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New-York tribune., 1919-01-08

my children while I waited for news
OF my husband. They refused at first
and then permitted me to take a small
sewing room at the top of the house,
but they were SO drunk every night
that | had to leave
BY that time felt that my husband
must have found it impossible to get
any communication to me through the
bolsheviki Offices, and had gone to
America, hoping ! would follow. Rela-
tlves in Odessa gave me 5000 rubles
and some food. and l made my way to
hazan by nursing soldiers on sanitary
trains. Shortly after the Bolsheviki
occupied Odessa, and I heard that
among other atrocities they committed
they murdered 5000 little children
safe so far
- Shortly after ! arrived in Kazan the
Czech -Slovaks took the city. 1t was
wonderful. There were the Czecho-Slo.
YAK lines and not far from them the
bolsheviki. Shrapnel flew over oul
heads and the noise of the battle was
music to me-. I escaped to the Czecho-
Siovak lines, and there nursed the sol.
dlers. There were Allied soldiers in
the hospitals and many American
Madame Shteinberg would have
hurried on at this point; but Mr.
Malltz, of the Hebrew Aid Society
which is taking care of her and he1
children until she finds her husband
and doing all it can to aid in thu
search, interrupted her long enough to
add few details which he knew Of
the affair at Kazan.
1t appears that Nine. Shteinberg
through her daring in runnino ont ~,
the battlefield to assist in brinqing IN
wounded men. was decorated on the
field with the Cross of St. Anna bv .
Czecho-Slovak general. Nine. Shtein.
berg has the cross with her. and bears
on her arm the scars made by shranne'
wounds received while on the battle,
front.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
Russian Woman Tells Viuid
Story of Bolsheuik 7err0r:s
Missing Husband Sought in New York After Thrill.
ing Journey With Her Two Chdren-Won Her
Way Across Asia by Nursing the Wounded

How she escaped from the Bolsheviki.
Who seized her home in Moscow; how
she and her two children made their
way to Kazan at the time that city
was taken by the Czecho-S o-Slovaks and
how, by nursing wounded soldiers, she
worked her way to Yokohama and came
TO this country in an effort to locate
her husband was the graphic story
told upon her arrival here yesterday
by Mrs. Samuel Schumel Shteinberg, a
pretty little Russian woman still in
her twenties
In the reception room of the Hebrew
Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society
229 East Broadway, with her children
breathlessly interpellating their COM
ment upon the hardship of the eleven
months struggle, Mrs. Shteinberg told
with all the dramatic vividness of her
people the circumstances which led
to her coming here
my husband was a Journalist and
playwright of Moscow, and one of the
directors of the Moscow Petroprad
Bank" she said II taught on the
medical faculty of the Moscow Univer-
slty, and we had beautiful home and
these two little children. My little
girl is seven, and my boy is five"
In December of 1917 the Bolsheviki
took my husbands bank, and he i'm
mediately made arrangements with
the National City Bank of New York
to come to this city. In February
llmlnary visits before leaving for
Anne rca.
II never say my husband again. The
train on which he was travelling was
bombed near Charkov, and it was sew
eral weeks later before this news
reached me. When it came ! applied
to the Bolsheviki for information, but
they only laughed at me. They said
my sympathies were royalist, and
would not tell me whether nv husband
had been killed.
Meanwhile conditions grew very bad
IN Moscow. Bread and sugar were
scarce and high. We were allowed by
the Bolsheviki only one-quarter of 8
pound OF bread day and the same
amount of sugar a month At one
time was paying as much as 25 rubes
(S12.50) for a pound of bread and from
two to three hundred rubles for a pal,
OF shoes. One day | sent one of my
cooks to the nearest mill for flour
This was some two miles away, and she
had to walk, carrying the sack ove1
her shoulders on her return. Just as
she reached the public square near my
home two Bolsheviki approached her
pointed guns at her head and said the,
would kill her if she did not give III
the -four.
"This was only one of the many
forms of robbery practised by them
Everyone had to have a permit to walk
on the streets. The Bolshevik would
accost a woman, ask to see the permit
and when she opened her purse to take
it out they seized her money.
'Finally they came to me, demanded
to be taken thro Ugh my home, and
after looking it over decided they
wanted it. l begged that they leave
me one room in which to sleep with
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
Ne'eork Industry SIo,c,
But No UnemDIoynen,

