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New-York tribune., 1921-04-05

,neor'es have no immediate bearing on
.ne existing emergency apA should not
prevent ITS immediate consideration on
'he merits, and that questions of pro-
cedure should not be permitted to in
!ehsltS the extreme peril now confront
''s american transportatinn.'
Si'er '!he conference representatives
o' ootn interests expressed themselves
as well pleased with tho coopertiave
spirit shown at the meeting. and it is
understood that they agreed to attend
another session at any time it may be-
come necessary at the call of the chair
man, MIR. Warficld.
For the Security Owners
Representing the security owners at
the conference we're George L. Brock,
president of the National Association
OF Savings Banks; Haley Fiske, presi-
dent OF the Metropolitan Life Insur-
ance Company; S. H. Beach, president
or the Savings Bank of Rome, N. T..
VINO represented the Travellers Life In
surance Company, Of Hartford. Conn:
-. ~ +. Kingsley. president of the New
= ork Lite insurance Company; Vice
resident Stedman of the Prudential
,'Ie insurance Company. and Forney
Johnston, president of the Society for
savings OF Cleveland, who personally
represented Myron T. Herrick, a mem
per OF the committee of security own
efs who called the meeting. Mr.. War
feId - president OF Continental Trust
company, of Baltimore. The securities a
oornm1ttee con d is said to own about 81 1.0OO,-
oots,ooo OF railroad securities alone.
For the Big Four" there wcr,
present, in addition to Warren s
stone, head of the Locomotives enpi.
neers, l.. r. Sheppard, president of the
order of Railroad Conductors: "
Garter, resident of the Br therhood
or Locomotive Engincmen and Fire
men T.. ). Mannon, representing the
Order Of Railroad Telegraphers; d. l..
Cease, personal representative of W
G. Lee. president of the brotherhood
o. Railroad Trainmen, and William
Johnston, international president Of
the Machinists' Union. who represented
the Railroad Machinists' Shop Craft.
u. n. Iregoe, executive secretary Of
the National Association of Credit
Men, yesterday sent circular letter
TO the $4,000 manufacturers, whole
saIers and bankers comprising the
membership of the association, point
ing out that the present railroad rates
are TOO high for the encouragement of
traffic and that they even tended to
st'he traffic. lie believes that the
transportation act should be amended
so that the control of labor costs NAV
ne decentralized. He claims that the
rnlformlty OF wages will be unscien-
tihc as long as there is a lack of uni
1ormIty IN living standards and costs.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-05
Allies Take Over Customs
I'm Rhineland Tomorrow

COBLENZ, April A. - Beginning
Wednesday the new Allied customs ad-
minstraton in the occupied Rhineland
comes into effect. The Rhineland Com
mission will meet tomorrow to decide
on definite eastcn frontier in the
occupied territories. This, it is said
Will not necessarily follow the mill
tary outposts and zones, but will be
arranged with a view to the creates
technical facilities.
Dusseldorf and I.ochst, west Of
Frankfort, will be the most important
collecting centers. especially Hochst,
whore all traffic originating in Frank
fort and southern Germany will be
controlled.
twenty-five per cent of the regular
German tariff win be collected on foods
entering tho occupied territory from
Germany, while the old tariff will OBJ
tains on foods entering from western
countries.
Foods in transit through the oc-
cupied territory will not be affected.
The French and Belgian customs
agents, who will supervise the work
connected with the German customs in
the American zone, have arrived at
Coblenz. American soldiers will pro-
tcct the customs ports in the zone.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-05
China Offers Amendment
Backing Monroe Doctrine
Proposes Shorter Clause in
Peace Treaty Dealing With
Old American Pol;cy

GENEVA, April A (Ry The Associated
Press) ).-The Chinese government has
submitted an amendment to Article
XXI of the peace pact to the amend
ment committee, which meets on April
G. substituting the following for the
existing text:
"The Monroe Doctrine is recognized
as not incompatible with any DISPOSE
tions Of the present pact"
Article XXI of the pact reads /:
Nothing in this covenant shall be
deemed to affect the validity of inter
national engagements, such as treaties
of arbitration or regional understand
lngs like tho Monroe Doctrine, for Sc
curing the maintenance of peacc."I
The Czecho Slovak government also
desires to amend the same article, with
the object of encouraging the conclu-
sion of any convention tending to
clarity engagements made with a view
to maintaining international harmony.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-05

