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Arguments End
In Hearing on
Minera Wages
Questions* of 60 Per Cent
Pay Raise and 30-Hour
Week Submitted to Strike
Commission for Derision
Five Days for Briefs
Attorney for Operators Says
What Men Need Is "Great?
er Disposition to Work"
WASHINGTON. Feb. 8.?With con-j
eluding arguments presented before ;
the coal strike settlement commission
to-day by spokesmen for the operators
snii mine workers in the central com?
petitive tioid, the fate of the reiterated
demands of the workers for a GO per
cent increase in wages and a thirty- |
hour week was submitted to the final
decision of the commission. Each side.
however, vas granted permission to
present within five days a written brier
discussing tho_opposing evidence.
Summing up the position o1" the oper?
ators, Ralph Crews, attorney, told the |
commission that from all the evidence
submitted "it was apparent that what
the miners i eeded to improve their
condition was not an increased wage
scale, but a greater disposition to
work when the opportunity to work is i
given them."
Work Only 85 Per Cen? of Time
Throughout their presentation of evi?
dence the union representatives, Mr.
Trews declared, hav? studiously sought
to deal jn averages. They have re?
frained, he said, "from presenting aj
single case to show the potential earn?
ings open to the industrioui mur.."
Statistics of the Federal Bureau of La?
hm'. Mr. Crews added, show that in
October bituminous miners throughout
the country worked on an average of
only 8."> per c? nt of the operating time
of the Tiimes, and that this was the;
"fundamentally significant thing for
the commission to consider." Miners
could increase their earnings by 25 per ,
cent, !" estimated, if they worked
whenever they m g]
John t.. Lewis, acting president of,
ten United Mine Workers, challenged
thi accuracj of the operators' figures
on miners' earnings, though declaring'
i ? the same time that even if accepted
s "dependable" they were "so pitiably :
low as to carry tiieir own condemna?
tion."
Green Wants 30-Hour Week
Operators' ligures showing that in
1919 the average monthly earnings of >
?is in the northern Illinois field
? en ?83.64, against a potential earn?
ing of $99, were characterized by Mr.
Lewis as "pathetic." Such a level of
pay, he declared, "is not enough to '
supply animal needs alone, without re?
gard to comforts."
A final plea on behalf of the opera-,
tors thai th? commission provide means
to compel individual miners and their
union to abide by their working con
tracl with i pe ators, wit! the same
obligation resting upon the operator,
was voiced by Philip Penna. secretary
of the Indiana Coal Operators Asso?
ciation.
William Green, secretary of the
union, arguing in support oi a thirty
I our-week, declared the granting of
such a demand not only was an "?co?
nomie possibility" but that it probably
would cause an actual increase in pro
duction ov<t the present eight-hour
?ia;,. It would guarantee to the miner,;
he estimated. 266 day,? of work in the
year, whereas for the last -even years1
he has averaged only 200 day .
Buffalo Sends Republican
Lawyer to State Senate
Parl?n Swift Selected to Fill Va?
cancy Caused by Resignation
of Ross Graves
BUFFALO, Feb. 3.- Parton Swift,*
Republican, was elected State Senator
from the Forty-eighth District to-day
in a special election to AH the va?
cancy caused by the election of Boss
Craves to the Buffalo City Council.
The vote was: Swift, 6,760; Jesse
Oppenheimer (Democrat), 6,585; Ralph
K. Home I Socialist I, 916.
Less than 25 per cent of the total
vote of the district was cast to-day.
The Socialist vote was about normal.
\t the regular election in 1918 the
-'???iali.-t candidate polled 3,500 votes.
Parton Swift, the successful candi?
el ite, is a, lawyer. He served in the
? iiny during the war, going to France
n a first lieutenant of artillery in the
S? venty-sixth Division, and winning
promotion to the rank of major.
Pershing Report Pleases
?Confirms Fact Germany Was
Near Success, Reventlow Says
BERLIN. Feb. 2. -Count von Revent
iow, chief editorial writer of the
"Tageszeitung," designates General
Pershing's report as "inestimable" for
the purpose of judging the situation in
the spring and summer of 1918. He
topes ?t will be translated and circu?
lated in Germany.
The pan-German editor assorts that
Pershing's report on ,th<-"military situ?
ation proves that German great head?
quarters did ?ot (Ji?ceive the German
people, and that the report further eon
firms the fact that Germany was on
the eve of a military succ?s*. Then
came the "inner collapse" of, a great
portion of the German troops.. He adds
that Pershing's report^foves that
American aiil woulJ^rfave arrived too
late if the German/front had remained
intact. [
Gravediggen* Await Ship
Work of Exhuming Bodies of
(". S. Dead to Begin Soon
PARIS, Feb. ". A special contingent
of forty army gravediggers arrived
81 l!r?>st Saturday, awaiting the ar
rivi I of the transport with 17,000 cof?
fins to begin the exhumation of the
'.jodies of American soldiers, the return
if which have been requested by their
families.
