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New-York tribune., 1922-07-02
Camp Dix Soldier Gets Fortune
For Oil Land Deed Won at Craps

MOUNT HOLLY, n. j., July L.
Quartermastcr Sergeant Gustave Rel
sig, forty-hve years old and twenty i've
years a soldier in Uncle Sans Army,
pulled out of Camp Dix to-day to look
into oil properties which he won in an
almost forgotten craps game in a town
in the Middle West five years ago.
Already he has received a check for
$4,000 and the oil has only begun to
flow.
The sergeant, who imm ediately gained
for himself the nickname Of John D."
when the good news spread through the
barracks, does not even recall the name
OF the man from whom he won his oil
we'll. He was going strong tnat night
and when one of the players was
cleaned Of money he offered to put up
deed to several acres of land in Okla
homa and "shoot the works"
Relslg shot perfect seven and be-
came the proprietor Of piece of paper
New-York tribune., 1922-07-02

that meant absolutely nothing to him.
He several times thought to throw it
away. Then, few months ago, some
one wrote to him and told him that il he
was the owner Of certain piece of
land he'd better begin digging fer oil,
because i, was there
Reisig engaged a lawyer and leased
the land to an operating company
Yesterday he received check fof
$4,000, together with an agreeme mt
which insures him a return of 33 cents
on every barrel Of oil taken off his
land.
When this happened. the first thin g
Relsiig did was to put in for a fur
lough.;, The second thing he did was
to doll himself W like the colonel's
horse, and the third thing he did was
to take q .rain for his home in
Springfield, Ohio.
You can tell EN-, boy" he said
I'm sittin' pretty. All dressed up and
some place to go! Burn my mess gear,
kid! Let's go!"
New-York tribune., 1922-07-02
Find Hungry Won,en and
Children at Ne,p Riuer

Tho commission named BY Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise at the request Of the
New River Coal Operators Association
to investigate conditions among the
miners in that West Vnrginia field,
made public primary report yestes-
day contradicting the claim made by
the owners in inviting the survey. The
operators said mo necessary starvation
or even privation" would be found.
The report is signed by Father R. A.
MCGOWAN, of the National Catholic
Welfare Council; DR.. Sidney L. Gold
stein, associate rabbi of the Free Syna-
gogue and director of social service:
and Winthrop D. Lane, author 0.
Civil War IN West Virginia" and
for years a member of the staff OF
THE Survey" magazine. All three
were in the New River feld for week
beginning June is.
The commission estimates the num-
ber of families in distress in the New
River field as at least $500, adding
that, inasmuch as many Of the lls
mines in the section have been worked
by non-union labor since the beginning
of the coal strike, it is probable that
more. aggravated conditions MI! DC
found in other localities. Some miners
25 to so cents week, IL says. Most
Of the blame for the suffering appar..
emily is placed on determined and
admitted attempt to crush unionism
among the miners" and the report
closes with a warning that the policy
is not succeeding.
"Unionism in parts of West Virgins
where it has existed for years, not
ably in the New River field. is being
driven into underground channels,
say the findings. Locals of the union
made up of the unemployed, are meet.
ing secretly and holding their charters
under cover. The impression mads
upon the commission is that many o.
these men, clinging to what they re-,
gard as their fundamental rights. VIII
work clandestinely for Reinstatement
Of collective bargaining. This bode.
i'll for industrial peace and is vei!
likely to place the New River field y
the same status as Mingo County ans
those other regions in West Virgins
in which the union has been ags1e'
sively fought"
AS for the acuteness OF the distres.
the report summarizes the sureI,n.s
found in the New River fields IN sh''
one paragraphs: ;.
many IainlsleS OF tNe HlHei'
West Virginia are living without ~
iicient food: some have no adequssS
clothing. The commission enseleu
miners houses in which there wa.
only little fat back or fat say
pork, little -four and perhaps iit.s
meal; it talked to fathers and motne.s
who were giving their children IVY
meals day and who did not knos
whether the next week would orins
sufficient food or not. 1t found baD'ss
and young children without milk y.
cereals for months. The commissloa
found children who had neither snoe.
nor stockings and-women who had ~
shoes. 1t found pressing and w'os,
spread need in many parts of the cos;
regions. The allowance for many "a "a
these families is between % ana
cents week for each person"
New-York tribune., 1922-07-02
'Pussyfoot' Blamed for
London Traffic Rule
Special Gable to The Tribune


