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Baker Denies That
Crowder Plans to
Conscript Labor
Declares "Work - or - War
Rule" Won't Be Used
Against Strikers
Purely Military Move
Nn Intention, He Says, to In?
terfere in Labor Depart?
ment*? Province
WASHINGTON, May 25.?Formal de?
nial tiat Provost Marshal General
Crowder's "work or fight" regulations
wer? promulgated with intentto affect
labor condiions was mad? to-day by
Secretary Bak?r. They are purely
?military measures, the Secretary said,
designed to modify certain privileges
in the way of deferred classification
in tho draft now granted some r-egis
tranta and ara not intended as in in?
direct conscription of labor.
Explaining the effec of the regula?
tion in cases of unemployment due to
strikes. Secretary Baker paid:
The regulation is silent on that sub?
ject, but it ia not the intention of the
department to permit the draft regula?
tions to bo used to affect any such
labor controversy, and unemployment
by reason cf strike? will not be re?
garded in such a -way as will cancel
either exemption or deferred classifi?
cation.
"The whole question of the relation
of the government to labor is for ad?
ministration by the Labor Department,
and the War Department does not in?
tend any direct interference in it."
"I want to state in the most positiv?
way that this regulation has nothing
to do with the labor situation of tho
country, and it is no part of the Inten?
tion of the AY ax Department, cither in
this regulation or any other, to under?
take to affect the labor situation of the
country by military regulation. The
sole purpose of this order is to guide
exemption boards in their duty to ap?
ply the provisions of tho law affecting
occupations as a reason for exemption
and deferred classification."
The shortage now existing in some ?
lines of industry, particularly the non- ?
skilled branches, is expected to be ma- ?
terially relieved when the regulations |
become effective and men of draft age :
now engaged in what .ho War Depart- j
ment terms unnecessary lines of en?
deavor turn to essential work.
Employment Bureau
Prepares to Carry
Out Crowder Order
The United States employment ser?
vice in New York City has been pre?
paring for several weeks for Provost
Marshal General Crowder's order call?
ing all men of draft age to the colors
or to useful occupations.
Without any public announcement
tho service has expanded from an ob?
scure and comparatively dormant
agency in the Barge Office, on the Bat?
tery, to a big central institution, with
branch offices all over greater New
York. An indication of how completely
the service has been reorganized and
enlarged may be seen in the fact that
14,000 persons have been placed in po?
sitions thus far during this month. The
largest previously monthly record in
the history of the New York district
branch was 600.
As explained yesterday by officials
of the service this sudden expansion
was ordered to take the utmost advan?
tage of General Crowder's order, so
that tho least possible delay might en?
sue in placing in useful and essential
occupations the thousands of men of
draft age who will be forced to change
jobs before July 1.
O'Lcary Directs Reorganization
.But the povernment has another mo?
tive in enlarging its employment ser?
vice, and that is to make the Port of
New York 100 per cent efficient.
The reorganization has been accom?
plished under the direction of John R.
O'Lcary, superintendent of United
States Employment ?Service District
No. 2, comprising New York City and
the metropolitan section in Jersey.
A central marine bureau of the Fed?
eral employment service has been es?
tablished in Bowlipg Green, with Cap
tain T. V. O'Connor in charge.
The Federal service has taken over
tho employment bureau of the Chelsea
we * borh?od Association and is di?
recting the two municipal employment
bureaus at Lafayette and Centre
Streets and in Yorkville, In addition,
branch office*; have been established at
Bush Terminal, at the foot of Wall
Street; on the West Side at the foot
of Leroy Street and the foot of Twen
tv-third Street; at 241 Bowery, 884 Co
luniLu* Avenue and in Hobokcn. Tho
Bowery and Columbus Avenue offices
were opened yesterday.
The new central office is at 22 East
twenty-second Street.
More Branches To Be Opened
Next Monday branch offices will bo
opemd at 124th Street and Lenox Ave?
nue and in Mariners' Harbor, Staten
Is.and. Altogether about sixteen
orar ches will b<- opened.
"The shipping interests can file their
labor needs in the central office or at
the various branches, whence they will
?.transmitted to the central office,"
?a.d Mr. O'Lcary. ?The longshoremen,
?wveaorjw and other marine workers
"?'>>'<> the same. The central office for
!*? laDor, in Bowling Green, will be
MILLION MOTHERS?
touna invaluabU com
? ? '. ut.j ?aUariMf*tt?a la ta?
