THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, JUNE 18, 1923 Mi RAIL 101 VOTE FOR STRIKE 95 Per Cent of Workers Said to Favor Walkout. OFFICIALS TO CONFER Kail and Miners' Organizations Plan Co-Operatlve Action Against Fay deductions. CINCINNATI, O., June 17. (By the Associated Press.) Withdrawal ot wage reductions ordered by the railroad labor board and the taking back by railroads of contracts farm ing out shop work Is the only way the threatened strike of approxi mately 1,000,000 workers on July 1 can be averted, rail union executives said tonight. The triple-barreled strike vote ot seven unions so far returned was announced by union leaders as be ing 98 per cent In favor of a walk out. However, leaders said this per centage is high and they did not ex pect the final vote to reach more than 95 per cent. Tuesday the rail and miners' union officials will meet to discuss co-openat-ive action between mem bers of these organizations. John I Lewis, president of the miners, formally announced today that the meeting would discuss- the indus trial situation affecting the strike of organized mine workers and the outrageous action of the United States rail labor board in Imposing unwarrantable and unjustifiable re ductions upon the railway era- ployes." In accepting the invitation ex tended by B. M. Jewell of the rail way employes for the meeting Mr. lewis stated that the mine workers would seek to prescribe "a course of action which will afford that es sential degree of Justice which is necessary to the men working in these industries and at the same time give every proper considera tion Vo tthe welfare of organized men and women." MINORITY REPORT ATTACKED Majority Members of Wage Body Retaliate to Criticisms. , mission on living costs and stand ards in 1915, a year which the dis senters said was a fair basis, were quoted by the majority members, who, after a lengthy presentation, said the standard of living for clerks under the rates prescribed by the decision is 12.1 per cent above 1915. "It certainly affords grounds for satisfaction and encouragement rather than for inflammatory ap peals for strikes," the statement said. Recognition of budgets proposed by the minority would result in the loss of hundreds of millions of dol lars to the railroads each year, the majority members continued. "This shortage would have h,ad to be paid by some form of taxation on toe public presumably freight rates, which would have added to the burdens of every individual in the country, rich and poor," they said. "It ' is well to remember, the statement continued, "that the time will never come in this or any other country when the ordinary rules of common sense and business, call them economic laws If you wish, can be absolutely ignored in the conduct of any industry. The latest Instance in which these laws have been thrown overboard and replaced by fine-spun socialistic theories, both in railway and other Industries 'i found in Russia, and the result there is not one that this country desires to emulate. 'The minority are sowing some of the tiny seeds that have germinated and blossomed iato industrial an archy in Russia when they make such statements as this: They (the economic laws) are simply a de scription of the way in which busi ness and industry has worked to date, and it has worked out very badly for human life.', "It will be readily 'conceded that our social and Industrial system has not invariably produced perfect re sults, but upon the whole. It has demonstrated its. superiority to every experimental substitute that has been offered. And the fact must not be overlooked that this great industrial republic has rewarded labor with Its largest degree of lib erty, prosperity and happiness. It is well not to hold its minor imper fectiona too close to the eye as to obscure its benefits." The minority report to which to day's reply was made, was signed by Arthur 0. Wharton and Albert Phillips'. The third labor member of the board. W. L. McMenimen, was in the east on an investigation trip when the minority ; report was issued. . : IIS ARK HELD EXTANT IN EGYPT Ancient Structure Thought to Be Pyramids. NICHE IS CUT BY FLOOD CHICAGO, June 17. (By the As sociated Press.) Majority mem bers of the United States railroad labor board, who yesterday ordered another slash from the wages of the nation's railway workers, today re taliated to criticisms of minority members of the board with the charge that the dissenting members presented "incendiary arguments in a strained and exaggerated effort to inflame the employes to strike agalnt the decision of the board." The minority, constituting two of the three labor members, were ac cused of "sowing some of the tiny seeds that have germinated and blossomed into industrial anarchy in Russia." Yesterday's decision, which lopped meanly $27,000,000 from the wages of 325,000 railway clerks, signalmen and -stationary firemen, brought to- ; tal reductions effective July 1, under the board's orders, np to fl35,000,000. Approximately 1,200,000 railway eim pittyes are affected by the orders. AooofmpaTiyinig yesterday's order, carrying! reductions ranging from 2 to 6 cenits an hour, was a lengthy supporting opinion from the mem bers representing the railroads and tlhie public, and the dissenting opin ion by the labor members comidenwi ing the order. In their prompt rejoinder today the majority members said: It is not incumbent upon the six members of the board concurring