The evening world. Newspaper, September 16, 1919, Page 1

e Che “Circulation Books Open to All.’’ PRICE TWO CENTS. Copyright, 1 by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World). (000 REPORTED LABOR MEN URGE REFORMS, Willi BRAKE ON STRIKES AND CHECK FOR RADICAL UNIONS re leecteeaaiininiimeenietiticiattate ——— New League of 29 Trades Sug-| "NATION ON THRESHOLD gests Changes in A. F. of L. Constitution. APPEAL TO GOMPERS. —_—— Would Give President of U. S. Power to Cancel Some Strikes. The League of American Medera- ion of Labor Members for Partner- ship and Industrial Democracy, which was organized last’ week by John F. Pierce and Isador Epstein, with 4) membership of thirty trade anion | members representing twenty-nine! Aifterent qades, has forwarded to| Bamuel Gompers, President, ad tne| Executive Council of the American) Federation of Labor a petition for the adoption by the next annual con- vention of amendments to the Fed-/ eration’s constitution intended to de-| prive local unions, internationals and other subordinate authorities of the} power to order general strikes. | Other reforms demanded by league ar —Election of the President and Executive Council of the A F. of L. and ull executive, legis- lative and administrative officers of internationals, State Federa- tions and local unions by direct vote of the membership, under the secrecy afforded by the Australian ballot system. —No salaries to be pald to of- ficers of local unions during pendency of strikes. —4Giving the President of the 3 A. F. of L. power to suspend strikes when in his judgment the welfare of the Nation or of States or mu pulities requires such action. —Giving the President of the United State with the as- sent of four members of the Ex- ecutive Council of the A. F. of Ly power to cancel strikes during times of national emergency, un- @er terms and conditions pre- scribed by the President of the United States, which shall be made legally binding upon both | employers and employees during the existence of the national emergency. —Depriving al! authorities ea- 2) cept the Executive Council of power to call general strikes ut any time or any place which in- volve more than one industry, end no general strike in a single industry shall be called without the unanimous consent of the Executive Council, —Gjving the Executive Counc!l the} OF GREATEST PROSPERITY, SAYS CHAS, IM, SCHWAB “Turn of Industrial and Financial Tide” Changes Him From Pessimist to Optimist. PITTSBURGH, Sept. 18. INFHSSING that he has turned optimist, Charles M. Schwab, in an interview here to-day, stated that the turn of the industrial and financial tide in this country had con- vinced him that the nation is on the way toward a big boom. “I was quite a pessimist,” he said, “a few months ago, but conditions have converted me ty the other way of thinking. “For some time I have beon pessimistic as to business condi- tions throughout the world and especially in the United States, but now I share opinion of those who have said that we are on the threshold of the greatest era of prosperity in our history.” MADISON AVENUE LINE 1S LIKELY TO BE CUTOFF SYSTEM Receiver Hedges of N. Y. Rail- ways, Admits That Rentals Have Not Been Made. That the Madison Avenue Surface line will shortly be diswolved from the New York Railway system was pre- dicted to-day in transit circles, Like- wise, it was declared the Sixth Ave- nue line, part of which will be cut off on Sept, 20, will in its entirety be taken from the New York Railways system In a few days. Receiver Hedges, when asked | whether there any likelihood of |cutting off the Madison Avenue line |in the near future, said: “The rental og that line has not |been pald, neither has the rental on |the Sixth Avenue line. We have ra ceived no notice from the owners of | the line Mr. Hedges intimated that be ex- pects the Madison Avenue and the | Sixth Avenue lines to join the other surface lines which have lately been severed from the New York Ra'l- ways System. He explained that tho power to remo or cause" any officer of an international, a State Federation or, a local union at any time, PLEA FOR WORLD'S BENEFIT IN GOMPERS'S HANDS. The league's umendments tc Constitution were forwarded to Pr ident Gompers at Washington yester- day, and are made public tn Ne York this morning. Accompanying the