The evening world. Newspaper, July 29, 1921, Page 3

eesti dina METAL TRADES LOSE A BLLON A YEAR THROUGH IDLENESS Manufacturing — In- dustry in U.S. Reports lle Men and Machinery. GREAT LABOR WASTE ty of Employment and Faulty Management Mostly to Blame. je men and machinery are causing AQ annual joss of neariy $1,000,000,000 a year In the metal trades industry saya a report issued to-day by the ‘Committee on ninaiion of Waste in industry of the American Eng!- neering Coungil. This estimate covers ve value of jabor only, and does not imciude the value of materials that would be utilized if the productivity bor were increased Phe metal industry, called the largest manufacturing industry im the United States in the number of employees and value of products, ge ving employment to 2,000,000 work- evs, is declared to be operating as a whole at only 60 per cent. of normal output. The value of increased possi- bie production in the United States even in normal tines would, it is esti- rated, be over $00,000,000. Instability of labor employment and faulty management, the tee states, are responsible for the ma- Jur causes of waste or non-porduction The to avoidable abor turnover in the metal trades dustry is computed at $100, Modern employment methody Wades commit - averuge waste duc ing the study of "Why Men Quit are urged. “We have two million unnecessary ‘separations, the equivalent of two million workers annually separated nd re-hired somewhere," says the commit The metal trades findings are a part of the general report made by » on its National as ste, directed by Ly the committ industrial w Wallace of Washington, as Vice Chairman. The Chairman of t committee is J. Po New York. ‘The m vestigation was in charge Miler of New York, ex-Pr the Americ ty of Me d William B. Ferguson rhe report states the views of man- in thirty-two of the Lnginee i Phila that it pres ing executive pants visited MANY REASONS WHY BUSINESS Is BELOW NORMAL. 5 their opinion,* the to the muin cause ey, their answers Wenevas folloe In eight pl answer referred particularly to present. bus con- ditions and was to the oftect that ‘the most important cause is the \ineven volume of | or the tiuetuation in the « for the lack of enough business tc normal capacity product; keep going at “In four plants the cause given cencerned tho railroad situation and the functioning of the Railroad Ad- Justment Board In three plants the cause given was ‘ack of standardization of design ot products,” “In two plants the cause given Nabor turnover and strikes,’ one » had been ons. » saying that the wartime conditi “In four plants the cause given was iF u ick of planning, the exact words ments, and he did not have to give wing ‘lack of proper planning and! any thought to the possible effect of uene oe SE (eperent ilape any of his answers. ung and material control;' o =| ! wer’ Micatife plaaaing and management; | Mayor Hylan was besot by callers and one ‘lack of efficient planning | and plagued by conferences yesterday and management methods.’ Jafternoon, He sent out’word that he “In six plants the cause given was have time to grant an inter- ‘lack of co-operation between man- | 2d not ha Lt agement and labor. view. ; . “Other causes given in various} ‘But, I told his secretary, Mr. Sin- ‘plants were as follows: ‘Lack of in-| nott, “this is a new kind of an inter- | tensive study of methods," ‘cost con-|yiew—just invented—a hot-weather rivol systems needed,’ ‘daily cost re- tea ports needed,’ lack of scientific man- | interview limited to three minutes: gement of the;a busy man’s interview, abor and business, s special causes in the tool business were given as of machine tool builders ‘to supply what the public wa: tof the metal trades very small and require pe ing by the manager of su. problems as are handled by em of production control + “Insufficient tal to develop hops ars urchasing in smal] quantities, by ‘the small plants, which places them at a disadvantage as to favorable | prices and as to transportation and ‘handling expens