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New-York tribune., 1918-06-25
10000 Lake Seamen
Are Ready to Strike
Vote to Quit Work Unless
Employers Abolish Dis
charge Books

CHICAGO, June 24.-Ten thousand
Lake seamen on nearly four hundred
vessels were reported tonight to have
voted in all ports on the Great Lakes
to strike July 20 unless the employers
members of the Lake Carriers Associa-
ton, agree to the abolition of dis
charge books. The sailors, members Of
the Lake Seamen's Union, also will ask
for increased wages. The vote was an
nounced by Thomas A. Hanlon, secre-
tary of the union.
According to Hanlon, the members
of the Lake Carriers Association have
refused to do away with the discharge
books, which require seamen to carry
credentials. showing the individual rec
ord of each on all vessels, notwith-
standing the recommendation of the
Federal Shipping Board If the car
riers yield, Hanlon said, the wage ques-
tion will be eft to the Shipping Board
for adjustment.
These are the wages sought: Able
bodied seamen, $105 per month: ordi
nary seamen, SIS. They now receive
SS3 and $75, respectively, the union
officials say.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-25
Terminal Market
=
Is Urged to Lower
City's Food Bill
Citizens at Meeting Plan to
Stop Huge Daily
Waste Here

The establishment of a terminal
market as means toward lowering
the cost of food was advocated last
night at citizens mass meeting in the
Stuyvesant High School, Fifteenth
Street, near First Avenue.
Charles A. Beard, director of the
Bureau of Municipal Research. who
presided. declared that such central
market and municipal facilities fo1
handling freight would do much to
prevent waste and high prices of the
$1,000,000,000 worth of foodstutfs
York.
Such terminal market was also adj
vocated by Jonathan c. Day, Commits
sioner of Public Markets.; CYRUS c.
Miller, of the New York State Food
Commission and Federal Food Board: ::
Miss Rose Schneiderman, president of
the Woman's Trade Union League, and
by Scott II. Percy, secretary of the Co.
operative League Of America.
"The biggest need of the farmers
in the state at the present time is tho
establishment of proper terminal IA
cilities in this city," said Commission
alone 100000 pounds of food went
to waste here for lack of such facili-
ties. The distribution of fish from
pier to consumer cost 100 per cent of
it's cost at the pier. The average cost
of distribution Of all foodstuffs in the
city is 40 per cent.
when it costs as much to get a
crate of celery from Pier 29 on the
North River to Harlem as it does to
get that crate from Florida to Pier
20, there is something radically
wrong"
DR.. Beard agreed that what was
wrong was the lack of freight and
market facilities, and said campaign
for them was to be inaugurattd with
the mass meeting.
"We are here to begin a battle in
the interests of the consumer" he
said. Eve are beginning q movement
that will band together the consumers
of this city in an unshakable determi-
!. nation to labor without ceasing until
New York has system of market fa-
cilities at least comparable in eff
ticiency to that of the systems OF
passenger transportation.
1--WE are proposing to start with the
construction of terminal markets in
each of the several boroughs-great
centres to which commodities can be
shipped and from which they may be
sold by auction, by retail or by any
other method which is found to be
advantageous. The present city ad-
ministration is pledged to thorough
going attack on the high cost of living.
We shall expect it to redeem its
promises"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-25
No Change in Flour
Prices, Say Officials
Especial Dispatch to The Tribune)

WASHINGTON, June 24.-Under a
new plan of flour control to be in
augurated on July /, the food admins
tration will allow -four millers a maxi
mum differential of $1.1O between the
cost of wheat to them and their final
flour price, including returns on feeds
and other byproducts, it was an
nounced here to-day.
The new scheme Of -four control, the
food administration expects, will per-
nit freer movement of wheat and
flour. The shortage of wheat and
-four during the last winter has neces-
STATED virtual wheat rationing of
mills. The expected bumper crop will,
however, provide a sufficient surplus
to permit the lifting of the present
stringent regulations.
Officials Of the food administration
do not anticipate that the new -four
regulations will modify existing prices.
The recently promulgated freight rate
increase, however, will add from to 4
cents to the cost of wheat in the
primary markets, it is said. This will
be reflected in some advance in -four.
Explaining the auth horization from
President Wilson to increase wheat
prices above the guaranteed minimum
Food Administrator Hoover stated to-
day that this permitted such advances
as have been made necessary on ac-
count of increased freight rates. No
advance in the basic price Of wheat to
the farmer above the guarantee oil
$2.2O is planned at the present time,
Mr.. Hoover said. The increased capi-
talizatioa of the grain corporation au-
thorized by the President will provide
the food administration with ample
funds with which to buy all surplus
wheat.
Food Administrator Hoover stated
emphatically to-day that the govern
ment would absolutely prohibit specu-
lation in wheat during the period of
the war.
The food administration also an
nounced to-day that on July the
Grain Corporation will have completed
its years business with the original
s6o,oooo,ooo appropriation intact and q
small surplus in the treasury. The
Grain Corporation has operated on q. /
per cent margin, enough to meet in
surance and losses, During the year
900,
New-York tribune., 1918-06-25
~. Y. "VoIks-Zeifunp''
Says No.u Is Time
For Austrian, ReuoIt

