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TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, AUGUST 10, 1919. UNION LEADERS 01 MB TOF C C ON Fifteen Chiefs Not to Strike to Control Railroads. WAGES PROBLEM SEPARATE Costs Most Come Down or Pay Go Vp, Is Claim Plumb Talks or . ' Tripartite Scheme. to the plan of the railroad brother hoods for reorganization - of the rail roads in replying- to an inquiry from brotherhood officials in Nebraska. r "WASHINGTON. Aug. 9. Leaders of the 15 organizations of railroad em ployes united today in a definite asser tion that they "had no desire and have none to impress upon the public by vio lence or threat" their proposal that tha railroads be nationalized under "tripar Jite control." Declaring that the requests of tne men that living costs be reduced - or their wages increased was aside from the question of the future disposition of the railroad problem, the labor lead ers said that if President Wilson and congress could not meet this request the men would "have to try to find an other solution." While the labor leaders did not men tion the president's address to congress yesterday, it was the general belief that their statement resulted from his warning to the labor world that strikes would only make present conditions worse, and that those who sought to employ threats or coercion were only preparing their own destruction." I T-ito Propositions Separate. "To prevent any misunderstanding as to the policy of the organized railroad employes, said the statement, unite in a definite assertion that have no desire and have had none to i impress upon the public, by violence or threat, our proposal that the railroads be nationalized under tripartite control. "Two 1 distinctly separate considera tions now confront .the people, the wage requirements of the railroad employes and the Sims bill, embodying the rail way employes' plan for reorganization of the railroads. "In the matter of wages we have Submitted an eminently just proposi tion. We have said that if we are to continue to live as Americans should Jive, and are to care for our families a American families should be cared for, the profiteers must be restrained or our wages increased. Every fair-minded man and every intelligent housewife will recognize the reasonableness of this request. If congress and the pres ident cannot meet this request, it is still a living question, and we shall have to try to find another solution. No Purpose of Intimidation. "This, however, bears In no way upon cur sponsorship of the Sims bill. We do hold to our conviction that the railroad employes are in no mood to consign themselves finally to the a'utocratic control of financial dictators, but in proposing the elimination of capital and the tripartite directorate, we have no purpose of intimidation. We appeal to the statesmanship of America and to the common sense of American man hood and womanhood. We all are vot ers, and unless our democracy in gov ernment is a failure, our democracy in industry need not be.. "We believe in the tentative ability of American labor. . What we . ask is the Americanization of the railroads." WAR VETERAN IS SUICIDE Walla Walla Hero, Crazed by Shell- shock, Kills Himself. WALLA WALLA, Wash., Aug. 9. Jack Raines, formerly of the 146th field artillery, an eastern Washington unit commanded by Colonel Paul H. Weyrauch, commited suicide here early today as a result of a nervous break down, caused by shell shock. His body was found banging in the woodshed. He had been watched Dy his physician until midnight and was then thought to have quieted down and gone to sleep, but managed to slip out of the house later. Raines went clear through the war with the 14 6th, but was sent home two months earlier than the regiment, ow ing to ag attack of rheumatism. BODIES MAY BE REMOVED Xo French Law to Prevent Sending American Dead Home ' ' WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. Apparently there is no .French law prohibiting the removal ot the bodies of American sol dier dead from French soil,' "for a pe riod of three years from January 1, 1919." The house foreign affairs com mittee had been informed that such a. law existed, but Secretary Lansing wrote Chairman Porter today that whlle- a bill along this line had been intro duced in the French chamber of Dejpu ties it had not yet been acted upon. The foreign affairs committee has be fore it a resolution proposing the im mediate return of the . American sol diers killed in the war. U. S. PRISONERS RETAINED Germans Xot to -Be Released Until Treaty Is Ratified. PA RIS, Friday, Aug. 9. (By the As sociated Press.) The disposition of prisoners held by American forces in France was discussed yesterday by the supreme council of the. peace confer ence, and it was decided that it was im possible to release such prisoners un til these powers have ratified the treaty with Germany. It will be necessary therefore for the United States to co-operate with France in guarding the prisoners, and this will probably make it ne'eessary to retain some American soldiers in France. WH ARE DIVIDED RETURN TO V VURK 20C0 at Boston to Go Back Pending Action by Hines. 