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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-06-12
PROTEST PEACE TERMS

Vienna, June PA protest against
t'srilitual and eccncmic enslave-
ment imposed by the peace terms
is contained in resolution adopted!
by the German Austrian Peoples
Council
A manifesto has been issued IN
voking the right CT se:f-dctermina-
ficn ii accIIance with the Wilson
ian doctrine.
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-06-12

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New-York tribune., 1919-04-14
Strike of.An tJhion Boatmcn
Is Sought as a Result of
the Discharge of 80 Tug
Men by U. S. Officials
Take Vote at 10 O'clock
Railroad Administration
Says Dismissed Workers
Refused to Obey Orders

Thomas L. Delahunty, president Of
the Marine Workers Affiliation, an
nounced last night that complete
tie~up of the Port Of New York prob
ably will be ordered some time to-day.
A strike vote will be taken at union
a. m. and s p. m.
The pending action is mainly direct
ed against the railroad administration.
said Mr. Delahunty. and is expected
to interfere va, the disembarking of
returning soloW' here. The new is
sue is the disc "a sc of thirty tugboat
men by the railroad officials for refus-
ing to tow boats not approved by the
affiliation. Union leaders have de-
manded the reinstatement of the dis
charged boatmen. The railroad au-
thorities have refused to do this.
The strikers leader said all the har-
Dor workers would be called out if the
railroad administration did not recede.
Heretofore, Mr.. Delahunty said, the
strikers have exempted governmental
activities or made settlements of dis
putes at a sacrifice.
said, sis discharging union men who
will not work with nonunion workers
on unapproved craft. 1t is not in ac-
cordance with the spirit of our agree
ment aed there is no reason why we
should put up with it."
w. B. Pollock, marine superinten-
dent for the railroad administration,
contended the workers are not keep
ing their agreement.
"The Pennsylvania Railroad" he
said, Railways has towed coal floats
from South Amboy. The Reading has
towed craft from Port Reading, while
the Lehigh Valley has undertaken for
long time to handle equipment chart
cred by that road because it never had
enough of it's own. Yesterday these
boatmen refused to handle the coal
boats; first they declined to handle
chartered lighters, although they re-
ceded from this position. AS re-
suit of their action against the coal
boats, ordered eight tugs tied up
and their crews discharged"
No more men were laid off yester-
day, he said, but in all probability
more will be discharged to-day if the
boatmen still refuse to handle the
lighters.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14

spite pending bills on the subject, the
State Senate really know nothing about
the New York City rent situation, and
could almost be depended upon to do
nothing at all in the matter.
A woman then declared that tenants
were almost as much to blame as land
lords for the present condition in The
Bronx, since numbers of them were will
ing to pay large bonuses to get apart
ments.
"What is 4eeded is a building pro-
gramme," she said, amid applause.
This afternoon new series of at
tacks upon profiteering landlords will
be outlined at meeting of committee,
headed by the Rev. A. Ray Petty, in the
Office of Nathan Hirsch, in the Munich
pal Building. One Of the features of
this committees work probably will be
the opening of public hearings, at which
tenants and landlords will meet on COM
mon ground to discuss the relative mer-
its of their claims.
On the evening of May 8 "victory
dinner" will be held by the tenants Of
the Langhorne Apartment, in Riverside
Drive, to celebrate their victory in the
struggle to prevent rent increases in
that building. Mayor Hylan and other
city officials have been invited to at
tend, and moving pictures will show
some of the tenants as they appeared
in recent victory parade. Among the
speeches will be those Of experts who
hope to offer constructive suggestions to
other protesting renters. The dinner
will be held at the Astor
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14
Union Leaders Refuse to
Predict Walk.Out Now,
but the Question Will Be
Put Up to the Workers
Complete Tie.Up Looms
Train Motormen Meet. but
Decline to Take Action:
Say They Are Satisfied

