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THE MORNING OREGONTAN, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1922 STRIKERS ARE CITED ITEIfT CASES WOMAN WHO FIGURED IN RECENT DIVORCE PROCEED INGS AT OREGON CITY AGAIN VENTURES INTO MATRIMONIAL SEA. Two to Face Charges Before Judge Tucker Tuesday. WORKER ACCUSES MEN Union Issues Statement In Reply to Employers and Denies It Is Responsible for Troubles. First of the contempt proceedings to be brought against striking long shoremen, based on the temporary re straining order issued recently oy the circuit court, was instituted yester day, when J. Backkuson and B. tors big. strikers, were cited to appear be fore Presiding Judge Tucker next Tuesday afternoon and show cause why they should not be punished for violation of the court order. The citation was issued on the fil ing of a petition by Walter G. Younger, strikebreaker, accusing the pair of following hirn when he left work at terminal No. 4, cursing, threatening and intimidating him. He had been helping load the steamer Annetta Holph May S, and on leaving the municipal terminal was followed to Eleventh and J ef I'erson streets. Leaving a street car there. It is re cited, he ran into a grocery store, Backkuson and Forsbig following, calling him vile names and threaten ing him with violence, he charges. In Ion Issues Reply. In reply to a statement issued by the Waterfront Employers' union Tuesday, citing attacks alleged to hve been made on nonunion workers, the longshoremen's union yesterday issued the following: A statement appearing in the daily pa pers of May y, and sponsored by the Waterfront Employers of Portland, is both misleading and contrary to all the facts In the case. It is a well-known fact that in all! waterfront troubles such as now exist here in Portland a crowd uf plug-uglies always flocks In unbidden by either side to the controversy, for the purpose of robbing and slugging the poor, simple-minded, mis guided strikebreaker. This gentry gener ally have several of their number working as strikebreakers furnishing those on the outside with information as to the move ment of the strikebreakers and acting as confidence men, by leading the strike breakers into traps set by their confeder ates on the outside. These facts are as well known to the employers as they are to us and when they infer that the present trouble en countered by the strikebreakers is done by our members they know that they are not stating facts. Our members are conducting absolutely peaceful picketing, endeavoring in a law ful way to dissuade other men from taking our places. Clashes of minor imDOrtance t'ecur only when some professional strike breaker deliberately starts trouble with our members. Plot to Drive Away Ship Charged. It must b apparent to all who have followed the present waterfront difficulty that it is a conspiracy to drive the ship ping away from Portland, pure and sim ple. It must be equally plain to all citi zens that the longshoremen are not re sponsible for the present state of affairs. The waterfront employers and their al lies, with agencies in Seattle. Tacoma, San Kranclsco and other nearby ports, will soon be cal led u pon to si: on cause w h f t hey started this unwarranted. ill-advied lockout of Portland longshoremen. The bar of public opinion and the American spirit of a square deal and fair play will sit in judgment upon this small group of selfish men. Their unfair attitude toward the Port land longshoremen can best be gauged by their attempt to fasten the crime of throwing oil of mustard in the eyes of a strikebreaker by an entirely unknown per son. This same person testified that the said employers had offered inducements to him if ha would implicate the long shoremen. If the waterfront employers insist upon fighting the longshoremen, thev should at least be men enough to fight fair. The longshoremen are simply resisting an attempt on the part of the Portland waterfront employers to annihilate us as free and independent Americans. We are going to win, because we fight fair. BIGHT STRIKERS ARB FIXED ... ':' .,. ' ' ,y ., r .... :: - " f . - ' - ... . .... . . ; . ;';v'- COMMITTEE ASKS E POLICE Better Protection on Water front Is Advised. HEARING IS POSTPONED Matter Will Be Submitted to Arbi tration Board Tomorrow, but With Restrictions. (Ctm-tinued From Flrat Page.) MRS. MARJORIE FRAKER HAW LEY. WHO WAS MARRIED TO CHS Ll'ElLWITZ IX CAHKORMA LAST MONTH. MARJORIE HAVULEY WEDS MARRIAGE TO GITS IiCELIAYITZ PERFORMED IX CALIFORNIA. Wedding Which Took Place Last Mouth Is Kept Secret by Con tracting Parties. Ringleaders of Hunt for Workmen Pay $50 Each in Court. Eight strikers who chased two non union longshoremen through the St. Johns district Monday night, but failed to catch them, to give them the usual beatings being administered, were found guilty of disorderly con duct charges before Municipal Judge Ekwall yesterday. J. E. Dempsey and H E Seitz, said to have been the ringleaders, were fined $50 each. The other six men were each fined J15. They are: Will iam Burns. A. Orovening. John Ronne. K. Kriekson, Elmer Johnson and Harry Wilson. In order to avoid a repetition of the riot occurring Tuesday at the Eastern & Western dock at a time when there was no police protection. Captain Cir cle said yesterday that the dock em ployers had agreed to leave no non union men at the docks unless- police had put in an appearance. In