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SMOKE COSTS MINER $50.
Justice Holds He Endangered Life
Because of Gas.

MORGANTOWN, w. Va, January
10 P)-Charged by officials of the
New England Fuel and Transportation
Co. with smoking in their Everetts-
vile mine, James Williams yesterday
was fined $50 by Justice of the
peace. The mine is known as gaseous
and CLOSED lights are used exclu-
sively.
The Everettsville mine is located in
the same general territory as the
Pennington mine of the Jamison Coal
and Coke CO.. where an explosion
Thursday night took u toll OF 10 lives.
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EXILE BEGS TO RETURN.

VERA CRUZ, Mexico, January 19
(P.-Heron Proal, leader of the organ
ization of tenants who oppose paying
rent and who recently was escorted
by federal soldiers to the Guatemalan
frontier and ordered never to return
to Mexico, has written an appeal to
Gen. Arnulfo Gomez, chief of military
operations, begging permission to re-
turn to Vera Cruz to get his family
The letter added that II he was per
mitted to reside in Mexico again he
would abstain from connection with
politics and the tenants cause.
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.NlAs"o Oil ~ itt1t N
has a distinguish
ed record here
/ n Washington,
where she direct
ed the industrial
service section of
the Ordnance De
partment during
the w ar, a n d
where she later
became chief of
the woman in in
dustry service Of
the Department
of Labor. That
was. as will be
remembered, the
beginning Of the
Women Bureau.
II,.,- yI-n,lE nnNE tx
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In consequence, she both amazed and
educated the woman members from
the other countries at the first few
meetings, because when she had some
thing to say she said il without wait
ing for a masculine invitation 1t had
never occurred to them before that a
woman could 50 take the initiative.
A r. II.
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of sitting back and reminiscing, she
is the extremely active commissioner
Of public welfare in the city of Chi
cagO.
Then there is Mrs. Nadge Van Hook
from Kentucky, first woman factory
ir-Le.Lnr in the limited States Tint
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Then came from the National
Women's Trade Union League an in
Nitation to become Il national or
ganiZer. BY this time, she was speak
ing nothing but English, and the most
remarkable thing about this remark
able woman was that she had no Tor
mai education in America other than
u brief and interrupted session in the
Chicago night school. The natural
course Of her energies went into the
labor movement. where she had first
found her own outlet. In this c0unec-
ton, she travelled So widely and came
to have so many friends among the
labor leaders that when there was
vacancy in the executive board Of the
National Boot and Shoe Workers
Union, she was called, rs the only
woman. TO Ill the place. She was
thereafter a woman in mems councils,
and few women in labor can duplicate
that experience.
Her duties frequently brought her
to Washington, and that was why she
was known ana asked 10 act on the
Women in Industry section OF the
Council Of National Defense when the
war came. The rest is familiar his
tory 10 WashingtpnianS. Her aSso-
citation at that time with Mary Van
Eleeck. who IS coming to the present
conference from New York. made her.
first. supervisor of the working CON
ditions for the woman muu.;i"u
workers, later Miss Van kleecks as
sistant in the beginning Of the Won
ems Bureau IT was real Overturn-
ing Of conventions when, upon Miss
Van kleeCk : resignation 10 take mp
her work with the Russell Sage Foun-
dation. Mary Anderson. the labor
woman, was named as her successor.
This was in August. 1919.
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Continued from First PageD
ton was bringing out Col. Bell ad-
mltted that he had never read more
than two or three pages of the report.
Mr.. Blanton asked: When YOU adj
INIT that YOU and the local officers do
not properly represent the people in
public utility matters, do You think
that we can trust a foreign corpora
ton that is financially interested, to
make a transportation report fairly
for the people,"
Mr.. Reid interjected that the real
question was whether or not the Pub
lie Utilities Commission has the time
10 give to the protection of the people
and whether Congress ought to take
away duties that it cannot perform.
Col. Bell admitted that the original
charters provide that the street rail
way companies shall never collect
more than a scent Carefare but
Representative Bowman of West Nir-
Ginia brought out that by increasing
the street railway fares. the Public
Utilities Commission has not violated
the franchise of the street railway
COMPANIES.
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to Washington to the bureau and has
over seven OF these on her list. She
became assistant director in 1920.
Mrs. MurtIand's Work.
From the University of Michigan
comes Mrs. Cleo Murtland, student of
vocational guidance. She has been
teaching in the department of Voca-
ti6nal education at Ann Arbor for the
past eight years. Some of her out
standing work has been the Organiza
ton of trade schools in Worcester,
Mass, and in Philadelphia, and the
conducting of industrial surveys of
the schools and industries Of Rich
mond, Minneapolis, Boston, Philadel-
phia and New York.
Miss Title Lindsay. delegate of the
Maryland State and District of Column
b.a Federation of Labor, is the as
SiStant director of the Bryn MaWr
summer School for woman workers
in industry. She went from the United
States Bureau of Engraving and
Printing to the school as n student in
l@2l-22, and was given her present po-
Siton the following term.
40 conference or meeting of the
Girls as they dub themselves. would
be complete without Mary Mcdowell.
with her gray hair, her fine, keen.
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House Women Speak.

