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THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS titirat Kainurr JMIH.tt lorliuKiMiOroKftn, niisoond c'mi tnnttcf under cl ot Coin re o( M reli, W) SPRINGFIELD, LANE COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, NOV. 27, 1916. VOL. XV NO. $7. II S. STEEL RAISES WAGES $281 0. r Corporation Grants Third Rlao Within a Year, Making Total Advance Amount To 33 Per Cent. GIVE EMPLOYES CHANCE TO COMBAT PRICE ADVANCES Many Eastern Cotton and Woolen Manufacturer Make Substantial Increase! In Pay To Thousands Or Mill Hands. To moot tho Increased cost of liv ing tlio United States Stool Corpora tion has (Sodded to increase tho wages otlts employes at stool works and blast furoacos 10 per cent, with n pro portionate advanco In case of workors In tho mlnos and transportation corn panic This la tho third Increaso rondo this year for n total of 33 por cent, over tho wages In force Jon, 1. After tho wookly mooting of tho Fin nuco committee, Chnlrman K. II. Gary Issued this statomont: "Ordinarily tho question of wagos would not como up for consideration or decision at this tlmo of tho year, but In conson.ucnco of tho abnormal conditions now existing It hns boon decided to Increase tho wage rotes . our Iron and stool companies about 10 per cent, to take effect Doc. 1C. An to other departments, Increases will bo oqultubly proportioned. "Tho clorlcal forcos In tho various offlcos of subsidiary couipanlos nro ex pected to sharo In tho upturn. All told about 200,000 men nro omployod by tho cornoratlon, nnd tho averago monthly wage, will bo nearly $99. Tho increase In dollars will approximate J9 a month, basing calculations on tbo official wngo records of tho corporation- which showed tho averago monthly pay of tho men to bo cIobo to 90 when tho second advanco of tho year bocamo offoctlvo on May 1. It tho Increaso amounts to 10 por cont lu case of all tho mon, tho corpora tlon'B payroll will bo Incroasod by tho latest advance ubout $23,000,000 n year. "It Is estimated that 175,000 labor ers nro omployod at tho blast furnacos and stool mills, whoso avorago wago last January was $2 a day. After Doc. 16 thoy will got $2.54 a day. Figuring 300 working days to tho year, tho cor poration will pay tho day laborers on Ittf payroll In tho neighborhood of $141,000,000 a year on tho now basis, compared with $90,000,000 bolngdls irlbuted annually at the January rate to the 150,000 laborers then employed. It Is .expected that tho Ilopubllo Iron' and Stool Company, tho Lacka wanna, tho Cambria, and other big producers of iron and steel will put tho same advanco Into operation. Thoy followod tho lead of tho Stool Cor poration 'when th oothor Increases were made last January nnd April, ' Whllo wages have advanced 33 per cent tho prlcos for steel products' have rlson this year from 200 to 600 per cont. Forward orders on tho books seem to assure tho companies of capacity operations for at lenst n year, which means that tho workors may look nhoad to steady employment for many months. In voting tho two provlous wago In creases, the Flnnnco Commltteo of tho Stoel Corporation considered as ono factor (ho rising coBt of living through out tho country.' Presumably tho same Item had in'tluonco In this last actlou. If tho findings or statisticians who have looked into food prlcos nro cor rect, aB mado publip last week, tho cost of major foodstuffs has advanced nearly 30 ppr cent' In tho InBt year, Tho 33 por cent wage Inorcaso, there fore, loaves tho employos of thd Cor poration 3 por cent ahead of their pos ition a year ago when thoy mot their grocory and ljutchor'B bills. MILL WORKERS AT PASSAIC GET RAISE OF 10 PER CENT Now York, Nov. 26, Thousands of workers will recelyo Incroasod wages In New Jersey and Connecticut, bo-1-; ginning Docombor 1 and 4. This has ' bona aanuncod b,V sovorol big plahta. Mllftwortforo la Passaic, totaling more than 15,000 will receive 10 per con raises, notice,, being 'posted, -by oron Ififidtus coinnanloB. Other large oonooD i nro 'T.Wng simitar arrange- 0 EMPLOYES merits, Wages havo Incroasod ovor 30 por cont in tho textllo Industry, counting now advanco slnco tho strlko troublo In Passaic n year ago. Tho second voluntary Increase made by tho Clark Thread company of East Newark and rjrconvlllo, Conn., goos Into effect Docombor G, affecting 4 CO employes. Fivo firms In Rockland, Conn,, an nounced n similar action whllo muni tion workors at Slmsburg and Avon, Conn., havo