1: is ?xpected that work will begin
in about ten days or two weeks. Each
coffin will be draped with the American
t'lag. There will bo no ceremonies in |
Franco.
German Band Scorns Allies
Refuses to Participate in Wei?
? com4 to Troops at Tondern
BERL?N, Feb. 3.- The German band ;
at Tondern, Schleswig-Holstein, refused
to participate in the ceremonies of !
welcome to the Inter-Allied troops when
they arrived there in connection with i
the condition of the peace treaty re?
gaining the plebiscite.
Tho Germans were offered their pay
in Danish money, which would have
represented a handsome increase over
the depreciated Cern?an currency, but
they declined to accept. j
A
Negroes Told to Prepare
For "Bloodiest of Wars"
Attention of Department of Jus?
tice Called to Inflammatory
Articles by Marcus Garvey
Prediction of a coming "bloodiest
of ail conflicts," in which the negro
will not fight on the side of the white
man, is contained in an article by Mar?
cus Garvey, editor of "The Negro
World," in the issue of that publica?
tion dated January 17. 1920. The at?
tention of the Department of Justice
has been directed to the article, which
is headed in four-column lines:
"All negroes should pull together
for a strong and united race."
'The bloodiest of wars is yet to
come and negroes the world over
should prepare themselves.''
Garvey in his article, which is date
lined "Montreal, Canada, January 8,"
appeals for race solidarity, and speaks
of the convention of the Universal
Negro Improvement Association to be
held here next August. He then writes:
"Our convention of August will in?
spire us with the new cry of 'Liberty
or Death.' We may as well prepare
ourselves from now on for the blood?
iest of conflicts. . . . As a race we
have decided already that we have
fought the last battle for the white
man. We have died for the last time
for him. We shall now prepare to an?
swer the call of Mother Africa when
she demands of us our wealth, our
strength and genius to deliver her from
the grasp of the oppressor.
"So long as white men are going
to rule and brutalize black men. just
so long must we continue to prepare
for the greatest war in the history of
the human race."
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Small Milk Dealers See
Ruin in Price Battle
Impossible to Sell for 16 Cents
and Continue Business, a
Brooklyn Man Asserts
H. S. Chardavoyne, a milk distribu?
tor, of 406 Court Street. Brooklyn, de?
clared yesterday that some of the
smaller firms would be strangled by
the price battle between the two
largest companies. He declared tha?
his firm, together with some of the
other smaller distributing firms, gavo
a creator amount of butter fat in milk
than the larger companies, and in this
>\ny managed to hold some of their
business.
"We will sell Grade R milk for 17
cents this month and Grade A for 19,"
Mr. Chardavoyne said. "We could not
sell at a lower figure and stay in busi?
ness. The fight between the larger
firms seems to be aimed at the extinc?
tion of the smaller competitors."
W. A. Evans, of the Evans Milk
Company, Lexington Avenue, Brooklyn,
declared that he would meet the Bor
den's Farm Products Company's price
of 16 cents for Grade B milk and 18
for Grade A. He declared that the
future of his business was darker than
it ever had been, but that he found It
necessary to cut two cents a quart
from the February schedules to retain
his customers. At the Empire ?state
Dairy Company, 2810 Atlantic Avenue,
Brooklyn, it was said that Grade B
milk would be sold for 17 cents and
Grade A for 19.
The Levy Dairy Company, Nine?
teenth Street and Avenue B, it was an?
nounced, would not modify its price
schedule, but would continue to sell
Grade B bottled milk to grocers at 15
cents, to be sold by them to consumers
at 16 cents.
House Talks 'Lobby Bug'
That Thrives on Poison
Fest Immune to Sp?cifie Will Be
Attacked Under Powers of
Maintenance Fund
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. ? "Lobby
bugs" invaded the austere pages of
the Congressional Record to-day while
the House turned aside from debate on
the deficiency appropriation bill to dis?
cuss their, ravages and take a few
laughs on the side.
"They have ruined a large supply of
stationery which I recently got arid
which is charged against my station?
ery account," complained Representa?
tive Barbour, Republican, of Cali?
fornia, while the House rocked with
mirth, "they even have eaten the cov?
ers off my books.
"I have hud the superintendent of
the office building squirt a solution
supposed to be bug juice three or
four times around my office, and when
he got through they seemed to be
o,ore numerous than when he started."
"They ge? fat on it," interposed
Representative Juul. Republican, of
Illinois.
Representative King, Republican, of
Illinois, interrupted that perhaps if
there were anything "lit to eat" in the
House ortice building restaurant "the
gentleman's hooks would not be dis
t urb< ti by roaches."
The House debated the "bugs" uu
tii assured that the "maintenance fund"
provided in the bill would supplv a
war chest for counter-attacks upon
the enemy.