some instances where these dock riots have occurred they were caused by the ships moving about without ftrst notifying the police, thus falling to get the proper police protection. sick vsTo STAY )U lIi:l PLANNING PROBK ol PROPOSED TRANSFER. Mrs. Marjorie Fraker Hawley, from whom Willard P. Hawley Jr., after a long battle in the courts, was di vorced November 16, last year, has again ventured into the seas of matri mony. Her wedding to Max Luell witz, son of Gus Luellwitz, lumber man with offices in the Gasco build ing, took place in Turlock, Cal., dur ing the first week of April. This information was received here yesterday from points in the San Jouquin valley, where the ceremony took piace. Parents of young Luellwitz last night were unwilling to admit that their son had been married to the pretty Mrs. Hawley, while her parents, who reside here, were either not answering their telephone or were not at home. From reliable information that has been gathered Mrs. Hawley left here about April 1 and went to Merced. Cal., where she met young Luellwitz. There they obtained a marriage license. Shortly after the ceremony both returned to Portland and had managed to keep the story of their wedding secret until a few days ago. "I surely would know of it if I was married," was Mrs. Hawley's retort when she was asked if she had mar ried Mr. Luellwitz. Due to the fact that it had been less than six months after her divorce was granted by Judge Morrow, the marriage to Luellwitz could not legally be performed in Oregon. This and the fact that they desired secrecy caused the couple to go to California. Mr. and Mrs. Luellwitz could not be located last night. It Was learned that following her return from Cali fornia Mrs. Luellwitz leased her home and now is in new lodgings. the primaries, to the senator's chal lenge to meet him in open date and discuss Hall's reputed connection with the Pacific Telephone & Tele graph company. He spoke at a grange meeting at Odeli, Hood River county, where there were present 125 farmers. After vis iting other points, he says he re ceived assurance that he would carry the cou.ity. From Odell he went to The Dalles, where he spent a day and delivered an address. Ontario and Vale were visited in Malheur county, but no speeches were made, although he met a num ber of farmers. "My friends in Baker claim a ma jority there for me and even my op ponents concede Umatilla," was the candidate's declaration. Towns visited in Umatilla county were Free water, Milton. Athena, Echo, Hermiston and Stanf ield. At La Grande 300 persons heard the senator speak. Tomorrow Senator Patterson will go to Albany, Saturday to Oregon City. On Monday he will speak at Astoria, returning to Portland Tuesday. SALEM TEACHER OUSTED DR. BAAR IS DIVORCED Dismissal Voted by School Board After Heated Session. SALEM, Or., -May 10. (Special.) By a vote of three to two the mem bers of the Salem school board, at a heated session last night, decided to oust Miss Julia Iverson. a teacher in the Lincoln school. Mayor George Halverson, a mem ber of the school board, charged that George Hug. superintendent. had been unfair in that he dismissed Miss Iverson without first giving her an opportunity to resign. A petition containing the names of more than 450 patrons of the Lin coln school urged that Miss Iverson be retained. Cross fire also resulted from the dismissal of other Instruc tors. The board went on record against a proposed increase of salary for H. L. Durham, principal of the Wash ington junior high school. and 3 2 Patients in Local Hospital to lie ma in Here (Tat 11 I nvestigra tion Has Been Finished. The proposed transfer of 32 tuber culosis patients from the Pierce sana torium here to the new government hospital at Walla Walla will be held up until the director of the veterans Vureau at Washington. D. C, has had a chance to pass on the matter, ac cording to advices received yesterday from the Seattle office of the bureau. It was said by local officials that It might be several weeks before any definite decision was received in the matter. Officials, veterans and other inter ested in the welfare of the invalid ex-soldiers of this state were aroused .'jeadKy when the order came from the Seattle office providing for the transfer of the patients from the Pierce sanatorium. Telegrams were sent to Washington, I. C by various officials, including Governor Olcott and Representative McArthur. John the himself a patient at the Pierce sana torium, received a telegram yester day from Colonel Jason S. Joy, head uf the Red Cross at Washington, D. C, in which the latter said that the plan for the removal of the oa tients from Portland wag in accord nce with the Sweet bill providing for moving patieats from contract hospitals to goPrnment hospitals whenever feasible Deserted Wife Gets Decree Son and Property. Vera S. Baar, deserted wife of Dr. Gustav Baar, one-time prominent surgeon of this city, told on the wit ness stand in the court of Circuit .ludge Tazwell yesterday how her husband had left her in 1920 presum ably to open an office in Los An geles, but instead of doing so re turned to his native land of Austria. She received a decree of divorce, cus tory of 3-year-old Richard Baar, her son, and his equity In Portland prop erty, valued at ?75,000 when, the di vorce action was filed. For several months prior to his de parture in August. 