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11. Inserts a new provision in the I
Penal Code making it a crime for a i
landlord to deny the normal and nat?
ural service. In explaining this meas?
ure Senator Walters said:
"This measure, which carries with it
a penalty of not more than one year
in prison, $1,000 fine, or both, will put
an end to one of the favorite means
which it is said landlords of apartment
houses in New York City resorted to
in order to get tenants with leases to
leave so they could get a new tenant
who would pay more money. The
normal and natural services in an ele?
vator apartment house are elevator,
heat and water. Now, it is said that
some landlords cut off the elevator
service and others cut off the heat, and
some cut off water. This bill will make
such tactics a crime."
Senator Walters said that many of
the measures, while drastic, are drafted
to relieve a situation which is en?
dangering the public welfare, public '
health and public morals, and that
under such an emergency the state is
justified in exercising its police power.
The bills have the approval of rep?
resentative New York City landlords,
according to Senator Walters.
The proposed legislation applies only
to residential property.
Tenants Rejoice
In Their Victory
Refusal of the Mason Builders' Union
to agTee to the Mayor's plan for set?
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ect for getting a building program
under way, failed to dampen the gen?
eral enthusiasm of tenants yesterday
over the reporting to the Legislature
of the housing rcliof bills, as a result
of tho hearings before tho Lockwood
joint committee Tuesday. The tenantB
felt that they had convinced the Legis?
lature of the need for drastic action
and believed that relief bills soon
would pass.
This confidence caused greater activ
. ity in the work of organizing tenants.
Two new organisations?the Office Ten?
ants' League and the Jewish League
were at work and both reported prog?
ress.
The refusal of the mason builders to
arbitrate their diff?rences with the
bricklayers seemed for a time yester?
day to have blocked plans for getting
permanent housing relief through
building. Tho bricklayers reported to
the Mayor's Committee that they would
accept the Mayor's proposal, but re?
fused flatly the demand of the masons
that they join the Building Trades'
Council, After much discussion the
masons agreed to refer the question
back to their union and report to the
Mayor this afternoon. The council con?
siders the demand of the bricklayers
for $1 an hour excessive.
"The Mayor offered to act as arbitra?
tor," Charles Curran, head of the ar?
bitration committee of the Bricklayers'
International Union, said. "The five
bricklayers unions of greater New
York accepted his offer. The mason
builders declined, on the ground that
they did not want a politician to act
as arbitrator. We believe tho refusal
is due to the fact that the Mayor holds
a union card.
"Wo arc ready to meet any reason?
able proposition. Wo will accept Cor?
poration Counsel Burr, or we will let
the Mayor name a committee of one of
our men, a citizen and a newspaper
man."
An array of lawyers is joining the
Office Tenants' League. The organiza?
tion, which started with tenants of 309
| Broadway, already has about 800 mem?
bers. Its officers predict it will pass
the 1,000 mark before the end of the
week.
Frank M. Franklin, chairman of the
league, declared yesterday that every
legal jcsource would be employed to
stop office rent increases.
"Conditions in this building arc bad,
but no worse than in others," he said.
"We have not even been given the
chance to pay an increased rent.--they I
simply served notices of eviction, |
though many of us have been in the j
building for twenty-four years. Now j
we learn that the agents of the build- i
ing are offering the space at increases I
which amount to from 100 to 400 per
cent, and do not want small tenants,
such as lawyers."
The drive for members in the Jewish
tenants' union, which is sponsored by
the United Hebrew Trades, was ;
launched yesterday. Leaders said last j
night they had every reason to believe I
that their mark of a million members ;
would bo reached within a few days.
New support for the Black bill, giv- j
ing tenants now holding verbal leases :
the right to occupy the premises with- j
out increased rent for a year, was an- ;
nounced by Leo Kenneth .Mayer, coun- ?
sel to the ?Mayor's Committee, yester?
day.
Stewart Browne, president of the
United Real Estate Owners Associa?
tion, made public a letter yesterday
in which he condemned the attitude of
the landlords ?it the Albany hearing.
