The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, May 04, 1916, Image 3

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Newspaper Page Text- THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. - PORTLAND. - THURSDAY." - MAY - 4T 191ft, .AVERAGE. INCREASE IN 5ES IN U. S. DURING YEAR IS 11 PER CENT HI ! Figure. Quoted Is Taken From I Statistics Compiled by Bu i . reau of Labor. PAINT INDUSTRY HIGHEST BIRDS SING SWEETLY IN TREE TOPS WHILE MEMBERS TAKE LUNCHEON Sklllad Labor Kcivd Main Benefit; 'I Bonuses by Munitions Plant Ars I Hot Included la the Ptgnrea. it Washington. May 4. (U. P.) Fig jvres complied by the bureau of labor tge increase In the Industries where nhere have been increases In the United States In the past year has been jjll per cent. The following average 'Increases have been put Into effect: I Nineteen per cent, paint manufac turing Industries. Seventeen per cent, automobile and ! .automobile part factories. I Fifteen per rent, flour and grist I mill workers, ship-builders, electrical supply industries, iron and steel work ers. 1 Fourteen per cent, rubber goods, ma chinery, foundry, locomotives. Dry Goods Workers Raised. Thirteen per cent. lime. -dry (roods. hardware, paper and products. Five per cent, pottery, pressed brick, J groceries and woolens. J. Eleven per cent, chemicals, clothing, oap, fertilizers. I Nine per cent, agricultural imple- SMents, furniture, shoes, leather, silk laces. ? Eight per cent, confectionery, com- mon cotton goods. f. SejVen per cent, department stores, that a,-watches, ad vertlninir. office ma- tcnlne, dental supplies and roofing ma terial. Six per cent, cigar and tobacco J maker. i Five per cent, coal and coal mining, 4 carpets, rugs, linoleum and glasses. 1 Mostly, to Skilled Xbor. J- For the most part these Increases IhAVflh rntm In akllleri Iflbnr hut them t have been numerous Increases in wages paid unskilled labor. . The figures given out do not Include Increases that have taken the form of bonuses, as in many munitions plants.' The 164,000,000 annual Increase in Wages which began May for 706,500 workers will stimulate 2.293,500 others to Immediate demands. Secretary Mor- 1 rlson of the American Federation of 1 l .1 .. .1 , III addition to this vast number of Organized labor's members. Morrison ; aald, he expected numerous demonstra tions from the far larger number of ' unora-aniaert wnrxem. i "It 4s the history of 30 years that May should see new demands by labor- ers," he said. "May marks the real M beginning of spring. The workingman who nas nan an inuiriereni lau ana fwlnter 'review's the past 12 months' 'labor and decides whether to continue I Sunder the same conditions or to do Imand changes. "The pabt year Uiis seen many con f cessions in hours nnd wages l work- Slngmen. Hut these changes were t brought about either through compul- slon or were granted with the ! dea of , tying the liundu of the worki rs in regard to other ilemaiulK. Many have been wrung from employers after Struggles Juet bs distasteful to work er as to capital. i- "In May the fruits of the new year .are all ahead. The business cf the ,world begins and the worker Knows that unless he succeeds in ad l isting -Ills needs on May I, they will he 'thrown Into the background by the I , I, , i . i i 1 1 " it Ur - '"j- - " Wv Ad men. hit upon novel plan of spending noon hour in Washington ' park. pressure of business until a day more nnfll f I llliniimil convenient to hl employer." HrrN Alll I I INI H f" 1 1 IM REVIVAL PROPHESIED OF SILVER MINING AS METAL'S PRICE R1S ES Mexican Dollars and Philip pine Pesos Go Into Melting Pot for Silver, CLOAK MAKERS SEND THEIR DEMANDS FOR MORE PAY, LESS WORK New York. May 4. (I. N. S.) Sixty thousand cloak and suit makers now on strike aent their demands to the manu facturers today. They ask for a 48 hour week, 10 legal holidays annually, and 75 cents an hour for each operator, tailor and skirt maker. These are the chief demands. Others are that over time work shall be paid for at fysm I 60 to 75 cents an hour, and that all contractor hired by the manufactur ers khall be recognired by the union. The Cloak, Bult and Skirt Manufac