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?w;HACKS, April 18. A Vienna
dispeuh to the "Acht Uhr Blatt," of
Berlin, says that lU:rr Bo*hm, & mem?
ber ot ins Bovist Ministry at Buda?
pest, bau arrived there and han de
cl?*e<J that Arcbduks Joseph, Ur. Alex?
ander Wekerle, former Premier, and
B*r*n Joseph Sejteprenyi, Minister of
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'Phone Strike
May Spread to
Entire Country
Operators Are Taking Vote
on Action to Force the
Government to Recognize ;
Union and Raise Wages
New England Is Helpless
Burleson and Tumulty Ask
Strikers to Submit Their ?
Case to General Manager I
New York Tribune
Washington Bureau
LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 16.?Harry
Henderson, business agent of the Tele?
phone Operators' Union of Louisville, ,
to-day announced that a vote is being j
taken throughout the country by tele
phono employes to forco government i
recognition of telephono employes'
unions, with a nationwide strike as the i
alternative.
The referendum, Henderson said, \
would be finished by May 11. He also i
asserted that information from the '
headquarters of the National Union ?
of Electrical Workers, which includes
employes of t?l?phone companies, is
that the votes of 250,000 telephono em?
ployes already have been received, and ?
that a great majority favor a strike j
if the demands aro not granted.
Henderson also declared that the j
strike of operators of the New England
and Providence telephono comprimes]
was regarded as a tost of the union's
strength and that its result would
sharply define the issue.
The union's demands, Henderson
stated, also included higher wages and
shorter hours.
Officials of the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company in New York |
were without information yesterday of
any country-wide attempt on the part
of-telephone employes to force recog?
nition of their unions.
They wero cognizant, however, they
said, of a movement under way in
practically all states to unionize tho
'phone workers. The organizers' ef?
forts had met with greatest success.
they stated, in New England, where a
majority of the operators,aro ori strike,
and in California and Montana. Else?
where, it was said, only small minori- !
ties of the operators and auxiliary |
workers had joined the unions.
Girls Are Striking
s "Against Burleson,"
Gallivan Declares
WASHINGTON, April I?.?If the !
New England telephone strike does not !
come to an end within the next twenty- ,
four hours Joseph Tumulty, secretary :
to the President, will cable a state- j
ment of the situation to Paris and ask
President Wilson for instructions re?
garding the steps to be pursued by the
government in restoring the New Eng?
land telephone service. Mr. Tumulty
gave this assurance to Representative
James A. Gallivan, of Boston, hern to?
day.
"If necessary I will get into personal
touch with the President," Mr. Tumulty !
said, "so that the girls' side of this
controversy may be heard and an early j
settlement effected.-'
Representative Gallivan conferred ;
with Mr. Tumulty to-day at the White ]
Heute for three hours regarding the
strike situation. He declared it was
"a strike, against Burleson," and
further stated that unless steps wero
takcr> at once by the Federal govern?
ment to bring it to an end through
conciliatory measures that "not a ves?
tige of the Democratic party in Massa?
chusetts would remain."
Secretary Tumulty was much dis?
turbed by the report of the situation |
given him by Mr. Gallivan. He was in ;
conference for the greater part of the
afternoon with officials of the Post
office Department and the Department !
of Labor regarding the matter. Asked
if he believed the Postofflce Depart- ;
ment would make good its hint of
strike breakers to restore the service, |
Mr. Tumulty declared that he did not i
believe the department had any inten?
tion of taking such action. Secretary
of Labor Wilson gave Mr. Gallivan a
? similar assurance.
"I told Mr. Tumulty," said Mr. Gal?
livan, "that I represented no one ex- ;
cepting the sentiment In Boston, and |
that I was not authorized to speak for ?
any organization of any kind. I
wanted to impress on him that in my j
judgment the strike of the telephone !
girls was really a strike against Burle- !
j ion, and I think I convinced him before
! the conference ended. In my judgment !
j and in the judgment of all those with :
j whom I have talked about tho situa- ;
j tion, the demands of the girls are not ?
at ail unfair and never have been, i
j Their splendid leader, Miss O'Connor, !
