THE MORNING OREO ONI AX, MONDAY, SEPTE3IBER 20, 1910.
EN
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ent troubles, and that is to increase
the world's stocks of a. II essential
commodities; and that can be done
only by work."
NEW
TON
System Starts October 13.
Food Prices Stay Up.
GAMBLING IS UNDER BAN
Two Forms of Tickets Provided,
One for Meat and Other for
Butter and Sugar.
(Copyright by the New York World. Pub
lished by Arraneement. )
LONDON. Sept. 28. (Special cable.)
t you could g-et an archangel to
assume the post of food controller in
this country he could not obtain any
substantia! reduction in the prices of
food during the coming winter."
This emphatic statement was made
by C. A. McCurdy. M. P., parliamen
tary secretary to the ministry of food,
addressing a meeting: of the consum
ers' council recently. "So. although
the war is over, England's food
troubles are likely to continue for a
while. This being foreseen, the gov
ernment has made adequate provision
to deal further with the food prob
lem." The food rationing: system will be
re-established on October 13 next.
But the days of the "ration book,"
that curious collection of variegated
coupons will have passed then and
the householder will be asked by the
shopkeeper to produce, not a ration
book, but a "shopping card." Par
ticulars of this new development in
food tickets are being issued broad
cast by the food ministry in circular
headed "Rationing Order, 1918 In
structions for the Use of the New
Ration Card."
Following are the principal points
in the circular:
Ration Card Required.
"During the autumn and winter you
will require a ration card in place of
the present ration book. You will be
required to register afresh, by means
of the counterfoils on the ration card.
for meat, butter and sugar, with the
retailers you choose.
"Your food office will announce,
publicly, the week during which you
must register and any retailer will be
able to tell you.
"The food office will require a short
interval to ascertain the supplies
which retailers will require for the
customers who have registered with
them by means of this card. The new
registration will, therefore, not come
into force till Monday. October 13
3919. Until this date you must con
tinue to deal with the retailers with
whom you are at present registered.
After that date, you will, normally,
unless you are the holder of an emer
gency ration document, be able to
obtain supplies of rationed food only
from the retailers with whom you
have registered by means of the coun
terfoils from the ration card.
"The top portion of the card will
take the place of the ration book.
You must produce it to your retailer
If he asks you to do so.
Two Forma of Cards Needed.
"If you are the person making pur
chases on behalf of the household
you will, either at the time when you
give your retailers the counterfoils
of the household, or at any time be
fore October 13, receive from each of
the retailers with whom the house
hold is registered a purchaser's shop
ping card. The cards will have
spaces, one for each week, to be
marked by the retailer when you
make purchases. There will be two
forms of shopping cards one with
epaces for meat which you will re
ceive from the butcher, and one with
spaces for butter and sugar.
"The purchaser's shopping card will
be valid only for purchases from the
retailer, whose name and address is
on it. The card will be valid only in
respect of the members in each house
hold registered with the retailer at
the time of each purchase and only
for a food for which they are regis
tered with him.
Gamblers to Be Wiped Out.
McCurdy spoke very plainly at the
meeting of the "consumers' council
and made the cheering declaration
that gamblers in the necessaries
life will be wiped out. The parlia
mentary secretary said the counci
demands that steps should be taken
to eliminate a large part of the
profits now made by middlemen in
the distributive trades, and so re
duce prices. He said there are two
classes of middlemen first the class
that always comes into existence
when there is any rise in prices and
seers the opportunity to step in and
further enhance prices for its own
profit. "We are taking drastic steps,
mainly by a system of licenses in cer
tain trades, which insure that no per
son who is not legitimately interested
in the trade shall be allowed tf come
in and make pre fits. We are en
, deavoring to eliminate the specula
tor altogether."
With regard to the rise in the price
of bread, McCurdy said he would like
to say most clearly that the price
fixed by the food controller is not a
fixed price, but only a maximum price,
and if, as I know, the representatives
of the co-operative movement are not
satisfied with the action of the food
controller they have a simple remedy
in their own hands. They can dem
onstrate to the food controller that
the maximum price is unnecessarily j
high by selling their own bread to
the public at a lower price than the
maximum prices fixed by the food
controller.
Price of food cannot be determined
by anything the government can do
in this country. The main facts that
confront us are:
- 1. The rise in continental demands.
We all know that the raising of the
blockade has increased the demand
of neutral and enemy countries for
commodities of every kind.
2. The fall in the exchanges.
America Is Included.
The speaker added: "And these
statements seem to apply equally to
America.
