The evening world. Newspaper, September 19, 1919, Page 1

ase To-Night’s TRA ————— Weather—Rain. MW PRICE T WO CENTS. Copyria' c The ‘New 1919, by The Press Publishing Che [Cireutation Books Open to AIL?”|, NEW YORK, F World) BREAK ENGINEER GREAT RIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1919. Py ee Cloris, f “Circulation Books Open to Au.” | i 28 PAGES 1a hart Uf Se “§ PRICE TWO CENTS. tee FIRE ALL AGITATORS IN CITY JOBS--HYLAN eeeeees | ~ Mayor Orders Department Heads to Oust Men Organ- izing A. F. of L. Union, ALL DISTURBERS TO GO. Wants No Provision Made for Them in Budget, So They'll Have No Redress. Mayor Hylan to-day wrote a letter to all the city dopartment heads under his control demanding that they drop from the payrolls all agitators who Dave made themselves conspicuous in an organization of city employees which proposes aMillating with the American Federation of Labor. In- cluded in this organization are fire- men and police, employees of the Comptrolier’s offico and clerks and other office workers in every one of the twenty-five or more departments directly under the Hylan supervision The Mayor says in his users to his Commissioners that no Proviacion should be made for the agitators in the 1920 budget. This step will be taken to prevent the ousted agitators yfrom reinstatement through appeal to the State Civil Service Commis- don. From information received by the Mayor, it is believed the attempt to unionize the city employees is the direct result of a contest for popu- larity between two Civil Service pub- lteations. Although the Mayor demands the ousting of trouble makers and agi- tators he likewise requests the Com- missioners to furnish him the names « of deserving city employees in order that they may be rewarded when the new budget ix made up. ALL CITY DEPARTMENTS BEING ORGANIZED. So quietly that it fell like a bomb thell on city officials this morning came the news that employees in all City departments, who number 100,- 000, } <© been organizing. Virtually ever)’ employes of every sort is represen. and almost all of them already have become affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. Te police are not included among these latter. Three big workers are ment, though organizations of city involved in the move- they are not acting con- certedly. These are the Civil Serviee Forum, the City and County Public Serv ioe Union and the Union of Tech- alcal St The last two are identified with the A tr. Inaddit is the Municipui (Continued on Second Page.) a WANT TO PUT ON yieent Take Father Jobu's Medicine a = CLOSING TIME 7.30 P. M. Sharp on Saturdays for SUNDAY WORLD | New South Wales Split Sunday World must be in The World's Main Office on ov before 7,30 Saturday eveni Positively no Advertise: be accepted after tis time Send your Sunday Wor-o Want Advertisement in to-day © mane sure o! sts publication, | HYLAN’S LETTER ORDERING CHIEFS OF DEPARTMENTS TO DROP LABOR AGITATORS Mayor Wants Men Who Spend Their Time Stirring Up Trouble Removed From City Payroll. Dear Sir; AM informed that there are employees connected with the city service who spend more time agitating and making trouble than they do rendering service for which the city pays them. Some of them seem to think that the time they are on duty should be utilized in reading newspapers or scheming for selfish purposes, and give little consideration to the work that they are employed to perform. I direct you to give immediate attention to this class of em- ployee and have their positions abolished in next year’s budget. They should not be on the city payroll to stir up strife and trouble for their employer—the people of the city. The Board of Estimate and Apportionment is now taking up the Question of increasing the salaries of deserving employees and the honest, faithful employee who is giving the best that is in him to the city should receive your consideration, ASKED FOR POLICE. SERVICE FOR 1920 Enright’s Estimate Brings Total to $24,396,679; Others Estimated costs of running a num- ber of important city departments were submitted ment heads, to-day by depart- These requests must be acted upon by the tee and then finally by the Board of Estimate. Commissioner Drennan of the Fire Department asks for $11,546,306, an increase of $543,912 over last year. Commissioner Royal 8. of the Department of Health $4,811,409, an increase of $720,318. On account of the promised pay creases for the police, Commissionc Snright asks for $3,340,544 more than budget commit- oquests: for 1919, a total of i | nt Voorhis of the Board of | tions asks $393,595 more than his 9 allowance, Voorhi or $2,119,690, Mr. asks for the increase bi ause of .4s additonal primary for the Presi- | Jenttal campaign in March, The trustees of Bellevue and A Hospitals want of $305,097 They ask for County Clerk William F. Sehnerdor is one of the few who demands |. than he got in 1919, All he asks | $169,198, a decrease of $1,124 - ~ nm Irish In- de y, Sept, 18.