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Evening star., 1924-01-27

port of the committee that consid-
cred the dispute at the Cincinnati
convention of the federation in 1922
The chief factor in this controversy
has 10 do with processes that are
common TO both organizations ana
winch the committee found were be-
ing carried on by both unions as a
part of their ordinary work. The
loading and unloading of material
around yards or buildings from cars
TO trucks and from trucks to the
ground or elsewhere is process that
involves class of workers espc-
cialIS organized and skilled in the
them.
The committee found from Tho
Facts presented that in some instances
this work is done by structural iron
workers and in other instances by
teansters There appears no con+ro,
Yersy over the handling of any build
ing material except iron and steel
Claim is set UP by the iron workers
to the handling of heavy machinery
other similar construction. To this
class of work the tcamsters also Ian
claim.
Like All Other QuarreIs,
This dispute is similar in essence
to nearly all of the other quarreIs
over who shall do certain work that
affiict the labor movement. On its
face 1t appears to be a simple matter
and entirely capable of quick adjust
ment. Yet the controversy between
the two unions is of long duration. 1t
began more than ten years ago and
has continued during all the wears
since its inception The recommends
tion for adjustment contained in the
report of the federation council for
1877 was that where building ma
tertal is hauled to buildings under
construction and the foreman, con-
tractor or person in charge of the
erection of the building directs that
1T be hoiSted from the vehicle the
work shall be done by the struc-
tural iron workers. but where 1t is
unloaded on the ground, street or
sidewalk 1t be done by the teamsters.
That recommendation was not ac-
cepted. The dispute Is still on. 1t will
finally be settled by agreement be-
tween the parties at interest, or by
federation intervention. or adjust it
self with the passage Of time.
The public is justified. however. in
pede and in many instances prevent
the carrying on of great enterprises.
The question is a fair one.
All of these contentious should be
adjusted under truce, and by the
unions involved. They should not be
permitted to prejudice the cause of
the wage earners or their opportunity
to sell their labor under contracts
embracing the best obtainable condi-
tions.
Organized labor cannot afford to
make itself appear ridiculous.
Copyright, 1924, by :he Mcclure Newspaper
9, Syndicate.
Evening star., 1924-01-27
BY HERBERT COREY.

:::; :; 81: :;:.;' n; !: s: $ !:
| Burgess.
That's the way the
bureau of standards does things. 1t
starts with the. fundamentals. Its
scientists work out on paper the
strains and stresses that may be en-
countered in any given job. Then
they make machines to stimulate
those strains and stresses. Then
| they subject the material in the job
! to the operation of the machines. So
| they did with the parts that go to
make up the Shenandoah. So they
did in 10000 other assignments in
almost as many lines. The bureau
of standards is the most hideously
misnamed bureau in all the govern
| ment's establishments. A better
name for it would be:
A Better Name for Bureau.
THE bureau of applied romance"
| When the Shenandoah was turned
over to the United States government
! it was beyond doubt the strongest
airship in the world. Then the Navy
planned a jaunt to the north pole and
back. That proposition involves risks
! that no other airship has ever taken.
| 1t will be inflated with helum gas.
which is non-eXplosive. But helium
has only about four-sevenths the con-
tinuous lifting capacity for trip of
this sort that hydrogen has. The
Shenandoah must encounter twisting
| winds. furious Arctic storms, the
| weight of the fog which is sure to
be met in high latitudes, a score Of
other possibilities that other air
ships have never met. A snowstorm
| cost Germany seven Zeppelins in
| bunch during the war.
Lets ask the bureau of stand
ards" said the Navy Department.
Made Tests and improvements.
/ Therefore. the bureau made a ma
chine which stretched the cloth of the
| Shenandoah's envelope. 1t made ma
! chine which detected the possible leak
| age. II invented Il turn indicator" for
! the guidance of the navigators. 1t
| worked out scheme for ballast recov-
! cry SO that no gas need be lost to keep
| the great balloon from going too high.
/ II devised new instruments of record
and discovery to meet the new condi-
| tions.' II tested the girders of the ship
and suggested new forms in order to
secure greater strength. Il fixed up
new compasses for the gyro-compass
used on the sea will not yet work in
the air. 1t offered radio suggestions.
| after all this I asked Dr. Burgess,
! do you believe that commercial nayi-
| CATION by airship will one day be prac-
| ticable?'
! YES" said he. Now | do was a
doubter at first. The Zeppelins were
! instruments OF war pure and simple.
! Their task was to go as high as possible
| for safety's sake. The modern ship will
! operate at a lower level and can be
made as strong as need be. The added
weight will not be a handicap
! Nothing Too Big or Too Small.
| George Kimball Burgess is the present
director OF the bureau Of standards.
| There is no organization OF scientists in
| the world TO compare with it. There
may be groups of specialists who go
farther in narrowly limited research
work. The bureau does everything. II
has measured the wad Of compressed
air borne in front of the nose of a bomb
dropped from a plane. 1t engaged in a
tumbler- breaking contest TO discover
the best grade of glassware for the use
of heavy handed army cooks. 1t proved
that American hotel crockery is five
Evening star., 1924-01-27