19-20, Dr. Baar dis posed of various property in Port land, converting it into cash. He ob tained his wife's signatures to several deeds, she testified, on the plea that he needed the money to establish his offices In the California city. When he left he had about $25, 000 in cash. she thought. Dr. Baar told his wife on leaving that he would be gone only two or three weeks and would open an office and rent a home In Los Angeles, she said. The next she heard from him was a letter postmarked in New York city announcing that he was sailing for Austria, never to return. Other divorce decrees were awarded by default by Judge Tazwell in the following cases : Roy L. against El izabeth Nash, Homer against Ruth Bennett. P. against P. Schellhamer, Rosft A. against Charles E. Jones. Ida against L-ucien Willard. Mabel against Frank Quaetham, Perceval against Mnry E. Richards. H. G. against Alice W intersteen, Ruth against George R. Brace, Rudolph against Emma Marshall, Clara V. against Oscar L. Liebe, Bertha Against George Madser Idah against Mar wick E. Lidyard, L. V. against Ef fie Lewis, Frances against Virgil Porter and Andrew against Bessie E. Richardson. Divorce actions in the circuit court yesterday were: Madeline against Albert E. Bellamy. Edward H. again-st Eve Sutton, Emma against Daniel Williams and Jean E. against Omar O. Day. Vancouver Elks to Participate. VANCOUVER. Wash. May 10. (Spe cial.) The Vancouver Elks have vot ed to take part in the Portland Elks' Prosperity week and more than 300 of them pledged themselves to appear in uniform on the night of the mon ster parade They also will soil tick ets to the Elks indoor circus and do all they can to make the big event a success. The kind of uniforms the Elks will wear has not been made public yet. but It is said they will create a sensation and will to boost ing for some of Clarke, county's prod ucts. , Mrs. Mary Concannon, Dies. Mrs. Mary Concannon, 92 years old, died yesterday at the home of her son, T. J. Concannon, ex-city councilman. The funeral will be held from the home, 804 Thurman street, tomorrow at 8:45 A. M. .Requiem mass will be offered at 9 o'clock at St. Patrick's church, Nineteenth and Savier streets. Interment will be in Mount Calvary cemetery. Mrs. Concannon is sur vived by Mrs. T. Dlnneen and Sister Charles of Sisters of Providence. Takima, and T. J. and J. T. Concan non of this city. MR. PATTERSON IN CITY hn E. Barr. formerly chief of Outcome or Challenge to Hall Is Red Cross service in Seattle and I Awaited. Senator I. L. Patterson, candidate for the republican nomination for governor in the approaching pri maries, arrived in Portland last night from his tour of eastern Oregon coun ties, 3ft hours ahead of his schedule. Senator Patterson will remain In Portland awaiting reply from Charles Hail, one of Sis opponents in Special Election Reflated. BEND, Or.. May 10. (Special.) Bend's special election, at which the purchase of an automobile park site, and the elimination of the woman's protective division are to be decided, will be held May 19, at the same time as the state primaries. It previously had been decided to hold the election June 19. but County Clerk Haner. who had refused to allow the city to use county election officials, reconsidered. Then the city council reconsidered, and the new date was set. No More Constipation or Blotchy Skin V?ant a dear, healthy compfeirina. regular ooweia, ana a perfect working liver? Utile liver FIBS, the sure safe and easy acting rem edsk Far he stomach and d no equal. Purely i IITTLE EVER y, they faav In fact, it was said on behalf of the Waterfront Employers union that the members did not wish to appear before the state body until an oppor tunity had been afforded to digest the report of the Mayor s committee, so that prompted a continuation of the first hearing from today uniu tomorrow. Arbitration I Declined. While the Lone-shoremen's union and the shipping board accepted an offer of the state board to arbitrate the situation Tuesday morning, the an swer of the Waterfront Employers' union, received yesterday, oecnnea arbitration but expressed a willing ness to give all facts available for the enlightenment of the board, also that the employers would be glad to re ceive the report ae a board of con ciliation, but not as arbitrators, re serving rights as to action or not action. In taking up testimony submitted the mayor's committee recounted that the longshoremen said the customary notice of 30 days had not been given by the employers that a change in the scale or working conditions was con templated and that notice was given only a few days before the existing agreement expired, which waa April 1; that they admitted verbal negotia tions prior to March 31 and that they had replied to a written proposal from the employers April 6 but that was not satisfactory to the employers, who issued their present schedule April 21, addressed "To the longshoremen of Portland and others desiring to en gage in longshore work" and an nouncing that it would be in effect Muy 1, when the new hall was to be opened. Union Declared Ignored. The longshoremen therefore had nine days' notice. The notice was sent to men individually, tne union being ignored, and at a full meeting of the membership it was decided to stop work, witnesses said. As to the result the report says: The main Items that seem to have in fluenced the longshoremen were the ig noring of their union; the change in the definition of