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Division of Rail
Excess Returns
.Urged by Hines
Action Called Necessary to
Proteet Publie and In?
sure Fair Profita for All
Roads After the Change
Private Capital Protected
Consolidation Into Few Sys?
tems, With I*ahor Aidin
in Rule, Is Sought
LOUISVILLE. Jan 29.?Walker D.
Hines, Director General of Raiironds,
In an address before the Transporta?
tion Club her? to-nii^ht, urged the ne?
cessity of a division of excess earnings
of railroad corporations above a rea?
sonable return, in.ortler to protect the
public against excess turnings of very
pro porous railroads and in order to
ID sun a fair return to all railroads.
"Tho e who oppose this plan seem to
i ssume that it will operate as a di*
lura?Tcment ipon private capital," said
Mr. limes. "They seem to assume that
lai is not adopted there will be
i discouragement on private capital,
-; hould remember the discour
ngements winch have existed hereto?
fore. The real question is whethei a
plan -hail be adopted which-will both
protect the public interest and reason?
ably protect private capital or whether,
or the other hand, p. plan shall be
dopted which will fail to do either
with any degree of satisfaction."
Disappointment Is Feared
Mr. Hines declared his belief that
unless the railroad problem at the pr?s
'ent time "i dealt with "in a bold anii
if ?? ? . ... th? return to priva
management after Federal control "wili
'?a whollj di appointing."
The Director General also urged th?
:ompulsory consolidation of the rail
road "lystems of the country into a few
?rg\ systems and suggested the par
icipntion of the pub ic and labor ir
the management of th'? rft-iJroads.
In his discussion of the railroad rat?
[Uestion and the reorganization of th?
railroads which he believed ?Jfc-cossfin
if ter government control, Air. Huiei
aid:
"Intelligent consideration will h;
rreatly aided by recalling tho condi
ions of rail trad regulation as they ex
strd in 1917, and as they will ngair
?cist under private control un'ess fun
lamentally changed by new legislation
"In 1917 railroad executives wer
rofoundly discouraged as to the con
ditions of railr ad regulation. The;
ound extreme difficulty.in proving t<
he public satisfaction _wh-.it they re
.arded as their absolute necessities i:
the way of increased ratea, and the;
?ad no r.atis actory method of dealin;
vith the labor problems which wer
onstantly becoming more, pressing
Both rat ?.-. and service were being reg
i ated bj Federal and state legislativ
odie and commissions. Common actioi
'as much easier for the lab' r organiza
ions than it was for the railroads. Th
lit -.'.,-.s that so-called private n:;.r
g? m? nt ; :' the railroads was r-, v- ?'? ?<
? ceci /es themselves a? arge!;
igurat tuse they felt that to :
r< ? . ?? ? nt the management was vir
;? ? taki out of I heir handsi
"The que tion now i-- shall the rail
oads be returned to substant ally th
ame reg? lation which had pioved 8
ti'pcouraging in 1917, or shall change
'?e made s fficiently fundamental t
remove the difficulties upon this qucs
ion. 1 with to offer the results o
ny own study of the problem.
Future Policy Defined
"Broadly ! believe that unless thes
natters be dealt with in a bold'an
ffective way th?" ret-.ni to privat
management will be wholly disappoint
nt; I believe that r.o prompt, cor
: and liberal regulation of th
?ailroads will be practical unless prr
.sion is made for the ??npropriatin
r the benefit of the public interest u
n portant part of the excess which an
ail road company may earn over
ilearly reasonable return. If this
lot done there will be two continuin
t -,'icles to securing satisfactory gei
?nil treatment of the rate problem.
"One will be that rates sufficient
ilgh to pr tect the general situatH
"ill , re to an unr asonable extei
i the benefit of particularly prospe
us r<-; 'Ir and this will operate to pr
??nt the establishment of such rat?