Do YOU know that jefferson Davis
president OF the Southern Confed-
eracy, was responsible for our hav-
ing no goddess of liberty above the
great dome Of our national Capitol?
Have you ever heard the real story
of why Gen. Nelson a. Miles put
manacles on jefferson Davis when
he was captured and returned to
Fortress Monroe, Va, and for which
act OF making Davis "a chain-ganS g
victim Gen. Miles, now eighty-three
years old and the most distinguished
living soldier Of the civil war, has
been criticized IN the south for more
than half a century?
These are among the many inter
eSting stories that came under MS
personal observation that are told oy
years old. who is the oldest man that
ever served in the American Con-.
-ress, in his Memories Of the War,
which has Just been published.
In these memories Gen. sherwood
makes no attempt to rewrite history.
under his personal observation and
corrects some mistaken notions.
Jefferson Davis was Secretary or
War in the cabinet Of Franklin
eminent sculptor, Crawford. was in
Rome preparing the model for the
heroic statue to crown the dome
zen. Sherwood reminds US. Inc nrst
photograph OF the figure sent nome
by Crawford was rejected by Davis
because IT was the figure Of woman
crowned with liberty cap, blazoned
with thirteen stars, to represent the
thirteen original states. Davis re-
aected this model because the liberty
N
freed slave, that the United States
was half-slave and half-free terri
tory, and that the figure bearing q
liberty cap crowning the dome Of the
national Capitol would be a menace
TO the south.
Figure Is Changed.
"At the suggestion Of Davis, the
figure was changed, and the figure
that stands above the great dome
and has stood there sixty-seven years
is not the goddess OF liberty Repre-
tentative Sherwood says. 'It is the
nRurc (approved by Jefferson Davis]
Of a woman with the right hand rest.
ing on the hilt of a sheathed sword
the left hand on a shield and holoine
an olive wreath.
crest OF eagle quills. 1t is the figure
OF q woman, the sword and shield o.
o. soldier, and the Phrygian helmet o.
n pagan. In January, 1888, wrote
from Washington a letter stating tina
Jefferson Davis was responsible 1ol
this spurious statue. Mr.. Davis de-
MED this responsibility. This repl!
seemed to cali for the proof.
Gen. Phil Sheridan was then IT
supreme command of the Regular
Army 1 made a request of him tc
have clerk detailed in the wal
ofice to look up and report the Off
cial correspondence between Jeffer.
SON Davis, Secretary Of War, 1855-66
and the creator OF the statue on the
dome. In a week I had the CORE.
spondence duly verified, and I pub
,jished it. To this Mr.. Davis never
replied. .
u have no hesitation in stating
Evening star., 1924-01-27


