The evening world. Newspaper, July 7, 1919, Page 3

GONE FREVERSOMPERS: ja ANEW AMIERIGA HAS AEN American Nidccacten: Plan of Co- operation, Born of War, Has Pro- duced a New Manhood That Insists on Higher Scale of Living---Em-| ployers Warned Wages Must Not! Be Lowered. BY FREDERICK LAWRENCE Sixth of a Series of Interviews With the Leader of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor. Coveright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) ABOR will strive to the. utmost to avoid a conflict. with capital, said Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor, “but to those employers who are endeavoring to revive the pre-war system of exploiting labor and denying the Yorkers @ square deal, labor serves notice that it is bettter prepared to maintain its rights | than in any period of its history. Labor's Organizations are stronger by 2,000,000 members, its financial resources are greater, its influence upon the daily life and thought'of the people is more powerful, its humanitarian sims are better understood, its solidarity Is more cohesive, and it is better | on LOUISVILLE BRINGS TROOPS AND WIVES AND MANY STORIES from the war, millions of others who, Naval Officer Who Saw Scut- in the mines, mills and factories, served their country in its struggle] tled German Fleet Says It Never Will Be Raised. a 4 to liberate threatened peoples from the menace of German organized autocracy, havo gained a new con- cept of democracy. These soldicrs of freedom are determined that never shah they permit themselves tu be Made the victims here in America of that autocracy which they helped to overthrow in Europe. Those arrogant men who in the past have imagined that they held a divine commirsion to be the masters of the lives and for- tunes of their toiling fellows must resign themselves to the knowledge that thelr commission has been re- voked. Tho transport Louisville, from’ Liverpool by way of Brest, which docked at Pier 15, Hoboken, to-day with a pasfenger list made up of 2,251 officers and men in addition. to seventy-five young wives, fifteen new babies, fifteen stranded Americans and 314 convalescents from Arch- angel, appeared to have a new story in every corner. The Louisville was the first to arrive of nine transports due here to-day. Among thé ‘convalescents from Russia on the Louisville were Sergt. Emmet: Corrigan of No, 215 Cumber- land treet, Brooklyn and Corpl. | Ben Cessinisi of No, 915 Fox Street, the Bronx, Corrigan with gunshot wounds and Cessinisi recovering from frozen fect and influenza, ‘Another passenger of interest and distinction was Capt. B. A. Long, who was on the staff of Admiral Sims |during the war as Chief of Convoy and who lately visited the scene of the scuttling of the German fleet by German crews at Scapa Mow. Capt, Long was accompanied by Mrs. Long and their infant daughter, Joan, born in England. Mrs, Long is the daughter “A Tew America has emerged from the chaos, of war, a new manhood has sprung from the loins of Mars. This manhood must be reckoned with as it is to-day—proud, independent, militant—as eager to battle for the rights of American workingmen and workingwomen as it was to fight and die for the rights of humanity in the reat war. “To the employers of America or- garmized labor gives this message: “In this new world that has been ereated there is no room for the em- Dloyer who holds the making of +Profits to be of paramount import- ance, even above the welfare of the human beings whose labor coins the profits. Such employers aro the enem- jes of society, the fathers of Bolshe- vista. “Never again may industry be con- sidered .as merely a money-making process. Industry must take its place as a process for advancing the well being of all men, for improving the condition of all elements of the hu- man family, for making evgry one of us happier, and for making the'world 4 better place to five in than it ever has been. CO-OPERATION OF CAPITAL AND| °F Mr. and Mrs, Samugl W. Fair- LABOR, WAR BORN, MUCT GO ON. | °hild of No, 65 Bast 56th ‘Street “ pital and labor came to a better “The German ships at Scapa Flow,” understanding during the war than had ever previously prevailed. There was an earnest spirit of co-operation between