I to my own personal knowledge has I
endeavored to interest Burleson for j
many weeks in order to avoid what '
; has now became a reality, but, as I ,
j told Mr. Tumulty, she met with one re- \
buff after another and the incompetent
I and brutal Postmaster General has ;
I brought about a situation by which
ail Boston is made to suffer. Secrc
! tary Tumulty assured mo that ho ?
j would continue to show the lively in
, tercst which he has already dis
! played."
Statement by Burleson
Postmaster General Burleson, in a
; statement issued late this afternoon,
? injected a new element into the situa?
tion by calling attention to the prob
I ability th/tt increased wages for the
? telephone operatora in New England;
would probably result in higher rates.
I His statement follows:
"The issu? involved in the strike of
< tho telephono operator? in New Eng- !
land is by no means confined to the !
Himple f|m-Mtion whether tho employe! j
' are entitled to higher wages. The peo- |
pie of .New England, now Buffering so
i seriously from th? loss of service,
?eventually " must determine whether!
i they are willing to pay more for such |
service in the future than they have in j
the pa?-!.
"The employes should realize that ?
; the public interests involved and
? shoulii return to work at once upon
? the assurance that their demands
will be carefully investigated to
determine whether Increased wages can
b? granted without impairment of tho
financial stability of Mm companies, if
th? increases they usk prove to be iust
and reasonable, tho ?ik-reuse* Will be
granted in any event, ?von though, in
| order to continue officiant service, the.
charges to the public must bi- increased.
I But the public interest cannot bo sac
| rinced upon tho mere demand of any
j set of employe?.
"If the employes will submit their
| demands to tho general munager and
return to work, they have tho assur?
ance of the government thu.t they will
1 be dealt with fairly. If they continue
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to disregard the public interest, the
public will be less likely to give the
employes the Bupport necessary to war?
rant favorable government action."
Tumulty's Telegram
Mr. Tumulty sent the following tele?
gram to the striking operators:
"Answering your wire of yeBterday,
Miss June and her committee should
promptly file application for a change
In the wage scale with the general
manager of the New England company,
Mr. Driver, if it has not already been
done. I understand Mr. Driver has
always been authorized to agree to
an?l submit any proposed agreement
which was just and fair to all parties
concerned and recommend to the oper?
ating board its immediate approval.
"Through this means the operators I
can avail themselves of the advantages !
of collective bargaining by discussing ]
with the general manager the merits '
of their contentions. When Mr. Driver
reaches a conclusion you will be ad?
vised, and the action on hi? part will ?
be promptly transmitted to the board, :
and if approved will become effective
from the date of termination of the i
present scale agreement, which I un- j
derstand is December 31."
Strikers Suspicious of
Postmaster GeneraVs
Plan for Settlement
BOSTON, April 1(3.?Leaders of the
striking telephone operators in New
England expressed unwillingness to
night to accept tho plans for settle- j
ment of their grievances proposed by j
Postmaster General Burleson and Jo- !
seph P. Tumulty, secretary to President
Wilson.
Replying to-night to Secretary Tu- !
multy, Miss O'Connor, leader of the
strikers, said:
"Your proposition contained in to?
day's telegram is not fundamentally
different from the proposal of Mr.
Burleson. It states that wo may dis?
cuss with Mr. Driver, general man?
ager. New England Telephone Com?
pany, our contentions. Subsequently
ne reaches a conclusion upon which ho
will advise us, thence to be submitted
to the operating board. At no step of
this procedure could the methods you
recommend be construed as collective
bargaining.
