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18 THE OHBGONDAILy' JOURNAL, PORTLAND, TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1913. CANT LIVE ON WAGES, DECLARE PHONE STRIKERS Local Brotherhood - of Electrical Workers" Asks an Increase From $6 to $6.40 Daily Wage. PICKETING LINES FORMED Unionists and Company Officials in .Contest Before Exchanges Urging Girls to Join Ranks. r - . t- ' . " (Controlled From Pas One) TELEPHONE GIRLS PICKET EXCHANGES tains . of picketing squads at . each ex change were appointed -and prepara tions . made - to try systematically to keep girls' from coins to work. An interesting scene is presented In front of some of the exchanges. At the ! road way exchange, before a crowd of spectators, there is considerable rivalry between the company-officials and "the unionists. The .union girls walk ; back and forth in front of the door, and when ner girls start into the building they try to coax them out, while G. B. May tries to induce them In. RIVALRY KEEN If a girl wavers, the unionists gener ally get her, btit if she walks straight ajong Mr. May has little difficulty. Kjfery effort is .being made by the girls te) conduct the strike in an orderly manner. They are paying strict atten tion to the laws and do not call girls names whq start , to enter the 'building. They are using mild language and smiles "As far as the girls and the men and the company are concerned, said W. J. Phillips, "this is a perfectly friendly strike. ' Many of the union men have walked out and some of them did not. We think we are giving better service than we did Monday, in spite of both strikes. . -f. "So far as .1 cat see there is not much contention between; the company " and the strikers, The girls are. asking for a higher maximum rwage than the com pany through; Its officials in San Fran cisco apparently thought it could afford to pay. Thet length of time which the girl was required tjo spend in reaching the maximum.- five v years, was the original demand of the girls.' The com pany first held out for seven, but after a conference in SairT'ranclsco it agreed to come down to five. Now the girls are demanding two." SAYS GIRLS WELL PAID About SO per cent of the operators in Portland, or about 175 girls, are now' on strike, according to Mr. Phillips, while the girls allege they have about 400 out. The . 'girls remaining have been dis tributed in the various exchanges and some' of the night force put on the day force to equalize the pressure and keep the service running. i The company states that the scale of wages that went into effect on June 16 gave the telephone workers an in crease and nearly comes up to their present demands. "The untrained day operator , starts with a minimum of $12 per week' of six days and during a period of five years gradually works up to $19 a week un less' she has been made a' supervisor or given -some other responsible position. The. minimum monthly earning is $54 and the maximum Is $106, which is paid the-evening supervisor." The operating room of the Broadway 1 exchange is running from all appear- m : . 4i, t $ 3, - - ,' - ' V , K?l , . , ' . -Wi' i Lkvh Usu-4 ' r-T i tit f :4 ; (V 1 ' , , l ' t ; i& ' ?, ' 4 JT' I .? ' . ''T !-"""' ft i' f' - ' - - '-w f I i f til V; J - j At h t ' ?? u GENERAL TRAD EOF RESERVE: DISTRICT SHOWS. INCREASE ;i.v V.; Total Sales Heavier in Both. Re- tail and Wholesale Over-Last Year and Collections Are Good. ances with a full force. Girls may be seen In the lounging room, some sfeleep and' others looking out the windows at th plcketers below. The "girls ' work four hour periods with an hour for lunch between them and a rest period of 15 minutes in each four hour -period. It appears that many girls who have been with the company for a long time, are striking now though they have not struck on previous occasions. Miss Ger trude Pillsbury, who has been in the employ of the company about nine years, and who has on the occasion of previous strikes, remained on duty, is striking this time. She joined the union at the time Miss Julia O'Connor was here, hav ing partially made up her mind to join before. then. . Miss Pillsbury Is not bitter against , the . company though she says she can see certain faults which ought to be corrected for. the best interests of the girls. ' ' - "As far as the individual treatment of the. girls Is concerned," said Miss Pills bury this morning, "there is little com plaining as a rule. So far as I am con cerned, I think that the company should allow the. girls at least two weeks vaca tion a year with pay, and I think the minimum wage should be higher and it should not : take so long for a girl to receive-.. the -maximum wage. Double time should also be paid for Sundays and holidays.