world for the seven days ended jan
uary 26).
GREAT BRITAIN.
TINE strike of nearly all the
$4,000 members of the Society
of Locomotive Engineers and
F'iremen of Great Britain be-
gan at midnight January 21-22. The
strikers rejected the award of a ma
tional wages board on which they
were properly represented. The Ma
Itional Union of Railwaymen, which
condemns the strike as "blackleg
one, includes in its membership be-
tween 10000 and 10000 engineers
and firemen, so that limited train
service is being maintained. This
and supplementary motor transport
insure the absolutely necessary cir
culation of men and supplies, except
coal
one way of regarding the strike is
that it furnishes q, valuable test of
the new labor government. The Bald
win government fell as per sched-
ule. and on January % Ramsay Mac
tdonald was invited to form a lapor
government. He had his list Of min
listers ready. The more important
appointments are as follows:
Phime minister and secretary of
state for foreign affairs. Ramsay
Macdonald.
Lord privy seal and leader of the
house of commons-J. r. Clynes.
Lord president Of the council
Lord Parmoor.
Lord chancellor-Vfscou Haldane
Chancellor Of the exchequer-Philip
Snowden.
Secretary of state for home affairs
Arthur Henderson.
Secretary of state for the colonies
j. IL Thomas.
Secretary Of state for war-Stephen
Secretary of state for India-Sir
Sidney Olivier.
Air ninister-Brig Gen. Christopher
Thompson. WI,
President of the board Of trade
Sidney Webb.
Minister of health-John Wheatley
Minister of agriculture-Noel BuX-
ton.
Minister of labor-Thomas Shaw.
1t is a little bewildering at first
blush to discover three peers on the
list, but aristocrats have almost al
movements. Lord Haldane would
raise the intellectual average of al
most any group in which he might
he included. Lord Chelmsford has
been yiceroy of India. Lord Parmoor
Is an eminent lawyer. Lord Chelms-
ford, at least, has hitherto been
known as a conservative.
OF the commoners some, like Sidney
webb, are of the class known as lin
IteIlectuals," a term not always used
, by way of compliment; others, like
! lClynes, have risen from toll through
leadership in labor organizations To
their present eminence; others, like
| Col. Wedgwood and c. T. TreVelyan
| of the gentry, or upper middle class
| are no doubt like the peers, fain to
associate themselves with the work
| ing class in the effort of the latter
to solve the social problems, in de-
spair Of solutions from the so-called
upper classes.
On January 90 parliament ad-
journed to February IL. It seems
| likely that Mr.. Macdonald will post
Evening star., 1924-01-27
Real Workers in the National Capital

for three years under pressure or the
war. We knew none of them. War
secrets were kept from neutrals as
strictly as from the eneniy.
Send a man who knows to Paris
quick" the general staff asked of DR..
Stratton.
DIR. Burgess was on the next ship to
leave. other scientists accompanied
and followed him.
Helped Out the Airmen.
In a two-hour talk with the French
experts a tour of inquiry was laid out
that kept the associates busy for
three months. They came home with
everything the. French and English
had. Then they began to do things
on their own account. The airmen
had not been able to take photo
graphs through the fog, and yet fog
was the one atmospheric constant in
France. The bureau of standards
made a new lens and a new atmos-
phefic emulsion and took the pictures
that were wanted. They did thou
sand and one other things like that.
I've were abreast Of our European
friends at the close of the war;" said
he. Maybe in some things little
ahead. We were able to take up some
things where they left off"
Are we still even with them"
beyond any question. The press
ure Is no longer great, of course. But
we are holding our own"
1 wanted to know the high lights
of today's work of the marvellous or
Ganization OF which he is the head.
One is radio. of course. The time VIII
come, he said, when every sea-going
vessel from a dory up will carry a
r.radio installation, for receiving, If
not for sending. Radio will largely
replace the lamp and whistle signals
Of today. More is being learned every
day, and radio is being subjected to
rule and law. The five government
departments that habitually use radio
are eliminating the conflict which
bothered them at first The time will
come when the man who uses the
air out of turn will be stopped
I'VE can spot 'em now" he said.
Every time Locate them abso-
luteIy.''
Perhaps the bureaus present most
important work-this being an eco
nomic year-is on the dictionary OF
specifications-the buyers bible.
Manufacturers Cooperating.
Every article bought by the gov
ernment will be covered by specifica-
tions. In turn these will be taken UP
by private manufacturers. Trade will
be simpliffed and costs reduced. The
government made too many special
demands in buying goods, which un-
duly loaded costs The federal speci-
fications board. working upder the
bureau of the budget, of which DR..
Burgess is ex-officio chairman, is
working on this. He is delighted by
the manner in which manufacturers
, are cooperating.
Every one wants TO help" he said
Every one"
The unification Of engineering 6
| standards is being attempted, too.
That means everything for the SIM
! plification of the big job which Aemr-
leans do particularly we'll. The bu-
reau has tested house building ma
| terials and plans and made machine
| that gives every least bit of informa-
| ton about the owners auto. The an
nual report covers more than SOC
! close-knit pages, which barely emu
merate the lines OF the bureau
activities.
What do Won want 70 know Ask
! DR.. Burgess.
Evening star., 1924-01-27
The Story the Week Has Told

