Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 255, 6 September 1918 — Page 2
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND S'JN-TELEGRAM. . , FRIDAY, SEPT. 6, 1918.
LABOR QUESTION HERE IS LEFT TO GOVERNMENT Local Workmen Respond to .Appeal of War Department to Stick to Their Jobs.
Richmond workmen Thursday night
m a mass meeting nem at &agies nan voted to stand by the government in its efforts to keep up war production, find consented to leave the labor situation here to the war department for adjustment. The men had delayed a walk-out scheduled for Thursday morning, until Thursday night, in order to give the government time to act. Lieut. Burns of the ordnance department urged the men to accept conditions as they were until the war department could adjust the situation. - Labor organizers urged the men to consider carefully the matter before they voted for a strike, i "If you vote to keep at your work," (hey were told, "it will be out of respect for your government, and not put of respect for the money grabbers pf Richmond." Paul Smith, state organizer of labor, told the men that the agreement between the worklngmen and their employers, which would probably be effected by the war department, would include the following provisions: Employes shall not be discriminator) arntnf- for affiliation With a labor
union, but employes shall not interfere with production by union agita
tion during womng nours. The employers will not be required to recognize the labor organizations, but will meet with, a committee of workmen from their own shops, with whom they will adjust disputes. i An increase in wages from 5 to 14 rents an hour, similar to that granted by the' Simplex company, will be granted the employes. ; The question of the basic eight-hour day shall be left to the war labor policies board. Burns Makes Appeal. " Lieutenant Burns who will handle the situation here, made a talk to the workmen, urging them to stand by the government. Z. "I have learned that action wculd be taken tonight for or against a strike heginning tomorrc.w morning," he said. want to tell-you men that when you strike you hurt the government more than anyone else You will be damaging it much more than your employers, j "No matter how disagreeable conditions may be between the employer :nd the employe if you strike, it will impossible to give the men over there the right backing. When the government decided to send four million men abroad we had to multiply cur program for this year by four. We are doing everything in our power Xo prevent strikes and speed up war production. "One of the cardinal rules of the War Labor Board la that there shall je no strikes until the government has first had a chance to adjust matters. The War Labor board is now 'flooded with labor matters from all 'over the country. You must have patience. After the matter is settled iy me and the War Policies board you im have the ripht to appeal to the AVar Labor Board, which is a sort of a supreme court. Whatever this board Tenders in its decision will be absolute -land fmnl. "If you strike, thereby handicapping .the government in the war production, you will ho petiously damaging the "'prosecution of the war. IJ. 3. Will Stand by Men. ,-' "There are a great many matters jbefcro the War Labor Board and the "answer to your" telegram cannot be ent immediately. It will take time nd you must be patient. I imagine 4bat you men in vour temper feel that ibe ell ration is so acute it must be handled immediately. I have Interviewed manufacturers and I have been treated courteous1- by them. I have teen treated in the same manner by the labor organizers. I feel that the situation can be adjusted if given "I have no authority to come into IMchmond and tell the manufacturers that they must have an eight hour working day nor has any other representative from Washington. The question of the eight hour day has yet to be settled. " "I think you men know the attitude Of the administration. Yon owe it to your country and to your government to be patient. We are looking upon jilchmond as a help in war production. s "I am here to tell you that the government will help you. I hope that you will stay on the job, and not seriously cripple, but back war production." , Paul J. Smith, of the Federation of ,Labor, followed Burns, stating the propositions which labor had accepted for the sake of war production. Smith said, "I have not misrepresented the matter when I told you that Wilson is In favor of the eight-hour day. On war work in the munition plants they ore in favor of the eight-hour basic day. : "We have been in Richmond trying to prevent the thing which you men contemplated doing this morning. If the employers of Richmond had met you half way it would not have been necessary for Lieut. Burns to be here, j. "The machinery of the government Is here and the employers refuse to .use it. They refuse to do any collective bargaining. They refuse to meet any of us because we belong to a labor "Union. "By going out on a strike you might .Induce some employer to beat the government to it and give you eight hours, but you cannot force a decision from the United States government by going on a strike. "U "i have done everything in my pcrjrr to bring about a settlement, but now the decision lies with you." W. 11. Miller, of the Carpenters and Joiners, spoke briefly. Bender, of the Pattern Makers, nd heckler, of the machinists, also spoke "to the point.