-' ..'" APPRENTICESHIP LONG. "The girls are asking wages from $2 to $4 a day. At present the maximum for day operators Is $19 a week, and they have to work five years to draw that. It seems to me that If the maximum is to be so low, it should not take so long to reach It," for that is not much money to work toward for five years. "If you stop to consider jvhat it costs a girl to live decently nowadays, -you will see that, she can't live on $14 a week. The cheapest place where she can get room and board Is at the Sisters of Mercy home, -where she must occupy a room with another glrL In that case she has her room and two meals a day for $6 a week. Then sh pays 10 cents a week for the privilege of doing her laundry there. , " . "Her clothing can hardly run under an average, of $25 a month if she lives plainly and sensibly and buys good clothes such as any girl wants to. wear. Her shoes will Copt her $20 a year, hats jWI ' 9 . ' ...... ' ' ' T ,. ..'J '., ". ; .' ... .... ) Above Group of picketers in front of .the main exchange on Alder arid West Park streets, "where tie-up was most serious. Below Mifs Vera , Eplinff, secretary of the local girls' union. ? well and. to have the two weeks, vaca tion. , .'. "I Joined ! the "union because ll saw the teachers and stenographers organ ising, - and . I , thought if they ? had to organize to get decent wages we would have to, also.;-...When I, Joined the union I went down to the office and told my supervisor, and 'we talked .about it for a while. That afternoon .1 !was ' sent from the Information department, which is ; rather ? pleasant i-work, ta: the "A" board, which is the beginners' board and not as' pleasant work. My pay was' not cut. however. '. ; ; .- "One other . thine is the matter' of ! Complaint. The heads - of departments wilt listen to complaints and say they'll see about them, and that's the last any one .ever hears of them." $30, gloves $7, underwear $18, waists $30, miscellaneous $65. j suits, dresses, etc.. $80, and overcoats, etc, $50. NOT MICH LEFT ' . "That makes $300 a year, and the al lowance: for each is pretty, small when you consider what clothes cost today. Then If she spends $1 a week for amusements, carfare, church and pub lic donations,, her total has run up to $13.10 and she has allowed Nothing 'for dentists' bills, which. In the last two years, "have cost me $150. . "Of course, some girls such as my self, live at home and our expenses are correspondingly lower . because our pa rents pay part of our.' board because the telephone company . Iwon't pay enough. I am getting more than $12 because I have been .working so long, but for the girls who are not, and who are trying to live alone I can't see how they do It. ; "After the girls have been with the company for two -or three years, they can get a furlough of a few months, but if they quit and later decide to go back the company cuts their wages. GOOD JOB .TAKEN A WAT J "People don't realize what nervous work It is. Lots of times I have seen girls faint from the strain on hot days. I'm not blaming the company for that, but I do think that the girls ought to have more pay so as to. be able to live Wednesday pecials ?S 'Markets POT ROASTS; LIBERTY STEAKS SAUSAGE MEAT BOILING BEEF ! VEAL STEW. Per Pound 121c TENDER : SIRLOIN STEAKS : OUR FAMOUS WILD ROSE BRAND; Creamery Butter -i$;;.10 I il Per Roll RANCH yJQTi EGGS ... ffroC Lb Guaranteed Fresh - - - m -' VEAL SHOULDER ; ROASTS 15c-l8c LB, - RIB AND ,LOIN CHOPS 25c L11?- SHOULDER STEAK . 22c Lb; SHE. 25c Lb. 22b Lb: - f I" Hsjl A ft ; Extra Special- While They Last , -Each , purchaser of $1 worth or over . in either market has the privilege of ' purchasing one set of the articles illustrated. ! Every day except Sun- '' dayv ;'; , -v' 6-Piece Kitchen Set Regular Value $2.50 Breasts 15cLb- Both Shops Open 8:30 ..A- M.Till 6:30 P, M. CO. Frye's CASCADE Market THIRD and YAMHILL Frye's ECONOMY Market FOURTH and YAMHILL STORES DO LARGE BUSINESS Retainers "Abandon- Waiting ; Por icy and Are Restocking Witfi No Idea- of Price Reductions. SEATTLE PHONE SERVICE . , CRfPPLED . OX THIRD DAY Seattle, Wash., July N.. S.) Seattle entered the third , day ot its telephone strike this morning with com munication badly crippled la all parts of the ciy, despite theJest effortsof the telephone officials " to" "operate - with greatly reduced forces. The most accurate figures available indicate that ' 850 ' girl operators, who struck -Sunday morning, and 200 wire men, repairmen and linemen, who Joined the strike Monday, are out. While de clining to estimate the number of opera tors on strike,' C O. Myers, manager of the company, admitted that ' practically the entire. - force of male electrical workers are out. ; Increased Rates in Commercial Paper, Is N. Y. Prediction The rate for commercial paper nearly always affords, the best , index, to the general supply of money. . That rate, long stationary at about 3 pier cent far prime paper at New York, b;as stif fened to about 6 per cent. 