TilE MOUXIXG OREGONLVX, -FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1919.
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plan in the change of time during the
summer months, was made by the city
council yesterday, when an ordinance
introduced by City Commissioner Bige
low was passed to third reading. It
will come before the council for final
approval February 26. No ' opposition
appeared against the ordinance after
Commissioner Bigelow explained that
the government planned on daylight
saving again this year, and this or
dinance made it possible for Portland
to adopt the national plan.
lender the ordinance the official time
of the city will be advanced one hour
beginning at 2 A. M. March 30 and con
tinuing until 2 A. M. October 26, this
year, the same plan to be in effect
each year.
GERMANS HALT DRIVE
AGIST POLISH FOES
ONLY TWO MORE DAYS IN WHICH
TO SEE TVHS GRANP, SATISFYING,
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Progress Made in Outlining
Proposed Regulations.
Berlin Papers Report Offen
sive Is Suspended.
WORKERS' UPLIFT SOUGHT
B0LSHEVIK FORCES ACTIVE
WALLA WALLA JUDGE DIES
J. A. TAYLOR, PIONEER. OF ORE.
GOX, PASSES AWAY.
Cniforrmty of Rights of Workmen
Employed Abroad Provided Un
der Troposcd British. Draft.
Premier Paderewski Alarmed Over
Situation In Fosen; Siege Is
Declared at Hamburg.
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LEGISLATION
RIMED
PARIS, Feb. 13. The peace confer
ence commission on international labor
legislation examined today the articles
dealing with the procedure of the pro
posed international conference body. In
this process it reached article 17 of the
draft, according to an official an
nouncement made this afternoon.
The commission, the announcement
said, has decided to Issue a journal
dealing with the problems of interna
tional industry and employment.
The commission yesterday agreed to
accept article 4 of the British draft of
measures to settle the future status
of international labor. This marks the
safe passing of an obstacle which the
labor leaders expected would provoke
a. bitter contest for the reason that it
is the most radical of the projects or
ganized labor is seeking to graft upon
the constitution of the society of na
tions. Independent Action Allowed.
This article provides that at the pro
posed international labor conference
the representatives of the governments,
the employers and working people shall
be entitled to speak and vote independ
ently, without regard to the views ex
pressed by the other representatives of
their nation and to have power to draw
tip conventions binding on the nations
represented.
The rapid progress made tipon the
remainder of the British draft, into
which will be incorporated certain fea
tures of the French labor plan, appears
to warrant the belief that the essen
tial aims of the delegates of both na
tions will be accepted in their entirety
by the commission, although final ac
tion by the peace conference ia not pre
dicted. The British dftift covers a wide field,
including the following provisions:
Uniformity of the rights of workmen
employed abroad. their protection
against loss when in a foreign country
through the lapse of state insurance,
against sickness, old age, accident, un
employment and similar causes; pre
vention of unemployment through the
adoption by the different governments
of a policy of distribution of orders
for public works so as to keep the de
mand for labor at an approximately
uniform level.
Employment to Be Supervised.
The relief of the unemployed through
system of registration and co-operation
between employers in different
lines of industry to meet foreign labor
demands.
Opportunity to unemployed young
workers for the continuance of their
education at established centers.
A system of inspection of factories
nnd workshops to insure the execution
of labor laws.
The protection of children. Vouths
and women, with educational oppor
tunities for the children and the regu
lation of night work for the youths.
'tlx? limitation of the working shift
for young persons to half that of
adults, with no overtime or. night work.
The recognition of the rights' of
workmen to combine and the right to
peaceful picketing.
The recognition of the right of work
luff men to combine politically, and
the right of trades unions to partici
pate in politics. ,
Working. hours to be fixed by law in
each state, with an international stand
ard as the minimum.
The regulation of work in small
workshops or sweat shops to be at
tended to by each state, in view of the
difficulty of settling this problem by
international legislation.
TVnse Standards Seed Fixing.
