, superintendent of the subway and elevated lines, and William Siebert, superintendent of the surface lines, went out yesterday and toned bi he ine was urged to arbitrate all future dit. ferences that might « company and the Chairman Oxcar Straus of the Pub- Nc Service Comminsion of the First District, openly accuses Whitridge of Se Ue CS (he Dene ae having brought about the Yonkers [strike by violating the arbitratt said, “to find out what they want, be- | a ration cause I am still receiving letters from Wp dapat datas eiteon sare Die oN 7 ertain phas- bught on the Ave- them complaining about Fs fie ANAC Heke witian eenn es of thelr work, therefore Mr. Wi ome complain about the demertt| mary cause of the bie Teves tee De system, others about the ten houra| | The record of the Second District work and four hours ‘swing,’ saying | that a two-hour ‘swing’ would be det- | ter. So we are trying our beat to im- prove conditions and give the men what they want. “The majority of the letters I re-! the ceive say that the men don’t want a) here a strike of any kind, So I really don’t | believe there will be one, Our men are well treated and well paid. On{ at which Mr, Whitridge agreed to ar- of the Commission said: “Mr, nic Service d now made.” Chatrman Stevens follows: . We select | t! make as high as $4. day. We solect| Hike to nex these men from surface car work, | to cor domerits, are punctual, and have not! the resumption of work, th had aceldents. 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