in this decision to follow the minority into a partisan controversy which partakes more of the characteristics ot impas sioned advocacy than o calm adjudi cation. Insofar as tite dissenting opinion dis ' torts the sentiments of the majority, misquotes their language and reflects upon the.r desire and disposition, to do 'justice, we will refrain from comment. We profer to believe that these impro prieties crept into that part of the docu ment which was drafted by the employes la the headquarters or the railway de partment of ti-e American Federation of Labor, and that they were overlooked by the dissenting members. . There is one feature of the dissenting argument, however, which is so unusual that it should not be passed over with out notice, and that is the portion wherein the two dissenting members ad vise the employes to strike against the decision of the board. . . . It is something new for labor members of the board to Issue incendiary argu ments to employes in lavor ol striking against a decurion of the board. The giv ing of advice of this kind heretofore has been left to outsiders, who were not under the official obligations Imposed by the transportation act, the main pur pose of which is to prevent railway strikes and protect the public from their dire effects; One of the passages referred to is as follows: "The transportation act aimed to substitute for the strike such just and reasonable wages as would render resort to a strike unnecessary. If this tribunal, created to determine such wages, admits that under existing cir cumstances it cannot fulfill this func tion, obviously the employes must use such power as they have to influence the labor market, which is henceforth to be the determining factor in their wages." That Is to say, if the board makes such admission the employes must strike. Then the dissenting members proceed ' to remove the "if" and to assert that the board has made the admission which renders a strike necessary. Not only do the minority step down from the Judicial position, which they occupy, to advise a strike, but they obviously distort and misconstrue the language of the majority in order to provide the condition which they pro nounce a justification. This is not the only place in the dis senting opinion where the suggestion is made to the employes to strike. As a matter of fact, the entire dissenting opinion constitutes a strained and ex aggerated effort to inflame the employes - by the belief that they have been grossly outraged by this decision. A fair statement of the facts will con- - vince any disinterested man that no in justice has been done to these employes by the present decision, and that tho ; decrease in their wages is conservative and is based upon the law and the evidence. Declaring that the minority sav agely attacked statements quoted ; from former decisions by the board - in which relevant circumstances' referred to In the transportation act were considered in wage increases , the majority members asserted that "It would appear that the 'relevant . circumstances' were to be considered by the present dissenting members . in relation only to wage increases, but not decreases." The statement then went into the controversy over theoretical living .. 4 standards and the minority's charges that, the year 1917 was an unfair year to adopt as a basis or a start- - ing point in the consideration of wages of railway labor. J "The dissenters are well aware that the wage reports of this board - have begun with the year 1917 and both of them have twice concurred in this arrangement," the statement continued. Statistics from the bureau of labor - and the interstate commerce com- STKIKE BALLOTS MAILED Firemen and Oilers to Decide Whether to Take Vote. , CINCINNATI. O., June 17. (By the Associated Press.) 'Strike ballots to stationary firemen and oilers and in structions to general committees of signal men to decide' whether to take a strike vote were placed ine th mails tonight, following the decision of the railroad labor board last night cutting wages of members of these unions. Clerks and station employes will not take a general strike ballot E. H. Fitzgerald, grand president of the brotherhood, announced. He said the general committee on each rail road system or road would determine whether or not a strike ballot would issue and added that where such votes were taken the men would be bound by the result. There will be no walkout on a number of roads which have made agreements with the men which bound them to accept any wage slashes made by the labor board. Spiritualism of 30,000 Years Ago Gradually Lost to Race, Says Egyptologist. LOS ANGELES, Cal.. June 17. Noah's ark, built to save human and animal life from the flood of'&ncient biblical times, is syil extant for all to see, 80,000 years after its con struction. This is the belief of Dr. E. C. Getsinger, Egyptologist, now visiting here. His conclusion Is based, he declares; on recent discov eries, following 35 years of research work, some of the results of which he described in an address. Dr. Getsinger . is convinced that the ark of Noah was not a. ship: that it was the great pyramid of Cheops in Egypt. Recent discoveries prove that the pyramids Noah s ark, and the others were under the sea for thousands of years. Dr. Get singer said. Near the top of each of the pyramids, at the same level, is a high water line where a deep niche has been cut into the rock by the lashing of a long-forgotten