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Evening journal., 1919-08-26
NEW YORK, BALT0,
PRICES ARE LOWER

That the price of nearly every arti-
Gle OF food on sale In Wilmington is a
few cents higher than that charged for
the same IN New York or Baltimore, IS
shown by a comparison Of prices here
with the flair price list" agreed upon
by the mercrants Of New York and
Food Administrator Arthur Williams.
A comparison OF this list of prices
with those charged for similar articles
here shows that in nearly every in
stance here there is an increase OF
thre or four cents. Inly one article
on the list Is sold cheaper here, and
that Is corn meal, which sells at four
cents a pound, 2% cents cheaper than
the New York list calls for.
A comparison with the prices OF Bal
tlmore also showed Just one article TO
be cheaper here. Watermelons sold for
a dollar there and could be bought for
60 cents here Following Is the price
list drawn up at the New York confer
ence and the charge made by grocers
for the same article I'm Wilmington.
Evening journal., 1919-08-26
AT THE VICTORIA.

The NIicrobe" a gutter waif, is
rescued from the stums by De witt
Spense, distinguished young author
who is losing his fame for lack OF In
spiratlon, In the picture 'srhe Mlcrobe'
shown at the Victoria this week He
takes her home, much to the fury Of
Judith Wlnthrope. who eyes him with
matrimonial intent. Judith leads the
Microbe 10 believe that she is the
cause OF De Wits failure. thereby
causing the girl 10 leave the only hap
plness she has ever known.
Strange letters signed Blanca" begin
coming to De Witt-letters so full Of
Inspiration that he writes a novel that
restores him at once IN the popular
favor.
judith claims authorship for the
letters and In gratitude he asks her
to marry him. De Witt Is called 10
the hospital that night and finds the
Mlcrobe very IN. While there he hears
the treacherous part Judith has played
-he also learns that the Microbe Is
blanca" and realizes that she has
been his inspiration. The love which
he has been sitting for months flares
forth and The Mlcrobe at last realizes
complete happiness.
Evening journal., 1919-08-26
IT'S BECOMING HABIT
WITH BABE RUTH

DETROIT, Mich, Aug. 26-Detroit
pitchers were unable to hold Boston
in the pinches yesterday, the visitors
taking the second game OF the ser
les, 5 10 4.
Ruth hit his fourth home run N
three days, making his total for the
season twenty-three.
Ruth now needs but one more home
run TO equal the modern day record
made by Gabby Cravath OF the Phil
lies. who In 1915 bit out twenty-four
home runs and is within two OF the
record made by Buck Freeman, who
when playing with Washington dur
ing 1898, smashed out twenty-five cir
cult wallops.
Evening journal., 1919-08-26
Az sHELPOT PARK

There is one act on the bill in the
Family Theatre, al shellpot Park this
week which is easily worth twice the
price OF admission. IL Is Professor
Peak and his wooden head family. In
plain words 10 IL an old-time Punch and
Judy show with the ever lrascible,
cruel Mr. Punch with his club, with
Judy and various other characters. Peak
has exhibited his Punch and Judy al
various society entertainments for
IN Wilmington and he has ap-
peared at Shellpot Park a number Of
times before. or course the act de-
lights the children, but lt plesses the
grown ups even more. Sid Stewart &
Co. have a clever novelty sketch; Ruth
and Reed do some excellent singing and
dancing and have a most pleasing act;
Lucille CraytOn is clever singing
and Morris Sullivan is q
blsck-faoe monologist who Is one OF
The funniest men ever seen al the
park. The same bill will be given each
afternoon and evening during the week
The park will offer a special program
IN Labor Day. Sid Stewart Is prominent
n moving pictures and this Is a good
'hance 10 see this clever artist.
Evening journal., 1919-08-26
TOMATOES TAKE
JUMP AT SEAF0RD
peoIal 70 The EvenIng journal.