The question of strike on the sub
way surface and elevated lines of the
b. X. I. will be put UP to the employees
OF the company tonight at meeting
at Arcadia Hall, Brooklyn.
P. j. O'Bricn, vice president of the
Amalgamated Association of Street and
Electric Railway Employees of America,
OF which the Brooklyn workers are
branch, refused to commit himself on
the outcome of the meeting.
He stated he would describe to the
union men and women the result so far
OF his negotiations with Lindley M.
Garrison, receiver of the company. He
would not admit that strike vote
would be taken. 1t was learned from
other sources, however, that the ques-
tion of a strike would certainly be nut
W, to the employees.
Mr.: O'Brien will tell the members
that Receiver Garrison, in response to
letter from Mayor Hyan asking that
ne meet committee. has refused to
confer with the union REPRESENTATIVES.
that he has issued mandate that any
man joining the strike would not get
his job back, If the receiver is able to
get competent men, not strike breakers,
to fill their places.
AT meeting some time ago there
were about $500 to 5000 Of the motor
men and conductors who voted to put
the matter Of calling strike in the
hands of committee.
This committee, it is probable, will
be urged to call the strike forthwith
Officials say the company has about
1900 employees and that only a small
number are members of the Amalga-
mated, which is conducting strike ne
gotiations.
The union leaders wore much inter
ested in the meeting held yesterday in
Penn-Fulton Hall by the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers-the men who
operate elevated and subway trains of
night they did not discuss the possible
strike.
According to Harry Kuhn. chief of
Local 419, Of Kings County yesterdays
meeting was the regular monthly one.
He denied the engineers had any griev-
ances against the B. R. T. He also
added that the members of his organ
ization were not interested in strike,
as they are satisfied with conditions
and wages on the road.
They now receive 621s cents an honr
and time and half for all work over
nine hours.
1t was learned that as a last resort
James H. Vahey, counsel for the
Amalgamated Association, would arrive
here to-day and go over the legal as
poets of the case with the idea of hav-
ing the whole matter thrashed out in
the courts. At the same time William
D. Mahon, international president of
the organization, also is expected here
to-day.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14
Bronx Jud ges
Join Fight g ON
Rent Gouggers
Continued from page 1

of the Bronx County Democratic Com
mittee, at 862 fremont Avenue. 1t was
attended by the four Municipal Court
justices who handle practically all of
the eviction cases in the county, the
eight Assemblymen from that district,
several magistrates Of other courts
and numerous property owners OF The
Bronx, including several landlords
who were as anxious to suppress un
fair methods as were their tenants.
In explaining the revelations of an
investigation that just has been COM
pleted in The Bronx Mr.. Callahan laid
most of the responsibility to a newly
discovered parasite in the real estate
world known as the "leaster," This
speculator is pictured as contracting
to take over we'll tenanted building,
giving the owner a fair sum for
period Of years. He then boosts the
rents of every tenant to an unheard
of figure, then leases it to some other
"leaster" and moves on to new fields.
"Most of the trouble the magistrates
have had with profteers in The Bronx
has been duo to the operations Of these
'leasters,' said Mr.. Callahan. "In
some cases they have taken over
building holding one hundred tenants,
none Of whom had leases. They went
through the building serving eviction
the tenants being in the proper frame
of mind to listen to reason the agent
went back the next day and announced
that they wouldn't be forced to move
if they would pay the increased rent,
the amount of which then was named
for the first time"
One Of the magistrate, $; ggested the
possibility of obtainino an appropria-
ton from the city through which mu-
nicipally owned houses might be erect
cd in congested districts on city prop
crty and reNtod at cost. But it was
shown by figures that the present pro-
hibitive cost Of labor and materials
would force the city, even to collect
costs, to charge rents as high as pr-
! Vate owners now are charging.
Organization Of committee of law
yers who will give their services gra-
tuitously to tenants summoned into
court because of their refusal to pay
increased rents wi1 be started this
morning. In each case where unfair
demands are made it is Intended to
summon the owner Of building-not
his agent-into court and insist that he
show why the increased rate is being
charged.
ut has been found that when land
lords are forced to appear in court
themselves they usually drop the cases
rather than attempt to force their
claims" said Justice Harry Robtzek.
=, AT The Bronx Open Forum, where
Senator George F. Thompson was talk
ing on public Service" with yelled
references to the present "doughbaq"
inquiry at Albany the first speaker
from the floor, when questions were
/ opened, shouted:
eve can let carfares wait, but what
are you people at Albany doing about
the rent situation in New York;"
Senator Thompson replied that, de-
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14
Housing Conditions
To BE Investigated
BY Merchants Assn.

