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a f } {fe | Sa 5 SD Sasaeaens Seana { to conse bits activities, are you Kolng to demand of the Commissioner of Acoounts that be obey Mr. Unter- myer?” the-Mayor was asked. The Mayor replied “Commissioner Hirshfield has a duty to perform under the law and | expect that he will perform that duty.” In the letter of Invitation Mr. Untermyer requested the Mayor to produce any letters he may , have from Brindell, John T. Hettrick, the lawyer, who operated “codes of prac- tice” for the limestone ring involved im the Court House contract, and any city department heads bearing on the Court House contract, which may be in the Mayor's files. Mr. Untermnyer ale> wrote yester- @ay to Anning 8. Prali, President of the Board of Education, offering co- operation in ferreting out collusion between contractors on public schools. in bus letter to the Mayor Mr. U: termyer sald, in part: “1 ought perhaps to add that, know- tag what I do and feeling you and your subordinates should have known as to the collusive character of many of the accepted bide for public work, -UNEMPLOY) 1 am personally more than ever sat- | tefed that the contracts based on such bids should not have been made and should now be cancelled and payments withheld, but the commit- tee as well as myself will meet the subject with an open mind. You ap- preciate, of course, that the inquiry, im so far as it relates to contracts for sity work, is germane to the housing problem only as it discloses the gen- eral situation concerning all buiding onstruction affected by the pools and eombinations.” | RED HOT LETTERS SENT TO HIRSHFIELD. In his first letter to Commissioner Hirshueld, Mr. Untermyer wrote that the only way he can be of service is) to refrain from injecting himself into | the committee's activities and taking | up ite ume with hearsay and incon- sequenual matters, This had sefacs Tmee aestaros the excellence of the Labor, declares that in his opinion erup, his wife and t ry ence to the affidavit of Dennis 1 lca labor situation in due mainly t0 che of the first lines to feel the effect Four Sons. | sturdy, chubby-faced children, ‘Phere | fornia far Conners, school building contractor, |‘¥° factors, the wide variety of In) of « change in conditions would bt ieee Jare four boys and five girls, the old-| Among who sald he bad paid money to In-| ‘ustries located here, no ono trade) ho building’ trades, — est thirteen yeary and the youngest | Res was F | Ble : , sterdam, a note bor delegates. He also suggested that oe and the fact that many! «At present there Is not the siight- ot ve f A ar-}a year and a half old. Van Lierup| pCrdam. & note Mr. Hirenfield explain why he bad! DEW plants being completed are de- | est indication of a atop in the exven- ae Tere Vasey One vor-' eomes from Lise, Holland, where he! old, He Is forty held back the letter from John T. Hettrick, offering the Mayor support | of labor unions in return for giving the Court House contract to Het- trick’s client, and had then suddenly }Manding additional workers, Al- published the letter, after Hettrick’s papers were seized. \"¥You say you showed it to a World | reporter,” Mr. Untermyer wrote, “but | him to absolute secrecy, which he uf have been reductions In the forces of good sign. There has been no redue- |rapldly absorbed in’ other industries. | generally in the city, and no tulk of you neglected to add that you pledged ‘Pye Bethlehem Shipbuilding im: | fg With the Saention at one | sands of workers, and indications are to man idustrial plants now building —e— ——_______________ | (Conti.ced from First Pace.) ten-hour duy for an elght-howr pay, This condition is the sume in other mills thousands of applicants for work — ‘The situation has been accepted by through the State for road building or the men and there has been no a wol Industries tha troubl to work in Industries that we The eemployinent bureau in its a few mon able to get worker report says heavy construction work One effect of ondition ix