THE MORNING OREGONTAN, MOXDAr, MAT 24, 1020
DEMiD OF LABOR
Expected Call of Federation
Made by Gompers.
INCOMPETENTS ARE HIT
Executives Who Failed to Cut Cost
of Living Are Scored in
Appeal to Electorate.
sible is for congress to confess the
incompetency of which the evidence
convicts it." -
Attorney-General Palmer does not
escape attack.
"The attorney-general," Mr. Gom
pers writes, "has found it possible to
indict corner grocers and small haber
dashers for offenses which are of no
moment at all in comparison to the
whole situation. He has found it pos
sible to advise the people to eat the
poorer cuts of -meat. He has found it
possible to do a number of ineffective
things, but seems to have found it
beyond bis capacity to do effective
things."
Neither do the courts escape the
indictment Mr. Gompers draws for
congress and the executive depart-
MILL AREA SWEPT
BY $600,000 BLAZE
Portland Shipyard and Fac
tory Are Total Loss.
the David Campbell to proceed to the
peninsula under full steam.
Lester W. David, owner of the Mon
arch Lumber company, said his loss
would not exceed $2000. The partial
destruction of the docks and the loss
of 2000 feet of fire hose were his only
two items.
Captain J. J. Reynolds, who with
W. C. Haskins and the Balfour-
Guthrie company, has taken a lease
on some of the yardage of the Standi
fer plant, said their individual loss
would be in the neighborhood of
$25,000, mostly of materials. The loss
to the Stand if er company was esti
mated at $200,000.
The North Portland Box company
sustained the greatest loss. It being
variously estimated at from S500.000
mente. The courts, he says, "brins: IHIfiH Wllin iRI.Fi Fl . 800,000. These losses, together
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so ably been plundering the people,"
citing the supreme court decision
which held stock dividends not tax
able as income.
PATROL IS DUE JUNE 15
WASHINGTON, May 23. (By the
Associated Press.) The American
Federation of Labor has Issued its
expected call to the electorate for "ar
overturn in congress."
Under the signature of President
Samuel Gompers the current issue of
the American Federationist. tne om
cial organ, carries an indictment of
contrress and the executive depart
ments for "incompetence on the cost
of living issue" and outlining a prv
gramme of "deep cutting measures,'
declared:
"There must be an overturn in con
gress. Enemies must be defeated;
friends must be elected."
Profits Are Itemized.
An itemized . list of corporation
iM-ofits. similar to that recently quot
ed in a speech by Senator Capper of
Kansas, was presented ty Air. uom
pers, who declared that while 21 en
pers, who declared that while 21 enu
merated corDorations last year re-
above normal, the average cost of liv
iniz increased 96 per cent and the
nvprn or ft union waere 55 per cent.
"The deep cutting measures," which
Mr. Gompers writes will be necessary
"to guard the nation's distributing
machinery against assaults from the
pirates of trade and commerce, ioi
low:
"Immediate adjustments of wages,
both in private employment and in
government service, to at least meet
the living costs that have outstripped
' incomes by reason of this era of
frenzied profiteering and gambling.
"Immediate effective action to pre
vent continued increases in the cost
of living.
"An end to -the kind of legislation
typified - by the Esch-Cummins rail
road law and the Kansas court of
industrial relations law. There must
be an end of legislative repression,
restriction and coercion. Not only
must there be an end to the enact
ment of legislation ,of this character,
but there must be a repeal of legis
lation already enacted.
Publicity Is t reed.
"The congress will do well to give
immediate and effective consideration
to the proposal of the American labor
movement that control of credit capi
tal be taken from private financiers
antl placed in the hands of a public
trust to be administered upon prin
ciples voluntary and co-operative in
character. This will strike a vital
blow toward eliminating the abuses
of profiteering and exploitation.
"Congress should provide immedi
ately for publicity for income tax re
turns.
"There must be immediate steps to
ward equalization of wages and cost
of living and effective steps to pre
; vent a new margin from replacing the
.' one to be dissolved. This means that
: there must be a permanent remedy for
. the high cost of living."
- Strike Held "Symptom."
"The working people of the United
Btatcs," continued Mr. Gompers, "are
speaking in mandatory terras. If
those in control of the legislative des
tinies of the country do not under
stand the needs of the workers, at
least the workers themselves under
stand. They know the restraint which
they have practiced. They know the
limit to their endurance. Their de
mand to be heard is a demand which
comprehends the welfare of the coun
try."
