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New-York tribune., 1919-02-15
General Sympathy
Strike Is Planned by
Laurence Operatives

LAWRENCE, Mass, Feb 14.-The
committee in charge of the strike of
textile operatives here who are seeking
to enforce demands for ifty-four hours
pay for forty-eight hours work, voted
to-day to take steps looking toward
the calling of a general sympathetic
strike throughout the city The state
ment given out after the meeting said
that the question demanding pay for
all the time that the operatives re-
NAMED on strike was also discussed
but that no action was taken.
The appointment Of William Rennie
as treasurer of the strike committee to
succeed Anthony Russo. who resigned,
was announced to-day. Russo ex-
planned that he did not have time to
devote to the work.
Angelo Rocco, a lawyer, who was an
nounced as having resigned from the
strike committee, said to-day that he
had not been member of the COM
mitee.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-15
Pastor Would Keep
saloonsOpen After
"Rnsn'' Is Removed
DIR. Robert Rogers Declares
Men Need Meeting Place
and Advocates Use of
Soft Drink 'sClubroons''

Rum, the we'll known and failing
demon, is the only person who should
be driven away from the saloons, in
the opinion of the Rev. DR.. Robert
Rogers, of the Church of the Good
Shepherd, in Brooklyn, who yesterday
announced that he favored the rcten-
ton of barrooms with the kick
eliminated
Substitute soda-pop for beer and
milkshakes for highballs and let the
saloons continue to run under the di-
rection of the brewers who are now
turning to the manufacture of soft
drinks, DR.. Rogers urges. 1t is his be-
lief that the saloon is real social
necessity in the life of New York
He also is convinced that If the at
mosphcre of cheer now prevalent in
cafes can be continued after the pres
ent inspiration is done away with men
viii continue to use them as their clubs
and should be encouraged to do so.
Used as Meeting Places
1T seems to me- said DR.. Rogers,
that there Will be a real need for
many of the saloons after the selling
of Intoxicating liquors is done away
with July !. There are large numbers
of men who have got accustomed to
using the saloon as resting place
after the day's work.
"There they have been in the habit
of meeting their friends and compar-
ing notes on the news of the day, and
there they have consulted about wages
and labor and kindred topics. Of
course the saloonkeeper wanted their
money, and got too much OF it. Now
the Federal government says that the
old system is to go and it would seem
to be the duty of right minded people
who wish to do a neighborly thing to
see that some of the saloons are con-
verted into soft drink establishments
preserving whatever is valuable as
merely social centres. With this in
view, shortly after July | next | ex-
pect to see the big brewers try out ex-
perlments with the sale of soft drinks
and perhaps ice cream and meals, in
corner properties which will be finan-
cially unproductivc unless they run
them as business places
Suggests Free Tobacco
81 would like to see the saloons
equipped so that men and women
might frequent them. I would like to
see free tobacco for the men who are
habitual users of tobacco, with soft
drinks available at reasonable prices
l am quite sure that there are large
numbers of men who cannot be in
duced to while away an idle hour in 8
church or parish house, but who, if
the saloons are conducted as eating
i
time and money in them.
Il understand that many Of the
large breweries in Brooklyn are giving
this subject very careful attention
Some of them are making temperance
drinks already, and more of them are
preparing to operate their breweries ir
the manufacture of harmless products
New-York tribune., 1919-02-15
James ". Gerard Wears
No-Beer-No-Wor ork Button
EORMER Ambassador to Ger

EORMER Ambassador to Ger
L. many James W. Gerard gave
public evidence of his approval
of the "no-beer-no-work" slogan
by wearing a button on which
those words were printed to a
meeting of the Central Federated
Union last evening.
After Mr.. Gerard had delivered
an address dealing with labor con-
ditions in Germany, Edward Han
nah, who presided at the meeting,
called attention to the button in
the lapel on the former Ambassa-
doris coat.
"That is enough to show that
he is regular fellow" said
Hannah.
The evidence was so conclusive
that another delegate to the meet
ing stepped forward and placed
button bearing the label of the
Bartenders' Union on Mr.. Gerard's
coat. Both buttons were permitted
to remain there throughout the
evening. But when asked whether
he favored prohibition Mr.. Ger
ard refused to reply.
Il am non-commital," said he.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-15
''Let's Clean House"
Is Seattle's Slogan
Against the /. w. w.
SO Taken in Another Raid
on Headquarters; New
Union of Boilermakers by
Men Desiring 10 Work
Staff Correspondent