The meeting last night was ad-
dressed also by two woman House
members who have given much
thought TO woman industrial prob
lcms-Mrs John Jacob Rogers Of
Massachusetts and Mrs. Julius Kahn
oil California.
Tracing the development of protect
ing legislation in her State, Mrs.
Rogers pointed out that ii took cen
fury Of effort to raise the average
weeks pay for a woman worker from
s to the present ST a week. Massa-
chusettS IS the only State which now
hss in operation Il minimum wage law,
PASSED in 1912, the first to be enacted.
The law is not compulsory, but Is
carried out through cooperation of
many employers with employees, she
said Mrs. Kahn said the high points
of industrial laws in California were
the eight hour day, the 48-hOur week,
regulation of night work, regulation OF
working conditions and the minimum
wage law. which has not been admin
istered, however, since the Supreme
Court declared similar law here TO
be unconstitutional.
Mrs. Kahn voiced q warning that
protective legislation must serve to up
lift woman workers. but not to hamper
them, Miss Mary Anderson, director of
the Womens Bureau. presided.
The conference will be continued
this afternoon, with addresses by VIII
liam Leiserson, professor Of labor
economies OF Toledo University; Miss
Frances Perkins. member of the State
Industrial Commission of New York;
Miss Agnes Nestor, president of the
Chicago Womens Trade Union
League, and Henry p. Kendall, presi-
dent of the Kendall Mills, Inc. Mrs.
Ella A. Boole, president of the Won
ems Christian Temperance Union, will
preside.
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lIction. An In
teresting story is
told of her other
activities in con-
nection with the
League If Nations
committee on the
iic IN women
and children, to
which she was au-
pointed in a con
SultatiVe capacity
by the President
in 1922. Her prin-
ipaI chsracteris-
&c is directness
f both speech and
action and com
pie toabsgrltiun in
the thing she hap
pens TO be doing.
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IN WOMEN'S
INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE

The prominent figure at the Won
ems Industrial Conference this morn
ing-that is, the prominent woman
figure-is Miss Mary Van kleeck.
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NEGRO IS INDICTED
ON MURDER CHARGE
D. c. Grand Jury Also Acts in
Score of Other Grim
inaI Cases.