Special 10 The Evening Journal.
SEAFORD, Aug. 26s-Tomatoes reach
ed the highest mark OF the season yes
terday, when they sold for SO cents for
flve-elghths basket, an advance Of %
cents over the selling price OF last
week. Both the local cannerles are
operating on tomatoes but are not able
10 run to their capacity because OF the
short crop. The indications are that
tomatoes viii go higher before the
week Is over. Watermelons and canta-
loupes arc coming IN slowly and the
peach season IS practically over. Wat
ermelons are bringing 800 per car
load and canlaloupes sell for 81 per
carrier.
Evening journal., 1919-08-26
LANpLiTn WANrs GANEs

Landlith A. c., a fast local baseball
team, with a record for this season
Of i6 won out Of 90 played, would like
70 hear from some Wilmington or out
Of the city teams, either for twilight
ball or Saturday games. The team
would especially like to hear from Mid
dletown, Port Penn, Delaware City or
the Western Park team OF New Castle.
All wishing to communicate with the
Landlith team can call Manager B. p.
Connor, telephone No. 36si-W.
Evening journal., 1919-08-26
JEHU ROBERTS HURT
BY FALL OVER CURB

Jehu Roberts, aged 100 years, OF No.
500 Bayard avenue, a Civil War veteran
and the oldest man in Delaware, was
seriously hurt Saturday when he trip
ned over a curb and fell fracturing
one hip, spralnlng his wrist and max
Ing an ugly cut over one eye. Mr..
Roberts will be confined to his bed for
some time. He was returning from a
barber shop when She accident &C.
CURED. Ora Ffa.
Evening journal., 1919-08-26
FAST FIELDING WON
GAME FOR DEFIANCE
Special to The Evening journal.

Special 70 The Evening Journal
LANDENBURG, Pa, Aug. 26.-The
Defiance Club OF the Wilmington City
League, took fast ten-lnning game,
D to 4, from the locals Sunday after
noon. The game was close and exclt-
Ing. Several catches at opportune
moments saving the game for Defiance.
The work OF Gillespie and Mcconnell
In the ouBneld for the visitors, was
fast. Mcconnell pulled down six in
center, while Gillespie made several
sensational catches, twice running TO
the fence In deep left and pulling
down drives. Both twlrlers pitched
good ball, Dillon being tight I'm the
pinches. The score.
Evening journal., 1919-08-26
BAD DET0UR BRINGS
HARVEST TO FARMER
speelal % Tha EvenIns Ionrnal.

IT"NT7I 70 IUE INUIIIUt IUUTNHI.
ELKTON, Md, Aug 26.-The closing
Of the Elkton-North East road for re-
><alrs, during the height OF the automo-
bile season, is unfortunate, as the con-
tinued rains have put the detour in al
most impossible condition. An Elk
Neck farmer has open his fields for
entomobile travel, but charges so cents
for each machine for the privilege. He
Is rcaping a harvest.
Evening journal., 1919-08-26
AT BRANDYwINE SPRINGS.

Brsndywine Springs Park Will offer
It's usual attractions the week pre-
vious 10 Labor Day. There Is ample
room for crowds at the Springs and
there are enough amusments TO keep the
crowds busy, no matter how big they
may be. The big park Is just the place
for picnics and reunions and there Will
be several there this week The ride to
the Springs is always cool and refresh
ing and It Is the longest and most in
terestlng IN the State.
Evening journal., 1919-08-26
attractions at the CITY Theatres
yals be is Justly famous

trayals be is justly famous.
The Dentist" may have been so
styled by Mack sennett for his comedy
OF the same name, but It is doubtful
II one should desire to get our teeth
fixed by his too convincing ways
Evening journal., 1919-08-26
Score by Innings

Defiance ........i O0t OF 00i-5
Landenbung ....02 2002O OO00O4
Two-base hits. Shields. 4; Rigler. 2.
Struck out by Land, Z; Dillon. 4. Dou-
BILE plays Hession, HynsOn, Shields.
Sacrifice hits, Hynson. Sacrifice flies,
Gillespie. Hit by pitched ball, MoCOn-
nell. Time Of game, 2 hours. Umpire
O'Brien.
Evening journal., 1919-08-26

For nifty years the famous diamond
mines az Kimberley have yielded an
average return Of more than S20,OOO,OO0
a year.
Evening journal., 1919-08-26
AT THE RIALTO.

Politics, political machines and cor
ruptness in general Is the basis Of the
story OF "The Master Man" the splen-
did production IN which Frank Keen
On Is appearing at the Rislbo today
and tomorrow for the hst times.
Yesterdays audience was unusually
large and were no doubt wonderfully
Impressed with the sincerity OF the
role that is given to Mr.. Keenan, and
his wonderful portrayal Of the same
Mr.. Keenan, Is in appearances a man OF
business and a man Of character and
power and this lent much weight to
his work which required such a show
ing. Various incidents Of the story
show the callbre OF this mans char
aoter and his dominant unrelinquish-
ing strength which Will not give even
an inch in matters which concern him
and his party but It Is the gentle love
of a woman who finally docs break
the steel OF his character but only for
the better and betterment Of self and
state. Kathleen Kirkham gives a
splendid exhibition OF acting opposite
Mr.. keenan,.
Evening journal., 1919-08-26
AT THE QUEEN.

