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New-York tribune., 1919-08-14
Del0,care e. Hudson
Railroad Head Ciues
Facts on Bond Deals

The Delaware & Hudson Company.
one Of the eight Eastern railroads
charged by Glenn E. Plumb with hay
ing given away as bonuses or issued at
less than its market value $101 600, 900
in new stock in the period from 1900 to
1910, gave out a statement Yesterday
through its president, L. +. Loree, in
which it asserted:
That 100000 Of new capital stock
was issued in 1904 to retire $5,oo0oo
of New York e. Canada Railroad Com
pany bonds maturing May /, 1904, and
20 defray the cost Of certain construc-
ton work undertaken by the company.
Ihat IN May, 1905, the company au-
tnorized an increase in its capital stock
of So.o00,o00 FOR the purpose of ex-
changing same, prior to April |, 1916,
tor Albany & Susquehanna Railroad
31s per cent bonds due in l946 at the
rate OF 1lve shares for each 81 900 bond.
There has been issued hereunder ST.
$4,000 Of this issue for $3,556 900 Of
Albany & Susquehanna bonds. the bal
ance, 80. .222 900, remaining unissued
That In January. 1905, the company
authorized an increase of $1,000, 900 in
its capital stock for the purpose of ex-
changing same for it's issue of $4,000
600 of per cent convertible debent-
ures.
That capital stock of the company to
the amount of $1,28S.5o0 was retired
New-York tribune., 1919-08-14
Strike Vote Due Tomorrow
shopmen's Referendum Resul
Expected to Favor Return

The vote being taken by the striking
shopmcn OF the New Haven Railroae
on President Wilson's proposition thai
they return to work pending action or
their wage demands by Director Gen
eral Hines will be announced probabl,
tomorrow morning. The voting i
taking place in Boston and New Haven
from which points the result will .
announced. 1t is expected that ma
lorlty will be in favor of accepting th
Presidents proposal.
In the meanwhile there is no apprc
ciable change in the New Haven road
service, so far as this district and cit
are concerned. Commuters along I'll,
Harlem division continued to reach til,
city with difficulty yesterday, and nj
Improvement is promised for this morn
ing. While normally there are forty
trains a day on the Harlem division
there have been none since Saturday.
The New Haven road put into esrel
freight EMBARGO yesterday on a
shipments except milk. perishable foo
stuffs, feed for livestock and news prin
paper. Shipments of these commod
ties are subject to delav.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-14
Strike Victory for
Painters by End of
Week Is Predicted
Union Leaders Claim One.
third of Employers Have
Signed; Brooklyn Men to
Join Walkout Tomorrow

Two hours after the union painters
paperhangers and decorators of Mar,
haitian and The Bronx went on str;ko
yesterday for % per cent increase in
pay and tive-day week Philip Zaus.
ner, secretary Of District Council No @
announced that one third of the em-
ployers had yielded to the union. and
that before the end of the week the
strike will result in victory for the
men.
suspension of work by the painters
and decorators caused a rush of own
ers OF buildings to union Headquarters.
at 1856 East Fifty-sixth Street. Thev
complained that all over the city resi-
dences, apartments, stores and Office
buildings were being put in readiness
Tor tall occupancy, and if the strike
was to continue it would add seriously
to the housing shortage.
Mr.. Zausner said that by noon ITO of
the GOO employers had signed. Among
the early signers was the superinten-
dent of the residence occupied bv John
D. Rockefeller, jr., at 10 West Fifty.
second Street. Eight decorators were
at work there when the men were orr
dcred to quit
In Manhattan and The Bronx 10000
men struck The 1000 union men in
Brooklyn have voted to join the strike
Tomorrow
The strikers demand:
Pay at the rate of 81 an hour. instead
of rs cents.
Forty hours to constitute weeks
work. instead of forty-four.
Saturdays and Sundays to be holi-
days
Reasons given for the demands are:
PAINTING and interior decorating are
harmful to the workers. health, max
ing more leisure necessary. Since the
war the materials used in the manu-
facture of paint have deterioratcd.
causing the painters to become sick.
The men are engaged in a seasonal
occupation. five-d day week will tend
to spread the work over the wear
1t was estimated that the increase,
salary, if generally granted, will give
the men an aggregate increase of $2S.
600 day.
The strike descended upon the build
ing industry almost without warning.
promptly at noon buckets of paint.
rolls OF wallpaper, bottles of gliding
varnish brushes and other paraphe rna-
Ila were left standing in Railways, on
doorsteps and on window sills While
the men threw aside their overalls am
walked out. The men were registered
at thirteen different union headquar-
ters. Only those who had beer
granted their demands were permitted
to return to work.
THE strike will be over before the
end OF the week" said Mr.. Zausner
The business of the demands is being
quickly recognized"
New-York tribune., 1919-08-14
Rail Wage Held Up
Until Strike Ends
Hines to Consider Plea
as Soon us Shopmen
Return to Their Posts