'he other will be that rates whn
.i ght be sufficient to protect the sit
on the average would operate
?roduce unduly high returns in e
optionally prosperous years, and th
ear likewise will have a restraint:
hlluence upon satisfactory action up
he rave question.
Benefit for Public
"On the other hand, if it Is clear
understood that an import,.nt part
he \t turn of any co i . ai > in exc?
?f a reaBonal le i ri . ;
?.cme proper way to the public lenei
-hese obstacles to satisfactory tre?
?nent of the rate pt b will
/mar. 1 earnii gs thus
it priai
'a 1'* ' ation
reserve ?. the railroad s ti
101 years and th is
??"-d<i ' - - ? of stability will
??iv on.
"The t of rates at t
?r,,: nt tin . the credit
?11 the a, .
1*P? ? ? - j -, parate
BfcO! S i . ties - ? be >-.:. eme. Ill
d'il-' - - v. r, bee ?us? me abnorr
f01 - no years n,t
? excee? ' cu , lo draw e
?a?;" ? i as to the act
*H!; ' - the ra Iroad i at
m'j: also
Cl': ' . a contin?.
oni ? large Increase
ra ?- ary.
I ??'??.?'
w; ?
tain tl 0f the r,; ,
- .- -,?
IlK? ,
P'" ? ?>? Ill BUCh .
1 -,"ct of obtaini ?
Sw' i ????, : be great y
>'' --i which i
? rp? au
L ??? - ?. on any ra
??' " eral ?y, il ltd tur/," ou? ?ht r
In? ? m .-?,..M? -.-, [? '-,
c" '? ' ? ill gtf la ?.; ly to p
Kct ntepfft nul er than
i ?? ? m ? rs an dnne&?si
? , 3
? ' ' ??? ?:-?'-' ? ??.?? rery 1mf?rtant p
O1 ' Stave to ..in raJtr
c< :????- . *-.-? . -*. ...,
i.
the excess earnings to stimulate their
efficiency in the public interest. Be- ;
yond this point I believe the plan of j
division of earnings which 1 propone;
is essential to the due protection both
of the public interest &nd of all legiti- ;
mate elements of private interest.
"I have heard it seriously urired that
the old system ought to be kept be
cause w? are familiar with it. This
would be a gcod argument if the old
I system had been satisfactory and had
obtained a proper result in the public
interest, but since I believe the old
system was wholly unsatisfactory and
was rapidly becoming progressively
more unsatisfactory I am unable to ap?
preciate the argument. I find no
potency in the suggestion that we
ought to adhere to a failure because j
we are familiar with it."
Flu Drops to
4,706 Cases;
100 Deaths
Oonllnnrf, from f>i?se t
Copeland said, indicate tliat absentee;
among teachers and children are at
normal figures. He urged that ever?
citizen remember that influenza is a
"hand conveyed disease, promoted by
intimate, persona! contact."
Describing the situation as serious,
he added that physicians contended
thai while the disease v. ?? much
milder than in the 1918 epidemic, there
will be material increases in the rav
ages of the epidemic unlesy ai! pre?
cautions are taken.
"The department" said the Commis j
sioner, "is prepared to open new h??
pital'?, and it is our desire to do every?
thing that can be done to privent a
serious invasion of the public health.
I "Yesterday I heard a comolaint that
I the Health Department hospitals in
! Brooklyn were not able to take car" of
the patients there. Dr. Peck, in charge
lof hat borough, reported that the Cum?
berland Street Hospital has Twenty
eight vacant beds, the Greenpoint Hos?
pital fifteen beds, St. Mary's Hospital)
j forty beds and the Methodist Hospital :
five beds.
1,500 Vacant Beds In Manhattan j
"In Manhattan 1 find there are 272!
! vacant beds outside of Bellevue Hus- ?
(,pith! and that in titution has never re?
fused to take in patients because of
.crowded conditions in its history.