Canadians Have Been Taking Full Share of Prisoners
Staff Mk-:;;)4fh WW , A j
German Leaders Are Harrassed by "Inconvenient Questions" by Masses
Canadian cavalry with Hun prisoners. Canadian forces have been doing their part in the capture of thousands of German prisoners in the recent successful drives of the allied forces. This Canadian official photo shows Canadian cavalrymen escorting some Hun prisoners to the rear. Canadian infantrymen, resting by the roadside, are looking over the captured Bocb.es. Upwards of
; two thousand prisoners were taken within a few days of fighting by the Canadians. At Hendecourt they broke through
the switch line" before Cagniecourt after which they stormed Dury, two miles nortn or. vuiers-iez-cagnicourt, soma of the Scarpe river, led by tanks, the Canadians advanced along the Arras-Cambrai road.
DR. DEARDORF IN CITY.
Dr. Neva Deardorf of the Civilian Relief department in Washington, D. ., was in the city on Thursday and visited Miss Flora Mae Green, of the Richmond home service office. She is spending her vacation with her parents in Hafirstown.
U. S. TRADE BODY IS SDBJEGT OF SENATE DEBATE
Sherman Attacks Federal
Commission for Recomendation to Take Industry. WASHINGTON, Sept. 6. -The, Federal Trade Commission was sharply assailed and vigorously defended in the Senate Thursday for its recent report to President Wilson recommending that the government take over control of the packing industry so as to break up what is termed a monopoly of the meat business in this and other countries, and to prevent alleged profiteering. The debate, in which Senators Sherman of Illinois and Smoot of Utah led the attack, on the commission, was precipitated by introduction by Senator Gore of Oklahoma of an amendment to the emergency agricultural appropriation bill carrying out in the main the commission's recommendations. The amendment later was withdrawn when it was apparent that consideration of it would further delay passage of the bill. Senator Sherman declared the commission to be a self-constituted "prosecuting agency" made up of "business failures," while Senator Smoot of Utah charged that the commission from the beginning has been a political organization and had been used as a stepping stone to campaign for office. Would Abolish Commission. Senator Smoot said the Gore amendment proposed to carry out the thing that every newspaper in the country has denounced, and added that if any amendment were adopted it should be one abolishing the commission. The senator called attention to the recent report made by the Federal trade committee of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States and transmitted to the president, which criticised the commission's manner of making investigations. , The Utah Senator also criticised the business ability and experience of the commissioners and declared their report on the packing industry was rased "on prejudice and not on the first principle of justice." The packers, he said, were denied an opportunity to present their side of the case completely. Senator Gore and Kenyon defended the report, declaring It largely justified, the latter saying it received the endorsement of thousands of persons "who have been robbed by the packers all these years." Calls Them "I. W. W. Brothers." Senator Sherman declared if th members of the commission desired to know what the people thought of them they had only to offer for office, and would be beaten by a vote of four to one. lie referred to members of the commission as "self-appointed business men who have done nothing in their lives but criticize men who art doing things," and said Chairman Colver was the "most vociferous and blatant one in the lot." "There Isn't a one," Senator Sherman continued, "who is not a radical, a Bolshevik, an economic firebrand. "They're younger brothers of the I. W. W.'g - all of them. They're poor excuses for public officers. They're a disgrace to the administration. They are a discredit to the country." Anthracite Coal Output for Week Broke Record; 1,806,121 Tons Mined WASHINGTON. Sent, fi. Anthra
cite coal production for the last week !
of August was the largest of the year,'!
tne total output being 1.S06.121 tons. These figures announced today by the fuel administration, show an increase over the preceding week of 100,000 tons; do not include coal used at the mines or sold for nearby delivery. It was the first week of the year when the dally average exceeded 300,000 tons.