SAID he agreed fully with W. w. After
ipnry,, OF the Pennsylvania, who told the
oohrd at previous session Of the hear-
Ing on rules and working conditions
that national agreements cost the
American people $500, 100000 annually
IN waste and inefiiciency.
Mr.. Besler told tie board he believed
IN living wage and thought man
was entitled to call he could earn
re also expressed his opinion that en-
pioyees should be allowed to organize
IN IN any way they saw fit, but did not be-
ileVe IN discrimination between en-
pioyer and employee or between en-
ployees on account of affiliations with
labor unions.
Fifteen Of the 1886 rules of the Ma
tlonal Shop Crafts agreement were in
Iorce, IN substance, on the Central
Railroad Of New Jersey, before the
war, Mr.. Beser said, but he declined
TO admit they were good rules for all
railroads.
circumstances alter cases." Mr.. Bes-
Ter SAID, when pressed by Mr.. Walsh
10 say what rules or principles might
be laid down for national application.
Going over the shop agreement rule
by RUE, Mr.. Besler characterized many
as silly" vicious" absurd" and
unnecessary"
Mr.. Walsh said the workers had
rights and should be allowed to obtain
their rights through tae best and most
powerful organization they could per-
feet, Gust as the Central Railroad of
New Jersey organized the most power
ful corporation under the law Of New
Jersey"
"Old Kaiser Wilhelm was the only
one who ever tried to impress his
whims and ideas on his people and he's
g dead one" said Mr.. Besler.
81 believe that he Besler has fitted
himself to act on the Central Railroad
Of New Jersey as the Kaiser did in
Germany" said Walsh.
"My belief is that national agree
ments represent the Kaiser" the rail
road executive replied.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-05
u. S. Board Acts
To Lower Rail.
Rates ON Grain
Recommends Cut of 3 Cents
a Bushel on All Export
Shipping East Of Chicago
and General Adjustment
Flour to Move Cheaper
Present Tariffs Unchanged
West Of St. Louis and
From Buffalo to Seaboarl

WASHINGTON, April 4.-Readiust-
ment of railroad freight rates on ex-
port grain and grain products, involv-
ing a reduction of three cents a bushcl
cast of Chicago, was recommended ia
the railroads to-day by the Interstate
Commerce Commission. This is the
first move toward reduction Of carrv-
ing charges.
The commissions recommendations
covered general adjustment of grain
and grain products rates and were
outlined in a letter sent representa-
tives of the roads by w. V. Hardic,
director of traffic. The letter, it was
explained, was in reference to the re-
cent conferences between representa-
tives of the grain markets, Atlantic
and Gulf ports, and carriers of East
ern and Western territory relative to
grain rate adjustment.
Comparisons Made
Particular reference was made to the
rates to Atlantic ports, as compared
with Gulf ports, and also to lake and
rall charges, as compared with all-rail
rates.
After consideration of the whole
situation and with the approval of
Chairman Clark Of the Interstate Com
mercc Commission. Mr.. Hardie stated
there was no objection to a rcadjust-
ment OF rates as follows:
A reduction of three cents east of
Chicago III the all-rail export rates on
grain and grain products.
A reduction of ! cent on grain and
gram products on export traffic from
Missouri River points, including Sioux
City to Chicago and Chicago rate points.
A reduction of cents in export rates
cast of st. Louis on grain and grain
products.
lated markets corresponding to those
from st. Louis and Chicago to preserve
existing equalization.
No Reductions in West
No reductions to be made west Of st.
Louis.
The existing "at the east" rates on
export grain, now scheduled to expire
April Is. to be continued beyond that
date definitely, but with no further
reductions at this time.
The "at the east domestic rates on
grain April Is to revert to the rates in
effect August 25, 1920, plus 40 per cent
to be applied on the net rates
No reductions on grain products east
of Buffalo, either domestic or export.
Lakeland rail rates on flour for ex-
port from Chicago. Duluth and Mime
apois to be reduced in the same
amounts as the all-rail rates east Of
Chicago, thus maintaining differe Is
as compared with all-rai
No reduction in the rates on grain
or grain products from Minneapolis to
Chicago.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-05

Cleveland Company Refuses to
Agree TO 10 p. G.. Paw Cut

CLEVELAND, April Am offer by
officials Of the streotcar mems union
to accept 10 per cert wage reduction
tor the 3,400 conductors and motormen
at The expiration Of the present wage
agreement May l was rejected to-day
by }. J. Stanley, president of the Cleve-
land Railway Company.
President Stanley said he would stand
firm on his demand for 20 per cent
reduction and other demands of the
company, including an open shop" and
abolition of wartime emergency clauses
in this wears contract
New-York tribune., 1921-04-05

