THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1919.
CARMEN DECIDE
AGAINST GOING
OUT OHTRIKE
Will Continue Efforts to Ob
' tain Greater Raise in
Wages Than Com
pany Offers.
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been granted a substantial increase,
n increase which would give them
higher wages than street car con
ductors and niotormen are receiving
in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Lincoln,
lies Moines, St. Louis, Sioux City,
Kansas City or any other city
around this part of the country.
They pointed out that the fare
raise granted by the State Railway
commission amounts to a good deal
less than a straight 7-cent in
crease but that the company had
"stretched a point" and agreed to
grant a 10-cents-an-hour increase
to the men, amounting to about $30
a month.
They declared that this was the
extreme limit which the financial
outlook of the company will permit
in wages at the present time.
A big feature of yesterday's de
velopments was the news that the
State Railway commission had
granted the company a higher pas
senger fare rate. The new rate is 7
cents, or four fares, for 25 cents
with a S-cent fare for school chil
dren and half fare for children be
tween S and 12 years of age.
Following this news the company
agreed to give the men 55 cents an
hour, an increase of 10 cents over
the old rate of 45 cents. This
amounts to a 22 per cent increase.
' Want Greater Increase.
More than 300 railway employes
voting yesterday morning expressed
themselves as opposed to any in
crease below 15 cents an hour. They
are at present receiving 41 to 45
cents an hour, depending upon length
of service. The major portion of
the members, about 600 in number,
are expected to make their decision
known through the ballot.
Addressing the city commission
ers during a meeting in the city hall
vesterdav afternoon. Mr. Short
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stated that ' the affair must be set
tled tonight. Unless it is settled to
the satisfaction of the men the peo
ple will probably walk tomorrow
morning. The men demand imme
diate action," he asserted.
Offer Increase.
R. A. Leussler, assistant general
manager of the company, pointed
out dt a meeting in the connril cham
ber in the afternoon that the com
pany had offered to give the men
55 cents an hour provided the State
Railway commission ordered a fare
increase to 7 cents, but that the fare
increase ordered is really only to
( cents, as four tickets are to be
sold for 25 cents.
"Nevertheless," said Mr. Leussler,
the company is ready to grant an
increase of wages to 55 cents. This
amounts to ju a month increase.
Auditor iMicholson, for the com
pany, presented a complete table of
earnings and expenditures of the
'company for the 12 months ending
June 30, 1919.
These figures showed the net in
come to be $37,623, without charg
ing off anything for depreciation.
If $200,000 had been added for de
preciation, the company would have
had a deficit for the year of $162,
375. The income was as follows for
the year: Passenger rcenue, $3,275,
515; gross income, $3,554,020.
Expenditures were: Railway op
erating expenses, $2,554,001; taxes,
$324,463; rent of leased roads, $150,
900; interest on funded debt, $480,
950; miscellaneous, $6,081; total op
erating expenses and fixed charges,
$3,516,396.
Mr. Leussler stated that the com
pany has estimated that the new rate
of fare will yield between $550,000
and $600,000 additional revenue per
annum. About one-tenth oi the
people who now ride will walk
rather than pay the new rate of fare,
he said they estimated.
To Use Metal Tickets.
"Will you have the tickets ready
to sell on the cars next Sunday if
this rate goes into effect?" Mayor
Smith asked.
"Yes, we will print some paste
board tickets for temporary use,"
said Mr. Leussler. But eventually
we expect to use metal tickets
which are slugs just the size of a
nickel which will register in the fare
boxes just like a nickel does."
Commissioner Zimman pointed
out that an increase of 10 cents an
hour to the men will take about
$320,000 a year. The rest of the es
timated $550,000 to $600,000 addi
tional revenue he said, would go to
the company.