them which all of labor, and doubtless many employers also, hoped would continue. Unfortunately, much of that spirit has vanished since the armistice was signed and the inten- sive war efforts of industry have slackened. Capital has turned once more to calculating how the toil of human beings can be sweated into dollars. Labor has noticed the chang- ed attitude and resents it. Moreov labor does not intend that old proc- esses shall be revived. “Labor hopes for a renewal of the spirit of do-operation in industry, and Capt. Long said, my opinion, never will be raised. The cost would be about $15,000,000 and nobody wants them except maybe France or Italy. They probably were worthless except as scrap and the best bid any of the three big British scrapping firms made was $%,000,000. For one of the dreadnoughts a schap irop firm had offered $200,000," Of the 214 men from Russia listed as convalescents thirty-five were in- Jured in a collision of armored trains on the Archaygel-Votogda Railroad. One of them, Private Anton Gro- chowski of the 810th Engineers, at- tached to the ##9th Infantry, had both “in i legs broken and his right hand so capital will be shortsighted indeed i€/+,4)y mangled that the surgeons | it fails to grasp its great opportunity. | thought best to amputate the arm. “The American Federation of Labor] ‘pe ttylian liner Giuseppe Verdi formulated a policy to be followed] rom Marseilles, came into port to- during the war in which the spirit of co-operation was a prime essential, The policy may be said to have worked well in general, There is no Treason why the spirit of the same policy should not be continued in peace with equally good results, I , commend the American Federation os “Labor's wartime co-operation policy to the attention of employers who desire to preserve harmonious and mutually profitable relations with their wage earners. ‘The American *¥ederation Labor considered that the ing day and docked at Pier No, 5: River, Bringink home 1,9 and men of the American army Major Gen, Ernest Hinds, chief of the artillery of, the A Ir, was among them, wearing the French war the Distinguished Medal and the badge of the French | Legion of Honor, He said he was he ly in favor of universal train- ing and hoped the American people would remember that at the time of North officers cross, ervice of trial the signing of the armistice the 3 arising through the Nation », e eee eipation in the war and the |American army in France had ro agencies in operation to preserve in- | American made artillery excepting dustrial peace and establish an ac twenty-four pieces mate on British designs. E. O, Detlefsen of the National City Bank, who has been manager of the bank's branches at Petrograd and Genoa, was another passenger, And there was a stowaway, a Sel- Marsello Didelot, eleven years old, He said his father w Killed in battle, his mother married | the o n of his father's compaay and | nted to liv Some troops are ar » on the transports to-day. mbar in addition to tiones B 4 Dol {from Bre Brest, with | Bordeaux, | Brest. with Se: with 1, ‘The ‘George Wa morrow with Pre! 444 troops, J quate degree of co-operation between the employer, whether private or governmental, and the employee had created a condition Which made it es- AN ost and Fotind™ edvertised in The World or reported fo “Lost and Found Bureau.” Room og. World Building, will be lated Phese lists can World's Office: articlea 29; Manitou, Santa Anna, Oklahoma, ‘ivarite, from from from from | Brest, a gan be left at any of The Advertising Agencies, or taleptioned airgctty, to The World. Beckman, New York, OF 4100 Muin, ix due. to- Witson and 3,- shingten © iis | Fr Baby Shotv at Mid-Sea Spoils Voyage PRE-WARLABOR CONDITIONS. i As Judges on Louisville Disagree SI 3 ® or @) “Left Ay Right—Major F. P. Moore, winner of second prize; Lieut. Commander D. H. Costo, medical officer of the Louisville, holding John Sccaeicanen Fifteen Young Mothers Claim First Prize and Passengers Split Over Winners. The Fourth of Tuy troubles on the} transport Louisville, which docked at Hoboken to- day with her 2,500 pas sengers split into many camps and | scarcely anybody on speaking terms| with anybody else, began when some: body proposed