Mabel Normand Is the madcap OF
mischief and she finds a wonderful
medium I'm the portrayal Of Niillie Mar
tin the heroine Of "When Doctors
Disagree which Is at the Queen for
The last time today. The title part OF
the Story Is found In the sanitarium
and ON the train, when Mlllie, desirous
Of attracting the attention OF a young
man whom she believes TO be a doctor,
suddenly becomes sick. Her father
always desirous Of saving the penny
as we'll as the dollar, gives her a wild
Of his choicest chewing tobacco to
quiet her pain but 10 really does make
her sick and matters more jumbled up
for the spectators enjoyment.
Mabel Normand's work is far above
par and furnishes the audience with
more laughs than II can sometimes
safely hold, but she succeeds In max
ing Mile Martin a delightful char
scter desplte the fact that she was
not beautiful as she wished to be.
Walter HERS plays opposite Miss Nor
mand.
Beginning tomorrow Bryant Wash
burn WIN be seen in "A Very Good
Young Man" This young man was
entirely too good to be real so thought
his sweetheart and he goes about de-
vislng plans whereby he can convince
her that she is in error and he is real
and will last.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-30
Chicago Plants Fail
To Stampede Strikers

CHICAGO, Sept. 29.-Efforts of the
big mills in the Chicago district to
induce a sufficient number Of strikers
to return in order to operate on a
larger scale failed to-day. Although
additional police protection was pro-
vided at every large plant and special
appeals were issued to the men to go
back, the number who returned was
no larger than on previous days. At
some of the mills the number Of men
reported at work was smaller than last
Saturday.
The union organizations doubled the
number Of pickets at most Of the
plants and exerted every influence at
their command to prevent members
from deserting. At the end of the day
labor leaders declared they had won
the test Of strength which the steel
companies had planned.
The only violence reported was at
the plant Of the Illinois Steel Com
pany in South Chicago, where several
shots were fired in clash between
police and strikers. Nobody was in
jured and but one arrest was made
At Gary, Ind, Mayor Hodges issued
a proclamation declaring that police
protection would be provided to all
strikers who desired to return to work,
but the number who went back was no
larger than on previous days.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-30
U. S. Signs Agreement
With Railway Shopmen

WASHINGTON, Sept Exchanges
in the wage scale of railroad shopmen,
under which they will be paid on the
basis of an eight-hour day, similar to
members Of the four brotherhoods
are embodied in the first national
agreement covering their wages and
working conditions. which, it was
learned to-day, has been signed by Di-
rector General Hines and representa-
tiVcs of the six international shop
crafts.
The changes mean an increase Of
four cents an hour, and were ordered
by President Wilson to put the shop
men on an equal footing with other
employees i'll the matter of an eight
hour day at the time he refused them
general wage increase.
The agreement, effective October 20
until the government rcinquishes con-
troll Of the roads, is the first contract
covering all railroad shop employees.
Heretofore, each road has had its IN
dividual agreement with the unions,
varying in important particulars.
Union officials regard the uniform con-
tract as one of the most important
gains made by labor in recent years.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-30

hope to win by holding their own.
They must, he says, eventually sur
render in order to meet the demands
Of the country for steel, unless they
cat first -tarve the men out.
Foster addressed the weekly session
Of the council Of ministers Of the
Christian denomination here to-day.
Company Claims Gains
eve made fine gains everywhere TO-
day." says the statement issued to-
night by the Carnegie Steel Company.
The mills are running, and that is the
big factor just now"
The attempt to stampede the Jones
& Laughlin plants in Pittburgh,
which stood firm last week, all but
completely failed. A few men were
pulled out and the strikers claim that
four mills were stopped. The company
says that these mills were shut down in
the ordinary course, and will start
again tomorrow.
The new West Virginia state pol
made their first public appearance to-
day, and would have assisted in receiv-
ing the march of the Steubenville
strikers into Weirton if it had not been
abandoned.
W. r. Rubin, Of New York, attorney
for the strikers, got to work to-day:
He secured the release of some men
imprisoned at McKeesport and made
arrangements to defend promptly all
strikers arrested in this district.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-30
Fosters Latest Pamphlet
Sho,vs Views Unchanged
Booklet ON. S'Trade Unionism'' Does Not Reveal
Modification Heralded by Gompers; Same Doc
trines Are Propounded as in ''Syndicalism
By Theodore NJ. knappcn