WASHlNTON. Aug. Wage n.
creases for railroad employee will ,a
considered by the railroad administra-
ton Immediately after the last Of the
striking shopmen have returned 70
work, Director General Hines said 90
day. Requests for increases are ex-
pected to come from all of the fifteen
railroad union which have not vet
presented demands.
Mr. Hines said the problem ci
freight rates was "inextrcably bound
up wit the question of gage ad
vanccs, indicating that the long TX.
pected advace in rates probably would
not fully develop until the wage de
mands were settled.
The railroad administration vii
nave no dealings with representatives
Of the railroad shopmen now on strike
the Director General repeated to da\
IN letter to James Hamilton Lewis
former Senator from Illinois, who te!e
graphed the administration August
IN the interests of the strikers.
THE strikes which have take
place have not been authorized accord
ing to the laws of the shopmen's Or.
CARNATIONS with which the railroae
admnistration has dealt the lette,
said, and these strikes have the effnct
OF repudiating the established { gam;
cations and OF bringing the cons dera-
tlon OF the matter to standstill. the
President himself has fully adoptcC
the policy"
New-York tribune., 1919-08-14

ernment is prepared to satisfy immcdi-
ately the claims of subalterns and to
consider other categories later.
At meeting of delegates represent
ing railway. postoflcc and telegraph
employees to-day It was decided to call
strike August II at midnight if the
government meantime does not yield
the question Of niger salaries for the
men.
The belief seems generally to pre-
vail that owing to the urgent necessity
for reconstruction work and what is
termed the reasonablcness of the de
mands of the employees, the govern
ment will be compelled to accept their
terms.
1t is said the railway employees in
tend to protect the depots and postal
services and carry on transportation
for the army. The strike will be en-
tirely without political ramitications if
it is called.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-14
City Technical Experts
Threaten to Strike

New York City may face within the
next week or so strike Of all the
technical men in the city service, in
cluding engineers, draughtsmen and
others. These, through their union,
Local No. 6338, Union OF Technical
Men, have asked the city for an in
crease of $500 year each.
Notice to this effect has been served
upon every member of the Board of
Estimate, and the members of the or
ganlzation will confer shortly with the
American Federation of Labor leaders
as to means of enforcing their de-
mands.
Already President B. L. Schneider
OF the union has vainly endeavored
several times to confer with Borough
made another Intellectual attempt yes
terday. 80
The union" said Mr.. Schneider. "is
anxious to handle this matter in the
open where every one will have q
chance to judge what is going on. Anv
city official who is taking the stand
that present wages should be based
on living conditions as they existed
tour years ago is only encouraging a
deterioration Of the expert service
rendered by the technical men en-
ployed by the city"
Three hundred of the five hundred
laborers employed by the city in
Queens have organized a union and
become affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor. it was announced
yesterday at Long Island City by John
Mccarthy. chairman Of the new organi-
zatlon. He said a demand for 81 a
day would be made upon Borough
President Connolly. The men are now
receiving s3.25. The union is to be
known as the "Municipal EMPLOYEES of
the Borough of Queens, Local No. no.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-14
and cancelled at par value during the
years from 1900 to 1906
POindexter in attack
On Wilson and Con,pers
President Is Criticised for His
Absence in Europe, Latter
for Advocacy OF Plumb Plan