keeping more than 1,00 men at teen to cut down the ttrnover of work who will be idle later of 1ab01 the: fowent 4t: Han Deent Dana Jones, Secretary of the Manu- wie ; 7 " facturers’ Association of Brie, said many yeara, acconling Ww officials of tocany: the Penn vania Kailroad and other ‘Conditions In Erte are fair. There big industries The only workers |* only one plant here entirely closed i but many others are on part tim being nployed are hoi “ are ng jompioven (ar se WhO Are ire, [ believe, Is better off than mont willing to be sent Woat towns because of tts diversified in iccellpacscieis justries. We do not need any more men here except, perhaps, a very few NONE NEED BE IDLE, lie mechanica.” The Erie Motor Truck Manufactur- BALTIMORE REPORT '0« Company, Erie's premier industry, reports many months of orders ahead ; and sees a trend of prosperity in the New Industries Demand More Men truck business. ‘This company tn just —Clothing Trades Stagnant— completing the fret unit of a mam- moth ne plant, Carpenters Refuse Increase, Bugene MeManun, Inbor leader, de- cClared to-day a fight for an open shop Mw pepe wy on in Erie's industries BALTIMORE, Nov. 10.—The Jabor ———>—— brewing. situation in Baltimore at this time, vase! atom « survey just compicea | NEW ENGLAND by the Industrial Bureau of the Board of Trade and the Industrial Bureau of the Merchants’ and Manufacturer’ TEXTILE AND SHOE Association, is declared to be more WORKERS HARD HIT satisfactory than in any other largo city in the country, While there is an Svelabandance! of labor in. cercain Part Time Work or Reduced Pay for} lines, new induatries just opening up| | Thousands— Boston Labor are absorbing many additional thou- + Situation Good. | [Rpectal to The Rvening Word) | BOSTON, Noy, 10.—The labor situ- there Is no necessity now for unem- ployment and no prospect of idle workers this winter. George G. Smith, director of the Industrial Bureau of the Board of cay Beores _ MarR Er JOHANNA EMIZABETH JosnF Former Village Butcher Brings|““™ from Rotterdam and Plymouth | was the were merfbers of one family —-H | rob Wife, Five Daughters and) [van 4 than normal, Martin ‘T, Jo: tary-Treasurer of the Massachus branch of the American Federation oY - sive renovating and remodelling work ready more than 15,000 new workers (at hus been steadily golag on. construction work almost at a stand-/1 ) who went out have found other |{ty after the holidays have been employed since summer,! “1: would seem that with tho low. Stl Work he this line ts spasmodic | employment Unton offictat ‘ te ere to an unusual dere, or heads say unemploy Aeene i While 26,000 more will be needed this ering of prices for materials even EE eg Sen ey a tae thee osteo ee winter and next spring and summer greater building ations would Putihar thera waa lan excors oC eme| terre atey year pertod and | movement “not far from | strikes aud 1 n employment, ployment In th MIDDLE WEST js:zinsitor' |The Chamber of Commerce reports there have been lay-offs, principal! in the automot nds workers in Baltimore. “While there| ave practically all engaged it is a factorics and plants, these have been! tion In wages affecting workmen There are practically no idle male “Tt soon. When the building trades | pany and other shipbuilding and re- THE £VENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1920. 1ENT IN COUNTRY IS GENERAL, BUT. 1S NOT ACUTI ST OF ARMY OF IDLE IN EAST Family of Eleven Arrives Here From Holland, F And Will Become Americans on Western Farm i220": ation in Boston t# regarded as bette JOHAN, HENRY VAN LIERO® FRINDA, MRS MARIE. VAN IEROP SIMON wa | QUT OF WORK, GET nirke that has’ been on for many OPEN SHOP AND PAY [it ah rafinnde esnrcialiy on ine| JOBS AT LOWER PAY |\; -course strictly observed. You know Pair planta are taking on over 10,000) months, the labor situation ty pars Southwes es, where re was sores, strictly observed, You know |S0%, ie" eutie tho: General ‘Biectho,|tisnlany. tase momen © | CUTS IN CINCINNATI | utsnener, nen, wher ms as