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New-York tribune., 1921-03-20

ators are under no obligation to re-
employ the striking miners, but the
recommendation Is made that they re-
employ the unemployed men who struck
rs fast as places may be found for
them without displacing men now at
work, as q means to promote peace and
harmony. II
The award says that the freedom Of
contract shall be inviolate and that
agreements may be- entered into by
mutual consent.
The Governor recommends that "sirce
this strike was wrongfully and with
out the slightest justification called,
the organization of the United Mine
Workers Of America is responsible for
the present strikers being without en-
ployment, and that therefore the or
ganization should support the strikers
until they find work"
The award becomes operative imme-
diately under an agreement reached
with both the miners and the operators
to abide by the Governors findings.
Embodied in the decision was the
complete report, of. his personal repre-
sentatives in. the strike situation
These were W. r. Sneehan, editor Of
The Montgomery Advertiser; Richard
Hobbie, wholesale grocer, and John w
Durr, Wholesale druggist, all of Mont.
HOmery, -
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20
Rail Ticket Agents Hold
First After-War Dinner
Senator Walsh Pays Tribute to
Loyalty of Transportation
Workers During Crisis

Six hundred members of the New
York City Association of Passenger
and Ticket Agents attended a reunion
dinner held under the auspices of the
association at the Hotel Astor last
night. This was the first reunion of
its members since 1917, when the an
nual banquet was discontinued at the
request of Herbert Hoover, then Food
Administrator.
David l. Walsh, United States SEN
ator from Massachusetts, made the
principal address on Service and Sac
rifice." He paid a glowing tribute to
the railroad workers and praised their
loyalty and sacrifice during the war.
Among others who spoke at the din
ner were L. S. Miller, president of the
New York, Westchester & Boston Rail-
road; w: G. Holt, chairman of the Con-
solidated Ticket Agents Association.
and State Senator Edward Ford. Frank
E. Binns, president of the association,
was postmaster.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20
Detroit Unionists Defy
Compers on Soviet Issue
Defend Russian Regime Again
in Reply to Charge Bolsheviki
Should Pay Them

DETROIT, March 19.--The imputa-
tiop Of Samuel Gompers, president of
the American Federation of Labor, that
leaders Of the Detroit federation are
receiving or should receive compensa-
tion from the Russian Soviet govern
ment because Of their advocacy Of
recognition Of that government comes
with bad grace and is unworthy OF a
reply, the local organization informed
Mr.. Gompers in a letter made public
here to-day.
The letter, in reply to one in which
Mr.. Gompers accuses, Detroit union
leaders of being Servants of the
Soviet government" defends the Rus
sian government and rencws the rec
ommendation that it be accorded recog-
milton. "The Soviet government" it
asserts, possesses better mandate
from the Russian people than does any
other government on the face Of the
carth."
Mr., Gompers's statement that the
Russian government has nothing OF
value to export is declared at variance
with general information from appar.
emily reliable sources. Resumption Of
trade with Russia, the letter adds
"would in some measure temporarily
relieve the suffering American workers
are now forced to endure because o1
! the unemployment situation"
\ Lack of organization among worker!
here, which Mr.. Gompers charged tt
the local federation, is explained b.
the statement that the Detroit body
has opposed to 1t the largest and bcs
organized "open shop" employers asso
| citation in the United States.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20

