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TllJi MORNIJitr ORECiONIAN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1917.
BLAME FOB STRIKE
PUT OH EMPLOYERS
Workers Say Government Tel
: egram to Builders Equiv
i alent to Arraignment.
LABOR HELD BLAMELESS
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Stand Taken. That So Long as Oper
ators Refuse to Recognize Union.
They Are Standing in Way
. i of Any Settlement.
Tn. a. formal statement Issued yester
day by the official press committee of
the organizations on strike, the em
ployers of shipbuilding workmen are
charged with having refused to take
any action looking toward an end of
the present troubles until practically
compelled to. . do. o by the United
States Government. It is also empha
sised that there can be no end of the
difficulties until organized labor has
been recognized in Portland.
'That conferences are still in progress,
with the union representatives en
deavoring to bring about a peaceful
ending of the strike by compelling the
employers to settle definitely on all
points at issue, is set forth.
A point is made that the Government
sent a telegram to the employers
"commanding" them to negotiate with
the employes, and it is charged that
they refused to have anything to do
with the strikers until they received
that message of instruction.
f Conferences Still On.
fThe full statement issued is published
herewith:
Conferences are still on between the em
ployers and representatives of labor organi
zations. Representatives of labor organizations are
still endeavoring to brinj? about a peaceful
ending of the strike by compelling the em
ployers In conference to settle definitely on
ajl of the points at- issue and on all of
the requests of labor presented In their
agreement, not exclusively on the closed
hop. The labor organizations were unable
to get a conference with the employers until
the Government took a hand and prac
tically compelled the employers to confer
with the organizations. The telegram from
the Government to the employers commands
as follows:
"If negotiations looking to Just and
equitable settlement have not been begun
they should be undertaken promptly. If
they have been begun but are Interrupted,
they should be promptly resumed."
It is significant that the labor organiza
tions have not been so advised .by a sim
ilar telegram. The Government recognizes
that the Government Is always willing to
confer with its employers, but the interfer
ence always comes from the side of the em
ployers, who are ever reluctant to discom
mode themselves at all in the interests of
labor. The Government further concedes In
Its telegram to the employers in an effort
to break their stubbornness toward labor.
Profit Is Guaranteed.
"After temporary or final adjustment be
tween employer and employe is reached the
Fleet Corporation is prepared to bear one
half the increased cost of labor thereby in
volved." The Government further guarantees a
profit of at least 10 per cent to employer.
Since this telegram was sent to the em
ployers and not to employes, it is obvious
to the Government that the avarice of the
employer is a factor that Is causing a con
tinuance of the strike, and the Government
is endeavoring to Induce them to settle with
labor on a guarantee that they will receive
a certain profit. The employers have as
sumed an attitude that compares favorably
with a fellow who wouldn't- give you a shirt
off his back if it belonged to somebody
else. In their statement in conference with
labor they state specifically that they are
willing to transfer to labor only what the
Government gives them to be given to la
bor. In no case do they offer anything
themselves, not even the conditions which
prevail in similar shops and yards doing
the same work for the same Government.
Union Recognition Demanded.
The attention of the public Is called to
the fact that patriotism of the workers does
not consist in working under unfavorable
conditions Just for the profit of private citi
zens who may happen to own a shipyard.
The employers have refused up to the pres
ent to recognize organized labor as such.
This positively must be done before any
settlement can be reached. Even at the
remotest possibility of a settlement without
this could be reached it could not endure.
The Government recognizes organized labor
as a business institution and a medium
through which to deal with its problems.
The Government further seeks out labor's
representatives to do business with. In this
the Government sets an example worthy
the emulation of private shipbuilders, with
out which there can be no harmony. Port
land must be lifted out of the rut and do
business with labor organizations like her
sister cities. The attention of the public Is
once more called to the attitude of the Gov
ernment toward the employers. In that It
states that after temporary or final adjus
ments with labor have been reached the
Government is prepared to bear one-half the
Increased cost Involved thereby, and also to
guarantee the employer a profit. Labor is
most strenuous In its efforts to assist the
Government in settling the strike and In
endeavoring to continue the conferences to
ward that end. The Government requests
that the conferences he continued until a
settlement has been reachd.
A. very decided step toward a settlement
will have been reached when the employ
ers realize that they must recognize or
ganized labor through its representatives.