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Maternity Centers Cul
Infant Mortality Rate
Report Shows One Death in
.Ninety-nine, Instead of
One in Thirty-six
The death rate of babies has been
reduced from one in every thirty-six
to one in every ninety-nine, of those '
who came under the care of the Ma?
ternity Center Association, according
to the annual report of that organiza?
tion delivered yesterday by Dr. Louis
1. Dublin, at a meeting at the home
of Mrs. Robert L. Gerry, 69 East Sev?
enty-in nth Street.
Dr. Dublin is chairman of the com?
mittee on records of the association.
"Four hundred and ninety-five babies
wem born alive under the care of the
Maternity Center," he said, "and of
these only five died before they were
u Month old. This makes a rate of one
for every ninety-nine births. The rate
for the United States at large is one
death in every thirty-six babies.
"Of the 495 births only one mother
died. The average for the nation of
deaths of mothers is one death in
every 200.
"Do not these figures prove the
value of pre-natal care? More women
die in the United States from causes
incident to childbirth than from any '
other cause except tuberculosis. ?
large percentage of these deaths is
preventable."
Mrs. John S. Rogers, retiring presi?
dent, told in detail of the work of the
association. On December 31 it had
1,000 mothers under its care and sup?
ported eleven clinics and nineteen
nurses who visited mothers in their
homes.
Miss Mabel Choate, daughter of
Joseph H. Choate, was elected presi?
dent for the coming year, with the fol?
lowing other officers: Vice-president,
Miss Mary L. Davison; treasurer, Mrs. i
Arthur Scott Burden; assistant treas- i
urer, Stephen G. Williams; secretary,
Miss Anne Stevens.
Newman Sale Realizes 12,939
The sale of drawing* by American,
British, Dutch, Flemish, French, Ger
nan and Spanish masters, comprising
;he collection of V. Winthrop Newman,
vas completed last night at the An- l
lerson Galleries. A total of $12.939 |
vb^ realized on the art works.
Girl Testifies
Solomon Spat
On U. S. Flag
Continue?! from pace \
i flection of the sent ?nient among tho
1 voters on this subject."
M?88 Olivers, who testified in a voice (
that could hardly be heard fifteen feet i
! away, excepting when she occasionally
1 raised it, was admitted to be the most \
damaging witness produced by the
prosecution to date.
Girl Shouts Reply
She is not yet eighteen years of age, i
is slight of build and has light blond .
| hair. During the grilling cross-exam
i ination to which she was subjected on j
I one occasion, when Seymour Stedman, [
! counsel for the Socialists, asked why |
j she had written the letter to Speaker ]
Sweet, she replied, her blue eyes flash?
ing:
"Because 1 think it. was the duty of
| any American to take the stand against
any one who has committed treason
j against his country."
The little witness, who had up to
this time been speaking in a voice
little above a whisper, fairly shouted
this answer at, Mr. Stedman. The
' crowd in the Assembly chamber ap?
plauded Miss Chiyers's reply.
Miss ("hivers cm taking the stand
said in answer to questions put to
her by John R;. Stanchfield, counsel for
the prosecution, that she was employed
, as a stenographer by the Baker Im?
porting Company, of 11<> Hudson
Street, New York City. She said her
father and mother were dead and that
, she lived with an older ?.istor at the
Brooklyn address.
Under direct examination by Mr, '.
-Stanchfield, Miss Chivera told of the
meeting at which Solomon spoke. As
he concluded, she testified, a band came
along.
"What did the band do?" Mr. Stanch?
field asked.
"The band struck up 'The Star-Span
1 gled Banner," " the witness replied.
"And what then occurred?"
"Mr. Solomon turned up his coat
collar, pulled his hat down over his '
eyes, spat on the American flag and
sat down."
Girl Sees Berger
Under cross-examination Seymour
Stedman, for the defense, brought, out.
that the witness had conferred with
Deputy Attorney General Berger at
the Hotel Prince George, New York
i City.
"Why did you go there?" asked Mr.
? Stedman.
I "For the purpose of testifying]
I against Mr. Solomon," Miss Chivers
responded.
"At whose request?"
"In answer to a letter I wrote to
Speaker Sweet last week
"Why did you write \o Speake?
; Sweet?" Mr. Stedman persisted.
"Because." replied the witness, "J
, think it is the duty of any American
? to take the stand against one who has
, committed treason arrainst our coun
I try."
Later Mr. Stedman asked her:
"Where was the American flag fiy
i ing?"
i "It was flying on Mr. Solomon's stand
| beside the red flag," the girl replied.
Solomon Makes Denial
Assemblyman Solomon's comment, on
! the testimony of Miss Chivers fol
i lows:
"I remember clearly holding Monday
' evening meetings on the corner of
! Ninth Street and Sixth Avenue, Brook
? lyn. I remember that on one occasion
a recruiting meeting was held on the
? same corner. My meeting was discon
i tinued as soon as the recruiting meet
! ing began. I never made the remarks
' to the soldier.'! attributed to me by a
! witness this afternoon.
