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\ Government and capital. ‘ more radical the more chance of suc- L WW. ‘ONE BIG UNION’ IDEA IS TOPARALYZE NATION BY ANARCHIST Nortoriously Bloodthirsty Reds Brought Into Action to Terrify Country. RACIAL UNITS FORMED. “Traitors” to Cause Disappear From Earth and Can’t Be Found. After the 1904 I. W. W. Chicago Convention handed to “Big Bill” Haywood exclusive authority to han- die the forces as he saw fit, he called fnto conference an “inner circle” of radical Socialists and Anarchists to dian a campaign for “One Big Union.” Haywood was exceedingly trank to the chosen few and at a meeting held one August Sunday fternoon in Milwaukee he told his colleagues: “We must make a quick start and show some actual results to keep our people keyed up to action. We must ‘ve able to show them some concrete evidence of success along the lines they have been thinking. To that end we must incorporate the best teatures of each man’s group and harmonize the thoughts into a crys- tallization of action against both “Each radical organization rpust be available to the cause and the cess. Wo shall first take over the Anarchists because they seem better bent for such work than those whose minds have been conservatively di rected. “In the beginning we must make every Anarchist depart from his old path and become an organizer for the new movement. Then, when they are trained and the organtza- vion units are set up, they must be welded into racial and international oups. Russians must be kept to- gether, Germans must work in their own bodies and along their own lines, Italians must have their own vanner and the Swedes and Finns must travel in their own way with the executive heads in actual contact ith the ‘One Big Union’ directors.” WHY GOLDMAN AND BERKMAN TOOK UP “ONE BIG UNION.” ‘This address, fully reported in the foreign language papers of Chicago ang Milwaukee at the time, had its effect. Emma Goldman and Alex- ander Berkman saw the point of the thought and they ‘ceased talking rev- vation and made their speeches long the lines of “One Big Union.” in every meeting they flattered those n attendance and any time a man or woman arose to debate or ask questions and whose yolce, thought and expression indicated ability for ratory and organization work that questioner was singled out for school-| ing as a “One Big Union" organizer. Everything progressed as mapped out until the United States got into| war, Then Haywood made the ing mistake of calling out on strike all the lumberjacks who were getting «pruce out of Washington forests for the airplane programme of the War! Department, He took 50,000 men out | na single day and focussed the at- | cntion of the Department of Justice on him and the “One Big Union” idea. Eventually he went to the Iederal ‘sison at Leavenworth, Kan,, for his sotivities, Immediately, the Department of lustice, working through the Espion- age Bureau, “put on the screws” and drove the allen born in the organiza- ‘longs’ that the I, W. W. had so care- fully built up into seclusion for the duration of the war. Every time one of these organizations raised a hand against war industries the Depart- ment of Justice swooped down and sent the leaders either to detention camps or to Federal penitentiarles, The result was that the “One Big Union” movement was halted so far aa work in the open was concerned. But they plotted in secret and kept organizing against the time when the r would end, | |. W. W. BEGINS DRIVE FOR) “DIRECT ACTION | As soon as the armistice was signed the organizations galvanized into action. Tons of literature, print- d in thirty-seven languages, wero ent into the communities where the he were foreign born were working, Accord- ng to the I. W. W's own + port, 7,214 trained organizers started a terrific drive for members and “di- rect action” while the Government's cttention was centred on the peace treaty and reconstruction programme, liefore any one in officiai authority vealized it"846 strikes bad been called | n the country, and in every cu fore the strikes were called the erg seemed contented, had money in hé@ bank and Liberty bonds in safe deposit boxes, Inquiry developed that it was not a question of wages that had sent tie men out; it was not capital's oppost- tion to trade unions and collective bargaining. These principles had been recognized through the firm stand of the Administration during the