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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-01

including those in the subway service.
Additional railroad men returned to
work, It was declared.
Would Replace Bus Men
Arrangements have been made TO
replace the bus men and the tramway
men should they strike" the statement
announced. 1t was added that the
movement Of food was proceeding re-
markably well.
The meeting of the transport men
marked the most critical moment so
far in the labor situation brought about
by the railroad tie-up. The meeting
was attended by representatives of the
Amalgamated Engineers Federation,
the shipbuilding and engineering trades,
the printing trades, the electrical
trades, the railway clerks, the new
postal federation and the national fed
GRAFTON of general workers. Most of
the labor members of the House of
Commons also were present.
1t was expected that the transport
workers would demand a general strike
by all trades, but J. II. Thomas, the
railwaymen's leader, on entering the
meeting, said he was still using all his
influence to confine the dispute TO the
original participants, the government
and the railwaymen.
Shortly before 2 o'clock this afternoon
the meeting adjourned until 8 o'clock.
James O'Grady, a labor leader and
member of Parliament for East Leeds,
said on entering the meeting: Some
thing very important will happen. ]
hope this conference will succeed In
effecting a settlement"
Glasgow, Oct. 1.-(By A. P.)-
Robert Smillie, leader of British min
ers and one of the sponsors for the
movement demanding direct action in
the recent labor congress here, predict
ed this morning that 80 per cent of the
manual workers of the country would
be idle within a week. He declared
he expected the mines, steel works,
shipyards and all factoris to shut down.
Dublin, Oct. 1.-(By A. P.O-Irish
railway men are still awaiting instruc
tions from the national union. There
is great congestion of goods here
ships having curtailed their service be :
tween ireland and England. A number
of firms threaten to close at the end OF
this week. 1t is reported that mail and
Sunday trains are to be Cancelled.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-01
GERMAN ARMY DWINDLING
National Assembly Adopts Emer
qency BUDGET Without Debate

Berlin. Oct. 1.--tBy A. P.)-The
German National Assembly reopened
here yesterday and adopted the emer-
gency budget through all its stages
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-01
NEW LEAGUE ASPIRANT
PrineIpaIity Of Liehtenstein Anxious
to Join With Allies

Berne, Oct. 1.-The Parliament of
Lichtenstein, according to dispatches
from that country, is about to appeal to
the Pence Conference to invite the prin :
cipality to Join the league of nations.
In its note the government will ask the
Peace Conference to recognize the neu-
trality maintained by the country during
the great war.
Lichtenstein. a princiDality Of sixty
five square miles. lying between Switz
erland and Austria. while nominally in =
dependent with its own ruler, was until
1918 practically a dependency of Aus
tria.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-14

to the number of twenty-three thou
sand have been made and shipped to
the needy. Similar clothing will be
supplied to War-devastated regions
for at least one year more.
"An additional feature of our fall
and winter work will be Americana
zation lectures at headquarters and
in the parochial schools of the city.
Prominent speakers will deliver ad-
dresses on all phases Of American
life, which should make for a better
citizenship among our own people as
we'll as among emigrants."
The active operation of the club is
due to the untiring energy of Miss
O'Donohue. While other war or
CARNATIONS have closed their doors,
believing their work completed.
members of the league are welcom-
ing the boys who were delayed in
homecoming. More than one thou
sand service men have been provided
with sleeping accommodations and
food
New-York tribune., 1919-09-14
SiLuer Anniversary
Of Federated Clubs

