The Sunday Oregonian., February 15, 1920, Section One, Page 9, Image 9

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MEETING
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REPORTER
Washington Political Organi
zation Kept Secret.
BIG QUESTIONS ARE UP
Platform. Membership Dues and
Policy of C. R. Cotterill Are
Under Advisement.
. SEATTLE. Wash.. Feb. 14. (Spe
clal.) With Forest I Hudson, presi
dent, in the chair, the first state con
vention of the Triple Alliance, com
posed of representatives of railroad
men, farmers and labor unions af
filiated with the Washington State
Federation of Labor, met In the Seat
tle Labor temple today. One of the
first official acts of the convention
was to exclude newspaper represen
tatives from the room.
According to reports of preliminary
conferences of the three groups in
the Triple Alliance, the convention
will be required to settle three im
portant questions before it will be
possible to get down to 'the business
of constructing a platform and out
lining the policy' to be followed in
the state campaign this year.
Mui Orffanlsatloa Favored.
One of these questioris relates to
method of organization, whether on
the basis of three groups or as a mass
organization. Representatives of the
labor unions are said to be contend
ing for the mass organization on the
ground that in the group organization
the farmers and railroad men could
combine and outvote the union group.
Farmers and railroad men are con
tending for group representation.
Another matter to be settled is that
of membership fees and dues. Farmer
members of the Triple Alliance in
clude members of the Non-partisan
league and those who do not belong
to any organization. Membership in
tile Non-partisan league costs $16 for
two years, while the Triple Alliance
membership fee is only 12 a year.
Farmers who have paid J 16 to Join
the Non-partisan league have been
required to pay 2 additional for
membership In the State Triple Al
liance. Farmers not members of the
Non-partisan league pay only it to
Join the Triple Alliance and have as
much representation as those who
have paid 18.
Settlement Proposed.
One . proposed settlement of this
controversy is for the Non-partisan
league to pay to the Triple Alliance
3 for every member Joining the
league, thus making them" members
of both organizations. s
The third big fight to come before
the convention is said to relate to the
policy of C. R. Cotterill. state secre
tary of the Triple Alliance, juany
reoresentatives of the labor and
farmer groups are said to be dissatis
fied with Cotterill, but it is said that
he has enough friends in three groups
to put up a fight.
Those informed said1 it is hardly
likely that the convention will com
plete its business today and that the
session in all probability will extend
over a part of tomorrow.
Though the meeting was planned as
a one-day convention, it was said this
evening that the seating of delegates
had not been completed during the
afternoon session and that the con
vention may run over into Tuesday,
force in Sacramento and Santa Rosa;
500 in the Los Angeles district, and
practically two-thirds of the workers
in Washington and Oregon did not
report for work.
Telephone operators ara-uot affect:
ed by the strike, according to an
nouncement. The electrical workers
demand an increase of $1 daily over
the existing seals' of $6. , , s
STRIKE IS XOT FELT HERE
Company Official Declares Only
Few Linemen Walked Out. -In
compliance with the strike order
of the International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers on the Pacific
coast. 95 per cent of the Pacific Tele
phone & Telegraph company's linemen
in Portland obeyed the call, it was
asserted at union headquarters last
night, while C. E. ickman. district
manager for the company, gave out
figures which indicate that the effect
of the strike was virtually niL
speaking tor the telephone com
pany, Mr. Hickman said that out of
approximately 300 union men em
ployed in Oregon, only BO went out;
in Washington, where 675 are em
ployed, absolutely none, obeyed the
strike order; in Nevada, out of 50, one
struck; out of 506 in southern Cali
fornia, 56 struck; in California north
of Bakersfield. where a total of 830
men were at work, between 75 and
SO per cent refused to quit.
SACRAMEXTO LIXEMEX QUIT
Switchboard and Repeater Men Re
ported at Work.
SACRAMENTO, Cal., Feb. 14. Line
men In the employ of the Pacific Tele
phone & Telegraph company went on
strike here today to enforce demands
for a wage increase. Among the
switchboard men and repeater men
the answer to the coast-wide strike
call sent out by the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
was not general, according to com
pany officials. A. B. Easterbrook,
past president of the local union, said
the linemen in Sacramento had re
sponded 100 per cent.
From Chico north to Oregon the
strike order 'was not obeyed, J. P.
Noble, district commercial superin
tendent for the telephone company,
said.
18 Linemen Quit in Douglas.
ROSEBURG. Or.. Feb. 14. (Special.)
Eighteen telephone linemen in this
county went out on strike today in
compliance with the order from union
headquarters. The linemen in Rose
burg are not affected by the strike,
as they are not affiliated with the
union. ,
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AL KADER TEMPLE APPROPRI
ATES $50,000 FOR MEETTXG.
of
Total Sum for Entertainment
Convention Visitors Estimated
as Requiring $172,500. N
An appropriation of . $50,000 was
recommended last night by Al Kader
Temple of Portland for the entertain-
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have to wait until the strike is settled.