CHARLES M. BOTTOMLEY.
Chairman of the press committee for the
organizations on strike.
i Meningitis Takes Engineer.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5. Charles E.
Simpson, private, engineers, American
expeditionary forces, died abroad Oc
tober 3 of cerebro - spinal meningitis,
the Adjutant-General announced today.
His home was at Williamsport. Pa.
x President Selects Judge.
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"WASHINGTON, Oct- 5. President
Wilson today nominated William A.
Holzheimer. of Ketchikan. Alaska, to
be Judge of the Federal District Court
for the Second Division of Alaska.
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MISS CECIL Hl'BEXSTEIX.
MRS. ST. CLAIR STOBART, sent
out by the British Foreign Of
fice to tour the United States
in tho interests of women's work in
the war, will arrive in Portland next
week. She will give, an address on
Thursday, at 8:15 o'clock, in the Mult
nomah Hotel, under the auspices of the
Oregon Equal Suffrage Alliance. -
Mrs. Stobart is a distinguished wom
an of England. She has been decorat
ed twice for heroism. Her hospital
unit was the first complete women's
unit to take part in any war. This
was in the Balkan war of 1912. Her
efficiency was praised by commanders
and leaders. In the present war Mrs.
Stobart . has worked in Belgium and
Serbia. She organized hospital units
and established dispensaries.
King Peter of Serbia put. Mrs." Sto
bart in charge of a field hospital col
umn at the front, with the rank of
major. She led the column for seven
weeks and brought out her people in
safety. In Belgium she was wounded
under shell fire, was captured-at one
time by the Germans, but escaped.
Some of her thriHing adventures will
be the theme of her address at the
Multnomah.
Mrs. Helen Ladd Cprbett will give a
tea for Mrs. Stobart.'
The committee to welcome Mrs. Sto
bart includes: Mrs. Folger Johnson,
chairman; Mrs. Elliott Corbett, Mrs.
Donald Spencer, Mrs. Robert Strong,
Mrs. John A. Keating and Mrs. C. B.
Simmons.
Mrs. Stobart's part of the proceeds
of the lecture will go to the Serbian
Red Cross and the Suffrage Alliance's
part will go toward 'financing their
CALENDAR FOR TODAY.
Tag day Benefit Pacific Rescue
and Protective Association.
Dinner Margaret Cook enter
taining at the Mallory for
Hood River guests.
Cake sale Benefit Oregon cav
alry, 351 Morrison street;
homemade dainties on sale.
Dancing party Cadets of Hill
Military Academy hosts, to
night, 821 Marshall street.
Association Collegiate Alumnae
Luncheon at University Club,
1 o'clock.
Oregon Civic League Luncheon,
12 M., Multnomah Hotel.
Kindergarten- Council Luncheon
at the Hazelwood.
work in the Liberty Loan campaign.
Mrs. Grover Mattison. of Camas.
Wash., is spending the week visiting
ner sister, jura, u fomeroy. of this
city.
Mr. and Mrs. Tvlpr Hcnshiir no in
land, who are at Hotel Portland, en
tertained Thursday evening with a
small dinner Dartv. Covers wera lalrl
for seven.
Invitation hnvn Vif n iBan. V... r
and Mrs. George E. Love for a dance
for next Thursday at Murlark Hall.
Fflllnwlnfi' a tA omrtt-icy th. .1
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patronesses: Messrs. and Mesdames R.
d. rarreii, waiter j-t. Jivans, M. C.
Woodard, J. H. Mackenzie, R. M. C.
Whittaker. C C. 'Mr"rll.lr u U" t-
vine. Charles A. Shea, W.' H. Guild.
unaries jvi. .Brink. Dr. William Shea
and A. W. Brookings.
Mr. and Mrs. M. Bralthwalte. of Lon
don, are at Hotel Portland. Mr. Braith
waite is a noted lecturer on Christian
Science who spoke at the First Church
this week.
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Dean Straub. of the- University of
Oregon, was the week-end guest of Dr.
and Mrs. C. C. Newcastle.
