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THE MORNiyQ OREGOXIAJI. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 3, 1017.
STRIKE "MEDIATION
DETAIL
SHOWN IN
Discussions of Committees
Prove That Open Shop Is
Question at Issue.
PUBLIC INVITED TO JUDGE
Employers Officially . Reiterate
Agreement to Stand by Any De
cision of Adjustment Board
Appointed at Washington.
Details of meetings held by commit
tees representing tlo employers and
employes in tiie shipbuilding: strike sit
uation -were mace puollc yesterday, re
vealing: in a ininme manner facts which
hate been previously published and
confirming the oft-repeated statement
that the closed-shop issue is the only
one upon which the contending parties
have been unable to agree.
The strike is still in progress, with
about 7000 men out and the shipbuild
ing industry paralyzed. Another con
ference between committees Is sched
uled for today at 4 o'clock.
K. V. Hauser. Joseph Supple, A. F.
Smith. TV. B. Becbe and M. H. Houser
constituted the. committee representing
the employers, while Charles M. Bot
tomley, R. A.McInnis, C. V. Palmer. C.
K. Kidd and William Mackenzie ap
peared for-the strikers. O. Y. Harry,
mediator, for the Government, acted as
chairman of the joint committees wnen
Jn conference.
Preliminary sessions were held at the
outset, but dealt only with organization
of committees, personnel, etc., and not
until the meeting of October 1 did the
conferences get down to the actual
points at issue,
' Public Asked to Judge.
The joint committees having decided
to lay their respective cases before
the people of the .city and vicinity by
publication of the minutes .of the meet
ings, the following are given:
At a meeting held October 1 the em
ployers' committee submitted a state
ment, addressed to the strikers" com
mittee, reiterating a. published state
ment that the employers would stand
by any arrangement mado by the labor
adjustment board, and saying that,
should any points bo left unsettled by
that board, the employers would take
these up with the employers and en
deavor to adjust them.
At the following meeting the strik
ers' committee submittod this:
PORTLAND, Sept. SO. Mr. U. V. Harry.
Dear Sflr: Operations In our shipbuilding
plants can be immediately resumed by sim
ply complying with the agreements as pre
sented by the Portland Metal Trades Council,
which agreement ar only binding from
month to "month. . .
Tho Government has urged the employers
to resume operations, temporarily, at least,
and that they would assure the employers
their profit on the work done.
In the meantime the labor adjustment
board can quietly and without obstruction,
perform its functions to the very best of its
ability. In the event that tho employers
are not satisfied with the result of the rec
ommendations of this adjustment board or
of the result of the workings of the agree
ment, the employers are privileged to call
for a conference to adjust the differences.
In the meantime, work can still be con
tinued. At the end of thirty days .(30), if no
agreement can bo reached, tbe agreement
simply ceases, and we proceed to do the
best we can.
tSisned.) CHARLES M. BOTTOM LET,
Chairman Agreement Committee.
Discussion continued to 12:45 P. M.,
when conference adjourned to meet at
4:30 P. 5f. to allow both committees
to meet with their respective organiza
tions. Kmplorrn Object to Closed Shop
In reply, the employers' committee,
at a subsequent meeting-, submitted a
letter saying that the employers whom
they represented had' rejected the pro
posal of Air. Bottomley, inasmuch as it
meant a closed shop and was contrary
ta principles.
After discussing this letter, the con
ference adjourned to meet the follow
ing day at 4:30 P. M.