'Some dealers in commercial paper think this is merely a reflection of the high rates for call money. But tt Is sig nificant that there are more borrowers than lenders at these rates, so that dealers' portfolios of bills are. becoming clogged and they are; borrowing? a good deal . of money to carry them; .More over, the New York banks are; lending very little on commercial paper. It Is placed almost entirely In the fcountrjr sections.-- ' '-'' . s, '" - - R- Ii - Wyckof f " in the - Magazine of Wall": Street believes that;:commerclaf borrowing will ; increase" and that - the rate ; wilt work slowly higher. "With the -growing activity ot- business ; with a building, boom. In the ' off trig which ought, at any .rate, to be under - good headway by fall; and with no ; early prospect of . any fall in the : level of commodity prices, it seems "tolerably 1 Clear tnat there must be. a growing de mand for commercial credits." ' - v. Th members of , the ' entertainment committee of the Oregon Statefeacers' association were kept quite busy during the annual "banquet at the i convention several weeks ago, so busy In fact that they did not . participate in the absorption of the eatables In the fash ion they would hive liked to,", So those members were the guests of. R. W. Sch.neer. ; chairman of the ( committee and who is a connoisseur in the art of entertaining, at an elaborate - dinner party: at the Benson last Monda?. -evening. They aay it was some .dinner; P. A, KJnnoch, J. T. Bortchaell, ft; t. Jones, Walter M. Cook, C. B. Sewall and E..H. Sensenlch were, the guests. .' f , ' v ''.:..... .-.ff , ;4'---'t --. An example of how . the recent bank robbery epidemic of the Northwest has stirred secret service officials inta quick action 'was demonstrated last - week, when the alarm from Ladd Tilton's tank was sounded. Workmen- were en Kaged in remodeling the interior of the bank to provide additional lobby apace, trhen one of them dropped a tool," short ing the burglar alarm circuit, which re sulted In a call at headquarters. With in two minutes five plain 'clothes men appeared on the scene expecting action, but were disappointed in finding it a false' alarm. . HcWain and Tomlleon went-i out to get some fish but they - never got 1 a .. fish.'- The Northwestern : National hank has two perslate.nt followers ot Ike Walton, and, like most of the mod ern piscatorial experts of : today. they are extremely enthusiastic about getting to the hole, that few knew- of. Dean Mo Wain and Frauk TomUson set out for the Trask rrt ver -last . week-end In Mc Waln's French Ford. . TomUson got back with , an empty creel Monday morning Just before the bank opened. - It took McWain until Tuesday night to doctor up the ear.: pry it out of. the mud and get back on the Job.. ' V ; . ; , - r . ' .. "... Li...: A- I I v . , New Evidence Claimed ' Redwood City, CaL. July XrCxjm p.) Granted a stay of sentence until 10 o'clock Saturday morning,: attorneys: for Dr. Ephralm " Northcott. San; Francisco physiciah, convicted of second degree murder In the case of Inex Reed, army nurse, today state they have newly dis covered evidence : tq win them a new trial. -i - . Seaside celebrates July Fourth. Adv. In t a' review of conditions in r the Twelfth federal reserve district: for May issued last week.- John Perrln. federal reserve CLgent. ' adds some new features In his compilation of . statistics, espe cially as regards retail .business. , He has obtained reports from the leading department store in the chief cities of the district, which show a considerable Increase in the general trade ot the district - . . - "Wholesale and retail trade and col lections are good," - reads the report. "Re potts from 20 department stores in six of the principal cities of the district show that the total sales were 6X4 per cent greater during May, 1919, than dur ing May, 191$, and 3.S per cent greater In April than during the .'corresponding month of 1918.- May' sales exceeded April sales by, 4.1 per cent ,: In 1919 And 7. per cent in 1911. - ' Portiand'a increase in - department store- trade -waa S0.91 per cent In May. 19191, compared with the same month, of last," year,- and -an Increase ' of 1.8 per cent was made In May over the preced ing" month. Percentages for; each city follow : There Is practically no demand for heavy timber and the mills have stopped cutting It and are converting the entire log into yard stock. 'Inquiries for lum ber for, export , are 1 increasing : but the market is seriously handicapped by lack ot shJpplnsf facQttlea,L5 It ? 1st expected, however. that ' number of the new wooden ships will be adaptable and avail able lor. snipping .- railroad- tlea, for which several large foreign orders have been, received by, the yards of the Pa cific northwest. For the four - weeks ending May J 1 an average of 121 lum ber mills in the. Pacific northwest pro duced 283.082.759 1 board feet of lumbeT. which was , 12.T ier cent below, normal. Orders were 21.2 per cent above produc tion and shipments were 7.8 per cent be low orders and ; -12 ' per. cent ' above pro duction. , i '?! i1!-1;! . ; J ; y .v., :'J :..