Sunday Schools Will Observe
Liberty Loan Sunday Sept. 11
September 22 will be Liberty Loan Sunday, according to a statement lasued Friday by E. P. Jones, president of the county Sunday school association. The statement follows: "Recognizing the good results of the speaking tour in the Sunday school on the last Liberty Loan, the Liberty Loan committee has asked that this tour be repeated by the County Sunday School association. I, therefore, have set Sunday, Sc-ptember 22, as Liberty Loan Day for the Sunday schools of Wayne county. "Jesse R. Weichman, county adult superintendent for the Wayne county Sunday school association, is chairman of the committee on arrangements. All superintendents are requested to mail a postcard at once to him, care of the Dickinson Trust company, giving name of your Sunday school, superintendent, time of holding school and location. Each Sunday
school will have some speaker on this day and every school is expected to
have a special program in keeping with the purpose of the effort. Watch
the newspapers for special arrange ments in reference to this day.
"The general public is most cordially invited to attend Sunday school on
this day and hear of the Liberty Loan
Remember September 22 and do it on
September 25, 26 and 27.
Belgian Minister Thanks City for Flower Fund E. D. Cartier, the Belgium minister to the United States, sent the following telegram to Secretary Carl Ullman Thursday in regard to the money obtained in the recent Belgium Baby flower sales in this city: "Have received the telegram conveying the great news that over $1,000 has been raised for the Belgium Babies by the children the sale I presume, of the Queen Elizabeth flowers, the forget-me-nots. Allow me to offer to you and your associates my heartfelt congratulations on this very Saturday. You may send the check to Major Osterieth."
Sckpol District Calls Off Picnics Until After War
The neighborhood picnic of School District No. 6 .which has been held annually on Labor Day has been discontinued until after the war. Balance of $12.35 in treasry has been given to the Wayne County Red Cross chapter.
CONSTANTINOPLE IS BOMBED FOUR TIMES
(By Associated Press) LONDON, Sept. 6. Constantinople was bombarded on four successive nights in the latter part of August, the admiralty announced today. The arsenal, the dock yards, the Turkish war office, the airdrome at Galeta, the seaplane base at Gallipoli and Chanak were attacked.
Main Street Bridge May
Be Finished Next Year
Main street bridge will be finished
just in time for the boys to walk over
when they come home, if they come back next year, as indications now point, stated City Engineer Davis,
Friday morning.
Although the work last winter was
practically delayed three months, be cause of the extremely severe weath
er, the work now is geing pushed as rapidly as possible, and plans are made to continue the concrete construction all during the winter, if possible, by heating the gravel and water, and then covering the concrete well.
AMSTERDAM, Sept. 6. Efforts to counteract the Inconvenient questions the German people are beginning to ask, are now being made In Germany, but with results thus far which scarcely can be said to hearten the public. Count Von Posadowsky-Wehner, former chancellor, published an article Wednesday, In which be pointed out that it is now a matter of victory or political and economic destruction for the fatherland. Occasional setbacks, he said, could not be avoided, and he exhorted the people, especially the women, to have faith, significantly adding: "By cold and captious criticism the heart of the masses are not touched." He urged that from the legislative tribunal, the pulpit and ths professional chair there should flow an unceasing stream of warm and patriotic impulse." Today, Capt Newman of the Berlin war press bureau in an article of admonition entitled "The Duty of Grate
fulness, blames the German nation, " which has become increasingly selfish and ungrateful" for "the petty cavilling spirit which makes it difficult to look to the future with confidence." Not Told the Truth, The Berlin Vorwaerts complains that the people are not told the truth, which it says is the cause for all the rumors set afloat. The socialist organ is especially severe with regard to the battle bulletins which it accuses of veiling the truth. Tuesday evening's Frankfort Zeltung attacks the Von Hertling government for not having In the ten months of its existence done all possible con
ducive to a "good peace" and for having shown Itself weak at times of momentous importance. The newspaper
makes a strong plea for unity.