Nh"ARK, N. j., Jan. 7.-Despi.e the
,dct .hat peace-time industries in this
section are still marking time 'T,e the
federal State Municipal Emniny,ro , on. =. :.
bureau has thus far found no d;e;cuIty
in placing soldiers and war " workera u'eTu;y y
good jobs. This is due largely tn to ~ ~ =
continued expansion of the yhipva VI rJs dc
sne hiilng up by public utility cnro ,
panies Of vacancies and the efforts -
some war industries to keep their nrss. ~
eht employees until conditions adius,
themselves. "N'oS'
The only classes of labor that ara
nhaing 1t difficult to get jobs are clerk.
snd cneuaeurs. Thomas J. Burns Fed.
era s Director Of Employment, said:
mere Is no apparent move on tho
pait OF the peace time industries IN
asturn TO normal. 1t seems as tbouoh
10y 10y one ~ waiting for something no.
noay Knows what, to happen. VIZ ny. ny
49, 49, however, to be able TO place ali
w s' apply for a month or two 10 come
y;, Mihx the peace industries viii he.
T." mn..e . waxe uD by the 18th Of this
aar;i a,ain ana 70 be in full swing by
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
10000 Men Unemployed
in Detroit and MICHIGAN

DETROIT. Jan. with the gov
crnment cancelling orders that run
into many millions of dollars, labor, at
least for few weeks, will greatly ex-
ceeG the demand Many of the large
plants are taking their annual inven-
tories and this to a certain extent is
further responsible.
The Commissioner of Labor esti-
mates that 10000 men are unemployed
in Detroit and as many more through
out the state. Lumber camps report a
heavy shortage. Eighty per cent of the
$4,000 men at Camp Custer are Mchi-
gan men. These are being discharged
at the rate of 800 a day, and 80 per
cent of them have no positions await
ing them. Michigan in 1919 will spend
s10o,0o0,oOO for construction work and
on state highways, and from 10000 to
$4,000 returned soldiers and sailors
will be employed on this work, includ-
ing 5000 to 5000 on highWaYs
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
Three More States Ratify
National Bone Dry Law

CHICAGO, Jan. 7.-Three more
states-Ohio, Colorado and Oklahoma
to-day ratified the proposed prohibition
amendment to the Federal Constitu-
ton, making total of nineteen states
that have taken this action. The House
Of the Idaho Legislature voted to- day
for the amendment, but the Senate
tabled the proposal, delaying action.
The act needs to- be passed by seven
teen more states.s
The states which have ratified the
prohibition amendment are Kentucky
Virginia, Mississippi, South Carolina
North Dakota, Maryland, Montana
Arizona, Delaware, Texas, South Da-
kota, Massachusetts, Georgia, Louisi-
ana, Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Colorado
and Oklahoma.
Representatives of the distillery in
terests of the country met here to-day
and decided to oppose both the amend
ment and the wartime prohibition act
which goes into effect July L.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
Shortage Of Labor Still
Holds in Coal Fields

SCRANTON, Penn, Jan. 7.-Charles
S. Seamans, director of the Fed
eral Employment Agency in this
district, with headquarters in this
city, has been at work for sew
eral months preparing for the
absorption OF the returning soldiers
He has things in good shape and be-
lieves that the mining industry, TO-
gether with the city's many diversified
manufactures, mills and factories, will
be able to assimilate the fighting men
as fast as they return ready to take
up their peace time pursuits.
There is work here for skilled work
ers in practically every craft, particu-
larly the anthracite, mining indus
try Heads Of the large coal corpora
tions say that they can use between
1000 and 5000 more men in Lacka
wanna County alone; some $4,000, they
say, can be used in the nine counties
in the hard coal belt.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
Labor Shortage Still
Holds in PITTSBURGH

PITTSBURGH, Jan. T. Officials
of the Federal Employment Bureaus,
employers of labor, labor leaders and
others interested in the bringing about
of an equitable industrial readjust-
ment are optimistic over the labor
situation in the Pittsburgh district.
Discussing the labor situation in the
Pittsburgh district, H. E. Robbins, di-
rector Of the United States Employ
ment Service for the western district
Of Pennsylvania, said: "A labor short
age exists in Pittsburgh. We have a
shortage OF 5000 unskilled workers.
We need 150 skilled machinists and
ye can't get them. The professional
employment situation is normal"
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
Buffalo Has $4,000 Men
Out Of Work Due to Peace