the word "trucking" (which they claimed practically amounted to a change in the rules) and a slight change in the wage scale. The ignoring of their union seemed to be the crucial point, claiming the fact that they were required to regiater through the waterfront employers' hall practically de stroyed their union, also that they had the right to furnish the stevedoring labor of this port but did not explain from what source this right was derived. The as sumption of a right must necessarily carry with it the assumption of responsibilities and, in this case, the responsibility would be the furnishing of adequate and suf ficient labor. This they claimed to do, but at the same time admitted that their membership four months before the strike was limited to about 4r0 members although there was frequently a maximum of over 1000 men required. They gave as their reason for keeping the membership so low that they wanted to insure a good, average living to their membership, stating that they supplied the extra men partly from a waiting list for membership of about 150 men. next from unemployed ex-service men and if they did not get the required number, then they got the balance from the city employment office. They never furnished all inexperienced or green hands In any one gang, but put a sufficient number of experienced hands with the gang to pre vent inefficiency. Inspection In Blamed. They admitted that there was less efficiency in loading lumber at this port than on the sound, but claimed it was due to the fact that here the Inspection was made as the lumber was loaded, which greatly delayed their work, whereas on the sound it was inspected before loading began. In regard to the trucking rule, they claimed this would cut them out of 50 per cent of their work. In regard to the reduction of 10c an hour on the trucking wage scale, they objected to this but at the same time admitted this scale was the same as paid at all other Pacific coast ports. As to the employes, the committee reports that it was told the negotia tions had been begun with the men at the union hall, March 15, and that the employers represented the prin cipal change wanted was in the se lection of men for gangs and in that connection asked that their agent be on hand when gangs were selected as a means of increasing efficiency, which, it was testified, the longshore men agreed to consider but did not make any formal reply. The employ ers maintained they had not given serious consideration to opening their own hall until March 31. Outside Men Not Employed. Since the strike, said the employers, they had refused to employ outside strikebreakers, had limited the work to Portland men and were willing at all times to employ members of the union that would register with them and no objection was harbored against a union man, the aim being to reg ister men employed according to the class of cargo work for which he was best fitted. In that connection- the report sets forth as follows: Their objection was. to the longshore men's union's method of selecting crews and, in this connection, claimed that the maximum stevedoring hands required at times was between 1600 and 1800 and that the minimum was probably between 400 and 500 or. in the latter case, about the total membership of the longshoremen's union previous to tbis disagreement (since which time they claim to have consider ably Increased their membership. This small membership left an opening for the hiring of any kind of inexperienced labor and the longshoremen's union took advan tage of this opportunity to hire, whenever possible, union men who happened to be out of employment, whether they were bakers or tailors or whatever their calling might be. Their inexperience would Naturally affect the efficiency of the gang. They further explained that although the vessels might be loaded by the hiring stevedores at a given price per ton, nev ertheless the good reputation of the port was Injured by the fact that, through the inefficiency of the crews, it took longer to load vessels in this port than it did at competitive ports. Portland, therefore, did not have a favorable reputation among ship operators, which frequently led to their showing preference to securing car goes at sound ports rather than Portland. This loss of tonnage was a loss of busi ness to the stevedores, a loss of labor to the longshoremen and a loss of Income to the port and a decided brake upon the growth of shipments from this port. In regard to the change in the rules. especially the definition of the word "trucking, they claimed that this rul applied only to the trucking of flour on privately owned docks and probably would not amount to over 3 or 5 per cent of the total tonnage or Portland, consequently w ouid not materially reduce the long shoremen's work. In regard to the wage scale, it is the same as Tacoma, Seattle, San Francisco and San Pedro, also St. Helens and As toria. Dealing with information obtained from shippers called before the com mittee, it was said the consensus of opinion was longshoremen of Port land were less eff'"cient than at com peting ports; that as a consequence vessel owners had given other ports preference and in extreme cases had refused to include the city as a port of call, the Harrison line, operating between Puget sound and South America, being cited as one instance, and that agents of the line here, who are likewise flour manufactur