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— r THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, ECKED TRAINS ON ‘L,’ SHOWING SPLINTERED WO ‘SCENE OF, WREC 1 EROM FA S55 — Pair Price Milk Committee Gets Evidence of Another Raid on Consumers. MILK BARONS PLOTTING Half Cent to Farmers to Be Made Four-Cent Raise to People. ‘ By Sophie Irene Loeb. The Milk Trusts are considering another raise in milk. Already, according to Danial 8. Horton of the Horton Company, they have agreed that they will have to pay a half cent more to fhe farmer, © He also stated that 4 cents may be added to a quart of milk by the Ist of November, pending calculations now being made on labor delivery costs. This state of affairs was presented ‘to the Fair Price Milk Committee at ‘its hearing in City Hall yesterday aficrnoon, Just how this wide mar- agin between a half cent more to be paid to the farmer and a 4-cent in- crease to the consumer is Leing de- termined, was not explained. The milk people are still figuring, Mr. Horton explained. Also that the milk companies in this city want to affect a combination was evidenced by the testimony pre- sented. “I am very strong for a big amal- gamation,” Mr. Horton sald. Questioned as to what advastage would come to the consumer from such @ combine, Mr, Horton stated that he thought milk could be re- duced. AT LAST A SUGGESTION WORTH CONSIDERING. When asked pointedly as to whether such a gigantic Milk Trust would be willing to be reg- ulated by law so that all the prof- its of the profitable by-products, such as tinned milk, should be spread over the sale of fluid milk as well, and thus reduce the price of milk, he answered that he was willing to have such a profit so arranged and presumably limited by law. ‘This 1s the first progressive sug- gestion ‘from the dealers that has come before the committes, accord- ing to several members present, This came after Senator Charles 8. Rus- sell had repeatedly stated that of all the dealers that had come before the committee none of them seemed to have a solution as to how the milk prices could drop in the interest of the consumer. Mr. Horton admitted that while the condensed milk or tinned milk was profitable, they could not show such profit on fluid milk, but he also ad- mitted that members of his family were financially interested in both companigs, although they kept sep- arate books for both concerns and regarded thom as separate enter- prises. 7 He admitted that 46 per cent. of the milk they purchased is now be- MILK TRUST PLANS OF FOUR ENTS A QUART AS IT TALKS “AMALEAMATION” ARADSE - 2 EVICTED TENANTS START BOYCOTT: FLATS PGKETED Dispossessed Families of Har- lem and Bronx Warn Pros- pective Renters of “Strike.” ‘The boycott made fts appearance to-day in tthe rent strikes which have the Bronx when dispossessed tenants | of one apartment house paraded in| front of it carrying oil cloth banne bearing the words “Rent Strike, and tenants put out of another build- ng prepared to follow suit and spoke lof keeping it up two months. | 3 Max Atlas E. Ferraro, Max Cohen, A. Salivesto, J. Smith and Meyer? |Glazer, whose houschold furniture yesterday was piled on the walk in front of 740-744 Trinity Avenue, the Bronx, were presented last night| with a $% purse by the Tenants’! Union, spent it for canvas enough to cover a young circus, and, while the women and children sought shelter with sympathetic neighbors, camped in the rain all night beside their be- longings. When Marshal Frank Geraghty and eight députies arrived in Trinity Avenue to-day to dispossess four more tenants a demonstrative crowd| of 200 men and women jammed the street, Sixty of the seventy tenants went on strike in Geptember—which means withholding the rent—becauso following a $5 increase all around the landlord reftsed to give them six- month leases, The owners are said to be Lieberman & Levy of No, 149 Beoadway. Magistrate Robitzek had told the strikers that unless they paid their rent they would have to move, “Following his eviction,” Chairman H. \A. Gilber of the Tenants’ Union said ‘to-day, “each tenant will his stuff on the sidewalk for the forty- eight hours allowed by law. When the last family is out a committee will patrol the street for two months, warning prospective tenants away Pwelve families were dispossessed yesterday of apartments in the thirty- family house at No, % Kast 105th/ Street because, following the refusal | of Sam Eppinger, the landlord, to re- instate five families evicted last month, they refused to Ray any rent In this case the furniture remained on the sidewalk until 1 o'clock this morn- ing. . Hppinger runs a delicatessen at No, 1030 