proposed amendments was a pe. tition from the urging that league (Continued on Twelfth Page.) Waris | Madison Avenue line, while apparent- jly well patronized, was nevertheless bearing a tremendous vent burden, | At the Public Service Commission it was learned that the process of disintegration in the local transit lines is expected to next hit the Mad- ison Avenue line, It is believed that Judge Mayer will be asked to per- | mit the severance of this line in al few days. | Rumors were likewise current that when the Jison Avenue line is | ways system, ne transfers from other lines will be accepted, as was the case with the EB Avenue line, Lt was hth Avenue line intends to eliminate the 2-cent trans- fers now being accepted on that ine ascparated from the New York Rail | MESSENGER BOY Company, AND BONDS WORTH $32,020 MISSING ie FYLAN WARNS HE WONT TOLERATE STRIKE Lad Fails to Deliver Negotiable | Securities and Police Are Notified. VANISHED YESTERDAY. L. M. Prince & Co. Who Trusted 16-Year-Old Worker, Fully Insured. Another big loss of negotiable bonds coupled with the disappearance of a messenger boy came to light to-tay through a report made by the Na- tional Surety Company. The bonds, all negotiable, and of a total market vilue of $32,525, were the property of L. M. Prince & Co., No, 20 Broad Street, At 11.15 yesterday morning bonds were given to! Elias Tieman, % s'xteen year old messenger boy eai~ ployed by the firm, to deliver to varl- not! the Since then ous customers. has been seen of either the boy or the bonds. It was reported at the boy's home, No. 25 East 105th Street, that he had not returnéd there last night. ‘The loss was reported immediately to the police by the National Surety but the police, followmg their usual custom, kept it secret, Prince & Co, are insured against losses of this sort by a blanket policy for $100,000 issued by the National Surety Company. Young Tieman had been employed by Prince & Co, since Aug, 28. He was attentive to his duties and well liked and trusted by his employers, He is described as 5 feet 6 inches tall, weight 130 pounds, brown hair and eyes. When he disappeared he wore a gray coat and trousers, blue serge vest and brown cap. {ite Broted, ‘The missing bonds are described as follows: Six thousand dollars Wilson & Co, 68, due 1928 Nos 4877, 11314-16, 416- 17; $12,000 Interboro Rapid Transit be due 1966, Nos, 185600, 82143, 85152, 23641-2, 20524-5, 7746, 125621, 28643-4; $2,500 Japanecs first 4 1-28 due 1925, each bond for £100, Nos, 101429-33; $6,000 New Orleans, Texas & Mexican Income 58 due 1935, $500 each, Nos, 1300-11; $3,000 U, 8. Liberty 2d 4 1-48, Nos, 1583751, 48: 708236; $10,000 Southern Pacific convertible 6s due 1934, Nos, 44304-5, 44938, 35018, 34409, 20174, 49200, 109, 4433, 44939, The firms to which these bonds were to be delivered by the boy were Laidlaw & Co. No. Broadway; Guaranty Trust Company; C. M. Keys, No, 60 Broadway; Pynchon & Co.,, No. 11 Broadway; L. F, Rothschild & Co,, No. 120 Broadway; Ware & Le- land, No. 61 Broadway, and Finch & Tarbull, No. 120 Broadway. —_—>— MURDERED AMERICAN GIRL. in Naples Said feased. Man Under Ar to Have APLES, Sept 16.—The arrest by |the police here of a man named Lux- thirty years old, has devel- oped an alleged murder case in which an American gir) Was the victim, ac cording to the authorities, The police nay the prisoner has confessed th fh 1909 he eloped with a Mina Ei Y then living In Geneva, and that 4 fret orward he murdered her ocr’ ‘urther details of the alleged con- tession Were Dot available to-day, BBs BYOUAD View the City trom MWOKLD Ken CALKAN Sipocial ty todas, csewias, Bove 16, 1919: Frooch Fried Potatoes. ‘ jonat Leg of Lamb, Carrot and Peas: i ee in Wang, Adee, emburg, dtp a pase Sern Mayor Meets Committee Ask- ing Pay Increase for All Ranks. FAVORS RAISE OF $150. Enright Admits There Are Some Trouble Makers in Department. Shaking a clenched fist to empha- size his remarks, Mayor Hylan to- day in City Hall served notice on representatives of every rank of the , Police Department that he will not tolerate « police strike in this city He told his visitors that agitators and trouble makers in the depart- ment must be driven out, and that the sooner the ranks are cleared of men bent upon distur! nees the bet- ter it will be for the city at lar The delegation uddresxed