BUFFALO, Jan. t. Buffalo and
the Niagara frontier have labo,
surplus from ten thousand to twelve
thousand in excess Of demand, accord
ing to figures from the Federal en-.
Eloyment offices here. Hundreds Of
workers, notably those in the ship
building trades, are being sent to other
cities. There have been daily from
two hundred and fifty to four hundred
applications at the Federal employ
ment offices. Private employment,
agencies report they have a surplus
Of applications in some lines and q
slight shortage in others.
Returned soldiers and sailors re.
ceive first consideration at state anc
Federal agencies, and according ia
chiefs of the Offices all former ser.
vice men who have applied there have
obtained work
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
$500 Butte Miners Out
Replaced by Soldiers

BUTTE, Mont. Jan. 7.-AlI return
ing discharged soldiers and war work
ers, without exception, are being given
their former posts by the mining COM
panies operating in the Butte district
Possession Of discharge papers or a
uniform, whether or not he formerly
was employed in any capacity in the
mines or the Offices for the mining COM
panies, gives the applicant for posi-
ton preference over any one else.
At the present time there are prob
ably $500 idle men in Butte, as against
about half thousand in peace times
but their ranks are made up in large
part by aliens and l. w. w. and miners
with low efficiency for work and high
efficiency for agitation. The real miner
and soldier are being given the jobs.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
10000 UnskilLed Lab0rers
Out of York in Boston

BOSTON, Jan. r. There is no
particular uneasiness over the labor
situation in New England. While
there is considerable number of idle
men, 10000 in this city alone, accord
ing to official figures. it is confidently
predicted that after the turn of the
year. with stock taking out of the way
and big business once again directed
along peace lines, this surplus will for
the most part be readily absorbed.
The majority of those now out of
work are men in what is known as the
unskiled labor class.
Discharged soldiers are for the most
part being taken back in their former
places.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08

have enough to get through. The NOR
tality in cities, particularly among
children, is appalling for lack of fats,
milk. meat and bread. The situation
in bread will be worse in two months.
"Rumania-The bread supply for the
entire people is estimated to last an
other thirty days. They are short of
fats and milk The last harvest was
go per cent failure.
"Bulgaria-The harvest was also a
failure here. There are supplies avail
able for probably two or three months.
Armenia-Already starving.
"Czecho- -Slovakia-There is large
suffering on account of lack of fats
and milk. They have bread for two or
three months and sugar for six
months"
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
Wilmington Still Has
More JObs Than Men

WILMINGTON, Del, Jan. Labor
conditions in Delaware are normal, de-
spite the turnover due to the sudden
close of the war. Delaware has prac-
tically 10000 soldiers in the service
but the number which has been dis
charged and returned homo has been
decidedly small and places have been
easily found by the local Federal labor
bureau.
Newspapers in Wilmington are still
carrying advertisements for men. Con-
ditions are regarded as practically at
normal, with little prospect of change
when the soldiers come home.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
Government Has Chicago
Situation We'll i'm Hand


CHICAGO, Jan. ALI soldiers and
sailors who have been demobilized ana
who have come to Chicago have either
been reinstated in their old positions
or have been given new employment
Statements by officials of the Associ-
alton of Commerce and the Illinois
Manufacturers Association tonight in
dicate that the government has the
local and state employment problem
we'll in hand.
While the returning fighters are be-
ing cared for, the Employment Service.
ficals. is providing for the war work
ers displaced. No figures are avail
able. but it is claimed that those dis
placed arc apparently being taken care
of, for the reason that there has been
no complaint to any of the official
bodies thus far
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
Minneapolis Creates
Citizens Committee

MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 7.-Mayor J,
Z. Meyers, prior to taking Of
flee last week, announced that the en-
tire energy Of the new administration,
in cooperation with state and Federal
agencies, will be given to the reem-
ployment problem. James H. Ellison,
member Of railroad contracting firm
is named to-day by Mayor Meyers to
head a general citizens committee.
. The agricultural situation in the
Northwest states is really the great de-
termining and important factor, and
will make it possible to provide for
manV men
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
Hoover Says Food
Dearth Is Causing
Death and Misery
Calls Infant Mortality in
Poland Appalling: Re-
ports l 100000 Tons of
EdibIes Needed i'm Europe
New York Tribune
Wdshinaton Bureau