250,000 STILL ARE OUT Minneapolis and St. Paul Unions Refuse to Resume Labors Rail ways Expect' Improvement. exalted ruler of La Grande lodge. No. 433. will head a party of Elk automo bilists to leave here tomorrow morning to attend the state convention of Elks' lodges to be held at Klamath Falls. The attendance from Union and Wallowa counties, over which La Grande lodge has -jurisdiction, will not be large. AIRMEN MAY GO TO IDAHO Plans Under Way for Patrol .Visit . to Lewiston. LEWISTON, Ida.,' Aug. 9. (Special.) The forest fire aerial patrol sent out by the government will visit Lewiston, according to indications today. Con gressman Burton - ' L. French - tele graphed from Washington that the war department ' has promised to ar range a visit if possible and has ad vised the airmen at Mather Field to see if plans to put Lewiston in the itin erary are feasible. If orders go through.-he advises the Lewiston Oommercial club, one plane will, be here within ten days and a second, at present disabled, in 60 days, to cope with the forest fire situation. STORES SOLD TO BELGIUM $10,000,000 Worth of Army Goods Disposed Or. WASHINGTON. Aug. 9.' Approxi mately $10,000,000 worth of army food stuffs stored at Antwerp and the Hook of Holland, has been sold to the Bel gian government. The money is payable in three years at 5 per cent interest. ARGENTINA TO SAVE HERDS President Asks Ban on Slaughter of Cows for Three Years. BUENOS. AIRES, Aug 9. President Irrigoyen has asked congress to pro hibit for a period of three years the slaughter of cows and heifers for food. Chile Frees German Crews. SANTIAGO, Chile, Aug. 9. The Chil ean government has set free the crews of the German cruiser Dresden and the German raider Seeadler. The crews had been interned in this country for a long period, the men of the Dresden since 1915. . WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. Glenn K. Plumb continued his testimony today before the house interstate . commerce committee. He declared that if the plans of the brotherhoods for control of the railroads were applied to the postoffice department, that government agency would be conditioned with greater efficiency. Greater Efficiency Expected. : The postoffice department, Mr. Plumb said, is the only great industry politi cally managed. "1 do not want to be understood as saying that it is not ef ficiently managed. But I do believe the postoffice department would show a higher rate of efficiency if operated under the democratic principles of this bill." Concerning the provision in the bill for purchase of railroad property. Rep resentative Montague, Virginia, asked: "Would you pay for a double track built from the earnings of a single track?" "No. All money put back in such property out of the payment-by the public for service, belongs to the pub lic and should not.be included.". Success or failure of the plan. Plumb aid, must be found in the 15 directors 10 of whom would be named by rail way employes. Discussing the tremen dous' powers vested in, the directorate, Plumb said there was no fear on the part of labor of creating a -situation beyond control of the people. Repression 3iot Contended. "Have you ever found undue repres sion in the management of railroads to prevent the rise of employes .to high ; est rank in the service?" Mr. Montague asked. "No repression in certain .kinds of initiative," the witness said. "Aren't the majority of highest priced railroad employes men who went from the bottom?" "The ablest and perhaps the majority, yes. But they - were not advanced by the employes, but by autocrats who felt they could' get .more out of human effort of others. Under our plan noth ing but efficiency can hold any man's job in this organization." Representative Dewalt, democrat, Pennsylvania, questioned- the witness regarding the attitude of labor in event the Plumb bill failed of passage. "There has been a great deal of mis representation published," Plumb said. "It was stated that we would force a strike if this plan failed. Such a report was denied by Mr. -Stone, Mr.-Morrison and myself, '.he fact is, certain wage demands are pending and the question of a strike arose in connection with that. This is a different matter." Point of Absurdity Reached, Answering a question of Representa tive Dewalt, I'lumb said that labor or ganizations had no intention of at tempting to put the tripartite plan in effect in other industries unless the workers and public desired it. "Suppose a majority of the farmers of the country concluded that this would be best for them, do you think they should have it? Dewalt asked "If the farmers and the public want it. yes," the witness replied. "But I think that is an absurd, proposition "Yes, that is what 1 am trying to get at," Mr. Dewalt said. "I am trying to reduce this thing to its point of ab surdity." "Well, you did that with the farm ers," Plumb said. "Then, my friend, where do you stop?" asked Mr. Dewalt. "Where grant and privilege cease.' "Isn't this