As the employers' committee had
asked for further statements from the
etrikers' committee, upon the call to
order Chairman Harry said the underr
standing was that the meeting was for
the purpose of receiving the note fronj
the unions' committee in reply to the
ultimatum of the shipbuilders' com
mittee. The chairman of the unions'
committee, Mr. Bottomley, handed in
the following note:,
Messrs. Hauser, Smith, Supple, Bcebe and
Huuser, Portland, Or. Gentlemen: In reply
to your ultimatum of October I, in which
you reject the agreement as offered by the
Portland Metal Trades Council, the com
mittee representing the employes respect
fully request that you In turn submit an
agreement that you will accept. We would
ask that you use our agreement as a basa
and work out same agreement, the provi
sions of which will be full and final on your
part. The employes' committee feci that
since you have rejected their agreement as
unsatisfactory to you, that you should sub
mit an agreement subject to our approval,
thereby complying with the request of the
Government that negotiations, having been
begun, be continued until a settlement is
reached. Respectfully,
tSigned.) C. M. BOTTOMLEY,
Chairman, Negotiating Conmiittee, for Metal
Trades Council Agreement. '
After some discussion, meeting ad
journed at 6:30 P. M. to meet at 4 P. M.
October 3. 1917.
Reply Made by Employers.
At this meeting the employers sub
mitted a lengthy reply, answering in
detail the points covered by the Metal
Trades Council agreement (covered in
formal statement by employers else
where), but declining to enter Into any
agreement which would mean the
granting of the closed-shop conditions.
After a discussion of this letter, the
following took placer
Chairman Bottomley I ask the represen
tatives of the shipbuilders if thy will rec
ognize that branch of their employes who
are represented by their various organiza-
After 9 Years
of Internal Baths
Mr. Addison I. Williams writes rr. Chat!
A. Tyrrell, of New York, as follows:
''Regarding the 'J. B. L. Cascade,1 I feel
it Is one of the indispensable articles and
should be in every home. I have not taken
$10 worth of medicine since obtaining it
about 1) years."
You can be free of billiousness and con
stipation, with all the ills which they pro
duce, by an occasional Internal bath. The
"J. B. L. Cascade" administers these scien
tifically. It being an Invention of -Chas. A.
Tyrrell, M. n.. of New York, a specialist on
Internal bathing.
By the proper application of Nature's
cure warm wates-it keeps the - lower in
testine free of aU poisonous waste, and per
mits every function .to work-in harmony
and witheut clogging hence makes one con
sistently bright, capable and well.
Woodard-Clarke & Co.'s drugstores. Port
land, will be glad to show- and explain the
M. B. I.. Cascade" to you, and will also
give you freo on request an interesting and
authoritative book, "Why Man of Today la
Only 0K-i Efficient." written by Dr. Cbas.
A. Tyrrell.
Ask for It today while It is frssh la yous
tmnd. Adv. ; ;. " ' ' " . - :
tions through the medium of doing busies
-s laid" down in the Metal Trades Council
agreement? For instance, in the . event
that the members of organised labor In their
plants have a grievance which they wish to
tf.ke up with their employers will the em
ployers meet them through the representa
tives of their organizations? The employ
ers in their agreement submitted to us
recognize union and noh-unioa men em
ployes. Chairman Hauser I have no authority' ta
answer that. Question.
Chairman "Bottom ley May T ask that you
take that before your body and bring back
an answer?
Chairman Hauser I will have to ask you
in turn to answer the communication which
yeu arked s to make to you.
Chairman Bottomley We certainly will
give you an answer.
Mr. Harry on being appealed to replied
My Interpretation of what the labor com
mittee is askln? of you gentlemen. Is
whether or not you will recognize represen
tatives of the union men who may be em
ployed in your shipyards as an oreanlza,-
tlon in any matter that may come no with
reierence to wages or conditions of labor.
Chairman Hausei Mr. Chairman. I th Ink-
mat question is fully answered in the propo
sition which the labor committee requested
us to present ta you.
' Vnioa Stand Explained.
Mr. Kerr (speaking for the employers" com
mittee) Tv.-o questions have been put: One
by Mr. Bottomley, restated b:-' Mr. Harry; tho
ither by Mr. McKjnzle. . The question put
ny .Mr. Bottomley Is this: Whether in the
event of grievances claimed by union men
dees the proposlttou submitted by the em
ployers' committee contemplate . that, that
grievance may be submitted to the em
ployers t a committee chosen from the
union employes of the plant or only by a
committee chosen generally from the plant.