WASHINGTON, Jan 7-Shortages of
meats, fats and milk in some sections
of Europe have reached such a critical
point that the health of the people is
very much impaired" the mortality
among children is appalling and there
is d constant menace through the
spread of Bolshevism, says report
cabled to the food administration
oday by Herbert c. Hoover, now
Director General of European relief.
The Hoover report is based on food
surveys made by the American staff
under the direction of Or. Alonzo K.
Taylor and the Allied commissions
Crops were for below normal and the
surplus is rapidly being exhausted, the
report states, so that in many districts
If starvation is not already at hand,
it is only a short time ahead.
The Investigations so far carried
through indicate that the total amount
of food needed ty the countries under
consideration will amount to about
100000 tons to take them through
until the next harvest, costing in the
ncighborhood OF $3.50 100000 delivered.
In his cable Mr. Hoover says:
Harvests Nearly Exhausted
"The, general situation jim the areas
covered by recent surveys is that their
animals arc largely reduced; their
crops were far below normal on ac-
count of man and animal shortage, raw
ages of war and climatic conditions
The surplus harvest above absolute
needs is now rapidly approaching ex-
haustion, and consequently the towns
and cities are in a dangerous situation.
Our reports show, specifically, as
follows:
"Finland-Thc food is practically ex-
hausted in the cities. While many of
the peasants have some bread, other
sections are mixing large amounts of
straw. They are exhausted of fats,
meats and sugar, and need help to pre-
vent renewed rise of Bolshevism.
baltic States-The food may last
one or two months on a much reduced
scale. They sent deputation to our
minister at Stockholm imploring food.
"Serbia-The town bread ration is
down to three ounces daily in the
north, not accessible from Salonica
In the south, where accessible, the
British are furnishing food to the civil
population We are trying to get food
in from the Adratic.
"Jugo -Slavia-The bread ration in
many towns is three or four ounces
Ali classes are short of fats, milk and
meat.
Appalling Mortality in Poland
"Vienna-Exccpt for supplies fur
nished by the Italians and Swiss. their
present bread ration of six ounces pei
diem would disappear. There is much
illness from the shortage of fats. the
ration being one and one-half uonces
per week. There are no coffee, sugar
or eggs and practically no meat
"Tyrol-The. people are being fed by
Swiss charity
"Poland-Thc peasants probably
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
San Francisco Taking Care
OF AU DISCHARGED SOidiers

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 7. - Regard
less of the large numbers of discharged
soldiers reaching San Francisco from
many camps several times week, the
employment situation in the bay sec
ton is regarded as unusually good.
The old labor shortage that has been
handicap for months will be taken
care Of by this daily conversion Of dis
charged soldiers in the bay district OF
San Francisco, according to Depart
ment Of Labor employees.
Just now the principal demand is fol
skilled mechanics or machinists.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
Surplus Of Labor Causes
Alarm in Northern Ohio

TOLEDO, Ohio, Jan. 1.-THE labor
situation in Toledo and northwestern
Ohio is in very chaotic condition at
the present writing. There arc be-
tween eighteen thousand and 10000
men out Of employment in Toledo to-
day. Most Of these we're war workers
discharged owing to the cancellation
of war orders by the government and
the time nccesgarily required by the
various manufacturers to rcadjust
their machinery In order to operate on
Il peace basis. Many men were also
thrown out Of employment due to TAX
ing annual inventory.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08

'DVO Men Out Of Work
In BriiQeDoyf. Conn

,azanl z~asnipGEFoHT, Conn, Jan. T. Hugo
WITT WIT by plants which have been
salssxhE on war contracts, now can-
8bss sbns.ss have resulted IN surplus Of
~ gSa9o men, now Idle,
s9ae,.., ne United States Employment
Ssi'ss asSs 8 o1fiee to-day, however, Il was
M bus;, ~ ~ ne number of applicants for
~ ~. io,ls dsd Het exceed the usuai
,syss IS. q handled during war tlmea, Which
sss aas'. sIgpf 900 weekjy. A. w. Euyritt.
'Sst5atsndsHt ef the agency, states,
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
NAVY Gains Recruits

Thirty days furlough on pay is Of
fered all discharged soldiers, sailors
and marines who enlist in the navy.
according to an announcement made
yesterday by Lieutenant Commander
P. D. Wickersham, in charge of the
recruiting station at 81 East Twenty
third Street. Two hundred recruits
were paraded yesterday from the land
ship Recruit" to the Twenty-ei eighth
Street subway station, where they en-
trained for Pelham Bay.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08

mobilization of the army or industry
mas been heard in the State of Indi-
ana. according to l.. c. Huesmann. Fed
eral Director of Labor.
The labor situation in Indiana is
getting back to normal" said Mr.
Hucsmann. "and where soldiers have
returned, little difficulty has arisen in
placing them in positions when they
have applied"
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
Northwest Sees No
SHORTAGE for Some Time