STANDSTILL. The major cause of waste or non- | production in the metal trades indus try at the present time is the unem- ployment of available labor and cauip- Arent, due to general business condi- which affect all other industry report says. adding: The United ates Department Vapor, Burcau of Labor jon ‘ of Statistics, eports on a survey of 1,428 firms in ndustr: he metal trades employing 1,613,253 men, that the decreases in the number on the payroll from Febru- iry, 1920, to February, 1921, were 242 per cent. in the iron and steel ‘industry; 42.8 per cent. in the auto- mobile industry, and 16.6 per cent in the car biulding and repairing industry. The Employers’ 4 tion of Detroit report on March 1991, that 79 shops were emp 1 to 198,70 hands compart ed on April 7, 1 In Philad Phia, out of the 150,000 hands em- ‘floyed in the metal trades in July, 4120, about 30.000 were out of work on Mareh 1, 1921 “phere are nearly two million peo. ple engaged in the establishments of the metal trades industry and an| hormous increase in total produc- tion is possible, It is estimated that sent about 80 per cent. of Mt pr tte Responsibility for waste, or tion- production, rests with management Cove vith the managers and. exe MEN AND EQUIPMENT AT A} _THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JULY 29 , 1991, Three-Minute Hot Weather Interview With Mayor Hylan on 15 Topics Of Especial New York Interest Not Quite So Quick as North- cliffe to Catch Idea of Evening World, but Comes Within the 3-Minute Limit. By Martin Green. My talented colleague, Marguerite Mooers Marshall, set a pace in a hot’ weather, three-minute interview with Lord Northcliffe, the owner of Great Britain's greatest newspapers, which was a little too swift for the Mayor of the world’s greatest city. lord Northcliffe answered fifteen rapid-fire questions put by Miss Mar- all Mayor Hylan about four minutes in answering but there’ were two interruptions in the in two minutes the same number of questions, course of the interview and allowing time off for these he was a couple of seconds inside the three-minute limit. It must be said for Mayor Hylan that he is a politician and will soon run for re-election and some of the questions he answered dealt with subjects bearing a political tinge. Lord Northeliffe is a trained journal- ist accustomed to forming quick juds- | minutes. He was standing at a win- jdow of his private office when I en- ltered. The breeze that came from the sunlight soaked pavements of Broad- |way and City Hall Park was hot and fitrul | shoot," said His Honor, and I shot | questions and wrote down his answ Question No, 1 was put at exactly ) o'clock. FIRST MINUTE. Mayor Answers Exactly One-Third of the 15 Question . Q. No. 1—Will universal disarma- ment prevent future wars? Mayor Hylan (after 10 seconds).— I'm afraid not but it would help to wars less frequent—fewer the make wars. @. No. 2—ls New York a summer resort? Mayor Hylan—The greatest in the world. Q. No, 3—Are New York women's |summer styles immodest His Honor pondered 15 seconds on this one. He looked out into the park and saw a bobbed-haired flap- per flitting by, clad in a knee~ length, low neck, sleeveless gown, He smiled. Mayor Hylan—I'll say they are j comfortable, Q. No.4—Who was the best Mayor New York ever had? Mayor Hylan—That is not a fair question. Q. No. 5—How Jtaxes be reduced? Mayor Hylan—When up-State leg- Jislators—Legislatures—stop loading mandatory expenses on a city that already pays 70 per cent, of the taxes of the State. One minute had passed soon will jocal We were ‘The Mayor said he could spare three | SLaas MOH ae Nw 2 asa A Na —————— a or 371 =e oS c 5 p 0 i : 2 i] n 2 mn > ig 4 z | \ HYLANM. around the first lap and even with “MYSTERY BOTTLE” * DONOR IS PEEVED jthe schedule—tive questions to the | minute. But young Mr. Sinnott popped in ‘und consumed about 30 seconds with a whispered message. The shooting was resumed at 2.81.30. 