THE New York State Federation
of Wcmen's Clubs will cele-
brate its quarter century, or silver,
anniversary with an Americaniza-
ton programme at the state con-
vention in Elmira, n. y, during the
week of November 10 to ia.
Mrs. George ID. Hewitt. of Car
thage, the state president, will pre-
side at the sessions and Mrs Charles
NJ. Dickinson, of Binghamton, has
arranged the programme.
With the exception Of few di-
rectors and district chairmen. no Of
iicers are to be elected by the fed
GRAFTON this fall. but at the conven-
ton last year it was decided to
carry out special Americaniza ton
work and the programme will con-
tain reports on work along this line
Fully 1000 women viii attend
these sessions, it is expected To
secure a we'll balanced programme
the mornings and afternoons will
be devoted to business, while recrea-
ton and addresses will be features
of the evening sessions. One even
ing viii be devoted to the negro
sprituals and folk music Of Amer
ica. Mrs. Eugene J. Grant, of
Brooklyn, chairman Of the state
music committee, has arranged for
folk dances Of the various nations.
The federation building at Elmlra.
model establishment, will be gen
eral Headquarters All luncheons
and dinners will +ake place there.
The afternoon sessions viii take
place in a large church across the
street from the federation building.
The gathering will be the first
Americanization convention to take
place in this state.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-14
To Soldiers Of
All Countries

Not only did the members of the
league supply hospitality and enter
tainment, but also at times proved
worthy substitute for mothers in
distant sections of the country
Kindly advice and counsel were
meted out in response to many ap-
peals for help from boys who were
strangers in the city. 1t is not an
unusual sight to see Chinese sailor
requesting that his money be held by
one Of the women Of the league
while on tour of New York or to
observe a French "Blue Devil" in
friendly argument over the advisa-
bility of a third helping of pie d la
mode for breakfast. Every man
was welcome, regardless of his ma
tionality, race or creed.
The new Headquarters were opened
on Labor Day without ostentation
or ceremony. Instead Of an occa-
sion for formality, the opening
day marked the beginning of ser
vice.
The league was organized seven
years ago, devoting its activities to
civic and social welfare work. Dur
ing the comparatively short period
of it's existence an enviable record
has been made.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-14
National Land
Army Commended
BY Secretary Wilson
State Land Army Needs
Girls for Fall Harvest

KHE New York Office of the
Womans Land Army of
America this week issued an ap-
peal for girls to work in the fall
harvests. Beans, corn, apples and
other fruits and potatoes must
be harvested at once and girls are
badly needed for the work. The
S O S calls from farms near Bed
ford, n Y. and in Pennsylvania
are most insistent.
No relief has been felt in the
local farm labor shortage. ac-
cording to the women Of the Land
Army in New York. In fact they
say that there is greater demand
for girls this fall than ever be-
fore. Many of the girls who
worked through the summer are
returning to their work or
schools now
Recruiting for Pennsylvania is
done at the Land Army Office
in Philadelphia, 1716 Chestnut
Street; for New York and New
Jersey, at the New York office,
19 West Forty-fourth Street.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-14
New Child Labor
Law Supported
In The South
Miss Mia F. Allen, Head Of
Tax Division, B. l. r.,
Created to Enforce Law
I<TNHE South in general is sup
porting the new law for

"n ps.s'"s Sa"'' ,a. i" Ss"S'"' se~ .~ i. '+" fer
prohibiting child labor"
said Miss Mia +. Allen this week in
discussing her work. Miss Allen is
head of the Child Labor Tax 1)i-
vision of the Bureau of Internal
Revenue. Her work is investigation
relative to the new child labor law.
In the South many industries
have been unblushing in their agrees
sive opposition to child labor reform.
But the investigation of the Chill
dren's Bureau of the United States.
Department of Labor have brought
public opinion to bear in such way
that many of the employers of
children have given up the fight en-
tlrcly. They realize that laws pro-
hlbitlng the exploitation of little
children are inevitable. according
to Miss Allen, and believe that they
might as we'll give up now as later.
When the last child labor law was
declared unconstitutional it's advo-
Gates Immediately started to work
on another bill which would stand
the test of the courts. The new law
passed last year went into effect
last summer. 1t puts a tax of 10
per cent on the net profits of ali
employers and industries that en-
ploy children under fourteen years
Of age, or employ children between
the ages Of Ia and 16 years for
more than eight hours on before
6 o'clock in the morning on after
Z o'clock at night. The employment
Of one child contrary to this law
will cost the business 10 per cent
of its net profits for the year.
To enforce this law a new bureau
had to be established in the Bureau
of Internal Revenue. Miss Aliens
Investigations to date indicate that
there is only one small territory in
which the tax will become effective.
This is in the South.
Miss Allen is a graduate Of the
Washington College of Law and has
worked for a number Of years in
vestigating conditions bearing On
the welfare of children. One Of
her most important pieces of work
was for the Children's Bureau-an
intensive study Of the social condi-
tions related to infant mortality.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-14
Lost: A Woman s
Citizens hip
4 Lac Necessary to Cire
Back Her Birthright
Near York Tribune
lfGsl,,rCton Pur.uu