vt Mates i wes Gareseceediy | nes Graphophone sana ited “I should say ua a whole the labor | —————— : ‘ Other Springfield, ©. o large plunts are adding thousands to} situation in Boston is better than } fith Q er oO} liy": > bsorb Bul trusted to keep such a secret and thelr forces. Suc reductions as hava | almost uny other centre neh 1M ee petted Cy s Adult Pop- OMAHA’S 3,000 IDLE Absorb Bulk of W S : our secret would be guarded, Occurred have been mainly In one or| This view was also expressed by ulation Seeking Jobs Workers ‘aclories Close. pats dhe suarded. eyo. fines, notuniy. In the clothing | reprementatives of induatlal cand We NE CAG WILL NOT HUSK CORN And yet you try to create the Impres~ | industry, where almost total stagna-| manufacturing concerns who belicve | ave No Choice. pt ec clics 3 to The Brenis sion in the public mind that this tion exlats, and in the railroads. conditions relative to labor in this Spevial to ‘The Evening Woe! Work ‘j1 Willing to Go to SPRINGFIBLD, O., Nov. 10.—H, G. secret “disclosure was intended 48 4! PRODUCTION INCREASE KEEPS | lly “re good. | CINCINNATI, Nov. 10. — Whilo ‘ ms Root, President of the Baiploye publicatipn of the letter of which UP WAGES AND WORK. He oemro, tacne, ponte out that the | there is an increasing unemployment Farms—No: Wage Cuts, but | sociation, ‘estimates ‘thar th ~ you were sv careful not to let the} with the excopiion of scveral of the| laying off of mon, reduction in ting Problem facing this section as win time Eliminated. nave bacd Ae rered LyAtlOaThE public know until your hand was brah ead erie ps eine wher it is estl- and wages, so far as New England ter sets in, with an estimated on ih to The Syentns Wael tories and reduction of f ; x x ,000 workers are idlo or On| was concerned, {9 in the textile In-| fourth of the adult populatio Om There are of these, he says, have taken Shortly after writing this letter, | Mr. Untermyer sent the following &/in‘the case of the Crown Cork and) reduc Commigsioner Hirshfiel “Sincé writing you this insatiable mania for self advertising struct the work of the committee. Your last offense 1s the premature giving out for publication of the de- tails of a transaction into which you intruded to the detriment of the in- quiry. The vply way In which you cen be of aid is by ceasing your in- @iscretions and interference with our work. if the Mayor cannot or does pot care to stop you, other means must be found, Knowing nothing of | our plans you persist in a course that is proving most detrimental, 1 hesitate to believe that you are acting from design and prefer to adopt the more charitable view that the main- springs of your ill-timed activity are ignorance and self-exploitation, I again ask you to atop.” Commissioner of Accounts Hirsh- field said to-day in reply to the Untermy statement: ‘Sam has Mayoralty bugs in his bonnet. His conduct is a manitesta~ tion of hypocrisy. In ‘one breath he says he will retiro from the investi. | gation if {t takes on political aspects, | Tn the next he writes to the Mayor a| letter which is political in its tirety. He ts taking up leads which 1 furnished him after six weeks of J said employers are laying off high PROVIDENCE, Nov, 10.—Approxl- | the | work outside the limelight. Right how Conners (a school contractor) Is again in other positions at lower! been thrown out of work within tho | strike of being examined in the next rooin to, wages, th my office Intermyer said to me not tong ago: ‘Why run @ side show? Why not come with me in the big show” “[ have attended the hearings not to be amused by Untermyer’s chee comedy, but to by my guard for the City of New York UNTERMYER. The cause of Mr, Untermyer’s ire was the examination by Commis- sioner Hirshtield of Howard H. Sher- win, Vice President and General C Perry & Tench, holding act for construct= new Staten Isl herwin told of and piers on whi bribes paid to Brinde)L In the particular case the Comp: * trotler called to Mr. Untermyer’s at gave the following re ewtownh High Sohool was