"If we were to think in terms of
commodities instead of in terms of
money. I think we should have a
much clearer view. If, instead of
saying that the railway man or the
coal miner wants another 10 shillings
a week, we say the railway man or
coal miner wanted another suit of
clothes, a new carpet, an extra pint
of beer a day and a new pair of
boots, we should see at once that the
first step toward giving him what
ne wants is that more clothes and
boots and beer and carpets must be
produced, and produced at once.
"Under the present vicious system
the wage-earner, by threats of strike
or industrial disturbance, gets his 10
shillings and goes out into a market
where there is a scarcity of boots
and clothes and beer and carpets, ex
recting to get something in return
for his extra money. But the only
effects of the new and increased de
mand for these commodities is to put
up the price, and so the workman, in
spite of his increased wages, finds
himself no better off than he was be
WOMAN CHASES ROBBER
Mrs. A. C. Beardery Makes Plucky
Fight to Save Purse.
Mrs. A. C Beardery. 353 Lincoln
reet. engaged a purse-snatcher in a
desperate battle near her home Satur
day night, and later gave chase when
he spied the prowler on the street.
The thief escaped with the purse, con-
ainlng $1.10, a rosary, and a house-
key.
Mrs. Beardery and her 18-year-old
daughter met the thief at Broadway
d Lincoln street. Mis. Beardery ex
pected to meet her husband on that
corner, and first believed that Mr.
Beardery was playing a joke on her.
hen she discovered her mistake.
Fhe clung to her handbag until the
thief dragged her several yards.
Mother and daughter screamed in
chorus. Ifut failed to attract help.
Mrs. Beardery told Inspectors Cole
man and Morak that while she was
hunting a telephone to inform the po
lice of the theft she saw the assailant
again, and chased him, but was unable
to come up with him. The thief was
about 22 years old.
CLOTHING TO COST MORE
GARMEXT SHORTAGE ACUTE,
SAYS MERCHANT.
Prices Promised for Next Sprinj
Are Such as to Make Portland
Beau Brummels Gasp.
STRIKE PARALYZES
HUSH
RALWAYS
'Powers of Hell, Press, Pul
pit and Platform" Defied.
LABOR SPEAKERS BITTER
"Nobody knows when the garment
.hcrtage is going to end or wheia
prices are going to stop, declared
Winthmp Hammond, proprietor of a
Sxth-street men's furnishing estab- CI """" 1 ' u"' uf-
ii his return Friday f ron 1 P. ,7 i. Lne slrlKf ? oenoeraie
Food Distribution and Mail Service
Disorganized Miners Also
Expected to Quit.
LONDON. Sept. 28. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) The first day of -the
greatest strike in England's history
passed without disorder, but with
practically complete stoppage of rail
way transportation throughout the
country. Thus far it has been from
a union standpoint the most success
ful tie-up of industry ever recorded
by warring labor.
Tonight a great mass meeting of
railway men was held in Albert hall
at which James Henry Thomas, sec
retary of the National Union of Rail-
waymen, after the audience for an
hour had sung "The Red Flag," de
livered a heated speech of censure
against the government, and de
clared that trouble was brewing
which might lead to bloodshed.
Victory Promised Strikers.
Both Thomas and C. T. Cramp
president of the union, asserted that
the men were firmly behind the lead
ers in this great crisis.
President Cramp denounced the gov
ernment statement regarding the pur
ishmeni, upon his return Friday
a six weeks' tour of eastern manufac
turing centers.
Mr. Hammond obtained figures from
manufacturers on probable prices for
next spring and has an array of in
creases that will make youthful Beau
Brummels gasp. Silk hosiery that now
osts $1 will go up 25 cents. Good
silk ties that one generally gets at
about $1 will advance to SI. 50. There
is, he avers, every indication that
suits will be from 15 to $10 higher,
due to the increased cost of labor and
materials. '
"Manufacturers simply refuse to du
plicate orders for leather goods and
agree to supply us only at the market
price at time of delivery," said Mr.
Hammond. "The retailer doesn't
know how much he will have to pay
for his next consignment.
"Merchandise conditions are unpre
cedented. In the first place, manufac
turers were from two to three months
late in getting out samples because
the war had tied up their mills. This
delayed deliveries. All New England
factories have gone from a 4S and
2-hour basis to 44 hours, and this
cuts in on production. Cloths that
were J2 a yard before the war now
cost $6 to $6.50, and the mills are short
of materials.
"Another factor is tne tailors. There
has been no immigration S'nce 1914
p.nd many New York tailors cf foreign
birth have left the country. With tne
war demands there has been a scar
city of labor and wag;-a have in
creased so that now men who former
ly got 125 and $30 are receiving $50
to $05.''