Horse Tramples to Death
Pioneer in Black Hills
Deadwood, S. D., Aug. 6. (Spe
cial Telegram7.) Fred Doten, pio
neer in the Black Hills, former sher
iff of Lawrence county and well
known over the state, was trampled
to death by a horse at his ranch
in Harding county. His chest was
crushed and nearly every rib broken.
During the first years of his resi
dence in the Black Hills he became
noted as a stage driver.
Supreme Council Studies
Conditions In Hungary
Paris, Aug. 6. (By Associated
Press.) The supreme council de
voted most of its time today to a
discussion of the Hungarian situa
tion. Instructions were framed for
the inter-allied military mission in
Budapest, which is ordered to ef
fect a withdrawal of the Rouma
nians from Budapest as soon as the
Hungarian Red Guard is disarmed.
I. W. W. Gets Bail.
Chicago, Aug. 6. Bonds of $10,
000 for release of Stanley J. Clark,
an I. VV. W. lecturer and organizer,
convicted with 92 other members
of the organization for violation of
the espionage law last fall before
Federal Judge Landis, were ap
proved. The sureties are H. C.
Ratcliff of Decatur, Tex., and T.
M. Haney of Thalia, Tex. Clark
will be released from the federal
penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan.,
pending the hearing of his case by
the United States circuit court of
appeals.
AN INVIGORATOR
Horsford's Acid Phosphate
Relieves languor, brain fagr and nerve
exhaustion. Makes a tasty tonic drink.
Omaha's Hew Store
Your neighbors are buying Groceries, Fresh
Meats, Hardware, Paint and Wall Paper at
Harper's.
Special Sale in the Grocery Department.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday will be Q$
FLOUR DAYS. 48-lb. sack yLVW
Fresh Country Eggs, 35c Per Doz.
Only Onef Dozen Eggs to a Customer.
Sweet Corn 10c Per Dozen
Lennox Laundry Soap, 10 bars for 49c
HARDWARE DEPARTMENT
Trash Burners . . .$2.25
Wire Waste Baskets 50c
Tin Dish Pans 50c
Baby Grand Wash
boards 25c
Enamel Foot Tub, $1.50
Galvanized Foot Tub
at 75c
Galvanized Pails . .35c
Galvanized Garbage
Cans, at $1.69
Bread Toasters 25c
Frying Pans 15c
Potato Mashers 10c
Measuring Glasses. . 15c
Egg Beaters 20c
"Daisy" Glass Churn
at $1.65
Combination Can Open
er and Corkscrew, 15c
Hurling Irons .15c
Refrigerators ...$10.75
Ice Picks 10c
Steak Pounders 20c
Slaw Cutters 55c
Vegetable Cutters. .25c
Whiskbrooms 35c
50-ft Clothes Line.. 25c
Iron Handles 15c
Family Scale $1.95
Tea Bells 25c
Paint Brushes 30c
Putty Knives 15c
4-ft. Sten Ladders, $1.10
Lawn Sprinklers . . 60c
Nickel-plated Soap
Dishes 10c
Canning Baskets . .65c
Cherry Stoners ... .92c
Grayl4-qt. Preserv
ing Kettles $1.15
Chick Waterers . . . .25c
Chick Coops $2.75
Spading Forks . . .$1.25
Manure Forks . . .$1.35
Alfalfa Forks . . . .$1.65
Vegetable Forks. .$2.00
Grain Scoops $1.90
Shovels $1.85
Potato Scoops . . . .$3.00
Hoes 80c
Rakes 50c
Cultivator Hoes . .$1.65
Ladies' Floral Sets $1.59
Turf Edges 75c
Lawn Edge Trim
mers . . .: $1.15
Garden Trowels . . .59c
Weeding Forks 15c
Asparagus Knife . .35c
Fireless Cooker. .$15.00
Oil Stoves $18.50
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. H. Harper Company
17th and Howard Sts. East End of Flatiron Bldg.
