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HOPE TO GET DEBT MONEY TO PAY VETS Harding Wants Bonus Bill to Carry Specific Appropriation Providing Funds for the Soldiers. AUTHORITYJS NEEDED Br M.4RK SILMVAN WASHINGTON. Jan. 17 Congress is going to pass the bonus bill. It Is also going to pass the bill giving the president, acting through appointees, the power to arrange terms for the payment of the debts and interest due us from European governments. The two bills are going to have some sort of relation to each other. President Harding is understood to hold that any bonus bill for the soldiers must be in complete good faith and without any camouflaging element that would turn out to be hope still further deferred. What thi3 means is that Harding probably will want the bonus bill to carry a specific appropriation providing the money for the soldiers. But when congress faces that necessity it is Beriously embarrassed. A sales tax has been suggested, and there are some strong leaders in congress who have stubborn faith in both the necessity and the desirability of that form of taxation. Nevertheless, any accurate reflection of the present state of feeling about the sales tax would show that it is not as popular now as it was some months ago. It would take hard driving to put a sales tax through the present congress. Liquor Tax Unlikely Another suggestion has been made that the sale of drinks with an alcoholic content of 3 per cent could be authorizpd and taxed enough to bear the cost of the soldiers' bonus. There is little in that. The sentiment of the present coneress is clearly opposed to making prohibition any less rigid than it is. The soldier bonus could be paid with an issue of short-term govern(Continued on Page Four) ANTHRACITE MINERS TO ASK 20 PER CENT INCREASE IN WAGES (By Associated Press) . SHAMOKIN, Pa.. Jan. 17 A convention of miners representing all the organized workers in the" anthracite fields called to consider a new wage pgreement convened here today. The present working contract entered into September. 1920, e.xpirts March Z, and ihe calling of the present meeting follows a custom of the union to have its members formally agree on wages afld working conditions to be submitted to the operators. The action of the present convention must be approved by the International convention at Indianapolis next month after which the mining companies will le officially notified of the demands of the Union. The convention, according to the officers of the union, will ask for an increase in wanes of about 20 per cent. It also will ask that wage rates be made uniform throughout the anthracite field, as far as possible, and that the hours of men. working more 'nan eight a day be reduced. A demand for the establishment of the rheck off, fought for by the union many years in the anthracite field, also will he made. Will Ask Reduction While no official announcement has come fromlhe Anthracite operators as a whole, it is generally understood in thp coal fields, that the mining companies will .ask the men to take a reduction. Union leaders are on record as being opposed to any lowering of wages Hi her in the anthracite or bituminous fields. Wage contracts in the soft : coal region expire at the same time as the hard coal field. Whether there will be a suspension of mining March 31, in the event, no agreement has been reached cannot be stated at this time, according to Interj national President John I. Lewis and other leaders. It has been the policy of the International Union in the hard -oal fields to keep the men at work so long as negotiations progress favorably and assurance is given that th. men remaining at work will not receive a cut. It is expected the matter finally will be left for the International policy committee to work out. HEADS OF HOSPITALS SERVING WAR VETS BEGIN CONFERENCES (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON', Jan. 17. Off iccrs in charge of all government hospitals serving veterans of the World war be;an a five days' series of conferences here today called by Brigadier General Sawyer, president of the board of hospitalization to work out co-operatively the most efficient means of caring for former service patients. Nearly a hundred officers were ordered to report, including the heads of all public health hospitals, soldiers' homes, officers of the medical departments d the army and navy and thu veterans' bureau. The opening session was to be called to order by General Sawyer in an address on the present status of federal hospitalization covering methods and facilities in use In 'different parts of the country in the care of veteran patients. On Friday President Harding is to address the conference.

