The Washington herald., 1916-04-17
TELL LABOR To
Stand AS ONE
Mother Jones and Rein Orr
Speak to Traction Work
ers Locked Out.
PHONE INQUIRY COMING
Alexandria Supervisors Retain Attor-
ney c. W. Lewis to Probe Toll !.
Charges for Telephone Service.
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Alexandra, Va, April 16.-In a stirring
address which aroused pIaudits, Mother
Jones, of the United Mine Workers of
America, this afternoon spoke at a meet
ing in the Richmond Theater, together
with other labor officials, under the au-
spices of the men locked out on the Falls
Church branch of the washington-vir-
ginia Electric Railway.
She told the forty men locked out not
TO weaken and not to surrender. Get
after the 'scabs' and blacklist every man
and woman who gets on a 'scab' car.
They are communicating" she said.
The speaker. holding rife bullets in her
hand, told OF the troubles in West Vir-
ginia during the miners strike, and of
her being sentenced to Ave years in the
penttentiary and afterward being par
doned.
The first speaker was Rezin Orr, inter-
national treasurer OF the Amalgamated
Association Of Street and Electric Rail-
way Employees OF America. He told his
hearers that the men on this branch or
ganized and asked for a slight increase
in wages which was not unreasonable.
Within twenty-four hours he said. they
were told unless they gave UP they could
not work. The speaker said he had no
doubt the men could get back II they
gave up their union cards. Two or three
sIIldh CROWDS, ne Sa1Q, control the sereet
railways of America.
Mr.. Orr said there was no other way
to change conditions except through or
ganization. He said the men locked out
would be taken care of and not 60 hun
cry, and that the union representatives
were going to stay around until some
change for the better takes place in this
vicinity.
James P Eagan. editor OF the news let
nf ha
told of the necessity for organized labor
AS long as they were not organized, he
said, the manager of the road was an
autocrat. Trade-union men here, he said,
must support the men and not sit idly
by. He said the road could be licked,
and he expressed confidence the men
would gain in strength
Grant Hamilton. legislative representa-
tive In Congress of the American Fedora
tion Of Labor. said: IF were you men
should welcome the occasion to show
that I was owner OF my own body, and
have that which makes for manhood and
freedom"
The meeting was attended by not more
than 15O persons. 1t was presided over
by ]. E. Kaldenbach. of Washington.
The board OF supervisors OF Alex
andria County has retained the SER
vices of Attorney G. Washington Lewis
to assist Commemorative Attorney
Frank l. Ball in an investigation oil
the toll charges for telephone service
between this city and portions oil
Alexandria County.
Stainer's "Crucihxon" was rendered
by the choir of Christ p E. Church.
tonight under the direction of Prof.
James E. Bagley. Fling Wide the
Gates" from Stainer's ''Crucifixon"|
was sung at the offertory at st. PauTs
P. E. Church today. At the offertory|
this evening. william J. Waller. barry
tone, sang The Palms"
Guns for the recently organized
Cadet Corps OF the Alexandria High
School are expected this week, having
been shipped from an arsenal in New
York. After the schools close in June.
It is planned to take the members OF
the company on a weeks camping
trip for target practice.
Rev. J. D. D. Hail. an Episcopal
evangelist of Philadelphia, conducted
an open-air service at 4 o'clock this
afternoon on Windmill Hill This
morning he preached at Grace P. z.
Church and tonight at the Chapel of
Good Shepherd.
large congreg cation today attend
ed the Palm Sunday services at st.
Mary's Catholic Church. At the III
o'clock mass the palm was blessed
and distributed to the congregation.
Funeral services for DR.. T. H. Nc
Keown, OF Congress Heights, D. c.. who
died in Petersburg, Va, as the result of
injuries sustained in an automobile accl-
dent, were held today at Grace p. E.
Church, and conducted by Rev. Edgar
Carpenter, rector, assisted by Rev. s. A.
Wallis, D. D., of the Episcopal Theologi-
cal Seminary. Members of Alexandria
Washington Lodge of Masons attended
and conducted services at the grave.
The body OF William Haddock, who
died yesterday afternoon at his home,
9Ol Prince street, was shipped this after
noon to Richmond, Va, for burial.
The steamer Dorothy, which arrived
here several days ago with a cargo of
phosphate rock consigned to the Alex
andria Fertilizer and Chemical Company,
sailed tonight for Norfolk where it will
load coal for Boca Grand. Fla.
An important business meeting of the
board of police commissioners will be
held on Wednesday night.