President Wilson proposed meas
ures for relief, Mr. Gompers writes,
"but- congress gave no heed," and
since the signing of the armistice.
"the American political and industrial
bourbons laid a course of plunder, re
striction and coercion."
The recent unsanctioned strike of
railway men, Mr. Gompers character
Sbed as "a symptom of what is the
matter with America." Their meth
ods he deplored as foredoomed for
failure and in contravention of the
discipline of the trades union 'move
ment, but he argues, their appeals for
relief from increased living costs were
of long standing, and that they suf
fered "postponement after postpone
ment.
Spr.-I.ie Profiteering Cited.
Mr.- Gompers devotes some of his
statements to specific cases of "prof
iteering and gambling." Aside from
tba increased corporation profits
llHted. be gives three "illustrations
derived from authentic sources."
A Chicago speculator bought
quantity of webbing, and, without
having seen it or having any know!
edge of its nature' or use, sold it at
a profit of $20,000.
A carload of live chickens shipped
to Chicago from Omaha was returned
eventually to Omaha and sold in the
retail market, after passing through
11 hands, "all of which levied a toll
of profit. "
A New Tork warehouse broker,
. buying a warehouse receipt for sev
eral thousand yards of silk, sold it
at a profit of $10,000.
"He performed no service in getting
it from producer to consumer," writes
Mr. Gompers. "He bought a piece
paper and sold it."
Palmer Also Criticised.
"If congress had seen fit to respond
to the wishes of the president." writes
Mr. Gompers, "and enact some of the
legislation suggested by him, it would
have been possible to curb, at least
to come extent, this unlicensed plun
dering in the necessities of life. For
- congress to deny that relief is pos-
FOREST SERVICE START HANGS
ON AVAILABLE FUND'S.
Three Dwellings lost and Other
Plants Damaged as Blaze
Sweeps lions Strip.
(Continued From First Page.)
with the smaller losses of the numer
ous fuel companies and the electric
light companies, will bring the total
loss to more than $1,000,000, according
to unofficial estimates made at the
scene of the fire.
Standifer Lon Is $250,000.
G. M. Standifer knew nothing of
the destruction of his plant by fire
until informed by a reporter late last
night. He said the plant was valued
at $250,000. He said he did not know
whether or not the plant was covered
by insurance. He had been out of the
the blaze, the plants Of the Western I clty ror several days and did not re-
Knar cnmngitv (ko KlnrY, T nation A I turn until last night.
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Colonel Arnold Makes Promise if I Lumber company and the tub and! North Portland Box company, a sub-
State and Protection Units bucket factory of Swift & Co., also fi" ,?wi" J57i?"' . .
I 1 tuaiou MV IW Ilia ISjVlui J ww
Meet Share of Expense. I were saved through the sudden veer- 000, the planing mill at $80,000, lum-
i . . ,1 - , . . i i.i 1.1 uer hi -au.wv, ana oocmiku auui uutv
mg oi me wina ai intervals inrougn- oeiianeous loss at $30,000. or a total
If the state and forest protection! out the afternoon and early evening. I loss of $300,000 for the company.
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PARTIAL DELEGATES
Half Vote Not to Be Accepted
by Republicans.
SPOKANE IS AFFECTED
This loss is partially covered by
miranM hut nf-i(.t.ln AA nnt know
will be started not later than June I bouses the tub and bucket factory 1 last night Just how much insurance
who last Thursday addressed a for- , .. " . . :v. , I equipment
estry conference at Salem. Among """"" . Tkr.w. Out of Work.
those prominent in the conference stood directly in front of the building j j Reynolds, OM of the lessees
rrL.w.VfftTf helped to ward off the blaze which of the' Standifer plant, said that their
SSriSi for seven hours threatened K with "-exceed 000. The
c. -v. Jamum e i li. . total destruction. I ii.of r.nl.l.H th Knnmrllmi of a
' ,,. I wooden vessel, the Bcola. which went
Three Dwellings Destroyed. I down the ways last Thursday. It
had left the dock and Is now at Van
couver. His concern had leased tne
Question Arises as Result of Alter
nates in Washington Credited
by State Convention.