2D AND 3D MINUTES. With Time Out for Interference the Mayor Does His Job Within Allotted Time. Q. No. 6—Has Prohibition made New York a better city to live in? Mayor Hylan—Now, about Prohi— Why, New York was always a good city to live in. Q. No. 7—How much time should a busy man devote to an annual vaca tion? Mayor Hylan—When | am very busy | don't take any vacation at all —occasionally a Saturday afternoon off. Q. No. &—Will the votes of women influence the result of the next muni- cipal election’ The Several Mayor came to a dead stop. hundred thousand women )will vote jin the next election. Com- missioner of Docks Murray Hulbert popped in long enough to say he was ‘going out to get a sandwich would see the Mayor in fifteen min- utes. Two minutes had gone by, but | Mr, Hulbert's entrance and exit and the consequent interruption of thought had accounted for thirty |seconds, Credit the Mayor with one j minute. Finally: Mayor Hylan. (slowly)—In answer to that question | would like to say that the women will always make | their influence felt. ; @ No. 9—ras Sunday baseball | proved good or bad for the public? | Mayor Hylan—Good, | should say, without a doubt. |man, which team would you back to win the world’s championship—the | Giants or the Yankees? Mayor “Hylan—I have no they're both New York teams. Q. No. 11—Do you think the city should go into the coal and ice busi- ness? (Inasmuch a@ the coalition antl- Hylan platform has a plank advo- eating the municipal Ming of coal and ice, 1 had thought this query might be a poser. ‘The Mayor an- swered it without hesitation.) Mayor Hylan—I think something should be done to curb the profiteers. Q. No. 12—How many new schools will be ready in September? choice Mayor Hylan—We hope to have twenty-two. | @. No. 13—Do you shorten your | working day in hot weather? Mayor Hylan—I've never en able to, Q. No, 14—Have many leading bust ness men yolunteered to ald you in Q. No. 15—Is the statement of the Subway Sun that reducing the pay of employees saved the Interborough | trom bankrnptey strictly Mayor Hylan—As « thing you see in the Subway Bun. Four minutes elapsed time, and the Job cleaned up. The Mayor said he | didn't want to look over the answers I had written down, As I went out one door a perspiring delegation car- rying blueprints entered another ceurate? curate Q. No. 10—If you were a betting) administering the affairs ot the city?| Mayor Hylan—A number have, yes. | os any-| Otfers $100 Reward to Ret mor Nyack Gift Was | Real Stuf. | Special t NYAOK, N. Y., J ler is sore. In a bul fe other day he donated one of There is a whispe maybe the bottle I rumor tof publi; ule Ru- Noi f tne two mystery bottles’ which were to be Jraffled for the Old Home Week cele ation, but whic! re stolen from the Iquarters of the committe now jeontain much of anything after all- “ithe {ts contents were guaranteed ' wenty-one years old,” and * rerly a source of income to the Fed- ca! Government through the internal nue tax.” could disprove se dastardly i said Sehiffeler, “if 1 had Bive $100 reward for its sudge Benjamin Haas, who acts as District Attorney when Mr. Lexow is iy, a2 he is ut present, says he sus- the two bottles contained hooch his attitude {4 discounted in the evi absence of the nee, —— SHELLSHOCKED HE BECOMES A BIGAMIST AND of John Fitzpatrick. County Court Judge Haskell ¢ THIEF. and Mother Asks for Inuiry Into Sanity | |. of Brook lyn to-day nted the aplication of Mrs, Kathryn Witzpatrick of No. 16 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, for a com- | mittee to pass on the sanity of her | twenty-six-ye 5 Folin, who wis |a member of the 27th Division, Mrs | Pitzpatrick told the Judge that her son was gassed and shell-shocked in thy war, While in a Government hospital in’ April, 1919, in New Rochelle the mother said her son married his nurse | Miss Bertha Roach. In, October, | Pitzpatrick continued, her son this ther had obtained a divorce | married, time « Miss Davis. wif the ered arge nent of Mr: cer Avenul much lyn sealtered about. Fit apartment with only ax since been in. the til in default of bail | fault of bail AGED WOMAN HURT IN BROADWAY aloner of Was in Navy U Looking not a day over fift in a Palm Beach suit with wh Commissioner of Jurors Henry Yen to-day celebrated his ¢ | birthday t the Brooklyn. Mr. Hayden was Police Com Court House ir \ ‘itzpatrick nor his first patrick Was arrested two months of grand larce ny. He ©, Took velry CRASH CELEBRATES 85TH BIRTHDAY | AT COURT HOUSE OFFICE. Ite shoos, I. Hay- ghty-fitth missioner of the old of Brooklyn for two terms, and also ser as Park missioner. He was nerl States Marshs! in Brooklyn en served in the navy under Mr that | contributed did not Farragut. | THUNDER STORMS MAY BRINGRELIEF FROM TORRID WAVE Slightly Cooler, Prediction of Weather Bureau — Tem- perature 84 at 2P.M. DEATH TOLL IS SEV Torrid Wave General All Through East—Many Pros- trations Are Reported. ere is hope for reduced tempera. ture in the f st of the Weather Bureau given out at noon. The p diction is for probable occasion thunder storms to-night and Satur- i ( slightly cooler winds 4 (o-night nostly moder and variable. At P.M. the temperature was 84 uo! grees, 1Wvo degrees less than ve when humidity was not so high nd there was a twenty-four mile 6. To-day at 2PM s 6H and there the humi was only a twelve. | breeze ie heat from which New York has suffered Sunday r the Nearly all the s he Weather Bur rom Raleigh, No oC north temperatures of 90 degrees or more | n the last twenty-four hours. Equally | {igh 4 sported from | Re Oho and since ral ae wu reporte board siations of are mperatures Southern Mississippi Valleys Jtuke up the bill. It was bi | Association, ‘Ass0- fer . ; Lusi had Gubernatorial ambitions and | ciation, Kips Bay ‘Tenants’ Asso Temperatures reported this MOFN- (hay the sponsorship of the bill would |tion, Bast Side Tenants’ Association ng at 8 o'clock, standard time. from’ i> ap aid to him. (vicinity of Second Avenue and 14th all parts of the country showed that —_— |Street), Crotona Park ants’ As- New York, with 80 degrees, was the sociation, Melrose ‘Tenants’ Associa- io 10 01 enants’ Associa- eA eee nupene RESUME FRENCH RAIL SUIT. fim, Stoiint Hope ‘Tenants’ Assoc Bociny, New SOrieanks Tampa: ind 42,000,000 Over-| ‘There are five tenants’ associations Washington, D.C. ‘These cities were » by R. ts Aawiniorte on the west side between oth \il tied for second place in the heat Street and the Battery which have TAIGAD) WITH Key WeEU CiPAte With emtiee on tee contents) wir th? not yee amiinted, Hut Cenk. Hly bobs! Tae UN a ie mn United Railroad Administration! to have them in line before long. 84 degrees. in Francisco was the 1 Gornelitie. C oles! place e United States, | the temperature being reported at 50 | aexrees There hs and many srostrations reported within the last De was seven de twenty-four hours reported it were Samuel Atlas. er, Was the first victim of tt He died at No His home was at No. thirty-eight heat Canals Rut- o-day 20 orge Loomis, sixty-four, No 36 Street, overcome at Ful ton Market and died | be fore an ambulance surgeon arrived. Nathan Burtinan, sixty-five, a re- |tired business man of No. 163 Beach 83d Street, Rockaway Beach, died on the beach at Beach 82d Strect after collapsing from the heat. Seven-months-old Maria Necita of No. Seventh Street, Long Isiand City, from the heat and died while a physician was attending | her. | Frank Diedrick, thirty-seven, of No. $2 Maple Street, Jersey Clty, died while at work at No. 12 South Orange Avenue, George Kin ixty-six. Chelsea Avenue, Jersey ( No. 768 Frelinghuy An indirect death was that of Dorothy toss, }months old, of No. 547 West 72d Street, Brooklyn, who liad been res:- «all day because of the heat ant pushed the wire screen from a wiu- dew in the sitting-room of her p. ts’ home, She feil with it two ries to the ground. She was dead Cherry wa this alternoon became ili ys of No. 26 y, died at n Avenue. from the heat twenty when a physician arrived. \ Prostrations reported to-day were: of Benjamin Dennan, thirty-two, No, 408 Third Avenue, overcome ut) », 25 West 88d