-—Dy a sembly of New expressed itself mination for Ire ANS BEPORD MBALS Good | “ oan worLp TRAVEL BURR, y @ 4900, Check room for baggage and parvels open day and Money orders and Wwarellets’ checin for fis dark Row N Very truly yours, JOHN F. HYLAN, Mayor. BURGLARY? OH, WELL! GOWNS GONE? HARD LUCK! |WHISKEY TOO? CATASTROPHE Affairs Grow Worse and Worse the Further Mr. Simpson Inquires | Into His Burglary, When Manager Sylvester Simpson opened the establishment of the An- | nette ros Company, manufactur- ers of gowns and frocks on the fifth floor of the loft building at N 8-10 West 45th Street yesterday morning, it was piain that burglars had been i “Oh, well, id Mr. Simpson, “why should we expect to It comes to everybod} He walked through the stock rooms and found three $150 gowns missing from one pile, five from an- be overlooked, other, ten from a third “We're out of luc he said, The appalling significance of the | job did not dawn upon Mr, Simpson until he reached the private office Jand discovered that the fiends in human form had stolen ten quarts of bottled-in-bond ry whiske “A catastrophe,” said Mr, Simp- son, reaching for a telophone and out ing the age. police about the infamous $4,000 AUTO GIFT TO WIFE OF STATE INSURANCE OFFICIAL [F. Spencer Baldwin Admits Present | Was Made by Insurance Broker, Hi “Trusted Friend,” Manager of the Imitted at the hat his wife had mobile as & per- Wynkoop, an tn- Broad Street the matter to at ate Wyn For Will Abbott's sory of pro- fessional golf championship at Ros- lyn de» ly 200 Sporting Page POLICE STRIKES ARE. DENOUNCED BY LIEUTENANTS Also Oppose Unions’ Affili- ation With A. F. of L. as Divided Allegiance. ENRIGHT Cite Boston Riots as Instance of Menace in Policy They Condemn. IS NOTIFIED. Police Commissioner Enright to-day made public action by the police lieu- tenants of New York City, denouncing police strikes in general and the one in Boston In particular, and pledging themselves to oppose any efforts to. bring about lawlessness here. Resolutions adopted by the police Police Association officers, at a meeting of the Lieutenants’ Benevolent Wednesday night, at No. 145 Riverside Drive, were sent to Commissioner En- right. | The resolutions adopted were: Whereas, it has come to the at- tention of the Police Lieutenants’ Benevolent Association through the medium of the public press that there is a movement on foot to organize the police departments of several cities into unions af- filiated with the American Fede tion of Labor, and that the police departments of several cities have already formed local unions affil- fated with such federation; and, Whereas, it has also come to the attention of the association that members of the Polic partment of Boston who formed such a union aMiiated with the Federation of Labor have declared a strike, carrying in its wake loss of life, destruc- tion of property, riot and general disorder, and Whereas, the oath of office of a policeman binds him to enforce law and order and preserve pub- lic peace, and Whereas, such affiliations as above enmerated would prevent keeping that oath of office and would result in a divided alle- glance; therefore Be it revolved, that it is the sense of this association in meet- ing assembled that we are unal- terably opposed to and most heartily condemn action taken by members of several p de- partments that have formed such unions, and the those who are responsible for the stri in the City of Boston, and we hereby pledge ourselves to oppose by every means within our power action of any effort that may hereafter be made by any Individual or any groups of individuals who may seek to bring about the joi of police into labor unions or affiliations; and We also pledge ourselves to oppose by every means within our power any movement tending toward the bringing about of a strike or other ce ties contrary to lieemen and our duty nicipality a Judwe Landix Son The CHICAGO, 1 aI Wer t wedding to-morrow ¢ Major 1 Lan 1M the daughter of George W. Keeln, a bank Major Landis was an “ace’ in the American flying forces in France, |worth Building), THREE THUGS HIRED FOR $45 TO “GET” NAN, POIE SA Connor, Held for Stabbing Celler, Said to Have Told Price to Be Paid. TRAILED HIM TWO DAYS. Accused Quoted as Saying He Had to Have Two Men to Help Him. The price Irving Connor of Brook- lyn asked fur putting Mortimer Celler out of the way, the police say Connor has