The evening world. Newspaper, October 23, 1919, Page 1

TO-NIGHT'S WEATHER—Probably Rain. PRICE TWO CENTS, — NEW SERIAL FEATURE: TO-DAY’S EVENING WORLD “Circulation Books Open to All.” | 1010, by The Prev Publishing ‘The ‘New York World YORK, _THURSDAY, | OCTOBER 23, HOW GREAT CORPORATIONS ARE TRYING TO SOLVE THE WAGE PROBLEM BY MARTIN GREEN 4 i “Cirenlation Books Open to All’|_* 3 2 PA G E 8 1919. TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Probably Rain. PROFIT MADE ON ARMY FOOD SOLD HERE ~ WILSON IN A NEW MESSAGE TURNS LABOR COUNCILS © WORK OVER TO PUBLIC GROUP <r HOPE NOM RESTS ~INPUBLIG GROUP OF LABOR COUNELL Bolt of Moennig Pk Faction With! Threat of Strikes May Give Chance for Mediation. — | |" Chairman Lane Announces New Plans of President and Adjoums Co Conference. CALLS FOR A REPORT. Employers’. Group “May Also| Report to President—Labor Still Helds Out. [Ye WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—Out of the | wreck of the National Industrial Von- ference President Wilson today ueht to bulld new machinery to bring about | Industria: peace in the country, In a} mesage to Chairman Lane he asked that the public representatives in the conference continue their work and make @ raport to him. of hunan rights to settle labor di It ts the hope of the President and themselves when other Administration oMcials that the /the Industrial Peace Conference wa public delegates, who were appointe!| convened at eas by Mr, Wilson and who represent bot | Wilgon, Ono bas falled, employers and workers, can formulate | other remains to be tried 4 program which will be acceptable t capital and labor, Action was taken by the President following a conference and recom- mendation from Chairman Lane, Sec- vetary Tumulty, © rman Chad- bourne of the Committee of Fiftee: and B. M. Baruch, head of tho pub- lic group, which lasted until a late pour last night Chairman Lane called the confer- ence to order at 12.80 P.M, and bcd | nounced the receipt of the message | from the President. The labor group | was not present. “Inasmuch as the burden of quarrels between capital and labor falls on the public, ” said Chairman Lane, “it seems proper that this group the way, By David Lawrence. | (Special Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (Copyright, 1919).—Two ways to draft a charter putes presented the of President and the The one which has collapsed was an endeavor to obtain by means of group voting and speech making in the presence of a ready agreement on principles. press in The other would contemplate mediation with the members of the public *termediaries group as in- conferring informally, | perhaps, with the labor leaders on tite oue side, and then with capital on the other, in an effort to bring out Should there, be varying opinions, a majority and minority report of conclusions could be then given to the country to be| romise report. the | # comp e report should undertake to find acted upon by the moral force of} It recognizes the fact that pee hd public opinion. | the United States aro greater than)” 1). .ouraged somewhat over the| any party. ; “The public group will be asked to make a report and to give advice and suggestions as to the industrial poli | failure of the first resolution on col- |lective bargaining, which was noth-| |ing more nor less than an inevita ble clash on the open shop versus |” try, these to be pre- Foil ithe ermaldent. Outside the| the closed shop, members of the | weather looks gloomy, but out West] public group were inclined to drop we call wot weather growing weather, |the whole thing and go home. But | So it may not be as unkind 48 \t/the White House intervened, Preal-! neems to be.” dent Wilson has wanted some ex Lane declared the conte * “wd pression of opinion as to what capt journed a8 now constituted” at the) ia) ang jabor ought to do, and If the onoluslon of We remarks pu’) public groups, as at present con ee SPOUD: I mes i hide aa stituted, Is unwilling or feels itself a citi i aii incapable and wants experts, new The employers group also went in-| Members can be added to the group. to executive session when Lane ad As the situation stands now, labor journéd the conference, (Continued on Eighth Pa “We also may frame a group re-| e.) port to the President,” said Chair-! mar Harry A, Wheeler formation has come to me that the | Samuel 1 AY |einployers' group, in their conference, | the stand tak labor group | voted against the rclarath . 3 tte withdrawal of y day majority of one. I am convis at | “We have withdrawn,” said Gom- pers, “and until the conditions are changed. Of course wo have with- drawn and that ends it as fur as we are concerned, We are not jumping- | jacks, We are not only men respon. | gible as citizens, Dut responsible to saiBions of worker. iG ~ those employers in what group who t the declarat e of the intellige Voted agwin representat minded employ ers of t | commar armies to-day on an Britain arrived of the public "The representatives group, largely employers and people | who have been antagonistic to the laow canse and labor movement.’ gaxs EL, vote te favor of our declaration, In- $83 43, - FORE MkaLe Good Diswtion waker | time Pronmition Act in so far as dt af- | behalf of a chain of places enjoy PRISONER ASSISTS. U.S.INUNCOVERING LIQUOR GRAFT PLOT [or arver, Federal Agent, Tells Nhat He Knows of Alleged Muleting of Dealers. $5,000 BAIL FOR TWO. Ring Got Hundreds of Thou- sands of Dollars to “Pro- tect” Whiskey Sales. Chi Laie es P. McCarver, by F arrested ents of men acoused of being concerned in a con- piracy to save from prosecution | liquor dealers of New York City and| Veinity who have ignured the ware fected the sale of “hard jiquor;” was put through @ protracted examination to-day by Jobn Minton jr, special Feder rosecutor, Mr, Minton said after the examina- tion that McCarver had shown every | frank with the Federal arding bis conduct and | other mon reported to have i jminunity to New York lquor|} vers and that the United States | Court would be asked to fix his bail ut lowest consistent figure. In spite of contrary reports, Mr. Minton # there was nothing in MoCarver's statement involving any fhember of the staff of the United State District Attorney for this dis- rict or any former member of that office. | McCarver is one of five men dicted in connection with the inves- gation, Other indictments are pected, Judge Learned Hand deniod Minton's request that bail be for defendants Richard Yancy de M. P. Allen at $10,000 each and { At $5,000, saying there was no rea. Son any of them would s > run away. It was stated in court that Me- Carver, who is understood to eG turned state’s evidence 1] in- exe Mr fixed , Was Fr as one of the shrewdest bunt of | |moonshine distillers in the tue Ridge Mountains be e « was} transferred to Now York City. “PLAYED NO PIKER GAME,” SAYS FLYNN. “These fellows were simply clean- ing up the town,” said Chief of the Department of Justice, who| started out with the assumtption | that there was a reason for New York's being « wide open booze town They were covering all five oughs and part of New Jerse don't know yet within thousands much the but it no| piker's ¢ In one case a Repub. | lican politician paid $1,500, ably a week's tribute, ring got, me. was pres to the ring on | protection. As this graft has thee at flourtshing for two month. a scale of prices it such | not too much to assumo that the liquor sellers paid ndreds of thou of dotlors. And the: wok it out the pub of course." In order to clean his house, Chief Flynn was forced to New York a score of the im tru: agents the department stati betwee Dur 1 Pacitl The men 1 1 1 Continued Ne i - Articles and { Rooser Rial WIS OWN PERSONAL. LETTERS 4 4 ‘ Tiger’s’ For Lecture Tour in U. Will Visit Every Part of Country and Speak on “The Soul of France.” This photograph shows Mme, Cle-| | menceau-Jacquemaire, |the French Premier, who is to deliver | a ser’ “The S No satis! ble In the mptoma have developed,” From WOSHINGTON, lowing bulletin was issued to-day | lynn} from the “The Pre! in ( \ William ©, Je Ocobe: Scribau's Magasine, Al Bomelanda—AdN part of HIN Pretty Daughter _ ARMY FOOD SOLD MME CLEM aan i JACQUE MAIRE Symptoms veloped, Says Noon Statement | White White House ase YON sident prog’ clreumsti of lectures in this country il of France,” cover the entire United States, : “WILSON STILL MAKING | SATISFACTORY PROGRESS, | J HIS DOCTORS ANNOUNCE New daughter of tnd expects to | 96 Per Cent. York in September record as reached the State Industrial announced to-day, Factory workers’ eraged 96 per Have De- House, | NEW JUMP IN WAGES OF FACTORY WORKERS; __ LIVING COST EXCEEDED Eamings for September Over Food Up 90 Per Cent. ALBANY, Oct NCRBPASRS of earnings of factory workers exceeded increased and 4 AV eraged. 1914— again living costs in June, the month, four per dropped in September last than Oct. 23.—Phe fole| 1914, while food prices tor same period were ninety per cent higher, During the jast is making as the wages increased rar aypere ei cent. and food prices oe | two per cent. The in 2 pe wages ranged trom $1 “KIDNAPPING OF CONSUL BRINGS SHARP U, S, NOTE g | Urgent Reorsearitations to Mexico |auet to be given the Jenkins and $125,000 Ransom, week. DETROIT, | Goneena will not be a « [in Windsor to-night Gregor, Chairman of the ¢ | Arrangem: said no jYeen extended the Ma Urgent | th " weleomed Dame: Order to Set ‘ Wa \ _ PRINCE’S HOSTS BAR MAYOR, | Detrott Mxecutive SHahted I ume. AT PROFIT HERE; ~ MAY BE $175,000 Dr. Day admits Probable Sur plus and Question Arises, | Who Gets It? FUNDS TIED Neither City Nor Government Can Take Money Banked by | O'Mg alley and Smith, | Dr. Jonathan C, Day, Commissioner | lof Markets, that there may be a profit on the admitted this morning | my food which has been sold nomt jNally at coat at the public schoole | under “unofficial What that profit may amount to in the aggregate, and what is to be done | with it, are questions whieh nobody city supervision, {thus far has undertaken to answer, the Some guesses pl mount as high aw $1 too high or too low 1, which may be either | Lively interest is awakenea in this | situation by the litigation under way | Between Commissioner Day and Kd- ward J. O'Malley, formerly Deputy | Commissioner, who was discharged a | few daye ago by his superior O'Malley has obtained a temporary injunction to restrain Dr. Day | disbursing