Street | Kdward Schrupp, thirty-seven, No Avenue BB, s attended at Tomp- kins Square Ve ry Norwald, twenty-two, of No nderbilt, Avenue, Brooklyn, wat Mad.son Square Park Mary Storm, thirty-four, No. 218 was attended at th t Police Station, and removed te BSN Tals | SMOKE ROUTS HUNDREDS FROM PARK AVE. HOMES. Harlem Hospital sex Sleeping Fam- loor Apartment, hundred persons were streets at 5 A. M. to-day Park Avenue en to the in the vicinity of and Saffera Fractured Ribs as Sight-| 88th Street by a small but smoky fire seeing Bus top floor of No. 112 East 88th Mra. Bertha rna and the four others a widow of No. 153 Bainbridg amily had been unable to get frooklyn, had two ribs broken at until late because of the heat, A. M. to-day when @ taxicab in and they were still sleey he was riding collided with a when Policeman Weldann xa woke | aa ue roadway. and coming from the windows of their| ae as sen pel may ane (24) apartment in the five-story building. way home, socompaniéd by = son and |, coe vase wae in te. iamrna I aughter who met her Penne | brary, @ did about $1,000 damage yank. station, from a visit south, ‘fae, The twenty families in the hous was loaded with raong return eighty Or more persons, were sent to ing. from Cones. Island the street and se to be glad to Mra. Greenfield was the gnly person | ge: there for a little {resh air burt and after being tieBted by an)" ‘Thick smoke drifted into so many | home, Leen ee teead guetta By open windows In other apartment |the Imperial 3 jartinigie hotels. "| buildings in the victnity that many | — lof the others were soon deserted. The relish known from sea tosea. That's always welcome, always right, And full of pep and piquancy, Is Ancre Cheese. Here, take ‘| @ANCRE (| CNEESE Made by Sharpless, Phila. bthat day "Ja lad introduced them, Judson, he|qon are the Washington Heights said, told him that if (he two fae-|Tenants’ Association, Fair Play Rent Lona in the Detectives’ Association| Association, Bronx; Tremont ‘Ten- could get together and recommend | nis’ League, Bronx; Riverside Wel- one bill it could go through. fare Leagu Rronx; the Kleban| In a telegraph office in’ Al Leaders’ Association, Bronx; © OVERHEARD TALK | 400,000 TEN ANTS |Panenrs ILL, SON CRIPPLED, OFSTOO.O00FUND IN FEDERATION 10. FOR SLEUTHS' BILL FIGHT LANDLORDS oe = Devanney Tells of Conversa-| Eighteen Terfants’ Leagues tion He Listened To in Al- Banded Together in Man- bany Telegraph Office. hattan and the Bronx. ~- | | | | | | | | | Vormer Detective Sergt. Devanney,| An organization of more than 90,-| ostifying to-day before Commissioner |00 rent payers of Manhattan and the} of Accounts Hirshfield in the latter's | Bronx, pacnting the Interests of tore than 1,400,000 actual ten: s uvestigation of the detective legislt- 11.44 been formed under the Federa- on at Albany, stated that he hadlijon of ‘Tenants’ Leagues, It com- been told by Detective Sergt, Thomas|pr ses eighteen tenants’ associations! J, Finn of w conference about a po-|in the two boroughs, Capt, Harry] ice bill in the West 86th Street Sta-|Iiy, Chairman of the Washington| tion on July 18 Heights * Tenants’ Association for suid Finn had told him that on! nore than three years, is one of the k" Kie st, the lobbyist. porganizers Assemblymen to the} "We have beiieved Assem- | L will repre: He rgantzation here that nt the interests ad brought two stat believe n, and that he lvman Judson to be one of them | of the entire City of New York,” sail Whey according to what Finn sad.