Amsterdam Avenue and last | night 200 boys and gins of the neigh- | borhood marched around there whistling and singing and smashed | the plate glass window, ‘There now are seventeen vacant apartments in the Eppinger flats and to-gay men of the evicted families made ‘their appearance in 105th Street near Madison Avenue wearing tne olicloth “boycott” signs. > Steel Workers Must Retarn or L Thetr Rights, e ing made into by-products, which they call surplus. ‘ Yet he also made the astonishing Gentinued on Bight Page.) ° CHICAGO, Oct. 21,—Steel strikers In the Chicago district were notified | to-day that they must return to work | or ye TY , or lose their pension seniority rights and other privileges, are | 1919. STRIKE BENEFITS _ NOT BEING PAID TO STEEL IDLERS Would Take Millions to Give $2 a Day Each to Strikers. BUT MEN HAVE MONEY. Superintendent of Plant De- nounces Aliens Who Walked Out. By Martin Green. (Special Statt Ci jent of The Evening World.) QCopynzhi. 11, by The Press Publishing Co, (The Now York Evening World.) GARY, Ind., Oct. 21.—Probably the weirdest feature of the steel strike— and it abounds in weird and unpre- cedented features—is the way it has been financed. As I pointed out yes- terday, the strike is entering its fifth been agttating parts of Harlem and Week, and the promoters are just be-| ginning to talk about giving financial aid to the strikers, At tho start of the strike the organ- {zers assured the men who consented to be unionized that they would be paid $2 a day strike benefit if they were called out. They haven't been paid anything as yet, and they are be- ginning to ask for that old $2 a day. Hence the activity of the promoters. It is admitted that the strike was launched without a reserve fund, Now let us look at the figures. Willtam Z, Foster claimed in Pitts- burgh three weeks ago that 300,000 men were out and that all of them were in the union. Later on the figure was officially reduced to 270,009 men, but Jobn Fitzpatrick, Chairman of the Strike Committee, asserted in Chi- cago last Sunday that there were 50 per cent, more men out than at the beginning of the strike, This state- ment can be dismissed, because the | returns show that the ranks of the strikers have been materially de- pleted. The organizers have never told how many men they signed up during the eleven months they were forming their union and the month that has elapsed since the strike was called In view of the fact that a majority of the strikers were either members of unions already in the mills or re- fused to join the new union and walked out because they were afraid to stay in or sympathize with the “trike In a general way, it would hc safe to say that the Fitzpatrick Foster outfit did not enroll more than 100,000 men, This figure will do for the punposes of this article, and if \t is too low, then the predicament of the financiers of the strike becomes the more complicated as the nuinber of men they have pledged themselves to take care of increases. FIGURES 8HOW RUNNING A STRIKE IS EXPENSIVE. ‘The initiation fee was $3, Two dol- lars went into the general fund and the other dollar went to the local union, On the basis of 100,000 men signed up, the general fund was en- riched to the extent of $200,000 and the local lodges started off with $100,- 000, Assuming that the total sum was available for expenses, it had to | stand the strain of salaries of organ- izers, expenses of organizers, hall and office rent in scores of Wyies and towns, printing, legal fees and mis- cellaneous expenditures, such as for typewriting machines, syationery, tamps, telegraph tolls, &e, There are 200 organizers and they have been at work fifty-two weeks. Say the expenses of the organizers and all other expenses total 50 per cent, of the salaries—a low estimate+ and we have thie result: Jaries of 200 organizers at be a cyweek for Sfty-two weeks ++ +$416,000 All other expenses ++ 208,000 Total expenses to date......... 624,000 Amount received from initia- tion f008.......6 Susesnscoovens 300,000 Defleit to date.. Taking the figures of the promoters and shading them conservatively in| the Nght of information gained by | eyesight, conversation and deduction, | We will say there are now 200,000 men | on strike, members of the Itzpatrick- | Foster organization ond all other untons, who are entitled to benefits at the rate of $2 a day. This puts| on the promoters an obligatian to lay out $400,000 a day or—on a six-day week basis—$2,400,000 a week in bene- fits and keep up thetr organizors’ sal- artes and overhead at the same time. | In ten weeks the strike promoters| would pay out in benefits alone $24,- 000,000, EMPLOYERS