confesed, was $46. Celler is r Ported to be dying at his home in the Bronx, “I hay detectives to have two men with me, quote Connor as saying, “and we were going to get $15 apiece.” Eddie Stone, alias Eddie “Yaller,” twenty, and Max Wallach, twenty- three, No. 56 Eust 10th Street, ar- rested last night in Rivington Street near Clinton Street charged with be- “helpers,” admit, the police say, that they were with Con- nor at the time of the assault but deny having had any part in it. Stone Is described as a former con- viet. Wallach is called a “safe” man with a Sing Sing record. Pictures of both are in the Rogues’ Gallery. Both the alleged helpers are tall, well set-up young men, They wore silk shirts, each one costing about as much as Connor says they were going to get for the Celler job, Stone, it was said, served in France with the 305th Field Artillery, Mortimer Celler, who was set upon yesterday at 29th Street and Madison Avenue and so badly cut that the surgeons of the New York Hospital took forty-two etitches in his throat and upper body before bh re- moved to his home at No, 724 East 158th Street, was foreman of the Bon & Ash cloak and walst factory ut No. 105 Madison Avenue, “The strike in that trade is over,” Connor told the police, they say, but this man Celler had so antagonized some of the delegates while it was going along that one delegate wanted in example made of him, This man reed to pay me $15 and let me have as much more for each of two as- nts.” ording to the police, Connor has described how he and his men trailed Celler for two days, Yesterday mom- ing they were at his home and “just missed” him, ‘They “picked him up" n the subway and followed him al ing Connor's most to the factory When Policeman Asaph of the West 20th Street Police Station and detect ives pounced upoa Connor, his hands, they say, were blood-covered, “You nearly killed that man,” one of the officers said, “It's too d Connor. Detectives question the —— n lad I didn’t,” sald $15 “price.” $25 Men's Suits The HuB Saturday and special. 5 $14.95 & $17.95, Open Satur 1). Hub Clothicrs, Bway, ~Advt, HES Fralay. Sept Wreuch’ fried potat with tarlar save. ible ae a id bali Hye | Military Justice LENOIR EXECUTION PUT OFF W SIGHT OF FRNG SQUAD Condemned Traitor’s Plea Wins Stay as Armed Men Take Posts. PROTESTS INNOCENCE. Wants to Face Caillaux, For- mer Minister, and Request May Be Granted. PARIS, Fept. 19.—Announcement was made this morning of the poat- Ponement of the execution of Pierre Lenoir, who was tried with Senator Humbert and others on a charge of communicating military to the enemy; and who was to have faced the firing squad at dawn to-day. The neighborhood of Vincennes Woods, where the execution was to have taken place, was put under a strong guard of soldiers at 5.30 o'clock this morning. A short time after- ward Major Gromler, commander of the troops at Fort Vincennes, and M. Raux, prefect of police, arrived, and a firing squad from the 26th Un- mounted Chasseurs took up position. At 6.10 o'clock two automobiles left the fort and drove rapidly in the direction of the execution grounds, and men and women going to work, seeing the soldiers, remarked: “It ts all over for Lenoir," but at 9.45 o'clock it was Jeorned that the execu- tion was delayed for a short time, The Military Justice, a party of lawyers and a Chaplain went to Le- noir’s cell at 6:30 o'clock, finding tho condemned man yery calm, “My father taught me not to fear death,” he sald, “and I shall die coura- geously, I love France betrayed my country,” Asked if he had any communication to make to the party, Lenoir replied: “At the moment of h, I repeat: What I have always vainly asked— to be confronted with Joseph Call laux.” (Joseph Caillaux, former Premier ¢f France, is now under arrest in a hos- pital near Paris under charges similar to that upon which Lenoir was con- victed.) Lenoir then argued that the action of the court had shown that his caso and that of M, Caillaux where con- nected. Lenvir's lawyer then de- manded that his request to be con- fronted with M, Catllaux be com- municated to the Under Secretary of This was done, and and never the order to postpone the execution | was received houry later When he he he was not tu be exfeeted this morning, Lenoir sald: * re God and man, I swear Lam no@Paitor -|PLANE FALLS 1,000 FEET AT STATEN ISLAND BEACH Army Aviator and Passenger In- jured Taking Pictures in the Air An airplane flying at a ight or 1,000 feet fell at South Be Staten Island, this mornin wviators, Sergt, Joseph Lieut. Hooper 4 ry 1 from t ue nt Ba He ‘ Pox inju are not believed The men had ken fig Roosevelt Field, L. 1, and wer jtoxrapbing the Lawson ter on her way to Washington when the engine stalled and the airplane dropped like ® plummet, intelligence STEEL STRIK S REFUSE TO GO OUT MONDA Bl UNION CALLS ON MEN TO STICK T0 THEIR POSTS; ' DENOUNCES STRIKE PLANS Two Plants Shut Down Owing to “Congestion” and “Lack of Or- ders” — Labor Leaders Declare There Is Rush to Join Union. CHICAGO, Sept. 19.