The New York "volks-Zeitune," a
leading German Socialist daily news
paper, says this morning, editorially:
1.-THE Austrian defeat is the oppor-
tune moment for the breadless and
starving masses to rise. If ever there
was military defeat coming at the
right time it is the case of the Italian
victory over the Austrians on the
Piave.
"The victory came at the psyche
logical moment for the peace and
bread hungry masses of the Dual Mon
archy to gain the courage to over
throw and annihilate their oppressors
and exploiters and to start a genuine
offensive against them"
The editorial goes on to discuss the
report of the reported rout of the
marks the beginning of the end Of the
war
New-York tribune., 1918-06-25
Wreck That Cost
IS Lives Is Laid to
Sleeping Engineer
Statement Says Locomo-
tive Driver Was Worn
Out by Illness

HAMMOND, Ind, June 24.--Attor-
ney Charles J. McFadden, represent
ing the Michigan Central Railroad, is
sued a statement to-day explaining
that Alonzo Sargent, engineer of the
empty troop train which crashed into
circus train near Gary, Saturday,
killing eighty-fve and injuring 150
was asleep, owing to illness, and did
rot see the signals Of danger.
Sargent. he said. remained near the
wreck for six hours, and then, being
worn out, departed for Kalamazoo. At
the inquest Attorney McFadden said
the engineer was asleep for three
miles.
Gustave Klauss, Sargent's fireman,
testified that he was busy shoveling
coal almost to the moment of the acci-
dent. He saw red flare burning and
heard fusce, which Timm, a flagman,
said he threw, hitting the cab window
on the engineers side
Conductor r. W. Johnson and Cur
tis Aust, head brakeman of the circus
train, testified that the danger signals
were plainly visible against a clear
sky
New-York tribune., 1918-06-25

police interfered, but failed to pro-
vent street procession of more than
S,ooO strikers at Cologne The strikers,
who included women, marched in a
dense mass to an open place, where
mass meeting was held. All the
speakers, who included foremen and
forewomen. made this declarations:
UNLESS we get more to eat we
shall not work"
The Dutchman said that smallpox is
Increasing greatly among the Krupp
workmen at Essen.
Meatless weeks for Germany is a
possibility of the near future. DR..
August Muller. Under Secretary for
Food Distribution. at a meeting Of the
Reichstag Food Committee Saturday,
says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Copenhagen, announced that it
would be impossible to increase the
meat ration. He said that most likely
it will be necessary to lower it or
to introduce meatless weeks for the
whole of Germany or, at any rate,
certain parts of the population.
Chancellor Won Hertling, according
to the "Vossische Zeitung" Of Satur-
day, will speak to-day at the opening
OF the debate in the Reichstag on the
estimates for his office and the Foreign
Office.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-25
OdeN Pledges Efforts
To Reduce Ice Prices

Former Governor Benjamin B. Odell,
Ice Administrator for New York State,
in a statement yesterday gave his as
surance that everything will be done
to reduce the cost Of ice. The state
ment follows:
"I am trying to investigate condi-
tions regarding the wastage and cost
of delivery of ice, the cost of which, as
with all other food products, has in
creased very materially in delivery, in
order to see if something can be done
sumner and seller.
II shall endeavor to secure the ideas
of those who are interested in this
subject, and if practicable, put them
into. force. Next week l hope to have
collected sufficient data on this point
to get things into harmonious opera
ton"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-25
Hoover Saves on Sisal
tspec;of Disno,ch IN rhs r-,