de aigned in 1916, estimated cost $399,187 | It was approved by the Board « timate May 1% 1916, but the were destroyed by fire b tract was let, The plans we drawn, and Sept were ap proved by the Boar thinate, ¢ timated cost sowing bids were rec s, Thomas Lwy Clarks. Conipany, $786,000; James McArthur Company, $409,710; Jo $436,130. The contract was awarded to Dwyer and the Board of mate was requested to ap the cor tand ordered ne hese were as f ners, $794,000 tract, but rejected bide Jan, 12, 1 low: Dennis EB, C “~ A. Clarke Company, $887,000; Thomas | Dwyer, $799,000, The contract was to Conners, who dropped the | |Seal Company and the Mount Vernon | taken place and tuills put o! bd aeter, ar M. 1 find |Woodierry Cotton Mills very Iittlol timer Phase. in. fret, have eon eens from the evening papers that in your! reduction in output. A proposition eral in the textile feld. In a few has been made to the klle clothing! of the textile cities the alternative fon divisions) Omaha, ie painters and you continue to embarrags and eb) moines that they will all be placed| has been given to the employees of 42 Optimistic for tue a on tim y and county s oyed men in Omaha. Nebraska en ive ine orn. city. There ha Ucns, but been lald of other plant avera, employment, ly three strikes, all of r down of mills ur f 1 other places tories and except| Redfa ‘d, Pall Riv ns in working forces have alled for 10,000 3,000 Idle workmen ners have kers, but th Ornmha will ni There is not asingle trike un nor char- ¢, Chamber hu: dis of the going on and nmerce ottichl ot ¢ Manutactur a ASSO sat ve been on labor month. near future Jen] musicians who id oft from work ure strike for weeks, have urned—the if they agree to increase] continuing working at from a 15 to| Many of those lu production and there will be no low-| 99 per cent. reduction have (ett ring. an inere Peres t J Fy . ection or have the) being rehived at less wages and under, punters Seciirin ie ering of wages, The cotton mills) mitis shut down. Invariably the re- | 4.1 taut . tive next spring, the musicians an % (hat have laid off 2,300 men und are run-| duction has been accepted {Haber contracts, osy (ORen! AOD) 41, operative Immediately factories strike gf magnitude for soveral! ran for Go: months &nd where votes have been ticket In rec taken to decide ning only four days a week. In one instanc in the shoe mann- | agreements. One of the moves made] apout 1,200 men have been laid off There has been no strictly local! facturing Ini with ard H. Long, who to-day judicative of the situat hor on the Democratic nt years, gave the cm- eea notice to act On a proposed jon at large, ly that of the boot and show Mma ers’ organization ty-five paper hangers on strike ufacturing concerns. i Cudahy Packing Company tata @ off 70 men; th® Ford Motor Com- wor for or against plo! strike, thero hes been no strike wit) forty-eight hour week, without a| William Business Agent of pany 125 workmen, One hundred men 1 by th the exception of 200 plasterers, who! change of wages, which was rejected. that very lucse body of workers, an- | have been discharged from the rub. ™ in he Nar At ng heen made among struck this week for $10 per day, thelr) Therenpon Mr. Long posted nolces 1 Some of these hn tustries. nounced to-day be have been no w ades and Labo about 1,40) have been Ing of two plants her within the last month by different @nd reduction in other forces, Seven and carpenters | n ew nis hay nen, but present wage being $9 that for the forty-four hour week, | 2°!" 7 been with compantes ten years UBON scales 4 han) they In sharp contrast to the f! that has existed for some time, work| “The Boot and Shoe Workers’ Un-' 4, more. There been practically, Wer® & Sear as terers, however, is that of would continue, but with a 15 per| ton, In recognition of the great change | no wake red fered or a city's 15,000 carpenters, who had |oent. reduction in wages. Final ac-! recently in the stor trade, has just re-|erpted, In some Industries, especially secured an agreement @ year ago | tion has not been taken on this mat- the packing Industries, extra time from the builders for an increase | te, scinded its demand for a 40 per eent.