proposed bank be established on Ger
man soil or elsewhere, nor whether
it is intended that the management
be predominantly German or non
German: important points.
1t seems to be the idea that such
a bank would lure back a good port
Of the eXpatriated German capital,
on guarantee, of course, that the
names of depositors of such capital
would not be disclosed. Capital thus
directly assist toward payment of
reparations by assisting in rehabili-
tation of the structure of German
finance: but such partial repatriation
under such conditions would be quite
different from the compulsory re-
patriation and direct application to
reparation payments of repatriated
capital dreamed Of by some French
men. The former. however. seems
practicable, the latter not at all so.
The tempermenta1 Teuton, noting
that the mark has not fallen since the
early part of December last. how
handsomely the rentenmark is be-
having. just as though it really had
a gold basis: how prices are declining.
how the export surplus is "swellin'
wisibIy" and how the world is bus
Ting itself on Germany's behalf. has
taken heart of hope, and sees in
rear prospect the budget balanced,
the mark able to look the dollar in
the lace, the new SuptT-elilCltHl bei
man merchant fleet, growing more
numerous daily, proudly thronging
the seven seas, and his paunch an
ticipatively glowS as with freight
age of good country sausage ana
honest brown beer, etc, etc.
Venizelos has definitely declared
himself in favor of a republic. one
of the conditions stipulated by Ven
izelos in connection with his return
to Greece was dissolution of the
officers league, the methods of
which organization seem to have re-
sembled those Of the famous Spanish
Juntas Milftares. now presumed TO be
defunct. A most sensible condition.
Venizelos displays like good sense IN
delaying for several months the
form of government, in order TO
make sure that before it is held the
officers league is in fact no more;
that most serious menace OF I'M
proper pressure on elections re-
RUSSIA.
Vladimir Ilyitch Ulianov, uni
versally known by his pen-name of
Nlkolal Ienin, died OF cereDrai neH-
orrhage: on January %. Whatever
else of bad or good may be said
about him, he was undoubtedly one
of the most extraordinary personali-
ties the world has known. The world
is watching intently for what may
follow. For a year past Lenin had
taken no active part in politics and
during: that year serious strife de-
velopea in the Russian communist
party, that party dividing into two
factions. which, with some concession
to paradox, might be called in
transigent and liberal Intransigents
-Kanteniev, Zinoviev. Stain, Djerjin--
sky, Bukharin--control the central
executive committee of the party.
These gentlemen stand for the orig
inal gospel of Lenin and would to
the utmost practicable limit repu-
diate Lenin's Nep (new economic
policy).
The: iberals-Trotsky and Radek-
would go much further than Lenin
announced his willingness to go to-
ward compromise with the capital
Evening star., 1924-01-27
Home of the MacaroOn.

K. L. Roberts IN the Saturday Evening Post.
Nancy, one of the many spots for
whose capture the kaiser waited in
vain. was undamagcd by the war, so
that her wrought-iron gates of black
and geld are unmarried and her mac
Iaroon shops as fourtshing as before
the war 1t is probable. by the way.
that the world owes at least as great
a debt to Nancy for the two Macaroon
sisters, who invented and perfected
the macaroon some seventy years ago,
as 1t does for M. Coue, tho Nancy
druggiSS who caused many persons
to feel better and better for time.
IL least. -
Evening star., 1924-01-27

Continued from First Page.)
it is often difficult for labor leaders
to get at the merits and the rights
of such dispute, for the con-
tenders will produce evidence that
has the appearance at least of up
holding the contention of each. The
union cause suffers, and suffers
grievously, not only internally, but
in public estimation, and if there is
one cause on this continent that can
not afford to damn the public it is
the cause of organized labor.
For all of the years that the juris-
dictional disputes have been before the
federation it has done its level best
to adjust them, has succeeded in
many instances, and has never failed
to point out the danger in these bat
ties to the general labor movement.
AS an example of its general atti-
tude. the following from the report
of the executive council to the Port
land convention will serve: During
the late spring and early summer a
situation developed in the building
industry which threatened great in
jury not only to the building trade
W the
labor movement. We refer to the
controversy between the Bricklayers,
Masons and Plasterers' International
Union and the Operative Plasterers
and Cement Finishers' International
Association. Letters and kilograms
were received at federation head
quarters in protest against such a
situation having developed and be-
ing permitted to continue, and point
ing out the grave effect it would in
evitably have not only upon the
building trades unions but in it's re-
action upon the organized labor move
ment in it's entirety
Light Shed on Subject.
So that there may be an under
standing of the conditions that cause
these jurisdictional disputes. an out
line of that between the structural
iron workers and the teamsters may
be helpful. 1t is taken from the re-
Evening star., 1924-01-27