started profiling by addod wages. AMERICAN WOOLEN COMPANY BENEFITS 35,000 WORKERS Iloston, Nov. 24. A 10 per cent wago Increaso In nil tho mills of tho American Wooton Company, which em ploys 35,000 hands In Now Englanl nnd Now York stato, was' announced at tho hoadquarlors of the company hero tonight, At tho same time tho Arlington mills, whoso big cotton plant at Lawrcnca employs 5000 hands announced "a higher scalo of wages" tho amount of which ws not specified It was hollovcd that tho new scalo would bo similar to that mado public last night by tho Cotton Manufactur ers' Association or Now Bodford, granting tholr 33,000 employes a 10 por cont raise. Franklin W. II. Hobbs, Presldont of tho Arlington mills, In announcing tho now scalo of his company, said: "Tho Increaso is In accordanco with tho policy of tho corporation to adapt Uh scalo of wngo to improved condi tions of business, and keep It at least on nparlty with tho best wago scalo among Its competitors In Now England." Massachusetts Hands Get Raise Adams, Mass., Nov. 24. Wago In creases of 40, par.. cent, effective Dec 4, waro announced today by the sev eral cotton mills In this vicinity. Notices to this effect wcro posted by William 1). Plunkott, who controls 4 mills In this town: W. C. Plunkott & Sons. Several thousand operatives arc af fected. Tho promised Increaso will bo tho third of tho caloudar year, mak ing tho total advanco 25 por cent. BLIND JOHNNY KEENEY LAID TO REST SATURDAY Lane County Native, Who Was 61 Years or Age, Dies After Years' Illness. Tho funoral services of John S. Koenoy "Blind Johnny," who died hero Thursday evening after an illness of mora than a year, were hold at 10:30 o'clock on Saturday morning, at Ploasant Hill, Reverend Harry Benton being In churge. Interment waa-jnado in tho Pleasant Hill ceme tery. Mr. Keonoy was 61 years of ago and was a nativo of Lano county, being tho son of Ell Koenoy, one of this country's early pioneers. Ho leaves two sisters, Mrs. Alothe Rych- ard of this city, and Mrs. Ruth Flot , chor of Pendleton, and a brother, Silas Kcenoy, also of this city. "Blind Johnny" was ono of tho host known characters of the county, and ho was liked ovorywhero. Ho was born on tbo Koenoy donation land claim botweon Pleasant Hill and Clov erdalo. It was thoro, when ho was flvo years of ngo, that ho was klckod by a horso, tho bonos of the bridge of tho noso bolng broken and crushed against tho optic norvo. From that day until hs death ho was unablo to boo -daylight. Ho often made tho remark that tho only thlngB he could remember of sboing wora tho greon grass and his mother's oyes. It is said that such an injury in thoso days of modorn surgery could easily havo boon remedied and his sight rostorod. "Johnny" 1 Bald by thoso who knew him bost to havo been ablo to fllnd his way In any part of Spring field or ISugone and ovor almost any road In the county. Ho mado his own living by peddling porfumery. soap and other notions until over a year ago when ho was attacked by a norvous breakdown which caused his death. At ono tun? "lie owned a nemestead and ' a ' .tlnfber claim lri eastern Oregon, which ho Bold for a good sum, and this monoy went a long way toward his support. Me was a member ot the Christian cbuWr. LOCAL ODD FELLOWS VISIT Grand Warden Walker and Others Make Trip To Waltervllle. Grand Wnrdon W. F. Walker, ac companied by a number of other HprlngfloliI Odd Fallows and tholr wives mado an official visit to tho I. O. O. F. lodgo at Waltorvlllo Thurs day ovonlng upon tho Invitation ol tho latter lodgo, Tho party left by nutomobNo about 7 o'clock, making tho trip up and back without accident A real "IjIbJ tlmo" Isroportod, Including a very cnjoyablo social affair, and an extra good supper, both as to quality and quantity. Tho Waltorvlllo Robok as and. other ladles of tho neighbor hood prepared tho lunch. ThoBo who mado tho trip arc: W. F. Walkor, H. E. Walker, D. 8. Bcals, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Korf, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rrummctte, Mr. and Mrs. M. Q. Dally, T. W. Bowman, Dr. and Mrs. R. P. Mortcnson, Dr. J. E. Rich mond, Oswald Olsen, Mrs. AI Mont gomery, J. P. Fry, and Charles Syl vester. DEDICATE CHURCH Rovorond Moore Announces Building To Be Ready For Croat Occasion. PRESIDENT DONEY SPEAKS Epworth League Will Put Last Fin Islilng Touches On Auditorium Friday Afternoon By RUTH SCOTT It Is now a cortalnty that Ihe Eb- bort Momorial Methodist Episcopal church