Especial Dispatch to The T,ibsne).
WASHINGTON, June 24.-The food
administration to-day announced the
purchase of 100000 bales of sisal from
the .Mexical sisal trust at 18 cents
which is three cents pound less than
last years prices. Though the reduc-
tion in the price Of raw sisal will not
be reflected in the price Of binder twine
sold to farmers this year, next wear the
food administration states it viii effect
a saving Of approximately $4,000, 900.
The food administration has notified
the Mexican sisal syndicate that before
further purchases are made by the
United States It proposes to send 9
commission to Yucatan to inyesticats
the costa Of production. An inyitafian
has been extended to representative ci
the Mexican Republic to send q simifar
commission to the United States to in.
vestigate manufacturing costa.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-25
Brazilian Warships
On European Patrol
Have Taken Their Place Be-
side British and Ameri-
can Vessels

LONDON, June 24.-Admiral Fran
cisco de Mattos, chief of the Brazilian
naval mission in Europe, the task of
which is to supervise the naval SER
vices Of Brazil in European waters, in
statement given to the press, calls
attention to the fact that Brazilian
warships are already doing patrol duty
by the side of the Americans and Brit
ish. Brazil had also sent many doctors
and aviators to assist the Allies.
There are no 9, u-boats in South t%t h
furthest south they have been is St.
Vincent, where two Brazilian mer-
chantmen were sunk by a German sub
marine. Brazil at once accepted the
challenge, and that is why we are in
the war.
Brazil is doing her best in provid-
ing both supplies and transports and
guarding them. Plenty Of meat is
coming over from Brazil, thousands Of
tons Of it. and cereals also.
1--WE had fifty-three German ships
interned in Brazilian ports at the out
break of the war; These have all been
taken over. ~, Thirty of these ships
been ceded to France"
Speaking Of the effect that the war
has had on Brazil, the admiral said:
ut has developed to very large ex-
tent many dormant industries. such as
meat export, and there has been a great
revival of agriculture, as we'll as ma
tional production in other directions
particularly coal. AS for the people
they are showing extraordinary en-
thusiasm for the Allies. We have g
large German population, but they have
kept quiet.
"The cost of living has gone up very
little, in comparison with the rise in
other countries. This is owing to the
fact that the war has led to the devel-
opment Of our own resources. There is
no deficiency of anything and the coun-
try is prosperous"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-25
Intervention in Russia
Is Urged on Wilson
By Defence Societ,

TIE American Defence Society made
peoiie yesterday letter sent to Eresi-
sens Wilson urging Japanese and
Ialnese intervention in Russia. The
1ser, YET, in part, follows:
i, There is u general belief that the
sa ol the fighting millions Of Japan
sso china IS necessary for the winning
~ tne war IL it is to be won without
Unnecessary delay and unwarranted and
'sAng less Of American lives.
suur allies. who were an this war long
sssscre ssre our entry, have learned the ter.
.soae lesson of hesitation and delay
le shey are unanimous, vie are told,
~ me utilization of Japan's splendid
SSVsees on the undeterminate Eastern
s ~ Ine implement is ready. Will
~ history hold US to account Il we
Ssvse It to Rmain idle7 :"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-25
Rioters Demand
Austria-Hungary
Sue For Peace
Continued from page 4

economic and social troubles, and add
ing that such information as has lately
come out of Austria in regard to the
extreme shortage of foodstuffs and in
dustrial disorganization benefit Aus
tria's enemies.
The department received a report
from Stockholm quoting the "Vor-
waerts," Of Berlin, which says the
Vienna bread ration for manual work
men is 1,12O -grammes weekly-about
two pounds. 1t did not indicate, how
aver, the quality Of this bread. All
other people in Vienna receive 630
grammes week--about one and one
quarter pounds.
Half of Potatoes Rotten
The other rations are 500 grammes
of potatoes, one-half of which, accord
ing to the "Vorwaerts," are uneatable ;
l2b grammes, or about four ounces, of
bran flour; 1876 grammes of other prod
ucts, one-quarter of which, or about
one ounce, are fats; one egg, 1870
grammes of sugar and 200 grammes, OF
about seven ounces, of meat.
The paper stated that in southern
Austria the situation is even more des--
perate, there being no fixed ration OF
bread, although bread is distributed
whenever it is to be had
tMuculAtc IcVOluClCiI AK HNcsi 40 4"
MT looked for, on account Of the
strong military repressive measures
prepared by the government, but the
danger of revolution is rapidly increas-
ing owing to the Italian victories and
the retreat of the Austrian forces
across the Piave. The State Depart
ment believes that the people Of the
monarchy desire that the government
enter into peace negotiations, accept
ing defeat, if the Austrian effort to
win decisive success on the Italian
front is frustrated.
While the food problem in Germany
is not as serious as in Austria, it is
said in official advices to be giving the
authorities great concern. Nearly a
month will pass before there can be
any relief from the new crops.
! Fhe department received a telegram
front the legation at Berne stating
that the Swiss press publishes from
the "Vienna Correspondence Bureau"
of the 10Th report saying that the
Vienna bread ration had been reduced
to three ounces a day, or three small
half-slices.
Il IL states that the Vienna Workmen's
Council had adopted resolution say
New-York tribune., 1918-06-25