DR.. Burgess is forty-eight years
old, genial, companionable. likes a
joke. is round. hearty. healthy and
bald. He was the first child born; in
Newton, Mass, OF family that had
run heavily TO ship captains and to
borne commerce. That argues
that the first Burgesses liked to find
out about things that were on: the
other side of the horizon. He had
the same sort of curiosity. when
he was three years old his father
brought home twenty-four towering
plants for the garden. WhcT his
father went into the house he dug
them all up to see how they grew.
The first gesture Of the incuiring
scientific mind. Likewise his first
step forward in the practical matters
of life.
Your theory was excellent" said
his father. But your application of
it was so i'll judged that papa. must
'pank."
Was Assigned to War Work.
chusetts Tech, of which institution
DIR. s. W. Stratton, the first director
of the bureau OF standards, is now
the head. In succession he went to
two other universities. Then to the
Sorbonne at Paris, and is one of the
three or four Americans 10 be given
Il y. Sc. by that famous university:
When we went to war he was at the
head Of the division of metallurgy in
the bureau. All sorts of scientific
things had been happening in Europe
Evening star., 1924-01-27

lists, the bourgeois, the mammon of
unrighteousness. For some weeks of
late Trotsky conducted a violent
speech and writing
doXical again) in control. but, dis
comfited, sick in mind and body. re-
tired g short time ago to Tifiis in
search of health.
executive OF the council of commits
sarS was put in commission. VIII a
new, active president now be elected.
or to avert a dangerous clash of am
arrangement continue? Suppose 1t is
shall it be? Stain is commonly
spoken of as the strong man" Of
the gang, But it is objected against
him that he is a Georgian. We'll, for
that matter Djerjinsky is a Pole, and
Trotsky, Kameniev and Zinoviev are
Jews: Is there simon pure great
Russlan among them? A critical sta
machine is now starting. 1t comedies
with an acute economic crisis.
Petrograd is henceforth to be Len
ingrad
y !: ::
MEXICO.
The acting governor of Texas finally
consented to the passage by rail of
1,500 1aqui Indians from Arizona
across few miles of Texan territory
via Ell Paso into Mexico. The trans
port of these troops from Mexico
through Arizonan, New Mexican and
Texan territory back into Mexico. was
accomplished without incident
Senor De La Huerta, the Mexican
rebel leader, reacted satisfactorily TO
secretary Hughes protest against his
| orders for blockade of the port of
Tampico and for mining the harbors
of Frontera, Puerto Mexico and Vera
Cruz; said protests being fortified by
dispatch OF two cruisers and six de-
stroyers to Vera Cruz The obnoxious
orders were promptly suspended and
Will no doubt remain so. My under
standing is that prior to the suspen-
sion no mines had been laid down and
only few harmless gestures" so
to speak, importing a blockade, had
! been made. Apparently the incident
is closed, the only tragic feature be-
ing that the personnel of the cruiser
Omaha and the six destroyers missed
thereby the fun of the Panama war
games.
Latest reports from Mexico indicate
that President Obregon is decidedly
up against it, especially on the
western front where he has been
directing operations in person. 1t
would appear also that the rebels
have been cutting railways at a great
all important railroad lines is in
serious jeopardy. The report that
! Obregon's communications with Mex
leo City have been severed requires
confirmation.
!: * X x
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Italian chamber is to be dis
solved before the end of this month,
and general elections for a new cham
ber will be held on April 6.
The 1talo-Jugoslav treaty, which is
expected to snuff out the Fiume ques-
| ton. to make friends of two bitter
enemy states and to have other i'm
portaat political consequences withal,
| is being signed today.
A curious political crisis is on in
Chile: The president and the senate
Is thought that a working compro-
misc is in sight.
Another attempt to scale Mount
Everest is to Be made in the coming
spring. Here is something really
worth while.
Evening star., 1924-01-27
Labor's Jurisdictional Disputes
Are Explained by Union Man

Continued from First Page.)
Evening star., 1924-01-27
BY HENRY W. BUM.

(The following is a brief summary
OF the most important news of the
world for the seven days ended jan
uary 26).
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