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Miners Demand
Present Wages
And Short Time
Old Scale With Six-Hour
Day and Five-Hour Week
Insisted Upon Until 1925
at Cleveland Conference
Agree on Joint Council
"Workers and Owners to Have
Two Delegates Each From
Every Union District
Sprciisl ntepntck to The Tribun?
CLEVELAND, Oct. 4.-The United
Mine Workers' Union to-day decided
to demand the continuance of the
present wages in the mines until 1925.
and in addition the six-hour day and
the five-day week.
The other demands made at Indian?
apolis in February and reaffirmed to?
day include those for time and one-half
for overtime and double time on Sun?
days and holidays. These points will
be urged at the next scale conference
of miners and operators prior to the
expiration, March 31, 1023, of the
Cleveland agreement now in force.
The policy committee's decision to
stand on the old demands makes it
unnecessary for the union to hold a
convention before April. Inc old sched?
ule of demands never was presented
to the operators because tho producer's
associations in central territory re?
fused to meet the union befoie the
strike began. The present wage of day
labor in the bituminous mines is $7.50
a day. This has been the scale since
the summer of 1920.
Union Get Decision in January
John L. Lewis, president of the
miners, said that the decision of the
policy committee would be presented at
a conferejice of Hie union and opera
tora which is to be held on or before
January 3, 1923.
The miners and the soft coal op?
erators, who represented all the impor?
tant union bituminous coal-producing
districts in this country, reached an
agreement to-day on a method of se?
lecting delegates to a council which
will meet in Chicago November 14, this
council to; draft a plan to be followed
In negotiating a new wage contract
before the present document expires.
This accomplishment of the three-day
convention was declared by leaders o?
both sides to be highly important.
Phil H. Penna, secretary of the Indiana
Coal Operators' Associatio3i and chair?
man of the convention, said that it
made possible a reconstruction of bar?
gaining machinery which had be<?n de?
molished before the recent coal strike.
The operators are represented in tho
new council by two delegates from each
of the union districts. The United
Mine Workers are similarly repre?
sented.
Lewis Picks Ten for Inquiry
CLEVELAND, Oct. 4 (By The Asso?
ciated Press).?Soft coal operators,
after the joint conference to-day,
wired to Secretary of Commerme
Hoover that they believed the sugges?
tion to name a fact-finding commis?
sion was not a matter for the con?
sideration of the conference and that
they "prefer to leave its selection to
the President without suggestion from
the coal operators.
Mr. Lewis for the miners to-nigh
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First Gun To Be Fired
! ForCohalanTo-morrow
The first broadside In the cam- j
paign to re-elect Surrogate John
P.. Cohalan will bo fired to-mor?
row night, when the Non-Parti?
san Lawyers' Committee holds a
public meeting at the Hotel Aator.
?Surrogate Cohalan will speak
after some of the most noted
lawyers in the city, Democratic,
Republican and independent, have
sounded the call to repudiate the '
deal of Charles F. Murphy and
Samuel S. Koenig to remove
Cohalan, although he was unan?
imously indorsed for re-election
by the Bar Associations of the
city.
The meeting will begin at 8:30
o'clock in the north ballroom.
i wired ten names to Secretary Hoover,
but declined to make thejn public.
It was yarned to-night that in the
i recent count of ballots nominating of
! ficials of the United Mine Workers be
| tween 1,600 and 1,700 local unions cast
their ballots for President Lewis and
I that 128 locals voted for George
Mercer, statistician of the Illinois
miners, to succeed Lewis as president.
The nomination of Philip Murray to
succeed himself as vice-president was
practically unanimous. A few locals
nominated Alexander Howatt, of Kan?
sas, to succeed Murray, but as Howatt
has been expelled from the union it
was announced his name would not be
on the ballot.
DETROIT. Oct. 4 (By The Asso?
ciated Press).?The Ford Motor Com?
pany has begun supplying its em?
ployees with coko at $8 a ton, with the
announcement that the company again
was making coke. A rush of orders
flooded the offices. Coke is retailing in
Detroit at $15.
m
Justice Ford Pledges
His Support to Smith
Sends Congratulations Despite
His Convention Attacks Demo?
cratic Candidates Notified
Justice John Ford, who before the
Syracuse convention attacked Alfred
E. Smith as reactionary and a friend
o? the "special interests," wrote to
the Democratic nominee for Governor
yesterday pledging him his support.
"With sincere congratulations upon
your nomination for Governor, I pledge
j to you and the entire Democratic
i ticket my hearty and active support,"
wrote Justice Ford. "I have no doubt
I that the convention honestly en
j deavored to place a ticket in the field
which would insure the elimination of
Millerism from the government and
substitute policies and measures look?
ing to the welfare of the masses, in?
stead of the aggrandizement of the
few."