Edward Lewis, colored, was indicted
today by the grand jury on a charge
of murder in the first degree in con
nection with the death of Gertrude
EGerton Christmas night. The coupe
had attended a dance at SIS Twenty
third street. and while dancing Lewis
/ is said 10 have shot the woman. There
! had been no quarrel, the police We're
told by the girl at the hospital.
! The grand jurors eXonerated John
| Williams, colored. of a charge OF honi-
| eide. / was charged he had thrown
! n lighted lamp NJ Hattie Chism Christ
mas night. The grand jury also
, IGNORED n charge of robbery against
| Matte Digs and of grand larceny
| against Lawrence Coin.
Through an error in the list of in
dictments furnished by the district
attorneys office, January 4. an lndlct.
meut against j. Is. Hereford and
Charles NJ. Reed was made 10 appear
in The Star as for violation or the
Harrison anti-narCotic law when 1t
should have been for a violation of
the national prohibition act.
Three Larceny Indictments.
Three indictments charging house
breaking and larceny were returned
against John Berkeley, William w.
Bowman and James MotherShead. 1t
is charged that December last they
entered the grocery store of Ernest
d. Thorne. 1900 First street, and stole
a cash register: December last
they broke the front door to the store
of Sam Hyatt, sol Four-and-a-half
street southwest. and stole nine PTS
tolls and an overcoat: December
last, they stole zoe cigars and 500
packages of cigarettes from the store
of Sol Kasdon, 1927 Belt road.
John Berkeley and James Mothers
head also were indicted for house
breaking and larceny on charges of
breaking into the storeroom of John
w. Lacey, 312 Seventh street south
west, November - last. and stealing
a lot of varnish oil, paint, turpentlne
and other merchandise.
Three indictments alleging house
breaking and larceny were reported
against Robert Matthews, who, II is
alleged, June % last, stole from the
warehouse of Milton Hoppenmaier,
221 Tenth street two clocks and Sl96
in cash: broke into the store OF Ben
jamin Wollberg, 303 Tenth street. De
cember "a last and stole four pairs of
shoes and other merchandise, and on
June 9 last broke into the store OF
Walter NJ Brown, 92S c street, steal
ing S26 in cash.
Other Indictments.
Others indicted and the charges
gainst them are:
Arthur Sheppard, alias Arthur Shep-
herd. alias Arthur Shepherd: Hazel
Cropper and Warren II. Mitchell,
alias William ]. Hicks, grand lar
ceny.
Harry F. Mock, larceny after trust
and grand larceny.
Claude T. Gears. alias Fred William
Gears, false pretences.
Bonnie Bell. carnal knowledge.
Paul l.. Hollidge two cases.. Ed
ward CLANCY, Leon Wilson, Charles
Brown, William Murphy, Albert Mat
thews three cases., Harry p. Sweeney.
Lee Mcclure, Buddie Taylor, house
breaking and larceny.
George l.. Cheyne. nonsupport;
George 5. Thornton 1.-TWO cases and
Mckinley Walker. joyriding; Joseph
Castor. robbery; Steve Owens, nation
III motor theft act; Frank Tunnel,
Mack Hall and Jesse Mann, grand lar
ceny.
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kindly face ana
her big laugh. She
$ one of the real
pioneers in the
movement TO bet
ter conditions for
working women.
She helped to
start the agita-
ton for the first
Government in
vestiGation of the
subject by get
ding Mr.. ROose-
welt in t e = ested
when he was
Pre- sident. S n .
was back of the
movement for the
WOnen's Bureau
And now, instead
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Seven Per Cent Return Favored.

Mr.. Hammer went into lengths with
Col Bell in a discussion of the valua-
tons of public utilities as made by the
Public Utilities Commission and the
very serious difference between such
valuations and the valuations recog-
nized by the court in the Potomac
Electric Power Co. case Mr. Ham
mer argued that the 7-cent car fare.
with four tickets for % cents, still
would yield the street railway compa-
MES a reasonable return on a fair
valuation. He brought out the point
that the Public Utilities Commission
generally takes Z per cent as a rea-
sonable return.
Mr.. Zihlman was questioning Col.
Bell about the failure of the street rail-
way companies to make progress to-
ward a voluntary merger under per-
missive legislation passed by the last
Congress when today's hearing closed.
The hearing will be resumed Thursday
night at 1870 o'clock
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-19
Sees Traffic Increased.

Mr.. Blanton asked Col Bell if he did
not believe that if the Public Utilities
Commission We're to annul the orders
which permitted the street railways
to charge s cents and brought them
back to a scent fare. it would in
crease traffic. Col. Bell said he be-
lieved it would. Mr. Blanton also
questioned him regarding the short
hauls in the District which give the
street railway companies d larger re-
turn than if there were more long
haulS.
Col. Bell said it is manifest that
certain economies could be effected
through q Encouragement under a
consolidation of the street railway
companies, but that it was problem
atical how great they might be.
Col. Bell said that if the Public
Utilities Commission We're to order a
cut to 3 cents, experimentally, with
out the consent of the company, on
the thought that it would increase
the number of car riders, he did not
believe such action would be sustained
by the courts. Col. Bell further adj
mitted that he has not studied the
transportation conditions in Pitts
burgh, Cleveland, New York or other
large cities comparable to Washing
ton.
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CONTINUED from First Page)
in industry. the 400 woman Industrial
leaders attending the conference We're
told by William Green, president of
the American Federation of Labor. at
this morning session, held at the New
National Museum. The conference
started last night.
Mr.. Green's message was read by
representative in his absence from the
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Sees Study Necessary.