yCs -HU tV+UNy ~ tHWO tu5f
United States Senator M;lcs ?on-
dexter. of Washington, yesterday AT
the Waldorf Astoria assailed Samuel
Gompers and President Wilson -- the
former for his advocacy Of Soviet cor
troll of the railways and the latter Tor
lis absence in Europe. The PluH, plan
for control OF the railways is nothing
more nor less than Bolshevism. lie said.
The high cost Of living, the league
Of nations and :he assertion tN Sanuel
Gompers that the railway employco in
tend to compel the government to lake
over the companies are the three lead
ing issues before the people, and they
are closely related said he.
Government under dictation Of a
class" said Senator Poindcxtc~,
"would be dcspotism and course can
not be accomplished in this country
except by the utter destruction Of our
institutions. Labor must be the worst
sufferer. 1t is nothing more or less
than the Bolsheysm which has ruined
Russia.
"The high cost of living" said Sen
ator PoindeXter, "is due to the increas-
ing demands of the railway employees
and others for continued increase Of
wages. 1t is due in part to the aban
donment of the government by Pres
dent Wilson in six months residence in
Europe in pursuit of a league of ma
tions. and boarding of food by the gov
ernment and private dealers, vast ap-
preparations and loans BY the govern
ment to purchase fuel, food and other
necessarIes for export to feed Europe
with no appropriations TO feed Amer
ica. and the neglect CT the Admin
istcation to proceed under the ample
laws already on the statute books TO
punish boarding and protiteerinm."
New-York tribune., 1919-08-14
Miners and Railroad
Men to Form Alliance

HAzLETON. Penn, Aug. 1S.-Al-
lance of the forces OF the
United Mine Workers of America and
the four brother rhoods of the rail
road workers will be perfected at the
international convention of the
miners in Columbus. Ohio, next
month
This fact was revealed here to-day
by Thomas Kennedy. of this city,
district president of District No 7,
[. NJ. w. Of A. Preliminary steps for
the alliance have been completed in
recent conferences between leaders.
The movement is modelled after
the lines of the Triple Alliance of
Labor forces in England and is de-
signed to give full weight 70 the
labor forces OF the country.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-14
mitted or required during government
operation and administrations.


mltted or required during government
operation and administrations.
/. {. c. To Be Judicial Body
IS. That the Interstate Commerce
Commission be relieved Of administra-
tive duties shat it may more efficiently
discharge its increasingly important
judicial functions. in the regulation
OF maximum and minimum rates, the
adjustment of tariffs and the develop
ment of just and non discrm natory
rate structure.
=. That no programme OF railroad
regulation is complete that does not
assert and protect the paramount pub
llc interest in the uninterrupted op-
Grafton of the instrumentalities OF COM
merce between the states To this END
appropriate legislation should be enact
ed to provide:
Il: That whenever. in the opinion Of
the President of the United States.
dispute over hours. wages or working
conditions threatens the Interruption
movement of commerce he should an
point commission to ascertain the
causes of the dispute and make a rec
ommendatlon thereon, and during tn :
CONDUCT of such inquiry it shall be un-
lawful tor the employers or employees
OF the carrier involved to combine to
cause strike that viii deprive the
public OF the service OF such instru-
mentality OF communication; or
2. 1t should be provided that wner-
ever labor dispute threatens the op.
Grafton OF an instrumentaity of inter.
state communication, the President
snail appoint commission which shall
write contract for the parties, to
remain III force until they shall vol
UNFAIRLY agree between themselves.
thus retaining to both parties their
freedom OF contract, subjec. only to
the paramount interest OF the public
IN the continued operation OF the rail-
WV corvica
New-York tribune., 1919-08-14
Public Ownership
OF Street Railways
Is Urged by Expert
Private Control Has Broken
Down, Delos F. Wilcox, of
New York, Tells Federal
Electric Road Commission