The answer to No. 5 fof employers' commit,
tee proposal) clearly shows that the pro po
sition or the employers committee contem
plates that the parties feeling nggrieved
shall chr,ose a committee to iay the matter
before the . employer.- and obviously. If the
ties aggrieved are union men they would
have the right to. choose a committee of
union men front the yards. The ' uuestlon
presented by Mr.. MoKenzle is this: Whether
In the event -union neii feel aggrieved, they
would have the right under this proposition
to present their grievance to the employers
by representatives who are not employes In
the -plant. The clear reading ef the propo
sition does not authorize this. The commit
tee states that 1t has no authority from the
en ployers to assure the committee repre
scnting the employes that grievances could
De prseteu in this manner. -
Chairman Bottomley Eo you deny the
employes, whether union or non-union, the
right to choose " any representatives they
n.ay see fit to choose to adjust any differ
ences that may exist?
Chairman Hauser We have-no authority
to submit further answers or proposals than
these embodied iu the written proposition
submitted to you. but if you wish us to
submit further questions to the shipbuild
ers that we represent, we will be glsd to
submit them, provided .you will put them
in writing.
Mr. Kerr Have you authority to make
any agreement other than the proposed
Mftal Trades Council agreement?
Chairman Bottomley No. The gentle
men haye previously ben asked if they are
willing to have the conference in public at
ne Auaiionum.
Chairman Hauser Our committee docs not
care to answer mat question now.
DEFECTIONS MAY COME SOON
Belief Held Some Union Men Will
Return to Work.
Portland's wooden shipbuilding plants
will have been tied, up by strike three
weeks tomorrow.
Steel plants will have been shut
down, with one exception, two weeks
next Monday.
The only exceptions to a completely-
demoralized ehipbuildlng industry, are
the Willamette Iron & Steel Works and
the Coast Shipbuilding Company. Oth-
rwise. things have been, and still arc.
irtually at a standstill, although some
nskilled workmen have drifted back
o some of the yards and certain, kinds
f work has been going on right along.
According to the best information,
owever, fully 3Q00 men are out from
the wooden ship plants, while 4000 are
on strike from the steel plants. As a
ule, reliable statements hold, the union
men are standing pat. although it is
elieved that some would return to
work should the strike continue much
onger.
Ostensibly, the strike was called be
cause of a new" wage and working
schedule, presented by the unions af-
iliated with the Metal Trades Council,
he District Council of Carpenters, the
Maritime Council and the Building
Trades Council. As a matter of fact,
as is now openly admitted, the calling
ut of the men was for the purpose of
forcing the closed or union-men-only
hop idea. It is over that point that
he conference committees of employ-
rs and workmen have deadlocked.
The first walkout were the men be
longing to the unions engaged in con
struction of wooden vessels. The steel
workers had previously, made their de
mands and a . crisis was reached, but
when a call came from Washington, D.
for representatives of the unions
nd the employers to attend a confer-
nce with the members or the Emerg
ency Fleet Corporation, the steel strike
was averted and the men continued at
work, pending the outcome of the con
ferences. - -
Suddenly there was a- called mass
meeting of. union men of the shlpbuild-
ng trades, this being held in the Pub
ic Auditorium Sunday night, Septem-
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IT 1 v . UUIlllg I I Q UOJ, It. J . 7lcLLSl.
ecretary of the Oregon State Federa
tion, of Labor, received a telegram dl-
ect frpm President Wilson, making a
personal appeal to the unions to con-
inue the work of building ships and
uaranteeing the men on oehait or the
country- "a fair deal." In spite of this.
general strike was- ordered at the
meeting, within a short time after the
President's telegram was read and
cheered. Since then there has been
practically nothing dona here toward
ship construction.
Efforts were made to adjust the
strike. Mayor Baker taking the lead.