There are 600 vacant beds in VVillard
I..Parker Hospital and 400 beds in the
??Municipal Lodging Hhure. We have;
not hail to use either of these institu?
tions. There are at least 1;50(J vacant
beds in Manhattan."
The Commissioner announced that
additional workers were busy in de?
partment laboratories seeking to find
the cause of influenza so that a Berum
may be developed.
T. S. McCtil oh, vice-president of the
Mew York Telephone Company, ap
I oealed to New Yorkers to use the tele?
phone only w' en necessary durinjt th?
epidemic. With the operating force
depleted by illness, he sa??!. q? '.-.
radical decrease in the number of ca
will rave the situation. More than]
300,000 calls daily have been added to
the a.!rea?iy enormous traffic load '
About 2,000 operators are absent from
Central offices.
"The telephone company ;? ''.:-? th?
public to do two things," the ap
concluded. "Telepboi only whei it
ia absolutely necessary and >vl
do telephone help the operator in everj
way possible. Be cons'dcrate.'
Dr. ?'??; clan 1 appiove I ':.? ? i'ca an
reque ted f r the Health Departmei
that the telephones in the m in head
quarters in Manhattan be i lievd ;?
much R5 possible. Calls {< r
'octors, supplies ov other help sh luid
be made to the health offices in the 'nor j
ough in which the services ar? needed
The telephone numbers for the bor?
oughs are:
Manhattan, Worth 0-100; Bronx
Tr?mont ?'.>V"; Brooklyn, Ms n 1720
Queens, Jamaica I2u0; Riehmoi d,
T?mpkinsville 140.
Sanitary Precautions Fnfercrd
Dr. Cope and issued anothei warning
tu keepers of restaurants, bakeri a and
other establishments where food an.::
drinks are served to the public con
cernir.g sanitary precautions.
Twent men were arraigned in Tombs
1 Court yesterday charged with vi latiuj
; the sanitary code regulations
: expectorating in the subways ?: h?
j were fined $i each.
j The Fire and Police department!
suffering. Dr. Patrick J Murray chief
surgeon of the Police Departmei t, said
that 443 members of the force are off
dut because of influenza Dr. Jos
E. Smith, chief medical officer attach'
to the Fir? Department sa d hal
?uniformed men were incapacitated b'
influenza.
Lists of drug more? where whisl
may be had undei restrictions w< -?
issued yesterday by interna! revenu?
': officials.
23 States Report Cases
Gaining On>r Last Weeh
Increase Is )Iorr Than 23 000;
Deaths Also Leap, hut Pneu-1
! mnnin f ht Slioic* a Decrease
WASHINGTON, 3r.... 29. '
spread of influenza over the
i was indicated by report?? to the Pul
Health Service to-day from state ui
; city health officers. X mai ;ed .?
, ;n any particular '. ? ? -, hov e\ ?
| noted.
Cases reporte,) from twenty-throe
states arid tr District ' Columl
' h i -.'. eck ? : led Januar; 24 i mber?
27 241, an increase of mor? thi
over tiic we k before Of!
plained that the total reported [ ?
aMy was far below the actual
of cases existing. Deaths from ?nil ?
g ' I ? k end? d Jai uai ?, : I
thirty cities, toti I 4G7, an
16 over the week 1
deaths from pneumonia were
decrease ? r seventy five r. t p. I '?..'
the w? :> before
uOI [SVH LE, Jar 29 Infl
ling ,'....?,
? ?????< ' the en .... . ?....., .
t wee n Cb i ca g? mil New
. x ? ?. .
- ? t t rallie", ace ?rding t
Hi?es, D rec or I ... ., of P.ai r n
.vt . was h? re to day tn
. i ?::' ? anqu? t of the Trai ? ? ? ?
; Club.
"< oupled with h,rl weather c? I
' Moos." eaid Mr Hin?? ., "the influe
: epidemic han dea ? a ser ou ! ?