Staff Correspondence
SEATTLE, Wash, Feb IA - After
three days devoted to rcadjustment
and some attempts at reconciliation
between employers and organized labor,
events in Seattle are shaping them
selves to-day toward definite attack
on the l. W. W.
To-day the prosecuting officer, Fred
c. Brown, made another raid, similar
to yesterdays, on the local l. w. w.
headquarters. Four men were arrested,
and packed off to Jail and 35 were
held for investigation.
Following announcement of the
Seattle ship-buiders that they would
no longer deal with local officials of
the unions now on strike against the
Macy award Reeves Aylmore, local
attorney who worked in the yards last
year during a shortage of labor, gave
out the information that since the col
lapse of the strike petitions had been
IN circulation among the members of
his former union asking that the
National Boilermakers' Union grant
new charter to men wishing to return
to work
The waterfront employers assoca-
ton, which had been working under
an agreement with the longshoremen's
and truckers organizations, announced
to-day that the open shop will here
after be maintained against the unions
that broke their agreements by join
ing the general strike.
Yesterday evenings papers carried
tull-page advertisements paid for by
sixty local firms and directed against
anarchists and Boshevists, declaring
in four-inch type, Lets clean house" "
The arrest of |. w. W. organizers
and propogandists to-day and yester-
day is explained by Prosecuting At
torney Brown as resulting not alone
from printed propaganda now in the
hands of the authorities but also from
an attempt to use the recent general
strike as vehicle 70 start a revolu-
ton.
''The men back of this revolutionary
movement said Brown to-day, "are
not interested in fighting the battles
of organized labor They are the
worst enemies legitimate labor organi-
zations can have"
The arrests were made under a
Washington statute defining criminal
anarchy as "doctrine that organized
government should be overthrown by
force or violence or by assassination
Of the executive head or any Of the
executive officials of the government
or by any unlawful means The advo-
cacy Of such doctrine either by word
of mouth or writing is a felony"
The penalty is not more than ten
years imprisonment or not more than
$4,000 fine or both.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-15
Sympathy Strikers
IN Butte Quit Fight:
Home Is Dyndn,ited

BUTTE, Mont, Feb. l4.--The first
break in the copper miners strike here
was made to-day by the machinists,
when they voted to return to work
after three-day walkout, which took
place in sympathy with the strikers
of the Butte Metal Miners Union and
the Metal. Mine Workers. Industrial
Union No. 800, both of which are out
III protest against the recent cut in
wages Of one dollar q day. number
Of other foundry and shop employees
also returned to work to-day.
Following the receipt by C. H. Nolan,
an employe of the st. Lawrence mine,
of anonymous threats unless he stopped
work, his home was dynamited about
midnight Wednesday. a car bearing
the numerals -7-7-7," the old
vigilante sign, was found tackled to the
front door of Nolans residence.
Albert Brawdy was arrested by Chief
OF Police Murphy early yesterday after
he had made threats to blow up a
streetcar in event the railway company
attempted to operate the cars Three
plckets accused OF disturbances were
arrested
Streetcar company employees failed
to take out their cars ard officials Of
the streetcar company were informed
that if it failed to operate the cars
the military would.
Setting forth that unless immediate
and drastic action is taken to suppress
the activities of the |. W. w. and other
laWless elements in Butte and to rid
the State of Montana of the dangerous
agitators it would not be long before
all industries would be closed, depriv-
ing many returned soldiers of an op-
portunlty to obtain work and throwing
thousands of men and women out Of
employment, the Senate and House at
Helena yesterday adopted a memorial
to Secretary Of Labor Wilson asking
that he Immediately exert the power
of his office to protect the people of
Montana from the menace confronting
them
New-York tribune., 1919-02-15
New York "Eoo Cold" for
Porto Rican War Worker.