"On no -occasion during any of these
; meetings was any red flag displayed
i on my stand. On every occasion there
1 were American flags:. In all my experi?
ence I never have seen a red flag dis
i played at a Socialist street meeting,
either before or after the state law
I was passed forbidding it.^ display.
"In all my life I never have bhown
; any disrespect for the American flag.
; the symbol of our country. The state
! ment that I spat upon the flag
is utterly false. Such an act could be
the act of an insane person only. In
| the district in which I was speaking,
or for that matter in any other u;
trict ? am familiar with, the public
, perpetration of such an act of gross
disrespect would endanger the life of
the person guilty of it.
"According to the witness several po?
licemen were present at the meeting
referred to. It is inconceivable that
"any member of the .Ne v. York police
: force would stand indifferently l>y
while any person publicly insulted the
American flag."
Lawyer Testifies
The last witness of the day was Rich?
ard C. Buriiil, a lawyer, of 10" Last
' Twenty-second Street, New York City,
who had beep an inspector of the drat\
during the war. He testified that
Louis Waldman, who is the Assembly?
man from his district, during 191b had
made speeches' on street corners de?
nouncing the war as a capitalistic war
and declaring that the laboring man
owed no duty to a country, but only to
a class.
He said he had heard the Assembly?
man making these speeches at Tenth
Street and Second Avenue, at Eleventh
Street and Fifth Avenue and other
places. Scott Nearing, he said, was
running for Congress at the time.
Mr. Buni? said that during the speech
at Tenth Street and Second Avenue he
asked Waldman whether he opposed the
draft or whether he advised anybody ?
to oppose the draft.
"He answered me.'1 s:iid the witness,
"'that he refused to answer that ques?
tion because he was afraid of being
arrested. And he further stated:
"They can't get me anyhow.1 I later
asked him whether, in case the doc?
trines of the Socialist party conflicted (
with the Constitution of the United
States he would stick tu the Socialist
party or the United States, and he
gave me the same answer: '1 refuse
to answer that question because I dc
not wish to take a chance of being
arrested." "
Mr. Bunzl said that in that district
the draft clerk had to be thrown out
because he was crooked and that dur?
ing the draft circulars were dropped
from the roofs, telling the boys not to
register and that they could not be '
caught.
Believes in Socialism
The witness said he believed in so?
cialism, "but not m any traitorous
body which calls itself u party."
"You think the Socialist party of !
America is a traitorous party?'" asked
Gilbert Roe, one of the atorneys for
the Socialists. ?
"Yes, sir," was the reply. 1
The witness said he had held this
belief ever since the platform iva? t
adopted by the Socialist, party, stating i
that the war was a most unjust war
and advising against the purchase of <
Liberty bonds. t
Mr. Roc then asked him if he did 1
not know that Abraham Lincoln and ,
General Grant attacked the Mexican
War as an unjust war. He said he did i
not think they made any such attack t
while the war was in progress. i
The witness said he believed I i
that any one who charged that the j
war was an unjust war while the war : 1
was on was a traitor to his country. <
Attorney Roe then told of the attack ?
made on the Mexican War by Senator 1
Charles Sumner. in November, 1846, a
while the war was at its height. Sena- c
tor Sumner characterized the Mexican
War a calamity, born of slavery t
i !
"If he ?ii'l it in the army he would
be shot," interrupted Assemblyman
Louis Cuvillier.
"Vou are a judge here and you ought
not to express any opinion while you
are sitting in tin trial of 11 cane. Wall
until it is over and then we will talk
about it." angrily retorted Assembly?
man William S. Evans, one of the other
members of the Judiciary Committee.
"I now inquire," Mr. Roe asked the!
witness, "whether there is anything in
the Socialist pint form that you find
more objectionable in denouncing the
war than the language I have just read
to you. delivered in the very height of
the war in which we were engaged?"
"Yes, sir," was the reply,
The attorneys for the defense
charged the witness with being biased.
Just before the hearing adjourned Mr.
Stanchficld asked that, a commission be
sent, to Milwaukee to take the testi?
mony of J. E. Harris, one of (lie editors
of "The Milwaukee Journal."
They seek to get testimony from him
concerning a speech which he Iffcard
Assemblyman Waldman make. AUor
ncys for the defense said that if they
would tell what Waldman is charged
with saying they might admit it and
save the trouble.
"Not a chanco of his admitting this,"
declared Henry F. Wolff, one of the at?
torneys for the prosecution. Harris
cannot come to Albany because of the
illness of hi;-, wife.
Assemblyman Testifies
Assemblyman Michael A. Trahan, of
Yonkers, who resigned from the Leg?
islature in 1918 to go to France with
the United States air force.-, was the
first witness put on the stand when
the trial was resumed this morning.
John B. Stanchfield, chief counsel for
the prosecution, showed the witness a
resolution introduced on Lincoln's
Birthday, 1918, expressing sympathy
with the war.