a Baby Show. ‘There were efitteen babies board—the cutest, sweetest itty. ditty sugar plums—and seventy-five young | wives of American sailormen. The| Baby Show suggestion swept every- thing before it “Who'll be the judges?” was one of | the first questions and Major F. J. Weltney of the army, travelling as a casual, confessed that back hothe he was known as @ sure-fire judge of infantile pulchritude “And 1,” confessed the Medical Officer of the Louisville, Lieut, Com- mander D. H. Costo, “pride myself on the fact that I, too, know & pretty baby when,I see one.” On, the afternoon of the Fourth the fifteen darlings were wheeled out upon the deck in Pullmans decorated in the national colors, Nobody noticed it at the time, but more than one of) the wagdns also curried a banner of green, white and orange, Major Weltney thought the world had never before seen such a cherub as five-months’-old John William Moore, Dr. Costo gave it as the judgment of the 8, 8, Loutsville's old family doctor that John Bingham jr. is the Nonpareil Kid of the League of Nations. cn ‘After a deadlock of three hours it wis sus ted to “leave it to the crew.” motion prevailed and the jack tars of the Louisville voted (ever notice’ how sailors stick to gether in time of trouble?) unaui- mously for old Dr, Costo. Almost immédiat to-day, most of the 2,251 officers and fifteen stranded Americans and eony scents divided into two} the “Moores” and the “Bing- and fell to wrangling. it was said men, 34 camp ham: Weltney and Commander Costo took refuge. Nobody saw them again watil to-day when they were the last men to leave the ship. On Saturday, it appeared that fourteen of the fifteen young mothers claimed t the: award of the first | prize ws .” while thirteen of | the fifteen felt that both prizes went wrong. Yesterday the weather was so frigid that few passengers ven- tured upon deck. “From babies up," Mike Walsh of Chicago, look as if the Sinn Feiner was'out to disrupt the pleasant relations heré- tofore existent among us Anglo-Sax- Bingham's mother was Ann an of the County Cavan, “John William Moore's mother was Mary Doran of Queenstown, is a blyejacket.. Both bouchals were porn in Queenstown, Most of the a said Sailorman other thirteen bables are Queens- town boys and girls, Sure, there was to be trouble from the first.” it} ships have cellars that's where Major | “it sure does | His Pa DIOQGOQOOODOOGOHDDOGOHOOQGOOOHS t X h Weltney is shown holding, John William | over the transit Jines, as thero will Bingham jr, winner of first prize. DMIDING CAR LINE GALLED BLUFF FOR "TRANSFER CHARGES Burr Says Plan Would Put Traction in Worse Muddle— Statement by Hylan. | | Assistant Corporation Counsel Kohler asserted to-day in substance that the efforts to unscramble the Fighth and Ninth Avenues railway lines from. the New York Railways Company is a bluff to compel Public Service Commissioner Nixon to grant the company to charge three cents for transfers. The accuéation was made at hearing on the transfer question bondholders of the two lines before Vederal Judge Mayer to-morrow wlien | the unscrambling will be asked, authority a | Job ¥, Hedges, receiver of the | company, testified he knew nothing of the bondholders’ plan, as @e had been away from the city, This state- ment caused an adjournment until he could learn the facts, ‘The re- ceiver is endeavoring to obtain a three-cent charge on transfers. Commissioner Nixon had shown an in- clination to favor only a two-cent charge. Kohler had the support of Cor- poration Counsel Burr, who declared that both the Kighth and Ninth Ave- nue lines, if separated from the com- pany, will have to purchase power and rent cars, which would put the J entire street car situation in a worse | financial conditton | Edward W, Berhis, gn epertx rail- | way appraiser, declared that the ap- praisal submitted was too high, and d that it if had been fair in the | beginning the company would not be in its present predicament. An official of the company pre- |disted that a three-cent transfer charge would decrease the traffic on one line 60 per cent. and that any charge would cause a general de- Grease of 10 per cent. Mayor Hylan issued a statement on | the transfer question to-day. It