Charoctcrises Certain National
agreements as Silly vi
CiOus7 and Unnecessary

CHICAGO, April 4.-W. G. Besler,
president of the Central Railroad of
New Jersey, testifying to-day before
the Railroad Labor Board, declared
what he termed the "vicious interpre-
ton" of the national agreements made
them undesirable and was causing a
$500 900 900 annual waste.
Answering questions by Frank P.
Walsh, labor counsel, Mr.. Bcsler de-
clared he was one of the first railroad
executives to declare that as the so
cent dollar increased in purchasing
power both wages and rates should be
reduced corre spondinglN. Mr.. Besler
New-York tribune., 1921-04-05
JeTeH and Garrettson
Confer With HARDING

FROM Jhe i'7o"ne's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, April 4-Prcsidcnt
Harding listened to men close to the
rank and file of the railroads TODAY
when he conferred with &. NJ. Jewell,
chairman of the railway department. of
the American Federation Of Labor. and
a. Is. Garrcttson, former president of
the Order Of Railway Conductors. The
President conferred for an hour with
each man separately. At the conclusion
OF their conferences, neither Mr. Jewell
nor Mr. Garrettson would make a
statement The conferences are in line
with the Presidents plan to familarize
himself with every phase of the rail
road problem before recommending
remedial legislation to Congress.
Mr.. Garrcttson denied that the oues-
ton of returning the railroads to gov
ernment ownership was discussed.
though he believes that many Of the
railway employees would favor it. The
railway wage agreement came up for
considerable discussion.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-05
2, I2I Boston Printers Qua
Strike in so Shops as Protest
Against Wage Cuts

bOSTON, April 4. - Union leaders
said tonight that 2,121 printers, bind
cry workers and electrotypers had quit
work in fifty shops to-day as protest
against reduction in wages.
The action was preci ipitatcd by the
posting of notices of the wage cut,
which the Boston Typographical Union
demanded be taken down, but the stu
alton had been developing for months
in connection with the unions demand
for a 44hour week. The Boston
Typotheta refused the latter demand
and Topped off the last increase granted
the workers, amounting to 81 week
in the case of journeymen printers and
So jr the case of journey women, with
other trades proportionately.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-05
Boston Strikers in Battle
Five Wounded, Ten Arrested,
After Attack on Builders

BOSTON, April Ten arrests were
made to-day as a result of an attack
made by building trades strike sympa-
thizers on a party of strikebreakers
who had Just quit work for the day
on a building job on Devonshirc Street,
in the banking district.
When the workers started to leave
they were set upon. In free for-all
fight between the attackers, the work
ers and the police two strikebreakers
were so badly beaten that they were
taken to hospital suffering from
broken heads and there were numerous
minor injuries The police finally dis
perscd the crowd
New-York tribune., 1921-04-05
Harding Asked to Plymouth
Other Engagements May Pre-
vent Presence at Pilgrim Fetc
From Thc Tribuno's Washinqtou

From Thc Tribunes Washin0ton Burcdu
WASHINGTON, April 4.--President
Harding was extended an invitation to-
day by Senator Lodge to attend the
exercises commemorating the tercente-
nary Of the landing of the Pilgrims,
to be held at Plymouth, Mass, in Au-
gust.
1t was said at the White House that
owing to the pressurs<o of previous en-
gagements it is doubtful if the Prcsi-
dent can accept.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-05
Italy Foregoes Reprisal
On Reds in Hope of Trade
VIII Not Expcl Russian Mission
for Terrorist Activities i'm
Rome and Genoa
Special Cable to The Tribune
opyright, 1921, New York Tribune Ir

ROME, April 4.~-Although the police
have asccrtained that agents Of Lennc,
now under arrest in Rome and Genoa,
caused recent terrorist activities in
Florence and Milan, the government
refuses to cxpel the Russian Com
mercal Mission or suspend the indus
trial conference.
The government is convinced that
the big orders promised by Russia for
motor cars, airplanes and tractors will
solve the present industrial crisis in
the factories.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-05
Toxic Legislators to Visit u. S.

