1911
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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, JULY
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Montana Representative Quotes Of
ficial Reports to Director of
Plant in Answer to Every
Contention Made.
OEEGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, July 15. Hats are off In Wash
ington to Jeannette Rankin, of Mon
tana, the sole .woman in Congress. In
Just a week during: which she worked
day and night, regardless of hours, she
put an end to the 12 and 13-hour day
In the United States Bureau of Print
ing and Engraving, and rorced the es
tablishment of an eight-hour day. And
she did it practically unassisted.
Not long: ago a Montana woman visit
ing Washington happened to learn that
grirls and women employed, at the
Bureau of Printing and Engraving
were compelled to work 12 and 13
hours a day. This woman believed this
was too much of a strain to impose,
particularly upon women of less than
normal strength, so she called on Rep
resentative Rankin to "talk things
over."
The Montana Congresswoman was in
terested at once, and obtained a pass
to go through the Bureau of Printing
and Engravings-not a pass for the Hon.
Jeannette Rankin, M. C, but a pass for
"Miss J. Rankin, of Washington, D.
C." She went Incog. She saw girls
and women working long hours who
could not stand the strain, and who
were breaking down; she saw others
who were compelled to work overtime,
because they could not live and sup
port dependent relatives on the J1.75
a day which Uncle Sam pays many of
the women helpers in the big print
chop. Director Ralph, of the Bureau of
Printing and Engraving, announced
that overtime was the result of rush
war orders, but he did not reckon on
the woman with whom he had been
thrown into controversy.
Records Show Overtime Usual.
Miss Rankin promptly produced of
ficial records, signed by Mr. Ralph
himself, showing that the overtime had
been the usual order at the bureau;
that it had prevailed for the past three
or four years, long before the United
States entered the war, and in fact
before Europe Itself became involved.
There was no answer to this, but Di
rector Ralph made a counter move,
and announced that Inasmuch as there
had been a let-up in war business he
had reduced the hours of most of his
women employes. Miss Rankin investi
gated, and found he had reduced the
13-hour shift to 12 hours, and the
12-hour shift to 11 hours; simply that,
and nothing more.
Mr. Ralph then, said the women
and girls who worked overtime
were willing to do so, but Miss
Rankin came back with evidence that
Mr. Ralph himself had passed around
an order serving notice that when the
war rush let up there would be a re
duction in his force, and-that those who
now worked overtime would stand the
better show of retention on the pay
roll. Finally Director Ralph made the pub
lic assertion that he had been forced
to work his employes overtime be
cause he had been unable to get ad
ditional women and girls from the Civil
Serviee Commission. And there Miss
Rankin "had him dead," for the records
of the Civil Service Commission showed
that when the war rush came on Di
rector Ralph had not asked for the
names of any eligibles from the civil
.service list.
Many on Qualified List.
And not until Miss Rankin started
her row did he appeal to the Civil
Service Commission; he then asked for
150 names, whereas the register con
tained the names of more than . 500
women anxious to work at the bureau.
This was the status of affairs when I
Miss Kankin sought out the Secretary
of the Treasury. She called on Mr. Mc
Adoo, by appointment, and to her sur
prise found Director Ralph ahead of
her. The Secretary was busy, so re
ferred both Miss Rankin and Mr. Ralph
to his assistant. The Assistant Secre
tary heard what Miss Rankin had to
Bay, but promised nothing definite.
So Miss Rankin again appealed to
the press; again she told all the salient
facts. They were laid before the pub
lic, and two days later Secretary Mc
Adoo ordered an investigation by a
board of Treasury Department officials.
Miss Rankin attended that Investiga
tion, and with, her she carried official
records as well as her other informa
tion. The committee could do no more than
recognize those facts, and when it saw
how overtime was undermining the
health of the women. It wasted no time
in reporting promptly to Secretary Mc-
Adoo against overtime for women and
in recommending the establishment of
the eight-hour day in the bureau.
Secretary McAdoo lost no time In fol
lowing the recommendations of this
committee. He ordered the eight-hour
day put into effect at once. And thus
It transpired that the only woman in
Congress, well fortified with facts,
was able in a single short week
to put an end to the 12 and 13-hour
day In the big shop where the United
States Government turns out all its
paper currency, its postage stamps, its
bonds and other engraved work.
