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New-York tribune., 1919-09-10
Increased Pay for
National Guard Us
Proposed in Bill
Men Are to Receive 81 for
Each Drill if Measure
Now Under Consideration
Goes Through Congress
New York Tribune
LTdSh;uOfOu Rurcou


Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Sept "a system
of pay for National Guard officers and
men designed to reward individual eff
iciency has been prepared by the
Militia Bureau of the War Department
and will be submitted soon to the gen.
cral staff and Congress for approval,
according to letter received day
by Senator Frank B. Kellogg, of Min
Nesota, from Major General Jesse Mel.
Carter Chief of Bureau.
General Carter made known his plans
IN response to request by Senator
Kellogg for an opinion on the bill now
before Congress to increase the pay Of
National Guardsmen to one-fourth the
present pay of enlisted men The
armory-pay plan, now in use. is de-
clared by General Carter to be unwieldy
and nbusinesslike.
The existing plan" he said. "penal-
ICES the efficient man who regularly at
tends drills and is denied pay because
his organization sometimes fails to
qualify because of the attendance
OF men who are not regular in their
INTEREST,"
Under General Cartcr's new plan "a
member of the guard will be paid one
thirtieth of the present monthly pay
OF man of corresponding grade in
the army for each drill attended, the
plan to provide that any change in the
pay OF the army to be correspondingly
aapplied to the pay OF the National
Guardsmen."
The drill period will be one and one
half hours, and there will be not to ex-
ceed five each month. Enlisted men
VII receive not less than 81 for each
drill. Loss of all compensation for the
month would result from failure to at
tend go per cent of the drill. or to
perform other military service ordered
by the Secretary Of War.
"under this proposed plan" General
Carter explained, "the guardsman
would know that money once earned by
him would not be forfeited by reason
of he non attendance of irres sponsible
members of the organization and that
the money will be received at the end
of the period. Likewise, when he
missed drill he would know that he
has lost a certain amount of money
One days drill would mean one DAVIS
pay and the rolls would be easily cal
culatcd "
New-York tribune., 1919-09-10
Police Kill :
In StrikeRiot
At Hammond
Is Wounded as 1000 For
mer Steel Car Workers.
Led by ex-Soldier, Threat
eh 200 on Way to Plant
Guards Reported Fired On
Volley Is Returned When
Mob Heads Resist Arrest:
Rioters Nearly All Aliens

HAMMOND, Ind, Sept. 9. - Five
strikers were killed and fifteen wounded
to-day in a battle between 1000 for
mer employees of the Standard Steel
Car Company and the police.
Two months ago 1000 workmen at
the plant went on strike for in
creased wages and improved working
conditions. Five weeks ago there was
riot between strikers and the police
IN which a number Of persons were in
Jured, and as result of this out
break Governor Goodrich sent a repi
ment of the Indiana State militia to
Hammond to restore order. The troops
were withdrawn about two weeks ago
Yesterday 200 strikers returned to
work, and this caused bad feeling
among the men who refused to return.
To-day when the 200 men were
on their way to work a crowd of 1000
foreign-born strikers gathered in the
street several blocks from the plant
of the Standard Steel Car Company
and threatened them.
Twenty policemen and twenty spe-
cial guards employed by the company
were rushed to the scene and the crowd
was ordered to disperse. The order
was greeted with jeers and the men
refused to obey. Captain Ben Strong,
in charge of the police, then ordered
the leaders of the mob arrested. When
the police attempted to execute the COM
mand the crowd attacked the police
and special guards with sticks and
stones, and several of the strikers drew
revolvers and fired number of shots,
according to Captain Strong.
The police then retaliated by firing
about seventy-five shots into the crowd,
killing five and wounding fifteen
strikers. Later the strike leaders were
taken into custody.
None of the policemen or special
guards was wounded in the fight.
According to the police, the mob OF
strikers were led by Lieutenant Thomas
Skuba, twenty-one years old, a Pole,
who recently was discharged from the
United States army He wore his SOL
dier uniform and carried an American
flag, which he waved during the fight
He later was arrested.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-10
Suppress Quack ''Ads,''
Food Official Advises