ers and that reduction Of wages was
in order. About the middle Of Feb
ruary they notified the engineers that
on March their proposed reduction
would be put into effect. Several cons
ferences were held between the work
ers' representatives and owners, as
which the men proposed that the present
scale be continued until April I, and
that any decision reached by that time
would be retroactive to March This
the owners declined. The final break
wrote to the employees to the effect
that there was no further necessity
for negotiation and that the reduced
scale would remain.
A statement issued by B. l.. Todd,
secretary-treAsurer and member Of the
executive council Of the Atlantic. and
Gulf Coast District Of the Marine En-
gineers' Beneficial Association, said In
part:
ers had determined to force strike
on the part Of the officers, engineers
and decknen on ocean going tugs.
From the negotiations that have pro-
ceeded between the owners and the
parent that the officers organizations
had been left no option but to accept
the arbitrary wage scale of the tow
boat owners This scale was fixcd
without even notice to the organiza-
tions. The members will, of course,
not be governed by the towboat own
ers' scale.
Scale Compromise
"The scale which was agreed upon in
1919 and which lapsed on December 81,
1920, was compromise. The law re-
quires second mate to be carried on
all ocean-going towboats. 1t should have
required the carrying of second en-
gineer, and the insistencc upon such
second engineer was part Of the conten-
tion made by the officers organizations
in 1919. Now that the towboat owners
have seen fit to discard the old scale
the officers organizations will insist
with renewed vigor upon the carrying
of second engineer.
"The organizations admit that pos
sibly boat or two may get away with
non-union crews, but they know that
sooner or later, these will be tied up in
the outlying ports. We shall then in
sist upon the old wage scale and the
assistant engineer"
Mr.. Hanna said the owners would
have no trouble filling the places Of
those who leave, inasmuch as there are
400 ships lying idle in port, and about
1000 licensed officers with nothing
to do.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20
Employers Heckle
Labor Official ON
Union Principles
Ask Frank Morrison Why
They Inaist Poor Worker
Get Same Pay as Good
at Meeting in Baltimore
Special Dispatch to Tho Tribune

BALTIMORE, March 10.--"Mr. Morri-
son, why do labor unions insist upon
tho same pay for the efficient and the
inefaciept man in certain grades Of
workers I" That question by Allen
Cleveland, = lawyer, started general
grilliug Of Frank Morrison, secretary
Of the American Federation Of Labor,
at tho City Club this afternoon. Mr..
Morrison had Just finished an address
on "Labor's Program" The rooms of
the club were filled with business men
and lawyers, and the keenness of the
interest in what the labor leader had
to say was manifest.
Labor unions do not insist on the
same pay for efficient and inefficient" J"
Mr.. Morrison answered. "All wage
scales fixed by labor unions are mini
mum scales. and the employer is free
to pay as much more as he pleases for
moro efficient labor
There was roar Of laughter from
the audience. From another quarter
of the room John Hiltz, a builder, asked
why union labor did not AK minimum
and a middle scale.
THAT idea was suggested when my
hair was black instead Of white, as It
is now" he answered. "And said
chat it was an idle dream. Who would
determine who was to get the minimum
wage? The union? That would mean
that nobody would get the MINIMUM.
1t would be like announcing the award
OF prize to the prettiest girl in a
school and letting the girls themselves
determine who was prettiest."
II have had forty-eight years Of ex-
perience with the open shop" said Mr..
Hiltz. "and find that as soon as I
raise the salary of the efficient, all
the Others strike to get the same pay"
That's human nature" said the
thick, broad shculdered veteran of la
Dor struggles. wages are always 60
ing up and"-
He was interrupted by another roar
Of laughter, the. statement that wages
were always going up. evidently appeal
auditors. The speaker explained when
the laughter had subsided, that what
he meant was that conditions Of liv-
ing improved with each age. si
DO you recognize the right Of the
employees Of quasi-public corpora
tions, such as the railroads, which
serve the public, to strike ?" former
State Senator William J. Ogden asked.
do you think they have the same
right to strike as the employees of q
private corporation or individual?"
II recognize the right of any man
who is not making a decent living for
his family to strike to get it," said Mr.
Morrison. "As for the quasi-public, the
quasi doesn't mean much. The pub
lis doesn't exercise much control over
the railroads. l certainly do recognize
their right to strike against the rail
roads, owned by great corporations"
Mr.. Morrison in his speech preced.
ing the questioning said that there
was conspiracy on the part Of en-
| ployers to bring about the open shop
and destroy the powers Of the labor
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20
nv allx-Out Due
On Ocean Tugs
In w age Fight
Men Reject Proposals of
Owners to Accept Cuts
Of $35 to $50 q Month
and Say They'll Omit
About 700 Are Involved
Operators Assert Business Is
Slack and Lots of Idle
Men Will Welcome Jobs