The Merchants Association of New
York has decided upon the appointment
of special committee to consider the
housing situation in New York Citv
and to report recommendations for an
propriate action.
The decision was taken by the cx-
ecutivc committee after a communica-
ton from member, depicting the seri-
GUS housing conditions in the citv and
urging immediate action, was read.
The communication said, in part:
"The increase in rentals of apart
ments and houses has been due. in NV
opinion, to the absolute shortage of
houses in the city. There are great
many more people than there are
houses for them. The result is a COM
petition to secure place to live in,
with resulting high rents.
There is only one way to stop this
rapid increase in rentals, and that is to
construct additional houses at once. IF
the construction of such houses is not
begun now the situation will reach 2
OWN AHoiC "S6 ia'dCtl StdlC III Cne 1aII,
when it will be too late to do anything
until tho spring of 1920.
There are three factors in the build
ing situation which are holding back
new constructions:
u. Scarcity of money; not mortgage
money but funds to be invested in the
equity Of new houses.
"2. High cost of labor.
3 High cost of material.
lt Will be necessary, through pub
llcity or otherwise, to induce peoplc
who have heretofore not been wiling
20 ..TS arvest IN real property to do so.
The cost of labor is not likely to de-
cline as long as the present cost Of liv-
ing obtains.
There is some hope Of reducing tho
cost OF such basic materials ms lnmher
and brick'by inducing manufacturers tn
make some sacrifices which will he nee
essary to find market for their ma
terinls. '""
"Publicity should be given To tbe
situation in order that people who mav
De hple TO- help be Informed Of the situ-
acton. The question has gone beyond
mat OF real estate to that Of a great
social question affecting the welfare of
all INHABITANTS of New York City"
Ihe Merchants Association also has
gone on record as opposing the "blue
sky" bills now pending before tho Iec-
islaturc at Albany.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14
Debs Enters Prison
In Defiant Mood
IL Ann Flaming Revolution
ist!" Cries Socialist as He
Starts Ten-Year Term

MOUNDSV1LLE, W. Va, April 13.--
Eugene V. Debs, many times Socialist
candidate for President, entered the
West Virginia penitentiary here late
tonight and began serving his ten-year
sentence for violation of the espionage
act. AS the prisoner stood in the door
way of the penitentiary he said:
III enter the prison door n flaming
revolutionist, my head unbowed, my
spirit untamed, my soul unconquer-
able"
Debs answered the required questions
put by Warden Terrill, who assigned
the prisoner to cell 81.
Special Correspondence
CLEVELAND, April 13.-Eugene V.
Debs three times Socialist candidate
for President, was taken to the Federal
prison at Moundsville, w. Va, leaving
here at 1880 a. M. with United States
Marshal Charles w. Lapp and Deputy
Marshal T. f. Walsh, after passing his
last hours of freedom in Cleveland.
Debs was found guilty of violating
the esponiage act in a speech at Can
tons Ohio, last June.
Three thousand Socialists held a
mass meeting and parade this after
noon protesting Debs's imprisonment
1WeHty ilOuIteu ponce ana I1ty
patromen handled the crowds and
guarded the Federal building which
fronts on the public square, where the
parade ended.
Debs arrived in Cleveland at $3.50
this morning from 'rerre Hautc, Ind,
stopped at restaurant for breakfast
and registered at a hotel Deputies
went to the hotel to arrest him.
large crowd of Debs's friends
Joined him at the Federal building
David Fulton Karson, editor of "The
Call" New York; Mrs. R. A. Deiber,
and Mrs. Margaret Prevy, of Akron,
Ohio, were at the station to meet
Debs when he arrived here from Terre
Haute
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14
Aerial Photography Opens
Vast Unexplored Territory