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Urge Construction W. O. Winston, president, and Gen. A. C. Marshall Jr., general manager of the association. CLEVELAND, O., Jan. 17 "Construction is the key to general business revival." Such is the opinion of men prominent in all branches of the construction industry who have been holding a national conference here for the purpose of "getting things started." The general scope of the conference, held under the auspices of the Associated General Contractors, was suggested by Herbert Hoover. "Large construction projects total ing well above a billion are waiting on the boards of architects and engin eers, says V. O. Winston, of Minne apolis, president of the association. "We want to convince America that, tnrougn systematic elimination of waste, construction costs have been reduced to a point where there is no longer any logical reason for waiting. "Release of pending construction would be the biggest thing that could happen for general good times. Economic experts agree that construction is the industry easiest to set in motion, that ft is the industry with the greatest latent demand at present, that it stimulates other business more quickly and completely. "We have figures indicating that for every man set at work in con struction projects, five to seven other' men find work in consequence; either in providing materials for construction, or in satisfying the wants of those who are earning money through construction payrolls." The conference includes men prominent in building, in highway construction, railway construction and public works. Among the economy measures to be reported upon are the letting of public contracts in the fall, standardizing of contracts, safety rules and appliances, standardizing equipment and pooling equipment to reduce the time in which construction machinery stands idle. LILLIAN RUSSELL TO RE SPECIAL AGENT FOR UNITED STATES Bv Assoclavrd Press) NEW YORK. Jan. 17. Lillian Russell sailed for Europe today as a special agent for Uncle Sam. commistinned to look over the intended immigrants to America and report to the secretary of labor on her return next spring. The American beauty, who now is Mrs. Alexander P. Moore, wife of the editor of the Pittsburgh Leader, was accompanied by her husband, who also is to investigate the foreign immigra tion situation. "Mr. Davis wants me to look Into the human side of the immigration problem." said the perennially fair actress of bygone seasons. "He has known for a long time of my interest in those poor people who come here only to be turned back again because of some defect. One thing I want to find out is why the passports of delinquents are vised at all, why they are ever allowed to embark on a journey that ends in disappointment. The fault lies on the other side not here." Epworth League Chapters Gain 58,584 Members (By Associated Press) NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 17 In the last four years Epworth League chapters in the. Methodist Episcopal church south have increased 1,605 and memberships 5S.5S4, according to an announcement by Southern Methodist headquarters preliminary to the meeting tomorrow at Memphis of approximately 150 Epworth league leaders. The meeting will last through Sunday. Epworth League chapters in the Methodist Episcopal church, south, now total 5,400. the announcement said, and memberships 190,000. Former Rail Brotherhood Secretary Embezzles Funds CINCINNATI, Jan. 17 Charles W. Owens, of Covington. . Ky., former national secretary of the brotherhood of freight handlers, station employes and railway clerks, with headquarters in this city, today pleaded guilty to the charge of embezzlement before Judge Fred L. Hoffman, of the common pleas court. It is alleged that Owens diverted $3,500 of the funds of the brotherhood to his own uses. He Will be sentenced nevt Saturrtav

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LEGISLATIVE CHAOS ENDED BY PRESIDENT As Result of Conference Complete Understanding Exists Between the Executive and Law-Making Branches. CLEANINGfp WORK VAM.Anil'M XKWS Bl'RGAU WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. President Harding's recent efforts to bring ordoi out of a considerably conruseC legislative situation have been marked with considerable success. As a result of the conference he has been holding at the White House with majority leaders in congress, a satisfactory lesislative working plan has been evolved and a complete understanding between the executive and law-making branches of the government now pre vails. There has never been any appreciable friction between the two since the advent of the present administration. President Harding has consistently refused to dictate to congress, although he has been urged to do so frequently, even by some Republican leaders in both the senate and the house. He has been content, however, to go no further in his dealings wiib congress than to advise the majority leaders as to his wishes concerning legislative action and policies. Since congress assembled in special session last spring the house of representatives has kept well abreast of the legislative program. Its slate could be cleaned within two months' time. It has been the senate which has delayed the enactment of much of the important legislation before congress, and the cause of the sluggardly procedure of the senate can be traced directly to its generally condemned rule of unlimited debate. Knew Consequences. There have been many who have pleaded with