SETTLEMENT AT
ONCE ON WAGES
RAILROADERS ASK
Heads of Brotherhoods and
Other Railway Bodies Ex
plain to Congress Their
Solution of Trouble.
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(Continued From Pa- One.)
on the passage of the Adamson
act.
The present situation was said to
be similar, but infinitely more dan
gerous. Not only are the four
brotherhoods involved, but all the
other unions also which have to deal
with maintenance of equipment and
the moving of trains.
Entitled to Compensation.. .
The program submitted to Direc
tor General Hines declared that the
employes were entitled to compen
sation which would at least re-establish
the prewar purchasing power
of their wage. Rates of pay, it was
said, were in no "way corelated to
transportation charges. The plan
for a congressional commission was
disapproved because "it means
months of delay at a time when the
questions involved require imme
diate settlement," the program said,
continuing:
"You already have in the board of
railroad wages and working condi
tions the necessary machinery to
dispose of these questions and we
ask that their function be restored
and that their findings be placed
before the representatives of the rec
ognized organizations for their con
sideration and be mutually agreed
upon before being issued.
Want An Appropriation.
"The moneys with which to pay
these increases should, in our opin
ion, be raised by an appropriation by
congress. This appropriation to be
of sufficient amount to temporarily
take care of immediate deficits. In
the meantime let the proper rate
making body make a careful study
as to what, if any, increases should
be made in passenger and freight
rates, prompt action in this regard
being both essential and desirable.
This will only give temporary re
lief and must be accompanied or
immediately followed by a deter
mined united effort to not only
prevent a further increase in
the cost of living, but to secure a
reduction thereon.
"Any permanent solution of the
railroad problem must necessarily
remove the element of returns to
capital as the sole purpose of opera
tion. Therefore, we ask that you
urge upon the president the neces
sity for the prompt passage by con
gress of the required appropriation
bill to meet the emergency now ex
isting." Presented to Congress.
Organized labor's remedy for the
high cost of living a bill that would
turn ovW the railroads to the pub
lic, operating officials and labor
was presented to congress today by
men high in the council of the or
ganization who declared with u;
most frankness conditions were so
desperate it might be necessary to
advocate a firing squad for prof
iteers. With equal frankness members of
the house interstate commerce com
mittee indicated during the exami
nation of Warren S. Stone, grand
rhief of the Brotherhood of Railway
Locomotive Engineers, and Frank
Morrison, secretary of the American
Federation of Labor, that the bill
embodyiing what has come to be
known as the Plumb plan, was too
radical and failed to strike at the
high price evil against which people
throughout the country are clamor
ing. For niore than a month the house
committee has been considering all
plans for solution of the problems
confronting the roads with their re
turn to private management, and
the Plumb proposal was offered with
the assurance of labor leaders that
it would cut down prices of com
modities because of the reduction in
rates which would follow the elimi
nation of private capital from the
railroad companies.
Answer Many Questions.
The two union officials for five
hours stood up in defense of the bill
and answered a whirlwind fire of
questions from men who must re
nort it out or throw it away. Dur
ing the long discussion attended by
an attentive audience including
many women, the labor leaders
made strong denial of reports that
they were attempting to intimidate
congress by threats to strike or chop
off the political heads of members
voting contrary to their desires.
There was a broad intimation that
the public ownership plan if not
enacted into law would be taken to
the convention of the two big par
ties next year with the hope of hav
ing its endorsement written into the
platform.
Warning was sounded by Secre
tary Morrison that the burden of
the leaders might be too heavy
that they might be unable 'during
their period of unrest to control the
workers in which case, he declared,
there would be a revolution fo the
extent of general strikes. Around
the whole theme of what the two
witnesses said was woven the ever
rising cost of food, mounting higher
and faster, they insisted, than the
increase in the workingman's wage,
with no assurance that it would
stop unless quick and drastic action
was taken by congress.
Both Mr. Stone and Mr. Morrison
A DISCOVERY THAT
BENEFITS MANKIND
Two discoveries have added great
ly to human welfare.