is| interpreted in City Hall to mean that if Public, Service Commissioner Nixon decides in favor of abolishing trans- fers and permitting an extra five cent | fare, he will be restrained in the courts by action brought through the corporation counsel, ‘The Mayor in part says: “lam nopposed to abolishing tr | fers in any part of the city, as | | will mean an increase in faro and will place an additional bufden on the poo- ple. who favor it, ‘uable privileges and over. $200,000,000 of the city’s money has been spent to construct the lines which corporations are now operating, and yet they complain that they are not making money. city to take over and operate the transit lines unless they get an ex- horbitant price for their equipment and franchise dghts. organizations legislation passed, which will place e. burden upon the people to the ex- tent of from 15 to 20 million dollars, thereby increasing the tax rate from I am opposed to public officials ‘These transit conpora- jons have been permitted to use val- these It is thme that pub- jc officials, both administrative and judicial, understood that the people have some rights “The corporations do not want the The reform favored mandatory twenty to twenty-five points. The purpose of this mandatory legislation is to add additional ‘bur- den on the city so that it cannot take be no available funds for such pur- wings alien Beautiful Gravure Picture Souvenir of the NC-4, now on exhibition in Central Park, ready to eyt out and frame, will be ay uM AND2.75 THEORY OPEN BARS 168 HOURS A WEEK Saloon Men‘ Also Believe No Licenses Are Necessary to Sell Beer. A now nut is now presented for the “dry” intellects to crack, To: wit: ‘What becomes of the Sunday clos- ing law when only 2.75 beer Is solid? Also what becomes of the 1,0'clock closing hour? Some of the subtio calculators aftong the saloon-keaping fraternity have. figured it, out that the dry Jaw, instead of closing their doors forever, has in reality made it possible for them to throw away thoir keys and never close at all. Because: (1) Two-seventy-five beer is held to be non-intoxicating; (2) therefore it ts held to be a soft drink, to be classed with lemon phoaphate and buttermilk: (3) it is legal to sell buttermilk at any hour of any day; (4) therefore the place: where such beer is sold is not to be classed as a saloon, and (5) all laws, State, Federal and local, dealing with the liquor tra Mfc bave nothing to do the present traffic in ‘Twé- seventy-five, Carry the argument a step farther and the saloonkeoper may reasonably decide that sinc# he is not in the liquor. business he does not need a liquor license, ‘The logic all depends on the premise. So there were’ many saloons—called thus by force of habit-that kept not only their side doors but their front doors wide,open all day yesterday. And others are staying open all night. And lawyers suy it is all right-PROVIDPD they get away with the contention that two-seven- ty-five is not intoxicating. ENFORCEMENT AGT TO BAN ONE-HALF PER GENT, BEER Dry Liane Reade tal to Rush Legis- latian Through Con- gre: WASHINGTON, July 7.—Prohibition leaders in Congress will launch a vig- orous attack op 2.75 per cent. beer, which is still being sold in many places, when the House resumes work to-morrow. . printdd in the Picture Section of next Sunday's World The inforcement law will make it iNegal to sell beer containing a half of L per ce oh ets, Gooth terma: he sho form by DECLARES WILSON ILLEGALLY FORMED DEFENSE COUNCIL “Created a’ Secret Govern- ment of the U. S.,” Asserts Representative Graham. bungle Whe ° i WASHINGTON, July 7—Charges|Sver’ that the President organized the Council of National Defense before war was declared in violation of 1a and thereby created a “secret Gov- ernment of the United States,” which farmulated war legislation, dictated policies the country was to pursue, and befriended “big business," were made to-day by Chairman Graham of the Sbecial House Committee In- vestigating War Department Expen- ditures, Minutes of the Council were read to the committee by Mr, Graham, to- gether with a report in which he as- serted tye Council assumed such broad powers that Major Gen, Goe- thals, former Chief of the Purchase, Storage