SEATTLE, Jan. z. - Thus far the
Seattle and the Puget Sound districts
have experienced no difficulty in hand
ling employment for returned soldiers.
On the contrary, industries here can
use many more men than are being re-
leased from service. The State of
Washington has nearly $4,000 men in
being conducted to put not only former
employees but as many more of re
turned soldiers at work as can possibly
be accommodated
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
Plenty OF Work in Calueston
For W0rknlen and Soldier

GALVESTON, Tex, Jan. T. - There
have been less than 1000 soldiers and
war workers discharged here. In these
cases the men have experienced no
difficulty in securing positions.
The Fedora Employment Bureau has
been able to place every man in good
position where it has been called upon
to do so. The bureau, as we'll rs labor
agencies, is experiencing trouble in
securing men for the Jobs.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
Indiana Getting Back
T0 Peace.tinse Conditions

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 7.~~-LittIc COM
plant of unemployment dus TO the de-
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08
Finding 'obs for Troops
Big Problem for Industry
This IS the first of three
articles on the labor
situation throughout
the country.
The smvey SciN be COM
plcted IN THE Tribune
to-morvoso and Fri
day.

however, that it is much more difficult
20 place applicants, as fewer untitled
jobs are open in the city.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-08

When it comes to pass
ing on the fit and fabric,
most men, or rather mar
ried men, prefer to leave it
to the wife.
If she approves
Happy! Happy!
If she disapproves-
Good night!
Unless, of course, the
dealers guarantee of salts
faction means he wants to
please them both. That's
us!
The best of everything
men and boys wear.
ROGERS PEET COMPANY
Broadway Broadway
at 18th St -Four at 34th St.
Convenient
Broadway Corners" Fifth Ave
at Warren at 4lst St.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-22
ACTION ON COAL
CAR SHORTAGE
WILL Be TAKEN
Administration Issues Orders TO
Railroads to Supply Mines
With Rolling Stock.

That action is being taken to
prepare supplying OF coal this win
ter is shown in the following in
formation received by the railroads
from the United States Railway adj
ministration today.
On account of the shortage OF
coal cars at mines the coal pro-
duction has been decreased and in
order that the country be supplied
with coal it is ordered that all coal
cars be loaded with no other com
modities until the supply Of coal
has been distributed.
Roads having n surplusage OF
cars on their own roads must i'm
mediately make arrangements 10
deliver such cars 70 coal produc-
ing roads. Ownership Of cars will
be disregarded by all roads.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-22
MIL WAUKEE TO
USE q" DEPOT
Trains OF Both Lines Stop at Sta
ton on Twentieth Street and
Second Avenue.

After Nov. 1 trains on the Mil
waukee line will use the station
Of the Burlington company at
Twentieth street and Second ave
nue. instead of the old Milwaukee
station at the foot of Seventeenth
street
In an interview with Terminal
Manager c. B. Rodgers of the Unit
ed States railroad administration
for the Cri-cities it was learned
that the arrangement under which
all Milwaukee line passenger
trains will be handled at the Bur-
lington Twentieth street station
was decided on by the administrs-
ton some months ago as a desir-
able and economical plan for
handling the passenger business Of
the Milwaukee railroad at Rock Is,
land.
The Milwaukee passenger sta
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-22

of $25 down and monthly payments
thereafter of Ia per cent of the
purchase price Besides these spe-
cial terms. the government offers
a bounty OF S25 TO eX-seIviCe men,
which is subtracted from the pur-
chase price.
Men who wish to see these lots
are urged to communicate with
Commander Philbrook. or z. S.
Judd of the housing corporation,
who will arrange to have them see
the lots. This offer to war veter-
ans remains open till Sunday ev-
ening.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-22

Westinghouse Should the bitumi-
nous coal miners of the country,
who have voted to lay down their
tools the last day of this month. be
successful in their efforts to get a
six-hour day. a five-dAy week and a
so per cent increase in wages. the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-22

ton at I he foot of Seventeenth
street is not well located on ac-
count of passengers having to
cross a number of busy tracks to
reach it, whereas the Burlington
passenger depot is much more de-
sirably located on account of free
access TO and from. without cross
ing any tracks. There are also ia,
cilities for taking care of passen-
ger business.
Waterman at Old Place.
\ Waterman will be maintained
at the Milwaukee passenger depot
TO direct passengers until such
time as the public becomes fully
acquainted with the change.