TIIE MORXIXG OREGOXIAX, TUESDAY. APRIL 19. 1921
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Gary Offers Possible Solution
of Labor Troubles. .
BETTER LAWS ARE ASKED
Chairman of Tnlted States Steel
Corporation Declares for Rea
sonable Regulation. .
Imposes a condition of servitude and
is. in effect, the embodiment of the
right to enslave."
Mr. Gary's address, in which he
urged "publicly, regulation and rea
sonable control" of business through
government agencies as a possible
"solution of or antidote of the labor
union problems," was applauded. .
Asked regarding his views on the
Inter-church world movement on the
steel strike ot 1919, Mr. Gary said:
Own A'otioaa Entertained.
"I have my own notioiis regarding
the men who got up that report. I
don't care to talk about It. I think
It better not to."
He declined to predict future busi
ness conditions, but asserted "if any
ether country can survive the United
States can orosDer.
"I don't care to give yon any advice
n regard to vour securities, ne
added, "but I am going to keep mln
&t least for the present.
A proposal that the surplus of the
corporation be limited to oZ3,uuu.uuu
now at hand, because "this accumula
tion invited monopolistic attacks and
confiscatory taxation." was defeatea
"We want to keep the corporation
In a position," he said, "where no
harm can come to it. no matter what
happens. This is a bad time to reduce
nnr iirnlns "
He said that the corporation couio
IV
E TO CUT PAY
BEOUJ, BY RAILWAYS
Biggest Reductions Aimed a
Unskilled Labor.
XEW YORK. April IS. (By the As
anclatoH Prtm) Stockholders of the
United States Steel corporation today no sell its $110,000,000 worth of EOV'
iinanimnii.lv nipHirxd their sunnort I ernment securities now without suf'
to Elbert H. Gary and his associates fering a loss, and urged that they be
In the management of the corpora-I held until "we get as much as they
t!on. in any "future conflicts" witn I cost us, or possmiy a nine iuuib
labor unions.
tlon. "tY aep" regardless of the $U N YAT SEN TO RESIGN
sacrifices necessary, wnatever jossee
may be sustained In maintaining the
right of each American citizen to en
ter into his individual contract should
such be hs desire, without hindrance
from any other human being."
Labor Question Discussed.
While the labor, question was dis
cussed, no mention was made of the
campaign to unionize the steel In
dustry set by organized labor forces
to begin June 19.
Mr. Gary told the stockholders ne
was In favor of "publicity, regulation
and reasonable control" of business
throucrh government agencies, as a
"possible solution or antidote to the
labor union problem.
Declaring he did not believe in so
cialism nor in governmental manage
ment or operation, he suggested that
non-partisan, non-sectarian commis
sions or departments render decisions.
subject to review by the highest
courts.
Continuing his suggestion, he said:
New Laws Are Advised.
"Laws clear, well defined, prac-
Ticaoie ana easy ol comprtncns.uii Umnnr in r-l nT- lmn rvnHmi
covering these matters might be DmUUC, Id DnCAMIMU UU Villi
passed, and if so they should apply to
bodies exceeding certain specified viumj
numbers or amounts. Both organized! svwta rnnni cim YCav
capital and organized labor should be I
Placed under these laws. Each should NORTH BEND. Or- April IS.
be entitled to the same protection I f Soecial.) About 50 feet of the south
ana be subject to the same restric-1 inlet county bridge went aown yes
tions and provisions. I terdar on one side when piling eaten
"Will labor unions consent ta this? bv teredos broke off. Forty or &u
Xew "President of Chinese Repub
lic" Decides to Quit.
SAX FRANCISCO. April 18. (By
the Associated Press.) Dr. Sun Tat
Sen, elected "president of the Chinese
republic by the Canton or soutnern
government has decided to resign, c
cording to cable advices received
from Canton today.
The Chinese World, a local Chinese
language daily newspaper, made me
announcement.
He made this decision, according to
the cablegram, because he felt tne
Chinese people generally were not in
favor of his candidacy and because
he had been elected only by the votes
of his own faction.
He was to have taken office May l,
according to a cablegram received, by
the Chinese v orld yesterday.