President Harding, it is said, to attempt to stir the senate out of its snail-like progress with the "bi? stick." But the fact that he sas stuck strictly to the business of being president of the United States is attributed to the fact that he knows from experience that those chief executives who belabored the "world's most deliberate body," never did much boasting over the results they obtained. . The unlimited debate rule in the senate is not new; it is as old as the republic; and veteran legislators agrea that the senate will never be promptly responsive to the legislative demands of the country as long as it retains a rule which makes thejminority the master of the majority. Rep. Mondell, Republican leader in the house, recently predicted that congress would be able to adjourn by the first of June, but many of his colleagues believe that he made this assertion without giving due consideration to the senate's leisurely transaction of its affairs. To Submit Treaties It is pointed out that within a short time the president will submit to the senate several treaties which are the outgrowth of the arms limitation conference, and it is recalled that the senate discussed the peace treaty for over one year, and then rejected it. It is mentioned that while the house is now beginning to pour into the senate the various department appropriation bills, all of which must be approved before the beginning of the government's next fiscal year, July 1. the upper branch of congress will not be ready to take up the tariff bill, passed by the house last July, until some time in March. A bonus bill for former service men will also be passed before the present session of congress adjourns; that appears to be an accepted fact. And congressmen, particularly the Republican members, would like to have that bill enacted before the spring primary elections, but it is not regarded as probable that the senate will act upon it by that time. Speeding Up Work Despite the slow progress the senate has made since last April, the fact remains that the president's recent i conferences with majority leaders in congress to "speed up" work on the legislative program have been successful in this respect; since the white house gatherings the senate has started to work, whereas, prior to these conferences, it had attempted practically no legislation since the beginning of the regular session, the first of last December, devoting nearly all that time in discussing the Newberry case. GUARDS ARE ON DUTY IN MAILTHEFT TRIAL (By Associated Press) DETROIT, Jan. 17. Armed guards were on duty in the federal court here today to prevent any attempt at rescue when four men went on trial on charges of complicity in the robbery of a mail truck Oct. 7 last. The accused men are Alexander McClean, James Logan. Gasper Mangaricin and Richard Iambrecht. J Before the trial opened it was ru-j morea two or the men had agreed to turn state's evidence. The truck the men are accused of robbing was carrying Canadian mail for Windsor, Ontario. Registered packages of a reported value of $25,000 werQ taken. Ohio College Girls Are Under Quarantine (By Associated Press) ALLIANCE, Ohio, Jan. 17 Seventyfive girls in Elliott Hall, the girls' dormitory and annex at Mt. Union college are under quarantine owing to the fact that Miss Mae Smyth, a resident of Elliott hall was taken to the home of her parents Saturday, and her illnaca nrrmnnTioort ceiri of fovar

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Delays Honeymoon - tt to Vtt " T L4M Allister McCormick photographed just before sailing. NEW YORK, Jan. 17 Allister H. McCormick, who was to have been married on January 2 in Chicago to Mary Landon Baker, has sailed for England alone. The ceremony was postponed at the last moment while the guests were waiting in the Fourth Presbyterian church of Chicago.. Mr. McCormick did not appear at all downhearted when he boarded the liner, and said that the wedding would take place in March at Weybridge, on the Thames, near London. "I have had a talk with her over the long distance telephone to Chicago," he added, "and she said that her health was improved and that she was going to Santa Barbara, Cal., for a few weeks and would then cross to London to meet me. The sole reason that made her postpone the wedding twice was on account of a nervous breakdown and because the doctors ordered her to have a perfect rest. She wished me a very enjoyable voyage, and declared that she would be in England in less than three months." SERVICE COMMISSION APPROVES INCREASE IN PHONERATES HERE (By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS, Jan, 17. Increase of the telephone rates at Richmond as fixed by an ordinance adopted in December by the city council were approved today by the Public Service commission, which also authorized the increase of special rates as proposed by the company. The special rates do not become effective until Feb. 1, but the rates fixed in the ordinance were made retroactive to Jan. 1. Private line business rates are advanced $1 a month, while the party line business service is increased 50 cents a month. All residence service is advanced 25 cents a month. Rural rates are the same as the city charges plus a line charge of 50 cents a month for each one-quarter beyond a mile radius from the central station. The income of the phone company according to the commission's orde'r' inevitably leads the commission to the conclusion, that the necessity for increasing rates is urgent and that the commission will not necessarily have