The Ocean Association Of Marine
Engineers. representing the masters,
mates, pilots and engineers employed
on all Sound and ocean, going towboats.
yesterday finally rejected the proposal
Of the towboat owners for reduction
in wages. While no official call for .
walk-out has been issued. it was an
nounced yesterday by officers of the
association that the men would not
work under the scale already placed in
effect by the owners on March l.
Following close on the strike Of the
tidcwater boatmen about ten days ago,
the move of the engineers. if effective,
will further cripple the transportation
Of coal, grain and oil, both entering
and leaving the port. Normally there
are about fifty-eight ocean going tug
boats employed in bringing coal to
New York from Hampton Roads and
other Southern ports. There are some
shipments of oil and grain also
more towboats usually ply in the Sound
In the transportation Of coal and oil
from this city to Boston and other New
England coast ports.
Says Work is Slack
Charles G. Hanna, president Of the
Atlantic Coast Towboat Owners Asso-
citation, declared that the action Of the
marine men would have little effect on
the business of the port, inasmuch as
the towing business has fallen off more
than two-thirds its normal condition,
the lowest it has reached, he said. in
twenty years. There wasn't enough
work now for more than thirty-five or
forty tugs, he thought. A canvass of
some of the towboat companies last
night indicated that few men had left
their jobs. Under normal conditions
about 700 engineers, assistant engineers
and masters. mates and pilots are en-
ployed on these craft.
The owners had proposed that the
men accept reduction of $35 month
month on Sound and port craft. Under
the last agreement between the engi-
neers and the owners, which expired on
December 81, 1920, masters got $500
. month; first mates, $205; second
mates, $165; chief engineers, $275, and
first assistant engineers, $205. The
Marine Workers Beneficial Association
and the Association of Masters, Mates
and Pilots requested the owners to
continue this scale until April /, by
which time they hoped to have agreed
on readiustment of the scale.
Final Break Thursday
The owners, however, pleaded that
there was a great slump in business
that the cost of living had come down
that there was an oversupply of work
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20
Unions Order Mexican
Rail Men Back to Work
Normal Service Expected First
of Week; Obregon Bars For
eign Lahorers From Country

MEXICO CITY, March 19.-Kailroad
unions throughout Mexico have been
ordered by telegraph to resume work
Immediately as result Of an agree
ment reached between national leaders
of striking railway men and govern
ment officials. 1t was believed here to-
day that virtually normal passenger
and freight schedules would be resumed
by the first Of next week.
The strike Of railroad workers has
embarrassed lines throughout the re-
public for the last three weeks.
WASHINGTON, March 19.-All for
eign laborers, and particularly Ameri-
can laborers. have been barred from
Mexico by decree issued by President
Obregon, copy Of which was received
to-day at the State Department.. The
reason assigned was that an influx of
foreigners would serve to prevent the
full employment of native labor during
the period of scarcity Of work.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20
Kilby Award Denies
Union Recognition
To Alabama Miners
Sole Arbiter Leaves Wages
Unchanged and Holds
Operators Need Not Rein
state Coalfield Strikers

MONTGOMERY, Ala, March 1e.--
Recognition Of the United Mine Work
ers Of America is not obligatory upon
the coal operators Of Alabama and the
day wage scale and sub-contract system
are to remain unchanged under the
award announced to-day by Governor
Thomas E. Kilby, sole arbiter in the
strike.
The Governor also declares that the
existing methods of adjusting griev.
ances are found to be fair and equit-
able. It Is also declared that the oper.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20
Roads to Get $l5,OOO,00O
Under Federal Cuarant,

WASHINGTON, March 19.-The In.
terstate Commerce Commission certi-
fed to-day to the Secretary of the
Treasury that the following sums were.
due to railroads as partial payments
under the government guaranty dur
ing the six months following Federal
control: Boston & Maine, $6,500, 900;
Baltimore & Ohio, $6,4O0 900; Delaware.
Lackawanna & Western, $2,OO0,000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-22
PETERS HEADS MARBLE
 DEALERS ASSOCIATION

Selma, February (Special.)--J W. Peters of this city was elected pres dent of the Georgia Alabama Retail Marble and Granite Dealers associa- tion. when organization was perfected Saturday in Atlanta, with 100 dealers in attendance. Other officers were Morgan L. McNeel. Marietta, Ga, vice president; c. W. Grant Atlanta, secre- tary-treasurer. E. B. Trippette of Bir- mingham was elected chairman of the executive committee.
 K The association has set for itself the goal of promoting better business dealings, and to place the granite and marble business on the highest footing possible.
 Tn discussing the association. which has been MT. Peters constant thought for several years past, and an at- tempt to organize the Alabama dealers was inaugurated by MT. Peters at one time. but without success. Practically all the states of the union have such organizations. he pointed out, and with CO., cooperation from dealers. these or ganizations have proved of great value 10 the marble and granite industry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-22
ENGLAND MENACE
 ID J. .---COHALAN
Declares America Should h. sist on Freedom for Canada
 and West Indies