I railroad op ra?on. Nor ? nly are
: ht rallroa I men down w dise ???
at x any n,,r? urn forced ??
rom the r duttos I <? m. ?? ? ? ? . ? , ?. (,
'or serious iliness of members ?? ? ' -
famille x
? -'I: ;,..r*, receive ? >,? ,n?. ye
^^nom^a' --^r'J l,,v,,^.,
%
PEEEECT PENCIL
Am*rJA? Uft4%neil 0>.?22cHfif th Avenue. N.Y
however, are that both weather condi
tions and troubles due to illnesB are j
?trowing better." !
SYRACUSE, Jan. 29.?With more i
than .'?.000 persns ill of grippe, influ i
?ufa in a light form and other diseases ,
Syracuse public and business life is :
badly crippled. Comparatively few of
the patients are seriously ill, and only
100 of them have developed pneumonia
in the lust week.
The se1 oo! system is bad'y affected ;
by teachers being forced to gire up ,
work, and the various city departments
are also handicapped. Transportation
tervi?e is at its worst, the trolley com?
pany giving the illness of 100 men,
about one *i\-;jj of its force, aa the
main reason.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 29.- The ascend- j
?ng scale of influenza c'.">'c continued
her? i day, 453 n? w cases being Te?
l:; rted for the last twenty-four hours,
making a total of 1,387*. Orly two
leaths were reported for the same
period, however. More than 200 ? rhool
teachers ire ill, most of them with in?
fluenza. There were eight deaths from
pneumonia yesterday. Th" disease con?
tinues to spread throughout the state.
LANSING. Mich., Jan. 29 ? Influenza
casi ? in Michigan reached llfilO this
afternoon, according to reports to the
State Hoard of Health. Tho figures
ajjow an increase of 2.113 in the last
twenty-four hours, during which timfe
thirty-seven deaths from influenza and
forty-seven from pneumonia were re?
corded.
ASHEVILLE, N. <"., Jan. 29.?A city
ordinance was adopted to-day closing
nl ?: ?!.'. Is and heaters and prohibit?
ing lodge and c'ub meetings, in an ef
fort to prevent the spread of irfiuenza.
Churches were requested to close, as
no municaplity i ti this state can order
?hem c os? d for any reason. A total of
109 new cases of influenza were report?
ed to-day.
NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Jan. 20.?
The threatened influenza epidemic at
Camp Eustis, nenr ,this city, has been
completely chec ed. When Brigndier
General Ilaygoi I, commander of the
camp, discovered the first cases he
closed all theatera, reading rooms and
>" ? rooms und temporarily suspended
drill.
The next day there were fewer new
cases, and five days Ir.ter only one new
case was reported, there laving been
twenty-five or thirty caseB i nail.
Limit of ?*inf in 10 Days
Put on Whisky for Flu
On'y Physit ian* Who Hold V. S.
Permits to Prescribe; Seized
Liquor Available in Emer?
gency ____
New York Tribune
IS'ti hing! m Bureau
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.?Official cs
planation of the regulations under
which it ma}- he possible to obtain
liquor for medicinal use in combatting
'he influenza in New York and other
tii i was made here to-night in a
statement issued by ''"> Mure::-: of In
? rna! R enue. Il . ids:
''Any phys cian dul; licensed to prac?
tice medicine a i -1 a?. : :. e!j engaged :n
: ?ctico of inch, i, r >fes! ion ma
ohtnin a permit to prescribe intoxi
. -...: i: ! oi and m i\ then is su? pre
foi distil d spirits, wines
? r ? ;; n ilcoholic medicinal prepar
nedicinal p u i'poses for per
iii ipon wh mi he is in attendance in
? -.-!? rc ho believes that the uso of
liquor a ned'eine : ncc 'ssary. In
may spirituous Uquoi be pre?
scribed '?; ? -, or m ?-.e physicians in
of one pint for the same per
within any period of ten da ?..