Previous advices from Canton said
Dr. Sun Tat Sen would assume the
"presidency" Wednesday.
They have heretofore objected. Here
would be a test. Labor union leaders
have before now asked and received
discriminatory exemptions. This is
wrong, and it would be just as bad If
the situation were reversed. Employ
ers generally desire only the same
treatment that Is accorded to labor
cnions. The large malorltv of work
men also would be satisfied with this pended.
standard.
Labor Unions Discussed.
Mr. Gary devoted a considerable
portion of his address to labor unions
and said The natural and certain ef
fects of labor unionism are expressed
In three words, "inefficiency, high
costs." - t
"I would not "intentionally do an
injustice to any union labor leader.
nor to a labor union." he continued.
"Dut l firmly believe complete union'
sation of the industry of this coun
try would be the beginning of ln-
oustnai decay.
"It seems to me." he said. "Jhat the
natural If not the necessary result
of the contemplated progress of labor
unions, if successful, would- be con
trol of shops, then of the general
management of the business, then of
capital and finally the government.
Admitting that unions may have
been justified In the long past, "be
cause workmen were not treated
justly, ne declared there Is now "no
necessity" for labor unions "in the
opinion of the large majority of both
employers and employes."
Working Hoars Considered.
Turning to the subject of possible
reduction of working hours for em
ployes of the steel corporation, Mr.
tiary sa'd:
"The officers of this corporatlo.n,
the presidents of subsidiary com
panies and a majority of others in
positions of responsibility are in favor
of abolishing the 12-hour day, and for
this reason and because of the public
sentiment it Is our endeavor and ex
pectation to decrease the working
hours we hope in the comparatively
near future.
The question or reducing wages
among the 265,000 employes of the
steel corporation has not been con
sidered up to the present time, Mr.
Gary said.
"I think when the high cost of liv
ing has been reduced," he added, "It
will be only a question of time when
there will be some readjustment of
wages. The board of directors will
take the matter under advisement at
the proper time.
Profit-Sharing Approved.
"Always It has been the effort of
automobiles were on the coast side
of the bridge and only a few of the
owners ventured to cross, although
the bridge was still passable.
Owing to the danger of more piling
collapsing the bridge was closed to
day by the county court and traffic
to Sunset bay, tne Arago iigntnouse
and other beaches westward is sus-
SALE OF PAPER DEFERRED
Action for Creditors of Kansas City
Journal Postponed.
KANSAS ' CITY. April 18. Sale of
the Kansas City Journal at auction
to satisfy claims of creditors set for
today was postponed one week on
application In federal court by '. t.
Sebree, attorney for C S. Jones,
receiver.
Creditors conferred with a com
mittee which has been advertising
for buyers ;of bonds to save the paper
from a forced sale. The committee
is diking to raise $250,000.
MR. STOKES' LOSES THREE
(Continued From First Pare.)
cal condition, lent her humor to the
nvariable element of force at the
proceedings. Her age, she said, was
more than 30. When her cross-cxam-
ners demanded it exactly she assured
them that the generalization would
do.
Being Servant Is Denied.
Attempts to show her a "strike
breaker" and a waitress at the St.
Regis failed. Mrs. Matteosslan swore
that during her temporary employ
ment, without pay, at the St. Regis
she had free taxicab service and a
guest room. She was not a servant,
she insisted, indignantly.
All the defense succeeded In get
ting under cross-examination of Mrs.
Matteossian was an admission from
her that she did not know when her
first husband died.
Mr. Littleton again requested that
the justice visit the apartment house
at No. 13 East Thirty-fifth street and
see for himself the impossibility of
looking from the roof coping into
the Wallace bedroom. Justice Finch
said he would consider the advisabil
ity of such a visit.
Meanwhile, the defense has Drought
forth architects and photographers
to present a second-hand picture of
SHOP MEN ALSO TARGE
Train Service Employes Slated for
Drop in Wages; Scores of Ex
hibits Laid Before Board.
CHICAGO, April 18. Eastern rail
roads appearing before the railroad
labor board opened their drive today
for sweeping wage reductions for all
unskilled labor and, in some in
stances, for shop and train service
employes.
