The evening world. Newspaper, September 24, 1919, Page 1

Be ee ee ee a fr a eo A Tie oie Z per emer v Realty Assessment Boost Hits Brooklyn the Hardest — TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Fair. TO-NIGHT’S WEATHER—Fair. “Circulation Books Open to All. mL 1919, 22 PAGES Copyright, an18, by The Press Publishing The ‘New York World). — RICE | tis CENTS. “ NEW YoRK, ‘WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, - $200,000,000 NN REALTY ASSESSMENTS TO RAISE CITY WORKERS PAY ~Profiteering F tanlens to be Hit Hardest by Higher Valuations. MAYOR MAKES PROMISE. | Technical Men Say Pay Boosts Decided on Are Not Satisfactory. | ‘Phe change in attitude of certain etty officials toward increasing the pay of all city employees was to-day | attributed to reports from the De- partment of Taxts that assessments om New York City réaT @sthte Nave been jumped a jittle more than $200,- 000,000. ‘The Mayor and other officials are understood to have been informed that the Administration can count on the additional direct revenue and the that i higher borrowing capacity this imerease involves, Members of the} Board of Estimate will be given the} exact figures next week. The sessors have not quite finished their ork, but it is believed the Tax Board at its meeting Friday will be able to figure next year's assessment very | closely. Having made careful investigation | and iearned that there had been a) general increase in rentals in down- | town office buildings, the tax asses- | sors increased assessments through- | out the lower section of the city. It} 4s claimed, however, that these in- creases are only in keeping with the| rent raises. When Mayor Hylan announced at a| police camp fire meeting some time ago that rent profiteering landlords | would materially help pay for pro- posed increases in the pay of police | and firemen, he had in mind action that had been taken between his com- mittee on rent profiteering and the ax Department. Every complaint against profiteer- as- <= (Conta jeventh Page.) BROOKLYN HIT HARDEST | OF ALL THE BOROUGHS ON RAISED ASSESSMENTS . HEN’ tax assessors in- W creased New York City's real property valuations by 200,000,000 for the year 1920 the greatest advance was made in Brooklyn. In this borough alone there way an increase of $80,000,000 in valuations, The Manhattan was $70,000,000. ef Queens was $80,000,000, Br $25,000,000 and Richmond was ad- inere vanced $6,000,000, which makes a | total of $201,000,000. | The increase in Brooklyn is not | confined to any particular a although it is perhaps marked in Flatbush and th urbs than elsewher | The increas sub- | confined to what ts kno tion 4 on th snuet which con e of Sixth Ava nd ueried will be placed in this disirtet eause it is believed more money 4s made here than in any secthn of the city with the ‘Wall Street exception of |bers of the Since he first entered the primary grade in his home city Wise has prided himself on the fact that he never was late for his classes, For two years he |has been a student at Columbia. To | EC GERRI UMEITENCE ane INCREASE | TROTZKY’S EYES ON U, S. FOR COMBAT OF “REDS” AGAINST CAPITALISM Bolshevist Leader Also Mentions gland and the Far East as Battlegrounds. STOCKHOLM, Sept. 24, | Pirenenking in ly ave a de- ergo gs programme of Bolshe- viki military operations. “It is not in Finland,” he said, “nor Esthonia, that the immense world combat against capitalism can be fought, but in America and England and, above all, in the Far ‘The Bolshevik armies; Trotsky continued, would continue their previous methods of beating their enemies singly. Gen. Denikine's turn would come after Admiral Kolchak had been beaten, he de- clared, The turn of the Poles would follow and after them the Roumanians would be dealt with. “If Finland wishes war," he said, “it will be necessary to begin against her a campaign of et- termination such as hitherto has been unknown to history.” | PENNSYLVANIA FARMERS DEMAND EIGHT-HOUR DAY “Justified Notwithstanding the In- creased Prices Resulting From Lessened Production,” FRANKLIN, Pa, Sept. 24.