—Steam and operative engineers em- ployed in the steel works throughout the country will not join in the general strike of steel workers for Monday. This was an- nounced to-day by H. W. Comerford, General Secretary and Treasurer of the International Union of Steam and Operative En- gineers, A letter has been sent out from the union headquarters to every local in the country declaring that “the officers of the union feel that President |Wilson should be given an opportunity to hold the arbitration meeting which ‘ae has set for Oct. 6, and all members are instructed to refrain from affilia it, This union working. “The officers of this union do not Propose to allow irresponsible men to ‘OPEN SHOP’ FIGHT TO BE SUPPORTED BY INDEPENDENTS Companies in Youngstown District Appeal to Employees to Remain Loyal, YOUNGSTOWN, 0, Sept. 19.— Statements were issued to-day by the big independent steel companies of the Youngstown district announcing that the principle of “open shop" will be maintained, and calling upon their employees to remain loyal and stay at work Monday, when the steel strike 8 scheduled to take effect. The Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, employing 15,000 men; the Hrier Hill Steet Company, 6,500, and the Republic Iron and 8 | Company, 7,500, issued statements, which were Published in foreign language news- papers to-day. Organ ners here have estimated ting themselves in any way with the proposed strike.”” “Some of the men want to strike and some don't,” said Mr. Comerford. “rhe majority, however, are not in favor of affects thousnads of men, all of whom will be told to keep govern the policy of their organtza- tons, and we feel that the men who are ordering this strike are not Fre- sponsible.” PITTSBURGH, Sept. 19.—Prepara- tions are going forward rapidly to- day at headquarters of the National Committee for Organizing Iron and Steel Workers, inaugurating the strike of steel workers set for next Monday. Organizers and district of- ficers were given instructions and went out to the mill communities, making up the Pittsburgh district, William %, Foster, Secretary- Treasurer of the Committee, who is in charge of headquarters, had no re- ports to-day, he said, except that “enthusiastic meetings" had been held by workers in the Pittsburgh district and that the men were ready to quit Word came from McKeesport, Pa., to-day that the hot mills of the Port- vue plant of the McKeesport Tinplate Company shut down last night, throwing about 1,500 men out of work. This is an independent concern, The reason given by the company, was congestion In the finishing depart- ment. Union organizers sald they were of the opinion the company was getting ready for the strike Monday. Part of the plant of the Pittsburgh j Steel Company here was closed down yesterday owing to “lack of orders,” according to Superintendent ©, J. Mogan. The plant employs 3000 men, and the officials stated to-day that 2,000 men had been working de- spite the shutdown, Secretary Foster declared this after- noon that 20,000 applications for mem- bership in the various unions which that 64,500 workers in the Youngs-|aro to strike have passed through bis town district will be affected by the! strike though they gave ne figures on the number of men whom they ex-| pect actually includes Ohio, and the district to strike utside Pennsylvan A statement issued to-day by the| Youngstowa Sheet and ‘Tube Com- argest ndependent corpo- t, said The district of Cleveland, | pledging the men to remain at work rell-Sharon-Newcastle | has been signed by more than 80 per |men will not office within the last twenty-four | hours. Steel officials in the New Castle section report that a resolution cent, of the workmen in that district, Officials in Sharon express the opinion that a wakout of organized Affect their mills, Buttons us large as silver dollars u tinued. | With the words “Loyal—I will not { th y an em may | strike" appeared on the coats of many may (pot as he chooses, belong tempioyees of the National Tube Coms It is the intention. to operate the|Pany at McKeesport to-day, Worke ant Monday, Sept, 22, - |ers suid (hat otfictals of the plant gave after, the same as usual Slatements of other companies fol- lowed similar lines, and all said that continue opera- the companies will don aa ugual op aod after Monday, the buttons to all men who reque: one. 4