Over the protest of the labor or
ganlzations, the board decided to
proceed with the consolidated wage
bearing of disputes certified by 93
railroads, although there are three
vacancies on the board because con
gress has not yet confirmed Presi
dent Harding's appointees and one
member is absent. Five members,
quorum, remain however.
Scores of exhibits, most of them
dealing with the cost of living and
wages for similar labor in other in
dustries were filed as carrier- after
carrier laid its evidence before the
board. Nearly twoscore roads had
finished their presentation when the
session adjourned.
Following a protest earlier In the
day by the employes, the board had
extended the time limit for each
side's testimony to five days of five
hours each.
In opening their pleas for wage
reductions the carriers declared there
had been a widespread reduction of
wages of from 10 to 35 per cent and
that the cost of living had receded
steadily for several months.
"The latest department of labor
figures for the period ending De
cember. 1920. said J. C. Walber of
the bureau of information of east
ern railroads, "show a decline in the
cost of living of 7.4 per cent from
the peak in July, 1920, when pres
ent wages were established. The
national industrial conference board
figures show a decline of 17 per cent
by March, 1921."
Numerous exhibits were filed to
show that the cost of living in July,
1920. was 104.5 per cent more than
in 1914, while in March of this year it
was 67 per cent greater.
Additional eastern roads will ap
pear tomorrow, after which western
roads will have their inning.
PRIS0NERSARE ISOLATED
Soldiers Who Attacked Girl Kept
Apart for Protection.
TACOMA. Wash., April 18. (Spe
cial.) Lawardus G. Bogart and Evert
Impyn, Camp Lewis soldiers, charged
with attacking Miss Eleanor Scheyer,
a civilian nurse, at the post hospital,
are being kept away from other pris
oners In the Pierce county jail for
their own protection.
When the pair were brought In
fter confessing the crime other pris-
ners were lying in watt for them.
Bogart was knocked down and badly
beaten and Impyn was struck by sev-
ral prisoners before he was rescued.
Miss Scheyer is slowly recovering
at the Camp Lewis hospital.
OWER DATA ARE WANTED-
Development of Umatilla Rapids
Purpose of Conference.
SALEM. Or.. April 18. (Special.)
April 29 has been set as the tentative
date for a conference to be attenaea
by a committee of Oregon men and a
government hydraulic engineer, with
relation to procuring data dealing
with the proposed development of tne
matilla rapids on tne uoiumoia
river. This hearing will be neia in
Portland.
The data, when assembled, will be
placed before the federal power com
mission. Development of the Uma
tilla rapids was discussed at a num
ber of rrfeetings held during the last
session of the legislature.
LECTION ASKED AT BEND
Second Petition for Vote on Water
Works Franchise Presented.
BEND, April 18. (Special.) For
the second time this month T. H.
Foley, manager of the Bend Water,
Llerht & Power company, today sub
the roof coping setting and testimony
to the Dhvsical details of the roof
our organization io treat us employes i coping concluded the day s testimony,
very iiperaiiy.
Newspaper Man Gets Job.
TACOMA. Wash., April 18. (Spe
cial.) Charles B. Dodds, former Ta-
coma. Seattle and Olympia newspaper
man. has been named secretary to
Senator Shortridge, California's new
representative In the upper house of
congress. Air. uoaos nas oeen polit
ical writer on the San Francisco
Chron'cle for several years, going
mere irom Olympia, where he was
editor of the Olympian. The Chron
icle has given Mr. Dodds leave of
absence while acting as secretary to
Senator Shortridge.
Xorth Dakotan V. S. Treasurer.
WASHINGTON, D. C. April 18.
The . senate tonight confirmed the
nominations of Frank White of North
Dakota to be treasurer of the United
States and of Peter Augustus Jay of
Rhode Island, now minister to Sal
vador, to be minister to Roumsnla.
INDIGESTION
In new granular form Iry on
tongue, or with vichy or water,
hot or cold, preferably hot.
QUICK RELIEF!
PRICE, 2550-75jj
ALSO IN TAgLrrr FORM
MADS. BY SCOTT BOWNB
MAKERS OF
SCOTT'S EMULSION
15.