Washington Bur.au
THE petition of Mrs. Frances
Scovllle Mumm. the Kansas girl
who married one of the firm Of the
famous Mumm's extra dry cham
pagne manufacturers. to be restored
to the full rights and privileges Of
citizenship, introduced into the
House of Representatives has been
referred to the Committee on I'M
migration and Naturalization. The
petition was introduced last week
by Representative Anthony, Of Kan
sas, and went to the committee to-
day. Senator Arthur Capper. of
Kansas, introduced the joint reso-
luton in the Senate about three
weeks ago.
Mrs. Mumm now has the status
of Il German citizen. her husband.
Walter Mumm. being German
citizen. She is a daughter of c. c.
X. Scoville, Of Kansas She is now
living in Kansas with her father
and is seeking readmission to her
rights as a citizen, it is said, in
order to obtain a divorce from her
German husband and enter suit for
property in Europe.
There exists no law for readmis-
sion to citizenship Of American
women who have married foreign
ers, so an act of Congress has to
become operative before such priv
ileges can be restored.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-14
Presidents
Annrova]

President Woodrow Wilson is-
sued from the White House On
March 80. 1918. letter of con
graduation and commcndation TO
the executive committee of the land
army. The Presidents letter wss
as follows:
Il am gratitied TO hear of the
plan Of the Women's Land Army
to help increase the food supply of
our country and the Allies through
enrolling active and patriotic young
women in sustaining groups or
units to aid in cultivatine crops
where the farmers have need Of
them. | trust that our farmers. like
the farmers Of Great Britain and
Canada, will avail themselves of
this and to the fullcs' extent urac-
ticable and that th~ response Of our
loyal young women to this need
wherever it exists will be generous
and complete
New-York tribune., 1919-09-14
1--WE Thrive on Strikes''
and a Minimum $35
Wage Are Popular Slo-
saus With Audience
Radicals a Bit
Disappointed
Successful Striking Ac-
tress Thinks the Rich
Will Be AlwaysWith Us

ORGANlzFD women have A,
1 opened their arms to the
" chorus girls. OF course, if
,bov hadn't voluntarily, no doubt
Marie Dressler. with her talents for
Getting what she wants for her
charges. would have been able to
win over the trade union women the
way she did the managers.
At a meeting Of the Women's
Trade Union League last week on
the fifth floor of the Rand School
Building Marie Dressler told the
neckwear makers and the cigar
makers. the stenogra piers and all
The others how the actors do it. 1t
was plain that the regular trade
unionists and the leader Of the
chorus girls weren't on exactly the
same ground The strike is their
main point of contact as yet. In her
introduction to Marie Dresslers 5
speech Rose Schneidermann, head of
the Trade Union League in New
York, noted the fact that the actor
had, not many years since, made
Joking references that cast asper-
sion or the working girls She
added that, now the actors were
striking. the trade unionists were
very much in sympathy with them.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-14
Need No
Longer Felt