SAN JUAN. Porto Rico, Jan Is
More than 100 Porto Rican war work
ers in the United States have just re-
turned to the island well dressed, pros
porous and in high spirits. Most of
them confessed they had real money in
their pockets, and they seemed to enjoy
their free trip to the United States.
Most of them appeared to have become
quite metropolitan in dress and bear
ing. Some left the steamship pier to
go to their homes in automobiles.
One war worker gave his impressions
of New York by saying it was "too
cold and there were no rice and beans,
Porto Rican STYLE The men had been
working in places from New York to
New Orleans. Many of them said the
only reason they returned was that
they could not stand the cold weather.
Virtually all the Porto Rican workers
now have returned from the United
States
New-York tribune., 1919-02-15
Treasury with respect to the next Lib
erty Loan Is stupendous-and 1t Is.
Is Not Discouraged

Treasury with respect to the next Lib
erty Loan IS stupendous-and it is.
Is Not Discouraged
"But do not intend to be discouraged
by these frequent admontohs. | have
an abiding faith in the real patriotism
of the American people, and earnestly
believe that it may be appealed to as
long as there is any necessity for an
pealing to it: and | am going out into
the country to present these matters to
the people. | confidently shall appeal to
them 20 take a patriotic view and help
the Treasury 20 meet the honorable COM
mitments of the government.
II shall rely upon you as one of the
great factors in that enterprise, just as
you have helped so tremendously in
putting the other four Liberty loans
over the top; and | know you are going
to do it.
Il addressed an audience Of about
twelve hundred hard headed. success
full business men in Pittsburgh on Sat
urday evening last, among them being
many of the captains of the greatest
industries in the country, and | was
very much encouraged TO believe that
again the patriotism of the American
people may be appealed to and that
the response Will be just such
4 response as could be expected
from the people of this great
country. The war is over, the guns
have ceased firing, but we should pause
for moment and consider that but for
The commitments Of the government
the guns would not have ceased to fire
as suddenly as they did.
at was thcse commitments that car
ried the guns right on through the
Hindenburg line and brought peace to
a suffering world
81 have said that the selection Of the
title for the next loan was a happy
one-the Victory Liberty Loan-in
celebration of the fact that the en-
trance of this great nation into the
war speedily consummated the greatest
victory of the greatest war of all time,
but it might appropriately have been
called the Thanksgiving Loan. We
should be thankful for many things in
connection with the speedy termina
tion of this war.
"We should consider, for example,
that the Congress of the United States
is to day engaged in writing off the
books authorizations Of expenditures
amounting to the stupendous sum of
$4,000, 100000 and the American tax
payers should be thankful that in max
ing out our next tax reports we at
least are spared the pain of having to
add that sum to the sum we already
shall have to raise.
But above all we should be thank
full that only $4,000 of our soldiers
have fallen in battle and that the
others are to return to their homes
and their activities"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-15
Arbitrators Seek
TO End BuiIdino
Trade Pay Dispute
Boston Labor Leader and
u. S. Representative Ar
rive To-day to Study Stu
alton; Short Truce Likely

Henry J. sksffington. veteran labor
leader of Boston, and Walter B..
Davidge, Of Washington, representing
the United States Department of
Labor, will arrive in New York this
morning to endeavor to bring peace
to the building trades. Their first
move, it is believed, will be to ask
that the truce under which striking
carpenters returned to work on Thurs
day be extended. 1t expires by limita-
ton at noon to-day.
This request viii probably be re-
terred to the executive council of the
building trades department of the
American Federation of Labor, which
meets at the Hotel Continental this
morning to consider the local situa-
ton.
If this body is not able to handle
the situation to the satisfaction of
everybody, 1t will be taken up by the
executive council OF the federation it.
seif, which has been called to meet in
this city Monday morning.
me decision to intervene is due more
10 the effect the trouble here NAV have
on the rest of the country than to the
-tiii'iSulatc eNeclS IN TINS city. Both
sides welcome the intervention. Will
lam l.. Hutcheson declared he would
welcome anybody who might be able to
reach just settlement.
1--WE know" he said, chat it is pos
sible for us to get Sc a day for the
men now. The men would not ac
cept it." The Tribune learned from a
competent source yesterday that the
real objection of the employers asso-
citation to the $3.50 day rate for the
carpenters is more to the effect that
II might have on other trades than the
immediate expense.
Another factor is the small demand
Tor carpenters in this city at this time.
On the part of labor, there are many
IN the movement who believe that un-
less the New York scale is advanced
EFFORTS viii be made to cut wages in
other cities. Labor men also point out
that there is q gross injustice done the
carpenters, even at the rate that is
demanded. Unskilled labor is being
PAID IN some instances at the rate Of
"a and better a day. and it is argued
that mechanic should be entitled to a
higher rate
New-York tribune., 1919-02-15
Pass0ic Strikers Ask
Mayor to Settle DisDufe