war, {t war simply a plain, publicly nounced determination to take over Ls industry for une use of the work- os and the absolute elimination of \he capitalist, Tae toreign language newspapers GHCAGO ARNE ~ WITHSURVVO OFTHE VENE Captain of Ship Stricken at! Sea Tells Story of Ac- | cident. | DIRECT ACTION’ | were filled with revolutionary articles | as introductory to the crusades of the organizers. An example is an article ” |. N. M.” of Pueblo, Col. hich Was printed in the Industrialist, a Finnish revolutionary newspaper pub- lished at Duluth, Minn. Two solid columns of matter from the pen of “LN. M.” was printed, of which @ sample paragraph follow: “Only by joining an industrial union id by educating itself in class com- j@unism can workers have enough power to better their conditiona and finally, in a very short time, over- throw this cursed capitalistic exploit system and erect in its place a re- public of industrial communism, where there will be no want or mis- ery, but everybody will have equal prosperity.” John Kolu of No, 104 Fourth Ave: ing for any of the Shipwreck vic- ttle, Wash., wrote to explain ae ‘What Is One Big Union?’ in which tins who might need assistance. | he pointed out the neceaalty_ of 2 Capt. Bonifacio told the story of the | workers joining the L . “for salar the poop hoy of geining control ‘of all wccident which destroyed his ship. industry.” | ‘We were bound from Vera Cruz A “NATIONAL DEFENSE FUND” ang Havana to St. Nazaire, IN A “WAR CHEST.” with « cargo of rum and sug: The I. W. W. leaders knew that ‘said. “On the morning of the 13th) prosecutions would follow their pro- dire was reported from a forward hold gramme and the national officers potween decks. It then was 2 o'clock drafted Kust Lepiste to write an @p-| ayy, wiretéss call Which peal for all the thousands of mem-|_ “We sent out a witeieal ol) vt | bers to contribute one day's pay for | Was answered by the Chicago, and | Survivors of the fire at sea that destroyed the steamer Venezia in| mid-ocean last Monday arrived In New | York to-day on the.French liner Chi- cago, which rescued them after they | were forced to take to lifeboats, The mail cargo was also saved. Capt. Paul Bonifacio, his crew of 150, 38 cabin and 160 steerage pas- sengers were landed at the foot of | 3ist Street, Brooklyn, where there | ‘was a fleet of Red Cross autos wait- | a national defense fund, sv that the ships ere turned toward each| legal assistance could be available other. We raced at full apeed, fight ‘or a e o “ ; A eke law. 3 foreign language group 2g the fire with pumps and hoac coliected the day's pay and kept it lines. i} in its treasury as a “war chest’ | “At 6.30 I saw the effort was hope- against the time that it would B® ies, and ordered the stewards to| needed to fight organized govern. | 1088 and cee tha path ment. It was left to the officers of | rouse the pass: : the various racial groups make | into lifeboats. They were lowered | appropriations to the I. W. W. au away and I stayed on board with the organizauon, and in every case of AD O64 #enting the fi y g the fire. mA nattating:. how seauiecanter “About 8 o'clock we were driven to | Illustrating how assistance was ENING WORLD gtven, the official records show that @ movement was started July 14 last to gain the release of “Big Bill” Hay- wood from Leavenworth Prison on bail. Calls were sent to the different the rear deck by an explosion. More explosions and the terrific heat final- ly forced us to leave the ship. We slid down ropes into boats and rafts foreign language groups and the pro- 0 |and waited for the Chicago to pick portion of each was set oul. E. SHIbANS tOBIE ub OH UoKie Kivisto of Chicago, Ill, issued the |¥° ¥P- eealk . ae oe aoon weree call for the Finns to rally to the | *but 10 o'clock. cause July 16, He demanded $5,000| ‘The liner Savoy probably will take In cash or Liberty bonds to supply |tho passengers on their interrupted the quota allotted to the Finns and |e), to raised the money in two days. meee PRISON FAILS TO CURE THEM; | ONE “TRAITOR” DISAPPEARS. Once the I. W. W. agitators are re- nothing had happened. ®The case of t ? John Pancner, of Detroit, - Mich., | shows how much the average I, of W. radical is cured by a prison term made a travelling I, W. W. apeaker. four days after leaving his cell, de- He was released from Leavenworth | He went directly to Duluth, Minn, livered a “One Big Union" revolution- leaded from prison they usually con- | tinue their programme as though \ Prison on bail furnished by the Finn organization end was immediately headquarters of his countrymen’s | ercup, and on the night of Sept. 7 last, i —_——i ary speech in which he advocated the overthrow of Government by cessa- Arrests Made in Brooklyn After | Auto Chase When Driver tion of all industrial activity. Ho made other speeches as follows: Sept. | Is Stabbed. % Virginia City, Minn.; Sept. 10, | Biwabic, Minn.; Sept. 11, Aurora, | ia ee | Minn,; ‘Sept. Chisholm, Minn.!