The witness said when the resolution
was put to a rising vote all present
except the Socialist members rose.
"Dill the resolution say that Lincoln
opposed the Mexican War and said that
a man who couldn't hear both sid?>s
was a coward and that he voted against
the Mexican War?" asked Mr. Stedman,
"No, sir," said Assemblyman Trahan.
The next witness was Mr. Collins,
general director of the reconstruction
and employment service of the Knights
of Columbus.
Mr. Stanchficld directed the witness's
attention to excerpts from numerous
Socialist publications and asked him
what -.va? the meaning of the
phrase "the proposed organization in
the economic field on broad industrial
lines" as used in the Socialist mani?
festo adopted at th? Chicago conven
tion of the Socialist party in Septem?
ber, 1919.
"I would say," answered Mix Collins,
"that from the interpretation by the
authorities of socialism that the prime
object of the formation o{ an indus?
trial so-called organization among the
workers is for tin- purpose of capturing
the working class machinery, the trade
union movement, to use that as the
lever or the crowbar, and by means of
mass action and revolutionary action
by such mass action to entirely destroy
the existing institution'- of society and
the or.'sent order of government.
Manif'i io (Quoted
"1 might say ? : erhaps my thought
in that intcrpr ? tion could be best
summed up b;. quoting the concluding
paragraphs i?\nv. the Communist mani?
festo issued by Karl Marx and Fred?
eric) Engels in 1848, where they say
that communists, using the term com
munisls within the term for socialists
communists, everywhere unite with
ever;- revolution?r; movement for the
destruction of the existing order, and
by the forcible overthrow of the pres?
ent order bring about the socialist com?
monwealth. In concluding Marx states:
'Workers of the world, vou have noth?
ing to lose but your chains, and s
world to gain.' "
Another bookie!, which the witnes;
brought forth from a large bag he lia?
by his .-ide, was productive 0f anothei
clash with counsel for the Socialists
This was "The Internationalist Social
ist Review."
"! arn objecting to the introductiot
of this on the ground that it has n?
application to this case," said Mr. Sted
mar..
"It purports to be a document ii
which Samuel (?ompers originally
espoused the cause of the MacNa
niaras and. who repudiated them imme
diately after their alleged confession
1; a theoretical statement of tin
difference betwet-n a premeditated kill
ing oi an ?ndi\ 'dual w it h ma lie? a tu
deal i.i - li ich i e- ults in a labor con "i i?
where that personal malice is absent
"I cannot see that it In any bee H ? ?
ou the qualifications of the Assemb ;
nn :. here <>r upon '. lie ou- ition of
partj or the purposes or objects o ?'<?
Socialist movement whether a mai
plac? -, a >? riker wl ose a, < ?on n- nits i:
death in the same category with u per
son with pe? o! al malice who destroy
th ;??? of anot!.er r not."
\rticle by Debs Bead
riie volume was admitted and Mi
? ollins read the following from a
article by Llugene V. Debs, on the .He
?amara case : .
"Under 'lie ethical cod( of capital
ism. the slaying of working men wh
resist capitalism, is nol murder. A
a working- man, 1 absolutely rein-, i
condem men as murderers under th
moral code of the capitalist eins- I'o
lighting, according to their right, o
the side of the working class."
"That has reference particularly t
the McNamara case." explained Mi
Collins.
"J insist that '.he entire anule b
read," said Mr. Stedman.
A wrangle ensued between counse
which ended when Mr. Stedman rea
in the entire article, Mr. Stedman, i
reading, emphasized the following pai
agraphs :
"The McNamara brothers were no
'socialist fanatics' anil 'unbelievers
they had no sympathy with industri?
unionism, but they were members ?
the Democratic party, and of th
Catholic Church, and of the pure an
simple labor union. They were activ
allies of Compels in the support o
the Democratic ticket and with the!
chieftain they believed in rewardin
their friends and punishing thei
?nomies.
"We Socialist.- art making no apo
ogy for any word or deed of ours i
the MacNamara case. As for mysel
pel 'onally, I shall not denounce then
1 condemn the crime, but I pity all th
victims, all of them, the MacNamara
included.
"\\ e Socialists are revolutionists, n?
murderers. We stand for educatio
and organization, not assassinatio;
For that very reason we are oppose
to capitalism, the prolific breeder of a
the c revolting crimes,"
Weapon of Socialists
The witness declared the Socialii
party, through a persistent propagand
'.vas aiming to destroy the labor uni?
movement.
"Have you heard representatives ?
the Socialist, party urge that a revoli
tionary attitude he adopted by tl
'ride union with respect to institute
commonwealth control by the so-callc
svorkers in their own interests as
:lass, in opposition to what thev ter
:l,e capitalistic class?" askeil Mr. Coi
joy.
"I have," said Mr. Collins.