| ji, yon elfminated and the men are | DACIFIC COAST In wages on Nov. 1 of Shik year of increase in wages, Nine local unions! making less money than formerly A 10 cent | of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ ling schedules of three und four days | Manufacturers Joreased during the past fe WHAT EXCITED THE IRE OF MR.|o fact which makes wages of » | | n Fallon,| due, the report states, to meny of the, of several hu eract and forfeited his $16,000 se- [5 Setar shceenmnnehaeeeeae hour, or f yt vined In the ‘yet together’ nove and 5 Oo} Meee taser |MILL: WORKERS MIT .|{ctad (oy (re. frscuer nave and mncaane of 18 an-| “The employment department of the to $1 together of their own volition, the other year under the wage carpenters voted. by” an over IN RHODE ISLAND | yi in Now whelming majority to refuse this : — Auctiona in shoe prices in the inerenenten the ground that liv: | Thousands on Part Time and Others] heiped influcuce. the withdrawar of ing costs were falling and pros- “ ae Ca: day Cyt | eur demands.” Adverticementa fc orke ects of many new industries here Accept 15 Per Cent. Pay Cut Speaking for the Manufacturara’ | Adverticom ne Tee Nr Chamber of Commerce reports 1,000 rian men each week avbiving tor FEW OUT OF employment. esp from ten to ured steady work the coming 2,000 Idle. Association, k:xecutive Secretary O. ty ants for each position. | Let Up From War Ac ear, B. Hess sald there was prac VEO eanenode Wk Dobe aetred. c s ) hile In some of the sbipyards tt (Somctad to Tis Kroning World) labor trouble here now,: because of | NO reductions & DR Otfered. at Far Had No ganized labor, and very few membe pal Living cost ay diversity of any branch of orginized labor are salaried men and taking them on|mately 2000 men and women have}of manufacturing done. The largest Gur of work, saya Thomas Reynolda focal mechanics has been president of the State Federation of hus been no wage re) cast month by the closing of Rhode | Settled by mutual con ne end ally Sheetal to ‘Phy Ee. ANCLSCO, {duction im any Ine Moving picture metal trades are harmonious. The! *y 8 hav has n Uperatorsy and. str Island mills and factories, In addi-|eity print pressmen ar siig of va seriously in Sait Prin. received alight w |tion between 10,000 and 15,000 havo} but only five concerns are inve Bit jon in salaries bas hese lity, alchough there t ly compr mine is Exper is attributed by A been forced to accept curtalied work. | &bd an ¢ if : ting | made. in many lines of erally believe the the iron trades Association 19 the fact that produc-| a wei tlon per man per hour hy K nat aul election result presages a ike i prugres: larnely inz|” Jo'mills tn. the State have an- | period of confidence and an early re- | LABOR IN TOLEDO aiuioet tha kine an nounced reductions in wages of 12%] S8umption by all large manufacturing | This directly involv and 15 per cent, which employ , FACES HARD WINTER }iuniicd tnen, at ary Importance. have voted to accept, Other mills, only large jron and steel plants i: amend it Is said, will announce similar ac-| idle here are the Newport Rolling oa) on in th ry Miltx and the Andrews Steel Com- | But Situation Due to Idleness 1s Not MANY ERIE PLANTS (soe ae pany, both ut Newport, Ky.*and an ON ONLY HALF TIME|FEW IDLE IN MAINE; = |... (2uit -cduthe't'the near future. | Pay Cut. | Diversified Industries Aid Situation SOME WAGES CUT} month: others have been disc Yet Acute—Unskilled Laboo's can company t bullding trade time and there { (Apectat (© The Breaing World.) rhe seasone. < I B IDLE. | TOLEDO, Nov. 10—The labor situ. | tO, mill and tou! —l.onger Hours for Work See ABOUT 12,000 4 fon in Toledo i# not an bad as In| COMB to drift to the Without Increased Pay. Sitk Mill Workers Accept 1! Per] IS ST.LOUIS REPORT jpoine omer cities, put ts growing |normal for this tine ass caveat Toa Wee Cent. Reduction—Carpenters and Tate fe Nor. (Worm ‘The closing of the Willys There has been no BRIA ar ten ioc tira, Geckuse Masons Lack Work. Labor Leaders Declare This Is “Not-!oyeriand plant, which had employed or factories, and att < a et shined ‘; ods /! Se) #9, y Jase la maximum of 20,000 men, and the) De a steady decre of its more than 500 diversified in- Bpectel te The Freniag World), mal for Season"’—No Wage [eatectant GADAIDE BR auslinhy ins activity, the workers Gustries In not yet experiencing full] PORTLAND, Me, Nov. 10.