| Two striking laundry workers in Sopt. 14, Hibbing, Minn.; Sept. 15, " e Washwank, Minn.; Sept. 16, Keewatin, | Brooklyn were arrested on charges} Minn; Sept. 21," Bessemer, Mich.? /of fe is morning and Sept. 22, Wequamee, Mich, and Sept, |°t *¢lomlous aasault this m id Marquette, Mich. Industrialist, the Finns’ revolution- organ, advertised Panener as “a y able speaker who proposes a daily 1. W. W. newspaper to be pub- lished at Duluth in’ the English language and who also recommends that the I. W. W. establish @ special six more were taken on charges of jacting in concert with the two. In} these arrests the police say they have | |stopped the career of the “terror crew,” which for several days has been making life dangerous for Jnun- | district committee to handle the sit-|dry wagon drivers who refused to uation in the Messaba Range Upper ; ie the elaeen 8 Michigan, Two Harvors, Dultth and |2trik® oF who took the places Superior communities. strikers, | While most of the I. W. W. agita-| The “terror crew” cruised through tors who are released from prison go | all boroughs of New York, and there back to their work as of old, Herman | have b many complaints from its Crosby, of Hibbing, Mont., decided | ictims. ‘Th een : = rally used, | that once was enough and he quit the | Victims. The method gene sre I. W. W. and began, to lead a decent, | it was said, was for the crew, driving peaceful life that Would not again!a fast automobile, to catch a lgyal | place hie Wherty in jeopardy. But not /wagon driver in an faolated p! The 1 W. W. appointed e onmcitres {drag him from the wagon and beat consisting of John Allikainen, Paul|hiin up. On one occasion, it is }Leo Loukki of Halla and William Peitila, all of Hib- bing, “to reproach him for leaving the I. W. W. and making utterances Against it.” The committee reported to their union that they had “re- proached him," and Industrialist car- ried a news item declaring that “I W. W. members can be assured Crosby will not be heard from again and prove an obstacle to the big|tied by Joseph Hisenberg, a driver |te estimate at 50 per cent. cause.” Crosby disappeared completely. No one asked where he had gone or how. Department of Justice officers in Chi. cago have failed utterly to find a single trace of Crosby since the com- mittee called upon him in Hibbing to ‘reproach him,” Another “traitor” to the New York “Russian Reyolutio Soviet Republ for violation of the deral laws, served his term and ed. AS stion was made that the Workers’ Socialist Publishing Company of Duluth, Minn, pubdlish his book, Finnish Local No. 1100 pro- cause was City, who Bolshey He too wrote ism and th went to prison tested inst the publication of t book ‘because he is not a member of the I. W. W. and because he has, sin his release from prison, proved by his | utterances that he does not support industrialism and revolution in ac- cordance with the I W. W, doctrines.” ‘This protest was dated Aug, 22, last and was signed by Carl Hammal, Aug. Save and A. T. Urtamo, all of Chicago, as representing the local. . The agitators kept working all the time—in. prison and out. Santeri (Alex) Maki was sent to Douglas Prison, Utah, for advocating revolu- tion and prostration of industry by strikes, He wrote the most revolu- tionary article of his life while in the prison and had it smuggled out to friends In Chicago, They sent it to Duluth, and from there it was printed in nine languages and sent over the country to ald agitators. The original reproduction was in the Finnish lan- guage, and it was printed by the Finnish Workers’ Soclety of Duluth, (Monday The Evening worlt wilt expose the full workings of the Iinnish Branch of the I. W. W. a4 an example of the thoroughness. of the branches of the movement.) charged, knives were used The knife case is the basis of the ei i |specific charge of felonious assault, | t!tled to eight