owe should suppress advertising in
the press Of all quacks who put their
insidious wares before the public" de-
clared DR.. L. +. Ladd Food Commits
sioner of North Dakota, yesterday at
the convention of the Association of
American Dairy, Food and Drug Off
cials, at the Hotel Commodore. at is
our duty to eliminate the greatest evil
confronting society, the sale of patent
medicines and nostrums." Closer CO.
operation between state and city Off
cials is necessarN said DR.. Ladd, to de-
stroy insanitary conditions under which
dairy products are kept.
Dr. Lucius p. Brown, director of the
bureau of food and drugs in the New
York City Health Department, made a
plea for the appointment of men in
food work who really know their work
He said the tendency was to make ap-
pointments as political rewards Roy
D. Potts, of the bureau of markets,
Department Of Agriculture, said that
one means to lower the cost of living
was the distribution of milk and other
dairy products through retail stores.
DR.. Mary f. Pennington, chief of the
Federal food research laboratory at
Philadelphia, declared that Legislation
should be enacted to punish those who
put bad eggs on the market. The pub
lie, she said, should be protected, be-
cause eggs constitute the recognized
breakfast food. The warehouses, she
asserted, contained entirely too many
eggs, and this condition was one cause
for it's present high price. s.
The meeting scheduled for this morn
ing will be held instead this afternoon
because of the parade. The officials
will view the procession in the Offices
of Munscher & Co., 255 Fifth Avenue,
where seats have been provided for
them. A dinner will be held at the
Commodore this evening
New-York tribune., 1919-09-10
Says 1920 Tr.,st''
Is Beyond the Laws
COlvcr Declares New Form Aims
to Control All Competing
Commodities
Noao York Tribune
WGshi,10tOu Burodu

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.-Details of
the 1920 model trust" which makes
the Standard Oil combine look like
"two-cylinder, chain drive" contrap-
ton, were given to the House Judiciary
Committee to-day by William B. Col
yer, chairman Of the Federal Trade
Commission
The new type of trust, Mr.. Colver
said, cannot be reached by present laws
and is strangling all actual competition
by controlling competing commodities
This, he said, is one reason why high
living costs arc maintained Congress.
he declared, has not yet fully perceived
the new form, and has therefore taken
no cognizancc of it.
Present Laws Obsolete
"Originally trusts were formed on
the theory Of eliminating competition
in the main branches of the industry.
whether producer, manufacturer or
seller" he said. "Thc Clayton act.
the Sherman antitrust law and the
Federal Trade Commission act afford
no remedy for checking the new growth
If it is met now it will be met in the
formative period and its ultimate de-
velopment checked. Later it will be
more difficult to control
New-York tribune., 1919-09-10

has," said Killorin. "There is a re-
serve of not more than thirty-six
hours of gas on hand at the various
tanks. This will be exhausted to-mof-.s
row night or Thursday morning.
would warn the public to see that all
gas jets in homes are properly shut
off before retiring, as the ructuation in
the quality Of gas may lead to serions
accidents. This fuctua-ion may be-
due to too much air and poor quality
Of gas running Internationally 1t IS
extremely important to keep this warm :
ing in mind" -
More than 1,500 of the strikers at.
tended a mass meeting at Palm Garden,
Wilson and Greene Avenues. yesterday
According to strike leaders, nine-S,
tenths Of the employees in the gas.
was addressed by James f. Roach. or
ganzer for the American Federation Of
Labor. who urged the men to continue
their strike, promising them the sup-
port of the federation. More than 2O0--
applied at the meeting to join the,
union, strike leaders asserted. The
total number of men on strike, they
said, has reached 1900. 500 OF whom,
are employed in the gas plants. =,
An official Of the Brooklyn Union
Gas Company denied this statement
and declared that not more than zoo
had quit. On the other hand Mr.
Killorin averred that" every man, from
stoker TO engineer. making gas in.
the Williamsburg. Nassau, Equity~,
Citizens, Flatbush. Fulton and Metro1-
politan plants has walked out, the
construction department. having 100
per cent of its men out"
The holders in the gas plants" Mr..
Killorin added, are down. being far
from normal and it is quite evident=
that the company is not manufacturing
gas enough o keep the residents Of
the city suppled.' y
New-York tribune., 1919-09-10
Rail Brotherhoods To Be
Heard on Cummins Bill
Leaders Are Expected to Op.
pose Provision Declaring
Strikes Illegal
Ne1O York Tribune
Wdshin 0to7s Bureau

Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.-Represen
tatlves Of the Railroad Brotherhoods
Will be the principal witnesses before
the Senate Interstate Commerce Com
mission Committee during it's hearings
on the Cummins railroad bill for the
termination of government control.
The committee began its first reading
OF the bill to-day 1t decided that only
those whose testimony is essential to
the consideration of the bill will be
neard, although any person or organ
ization wishing to submit briefs to the
committee will be permitted to do so.
Inc representatives of the brother
moods Will enter vigorous protest
against the sections forbidding strikes,
put the general opinion here is that
they Will remain in the bill. The COM
mlttee is anxious, however, to hear the
testimony of the brotherhood repre-
sentatlves, on those sections of the bill
that provide for representation of the
workers on the boards Of directors of
the railroad corporations and on the
proposal to give labor equal represen-
tatlon with the owners of the railroads
on the committee for the adjustment of
wages and working conditions.
Senator Cummins, chairman of the
committee, said he hoped to have the
bill reported to the Senate early in
November.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-10
Tailors Quit just as
Autumn Raps on Door
Workers on Both Mems and
WOmen's Garments Demand
Increase and 44-Hour Week

Fifth Avenue has a real strike and
New York may shortly be put to wear
ing last falls clothes.
Two thousand mems tailors and
5000 women's tailors employed in the
shops that provide garments for the
citys leaders of fashion walked out
yesterday afternoon at o'clock. Both
demand a forty-four- hour week. The
mems tailors want $40 weekly wage
minimum and the women's tailors q
$50 minimum.
Albert Brilliant, organizer for the
Journeyman Tailors' Union of America,
declared custom tailors were working
under conditions similar to those ex-
isting in industrial England in the
eighteenth century,"
The strike. of the women's tailors
has tied up 800 shops in Manhattan.
The Bronx and Brooklyn, according to
Henry Hilfman, secretary of Local so
Of the international Ladies' Garment
Workers. Union.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-10

not involve the workers in the mills
where their organizations have been
recognized In case Of strike, there
fore, strike benefits could be paid out
OF the treasury of twenty four separate
organizations. the majority of whose
men would remain at work
Tie steel workers. representatives
scoHed g; tAc stoly tha. hundreds Of
men whose presence there is not justi-
ticd by the volume of business were
being carried on the corporations pay
rolls The action Of the Carnegie mills
~ cutting prices on shapes ana plates
II Hids recently opened by tho Navy
Department was taken not because the
Steel Corporation tackled orders. they
said, but because 1t feared prosecution
NHder the antitrust laws if its bids
We"e Identical with those ot al, other
companies bidding FOR the orders
lhc organizations represented mt to-
OF Biacksmiths. Brotherhood OF Boiler
Makers and Iron Ship Builders Of
America, United Brick and Clay Work.
crs. NTich Layers, Plasterers and Ma
sons international Union, Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers, Coopers
international Union, international
Brotherhood Of Electrical Workers,
Foundry Employees, ron, Steel and Tin
Workers.; MachiAsts. Metal Polishers,
MiHc. Mil and Smelter Workers:
United Mine Workers, Moldcrs' Union,
Pattern Makers League, Plumbers and
Steam Filters. Quarry Workers, Hail-
way Carmen Of America, Scumen's
Union OF America. Sheet Metal Work
crs. Stationary IlvoN,eN, @tcANand Np-
Grating Engineers. steam Shovel and
DredSelncn, Switchmen's Union.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-10
Shopmen Plan Separate
War on Cost of Living