?'What have you heard Socialists ss
n their public utterances as to tl
. e to be made in the general stril
i. toning their 'demands on thje Ame
can people ?"
"That it vas the one real weapon t
>e used by Socialism for the purpoi
>f arousing the working cla.Sc to brir
ibout the revolution, and. of course.
tas nothing to do with the legitima
inspirations of the workers passing tl
'xpressioa en the labor movement."
"Are they ever definite as to whe
hey ari- going to use physical force*'
ver come
necessity of
"There is a difference of opinion
imong Socialists as to when the ex
ledient time is. There is up mdiffer
?iu e of opinion that I hav<
n contact with as to th
lasa action.*'
"But the question is one of stress?
ing or emphasizing a part?cula'- condl
t ?on ?"
Differ as to Time
"Whether H may happen now. for
instance, standing in the Rand School,
in the lobby of the Rand School,
again and again I have heard group:!
say the revolution was right; that
now mass action was essential right
now. Again there are others that say
'No, it is inexpedient now. People are
not vei educated sufficiently to so?
cialism. That, may be a year, it may
be two years; it may be a decade.'"
"Do I understand they contemplate
the use of violence and force?" asked
Assemblyman Harold D. Blodgett.
"They' contemplate the use of vio?
lence and force, exactly as in Russia."
replied the witness.
"Docs that mass action necessarily
mean violence?"
"I would say yes, absolutely."
"Does the Socialist, party of Russia,
as led by a man such as L?nine or
Trotzky, advocate the change of gov?
ernment by social revolution?" asked j
Assemblyman George Rowc.
"By social revolution."
"And that the social revolution was,
consummated by force and violence."
"Exactly."
"So that the present Soviel govern?
ment over there is practically predi!
cated upon social revolution by force
and violence."
"Yes, and the manufactured discon?
tent within a limited group becau e
the people of Russia inherently are
absolutely opposed to the spirit of
despotism that has been thrust upon
them."
The witness was still on the stand
when a recess was taken for luncheon.
As Mr. Collins had a lecture engage- \
ment, in Portchestcr, he was excused
until to-morrow.
\Shimmv"" Is Barred
hi Pittsburgh hv
Dance Hall Edict
Proprietors lo Establish a
Blacklist of Ail Dancers
Who Aro Guilty of Im?
proper Conduct on Moor
Special ( 'orrcspoi di nc<
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 13. Shimmy, ca?
vorting the cheek-and-jowl shuffle and
ill other forms of Icrpsichorean jazz
ire taboo in this city. So are all
;ouplos who persist in dancing these
outlandish steps, which the dancing
irofessors declare are without rhyme
>r reason. By edict of the leading
lancing masters and the proprietors of
:he large dance halls, one (if the tight?
est bans on improper dancing this city .
-?ver has known soon will be placed in
?ffect.
And the dancing masters, aided and !
ibetted by the proprietors of the danc?
ing academies, are going further. If
oossible they will invoke the law to,
prevent dancing of a "questionable
kind" here.
An ordinance designed to prevent
certain dances is being drawn up and!
will he presented to city councils with?
in a few days, with the request that:
its enactment and enforcement is nee- I
essary to prevent dancing from sink- \
ing to a low moral level. Dancing I
masters to-day announced that anj I
couple who offends in one dance hall
will not be permit ted on the floor of
my other reputable dancing academy.
A coalition has been organized and a '
'blacklist" will be kept.
F. J. Foreman, owner of a dancing
academy, said about a dozen academies
in the city will be organized for sup
Dression of improper dancing.
"I've run a dancing academy for a
?rod manj years," said Mr. Foren.
earnestly. "But before I allow improper
? reps and holds to go unrcprini an ! d on
ny floor, I'll close up my place. I think
i city ordinance forbidding such dancing '
,vould have a good effect, and I am going
:o help to have one introduced in a
ihort time. But the most effective way
if dealing with the menace : to estab
ish a plain, old-fashioned 'blacklist.'
rhen the offendyig couolo. must make
up their amends where thej danced im?
properly or started .?.n\ dial irbsnee be?
fore ih.'\ will be permitted o .-- other
reputable t < or."
Ex-Seeretan Sues Brokat
Services aiul Profits in Stock
Murkc-? Named in action
irving Brokaw, society man and or.-;
the foremost amateur skaters, was
lefendant in the Supreme Court yes?
terday in a suit brought by William
H O'Brien, formerly his secretary and
bookkeeper, for ?3,450 for services and
loi an accounting of the profita m :*'
?;. Brokaw in the stock market on in?
formation furnished by the secretary
O'Brien said he advised his employer
is ti the prospects of St. Joseph Lead,
Cambria Steel, United States Steel and
other securities. O'Brien told Brokaw
there was a dividend coming on United
Mates Steel. Brokaw, according to
D'Brien, called upon Elbert H. Gary,
ivho had r.i> information to give him
?tbout the expected dividend. O'Brien
says his employer invested $80,000 on
his advice and had a (?nick profit of
?5,347.
