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The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-10
u. S. SENATE REJECTS
ANTI-UNION SCHEME
BY 43 to 8 Turns Down Pro
posa1 to Bar the
A, T. of i.

Washington, April o-By vote of
43 to 8 the United States senate rejected
an amendment to the civil service re-
tirement bill which would exclude from
the benefits of this legislation any gov
eminent employee who belongs to a
union affiliated with the A. F. of L.
Senator Myers of Montana offered the
amendment.
After months of haranguing in the
senate on this question but two senator's
Thomas of Colorado and Warren of
Wyoming joined with the Montana
lawmaker.
Senator Myers delivered one of his
usual "scare" orations and objected to
federal employees who hold their pres
ent position, he said, "by our will" aid
ing the A. F. of L. in its present pol1ti-
cal program. The senator modified pre-
vious opposition to the A. F. of L.
which has, he now says, the right to
exist" Neither does he obi ect to trade
unionists striking, but he does insist
that the federal employees should not be
affiliated with the A. F. of L. If they
desire to organize ping pong associa-
ton or a croquet club we'll and good,
saith the lawmaker. But when they
whom we support" associate with the
A. F. of L. to defeat congressman and
senator's, that is different proposition
and must be stopped. Mr.. Myers indi-
Gated that the federal employees are an
ungrateful lot. They are voted wages
and then actually urge the defeat OF
their benefactors because the wages are
not sufficient
Senator Thomas wandered along the
same lines. The senate finally S1lenced
the orators by a vote of 43 to 3.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-10

to draw bow over its vibrating strings
All that is necessary for any member of
the audience to do is to request the vio-
lin to play any piece of music desired
and the violin plays it, itself and alone.
A pair of clever comedians are Fred
Rome and Jack Gaut whose singing,
dancing and line of bright patter make
them very much sought. Martin and
Courtney in bits OF travesty is another
act that will prove a bright laughing
spot.
Hazel Moran, the clever girl roper,
does all the tricks of the male perform
ers and has few which the boys have
yet to show
The entire bill will be changed, as
usual, on Thursday. For the last three
bright and tuneful musical comedy, "My
Tulip Girl" as the theatres headline at
traction. "My Tulip Girl" is one of the
new tabloid ideas produced for vaude-
vile and since its initial performance
it has been Scoring hit after hit in every
city it has played. With a company of
about 20 people, including several clever
principals and a gathering of pretty
girls, the act never fails to score.
The jolly rag in its highest develop
ment of syncopation will be wildly ex-
emplifed by Combe and Nevins. The
Three Weber Girls start out to present
a very good singing and dancing act
but at about halfway change their
minds and wind up by being an excep-
tionally fine gymnastic turn. Gypsy
Meredith and Brother in the original
oddity They'll Surprise You" have all
the fun punch to put it over to the laugh
mark. The screen feature will be Con-
stance Binney in THE Stolen Kiss"
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-10
MAY STRIKE FOR 8 HOURS.

Spokane, Wash, April Eight
hours work in the lumber industry and
a membership of 10000 by the end of
the year is the goal of the international
Union of Timber Workers, which
closed its annual convention in this city.
A strike on May 1 will be called if
necessary to establish the eight-hour
day in the middle west. The convention
arranged for a special organizing cam
paign in the southern camps and mills
where Is per cent. of these employees
are colored
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-10
FRENCH TYPOS Strike.

Paris, France, April 9.-More than
6,0OO printers in this district are on
strike to enforce the eight-hour law
passed by the French parliament. The
printers asked for wage increases to
meet the high cost of living, and were
informed that wages would be increased
if the 10-hour day was reinstated.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-10
REJECT WOMEN's BILL.

Albany, N. Y, April 9.-The state
senate has rejected bill to investigate
a commission with power to investigate
conditions in industries in which women
and minors are employed. The author
of the bill presented good trade union
philosophy in his statement that work
ers cannot get their rights from en-
ployers simply because they are rights.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-10
WORKERS NOT FOOLED.
Can See Through Gary's Raise
Well as Others.

When the steel trust announced its
recent 10 per cent. wage increase press
dispatches said:
Followers of Judge Gary's record as
business leader state that they regard
the advance as master stroke. Though
Gary fought the unions to the bitter
and during the strike he has proved
that the main fight was not against in
crease in pay, but against unionism. By
giving an increase now he has taken the
teeth out of further efforts of the unions
to dominate the steel industry
The West Virginia Federationist
makes this comment on the above dis
patch:
Quite Openly declared, you see. The
increase was on account of the unions
to prevent them from getting foot
hold. When Judge Gary's business
friends realize that it is the threat OF
unionism that has impelled the judges
act, don't they suppose the steel work
ers know it a1so?"
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-10

The union label makes woman the
strongest as we'll as the gent1est of
Gods creatures.
The Sun and the New York herald., 1920-08-25
BROKER INDICTED
ON WIDOWS CHARGE
II. II. Houghton, Realty Man,
Accused of Attack.