will be .dedicated Sunday. Dec ember third. Through tho efforts of tho Reverend James . T. Ioore, tho local pastor, Bishop Matthow S. Hughes of San Francisco, has been se cured to deliver the dcdlcatorial ser mon. On Saturday evening of this week there will bo an official mcmbors mooting at tho church. Tho principal! speakers of tho following day will meot with the members to complete plans for dedication. Tho following Is a brief outline for tho Sunday services: At 0:30 tho Sunday School will meet and tho regular classes will bo held, At 10:30 tho dedication service, from tho Ritual of tho church. Spec ial music by tho choir. Sermon by Bishop Hughes. At throo o'clock. Layman s platform mooting In charge of T. S. McDanlels of Portland. At 0:15 tho Epworth League exer cises. There will be special music. The principal address will bo deliv ered by tho Roverend Henry J. Tal bot, Dean of tho Kimball Collego ot Theology at Salem. A feature ot tho mooting will bo the Epworth Loague pledge sorvlce. At 7:30 the ovonlng song scrvlco will bo held. Music by tho choir. Ser mon by tho Reverend Carl Q. Donoy, president 'of Willamotto University. Tho services of the day will bo Li charge ot tho Roverond James Moore of Albany, Superintendent of tho Eu gono district. Thoro will bo a Brotherhood meet ing tho following Monday at which Dri. Talbot will speak. Epworthlans Clean Up Tho members of tho Epworth League will moot at tho new church Friday afternoon at two o'clock, for tho purpose of putting tho building in ordor. Evoryono is to bo there and bring brooms, dustcloths and Bon Ami. Mombora and friends wishing to contrlbuto to tho Thanksgiving boxes, which aro to bo prepared by the Ep. worth League, are requested to bring donations of fruit, vegetables, or any kind ot eatables, as woll as caBh, to tho church at tho cornor ot Sixth and C streets. Please bring articles on or before Wednesday of this week. Con tributions will bo gratefully received by the committee In charge. Chlolo Wooley, chairman, Mobel Duryeo, Nora Olson and Mrs. Campbell are In charge ot tho work. To Speak Before Parent-Teachers. Mlsa Anne McCormtck, domestla art teacher at tho Lincoln school build' log, iff to speak to the Paront-Toach era saeottng at tho Lincoln ucbool building on Docombor 8 at 8 o'clock, One of her topics will bo "Fruite' pf Doisftstio Economy. , HUGHES TO WILL OPEN RACKET STORE I E. E. Kepner Purchases Stock Goods to Conduct Business or E. E. Kepner or this cllyias bought a small stocx oi goods at Florence, Oregon and will open a 5-10-15 cent tor) next week in his own building onfcaln street. Mr. Kepner was formerly a real es tate agent In Springfield and Is woll known here. Ho will take charge oft the storo himself. Tho building in ' which tho business will bo conducted . Is being remodeled and arranged raoro conveniently. Local R. N. A. Camp Gets Pennant. J Mistletoe Camp number 4878 Royal Noli-hbeors or Snrlnjtfleld secured tho ' 60 Inch pennant for having the larg est delegation ot the meeting at Eu gene, held last Thursday night. Offers Prize For Rooters Yell. Tho booth-Kelly basket ball team has offered 2 season tickets for league camcs as a nrlzc for tho best short yell for its rooters. Send yells to.lway company post office box number 187, Springfield. JAPAN BU!S BONDS VALUED $50,000,000 Merchants .and .Exporters .of Nippon Invest In Our Rail roads And Industries HAVE GREAT PROSPERITY Prefer Buying U. S. Securities To Lending Money at Low Rates to Their Own Countrymen. Japanese merchants and exporters have bought between $30,000,000 and 150,000.000 American securities In tho last six months, according to estimates made yesterday In banking quarters, wnfefo-an Important part of -the. pur chases wore put through. Tho securi ties were bonds for tho most part, largely underlying railroad Issues, al though a substantial part consisted of mortgage bonds of industrial compan ies returning a high yelld on tho purchase price. It is assumed that many hundreds of thousands ot dollars worth of American bonds sold here by Europe havo gone directly Into Japanese handB. These Japanese Investments on so largo a scale aro tho outgrowth ot tho shifts of commerce which resulted from the war. Japan has been ship ping to the United States a great amount ot goods which formerly were manufactured by Germany, and at the same time exports to us ot silks and other Far Eastern products from Japan have been stimulated because tho European demand for them has been