Appeals to the patriotism of the men
and their employers and to the general
public were formally issued, but to no
avail. Finally, everything else, having
een in vain, the Mayor recommended
that the City Council appoint Eugene
Smith, former president of the Cen
tral Labor Council, of Portland, as a
mediator. This was done.' but he was
iven no opportunity by the union men
to do anything( as thye rejected him
on the ground- that they would not ac-
ept the services of anyone represent
ing the city administration.
Last action looking toward, the end-
ng of the strike by mediation was un
dertaken by Federal Mediator Harry,
representing Secretary of Labor WU
son. He succeeded in- bringing the fac
tions together, hut, after several con
ferences, they announced a deadlock
over the closed shop proposal, although
they, are to meet again at 4 o'clock today.
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CROPS WORTH $14,000,000
Walla Walla Valley Produces $330
Per Capita.
WALLA WALLA, "Wash., Oct. 4
(Special.) Products of the vine, tree
and soil will pay people of Walla Walla
Valley approximately 114,000,000 this
year. Estimating a population of 40,000
in this district, this is a per capita
production of ?350. This is the great
est total production and the greatest
per capita, wealth in the history of the
community and business men are look
ing forward to a record Fall trade.
Figures- follow:
Wheat, 3,750,000 bushels, T7,12S,0O0.
Alfalfa, 100,000 tons, (1,600.000.
: Barley, 50O.S00 bushels, $6-5.000.
Apples (Walla Walla., Touchet). 700
cars. 12,5 00. - -
Prunes, 500 cars, $300,00fjr
Onions, 270,000 sacks, $264,000.
Corn, 80,000 bushels, $104,000..
Cherries. 500 tons, $40,000.
Asparagus. 300 tons. 130,000.
Plums, apricots, berries, potatoes,
carrots, spinach, rhubarb, cabbage,
beets. lettuce, etc.. $200,000.
Livestock, poultry, dairy and manu
factured products, $3,000,008.
Orand total, $14,001,000.
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TODAY'S FILM FEATIRKS.
"Columbia Roy Stewart. "Tho
Devil Dodger." .
Liberty Margery Wilson, "Moun
tain Dew.". ;
Peoples Dorothy Phillips, "ray '
Me."
Star Ethel Clayton, "The Wom-
an Beneath."
Sunset Dust in Farnum, 'The
Virginian."
MajestUr "The Battle of ;th.
Soihto."
Circle "The Mainspring."
. Liberty.
'Mountain Dew," the. photoplay which
presents Margery Wilson, who wn a
cabaret entertainer at the old Rain
bow Grill in Portland not so long ago.
in her first stellar role, is a comedy-
drama, with the accent on the comedy.
providing a background of Kentucky
mountains and familiar moonshiners.
Th boss moonshiner's daughter and
the novelist from the city, who is
thought to be . a "revenuer," are the
principal characters. Miss Wilson is
the girl, while Charles Gunn, a Trian
gle player, who is reported to have
stopped off in Portland between trains
the other day. is the man In the case.
Both give able portrayals of their roles.
J. Hamilton Vance (Mr. Gunn), au
thor, sojourns in the mountains for lo
cal color. He meets Rozie Bradley
(Miss Wilson), daughter of a moon
shiner, and decides to stay as school
teacher. Milt Sears (Jack Richardson).
also a moonshiner, believes that Vance
is a revenue officer and takes an in
tense dislike to him. Roxie saves
Vance's life by intercepting a bullet
meant for the writer; and during her
convalescence is taught the rudiments
of learning. Lily Raines, jealous of
Roxie. her cousin, hunts Vance's cabin
and discovers a scrap of paper upon
which he has noted the means of living
in the Kentucky mountains- She shows
this to Bradley and Milt and straight
away they suspect the visitor. -They
plan to take his life. Roxie warns him
and before the moonshiners can get to
gether they are married. Vance de
clares himself a writer and all ends
well.
Comedy and news pictorial, complete
the programme, which, opens this morn
ing and closes tomorrow night. The
two-day run is caused by the reten
tion of the William S.v Hart picture,
The Cold Deck," for an extra day.