"We insist upon our right to reach a
conclusion with Mr. Driver mutually
agreeable to the unions and the com?
pany and do not recognize the right
of any other agency or individual to
hold the power to repudiate this agree?
ment. Particularly do we object to
it being submitted to a committee con?
stituted as is the operating committee,
its entire personnel being composed
of telephone and telegraph officials
generally believed to be opposed to the
principle of collective bargaining and
indisputably opposed to wage increases
for reasons readily understood. Com?
mittee reiterates that it stands ready
to bargain collectively with Mr. Driver
upon assurance that he is empowered
to reach settlement with us."
The strike of operators throughout
New England for increased wages and
the privilege of collective bargaining
continued unabated to-day. Twelve
thousand additional operators were or?
dered out at a meeting this noon of
the New England Joint Council of Tele
phone Workers, and about 1,500 elec?
trical workers and cable spicers joined
tho ranks of the strikers. The inter-de?
partmental union, which includes clerks
in various departments, held a meeting
to-night nt which' the question of join?
ing the strike was considered. No de?
cision was announced.
In a statement, given out at noon,
William R. Driver, jr., general man?
ager of the New England Telephono
and Telegraph Company, declared the
situation was somewhat better than
at any time yesterday. He said that
some who had stayed out yesterday re?
turned to-day, and that other vacant
places were being filled with recruits
who would be retained if they qualified.
At a mass meeting in Tromont Tem?
ple officers of the union reported that
in Boston exchanges only eleven oper?
ators, other than chief operators,
were at the switchboards, and that
only one of these was a union member.
?
Woman of 69 Seeks
Separation Froin Man
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., April 16.?
United States Statistical Abstract says
it. But it isn't so.
Uncle Sam's mathematical experts
have asserted in this volume that tho
sixth and seventh years of married
life mark tho danger point of matri?
mony?that most of thw divorces occur
then. Once through them, they assert,
wedded couples are comparatively sale.
But the statistical experts hadn't j
met Mr. and Mrs. Herman A. Gorn, of i
Pleasantville. He is seventy-seven; she j
sixty-nine. They have been married '
for forty-five years and, if ona be- ?
lieves the Statistical Abstract, passed I
tho danger mark some thirty-eight '?
years ago. j
Mr. and Mrs. Gorn appeared before |
Justice Platt in tho ?Supreme Court j
here to-day. Mrs. Gorn wants a separa- ;
tion from her husband.
For forty-five years, she told the j
court, she and her huband had quar-1
relied. Now, she insisted, she could :
stand it no longer.
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Many Vacant Seats
In New Brooklyn Tube
Tho Public 8er?ice Commission re- |
ported yesterday that traffic along the
route of the new Clark Street tunnel
was normal.
Inspectors of the commission stated
that there were many vacant seats on
nearly all the West Side trains to
Brooklyn. Some congestion existed,
however, on the trains in the old sub?
way.
Between 4 and 7 o'clock in the even?
ing the East ?Side lino carried 47,<>00
passengers in seventy-seven trains
with 38,500 seats. On the West Side
route there were 19,150 passengers in
fifty-nine trains with 29,500 seats.
The total number of seats on tho
two lines was 68,000 and the total
number of passengers 0fi,8?10, the traffic
showing 71 per cent on the East Sido
and 29 per cent on tho West Side.
U. S. Inquiry in Club Row
federal Agents Take Up Sphinx
Dinner Incident
The Department of Justice is in?
vestigating the row raised by ono of
tho diners at the Sphinx Club dinner at
the Waldorf-Astoria, last night, when
durinK an address by Senator Chamber?
lain, he cried, "To hell with the flag."
The club has handed over tho case
to the department. A special agent has
been assigned to ascertain the identity
and address of tho disturber. It is ex?
pected he will bo prosecuted under the
Espionage Act.
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Court Upholds
Garrison in.