Leopold Weil, 49 Liberty Street,
asked yesterday that it be explained :
that he was not th? man of that name ?
who was howled down in attempting to !
speak at Albany. This Mr. Weil did !
not attend the hearing.
The issuance of an injunction which !
stopped the attempt to dispossess the !
family of Juan F, Toores from the six- \
sf ory apartment house at 434 West (
104th Street was celebrated by the
twenty-two tenants of the building by i
decorating it with flags and bunting.
Block Offered City
In Housing Emergency i
Father Agrees to Pay All the i
Assessments and Taxes While I
the Properly Is Being Used j
Borough President Henry II. Curran ;
has received an offer of a whole block '?
at Queensboro Plaza to be used by !
the city in constructing houses to re?
lieve the present housing emergency.
The offer/ comes from Samuel L.
Faiber, who owns the block, Mr. Cur
ran said, and the owner is willing to
p'.y all the taxes and assessments him?
self and permit the city to remove
the houses when the emergency has
passed.
The Borough President has had the
offer put on the calendar of the Board
of Estimate for consideration at its
meeting to-morrow. Mr. Curran said
there were "no strings" on Mr. Faiber's
offer and the location was within a
5-cent ride of "any job in New York |
City."
The Borough President at to-mor- ?
row's meeting will renew his r?solu- I
tion that the city appropriate ?10,- i
000,000 for building houses.
Troops Fire on India Mob '
Seven Strikers Killed and 48 j
Wounded at Jamshedpur
BOMBAY, March 17.?British troops j
fired upon a disorderly crowd of
strikers at Jamshedpur when they
ignored a warning order. Two per?
sons were killed and twenty-five !
wounded. The crowd scattered when it ?
was seen the troops were prepared to
charge1 with the bayonet.
Attempts to damage the railway |
were made during tho disorder.
Later, the military force guarding ?
the railway was attacked and driven
back a hundred yards, upon which the
troops tired, killing live persons and
wounding twenty-three.
Eighty-six strikes have occurred in i
India recently, affecting 300,000 work- |
ers.
Supreme Council and League
Of Nations to Meet in Italv
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Remo, Italy, on April 21, according to
authoritative advices from Rome. The
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league of nations will be held in Rome
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Split on Bills
To Raise Pay
Of Teachers
Speakers Agree on Need of
Increase, but Are Divided
on the Method; Many
Are at Capital Hearing
Both Measures Opposed
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Closing Barge Canal and
Tax on Bachelors Among
Suggestions for Revenue
From a Staff Correspondent
ALBANY, March 24. ?*- Everything
i from abolishing the barge canal to
1 taxing bachelors was suggested as a
means of raising money for increasing
teachers' salaries this afternoon at the
hearing before, the Senate Finance and
? Assembly Ways and Means,committees
! on the Lockwood-Donohuc and Mullan
| Ilutchins bills.
Representatives of several cities op-'
! posed both bills. New York teachers
i favored the Lockwood bill and up-state
I teachers the Mullan bill. The one
I thing that they all agreed on was
j that teachers had to have more money,
i but none offered any definite plan for
I raising the required revenue. The
plan of adding two mills to the. direct
state tax seems to have been aban?
doned. The Assembly Chamber was
crowded with teachers from all parts
of the state, a trainload coining from
New York.
The Lockwood bill appropriates
about $25.000,000 and the localities
would have to givo a like amount to
provide increases of from 20 to 40 per
cent. Teachers earning less than
S2.260 would fret an increase of 40 per
cent, those getting less than $4,000 30
per cent and those getting over $4,000
would be given a 20 per cent increase.
This bill would cost Now York City the
lirst year nearly $13,000,000.
Sage Opposes Both Bills
The Mullan bill originally appro?
priated $26,500,000, but this amount
has been cut to $19,000,000. The locali?
ties would give a like amount, of which
it is estimated New York's share would
he $11.000,000 and the localities in the
rest, of the state about $8,850,000. It
provides increases for every grade o?
teacher, fixing the minimum for each
in dollars and cents instead of on a
percentage basis. The lowest salary
for beginners would be $1.600, while
the minimum in the Lockwood bill is
$1,400.