In 1835 Newton originated the
vacuum process for condensing milk
with cane sugar to a (ami-liquid
form.
In 1883 Horlick at Racine, Wis.,
discovered how to reduce milk to
a dry powder form with extract of
malted grains, without cane sugar.
This product HORLICK named
Malted Milk. (Name since copied
by other.) Its nutritive value,
digestibility and ease of preparation
(by simply stirring in water) and
the fact that it keeps in any climate
has proved of much value to man
kind as an ideal food-drink from
infancy to old age.
Ask for HORLICK'S Avoid Imitations.
said wage increases offered only
temporary relief, contending that
prices of food and clothing must
come down, after which the wage
demand pressure would be lessened
They declared the pending bill
would prove to be the first step
toward forcing down prices by re
ducing freight rates and expressed
the belief that despite the burden
of bond buying during the war, the
American people would produce the
funds necessary to take the roads
from private control.
While the committee listened by
the hour to, opinions as to what the
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oiii wouia ao, mere was no expla
nation of its various provisions.
Glenn E. Plumb, its author, was
present to give his statement, but
so much time was taken up with the
examination of Stone and Morrison
tnat his statement had to go over
until tomorrow.
Chicago, Aug. 6. Leaders of the
Chicago district council ot the red
erated Kaalway shopmen s union
said tonight that at a conservative
estimate 275,000 shopmen were on
strike throughout the country and
that the movement was spreading.
They declared that no violence
would be countenanced by the or
ganization and that so far as they
knew no mail trains had been inter
fered with.
Assistant District Attorney Mil-
roy, said today that evidence of in
terference with the mail train sched
ules would bring action against per
sons responsible for calling the
strike. He also said he had ques
tioned several representatives of the
shopmen today.
L. M. Hawver, president of the
district council, said so far as he
knew none of the shopmen had been
summoned by the district attorney
or questioned. As to responsibility
for the strike he said the rank and
file had demanded a strike in spite
of the wishes of their grand lodge
presidents and that the men were de
termined to remain on strike until
their demands for 85 cents an hour
for mechanics and 60 cents for help
ers had been granted.
Pact Upholds Wilson's
Points, Lansing Says
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bers of the American delegation
"protested" against the Shantung
settlement; that Great Britain "re
fused to permit" discussion of the
freedom of the seas by the peace
conference; or that any of the
American expert advisers had re
signed because they disagreed with
the decision rearding Shantung.
The general basis on which the
treaty was framed, said the secre
tary, was "common sense and gen
eral principles with an avoidance of
policy and expediency." Verbatim
records of the discussions, he told
the committee, had been left in
Paris, adding that he would not
favor giving to the senate the less
complete transcripts in the posses
sion of the State department, be
cause it might cause "irritation" u
other governments.
Both the Shantung provision and
the league covenant, the witness,
said, had been negotiated largely by
the president, who alone of the
American delegates would be able
to reveal details of the discussions.
The secretary was before the com
mittee during the whole of an all
day session and although senators
apparently had finished their ques
tioning of him when adjournment
was taken tonight, it was thought
likely that other points might be
brought up when he appears again
next Monday. Mr. Lansing asked
to be given until that time to pre
pare his statements in reply to ques
tions asked today about the Lansing
Tshii agreement, the attitude of the
United States towards Japan's 21
demands on China in 1915 and what
part this government took toward
bringing China into the war.
Wilson Thinks Shantung
Issue Has Been Cleared
(Continued From Page One.)
curitv for traffic. They will be used
for no other purpose.
" 'The police forces which will be
composed of Chinese and such Jap-,
anese instructors as the directors of
the railway may select, will be ap
pointed by the Chinese government.