Columbia.
Roy Stewart, Triangle's successor to
Bill Hart as a portrayer of bad-man
roles, is the featured, player in the
Columbia Theater photodramatic of
fering, "The Pevtl Dodger,", but Port
land people will be much more inter
ested in the performance of Jack Gil
bert, who was a Portland high school
boy not so long ago and member of
the Baker Stock Company for a short
time.
Young Gilbert, son of Walter Gilbert,
stage director at the Baker Theater,
left Portland last -year, determined to
break into pictures. Small parts were
followed by larger until now Jack is a
featured lead, and displays a versatility
of characterisation which has attracted
the eye of public, critics and producers.
In "The Devil Dodger, a story of the
lid and woolly West, Gilbert plays
the title role. He's a preacher, a young
fellow who invades Snowstorm,, a Jaw-
less Arizona town, and brings about the
regeneration Of Silent Scott, owner of
the danee hall, saloon and gambling-
house, and the bully of the town.
There ia much dramatic action in
the picture, including several gun
fights.
Star.
"The ''Woman Beneath," the latest
photoplay featuring the beautiful and
popular Ethel Clayton, furnishes Star
Theater patrons with an Interesting
melodrama in a society setting. Wil
lard Maek. former Baker Stock Com
pany leading man, wh has developed
into a successful and prolific play
wright since' those days, is the author
of the photoplay,
Miss Clayton's work' Is the outstand
ing feature of the picture. Her sym
pathetic interpretation of the role of
the woman who married for money and
then fell in love with her husband
NEXT SUNDAY
K3
Are You
Going to See
Margarita
Fischer?
when he was ready to drive her from
his home, .is responsible for no small
part of the success of the World production-.
"
Mrs, Vairchild. who is described as
clinging o the fringe of society, is de
termined that her daughter, Betty (Mtsa
Clayton); ohall marry a fortune and has
set upon Hupert Brantley (Craufocd
Kent),' who does not Intend to marry
anyone. - In the meantime Tom Connel
ly (Curtis Cooksey) has made a great
gold ' discovery in the' West, but his
happiness is marred by the death of
his sister, who had been victimized by
a man whose identity Tom did not
learn .
Tom falls in love with Betty and they
wed, alrhough the girl tells ' him she
cares nothing for- him. She leads the
life of a butterfly and is much sought
after, particularly by Crandall. Tom,
In order to free his wife, tells her that
he has lost his' fortune, but she fails
to desert him, as he expected, and after
a -series of thrilling incidents, during
which Betty learns mat Crandall is the
man who" ruined Tom'a sister and per
mits her husband to think the worst
of her to keep him from becoming a
murderer tho couple are reunited and
happy. -
r - - Peoples.
' '"Pay Me," the sensational and highly
melodramatic, picture of the mining
camps, saloons, dancehalls, and gaming
tables of the pioneer West, will be
shown at the peoples Theater until
Saturday - night, Dorethy Phillips Is
the star of this Jewel production,
which is one of the season's screen
epics of physical conflict and unbridled
passions.'
"Oregon Industrial News," the new
Oregon news pictorial compiled by I.
Leeser Cohen and filmed by Lewia H,
Moomaw, divides interest with "Pay
Me" oti theweek-end bill. ' Unusually
good scenes of the last boys of tho
Third Oregon leaving for North Caro
lina and ex-Ambassador Gerard in the
court of the Portland Hotel are the
features of the aeoond issue of the
News. Idle- shipyards. Ad Club fish
market, ' liquor execution, making of
candy poxes and the canning of rlue
and milk at Amity are other subjects
shewn. . .
t Sunset.
' "TKe' Virginian,"" that remarkably
successful plcturization of the well
known story of tlie- same name written
by Owen Wister. gives Sunset, Theater
patrons an unusually entertaining fea
ture to headline the week-end bill,
Dustin Farnum, whoBO stage popular
ity, is traced largely to his portrayal
of the rola on the speaking stage.