An international code regulating
labor conditions in the mercantile ma
rine under every flag, to be worked out
by a special maritime commission of
the league of nations in continuous ees
jsion, to take up new points.
It seems to be agreed that wholly
different wage and money standards of
the east and west demand definite fix
ing. As to the right of workmen to com
bine, the British view is that this at
least should be insisted ' upon by the
working classes, although it is now
denied by the employers.
The measure of pensions, insurance
nnd the regulation of the work of chil
dren, it is also contended, ought to
apply to native Asiatic labor.
The British plan also contemplates
the creation of a permanent committee
to fix minimum wages according to the
conditions in the various regions and to
make a special study of native labor
problems.
It is proposed to include Injthe league
of notions plan the constitution of an
international parliament committee
composed of delegates from the exist
ing national parliaments to suggest
labor legislation to the society of na
tions. The abolition of military train
ing in schools and the international ex
change of university students is pro
posed. The French proposals include the re
cruiting of labor through national em
ployment bureaus, prohibiting of the
labor of children under 14 years, the
prohibition of night work by women
and a maximum eight-hour working
day in factories where the furnaces are
always lighted.
DAYLIGHT SAVING AGAIN UP
City Council to Act on Ordinance
Complying With Federal Plan.
Provision for daylight saving in
Portland, to comply with the federal
WATER SUIT VOTE CALLED
Klamath Irrigation District May Op
pose Link Ttiver Dam.
KLAMATH FALLS. Or, Feb. 13.t
(Special.) Whether the Klamath irri
gation district which has been reor
ganized from the old water-users as
sociation, will join with the former
body in a further attempt to block the
proposed dam across the head of Link
river by the California-Oregon Power
company by a suit to test the legality
of the contract between the power com
pany and the United States reclamation
service, is a matter which will be "put
up to the individuals in a straw vote
which is to be completed by March 1.
A suit to test this legality was insti
tuted by the old organization, but not
decided.
George W. Offield of Merrill has been
re-elected president of the association.
Member of Legislature In Early Says
Came to This Section in
October, 1852.
"WALLA WALLA, Wash., Feb. 13.
(Special.) Judge John A. Taylor, aged
93,a pioneer of the northwest, having
crossed the plains behind an ox team
In 1S52, died here yesterday. He was a
native of New Tork. where he was
born September 12, 1825.
Judge Taylor was a pioneer member
of both the Oregon, and Washington
legislatures.
He landed In Portland in October,
1852, after a six months' journey across
the plains, enduring many hardships.
His first year in Oregon was nearly as
bad, as he often told of the short ra
tions on which he existed. He took up
a donation claim on the banks of the
Tualatin river, ten miles from Portland,
and later built a macadamized road
from Portland to Dayton, a distance of
17 miles, and installed a ferry across
the river. He afterwards built a toll
bridge to take the place of the ferry.
He was elected from Tamhill county
on the republican ticket to the Oregon
legislature, and when the state of
Washington was a territory he was
elected on the republican ticket to rep
resent Walla Walla county at Olympia.
He served as judge of the municipal
court in Walla Walla for 12 years, and
had more than a county-wide reputa
tion as a settler of disputes.
He leaves the following children:
Frank Taylor, of Whitebird.. Tdaho;
Mrs. Ella Mead, Tacoma; Mrs. Jennie
Wann, of Walla Walla, and J. E. Tay
lor, of Emmett, Idaho. He had been
making his home with his daughter,
Mrs. Wann.
SOVIET FORMED AT YAKIMA
Soldiers and Sailors' Council Re
ported Organized.
YAKIMA. Wash.. Feb. 13. A soldiers'
and sailors' council was organized here
this morning in the labor temple.
Alexander Mackel, former Butte attor
ney and Seattle shipyard worker, issued
the call tor the meeting, apparently
sponsored by organized labor. Mackel
proposed that only persons willing to
join be allowed in the room, and the
selection of a doortender to bar all
persons not in sympathy with the
council from future meetings. He
claimed 60 members, but refused to
make the names public Ira Green,
lj. b. A. private, was elected chairman.