—The Ve- nango County Pomona Grange has adopted the following resolution, with ja view to obtaining the eight-hour day ‘Resolved, That inasmuch as vari- ous iabor organizations are demand- ing an eight-hour day, we, as mem- Venango County Pomona representing twelve subordi- and a membership, of n record as ng day for Ree Grange, nate grang ‘ar @ feel justified in the act, notwith- standing greatly Increased prices result- Ing from teoparieg fart farm production.” ‘CROSSED SEA 1 AS STOWAWAY TO BE ON TIME FOR SCHOOL Columbia Student Hid in Ship Hold to Keep Up Record for Punc- tuality: at Classes, All the way across the Atlantic as a stowaway to avoid being late for schoo¥ is the re ord established by Robert A Wise of Los Ang . who arrived here to-day on the Cunard liner Caronia. earn some vacation money Wise shipped | as an assistant steward on the steam- | RADICALS IN STEEL FIGHT SEEKING WORKERS CONTROL OF ALL GREAT INDUSTRIES |Foster Frankly Admits Hopes Op- posed to Principles of American Labor—Strength in Foreign-Born Workers—A. F. of L., Outgen- eraled, Forced to Aid Fight. By Martin Green: © (Staff Correspondent of Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publisbi PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 24. last stronghold of autocracy. We are going tp push autocracy off the {map. Outside Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh district close to the city, this is already from 75 to 100 per cent. a successful strike. With the help, of the men who have rallied to the call elsewhere we are going to drag Pittsburgh into the strike and close is young yet, and we haven't begun to fight in this paft of the country.” | This was casually remarked to me to-day by as mild mannered a} man as ever plotted to scuttle an Foster, and he is the presiding genius of the steel strike in the Pittsburgh district, I'll say for him, and all who have talked with him and watched him in action, say that he is) ¢ some genius. Foster is not a new typo of strike leader, There have been many rad- icals before him, and his success, if he achieves success, will bring to light more and more radical leaders. He js unusual, however, in that he is perfectly frank as to his object—that | is, he is perfectly frank in so far as @ man in his position can be, He does snot deny that he is a believer in the one big union idea, Ho sees in his mind's eye the time when this country will be under the rule of the pro- letariat, time when capital shall cease to con- trol industry, and when every class of workingman shall conduct the busi- ness in which that particular class is engaged. He is a disciple of tiie prin- ciple of direct action, and is on record as saying that the workingman should be utterly unscrupulous in his fight against capitalism, In times past, when he believed in direct action by groups of workers and before he became convinced that group agitation is useless except as 4 means to the great end—the One Big Union embracing all workers which will be strong enough to call a country wide strike in every branch of industry—Foster was Secretary of the Syndicalist League of North America, He wrote, a few years ago: ONCE SAID SYNDICALIST MUST BE UNSCRUPULOUS. “The syndicalist is as unseru- pulous in his choice of weapons to fight his every day battles a for his final struggle with capital- ism. He allows no consideration of legality, religion, patriotism, Wonor, duty, &c. to stand in the way of his adoption of effective tactics. He in utter revolt against capitalism in all its phases and his lawless cours: often lands him in jail, but he is ship Vauban, On arriving in England | he learned the Vauban would not sail Jon the return voyage until too late for him to be on time to resume his studies | at the opening of Columbia. | umship passage has to be booked advance on the other side and so | Wise, with his puetuality record in mind, deeded to himself in the was tur fficial t rlenn citizenship, | n of him he was getting off | train at the 6th Street | station, so fired by revolutionary enthu- m that jails, or even death, He jooks forward to the iJ The Evening World.) ing Co, (The New York ‘ing World). —“The Pittsburgh steel district is the every mill in the district. The strike industry. His name is William Z.| others outside or inside labor circ’ RAILROAD STRKE THREAT IN BRITAIN; CABINET 15 CALLED Workers Give aot rahika and Plan Walk Out Friday— Geddes Refuses Terms. LONDON, Sept. %4.