LONDON, March 2O.-Aircraft de-
velopment during the last few years
has thrown open to the moving pict-
ure man an entirely new field. 1t may
be some years yet before flying comes
within the means of the ordinary per-
son as mode of travel. but, through
the film he may experience some Of
the artistic joys of aviation.
Already certain amount of aerial
cinema photography has been carried
out cessfully-enough at least, to
measure its possibilities In the near
future, it is expected that magnificent
mountain cenery will be photographed
from aircraft, not only in Switzerland
and in the United States, but in Abys-
sinia, the Eimalayas and othe less ex-
plored regions of the world.
The whole of a wonderful flight.
from, say, San Francisco toLondon or
from Lodon to India or to Australia.
may. in time, be shown to the public.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14
Paris Fears General
Labor Strike May I

EDARIS, April 13.-The approach of
May is arousing a certain un-
easiness as regards the manner in
which that day, long notable in
European labor annals, will be eel
ebrated here. Some Parisians, who
are leaving the city for the Easter
holidays, intend to prolong their
stay until after the first of, the
month. On the other hand, some
visitors are expected from the indus
trial centres in the provinces to re-
main in Paris over. the first.
At present the only thing known
as to the probable scope of the pro-
gramme is that the labor unions
and the general labor federation are
planning 8 demonstration which may
take the form of a general strike of
all labor for twenty-four hours or
a limited strike Of the same length
which would leave the public services
in operation. Some Of She news
papers express expectations that
May l will witness some form of an
ultimatum from the working classes
to the bourgeois government.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14
Wheeler Doubts Wilson
Will Aid Liquor Men

Anti-Saloon League Counsel At
tacks Plan to Proclaim End
of DemObilizatiOn
A dangerous precedent will be set
if the national wartime prohibition
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14
LOngsfOremcn Forbid
Sea Travel to Dry Men
Shipworkers Adopt Resolution
Taking Novel Retaliation
Against Prohibitionisfs

Delegates from all the longshor
mems unions in Now York, moro than
aoV ao oon IN number, and representing
10000 men, adopted unanimously yess
terday resolution putting the union
ban on any ship on which a prohibi-
ton leader is passenger. II there
is a prominent prohibitionist aboard
the longshorcmen won't load the ship.
IL Is their protest against prohibition.
These men working in summer
heat upon the piers or in tho cold of
winter, said Richard J. Butler, who
introduced the resolution. "have need
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14
$4,000
REWARD
S250,00O Lost Liberty Bonds

For information leading to
the recovery of $250.000 Lib
crty Bonds lost on or about
January 4th, 1919. the sum of
'S25,000 will be paid. A pro-
portional part of such reward
will be paid for information
leading to the recovery of
part of the bonds.
For proof that the bonds
have been destroyed, the sum
of $4,000 will be paid. A
proportional part of such re-
ward will he paid for proof of
the destruction of part Of the
bonds.
II seems that the bonds
were mailed on January End,
1919, from the First and Old
Detroit National Bank, De-
troit. Michigan, to The Stude-
baker Corporation, South
Bend. Indiana, and nave not
been located since.
The bonds are Fourth Liberty
Loan Bonds, numbered 23,734 to
23,75S inclusive, of the denomina-
tion of $4,000 each,
Every indication is that the
bonds were lost. The finder of
them need have no hesitation in
producing them and claiming the
reward. If the finder through un-
necessary apprehension destroyed
them, they can be replaced and he
need have no fear of giving infor-
nation.
Communications may be ad-
dressed 10
Anderson, Parker, Crabill &
Crumpacker, South Bend, Ind.
Hawkins, Dela6eId & Longfellow,
20 Exchange Place, New York.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14
Flood Claims $50
House Democrats
For Champ Clark
Opposition to Ex-Speaker
as Leader Is Belittled;
Opponents Renew Charge
He Helped Republicans
NcW York Tribune
WaaItnUtO1, Rurcou