to find a. value for the purpose of determining the propriety of approving the contract for rates, entered into between the city and the company. Iowa Couple Celebrates 68th Wedding A nmversary Bv Associated Press). WACKON, la.. Jan. 17. Mr. and Mrs. James Collins, Sr.. of this city, are celebrating their 68th wedding anniversary today. Mrs. Collins is 84 ana Mr. Collins 91. Ten of their 14 children are living, eight of whom are with their parents today. Weather Forecast MOORE'S LOCAL FORECAST Generally cloudy tonight and Wednesday; rain or snow, probably snow and colder. The above forecast is made because of the storm center now crossing the Great Lakes and a Canadian cold wave which is overspreading the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin. For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Unsettled weather with snow late tonight or Wednesday; slightly warmer in extreme east portion tonight; colder in north portion Wednesday. Temperatures For Yesterday. Maximum 28 Minimum 9 Today. Noon 37 Weather conditions Moderately cold weather now covers the central states. A cold wave with temperatures considerably below freezing over southern Canada is moving southeastward. Another storm has developed over the far northwest with general rains in Oregon, and rain and snow in Washington and snow in Montana. The third storm over the far southeast is causing heavy showers over the eastern Gulf coast. Paid Ci r cut at ion Yesterday, was 11,638

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IRISH TOLD METHODS OF GOVERNMENT rvi r r - irt delegates or rrovisional regime Confer with Members of British Cabinet Relative to Responsibility. FAT SALARIES STOP (By Associated Press) LONDON, Jan. 17. Details incident to the transfer of authority in Southem Ireland from the crown government to the provisional administration established in Dublin on Saturday were considered here today. Eamon J. Duggan and Kevin O'Higgins, delegates of the Irish provisional government arrived in London to confer with members of the British cabinet relative to the investment of the new regime with governmental responsibility. Initial steps in the establishment of he new provisional government of the xic Butie wne wmdiu wuunn yesterday when a proclamation was is suea, announcing the provisional government had entered upon its duties under the trety with Great Britain. The war office has announced that withdrawal of British forces in Southern Ireland will begin immediately and that the men will be moved as rapidly as conditions permit. Says Castle Evil. The Morning Post, a newspaper which has steadfastly shown hostility to Irish home rule and has upheld the principle of unionism today printed the following dispatch from its Dublin correspondent: The provisional government will - make a great mistake if it does not level Dublin castle to the ground, There is an evil spell upon it and its SDirit is Ollite as nana hie nf Aoatmv. ing the Irish free state, as it was of - ' i " - "vuv.vj destroying the union with England. C'ertainlv nnhnrtv u-hn Viqc holiovort in that union would weep if the castle suuum crumDie 10 oust, its spirit ot I politician that "harbored6 andthe kind of administrators it bred did more to destroy the union than agitators and treason-mongers. Fat Salaries to Stop "When the exodus begins, the fastnesses of Dublin castle will disgorge high salaried officials who have not done a stroke of honest work in years." The correspondent Intimated the officials against whom he was writing were in collusion with "rebels" while drawing salaries and wearing titles received from the crown. "It is comforting to remember." he concluded, "that the men who did these things, and made the castle what it was, were Irishmen. It is less pleasing to remember that, their British colleagues, though few, generally outclassed the native officials in incompetence and stupidity. In Dublin castle, Great Britain gave Ireland her absolute nnrl itisnrnaqhla wnrct a . r - :v. Had it been otherwise isrnominoiis lis-1 solution would never have been the fate of the union." KENTUCKY GOVERNOR SEEKING SETTLEMENT OF STRIFE AT MILLS (By Associated Press) NEWPORT, Ky., Jan. 17. Governor Edwin P. Morrow of Kentucky, arrived in Cincinnati from Frankfort late last night and today is to confer personally with officials of the Newport Rolling Mills and representatives of striking employes in an endeavor to bring about an amicable settlement of the industrial strife that has existed at the mills for more than a month. LTpon his arrival in Cincinnati the governor reaffirmed his desire to have the difficulties settled and peace rectriot t-ft (. . .-. ...-. . 1. : 1'vnw iuol uoif Bidic mruiift, wjin.ii have been stationed in the strike zone j

iui uiuio man inree w eeiis, to pre-; ri'uu m? immune interests in Argenvent disorder, may be withdrawn. jtina. Articles for the incorporation Coincident with his departure from of the "Sociedad Anonima Hugo StinFrankfort last night, it was reported pes" have been submitted to the govthat Governor Morrow would propose jernment authorities, it is learned.' an arbitration plan which would bind The SUnnes interests include the employers and .employes alike to abide development of petroleum and agrithe decision of a joint board, three , cultural lands, lumber enterprises and members of which would be appointed 1 importing organizations co-operating by the governor and three each by the j with the Stinnes steamship lines and contending faetinnu faefnriea in Cormonv Thi-, nr.r.