If a reduction Is
made, it will be one rt Justice and
equality."
The stockholders approved a profit
sharing plan providing for setting
setting aside annually a certain pro
portion of all net profits above -$100,
00.000. The distribution would be
made to employes who, by their abili
ty, industry and loyalty qave con
tributed in an unusual degree to the
success of the corporation.
A special committee will put the
plan into effect, determine who shall
receive shares in the profits and su
perintend their distribution.
Four directors. Richard v. Linda-
bury, Thomas Murray. Perclval Rob
erts Jr. and Robert V insor, were re
elected.
Confldeaee la Expressed.
A resolution adopted expressed con
fidence In, the manner in which, the
officers handled the recent steel
strike. The resolution declared the
stockholders were ready to stand by
tne officers again if necessary, and
that they were prepared to accept
whatever losses might be sustained.
Officials and directors were praised
In the resolution for having "happily
met with tact and discretion" the
steel strike of 1919.
"We believe that in refusing to ac
cept thet erms dictated by non-employes."
it said, "the officials and
directors have performed a service of
Inestimable value, not alone to the
shareholders of the company, nor
alone to the general citizenship of
the United States, but to every in
habitant of the civilized globe,
through defending the wiriest nHivM.
nal liberty and maintaining that right I Anti-Hio;h Cost Convention all dav at the fllirlitnrinm
any privileged class, but the common
I Housewives' meeting at 10 A. M. to protest prices of gas and
(narrrl lt Inkor Denied. I fnl 9 A T HT X - j:j4.- x-
-We have no ouarrel -i- vjcutxai mU.jr x. x.x. w uiov-uss uuiuiudies LO UPDUSe
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iaDor propeny iunctiomnff in ac-1 1 jOTnTnissioner vvuuams at reca election.
luiumao nun intj principles or dUfl- I i r a i - . n .
tic, liberty and law. we believe a I Monster mass meeting' or telephone users at &P. M. Everybody
i ' province or any invitea. . AeieDnOIie Victims, eas Dlirncra nnrl strnn-hano-ovo
men. however, to forbid and interfere j j j wx x . - .
with the right and desire of the com- I ufctu -""vx oxnx xwttoi, ingu tuoi vix living,
..uch interference which denies their FU1JL.IU KEUALL CO.WITTEE. INC.
""i- -mcit 'iivcuuui, i . li'am aoa Robert U. Duncan. 709 Couch Blda-.l
Big Mass Meeting
WednesdayAt the Auditorium
Recall Day All Day
April 20
mltted to - Ross Farnham, city re
corder, for filing, a referendum peti
tion asking for an election at which
the people of Bend may have the op
portunity cf passing on the water
works ' franchise, recently presentee
to Mayor Gilson by the city council.
The first petition, submitted to the
recorder on April 4, was later re
jected because a date for the election
was specified, Mr. Farnham con
tending that this was a point which
should be left entirely in the coun
cil's hands, according to the law.'
As a result, the signed request for
an election which was turned in to
day, names no date. Although the
time for circulating was short, the
petition contains practically the same
number of signatures as the first pe
tition approximately 600 or' four
times as many as are required.
KEELEY IN DUAL ROLE
PLAIXTIFP IX IiIBEIi "ACTIOS
- TESTIFIES OX STAXD.
Asks Questions as Attorney and
Answers Them as Witness in
. Salt Against Tbe .Oregonlan.
Lee Roy E. Keeley, who sued The
Oregonian Publishing company for
$150,000 damages for alleged libelous
references to himself, took the stand
yesterday as the opening witness in
his case and propounded questions to
himself, aotlng as his own counsel
and also answered them In the role of
witness. Between timet ne argued
objections Interposed by opposing
counsel.
He pursued his Interrogatories more
or less unhindered until, in his dual
character, he asked himself "Are you
a member of the L W. W." Then
objections by the defence counsel
precipitated arguments before Judge
Gatens as to the admlssabllity of such
testimony that consumed the rest of
the day's court session. Judge Gatens
will give his dec'sion on the questions
raised this morning at 10.