smrf- the surf of the flood which inun dated the ancient biblical world, he declared. Dr. Getsinger said re search showed the inner passages of the pyramids to be thickly crusted with salt, which, chemical analysis proved, is sea salt Noble Philosophy Represented. Dr. Getsinger is ' convinced the pyramids were built thousands of years before the reign of the Pharaohs. The latter, to whom they have been accredited, merely re paired them and caused a casing of stones to be built over them, he said. And he is also convinced that the pyramids stand today a living monu ment to an old and noble philosophy, a civilization greater than any the human race has since attained. Obviously, since modern science cannot account for the means used to transport and place the great stone slabs used in the construction of the pyramids, that ancient race must have possessed knowledge and power lost to us of the present day. Dr. Getsinger argued.1 His explana tion of the feat performed by those ancient engineers is that they were of a race infinitely more spiritual than modern man, that their powe lay in a greater understanding of the universe and its laws. Spirituality Gradually Lost. For instance, Dr. Getsinger said his researches indicate that those ancients, prior to 30,000 years ago, had no language, needed no lan guage. They had the gift of trans ference of thought, a "higher, finer, ' comprehension' of what we call tele pathy, and as language was porn into the world for the use of human beings; this spirituality was gradu ally lost to us. , "In-like manner," Dr. Getsinger continued, "they understood the power of light to lessen the weight of mass objects a fact which mod ern experiments are even now malt ing evident." Some knowledge of this kind, ir. Getsinger thinks, made possible the handling of those "huge blocks of limestone and granite of whicn tne pyramids are constructed." Some knowledge of this kino., vt. Getsinger thinks, made possible the handling of those "huge blocks of limestone and granite of wmca tne pyramids are constructed." '. Three Chamber Found. Gnlne further into detail about his research work in the pyramids,-, the F.E-vntoloeist stated there are three chambers within tho Great pyramid whinh "conform to God s directions tn Nnh for tho building of the ark. and these three chambers, named for the three sons of Noan. nem, nam and Japhet, represent the three strata of life and intelligence." The chamber of Shem, the lowest of the three, Dr. Getsinger said, is symbolic of iniina.ls wlra have no sou is. a uc .nnd chamber, that of Ham, sym hn!ia human beingB Wltn SOU1S DUl of lesser intellectual and spiritual .iHinnint And the highest cham ber, that of Japhet, symDOiazes me inspired teachers, tne spiritual in tellectuals souu OI greater uuuci standing. : ' Film to Show Evolution. it i aireadv known. Dr. Getsinger continued, that the flood of Noah's time did not submerge the whole of the present known worm, out in nniv the ancient lost contt nt Atlantis and JSgypi. ..- lantia has never reappeared, he said but Egypt, after 12,000 years under the sea, proved, Dr. lieisingrer uc clared, by the evidence of sea salt encrustations to a height of 475 feet on the great pyramid and the s-Dhinx. arose as a beacon light to mankind and when the flood sub sided Egypt was resettled by immt irmnfa from other lands. Dr. Getsinger is preparing an edu cational motion Dicture film, wnicn, h. . will Taortray vividly the evolution of Egypt from the pre historic age to the dawn ot nistory ONE MAN KILLED IN RIOT Three Probably Fatally Injured In Fight Incited by I. W. W, CHEROKEE. Okla., June 17. One man was killed and threes others probably injured fatally here last night, in a fight between about 60 harvest hands assembled in the city r,arv lust outside the city limits. Th. fisrht which assumed the pro nnrtions of a riot, is thought by of ficers to have been incited by the I. W. W. The man killed was known o- to! Tirnrcek of Ardmore. He o.-oi nhoiit 40 vears old. Later 12 reDuted members of . the t w w . who are charged with participation in the shooting affray, were arrested. . Berries Are Being Canned. MOTINT ANGEL. Or., June 17. (Special.) The local cannery has been busy the past week at canning strawberries and gooseberries. Fifty a-irla and women have peen em ployed much of the time. Phone vour want ads to The Ore e-onian. Main 7070. Automatic 560-95 FAIR PETITION IS FILED 84 Per Cent of Names Certified . by Umatilla Clerk -, PENDLETON, Or., June 17. (Spe cial.) Ninety-four per cent certi fied, the first petition filed with the clerk of Umatilla county initiating the exposition tax measure propos ing state indorsement of action of the voters of the city of Portland if they authorize a tax of $3,000,000 for the staging of the 1925 exposi tion was filed yesterday by W. "W. Harrah, member of the managing committee of the fair board. More petitions circulated in Uma tilla county and Treely signed will be filed in a few days. Several pe titions completely signed have been forwarded to the secretary of state without certification, and these will have to be returned to the county clerk and certified before they can be counted. 3fj without changing: ?J Don't Forget "Your Favorite Organization Votes" With Every Purchase SUNDAY CHICKEN DINNER Served 5 to 8 P. M. Today we serve a deli cious Fried Spring Chicken Dinner, with other seasonable good things to eat. 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