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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1921)
TIIE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAX, 3IOXDAY, MAY 2, 1931 NATION'S EXECUTIVE AND NEW AMBASSADOR TO GREAT BRITAIN. FOREIGN TANGLE Mew Contracts With Job Executive at Every Turn Plants in Effect Today. Meets World Troubles. After Every Meal ARBITERS TO FIX WAGES ISSUES CLOSELY LINKED 4 PRINTERS TO BEGIN 44-HOUR SCHEDULE "7 TTf) V r v-- . VI t - j t" - 1 ' -'1 V &t 1 1 HARDING VLbLz LI ft Employers and Employes Pledged to Accept Report of Board, E pected by Middle of Week. Printers in book and Job ahops of th -itv start on a new schedule tn morning, working only 44 hours week iy in accordance with the' new con tracts. The question of wages, how vi- remains to be adjusted and ai arbitration board is busy threshing the matter out. Both employers and workmen are pledged to accept the report ot in arbitration board, which is expected bv the middle of this week. Rate of u ner hour is being adjuaicatea employers feeling that with other things being scaled downwaray wssee should follow, while printers ex pressed the opinion that the former hourly rate should, oe mainiamea mr the shorter workday. HELEXA PAPER MAY SUSPEND Prefsmcn"te Cnion 'Hands Editor Pemand for 44-Hour Week. HELENA, Mont., May 1. If threats of Helena printing pressmen s union ' Is'o. 9 are carried out tonight and to morrow, the Helena Independent may 'not be issued tomorrow, missing the firet regular issue in 54 years of its existence. When Editor Will A. Campbell ra-me to the office tonight he was banded a communication under seal of the Helena Printing Pressmen's union No. 9 informing him that un uess he granted the 44-hour week as 'demanded by the pressmen in the job office, his paper would not be run by the web pressmen Monday morn ing. The matter was taken up with the international officers. T A COMA SHOPS ST.VX3 PAT Employers Announce Plans to Con tinue 48-Hour Week. TACOMA, Wash., May 1. All l8cal Job printing ehops will continue to operate on a 48-hour week basis re gardless of the action of the typo graphical union. A. B. Howe, presi dent of the Tacoma Employing Print ers' association, said tonight. "The 44-hour week proposition is an International problem and we have nothing to do with it here," Eugene Goodrich, secretary of the Tacoma typographical -union No. 170, said. "The order of the union is for a 44 hour week and those shops which do not accede to this demand will not work. As for the wage Question, we expect to work thia out tomorrow morning." STRIKES TO BE AUTHORIZED locals Ordered to Act Wliere Em ployers Fail to Sign. INDIANAPOLIS, Slay l.Local of ficials of the typographical unions will be authorized to call strikes to morrow in cities wnere employers have not agreed to the 44-hour week. according to W. W . Barrett, vice-president. Negotiations over tne institution oi the shorter week in job and book printing offices will be concluded in a number of cities before that time, he predicted. Some 250 subordinate unions already have signed the new contracts. 400 PRINTERS VOTE TO QUIT All San Francisco Union Book and Job Offices Affected. SAN FRANCISCO. May 1. Nearly 400 union printers, employes of every union book and job printing estab lishment in San Francisco, according to their leaders, voted today to strike Immediately to retain their former 48-hour week wage in connection with a 44-hour week granted by employers. The vote, according to union mem bers, was 379 in favor of striking, IS opposed and 14 not voting. The men have been receiving 146 a. week for 4s hours work. JOCXD, PRESIDENT HARDING AD GEORGE HARVEY. rhoto by Tnflerwoo. grant the 44-hour week. About 900 employes of 160 job printers will be affected. Walla Walla Grants 44-Hour Week WALLA WALLA, Wash., May 1. Job printers received a 44-hour week here, cutting 40 minutes from each day but working Saturday afternoons by agreement with leading employers. Pressmen began negotiating for a 44 hour week, but were still working. 