No Limit on Quantity of Wine
"No spec fie limitation is placed upon
the qui: tity or" wines which may be
: " c? h d foi medicinal purposes."The
? merely require that no
? - be issued for a great er
, necessar..- for use ae
iicin? i hysicians who do not
hi I permits to prescribe intoxica ng
: ; is arc under no circumstanced
permitted to issue prescriptions.
"A 1 prescriptions for intoxicating
' I ?red to be written on
I ? ? '? ai ks prescribed by the
Form 1403 I, and to be pro
bun -ni., ? xcept that in
cases physicians may use
? . : Iai prescription blanks
? ding ?? . d-quate supply 0f the of
ing primed, physicians
: ?> perm i have been authorized
?'" pr? ? iptions on blanks regu
?'?l bj them.
"Pn icriptions for intoxicating liquor
may be filled only by registered
ci ? , ho'd permits au h r
them to do so, or who are em
? o yod by ???! i: drugjrists holding such
mits. Pharmacists and druggists
- uch p? r:nits will procure their
? icnting liquors from
manufacturers or other persons hohi
?.- -? -itl orizing them to sell
? - - > whom pr^scrintlons for
i a are Is sued bv phy
o? ire the liquor pre
ribed ... pharmacists er drug
I . ? ;: ,.'. rmits without obtain
pe lit.
"Physicians may also obtain permits
lem to procure not more
? I i t?'ed spirits.
'?' '" ore .:? ilcoholic preparations
Im - ?? dar y? ai for adminis
t? tion to theii patients i;i emergency
? ? " delay ?'. ; rocuring liquor
?' '? '? i ? ? ' ? h rough a f ' armacist
us con?equences to the
I ati"i t,
Provision 1? aiso made In tnp- regu
n o n ng permits to hospitals
and -- atoriums 'o enable them to pro
cur? ? ' ??? icai ? .- liquor o he 'adminis
' foi 7 purposes to pa
tients at such institutions, and a?so for
tissuing permits to manufacturing, m
I dustrial and other establishments:
i maintaining first aid stations, author
j ?zing them to procure such liquor for
administration to their emyloyees for
; medicinal purposes in emergency cases.
"All applications for permits above !
referred to should be made on form
i 1404 in triplicate and forwarded to the ;
| local collector of internal revenue.
"Section ?7 of the national prohib?- j
j tion act provides that any intoxicating
J licuor seized under Section 25 or Sec- ;
j tion 26 thereof, and subject to be de?
stroyed, may, upon application of the
I l.'nited States Attorney, be ordered by
I the court to be delivered to any person
! holding a permit to purera e liquor.
! All liquor Be?z?d under such sections
I of law maj be diverted through regu
j ,-.r channels for medicinal purposes
{ under the procedure above described.
"Any ?n'oxicating liquor seized
urder Federal law prior to October 28.
11)19, if not c aimed within sixty days
ram such date may likewise, upon er?
det of the court, be delivered to any
person holding a permit to purchase
I and bo diverted to medicinal or other
? i.on-bcveraire purpose .
? "Complaints of exorbitant charges
I for liquor for medicinal purposes
I which place dispensers thereof in the
| class of profiteers will be investigated."
?-?--'
! G lass Culs Relief
Plan for Europe to
$125,003,000 Loan
?$50,000,000 Gift "Would
Do More Harm Than
Good*' in Poland, Austria
and Armenia, Said Hoover
I ' - - -
? WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.? Reduction
j of $25,000,000 in the $150,000,000 loan
' proposed for food relief in Poland,
? Austria and Armenia, was made to-day
1 by Secretary Glass, appearing before
the House Ways and Means Committee.
Mr.. Glass said tha reduction had
been decided on in conference with
Herbert Hoover, who wa9 quoted as
saying that the loan or gift of $50,
000,000 as suggested in comrnitee would
do "more harm than good."
"Fifty million dollars would not re?
lieve the menacing situation and revo?
lution might occur in the affected
countries," said the Secretary.