The speaking tour of Governor-elect
Smith will be planned to-morrow or
Saturday. Some of his friends want
him to begin campaigning next week,
while others are for holding off another
week.
To-night ex-Governor Smith and his
running mates on the ticket will bo
officially notified of their nomination
tat the National Democratic Club.
Ferrous and Non-Ferrous
Metals, Steel and Brass
Auction Sale Octo?
ber 17. 1922,
11 A. M. at
ISew Ybrk City
LARGE quantities of miscellaneous ?hall forg
ings, cartridge cases and grenades located
at various points throughout tbo Middle At?
lantic States are to be sold at auction, Tuesday,
Oct. 17th, at 11 A. M., In the New York Office
of the Philadelphia District Ordnance Salvage
Board, Room 808, Army Bldg., 89 Whitehall
St., New York City.
This sale consists of a number of separate
lots of material totalling approximately 81,
2-18,056 lbs. of Stee! Shells with copper bands,
lead discs and brass base covers; 1,079,888 lbs.
of Stokes Mortar Shells, 4,099,06? lbs. of Shell
Forcings, 1,065,265 lbs. of Brass Cartridge
Cases and 3,396,?26 lb?, of Trench Mortar
Shells.
This material Is located at Amatol Reserve
Depot, l?ammonton, N. J., Seven Pine?, Va.,
S?henectady, N. Y., Curtis Bay, Md., New
Cumberland, Pa., Mlddletown. P*v. and Pedrlok
town, N. J., Charleston. 8. ?-, Pig Point, Va?
Wood bury, N, J. and Rarltan Arsenal.
Metuchen, N. J.
Large oonirumer* of metaj? should writ? Im?
mediately for full descriptive catalog et thl?
sale and seo luet how these sheila are dis?
tributed and then arrange for their ?gent? to
.??M?-?;,] the sale In New York on October 17th,
The Government reserve? the right to rejeot
any or all bids. For oatalog write to
Chairman, Philadelphia District Ordnance
Salvas:? Boortl, Philadelphia, Pa.
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! 3,000 Acclaim
Gov. Miller
In Brooidyo
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had continued tho expenditures would
have reached that vast sum.
"Tho expenditures of the Smith ad?
ministration were from $70.000,000 to
5135,000,000, and tho. taxation increased
555,000,000 in the two years succeeding
the war, at a period when tho peuple
had n right, to expect a reductio!3. As
contrasted with this record we present
the record of $70,000.000 cut out of tho
proposed appropriations. We saved
$10,000,000 the first year of the present
adsninistration and $12,500,000 the sec?
ond year?a thing hitherto unheard of
in this state. This was made possible
by the fact that wo wero preceded by a
grossly extravagant and wasteful ad?
ministration."
"These results have been obtained
without the Impairment in the
slightest of the state business. In fact
the contrary is true. We havo
spent more for education? million?,
more?for we have put the cause of
education first, knowing that the
people of tho state were ready for this
sort of expenditure. Wo spent more
for public health, for we believe thos?
two administrative features to bo of
prime importance, and by reason of
their nature not to bo slighted. We
have spent more for ngricultui*e and
for the -wiping1 out of tuberculosis
among the cattle herds of the state.
With all this added expenditure we
have been able to keep the state on a
pay-as-you-go basis."
An Executive Budget
Continuing tho Governor sr-.idi
"Now, on this subject of the intro?
duction of proper methods of govern?
ment, the Democratic platform has
this to say, among the things they
favor, 'Amendment to the constitution
to promote efficiency and eliminate
waste by establishing an executive
budget and to effect a reorganization
of the state government and consoli?
dating the existing unsystematized and
imperfectly controlled state govern?
ment.'
'That must have a familiar sound.
For two years during the preceding
administration we heard nothing but
the need of a reorganization of the
state govermnont by constitutional
amendsnent, ana in the campaign two
years ago that was offered as the
excuse for the failure of that adminis?
tration to stop the/alamijnij increaso
in the cost of government. We told
the people that if trusted with power,
when we came before them two years
later we would have no alibis or ex?
cuses, and we now present none. Tho
peoplo rejected one proposal to amend
the constitution. I have no reason for
knowing that they would not reject
another, .
"We found that there,were a number
of useless departments in the state
fovernmert. They wero eliminated. Wo
ound that in almost every? department I
obsolete and useless positions had been ;
suffered to continue and accumulate.
In fact, if a pai'ticular kind of work
had ever been undertaken, somebody j
was doing that work still, whether the. i
need of it still continued or not. We
cut out these useless places. To-day all I
of the tax assessing and collecting
! agencies of the state government are
being administered under one head.
Working in Harmony
"We have sei. up a real budget or
, gAnfaation. We do not call it either
executive or legislative, It is Bet up
under a board of estimate and control
having representatives of both
branches of the government. Instead
of the executive and tho legislature
making: foco? nt ?ach other, tho two
branches of government aro now work?
ing in harmony.