CAMP NAMED FOR LEWIS
Cantonment at American "Lake to lie
Called for Explorer.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, July 15. The War Department
today announced that the 16th divi
sional camp at American Lake where
drafted men from the Northwestern
states will be trained is to be known
hereafter as "Camp Lewis." The des
ignation is in honor of Captain Meri
weather Lewis, the explorer. The camp
at Palo Alto where the Northwest Na
' tional Guard will train Is to be known
as "Camp Fremont."
Second Lieutenants John B. Wilson
of Corvallis; Carroll F. Byrd, Salem;
Carl F. F. Dietz. Charleston, Wash.;
C. Boyd Baynard, Colton, Wash.;
Leland I. Toman, Spokane; Lloyd B
Dysart, George T. Hall, Paul E. Mc
Dermott and Milton U. Vedder, Seattle,
and Robert M. Montague, Moscow,
Idaho, were today ordered to marine
officers' training school at Quantico,
Va., for three months' training.
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HO.VOllAJJI.E JEAXETTE
CZECH WOULD QUIT
Ex-PMnister's Peace Proposals
Stir Reichsrath.
HOLLWEG FALL DISCUSSED
Parisian Tress Both Sober and
Jubilant, All Agreeing That Re
tirement of Chancellor Marks
Grave Political Era.
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tionary who desired the war, to satis-
Y th.eir aPPetlte tor universal domina
tlon.
Le Journal says:
"The chancellor was so accustomed
to let things be that he seems to be
surprised to find himself at the bot
tom of the abyss. His famous ex
clamation, 'A scrap of paper," which
many thought to be only a cynical ut
terance, now echoes like a cry of dis
tress. It seems now as if Bethmann
Hollweg had foreseen the catastrophe."
Tragic Era at Hand.
In the view of L'Homme Enchalne,
the chancellor's retirement marks the
beginning of a tragic era for Germany
It pictures an Immense black gulf
yawning beneath the feet of the great
militarized Nation and terms the chan
cellor a man of straw.
The Action Krancaise says that the
chancellor's departure Indicates the
depth to which the Germans have de
scended In their spirit of violence and
ambition.
Nearly all the newspapers comment
on the singular coincidence that Dr.
von Bethmann-Hollweg's career
chancellor ended on an. anniversary of
the day it began July 14
MICHAELIS' POLICY IN DOUBT
Indications Are Hollwe-r's Peace
Programme Will Go.
COPENHAGEN. July 15. Germany's
first commoner-Chancellor, Dr. Georg
Michaelis, a bureaucrat without even a
noble "Von" before his name, has as
yet given no indication of his policy
regarding reform and peace. Neither
the Conservatives nor the Liberals have
ventured to call him their own.
The Chancellor's first step, which
might be Interpreted as an indication
of an open mind, was to receive repre
sentatives of the two divergent groups
in the Reichstag and permit them to
explain their respective standpoints.
the Chancellor playing the role of list
ener to the conversations conducted by
the Vice-chancellor, Dr. Karl Helfferich,
and the Reichstag representatives.
The German papers unite in char
acterizations of his energy and fair
mindedness, but are most reserved in
their predictions of his probable policy.
The papers aligned for the so-called
German peace are perhaps a shade more
enthusiastic -about political policies
under the new regime than the radical
and Socialist organs.
The Cologne Volks Zeltung, the
Catholic organ of Pan-German sympa
thizers, says Dr. Michaelis undoubtedly
stands nearer the right than the left
parties. The line of the comment, evl
dently emanating from Wilhelmstrasse,
is that the new Chancellor regards as
his mission the restoration of the in
ternal harmony of the nation, whatever
policy may be adopted. No matter
what else may result, the change will
undoubtedly mean the disappearance of
the Von Bethmann-Hollweg peace pro
gramme.
Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg's policy
regarding the ultimate aims of the war
had from the beginning been a per
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sonal one, in which "the Chancellor
above the parties" had formed a pro
gramme above parliamentary parties,
the military authorities and the Em
peror alike, and he endeavored by gen
tle, steady pressure and suggestion to
impose it upon a changeful sovereign
oscillating between vistas of brilliant
ambition and realizations of cold facts;
upon the puissant military caste repre
sented by Field Marshal von Hinden
burg and General Ludendorff, and a
blundering, unbrllliant parliament.
The appointment of Dr. Michaelis
undoubtedly means a new deal of the
cards. Berlin papers which were pub
lished before the appointment of Dr.