B. R. T. Ruling
Judge Mayer Holds That
Committee to Present
Grievances Must Repre?
sent All the Employes
Suggests Open Election
Men Who Are Members of
the Union Will Be Fully
Protected, He Assures
Judge Julius M. Mayer, of the Unit?
ed States District Court, yesterday j
heard the grievances of union em?
ployes of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
system and at the conclusion of a
protracted hearing:
1. Upheld Receiver Lindley M.
Garrison in refusing to meet a com?
mittee selected by members of the
Amlagmated Association of Street
and Electric Railway Employes.
2. Declared that any committee
professing to represent B. R. T. em?
ployes must be selected by all of
the employes, or at least in an
election in which all employes have
an opportunity to vote. If the men
among themselves work out somo ?
system whereby this can bo ac?
complished, Mr. Garrison and the
court will- receive such a committee
and discuss with it all matters of :
general policy affecting wages and
working conditions. If they cannot
work out such a scheme, the court
suggests that they hold a general ?
election, such as the stato election {
in November to be supervised by a j
committee of citizens of high stand
ing which it will name.
Personal Grievances to Be neard
(3) On all individual matters, af?
fecting individuals who may have j
reason to think they arc aggrieved, ,
Receiver Garrison and the court aro |
always open to appeals for adjust?
ment.
(4) In the matter of joining tho
Amalgamated or any other union, ?
the court declared ail men and worn- I
en would be protected. They also i
will be protected in soliciting others ?
to join. The members of the com- i
mittee which waited on tho court
yesterday were, specifically cuaran
tced its protection against dismissal J
for their part.
Tho leaders of the men had no com- |
ment to make on Judge Mayer's rul- j
ings. James I?. Valley, their counsel,
said fairness to the men demanded
that the first report be made to them j
at their meeting to-night.
Unofficially members of tho com?
mittee expressed doubts as to their
ability to prevent a strike vote to?
night. The men, they said, would
hardly be in a mood to agree to fur-I
ther delay.
Veteran labor leaders and court of-'
ficiala could not recall another instance |
where a judge of a United States j
court Bat to consider at first hand |
with representatives of labor griev- ?
anees on a property in the custody of
the court. The conference was held in !
the little private hearing room of the j
District Court in the Woolworth Build- i
ing, at 6 o'clock. Previously Judge ?
Mayer met tho individual members of |
the committeo in his chambers. 'I hey ?
Were headed by Jnmes Sheridan, chair- ;
man of the executive committee of
Local 867 of the Amalgamated, and ac- !
companied by James 11. Vahey, of Bos
ton, general counsel for the Amalga- ,
mated Association, and Louis Fridiger !
und Charles E. Bruckner, local counsel.
One woman, Miss Mary Jane Ard,
represented the conductorettea, ticket!
seller:; and ticket choppers of the sys
Mr. Vahey, in opening the case, ex?
plained to the court that at Tuesday's I
meeting a strike was prevented by the I
explanation to the employes present?
that Judge Mayer had declared it to j
be his idea that the "courts are al- i
ways open to American citizens." lio j
called as the first of a long list of
witnesses, Peter Gallagher, who in?
troduced himself with the declaration
"I'm an old railroader, your honor.
I've put in twenty-five years on the
tail end of cars."
Gallagher told how after many years'
service he was disabled in an accident
and forced to take employment as a ?
ticket seller at 22% cents an hour. He j
worked ten hours a day, ho said, in a '
station where there was neither water !
nor toilet accommodations. At work j
he went eight hours without food. lie I
declared veteran employes should re- |
ceive more than newcomers and that j
women employes were discriminated i
against because they could not wear
their cap badges at all times and were i
compelled to pay fare on surface cars. I
Ho joined the union, ho said, only
after Receiver Garrison in a circular
on March 11 declared employes of tho
company were free to join any or?
ganization they might choose. This
declaration was made by all of the
witnesses in one form or another. All
likewise complained that after they
had joined the union Mr. Garrison re?
fused to receive their committees.
