Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-18
Silence Significant
in RaiLlUay Strike
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OF strikers, the pay to be the standard
rate established by the United States
Labor Board.
Information as to the strike of the
stationary engineers, firemen and oil
ers, which became operative over the
country yesterday, Is that it has not
materially, affected the situation. Pres
!dent Healy, who is in this city. claims
that the strike Is 100 per cent effective.
ana there are no figures to contradict
\, A harsh note has been injected into
sne situation. both as 1t affects the rail
Hhd mine strikes. Eugene V. Debs,
the irreconcilable, issued statement
!ate yesterday In his characteristic ir.
repressibte style.
ne is in a Chicago Sanatorium re-.
sovering, It is said. from the effects.
strain and exhaustion caused by the
constant visits Of admirers and fellow
cGmmunists to his home. He appeals to
al workers, "the rank and file" to
unite and Strike together, vote to-
sether and Fl ght together"
hs though It were part OF n
eehoente campaign, women and girls
sse sse, stationed on street corners here.
sIhalhs shs passers by to sign petitions,
~nich they present, for a general
amnesty amnesty to Federal prisoners who
preached treason or else evaded the call
Sv.,armS arms in one way and another,
~ os1r.ns the World War. Debs was one
VI Me former crowd.
Last night on two downtown street
e. eurners ! heard communistic SOAP box
aeois harangue curbstone crowds with
Sotel teJ''al OF how the Bolsheviki had ele-
bow br' ane status OF the Russian people.
DIV DIV much better the policies Of Red
TMussla today are than those OF The
Smned states and what advantages
mo mou'a accrue to the American working
tanm nm u ne would join hands with the In
hhh"!lonale ho,h and the Soviet regime. In
ora. INSTANCES 1t was apparent that the
SaS S,atorS were in need Of a haircut and
were shy shave. "N
Avery Every member of the Hotel Mems
H.Soclation Hr"ation in Chicago operates his
nm,"perty on the open shop basis. That
cit" slams mat every large hotel in this
hoy. S with one exception, is non union
I nagpole to sub basement.
tors n talking with the managing direc.
found oo tmree OF the largest hotels I
the 81, Concurrence In the opinion that
Trade. ' "'''"s ''s enect on their
49,, Hotel Business Slack
of Iihasummer is usually the off period
m,.;nn nne year with them. Buyers and
tbsiness tbs;nn men select other seasons for
Off visits; Discounting this falling
is ,ney admit that the present strike
Snn a. n%aving depressing effect upon travel
"T Thne necessarily on the hotel business.
with anticipate a strike settlement,
,n.1 ,,s 'he auvantngc In favor of the rail,
,oaos. ,oaas. This attitude, they confessed.
road r,"n the Views Of prominent rail-
frisundih f%u men, who were their guests and
ts", t.has, and who were in intimate con-
"r1 with the inside of things.
nosI ohe OF them particularly stressed the
nrss rsa Tor coolness of all hands In the
WsSent emergency, and cited the case OF
-. estern railroad town where the en-
nne e male population, though dependent
nn nron operation Of a particular trunk
nj the first indication of trouble a
\ Sssd 'States marshaN and deputies
eent to the town, fully armed.
ssad Of issuing orders the marshal