ers, were forced to ship their product via Puget sound to obtain routing on the ships. "The statement was made that most of the head offices of the Pacific northwest exporting firms were located at Portland and they natur ally would prefer to do their export ing from this, their home port," con tinues the report, "but, on account of the shipowners' unfavorable opinion of the port, principally due to delays, they were forced to do considerable of their exporting from Puget sound. This is especially true of wheat sold to the orient, which was the major market the past season, as the Japa nese buyers in many cases would give 25 cents per ton more for wheat at Puget sound ports than at Port land on account of a saving to their ships by quicker dispatch. A saving of every day was counted as worth from $1000 to ?4000, depending upon the size of the vessel. The lumber exporters also claimed a preference on the part of ship charterers for Puget sound loading as against Port land loading, and this preference was often reflected in lower freight rates from the sound. Part of the handi caps they attributed to some of Port land's archaic port customs, which seem hard to chanbe, but most of the trouble they attributed to inefficient longshoring work." Agents Tell ot Reputation. Six steamship agents are credited with having testified Portland was regarded an expensive and annoying port because of delays, attributed to the union failing to furnish gangs on time, the system ot forming gangs and filling them out with unskilled workers and the like. The opinion was expressed by them, it is set forth, that "there were many of the union men who are as good as could be found in any port and that they were property owners and in every way good citizens." The opinion of the steamship agents was that conditions would change for the better if stevedores were per mitted to employ their own men, even if necessary to give union men prefer ence. As to the shipping board, the re port says, J. C. Jenkins of the in dustrial relations division, took the position that the policy of the gov ernment was not to favor either union or non-union factions, but was not against unionism; that there was no desire to lend aid toward the de struction of unions, which he thought was the real object, and would be the result of employing men through the employers' hall, regardless of their willingness to take union men. Says the report: We gained the Impression from this con versation that they thought the longshore men's union's past arbitrary method of limiting their membership to the probable minimum requirements of the port, of se lecting men for the different gangs and not allowing the employing stevedores any voice in the choice of men waa not right; that it ought not to be necessary to regis ter through the longshoremen's hall or the employers' hall, but that the men should be down on the docks and from their num ber the stevedores could make their selec tion, which was the custom in the east. When asked why it was that the ship ping board took a hand in this local affair when they had not paid any attention to the opening of the employers' halls at Se attle, San Francisco and San Pedro, they explained it by saying that, in those in stances, the shipping board's attention had not been called to it, as the changes took place without any general waterfront strike. Since the start of the strike ostensible sympathizers with the longshoremen's union have been terrorizing the emnlove-i of the waterfront employers' union by the most inhuman and brutal methods, usu ally making mass attacks on much smaller numbers, in some instances, on individual workers. The right to work is a natural right and. In America, has received constitutional sanction, yet intimidation defeats this right. Brutality and intolerance discredit the forward movement of labor and must be against true unionism because they cannot help but destroy solidarity of sen timent among the members. There are undoubtedly a good many longshoremen who are human and must, at least men tally, oppose rough work. Brutality and Intolerance will also alienate public sym pathy " and, furthermore, destroy all prob ability of a reconciliation between the contending factors. It is disappointing that the longshore men's union has not officially shown its disapproval of these lawless acts. 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Perfect service. He Profits Most Who Serves Best: Broadway and Washington Street, First Floor and Basement Open All Night A CO-OPERATIVE BUSINESS 75 STOCKHOLDERS terested to the extent of having invested $1 fi, 000, 000 In port improvements and the whole community is vitally dependent upon deep-sea shipping. We submit for your consideration that the community's financial, social and ethi cal interest warrants your using a still stronger police arm in regard to suppress ing the unwa rranted brutality that this community h. been visited with since this strike started. The perpetrators or brutal attacks ought not to be allowed to get away with their theory that "might is right." We helped to fight a great war to combat this theory, S. M. MEARS. FRED W. GERMAN. J. P. NETWELL. 3 HOUSES ARE RANSACKED Homes on Willamette Boulevard Looted in Absence of Families. Three burglaries were committed in Willamette boulevard homes last night during the absence of the families. 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