turers' Protective association main tained silence during the day. This led the union leadsr to predict an early settlement. In fact, a settlement com mittee sitting at the Hotel Latham received advances from some of the 16,000 Independent manufacturers. Thirty thousand garment workers went out yesterday. Joining the 30,000 already on strike. Benjamin Schle slnger, president of the union, said to day that 19,000 others would be af fected. So serious Is the Impending strike of railway telegraphers that tho United States government has taken a hand. Rather than allow the New York Central and West Shore railroads to be tied up, federal mediation will be offered. Neither the railway nor the telegraphers have asked for a mediator. On the contrary. Indications today were that the 6000 telegraphers, tele phone operators, towermen and signal maintainers were ready to walk out. The rUroad was recruiting strike breakers all day. Because of the marine engineers' strike, 600 tugs are tied up in the harbor waiting for engineers. More than 50 vessels are marooned waiting for the aid of tugs. IHes at Pendleton. Pendleton, Or., May 4. Harry K. Thompson. o years old. who came here several days ago from Lynn, Wash., died Tuesday night in th's city or cancer or the stomach. He was a brother of Mrs. Herman Suhl of this city. He 1a survived by another sister, a brother, R. A. Thompson of Hpp ner, and his mother. He had been In the railway mall service. IN WASHINGTON PARK ENJOYED BY AD MEN Special Program of Music and Speaking Features of Meeting Held Yesterday, In a sylvan retreat of Washington park the Ad men had their luncheon yesterday. The one long table was spread beneath the arching trees, grow ing flowers were the decorations and song birds the "orchestra." The en joyable luncheon was served by the women of the Centenary Metnodlst church, the purpose being to raise a fund to buy a church stove upon which to cook more food. Mrs. O. C. Bortz meyer, the treasurer, reported th.ut 137 had been received, and that the profits totalled $50, which, unusual finance she explained by fcaylng tnat many of the articles for the menu were con tributed by merchants and some gave cash instead of food. President W. D. Whitcomb Intro duced as speakers Park Superintendent J. O. Convlll, Commissioner of Public Affairs George L. Baker and County Commissioner Rufus C. Holman. Mr. Convlll said that Portland's great need Is not more large parks or boulevards, but district playground parks. Commissioner Holman described some of the conditions In county gov ernment that prevent efficient admin istration of county affairs. Before the meal was served the Ad men strolled through the park, redis covering its beauties and admiring anew the historic pieces of sculpture, "Sacajawea" and "The Coming of the White Men." An they ate suggestions of Jungle life came booming through the trees. Old Nero, the lion of the City park, was trying his best to drown out the mualc of McElroy"s band. Special cars took the Ad men and the band to the city park. In ten years 800 persons were found guilty of murder In Austria, but only IS were put to death. Briders Mother Had Another Man Picked Bridegroom Xioses Wife When Mother and Policeman Appear; Olrl Called Too Young to Wed. San Francisco, May 4. (U. P.) Joseph A. Morgan, Bald to be a mem ber of a wealthy New York family, today planned to make a legal fight to recover the bride who was taken from him last night a few hours after he was married. At midnight when Morgan and his bride were at the Plaza hotel, sudden ly the door banged open and In marched Mrs. F. W. Clifton, the bride s mother, accompanied by a policeman. Claiming that the daughter, Dorothy, was only 16 years old, Mrs. Clifton made her leave her husband and re turn home. She declared the girl was too young to wed, and that anyway she had another man in mind who would be a better son-in-law than Mor gan, in her opinion. hi applying for the marriage license, Morgan gave his age as 22 and Miss Clifton's as 19. Railroad Official of San Francisco Quits Charles Jf. Black Xeadgas as Ylee President and General Manager of XTaited Railroads to Oo to Sw York. San