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and thelr counter demand that cerisin privileges now enjoyed b ment a th men and certain bu ip rhed eh mar Gf content be reconsitered, especially im their relation to the adoption of Bs Agit-dour day years “The matter came tome three weeks ago to a final issue and re sulted in a complete deadixk The mean provided by law for the mediation of the controversy failed and the means of arbitration for which the law provides were rejected “The representatives of the railway executives proposed that the @emands of the men be submitted in their entirety to arbitration, along with certain questions of readjustment pay and conditions of em pacyment whi ciated with the demands or t the men absolutely declined arbitration, especially if any of their established privi- leges were by that means to be drawn again into question. ‘The law in the matter put no compulsion upon them. “The 400,000 fram whom the demands proceeded had voted to strike if Unelr demands were refused, the etrll se6 for the ith of September next, It afleets the mon who man the freight trains om precticntiy every railway ie the country, The freight service throughout the United States mi stand still) until thelr places ‘Bre filled, If, indeed, It should prove possible to Ml them at all, COMMERCE OF THE NATION THREATENED, | “Cities will be cat off from their food supplies, the whole commerce of the nation will be paralysed, men of Mt Cs we out of emplayment, countless thousands w! ce Ragepil bey to the very point of starvation, and « tragical national | calamity brought on, to be added to Aho Tae ontlSh dl adheal Bo basis of accommodation or settloment has been found, “Just #0 soon as It became evident that mediation under the existing | jaw bad failed and that arbitration had been rendered tmpowsible by the! attitude of the men, | considered it my duty to confer with the represen: tatives of both the railways and the brotherhoods, and myself offer mediation, not as arbitrator, but merely as spokesman of the nation, in the interest of justice indeed, and as a friend of both partios, bat not as Judge, only as the representative of one hundred millions of men, women d children who would pay the price, the incalculable price of loss and! juffering should these few men insist upon approaching and concluding ithe matters in controversy between them merely as employers and em: Sployees, rather than as patriotic citizens of the United States looking be | ‘toro and after and accepting tho larger responsibility which the public would put upon them. “It seemed to me, in considering the subject matter of the controversy, that the whole epirit of tho time and the preponderant evidence of recent | économic experience spoke for the eight-hour day, It has been adjudged | by the thought and experience of recent years a thing upon which soctety | is Justified in insteting as in the interest of health, eMciency, contentwert | 4d a general inerease of economic vigor. | “The whole presumption of modern experience would, it seemed to me, be in its favor, whether there was arbitration or not, and the debatable points to settle were those which arose out of the acceptance of tho «ight- hour day rather than those which affected its establishment. “I, therefore, proposed that the eight-hour day be adopted by the railway managements and put into practice for the present as a substitute “tor tho existing ten-hour basis of pay and service; that I should appoint, with the permission of Congress, a amall commission to observe the re- sults of the change, carefully studying not only the figures of the altered Yoperating costs but also the conditions of labor under which the men worked and the operation of their existing agreements with the railroads, ‘with instructions to report the facts as they found them to the Congress | pat the earliest possible day, but without recommendation; and that, after | the facts had been thus disclosed, an adjustment should in some orderly | “manner be sought of all the matters now left unadjusted between tho ratiroa(\ managers and the men. WN LAVYE WITH COURT DECISION ene dl s8@ Proposals were exactly in line, it is interesting to note, with the taken by the Supreme Court of the United States when appenied ‘to p potect certain litigants frem the financial losses which they con- tly expected {f they should submit to the regulation of their charger of their methods of service by public legislation. “The court has beld that it would not undertake to form a Jud upon forecasts, but could base its action only upon actual experience; that must be supplicd with facts, not with calculations and opinions, however , scientifically attempted. “To undertake to arbitrate the question of the adoption of an eight-hour ‘aay in the light of results merely estimated and protected would be to cundertake an of conjecture. «= “No wise man could undertake it, or if he did undertake it could feel "assured of hte conclusions. “I unhesitatingly offered the friendly services of the Administration to the railway managers to