any of the money ¢ from food Imately $2,500,000 in | At the saine time an extra knot is fas- | tened on the same money by Dr. Day, | who has warned the holding banks not to accept O'Malley's signature checks against the deposita, “Five such checks have ulready en refixed by the banks," Dr. Day told an Evening World reporter this |morning, “I do not mean to say that O'Malley wrote eh: ifter he was discharged, but I supp the five | checks dishonored were written be- fore the discharge and reached the banks afterward.” from ws, which ties up 4pprox- various banks on | jp [DockInen Secretly Placed on Piers P| | SHIPPING BOARD OFFICIALS HERE FROM WASHINGTON 10, HANDLE STRIKE SITUATIO in Effort to Break Tie-Up— Hylan Asks Ship Owners Meet Union Men. to | The shipping interests of New York, together with the United States |Shipping Board and representatives of the army, announced this after- lnoon that they would take no part in the conference called to-night by Mayor Hylan lo meet the striking longshoremen’s representatives, Definite steps to break the unauthorized pier strike were taken to- day when longshoremen were secretly placed upon North River and East River piers. The men were landed on the docks from the water side. About 9 o'clock three big tugs warped in at the Battery and hastily took on about 500 longshoremen, Two of the tugs then steamed up the | North River and one up the East River, None of the men who remained at the landing after the tugs departed would discuss their destination, but it was understood that the tugs were to distriubute the workmen along the various piers, The men, it is said, will eat and sleep on the piers and police guards will be maintained to prevent interference from the radical element among the strikers, j At the offices of the United Statés | Suinpine Hoard sdcrecy waa thy = MINERS FLATLY |About the plans of the Board for te REJECT OFFER 10 : | Weeks. Plans for breaking the tle-up were discussind to-day at a meeting fe recently transformed ‘Tra: lot representatives i ’ | Pararapsion of shipping, which |been delayed for more than two of 108 deep Sea a i ; . ; The Shipping Board annow Secretary Wilson’s Proposal | tnts afternoon that Capt. Ry! Called Inadequate by — | a4 arrived here from the Washings ead’ of Union |ton offices of the Board to take ats . | charge of the local nituation, i | Mayo: aac wasiniee eo layor Hylan had sont telegrams , to the ship owners inviting them e1 Mine Workers of America to. day | meet representatives of twenty or formally rejected the proposal by Sec- |More longshoremen'’s locals at B vtary Wilson for mettiement of the|0clock to-night. The Mayor said val strike called for November 1 lee ou Bint ves te Galan may of aettling the stri John L. Lewls, president of the nd strike. According %p the Mayor, many longshoremen az miners’ organization, no faith in some members of the announced that The situation Is extremely perplex- |ing because of the difficult conditions that were imposed on the elty in handling the army food. City om- clals, as such, had no power to buy the food because the elty had no | money that could be used legally tor \the purpose } It was highly desirable, however, | that the food be made available to the public which, in spite of whatever profit there may have been. did get the food at prices yielding a large saving as compared with prices in retail In order to handie the n} Dr, Day had to arrange for t action of the business by individuals.| He therefore designated Deputy Com. | missioner O'Mailey and Deputy Com- missioner W, W n to uct, not} as deputy commissio: not as ¢ coffe tent y sort, but as private individuals They ac All checks were to be sit bo And ' precaution or the slew nen No ex plu " 1 ay to how or h yM id smith actually Unjted ne ' Wa Depa 1 uu at yt (Continued on Bightu Page.) | Says “Irish Volunteers” Include As- the propowal was indefinite, inade-|Justment board and refuse to auute, and failed to meet the situa- | ‘em, : “L expect replies fi tion, He added that he would 90 re- * Shes replice from.. the eee ‘3 before 4 jock this said the Mayor, “There noon any doubt in iny mind that jf the longshoremen and the employers directly there will be a setth | SINN FEIN HAS B OO SEORET sit tare case tate nee ARMY, ASSERTS FRENCH 'romscse ts catty estes port to the joint conte this after. | whom seck to satisfy personal bitions at the expense of the they represent. To-night's gath will bo a man to man aff straight talk ucrovs the table, er and employee are tired of fe. If there (s Murder Police and Soldiers. sassins to LONE oO at «a willingness on Wa v4 Vis les to bo flr and square ti - Lord and|Men ought to be back at work }oV Gene « je «| Morrow mornin ? then Kraze pe Goy- | FOREIGNERS ARE SCATTERED roment of Ireland ABOUT THE SHIP PIERS, * Thy self constitu and in-| Some piers on which a past ne i * he wid. lorew had worked yesterday were dé serted to-day and the attitur of many of toe Ltallan workers, w. ‘ mitiedly the backbone of tip at bd trike, Wa aved be more meit rigatened int} 3 Grou f fore ga-bern long ourageous |ehoren a were scattered about are'plers and their threatening sitiiude Was regarded by cunservadve Wo. 7] | —————