Francisco, May 4. (P. N. S.) Charles N. Black, having resigned as vice-president and general manager of the United Railroads, Is busy today winding up Ids affairs preparatory to leaving San Francisco about June 1 to take up his permanent .residence in New York. Black's resignation came as a sur prise to his business associates. He says that his departure from the city and resignation from the traction com pany are necessitated by important de velopments in the business of the en gineering firm of Ford, Bacon & Davis, of which he is a partner. His successor as vice-president and general manager of the United Rail roads will be William Von Phul, also a member of the engineering firm. Von Phul is expected here about May 13 from New Orleans, where he has been vice-president and general manager of the American Cities com pany, which controls the street rail ways of New Orleans, Birmingham, Memphis, Knoxville and other cities. ,San Francisco, Cal.. May 4. (P. N. S.) Revival of silver mining In Cali fornia, Nevada and other parts of the west will result from recent remark able rises in the gold price of silver. This prediction was freely voiced here today by economists and mon etary experts In discussing effects, rather than causes, of silver's phenom enal climb. Yesterday sliver was quot ed at 77'4 cents an ounce. On Septem ber 1, 1915, eight months ago. It sold for 46 V4 cents an ounce. A steady de cline for 40 years ended on that day, although many believed that still fur ther loss was in prospect. Since then Its Increase has tfeen uninterrupted, with still further rises in sight. Many believe that the eventual price will re main steady at l an ounce, or even more. Demonetisation Ended FTOflt, In the 70's before congress had demonetized silver In the resumption of specie payments, silver mining was the important element in western prosperity. As the decline came. It became Increasingly unprofitable, un til finally many mines closed down and prospecting virtually ceased. But with silver worth 70 to so cents, this condition can be counted upon to change, the experts say. Reopening of old mines and locating or new ones will shortly put the Industry on a new footing. Bimetalism as a political Issue and remonetUation of silver as a method of liquidating the enormous debts of the belligerent nations of Europe also is predicted to result. An important immediate effect of the Increase in the -price of silver is the sending of Mexican dollars and Philippine pesos to the melting po( Both these coin are minted on the ratio of 32 to 1. . In other words, the silver In them Is worth the face value of the coins when 32 ounces of silver equal in value one ounce of gold. But at yesterday's quotation one ounce of gold Is worth only 2C ounces of silver. North Bend Editor Indicted for Libel Marshfleld, Or., My 4. Frank TJ. Cameron, editor and owner of the Ag itator, has been indicted by the grand jury for criminal libel and was ar rested last night. He expects to fur nish bond 1 nthe sum of $700. The Agitator is a weekly paper which Cameron publishes at North Bend and which has a large .circula tion in the county. It Is understood that the indictment Is for statements made In the paper regarding the con duct of the county poor farm by the superintendent of the Institution. Cam eron claims that the statements he published were true. CANADA DECLINES TO ASSUME SYSTEM OF GRAND TRUNK PAC Grand Trunk Railway Fails in Effort to Saddle Obligation , Upon Governmenti Ottawa, Ont, May 4. (I. N. 8.)- Correspondence laid before the Canad ian parliament last night showed that a demand was made by the Grand Trunk railway that the Canadian gov ernment ahould take over the Grand Trunk Paclflo railway from Winni peg to the Paclflo coast at Prince Rupert, which was built with the back ing of the Canadian government and of the Grand Trunk Railway company. The company declined to take over the eastern section- and the correspondence read showed that on December 10 it asked the government to take over the western section as well. In his letter Chairman Smithers of the Grand Trunk, said: "We are now at the end of our tether with regard to Grand Trunk Pacific finances." . He added that advances by the Grand Trunk to the Grand Trunk Pacific totaled $26,179,728 and notes Boy Impales Self , On Ten Pfenny Nail Eugene, Or., May 4. -Volna 4ft Bryant,1 little son of George ' 4ft 4ft Bryant of Blachly. miles 4ft 4ft west of Eugene In the Lake ; 4ft creek valley, one day this week 4ft 4ft bumped his head against a ten ; 4ft 4ft penny nail protruding from a, 4ft 4ft fence post The nail entered, 4ft his cheek Just to the left of 4ft the nose and it was necessary. 