sce to tt that Justice was done the raflroads in the outcome. I felt warranted in assuring th ha no obsaclo of law *, would be guffered to stand in the way of their increasing their revenues to _ meet the expenses resulting from the change so far as the development of \ thelr business and of their administrative eMofency did not prove adequa- , tive to meet them, “The public and the representativves of the public, I feel justified in assuring them, were disposed to nothing but justice in such cases and were * wMling to serve those who servved them. “The representatives of the broth-@——_________ Serhoods accepted the pian, but the] were 4 In Progress, and when to all representatives of the railroads de- outward appearance those confl- clined tt. In the face of what can-| ences had t 2 come to a standstill, the not but regard as the practiqn! “or | fepresentatives of the brotherhoods tainty that they will be ultimately suddenly acted and apt the strike for oblixed to accept the eight-hour day Sept. 4 ails by the concerted action of organised STAND! labor, backed by the favorable judg- BING MIR FOR ARBITRA- ment of society, the representatives! .. of the railway management havo felt declan ta ay Sapeanir based their justified tn declining @ peaceful set- BY counsel in this eae, matter upon thetr conviction that “The rafiroad managements feel] ‘MY must, at any cost to themscives {) the hostile influence of shippers, who! °F '® the country, stand frm for the would be oposed to an iner of| Principle of arbitration, which the freight rates (for which, however, of | ™P had rejected, “course, the public itself would pay);| . “! based my counsel upon the in- they apparently feel no confidence|‘!#Putable fact that there was no that the Interstate Commerce Com. | means of obtaining arbitration, The {mission could withstand the objec-|'*W supplied none; earnest efforts nt tion that would be made, ‘They do|Mediation had failed to influence the To stand firm for the principle of arbitration and yet > President, They have thought it best| not get arbitration seemed to me fue that they should forced to yinld,| tile and something more than futile, | if they must yield, not by counsel, but { because tt involved incalculable dis. by the suffering of the country, tress to the country, and coneo- “While my conferences with them | quences in some respects worse than, thowe of war and that in the midat “ , ‘BELLANS A e Absolutely Removes “IT ylelded to no man in firm ad- herence alike of conviction and of} Indigestion. One package provesit. 25catall druggists cemed to them to be either closely a call for reconsideration on thelr own merits; not care to rely upon the friendly | men in the least. assurances of the Congress or the purpose to the principle in arbitration | in industrial disputes, but matters! j have come to a #udden crisis in this! partloular dispute, and the country | had been caught unprovided with any practicable means of enforcing that conviction in lee (by whose fault we will not now stop to in. quire). A wituation had to be met | whose elements and fixed conditions were indisputable “The tical and patriotic fo pursue, as it seemed to n secure immediate peace t the one thing in the men which » ourse was to conceding nda of the nd any ar. | nted public nen Was imminent; it has since been | THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 19 emdiy operetion ie whieh te t ’ (he reourrenee of ow lndustrial dleputes te the days to oon: SET WAY OF ViNDICATING PRINCIPLE. on le aeeurediy the beet way of Vindicating ® principle, namely, tne failed to hake Seriate of tis « errvance in the present, to mab aie of ite chearvance tm the fu uid only propose, 1 eould the will of others wh entirely different view of coe of the case; who ty admit the eireum be what they have turned « failed to bring the parties Fitleal controversy to an a ation. therefore, | turn to you ur duty an public hing Undone that to safeguard the life and tn te of the me Th the spirit of rnestly recom Nalation revision for the enlargement end administre- tive fooqpeareaton of the Inter- tate jemmerce Commission along the lines embodied in the bill ewe pocged by the House of lepresentatives and now onpiiing Action by the Benate; in order that the commission may be enabled to deal with the many ureat and various duties now de- volving upon it with @ ness and thoroughness with ite present constitution means Botion prac ly im weggible, “BECOND—The establishment k operatl in interstate transperta- she appa fvtes Bla @ appointm of a emall body of mon the actu: xperience pt f the eight ho " iwey wenreece an explicit FOURT! the Congress of the by the Interstate Commerce Com- | | mission of an increase of freight rates to meet euch additional ex- penditures by the railroads a ( (Special From a Staff Correspo: WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—All negotiations between the Presidents and union leaders through President Wilson, in an effort to avert a nation-wide strike, were broken off this afternoon just before sment | President Wilson