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13. Municipal
ownership is the only solution of the
American street railway problem, pub
lie control of private lines having
broken down, Delos f. Wilcox, New
York franchise expert, to-day told the
Federal Electric Railway Commission
There was no escape, he said, from the
logic of conditions pointing to the
handling of urban transportation as an
essential public service and not for
private profit.
Mr.. Wilcox held that street railway
investments should not be treated as
speculative, but should yield fixed re-
turn, and that service always should be
the governing motive of operation
Disruption of street car service through
strikes should be prevented. he said
and strikes be "outlawed and penal
ized,' but only after full protection Of
the workers had been provided. Opera
tves should be urged to organize, he
said, adding that even some Federal
government departments would be bet
tered by degree of characterization" ."
which gave the workers a voice in oues-
tions of administrative policy and dis
ciplinary matters.
Finally, Mr.. Wilcox said, he had
New-York tribune., 1919-08-14

reached the conclusion that "no ulti-
mate solution of these questions could
be reached unless we undertake local
transportation as public function"
Public control had reached such point.
he said, and point from which there
could be no receding. that private COM
panies could not be given that freedom
which alone could insure them success.
There could be, he continued, no CON
servative financial policy under private
ownership, and the profit sharing en-
terprises, such as the New York rapid
transit agreement, merely embodied the
bad features OF both private and public
enterprises.
Members of the commission aues-
toned Mr. Wilcox as to what he would
recommend to meet the immediate
needs of the trolley companies. He said
a declaration of an ultimate municipal
ownership policy would clear the air"
to be backed up by Legislative steps to
clear the way for ultimate acquisition
Of existing lines.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-14
l.5OO.O May Strike
Building Trades Men Talk of
Aiding Plasierers' Cause

international pres dents of the build
ing trades unions conferred last night
at the Continental Hotel with John H.
Donlin, president of the building
trades department of the American
Federation of Labor. and decided that
unless the international Operative
Plasterers' and Cement Finishers' As
sociation won its strike promptly a
general strike would be necessary in
the building trades.
The plasterers, according to the
union leaders, are striking for recog-
milton Of the union. A general strike
would affect 1,5O0 900 workmen, 1876
600 of them in this city, the union
men say.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-14
Hornadoy Warns States
Plumb Idea Is RerOH
Governors Urged to BE Ready
TO Strike Hard When Boil
sheuik Mobs Begin attacks

DR.: William 7. Hornaday, chairman
of the American Defence Society's
committee on Bolshcvism, in a letter
sent TO the Governors Of forty-eight
states yesterday concerning the sig
nihcance OF the demand of the rail
way broth erhooGs FOR part control Of
the railroads and 4 share of the earn
ings, predicts Z clash of arms is com
ing.
we warn yon % be prepared" says
his letter. land when the mobs OF
striking Bolsheviki begin to attack the
train crews and 20 burn and loot strike
them quickly and strike hard You
can undoubtedly rely upon the re-
turned soldiers 10 stand with YOU for
law and order. They do not believe
in Bolshevism. and they hate the red
flag of anarchy. Call upon them to
help defend your state and your city
from the mobs. They saved Seattle
and Winnipeg, and they drove the red
flag of the streets Of New York.
DR.. Hornaday's letter urges the gov
ernors to take immediate steps 10 pre-
pare against the "regulaton' which
four brotherhoods now in Washington
say probably viii come within ninety
days:
The attack Of 25o,ooo railroad men
on Congress, albeit at this stage with
out actual firearms, is the beginning
Of the 'revolutioN" in America, that for
two years has. been preached steadily
by the maNyhued American Bolshevik,.' ;
he asserts.
Lenine has taught the followers Of
his doctrine to resort to war and
bloodshcd in the elimination of the
owners OF all prorerty-as the railway
Bolshevik now brazenly propose to
Congress shall be done. forthwith as to
the railroads. We believe the fateful
hour is about to strike, and if this be
called an 'alarmist' view then lie. our
critics make the most Of Il
New-York tribune., 1919-08-14
/. G. c. Approues Bill
Restoring Rate Pozrey