Dr. and Mrs. J. Hunter Wells were
honored at the First Presbyterian
Church on Thursday evening and wel
comed back to Portland after having
served ror 22 years in Corea. Dr. John
H.. Boyd spoke of their leaving Port
land 22 years ago and of their return
to remain here and read the flattering
resolutions of the mission which re
ferred to their long and successful
service, with regret at their leaving
and best wishes for the future. Mrs,
Wells was dressed In Corean costume
and with Dr. Wells gave a scene at
the hospital showing certain prominent
Corean characteristics such as inexact
ness. procrastination, hospitality and a
sense of humor. Mrs. Wells also im
personated a Corean Bible woman and
Dr. Wells gave a sketch of the work
in Corea. During his service in Corea
Dr. Wells saw more than 250,000
patients and was the first to train
medical students, to write a book In
Corea on hygiene and to aid the gov
ernment in cholera epidemics and other
hygienic work.
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B. L. Markee has returned from a six
weeks' visit with his family relatives
in Minnesota and Wisconsin and re
turned West through Utah and Califor
nia. The Trinity College Music Club will
meet this afternoon' at 1:30 o'clock at
the home of Airs. Marie Johns, 956
Williams avenue.
Miss Margaret Cook, daughter of Mrs.
Walter M. Cook, will entertain tonight
with a dinner party at thellotel Mal
lory. Katherine and Forest Carter, of
Hood River, will be the especially hon
ored guests. A few intimate friends
of the young hostess will be included.
In compliment to Mrs. Monroe B.
Rankin her daughters, Mrs. Frank Ira
Gollehur and Mrs. Raymond G. Jubitz,
entertained yesterday at a tea at the
home of Mrs. Gollehur, 495 Myrtle
street. The rooms were attractively
decorated with Autumn foliage and
the rich-toned flowers of the season.
Presiding at the tea table were Mrs.
J. S. Bradley. Mrs. Howard T. Rankin.
Mrs. Franklin I. Fuller, Mrs. Helen
Dearborn, Mrs. L. B. Menefee and Mrs.
F. R. Chown. At the punchbowl serv-
lng-were Mrs. Arthur Spencer and Mrs.
Frank Ryder. Assisting about the
rooms and in receiving the guests were
Miss Carrie Holbrook. Mrs. James Dun
lap, Mrs. James Dezendorf, Mrs. Ben
jamin Trenkman, Mrs. E. C. Cornell
and others. A large number of old
time friends called to greet Mrs. Rankin.
One of the most interesting and sin
cere tributes ever paid to a. Portland
pastor was the reception given last
night for Dr. Luther R. Dyott, pastor
of the First Congregational Church.
Mrs. Dyott shared honors with him.
The presidents of the church societies
assisted in the receiving line. The
choir members provided special music.
The reception was planned by the Aid
Society as a token of appreciation for
the 10 years in which the church has
been ministered to by Dr. Dyott. The
parlors were artistically decorated in
Autmun foliage and flowers. A large
number of friends called to offer their
good wishes.
TrainingTHe
' CHILD
BV WILLIAM BYRON FORBU5H.PH.D.
ONE thing every teacher who has a
new roomful of pupils will know
within a week after school began this
Fall: She will know what kind of home
each one of her children comes from.
Not the wealth of those homes, not
their location, but their character.
Every child brings his own Hinter
land. He cannot disguise It. No pre
tense can conceal 'an accurate impres
sion. His manners, his appearance, his
tastes, his outlook will reveal whether
he has had a good upbringing, or
whether, like Topsy, he has "Just
growed." The teacher Is informed as
to the time and care that have been
spent upon every child In the room.
These are his education during the
years before school, when a human
being learns more than during all the
rest of life put together. These are the
goods that he brings down to life's
coastline to trade with, and they are
what will forever after constitute his
principal stock in trade.
Fair Start Given.
A child can learn enough of the ele
ments of good manners before he en
ters school to decide whether he is to
become a courteous gentleman or not.
He can acquire or fall to acquire that
fastidiousness which determines
whether his lifelong companions shall
be people who know the Joy of taking
a bath. His interests may have been
aroused, or may have failed to be
aroused, to a degree that shall decide
whether he will become a worker or a
shirker. The talk he has heard will
have determined whether he is going
to be a live wire or a dead one. He
may have been guarded morally so
that he is Innocent but enlightened, or
he may already have been allowed so
to mingle with the street as to be a
source of contamination.
All children start, let us say, near
the level of the caveman, but the home
decides whefther or not they have out
grown the cave period before ever they
enter the doors of a school.
Money Not Requisite.