by the Mayor consisted of Inspector Henry, representing the Imspectors; Capt. John W. O'Connor, the Captains; | Lieut. Ayres, the Licutenants; Murray, the Surgeons; Sergt, Court- ney, the Sergeants and Patrolman Moran, head of the Patrolmen Bene- | volent Association, Mayor Hylan’s ultimatum came as @ surprise to the callers, They did not go to City Hall to discus unionism or a strike, but to make a plea for an increase in pay. They jknew the Board of Estimate was hold- Jing an informal meeting in the Mayor's private office to discuss salaries, and decided to-day was the time to put forward their requests. The Mayor received the policemen in the public reception room, When they asked for an increase in pay the Mayor said he had decided the patrol- men were entitied to $150 increase, but that he had not yet taken up the question of increasing those of higher rank, However, he said he would con- sider the matter and do what he thought fair to both the taxpayers and the superior officers. It was after baving expressed hiin- |self on the question of pay that the | Mayor decided to talk plainly on the | subject of police strikes. He began ‘by referring to the Boston strike and aid he believed every fair-thinking man agreed with President that it was a disgrace to civilization “There may be strike agitators and trouble takers in the department in this city, although I am reliably in- formed that if there are any they are very few,” said the Mayor. “If it is true that agitators are at work | want you men to drag therm into the light 0 we may all look at them, so we may mark them. “Practically all the police of this city are satisfied, I am doing all ! can to increase salaries where In creases are deserved and where wi have money with which to make the | increases. I am certain the Board of | Estimate will agree with me, Commissioner Enright entered th. | Mayor's office while The Evening World reporter was talking with the Mayor about the committee's visit, He admitted there are a fow agitators and trouble makers—he referred to them as crack-pots—in the Police Department, But he a: serted they were 80 few as to be almost negligible in number, He said thelr influence was not anfaelan emphatically ‘hat otrike in this olty, OR ACTIVITY OF AGITATORS Dr.! to cause any soncern,, and declared [4ame Dr. Hen @ there wasn’. a bers continue the meeting, but their threat or even @ hint of @ police cagerness —_——— Beha SW NaI “Circulation Books Open to All. | NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1919. ri 4 bap Wap tae was Z H EDITION TE EVEN “PRICE TWO CENTS. rye 20 PAGES 3 DEAD IN STORM OLICE GET STRIKE WARNING FROM HYLAN- POLICEMEN THROW DUMMY UNDER AUTO TO HALT AND ROB DRIVER Struggle on Lonely Road Rec es Ruse of Highwaymen Near Hackensack. NO GENERAL STRIKE FOR BOSTON, SAYS GOMPERS'S AGENT UNDREDS OF DEAD LEFT ON TEXAS SHORES AS STORM Firemen, Pledging Loyalty, Refuse to Walk Out in MAKES THOUSANDS HOMELESS Sympathy With Police. |TROOPS STAY ON GUARD Additions Steadily Being Made to Police Force—Order As Lieut. James J. Bertholf of Hack- ensack was on bis way home with hia wi from Paterson late last night, the headlight on his auto revealed a atrugy xle between four men on the roadside noat the Dundee Lake school house. He slowed his car down and drew his revolver. As the auto was within ton fost of the croup, three men threw the apparently lifeless body of a man di- rectly in the path of the auto and then yelled for help, The auto stopped and the three proceeded to hold up the Lieu- tenant, The highwaymen disappeared as shots were fired over their heads The “victim” proved to be a “dummy’ which Ligut. Bertholf brought to his karage. — WALL STREET RUNNERS GO OUT ON A STRIKE Daily Carriers of Miliions of Se- curities Chase a Policeman and Reserves Are Called. The strike fever hit Wall Street to- day shortly before noon and several hundred stock runners and money mi sengers employed by some of the big houses went on strike The strikers, grown boys and young inen for the most part, said they were getting from $10 to $14 a week and demanded £16 to $20, The demand was refused. A meeting was organized at Exchange Place and Hroad Street, where one youngster mounted a soap box and be- gan to harangue the crowd A policeman ordered him to quit and when he attempted to enforce the