Copyright. 1922. New York Tribune Inc,
LONDON, July IAN attempt
on the part Of the safety-frst
council to make London pedestri-
ans keep to the left Of sidewalks
as vehicles do on the roads, which
was inaugurated here to-day, was
not particularly successful. The
populace appeared to regard it as
an attack on their personal lib
erty and to connect it with the
arrival of "Pussyfoot" Johnson
at Liverpool from America.
The evening newspapers agree
that there is deviation from the
highly individualistic habit of
walking in Britains capital.
Traffic policemen who were ques-
toned remarked that walkers
would learn to keep to the left
about the same time the country
went dry.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-02

and finally sense Of the larger OBJ
legations to the public are essential
to successful conference
"And commend to you executive
sessions and assume full response
bility for such recommendation, even
as assume the safeguarding of the
public interest in asking you to come
together. Differences are more often
magnified than composed in their
parading, and the call of the hour is
adjusted differences, with due con-
cern for the public welfare.
Il thank you all alike for your re-
sponse to my invitation, and l ex-
press the hope that in the realization
Of your responsibilities, and in an
appraisal Of your obligations, in the
face-to-facc, man-to-man and citizen
to-citizen contact, you will find a way
to just concord which the American
public may gladly acclaim"
New-York tribune., 1922-07-02
13 Stills, 6 Running,
Seized in Two Barns
Eight City Detectives Make Big
Raid Near Coney Island,
but Get No Prisoners

Eight detectives on the staff of Dep
uty Commissioner John Leach yester-
day raided two ramshackle barns in a
lonesome lane in the meadow lands
about a mile north of Coney Island.
Word of their intentions had evidently
preceded them, for the barn was un-
occupied. The police found there thir-
teen stills and quantity of alcohol.
Six of the stills were in operation, as
if they had been abandoned hurriedly.
1t was the largest single raid of its
kind that has been made in that sec
ton since the drought began. The
paraphernalia was removed to the
Beach Street police station.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-02

roundhouse at 8 o'clock yesterday. The
strike on the Hudson River division
was SO complete the trains from AL
bany came in with the locomotives run
ming backward because of the detection
of the men hired to work the turn
tables.
Only in southern New Jersey were
there indications that the strike order
was unpopular. In Camden only about
forty of the 1852 men employed by the
Pennsylvania shops went out, and none
of the 400 in the Pavonia Avenue shops
struck. The union declared that the
situation there would be greatly
changed by Monday.
No strike was reported by the Atlantic
City division of the Reading Railroad
New-York tribune., 1922-07-02
Strike Haits PASSENGER Train

ROCHESTER. \. z, July IA pas
senger train scheduled to leave here at
10 o'clock to-day. was unable to do so
owing TO breakdown in the rnechan-
ism OF the locom otive. All repairmen
employed on the road refused TO work
on the engine and the train was held
up for half en- hour until one OF the
officials Of the union gave the men
special order granting them permis-
sion to repair the break.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-02

also caused the failure Of an engine
ten miles out of Chicago.
BEARDSTOWN, H., July (By The
Associated Press),-Four hundred and
fifty shopmen Of the Chicago, Burlng-
ton G. Quincy Railroad who quit re-
turned in force shortly and after fail
ing to pursuade four other men who
stayed at work surrounded them and
out.
We sent them home,' the leader
said, "to avoid trouble."
CHICAGO, July 1.--Out of approxi-
matcly 10000 shopmen employed on
the Illinois Central Railroad only 1000
Joined the shopmens s strike, which be-
gan to-day, according to figures given
out tonight by member of the Rail
road Labor Board. These figures were
said to cover the entire system, and
were the first complete poll for any
road centering in Chicago.
BOSTON, July 1.-The walkout of
union shopmen on the three chief New
England systems was general. About
5000 Boston E. Maine shopmen went
out, including 1,7O0 at Billerica, 800 at
Concord, N. H.; 500 at North Adams,
800 at Lyndonville, VT, and 500 in this
city.
New Haven officials estimated that
$500 men employed on the system $
Eastern lines left work
On the Boston 6; Albany the walkout
was general.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, July 1.-shop-
men at the Delaware & Hudson round
house here were still at work TODAY,
saying they had received no strike or,
der. When it is received they will 20
out, it is said.
BUFFALO,, July 1.--Between 1000
5000 men employed in car shops and
roundhouses in and around Buffalo quit
work.
ALBANY, July 1.--Between 5000 and
1000 railroad shopmen and round.
house employees in this city and vicin.
ity answered the strike call.
HORNELL, N. Y, July 1.-Approxi-
mataly 1000 employees of the Erie
shops here went on strike.
SYRACUSE, July about 45oc
shopmen in Syracuse, Dewitt and
Mlnoa walked out
DETROIT, July 1.-Nineteen hun
dred shopmen employed by railroads
entering Detroit went on strike. The
Michigan Central began to advertise
for men to fill the nearly 1900 places
of the strikers. Railroad officials said
they were hiring many new men.
Southern Workers Answer Call
JACKSONVILLE, July 1.-Nearly
5000 railroad shopmen, excluding those
at Pensacola, walked out in Florida.
BIRMINGHAM, July 1.-Seven thou.
sand shopmen walked out here.
WHEELING, W. Va, July 1,-Fou,
thousand men quit in West Virginia.
SAN FRANCISCO. July 1.-The
strike was more than 30 per cent effec-
tive in California, Oregon and Wash
ington. Early figures showed that
9,756 men had ceased work
New-York tribune., 1922-07-02
Harrison Quits Post
On Brazil Commission
Resignation Requested by Other
Members Who Were Out of
Harmony With Him