SEATTLE, Wash, May 23. (Spe
cial.) If N. J. Bostwick of Hillyard
and Mrs. Sarah Flannigan of Spokane
go to Chicago carrying credentials
showing that they are entitled to a
half vote apiece as alternate delegates
from the fifth congressional district
of this state, the republican national
committee will infer there is some
sort of a row on and will proceed to
treat the Incident as a new form of
contest.
That is the word that State Chair
man Walker has received from the
Funds forthe establishment of the
patrol will in all likelihood be ob
tained from the emergency board until
about July 1, when the amendment
Several independent wood com
to the agricultural appropriation bill panies which had "Wood piled in the Standifer plant for four months and
.ST'VLZS SSSi vards and aW the docks suffered was Just preparing to move all sup-
The army reorganization bill, which"
is now being considered by congress.
provides for the maintenance of an
ntiM on m t r-f ftln
nominal losses, while three small The North Portland Box factory
dwelling houses directly in the path! employed 350 men, while 125. men
fflCif"t.Jat..1 Z?.r f1 if, f"l"v.?i f the flames also were a total loss- All these will be' thrown out of work"
not be passed before August or until
at the western edge of the fire and
were a total loss. A carload of ship
spars from the Western - Spar com
pany was also a total loss.
According to A. . smith, electrician I
ceive 55 per cent of Germany's indem- at the North Portland Box company
nity. Great Britain 25 per cent, and plant, the fire first started in a mass
the remainder is to be divided be- of planings in the planing mill. He
tween Belgium, Italy and Serbia, Pre- and other employes at the plant first i
mier Millerand told the finance and saw nuge names leaping from tne
foreign affairs committee of the planings shortly before noon. They
chamber of denutiea in exnlaining his at once called for assistance.
recent conversations with Premier More than 2000 feet of hose were
Lloyd George at Hythe. The propor-1 procured from the mill of the Mon-
tions to be alloted France and Great arcn bumoer company, but before the
Britain, he declared, had been agreed! lines could be laid and the water
upon by the peace conference. I Played upon the flames the fire was
M. Millerand stated that the rate of I neyond all control. Practically all
interest to be demanded from Ger-lof this fire hose was destroyed when
many on the 120,000,000.000 marks in- the fire later blazed its way for three- est re prevention week," and opening
determined, but he believed it would peninsula ' etween Oregon slough and
ot be less than a per cent plus a l r lve-miie lake.
per cent redeeming rate for the hold-1 j . .
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i "uen an appeal ior more lire ap-
The indemnity, he said, would be m r-oriiana lire ae-
CAUiuatio ui tuc vvja.4 uGiivcicu tu i ; i . , niL.
ranee and of the compensation for " to tne aemon oiatnct and n ' ;Z.ZT"Z
devastated ' mines and for cattle de
troyed or stolen during the war.
as soon as he saw the magnitude of I topic The motion picture theaters
the fire he called out four engine com- I are to the fore in co-operation with
panies. A battalion of police likewise I slides that will carry messages of for
arrived within a short time to hold I est protection. Hundreds of such
PADAUAM DCAPUCC flfiAl back the crowds and assist the fire-I slides have been sent to many Oregon
wnuninn 1 1 i-nvji iij wunu fighters. I towns from the offices of the West
Later, when it appeared as though I ern Forestry and Conservation asso-
Stockton. Cal.. Welcomes Ad Clubs: I the flames could not be checked in I ciation for use in the local playhouses.
i uina iu Mive uie juonarcn i,umDer in central uor&ry is m.u oidii, uircci
Special Service Held. 1 company, Loudenklos telephoned for led by the forestry service, depicting
The fireboat David Campbell and it I the loss and peril from forest fires
K'"i-u no uuwii liio liver rf.nu up I ana illustrating jutrtiiir dl prevention,
the slough, a distance of 15 miles, ar-l Forest fire prevention week is not
riving tnere at 4 o'clock. Within I heinir observed alone by Oregon. Sim
three minutes from the time the I liar campaigns are being carried for-
tampDtu steamea up to tne dock a I ward in Colorado, California, Idaho,
stream or water was playing on the I Utah, Montana, Wyoming, South Da
" - pi onwaru iosva.ro. tneifcota and Washington
nuge mill.