he reason given by the Labor
Department for the dcmobiljzation
OF the land army is the cessation
OF acute farm labor shortage now
that the fighting forces have re-
turned from abroad. There is no
longer any need for the women TO
go to the farms to worl1 from \ ma
uonal necessity. This season is the
last for the agreement made be-
tween the department and the army.
Secretary Wilson's letter to the
land army was as follows:
1T seems itting to acknowledge
how faithfully your organization
has worked to provide the farmer
with the labor needed to plant and
harvest the crops. The department
is glad to have been able to help
You, tor you have been OF assistance
to it
The land army was organized
after Uncle Sam had taken mauv
of the farm boys to fight in France.
In the spring of 1917 an cxperi-
ment farm to try out women as
laborers IN meeting the agricultural
labor shortage was established at
Bedford. n. Y. Here recruiting of
young women WAS started. the
standards fixed for wages. working
and living conditions and other
questions connected with the en-
trance Of many more women into
farm work than had ever gone pre-
vlously. Later in the sam year.
December. TO be exact, the Nomen's
Committee of tnc Council Of Ma
tlonal Defence. the Womcn's Ma
tional Farm and Garden Associa-
ton and the Garden Club Of Amer
lea consolidated their efforts to re-
cruit women to join the land
army forces. It is reported that
chalrmen were named in forty
states to carry on this recruiting.
and l3.oCO women were placed on
farms IN twenty states
New-York tribune., 1919-09-14
Marie Dressler
Talks to Wo1nen's
Trade Union League
Uncle Sam Opens
Dancing School
For His Girls
Clerical Work Is Much
Improved Against a Back
ground of Dancing and
Artistic Gymnastics
= LASSES for the girl clerks in
the local government de-
partments acroc;,llv +Looo

II LASSES for the girl clerks in
the local government de-
partments, especially those
who may have q defect in posture
or walking, are among the super
vised recreational facilities Just
opened by Uncle Sam at his
Plaza hotels for the war workers in
Washington. The corrective pos-
ture class is only one of a complete
schedule of gymnasium, social and
interpretive dancing groups which
have been organized, with an enrol
ment Of nearly 800 girls within one
week after the courses were opened.
Miss Florence Webster, former
pupil Of the Castles. Chalif and
Pavlowa, is the instructor for the
course. These women, who have
come from all parts of the United
States to do clerical work for the
government, have shown more en-
thusiasm and devotion to these
opportunities than any group she
has before encountered. says Miss
Webster. Mucheto the surprise of
the managers the girls to a person
enrolled for every class open to
them. With the view that because
Of the hot weather and the indoor
work they do at the government
offices the girls would probably regis
ter only lightly for several classes
month, the fees were made 81
for one or all classes. Applications
were SO heavy that efforts are now
being made to install tennis courts
and basketball grounds at once to
give the girls play out Of doors also
The dancing and gymnasium
classes are held in the recreation
hall provided in one of the hotel
groups. Once month there will
be an event called "stunt" staged
by the girls in one of the dOrmitcry
buildings, for the entertainment of
the girls in the other buildings. Each
building has its own recreation COM
mittee now, and plans are being
made for everything, from min
strel show to a series Of interpretive
dances.
The interpretive and social dane
ing classes have been among the
most popular ones with the girls.
They are allowed to utilize whatever
gymnasium outfits they may have to
save the expense of purchasing new
ones, but as the classes grow it is
very likely that the girls will de-
velop a standard uniform of their
own. Miss Webster hopes that the
classes will finally include at least
1000 of the 1900 girls which the
hotel can accommodate. The re-
ceipts, over and above the cost of
instruction, will be turned into the
hotels recreational and infirmary
funds not covered by a Congress
sional appropriation.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-14
Women Making Record
Collecting Fund