went before the joint session of Congress, This admission was made at the White House after the committee beer rendered neces adaption of the eight which hewe pore by the hewr boon fas oete Sey mil Ueted tities : STRIKE WOULD HAMPER DE PENSE. | oThie last eum jon | make be- cause we cannot In any ciroumatances suffer the nation to be hampered in the essential matter of national de fotine resent moment olreug jer thie duty particularly obvious. Almost the entire military foree of the nation is stationed upon the Mextean border to guard our ter ritory against hostile ratda, Tt must be suppl and steadily supplied, with whatever it needs for ite main- | tenance and eMeciency, ' If tt should be necessary for pur- pores of national defense to infor any portion of it upon short notice to ome other part of the country, tor sons unforseen, ample means of transportation must be available, and available without delay, ower conferred in this matter should be carefully and explicitly limited tn cases of limited necessity, but in all canes it should be clear and ampl “There is one thing we should do if we are true champions of arbitra- tion, We should make all ‘bitral awards judgements by record of court or law in order that thetr 4 torpretation and enforcement) may lie, not with one of the parties to the arbitration, but with an impartial and authoritative tribunal “These things L urge upon you, not in haste or merely as a means of meeting @ present emergency, but as permanent and necessary additions to the law of the land, suggested, in-| deed, by ciroumstancs we had hoped never to see, but imperative as well as just, if euch emergencies are to} | be, prevented in the future. “L feel that no extended argument in needed to command them to your favorable consideration, They dem- onstrate themselv The time and the occasion only give emphasis to. their importance, We need them) dad and we shall continue to need them.” y ALL PEACE NEGOTIATIONS EARLIER IN DAY indent of The Evening Wi .) railroad of eight left for the New Willard, Hale Helden delivered to the Pres!- dent during the brief interview the formal and final answer of the roads, which, as has been repeatedly stated in The Evening World, is a flat re- jection of the President's mediation. ment of society favors an eight-hour DAY REJECTED. ‘The suggestion of President Wilson for a proposal including the principle of the eight-hour day, but postponing {ta effectiveness for a year pending in- vontigation, was rejected. The action of the ratiroad presl- dents, taken tn connection with the strike order of the employees, left President Wilson no alternative but to go to Congress in a final effort to avert the strike by legislation. The President instructed Secretary Tumulty to send the final reply of the roads to A. B. Garretson, which was | done, As soon as these formalities had been complied with the Preatdent informed Secretary Tumulty that he was at liberty to give out the facts, Garretson just shrugged his shoulders when he got the statement from the White House. Garretson gavo the impression that the labor untons would back up the brotherhoods in their opposition to tho President's bill for a commission along tho line of the Canadian Indua- trial Disputes Act, “That is a feature which we pro- pose to fight to a finish,” he said to-day, “It gives governments ample opportunity to make labor a slave, It ts not a successful way of bringing about peace. As to the general altua- tion, We are now satisfied that this whole affair is a year or two old. It has all tho appearance of having been cut and dried and ironed out #0 that the Government and the corpora- tions would seem to act at cross pur- poses but really have but one end in view—the forcing of a general strike, Well, it's coming.” EADY TO ACCEPT OTHER - GESTIONS, Re 8u0: expressions of brotherhood From WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—Thia| statement to the public was issued by ‘the committee of railway presl- and immec for securing a to everythis has confirme secking to A with regard | ad. The event nt. Tt was or \ dion ! v are unable, after the most earnest consideration, to agree with t in| {he Proposal of the President of the| of fair arbitration, United States, which is that we ace end‘ cept without arbitration the substi-|that ‘un sottling industrial disputes. Wd aa a jciaia flr piled «lr Commissioner Woods to-day shows) ARBITRATE 8-HO RAILWAY HEADS INSIST The statement presented to President Wilson denies that the judg- day and declares that arbitration is leaders to-day they are prepared to accopt the other four of the five sug- Seated legislative acts urged by the President. They will not oppose the Hight-Hour Day Law, the law to name @ commission to apply the eight-hour day, the law to invest the Interstate Commerce Commission |with power to consider wage increases | % that food stuffy may be brought in fixing rates and the law empow- ering the Pre, at to draft men into service for military operation of the railroads in case of strike. | A formal statement tssued Ly ali} and