pounds of sugar for the ne ee Vnonmw Vem mmoce 9 Mrs. 8. R. Hollander was photographed on the deck of the White Star liner Adriatic, on Which sh e Parisian costume that will interest all feminine America. SUGAR FAMINE HERE WEDNESDAY. SAYS FOOD CHEF Longshoremen Refuse to} Handle Consignments on Vessels Affected by Strike, A sugar famine will st © New York next Wednesday, Federal Foo Administra r Arthur Williams pre dicted to-day, “I cannot understand how men who have at other times shown then aS Patriotic ag the longshoremen, should hold back this supply at this Ww ams said, Phere are ships loaded with raw sugar waiting o be discharged at refinery docks but unless the longshoremen return to their posts immedi: this cannot be brought to the people of the city, which of course, includes the striker themselves.” Mr. Williams has issued an appeal to candy, gum and soft drink manu- facturers to release all suy The age will last probably thirty days, he said Fach family ely, Fr possible. short in New York en ATURDAY, OOTOBER |American Woman Shows Latest Mode in Striking Paris Costumes 18, 1919 : UUS.AGENTS CHARGE ARE BACKING REDS Others Suspected of Aiding Anti-War Moves Under Federal Surveillance. More than a score of wealthy New! York women are said to be under es-| | Pionage by the Department of Justice “because they are entertaining and giving comfort to the criminals who have been convicted of offenses against the Federal statutes,” One high in the confidence of the | Department of Justice is authority | for the statement that many of the onvicts who are being showered with |attentions hore have long records of opposition to the Draft Iaw, opposition |to carrying the American flag to | France and of attempting to cripple war Industries to thwart a crushing offensive against Germany and Aus | tria. j | Acoording to information given The | Evening World the same group of wo- |men have been financing the publica- Itlon ‘of radical newspapers which lopenly demand a revolution for the | purpose of seizing all industries, ! “Parlor Radteuls" are accused of providing the funds for the publica: tion of some of the most expensive pamphlets and booklets ever pubs | ed in this city, all carrying prop- nda in opposition to the Ame n form of government, | Money to pay the rental of Kast! Side halls for meetings of “Reds” has come from the ‘bank accounts of; women who are active in the social world and it is sald that the Depart- ment of Justice is trying to \work |out the method of exposure that will end thé aid of the women referred to, In every instance, according to De- RICH WOMEN HERE | partment of Justice oMeials, the women accused have refrained’ from directly violating the law but they Jare said to have furnished funds without asking to what use they » to be put although knowing in MRS. S.R nce exactly what use will be HOLLANDER de of the money, A fu | has be ‘structions of the investigations to Washington and in- aid to be awaited by ct. e returned yesterday, wearing a are those with authority to STRIKE AT HOTEL DAVISEVASWE FORCES QUESTS TO ON REPORT OF MAKE THEIR BEDS, O'MALLEY FRING concent Also. Serve Themselves In Refuses to Discuss Rumor Great Northern Dining Room | That His Deputy Commis- While Employees Picket. sioner Is Removed. riking walters, washers, cooks eu Di é i esas tae gt aoe B arkets, to-day refused to discuss and malda_of the Great Northern) ii semoval of Edwin dg, O'Malley, Hotel, No, 118 West 57th Street, are} Deputy Commissioner in charge of doing picket duty outside of the hotel the city's sale ef Army Foods, Mr. O'Malley was not at his homo in Hollis, I. L, te was stated there. waiting on Neither was he at the office som- BU hAR AUTIAaTaE was he at the office of Com, missioner Day Uilplyetive employees) wig BAYS iis araiieyion the | de to-day while inside the guests are making their own beds, themselves the quit Manager Baker of the Great North- ern declared to-day that he was not and dotn payroll of your partment?” Dr, Day was asked, “I will not discuss that,” the Com- missioner said. sure what the strike was about, The) wis ho cxerciain the authority of pickets on the sidewalk told an Eve- pple bocce G2 Deputy Commissioner of Markets?