Two women are making records
collecting money in the effort of
the United Building Fund of jew
lsh Federated Institutions to COL
lect $1,ooo,O0o. They are Mrs.
Max Steuer and Mrs. Isaac Kubie.
Mrs. Steuer has interviewed
many of the attorneys and judges
of New York in the rasc rev
weeks. She has visited them per
sonally and her collections for
the fund amount to 100000.
Mrs. Kubie will interview the
proprietors Of hotels and restau-
rants. Representatives of all busi-
nesses and professions will be
asked to contribute to the fund.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-14
How the
Actors Strike

We thrive on strikes,' she said.
So Marie told them about the act
ors and the chorus girls strikes.
Sisters and brothers," she began
npressively. why this tempta-
tion?" and she eyed with mock COW
etousness the S2S and some cents
which had been collected before her
arrival at the meeting for the cigar
makers union. Rose Schneider
mann scooped up the "temptation"
and Marie got down to brass tacks.
Referring again to Rose Schneider
mann's allusion to the actors having
made fun of working persons, Marie
said that she herself had always
felt that the actors were a kind of
hrichlayer-that they spent their
lives laying bricks for the managers.
For more than thirty three years
I've worked at my trade" she said,
and know what it is to be hungry
and to work unreasonable hours"
New-York tribune., 1919-09-14


wealthy people in general caused a
stiffening Of her audience. Miss
Dressler said that she was terribly
worried over the economic situation
in this country.
"The more wages go up, the more
everything goes up" she mourned,
but there was no perceptible sad
ness among her hearers. Again she
stated:
"There. must be some poor peo-
pie and some rich people always"
and several of the audience ex-
changed glances. Marie is rather
a novice as on some of this radical
labor stuff.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-14
Acute Farm Labor Short
age Said To Be Over
Now That the "Boys''
Are Home Again
Dismissed
Cum Laudc
Pact Between Labor De-
partment and Land
Army Expired Sept. |
OMMENDATION !,

EOMMENDATION in official
~. circles of the Women's Land
Army by Secretary William
3. Wilson of the Labor Department
tor its work toward the increase
of food production marks the pass
ing from Federal service of another
organization formed by American
women to help their country win the
war. This letter formally separated
the land army from the service Of
the Department of Labor.
Following the signing of the ar
mlstice Mr.. Wilson made an aoroo-
ment with the land army that re-
crults for that corps would be OBJ
tanned through the local offices of
the Federal Employment Bureau
The training and management Of
these various recruits was to be left
to the land army executives.
Such an agreement placed the
iand army on a peace-time basis
under the supervision of the gov
eminent. Reports of the place
ments and other matters handled
through the local Offices were sent
IN duplicate to the national head
quarters of the army and to the en-
ployment service.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-14
International Congress
Held Up

TO wind up her speech she re-
cited "Vive La France" which she
said she had done many times for
the soldiers in camp.
The young women with bobbed
hair and the young men with thick
lensed spectacles crowded around
her. and obviously her generosity
and sincerity warmed them.
Among the announcements made
bv Miss Schncidermann in the
course of the evening was one to
the effect that the United States
State Department had refused SO
far to approve the international con-
ference of working women which
was planned for next month with
the Women's Trade Union League
as hostesses. If this stands none
of the passports of foreign oe'e-
oates to the conference will be vlsea
bv United States representatives
and the international aspect OF the
ting. at least, will be lost.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-14

guard or any other bral,ch
Of the military service Of the coun-
try during the recent war will be
eligible for the Victory Medal pro-
posed by Representative Herbert c.
Pell. Of New York, in his bill intro
duced into the House few days
ago. Only those persons serving
ninety days and more will be eligible
to the medal
The bill asks that the President
be authorized to have a medal struck
off to be presented to all officers
and enlisted personnel taking part
in the war Those who died in
the service would be remembered
through an award Of the medal to
their nearest of kin. The bill was
sent to the COMMITTEES on Military
Affairs, and if passed is to take eff
feet Immediately. Persons entitled
to such a medal viii have to make
application through local agencies,
and the Victory Medal would take
precedence, through the bills pro-
visions, over all other awards con-
sidered by Congress.