contendinz factions The governor expects to remain in Newport over today and tonight, when he will return to Frankfort. Conditions at the mill ere quiet, according to Col. H. H. Barnardt, commanding the troops on guard duty in the strike zone. BRADY ASKS DELAY IN ARBUCKLE TRIAL (By Associated Press) SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 17 There was no session of the Roscoe Arbhckle manslaughter trial in superior court this morning, Mathew Brady, district attorney, having asked time to study certain phases of the case more thoroughly. The court set the first of a series of extended sessions for 2 p. m. Taking of testimony was expected to begin at this session. The long sessions from 2 to 6 o'clock each afternoon are to render night sittings of the court unnecessary, it was announced. Both prosecution and defense have expressed a desire to expedite the hearing. Morning sessions are as usual from 10 to 12 o'clock. WILL OPEN COUNCIL MEETINGS WITH PRAYER CANTON, O., Jan. 17. A resolution providing that all meetings be opened with prayer has been adopted by the Canton city council.

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William F. Deegan. Sleeping in lean-tos and shooting wild game in the heart of the Adirondacks will be the cure for tubercular ex-soldiers when the plan of the New York state organization of the American Legion for a mammoth mountain camp materializes. Pushed by WilI - . . . , i uouru uj Milliam p Deegan. state commander, the j legion's hospitalization work is now progressing, an option on the $125,000 camp of the late William Barbour at Big Tupper Lake having been secured, and plans also laid for a tubercular hospital at Liberty, N. Y. With 10,000 service men unable to find a bed, the legion conceived the idea of sending: them jest lands, to what will be the largest iuurn.uiuM3 fciunionuni in tne world, situated in the Saranac Lake district, bordering the state preserve. Here they will receive medical attention and recreation in an atmosphere wnere the comradeship of wartime l . . . y, L r CI 1 uUlt .lives on. Bowline alleys mntnr hat barns stocked with animals, and 12 000 acres of untouched mountain slopes ! will ho of tVoli. i i t ' " i" ii uisyuKdl. Each legion nost has heen ivon the chance to build its own ienn.t which will cost $250 and which wili 'house eight men. i RFNIF MFN HAMRFfl i UI",,,"U IIMIlULU IN FRANCE BURIED WITH ROPE AND CAPS (By Associated Press) - WASHINGTON, .Tan. 14. Former service men detailed for duty with the American graves registration service in France denied before a senate Investigating committee today that the bodies of soldiers legally nut to death I in France were buried w ith a rope around the neck and the black can which had been placed on them on the gallows. George A. Bamford, of Washington, and John R. Flynn. of Cambridge , ... . ' ilass rxjin testmed thev they had , . .. ' u neara no'ng to substantiate such charges Flynn declared that R. P. Hubbard, of New York, who testified that he saw bodies with rope and cap intact, was a trouble maker who had to be transferred on that account. The committee went into hanging methods as part of its general investigation of charges laid before the senate by Senator Watson, Democrat, of Georgia, that soldiers were hanged without trial in France. THINK HUGO STINNES PLANNING TO EXPAND ARGENTINE INTERESTS (By Associated Press) BUNEOS AIRES, Jan. 17. Hugo Stinnes. German industrial magnate, is iniiivr. uiLiuiau luuiiMi icti magnate, IS believed to be planning to combing and factories in Germany. There are re ports that Stinnes' agents are planning local steamship lines, which will operate along the Parama river to develop the Chaco region, a rich, but almost virgin, territory. One reason for the interest taken by Herr Stinnes in South America is said to be the fact that his wife was a Uruguayan, and that their daughter was born in Montevideo. The daughter recently visited this city. Fraternity Members Pay $350 For Destroying Trees (By. Associated Press) MADISON. Wis., , Jan. 17 Cutting iwo vaiuaoie spruce trees on the property of Magnus Swenson, president of the Norwegian-American steamship lines, in order to decorate for a Christmas dance, cost members of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity here $350 when settlement was made today. The money will be used, Mr. Swenson said, for protecting the natural beauties of Madison. . DEAN OF CHICAGO BANKERS RETIRES FROM POSITION (By Associated Press) CHICAGO. Jan. 17. James B. Forgan, dean of Chicago bankers, todav will retire as chairman of the Chicago Clearing association to make way for a younger man, after 21 years of service. He will remain as chairman cf the board of the First National and First Trust Savings banks.