leading to-socialism?" - l; "Not at tall,; not- at all," Plumb shouted, banging the ' table to empha Bize the denial. - . Plumb had not-concluded when the committee recessed until Monday.. Senator Hitchcock, democrat, Ne braska, announced that he was opposed Captain Assigned to .Fort Stevens. WASHINGTON, I. G. Aug. 9. (Spe cial.) Captain Julius C. Peterson, now with the recruiting service at Spokane, Wash., is ordered to report at Fort Stevens, Or., for duty with the coast defense ot the Columbia. BALTIMORE, Aug. -5: The 2000 shop men in this city from the Baltimore & Ohio railroad tonight voted to return to work' Monday pending action by Director-General Hines on the question of an increase in wages. - MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Aug. 9. By virtually a unanimous vote the 4500 railway shopmen on- strike here to night voted to remain out. The vote was taken at a huge outdoors mass meeting. Only men with union cards were allowed to vote. " ST. PAUL, Aug. 9. Striking shopmen in St. Paul voted this afternoon to re main out, according to a statement given out tonight at the close of a mass meeting. There are about 3000 on strike in St. Paul. CHICAGO. Aug. 9. Representatives of. the Chicago, district council of the Federated Railways Shopmen's union, which called a strike in August in defiance-of the international officers of the shop crafts' unions, today domi nated the conference at-which some of the international- officers sought to have the men return' to work in obedience to the wishes., of President Wilson. The council sent a telegram to the president stating that until some concession had been made the attitude of- the men would be -unchanged and they would remain on strike. John- IX tenders, secretary of tpe council, asserted that notwithstanding the claims of the international officers and rail officials that not more than 40,000 men were on strike, no fewer than 250,000 men are out. Secretary Sanders said telegrams from unions throughout the country in dicated the men would continue on strike. '...' WASHINGTON. Aug. 9. Officials of the railroad administration said to night they expected a great improve ment in the strike situation over Sun day with virtually a full fore in e.11 shops by Monday. Their reports indi cated the men were returning to -work gradually as the . situation was ex plained to them, though radical groups in some cities were refusing to go back without wage increases. ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. 9. Strtktne railroad shopmen in this city and Bir mingham, two of the most important traffic centers in the southeast, voted today not to go back to work until their demands were met. ., TRINIDAD, ColoTAug. 9. The en tire force of shopmen, machinists and boilermakers at the local Colorado H Southern railroad shops, numbering 170 men, struck today following walk out yesterday of 100 carmen. Shopmen employed by the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe railway here remained at work, as did the small crew employed by the Denver & Rio Grande railroad EVERETT, Wash., Aug. 9. To prevent a general tie up of the line, members of the Great Northern wrecking crew here, who are out on a strike with the shopmen, last night responded to a call for help and cleared away a email freight wreck but refused to work further. There are no indications that the 500 men out here will return to work as requested by the president, although a meeting is to be held to morrow to consider the matter. liens t $10 a Month. COTTAGE GROVE, Or., Aug. 9. (Specfal.) Interest this week has been diverted from . the , question of how young , a , pullet may with becoming modesty begin to. lay, to the question of the profits made from egg produc tion. Mrs. C. T. Peek starts the bal rolling with a-record of a profit of between J40 and $45 each month from s:t Vv hite Leghorns, and this Is figured alter teed ana all expenses have been deducted. State Hospital Starts Threshing. Ai.t.M, Or.. Aug. 9. fSpecial.) inresning or 20 acres of oats on the state hospital farm commenced here to day. The crop is said to be one of the best ever produced in this section. It is expected that the yield will average ov ousneis to tne acre. Cutting of hav on . 260 acres has been completed and more than 500 tons already is in the narns of trie Institution. -The hospital- nas only arren ot wheat to harvest DINNER The best of foods, prepared in a. manner that will de light and satisfy. Sunday Dinner, $1.23 Served 5:30 to 9, Orchestral Concert ' Weekday Dinner, $1.23 Served 5:30 to 9 - Music and Dancing Weekday Noon Lunch . N for : Business Folk . 11 to 2 50c - A lunch you'll like" Ye Oregon Grill Broadway at Stark All This Week A FREE Demonstration of The' Electric . Massage VIBRATOR STAR Kor Ve In Kvcry Home. . Experience the yoothintr sensation of electric massage. Tet tti demonstrator show you how t flevelop a. soft, colorful kin how to free the face from lines nnd blemishes how to restore the hair to lis natural, luxuriant beauty. 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