DETROIT. Sept. 9.-The United
Brotherhood Of Maintenance of Way
Employees and Railway Shop Laborers,
in convention here, is undertaking &C.
tion to force down the cost of living.
This is being done independent of the
government move in the same direc-
tion, although the organization plans
to cooperate with the Department. of
Justice in the latter's investigations.
Questionnaires have been sent to
the full membership of the brother
hood asking information as to the
cost Of necessities of life in every part
Of this country and Canada. The or
ganization's plan for forcing down
costs has not been divulged.
Whether living costs are quickly
brought back to normal or not, dele
gates to the convention indicated they
are determined not to accept any COM
promise on the brotheahood's wage do
mands,
New-York tribune., 1919-09-10
p. q. CLERKS Heard
On Wage Aduance
Congress Committee Is
Told Men Can't Meet Ex-
penses on Present Paw

The Joint Congressional Committee
on Postal Salaries, in session at the
Hotel Pennsylvania, heard postoffice
employees from New York and upstate
yesterday complain Of their inability to
make present wages cover bare living
expenses.
Peter j. Vandcrnoot, president of the
New York Letter Carriers Association,
submitted statistics, compiled from a
estionnaire sent to 284 carriers and
clerks. showing the average yearly cost
of living per man to be 81 CAT. To
meet this, he pointed out, the average
pay Of postal employe is 81, 1,045 and
the maximum 81 800.
In two years, said Mr.. Vandernoot,
the number of men whose applications
for positions in the service were on
file had dropped from 1000 to 2S.
c. p. Francis, spokesman of the New
York Post Office Clerks Association.
declared many employees were forced to
do outside work to make both ends
meet. He advocated that substitute
be put on regularly at the minimum
wage.
Mr. Francis suggested minimum
of $500 year for clerks and a maxi
mum for ordinary clerks of $4,000, the
advances to be in yearly jumps of 5000.
He added there should be two grades of
special clerks drawing $4,000 and 81
500 yearly.
Frank T. Bent, of Buffalo, where
clerks wages range from $500 to 81 200
a year, said the cost of living there had
increased S4.2 per cent in the last four
years.
"How do you live? ?" asked Represen-
tative Martin B. Madden, of illinois,
a member Of the committee.
81 make special deliveries in my spare
hours" Bent replied.
John T. Adams, of Brooklyn, repre-
senting the National Association of
Postoflice clerks, said he had been in
the service twenty-four years and re-
ceived S 500 per annum.
II get about S4 a day." he remarked,
"and | could go out as a window clean
er and get S6'
. Others who testified before the COM
mittce were Charles Hague, Brooklyn;
c. B. Ingalls,, Oswego; O. Henry Buck
ley, Glens Falls, N. y; F. A. Ray, post
master at Herkimcr, N. Y; Albert A.
Hoffman, of the NationaLS Association
of Rural Carriers; A. B. Dewey, post
master at Tuly, N. Y; j. J. Mcnamara,
assistant superintendent of mails at
Syracuse; John c. Tierney and J. A.
McNevins, representing the postoffice
printers; John II. Bosche. laborcr in
the New York office FOR the last eigh-
teen years; w. X. Putnam and George
J. Mcnamara, for the mechanics;
Michael Gibbons, in behalf of the
chauffeurs; Peter A. McGurty, assist
ant superintendent of mail delivery in
New York, and Louis Wolf, special
clerk in the New Jersey section of the
Hudson Terminal branch office.
Senator Mcclellan, of Tennessee,
evoked applause from the postal en-
ployos in the room when he declared q
retirement bill would be passed at this
session Of Congress.
Senator John II. Bankhead, of Ala
bama, is chairman of the committee
New-York tribune., 1919-09-10
following Conference i'll
Washington, Indications
Are That Walkout of Men
Cannot Long Be Avoided
Message to Judge Gary
Words of Leaders Interpret
ed TO Mean That an Ul!i-
matum Has Beeu Sent
Ne'c York Tribune
NCShINGfNn Enrcru