3fw Orleans Workers to Quit. NEW ORLEANS, La., May 1. Ap- roximately 200 printers have an- ounced they will go on strike here omorrow for the 44-hour ween. Twenty-three firms will be affected. ISH1 SEASON OPENS BAD WEATHER AND PRICE ARE DETERRING WORK. TWO DAIXaES TO SUSPEND Printers at Cbanioersburg, Pa., Go - Out on Strike. CHAMBERSBURG, Pa., May 1. Members of the local typographical union went on strike today In an ef fort to force the granting: of their demand for a 44-hour week. Two of the city's daily newspapers announoed that they will not publish tomorrow, while the other will appear in cur tailed form. All have adopted the "open shop." Commercial Operators Meet and Demand 10 Cents for Catch From All Packers. ASTORIA, Or., May 1. (Special.) The spring fishing season on the v.0 lumbia river opened at 6 o clock to ight, but owing to the unfavorable eather conditions and the dispute over the price for salmon, only small amount of gear was in the wa ter tonight. While the packers yesterday after oon fixed the price for chinooks at cents a pound, the fishermen at mass meeting, which did not end ntil after midnight, set the figure at 10 cents. No strike is antici pated, however, as the supply and demand will recu'ate the price on ccount of the large number of in- ependent buyers operating on the ver. The fishermen also decided ot to bring a suit in the courts to test the validity of the state pound ge law, which imposes a tax of sit ton of the fishermen s catch. L tie announcement was made at the ses on that the packers will absorb this tax. The real objection which the fish ermen have to tnis law is tne iu bond which they must furnish. Carl Shoemaker, master fish warden. was present at the meeting, and pbured oil on the troubled waters by pledging his word that next year this bond would be done away witn. Arnett, a member of the board, yes terday conferred here with members of the board of trustees and friends of Willamette university. Satisfaction was expressed by the eastern men at the condition of the Institution, although a few sugges tions were made as to keeping the books in the business office. Both men are from New York City. Conditions on which the gift of 1350.000 was offered by the founds tion to Willamette for endowment purposes were discussed an Presi dent Doney announced that the uni versity had already obtained more than 1500,000 of the 660,000 which the college must raise as a part of the agreement by which it will receive the Rockefeller gift. c. BANK AUDITOR GETS POSITION" AS ASSISTANT CASHIER. triko Follows Quickly. GLENN'S FALLS, N. T., May 1. T'ive hours before the usual hour for beginning operations In the compos ing room of the Post Star, Glenns Falls Typographical union No. 96 served notice of a demand for a 45 hour week and following a confer ence with the publishers declared a strike. Daily Becomes Semi-AVeekly. IDAHO FALLS. Idaho. May 1. The Times-Register, a local paper, which has been issued as a morning daily for the past several months, last night served notice on its printers that be ginning Monday editions would be put out semi-weekly only. High wage conditions were given as the cause. Attempt at Agreement Fails. ALBUQUERQUE. N. M., May 1. Twenty-eight men regularly employed in commercial printing offices in Al buquerque will be out of employment Monday morning through inability of tho employers and the men to reach an agreement to put the 44-hour week into effect May 1. Job Plants to Stay Closed. SALT LAKE CITY. Utah. May 1 Fifteen job printing plants in this city will not open Monday morning, it was announced here tonight by local typographical union officials, who declared they were being locked out by the Associaton of Employing Printers. Strike Voted at Denver. DENVER, May 1. By a unanimous Tote members of typographical union No. 49 today decided to strike tomor row in protest against the action of employing- printers In refusing to United States National Advances C H. Levi9 and John Boentje to Better Jobs. Frank C. Hak, for the past two vears auditor of the United States National bank, was promoted to the position of assistant cashier by the directors of that institution at their meeting Saturday afternoon. An nouncement was made by them that the honor was strictly one of merit. and followed the policy of the bank in recognizing its own faithful em ployes whenever there is a place to fill. All of the bank's officers have been chosen thus. Mr. Hak has lived ill Portland since 1910, coming here from Milwaukee, Wis., where he was employed by the Marine National bank. He was for a time secretary of the Security Sav ings & Trust company, and later was identified with the old Lumbermen's National bank. Upon its consolida tion with the United States national, he was employed as clerk, and from that position worked his way up the ladder to teller. Two years ago he was named auditor. C. H. Lewis, formerly chief clerk, was promoted to be auditor, and John D. Boentje to be chief clerk. BID OPENING IS TODAY City Council to Act on New Bull Run Intake. Bids for the construction of the new intake for city water and headworks on Bull Run river will be opened to day by the city council. It will be required that work be begun within 15 days after the contract shall be awarded, and 'the job must be com pleted by November 13. Penalties are provided