—Because of the situation created by the presentation to the Government to-day of an ul- the which a strike was threatened, a full meeting of the Cabinet was called to be held this afternoon to consider the situation. | The railroad men, it was declared by J. H. Thomas, the General Secre- tary of the National Union of Rail- waymen, bas unanimously decided| to declare a strike at noon Friday un- less a settlement offer from the Gov- ernment is received mean time. Minister of Transportation Geddes replied to the workers, declaring that the action of the men’s executive was unjustifiable, and that order to meet thelr demands freight rates would have to be advanced probably 50 per cent, He declared that the in- creased pay demanded would mean jan additional permanent expenditure timatum by railway men, in in by the railroad companies amounting to £46,000,000 ($220,000,000) annually, as compared with the pre-war ex | penditure | Jury Frees Man Weighing 60% Pounds, have no terrors for him.” | G Emery Titman of Philadelphia, | Holding these views, er bas| Who weighs 608 pounds, was found He yz not guilty by @ jury before Judge (Continued on Second ) jYoung in White Plains to-day ona charge of passing « bo ole tor —— 4100, It. Was alleged Aa yuan THE WORLD TRAVEL, BUREAG, the check during Sune Ur etn Arate. Pulituee (World) in a transaction how ruce ‘track 85-63 ark Row, N.Y. City | bookmaker whan 4000, —— ‘Check roam for basgage and parcels oven day and ight, | Moser colors and teaveliam’ chectn ter , ere, oan —_ TAKE BELICANS BEFORE MEALS how fine Good Digestion makes yeu feel —adve. |Steel Strike Leader Who Urges LW. W. “One Big Union” Idea OOOo8 $HESO4E 102-2 9-9-9-96-00-06 POTTTTSE OSES COPOOMES ESET? o> <> <. WM..2.FOSTERLE hOooes PEDO EEOODPODEODHS O41 STRIKE SITUATION AT A GLANCE O° Although it was announced by unjon leaders that efforts would be concentrated to tie up the Pittsburgh district completely, the officials of the Carnegie Steel Company plants in that district to-day reported a considerable in- crease in the number of men at work, William % Foster, Secre- tary of the union's National Com- mittee, contradicted these reports and said the walk-out was Spreading. According to the Carnegie Steel Company there tendency on the part of foreign workers to re- turn decause they resent being called “un-American.” The em- ployers regard this as a signifi- cant symptom of a spreading de- fection from the strikers’ ranks, “War boards” of both employ- ers and strikers are meeting to discuss the situation, the former in Chicago and the union men in Pittsburgh Disorders oceurred at Buffalo, Farrell, Pa., Cleveland, and Indi- ana Harbor, Ind, but the authort!- ties of cities and States affected seem well prepared to curb out- breaks. Three are reported dead and seven injured as a result of the rioting. According to figures compiled by the American Steel and Iron Institute in Chicago the Steel ‘orporation Was operating at 85 per cent. of its tonnage capacity the day before the strike, At 5 o'clock last evening this was re- duced to 60 per cent, almost ail of the reduction being west of Pitts burgh. The institute members con- tend that not a single home-owner is on strike, SITUATION BY DISTRICTS, PITTSLURGH—Officials of the Carnegie Steel Company ex- TSTANDING features of the third day of the great strike in the steel industry are summarized as follows: pressed optimism as a result or reports from their city mills and plants at Clairton, Homestead, Braddock and Duquesne. More men are reporting for work at all these places, they sald, and at Duquesne that plant is running 100 per cent. The West Penn Stee! Company, in the Allegheny Valley, reported only six foreigners out of 450 idle and most Americans at work Secretary Foster, for the union, declared two big indepen- dent mills in the city had closed— those of A. M, Byers Company and Oliver & Snyder, CHICAGO—The majority of mills are closed and those operating have greatly reduced forces, Strike leaders hear that the employers are importing strike-breakers, Eleven steamships, carrying 100,- 000 tons of ore are held up in South Chicago Harbor because the crews refuse to dock them, Officials of the Inland Steel Com- pany at Indiana Harbor, Ind, sent an ultimatum to their strik- ing employees that if they did not return within two days the plant would be shut down for six months, CLEVELAND — Union leaders raised their estimate of the num- ber of men out in Ohio to 80,000. Youngstown is said to be com- pletely tied up. Cleveland police deported 59 alleged strike-break- ers brought from Detroit, ‘The following plants of the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company in Ohio are in opera. tion Wellsville, Canal, Dover and New Philadel phia. View the City trom the WUELD KESTALHANT, Tible aia thao Min Floor, Wortd Building. —adre, MILLS CLAIM NEW GAINS TO- DAY; AIM OF STRIKE ‘ONE BIG UNION’ ——_ ¢o MANY FOREIGNERS RETURN TO WORK IN ed Buffalo. | ing forces. the Carnegie Steel Company offices day shift than yesterday. PITTSBURGH STRIKE SPREADS, SAYS UNION 90 Per Cent. of Americans