Matthew Leonard, a structural iron
worker, 6aid men on this work received
from f>0 to 54 cents an hour for work
for which outside concerns paid H7%
cents an hour. The men, he said, want
a 35 per cent increase in wages and
tho eight-hour day. This he said, was
tho demand of all of tho mechanical :
employes. These employe?, he told the j
court, represented about "every trade ?
in the city."
Leonard also stated that after Tues
day night's meeting "strong arm men
in the employ of the company beat up
employes who refused to show their
badges. This, he said, occurred on the
Halsey Street station of the "L," to
which the men gained access by paying
their fares to avoid letting the com?
pany have their numbers as being
among those at the meeting.
James Sheridan, who emphasized the
fact that he did not join the union un?
til after Mr. Garrison had put his ;:p
prova! on employes doing so, said he
was then penalized for alleged offences j
for the first time in five years, and had .
his pay reduced.
Pay Their Only Grievance
Fred Frohm, representing shop work- i
ers, said 140 out of 144 in his shop ,
?were members of the union. R. J. j
Pooley, also a shopman, said that of
210 in ins shop, 190 were members, j
Neither had any personal grievance '?
other than insufficient pay. Neither had
Miss Ard, who said sho represented ;
"tho lady guards."
Joseph Capodona told of being dis?
charged after joining the union, a di3
trict superintendent assigning this as :
a reason.
At tho conclusion of tho testimony j
Judge Mayer expressed gratification
at the frankness of tho witnesses. He
believed, he said, that there had been ,
a general misunderstanding of the !
position of Receiver Garrison, whoso j
"every substantial step," he said, he
approved. The general situation, he
added, was simplified by the declara- j
tion of Mr. Vahey that the men were i
not asking for recognition of tho ;
union, but of tho right to join a union. '
Reading from Receiver Garrison's j
circular, to which the witnesses had i
testified, Judge Mayer said this had j
been sent to ail employes of the B. R. j
T., although, he said, tho court was i
not in possession of the surface lines |
and Mr. Garrison had no authority |
over them.
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Tax Bill to Pass,
Legislature Likely
To Quit Saturday!
Davenport Decides to Desert ;
Insurgents if His Meas?
ure Goes Through and
Bring Early Adjournment
Staff Correspondence
ALBANY, April 16.?Senator Freder?
ick M. Davenport, of Oncida, will de?
sert the insurgent Republicans if the
2 per cent income tax and other meas?
ures drafted by the special tax com?
mittee, of which ho is chairman, arc
passed. This would give Senator J
Henry Walters, majority leader, con?
trol of tho situation in the upper
house. Walters wants to adjourn Sat?
urday. There is every likelihood of
the tax bills being passed in time to
let tho Legislature adjourn on Satur?
day.
Senator Walters to-day announced
on the floor of tho house that when
the tax bills are passed tho Senate
could adjourn. A conference of the
Republicans was held to - night to
smooth out differences with respect
to the tax legislation.
Walters Again Loses
Senator Wallers again today
brought, up the adjournment resolu?
tion, and after debate the Democrats
and the four insurgent Republicans
again were able to muster the neces?
sary twenty-six votes to force post?
ponement of action until to-morrow.
The Assembly to-day killed all hope
of the social welfare bills passing in j
the lower house. Charles D. Donohu.e,
minority leader, moved to discharge
rules committee from tho minimum
wage and eight-hour bills. The vote
on tho first was 64 to 77; on the second
6? to 78, Motions to discharge rules
from the health insurance and Graves
Hydro-Electric bills will be. made to?
morrow and undoubtedly will meet tho
samo fate.
The Fowler municipal ownership
bill, the last of tho five bills which the
Assembly Republicans in caucus last
night, agreed to beat, passed the Sen?
ate to-day by a vote of 28 to 22. It
never will get out of the Assembly
Rules Committee, however.