Herbert II. Houghton. member Of the
Houghton Company. real estate brokers,
tt 200 West seventy-second street. col
lapsed yesterday when he was informed
m West Side court that he had been in
dicted on charge preferred by Mrs.
Helen Birch, 35 years old. n widow, who
Keeps rooming house at 274 West
Seventy-frst street Magistrate Levine
discharged the man when Detective
Cornelius Manning interrupted the hear
Ing with the statement that he had a
bench warrant for Houghton's arrest.
Houghton had to be assisted into the
automobile which took him to General
Sessions There he was informed an
indictment charging attempted criminal
assault In the first degree had been
found against him. Houghton, through
counsel, entered a plea Of not guilty.
Ball was fixed at $1,000.
Mrs Birch charged that, August I.
while she was inspecting a house In
Seventy-third street, for which Hough-
ton was sacting as agent, Houghton
forced attentions on her. and she OBJ
tained her release only after a severe
struggle. Houghton lives In Mamaro-
neck with his wife and children.
The Sun and the New York herald., 1920-08-25
THRILLING RESCUES
IN TENEMENT FIRE
20 Families Homeless as ~
Essex Street Burns.

Fire wrecked a five story tenement
at 81 Essex street yesterday morning,
making twenty families homeless. Only
one alarm for apparatus was sent in, but
four ambulances were required. Many
persons suffered slight burns, and eight
were taken to Gouverneur hospital for
treatment. Acting Battalion Chief David
Oliver rescued Lillian and Sarah Mivr-
SHY, 10 and II years old, whom he
found overcome under a bed on the
third floor.
Firemen ran up thirty-flve foot lad
der to rescue Philip Neubaum, II years
old. from the third floor. but the flames
were sweeping out so that II could not
be set against the building. Firemen
Morrell and Hoffman went up the ladder
and Morrill, swung to the window ledge.
handing Neubaum over. Going down
the ladder Neubaum's right leg caught
between the rungs and the bone snapped.
Others rescued were Mrs. Rachel
Mlvrshiy. Molly Hannah, years old,
and her sister Tillie. years old.
The eight persons In the hospital will
recover. Two Of them, Harry Carat
stein. 3s years old. and Joseph Schmay.
20 years old. received fractured legs In
Jumping from the third floor before
nrernsn could Get laddera 70.
The Sun and the New York herald., 1920-08-25

the United States shipping act. the
Sherman antitrust laws. the Lever act,
the criminal code and the state penal
code, alleging that the longshoremen
had interfered with interstate commerce
by refusing TO handle freight hauled by
non-union trucking organizations The
Buyer company specified that the long.
shoremen had prevented shipment OF
goods from New York to Norfolk, va.
The court granted a restraining order
when the suit was brought, preventing
the longshoremen and AFFILIATED union
truckmen from excluding and discrim-
mating against non-union trucks, and
at about the same time tho Merchants
Association raised its war chest TO hght
the closed shop and formed an inde-
pendent trucking company to break the
unionized truckmen.
BY reason OF the restraining order.
now dissolved by Judge Hand, the unions
were forced TO handle freight carried by
the independent organization, known as
the Citizens Transportation Company.
However, the longshoremen's strike has
been settled meanwhile and most Of the
difficulties set at rest. Judge Hands
decision was based on arguments OF the
Old Dominion Transportation Company
that the restraining order or an injunc-
ton would he ruinous to its business
The issues OF the suit have not yet come
TO trial. Walter Gordon Merritt ap-
peared as counsel for the Buyer COM
pany,
The Sun and the New York herald., 1920-08-25
THREATEN TO QUIT
FEDERAL BUILDINGS
All Engine Room Men Demand
Increases as Under Macy
Award.

