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immmmmmwmimmmmmmmmmBmmm P1CHT FOR FAIR SEAMEN'S BILL STILL ON, SAYS OLANDER When the seaman's bill came up for hearing in the rivers and harbors committee of the house of represen tatives in Washington before its pas sage one of thejnembers of the com mittee slipped in af ew words which made section 14 of the bill an amend ment to an existing statute. It was on these few words that Att'y Gen eral Gregory declared that section was invalid. Section 14 of the bill provides for additional lifesaving ap pliances. "This, however, does not mean a victory for those opposing the bill as a reader of the papers is led to be lieve," Victor Olander, secretary of the seaman's union said. "The sec tions they are fighting are the able seaman provision, which will compel owners to sign men who know some thing about the sea and the language test which will raise the standard of the seamen. The language test pro vides that the crew shall understand the orders issued by the command ing officers. Now a great percentage of the sailors are Chinese and Las cars." "I do not think that Chairman Alexander of the committee knew what was being put over when this clause was included," he continued. "I presume we have encountered an other trick of Eugene T. Chamber lain, U. S. commissioner of naviga tion, whom I regard as the represen tative of foreign ship owners. We have fought him from the start." Olander laughed and picked up the Aug. 26 copy of the Manufacturer's News of Chicago and turned to an article written by CapL Robert Dol lar, whom he calls an American ship owner with all of his money invest ed in foreign ships. "This article is practically the same as the pamphlet put out by the San Francisco Chamber of Com merce, and neither the pamphlet or the article objects to the section which was knocked out by Gregory. Dollar's ships flew the British flag until war was declared, when he took advantage of the registry act He has announced that they will fly the Brit ish flag again as soon as the war is over. His seamen are Chinese. "Of course, this is a vital portion of the bill as far as the public is con cerned but when does the law con sider the public? If the present laws are only enforced America will have a merchant marine. Capt Dollar's battle cry has been the discrimina tion against American ships while he is fighting for that very same dis crimination. He is opposing an American merchant marine. "Why at the London conference, at which 14 nations were represented, an act was drawn which took away from this country the power to -control her own harbors. "Certain lobbyists had the audacity to have this introduced into the sen ate through their tools. There it was thrown out We intend to keep a careful watch on the proposed amendments to the bill. Our en emies, who have forgotten theircoun tries in the interest of their business, have not given up hope." o o SCRAP ON OVER THE "MILLION DOLLAR DAIRY MAIDS" COWS Mrs. Scott Durand, the. "million- dollar dairy maid" of Lake Bluff is on the "outs" with state and federal authorities. When they put a death sentence on her prize herd of cows which has been supplying the "north shore" with milk, federal authorities set a price on each head considerably less than the $1,000 whfch Mrs. Durand values each of them. Now she says they can t kill her cows. Her farm will be placed under quarantine until the case is decided. o o A prize has been won by a Belgian inventor in Italy for an artificial leather made of cotton which is said to be as durable and elastic as the genuine article. c m llK(t?.t? ; , f t k,-r f -:S-'2r.