The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-08-15
WASHINGTON.

Thursday to recommend to congress ]
an increase Of 30 per cent In the wages |
Of postoffice and postal employees over
the country to meet the high cost of
living
Organized Iabor's remedy for the
high cost Of lIying-a bill that would
turn over tile railroads to the public.
operating officials and labor-was
presented to Congress Wednesday by
men high In the councils Of the or
ganization, who declared with utmost
frankness conditions were so desper-
ate 1t might be necessary to advocate
a firing squad for profiteers.
Acting as a unit for the first time
in the presentation Of wage demands,
the fourteen principal railroad unions
Wednesday in expressing to Director
General Hines their disapproyal of
President Wilson's proposal that con-
gress create commission to consider
increased pay, declared that wage
questions must be settled Immediately.
The government Wednesday decided
upon its initial moves to reduce the
I high cost of living The apartment of
| justice will begin at once prosecu-
ton of the packers for violation Of
the Sherman antitrust act.
The government is going to prose
cute the food profiteers in the United
States as an immediate remedy for the
high cost Of living. This was an
nounced Tuesday by Attorney Gen
eral Palmer after conference with
the president which followed an all
day elaboration of the special cabinet
committee on means of reducing the
prices of necessities to the agitated
public. fl
Postmasters nominated Tuesday by
President Wilson included: Arthur G..
Parsons, Taft, Cal; James J. Mitchell,
Tulare, Cal. and William Culston,
Great Falls, Montana.
Hundreds of letters from persons
suffering from incurable diseases and
from aged persons addicted for many
years to the use of drugs, pitiful i'll
their supplications that rules govern
ing the sale of narcotics be modified,
led Commissioner Roper to issue in
| " COIIEthOIS VI lnLElA
revenue whereby such persons may
obtain drugs on prescription by a re
putable physician that the drug is
needed to maintain life.
Seven hundred and fifty-six of the
, American soldiers killed in action were
: victims of gas, according to an an
3 nouncement by the war department
3 The average age of all the men killed
was % years
! The fight of the railroad workers Of
5 the United States to force upon con
: gress the acceptance of government
+ ownership as solution of the railroas
i problem is to begin at once at Wash
: ington and will be unrelenting in it,
intensity.
4 Universal army and navy and yoca
+ tional training for youths between i
y and 20 years and a national registra
: ton system are proposed in bill in
. tr0s.uced Thursday by Senator Cham
berlain, democrat, of Oregon.
Action, as Attorney General Paine
y put it, earnest, aggressive, vigorou
: action will be directed by the depart
: ment of justice against all profiteerS
, and it was reported that among tn
first big offenders to be proceede
against will be the big packers.
Tie house Saturday passed the frs
protective tariff measure to be acte
! upon since the Republicans regaine
: control of congress. The measure ley
: les high duties on chemical glasswar
and apparatus. 1t now goes TO tn
\ senate.