Arizona republican., 1919-03-05
{. I. MAYOR ASKS. QUESTIONS THAT. ARE UNANSWERED
Conference of Governors and Mayors Brings Out Severe Criticisms Ex-
 ecutives Want to Know a Lot of Things Resolves Into a Questioning Bureau

WASHINGTON, March 4.-Sharp criticism of congress for not passing appropriation and other measures and of government departments, Tor when it was termed failure to cooperate to the fullest in providing employment and in releasing raw materials, devel- oped at the White House conference of governors and mayors called to con slider labor and business problems.
 Mayor Rolph of San Francisco, who led the discussion, declared congress had failed to pass great approprlatlon measures at a time when the country was looking to the federal government to set an example to states and mu- nicipalities in the handling of business. Mayor Mahoney of Newport, R. l., charged that government plants in his city had refused to re-employ men who had left the plants to go to war, some of whom had returned bearing wound stripes Mayor Peters of Boston said business there would be assisted great ly if the government would come to some determination of policy as to raw materials, such as wool and leather, which were controlled during the war. Momentary consternation was caused when the deliberations in the historic east room of the White House were in terrupted by man who announced himself as a representative of bolshe- vism in America" and said he had come to hear the representative of Seattle tell of recent troubles in that city. He gave his name as J. c. Parker, an engineer of Philadelphia. His offer to tell the conference of his investigations into social unrest was refused, after several , .l- hDt l,@ .e not accredited to the conference. Later he left the executive mansion. Roiph Gets a Hand l Mayor Rolph frequently was inter rUpted by applause during his discus sion of conditions.
 "The country and the cities are all right; whatever trouble exists centers right here" the San Francisco mayor declared. Why did a filibuster defeat | the great appropriation measures Why shouldn't congress be reconyened | to take up problems faced by all the states? Why are government officials rcsisning?
 These are some of the questions l want to ask. but there is nobody here to answer them. Congress has ad- ! journed, the president has gone to Paris and the vice. president to Phoe- nix, AriZona- Everybody has flown the coop except the mayors"
 ! Mayor Rolph said much of the diff
 culty which had arisen from the de-
 mobilization of the army might have
 been avoided by discharging all men
 in their home states, a sentiment ex-
 pressed also by Lieutenant Governor
 Crossley of Missouri and others. Ii
 was asserted that many discharged 1 haCnr0o C 1ar
 cities and perhaps never would return
 to their homes.
 Standing on His Foot'
 The mayor of Omaha, Neb.. sem
 word to the conference that somebody
 in Washington twas standing on his
 foot" the city being unable to proceed
 with s1,000 900 worth of paving because
 the. railroads could not get permission
 from the railroad administration tt
 spend the money for their share. 4
 representative of Youngstown, Ohio
 said that city had s1,000.0 900 to spent
 eliminating grade crossings, but tha
 the railroads could not get permission to do their part
 Mayors of New England cities sait
 the unrest there, arising from strike
 in the textile industry, was due largel. to the attitude of employers who re l iuStu lO meet lne NOTheTS TOT a O1ScuS sio nof differences.
 , Mayor Joseph H. Gaynor of Provi dence, R. l., disclosed that Previdenc was one of several cities where bolshe vik pamphlets recently had been dis tributed secretly. The police destroye most of them. he said, and the propa ganda never came to the notice of tn people.
 Less talk about cheap labor and nor tai kabout adequate labor and adequat
 pay were recommended by Mayo James E. Myers of Minneapolis. ; You've got to come to it, sooner O
 later," he told the conference, 70 : you'll have what Seattle did" Construction of two transcontinenta
 highways to give employment to labo ,, was recommended by Lieut.. Governo
 George Shephen of Colorado. A resolution urging the country t
 make the Victory loan, to be floate next month, an overwhelming success. II was adopted unanimously by the con | ference.
 . Concluding sessions will be held to :. morrow.