"We have set up a bureau of stand?
ards to Standardize the state require?
ments. And while wo are putting the
prison Industries on an industrial basis
j we shall also 1 apprehend be reclaiming
tho human material, or part of it,
I which is now derelict in these prisons.
"We propose to fix !t so that tho
Civil Service of the state will olTer ft
real hope for 'those who want to> ren?
der servies, so that there shall be some
stimulus to ambition, that when ono
enters the service ho or she may have
reaching ahead of him or her a Une of
promotion reaching even to tho heads
Of the departments and not so that
their only hopo of getting some little
just recognition for faithful service
will be resort to the Legislature.
That is what wo aro doing.
Democrats say in their platform
that we have debased tho Civil Service.
Lot them ask the Civil Servico Com?
mission, the three members, and they
are the same members that were there
when we entered offlco, and two o?
them aro Detnocrats, a man and a
woman?I have not disturbed them?
and I will tell you that any ono of the
three if asked will tall you that more j
has b?en done to put th? Civil Service
of this atate on a proper basis the laut
two years thun during any preceding
administration In tho history of the
state.
$300,000 Saved In Printing
"I have referred to the purchase of
supplies, $20.000,000 worth of supplies
being bought by the stato largely at
1 retail. Think of it! As many different
j varieties as there wero purchasing
agents, although precisely the same
kind and grade of article.
"Last year we had a statute passed
?which creates a department of pur?
chase, giving it ample powers under
I which we expect to accomplish results.
Thoro havo been spasms of attempts
at reforming the abuse of the state
printing, but the blocks that
got I ntho way of those reforms were
always effectual to stop whatever was
started very promptly.
"Now thero ia real competition, and
an accurate computation of the cost,
according to the prices under the now
conti*acts and the prices under the
former contract, results in a saving of
.?500,000,
"These are some of the new meth?
ods that we havo attempted to inaug?
urate. They are only started. They
would be kicked over in twenty-four
hours by any change of administra?
tion. Every one has his views, and the !
fact i? that these things that I am j
talking about can never be firmly im- !
bedded in tho stato government unless i
thero Is a driving, impelling force kept j
behind them until they are established.
Let that force be relaxed for twenty- ?
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To the man
of you, you
IYight now, as you read this, you
may be sitting within a few feet of
other men. If these men don't know
who you are, you mean no more to
them than a shadow.
i They might recognize%he news?
paper you hold In your hand, but
you are merely something not to be
stepped on. You have no part in
their world.
The world is too big a place for
most of us really to live in. So each
person lives in a Jittle world of his
own?awrorldpeopledwithhisfamily
and friends and supplied with such
devices as he has seen and heard of
and may some day use.
Our friends are simply those
whose markings we recognize, and
whose characteristics we know. This
rule of acquaintance applies to goods
as well as to people. We buy the
article or the package or the brand
that we are familiar with because
we know it?just as we nod and
smile to the men and women wc
never heard
do not exist
know, and ignore the strangers.
The strangers may have better
qualities than those we know, but
that makes no difference.
Same way with merchandise.
It has become the habit of the
American people to consider adver?
tising the proper and natural way
for the maker ?of an article to intro?
duce it to their acquaintance and
keep it there.
Advertising or not is not merely
a question of selling goods or not;
it is a question of how many human
beings know that the thing you
make exists, and how they may
sometime be able to use it. !
An advertisement is primarily an
introduction and secondarily a sales?
man. It makes new friends and it
holds old ones. It makes the public
know your goods and regard them
as a friend.
To stop advertising is to stop
greeting old friends and to stop
making new ones.
Once a month, or more frequently, we issue a publication
called Batten's Wedge. Each issue is devoted to a single
editorial on some phase of business. If you are a business
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have enlisted to furnish that driving
force for two year? more if the peo?
ple want me to do it."
Ship Waste Denounced
Senator Calder followed Governor
Miller. After introducing all the can?
didates on the Republican state ticket,
one by ohe, he launched Into an attack
on the last Democratic national Ad?
ministration for its wastefulness and j
extravagance.
As an instance, he declared that the
Wilson Administration had caused four
hundred wooden ships to be built at a
cost of about $600,000 apiece.
"The other day," he said, "we sold
one hundrod-odd of these wooden ships
at $1,700 apiece. No one can Justify an j
expenditure of that kind, and the men
responsible are entitled to the everlaat- ?
ing condemnation of tho American peo- ?
pie.
"Tho question before the people now
Is one of efficiency in government. We
ask you to judge us on our record of
achievement, confident when you do
this there will be no doubt of the re?
sult on Election Day.
The lBst speaker was Erikine Roger?,
candidate for State Attorney General,
who recounted the achievements of the
Miller administration and spoke on be?
half of all the state candidates.
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