4 4ft to file the nail off to get the i 4 4ft' child loose from the post. The 4ft, 4t father of the boy then took him t 4ft 4ft to a physician and had the nail .:4ft 4ft removed. It had gone through 4ft 4ft the palate bone and was Imbed- 'He 4ft ded an inch deep In the face. 4ft 4ft -'4ft 4ft4ft4ft4ft4ft4ftV4ft4ft4ft4ft4ft44ft4 covering the advances amounted to only I24.I34.01S. The Canadian government declined to take the system and thus relieve the Grand Trunk of its obligation,- . f. 6Urer Believed Demented. Kansas City, Mo., May 4. (U. Pj Search continued today for Charles Messer, barber accused of having hacked to death Ernest Pitts, a tailor, while the latter lay helpless In the shaving chair. Friends believe be must be demented. He lately devel oped, an uncontrollable temper, they say. "The wife and four chlldrenT the murdered man are destitute. , ; Wben wTltlDg onrilltnt oa dttrttMr plMM viHition Tb Jonrnal. f-. t -' , hi v" your YtidoY Pure in that it is all gasoline not a mixture I JEDO IP mi afQmhiy saves carburetor ad justmentsalways uniform. Increases mileage per gallon every drop gives full power. Dealers everywhere and at our SERVICE STATIONS Standard Oil Company (California) Portland Use ZEROLENE the Standard OH for Motor Cars Is Found Guilty of Libeling Washington Paul S. Eaf fer Bald First President of United States Drank to Excess and tJsed Profanity; Will Appeal Case. Tacoma, Wr-sh., May 4. Paul It. Haffer was found guilty of libeling George Washington, the first president of the United States, by a jury here last night. In a letter written to a newspaper on Washington's birthday Haffer said that Washington frequently was intoxicated and that he occasion ally used profanity. Colonel A. E. Joab brought the charge against Haffer. The maximum penalty is a year in jail and a $100 fine. An appeal will be taken. Haffer said that he had read a good deal concerning Washington and wrote the letter because ne was op posed to hero worship. Declares Object of War Accomplished Senator Phelan of . California Urges Passage of Resolution to Settle All International Disputes Peacefully. Washington, May 4. (I. N. S.) Sen ator Phelan of California Wednesday urged the senate foreign relations com mittee to recommend passage of his resolution stating that, while develop ments are forcing the United States to strengthen her army and navy, con gress reaffirm the nation's policy of faith in peaceful settlement of inter national disputes. Senator Phelan said such an explana tion would do great good abroad, where the preparedness movement of the United States otherwise might be mis understood. Insisting that the original object of the war punishment of Serbia for the assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand has been accomplished, Senator New lands of Nevada, asked the committee to favorably report his resolution re questing President Wilson to renew, in behalf of the United States, his of fer of mediation between the belliger ents. Well Known Idaho Politician Called John W. XJeuallen, Resident of Mos cow, Democratic deader and Promi nent Xewspaper Man, Bead. Moscow, Idaho, May 4. John W. Lleuallen, pioneer, resident of - Mos cow, well known ; Idaho .Democratic leader and -prominent newspaper '-man, died at his home here Wednesday aft ernoon Of heart failure. . t . - - ' - . ' ''''''' ' ' ' 1 U n M VJ V. Bread mi Butter A Keystone One of Those Cleve Comedies Shown a the Columbia Only liank Mann Play s Lead 3 Days Only Starting Today S ceniic An Auto Trip From Los Angeles to Bear Valley Showing Panoramic Beauties of This Region COLUMBIA The Theatre Beautiful Sixth at Washington APA