reduced. In consequence Jap an's trado balanco In this country has been growing steadily, produc ing credits which either had to be transferred to the owner or put to use here. For the most part the securities bought with tho proceeds of Japanese goods sold In tho United States have been deposited with local banks. As tho Interest on tho bonds falls due It will bo credited to the owners- account, nnd dividend checks will receive similar attention. On most ot tho stocks and bonds, it is said, an Income return ot at least 4 per cont, Is obtained, which is lMt per cent, or more higher than tho owners could get If thoy had their funds sent back homo and the money lent at Interest rates current In tho Japan eso market. Tho superabundance of money In Japan Is tho primary reason for Invest ments In American stocks and bonds. from war orders, and this business has flooded the country with money. A number ot prominent banks havo of lato refused farther deposits, and the bankers have discouraged gold importation as far as possible Gold is sent from this side from time to tl mo.however, $2,000,000 having been transferred yesterday by the Sub' Treasury to the San Francisco mint for shipment to Japan. Halt of tho total was arrangod for by the local agency ot the Yokohama Specie bank ing Arm. Tonon im nvnniAi a nnrt nt her balanco ot trade In Groat Briton, ta ririflBh Treasury notes. Three monthB m if wur lnnmoil that onnroxtmateh' $30,"4,000 ot Japanese GoYorntaenU fiiniiH held In Now Yortt had been eent to London to be used In the purchase ot those English Treasury obligations, RAILROAD FORCES PREPARE NEW FIGHT ON 8-HOUR LAW B K. TO SHIP TWICE AS MUCH LUMBER AS NOW . p,an To Put Another Motor Truck ! on Run Between mis point fna I O. E. Depot, Soon. " announced tnat aooui twice as much lumber can be shipped by tho Booth-Kelly Lumber company from this point as Is being shipped at present, when a second motor truck recently ordered will be put on the run, which will probably be in a short time. To accommodate the Increased ship mcnt which will then be made over their line, the Oregon Electric rail- la building another loading platform at, their freight yards on Fifth avenue west between Olive and Charnolton streets In Eugene. A crew of men Is now at work mov ing the trucks over a few feet to mako room for tho planned operations. At present the company is shipping two cars a day over the Oregon Elec tric lines. A tleast two, and per haps three more will be added when the new truck Is put on in addition to tho truck and team now hauling. If the company can get all tho cars they can utilize at the Oregon Electric depot, and can secure a few right along hero, it Is estimated that probably 50 per cent of its shipping requirements from this point can be met Even this Is some betterment of conditions, for4in October only 37 per cent, ot the total requirement was met. Some relief from the car shortage is expected from the arrival of new cars from time to time. One was received from Columbus a few -days ago, for which lumber for construc tion was sent from this mill. Others are promised, and may be expected almost any time. EVA TITUS MOST POPULAR of the railroads to overturn the Ad- jmanson law, and to oppose any at- Wins Most Votes In Contest Conduct- tempt in Congress to enact unsatis ed By Marcola High School I factory legislation apparently had dis- i appeared. The contest for the most popular! While the brotherhood heads are girl In the Marcola high school closed saying little, the talk among those Friday. Twenty six dollars was acquainted with the views of these taken in. This money will be used ' orsranlzations shows that the leader to send three of the M. H. S. boys to tho boy'B Conference at Corvallls from December 1st to 3rd. The girl ( that he will use his Influence to com recelvlng the most votes was MUs)Dat the attempt ot the railroads "to Iva Titus and the boy selling the hay0 the Admanson law declared tin? most votes was Oliver Barr. Both constitutional. That the brotherhood Miss Titus and Mr. Barr wore pre- chiefs are worried is a rather general sentcd with a fine box of candy from 1 opinion among those who have talk tho student body in honor of the oc- j ed wtth them. caslon. I What the heads of the four brother? The three boys chosen by the Mar cola high school student body to at tend the boy's conference at Cor vallls wore: Ralph Garoutte, Layman Yockey, and Willis Blackley. WILSON .GAERTE. IS. DEAD Mrs. AI Montgomery Notified