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 27.- In the
hearing before the Senate Committee
on Labor and Education in Washing
ton Thursday and Friday last Samuel
Gompers. president Of the American
Federation OF Labor, and John Fitz-
patrick, chairman Of the committee
that organized the steel strikers and
is now conducting the strike, represent
ted Secretary Fosters booklet on syn
dicalisn as rejecting views he had
long since abandoned.
Since entering actively into the reg
ular trades union movement Foster has
published another pamphlet called
Trade Unionism: The Road to Free
DOM" which may be taken as express
ing his present views. In this booklet
there is no reference to sabotage and
the word syndicalism is not even men
toned. The objective Of social and eco
nomic progress are, however, defined
about the same as in "Syndicalism."
Will Overthrow Capitalism
Trades unionism is lauded as the
vehicle by which the objcctives are to
be obtained. 1t is credited with the
great Improvement in the condition of
the working classes in the last century
and is declared to be the agency
through which the capitalistc system
will be eventually overthrown.
Nowhere is there any mention of re-
course to force, it being assumed that
through complete organization of the
workers into unions they will go on
biting the products of all industries
until they have them oil and also the
industries.
"In the foregoing" says Foster in
Chapter V, Eve have pictured trade
unionism as movement destined one
day to overthrow the wages system
with all its horrors of poverty and
misery and set up in it's stead a regime
in which industrial justice shall pre-
vail and exploitation be 10 more But
many critics of the trade union move
ment deny it the possibility Of any
such lofty mission. With the most
New-York tribune., 1919-09-30

Bethlehem company was operating with
but slightly impaired forces.
Similar reports were received from
the Bethlehem plants at Lebanon, Penn,
and Sparrows Point, Md.
Had No Chance to Votc
Many Of the men who have gone out
here could not tell this afternoon why
they were on strike. AS they sat on
the curb scores Of them said that they
had no particular grievance and that
they had never been given a chance to
vote on the strike question, as they
said the national committee organizers
planned they should do. They said
that they had gone out because they
feared violence if they reported for
work. Several of them admitted their
working conditions were satisfactory
and that they had no complaint abou.
their wages.
Bethlehem Steel officials said they
had no clear notion as to what the
men were striking for. They said that
the wages asked by the men were those
which had been put into effect in the
shipyards during the war and were
only temporary.
David Williams, leader Of the strike
ct Bethlehem. persisted in declaring
to-day that the union men were solidly
behind the strike movement and the
operation of the corporations plants
seriously crippled.
Union Secretary Arrested
Police patrolled the streets and made
four arrests. One of the men arrested
was a secretary of local union, who
was endeavoring to prevent men from
going into the plant. Pickets are said
to have pulled men off the streetcars
this morning as they were going to
work.
1t was asserted this afternoon that
the 12-inch mill, the 18-inch mill and
the 28-inch structural mill were tied
up in No. 6 machine shop, which is said
to have suffered most heavily, about
onethird of the men remaining at
work, while 400 had gone out on strike.
In No. machine shop, where the
work on the big naval guns is done,
about 60 per cent of the men are work
ing. Eighty per cent of the men in
No. projectile shop are at their work
Half Of the men in the central tool
shop are working.
The Merchant mills have shut down
entirely. The armor plate plant, the
FORCES and the pattern shop are work
ing 100 per cent All of the blast fur
naccs are said to be in operation but
one, which is being refined.
One of the police officials who is sta
toned at gate of the plant said that
between the hours of and 1880 in the
morning rs per cent of the men who
usually pass through the gate failed to
report
New-York tribune., 1919-09-30

positive assurance they maintain it has
no real quarrel with capitalism, but
seeks only to minimize its harshncss
through policy Of mild reform. They
conceive it as without the intelligence
to want industrial freedom or the cour-
age to fight FOR it.
"But the facts belle this narrow con-
ception. The truth is the trade union
movement acts always upon the revo-
lutionary policy of utilizing its power
to the utmost in forcing the cxploitcr
to grant it concessions. It's method
is to take all it can. And in its eager
ness to secure justice for the workers
1t often overrcaches ITSELF as thou
sand lost strikes eloqucntly testify.
This policy is the open door to the
most radical social bettcrmcnts.
1T is idle to say that the trades
unions will rest content with anything
short Of complete emancipation For
they arc as Unsuitable as the veriest
measure that their strength increases
so do their demands They
have sent wages up 50, So, 81, IS, Sc,
81 and So per day, and hours down
twelve, eleven, ten, nine, eight, seven
and six per day, with all kinds of other
concessions sandwiched in between.
And now they are more radical in their
demands than ever before in history.
Satisfaction Is Impossible
Permanently satisfied trades unions
under capitalism would be the eighth
wonder of the world, outrivalling in
interest the famous hanging gardens
Of Babylon. They would be impos-
siblc. With it's growing power, organ
lied labor will go on winning greater
and greater concessions, regardless of
how profound they may be. 1t is pur-
est assumption to say that the trade
unions would balk at the overthrow of
the wage system. The degree of their
conquests is limited only by their
power"
Complete conquest of society is GER
tain, Foster holds, as soon as organi-
zation Of the workers is complete.
After the conquest is accomplished
che aim Of society would be the we'll
New-York tribune., 1919-09-30
or.
Sllipyard Men Likely
To Postpone Demands