Brokaw testified 'hat he gave O'Brien
?1,000 in settlement of all claims, and
fid not understand that the plaintiff
regarded this as only a payment in ad?
vance, as the plaintiff now claim -,
Brokaw denies that he owes his former
i cretary anything,
The trial will continue to-day.
Wins Kight to Eater U. S.
?egro's Versatility Convince?
Immigration Inspector He'll Do
Should any one in these days of
abor shortage desire the services of
i bookkeeper, typist, stenographer, con
uror. juggler, illusionist, motor me
?hanic or movie actor, Norris Fitzger
,ld Roach, late sergeant in His Maj
sty's 8th West Indies Regiment, is at
lis service.
A strapping negro stood at attention
c .terday when an immigration ?n
pector ai Ellis Island, examining
teerage passengers from a United
'nut liner, called for Roach. He said
te had fought in France. Belgium and
taly.
"But we want to be sure you won't
lecome a public charge." said the in
peetor. "Can you make a living?
Vhat's your trade?"
N'orris reeled off the list given above
nd was still going strong when the
nspector stopped him.
"You'll dof" he said, and he was ad?
mitted to the country.
"Which of your trades are you go
ng to follow in the United* States ?"
on-.e one asked the West, Indian.
"I hope to perfect myself in all of
hem." he answered.
\ev> French Naval Chief Named
PARIS. Feb. 3. -Rear Admiral Sa
?un, former director of submarine
.arfare, has been appointed chief of
he General Staff of th' Navy. Rear
.dmiral Levavasseur and Captain Jean
lottez have heen named as his aasist
hts.
Shipping Board
Sells 2 Former
German Liners
The Mercury, 10,350 Tons,
Goes toC. C. A. Fitsch, and
the Pequot to thcWymans
Company for $1,335,000
Hines Asks Concessions
General Wants Ships to Fly
U.S.Flag anrl Be Returned
in National Emergency
WASHINGTON, Fob. 3.?Coincident
with the explanation of Brigadier Gen?
eral Hines, chief of the Army Trim,
port Service, to the Senate Commerce
Committee of the War Department's
attitude toward the sab? of former
German passenger liners, the shipping
board to-day announced the sale of the
Mercury, one of the thirty former
German ships for which the board
recently received bios. The Mercury, |
however, is not on'c of the vesi els
againsl the sal" of which the War
D? partment has protested.
The Mercury, a vessel of 10,350 dead?
weight tons, the board announced, was
sold to ?liarle. C. A. Kitsch, of the
American International Bureau of Sup?
plies of New York. The purchase price
was not made public.
Kills for the twenty-nine other former
German passenger ships still are being
considered by the board, and Chairman
Payne said to-night :' was un?
likely thai any decision would be
reached for a day or two. In the mean
une ii is expected that an agreement
,vill be reached with the War Depart;
nent in the matter of the disposal of
?uch vessels as the department has
ncluded m its transport reserve,
The Pequot Sold
The board also announced the -ale
if the Pequot. an 8,900-ton careo ve?
formerly German owned, to the
iVvmans Steamship Company for $1,
125,000.
General ?lines, explaining the posi
io i Laken by the War Department that
I e former German boat;- should be
iperated permanently under the Amer
:an Hag i-.nt] that '.heir purchasers
ould bind themselves to turn ove
ho ships to ti'" government in a ua
ional emergency, told the committee
hat the army was holding million- of
iollars' worth of equipment to refit
' em as transports should the need
? i se.
Discussing with Chairman Jones of
he committee the disposition to he
nade of the army terminals acquired
it lljgboken, Newport News,. Va., and
o'er porta during the war al a cost of
II! 2,000,000, General Hines said this I
was a matter of which Secretary Baker
had taken personal cognizance, but
outside of the transfer of a single
pier to the Panama Railroad Company
no act ion had been taken.
Chairman Jones remarked that while
the army was retaining its Hoboken
pierj Shipping Board v< sela were
paying from $250 to $400 ?< day for
berthing privileges, Th;- led to the
observance by Senator Chamberlain,
Democrat, Oregon, that "whenever any
department of the government gets
hold of a given activity it takes an act
of Provide.ee,. to get them out of it."
Gen? ral (limes m reply declared that
much of th?' Hoboken Bpace had been
required for storage, adding that at
one time the army returning from
Europe had 200,000 lost pieces of bag
gage stored there.
Major General William M. Hiack,
former chief of army engineers and
now engineer for the Shipping Board,
who was another witness, sharply criti?
cized port conditions a! New York and
the "utterly rotten, unscientific 3tate
of our railroad rates, which by making
one part of the country pay the trans?
portation expense of another has
brought about this congestion.'