* ning World reporter that it was an). i sn yy oie raeenann§ ld ive no. f Wil not discuss that. Any ndustrial stri ME WOUNDS statement about the matter must other information, jis come from somewhere else.” The guests, who say they have been | tye Day dig not disclose the source Tepeatedly insulted by the striking| from which information on this point help, volunteered to assist the man- official business is to come, agement by making up their own! The report of O'Malley's dismissal beds and waiting on themselves in|8 hot 4 surprise to those ‘n touch the dining room, Mr. Baker sald the | demands of the strikers were so un- reasonable that there was little use |The men accused are Charles Manno, rest of October under the sugar ra-| in jistening to them. |No. 544 West 43d Street, Manhattan, and Angelo Greece, No. 9 Princo Street, Brooklyn, They wero identi- tioning system in operation to-day. | The allowance {1s eight pounds a month for November and December, | of the] One demand of the strikers is that their newly formed union, the Inter- national Hotel Employe Associa- tion, which Is not recognized by the for the Cascade Laundry, who said|Per Capita consumption before the| american Federation of Labor, be they stabbed him, He seriously wounded, however The other six prisoners are Joseph was not war, It was raid by BE, H. Costello of the Squalization Board that 250,- ar 000 tons of sugar | 5 ave been allocated ' eeno, No. Sizabeth S: st i Mareen, No ailtsabet treet, » 85,000,000 persons in New York, | ) Manhattan; Peter Tadico, OME ioe meena cre chotueat | Elizabeth Street; Harry Davidoff, No. | * il i . 5 4 Yesterday, a steady line of appll- 79 Bartlett Street, Brooklyn; Samuel |) °**” alter) sh Arizo, No. 9 t First Street, Man- . ereaniy makers, drug battan; John, Costa, No, 486 Carroll prety 7 a \ Bi Street, Brooklyn, and Joseph Verra, Ls : Hen . a si ae ane No, tHzabeth Street, Manhattan, : ee ap si Bitawvell t, Manhattan | usar Hoard, at No, 111 Wall streot A general police alarm had been out |e hospitals are demanding sugar, for several days ineall boroughs to and it Was stated that they will have capture the automobile, guid to have erent license No, 170,651, and arrest its on- on ynplaint of several manufac pupants, turing drug concerns that they can Patroiman Henry Bisman caught! get no sugar with which to continue sight of the car this. morning at the manufacture of ne ary med Sandford street and Mytle Avenue, | ein Ole Salthe, Acting Director of He got another car and gave chase, | the Buresu Food and Drugs of the making the capture, aided by Pa- |e Department, wrote to the local trolmen Hannan and Seery, whon he Mood Administrator, asking that he had picked up. see th nis probable ith menace | ‘The laundry strike thus far has been | be avoidea, by giving drus men t | neither a success nor a failure S e | clu of the restaurants and other big cu ual tomers of the laundries have been| URGES U. S.CONTROL OF SUGA obliged to substitute paper and oil- 7 Fon tor ne Auany of the Toundrics wederal Expert Warns of Shortage nave dd to kep going ut least Prices. Jto some extent, and private families and Hisher Prices, have been getting their laundry bach WASHINGTON, Oct, 18 in reasonable time and without hay- feorr ing to pay the increased prices that world nortawe are expected to prevail if the strike is wil Ga | wins, ones At a moeting last night members of eae s Local No, @0 of the International t iar situ | Brotherhood of Engineers, composed Fe ec aasn tea ia Raaratane| chiefly of laundry and factory engt- Ff represented Bocreta: neers, voted to support the strike 4 every possible way" be@ides walking lout of struck shops mittee 18 ¢ the sugar e sidering the bill alization board for a year. immediately recognized by the hotel and that only its members be em- ployed } Mr. Baker cited an Instance of what | the hotels “are up against.” | with conditions in the Public Markets. O'Malley's appoint- ment was understood not to be a cause for rejoicing from his chief and Department of was by many considered to indicate that Mayor Hylan was keeping a check on his Commissioner. Pala a MARSHALS TOBE HOST OF BELGIAN KING AND QUEEN ent Will Not Be Able to See Monarchs While in the Capitol Pres Two wb aid, dis for insulting a i" ; - >, An hour later an officer of hia Ww HINGTON, Oc 18.President upon me and said if L a able to bee the Hing hin back be would call and yuee Belgium when they visit] lof the men out. L was compelled | Washington, it- w announced to-day | tat hin " o ta nulty, who issued the ma ment of the Hotel] ry : ment A Blae RGR It 2 5 nt sheet much regretted that the | ness | bellboy waite and kitchen help, It 8 z dent and Mrs, Wi was sil the hotel that an adve to ve the King and epueen of| tisement for workers to fill the places i and Duke of Brabant was Inserted in yesterday morainwa |e | World with ta ult that th we t Thi Majesties thoy had to turn several hundred per. |to ident and Mes, Mare | ons away h place of the Prea-! It was also sald the old he i 8 for the not be yed, as the G Le id Bintes | 4 ris His Roya! assumed suc an attitude H ghr sit to W ani management could not d to residence of th without consulting the Third A ary of State.’ union _ —_ - , ttl) $10,000,000 Werth ef BURNED HER BOY’S FINGERS, ‘ood In) y | That ther vy's Supply Yar | HL 18 $10,000,000 worth | age in the Nay ) oklyn becam mnygaioner had’ visited what mnore to yoaterd ad in ard in F ay when ( nounced that h station to eet in addition ment of 600,000 cans of string bea Vaporated ‘milk, peas and saln Sales of food in the s Thouxe ma kets on Friday amounted to $42,000, as follows: In Manhattan, $16,000 Brookly $12,000; Bronx, — $4,000 Queens, $5,000; Richmond, $1,000. ply Woman Fined 850 for Pontaht Child Who Took Peantes, JUTLEY J., Oct, 18.—Charged with erueity to her 6-year-old son, Hugo, in putting his hand in @ gas oven snd burning his fingers as punishment taking some pennies, Mrs, Florence it, thirty-two, of No. Frank 1 Avenue, Was fined $50 to-day by Keeor M, Post, in the Nutley Po! ‘ourt. A helghbor noticed the burnt fingers, and complained to the police, MRS, ANGIER DUKE TO SEEK DIVORCE, HER COUNSEL SAYS Lawyers’ Efforts to Effect an Agree- ment Reported to Have Been Vain. PHILADELPHIA, Oct, 18.—John ©. Hell, counsel for Mra, Cordelia Biddle Duke, daughter of Major and Mra. A. J Drexel Riddle, of Philadelphia, to-day confirmed the report that Mra. Duke ia to week « divorce from Angier Bu- chaman Duke. Efforts by lawyers to effect an agree: ment between Mr. and Mrs, Duke are said to haye been in ya Mra, Duke haa been living with her parents Her husband i@ a son of Benjamin Duke, the tobacco man, They were mar= ried in Philadelphia in April, 1915. a have two children FREDERICK N JUDSON DIES IN ST. LOUIS HOME: Was a Lawyer of National Promi- | nence and a Friend of Labor. Word wns recetved to-day Louis of the death of Attorney Fre Judson of that-city, | Frederick N. Judson w an emine member of his chosen profession, the law, and a man of national stature In the world’ affairs. In 1906 he wrote his treatise on the Interstate Com- merce Law, which is an accepted authority on the subject. He dedicated his work to former Presitent Taft to whom he paid one of the bighest com- pliments ever received by a man in pub- Hie lite, Mr. Judson was one of tho trustees and executora of the estate of the lave Joseph Pulitzer, proprietor of The World, Evening World dd St I Post-Dispatch. During th associated with Mr, Taft Labor Hoard, H with the from St. ok nent cor iplent of 1 Ol and Business, He Louls attorney» Bl tee mon, Inited Sta counsel to President them to proseeu' ber of his Cabinet according to their charge Fe Railroad — WHY GROW OLD? ASKS DOCTOR WHO CLAIMS HE HAS ‘FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH! Urges Tragsfer of Glands, Whi Live Three Hours After Death, He Says. PARIS, Oct. 18. R, SERGE VORONOFF, who claims he can postpone old age by grafting Interstitial glands, points out in anvarticle in the Journal to-day that the inter- nal secretion of glands, such as the thyrold and suprarenal, con- tinue alive for three hours after the death of the body and, there- fore, advocates that bodies of young and healthy persor killed in acidents should be rushed to sp hospitals where patients are suffering fro meurable mala- dies, "He says the ting glands could be rouped and put in cold stora, where they can be kept indefinitely Unfortunately,” writes Dr. Vor onoff, “prejudices and law now prevent this require that our perishable bodies be consigned to the earth they slowly usclessly consumed.” _ ACTS TO AVERT COAL STRIKE. Our secular cust where and are mC Wan! WASHING Union Committee ington Conference, ON, Oct, 18.