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.-Although
no definite statement was forthcoming
following an allday conference here
to-day of the executives of fifteen in
ternational unions having members in
the shlpbuilding industry. the con-
census of expressed opinion vas that
the workers would take no drastic
action to enforce their demands for
repeal of the prohibitory increase
order until after the industrial con-
terence called by President Wilson for
October s.
The meeting to-day was preliminary
20 conference tomorrow between
representatives. OF the shipyard en-
ployes and Assistant Secretary Of the
New-York tribune., 1919-09-30

Navy Roosevelt and Director General
Ackerson of the Emergency Fleet Cor
poraton.
The wage increase order to which
the workers object WAS promulgated
recently by the Navy Department and
the Shipping Board and provides
specifically that no wago increases
after October /, the date of the cX-
piration of the existing award, shall
be permitted in navy yards or in yards
constructing tonnage for the govern
ment. The Navy Department and Ship
ping Board holds that wage increases
would advance living costs, and would
result in no benefit to the workers in
the long run.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-30
being of all, and not, as now, the profit

oelng OF all. and not, as now, the profit
Of the few"
"The management Of industry will
also change greatly" Foster continues.
"The autocratc methods of to-day will
60 Some believe the trade unions
themselves will take hold of industry
and manage it; that the fighting group
of to-day will be the producing group
of tomorrow. But others dispute this
They assert that democratic principles
are just as foreign to the nature OF
industry as are those of autocracy.
they maintain that science. and not
majority rule, will be the guiding force
vanced view, each group of workers
would have full power to carry on pro-
duction in their own sphere. Scientific
principles alone would regulate their
activities. Foremen would be selected
on the basis of efficiency, not by popu-
lar vote. New industrial processes
would be adopted only after experts
had proclaimed their merit.
Neither autocratic nor democratic
principles would come into play in the
matter. Simple obedience to demand
ume of production. Legislative inter-
ference would be needless. The rela-
tons of one industry with another would
be merely the placing and filling of
orders for commodities. They would
work together RS spontaneously unau-
tocratically and undemocratically as
the organs in the human body. 1t
would be industrial control by facts and
figures, with the arbitrary human Gle
mcnt eliminated"
End of War and Crime
With the attainment of control Of in
dustry by the workers and the aboi
ton Of profit, Foster argues, the chief
cause of wars would disappear as there
would be no international competition
for markets and crime would prac-
tlcally disappear, as poverty is its
cause. Thus there would be no need
tor governments, not even for courts.
Now "Boring From Within
In "Syndcalsm" Foster advocated
that the radicals get possession of the
labor unions by "boring from within'
Tho main ditTcrence between that work
and Trade Uni6nism" is that Foster
instead OF merely advocating it. His
objectives remain the same, but he has
discovered that to advocate them under
the name of "Trade Unionism" is more
polltlc than under the name of syndi-
calism. Indeed, he frankly says in one
place IN TRADE Unlonism":
True, the trades union movement
itself does not generally propagate the
idea that it aims at the overthrow of
the wages system. But this is because
1t has not yet become conscious of its
full mission Consequently too much
weight should not be given to such
slogans as "A fair days pay for a fair
days work, and The interests of CAPT
tai and labor are identical' These cx-
pressions arc not basic. In actual
practice little or no attention is paid
to them. They are for foreign con-
sumption. Their purpose is to deceive
and disarm the opposition. This form
of deception, which is usually uncon-
scious, is used by all aggressive -ocial
movements"
In the steel strike the employers
take Foster at his word, and therefore
can find nothing to arbitrate. One side
seeks to hold and the other to take all
Might is the only arbiter, they say, in
such circumstances.