LOWER COURT REVERSED
COSTS BLffilS PLACED
M1SMAXAGEMEXT OF SUGAR
PROBLEM IS CITED.
S700.000.000 Advance in Living
Prices Is Attributed to Poor
. m Administration.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. Gross mis
management of the sugar problem
has increased living costs for next
year between $700,000,000 and $900,'
000.000, Representative Tinkham, re
publican, Massachusetts, charged to-
day in a speech, supporting his res
olution to direct an investigation of
the department of justice by the house
Judiciary committee.
"These increased costs have been
accompanied by the most atrocious
and shameless profiteering known in
this era of extortionate oppression,
he said. "The conduct of the attorney.
general can be and should be in
vestigated .at once as to his inde
fensible action in relation to the ques
tion of price-fixing."
"Utter incompetence, inefficiency
and criminal disregard to the Inter
ests of the people by 'the present ad
ministration and its agents," were
charged.
Agreement with Louisiana sugar
. producers last fall for 17 and 18
cent sugar at the plantation stim
ulated the price, Mr. Tinkham said.
"because sugar was then selling at
11 or 12 cents per pound at retail.
Prices on the Cuban crop were raised
from 6 cents to 11 and 12 Vi cents
by this action," he said.
ment of the Imperial Council of the
Mystic Shrine, which conies to this
city June 22, 23 and 24- The action
was taken at a special meeting to
which was submitted the budget of
expenses as prepared by the general
entertainment committee. The total
budget contemplates an expenditure
of $172,500.
The recommendation of the meeting
last night will be acted upon at the
regular session of the temple on Feb
ruary 28. The vote last night stood
several hundred members voting for
the appropration and one 'against it.
In addition to the sum of $50,000
which will be voted from .the treas
ury on February 28, the individual
members of Al Kader have contrib
uted $46,000. .
The general committee is to ask
the business men of Portland for an
additional sum of $26,500.
It is expected that the coming
Shrine convention will bring 75,000
neoDle to Portland for a period of
four days.
Oregon
City
A.
Circuit
3.
Decision for
TILLAMOOK BONDS SOLD
Portland Firm Awarded $112,000
in Highway Securities.
TILLAMOOK. Or., Feb. 14. (Spe
clal.) Yesterday at the courthouse
the issue of $112,000 Tillamook coun
ty road bonds was purchased by
Keeler Bros, of Portland, at par and
accrued interest, together with a
premium of $112. The money for the
bonds will be furnished the county as
needed, thus saving interest. . Thi
was considered higher than the joint
bid of .the Ralph Schneelock company
and the Security Savings and Tru
company of Portland, whose bid was
par and accrued Interest, plus
premium of $1050.
Representatives of well-known bond
houses of Portland bid as follows:
Citizen's Bank of Portland, par plus
premium or $560; Morris Bros., par;
Lumbermen s Trust company, par
Carsten and Earles, par; Devereux &
Co., $110,400.20.
PHONE SERVICE UNHURT
COMPAXY OFFICIAL DECLARES I
FEW LIXEMEX ARB OUT.
CUPID-SPRING UNION WINS
Oregon City Swain Active In Bright,
Balmy Weather.
OREGON CITT, Of., Feb. 14. (Spe
cial.) Cupid took advantage of the
fine spring weather Saturday and put
the divorce business in the shade.
Four marriaye licenses were issued.
as follows:
Freda Faith Martin. 21, and William
Henry Folger, 21, of Oregon City.
Mary Hrovat, 18, and Clyde Morrell,
21, of Oregon City-
Belle Mathers, 30, and John Joseph
Casey, 36, of Willamette.
Henry M,. Palmateer, 25, of Hood
River, and Elizabeth Gillaspie, 17,
were issued a license and were mar
ried by Justice of the Peace Stipp.
Brown Gillaspie, father of the bride,
gave his consent to the wedding.
union Leaders, However, Assert
Many Members Have Complied
With Strike Order.
.
rious curtailment of service of the CIGARETTE FOE IS SUED
Pactac Telephone & Telegraph com-
;pany was apparent tonight, according
as the result of
Hodge.
OR-EGON CITT. Or.. Feb. 14. (Spe
clal.) A verdict was given Friday in
the circuit court in favor of A. J,
Hodge against J. C. Salusbury for $112
alleged to be due on the sale of some
hogs last February. . According to the
complaint, Hodge sold Salusbury
butcher, of Willamette, the hogs and
delivered them according to agree
ment, receiving a check on which
Salusbury stopped payment, alleging
the animals were not as represented.
Salusbury claimed that the animals
were in an unhealthy condition and
were unable to walk. As soon as he
discovered this he stopped payment
on the check.