Senator Henry M. Sage, chairman of
the Finance Committee, said after the
hearing that he opposed both bills.
"Even though the state should take
the burden of paying half the salaries
of teachers oif the hands of the cities,"
he said, "they would spend just as
much money, and in a few years would
be back here asking the state to pay
the other half. . It will amount to from
Slit,000,000 to $25,000,000 now, and if
the state pays the whole thing it will
eventually be from $60,000.000 to $80,
000,000. I appreciate that teachers
must have more money, but two serious
questions are involved. One is, Where
is the money coming from? and the
other is, Is it the function of the state
or the cities to pay teacherV salaries?
1 think a commission should be ap?
pointed to study this whole tiling."
Senator Mullan declared he hoped
that all of the ditferent factions among
the teachers would get together to
bring about some satisfactory relief,
whether it was through his bill or the
Lockwood bill.
Must Pay Teachers Properly
"If we are to have red-blooded Amer
ieamrin the future," he said, "as we
have had in the past, we must have the
right kind of teachers, and to get them
we must pay them properly."
"If education is a state function,"
asked Senator Sage, "and the state pays
a portion of the salaries of teachers,
why should it not pay the whole?"
"I don't know that it would make
any difference with the individual tax?
payer," replied Senator Mullan.
"Well, where is the state going to
get the money ?"
"It can jump over some of the things
it is trying to do now and pay a little
more attention to education."
"Senator Mullan said he would cut
out the Barge Canal for one thing."
"And I can name a lot of other
things," shouted Assemblyman William
C. Amos. "1 would also suggest a tax
on war profits, bachelors and founda?
tion funds."
Assemblyman Eberly Hutchinson, of
Fulton, introduced the sneakers for the
Mullan-Hutchinson bill, and Assembly?
man Charles D. Donohue, of New York
City, the speakers for the Lockvvood
Donohue bill.
"The situation has got so bad," he
said, "that women dismissed as incom?
petents, teachers retired on pensions,
mere boys in college and young girls
still in high schools are being im?
pressed into the service. One school
board has announced that it will issue
temporary licenses to teach to whom?
ever it can get. We are spending mill?
ions to put up fine school buildings,
but arc letting the life within decay."
For Mullan Bill
Miss Calkins, of Brooklyn, sup?
ported the Mullan bill because it con?
tained definite schedules and did not
favor the higher paid teachers at the i
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?State Comptroller Travis declared
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quate salaries, even though it give up
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nel and stop improving, its roads or
undertaking other improvements.
M?bs Olive M. Jones, of New York,
presented big bundles of petitions,
signed by thousands of New Yorkers,
favoring the Lockwood bill.
Former Commissioner Thomas W.
Churchill, of the New York City Board
of Education, said there was not only a
shortage of teachers but that the
"teachers were short."
"The most genuine bankruptcy this
state can afford," ho said, "is that
coming fr-om paying the teachers what
they deserve. This has got to be
worked out even though we plug up
the barge cannl, as has been suggested.
I favor the Lockwood bill because it
brings about the absolute divorce in
the payment of teachers of the City
Hall and the Board of Education, and it
will insure the continuity of education
through every change of administra?
tion."
Miss Isabelle Ennis said she had
found that the boys and girls taking
courses in the, continuation schools
were getting more money than the
teachers. Dr. J. Gardner Smith, father
of Miss Marguerite L. Smith, the New
York Assemblywoman, also spoke for
the bill, together with Mrs. Clarice M.
Baright and ?Agnes C. Craijf, of the
Teachers' Interest Association.
William Mayer, Assistant Corpora?
tion Counsel of New York, and the rep?
resentatives of several other cities op?
posed both bills, declaring that these
cities are now almost up to their debt
limits and that the bills take away
from localities the right of home rule.
Education Board Seeks
Hearing on increase Plan
Wilt Ask Legislative Commit!re
to Defer Action Until Its
Position Can Be Presented
In view of the hearing which began
yesterday at Albany on the proposition
of increased compensation for New
York's public school teachers the
Board of Education last night decided
to ask the legislative committees for
a special hearing on its position with
regard to the proposed salary increases.