-Telegram were #ent lo-day by phn L. Lewis, act. | ing president of the United Mine W ers of America, to the thirty-so members of the full scale committes to be here Tuesda rning for a 6 ference with a similar coma ope ors and Seer of son, In an effort to half a million bituminous 1 for Nov. 4, $300 RAISE Estimate and Action to Be Decided To-Morrow. An ultimatum served on the Board of Estimate yesterday by the untona of streét cleaning employees wom for them a promise of an increase of” $300 a year to take effect of Oot. 1, 1919. The men will decide to-mor> ; Tow whether to accept it or strike, When the board met in committee | yesterday afternoon representatives jot the seven strect cleaners’ organ! | 2ations accompanied by M. J. Cashia, jof the International Brotherhood of ; Teamsters, and James E. Roach, am |organizer for the American Federa+ tion of Labor, informed it that 3,000 street cleaners had voted unanimous: ly to serve notice that it must within, forty-eight hours consider their de- | mand for a $500 increase, or the mea | would strike “as a whole.” Comptroller Craig said if the men | Were to serve an ultimatum he would decline to listen, but later they were allowed to proceed after Cashin and Roach had been barted. These two left the room disgruntled, “The men are up in armas," Thomas Tt. Fitzgerald, leader of the sweepers, declared, “Unless they see some im~ mediate relief they will not be paci- fied. They have read in the news~ papers that city officials with $6,000 or $7,000 a year have been receiving reases of $1,000.” Mayor Hylan then gaid that since, as presented by Fitzgerald, the de- mands had been considerably modi- fled, he was inclined to consider them. “I am in favor of granting the ime |erease they ask if the Comptroller ean find the money,” he went om, nd I will suggest that the increase commence on Oct. 1. The board went into executive sen- |ston, An bour later the street clean- ers were informed that tt had beom decided to stick by the provisions of the 192 tative budget,’ but te jako increase effective on Oct. | instead of walting until Jan. 1 The committee replied that it would fubmit this offer to a meeting of the | | | |street cleaners at No. 214 Second Street to-morrow and would urge ita acceptance, "It comes to this,” sald the Comp- troller. “We have got to make some- body else submit to. sacrifices. We jcan make the 1920 rates effective on det. 1 only at the risk of hu other employees. If there ts unani~ mous consent of the Board of Alder- men, there may be issued @ special revenue bond.” “We don't want to take the bread and butter out of other lee mouths,” responded Fitzgerald. Borough President Connolly volun- teered the information that all bus $1,000,000 of the legal limit of special revenue bonds had been exhausted and that from the Board of Child Welfare alone was requested a large, sum. ‘The committee was told that if, the street cleaners refused to accept the offer, they were to return and re« port at Monday's meeting of the | board. “And If you can't put this through uu had better return to the Board of Estimate and take our jobs and be done with It," added Mr. Craig. ‘ORGANIZE VIGILANCE BAND TO CURB ROBBERY RAIDS $10,000 Theft of Furs Arouses Merchants in Ridgewood, Queens, That furs worth between $10,000 and $12,000 were stolen from the establish ment of Max Semel, a furrier at Myrtle and = Forest = Avenu Ridgewood, Queens, became known to-day, Mer- hants aroused by this and similar reb= will meet to-night to form « vigilance committee Semet's place Is on a prominent eor- her, well illuminated, ‘The robbers broke through the front door early yes- rday, After loading the furs into beries Jautomoblle they apparently prepared to take away 150 women’s coats, but de- {cided there was not time. No arrests have been made. ———_—»>—__ Ask Police to Hunt for Two Van~ ished Brokers, Assistant District Attorney Kitroe asked the Police Department last night |to send out a general alarm for witl< jam C. Brower and George J. Childs, of tne firm of Brower & Childs, brokers at N Wall Street, following the r vip of complaints by customers that they eould not get back collateral placed with the firtn veral of the brokers employees were questioned by Mr. Kilroe at. bis 1M esterday afternoon, Detectives ent to the Wall Street offices reported pthat they could not find. either Mr. Brower or Mr, Childs WHAT THE \ DEUCE 15 - | AN “Lost and Found” advertised in The World or to “Lost and Fi 103 World Building, will for thirty days, The een at any of The t and Found” advertisements left at any of The Worid’s ising Awencle can be lephoned directly to ‘The World. Call 4000 Beekman. New York, g& Brooklyn Office, 4100 Main, NAY NOT SATSEY. STREET CLEANERS 8 | Ultimatum Served on Board of