WASHINGTON. Sept. 9.-lndications
following a sevcn-hour conference to-
sav Of the international chiefs of
twenty labor organizations at the head
charters of the American Federation
# Labor were that strike OF the or
eanized workers in the mills Of the
United States Steel Corporation could
not be avoided.
John Fitzpatrick, president of the
Illinois Federation Of Labor and chair
man Of the committee named year
COO TO organize the workers of the
United States Stee. Corporation. said
m decision had been reached and that
,he labor chiefs would meet again to-
morrow afternoon to continue their
discussion.
He said President Wilson'S response
10 Samuel Gompers's telegram, asking
what progress had been made in the
Presidents effort to obtain L. II.
Gary's consent to conference with
the representatives of the workers had
been considered by the conference, but
he declined even to intimat its con-
tents
Mr.. Fitzpatrick said a unanimous
agreement had been reached in the
conference that no information on the
proceedings should be given out to-
night
at is like writing a letter to your
sweetheart" he said. you don't
want anybody to know what YOU are
saying
"ls the sweetheart in this case Pres
!dent Wilson?'
no; Judge Gary
William Foster, secretary of the
steel workers committee, said some ac-
ton had been taken at the conference
to-day, and that Il would be announced
tomorrow.
Believed to Mean Uultimatum
Eve can't announce these things just
ss soon as we do them," Mr.. Foster
said. There must be little delay"
This statement. in connection with
Mr. Fitzpatrlck's S remark, was taken to
Indicate that an ultimatum had been
telegraphed by the steel workers to
Judge Gary threatening strike in the
mills Of the Steel Corporation unless
the request for conference is granted.
You can't stop a proposition like
this" Mr.. Foster said. 1T is just like
steam lOilcl- II may mt lew
bumps or a few rocks in the road. but
it goes right on. With 100000 to
100000 men in the steel industry
clamoring for relief we have had to
act
Samuel Gompers was in Dorchester.
Mass, making arrangements for the
funeral of his father, who died last
night Mr.. Fitzpatrick indicated that
action would be taken by the confer
ence without awaiting the return to
Washington Of Mr.. Gompers
Mr.. Fitzpatrick declined to say how
many Of the employees of the Steel Cor
poration had been organized. He was
quoted however, as having stated in
Chicago Sunday that the organization
numbered 100000. The number of mer
in the organization after the commit
tee had been at work ten months was
given in It's report as 100 600.
U. S. Steel Alone Involved
1t was made clear by the labor lead
ers to-day that only the United State.
Steel Corporation is involved in the
present contest, and that a strike woulc
New-York tribune., 1919-09-10
VIII Vote on Suffrage

CONCORD, N. H.. Sept. 9.--The Leg
islature was convened in special session
to-day to consider ratification of the
Federal Constitutional amendment ex-
tending suffrage to women. The work
OF the session was expected to be COM
pleted by the end of the week
New-York tribune., 1919-09-10
Pershing's 4rriral Is
Enlistment Iucenfire

General Pershing's arrival spurred
army enlistments yesterday. recruit
ing stations in the metropolitan dis~
trict reported. There were 23s aDpli-,
cants in Greater New York and Jersey
City, breaking all one-day records,
One hundred and ten were accepted.
The Motor Transport Corps MAIN
tanned its lead with twenty-four new
recruits. -
New-York tribune., 1919-09-10
$4,000 Accept Wilson's
Rail Wage PROPOSAL