Arthur S. Somers moved that the
?"board take some action which would
make clear that the board was prop?
erly concerned with the seriousness of
the situation and awaited only the re?
port of the special committee which
has been investigating the problem.
President Frail was instructed to send
a telegram to Albany asking the legis?
lative committee to defer action until
the board could be heard. The board's
committee will make its report by Mon?
day.
From individual expressions by mem?
bers of the Board of Education it was
learned that the Lockwood-Dnnohue
measure will not get the indorsement
of the board as a whole. The board is
known to be favorable to substantial
increases for elementary beginning
teachers?the lowest, paid?and to in?
creases for teachers who are the heads
of families.
The board voted to comply with the
suggestion of F. 11. La Guardia, Presi?
dent of the Board of Aldermen, that if
the board would send the data regard?
ing the claims of teachers made in 191S
by several hundred teachers, janitors
and other employees of the Depart?
ment of Education, the Board of Esti?
mate and Apportionment would grant
those claims without further delay.
Miss Bell Gurnee and others repre?
senting the American Civics Commit?
tee of the woman's branch of the Civic
Federation, were granted a hearing be?
fore the board on their complaint that
the local teachers in .Americanization
were inadequately paid.
Alexander S. Massoll, principal of
Evening School 27, Manhattan, sug?
gested that the Department of Educa?
tion resort to advertising to attract
pupils to the night schools. He asked
that a publicity department be created.
Ratify Treaty
Except League,
Is Peace Plan
rontlnucd from t/ngo 1
against; ratification last Friday. U\a
advocacy of the plan proposed epvernl
months ago by Senator Knox was
regarded as extremely important in the
Senate, and many Senators on both
sides expressed the opinion that Sen?
ator Underwood reflected the intention
of tho President to send the treaty
bark to tho Senate for another voto
before the election tiext Novombcr.
The plan for ratification discussed
by Senator Underwood Is being consid?
ered by the President.
Associated with Senator Underwood
in advancing the suggestion are many
of the Democratic Senators who voted
to ratify the treaty.
Only a few Republican Senators firo
in Washington, and they would not say
whether they would join In ?n effort'
to revive the treaty on that basis. I
Senator Lodge, chairman of the For?
eign Relations Committee, who declared
after last Friday's vote that the treaty
would not be reported to the Senate
from the committee until after the
election if the President, should rend
it back to the Senate, left Washington
early in the day for a short vacation.
Before leaving the city he conferred
at length with Representative Porter,
chairman of the Foreign Affairs Com
imittee of the House. Plans for chang
' ing the Knox peace resolution so that
it would pass both houses by a sub?
stantial majority, were discussed.
Repeal of nil the war-time legisla?
tion will bo included in the resolution
before it is finally adopted. Senator
Lodge and Mr. Porter agreed.
The House Committee will meet daily
while the Senators take a rest during
the next week or so and draft a re?
pealer of the war-time laws. The plan
of Republican leaders is to have tho
Senate adopt a joint resolution repeal?
ing the declaration of war and then
the House add to it a repealer of the
war-time legislation.
There is a possibility, Senator Lodge
said to-day, that a request will be in?
serted in the resolution for the Presi?
dent to negotiate a new treaty with
Germany. The resolution will provide,
it was said, that old ?greements be?
tween Germany and the United States
continue in force until a new treaty is
concluded.
Democrats in the Senate are pre?
paring to delay passage of the peace
resolution for several weeks while they
contest the constitutionality of the
right of Congress to enact such a meas?
ure.
Senator Thomas, of Colorado, fol?
lowing the statement issued yesterday
by Senator Hitchcock, Administration
Senate leader, in Augusta, Ga.. declar?
ing that Congress did not have the
constitutional right to declare peace,
attacked tho plan to adopt a peace
resolution in the Senate to-day.
Senator Thomas declared it would
be unconstitutional for Congress to
adopt, such a resolution, or to pass a
peace resolution over the President's
veto. He. said, however, that the Pres?
ident's signature to a peace resolu?
tion would conclude peace and would
make such an instrument constitu?
tional.
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