Remain in One Mill Where All Others Are Out — New Riots Report- in Chicago, Cleveland and PITTSBURGH, Sept. 24,—Wiln the national organizing committee of the steel workers in session here to-day to extend the strike campaign, representatives of the companies reported further Increases in their work- “We feel very much’ encouraged,” was the word that came from a few hours after the day shift went to work in the plants of that company which are in operation, At Clairton, it was given out, more departments were to be placed in operation to-day because of the reporting of additional men. formation came to the company offices from the main gate of the Home- stead plant, where men check in, that more wor' In- rs passed in on the At Braddock it was said more foreign-born workers reported: to-day. peewee which all along has been reported as working 100 per cent. by * SENATE TO GALL FOSTER ON RADIGALISM CHARGE Secretary of Steel Workers’ Com: mittee to Follow Fitzpatrick on Stand. WASHINGTON, Sept, 24.—Cha: made in the House by Representative Cooper, Republican, of Ohio, that Wil- Ham Z. Foster, Secretary Treasuret of the Steel Strikers’ Organization Com- mittee, represents radical union leud- ership and has been active in 1, W. W. propaganda, will be investigated by the Senate Labor Committee during its in- quiry into the steel strike, Chairman Kenyon said to-day that Foster would be summoned after John J. Fitspatrick, Chairman of the Strik- ers’ Committee, has been heard, Fitz- patrick telegraphed to-day that he would be on hand to-morrow at the opening of the inquiry. H. 8. Rubin, counsel for the strikers, may be heard. ‘The commitee will hear Judge E. H. Gary, Chairman of the Board of Di- rectors of the United States Steel Cor- poration, next Wednesday After Judge Gary is heard, Kenyon sald, the committee might visit Pittsburgh, ‘Youngstown, Chica, possibly one or two other steel ae PERSHING TO BE CALLED AS LEGION CASE WITNESS Senator TRENTON, N. J., Sept. 24 b- poenaes have been issued from the Fed- eral Court here asking Gen, Pershing, Gen. March and Secretaries Daniels and Baker* to testify defes case which the ( against members for the yernment h ina s brought the North Hudson Liquor Dealers’ Association, charging violation of the War Time’ Prohibition Act This became known to-day when George W. Tuc! attorney for the Nquor association, announced to ¢ Court that he Intended to prove by the t jover officials that demobili xation Wa ted July 1 with violating the served with the nN yesterday FINE FOR YOUR MACH Horsford's Ack ompha. ‘There ls hothing belier oF susan, sich, Reddache, tasgingia or lndigestion, Buy @ bottle to-day, Adve, jating without % the company, was sald to be still op~ erating on the same basia. The city mills of the Carnegie Company, it was given out, “look 00d.” 90 PER CENT. OF AMERICANS AT WORK, According to officials of the West Penn Stee! Company up the Allegheny Valley, an independent concern, more than 90 per cent, of the more than 700 Ameriéan- born employees there were at work to-day, while but six for- eign-born out of approximately 450 were on duty. Ono furnace in the open hearth de partment of the Allegheny Steel Com- pany in the Allegheny Valley was re- ported to have started to-day. Prac- cally all the carpenters employed in the mill also reported, it was said. The piate mill was also In operation. William Z, Foster, secretary of the Stee! Workers’ Committee, did not agree with the reports given out by the Carnegie people. He reiterated that the strike “was spreading.” He Predicted that the Homestead plant would be closed down by the end of the week. At the offices of the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company, a subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation, it was announced that a telegram had been sent to J, A, Fare rell, New York, President of the cor- poration, that the following plants were in full operation this morning: Scottdale, Pa. (two plants); Cam- bridge, ©.; Wellsville, ©.; Canal Dover, O.; New Philadelphia, 0,; Morgantown, W. Va; Chester, W. Va.; McKeesport, Pi Everything was reported quiet around the plant of the National | Tube Company here. The plant, which closed dawn last night, did not re- open this morning because of short. age of men. The works Company in of the National Tube McKeesport were oper- difficulty to-day, aes ording to an official, while at strike headquarters in McKeesport it was stated that employees of the plant report two blast furnaces banked and that the pipe furnace has beem shut