It is not -a. matter of heredity. Not
over 2 per cent of school children are
defective mentally or morally. It is
almost wholly a question of environ
ment. It Is not a matter of money. A child
often brings as much or more from a
poor home as from a rich one. Train
up a child in a neat house, with quiet
table service, a few choice pictures,
household music, good talk and great
books, and he cannot be a boor. And
to this a devoted mother, and he is un
likely to become a knave.
Surroundings are nearly all. Take a
boy out of the poorhouse into such a
home and he will show the same traits
as the home-born. Deprive a prince of
such a background and he will forever
mporium
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The Emporium Announces a Great Sale of
175 Trimmed Hats
In Taupe and Purple
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NOTE the illustrations on the
side did you ever see such
stunning hats as these picked at a
price like $5? We could get from $3
to $4 more for them but we prefer
to be leaders in value-giving.
Most of these swagger hats are soft
effects in roll and droop brim mod
els. The best thing about this won
derful assortment of hats is the fact
they are purple and taupe the two
most favored shades for Fall.
We advise an early selection for hat values like these will not
linger long. Today (Saturday) only $5.
Sale on
Third Floor
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be debarred from high position, or the
standing of a gentleman.
A child does not get his heritage all
of a sudden. It does not reach him
Just after the will has been read that
bequeaths him a fortune. It is not be
stowed in a few great moments. If it
is not given at the needed time it is
not easily enlarged later.
It comes day by day. Tour own child
got his during the idle days of this last
summer. It came from the picnic and
the excursion Just as much as from the
Sunday school. It gets to him when
you are not looking. It is not taught
but caught.
The school teacher will try consci
entiously to make up to each one of
her pupils for the rights of a child
that he did not win at home. She is
a skillful repairer of damaged goods.
But she does not share the child with
the home only. She has to share him
with the street. And the street is a
potent and influential education. Too
often It has been allowed to begin its
tutelage before the school has a
chance.
Now that the fall term is well begun,
and the teacher and the mother have
both had time to draw a long breath,
it is good for the mother to pay the
teacher a visit. She should go humbly.
"You have come to know my child,"
she should say. "You have found out
what I have failed to give him that he
needs for a fair start in life. What
can I do more? What may I give him
even now that it is not too late for him
to receive? How can you and I work
together to defend him from the school
ing of the street?
the regular monthly meeting of the
Dallas City Council this week the office
of Councilman-at-Large, made vacant
by the advancement of Tracy Staats to
the Mayor's chair, following the resig
nation of C. B. Stone as Mayor, was
filled by the election of August P. Ris
ser, bookkeeper in the Dallas National
Bank.
Baker Bankers to Be at Meeting.
BAKER, Or.. Oct. 5. (Special.)
William Pollman, B. E. Harder and H.
A. Sonne, representing the three local
banks, will attend the conference of
bankers in Portland next Wednesday.
Swiss to Extend Trade.
BERNE, Oct. 5. The Swiss Federal
Council has decided to extend its diplo
matic representation and will estab
lish legations in Turkey, Roumania and
Egypt. The Swiss consular service, also
will be Increased materially to prepare
for greater business after the war.
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We do Wool Carding
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Dallas Council Vacancy Filled. '
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The promptness with which we
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Why, you don't have any idea
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And our charges are very, very
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Columbian Optical Co.
Floyd F. Brower, Manager
145 Sixth Street
An Announcement of
Interest to Everyone!
Irving Wilburn, one of the leading dancing
instructors of the Grand Central Palace of
New York, the largest dancing institution in
the country. Is In Portland, and he is going
to stay in Portland to teach modern dancing
and especially the new dances in vogue for
the coming season. When Mr. Ringler went
to New York a short time ago. he went with
the intention of finding the very best mod
ern dancing master the metropolis has pro
. duced to act as his assistant for this dancing
season. He counts himself very fortunate in
having induced Mr. Wilburn to spend one
season in the West after his three years in
the Grand Central Palace.
Appointments for Private or Class Lesson's
May Be Made by Phone Main 3380.
Mr. Wilburn Will Give an Exhibition of the
Newest JDances Saturday Night
at Cotillion Hall
during the informal dance which will be held
there. Will also be at Riverside Park Sunday
night. You are welcome.
Ringler's School of Dancing
COTILLIOV IIALLi Corner" 14th, Near Washington.