WASHINGTON, April "a group Of
fourteen influential members of the
Japanese Parliament will leave Toxic,
April 13, for the United States, en- route
to Washington. The purpose of the
party is to get acquainted with mem
bers of Congress here and to promote
good relations between the two coun-
tries
New-York tribune., 1921-04-05
Edison to Build New Plant
Ford Says 1t Will Use His Power
al Greer, Island

TROY. n. Y, April 4.-"Thomas A.
Edison is to construct plant adjacent
to mine of Green Island" Henry Ford
told newspaper mon here to-day.
Mr. Ford said he was not in posi-
tion to say exactly what kind OF
plant Edison would put up, but added:
''He will use from 400 to 500 horse
power from my power house"
New-York tribune., 1921-04-05

Accept Cut ON
Pennsylvania
Vote for ''Just and Reason
able" Pay Reduction AZ
ter Company Proposes 22
Per Cent Less for 1000
Shopmen Agree to Farley
Reading Maintenance of :
Way Employees Take APP
peal to Federal Board

PITTSBURGH. April 4.-Unorgan
lied workers Of the Pennsylvania Rail
road agreed to-day to accept "just
and reasonable" wage reduction at the
conference here of the managers COM
mittee Of the railroads and delegates
for the shop crafts At the same time
representatives of the unonized shop
workers decided to consider the qucs-
ton of wage reduction and answer at a
later date.
The company officials proposed wage
reductions approximating % per cent
for the $4,000 shop crafts employees,
which would bring the present rate Of
IS cents an hour to new basis Of sc
cents an hour.
The unorganizcd workers presented
resolution, recently adopted by the
board of directors of the mutual asso-
was said that the associations member
ship took in $4,000 employees and Off
cials and that the interests of the or
ganization and the road were mutual.
National agreements were declared to
be inimical to the principles of the as
sociation, and abrogation of such
agreements was urged, SO that the
workers could take up all questions
directly with the company.
The Federation No. 90 Committee,
headed by N. p. Good, informed the
managers that it would tender its
answer on the wage question on or
before April 90. when the road had
planned to put the reductions into
effect.
The American Federation Of Rail
way Workers delegates, who say they
represent 1000 employees, said the
organization would present its answer
within a week.
The next wage conference will be
held here Wednesday, when the man
ayers committee meets with repre-
sentatives of tclegraphers, telephone
men, lever men and others.
PHILADELPHIA, April 4.-Thirty-
five representatives of 10000 main
tenance of way and structural en-
ployees Of the Philadelphia & Reading
Railway Company to-day refused to
accept the wage reduction proposed by
the company and referred the contem-
plated cut to the National Labor Board
at Chicago.
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s30,0l0F|RE BURNS
z PAINT FACTORIES
Plants Destroyed and Nearby
Residents Driven Out by
Spectacular Blaze
VALUABLE PIGEONS LOST

fhs plant Of the Thomson. Woo
tfuishing Co. and the Binswanger Co.
manufacturers Of paints, at $40 TO s3G
North Third street, was destroyed IN Q
spectacular fire which ragged from ~
o'clock last night until 3 o'clock this
morning, causing loss Of approxi'
nstely $500, 900.
Dozens Of families, living near the
blazing factory. were In fear for hours
They we're driven from their homes oy
The heat and the danger o. the hre
spreading. They waited on the streets
behind the fire lines or found refuge
With neighbors beyond the danger zone.
The hero OF the fire was Timothy
Balduran, Of s27 North Third street,
breeder Of fine homing pigeons, who let
200 Of them, valued at $1,000, die in
the sitting smoke from burning paint
and oil while he rescued his four chill
dren ami the four children OF Mrs.
Mary Shanlein, pert Of whose house he
occupied. It was Mrs. shanlein who dis
covered the fire
Leads Children Through Smoke
Balduran set about the work Of res.
euing the children in the house at S2T
North Third street as soon as Mrs.
Shanlein's cries notified him Of the Gre.
He led his own four children, John.
sixteen years old /: Max, fourteen years
old Tony. eight years old, and Maizie,
Mx years old, to the street through the
smoke that quickly filtered in from the
burning building next door. Then he
returned for Mrs. Shanlein's four chill
dren, John. ten months old; Rebecca,
two years old; Nellie. FIVE years old,
and Harriet, eight years old, and carried
them all to safety.
For years Balduran has made the
raising of fine pigeons his hobby. He
had the attic Of the house as a pigeon
loft, with a screened space on a fat
room in the rear rs an aviary. The
pigeons were almost all in the attic when
the fire began. Though the flames did
not reach to them, the place soon was
Alled with smoke.
Balduran. aiding the children to get
out of the building, knew that be was
sacrificing his pets and also a good part
Of his ipcomc. for the pigeons were worth
at least $1,000. He let their rescue go
until the last. however, and then il was
too late. When every one was out of
the house, he CROPPED his way back
through the smoke to the attic, hoping
against hope that he might find at least
some Of the pigeons alive and set them
free.
Finds His Pets Dead
Balduran groped through the smoke
and made his way into the low attic
loft. His pigeons lay in crumpled heaps
on the floor. all Of them dead. Sixteen
Of the 200 or more that he owned had
made their escape to the aviary. COW
cred with wire netting and out in the
fresh air. and these were alive.
A remarkable feature OF the FIRE was
that no one was injured, not even a
6reman being overcome by smoke.
Members of the firm could not esti-
mate the damage. but it is believed it
will amount to about $500, 900.
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THE DAILY NOVELETTE,
A Bluebeyry Surplus
BY ADDIE GRAVES