and TraMc Division of tho War Department, defied it; Cabinet members protested against its activi~ ties, and Judge Gary, Chairman of the Board of the United States St Corporation, accused it of operating ot “when of me poli¢y tation War I in “flagrant violation of law." PO Mr, Graham declared the President | hibitin also 0} speede $ ofeated the “secret Government” by ignoring and reversing the intent of Congress in aythorizing the establish- ment of a Council of National De- fense in August, 1916, As author- ized by Congress, he sald, the Coun- cil was to be composed of six mem- bers of the Cabinet who were to be the real executives and seven civil- ians to be selected by the President who were to act in a purély advisory capacity, Instead of doing this, Mr. Graham asserted, the President made the Ad visory Commission «the real execy- tives, clothim them with unprece- dented and almost tllimitable pow- ers.” “Behind closed doors, weeks and even months before wat was de- clared,” ho said, “these seven men designed practically every war meas- ure which Congress subsequently enacted, They devised the entire system of purchasing war supplies, planned a presa censorship, designed a system of food control and selected Herbert Hoover as its director, aud even determined on the diylight sav- ing scheme, “It allowed interested parties to fix the prices of war supplies and put the people of the country to incalculable unnecessary expens “Our soldiers were actually ¢ying of pneumonia in the camps beceuse G. Altman & C MADISON AVENUE - FIF' Thirty-fourth Street A Special Group of - Misses’ Wool Jersey Suits | will be placed on sale to-morrow (Tuesday) morning, in the Misses Suits Department, exceptionally priced (considering value) at $29.50 These country and Suits are especially adapted for vacation wear. (Second Floor) Clearance Price Reductions been made i have the entire remaining “assortments of Army & Navy Photo Frames which are now marked, for immediate disposal, at $1.75 to 5.00 these bei’, in most cases, less than half the former prices. (First lasso H AVENUE, NEW YORK Thirty-fifth Street Extraordinary are now being offered i Little Childre and Hats at the following greatly reduce Little Children’ of various materials (si ranging generally from a Little Children’ (sizes corresponding to above), $3.25 & 4.75 Great Reductions all of which are now being offered at much below their real values. (Second Floor) Jor lack of proper clothing al Mr. Grahar. Sherman law, “all other statates that are to regulate business, particu business. sion in Congress as to the 1 right a complaint of the Street ing Department aguinst the VACUUM Rental Dept. Vacuum Cleaner Specialty Cor’ have been made in the prices of Little Children’s sald, “¢ agsumed the dusies of + General on C uld have free nae of iis ditties, w Counell of National “Immediately he took — frome’ membery of that Couneil th 1 order purchases The ee soon dispensed with those members of the Ravinory © mission “x « whe had so d the control of the st the n the Attorney General” upon by the commission to" swer Judge Gary, Mr. he replied that the matters to as viclations of law were ‘nation legal question, “Afterward, Mr. Graham 1 policy” rather there was evidently « disor mbers of the committees” the council buying from. the council discussed this and it was suggested t embarrassment might be the plan of the committee now under considerations. “The minutes show that on vf this so-called ombarrass industries Board wi and committees were appointed, the National Chamber of Com: so the letter of the law might’We — complied with, but by which no part of the method of buying od in the slightest degree 1 can observe.” v with newspapers, ordered that the ordinancd’ x the practice be enti rdered another crusade 00 PER DAY: RENTS: Any High-Class Electric “eM, ~ CLEANER — For Two Days Phone Bryant 6280 131 West 42d St. At Your Grocer Dailey's Old fashioned - Jams Assouutety Puss Sd Values n a number of n’s- Coats J % prices: a 's Coats: * \ 3 izes broken, but |) 2 years) tay - $4.75 & 6.75. Hats s Imported Hats, The Motor Delivery Service FOR THE SUMME [ - Island points is in Ae to New Jersey, Westchester County and R SEASON active operat ms Bioko