LOSSES AT- COVE- HEAVY
LIST OF BUILDINGS BURNED
AND INSURANCE COMPILED.
Owners Still Dazed by Rapidity
With Which Flames Wiped Out
Business Section.
COVK, Or., Sept. 28. (Special.)
The list of insurance and value of
losses caused by the terribly destruc
tive fire in the business section of
Cove Wednesday morning, so far as
could be obtained, while losers are
still dazed bvthe rapidity with which
it swept out the accumulations of
years, follows:
Ray Duncan, owner of grocery building:,
loss, $10Ot; insurance, none.
Lewis Bioom, grocer, insurance, $1!000;
loss. J4000.
J. E. Trippeer, owner Trippeer block,
insurance, SUOOO; value 93500.
R. E. & L. K. Anderson, no insurance:
loss over $10,000; postoffice records
saved: mall lost.
J. S. LeLongf butcher, no insurance;
loss. siono.
R. Z. Baxter, barber, no insurance; loss,
$300.
Ernst Thorsen. soft drink shop, gasoline
tank, confectionery, etc.; losses, $000; in
surance, $"JO00.
John Mitchell, insurance, none; loss.
10.
Robert S. French, owner of theater, in
surance, $1000; loss, ) 1.100.
Dunham Wright, hotel and garage, no
report.
Cove State bank, insurance, 93000; loss.
lie. It was not the public with
whom the strikers were at war. he
declared; it vas the people who were
for the moment in the position of
directing the affairs of the country.
All "the powers of hell, the press,
platform and perhaps the pulpit,"
would be invoked against the strikers,
said President Cramp, but if they re
mained solid they would be victor
ious.
Ansvrer tiivrn Premier.
Both speakers denounced what they
characterized as the government at
tempt to bias the mind of the public
by saying that the strike was not in
defense of union rights, but against
the life x)f the community. Answering
the premier's statement that the
strike was an anarchistic conspiracy
against the government. Secretary
Thomas declared if that were true.
: ' Uod help tne country.
He naa warned ine government
that their proposals would be fatal to
peace.
"My answer to the prime minister's
challenge, said Mr. Thomas, "is that
if he will now say to us officially
himself, not influenced or intimidated
by anyone else; if he will say, as head
of the state, that he is prepared to
concede the same principle to all rail,
way servants, then the strike can
cease at once.
Heport Made on Conference.
A lengthy verbatim report issued
officially tonight concerning Friday's
confere- -e between the government
and - ay men shows that Secre
tary mas asked for a mimimum
of 60 snillings a week for all work
ers. Mr. Lloyd George admitted that
the railway men before the war had
been "disgracefully underpaid."
A few. trains, manned ; by non
unionists, pulled out of the London
stations during the day. Several
trains which left for the north to
night were stopped by pickets and the
engines taken off.
Premier Lloyd George, telegraphing
his regrets that he would be unable
to attend the soldiers' celebration at
Carnarvon, says:
Strike Held 1'njuKtified
"In a long and varied experience I
can recall no strike entered into so
lightly with to little justification and
such entire disregard for public in
terest. The strike is not one in which
it can be contended that the workers
are seeking to wring fair wages from
harsh employers, whose profits are
believed to be excessive. In this case
the railway men are dealing direct
with the community.
"The state is now running the rail
ways at a loss, due in the main to the
enormous increase made in the wages
of the railway workers since the be
ginning of the war, and also to the
great reduction in the hours of labor.
"On its merits the strike is in
explicable. Warning Leu Than Week.
"The dispute is about something
which cannot possibly come into op
eration until next year; yet the na
tion is thrown into the dislocation of
a hurried strike without a even a
week's warning."
Pointing out that the men declined
even to discuss the government's of
fer to consider any particular injus
tices, the premier declares:
"Every employer, every worker. Is
entitled to at least one week's notice
to terminate contracts of service.
The precipitancy of this actio
jii son.
The telegrapn ana telepnone com- gives me impression or a deliberate
pany loss is $1000. The town was and matured Intention on the part of
without telephone and light service ! some individuals to seek a quarrel at
two days and nights. An emergency
telephone service was - fixed up be
tween La Grande and Cove in record
time.
It is still the general belief, after
close investigation, that the fire was
of incendiary orierin.
any cost.
"It has convinced me that It Is not
a strike for wages or better condi
tions," continued the premier. "The
government has reason to believe that
it has been engineered for some time
by a small hut active body of men
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who have wrought tirelessly and in
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"I am convinced that the vast ma
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land are opposed to this anarchist
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"There is no more patriotic body of
men in this country than the railway
men and their conduct during the war
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Lightning: hit the house of K. P.
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