com- mand several hundred messengers at- tacked him. ‘The policeman fled down Broad Street, pelted with fruit from nearby stands raided by the crowd. The policeman took refuge in a store and telephoned to the station house, Policemen were hurried to his rescue and patrolled Broad and Wall Streets and the neighborhood. ‘The amount carried in # day by the messengers mounts high into the mil- Hons. A manu meoting of the strikers has been called for & o'clock to-night at the Labor Temple, 14th Street and second Avenue. okers affected by the strike said they will have no difficulty in replac ing the messengers WORLD SERIES TICKET SALE LOTTERY, SAY CHURCHMEN Members of Cincinnati Federation Agree, but Cut Meeting Short to See Reds Play. (Spreial to The Drening World.) CINCINNATI, Sept. 16.—A boycott against the Cincinnat! Reds Basebail ‘lub for the alleged unfair manner of ‘isposing of world series tickets was leclared by Dr. John F. Herget, Pi - Jent of the Cincinnat! Federation of hurches at a meting of the Executive Committee to-day. Dr. Hervet charged the methods used im selling the reserve tickets constitute . lottery and are contrary to the law His opinion was shared by the other xecutives of the federation, The meet- ng was strained and cut short by the Jesire of members to attend the bai) 4 that mem to see the game brought the meeting to a close, played Being Maintained. ROSTON, 16.—-Guy Oyster, personal representative of Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor, who came to Boston to confer with labor leaders on the police strike situation, left to- day to report to his chief at Wash- ington. Oyster declared that he did not be- eve there would be a general strike here, “I don't believe they (Boston unions) will go that far,” he said. The Telephone Operators’ Union be- gan balloting on the general strik question to-day. The voting will| continue for twelve hours to al'ow both night and day workers to vote. | ‘n the meantime other unions were | voting on the question. The results| Are not expected to be made known until next Sunday The Allied Printing Trades Council representing printers, stereotypers, linotypers, news writers, matllers, wagon drivers and others employed by newspapers announced to-day that the Council had endorsed the RAISED 10 $2.50 take an immediate vote on the matter | Advance Made Quietly “With- of supporting the police. pene The Boston firemen wil! not strike| OUt Concerted Action” for Broadway Shows, Sept hardt of Corpus Christi. THEATRE TICKETS to support the new pollcemen's union. A statement iasued to-day by officers of Local 19, International Ansociation of Firefighters, of which the men of the department are members, said,! ‘the ttremen Bave never voted to| strike, will not vote to strike and will not strike.” The wecond week of the police| strike opened with no material| change ia the situation, The Police- men's Union and the trade unions which have already endorsed the strike appeared to be marking timo until the full strength of the sym- pathetic votc, which is being taken among various affiliated locals, could| ators half-dollar and the war tax on be determinod | mat nalf-dollur—and jt begins to be That the military authorities have! apparent that @ ten-dollar bill will planned for an indefinite atuy of the py» none too much to start with when State Guard troops was Indicated by, man wants to take his girl to the the arrangements made for their|theatre, buy her a war-taxed lemon comfort and the receipt vf # large) phosphate and take her bome on a quantity of clothing and supplied | street car with a two-cent transfer, to-day. | Balcony seata will be $2 where the Meanwhile, additions to the new) orchestra costs $2.50, Boston police force are being made | Ask the reason for these things and steadily, following the Governor's un- | the average ticket broker will reply: compromising é@tand against the Well, didn’t the actors win their American Federation of Labor. It ia! trike? war veterans, will be available oon CRUSHED BY TWO CARS ON BROADWAY, WILL DIE ag @ result of new examinations, Tony Viola, a barber, twenty, of No. Quietly, and, an the managers say, “withuot concerted action,” the prices theatre tickets in New York have been boosted recently until the stan- dard charge for an orchestra seat ta any sort of a Broadway show ts $3, where it aved to be $2, And you pay the war tax, too With $2.50 as the starting potnt, the managers, each for himself, are boost- ing the prices attl! higher for “special productions.” And the brokers eay many shows will get $3 and and some $3.50. Add the war tax, the specu- : ae i FRANCE TO SELL CLOTHING “National” Sults to Cost Less Th: Half Retatl Price, : 7 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, limped PA 8, p 6. Vatto " rea - PARIG, Bape 16.