PASSAlr, n. j., Feb. Mayor
George N. Scger appointed a citizens
committee Of ten day to confer with
committee Of the striking mill work
ers and committee Of mill owners
upon methods Of settling the strike.
which irvolNes 1900 men and women
This action was taken at the request
of & committee Of thirty-nve strikers,
headed by Matthias Pluhar, chairman
Of tho Textile Union of Passaic. lie
aaid that the strike was causing priva-
tions and suffering among the families
Of the strikers and the situation would
become serious unless prompt steps
were taken to meet IT.. The three com
mittccs will hold joint session TO-
morrow.
Inc men appointed by the lIayor are
New-York tribune., 1919-02-15
improvement Of Agriculture
Urged as Sociely's Salvation

ITHACA, \. Y. Feb. Improve
ment Of agriculture as the only means
for the salvation OF society" from the
economic evils that confront it was
advocated by George j.. Roberts. an
official Of the National City Bank Of
New York, formerly director o. tine
United States Mint, in an address here
to-day.
"I venture the opinion said Mr..
Roberts, that IN the last twenty years
the greater part OF al the gains thar
have been made in the manufacturing
industries by Invention, discovery new
methods and improved organization
have been Offset 10 the masses OF the
people by the higher cost OF food,
clothing and shelter
New-York tribune., 1919-02-15
Illiteracy Blamed as Root
OF u. $. Industrial Unrest

WASHINGTON, Feb 14.-Illiteracy
was held up as the root of American
Industrial labor troubles by Secretary
Lane to-day in appealing to the House
education committee for immediate ac-
ton on a pending bill to provide SIP
100000 Federal aid annually to states
spending like sums for the education
and development of illiterates. Passage
Of the measure at this session was urged
by the Secretary as one of the most i'm
portant duties of Congress.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-15
Compers 10 Confer With
Belgian Labor Leaders

PARIS, Feb. 14.-Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation
of Labor, and six other labor leaders
left Paris to-day in autcnobiles for
Brussels, where they viii confer with
Belgian trade union leaders regarding
an inter-Allied labor congress in Paris.
The date Will be fixed at the Brussels
conference.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-15
Fishermen May Strike
To Force Hiehey Prizes

BOSTON, Feb. 14.-A strike of fisher
men, involving the entire Atlantic
Coast fisheries, was said to-day by
leaders of the tishermen's union to be
a possibility unless resolutions promul-
gated by the union and submitted to
producing companies and wholesalers
We're adopted before March Is.
The fishermen contend that they can
not afford to fish at the low price that
has obtained within the last two weeks.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-15

jor Fiorello La Guardia. ex-Asembl =
man Pearlman. Harry hopp and Morris
NJ. Becher Magistrate William Blau
is chairman Of the reception committee
and Assemblyman Sol Ullman is char
man of the arrangements committee.
David Robson, former Assistant Cor
poration Council, is floor manager.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-15