Apparently it has not been possible to hide from the German people the
bitter disappointment among the Ger
man military authorities over the evacuation of Kemmel, one of the strategic strongholds southwest of Ypres. The Lokal Anzelger's military
correspondent says the evacuation was effected "with a heavy heart" and adds that the sole comfort surrounding the withdrawal was that it was voluntary
and that it served a tactical purpose
affecting the whole army on the west
ern front "which does not hesitate at sacrificing a mere place when a purpose is to be attained." The Crown Prince's Speech. More outspoken is Koester, military writer in the Berlin Vorwaerts, who is completely at a loss to understand why "the proud Kemmel bastion" was surrendered. This writer says the future alone wil ltell what purpose this maneuvre served. - He concludes, however, that from the fact that two American divisions had been eeen on that part of the front some enemy coup had been
'planned which now had been cleverly
frustrated without casualties. "Did Von Kuehlmann (former German foreign secretary) go when the speech which caused his fall did not go so far as the Crown Prince's language?" asks the Berlin Vorwaerts, the German socialist organ, . commenting on the drown Prince's interview published in the Budapest Az Est. The Vorwaert3 compares the Crown Prince's statement . that it is undesirable that Germany's enemies should be annihilated with Emperor William's speech on June 16, in which.
alluding to the conflict of two philosophies, he said, one of the two must
be absolutely overcome. The news
paper concludes by saying that words
6uch as were used by Dr. Von Kuehl
mann "today, become much cheaper
and correspondingly ineffective."
SENATOR REGISTERS FOR DRAFT
September 25, 26, 27 !
Important Meeting of Commercial Cluh Monday President Howard A. Dill has appointed the following committee to have charge of the regular monthly meeting of the Commercial Club to be held on Monday evening at the club rooms: O. D. Bullerdick, chairman, J. H. Allen, and Jesse Bailey, R. B. Jones and Everett Ackerman. The fact that this will be an extremely important meeting is again urged, and all members are asked to be present. , -
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POSTPONE MEETING.
The regular board meeting of the Y. M."C. A. has been postponed until next Thursday at that time.
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STENOGRAPHERS ARE WANTED BY U. S.
The Depot Quartermaster at Jeffersonvllle desires to employ immediately competent female stenographers for immediate duty in Washington. D. C. The entrance salary for all who accept such employment will be $1,100 per year. After arrival in Washington they will be given an opportunity to qualify through the Civil Service examinations there. They will then be given a probational appointment, after which they will be eligible for promotion to $1,200 per year, within three months provided they prove satisfactory. Applicants should immediately apply in person to the Depot Quartermaster at Jeffersonville. presenting a copy of this newspaper noticce to the Guard at the Gate, who will immediately send them to the main office to the Depot Quartermaster for interview. Transportation and Pullman accommodations to Washington and an allowance of $4.00 per day while enroute will be supplied to all applicants who are accepted. The services of qualified stenographers are much needed by the War Department and in view of the fact that arrangements have been made to accept them as outlined above, without requiring them first to undergo the Civil Service examination, it is felt that a large number should respond. Only applicants between the ages of 18 and 45 should apply.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 6. Senator Henderson, of Nevada, has the distinction of being the first member of the United States senate to register
under the new draft law extending age limits to men under 46. He has
filed with local draft authorities a reg
istration certificate to be forwarded to his home at Elko, Nev. He Is 45
years old.
SUGAR PERMITS EXPIRE SEPT. 30
H. W. Gilbert, Federal Food Administrator for Wayne county. Just received a bulletin providing that all outstanding sugar certificates expire Sept 30. Therefore It will be neces
sary for those holding such certificates
to have them liquidated not later tnan that date, as they positively will not be accepted for sugar later than September 30, as the sugar allotments for the quarter beginning October 1 will be issued and the statements for this quarter will be issued within a few days. On account of having so many permits for sugar to issue for canning purposes, it la necessary to place another deputy, Which will be the Fosler Drug Store, corner Sixth and Mala streets.
Red Cross Directors Meet at Luncheon Saturday The monthly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Red Cross will meet in conjunction with the chairmen of all the county branches at a luncheon at the Y. M. C. A. Saturday noon. As there have been no meetings during July and August this meeting called for Saturday noon will be very Important.
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