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Of TAIltTS
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NATIVE
INDIGESTION
BILIOUSNESS
CONSTIPATION
SICK HEADACHE
HO ULUEt OB HABIT FOBJONC DECC
XAOg PSOM ROOTS. BUBS IA1U ONI.T
MOrrrX-BACK CCJUJTX IN EACH BOX
ALOPCZO O. BUSS MEDICAL CO,
ate July.
agencies will meet part of the neces- I ThA r ,An, nT. wv;T.
r , I " iuv"- " insurance, hut officials did iiot know
will be started not later than June nouses tne tuD ana DUCKet iacory 1 last night Just how much Insurance 1 man waiter has received from the
15, according to Colonel H. H. Arnold, was badly scorched. Huge piles of had been Placed on the plant and its republican national committee. He
who last Thursday addressed a f or-1 ., ! ' , . . .. , I equipment. .transmitted the credentials for the
14 delegates and the set of alternates
elected by the renublican state con
vention at its Bellinghm meeting last
month. The credentials for the dele
gates and the 13 full-fledged alter
nates were accepted by the national
committee with approval and Chair
man Walker was thanked for his
promptness in forwarding them.
But the national committee drewthe
line at the half alternates from the
Spokane district. According to the
word received by Chairman Walker,
an alternate must be 100 per cent
strong or it simply doesn't exist.
There isn't any such thing provided
for in the officiA.1 ru.1 1 "hairman
Walker was 'apprised, as a. 50 per cent
alternate, and two 50 per cent alter
nates only makes the situation more
intolerable. Since the situation is
straightened pretty pronto, the na
tional committee will insist on believ
ing that there is some sort of new
fangled contest on over the seat and
will proceed to try Mrs. Flannigan and
Mr. Bostwick, neither of whom has
any desire to be tried.
State senator Johnson of Colville,
one of the delegates from the 5th dis
trict, has been reported to be ill In a
Spokane hospital. While It is ex
pected he will be able to make the
Chicago trip-,- there is a possibility he
might have to stay at home, in which
event an. alternate from the 5th dis
trict would occupy his seat. Possibly
this situation would not call for a
settlement of the Bostwick-Flannigan
contest for J. H. Sexsmlth ot Metal-
ine Falls, a place that lies in Delegate
Johnson's senatorial district, is a full
fledged alternate and first on the list
for the right to sit in a missing dele
gtc o ecu
Two of the houses were unoccuriied I temporarily.
j A, i - - . , i it took tne lire Dual. it. v iu tamp'
ami vne wormian living in me tiuru beU an nouJ and a half to go from
was in process of moving out. The her moorings in the Willamette to the
familv effects were saved fiTa b of th Columbia river, a
iamuy eixects were saved. Hiatanno nt IB to 18 miles. The boat
More than three-fourths of a mile .artri at 2-30 on receint of a tele-
of trackage of the Kenton Traction phone call from Assistant Fire Chief
11 j UC3UWJCU, wuuo tuo i iaudenklos and arrived at tne Diaze
roruana niiiwiy, x.ignt ana rower at .xactlvN 4 o'clock. The fire oc
BAXCE TO GET 55 PER CEST, company, the Northwestern Electric eurred a mile and a half outside of
company ana tne pacific Telephone I the city limits.
ana Meiegrapn company eacn loot a
half-mile of power and wire lines.
Four freight cars filled with lum-
Remainder to Be Shared by Bel- ber from the North Portland Lumber
company were standing in the yards
HNITY IS DIVIDED
GREAT BRITAtV 25.
gium, Italy and Serbia, Says
Announcement of Millerand.
PARIS, May 23. France is to re-
'FORESTS WEEK IS HERE
CAMPAIGN FOR FIRE PREVEX
TIOX TO BE STARTED.
Dally Instruction to Be Given in
-.Schools and Speakers Will
Address Clubs.
By an intensive campaign, which is
to overlook no opportunity to reach
the consciousness of the public, forest
protection will be taught in Portland
and Oregon this week. Officially
yesterday, the seven-day period will
be marked by public speaking ana
object lessons on the fire hazard in
Oregon forests
In the schools, daily instruction win
be given on forest fire prevention and
STOCKTON. Cal., May 23.
seventh annual convention of the Pa
cific Coast Advertising clubs conven-
lon opened in Stockton this after-
noon with an inspirational service at
Central Methodist church, Dave S-
Matthews of Stockton, presiding.