Yakima already has a general organ
ization of war veterans in the Yakima
Service club.
REDS CULTIVATING POLES
BolshcTikl Atow Friendly Interest
in Sew Republic.
LONDON, Feb. 13. A Russian wire
less message received here today says
that M. Tchitcherin, the bolshevik
foreign finister, replying to the pro
posal of Ignace Jan Paderewski, the
Polish premier, to send Polish delegates
to Moscow to discuss urgent questions,
says the soviet government ardently
desires peaceful relations with the
Polish republic and guarantees an un
hindered journey to Moscow for the
delegates.
The dispatch adds that the soviet
government is carefully guarding Pol
ish national treasures, including works
of art of incalculable value, in order
to return them to the Poles.
Women Urge Release of Prisoners.
BERXE, Feb. 12. An international
women's conference, at which delegates
from the entente countries and the cen
tral powers were represented, today
adopted a resolution demanding that
all war prisoners and interned per
sons be released. It was decided by
the conference to send a delegation to
President Wilson ,to promise him sup
port for his peace programme and also
to request the elimination of militar
istic tendencies in school instruction.
Prlneville Couple Is Wed.
THE DALLES, Or., Feb. 13. (Spe
cial.) A romance which began before
the war ended happily nere tnis after
noon when Miss Elva Opal Trent be
came the bride of Oscar A. Prose, who
was recently discharged at Camp Lewis.
The ceremony was performed at the
Methodist parsonage by Rev. W. H. 1L
Forsyth. Both of the young people
are residents of Prineville, where they
will make their home.
Road Appropriation Sought.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 13. An ex
ecutive committee representing civic.
commercial, agricultural and other or
ganizations throughout California, an
nounced tonight it will recommend to
the present legislature that a bond
issue of $35,015,000 be placed before
the people to complete the present
highway system and to construct sev
enteen proposed new highway projects
throughout the entire state.
ZURICH. Feb. 13. (Havas.) The
German offensive against the Poles
has been suspended, according to Ber
lin newspapers.
WARSAW, Feb. 13. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Bolshevik forces have
occupied Zeliv, between Bailystok and
Brest-Litovsk. They have attempted
to advance through the Polish lines,
using, uniforms of the Polish officers,
but those who tried this failed and 100
have been brought to Warsaw in motor
trucks. The bolsheviki forces are es
timated to number between two and
twenty divisions, but it Is believed the
actual figures will show that the latter
estimate is nearer correct.
General Bartelmys is attempting to
arrange an armistice between the
Ukrainians and Poles. The former are
willing to negotiate provided they are
given the Drohobycz oil fields, pend
ing decision by the peace conference.
Premier Paderewxkl Alarmed.
Premier Paderewski i3 alarmed over
the German situation in Posen. He
said to the Associated Press:
"The Germans are counting on the
United States and foreign press to
spread the impression that the Poles
are Incapable of self-government."
Refugees bringing in Russian rubles
find tht the value of their money is
very low and the exchange rate has
dropped 20 per cent.
BASEL, Feb. 13. Karl Radek, the
.Russian bolshevik emissary, who h&s
been accused by the German authori
ties of being an instigator of numerous
radical outbreaks in Germany, has been
discovered and arrested by the Berlin
police, according to a Berlin dispatch
today. His whereabouts had been a
niysstery for some time.
Slese lleclared at Mum burg.
A state of siege has been declared at
Hamburg, Germany, until the people
of tat city have surrendered .ill arms
in their possession. Patrols demand
ing the arms are taking action against
those who resist. Gustav Noske. min
ister in charge of military affairs in
the Ebert cabinet, has telegraphed to
the president of the soldiers' council at
Hamburg saying that ho will not take
military measures against that city as
the soldiers' and workmen's council
is restoring order.