Shipping Board vessels, Genera
Bla'-k said, hail pa id i ?? ently ?
as $<;0<> a ?lay for b? rth I Nev
Vorl.. though pre-war rate.? wen $60
? i, .- ii. As a remedy ? ; era] Blac
ugge ;ed that, the Shipping Board be.
given ant horny tr, acquire and control
as many pier- as possible, ? i
construction of n great centra
road terminal opposite Bayonne, N. J.,
and the acquirement of the army's
Hoboken te mi i nal the i",, rd.
Port facilities a1 ' Nev Yor\ v ere
greatly congested, he said, alt ? .?
th< facilil i< s at Bo 11 i nd P adel
phia were not ha If util;-.- d,
San Era nci - co, Sea ttle, Los A ngel ? ?
and New Orleans, ' ?em > Blac
serted, were tin- onlj four ports in
'he I nited States organized for opera
tion.
Baltimore Stock Dupe*
Swindled of $2,000,000
BALTIMORE, Feb. 3. Unwary buy?
er's* of stocks in this city have been
swindled out of more than $2,000,000, it
developed to d? y, when a grand .r;-;.
heard a <rt-]i-., 0f complaints against
n ?'? tonguer salesman of worthli
securities. The "sucker list" used bj
omc of the salesmen, which .vas sub?
mitted to 'he grand jury, contain-; the
names of more than 1,000 persons in
this city.
As a result of the susceptibility of
the bloated Baltimorean purse to invest
the profits of Ihe current business
boom in any security promising great
returns, this city is beginning to get
the name of a Mecca of wildcat schemes,
f rmation submitted to the grand
jury showed that a New York clergy?
man had been swindled out of SI"-..
and losses of $13,000 and $11,000 by
two residents of Baltimore were re?
ported.
Fifteen companies hose stock has
recently been floated lure are under
invesl igation.
Railways Company
Blamed for Snow
Gorges in Streets
Only .'5,196 Shovelers at
Work; Need for 12.000:
Ice Conditions Are Called
Worst in Many VPar%
Arnold B. MacStay, Stred I eaniiif
Commissioner, said yesterday that ??'
present condition <>r th" <? *.'. .?,.,
was due in part to tl ?? failure of ??
Mew York Railways Company ? . ,
its r i gints of way of . and
Iso to the fact that -m,y :;.;:? -, .,
are working for the city at jno? ?'?
moval, though 12,000 are need? d
Mr, MacStay also termed the pr<
at .one of the -.vor it ice ?
tions this c ?-.- has experiei
H< charged that thi '. ., y.,..
;' - , .? ' ompany ha., < ont r .
e cil ) to ke< p ?ts tracks fn ? of
. -i mow. In only ont ??:? lance
'id, has the company made go
'.' e tracks rum - .?_
from '?'? ling Greei
Ve i v ??'? ? ? ??' ha ??' neon cleared
"Unless the New York Railways i -.-.
pa ny r< cede from ? present atl
nd 01 dors it coi tractors ?-,
- the snow fi on the I r ? ?
,i: rci d to clear," sa id the < ?
ioner. "the publi? ? ulTcr gr
inconyei ?ence than it 1
fered if a he:i\ y snowstorm tril
- it . d the bi reels rema
a re to day untouched witl I ng
? cept ion of Broadway be ?
. ? rei -."
Commenting on the rcc?:' ;ugges
' ion of M Mai ?c Whit aker, of 33 i
I. r >i rP{ u, that vomei ;
? the army of - no-'. shov< era
'??i!-. MacStay ?aid 5 sterday I
believed th? schi me n pi aci., ?
The snow, '??? pointed out, ,-? partly
r.-!?? d and has fro .on aga -.. 1
tating the usi 0
lid, could not do v or ?f that ki
He admitted, ho - ? -
!??? of use in hovel n^ loo c - now
leaps.
"If '? ey can show me." he ;aid, ' - -.-.
:hcy wan1 to work and ca? v
ivilling to try then- o it. W hat -
?ould do when it snows
-hovel the sidewalks and _
of the -now and into piles, whicl vt
:ould cart away."
EJugchee Re-elected Comptroller
TRENTON, X. J.. Feb. 3. Hie Li -?
at?n ?? lint se ?sion to la\ ?
State Comptroller Newton ?. K. ;-: g
. Republican, to that offic
,t-vm is for three year and ?
??6,000 a year. "??"?-;? I lemoci ;
:d Charles H. Gallagher, 1 ["rento
Busbee was elected by a partj -v. ..-?
to g|
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National Music Exposition : Grand Central Palace
]estqns
^Jamousfor iheirToxz andBeauty,
rl'lic striking beauty of this simplified Adam Columbia
Grafonola is surpassed b\ the richness and purity of its tone.
Come in arid see its lustrous finish, its hand-chiseled legs and
hand-carved panels, and listen to its wonderful music!
Interior fittings of heavy gold piale. Electric motor which
starts and stops automatically. Reach for immediate
delivery. Priced $3CO.
I Visit the Columbia Grafonola Exhibit
at the National Music Show
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