The northern auto caravan of 48
cars arrived in Stockton at 12 o'clock
and was greeted with the blowing of
whistles and much enthusiasm. There
were 48 cars in the party. The Los
Angeles caravan of fifteen cars ar
rived at 3 o'clock.
Governor Stephens welcomed the
delegates at the inspirational service.
Mayor Oullahan of Stockton greeted
the visitors in the name of the city.
The inspirational address was deliv
ered by Dr. Aurelia Reinhardt, presi
dent of Mills college, Oakland. Her
subject was "The Dignity of Labor.'
At the convention session tomorrow
addresses will be made by Attorney
Charles Neumiller of Stockton,
Charles U .Men. United States treas
ury department; Rollin C. Ayers of
San Francisco and Dr. Aurelia Rein
hardt of Oakland.
PREMIER SHOWS STRAIN
Mr. Lloyd George Ordered by Doc
tors to Take Rest.
(Copyright by the New Tork World. Pub-
usnea oy Axransrement-1
LONDON, May 23. (Special Cable.)
Premier Lloyd George is showing
evidences of the serious strain under
which he has been working since early
in the war. but especially since the
peace conference, which -have given
cause for anxiety on the part of his
family as well jis the cabinet.
Those who saw him at the Hythe
conference bear testimony to his aged
appearance. It was on his doctor's
peremptory orders that he remained
at Hythe for several days. It is not
thought he will appear n the house
of commons until after the Whitsun
tide recess.
Shortly after tis return from San
Remo he was confined to his bed'' for
a week with a heavy cold and his wife
came from Wales. His medical ad
visers are doing everything possible
to prevent him from shouldering too
much work at present.
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A. H.WHITE DEATH SUDDEN
Father of Adjatant-Gcnoral Passes
at Bis Home Last S igbt.
A- H. White, father of Adjutant-
General White and Hal M. White, sec
retary to Mayor Baker, died last night
suddenly at his home, 1-1 i lorida
Btreet, Fulton.
Mr. White had been ill for sis
months, but the end came unexpect
edly. Funeral arrangements have not
yet been made but services probably
will be held W ednesday.
Mr. White, who is survived by his
widow, in addition to his two sons,
came AO Portland ten years ago from
Salt Lake City, where he was en
gaged in the mining business. He
intended to retire, but because of his
familiarity with agriculture as a re
sult of his early life as a farmer in
Hancock county. 111., where he was
born, he was induced to become
dairying instructor. Mr. White was
69 years old.
CZAR STORY DISCOUNTED
Filing of Affidavit Seems to End
Question of Survivors,
LONDON. May 33. Various stories
which have been current regarding
certain members of the Russian royal
family having escaped the massacre
in which the former czar met death
would appear to be disposed of by an
affidavit filed in the London probate
registry yesterday by Grand Duchess
Xenia Alexandrovna. wife ot Grand
Duke Alexander Michaelovitch, and
sister of the late ccar.
The grand duchess has been living
In London, and letters or administra
tion had been granted her for the
Knglish estate of the former czar, to
taling 500. The affidavit of the
grand duchess asserted that the czar
"died on July 16. 191., at Ekaterin
burg" and adds that he died intes
tate, "leaving no widow or child."
Lack of Water Hinder Fight.
After the mill was out of all dan- I
ger, the Campbell steamed down to I
the other end of the fire and fought
back the flames, which swept toward I
the spar plant and the tub factory.
By 7 o'clock last night the plants at I
that end of the peninsula were all out I
of danger.
Lack of water at the western end
of the peninsula, where the fire first
started, hindered the volunteer fire
fighters from the outset and it was
necessary to use the pumps from the
Monarch mill to get any water on the
blaze from the start. But because
of the rapidity with which the fire
spread, it Quickly destroyed the one
line of hose and cut off all water con
nections until the Portland fire ap
paratus arrived on the scene.-
Some delay-was experienced in get
ting the fireboat to the scene of the I
fire, as a department order forbids I
taking the boats outside the city I
limits. But when Assistant Chief
Loudenklos saw the seriousness ot
the conflagration, he threw official
orders into the discard and ordered'
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foreign trade, thereby making the Port of Portland
known the world over, is limited by the support given
to it by the permanent residents of Portland.
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