Nine Bolt Caucus
In the vote in the Assembly on the
welfare bills nine of ttic ten Republi?
cans who bolted tho Republican cau?
cus last night voted with tho Demo?
crats for the motion to bring out of
Rule Committee the minimum wage
bill. The tenth insurgent, Frank L.
Gardner, of Dutchess, voted with the
majority, but he returned to the in?
surgents in the vote on the eight-hour
bill. In the debate the Republicans
wero charged with submitting to the
control which Speaker Sweet had ex?
ercised over them.
"Are you going to take advantage
of the technical parliamentary pro?
cedure which permits one man "rule in
this House?" asked Assemblyman Jo?
seph Steinberg, of New York, one of
the insurgents.
Minority Leader Donohuc charged
that Speaker Sweet had determined
weeks ago that these bills should not
pass, and that the majority of the
Republicans were meekly standing by
him.
Majority Leader Simon L. Adler, in
explaining the position of the Repub?
licans in opposing the welfare bills,
declared that the Republican majority
had found it necessary to interpose
itself as a bulwark against the riot of
ill-considered legislation that had
come over from the Senate. He des
clared that the bills were little under?
stood, that a delay in action could do i
no harm and might result. ?n much !
good.
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Lewis Exonerates Tyler
Of Bunk Murder Complicity
District Attorney Lewis of Kings
County announced yesterday that Roy
Tyler, who was brought to Brooklyn
from St. Louis on March 2? last be?
cause of his supposed connection with
the hold-up of the Cast Brooklyn Sav?
ings Bank last December, when two
men were killed, was entirely innocent
I lie District Attorney added that
lyier would be released shortly, un?
less the authorities from Cleveland,
Ohio, or Stamford, Conn., out in a
claim for him.
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1000 TONS OF COFFEE
To induce the greatest number to visit the
Liggett Drug Stores regularly, we sell certain
table needs at reduced prices on Friday and
Saturday of each week only.
1,936,640 pounds of Liggett's Breakfast Coffee
were sold in our stores last year.
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Burke Says He
Acted as Agent
For Thompson
Continued from pa*e 1
man of the committee, asked Senator
Thompson when he would be ready to
cross - examine Burke. Thompson
thought it would be a week at least,
as he wanted to prepare thoroughly.
"I protest against Senator Thomp?
son cross-examining me," persisted
Burke.
"The committee ia not disposing of
that now, Mr. Burke," said Senator !
Burlingame. "It will be decided later."
John Stanchfield, of counsel to the j
Intorborough, who, Burke says, was ,
introduced to Thompson by him at
Niagara at the Senator's request,
mailed a certificate from his phygjrtien
stating that he was convalescing from
Spanish influenza.
Mr. Stanchfield said he would be
pleased if the committee could arrange
to take his testimony at his home in
Islip, L. I. This will be dor?e.
Samuel Beardsley, counsel to the
Consolidated Gas Company, who was
also named by Burke as one of the
corporation lawyers he swore he
visited on Thompson's behalf, will be
a witness to-morrow.
Burke's examination to-day was con?
ducted by Deputy Attorney General
Jejromo L. Cheney, who was assigned
as counsel to the committee. Mr.
Cheney's opening questions were aimed
at clarifying some of Burke's state?
ments regarding his alleged relation I
with Senator Thompson during the i
last session of the Legislature.
Q.~ Senator Thompson said that !
while the report of the Thompson com?
mittee was being prepared you visited
the committee a good deal and were
apparently interested In gas com?
panies. Were you representing tho
Consolidated Gas Company? A.?No,
sir.
Q.?Any other gas companies? A.?
No, sir.
Q.?Were you interested in legisla?
tion before the 1918 session? A.?
Yes, sir
Q.?Whom did you represent? A. -
Senator Thompson.
Q.- -What ao you mean when you
say you represented Senator Thomp?
son? A_I had several conversations
with Senator Thompson on the legisla?
tion you speak of, and I gathered from
all the conversations that, he wanted
me to impress the officials of the gas,
electric and traction companies with
his ability to do certain things.