|Capt. Bly, “Our actual membership <howed one of the bills which it we large, but we do more than repre- proposed to introduce 1 their interests alone—we look Devanney said that later he lad ait ery tenant in Manbattan and met Judson in Albany, adding thal the Bronx i je was pot sure whether or not Kleist) The organizations in the Federa- Devanney said be overheard a versation, the gist of which was that $100,000 was behind the at call l. Tenants’ Union, Inwood T 8 the measure was originally called:| ciation, Kingabridge ‘The witness said he thought that this! Hons Us) hail $100,000 rumor was started to frighten | Rent Association, University Heights Smita so that Senator Lusk could | tent Association, Yorkville Tenants’ ieved that Harlem Tenants’ yont Park Association, Bronx; Bronx ‘Tenant Association, Vall of the Washing- [ton Heights Tenants’ Association is} temporary Chairinan of the league. A : “Permanent Chairman will be elected *ulldiOs) Aug. 3, when a meeting will be held Exum | in Publte School No, 44, at 176th Street and Prospect Avenue, Bronx. on whieh the ces it was over $3.000,006 Woolworth and the 1 road: Vrenety Gi charged nearly were resumed to Bach association sends from one to at Britain a three delegates to the league's meet- | niy one to ha: ings “We hope to take in all the organiza- ent chal kKlyn, Queens and Staten | nges said Capt, Ely “Let all nts get together and form a solid Ky oe powerful organization to. fight for | Fs their interests, If they do not we N can expect small mercy at the hands lan eaten of the landlords, who are strongly dine. reanized themsely: he interests ADVERTISE ALL Imost daily you'll see crowds around main newspaper adver: of our ‘‘good things’’ we couldn’t afford bargain prices on many special offerings. values galore throughout the store that are A customer remarked on this. dise. vertised. and the article de week. Perhaps the very thing you're seeking “at a offered by us “unadvertised.” is always a crowd bringer—WHY? OF COURSE WE DO NOT FAMILY LIVES IN CELLAR. Netghbore Hihes One of several neighbors whose charity haa been the sole means of livelihood recenUy of the Margulies family who live in the tasemenc of No, 276 Stan- on Street has asked public assistance in that almsgiving. Investigation dix covered Jacob Margulies, thirty-nine, « hin, pallid clothing worker who has been in the United States twenty yearé but cannot speak or understand the Linglish language. Another tenant of the house acted a his interpreter. Through the latter Margulies sald he had been sick and unable to work for six months, but did not know the nature of his disease. Hi wife, who lay on a cot under the fron Com to Sole Means window in the hot cellar, he said, has | suffered from cancer for six months They have a gon, David, 4, and an other, Marcus, who is cripp No appeal has been m: culies, so far as revealed, organizations by Ma. to the of one should be the interests of al that’s the principle we work on. An injury to one must be considered « injury to all, We've got to stan shoulder to shoulder. “We must work to have the eme gency rent laws renewed for a perod of three more ars, That is moat ecessary bec tenants wil! be at t mecey of jandic present laws exp: t also check Judges and make re in accordance wit of them are absolutly pro-land Let us all get together and s! thert” Among those promoting the James M. Moore, P t mont Tenants’ League: Donnely, Fair Play A Uon; Owen $ mes. 3 Nassau Street; Oscar J. Smith. Rroady B. Treat and of Washington He on, Court Craig. Bronx Stre roadway, and 8 ial West 178th St OUR GOOD THINGS! floor tables or in departments buying goods that have not been advertised. Newspaper advertising is still very high, even now when the price of merchandise has come down; if we were to add ing cost on top of regular cost of most to quote such Thousands of HE ARM customers know that they'll find not advertised. An oldtime clerk replied: “Why, Madam, there’s no need to advertise this merchan- These goods simply ‘sell themselves’ at this price.” Don’t wait to see if the article you have in mind will be ad- Perhaps (and probably) while you're still wait- ing, there’s a crowd around a table or counter in Hearn’s red by you is “just selling itself.” To illustrate the point, all week we have been selling Linon Suitings (assorted colors) at 17¢ a yard. Customers stood two and three deep daily at tables in the store for this mer- chandise which had not been advertised at all during the price” is being N. B. Our August Sale which begins August Ist | }