The men employed as coal passers,
engineers, hremen, oilers and electricians
in the Government buildings In Manhat-
ten and Brooklyn signed a petition yes
terday addressed to Capt. Fry, chief
engineer in charge of the property, that
IL their demand for a raise In wages
was not granted by September they
would leave the employ OF the Govern
ment and seek employment elsewhere.
They ask that their wages be increased
as much as those Of other Federal en-
ployees under the Macy Congressional
award.
The signers OF the petition are en-
ployei In the Customs House the APP
praisers' Office, the Barge Office, the
Sub-Treasury and the Federal buildings
In Manhattan and Brooklyn. They are
all members of the International Steam
and Operating Engineers Union and OF
the International Firemens Union, but
union officials said last night that there
was no question Of a strike. II wages
are not raised the men simply will re-
sign their jobs and go to work for pri-
vate employers. In any event, however,
this would result in at least temporary
paralysis Of the elevator service as we'll
as the operation Of the electrical and
water supply systems in the buildings.
Thomas Bagley, business agent of the
engineers union, went to Washington
and put the demands of the men up 10
officials of the Treasury Department He
received offers Of increases averaging
between $500 and $500 a year, which the
men refused to accept. Capt. Fry wired
to Washington last night the news OF
the petition which was presented to him
and received instructions 70 advertise for
men to fill the places of all who quit
on September |. Several Of the work
MEN at the buildings. however. said last
night that the Government would find
it impossible 10 find men to fill their
places.
According to officials Of the union the
scale or wages being paid is as follows {:
Engineers, Si,lOO TO $4,000 a year: cleo
trici1uS, Sl,320 to $1,640; fiiremen,
$1,000 TO S1,930; steam filters. 81, ,46O :;
ccal passers, S1,144 TO S1,456; oilers.
81 500 to SlS30
The Sun and the New York herald., 1920-08-25
TRAVELLERS SUFFER
BY EXPRESS TIEUP
Hard to Move Baggage When
N. Y. Transfer and WescOtt
Companies Quit.
LOCK OUT, SAYS UNION
Company Officials Assert
Wage Demand Simply
Forced Suspension.
LOCK OUT, SAYS UNION

Tho suspension Of business by the New
York Transfer and the westcott Ex-
press companies because Of the failure
10 reach an agreement upon a new wage
scale with their employees caused con-
siderable inconvenience yesterday to the
travelling public at the railroad ter
minals and steamship piers covered by the
companies. oflcers Of the International
Teamsters Union, OF which the express
men are members denied there was
strike, making the charge that It is a
lockout.
Martin j. Lacey OF the executive COM
mlttee OF the Transfers Union made
public letter which he said s. w. F.
Draper, president and general manager
OF the New York Transfer Company, had
sent to all the drivers of the company
advising them there would be a suspen-
sion OF business on Monday because OF
the inability to come TO an agreement on
the wage scae and that their services,
accordingly, would no longer be needed.
Mr.. Draper could not be reached, but
another official Of the New York Trans
fer admitted the letter had been sent
out, but denied II was n lockout,
This official declared the company
could not meet the demands of the ex-
pressmen under the present tariff al
lowed by the Public Service Commits
sion and that there was no other course
open to them but to shut down The
Increases asked by the expressmen
would amount to about rs per cent, he
said, when overtime was taken into con-
sidera ton
Alfred NJ Barrett, Acting Public Ser
vice Commissioner, sent Instructions TO
the officials Of the express companies and
of the teamstcrs union directing that
they appear az his Office this morning
for a hearing. II was reported that the
express companies will ash for an In
creased rate at this hearing, but this
was matter the officials Of the COM
pany would not discuss.
The FIRST day Of the strike or lockout
passed without incident other than the
general inconvenienclng of the public.
Homecoming yacationists found them
selves in somewhat OF a quandary at the
railroad terminals. Unable TO obtain an
express company 10 move their baggage,
they appealed to the Black and White
taxicab drivers, who in sympathy with
the expressmen, refused to move trunks,
Their only alternative was to so out
into the street and hire an independent
taxlcab or express wagon, paying whot-
ever price was demanded.
The movement OF baggage from Penn
sylvania station was normal, but there
was considerable confusion in the auto
mobile driveway occasioned by the delay
in the taxlcabs getting away At Grand
Central Station trunks began TO pile up
early In the morning and last night
there were more than 5000 pieces of
baggage that had not been removed
Persons unable to get their baggage left
It to be stored by the railroad at 25
cents for the first day and 10 cents for
each additional day.
The Sun and the New York herald., 1920-08-25
COURT ACTION HITS
CLOSED SHOP FOES
Judge Hand DissolveS Re-
straining Order in Long
shOremen's Fight.
STRIKE SINCE SETTLED
Plea for Injunction Refused
on Arguments From Steam
ship Co., One Of Defendants.