Morris .were appointed to can-) tho railway presidents embodied th own proposal to the President and gave their reasons for refusing to ac- cept his plan of settlement. While Prisident Wilson was prepar- ing to go before Congress the brother- hood leaders rejected the latest prop- oaition of the committee of callway bry ‘ents and actually orc red the atrike to begin at 7A, . Labbr Day, unless @ settlement #. cactory to them is reached in the mean tine. Their provious order for the strike Was tentative and required a secrot signal to put it into effect, Unless a settlement satisfactory to the labor leaders 8 reached before that time, o: unless President Wilson and Congres: find some way to prevent it, the strike would start Labor Day without fur. ther notice, WORKS NEARLY ALL NIGHT ON ADDRESS, President Wilson worked nearly all night on his address to Congress. He Proposed to lay before Congress a definite plan of legislation for dealing with the situation, It includes bills laid before him by Senator Newlands, after conference with Acting Attor General Todd, Seoretary Lane and several mombers of the Senate Intor- stato Commerce Committee. UR DAY, | tution of an eight-hour day for the present ten-hour day in gli of the ex- isting practices and agreements. This in the main point in controversy and Wo cannot surrender it without an opportunity to be heard in some form “We do not assent to the statement sdt-hour daywgow undgubt- ou oe of the jude we e! We triers bat eoclety hae het pet rroorded ite iwdament wpor ful joot "We are owt in we bewerer, dealing with the « relating te the elehi hour dey iu the industrial world, The im ' tween eh hour dey in bow ond Manutecturing interests and | the relirond (rain service day been fully enplained. The ratirond Gay boo basis for computing poy and evertiow, the length of dally wervice PROPOSED LAW being controfied by variable condl me ande involved tn this com 4 been presented, tn for the purpose of fe « % aet ¥ period of iavor ner ® redy the existing houre of labor or ‘ wethods of eration, but f « real purpow of for | yard servi MAKES “ A freeht and UF the labor o matter,” SLAVES, SAY THE UNIONS WASHINGTON, Aug ~The brotherhood heads, Garretaon, Rtone, Lae and Carter, iamued the following ining their opposition to any legiwiation along the pian of the Canadian Commission | “Hines the abolition of slavery the bondage of th workingman than the passage of ulaory investigation acts of the | character of the Canadian Industrial | Disputes Act. The writers speak from (hele personal experience thereunder, as these organizations are all inter. 1 in their jurisdiction, To cite an actual coourrenc “In 1910 the men upon eighty ratiroade in the Eastern territory of the United States presented to the | railway companies of that territory | 4 demand for increase in wages, The| companies refused to deal concert- edly with the proposition and it was, therefore, taken up with the individ- ual roads. Three of the propertics were Canadian and two days after negotiation was opened, on Jan. 7, on the firet road In the United States, no- wotlation opened on the three Cana- dian properties, The negotiations in the United States included Federal! mediation in the first instance and arbitration in the third case, “On the nineteonth day of July following settlement was made on the last of the seventy-seven American lines involved, On the same date, at 6 P.M. @ strike took place on the Grand Trunk Railway, one of the ‘Canadian railways, settlement not yet having been effected on any of the three, this growing out of the delays which the employers were able to interpose under the Industrial Dis- putes Act. “Moreover, the period of investiga- tion te eternally utilized by the em- ployer to intrench himself in his ef- fort to defeat the demands of the FOOD TOLAST ONLY WEEK OR TODAYS ONHANDIN CITY Strike Would Bring Starvation Peril, Inquiry by Woods Shows, Information obtained by Police that in the event of @ railroad strike New York City would have enough food to last only a week or ten days, The supply of milk would become ex- hausted within twenty-four hours, | The Commissioner expressed alarm when he learned of the situation, and at once began making arrangements to the city by automobiles and eteam- boate in the event of railroad trouble. When the railroad ‘strike first was threatened Inspectors Cohen, O'Brien Vass the packing houses and find out about the meats and then to see the wholesale flour dealers, The commissioner sent ciroular! letters yesterday to 500 commission merchants and wholesale dealers in food commodities and fuel asking thom to give him a statement as to the amounts handled daily by them, He also circularized fourteen of the largest railroad companies and re- quested immediate reports on the goods they handle, The following questions were asked in the letters to the wholesalers; (1). How much in carloads does your company need to supply the | regular trade in New York City daily? (2). How gouch in your judgment is brought New York City weekly? (3), How much weekly tn oarloads would be required to supply the city? To the railroad companies he wrote: “Will you be good enough to let me know how many carloads of food supplies your company brings to the city weekly, specifying different kinds of foods? I want this information in view of the situation that would be created if there should be a general railroad strike.” Packing houses have on hand enough meats to last a week or ten days. This does not include the refrigerated meat stuffs, ‘Phe flour and grain mer- chants said thelr supplies would not last longer than a week. BELMONT RESULTS, FIRST RACE.