Michaelis was known,- throw further
light on the circumstances of Von
Bethmann-Hollweg's retirement. They
showed that the Emperor, of course, is
confronted by the necessity of dropping
emporarily the Chancellor or virtually
the entire Prussian Cabinet, the mem
of which, including the War Minister,
General von Stein, a soldier, not a poli
tician, submitted their resignations, de
claring that they would not remain If
Von Bethmann-Hollweg was retained.
The Bavarian Premier, Count von
Hertling, who favored moderate peace
proposals, but refused flatly to accept
the Idea of a parliamentary ministry,
which would diminish Bavaria's special
influence on the government, seems to
have thrown himself into the struggle
against Von Bethmann-Hollweg at the
last minute. The Bavarian Centrist
members of the Reichstag started an
antl - Von Bethmann - Hollweg revolt
within, the party and the Crown Prince
maae vaiia nis long standing oDjections
to the Imperial Chancellor.
Field Marshal von Hindenbure and
General Ludendorff were again sum
moned to Berlin, not. to interfere, ac
cording to the unanimous accounts in
the Berlin papers. In the political end
of the situation, but to sidetrack the
proposed peace proposition by pro
viding eneouraging reports of the mili
tary situation and to provide the mem
bers of the Reichstag with the pros
pects of obtaining that "German peace
worthy of the sacrifices made" to which
Von Hindenburg over and over again
had committed himself in his published
replies to the memorials of Pan-Ger
man organizations.
Before the selection of Dr. Michaelis
became known, the papers generally
agreed that Von Bethmann-Hollweg's
retirement would be accompanied by
sweeping changes in the imperial and
Prussian- administrations. The feeling
was general that a large part of the
Secretaries of States and Ministers who
had been in office since and before the
war and had exhausted their efficiency
and availability through long con
tinuance at their posts under the tre
mendous responsibilities of the war.
should be replaced by fresh hands and
brains, without any incumbrance of the
past.
This, in the ultimate analysis, proba
bly was one of the chief considerations
Impelling the Emperor to accept the
resignation of a personally sympathetic
statesman, who, according to Vor
waerts. In his political obituary "meant
well feebly; whose wish was to conduct
the war as a defensive struggle and
prevent its extension to new enemies,
but who yielded to forces stronger In
purpose than himself, and who wanted
to base his policy upon the broad basis
of democracy; but who lacked energy
and force to draw the necessary con
clusions therefrom."
RUSSIANS WIN IN BATTLE
Austrian Positions In Gallcla Ta
ken, With. Gnns and Prisoners.
PETROGRAD. July 15. Attacks yes
terday by Russian troops in the Lodz
iany region, southwest of Kalusz, In
Eastern Galicla, resulted In the Aus
trians losing their positions, 1000 men
in prisoners and a number of guns, the
War Office announced "today.
Elsewhere the Russians held their
ground against attacks and took more
than 600 additional prisoners.
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WASHINGTON, July 15. Food scar
city in Belgium has resulted in the iinj
sical weakening of thousands of work
men to such an extent that they had
to abandon work, according to the lat
est report of the Commission for Relief
in Belgium, made public tonight by the
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The report closed with an appeal that
"the very quietness and resignation
with which Belgium is bearing her
double burden of starvation and oppres
sion should urge us to exert every force
and influence in nndin a solution of
her unfortunate situation."
ASSAULT VICTIM MAY DIE
Station Agent Beaten and Then Left
Unconscious In Street.
NORTH YAKIMA. July 15. H. W.
Vlning. Northern pacific station agent
at Granger, Wash., was attacked by two
men in Sunnyside Friday night, terribly
beaten, taken In an automobile back to
Granger and left unconscious on the
street. His Injuries may prove fatal.
Warrants were issued yesterday for
Charles Dubry and David Thrush, of
Granger, who are charged with commit
ting the assault. Dubry Is under arrest.
SOCIALISTS STATE AIMS
Proletariat Called Upon to Unite for
Obtaining Peace.
STOCKHOLM, July 15. The invita
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for a 'general conference at Stockholm
calls on. the proletariat to unite for the
purpose of obtaining peace without an
nexation or indemnities, based on the
right of peoples freely to make their
own choice.
The conference organizers are "con
vinced" that the internationals ought
to Induce all Socialist parties and all
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