WASHINGTON, Sept. 0. - The
w American Federation Of Rail-
road Workers, made up of $4,000
mon not members of the railway
brothcrhoods, formally voted to-day
TO accept President Wilson's wage
proposition as presented to the shop
men. The federation, which has been
holding four days conference here,
decided also to urge Congress to
adopt Il railway employees profit
sharing plan.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-10
Oil Pipe Line Planned

Oil pipe lines costing s2,OOO000 will
be laid from Texas to Oklahoma fields
by the Rock Island Pipe Line Company,
of Oklahoma City. - Manufacturers
Record
New-York tribune., 1919-09-10
U. S. Steel Alone Involved

1t was made clear by the labor lead
ers to-day that only the United States
Steel Corporation is involved in the
present contest, and that strike would
New-York tribune., 1919-09-10
Notice the Welcome
A Closed Car Just as Popular
As the Touring Model You Kaosu

car-loving public ''found'' the Essex
touring car and quickly made it known in
almost every town and hamlet.
The same thing is happening now to the
Essex Sedan.
OF course, there are good reasons for those
expressions of real affection one hears Of
every day for the Essex. Time has revealed
the fact that qualities which appeal are re-
tanned even after the hardest service.
Come and take a ride in this luxurious
closed model people are talking about.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-03-29
Adviser Helps injured
Soldiers Get Training

( The government really intends TO
assist soldiers who have been wounded
or iHiaIed in any way during their serV-
ices in the late war and to look into
such matters and 10 confer with men
who might be given some assistance,
Edward g. Cox has been in the city the
past week. Mr. Cox is head OF the Ted
eral board for vocational education, de-
ipartment of rehabilitation and he came
to Salem on this trip as vocational ad-
wiser.
The work Of the vocational adviser is
to confer with men who have been in
iured Or wounded and to talk over with
them as to what the vocational board
can DO and what course of study or edu-
cation ean be undertaken TO best pre-
pare men for their future work.
With some Of the men who wished to
follow special lines Of farming such as
poultry, the government will make ar
lrangemcnts for their as,enulng rae Ore
gon Agricultural college. Others who
have mechanical ability viii be assisted
in securing the training that win make
them expert wOrkmen.
Among those who conferred with Mr..
Cox during his visit here few days
ago are the following; Winloek Stein
er, Salem; Dwane Gibson, 1854 South
Commercial street, Salem; Edward L.
Clark, ll60 South Commercial, Salem;
f. G. Schmidt, Letterman hospital;
Claude A. johnson, Glen hotel, Salem;
| L. C. Martin, 1852 North 10th street,
Salem; j. Med. Headriek, ass North
Cottage, Salem; Jesse A. Neal, Marion,
Or; Fred F. Birch, rural route >, Salem;
Ovid Blanehette, Newberg Or; Adam
Garrew, Hubbard, Or; Paul Piotroek,
StaytOn, Or; Fred Levy Abbott, 18th
street, Salem; Francis Sullivan, Gervais,
Or; Enrol Proctor, Salem; Ralph Hus.
sey, Turner; Jack R. Strauss, Falls
City; Walter Leisi, Salem; Arinne
Young, Independence; Virgil Golden,
1895 Saginaw street, Salem; A. d.
Whorley, 1897 Broadway, Salem, and B.
H. Chamberlain, West Stayton. Or.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-03-29
Girls GIee Club Rehearsing
on Exceptional Program

The Woman's Glee club Of william
ette university has been recently organ
lied and has been rehearsing regularly
on q program Of unusual merit, inelud-
ing the beautiful lyric cantata "Pan on
a Summers Day" by Bliss; "Stabat
Mater" by Pcrgolest; the "Unncse
Flower Fete" by Cadman; "The Gar.
den of Flowers" by Denga; and ''The
Beautiful Ships from Faylan"--a Sc
lection from "The FREELY" by Friml.
The club has recently elected officers
as follows: Miss Margaret While, pres.