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ippwpiilpppfpplpip? II ernment;- how they are operated and how -effectively they deal with the' in dustrial problems presented; and (41 the courts and the law, and their re lations to labor disputes, free speech, injunctions, etc. . Although the -work is scarcely be gun, it seems certain that the com mission will recommend the creation of a national board of mediation and conciliation to deal with all strikes and lockouts anywhere invthe United States which seem likely to involve the 'federal government. When it finds out, as it will, thit $6 a week is too little to enable- a girl to exist upon in decency, it will rec ommend as a remedy that the com munity get in the habitof regarding as "not respectable" an employer who pays such wages. The job which the commission sees before it, above all others, is educa tion of the public by making facts known, so that the. publish shall de mand better things for its. workers, and shall make it unpleasant for em ployers who refuse such demand. - o o COUNCIL TO- PROBE CRIME - On a motion of Aid. Chas. Ej Mer riam last night the City Council 'voted for an extensive investigation into the increase of crime. After the mo tion was passed the mayor appointed a committee of five aldermen to make the investigation. Merriam was nam ed as chairman. Merriam said there had been 140J murders m tne last four years, to gether with 1,200 burglaries, 4,000 larcenies and 2,000 assaults. While the motion was before the council last night several people were shot and wounded, - MAYOR READS REPORT Mayor Harrison made his annual report to the city council last night Most of it waa review of the various departments. He also sounded a warning to be on the lookout against any attempt to grab the city's $13. 000,000 traction fund. T TELLS OF TERRIBLE TIME AT SEA IN OPEN BOAT ' Halifax, N. S., May 19. Pitifully emaciated, with his feet so ba'dly frozen that they have to be amputat ed, First Officer Tiere, one of the four men rescued after fourteen days at sea in an open boat, gave further"de tails of the horrors suffered by the men who escaped from the burning steamer Columbian. Tiere said that nearly all of the eleven shipmates who died in the open boat became insane in their last agonies. One of the most heart-rending ex periences of the terrible days afloat was when- the weakened survivors saw at least three liners nearby and were unable to attVact their atten tion. "Our matches had been dampened and were useless so we could fire no rockets," Tiere said. "I think one vessel was the Olympic. The' next day we sighted a tramp steamer and another liner. We shouted, but our voices did not carry and they sped out of sight." O O ' I 45,000 MINERS STRIKE Mofumhus, O., May 19. Officials of the Ohio mine workers here today sent out circular letters to the 45,000 miners o fthe state notifying them that they are now. on strike and will draw strike benefits from May 2. The sum of $6, or $3 a week, will be paid each miner some time during the week. ' - The district executive decided to sign contracts with individual oper-atbrs-willing to pay the scale demand ed by the miners. ' o o . PLITT JOLTS BECKER DEFENSE New York. Mav 19. Thanrosecu- Ujon closed its case yesterday against Charles B. Plitt, who had testified for Becker in the firsf trial against him. Pint's testimony yesterday was stag"- genng to tne aerenae.. J