Lane Bryant
MATERNITY
CORSET
? 'NI.Y cornet that is
with ?uch a thor
lir?t haiul *know
*? of th? maternity
requirements.
Preiertet Health
ieteiaa Stylish Fipat
Reietee? Fe6%aa
Supports >UI?hh um HUI
?rt-u?. gMi'-wlt? Uxjwei.
Infant?'Wear
At Imermat Vreaem
The daiwtl?t meat
individualprodaottoo?
kna-rtaabl? and ta mm
uousuaiir tant? vartwtr.
vuu ?w {?teats' X>?*pt.
and kauir wfcjr It I?
trmnatmtly rmtMrrm& to
?a th* "LarrmUemt ??k*r
Saop."
Lane Bryant
U-SSW.SCthSt.N. T a^ame Qrmmlat a*i%
virtually a clearing house. If a ship?
per in Hoboken wants half a dosen
longshoremen, and half a dosen may
be had in Bush Terminal, immediate
connections will be effected, free of
charge to both sides. The obnoxious
element of favoritism, of which marine
workers have heretofore complained,
will be eliminated.
"We are placing men In all sorts of
positions. The women's department
alono has placed more than 1,000 wom?
en workers this month, while the men's
department has furnished employment
to about 13,000. The private labor
agencies, many of them frauds, will
simply be killed off."
Men in Service Want
Musical Instruments
Miss Wilson to Explain at
Camps How Soldiers
Can Get Them
Miss Margaret Woodrow Wilson,
daughter of President Wilson, is the
latest recruit to the movement for sup?
plying musical instruments to soldiers
and sailors. She has promised to ex?
plain to the commanders of training
campa, where she sings, th<* ~>lan
whereby men who have musical ability
can secura instruments from Mrs. Or?
lando Rouland, of 130 West Fifty-sev?
enth Street
"If people only knew how much
pleasure the men in camps derive from
the old instruments," said Mrs. Rou?
land yesterday, "I know they would not
allow a single unused violin or banjo
to remain in their attics. We know
from officers of the Allied armies, ns
well as from our own officers, of the
great value of music in making army
morale. ?
"Hundreds of our boys were told at
the beginning of the war that they
would not be allowed to take musical
instruments to camps, so they sold
them or gave them away, and, of
course, on army pay they aro not able
to buy new ones now, even if they can
come to New York to the music stores.
"We have received pome very re?
markable letters from boys to whom
we have given instruments. 'How can
I ever ropay you for the guitar you
sent?' one boy wrote. 'I'll do my best
to bring you the Kaiser's head to put
in one of our great American mu?
seums.'
"Another boy brought us a battered
banjo, which ho had used in the
trenches. He caught the pitch of the
shells singing over their heath and
played an accompaniment to them.
That's morale for you!"
Writer Credits U. S.
With Saving Britain
American Food Thwarted
Germany, He Says, in
Praising Sacrifice
LONDON, April 24.?"Is it realized
by the people of this country that
America has already snved us from
capitulating to the enemy?" asks a
special writer for one of London's big
dailies.
"Either," the writer continues, "we
should have been forced into this sur?
render with our armies unbroken and
our munitions of war unexhausted, or
we should at this moment be strug?
gling to live and work and fight on
one-third of our present rations."
The food supplies being sent by the
United States to its allies represent,
it is pointed out, "the kindly, difficult
and entirely willing self-sacrifice of a
whole nation, the vast majority being
working people."
America, the article concludes, has
answered England's appeal "in a man?
ner which murks lier out as one of the
greatest moral forces in the world. It
should bo known out there, in the farm?
houses and cottages of the American
continent, thai the people of this coun?
try, tightening their belts and con
fronting the future with an indestruct?
ible confidence, are mindful of Ameri?
ca's solf-sacrilce?self-sacrifice which
will save the world."
Rumanian Church Back
Nationalist Movement
Branch in Hungary Protests
Against Interference Plans
Appeal to Emperor
WASHINGTON, May 22.?The Ru?
manian Church in Hungary is b?s
taining the Rumanian nationalist
movement, notwithstanding the situa?
tion caused by the defeat of Rumania,
according to an official telegram from
Rome to-dny.
It says the newspaper "Az Est" re?
ports that the Rumanian Eastern
Greek Church council, recently sitting,
was attended by representatives of the
Hungarian government, who were ap?
pointed in order to control the de?
liberations of the council.
The council voted a protest against
the intervention of the government
and decided, if necessary, to have re?
course to the emperor against the il?
legal interference of the civil au?
thorities in their church affairs.
