THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, OREGON
LABOR WILL URGE
EARLY CONFERENCE
WITH PRESIDENT
The Community Chest Thermometer
is rising slowly. Every good
citizen will help to raise
it to $850,000
Cam4y Special for Tuesday!
The Unusually Delicious Mukilteos
24c Pound
Made of sugar, butter, corn syrup,
.and thick with coco an ut and peanuts.
, Street Floor.
Pictorial Review Patterns
; Have Not Advanced in Price
Still 20c and 35c
with the exception of the "embroidery
patterns.
Pictorial Summer Fashion Book, 2 Sc.
' : Street-Floor.
MONDAY; APRIL 4, 1921.
crHgrdiandise of Merit Only
By Norman Hapgood
Universal Serrica Editorial Correspondent.
Washington, April 4. A new move
will be made in the labor situation
today or tomorrow. The 16 craft
unions, plus the maintenance men,
will send a -sizzling: hot telegram
from Chicago to President Harding
most urgently requesting that be see
ft committee representing the men.
If he accedes to the request the
committee will reach "Washington
Thursday.; The purpose is to get the
point of view of men before the
president so far as possible ahead
of the meeting of congress, and be
fore any further steps ar taken to
ward committing the administration
to the railroad policy to be favored.
L"nlee3 the situation changes suddenly,
will foreshadow the line or argument to
be taken at the meeting, if the meeting
is granted. The men feel that the ad
ministration is seeking many representa
tives of capital and fewer or none of
labor. They feel that a great deal of
thought is given to the predicament of
the roads and no thought' whatever to
the predicament, of the men. -
DECK5T WAGE DEMANDED
Their proposition will be-a flat argu
ment that unskilled labor has a right
,to a wage 'that means a decent Amei-iran-.Ftandard
of living. They challenge
any. statement that the present wage
toes' more than give such a standard.
They accept as the figures of the de-
: rartment of labor and they welcome any
investigation to show that the lower
grades of labor, which they believe are
particularly aimed at by the railroad
; managers at present, are able to live on
' the .department of labor standard or any
.less wages than they have.
The refusal of the president to bring
ibout a meeting between the road man
agers .and the men on a national scale
. u-aa not resonsib!e for this decision, al
. though it had a tendency to confirm it.
It has been in process of formation for
several days. It is based simply on an
appeal to figures, including a denial that
the cost of living has shown essential
decrease, and it drives straight at the
question of what is, an American stan
dard of, living.
Perhaps a fair way toget down to
what the laborers are really thinking is
to cite from a recent speech by a scholar
'f nationwide fame. Trof.,1 Frederick A.
Cleveland is known everywhere as a
student of economics.
I- HEAT XOSS AFTER WAR
lie says:
'The losses to 'capital' In the period
immediately following the Civil war
were greater than the cost of the war.
The loss and waste to the non-members,
the workers, has far exceeded the losses
to the dollar aristocracy. The loss In
working force, due to lack of good will,
the cost of the human turnover. In at
tention, disloyalty, opposition to disci
pline, and sabotage in industries man
uged on a basis which has ignored good
wHI,' cannot', be estimated." - -
But its results can be staled. Frofes
s6r Cleveland states them thus: "Sixty
five per cent of all the wealth . in the
hands of 2 per cent of the people- Only
35 per cent of the. people who have a
ratable share, and those largely farm
ers. Sixty-five million people in' this,
the most productive of all countries, are
rwithin a few days, of the breadline."
The argument behind the appeal of
the workers is that capital has got to
find an answer to that or give -up some
of the key industries. As a matter of
fact the answer cannot be found in
the, railroads alone. It is impossible to
separate the railroad problems from the
coal mining problem. An attempted so
lution that does not include them both
is not more than skin ideep. t
COAIi IS BASE OF TRAFFIC
Look at some of the figures. On the
roads north of the Potomac and the
Ohio and east of Chicago, 40 per cent
of the business of tlio roads is coal. It
is the most profitable part of the traffic
It is ahnost the only part where effi
ciency prevails. One derrick sometimes
how of a steamer.
One train sometimes carries 2500 tons.
Who uses tho coal? The householders
very litLlo of it. The railroads them
selves use from 25 to 33 per cent of it.
Therefore, the c6al situation hits them
both ways. Coal at the mouth of the
pit today costs only two or three times
as much as it did before the war. That
hits the roads. Coal Is not moving and
that hits them still harder.
It is a bad joke on supply and de
mand and though coal is not moving,
the prices reraaln two or thrco times
tho rre-war price. It remains a first
mortgage on the welfare of us all.
