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TOE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1919.
LONG
D
WINTER
FOR LABORER SEEN
Closing of Employment Bu
reau Set for Friday.
MANY NOW SEEKING WORK
Wilfred F. Smith, Director, Says
Conditions to Be More Serious
Than, Last Winter.
That the Portland day laborer la
to face a long, cold winter with a lean
pocketbook is the prediction made
yesterday by Wilfred F. Smith, direct
or of the federal employment agency,
which is to close its doors Friday.
"We look for a more serious unem
ployment situation than ever before,"
Mr. Smith declared. "Last winter,
while the wooden shipyards went out,
the steel ones suddenly expanded and
cared for a good many of our men.
The high tide was peached in Janu
ary, when 12,000 men in Oregon were
out of work, but I look for something
much worse this year. It is likewise
the opinion of this office that the
reason there were no labor troubles
last winter was because the federal
employment service has a large staff
scouring the state for jobs. A. large
government or municipal employment
office appeals to the men because it
h-is the appearance of doing some
thins for the individuals."
Gloomy Prospect Seen.
Mr. Smith admitted that he feels
rather gloomy over the prospect and
believes the closing of hi3 office
through lack of funds will complicate
the situation. The government had
ordered it to close on October 15, but
municipal aid was given and this en
abled the staff to close its business
by November 1. If it is possible to
finance an employment service again
under the direction either of city or
mate, the government will loan furni
ture and complete office equipment.
Other large cities, realizing the hard
ship the winter will work on the
l iborers who had had government as
sistance, are to a large extent sup
porting similar bureaus, and it is
hoped by those connected with the
work that Portland will follow suit.
If the 2-mill tax levy carries at the
special city election on November 12,
the city will immediately take steps
to establish a municipal employment
service, according to City Commis
sioner Bigelow.
Such service will not be as exten
sive as has been the federal eervice,
he explains, but it will be of suffi
cient scope to handle both the men's
and women's departments. Inasmuch
as the city inaugurated the free em
ployment service. It is not expected
that any great difficulty will be en
countered in establishing the eervice,
and it is probable that, with the pas
sage of the tax levy, the municipal
service can begin November 20 or not
later than December 1.
Tito Hundred Placed Dally.
The men's division of the present
bureau is placing an average of 200
men daily. Yesterday morning Mr.
Smith said he believed if he had had
1000 jobs he could have filled all of
them with applicants who visited the
windows with requests for employ
ment. Seasonal workers now are coming In
by the hundreds and about 3000 log
gers and sawmill men soon will be in
from the woods and mill towns.
"There is no shortage of men in the
lumber industry," said Charles Willis,
who signs employes for the Bridal
Veil, Milton Creek and Wind River
Lumber companies and incidentally
registers most of the loggers who
have been visiting the federal employ
ment office.
"It is reported," 3ald Mr. Smith,
"that on December 1 all of the ship
yards will close entirely, probably not
to open again until April. That will
have a tremendous bearing on the
sitution. and will put many high
class men out on the streets tempo
rarily. I also understand that the
branch office at Liberty Temple has
between 700 and 800 soldiers waiting
for work. Some of them are former
army officers.
The women's division is feeling the
strain, too. Mrs. Bruce Scott, head of
this department, said that she bad
funds enough pledged to keep the
office open until the first of the year,
if there were any assurance of it be
ing continued after that time.
TAC0MA HAS UNEMPLOYED
Distress Due to Strikes Noted by
Federal Official.
TACOMA, Wash., Oct. 27. (Special.)
The adoption of the "American
plan" by many employers and dis
tress among workers due to strikes
and slackening of construction work
are noted by C. Roy Fleming, super
intendent of the Tacoma office of the
United States employment service, in
his weekly report filed today. Three
hundred meti for section work is the
sole demand noted in this district
during the week.
Many ex-service men are out of
work, due to the shipyard and pile
drivers strikes, and with attendant
conditions but S8 men were placed in
jobs during the week. Light work
for men who have been disabled is
Daaiy wanted, ana mechanics are
urged to register for a possible fu
ture opening.
"lohen he hands you this
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you're getting a breakfast food
of uncommon food value. For
Germea gives you infinitely more
-in energy and health-return
than the average breakfast cereal.
Besides, Germea is truly eco
nomical 1 A single cupful makes
a breakfast for a family of six.