New York merchants nehting the
longshoremen's closed shop methods lost
a point yesterday when Judge A. N.
Hand Of the United States District
Court refused to grant an Injunction
against the longshoremen and dissolved
a restraining order. which had been In
existence the last few months.
The decision was In suit brought by
Samuel Buyer G. Co., elastic garter man
ufacturers of 935 Broadway, against
William S, Guillan. general agent Of the
Old Dominion Transportation Company;
Marley Lacey and William O'Neill of
the international Brotherhood Of Team
sters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Help
ers, and the International Longshore-
mems Associations, as well as many
other defendants
The suit charges conspiracy to violate
The Sun and the New York herald., 1920-08-25
p. X. r. IS SELLING
TICKETS AT BARGAIN
Commuters Get Advantage of
Old Rate.

The Pennsylvania Railroad conducted
yesterday and will conduct to-day a
bargain sale in Communication tickets.
Tomorrow there will be a 90 per cent.
increase. To-day takes effect an in
crease. approved by the Interstate Com
merce Commission, of 20 per cent In
the price Of all interstate Communication.
Other railroads selling such commuta-
tion for the month Of September are
charging for It already at the rate that
will obtain in September 20 per cent.
above present rates The Pennsylvania
alone is selling to-day for the last day
September calendar month Communication
without the 20 per cent Increase.
The Pennsylvania's bargain sale was
news at the offices of the New York
Central, Lackawanna and Erie rail-
roads.
Also, as n result Of an order of the
Public Utility Commission of New Jer-
sey, the Pennsylvania must accept for
passage communication tickets issued be-
tween August ! and August 25, before
the 20 per cent increase took effect, and
bearing n limit longer than the calendar
month or valuable thirty-five days from
date of sale. The company offered to
redeem such tickets If wholly or par
TALLY unused, at their face value, but
o number OF municipalities objected and
commuters preferred transportation to
money back.
The Long Island Railroad does not
want to raise its fares 10 per cent after
ali. Alfred Gardner. representing the
road, withdrew yesterday before Acting
and Deputy Public Service Commits
sioners Alfred NJ. Barrett and Morgan
T. Donnelly an application for the In
crease filed June l. The application was
then denied and the commission COM
nenced hearing testimony and investi-
eating the roads affairs to see If the
increase was justified. Yesterdays ac-
ton ends the investigation.
The Sun and the New York herald., 1920-08-25
WOMAN THRICE WE'D
SEEKS SEPARATION
One Time Bride of r. w. Gay
nor Also Sued by Husband.

Mary Oddo GUTHRIE ACCOMPLISHMENTS
known on the stage as May Queen"
who was married three times before she
was twenty-one, sought relief yesterday
In the Supreme Court from her third
marriage She demands a separation
decree from Nelson Gammans, a law
yer, and asserts that he Is suing for dl-
vorce In Porto Rico and demanding Che
custody Of her daughter by a former
marriage.
The plaintiff was born Mary Oddo
daughter OF Charles Oddo. an Italian
barber OF New London, Conn. In June,
1908, when only thirteen, she was mar
ried to Salvatore Guiffrle. who later
went TO Houston, Tex, and sued for d.
vorce. Before the decree was granted
his young wife was married to Rufus
w Gaynor, son Of the late Mayor Will
liam J, Gaynor.
After a brief marital experience Cay
nor sued her for annulment. claiming
that she was still the legal wife of
Guiffrie at the time Of her second mar
riage. The court upheld this conten-
ton.
In February, 1911, while Nelson
Gammans. nineteen years old. was
sophomore at Harvard, he eloped with
the comely Mary and married her de-
spite the opposition Of his family. II
was said at the time that his mother,
Mrs. George Gordon Gammans. who re-
SIDED in Portland, Me-. offered him a
considerable sum Of money II he would
refrain from marrying until he had fin-
ished his college course.
After his graduation young Gammans
Joined the staff OF the law firm of
Rounds. Hatch, Dillingham; Debe-
voise He now is connected with theiS
office In Porto Rico.
In his Porto Rico complaint for di-
vorce Gammans accuses his wife of
having treated him cruelty and with
having abandoned him. He says he
adopted her daughter. now II years old.
and desires to have the legal custody of
the girl awarded to him.
The Sun and the New York herald., 1920-08-25
sing SING BULLETIN
TO Be ISSUED AGAIN
Suspension Ends After State
Prison Head Meets War
den Lawes.
DIFFERENCES SETTLED
Effort to Run Paper From AL
bany Said to Have Caused
Discontinuance.
DIFFERENCES SETTLED