in the way cf fines for each day beyond the date the work re mains unfinished. A concrete masonry dam 160 feet long and 30 feet in height will be erected, impounding a settling basin, witti screen gates, power house and gate chambers, as well as the re quired pipe connections, where Port land's famous water will be diverted from the river and started on its Jour ney to the city. COLLEGE GIFT DISCUSSED Rockefeller Foundation Officials at Willamette University. SALEM, Or.. May 1. (Special.) Dr. Wallace Buttrick, president of the Koneral education board of the Rockefeller foundation, and Trevor DYNAMITE INJURES BOYS Cap, Picked Up by Lads on Way From School, Explodes. GRAYS RIVER, Wash., May 1. Andred Pernola. aged 11, and his brother. Lester, aged 10, found an electric dynamite cap on their way home from school yesterday. uninK ine it was a part of a dry -cell storage battery from its appearance, they at tached it and it exploded at once. The elder lad sustained the loss of oarts of two fingers of his left hand and the younger sustained slight in juries on the fitce and abdomen. Their mother is at present in tne local nos nitaL having been operated upon i few days ago. The local physician dressed the boys' wounds and they are doing nicely. The boys reside with their parents at the Multnomah Lumber company. dlLIS DEBATERS WIN WASHINGTON DEFEATED TWO-TO-QNE DECISION, BV HANDBILLS URGE REVOLT "May Day Revolution" Circulars Distributed in Portland. Circulars crudely printed and head cd in black gothic type, "May Day of Revolution." were distributed to limited extent about the streets by unknown persons Saturday night or early yesterday and two were taken to the central ponce station, uin cers of the districts were directed to keep a lookout for more. The circulars urged "workers' to rise and throw off the "capitalist! yoke." Destruction of the govern ment was advised as the only means of pscaDe from boss rule. Police picked up a man selling I. W. W. literature Friday, night and took him to the station but it was found no charge could be brough. that would warrant holding- him. SALEM CLASS IS LARGEST 161 to Receive Diplomas at Hig School Graduation Exercises. SALEM. Or., May 1. (Special.) The Salem high school will graduate the largest class in its history tnis year, according to announcement made by Superintendent Hug today. The graduating class for 1921 in cludes 167, of which 67 finished their work earlier in the year but will re turn to receive their diplomas. Among the students selected to take part in the graduation exercises are Robert Littler, class orator Lelieth Kuhn, high scholarship stu dent, and Ava Miller, elected by the faculty. - C. L. FISH BEST ORATOR S prague, Wash., Man to Represent University at Conference. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene. May 1. (Special.) The university will be represented in the northwest ern oratorical cAtest by Charles L. Fish of Spraguev Wash., who won the tryputs held yesterday. Abe Rosenberg ot Foruand, who won .the contest one year, was tne only other student who tried for the place. Fish will represent Oregon at the University of Washington May 27. Probably three schools Oregon Washington and Montana will have men to try for the championship. Last year Fred Coiey of Oregon won the contest. JOB-SEEKERS FILL YAKIMA Serious Situation Is Reported as Result of Big Influx. YAKIMA, Wash., May 1. Influx of unemployed men from Seattle and Spokane within the last few days has created a serious situation in the Yakima labor market. Director Wood of the federal employment bureau, said tonight. Nearly all the newcomers, he said. expected to get work on the Rimrock storage dam. No more men are wanted on that work and the arrivals have been compelled to seek farm employment, in many cases displacing married men who have been here dur ing the winter. Roseburg Invites Cherrlans. SALEM, Or.. May I. (Special.) Salem Cherrlans today received an invitation to participate in a two-day celebration at Roseburg July 3 and The celebration will be staged by the American Legion post of Rose burg. King Bins Knowland (aid he would submit the invitation to the consideration of the Cherrlans at their next meeting. Read The Oregoniaa classified ads. 50 0 Persons Hear Discussion of Proposed Labor Representation on Corporation Boards. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE, Corvallis, May 1. (Special.) The affirmative debate team of the college won a 2 to 1 decision over the the Uuiversity of Washington nega tive In the gymnasium last night. The question was: "Resolved that labor should be allowed one-third repre sentation on the boards of directors of industrial corporations." E. V. Abbott of Ashland and Paul H. Emmett of Portland comprised the Corvallis team and E. D. Ivy of Dav enport, Wash., and E. J. . Hoover or Seattle represented University of Washington. Dr. Joshua Stansfield and D. J. Ma larkey of Portland and Dean George H Alden, Willamette university; were Judges. N. R. Moore of Corvallis pre sided. ' More than 300 persons ayend- d the debate. Three official Oregon Agricultural college forensic medals were present ed to -W. P. Black pf Corvallis, two debate medals, and one for represent ing the college in oratory last year. Harold Readen of Portland and P. H. Emmett received debate medals for list year's debating. The season for both men and wom en debaters has been successful this year. Men broke even in a triangular debate with Oregon and Reed, while the women won four votes to two in a Jual debate with the University of Oregon women. 400 AL K AIDERS RETURN Illustrious Potentate Grant Reports Fine Time in Seattle. Four hundred nobles of Al Kader temple, Mystic Shrine, returned to Portland last night aboard the Stirr ers' special, in charge of Frank S. Grant, illustrious potentate. "We had a wonderful time," said Mr. Grant. "Al Kader owned Seat tle, literally and figuratively. Every one treated us splendidly and went out of their way to do ua favors. We put on three performances, all of which took well. . The nobles did not stage any dem onstration. upon their arrival at the union station, but tumbled into home ward-bound vehicles and lost no time in reaching their own domiciles. A few of the Shrlners arrived with Mayor Baker early yesterday morn ing, but most of the Shriners waited for the special train in the afternoon. TAX COMMISSIONER HOME Frank Lovell Says Price Slump Hit Farmers Hard. SALEM, Or., May 1. (Special.) Frank Lovell, state tax commissioner, returned here today from eastern Or egon, where he visited seven coun ties in connection with his depart' ment. Counties visited by Mr. Lovell Included Umatilla, Union, Wallowa Baker, Grant. Harney and Malheur. Mr. Lovell said many of the live stock men and wheat growers had been hard hit by the recent slump in prices, but that they were not dis couraged, and were looking ahead to an Improvement in present conditions. OtfheSim offhoFir There's No Substitute for Hard Work' ISN'T it a fact that results can almost be measured in advance by sweat-drops? No matter how much skill or cleverness an advertising man may have, when he gets so good that he can make your advertising literature without a great deal or hard work, isn't it usually a sign that that advertising isn't going to work very hard itself? There is as much difference in ad vertising literature as there is in salesmen. You know how much of a difference that is! Main 8829 Arcsdij Press and Mail Advertising Cass 2MakasofMverdsineraturs WRITtN G PRINT! NO MAILING AOCtOY BL09 MULTIGRAPHINO MAILINU" LISTS Congress Also Is Kept From Re construction at Home by In ternational Aspect. BT ROBERT T. SMALL. (Copyright. 10S1, by The OrecoiXan.) WASHINGTON, D. C. May 1 (Special.) However much he may have wished it otherwise, Presiden Harding and his entire administra tion have been swept into the inter national maelstrom. The president had determined when he entered the White House that do mestic affairs should have his entire time and attention for an Indefinite period. He thought it was up to the United States to put its own house in order and thereby set an example for the European nations to follow. The president felt that the previous administration had been too much wrapped up in foreign affairs and had turned its back on America. He was certain that foreign questions could be postponed for consideration at some future date, and that recon struction and rehabilitation and pros perity at borne were the essentials worthy of first consideration. Specter Always Rlaiag. But wherever he has turned the specter of our international relations has risen before him and blocked his way to the goal of domestic accom plishments. Wherever the domestic surface has been scratched, interna tional complications have been found beneath. Secretary Hughes has been handling foreign affairs in a masterly manner but has not had a moment of rest since he entered the state department. Congress has sought to turn its at tention to the tariff and to taxation and the problems of the farmers and the railroads. But here again the in ternational aspect of each situation agai-f crops up and cries out for con sideration. - It is small wonder that Herbert Hoover, in an address before the na tlonal chamber, of commerce last week, declared: "Our domestic recu peration is sadly interlocked with the recovery of Europe. In some ways the