of Bro thers Death, at Orange Calif. Mrs. Al Montgomery received word Friday her brother, Wilson Gaerte, had died at Orange, California, tho preceding Saturday, The cause ot death was tuberculosis with which Mr. Gaerte had been afflicted for some months. Mr. Gaerte formorly lived at Mabel, Oregon His wife, who with two children survive him, is a daughter of Charles Spencer ot West Spring field. Annual Institute Begins Today. Tho session ot annual institute for toachers o fthe county began at 9:30 o'clock this morning in the Eugene high school building. A profitable session is looked forward to, as sup erintendent E. J. Moore has been fortunate in obtaining the consent of the foremost educators ot the stato to bo present. Among the lectures on tho program la R. L. Kirk, sup erintendent of the Springfield Schools, who will speak at 0:60 Tuesday morn ing on "History and Clvlca In Ad vanced Grades," S, H. S, Girls Go On Hike, Miss Vera Williams, history teach I or In the high school, and also girls' athletic coach, .took the high school girls, on a hike Tuesday, November ! 21. They went to the Maple school house, a mile, and a halt eaa. of;tovnit They had planned on having teaket , ball practice but ta oya of tko klgli ecacoi Mm uug u-o jirh, Brotherhood Leaders, Worried Over Situation, Prepare to De fend Their Rights, In Washington. x J REPRESENTATIVES CALL. ON PRESIDENT WILSON All Labor Is "Irrevocable Opposed' To Proposed Compulsory Investiga tion by .Government In Cases of Threatened Strikes. Events in Washington last week in dicated that the battle between rail road capital and railroad labor, which was suspended by the armistice af forded by the enactment of the Ad amson eight-hour law In August, . .a about to be renewed. It Is evident that the chiefs of the railroad brother hoods are worried over the present'Slt uation and are preparing to make a fight to regain the ground which they think has been lost by the action ot the railroads in seeking tq test the constitutionality and the legality of tho Admanson act In the Federal courts. The four brotherhood leaders, W. O. Lee, Chlcfo of the Brotherhood of rail way Trainmen; Warren S. Stone. Chief Engineer of the Brotherhood of Loco motive engineers; W. S. Carter, Chief ot the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire men, and L. E. Sheppard, Acting Chief of the Brotherhood ot Railway Con ductors, interviewed President Wilson on the situation. The elation which they felt over the working agreement effected between the brotherhoods and the twelve railroad unions of the Amer ican Federation of Labor to obtain a I permanent eight-hour work day for railway workers, to fight 'the effort 0f railroad labor feel that President ( Wilson is under debt to them, and hooda said to President Wilson when they saw him at the white house has been made known In detail, but it ts gathered that thoy took advantage of the oportunlty to tell Mr. Wilson of the work they had done In Ohio and California In organizing the rail road workers in behalf of the Demo cratic national ticket. Everything learned gave the Im pression that tho brotherhood heads felt that their case against the at tempt to overthrow the Admanson law was the government's case; that the Government should stand by the broth erhoods In maintaining the eight-hour; railroad work day, and that they be lieved the Administration owed them a debt that could be repaid only by using Its Influence to make the eight hour day a permanent thing. The brotherhoods see cause for wor ry in the knowledge that President Wilson Intends to renew to Congreaa his recommendation of tho last session that a law be enacted .for the com-, pulsory Investigation ot industrial dis putes, the Investigation to be complet ed, to use the Presidents words, "be fore' a strike, or lockout may lawfully bo attempted.'' The President bo Informed Representative Admanson of Georgia, Chairman of the House Com mittee on Interstate and Foreign Com- morco; when the latter called on "him Immediately after the Brotherhood chiefs' had left the" White House. Tho Brotherhoods make ,no secret of the fact that they are "lrrevocablys. opposed'1 to compulsory Investigation. At one ot the seestoaB ot the American Federation of Labor In Baltimore last week a resolution against compulsory tomstigaUoa was adopted. The brotherhoods are thus In a, dil emma. Is the first . plaee taey.dM not wont the olgb-hour .day hyCoa g res sternal ' aa&ctaeat, -prefwlflg (Ce&Uaw o two)