. WASHINGTON. Aug 13--Thc Inter
state Commerce Committee sent to the
House to-day its report recommending
immediate passage Of the Cummins
bill, which restores the Interstate Com
merce Commissions right to review
rates. The bill, which already has
passed the Senate, was reported out
last week, 6 to 5.
In these reconstruction days one of
the important needs is stability in
business" said the report prepared by
Representative Sanders. Republican, Of
Indiana. at is the belief of the com
mittee that the passage Of this act.
with amendments proposed. will be a
long stride toward that end"
New-York tribune., 1919-08-14
Militia Sent to Quell
Labor Riots i'm Peoria
Illinois Governor Acts After
Three Are Shot by Shippers
at Plant

SPRINGFIELD, H., Aug. 13 Govern
or Frank O. Lowdcn tonight ordered
the 10th Illinois Infantry, commanded
by Colonel 0. p. Ycager, OF Danvillei t.
proceed to Peoria for duty in the in
dustrial district south OF the city,
where rioting broke out to-day.
PEORIA ILL.,, Aug. 1S.-Two men,
bers OF the keystone Wire and Steel
Company, where rioting occurred to-
day when strikers clashed with deputy
sheriifs, were shot and seriously in
jurcd when they were leaving the plant
tonight. A Waterman at the plant
also was shot in the back by snipers
AIMED strikers fired on the plant at
intervals, according to reports. Deputy
shertss declared they had despaired Of
keeping peace. and Sheriff Hines con-
ferred with Major {. ". Russell, Of
Governor Lowden's staff. concerning
the need of troops
New-York tribune., 1919-08-14
England You'd Prohibit
Strikes Without Notice

oNDON, Aug. 13 (By The Asso-
ciated Press).-The government
announces that proposal is being
considered. "in the interest of the
general community" providing for
the introduction of legislation making
strikes and lockouts illegal unless
one weeks notice in writing is given
to enable an inquiry into the situa-
tion causing discord and an attempt
at Its settlement. This programme,
it is said. will be strongly resented
by large portion of the laborers.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-14
Wilson Is Expected Again
TO Veto Sunlight Law Repeal

WASHINGTON, Aug IS president
Wilson. it was said to-day, will veto the
law proposing repeal OF the daylight
saving act. The measure has been be-
fore the President since August ) and
he is expected to return it to Congress
before the end OF the week.
Efforts TO pass the agricultural bill
With its repeal rider over the Presi-
dents veto failed last month and lead
ers in both the House and Senate doubt
that the two-thirds majority necessary
to pass the repeal law over the Execu-
tlve's head can be mustered
New-York tribune., 1919-08-14
in Coal Field
Made Hungry bv Strike

CHARLESTON, W. Va. Aug. 10
Thousands Of miners and their fam
lilies in the Logan, Coal River and
Cabin Greek fields are suffering from
hunger as the result of the freight
and passenger tie-up on branch lines
Of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.
caused by the shopmen's strike, ac-
cordng to word received here to-day by
coal companies that operate in that
section. More than 800 mines have
been closed and 10000 men thrown
out Of work.
On account OF the rough mountain
fields. it is impossible to transport
foodstuffs by other means than the
railroad to feed the 125,o0O popula-
tion there.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-14
Plumb Idea Jndoysed
By Vermont Labor Me,

MONTPELIER. W., Aug. l3. The
state branch of the American Fedora
ton of Labor at its annual convention
to-day indorsed the Plumb plan for
the naturalization of railroads and
voted to petition Governor Clement to
appoint committee, on which labor
should be represented, to inquire into
the high cost of living.
Resolutions were adopted favoring "a
league of nations which shall not inter
fere with the freedom of Ireland" and
calling upon the President and Con
gress to recognize the Irish republic.
The action of the Atlantic City con-
vention of the Federation in declaring
for the sale of beverages of 2A per
cent alcoholic content was approved
New-York tribune., 1919-08-14
Government Employees in
Belgium Threaten Strike

BRUSSELS, Aug. 13.-The Council
OF Ministers to-day examined into a
threat of government employees to call
a strike. 1t is understood that the gov
New-York tribune., 1919-08-14

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-08-10

THE POLITICS OF INDUSTRY. BY
Glenn Frank. associate editor OF
the Century Magazine: co-author
of Stakes of the War" New
York: The Century Company.
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