HAVE SURPLU: THE STRIKERS A DEFICIT. Big figures, indeed, but this ts a big strik®, Apparently, the promoters Gave no serious thought to the cost of running it when they called the men from the mills, It is sald that the Steel Trust has a surplus of $600,000,000 to finance the battle against the closed shop’ If the strik- STEEL UNION LEADERS WANT U. S. TROOPS SENT TO PITTSBURGH DISTRICT Their Presence at Gary- Guaran- teed Constitutional Rights, Says Fitzpatrick. WASHINGTON, Oct, 21 EADERS in the ateel strike are 90 “well pleased with the conduct” of Federal troops at Gary, Ind, that the Government has been asked to send soldiers into the Pittsburgh strike district, John Fitzpatrick, Chairman of the Strikers’ Com- mittee, sald to-day, Mr. Fitzpat- rick cams here to discuns the strike with Samuel Gompers and other members of the labor group tn the National Industrial Confer- ence. Mr. Fitzpatrick said the troope at Gary had guaranteed the con- stitutional rights of free speech and assembly and thus had re- lieved the “tension” there. the gute of one of the Gary mills ers had this vast sum in their treas- | ury they would put a 2 per cent.| dent in it in one year on the basts of paying the men they Gaim are out) benefits at the rate of $2 a day. | However, the benefit question need | not plunge the promoters into pro- | found thought as long as the weather remains mild. Never has there been a strike declared which had more potential resources in the shape of watching the outgoing and incoming shifts, He talked about conditions in the mills, This superintendent {s a veteran steel man, trained in the Pennsylvania field, and he came here when the Gary plant was started “Long hours?” he said; swe work long hours. I work ‘long hours myself." “But you are well paid,” I ventured “Sure, I'm damned well paid,” he | admitted, “but I earn my money. 1| went to work in a steel mill for a dollar and a quarter a day and 1 worked my way through, We did ready moncy In the possession of the mrikers. In the search of houses and strikers in Gary amounts ranging | from $500 to $3,000 were found in| almost every house or on the person | of each striker searched. \ The great majority of the foreign | workers in the steel mills have not | adopted the American standard of living. ‘They live on a standard of a dollar a day income or less and save the surplus, This will be disputed by | the strike leaders, but there are facts | and figures in plenty to prove the| statement’ The number of foreign borers in the steel mills who paid) sh for Liberty bonds out of fat,| greasy bankrolls astounded even the mill superintendents, who are quite familiar with the frugal habits of their workmen. The strike leaders, with few excep- tions, are a stiff-necked thor- ougMly ufreasonable lot. Anything | that appears in print which does not | jibe with their theories or their state- ments is denounced as lie, and this despite the fact that in the metropoli- tan papers their every proclamation is given due publicity Said a strike leader !n the Monongahela Valley to me a short time ag “The New York papers are all in the pay of the Steel ust. They don't print anythin spout us but lics, There's only one paper in New York that gives us a fair show,” “And what paper might that be? I asked, “The New York Cail," he replied. oi The favorito paper of the strike aders in the Chi district ts the Chicago Socialist, paper Is run and edited by the Chicago clique of pro-German Socialists that sought in every way to keep the United States}, from alding the Allies at the begin. ning of the war and from going to war, and impeded by ¢ means at their command the ft and the prosecution of the war against Ger- many. It is avowedly a Soviet sheet, continually lauding Lenine and Trotzky, continually proclaiming that the Bolshevik Government of Russia is a pronounced suc and continu. ally advocating a Soviet form of gov- ernment in the United States. dr Through the Chicago Socialist, the organ of the stec strikers in the} Chicago district, the success is plainly tied up with the Russian plot to over- throw the Government of the United States, so jlluminatingly outlined be- fore the orial committee in v hington yesterday by Jacob Mar-| golis, the 1, W. W. lawyer from Pitts- burgh VETERAN STEEL MAN TALKS OF THE BOHUNKS. A grizzled old mill superintendent more hard work in a day then than these men here do in a week; nearly everything was done by hand and we man-handled the great white and red hot_ masses of steel that are now shifted and turned and wrought by machinery, “What [ want to get at is these bohunks that went on strike: they work long hours but they get well paid for what they do—I'm speaking now from the viewpoint of a super- ent, but that isn’t what I want either, take these bohunks. They were starving to death in their own countries and they came over here to better themselves. And they did bet- ter themselves. They have made more money than they used to think] there was in the world, But that} isn't what I want to get at either, Here is the point: “Supposing they hadn't come here Supposing they had remained at home. The war would have come on; they would bave had to go into th armies, fost of them would have been killed or crippled. 