Tho witness explained that, the
legislation in question was the Wickes
bill of last year, which revoked ex?
isting laws fixing a maximum price on
gas and permitting the Public Service
Commission to determine what rutt?
?should be charged.
"I don't know anything about the
bill," added Burke, "except what Sen?
ator Thompson told. lie said that he
wanted me around him. Ho said to
me: 'I would like you to sec Mr.
Beardsley and Mr. Brady and see if
we can't get it fixed up so that it will
meet with" their approval.' Then after
tho session last year Senator Thomp?
son asked mo to arrango for him to
meet Mr. Brady, as he wanted to im?
press him with his sincerity on be?
half of the traction companies."
"Traction or gas companies?" in?
quired Mr. Cheney.
"Traction and gas companies," re?
plied tho witness. "I said: 'All right.
Mr. Brady would be glad to meet you,
as he wants to thank you for your
efforts on his behalf when the com
mittee was in session down here a |
year ago.' "
"I took him down to see Judge !
Beardsley, and we three had luncheon
at the India House and then we went i
to see Mr. Brady. Senator Thompson I
received Mr. Brady's thanks for not.
having called him when the investiga- ?
tion of the Thompson committee was '
on a year before. We then left and
Senator Thompson and I sent imo the |
subway to the Biltmorc. There Sena- ;
tor Thompson said to me: 'Brady im- i
presses me as beir.g a pretty square '
sort of a fellow.'
"I said: 'I don't know much abouti
Mr. Brady. I met him at his father's ;
funeral. His father was a pretty good I
friend of mine.'
"Thompson told me he could pass the !
Wicks bill. I said. 'How?'
"He said: 'If I could only get;
Sophie Irene Loeb to let go. I could
pass tho bill.' I said, 'What baB ?
Sophie Loeb got to do with bills?' I?
did not know who Miss Loeb was at I
that time. I found out afterward that ;
Bhe was a reporter of "The New York j
World.' "
Burko then related that he visited ;
Samuel W. Beardsley, Henry J. Hem- !
mens and other gas company lawyers ?
at tho request of Senator Thompson \
while the Wicks bill was before the !
Legislature. He said the gas company i
lawyers gave him typewritten sugges-1
tions as to changes in the bill, and j
that the bill was finally amended "aa j
they wanted it."
Burke said that In order to nrove I
that he was associated closeiy wich |
Thompson he would relate an incident ?
that happened in 1917, when tho j
Thompson committee occupied rooms
at the Biltmorc.
"I had hated to bring in Judge Wag- ;
r.er's name. But I'm charged with a
felony and I'll drag in anybody's to
provo I'm innocent. On a certain day
when Mr. Hemmens and Mr. Thomas
and myself were in Senator Thomp?
son's room, Ji?lge Wagner tex-Senator
Robert F. Wagner, now a Justice of
the Supreme Court and then a member
of the Thompson committee) came in,
and when he saw who we were, he
stalked out and shut the door.
"Thompson then took me into an
ante-room and said: 'I want you to do
something for Wagner.' 1 said: 'What
can I do?' He said: 'Mayor Mitchel
is going to blast something on Senator
Wagner to-day and I want you to find
out what it is.'
"I went out and investigated and
camo back and told Thompson it was a
'dream.' "
Burke said that when the bill re?
organizing the Public Servico Commis?
sion was before the Legislature last
year Thompson asked him to make an
appointment with Mr. Hemmens. He
?aici the Senator from Niagara wanted
to discuss a provision in the bill re?
pealing the 80-cent gas law.
"Thompson said that he did not know
if he could stand for that' provision
as the papers would pan hell out of it."
said Burke. "I think Hemmens did
not want to meet Thompson alone."
"He wanted you to be there?" in?
quired Mr. Cheney.
"Yes," said Burke.