WASHINGTON, July I'M embers Of
the United States Brazilian Exposition
Commission were informed to-day by
the White House that President Hard
ing had accepted the resignation of
Frank P. Harrison, of Nebraska, g
member of the commission.
The resignation OF Mr.. Harrison re.
Gently was requested by five members
of the commission, who charged that
he was not working in harmony with
the commission.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-02
Pennsylvania Makes Wage
Agreement With 1900

PHILADELPHIA, July 1.-The Penn
sy!vania Railroad Company announced
tonight that agreements covering the
readjustment of wages have been
reached between the management ard
the elected representatives. of the
New-York tribune., 1922-07-02

CLEVELAND, July 1.--New York
Central officials announced that out of
1000 locomotive and shop men en-
ployed between Buffalo and Chicago
$50 quit work
Practically all Of the shop craft en-
ployees Of the Nickel Plate throughout
its entire system walked cut. Other
Cleveland roads announced that less
than 90 per cent Of their shop EN-
ployees quit work.
Between 1000 and 5000 railroad shop
workmen quit their places in the four
teen Toledo shops.
Two hundred Of the 300 shop EN-
ployees of the Wabash refused to join
the walkout
New-York tribune., 1922-07-02
Rail Employees Rout Guards
In q Clash Near Was1lin gton
First Strike Disorder Reported Detail Sent to Pro
tect Property Is Mistaken for Strikebreakers:
Companies Announce Thousands Stick to Jobs

WASHINGTON, July 1.-Disordcrs
in connection with the strike occurred
at the Washington terminal round
house at Ivy City. Md, near here.
early to-day, when men said to be en-
ployees of the company drove from
the vicinity of the roundhouse de-
tail Of special guards sent there by
the railroad to protect the property.
The men are said to have mistaken
the guards for strikebreakers. A
hnnd-to-hand tusslc took place before
the guards withdrew, but no one WIS
injured.
Shop workers officials declared the
shopmen's strike was 81 per cent eff
fective in the Washington district with
about 1900 men out.
BALTIMORE, July 1.-One thousand
Of the 5000 workers at the Mount
Clare shops of the Baltimore & Ohio
walked out At the Riverside shops
40 per cent Of the men remained at
work. Both shops were maintaining
operations.
Seventy-tive per cent Of the Pennsyl-
vania shopmen here are out.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-02

clerks and scellaneous forces in the
Eastern region of the system, affecting
10000 clerks and 1000 mem bers OF the
miscellaneous forces.
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so of 5000 Walk Out

ALTOONA, Pa, July 1.-Only 90 of
the 5000 men employed in the Altoona
shops CT the Pennsylvania Railroad
answer the strike call. The failure
of the strike was explained by the fact
that large numbers of the men are
working under separate agreement
with the railroad company.
Out Of 1900 men employed in the
Pennsylvania shops ct Remove 375 men
left work.
At the Avis shops of the New York
Central only 16 out of $50 employees
answered the strike call.
A large number of men obeyed the
strike order on the Pennsylvania at the
Jersey City and Meadows shops, in
New Jersey, and the Sunnysde shop,
on Long Island. In Philadelphia only
few men, mostly car cleaners, quit
and their places we're filed.
SAYRE, Pa. July In the Lehigh
Valley shops 318 men out of 1900 quit
New-York tribune., 1922-07-02