Chicago. February 21.-That England was menace to the United States and that the menace must be removed before this country could be assured of peace, was the declaration of Judge Daniel F.. Cohalan of New York tonight in an ad- dress at Washington day dinner given by the committee of 100 for an Irish re- public.
 Cohalan said that the United States should insist on England freeing Cam ada and the West Indies as a basis ot negotiations for the settlement of her debt to this country, declaring that Eng land through war preparations in those places was preparing for conflict with the United States.
 The British empire must be dismem. bered if the world is to have peace" :" Judge Cohalan continued.
 There are only three great powers Ieft England, Japan and tbe United States and we should turn our attention to help ing Japan create an equivalent of the Monroe Doctrine which would read Asia for Asiatics.'
 Let us encourage her to turn her at tention west instead of east. Such con duct on our part would not alone relieve any tension between Japan and our selves, but would remove from Australia and Canada their fear of Japan and their dependence upon the British fleet. It would preserve the peoples of Asia and prevent England or any other coun- try from attempting to seize the lower half of Asia"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-22
GREENWOOD WARNS
 IRISH CONSPIRACY IS RAPIDLY SPREADING
Reads Captured Paper Dealing With Big Irish American Fund for Irish Re-
 publican Army
By Associated Press

London. February 2l.-During a dis cussion in the House of Commons today Of Capt. William Wedgewood Benn's
 amendment to the reply of the address 'from the throne denouncing the govern ments Irish policy, Sir Hamar Green wood, chief secretary for Ireland, warned the House that the Sim Fein conspiracy was spreading in England, and read a memorandum captured at Sim Fein headquarters dealing with an appropria- tion to the Irish republican army of @OW pounds mostly from Irish-American citizens
 The document emphasized the import ance of large scale operations abroad and suggested Liverpool as holding out the greatest hopes Staff officers, II l added. should be given a free hand, and 1 it proposed the destruction of large ships l and buildings by fire, the cutting of telegraph and telephone lines and sig mailing systems. whereby trains and trans could be wrecked, and the destruc- tion of farms.
 Operations should be directed to en- courage direct action and indictment of mobs to lootingn the document con tinued 'and the officers in charge should not be hampered by consideration Of preserving life"
 l The chief secretary asserted that the | reprisals which were new being con ducted in the martial law areas were according to rule and with due regard to 1 the lives of innocent people. He declared that the ordinary civfi courts were again lfunctionng almost through Ireland, but in the major part of Ireland it had been
 necessary to hand criminai cases over
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-22
SELMA MAN SPEAKER st AT LAYMEN'S MEETING

Selma, February 21.-(Special.).-
 Prominent among the speakers at the
 Laymen's conference in Nashville Mon
 day Tuesday and Wednesday of this
 week is ,J. T. Shanks of this city, who
 left Saturday for Nashville, in re-
 sponse to telegram urging him to fill an important place on the pro-
 gramme.
 Nr Shanks. as one of the speakers
 at the Meridian conference. he attend ed recently with number of laymen of the Broad Street Presbyterian |-church of this city, made one of the biggest speeches of the convention, and so impressed his audience, and the na- tionally prominent speakers who were present. that the invitation to speak at the Nashville conference was imme- diately extended.
 It is probable that MT. Shanks speech, delivered at Meridian, will be printed in booklet form, at the expense of a prominent layman, who offered to un- dertake the matter, in order that wider publicity might be given to Mir Shanks' words.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-22
A Woman With a
 Pretty Complexion Always appears charming

skin free of pimples and other unsightly blemishes such as blackheads, pmples freckles. liver spots. you need never feal the impression you make on all you meet. Your complexion makes or mars your personality.
 Some women are endowed by nature with . clear smooth skin; others not so sortun- ate can acquire this beauty by the use of ment. consisting of Black and White Oint- ment and Soap. Go to your drug or depart ment atote and buy 25c package of Black and White Ointment and Black and White Soap. Within each package are full direc- tions as to the methods of use which will give you the best results. Black and White Beauty Treatment is easy to use. not re
 Send loc and this clipping to Black and White Box 1907, Nemphis, Tenn. and re- ceive samples q Black and White Ointment Soap, Face Powder and Talcum.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-22
DEAD MAN IDENTIFIED
 AS WELL DRESSED THUG
By Associated Press