Assistant Secretary .Norman Davis
told the committee the reduction was
made possible by Great Britain defi?
nitely agreeing to provide the ships
for transporting ihe food. He added
that Argentina and Canada had '"signi?
fied a willingnens" to participate, esti?
mating $10,000,000 would be provided
by them.
"One cannot describe the need ol
relief," declared Secretary Glass, re
citing the conditions related to hiir
by American officials just back from
Europe. "This relief is the humani?
tarian and safe thing to do. !t is tin
piain, practical common sense thin?;
I to do, even if we don't get the monej
j hack. But we hope to get some of n
back, it ?3 the least expensive thinf
to do.
"Men, women and children, especially
children, are dying by the thousands
One man, just returned fr.-.m Europe
i saw twenty-seven bodies unburied in i
street in an Austrian city."
The committee adjourned until to
| morrow without acting on the proposei
j ;oana.
Huge Stores of Food
Sent From V. S. Remain
Undelivered in Danzig
Thousands of packages of food
valued at hundreds of thousands o
dollars, sent from this country to re
lieve the shortage in Poland, are oi
the piers and in warehouses of Dnnzi"
and cannot be delivered, according t>
a report received fr?>m Warsaw by tin
Amer.can Relief administration hen
i yesterday.
Packages which arrived In the Bal
tic port last summer are piled hi;r:
in warehouses and may never be de
livered, it was said. Virtually all o
j 'he shipments to individuals in Polan.
have been lost.
! Edgar Ricknrd, acting chairman o
the administration, in calling atten
I tion to this huge loss, again warne
j Americans not to attempt to send sup
p'ies in individual packages becaus
such action not only made condition
in Danzig worse but failed to reliev
the growing stringency in Polan?
Secretary Lansing's attention has bee
called to the conditions in the Balti
port, and the Secretary of State ha
j been asked to help prevent individua
shjiments.
The only solution so far devised I
? a plan by which Americans may pu
I chase "food drafts" here which the
j may send by mail to Poland, wher
j they v/ill be redeemed by the relie
I administration with food sent direct -,
. chartered ships under special guar
? 'o Polish warehouses,
$32.1,000,000 in interest
Oirvd to V. S. by Ettrop
j WASHINGTON. Jan. 29.?Accrued ir
i terest on loans to European conn trie
! totals approximate':." 5:125,000,000, ac
j cording to a table, submitted to-day t
i the House Ways and Means Committe
I by the Treasury Department, whic
| plans to defer collection for a fei
? years, pending reconstruction.
Great Britain owo^ th ? most intpres
the total being $144 440837. ?nteres
owed by other countries is: Franc?
$94,021.7-10; Italy. $54.250.589; Ru:
j sia, $1(5832 662; Belgium, $11,465,278
- Czech 3 Slovaki ?.. $1,667,083; Serbii
; $917,299; Rumania, $609,873, und L
b e r ?4?. f 548.
mm?m I_
STORE OFENS 9:30 A. NI. CLOSES 6 P. M."
ODAY AND SATURDAY
QUOTE MANY ATTRACTIVE BARGAINS,
?HE NEWEST GOODS, AT THE
"* IT v*? V .,?i w* 4?r>
.*
UPRISING ^^^^
VERY LOWEST PRICES.
Men's Wear Sf>r*?nrt
Tust two days left for you to partiel-1
rat? '?? lanuai - Szl?- offerings.
me ': . e Is m ide by the most
ifacturcrs ? mly,?not
v bo Ight f it Special Sales, but
our ?)' Regular Stock. Prices
I ire lo a .'- than today's Whola
i ?le '-'.oat.
M . -. Bntc? Street Shirt*, soft and
?it sizes 14 to 18, Good as?
sortment ol neat,-desirable .patterns
rl> priced S i.OO and 55. So each
F'rice, each.2.65
Men'? Shirt?, suit and stiff CufT?;.