—For three-year-olds and upward: with $700 added; alx tur- longs straight-Leochares, 123 (Keogh), 1 to 1 to 6 and out, first; Bayberry Candle, 121 (Butwell), 18 to 6, 7 to 10 and 1 to 4, second; Mont d'Or Il, 116 Notter), 7'to.1, 9 to 5 and 8 to 5, third ‘ime, 3.11 1-5. Rhine Maiden, Lena Mesha jowship also ran. SECOND) RACE—For maiden-two- year-olds with $600 added; five and @ alf furlongs straight. 5 (Butwell), 8 to 1,3 Vivid, 115 (Notter), 9 to 10, 1 to 3 and ) to &, second; Kittenish, 112 (Phillips), 3 to 1 and B to 5, third. rime, 1.06 Polon'um, Glanaginty Pinton, Harvest King, Old Ey lor ‘st Ballot, Mary ) Sundale, Pre. "ALL LEATHER VANITIES men, ne matter | may be and ina w Just their cause ajority of instances, Where @ Verdict by am investigating day provided only Hgeht exerctee for conn mination boon favorable te the the favorites. HK. Norrie Williams en, It Rae v repudiated by the national champion in 1914; George In consequence of this “attitude, | Chur R. Lindley Murray, K disregard for wrod the | hw of the Hehr and Johnston, MeLoug 1 provisions of that law has led to pla Gritin, Who survived the frat F ' ine thousands of men in the attitude ord of lawbreakers and the passage of YO*erday, won their matches wit) jawe whieh induce n ty open OUC wetting warmed up. In mn violation thereof is @ deadly injury to cases the favorites for the national @ nation becwune It breeds universal titig qi . contempt for law © iid not even receive a atif? “In the present atrife, 1¢ auch an PRactice argument act were » rg ios would | The opentng roun however, wa hecessary would be for the power of not dient attorney to be withdrawn from the stam, oy te, Backienir National Conference Committee of Bi one of the two Japanese who Managers by the individual roads and | "4¥@ startled Amorican tennis galler then lenmediate nec salty would arine ites thia summer, ceased to be n threat ‘or 260 Investigating boarda to be eres | enin ate , t " ated, oF if only @ itmited number eee bag bond In the tournament after were provided for, men would be | @°eting Willlam Clothier of Phitade compelled to remain for years in in- | PMia. The veteran ox-champion was voluntary servitude, if th at his beat and simply toyed with hie | the proviatons of ain ett ee toa Dh Ml fe . WESTERN RAILROADS | READY TO RUN FOOD CARRYING TRAINS CHICAGO, Aug. 2.—-Officiatln of Western ratiroats, which blanket the big food producing States, speeded up thetr efforts to-day to be propared for @ strike, The Santa Fe road announced tt ts prepared to run its trains in case of @ atrike. Officals of the road say they have applications from 3,600 men to fill the places of those who may strike. H. EB, Bryan, Vice President of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy road, denied the report that railroads have joined together in one big move to operate under an agreement. “We are all working out our own plans as far as plans have been made,” he said. A freight handlers’ strike on tho Burlington threatened to-day to spread to other roads and cause a tie-up of the shipping end of the railroad business in Chicago, BRT RASESPAY | OF 9716 WORKERS SSSDOOAVEAR (Continued from First Page.) this increase, and they will, we are sure, continue loyal, for we have a wood percentage of them organized already, This will not interfere with our work in the least.” A committee of B. R. T. employees | Whose names were kept secret met | | at noon to-day at the Continental! | Hotel and decided to appeal to the! his now partno Public Service Commission to investi- Bate alleged activities of B. R. T. officials in interfering with the men in their efforts to organise. A de- tailed complaint will be presented to ex! FAVORITES WIN OPENING ROUND INTENNS PLAY Victor (one Loses, Other Wins By William Abbott, PORDST HILT, Lot, a * ‘end Matehes in the tennis all comers ¢ Weat Side Chut's turf courts he OW Stars Easy } All } Comers Jap 0 little brown opponent, winning ¢ O-2, 641 There was nothma in the Japs’ | stock of strokes to combat the speedy Placements that Clothier dropped, | Over i ' n « Wb [e160 es VOOD00 DOCTOR CAUGHT BY POLICE MATRON Asked Stoo t Treatment” That Would Give Her Power Over Men,” George she ero, forty. wt y 4 N 4 Weat One thu i t ) Mireet, * v it Court of ‘ practined \ Sullivan, principal & piece by the hoontiantie king planted 8 sulting brew be Jie asked & teasingly frat court, then the other The match was simply a series of | sprints by Mr. Mikami, | The foreign invasion managed to