Burke explained that ho had to go
to Canada, and that tho meeting never
took place.
Burke was then asked about tho
meeting with Thompson at the Repub?
lican Club, at which Thompson alleges
Burke offered half a million dollars
to support the Carson-Martin bill.
Burke said there was some talk about
Mayor Dylan, during which Thompson
said: "I don't know how the people
of the City of New York elected that
big. fat-headed Mayor of New
York."
Burke, rising from his chair,
stretched forth his hand in dramatic
appeal to the committee and said:
"Don't forget the burned Shonts let?
ters. Find out why they were burned
in the home of Mr. Pepperman. tPep
perman is secretary to Theodore P.
Shonts. president of the Interborough.)
Find out why Senator Thompcon threw
them into the fireplace in the Pepper
man home. T make this statement to
show that Thompson was always look?
ing to get something.
"Don't forget that Thompson enid in
one breath that I was a decent fellow
and in the next breath charged me
with offering him a half million dollar
slush fund. I have no lawyer and I've
had no one to advise me, and I've tried
to do the best I could to defend myself
with tho education I picked u-> la ?ft?
streets of New York." " "
The committee will meet again to?
morrow.
Hughes Denies He
Received Fee From
Traction Interests
WASHINGTON, April 16.?Th? ??.
sertion in testimony before the New
York Legislative slush fund inquiry
that Charles E. Hughea had beet) x%
tained by New York Traction intere?,
was denied by him to-day.
"I have read the preposteroui storr
published in the report of the Albwr
hearing," said Mr. Hughe?, "tint I
had been paid $50,000 by the traction
interests to appear at the legiil?ti?e
hearing on tho Caraon-Martin bill
There is not a word of truth in it I
have not been retained by the traction
interests and I have not received
dollar from them.
"The fact is that I wai asked by the
four life insurance companies the
Equitable, New York Life, Mutual, ?nd
Metropolitan, which are large holders
of traction bonds, to represent them
at the public hearing before the legln
tive committee and to make an argu?
ment in support of the bill, especially
on the constitutional question in?
volved. This has been my only con?
nection with the matter.
"I may add that I have not received
a fee or rendered a bill and when I
do, it will be, of course, ?imply a rea?
sonable charge for tho legal service.
Aside from the public hearing I hsve'
not had any communication with any
member of the Legislature about the
matter."
Smith Agrees
To Help Avert
Harbor Strike
Continued from p?t?p 1
drafting men from the harbor ?quad.
The government departments also were
making plans to meet the situation
when Mr. Hughes intervened with a
proposition that another general con?
ference be held. For the boat o?jrner?.
Paul Bonynge, their counsel, declared
a lack of faith that anything worth
while would come from such a meeting,
but expressed his belief tnat hi?
clients would be represented.
The private boat owners are placing
much reliance on a meeting of the
general executive board of the Inter?
national Longshoremen's Association
which will be held in this city this
morning to help end the strike. The
fifteen members of the board have
been called here by T. V. O'Connor,
the international pres'dent, who has
been at odds with the Marine Workers'
Affiliation, and has forced two of the
unions identified with that body to
?.?lake private settlements.
In this O'Connor has claehed with
F. Paul A. Vaccarelli, the international
vice-president in charge of this port,
and it is understood the meeting has
been called on thi s account. At
O'Connor's hotel last evening it was
said he was out of the city.
"All that I know about the meeting
is what O'Connor said at a meeting
of the district council last Sunday,"
paid Vaccarelli. "At that meeting he
said he had been accused of strike
breaking and that he had called the
executive board to th;ash out the whole
situation."
Detroit Barber, 86, Said
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DETROIT, Mich.?Detroit claims the
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oldest ?'ictive barber in the world.
Its celebrity's name is Daniel Cas
terten, eighty-six, who started barber
ing the exquisites when h te old-faih
ioned nickel bought a shave and mar?
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