A good deal of the ;ttmo lately the
miners have been working less than 20
I' rtirs a week. That idleness ruins the
railroads and ruins the rest of us. It
ruins the railroad employes. There is
one answer to the railroad problem and
tho ;rest is charlatanry. Wages per day
mean nothing. It is earnings per year
that count. Until the mines and rail
roads guarantee regularity of employ
ment their troubles will remain, the cost
of living will still stay up. Only regu
larity of employment can insure regu
larity of production. The mine owners
and the .railroad managements do not
like the idea of government ownership.
Very well. Let them give another if
they can. Somebody has to take the lead
toward making production even and em
ployment continuous.
For the railroads to pretend they are
giving an answer by taking a slash at
the day wages of their employes, while
showing absolute blockheadedness in
face of underlying social problem is it-
little too old a story. The country is
tiring of it.
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Height 30 inches. Top 18x26 inches.
Sea Grass Chair (or Rocker)
: Height 40 inches, width 28 inches,
depth 25 inches, seat 19x19 inches.
Sea Grass Rocker (or Chair)
Height 3 8 inches, width' 27 inches,
depth 26 inches, seat 19x19 inches.
Sea Grass Chair (or Rocker)
Height 39 inches, width 28 inches,
depth 25 inches, seat 19x18 inches.
Sea Grass Table -
Holght K inches, diameter top 24
inches, weight 21 pounds.
$5e95- More Than 500 Pieces of Imported Grass Furniture, Consisting of Chairs, Rockers and Tables as the Above Illustrations Show -$5.95
At Prices Actually Less T hari tl
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Recall Values Even Beginning to Compare With These!
1 O , Two of the Finest Groups of Japanese and Chinese Furniture to Reach This Country in Years
PJr o Jr There is not much of a story to relate in the explanation of hew we happened to secure this great lot of nearly 1 000 pieces of
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than our 5wan crana; or, it you preter a domestic make, there is the
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the much-wanted JCayser garments, they are here also.
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Women's Vests
SWAN BRAND VESTS Regular and bodice tops, regular sues . . 85c
Extra sizes . . . Sl.OO
SWAN BRAND VESTS of lisle thread, in regular top only $1 OO
SWAN BRAND VESTS, lisle thread, regular top only $1.25
VIOLA BRAND COTTON VESTS, regular top, regular sizes. 50c
Extra sizes , 60c
VIOLA BRAND LISLE VESTS, regular and bodice top, reg. sizes. . 75c
Extra sizes '. : 85c
KAYSER LISLE VESTS, in pink and white, reg. and bodice tops. . 1 65c
KAYSER LISLE VESTS, in regular top only 85c
KAYSER CROCHETED YOKE VESTS, regular and bodice top. Reg
ular sizes, 65c; extra sizes . 75c
Street Floor, Liptnan, Wolfe & Co. J
$6195
Reed Rocker (or Chair) ;
Height 32 Inches, width 25 inches,
depth 26 inches, seat 18x19 inches.
Reed Chair (or Rocker)
Height 40 inches, width 27 inches,
depth 3 4 inches, seat lSxlS inches.
Height
inches.
Sea Grass Table
3o inches, top 21J.jx32Jj
Reed Rocker
Height 3 3 inches, width .29 inches,
depth 27 inches, seat 19x20 inches. :
Reed Rocker (or Chair)
Height 33 inches, width 29 inches,
depth 27 inches, seat 19x19 inches.
$6.95 242 Pieces of Imported Grass and Reed Furniture, Every Piece Firmly Built as Illustrated Above -$6.95
Fifth Floor, Lipman, Wolfe & Co.,
For Misses
GLOBE SUITS of fine lisle In
sumqier weight, low neck, sleeve
less, band top and ehouider
traps, knee length.
Regular sizes S1.65
Kxtra sizes 91.85.
300 Boston Bags in a Fine Sale
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At the Lowest Price at Which Bags of This Fine
j Quality Have Ever Been Sold .
The Ideal Shopping Bag and
Positively the Best Value of
Its Kind in the City!
$2.85
Bags made of GENUINE SPLIT COWHIDE in tan
and dark brown shades. Each one equipped with a large
inside pocket and lined with khaki. Sizes 13 to 16 inches.
-Fifth Floor, Lipman, Wolfe & Co. i
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of famous mills.
The economy of high quality
L'Aiglon Dresses look well longer, give
freater wear and stand frequent laun
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cause they are quality throughout.
The L'Aiglon Label on Every Dress
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wear, as well as being authoritatjve in style.
1 Semi-loose
model of checked
fringham. W h I t
piqye collar and
cuffs. Blue, black,
pink and green.
Hires 36 to 46. I
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H e m s t Itched, or
gandy collar and!
cuffs. Varle.cL'.
shad e s. . Iarge
sash. Sizes 39 to
46.
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gingham, cham.
bray collar, Marge .
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'pink and green.
Sizes 36 to 46.
-1 Beautiful Dress for
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Large organdy collar,
cuffs of organdy.. Blue,
tan. pink, green, red
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