The case was first tried in the jus
tice court and a verdict given the de
fendant. ,
LIQUOR OFFICIALS BUSY
Xine Alleged Violators Enmeshed
in Federal Xet.
Nine alleged violators of the fed
eral prohibition law were gathered
in by the net of the United States
marshal's office yesterday, the' day
being one of the busiest for the of
fice in this respect since the federal
amendment went into effect.
The following were arrested: Joe
Sagala, Frank Heirexa, Jess Wright,
George Mather, Mark Krist. E. II.
Langford, Ed Foster, Charles Lamar
and Isaac Wernala. Sagala was re
leased on $1000 bond, while Lang
ford and Foster were released on
$500 each. The rest were held in the
county jail.
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HORSE SOCIETY ELECTS
P. Llcuellen President of Walla
Walla Association. ,. .
WALLA WALLA, Wash., Feb. 14.
(Special.) J. P. Lieiiellen of Weston,
Or., was re-elected president and C. A
Winn of Milton, Or., secretary and
treasurer of the Walla Walla Central
Horse association at the annual meet
ing held here today. Associations rep
resented were Milton, Weston, Walla
Walla, Gibbons, Summerville, Peola.
Troy, Asotin and Touchett, all of
which range stock on the Wenaha
reserve.
The association voted to make it
compulsory for riders of all associ
ations to report stray stock to own
ers. Brand books will be issued im
mediately so owners can be located.
to comDanr officials.
a eiriKe or electrical workers em
ployed by the concern in California,
Oregon, .Washington, Nevada and a
portion of Idaho, which became -effective
today.
Conflicting statements regarding
tne nutriDer oi men on strike were is
sued by company officials and heads
of the International - Brotherhood of
Electleal -Workers,: whose officers
are directing the strike.
According to company officials, all
cicatrical workers in Washington re
. majned at work; only 50 out of 300
struck in Oregon; between 75 and 80
per cent of the men in southern Cali
fornia, including Los Angeles and San
Diego, remained at work. The only
places in California affected, accord
. Ing to corporation officials, were Sac
ramento and Santa Rosa, where prac
tically all electrical workers struck.
The union officials asserted that 250
workers failed to report for work in
Ban- Francisco; 200 struck In Oakland,
Alameda and Berkeley; the entire
Payment of Xotes on Grocery Bill
Is Demanded.
OREGON CITY, Or., Feb. 14. (Spe
cial.) D. E. (Jack) Frost, author
and proposer of the anti-cigarette
measure to be submitted to the peo
ple of Oregon at the general election
in November, is the defendant in a
suit filed in the circuit court today by
George Reddaway, a retired groeer.
The amount involved is $250, rep
resented by two promissory notes,
executed by Frost to obtain the pay
ment of a past-due grocery bill, it
was alleged. Arthur Beattie and C.
Schuebel appear for Reddaway.
Linemen Lay Down Tools. -
KLAMATH FAIJLS, Or., Feb. 14.
(Special.) Twelve Pacific Telephone
& Telegraph company linemen con
structing a new circuit laid down
their tools today in response to .the
general strike order. Thirty residents
who hoped to have phones installed
CENSUS LEAK INDICATED
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Apparent Violation of Law Shown
in Report of Tillamook Paper.
TILLAMOOK, Or., Feb. 14. (Spe
cial.) There seems to be a leak in
the census taken in Tillamook county,
in violation of the census law, which
provides that census takers must not
give out information. The Wheeler
Reporter this week furnishes figures
for.' the north part of the county. It
says:
"Bert Walters has been busy taking
the Wheeler, Brighton and Mohler
census the past week, he having fin
ished ; Nehalem precinct last- week.
Nehalem precinct, which includes the
north side of the bay and one-half of
Camp 4, has a population of 11)00, 1
Wheeler 650. Brighton 400 and Mohler
450, giving the Nehalem valley a pop-
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Power Plant Boiler Bursts in
Seattle Station.
SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 14. Two
men were dead, tnree proDaDiy la
tally injured and three others were
suffering from serious injuries here
tonis-ht as the result of an explo
sion of a mud drum at the Tesler way
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Philip F. A. Boche Is Dead. '
News of the death of Phillip F. A.
Boche, formerly a lawyer in Portland,
at his home in Lakeview, Or., was re
ceived last night by B. E. Haney, with
whom Mr. Boche was associated here.
Mr. -Boche was in Portland a -week
ago, apparently in good health, but
succumbed yesterday to an attack of
pneumonia, the message said. The de
ceased was for four years in the law
office of Joseph & Haney and was
well known among the legal profes
sion of the city. Three years ago he
went to Lakevlew, where he went into
practice for himself. He leaves his
widow and a son 6 years old residing
at Lakeview, and his mother, living
at Monmouth." Or.
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