Bfiken assortments but all sizes, H
to 18 Made of high-grade Percales.
January Sale Price, each.1.70
Oti? Bidbriggnn Shirts ?nd Drawers,
in long and short sleeves: all sizes to
16 Some have vers slight defects.
lanuary Sab' Price, each.75c
Shirt? and Drawer?, "Winsted" make.
Grey Merino, medium weight; all
sizes to 5o.
January Ssdc Price, each.1.6S
"Carter's" Union Suit*?Our entire
line of medium and heavy weight cot?
ton and mwl mixed Union Suits.
Values S3. SO to 39.50. January Sa'e
Prices, from, each. . . .2,35 to 5.95
Men's Sweaters, Sweater Vests and
Cardigan Jacket??Our entire stock.
Values from |8.00 to 522 SO.
January Sale Prices. .5.35 to 12.50
Men's ?Pajamas, "Universa!" make.
Simple lot of high grade Cotton Fab?
rics, pl.ii!) .tnd novelty weaves.
Values to S8.50.
January Sale Prie each.3.95
Men's Night Shirt?, "Universal" make,
all sizes t?> 20. Made from heavy
weight high grade Musllnj with or
without collar.
January Sale Price, each.1.95
Many other Items, too numerous to
mention?at greatly reduced prices.
None C. O. D. or exchanged, Those
are ?ua] cloiiutf prices
Carter Praises
Work of Rail
Labor Boards
Recommends That Adjust?
ment Machinery Be Con?
tinued After End of Fed?
eral Control of Lines
Morale of Men Raised
Confidence of Employers
and Employees Won by
F??ir Decision of Disputes
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-Cont.nu
ance after the end of Federal control
of railroads of the boards of adjust?
ment set up by the Railroad Adminis?
tration to decide controrer3i?3 arising
under the appliciition of wage ortlers
and ii other disputes between the rail?
roads and their employees ?vas recom?
mended in the annual report to-day of
^' ,S. barter director of the division
of labor of the Railroad Administra?
tion.
"The work of .thgae beards," said Mr
Carter, "demonstrates not only the ad?
visability of the creation of such
boards, but the necessity of their con?
tinuance. -. The fact that the boards
are 'bipartisan, without 'umpire' or j
i'neutral member,' ancKihat a:l of the;r
i members ar? experts- . on railroad |
i agreement matters has led both officials '
and employ?es ?to have confidence not
i only in tthe fairness of decisions
' reac' ed but a- to the technical ab: i i y i
I of the members of the board to pass
? intelligently on all controversies sub?
mitted for decision?"!
| Mr. Carter, reviewed the cOmpara
! lively small number of cases on ail the
? railroads ip- tha. country in-which- d\ffit
fiiKi-T. r'ssu ted in ??i?V?hoTized strikes.
i i-1 ] t<19 and jvc'urod- t-b s'-^or.k of jjfi?
'division of labor nf the Railroad'
j ? tmiris'rntion Sn adiils-tjfjg':'?p"if"c >?
tiversies in cooperation 'with other
?anches of the ? Railroad'Administrai,
r-on. ;'
Parp?se of Division of Labor '
Outlining labor conditions &* b* B&v
' them on railroads prior to.governrneht
: control and^the r??iroa?i| labor situ?ti?n
when government control'of railroiadu
began, Mr. Carter said : :
"One of the principal purposes of
I the creation of. the division cf labor
i was to provide means' whereby the
! controversies that constantly arise be
! tween railroad officials and employees
'would be promptly arid ?equitably ad?
justed. An inability to'--adjust these
i controversies' "under past pTactices re
I stilted in strikes, threatened strikes or
ja constant unrest among employees?
i to the extent that th???.;effeiency of the
? service had greatly'diminished at the
time the roads were taken over under
Federal control.