ing 1t was impossible to have any ap-
preciable solution Of the food problem
during the war, and therefore the coun-
Gil renewed it's demand for peace at the
earliest possible time. The report
quotes the Austrian Minister of Ali
inentation as saying:
1--WE have adopted measures only un-
der compulsion of circumstances. The
stored supplies and those from Bess-
arabia are not available"
Stakes All on Harvest
The Berne dispatch says only a short
time intervenes between the present
and the new harvest, which the Aus
trian officials hope will make the situa-
ton easier.
1t also quotes the "National Zeitung,"
food ration is one pound Of potatoes,
one-half Of which are rotten; one
quarter pound Of black clover -four,
one-quarter pound of other ground
products, forty grammes Of fat, one
egg, 100 grammes Of sugar, some jam,
coffee substitute, 200 grammes Of
meat, the latter obtainable only by re-
naming In the line all night
On Eve of "Catastrophe"
A telegram from Amsterdam, re-
ceived by an Entente diplomatic estab-
lishment to-day, says:
"The Austrian Socialist delegates
who came to Holland to confer with
NJ. Troelstra realize that the Austrian
situation Is very serious. These dele
gates have not hidden from those who
have approached them that Austria is
on the eye of historic catastrophe.
.>, "A Copenhagen dispatch says: The
"Neue Freie Presse," of Vienna, an
nounces that uprisings have taken
place in several parts of the capital.
Trains have been stopped and over
turned, the windows Of several fac
tories have been broken and bakeries
have been pillaged. Troops have been
called out. Vigorous measures have
been taken. The Council Of Workmen,
of Vienna, has published a manifestor
expressing the wish to see the gov
ernment made aware of the necessity
of increasing the rations, famine being
the cause of the strikes which have
broken out'"
FOnr Rioters Slain
A dispatch from Berne says:
There Is great agitation among the
workingmen Of the state railways in
Hungary. An uprising took place
which necessitated the Intervention Of
armed police. Four of the rioters
"SAS hilACU dnO 6cVcIlLCcu WOuuucU. III
the Chamber Of Deputies Count Ka-
rolyi declared amaid a great uproar
that the demands of the workmen were
justified.
premier Wekerle said these tragic
events were to be regretted, adding
that the strike movement was spread
ing and that q great number of fac
tories had ceased working; that he did
not hold the working class responsible,
but their chiefs, who had incited them
that he could not admit the preten-
sions of the syndicalist organizations,
and, finally. that he was determined to
maintain order at all costs.
Spreads TO Postal Service
"The Minister of Commerce, Scze-
renyi, said strikes had been going on
for some days in the coal mines of
Petroceny. The strike broke out be-
cause the military authorities SEN
fenced workingman to punishment.
"The agitation was spreading among
the civil servants of the post and tele-
graph service, he said, concluding: 4
must, therefore, announce that in the
case of these services being impeded /
shall punish without pity
THE situation is no less disturbing
in Hungary than in Austria"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-25
Says Germans Want
Peace; Viezu Present
Driue As the Last
(By The Associated Press)