— (National ready- | across Broadway, opposite the building ray ping, at the rate of 26.000) 41 no. 695, with a crippled leg this af- suits monthly, will be put on the , ternoon and was struck by @ south- market in France in the fight against Abd ee Ais Be 8 MRCIERT gant capil eine: jbound car, hrown, lin the path of @ northbound car and crushed between the two. Both cars were crowded with women, sy of whom iuinted withir the tu- n minutes it took to extrteate Vial, The “national” suits will be sold at 110 france (about $22) each. The clothing houses are now demanding | 260 francs for sults of anything like the quality of the wool to be pus ip tag Geseigteh! TlOTMINg, tp ntemmes “ —— TAKE BELL-ANS BEYORE MEALS and see how fine Good Digestion makes! YOu feel mm, A ervey m was opened and he fell inside uncon- jous, Dr, Jackson took him to St, Vigeame Hospital, where tt te said he 1 a / / / hen a side door of one of the cary! Death List Growing Steadily in the Flooded District — 35 Soldiers Missing FromConvalescent Camp —Women Cling to Rafts. AUSTIN, Tex., Sept. 16.—“At least one thousand bodies are strewn along the shores of Nueces and Corpus Christi Bays,” ac- cording to a telegram received here to-day by Gov. Hobby from Brig. Gen. J. F, Wolters of the Texas National Guard. HOUSTON, Tex., Sept. 16.—More than 200 bodies have been re- covered from the beach in the district surrounding Corpus Christi, ac- cording to a message received to<day by W. G. Choate, Assistant General | Manager for the Federal Railway offices here, from Dr. W. P, Rhine More than 100 bodies were washed ashore near the ranch of B. Allen, the Message said. The message came over @ railway wire from Van Allen, Tex., where Dr. Rinehardt went from Corpus Christ! to get In communica- tion with the outside world. ‘The Houston-Galveston relief train wit fot leave Houston until 9 o'clock to- night because of delay in assemblini supplies, Army officials at Camp Logan are sending blankets and medi- cal supplies for the relief train, ‘The town of Port Aransas was de- molished) Rockport and Aransas Pass were severely damaged. It fa Lelieved the death toli may muuni well past the 100 mark, as bodies were washed for miles, There were scores of thrilling escapes. Several survivors who were washed across the Uay, clinging to wreckage, were rescued at Odom, South of bers. A group of soldiers tom the convalescent camp jerformed with utroet hero!am, helping in the work of rencuo and prevonting vandals from looting tho wrecked district, One report, unconfirmed, was tbat Ofty bedles ave boon récovorod meas Robstown, Teaas, aud that 500 persons Are missing CORPUS CHRIS", Tox., Sept. 16-- A military retief train trom Browns. ville, bringing 5,000 rations aad 1, beds arrived hero early to-day, second is oa its way 175 refugees been rescued at Odem, about thirty miles west of here. SINTON, Texas, Sept, 16.—Seventy bodies of flood victiins, mutilated be- yond recognition, have been recovered at Sinton, the relief headquarters for the entire surrounding bay shore ter: tory hit by Sunday's terrific tropieal storm, DALLAS, Tex., Sept. 16,—At least fifteen bodies have been recovered from the bay at Corpus Christi, Tex, according to despatches reaching here to-day, as @ result of Sunday's ter- rifle tropical storm. Fifty persons, including thirty-five soldiers in a con- valescent camp, are reported missing, Property damage is estimated at $3,000,000, One report received in Dallas from Beeville, Tex., this morning sald £20 bodies had been taken from the bay at Corpus Christh This has not bean confirmed, Reliet was’ being rushed into the devastated area u-dny, Bupplligs wer expected to be sent from Laredo, Bau Antonio and other points, Barly re- A Approximately have ports from refugees from the Aran- eas Pass-Rockport distriot imdicate a -_ Rane Sits in an ce ne ne ee ee. | i q | |