"No reference was made to this
policy being in any way dependent
upon the execution of the agreemnt
of 1915 to which Count Uchida ap
pears to have reffered. Indeed, I
felt it my duty to say that nothing
that I agreed to must be construed
as an acquiescence on the part of the
United States in the policy of the
notes exchanged between China and
Japan in 1915 and 1918; and refer
ence was made in the discussion to
the enforcement of the agreements
of 1915 and 1918 only in case China
failed to co-operate fully in carry
ing out the policy outlined in the
statement of Baron Makino and Vis
count Chinda.
"I have, of course, no doubt that
Viscount Uchida had been apprised
of all the particulars of the discus
sion in Paris, and I am not making
this statement with the idea of cor
recting his, but only to throw a
fuller light of clarification upon a
situation which ought to be relieved
of every shadow of obscurity or misapprehension."
TO FILE SUITS
AGAINST FIVE
BIG PACKERS
First Concrete Development
of Government Campaign to
Reduce Living Cost
Taken by Palmer.
(Continued From Page One.)
of peace and applicable to shoes,
clothing and all life necessaries in
addition to food.
"Legislation to reach the smaller
individual profiteer as well as "big
business" extortion.
Legislation to define profiteering,
thereby making easier prosecution
under existing laws.
Laws to make speculation in
necessaries a crime.
Legislation limiting the margin of
profit on necessities.
Another major development of
the day was the making public of
the federal trade commission's re
port on the shoe industry investiga
tion. This report charged that the
high price of shoes resulted from
excessive profits taken by every
factor in the trade. The packers,
tanners, manufacturers and retail
ers all shared in the blame. The
report was placed before Attorney
General Palmer.
"Big Part of Game."
The hoarder "is the big part of
the game right now," in the opinion
of the government officials in charge
of the efforts to bring down prices
and Attorney General Palmer indi
cated today that he was depending
largely on the section of the Lever
act dealing with hoarding as one of
the most immediate means of fore-'
ing prices down.
The price gouger can be reached
n another way," the attorney gen
eral said, adding that there was not
much difference between hoarding
and profiteering.
I he attornev general today
pointed out that all of the wartime
laws governing production and dis
tribution of foodstuffs still were in
force and that they would be used
to the fullest extent. The conditions
confronting the country now, he
said, are properly classed as result
ing from the war and are a part of i
war conditions. J
Testifying before a senate com
mittee investigating living conditions
in the District of Columbia. Thomas i
E. Wilson, president of Wilson &
Co. and chairman of the Institute of
American Meat Packers, declared
that the packers were not profiteer
ing. The high cost of living, he told
the committee, was a world problem I
and not local.
"The world is on a holiday and
people are spending money like
drunken sailors without producing,"
he added.
Packers Announce They
Will Welcome Suits
Chicago, Aug. 6. Chicago pack
ers stated tonight they "welcomed"
suits, the anti-trust laws which At
torney General Palmer announced
in Washington today would be
started against the great meat pack
ing firms. J. Ogden Armour and
Louis F. Swift, heads of the two
larger concerns, said the suits would
afford the opportunity to go before
an impartial body of men and show
that the packers did not control
prices and were not responsible for
high prices of meats.
Louis F. Swift, president of Swift
& Co., said:
"I would welcome the opportunity
to plesd our case before any impar
tial body of men, which has so far
been denied us. The public has
been fed on a lot of baseless accu
sations and we have been the inno
cent victims of economic conditions
beyond anybody's control. The in
crease in the cost of meats has been
no greater than in most other lines
and our profi's have been reasona
ble. "I know that this suif will prove
what we have contended all along,
namely, that there is absolutely no
combination or monopoly and that
the profit of the packer is only a
fraction of a cent a pound, and,
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Art Pianola Pianos and Vocalions. I
We must have room for them.
That's the why of these prices I
1 $400.00 buys a Puretone Player, mahogany case, in ex-
cellent condition.
$410.00 buys a Stuyvesant Pianola San Domingo, ma- I
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$550.00 buys a Troubadour Player Beautiful American I
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I HAND PLAYED PIANOS AS LOW AS $100.