Wabash Engines Go Dead
DECATUR, ILL.,, July 1.-Sand and
emery dust were found in fifteen jour-
nal boxes on engines at the Wabash
Railroad roundhouse here to-day Sew
eral engines were reported dead along
the line. The removal of a cotter pin
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Coal Factions
Heed w arning
OF President

Continued from page ons)
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BIRMINGHAM, July 1.-Seven thou
sand shopmen walked out here.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-02

Southern Workers Answer Call
JACKSONVILLE, July l.-Nearly
5000 railroad shopmen, excluding those
at Pensacola, walked out in Florida.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-02
Nickel Plate Men Quit

SAYRE, Pa, July LIN the Lehigh
Valley shops 318 men out of 200 quit
New-York tribune., 1922-07-02

WHEELING, w. Va, July 1,-Fou,
thousand men quit in West Virginia.
SAN FRANCISCO. July 1.-The
strike was more than 30 per cent effec-
tive in California, Oregon and Wash
ington. Early figures showed that
9,756 men had ceased work.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-02

DETROIT, July 1.-Nineteen hun
dred shopmen employed by railroads
entering Detroit went on strike. The
Michigan Central began to advertise
for men to fill the nearly 1900 places
of the strikers. Railroad officials said
they were hiring manY new men
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-08-19
TEN YEARS AGO TO-DAY.

Monday morning, no paper pub
lished.
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Nancy and Nick" he cried in
amazement. "Wen I'll be-I'll be
/ don't know what III be. What's
happened?"
SO the Twins told him all about it.
"You wait here" said Mr.. Ruba-
dub. 'I'll fix it. Ting-a-ling-a-ling"
And he telephoned to Mr.. Sprinkle
Blow, the Weatherman, to come and
get him with his magic umbrella.
Pretty soon Mr.. Sprinkle-Blow ar
rived and heard the wh&le story.
"My, my! That's awful" he eX-
claimed. "But never mind! I know
where Flap-Doodle is. l saw him
flying to the moon with his big ears
He's there now annoying the
Man-in-the-M Moon. Jump on, Ruba.
dub. Wen go and get him and make
him change these poor Twins back
to themselves again"
Both fairy gentlemen hoped on
the Weatherman's magic umbrella
and flew up to the sky.
(To be continued.)
Copyright, 1929
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when 1t suits their~purposes H..
can weed out those workers mos.
active in the protection of riob+.
their fellow employees. This Womb
punish the more independent fo,o.
full workers and intimidate otber.
"These are but high spots in II.
fight for decent conditions in A..
transportation industry. Thev ono
the accumulation of sevor.;
years bitter assault on +bs
rights of the workers in the bons
of disrupting their organization.
The employees know that only bT
standing together can they withstand
these attacks. They are united %
never before, and victory is certai,
"The railroad workers ara IN
strike for the preservation Of lonJ
established working rules such IN
overtime for Sundays and HOLIDAYS
Long before the war the warL,ors
had established their right to axtra
pay for work performed on SUNDAYS
and holidays. All religious and mad,
zeal and social welfare experts agree
that the worker is entitled to Iai,
ure at stated intervals. Common
justice demands that those who mnst
, toll when others are taking their
rest should be given more than thew
receive for ordinary work. The rail
roads themselves recognized this in
agreements made with their emp'ov-
es. The arbitrary discontinuance of
this policy was protested by the
workers, and persistent disregard Of
this protest helped bring on the
strike.
THE other working rules, such as
that prohibiting the discrimnn lfion.
breeding physical examination which
the strikers are fighting for. are
equally vital to the workers AMI
equally we'll established by custom
wv. H. ST. JOHNS,
"W. B. M'DANIEL,
81. G. pOUNCEY,
Publicity Committee"
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'ditiously and justly handle most of
these cases. The transportation ac4
provided for the creation of these
boards, and the majority of the labor
committee OF the Association of Rail
way Executives declared itself in IA
vor Of such boards The banking in
terests 1.-TWO New York banks hold
267 directorships in nipety-two class
1 railroads. exerted their influence
to line up the labor committee against
national boards and they have never
been created. The employees have suf-
fered irreparable losses from long de-
lays in obtaining decisions.
ITO many newspaper readers the
strike means fight for seniority.
That is the carriers red herring in
troduced for the purpose of obscur-
ing the real issues. They seek to
make it appear that the seniority
rights are favors which the men
forfeit as penalty for exercising
their admitted right to refuse to
work under unacceptable condi-
tions. The fact is that seniority
rights are essential to the efficient
operation of transportation service.
Seniority rights mean the right
of the senior employee to be the last
laid off in a reduction of forces and
the first selected for vacancies in
preferable jobs. This practice en-
courages permanent employment, the
building of homes and making of use,
full citizens. To discontinue it would
| imperil the homes of skilled employees
and stimulate the growth Of class
of floating homeless and reliable
workers.
For their own good the roads
wish to retain the senior, more eff
ficient employees after the strike
They talk loudly now of protecting
the new men for the purpose of di-
verting attention from the main is
sues. They also hope to wipe out
the principle of seniority so that
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-08-19