The third speaker this morning was
Miss Mary Van KleeCk director of
the department of industrial studies of
the Russell Sage Foundation of New
York, who declared Larger oppor-
tunities for women in industry will
not be won by mass meetings nor by
votes of Congressman. They depend
upon the standards of living in the
homes of the Nation. Poverty more
than prejudice deprives women of vo-
cational opportunities. The need to-
day is for scientific study of industry
to eliminate waste. lessen unemploY-
ment, improve human relations and
serve society better"
Woman workers have been an ex-
plotted group" Mr.. Green declared in
his message. Industry has taken adj
vantage Of the fact that many women
desire only temporary EMPLOYMENT
and because the injustice is temporary
the majority do not feel called upon
to do anything about it. Employment
OF women in industry, however, is an
established practice. The duty, there
fore, devolVeS upon the labor move
ment, upon industry and upon society
to do their part in establishing equita-
BILE conditions of employment
The trade-union movement believes
that the primary dependence of wage
earners-both men and women-in
achieving higher standards of working
conditions is organizations of workers
developed and controlled by the work
ers themselves. Such unions are COM
petent to protect workers against in
duStrial injustice" he said.
Praises Unions Work.
Praising the unions for their aid to
workers, Mr.. Green concluded: "In ac-
cord with this belief, the American
Federation of Labor is developing a
united effort of those national and in
ternational unions having jurisdiction
over industries in which women are
employed to begin a sustained move
ment for better organization of those
women"
Mr.. Edgerton, in his attack upon
Socialist propaganda, also protested
against the American practice of seek
ing legislation as the solution of trou-
blesome questions in industry.
Few problems incident to the en-
ployment of women can be solved eff
fectively by application of the legisla-
tive poultices, which is societys usual
lazy and impatient way of trying to
shift its responsibilities to the
shoulders Of governmental agencies"
he said
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Lille OF Mary Anderson.

Mary Anderson, director of the
women Bureau. opened the session
IaSt night, and Mary Anderson is a
slofE IN herself. There is probably no
woman IN this country TODAY moro
sehefally loved, more generally trusted
ana respected for qualities Of Lnrh
NINA and heart than is this woman
VINO came to America as an imnicr4nt
SHI OF 10 from Sweden. She could NOT
speak one word of English but had =
logged determination to get on in the
world. She went to the home of her
sister IN I4udington. Mich. There. fo,
q year, she had to earn a Twins, in
the only thing she know where Eng.
ilsh was not imperative. and that was
IN an American woman'S kitchen. BUr
She would not he satisfied with such
UNITS. and she spent all her spare time
Ieachlng herself TO read the new
tongue, pleC!ng out word by word the
meaning of the daily newspaper>.
even though she was unable 70 pro.
nounce them. And she studied the
people about her, and the WAYS of the
new country.
But domestic service was ONLY an
lhterIude, and Miss Anderson's oppor-
tuhlty for change came with the re-
moVai OF her sisters to West Pullman.
near Chicago. Here were factories and
JOBS where one had day that ended
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LIFE STORY OF MARY ANDERSON
EXAMPLE TO AMERICAN WOMEN
Head of Government Bu-
reau Came to u. S.
at 10.
Could Not Speak Word of
English and Educated
Herself.
By ALICE ROGERS HAGER,