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Isn't the United States feed- ing most of the countries where these birds came from? “And now they say they want to go back. They make me sick.” MOBS ATTACK WORKERS ON WAY TO STEEL MILLS Minor Disorders Repotred at Brad- dock, Pa., and Mingo Junction, O. PITTSBURGH, Oct. 21,—Minor disorders marked the progress of the steel strike in the Pittsburgh dis- trict to-day, bat no one was sertoasly bort. A crowd gathered about the main gate at the Edgar Thomson plant of the Carnegie Steel Company in Braddock, hooted workmen. Finally & blow was struck, and workers, using their fists and dinner buckets forced their way into the plant. Broken heads and blackened eyes summed up the damage. A more serious situation developed 1t Mingo Junction, O,, where bricks were thrown, and two of the at tacking party arrested. A despatch from Steubenville, the county seat nearby, sald that a dozen petitions were calling on Gov. Cox to send troops to preserve order. Mingo Junction assured the Sheriff he could preserye State interference. The Carnegie Steel Company, which owns the Mingo plant, said no effort was being made to operate | it, but only a few hundred men had been sent in to clean up the place and make needed repairs. —_— Work tm the ¥ Steel Mills, YOUNGSTOWN, 0, Oct. 12,000 21, official estimates of observers: place the number of men at work ot the Youngstown and town districts at 12,000, or one-third of the total, ‘This morning the Carnegie Steol Company started two more of ite Cininb ng mills, in the mille’ oaliiieesend Striker Shot BUFFALO, Oct. w ik was shot in the foot by a State trooper at Lackawanna yesterday. He was one of about 600 strikers pre- paring to march to the plant of the Lackawanna Steel Company. in circulation among citizens| Mayor McCoy of | order / without | East Youngs- | $40 A WEEK DEMANDED BY SODA CLERKS—NEXT Also Eight-Hour Day Is In€luded in Drug Store Employees’ Schedule. ‘The lad in the white coat who draws your fee cream soda pow wants a mini- mum of $40 a week and an eight-hour day. Wis demand ts included tn the onoral schedule drawn up by the United Drug Clerks, aMiiated with the Retail Clerks Protective Association, covering salaries, hours, days off and duties. ‘The main demands are for eight hours as a day's work for all cmployees of retail pharmactes, with a full day off out of seven, All employees are to be off duty with pay on alternate legal holidays, Licensed pharmacists are to receive a minimum of $50 a week; junior pharmacists, $36; licensed druggists, $36; junior drug clerks, $25; cashiers, $20; roda dispensers, firet grade, $40; second grade, $30; third grade, $20; porters, first grade, $25, and porters, second grade, $20. By means of thie agreement, drewn up yesterday, the drug clerks hope to settle the diMculties existing between the union and the employers. Eat Plenty of & ODEN CARS DRIVERS ASK HINES’S AID TO SPEED WAGE AWARD Teamsters Send Committee ts Washington to Confer With Director General. Martin Lacey, secretary and treasurer of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters’ Local No. 645, announced to- day a Joint committee of Loca! No, 46 and Local No. 459 of Jersey City had deen sent to Washington to confer with Waiker D. Hines, director of the United States Railroad Administration, regard- ing a settlement of the strike of the drivers and handlera of the American Express Company. Danie! J. Tobin, President of the Inter= national Brotherhood of Teamsters, had telephoned to the local unions, Mr. Lacey said, asking that the committee be sent ‘once with a petition to Director Hines asking him to expedite the decision of the Labor Wage Board on wanes of ex- Pressmen, which hag been p: days. ‘There was « joint meeting of th New York and Jersey City unions Thurs: day, which voted to continue the strike until the decision of the labor wage board. The committee, Mr. Lucey said, was instructed to keep in touch with the local unions by telegraph with a view of ending the strike. 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