Pacifists in Germany
Oppose Annexation
But Appeal to Reichstag Sub?
mits in Advance to
Prussian Will
WASHINGTON, May 23.?"A petition
has been presented to the German
Reichstag by four pacifist, associations,
the Deutsche Friedensgesellachaft, the
Bund News Vaterland, the Deutscher
Frauenausschuss Fur Dauerinden Frie- ,
den, and the Zentralstelle Volksrecht,"
says a Paris dispatch. This petition
examines the war aims which Germany
must strive for and declares itself
against an annexationist peace.
"This petition, dated February 17,
1918, contains a long passage on the
Alsace Lorraine question. This pas?
sage proves that the signers, in spite
of their pacifism, do not dare oppose
the current, and concludes with the
statement that the solution of the Al?
sace-Lorraine problem cannot be looked
for anywhere but inside the empire.
"The petition rejects the idea of a
plebiscite for the population of Alsace
Lorr&ine. The same document main?
tains the validity of the Frankfurt
treaty, forgetting that Germany herself
tore it asunder, and pretends that the
cession of Alsace-Lorraine in 1871 is
still covered by international Jaw.
"In fact, the Frankfurt treaty does
not exist any more since the German
aggression. Germany destroyed this
treaty with her own hands, which had
recorded one of the grossest violations
of the rights of peoples. After setting
aside the right of Alsace-Lorraine to
dispose of herself freely, the petition
bows in advance to the will of the
Prussian military caste. It says:
'Metz has practically become a German
city, and the decisive word about her
fate ought to be said by the military, ;
The answer probably would be in the ;
negative.'"
Germany Organizing News
Service to Cover World
AMSTERDAM, May 24.?The "Hand- j
elsblad" says it learns that prepara-?
tions are being made in Germany to
establish a Pan-German news organi-1
zation. The organization will cover |
the entire world. One of the first j
steps in tnis direction, according to the
newspaper, has been the founding of a ?
national Dutch News Agency at the I
Hague. I
Wellesley UnitJ^o^J
Red Cross in FratJ
College War Relief WoJ
Assigned to the Lyot?^
District
PARIS, May 24.-TheA*trkiIil,
Cross announces that the W?lL_*
College unit, which hag jU8t J*J
in France, hag been assigned te!Z
in the Lyons district, on? of th.u?
est centres of Red Cross aeti?rity 1?
unit comprises two gradu?t? njs
two experienced aocial wo^ke?^,,,
dietitian and one physieian. *
This is the second group of eolL.
women to undertake work in {w
the first being the Smith Co????
who did reconstruction work at &?
court, until they were driy?, *
the Germans. The Wellesley unit *
work in connection with th? **
Cross dispensaries and tuber?,]!*
hospital for repatriated won?
the children's hospital and eea^f^
cent home near Lyons. "???>
Gardening Apparel for Women and Misses Pictured in Rotogravure Section of To-day's "Tribune"
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HA-NP-SF^?D
Oxfords and
Jsrsf v?w
***' For.WomenandMisses
Dress Oxfords or Pumps of .whit?, brown or
?dull blade kidskin, also black patent kidskinf
graceful long vamps, Louis heels.
Unusual at?7.50
KUR7 STORAGE?Remodeling and Repairing?Phone 6900 Greeley
tanklin Simon & Co.
Fifth Avenue, 37th and 38th Streets
9 *:
=a at
NEW?SUMMEB MODEL
_--.?,?__?^^_
WKite Cloth Pumps
For Women and Misses
An exclusive white rheinskin doth pump?
with smart long vamps, flexible turned soles
and Louis heels.' ___
Unusual ?tlS.00
atojes of Individuality
A^New 'Summer 'Fashion
WOMEN'S'BLACK or NAVY
ORGANDIE DRESSES
The .smartest mode of the ^moment are these " attractive
plain black or navy organdie dresses, quite in contrast to
the fashionable organdie dresses in pastel shades; many
are tucked or lace trimmed, some with handsome colored
brocaded satin girdles.
29.50;to\79.50
A rNew 'Summer 'Model
WOMEN'StSATINlMETEOR
DRESSESUSILK^FRINGED
Threevdistinctlyrnew*models' trimmed withTwide,
self color silk fringe, in black, navy or white. These
attractive models have white satin vests, new full
length kimono sleeves, and graceful skirt tunics.