'"During the trro or three years
antedating Federal control of the rail?
roads an alarming situation was crested
in that the employees' organization?,
as a whole and through federations,
found themselves confronted with simi?
lar federations on the part of the rail?
roads, the roads being represented by
conference committees and the confer?
ence committees being subordinate to
'advisory committees.' It was alleged
by employees that these conference
committees of all of the principal rail?
roads in a district were not permitted
to grant the demands of employees, or
even to make favcrab'e compromises.
vithout the consent of the advisory
committee. The advisory committee, it
is a .eged, was the ag. nt of the great
banking institution? that controlled the
financial policy of al! the railroads.
Minor Strikes? Adjusted
"Arbitration? have been resorted to
in the later years, with the result that
<.'inp?oyees reached the conclusion that
an arbitration award depended en?
tirely upon the frame of mind of the
neutral arbitrator. Later, provisions
were made for submitting controversies
over the application of an arbitration
award back to the arbitration board
or to some other umpire, but this re?
sulted in the continuation of contro?
versies over a pjriort of two or three
years.
"It may be truthfully said that at
the time the railroads passed under
Federal control, because of these vexa?
tious contentions the morale of rail
d?greeemP!0yeeS had 8Unk to * "W
"During the year 1919 ? consider?!?,,
number of minor strike, oeenjW
practically all 0f which we? nH'
thonzed by the organization of whfcs
the employees were member?. A B,w
..ropornon of these strikes waf l ?*
?justed through the initiativ? of g
division of labor. lBs
"It is believed that a rast majoritv
of these unauthorized strikes arose otrt
of the fact that the employees at thaE
ocal points did not fully ?ndMit.fi
that a proper tribunal had been ere.tSd
%?he ,.*?"?>?<' Administration to
which all controversies should be re
ferred and that equitable decision,
would be reached by such tribunal"?"
60 Cases of Flu on "Dry"
Canard Liner From JV. Y
PLYMOUTH Eng., J.n. 29?Infl'
enza raged on board the Cun.rd Lin?
steamship Kaiserin Auguste Vic'or^
: during her passage here from Nev York
i whence she sailed on January 17 tv '
liner arrived here to-day twenty.four
hours late because of encountering ?
hurricane. There were sixty M?ej 0*
I influenza among the passengers and
I crew, three of the patients developin*'
i pneumonia, from which one, a third
j class passenger, died last night .
It was declared on the ship that til?
\ absence of stimulants, which w.b s?i?jnf.
? "dry," had hampered the surgeons h
: fighting the prevalent diseases. A sue
I ply of spirits and medical 6tores ????*
I taken on board here before the ????,
proc?eded for Cherbourg "? L.*,n n,y'
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From Kuppenheimer
Now In This Sale
We Have Just Received Them and Instead of
Keeping Them Out, for Selling at Regular
Prices, or Packing Them Away for Next Season
and Getting the 30% Higher Prices, Which
Clothing Will -in All Probability Bring Next
Winter, We Have Put Them Right in with Our
Reguar Stock, Offering You Unlimited Choice
of the Very Finest Ready*to-Wear Clothing Made
Kuppenheimer and Boll
Overcoats, Uls'ers and Suits
At Unusually Liberal Reductions
$75, $80, $85 and
$90 Overcoats and
Suits, at. ? . . . , , . o ,
$55, $57.50 and $GQ
O v e r c o a t s and
Suits, at..........
279 Broadway
44 East 14th St
$57.50
$47-50
$05, $67.50 and $70
O vercoa t s and
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$45, $47.50 and $50
Overcoats and
Suits, at.........?i
47 Cortlandt Street
125th St., at 3d Ave.
$57.50
$ \ ? ? j u
2 Fiatbush Ave.
Brooklyn
$05, $100, $115, $125 and $135 Overcoats and Suits
on Sale at 49th and 42d Street Stores Only, at
$30,00, $32.50, $35.00 and $40.00 Suits at
all stores except 49th and 42d Streets, at
$23
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t Broadway at 49th St
1456 B'way, at 42d St.