New York February 21.--A man found dead last night in a Bronx park snow drift with three bullet wounds through his head was identified late today as the Iwel-dressed highwayman who robbed a Broadway cigar store February 1Aafter Knocking the clerk unconscious with q cane The police believe he was shot
 as the result of qrmrel.
 >The cigar clerk, who established the Identification. said the roh5er offered in payment for $s4 worth of cigars siOu
 bill to change. for which the clerk was
 obliged to open the safe. From this the robber later took $500.
 In the mans clothing were found sev- eral pieces of rope a mask made out or silk handkerchief and bullets of a diff ferent caliber from those with which he was killed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-22
DEPUTY CEASES NEGROES
Alleged Bootleggers Flee, Smashing
 Bottles as They Run

Gadsden. February -tSpeciaL)-- Deputy Sheriff w, B. Watson had a rather unusual but interesting expe- rience yesterday when he undertook to make7a solo raid at New Haven park.
 Having information that whisky was being sold wholesale from a car at the park he visited the scene. Two negroes saw him coming and started to run down the railroad track and as they ran they threw bottles ahead of them, breaking them on the rails After they had disappeared the deputy fol lowing their hot trail found many
 broken bottles apd one full bottle that
 had failed to explode and also an over- coat that had been thrown away as the escaping negroes frightened their burdens. No arrests were made as the deputy was alone and could not get the
 negroes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-22
Rheumatism Comes
 From Tiny Pain Germs

therefore, is one which cleanses tee blood of these germs, and routs them entirely out of the circulation.
 This is why s. s. S., the greatest known blood purifier, is so success ful in the treatment of Rheumatism. It is . powerful cleanser of the blood, and will remove the disease germs that cause your Rheumatism, affording relief that is genuine.
 s. s. S. is sold by all druggists. Free literature and medical advice can be had by writing to Chief Medi- cal Adviser, S26 Swift Laboratory, Atlanta, Ga.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-22

First of all, get it firmly fixed in your mind that all the iniments in the world have no effect whatever on Rheumatism.
 Medical scientists differ as to the causes of every form of rheumatism, but agree that when caused by a tiny disease germ, the only effective method of treatment is to attack the disease at its source, and cleanse the blood of its cause.
 A very common form of Rheu- matisn is caused by millions of tiny disease germs which infest the Hood. The ono and only sensible treatment,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-22
Minesweeper In Distress
 Nv A Asanrinted PrHsa

Norfolk, Va, February 1.-The mine
 sweeper Robin is in distress about At eording to a wireless message picked up at the Hampton Roads station this after noon at o'clock. The Robin was bound from the Norfolk navy yard to Charles ton. According to the wireless message received here. she experienced engine trouble off Hatteras and was drifting in the northeast gale when the sos was sent out The coast guard cutter Semin- ole has been dispatched from Whining ton to the assistance of the minesweeper.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-22
Z KNOWN DEAD IN
 BUILDING CRASH
All Night Search Conducted In Ruins for Other Pos
 sibIe Victims
Rx Assoclated press

Cleveland, Ohio, February 1.-Two men are known to be dead and two others injured as the result of the collapse to- day of three floors of the old Masonic Temple building at East Sixth street and Superior avenue. Workers conducted an all-night search of the debris for other possible victims.
 Five men were unaccounted for to- night, according to H. G. Schnell, time keeper of the Cuyahoga House Wreck ing company, which is raging the build ing. They failed to turn in their time checks during a roll call after the acci- dent but they may have gone to then homes, he said
 The dead are Nathan Soglovitz, 2S, vice president of the wrecking company, and Fred Soeder, 67, day watchman for the concern. They were crushed to death.
 They were in the office on the first floor of the building when the crash came and were carried with the debris into the basement.
 Fire broke out late today and tenn porarly halted the work of rescue, but it soon was extinguished.
 An investigation to. find whether there had been any criminal negligence has been ordered by Mayor w. s. Fitzgerald.