—Com Cut in Skilled Trades. |duatries threw a lot of mon and|Pecn absorbed jn ir Kradual yet definite ndustrial workers women out of work, Other factories | NAYS becn mo wae plant aw are running with diminished forces }POrted by labor un: ts ahut down entirely for lack of results from tt slackening of work. Only one Sviecial to ‘The city, Qne big con As rs corn manufacturing Un cans has shut | 149,000 Two thousand men are tdle, the| down temporarily and 200 employeos| Pennsylvania State employment bu-j are out of work. A bis boiler and] here reported to-day. ‘This iw} iachinery plant has laid off fifty out ed workmen, and] PY Various kinds, /stiulate of the number permanently |say the situation is becoming 10,--The Employ- ang on time. But the greater |Chambor of Commer Aton reports that out of part of the released labor has ao far ¥ in Bt, Louts 12,000 been absorbed 4 will end with the cold weather, or by u id 11,000 have been Estimates of the unemployed vary manufacturing industries, The! from 5,000 to 15,000, Labor bureaus strike reau concerns of j amalle lurge plants working hulf time ip a6! punning at hav thro’ | * pau of restriclion of | There ara.no strikes on of tmport- . ’ : nm ie stack, ha brown a fow| L off as & result 1 a S endeay to w pre-war) bundred more on their own resources, | bu s, a’ compared with war-t me /ance. The few hundred electrical and tion Not Seric basis trikes in Ex The Haskell Silk Mills omployees of activity, is estimated at 6,000, There |gus workers on atrike are tempurartly Wage Redi few facto: unskilled | io but there TACOM s have bor and 8 + wages In employed, Som k, numbering 300, hay P eent. cut ed, Dut in| Bast Bro just) has been 4 wags, |akilled Wages hays not been re d'schargin al 16 ‘The Ever cht reductions | he such plants as the Er ree and} And 200 employees of the cotton millathave bee nd accepted for ne it wt lower Wag Steel Works. Which wakes canbon tu) in prunawick, having been on strike (common labor has been no organised programme of estimate is that 1,800 the Government. workmen are on a! ci) gai for a 16 per cent. raise, have! The strike referred to is that of that Kind relative (0 skilled labor: [idle tm Tacoma, Ther . —=——===| returned without getting their de- {2,200 un on waiters and cooks follow- Chamber of Commerce oMclais say | hete, Nearly 1 lees unem-|laid off through but expect an ber mills and camps. OR COLDA, GRIP OR LNFLLENZ, | manda. ing an effort to inaugurate the open. that they look for mor roves LAXATIVE BROMO QUI- | mne chief idlencss in this city ia!»hop in hotels and restaurants, The ployment thia winte w: Giove: BoceoaRyee oe ong carpenters and ‘masons, with Employers’ Association says about increase of busine: : ‘ | ——————$—$$ dustry, espee i employment situation $s cons! Nov, 10,—Conser WORK Workin found for mont of these| IN SAN FRANCISCO ity Has So Serious ct on Labor. 4 World) Nov. 10,—Un- yet been fel Isco and vicin~ s been a let-up re 1a on of machinists Can ¢ as t it ugh some 800 arged from lo cal machine shops because of their refusal to work on contracts of the es are worl 8 rtag constr uw ural labor has cities, but the of the y closing of mi hough there h e from the war ave generally ndust 1 reductona re ions or by the public works, which LUMBER AND WOOD loyed. Of there 1,000 are Oe lather industries, WORKERS LAID OFE acyte {But Tacoma Reports Labor Situa- us—Few ict nine 2,000 men are no strikes men have been psing of Mun- The others idle to and more activ’ are unskilled laborers and somp in © ir, Shields inelud nie ‘al agent for tate of Washing. | 00 to 2,000 are idie ut 200 tn smaller tate, He de by ting Worse in Spokgne and wi cities Uhrouhout the clares the situation {s day.” NORTHWEST ONLY THE ‘DRIFTERS’ IDLE IN NORTHWEST Paul Asserts Harvest Hands | Alone Are Unable to Ge Steady Jobs, | __csomciat wo The Brecing Won ST. PAUL, Nov, 10.