I TALKING MACHINES AS LOW AS $15. 1
I PLAYER PIANOS AS LOW AS $225. I
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therefore, has practically no effect
on prices paid, for live stock or re
ceived from the sale of meats."
Embargo Creates Serious
Food Lack in Atlanta
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 6. To provide
Atlanta citizens with food in case
the partial freight embargo declared
by southern railroads becomes com
plete, Mayor Key decided to ask
the city council for an immediate
appropriation of $50,000. The food
stuffs would be purchased from the
War department's surplus stocks.
The freight embatgo was declared
by B. L. Wfnchell, southern reg
ional director of railroads, as a re
sult of the shopmen's strike, and
affected all lines comprising the At'
lanta joint terminals.
700 Arrested in Trieste.
Trieste, Aug. 5. A group of bol
sheviki appeared on the streets her
today and attempted to start rioting
The disturbers, however, were dis
persed by the police, with the assist-
ance of the population.
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The T&sJiion Geitierjforlvoinen
The August Sale oj Furs offers coats, coatees
and separaU pieces of the utmost beauty for
20 fo less than the price after September first
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and these new silks and satins would satisfy
the most critical. They are lustrous, shim
mering pieces of pure delight in colors in
numerable. A large assortment of Cheney's
Fall Silks has been received including
New Crepe Meteors
Satin Panne and
Chenette Crepe
as well as a colorful array of Cheney's kimono
silk in handsome designs.
She is wise, iimdlaedl9 win
buys her woolen materials early this year
as they are to be much higher later on. Serges,
broadcloths, tricotines, and poplins may be
purchased now for quite a bit less than Fall
and Winter prices.
Our August Sale of Linens Offers
Satin Marseilles Bed Spreads
For Thursday. Fine spreads, scalloped, with or
without cut corners, double bed size.
$8.75 scalloped spreads with cut corners, Thursday,
$6.75.
$9 square spreads, scalloped, $7.89.
$10 scalloped spreads with cut corners, Thursday
for $8.89.
Bleached Turkish Towels
50c heavy Turkish towels for 39c each.
Linen W ft Huck Towels
S5c linen weft huck towels, 50c each.
Main Floor
Outing Pumps
and Oxfords
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Extremely practical
white canvas pumps and
oxfords with rubber
soles and heels will be
sold Thursday
For $2.45
White Silk Hose
White silk boot hose
with lisle tops and soles,
full fashioned, $1 a pair.
White fibre hose with
lisle top, heel and toe,
Thursday, 85c a pair.
SHOES
FALL
Our stock of Men's Fall Shoes
now arriving was purchased way
last spring before the great ad
vance in leather.
Buy early and take advantage of
this saving.
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Greatest Linen Sale
Omaha Has Known In
Years, Next Saturday
Union Outfitting Co,
Sale is Possible Because
of a Special Pur
chase, Made Long
Time Ago.
Included Are Huck Tow
els, Turkish Towels,
Table Cloths and
Napkins
Superior qualities and un
rivaled values are the magnets
that will draw hundreds of far
sighted homemakers to the
Union Outfitting Company
next Saturday when a big,
Special Purchase of Linens
and Towels will be placed on
Bale.
The sale prices are excep
tionally low and in view of the
very acute shortage of de
pendable Linens, jjhe one-day
event is destined "'to be one
of the greatest Linen Sales in
the history of Omaha.
The sale includes various
qualities in fine Huck Towels,
and Turkish Towels and a big
variety of beautiful, mer
cerized, Part Linen and all
Linen Table Cloths and Nap
kins. This Special Purchase of
Linens further emphasizes the
immense Buying Power of tbe
Union Outfitting Company
and its ability to make lower
prices because of its inex
pensive location. As always
you make your own terms.
For the best results place a Want
Ad in The Omaha Bee.