situation is even more difficult than that following the civil war. be cause today our economic machinery is more intricate and less easy to ad just and we are not dealing with a domestic situation as then but with a world situation." Not only has the United States been drawn afresh into the Eurooean vor tex, but there is a feeling in Washing ton tnat to maintain our place of em inence in world affairs we may have to iignt tor it. What else could have been the meaning of the gTeat shout with which the house of representatives Knocked out of the naval annronria tion bill a provision that no money be spent on ship construction until world disarmament congress had been caiiea: - Harding' Vew la Cited. What else could have been the meaning of President Harding's ad aress In JNew lork when he vowed the United States would uphold the Monroe doctrine and was prepared at any time to fight for that principle? wnat else was the meaning of fresraent Harding's address to the oattiesnip fleet ip Hampton roads inursaay when he said that "by the eternal" the United States would have what belonged to it, no matter who might stand in the way? Congress discusses and struggles with the tariff only to find that now adays the tariff is more complex than ever and stretches out its complicat ing hand to Europe. Congress at tempts to struggle with taxation, but finds it difficult to reduce the present rates when for the next two or three years it appears that we will have to continue to spend money virtually on a warbasis. Farm Siraatioa Studied. Congress studies the situation with respect to the farmer, and finds that he has surplus stocks on his hands because Europe and the rest of the world cannot afford to buy even food stuffs at the cost of producing the ure, for it is realised that this mere the Knox resolution for separate peace with Germany, but it doesn't show any enthusiasm over the meas ure for it Is realized that this mere declaration of an end of the state of war will not bring peace to the world, nor will it lessen the complications and responsibilities of the United States in the European situation. In the eyes of the world, the United All over the world people use goody for benefits, as well as Pleasure, Keeps teeth clean breath sweet ( cmcflGo r7 Aids digestion PAfRis a . ( I J STILL 5C M XRIGLEYk i B&, CATAUNA Sealed TtehHfePf States stands committed to play a great and determining part in world ffairs. It was comparatively eas for senators to blind themselves to this fact when a great political game was being played with the presidency as the stake, there being none so blind as those who will not see, but these same senators, now that they hv become a very essential part of the party government in control have een visited with a great ugni. There are Xhose who believe mat iRtorv has a way of repeating Itself. Ttey are citing the fact that it was Germany which sought out President Wilson and made him the world fig ure of half a century wnen it ap pealed to him to arrange an armistice n his 14 points. iow n is ieim"j which again seeks out the president of the United States and makes him the central and dominating figure in attempt to save tne worm iram the new menace of disagreement over the German reparations. At the time when womrnw yv hmi was declaring that America was too proud to fight and advocating "peace without victory." the Europeans shook their heads. "America will come in." During the last campaign and in the days of waiting for the oid administration definitely to ex pire and the new to take hold, these same worldly-wise observers have been saying once more of the tangled peace settlements and world chaos. "America will come In." And ft would seem as If their vision is as correct now as it was in 1915-18 and 17. Some go so far as to say today that Amer ica already is "in" and that we can never withdraw from the world coun cils again. The state department at Washing ton Inft wk wfl the center of the It ma In diplomatic world. Jupt as the days of actual war. Meantime, President II rd I n yearns for a return to the normnl days when a chief executive could devote himelf to a study of the do mestic problems and could feci tht he hud only his own people to look after. Mr. Harding' wants to hrlp business and American people gen erally, but he finds himself well-nlc" helpless in these renpectn with world calamity always at the horison. In the cabinet discussions, where a brave attempt was made to take up domestic questions, there no longer is an effort to keep away from for. ' eign relations and European affairs. Rrail Th Opfrftnisn Hfilnd arls "Kryptoks" Back to Former Prices! 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