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JAPAN, CHINA ' DISCUSS IRON, COMBINES Continue Efforts to Reach Settlement on Shantung Question Consider Mines in Leasehold in Province. MAKE NO PROGRESS (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. The Japanese and Chinese arms delegation, continuing today their efforts to reach, a settlement of the Shantung question, took up the matter of coal and lroa mines in the Kiaochaw leasehold of Shantung province, but made virtually no progress toward an agreement. As a starting point of the "open door" discussions today, the delegates of the other powers represented in the Far Eastern committee had beforw them for consideration a concrete "definition" of the American view of what constituted an effective application of this principle. This was supplied them la textual form yesterday by Secretary Hughes, aiier opening tne debate with a reaffirmation of the American "open dooi" policy In China, and was understood to have been based on the secretary's note of last July to the Chinese minister here concerning a wireless concession to the Federal Telegraph company, an American corporation, its rights in which were disputed by other powers. Question Goes Over A subsequent question arising in the committee as to whether the "definition" should apply to private enterprises went over for further discussion today. The Chinese and Japanese continued today their efforts to clear awav collateral points involved in the Shantung settlement pending a final attack on the central problem of condition for restoration to China of the Tsing Tao-Tainanfu railway. Meanwhile, until the Shantung issue is settled and both sides indicated today that there are enough things vet to be discussed to occupy many meetings more the far eastern committee at the suggestion of Secretary Hughes is stiil deferring consideration of the Chinese request for committee action, on the famous "21 demands" and also of the question 'of spheres of influence. Other Questions In addition to these questions, the conference having proceeded on the declared policy of disposing first of subjects upon which agreement appeared easiest, has yet to take tip the more difficult questions of Manchuria and of the Japanese occupation of Siberia. Although professing confidence in the outcome, most of the delegates privately concede that the conferenc-3 may be facing the most critical stage of its entire course. Meantime, final agreement on the Pacific fortifications clause of the naval treaty, upon which the Japanese are awaiting instructions from Tokio, appears to have been held up by political developments in Japan resulting from opposition in some quarters to the British proposal amending the original plan by limiting the zone of the fortifications' status quo to a region north of the equator. 22 STATES ACCEPT MATERNITY CARE AID AS PROVIDED BY ACT WASHINGTON. Jan. n.Twentytwo states have accepted the federal aid for maternity care "authorized in the maternity act and its probable acceptance by most of the others has been indicated by state officials, it was announced today by Miss Grace Abbott, of the Children's bureau of the department of labor and a number of the federal board of maternity and infant hygiene charged with administration of the act. Five of the states Delaware. Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Mexico and Oregon have accepted by action of their legislatures while seventeen have done so through their governors, under, the provision of the bill permitting such acceptance within a period of six months after the next legislative session following its enactment. The states accepting receive under the bill $10,000 for the fiscal year ending next June )0. and $5,000 in succeeding years with an additional o,000 and a proportional share of $710,000 based on population if these amounts are matched by state appropriations. The aid is conditioned on the approval of plans for its use by the federal board. GARMENT WORKERS RETURN TO BENCHES NEW YORK, Jan. 17. Fifty-five thousand garment workers of the Metropolitan district were ready today to resume work in hundreds of thnn which have been closed hince last November, when they struck in protest against, the institution of the piecework system. The tie-up came to an end when attorneys for the cloak, suit and skirt manufacturers' protective association notified the workmen that the shopr, would reopen in obedience to an order of the state supreme court. The strikers voted to go back to work. "The victory of the striking cloak workers in this city is of national Importance." Benjamin Schlessinger, president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' union, declared n announcing the end of the controversy. "It has demonstrated the ability of organized labor to enforce the observance of collective agreements by employers."