United States department of labor
experts say the minimum substance
budget is $1,4O0 and the minimum
comfort budgets is $4,000.
'The railroad workers then had two
alternative starvation on the job,
or the use of their economic power
for food and clothing for their fami-
lies. They chose the strike. Victory
will mean healthier and more capable
workers, sturdier children and hap
pier family life Maintenance of the
purchasing power of the vast army
of railroad workers will mean pros
perity for the wholesale and retail
merchant, the small manufacturer
and business man, and, above all, for
the farmer. When the workers can
not buy, the industries supplying the
needs Of the workers suffer along
with the workers.
The railroad workers are fighting
the farming out" of repair work.
Railroad executives who cashed in on
all the provisions of the transporta-
ton act which were profitable to
them, shamelessly evaded the provis-
ions of the act which guaranteed a
minimum of justice for their EN-
ployer by contracting out of their re-
pair work to firms which paid less
than starvation wages and forced
their employees to work long hours at
piece rates. The Labor Board de-
clared this a plain evasion of the
law, but the railroads blithely con-
tinued to farm out" their repair
work. Since the shopmen walked out
the roads have admitted their unlaw
full conduct and promised to discon
tinue the contracting out system. Ap
parently the language of The sstrikc
was the only language they could un
derstand.
''The railroad workers want ma
tional boards of adjustment. Two
years experience demonstrates tn,
inability of the Labor Board to han
die all the transportation labor prob
inns. More than 500 cases are nov
before the board, some of them near
ly two years old. Others have no
even been, listed for hearing, and tn
congestion is increasing. The en-
ployes have long contended that ma
tional adjustment boards could exp'
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FROM
THE PEOPLE

The shopmen on strike on the Sea-
board Air Line, in Americas, have
issued the following statement OF
their position:
Setting out their reasons for strik-
ing, the publicity committee Of the
local shop crafts who are on strike,
Tuesday issued lengthy statement.
This committee is composed of w. II.
st. Johns, w. B. Mcdaniel and j. c.
Pouncey. The initial paragraph Of
| the statement sets out that the shop
men are striking against starvation
wages. There then follows in order
other reasons which the shopmen give
for walking out.
The statement in full follows:
''The shOpmen are on strike against
starvation wages. Contrary to popu-
lar belief, tn: railway employees of
America have never received an ade-
quate wage. Always they have to de-
prive their families of comforts to
which they are entitled, and men with
large families have to take in board
ers or supplement the family income
in other ways.
"In 1900 the average annual earn
ings of all railway employees were
$567. In 1913 they were $757 Thus
slowly did old wages climb. How far
they Jagged behind the cost of living
may be readily observed when it is
noted that the United States Depart.
ment of Labor said in 1914 a man
must have $1,316.85 a year to keep
his family in the minimum of 'health
and decency." Nor was the war pc
Rod the paradise for railroad work
ers which employers tell you about.
The buying power of average wages
at the close of the war was less
than that of the starvation wages Of
1900.
The belated 1920 pay increase for
railroaders merely brought railroad
wages up to the buying power of the
wages they got before the war. As
already pointed out, pre-war wages
did not permit Comfortable and de.
cent living. Even that small meas
J ure of comfort was soon taken away
from the workers by the decreases
ordered in July, 1921. Tightening. up
their belts, the rail employees tried to
carry on under the cut. When the
Labor Board ordered fresh cut fol
July /, 1922, the breaking point was
reached, and the men decided to face
starvation on the picket line rather
than on the job.
THE term, starvation is not useC
lightly. That is just what the neo
wages would mean to the families oil
the strikers. The Labor Board de
creed wage of % cents an hour fol
a large body of workers. 1t protest.
that the average wage for this elias,
of workers is 1927 cents an hour, OF
$500 a year.
who can raise a family in healt<
and decency on $500 a year? The
statisticians hired by employers as
sociations to figure out the lowest pos
sible standard of living for worker.
do not have the courage to offer :
minimum budget of less than $1,150
Some of these enployer-made bud
gets run as high as $1,700. The