get In a telling blow when A, W. Mac pherson eltminated Fred Inman, one of the strongest of the West Side Club Stars, Macpherson cut loose with burst of speed that put the slower m. ing Inman tn difficulties, The New Yorker made a strong tight in the frat | set, which was forced to 10-—8, but | after this effort he quickly weakened. the Russian easily winning the next two sets, Eliot Binzen, one of the Rent of the younger st in staying in the chan after a hard five set George King. Itchiya iNumagao, the little handed Jap who defeated Ch: mop! William Johnston for the Casino Cup at Newport, won new supporters when he easily disposed of Danforth Geer. The Jap took his favorite station on the base line and repeatedly sent long drives into the American's court that never came back. Kumagae, without nding himself, won in straight most promi- Ars, succeeded | nship o match w sets, With sixty matches to be disposed ! of tn the opening round, the turt courts since 10.80 o'clock this morn- ing have been a beehive of activity At times as many as twenty players were in action. The gallery, which reached 8,000 at 3 o'clock, strolled | from one match to another, remain. | ing the longest at the f econ in which the draw brought the more prominent racquet wielders to- | gether, While separate single test matches were heing decided, Witlam Johnston and Clarence Griffin, both of California, stepped out from the clubhouse at 3.30 and prepared to 4 thetr national doubles title against Me- hin and) Ward Dawson, who 1 another team of star Call ‘or fornians. Mela hin, with Dawson, captured the Pacif Coast championship when they earned the right to challenge the national title holder, after defeating George Church Ireland, and woldiers to-day nery and plant papers New t Liberator Aug seleed th Where the news Kerryman and wer Maxwell, com- « in Ireland, * with pub- rucle calou- harging lishing on 4 lated to carts The manangi newspaper Vdu reste Rise, September ) ths after= A Rowmania esterday t declaration of >. Rather's BD. Washed Ashore, The body of Oswald Walker, nineteen, an electrician of No. 846 Flatbush Ave- hue, who was drowned Sunday while swimming at Far lockaway, was The advantages of ob- taining the triple services of the Uculist—the Optician —and the “eyeglass maker” under one roof—must be very ap- parent to you, We are enabled to give you this systematized, triple ser. vice, because of our patronage —the Largest in the world, and Willis Davis in the elimination trials early this month, First round summartes—Philip Van- Loula Fridiger, counsel for the| Kossnbaum defeated J Allen, t—4, Carmen's Union, announced at | SS, 4-7; J. W. Anderson wou from | the Continontal Hotel headquar- |Cbaries Garland by default; Walter ters that a secrat plan of organ- izing the B. R. T. employees was being Prepared and that, when perfected, it would be possible to make the men's demands upon the company. “The efforts of unton organizers have been hampered by hired thugs tn their work with the B. RT, em-/‘ ployees,” ho said, “Six men have been beaten in the last two weeks while dis- tributing circulars among the men. Last night at Rockaway Avenue and Fulton Street twenty inspectors tore from the hands of employees circulars | which had been given to them. ‘Threats | have frightened many employees, but | this will not stop the work of organi- zation.” ARE GOING TO COST MORE Workers Go on Strike and Milady’s Handbags May Be ata Premium, Women's handby vanity cases, kid gloves, boys’ Indian and cowboy suits, and a great many other things will be at a premium If the 10,000 | members of the Leather Novelty) Workers’ International Union remain long off the job, They went on strike, to-day, i} J.T. buckock, organizer of the Union, sald that the manufacturers sixteen of them— wore willing to ac- | cede to the demands of the workei so 4s to avert a strike, and ad that the present season is the bu of the year, Genjamin Becker, one of the vice presidents of the union, said that he expected 12,000 workers to walk out. According to him almost the whole country looks to New York for its supply of leather novelty goods, The workers demand a forty-nine. hour week, 10 per cent, increase for those who receive less than $18 4 week and 5 per cent, for those got- ting more than $18 a week, Those who do piecework demand an in crease of 15 per cent, One of the most. important clauses of the de- mands, {f adopted, will abolish Sat- urday and Buoday work at =f st Roberts won from Arthur Copeland by default; Clarence Griffin beat Fred Daggs, 5-6, 6—0, 6-—2; Arthur Cragin beat Richard Maynard, 64, 6—0, 6—», | Ralph Baggs beat B. W. Stair, 6-3, | 6 . 1. Gwynn ench beat George V. Peak, 6-4, 68; K Il, Whitney boat Ward Dawson, 6- 2, 3, 6—1; Harold Harvey won from orge McKearin by default; E.R. Me. Cormick won from J. C, Nelly by de- | fault; Elliott Binzen beat George King —6, 4-6, b=4, 62; OG. at Lioyd Hartel,” 6—1, , 6—1, 6—3; Willlam Cloth Hachishira Mikami, 6—2, 1 ‘edric Major beat B. F. Drake, 0, 6—2, 6 R. 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