After a two hour conference at Sing
Sing prison yesterday with Charles r.
Rattigan, State Superintendent Of
Prisons, and James Long, Deputy SUI
pcrintendent, Warden Lewis e. Lawes
announced that the Sing Sing Bulletin
would resume publication. The August
issue will be published at once. The
paper has been suspended for two or
three weeks owing to differences be-
tween Warden Lawes and Mr.. Rattigan,
the warden abolishing the paper rather
than submit to what he considered In
reference from the State Prison De-
partment.
Lawes and Rattigan merged from
their talk on apparently harmonious
terms. Superintendent Rattlgan refused
to make a statement.
I'm not here to give out news" he
The Sun and the New York herald., 1920-08-25

said. %rm here on official business The
warden may make a statement"
"The Sing Sing Bulletin will be con-
tinued," said Warden LaweS. The sus-
pension has been lifted"
1T will be run as II always has been"
said Mr. Long. ut will be carefully
edited and censored
Edited and censored at Sing Sing or
Albany" he was asked.
AT Sing Sing" replied Mr.. Long.
Prison workers consider that Warden
Lawes won an important victory when
the Prison Department lifted the sus-
tension and gave him the right to run
the paper as he secs fit Although the
warden has not discussed his differ
ences II Is known that he had been told
by Mr.. Rattlgan to either remove
Charles Chaplin as editor OF the Bulletin,
submit the proofs to Rattigan for editing
or suspend the paper. The warden de-
olded II he could not have free hand
with the paper he would suspend II.
A considerable protest followed. and
It was said that the conference was held
yesterday after the Governor had in
sisted that Rattigan and Lawes settle
their differences.
The Governor and Warden Lawes Will
confer Thursday on the Sing Sing situa-
ton and the future policy of the Bulletin.
The Governor said he had talked with
Mr.. Rattigan about the suspension OF the
paper but that he wanted to see Warden
Lawes also
'Mr. Ratlgan told me-" said the Gov
Grnor, that his only purpose in refer
ence to the paper was TO have the articles
square with the records of his depart
ment. He called my attention to an
article which told Of a prisoner who had
been paroled and disappeared The in
t'mation was that no effort had been
made by the parole board to find him
He said II the Prison Department had
seen this article 1t could have explained
that the prisoner was in prison In Cali
;ornia, which was the cause Of hi
abSenca
The Sun and the New York herald., 1920-08-25
"Open House" on Aquitania.

An open house" for visitors who
would like TO see how a large transat-
lantlc steamer looks after she has been
converted into an oil burner is to be
held by the Cunard line tomorrow
aboard the giant Aquitania, now
berthed at the foot of West Fourteenth
street Visiting hours are from 10 to
70 and 2 TO 1. Passes admitting visitors
must be obtained at the Cunard main
Offices, IT State street.
The Sun and the New York herald., 1920-08-25
slavin to Leave Hospital Soon.

John c. slavin the comedian, who
was Injured on the morning Of John j.
McGraw'e fight at the Lambs Club. prob
ably will be able to leave st. Luke's
Hospital soon His condition last night
was reported as satisfactory. He was
conscious, but has not been permitted to
make statement as to how he received
his injuries
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1920-05-20
NOW, WHAT WOULD YOU D07
New Yorker Saw Only One Way to
Settle Problem Of Street-Csr Eth
quette Confronting Him.

A business man who was raised far
enough away from New York still to
say "ma'am" when he speaks to
strange woman was recently confront
Ell with a new angle of one of the
major transportation problems Of city
life
His theory Is that since women have
sought and found equal opportunity in
business and I'm politics, a tired man
should have an equal opportunity In
the seat lottery on the way home at
night. II isn't a fixed rule, but he
has the exceptions TO II pretty well in
mind. He Will not take a seat II there
Is a woman standing near Ii. He will
yield his seat To an elderly woman
and-this is cardinal exceptlon-to
a woman with baby.
But he did not have the answer
ready the other night when he looked
up from his paper to find clinging TO
the strap before him a handsome
young woman with a poodle under her
arm.
The hero OF this experience is
quick thinker. but also set In his con-
victiOns. or course, ne reasoned. a
dog isn't a baby; woman who will
carry one on the subway in the rush
hour isn't a tired working GIRL"
! gave up my seat to a woman with a
baby should be doing only what Is
right. but il give my seat to this
woman with the pup every man in the
car will laugh and I shall feel silly
myself.
Being a diplomat he got of at the
next station and waited for another
train.-New York Sun.