It was the theory of Attorneys Ma
larkey, Logan and Seabrook for the
defense, that the words relied upon
by the plaintiff to win his case were
not, in themselves, libelous but that
In order to give them actionable char
acter a further showing of extrinsic
facts must have been pleaded when
complaint was filed. This they,
argued, was the fact with regard to
all charges set forth in the pleadings.
On the contrary, Mr. Keeley de
clared the words as quoted were
libelous and that the same point had
been raised when the defense inter
posed a demurrer to the comDlaint
and the contention was overruled by-
Presiding Judge McCourt and the de
murrer dismissed.
DEATH LAID TO SUICIDE
Dynamite Traces Found on Body
of Retired Farmer.
SEATTLE. Wash.. April 18 Nels
Peterson, retired rancher, who wnn
found dead in a local hotel yesterday
and was believed to have been mur
dered, committed suicide by the use of
a percussion cap, police detectives an.
nounced today after investigation.
A piece of fufe was found in the
blanket which was wrapped around
the man's head and bits of copper
and traces of dynamite were found la
his mouth, police said.
Well Known Lumberman Dead.
ASHLAND, Wis., April IS. E. A.
Shores, 76, said to have been one of
the best-known lumbermen In the
country, died today. He had resided
in Seattle and Tacoma several years.
8. A II. green stamp for cash.
Holman Fuel Co.. coal and wood. Mala
153 6S0-21. Adv
approaches
J. V the Duo-Art in its per
fedkm of construction ana tbe
fidelity of musical TepToduBion."
Alfred Cortot
"This instrument is without
question greatly superior to any
ether of its kind." '
N- Ignace Jam Padereitsq
jTif is distinctly in a class by
itself - Rudolph Ganz
I he cDuo-Art stands supreme
among reproducing pianos. "
. Harold Bauer
"The 'Duo-Art is so far super
ior to any other instrument of its
kmd, there eon be no real basis
for comparison."
Josef HoFHAKif
Cortot and Duo-Art
delight music lovers
A LFRED CORTOT and the Steinway Duo-Art
v. Reproducing Piano appeared in the City
Auditorium, in an invitational concert under the aus
pices of Sherman, Clay & Co. before a delighted au
dience last night.
Beautiful as was Cortot's playing, the reproduction was
equally marvelous. Every artifice of color and shading
used by Cortot, the great French Master, was repro
duced in faultless counterpart by the marvelous DUO
ART.
From thunderous Polonaise along the radiant way of melody, through
colorful Rhapsodie and brilliant Etude-Waltz, the Duo-Art demon
strated its perfed ability to re-create the divine touch of the artist.
And there, in the presence of hundreds of music-lovers the Duo Art
again showed how it earned the sincerest compliment ever paid to an
'instrument by a great musician
To ALL who last night heard Cortot himself in
recital, and to all others, Sherman, Clay & Co. extend a cordial invita
tion to come in and hear the Cortot records on the marvelous Duo-Art
reproducing piano. J
Not Cortot only, but Paderewski, Hofmann, Friedman, Bauer, Gabril
owitsch, Ganz, Grainger, Novaes and other masters of the piano have
similarly recorded their exact playing for the Duo-Art and for the
Duo-AjiT exclusively. " '
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Sixth anI Morrison Streets
PORTLAND
Oppoait. Portoffic
SEATTLE TACOMA SPOKANE
"7 really do not know what to say of
your magnificent Duo-Art Piano,
which has not already been said and in
the tnot enthusiastic manner, by all
my eminent fellow-pianists. I am en'
tirely in accord with their opinion
when they say that no instrument ajv
proaches the Duo-Art in its perfection
of construction and the fidelity of mu
sical reproduction,
"But I go even farther. I believe sin
cerely that this marvelous creation u
of the greatest interest for the develop'
ment of musical taste. I see in the Duo
Art an instrument capable of develop'
ing, even m those considered rebellious
to musical sentiment, an enhanced
comprehension of its highest manifer
tations.
"Surely the Duo-Art has a beautiful
mission to fulfill It is a superb contri'
button to the art of marie" Alfred
Cortot.