Delegate National Committee of Bureau of
Occupations.
When the Women's Industrial Con
ference convened last night at the
New National Museum for the second
time it marked the coming together of
one of the most interesting bodies of
women to gather i'll the Nations Capi-
tai. Other conferences have their dis
tinEuished and distinguishing ele-
mentS, human and Otherwise but none
ranks higher in the diversity of groups
represented and none can boast of a.
Wider range Of types among modern
women.
There are present doctors. LAWYERS.
Judges. one Assistant Attorney Cen
efal OF the United States. members of
state and National legislatures, in.
uuSbla4 experts. manufacturers and
thelf representatives, members of State
iaoor departments and industrial wei
rare commissions, factory inspectors
trade union delegates. nurses, college
professors, the sister of Jack London.
representing the American Legion
y uNliiary; governors Wife. a com
missioner of public Welfare in the sec
ohd greatest city Of the country. a
laughter Of the American Revolution
rom the Philippine Islands. the presi
cent general Of the Federation of
+" omen Clubs. ana last. but far from
i'"Ns. 4 E"uNE E-Gl from the PennSyl.
una SILK mills, come to her first con
N"hti"R Ia tell It's loW the woman
v DENer ieGiE 8NarsF l--r. lifa
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sometime, even though that time was
long. Garment making, hand sewing,
came first, but one week Of that was
enough. In shoe factory nearby, she
found work as a stitCher, and as an
operator of shoe machinery, she stayed
for Is wears.
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TRACTION MERGER
BILL IS FRUITLESS,
HOUSE BODY HEARS

Continued from First Page1
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Davis Is Emphatic.

Mr. Davis. whose message was read
by Assistant Secretary of Labor White,
was even more emphatic IN declaring
that the motherhood Of women work
ers must he protected.
Pointing to the DANGERS that face
women in industry in coming into con
tact with lead poisoning, carbon mon
oxide. mercury and many other eIe-
upntS which are destructive 10 moth
erhood, Mr.. Davis, in a comprchcn-
sive outline OF working conditions.
asks: Are we doing enough 10 pro
tect women who work"
'Womans body is not physically
able to Withstand the fatigue inciden-
tai 70 many varieties OF industrial
employment. Tho statement is not
opinion, but recorded fact. that WON
Ell cannot bear the strain Of long
hours IS we'll aS men. Nor are un-
born babies more virile or better able
To develop on less Of mothers strength
than q generation ago.
Normal fatigue that results from
physical effort is easily repaired Not
$50 the excessive fatigue that results
from many forms Of Industrial EN-
pluyment. Speed produces excessive
fatigue. The strain of feeding high
speed machinery produces excessive
fatigue. Nonotonv results in exces-
-iyc fatigue. Noise makes for nerv-
BUSINESS. Poor ventilation and light
IN" reduce vitality. Stretch all these
strains Ola the woman worker into q
long working day, and YOU have effects
that are many times deadly. And let
us not forget that many who work Il
fun day in industry under unnatural
conditions still have 1T the end of this
employment TO perform their natural
tasks rs mothers ana homemakerS. "
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out OF employment a great many who
are deliberately refusing to assume
the functions of motherhood and
lodging its responsibilities, preferring
rather to protect the motherhood of
others and teach them legislatively
how to rear their children"
Coolidge View Differs.
President Coolidge and Secretary
Davis both emphasized in their mes
SageS to the woman industrial leaders
that the prime function of woman is
motherhood, stresSing that women en-
gagged in industry must be protected
Their views were at the opposite pole
from the declaration of leaders of the
National Woman's Party, which on
Sunday and yesterday carried appeals
to Mr.. Coolidge to approve the equal
rights bill now pending before Con-
SreSS.
The President said in his letter: On
duStry has come thoroughly to recog-
niZe its responsibility toward its EN-
| ployes. The Government approves and
shares in that responsibility. 1t re
CARDS the welfare of the Wage-earners
with utmost solicitude. 1t has come
! to be recognized almost universally
that only upon Justice 10 the wage
earners of the Nation can there be
reared any lasting prosperity. Amer
| lea IS unwilling to nOuriSh any system
| under which the rewards of human
! effort are not equitably distributed
among all those engaged in industry. "
! In another part of his letter Mr..
! Coolidge declared: women can never
| escape the responsibility of nome and
| children, and the working woman as
| a mother and potential mother chal
lenges universal interest. Millions Of
working women are bCma- makers In.
| aSmuch as our national life rests
| upon the stability of the American
| home, and the Nation can be only
! as strong as its women. we must have
| intelligent understanding Of any sym,
| nlf hN With thni,. ,,,.I1nn.,..
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ms folks that he's not joking when
he announces, I'm John ID. Rookie
Teller"
Mrs. Rockefeller declared the con-
slant necessity Of assuring people
that the hotel registers are not re
cording a practical joke is quite EN-,
barrassing when she travels with her
husband.