Performance and cost a ton mile
are the base of motor truck merchan-
dising- and unless both can be proved
the manufacturer is in danger of being
in the debris when his aircastle tum-
bles," said w. J. Aitken, president of
the DENLY Eastern Distributors, Inc.
I. j. Toner, director of Maxwell
Chambers sales, has just wired Harry
j. De Bear, local branch manager, that
the number of inquiries on both lines
from prospective dealers exceeds any
thing in the past. He adds that the
rouslng success of the New York show
is responsible in a large measure.
The Colt-Stratton Company, metro
politan distributor for Dodge Brothers
motor cars ard Day-EIder trucks. re-
ports many individual sales of trucks
IN the show week. There was also
placed with them an order for ten Day-
Elder chasses, equipped with large ex-
press type bodies, by the Long island
raj Motor Express Company. This
fleet of trucks will go into rural ex-
press service on Long Island and repre-
sent the greatest activity that has been
shown on the rural motor express idea
around the vicinity of New York Citv.
In addition to this route on Long
Island, the data at hand at the Colt
Stratton Company are sufficient to show
that in many other sections around
New York City rural express lines can
be started and be of equal benefit and
show the same possibilities as the line
already established on Long Island The
Colt-Stratton Company will gladly
furnish all information within its pow
er to people interested in ESTABLISHING
these lines in the same way that they
helped in the creation of the Long Isl
and Rural Motor Express Company. of
which j. Kent Warden is president
with executive Offices at lS45 Broad
way.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-15

City Commissioner John II. Kchoe,
Richard Morrell, Richard J. Scoles,
Judge Thomas p. Costello, of the City
Court; Postmaster James J. Cowley,
Bernard G. Volgcr John Kelly, Arthur
5 Corbin, District Judge Walter C.
Cabell and Harry Wcinberger.
More than 500 workers employed in
eight handko rchief factories quit work
to-day, bringing the total of handker-
chief makers on strike up to 1000.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-15
By c. f. T. scharps

" III eo-HlSHl session, the motor
truck show in Madison Square Garden
and the 69th Regiment Armorv comes
to close, and with this comes also the
hnlsh of the nineteenth annual auto.
mobile show in New York.
The exhibition, which started Feb
1uary 1 with display of passenger
cars and accessories in the two build
ings, was devoted during the week inst
ended to commercial vehicles. 1t was
the first show ever given under the
management of the association of the
local automobile dealers. From all
points of view it is considered to have
made distinct success.
Filled with the stories Of the home
coming soldiers and deeply interested
IN all things in any. way connected
with the winning of the war, crowds
OF spectators continually gathered
about the Nash Motor Company's space
closely inspecting the Quad. Before
0 Ile united States entered the war the
quad was fighting on the side of The
Allies, and when America entered tbo
war this big truck, which drives. steers
and brakes on all four wheels more
than ever sprang into prominence.
More than 12,500 Nash Quads were
supplied to the War Department, Thev
earned soldiers, food and munitions and
hauied big guns over all kinds of roads
and across she'll torn fields where there
were no roads during the whole war,
and the record they made was one Of
which the Nash Company can well be
proud. WI 'e
One of the features of the Packard
Motor Car Company's exhibit at the
trucX snow IS the new contractors
tfucK' deslgned especially for the use
ol U contractors IN this vicinity. 1t is
the result OF a long investigation on
the part of the transportation engi-
nneerlng department in and around
New YORK 1t is a heavy duty truck
the chassis being the 6-E model. with
a l3-toot wheel base and frame IN
teet 3 inches long. The steel convert
lole BODY has capacity of four cubic
yards; The steel sides may be re-
moved, or extra boards may be added
l@or @ the carrying of ashes and snow
ne double acting tail gate is one of
me features. The body is raised and
lowered by the horizontal hydraulic
Nf;lJr ~" w hsS proved popular IN the
Middle West on account Of the space
1t saves The steel towing hooks in
front and the trailer draw-bar in the
rear are added conveniences.
Special attention is paid to the com
Tort Of the driver, the cab being an
all season inclosed type, with the
three,man seat and an inclosed bat
terry box and tool box.
In every field of motor hauling the
yellow chassis Republic trucks have
New-York tribune., 1919-02-15
Auto Sho,V Ends Tonight;
Big Success Is Final Verdict
Dealers and Public Agree That Special Exhibition
of Trucks Proved of Great Value in Boosting
All Branches of the Automobile Industry

country of their all around ability and
dependability.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-15

In every field of motor hauling, the
yellow chassis Republic trucks have
done service under every road, load
and climatic condition. Thousands Of
standard model Republic trucks have
also been shipped to the Allied nations
the last. two years. Investigation of
trucks in service in all parts Of The
world convinced the governments of
France. England, Belgium and orr o,vn