-':? "Building permits Issued in 19 princi pal cities during May aggregated 99. 677,545, an Increase of 25.4 per cent over May. 1918, "and 17.6 per cent over April. 1919. Of this amount $8,114,275 was for new. construction and . $1,463,270 for re pairs and alterations. : . v ! , EXFOBT9 INCREASE ! , .' - Bxports- from Pacific coast ports dur ing April aggregated $58,1 98,000, an In crease of ;1.7 per cent over. April, 1918. but a decrease of ' 19 per cent from the figures , for" March, of , this year. Imports, which: amounted to $28,182,000, were 90 ' per cent less than those for April; 1918, and 33.9 per cent less than the total for: March. 1919. The princi pal item of export, from the Washington district was railway material bound for Russia. ' - "- - -.-r" : -- - Son Saves Father ; Death in' Well j-fChehalls, Wash.. July 1. Albert Ross of Claquato hill, west of Chehalis,-while Oakland Portland . . ?. 8alt Ik Cltj 8am Kraaciace . Seattls ...... Spokane- . . . Mar. 119 April. 1919 OTr orer Mar. 1918 April, 1919 . .! -0.3 80.9 81.2 S8.5 19T.8 S8.1 82.8 S6.B 84. 8T. 85.0 41.0 1 38.5, of these Orecoa Idaho Califoraia Total Teraoa ....... 32.4 Total ordera placed by stores during May' for tall delivery were 82. per cent greater than those- placed In May of last" year for fall delivery. 'Ap parently retailers have oractfeally aban doned their policy of waiting and are replenishing their depleted stocks In the. belief that there will be no material price reductions in the hear future. ; Sev eral of the largest wholesale dry goods firms In the principal centers of the dis trict report trade to be generally better than a year ago, the greatest Improve ment having been shown during the past two months. j . BAI5 IS SrjSEBED " ' ' i Lack of rain jin Washington, Oregon and Idaho, saya Perrin. is causing cotl siderable uncertainty 'and some anxiety as to grain production.. Although the soil' was well saturated with moisture during the spring, the surface has dried oat to such, en extent that it may keep the grain from filling normally. Winter wheat is - standing the drouth -; better than was expected two weeks ago, but spring wheat is beginning to head pre maturely. In California the grain har vest has commenced. Early barley and winter wheat have filled well, but the late, sown crops are in poor condition and some have been cut for hay. Dry winds during the first week - in June shriveled some wheat and barley in the Sacramento-valley, but no general dam age waa done. ? The prod action of spring and winter wheat in the principal wheat producing states of the district was estimated on June 1. by .the United States bureau of crop estimates as follows : ' , - ' v . .. ProdoeUoe .-: Baahrl, . V IBlfl ' .1111 Vraahinctoa 4.. '.. . . . 87.TTS.000f, 2S.42S.173 zn,4i,ooo 1R.834.OO0 2S.2S8.000 ,1T.94.000 14.400.200 7.599.000 ToUla . . .". lia.069.t!00 70.S1S.175 - According ; . to these ' estimates," J this year's wheat crop will be the . largest ever produced in Washington, Oregon and Idaho, and the largest in California since 1907. -, -';;' - - a . FBTJlT FAVORABLE Reports from all parts of this district concerning deciduous fruit crops are very lavoraDie - except irons Oregon- where prunes have been dropping heavily. - In California navel and .'Valencia - oranges are- setting well, lemons are still bloom ing and walnuts, and grapes are. making favorable progress. . - :. - The first crop of alfalfa Is being cut In Utah, -northern Nevada. Idaho' and Oregon and the second crop in Aris ona. j California and "southern Nevada. Rains during the first week in. June In Arizona, Utah and Nevada greatly bene fited the ranges. , Livestock, generally Is improving in condition and feed on the sdmmer ranges continues good. IXOC8TBT ACTIVE- V : . Industry tn the district : is . iactlve. No change la noted In the activity: of ship building on' the pacific coast except that a few yards law. discharging some of their men as government contracts are completed. These ' men. however, are finding employment without difficulty Unemployment as a! problem has now disappeared and in most of the states of the district supply and-demand are about equal. During the last month the number of unemployed In "Utah has been reduced from 5000 to-1000 and in Calif ornia from 7000 to 6000, most of whom are In : the southern - part of the state. Thai situation in California is considered normal. iThere Is a shortage of labor ers tn the .lumber camps and la some shipyards, and a shortage of workers Is anticipated in the orchards, berry fields and canneries.- v - - - - DEMA3f FOE ITJMBER : There Is an . unusually strong demand for lumber, particularly -yard.,atocke. Mills" -are opening up to full capacity ahd prices are advancing on account of the increased coat, of production and the limited supply of lumber now on hand. CLARPEHDALl&CO. , Geverameat, Stnnlelpat an 4 CsrporaUoa Bonds. 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