You do beat the band picking blue
berries. Dorothy. You've been gone
only two hours, and there are sixteen
quarts. IL not more. in those pails--
they look as big as the swamp berries.
though; IL must be dandy picking.
shall have all my Jars filled with blue.
berries IL you keep on and have to buy
more.-.and they are awfully dear this
year"
Dorothy's heart was humping like
the big drum In the band--ragtine. at
that. She had turned her back to hide
her confusion and was searching the
pantry for pans for picking over the
berries. When she returned her mother
continued:
II heard today--Jane Butterfield told
ne--that Jim Bamforth Is home. She
snid he is In the insurance business In
Rostor-is superintendent Of some Office
of the Plymouth Rock Co. She said
he is doing finely, and was dressed up
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to kill when he arrived. suppose hs
hates farming worse than ever.
Dorothy made no reply to her
mothers remarks and changed the sub
ject by demanding some fruit jars. Jim
and she had been sweethearts, but her
father had sent Jim away because he
refused to stay with his father on the
farm, insisting on going to the city TO
work.
II Dorothy's mother had followed her
on her blueberry trips she would have
discovered the cause of the full pals
that reached the kitchen each day. IT
was old Rex who was the instigator OF
the whole thing. He was with his
master, who was picking blueberries in
the edge of the swamp which bordered
Dorothy's fathers blueberry pasture.
But old Rex discovered her first. His
nose was sharper than his master 9
eyes. for didn't he love Dorothy, too?
And hadn't she been his comforter dur
ing almost a year Of loneliness. such as
My a dog knows? His master followed
him. hearing the conversation between
The two. for Dorothy bad sandwich
which she was making Rex speak for.
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Jim.
With questioning eyes they searched
each others faces.
Ihe years space of absence was
spanned by a few seconds. At last,
after the flooded greeting subsidized, Jim
invited Dorothy into the swamp, where
the berries were bigger and hung in
great lunches from tall trees in the
shade OF young pines. The blueberry
pushes were so high Jim had TO jump
to catch hold Of the lower limbs. He
had to hold them down while they both
rapidly .scooped of the berries, quickly
filling the pals.
If Dorothy had gone home at once,
her mother would have been more mys-
titled than she was when her daughter
did arrive. But the couple sat down on
a fallen log, entirely forgetting the ber-
ries. It was a wonder they were not
tipped over. But Rex sat very quiet
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and watched with satisfaction In his
expressive brown eyes. His gaze was
not disconcerting, for the sweethearts
proceeded to make up for the long
separation.
Dorothy was very silent about her
daily work. Her mother watched her
with anxious heart. She remembered
the time when she and Pa picked blue
berries together in a gill dipper--he In
knee overalls--she In "a long sleeved
tire"--both with bare feet. Sometimes
the grown folks broke the bushes, and
she and the miniature Pa played house
and she was to make pies. blueberry
biscuit and cake, and blueberry
dumpling.
A few years later came the husking
bee, when she found the red ear, and
they dared the bashful eighteen year
old boy to kiss her. Then the eby
courting, broken by the horrible verdict
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Of Grandfather Downing. forbidding the
marriage.
Pa was too slow and stupid to amount
to anything. Lazy" grandfather said.
How, after two years of misery. they
accidentally met In another town and
returned man and wife. And now pa
had $4,000 In the bank.
She sighed and studied Dorothy. But
Dorothy did not sigh. IL wretched she
kept up brave 'front.'" and her
mother made no comment. When Dor.
othy asked her TO 60 blueberrying with
her one morning ma was surprised.
1--WE don't need any more blueberries,