"The Virginian" is a story of the
West, the wild, andt woolly West of
cowboys, rough-riding, hard-drinking,
quick-shooting, bad men and a few
good ones. It was the picture that
first; gave film fans a glimpse of 1'ar
num. and one which proved so popular
that its star has been away from the
footlights ever since. The Sunset print
is a brand) new one, made at the In
sistent request of so many fans for
further opportunity to see one of the
beat of the "westerns."
Farnum, of course. Plays the title
role, that of a ouiet. unassuming chap
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Another, big Vitagraph suc
cess. A magnificent version
of the famous stage play.
Splen4id ,' acting, wonderful
atmosphere, . exceptional di
recting; . " -
"Wid," - the : famous critic,
says:- "Very! much superior
to.' the average production."
" Jf? Coming to the
SUNSET
on
SUNDAY
You'll Enjoy
the Liberty
its- -
Libefty programmes are
always complete, a clever
comedy in addition to the
charming feature.
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MARGERY
WILSON
SUNDAY.
MARGUERITA
CLARK
FATTY
ARBUCKLE
Assisted by Chas. Gunn in a romanca
of the Blue Ridge a delightful love
drama of a section famous in song and
story. It's alive with action and. interest.
MOUNTAIN DEW
PHOTOPLAY PALACE
TKf
from the Old South, who invades the
West to become a cowboy. There,
where men are polny at work or play,
and boast unceasingly of their prowess,
the reticence of the newcomer ia In
terpreted, as an admission of cowardice.
So he is compelled to fight, and fight
often. His victories turn the Virginian
into the idol of the cow country.
Of course, the historic struggle be
tween Trampas, the villain of villains,
occupies a prominent place in the film
story as it is unfolded, with the tri
umph of the Virginian bringing the
feud to a olose. There is a pretty love
affair, with Winnifred Kingston in the
role of the girl, who finally succumbs
to the young hero.
"Cactus Nell" is a corking good com
edy, one of the best Mack Bennett made
during his final few months with Key
stone. Polly Moran essays a female
Bill Hart role and her performance is
full of thrills and laughs.
Screen Gossip.
William, G. Harrington, the Portland
man who investigated conditions at the
Los Angeles studiox, is writing a series
of articles titled. "The Morality of the
Motion Picture World," for Motion Pic
ture Magazine.
.
"He's the most thoughtful man to
work with you ever knew," Ia what
Beverly Bavne says of Francis X.
Bushman. And yet they say a star is
never a hero to his leading woman,
William S. Hart, Thomas H. Tnce's
famous star, used more than a thou
sand actors in filming one of the
scenes in "The Narrow Trail," which
will he his initial Artcraft offering.
The scene represents a Western rodeo
with all the attendant features, includ
ing a sensational cowboy race. "The
Narrow Trail" is expected to prove
Hart's most popular achievement since
he deserted tiie speaking stage for mo
tion pictures.
Jewel Productions, which is present
ing the highly successful "Pay Me."
has purchased "The Co-respondent," a
picture based on the stage play of that
name. Klaine Hammerstein. niece of
Oscar Hammerstein, is starred with
Wilfred Lucas.
Back in tho days of yore, more than
six years ago, Carlyle Blackwell was
a chorus man.
Francis Bushman is to be seen
in at least 1! features during the. com
ing year.
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Tomorrow!
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Bahy Mine" ia
from Margaret
Mayo'? interna
tional stage suc
cess. It played
in France, Rus
sia and Ger-.
many in the lan
guages of those
lands and - was
translated into
Chinese, and
played 120
nights in Pekin.
Madge Kennedy
was the star of
the original
prod uction on
Broadway. .
P h i 1 a d e Iphia
Evening Ledger
says: "'Baby
Mine' is a gem
of Cinema ' art.
Progress is
written all over
the whol e film.
It has a refine-mentofhan-dling
almost
new to motion
pictures."
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the darling of Broadway, star of "Twin
Beds," "Fair and Warmer," etc, makes
her initial screen appearance in
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