SPERRYFL0URX0.
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forty-four dis
tributing' point
on the Pacific
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FOR CRISP. SNAPPY AUTUMN DAYS
LIBERALS TO HAVE PARTY
COXVEXTIOX WILL BE HELD IX
ST. IiOUIS DECEMBER 9.
NEW EPIDEMIC REPORTED
Medical Men dive Attention to
Hiccough Attack.
SAN FRANCISCO. San Francisco
newspapers have given space recently
to a discussion among medical men
here as to the cause of a local epi
domic of hiccoughs.
Some physicians attributed It to
the too emphatic "kick" in substitutes
for liquor, and others said the parox
ysms were caused by an attenuated
influenza germ."
SPANISH AUTHOR IN U. S
Blasco Viscent Ibanez and Miss
Anne Morgan Among Arrivals
NEW YORK. Oct. 27. Blasco Vis
cent Ibanez, Spanish author, arrived
today on the La Lorraine from Havre,
Miss Anne Morgan and a French
delegation of 14 to the Internationa
labor conference at Washington also
were passengers.
Land-Clearing Demonstration Set
OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL
LEGE, Corvallis, Oct. 27. (Special.)
A land clearing demonstration will
be held near Hillsboro some time in
November, according to W. J. Gilmore,
professor of farm mechanics at th
college. All companies selling land
clearing equipment will be invited to
take part in the demonstration. Th
land will be divided into small tracts
where each exhibitor will have
clones to show his equipment.
Intelligent Programme of Social,
Political and Economic Recon
struction Is Object.
NEW YORK. Because the dominat
ing groups of both the democratic
nd republican parties are "no longer
capable of evolving or working out
intelligently planned programme
f social, political and economic re
construction," men and women repre
senting every state in the United
States will gather in St. Louis De
cember 9 to launch a new party which
may wield a tremendous influence at
the presidential election in 1920.
The political forces of America are
eenly interested in this movement
ot only because of the influential
ersons who will attend the confer-
nce and probably lend their support
to a new party, but also because past
experience has shown that a third
force in the. political world can easily
wing the balance of power in the di
rection that best suits its purpose. It
s remembered that disaffection in the
republican ranks in 1912 elected Pres
ident Wilson.
An organization known as the com
mittee of 43 is sponsor for the move
ment, and if a new party is launched
this committee will be its directing
force. The conference is expected to
call together the scattered forces of
liberalism to "nationalize politics.
according to heads of the committee
here, and it is for the conference to
decide whether or not it should join
forces with the farm and labor or
ganizations to insure a greater meas
ure of success for the new-born party,
The paramount purpose of the com
mittee of 48 is to summon from all
parts of the country the leaders of
its liberal thought and of its forward-
looking citizens to meet in confer
ence. Out of this is expected to grow
an effective co-operation of organized
labor and agricultural workers for
the task of social reconstruction. At
the present time the committee has
no platform, no political creed; it is
merely the organizing power from
which the real political party is ex
pected to spring.
In order to determine the basis for
platform, which will be discussed
at the conference, a questionnaire was
sent out to every member of the com
mittee, asking their views on certain
radical and conservative questions of
the day. The returned answers show
a surprising unanimity of opinion in
regard to most of the present-day is
sues. Some of the questions asked
ere as follows:
"Do you favor the Plumb plan? Do
ycu favor the programme of the
merican labor party? Do you favor
he programme of the Nonpartisan
league? Do you favor a federal de-
artment of education with a mem
ber of the cabinet at its head? Do
you favor literal restoration of' the
onstitutional rights of free press.
freedom of speech and public assem
blage? Do you think the United
States should become a guarantor of
merican foreign investments?
Do you favor income and inheri
tance taxes not only to raise revenue
ut for the purpose of equalizing the
distribution of wealth? Do you favor
continuation of absolute control of
foreign relations by the president?
Do you favor free trade? Do you a-
or the further restriction of immi
gration? Do you favor compulsory
iutary training? Do you favor the
formation of a new political party?"
Not only were most of these ques
tions answered in the affirmative in
ach case, but the writers elaborated
n their views and displayed an even
more radical tr. nd than the commit
tee had expected to discover.