Unusual at 39.50
. A ^New 'Summer Model
>?? i tutmt ? ? is? .i ??? i ?.,?? rn.ii , ,
women's hand-1made
frenchbatisteiwaist
[Dainty" white Summer waist with tucked roll collar,* turn
;back cuffs and pleated self flutings down front; buttonhole
istitched in rose, copen, gold or black.
Unusual atk9.75
A rNewr Summer Model
WOMEN'S HAND-MADE
FRENCH'VOILE'WAIST
Of white voile; tucked back and front ; collar and turn-back
cuffs edged with plain color,organdie and.appliqued with
floral motifs,1" in rose, copen or gold.
Unusual att\2.75
FRXNKLIN SIMON SrvCO.
... Introduce'al?^?po American ?Fashion
Flesh Color "Tarfait" Voile Underwear ~t
"PARFAIT"
VOILE NIGHTGOWN
For\ Women and Misses
(ILLUSTRATED)
Of Superior Quality
Flesh Color French Voile
Sleeveless *- nightgown,
hemstitched and
trimmed with folds ot
net, very new is'the
ribbon tying
loosely ? at
sides.
"PARFAIT" VOILEIUNDERWJEAR
jf por 'Women and'.Misses
?rlesh Color Voile Nightgown
Net edging, and ribbon trimmed
Flesh Color Voile Chemise
Net edging, ribbon trim'med
Flesh Color Voile "Step-In" Combination
Net and ribbon trimmed.
Flesh Color Voile Bodice
Hemstitched, net and ribbon trimmed.
435
3.75
3.75
2.95
At Reduced Prices
Women's Tailored Suits
29.50
Heretofore $39.50 to $69.50
This season's most desirable models,'of wool
tricotine,. Poiret twill or.men's wear serge.
NO CREDITS
NO EXCHANGES
<*MWf
vMv Modes of In?ivtduality
A^New SummefFaskton
WOMEN'SWELVETEEN
COATS and CARES
Coats of black velveteen are plain tailored or braid trimmed,
with close fitting sleeves, adjustable collar and silk lined
throughout; capes are hip to full length featuring a copy ot
Doucet's full-length cape ? back _with. yoke Jront ; 1 novcity.i
silk or white serge lined.
25-OOno 29.50
I A New Summer Model
? f-f i,,.
WOMEN'S WOOL VELOUR
FULL LENGTH CAPE
Entirely new features are the graceful throw-scarf
to which the cape is shirred, clever side draping of
the cape to form arm openings; full length belted
coat-front with patch pockets, silk lined throughout
Unusual at:59.50
New Summer 'Models
?-*??????? mm ??? i. h ? ? ? ?? ? ? i-i ? i i ??..?t
MISSES'rSPORT COATS
of BLACK VELVETEEN
Coats for sport/dress or general wear/silk lined;"belted
Tuxedo model, braid bound; also plain tailored models with,
patch pockets. 14 to 20 years.
19.75?to 29.50
ATNew Summer Mode/
MISSES' SILK JERSEY SUIT
BRAIDED in.SELF COLOR
Dressy suit in beige, Pekin blue, gray, rose.'navy, black or
white, large collar, cuffs and border on bottom of skirt sou?
tache braided in color to match. 14 to 20 years.
Unusual at 29.50
DistinctivelNew" Model
WKite Sport Skirt
OF COTTON iTRICOTINE
For, Women"and Misses
*
Gathered?* top model ; patch pockets "trim
?ned^with self loop through ? large pearl
huttons ^detachable, belt.
Unusual at? 5.75
WOMEN'S SKIRT SHOP?Fourth Floor
Distinctive 'New \Models
Georgette Hats
ALSO OF SATIN
For Women and Misses
Sailor3,*f K indu ? turbans, ? tarns ? or j mush?
room hats, in navy, black, pink or white;
bead; fringe, wheat or flower, trimming.
Unusual a? 10,00
MILLINERY SHOP?Mein Floor
Distinctive rNew f Model
Shetland Wool Sweater
-v . v
SLIP-ON. MODEL
For Women and Misses
V-neck * slip-on> sweater * in t rose, < copen,
maize, turquoise, '' reseda? pink, black or
white; long sash with tasseled ends.
Unusual W3.95
WOMEN'S SWEATER SHOP-Fourth Floor
Distinctive New 'Model
Satin Bathing Dress
WITH WIDE. PATENT LEATHER BELT
For Women and Misses
Of navy or black satin, with.white satin ro?
coll ar; tucked front box pleated skirt; W?ek
patent leather belt.
Unusual <H\ 14*50
BATHING APPAREL SHOP?Bskocty Floor