—There are comparatively few idie men amon the regularly employed classes of workmen in St, Paul according to the deral State and Municipal Free Employment Burean. . During the past week about six !indred men have been turned away . om the em- ployment office without jobs, but most of these were harvest who recently finfshed their seas jobs in the Northwest and now az seeking inside employment for the winter There are yery few men on strike in St. Paul, including about thir electrical hen, most of whom have been replaced, and perhaps an equal number of plumbers, Virtually none have be here by reason of the clo according (o employment expe but a slack market is blamed for laying off of about two hundred pe sous employed in shoe manufget ing. ies (| | SOUTH u yun) WAGES SLASHED | AS COTTON FALL Mills in South Also Go on Part | Yime—Lumber Men Vote 25 | Per Cent. Wage Cut, anpen- n Speval wo The Evening Wor reduc- | AT TA, Nov 10.—The jubor how- | situation in Anta is better thaa 4 woou- | ever ere are no big strikes ity, but unquestion- © is a certain amount depression n the &t 5 mills ure cutting wages of ein- *, ‘nd at the same time run on short time. i Assoctation of F Alabarme ida, has announced nt. cut in Waxes Suble In Georgia and ews out of the slump crop was planted on 40 cents, $200 a bale, dropping to 20, cents # | pound and less, a clear joss of more IDLE ON THE COAST _| {288 $220 4 bale, tusiness demoratte MAINLY “DRIFTERS” B. Me” n, Governor of the Atlunta, Tuesda 4 statem: before tlie of this city. 1 he ex » in wages soon, but de le he pre nt siump emporary. n cotton. ‘Thi Worke ATT! yes: hiclds, in change of the Seattle office A of the Federal Employment Service, sald to-day that unemployment con- 1 S ditions in this city are somewhat worse than usta this time of the is pigs, but all sausages are in H due pen ip not Rohe's Therein lies He eben averae: thed ference intaste Ask BG ee vur butcher or dealer for ROHE on COUNTY STYLm COUNTRY SAUSAGES, Jobs. As a result, the men who have drifted to Seatue Alaska, Idaho and Montana, a by the comparatively mild weather, “Yeuean save difficulty in finding jobs, Many taste the ile Resa ae f them are leaving for points tn Ore- Difference jew York. N.Y. nand California. The total number of uremy) _—_———— PENNY A POUND PROFIT. ad OU CAN BUY IT CHEAPER AT LOFT" This seems to be a very common expr nm of the aver- age candy buyer, and the best part of it is—IT’S TRUE An experience covering more than fifty years in the manufacture and marketing of confee+ tions has taught us something about the candy busi- ness. At the close of busi last year we found by statistics that Fourteen Million people patronized our stores during the year of 1919. In_other words, this would mean that every person in New York City and Greater, New York visited our stores 3 times during this period of time, What more powerful expression of public confidence and be- lief in our methods, our merchandise ond our prices could be offered? . Our Big Daily Special Fer Te-M-rrow, Thursday, Nov. 11 ASSORTED HARD CANDY GOODIES—A collection of our tavorite a oning eweetn, comprined of Twists, Curly, Satinetten, Crystal Blocks, American Fill t Thuttercape, Blo c Sas AL, ¥ many others equally plewsiis, I. We Are ce ee (7 ering Attraction for Thursday CHOCOLATE coy- MIDE STICKS — These ure dainty Uttle of dcticloux eun= + resembling the of + fluffy eah eal fn vavertie ed. rich New York, Kym. Newark, Keay Paterson, di Elizabeth 8 KO, Ane ortment is prevented in ten pleasing Fratt, Mint and fplee Cavers, ant How 9 POUND BOX Tho spec includes t

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