Included in the membership of the
committee are prominent lawyers.
doctors, business men of high stand-
rg. school teachers, university pro
fessors, newspaper editors and report-
rs, magazine writers, civil service
mployes, salesmen, clergymen, man
ual laborers, farmers and virtually
every other branch of American in
dustry and the professions. Three
former United States senators, a nujn
ber of Episcopal bishops, many former
state legislators, are also members of
the committee of 48.
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FIFTH AND WASHINGTON STS,
SWETLAflD BLDQ,
ASK FOR and GET
IH3iriicEi7
TKe Original
Halted IVSilk
For Infants and Invalid
Anii Imitation o4 Sobtitatet
of the American Legion was formed
Saturday night, when 21 ex-service
men met in Masonic hall. The meet- I
ing elected Lyle Jensen, temporary
chairman; William Harper, tempo
rary secretary; W. B. Follett, state
chairman, assisted in the organiza
tion. A membership campaign has
been launched.
GLOBE TROUSER-SEAT .UNION SUITS
We have complete lines of the celebrated GLOBE Underwear, in all weights, styles and sizes.
HOUSE GIFT TO Y. M. C. A.
Eugene Campaign Aided by Dona
tion or Miss M. E. McCornack.
EUGENE, Or., Oct. 27. (Special)
The gift of a two-story residence to
be sold for the benefit of the Y. M.
C. A. fund now being raised here, was
made by Miss Mary E. McCornack
yesterday. The residence is old but
said to be in good condition. It is
expected that several hundred dollars
will be added to the fund by its sale.
Of the $30,000 which is desired to
raise to pay off the debt on the Y. M.
C. A. building and to maintain it for
a year, all but $900 has been raised,
not Including the sum to be derived
from the sale of this house.
Steam shrunken, they do not "nap" up. and the elasticity and soft
ness are always retained. They are perfectly fitting and eminently) satis
factory in ever; respect.
No. 3333-G Soft gray wool-plated, medium weight suits;
long or short sleeve styles $3.
No. 136-G Winter weight, fleece lined cotton union suits;
gray $2.50.
No. 104-W Fine ribbed suits of soft, smooth. cotton yarns;
white or ecru $3.
No. 365-G Medium
suits $5.
weight fine ribbed wool mixture
Junction City Forms Legion Post.
JUNCTION
(Special.) A-
CITY, Or.. Oct. 27.
Junction City, chapter
SPEED DRIVERS SOUGHT
Portland Men Said to Have Dam
aged Highway Bridge.
ASTORIA. Or., Oct. 27. (Special.)
A complaint was filed in the Justice
court this afternoon charging Forrest
Braley and George Adams of Portland
with speeding over the Columbia river
highway in Clatsop county, when
making their record run from Port
land on October 11.
The charge is made ty Traffic Of
fleer Carlson, who has secured five
witnesses who saw a portion of the
run.
The defendants are also said to have
knocked' the railing off a bridge near
Svenson when their car skidded aa
No. 3306 Heavy weight, fine quality worsted and cotton mixture suits. An
exceptionally fine winter undergarment that will give lasting satisfaction $6.
Mens Furnishings Shop, Just Inside Washington-Street Entrance Lipman, Wolfe & Co.
they were running at a high rate over
the structure.
Artificial rubber has been made in
an experimental way ror many years,
but it is now reported that it has
become a practical success, and that
the great dye and color works at
Elberfied. Germany, are erecting a
large factory for its production on a
large scale.
The saloon free lunch is a thing of
the past, but a Springfield (11L)
church offers free lemonade to all
who attend the Sunday services.
FOOD SHOW
OPENS TOMORROW
See Tomorrow's Paper for Details
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Millions of Pounds Overseas
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CLOTHES SATISFACTION j
and from the manner in which the new clothes store i
is coming along, our judgment is
We Are Doing It!
And why not? One of the standby of the new section is
Smart Clothes
Of course, every man knows that Stein-Bloch suits and overcoats are the
standard by which others are judged.
For sixty-seven years they have never varied from the one ideal of highest
quality. The style, materials and tailoring have never been surpassed.
What a natural consequence then it was for Lipman. Wolfe & Co. to
have selected these celebrated clothes for their great new Men's Department.
We know that we are rendering a genuine service to the men of Portland in
recommending and bringing for their selection STEIN-BLOCH CLOTHES.
Men's Suits $30 to $70.00
Overcoats $40 to $87.50
Mens Store. Fiftli Floor Lipman. Wolfe 5- Co.