WASHINGTON, April 13--At least
$50 of the 1875 Democratic members
OF the next House are for Champ Clark
for minority leader, Henry d. Flood
chairman of the Foreign Affairs Com
mittee in the last House, declared to-
night. Mr.. Flood ridcules the fight
being made against Mr.. Clark by the
so-called democratic Reorganization
Committec' in what is virtually the
first statement put out by any of Mr..
Clark's friends.
The anti Clark men issued state
ment, as they have been doing every
Sunday night for some weeks. Repre-
sentative Lesher, of Pennsylvania, de-
fled bis opponents to find any "Admin-
istration leaders" who are for Clark.
"My opinion is that. viewing the
question from the standpoint of the
question Of leadership from the
standpoint Of the interests of the
Democratic party, the Administra-
tion. and the country, Champ Clark
is incomp parably the best man the
Democrats in Congress could choose.
and I believe I am accurate when | saw
that this view is entertained by vcry
large majority of the Democratic mem
bers of the next Congress-" declared
Mr.. Flood.
Opposition Minimized
"The interviews and statements of
his opponents, however sincere thew
may be, leave the impression there is
strong opposition to the election Of
Mr. Clark as minority leader by the
Democratic caucus and strong SEN
tlmcnt in favor of creation Of a steer
ing committee with power to select
IT'S own chairman, who is to be cx-
o11lclo leader. am certain these i'm
pressions are not Justified"
Ihe recent statement published in
a Washington Republican paper" said
Representative Lesher, chat those on
posing Champ Clark for minority Leader r
we're soon to cease their activities, for
the reason that the Administration
would give out q statement in tho noar
future which would say that Mr.. Clark
would be acceptable in every way. is a
beautiful piece Of camouhage."
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14

There is time yet to enact a ,.r
enforcement code for war prohib;t;on
before July 1. Congress will doubtlssa
be in session before June 1. W..
prohibition will, of course. cease -
operate when. rehabilitation ter,,; "
mates, but we do not believe Pres;dan.
Wilson will declare demobiliya.:ane
completed before it actually hannsroa'
to save the liquor dealers from S' was
prohibition. wax
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14

law is made void through declaration
by President Wilson that the demobili-
zation of troops is completed before
such is the case, said Wayne B.
Wheeler, counsel for the AntiSaloon
League, in addressing the New York
East Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church at the Simpson M.
E. Church in Brooklyn last night. Mr..
Wheeler said in part:
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14

of a cooling drink or bit of stimu-
liant and it would be sheer nonsence
to let this colossal outrage be accom-
plished without taking some means Of
retaliation.
81 suggest that the least that the
longshoremen can do is to single out
those impractical men who have put
this gigantic national fraud through
aud then refuse for all time to per
nit them the pleasure Of ocean
travel"
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1919-12-18
PASTOR GETS SUGAR
IN THE GROUNDING"

Suffering as he Is from painful
carbuncle on the back of his neck
Rev. r. T. Sehmucker, popular pas
tor Of Winehester-aYe. Christian
church, manifested great pleasure
in a visit the other night paid Nj
and Mrs Schumacher at the parson-
age on Winchester avenue A large
number of members df his church
pounded tho genial pastor and
his wife in a most thorough man
ner. Tie contributions to the par
ochial larder included among other
good things to eat, chickens and SUI
car, and in these days of sugar
shortage the last mentioned comes
n very handy. The evening was
spent in a most enjoyable manner
by all concerned.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1919-12-18
RAILROAD POLICE
MEET IN CUMBERLAND

The railroad police Of the ALE
gheny region held a meeting in
Cumberland Wednesday, it being
one Of series that are scheduled
70 take place at various times at
Philadelphia, New York and Pitts
burgh, once every month, to per
nit officers Of the system to get
better acquainted and to exchange
views on railroad police work. The
following were present at the meet
ing: J. f. Bond, chief Of police OF
the Western Maryland, who presid-
ed; +. J. Norman, chief Of police Of
tie Cumberland Valley; II. D.
Smith. T. ]. Bernard and ". AXlind
al Of the Baltimore and Ohio force
and c. II. Wilson, William McVeigh
Charles w Emmert, Noah Henle5
and ". II. Hanson, Of the Western
Maryland Raiiwy police department
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1919-12-18
DO YOU KNOW THAI

The number of motor trucks has
increased in ten years from 1000 to
nearly 100000.
Crater Lake in Southwest Oregon
IS one of the deepest freshwater
lakes in the world.
White Oak is by far the prefer
able wood for construction of bar
rels used 10 contain liquids.
Christmas tree decorations made
in America are now equal to those
made in Germany before the war.
Camoufage was practiced by the
Indians before the discovery of
America, the redskins eoloring
their bodies to blend with the
earth and foliage in warfare.