PUBLIC TO HEAR SPEAKERS
SEATING ARRANGEMENTS MADE
FOB LEAGUE CONGRESS.
Red Cross May Bar Teutons.
-GENEVA. Feb. 13. The movement to
exclude the central powers from the
international Red Cross was debated
at a meeting of the organization held
here today. President Ador of Swit
zerland was chairman of the meeting.
which was attended by delegations
from allied countries which preferred
charges of violations of Red Cross
Edward A. I'llcne, Director of XT. S.
Chamber of Commerce, to Talk
at Luncheon.
Formal announcement as to the
seating privileges at the Auditorium
Sunday evening, Monday and Monday
evening, when the northwestern con
gress for a league of nations will be
addressed by ex-President Taft, ex
Ambassador Morganthau and other na
tional leaders of the league of nations
movement, was made yesterday by
Henry L. Corbett, president of the
Chamber of Commerce, who will pre
side at the congress.
"The number of seats necessary for
the registered delegates will be re
served for them up to 7:45 o'clock, both
Sunday and Monday evenings," said Mr.
Corbett. "After 7:45 the reserved seat,
together with all others, will be thrown
open to the general public. No admis
sion fee will be charged anyone."
The public will bo admitted to the
Monday morning and afternoon ses
sions.
While the Multnomah hotel has been
Belected as convention headquarters
for Mr. Taft and his party, other hotels
are expected to be well filled with
delegates. Secretary Stahl having an
nounced yesterday that the registration
of delegates from northern Idaho, Ore
gon and Washington is approaching
the 1000 mark.
A big staff of clerks and typists
under the direction of Miss Getta
Wasserman is busy tabulating the re
turn of delegates' credentials.
Frederick W. Goodrich will give
organ recitals beginning at 7:30 each
evening.
Edward A. Filene. director of the
Lnited States chamber of commerce
will bo the chief speaker at an adver
tising and editorial luncheon under the
auspices of the better business bureau
of the Portland Ad club.' Reservations
are in -charge of W. S. Kirkpatrick
chairman of a special committee of the
club, and L. R. Bailey, chairman of
the better business bureau.
ATTORNEY DEMANDS 9258
LAWYER WHO WON NOTED WILL,
CONTEST BRINGS SUIT.
Charles J. Ferguson of Klamath
Falls Goes Into Court for Fee in
$100,000 Estate Litigation.
Charles J. Ferguson, one of the lead
ing attorneys of Klamath Falls, filed
suit in the circuit court yesterday for
a fee of $9250 for services rendered i
the noted Melhase will case, in which
he broke a purported will involving a
100.000 estate and was sustained in the
supreme court of Oregon.
The action was filed against Hen
rietta F. Melhase, widow. At the death
of her husband, brothers secured keys
to hts sale deposit box and opened it.
They offered a will dated in 1908, de
priving the widow of most of her hus
band's property. She engaged Attor
ney Ferguson to fight for her rights
and he brought action in the probate
court with a contention that there was
a later will, dated 1910, leaving most
of the property to the wife, which dis
appeared from the safe deposit box.
The suit was lost in the probate court
but won in appeal to the circuit court
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A second appeal to the state supreme
court resulted in the decision that there
had been another will and the restora
tion to the widow of a large part of
the property. The case attracted much
attention in southern Oregon.
Attorneys Maguire and Winter of
Portland, Renner and Ohastain and
Walter C. Van Emon of Klamath Falls
appear for the plaintiff.
Junior Will Represent College.
OREGON AGRTCl-LTL-R AL COLLEGE.
Corvallis, Feb. 13. Special.) Miss
Marjorie Schutt, of Corvallis. will rep
resent the O. A. C. chapter of the T. W.
C. A. at a national conference to be
held February 20-23 at Evanston. III.
Miss Schutt is a Junior student in home
economics and well known in college
activities. The national conference will
meet to plan work for the present
period of readjustment.
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