COPENHAGEN. June 24.-The Ger.
man soldiers generally are tired of the
war, but the patience of the people as a
whole, especially the middle classes, is
marvellous in view of the prevalent un-
favorable conditions, said DR.. G.. F. N
Nicolai, former professor of physioicgy
at the University of Berlin, when ques.
toned to-day regarding conditions in
Germany. Professor Nicolai was ono
of the four men who escaped from
Germany last week in airplanes. land
ing in Denmark.
In official circles. continued Professor
Nicolai, the war is expected to last a
long time yet, but among the people the
opinion is expressed by many that the
present offensive on the Western front
will be decisive. While the people gen.
orally are patient, at the same time
they are anxious for peace, the pro-
fessor declared.
Food conditions in the empire are
extremely bad, Professor Nicolai re-
ports. AS against the disappointment
from the failure of the Ukraine sup
plies to come up to expectations, how
CNCA, bOIlic CI.COuA 06CAA IIau Uccl NC
rived from the recent rains, which il
was hoped would result in the produc.
tion Of better crops at home than last
year.
Nothing appears in the German pa
pers, the professor stated, regarding
the many effective enemy air raids
upon German cities. Owing to the
scarcity of all kinds of commodities
robberies and burglaries have increased
greatly, and even in the first class
hotels the guests do not venture te
leave their clothing or shoes outside
their doors for cleaning. AS for soap
one finds it necessary, the. professor
said, to keep. it in ones pockets.
Although taxes are constantly in
creasing, Professor Nicolai said, the
payment of the interest or the wal
loans is not covered, and it is expected
that in future only 2 per cent of the
interest on the per cent loans will be
disbursed, the rest being added to the
principal of the loan.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-25
Labor Party Split
Seen as Result of
Pucifs171 in Britain,

LONDON, June 24.--The manifesto
issued by eight Labor members of the
British government, according to some
Of the morning newspapers, is con-
nected with threats of serious split
in the Labor party, due, some papers
say, to efforts of pacifst group to
embarrass the government in the prose
cution of the war.
''The Daily Telegraph" says the party
stands in imminent danger of a cleav-
age which will divide it into several
warning factions. The causes of dis
affection are so deep and the preju-
dices and passions so great that it is
difficult to see, it adds, how an agree
ment can be reached.
"The Telegraph" declares that
speeches and actions of the Labor min
listers have been twisted and misrep-
resented to suit sectional purposes and
the minds of their constituents have
been poisoned by insidious propaganda.
1t charges that a campaign Is being
waged ruthlessly to force labor out of
the coalition government and break up
the present administration.
Threaten to Resign
George H. Roberts, Minister of La
Dor, and George Nicoll Barnes, minister
without portfolio in tAe War Cabinet,
are quoted by "The Daily Mail" as say
ing that they were so sick of the "mean
lies and envenomed calumny" of their
opponents within the party that they
gladly would resign, but felt that by
doing SO they would be shirking their
duty. They intended to continue work
Tn thu h,,f
would not continue without the good
will and support of their constituents
The manifesto seems called forth by
the determination of the Labor execu-
tlves to move at conference fixed for
Wednesday that the political truce
observed by the consent Of all parties
since the beginning of the war be ter
minated. If this is indorsed by the
conference, whenever and wherever an
election occurs an official Labor candi-
date will oppose a candidate represent
ing the other parties to the truce and
the position of the Labor ministers
would become impossible.
Placed in Awkward Position
"The Times" says tina. the precise
significance of the decision of the Labor
executives to move dissolution of the
political truce is somewhat obscure, but
the reason given is the awkward posi-
tion in which the executives are placed
by the action of local branches Of the
party which already have ignored the
truce by running candidates of their
own against authorized candidates.
The adoption of the resolution would
relieve the executives of embarrassment
by releasing them from the obligation
to keep faith with the government.
"The Times" adds:
"The executives have failed to enforce
discipline in the constituencies and are
weakly surrendering the position to-
the rebellious elements. II the resolu-
New-York tribune., 1918-06-25
Says Germans Haue
Set Date for Reuolt

Julius Gerber, executive secretary
Of the Socialist party of this city, said
yesterday that a date had been set for
a revolution in Germany The date was
Kept secret. he said. for fear the Kaiser
Der said, the Kaiser was the best reyo-
lutionist he had in Germany and was
doing his best to hasten the event by
keeping on with the war.
Canadian labor unions have issued a
manifesto declaring minority Socialists
IN Germany have documentary evidence
that the Junkers "are planning the
worlds Slaughter and using the wage
s,aSes snH Oh germany as spending money"
imminent,