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ILLINOIS MINE UNION
MAY ASK OWN SCALE
Threatens Separate Parley Un
less Interstate Conference
Is Called.
MARCH 31 IS TIME LIMIT
Leader Calls Executive Board's
Order 'Impertinent'?Two
Districts for Strike.
8t T/5CIS, March #.?Illinois coal
mirers will enter Into negotiations with
the mine operators of the State in an
effort to reach a wage agreement with
out the sanction of the International
Executive Board unless the Interna
tional officers succeed In arranging an
Interstate conference between miners
and operators of the central competitive
field, Frank Farrlngton. president of the
Ililnols union, announced to-day.
The sting of this ultimatum, con
tained in a telegram to international
headquarters at Indianapolis by. Mr.
Farrlrgton. was somewhat removed,
liowever, when the Illinois president an
nounced that, he expected hoth sides
?"ou'd be called to -Washington before
thr< date set In his message, March 31.
nm! that the future really rests.In the
bands of President Harding and his
0 biret.
W. K. Kavanaugh, chairman of the
Operators Association of the Fifth and
Ninth Illinois Districts, was less hope
ful of averting a shutdown than the
in, ion chief.
Differences between the International
beard and the Illinois leader are the
result of Farrington's insistence on en
tering Into separate negotiations with
ili? operators of his State In accordance
with a clause In their State wage con
tract If the operators In the other States
1 ' the central field refuse to abide by
en agreement for a joint conference.
?Pennsylvania and Ohio operators already
have announced reduced wage scales
snd refused to attend a joint meeting.
Mr. Farrlngton declared that the
executives board's telegram was "pre
sumptuous and Impertinent" and a
"'?.?lain attempt to put the Illinois mine
r orkers in a false position." He said
tliere was nothing in the Illinois miners'
riove to carry out that part of their
mn'ract requiring negotiations with the
operators not later than March 31.
Inwanapoms. March 8.? Announce
ment to-day by the United Mine Work
ers of America said that, according to
the executive board's Interpretation of
s telegram from Frank Farrington, no
single State wage agreement between
coal operators and miners will be made
by the Illinois officials without the con
sent of the policy committee of the In
ternational union.
Bkm.evill*:, III., March 8.?The vote
of the 11,000 miners In the Belleville
suhdlstrlct will be approximately 23 to 1
for a strike, James Mason, secretary
tr?apurer of th? subd'strict. announced
to dav. !?'->cal No. 4,650 voter] 3."0 to 1"
for a strike.
Birmingham. Ala.. March 8.?Mem
bers of the TTnlted Mine Worwers of
America In the Aliihama field. known as
district No. ;o. have voted overwhelm
ing to strlk.-- on April 1, It became
known here to-day.
$1,600 IN POCKET, OFFERS
COP $50 TO KILL HIM
Vergo Found Panhandling for
Gun in Fifth Avenue.
William Vergo. who says he is a
';<horer. no home, stepped up to a man
pi Fifth avenue pivl Thlrly-fl'th street
last night and sa'd :
"'"Jive me a ci:n ; 1 want to shoot my
self
The man grabbed Verga and walked
him to Thirty-fourth street and handed
him ove- to Patrolman Whlttaker of
the West Thirtieth street station.
"Det me have your gun a minute,''
said Vergo. "I want to kill myself."
The ipoliceman refused and Vergo of
fered him $10 to shoot him He raised
the offer to $.10, and then Whlttaker
took him to the poll/.'e station, where
he boosted his offer to $100. pr. Bar
nett, from New Tork Hospital, sent him
to Beilevue for observation.
Vergo said he had a room hut had
forgotten where. He had $1,600 in
cash, which he said he had drawn from
the bank to send to his mother in Hun
gn ry.
CHinrH Alt) FOB JOBLE9*.
The City Employment Bureau. 129
Worth street, mailed letters yesterday
to all Protestant churches In the city
asking their eooperatlon In finding lobs
for the 16.000 men who have filed ap
plications with the bureau, hut who
have not yet been able to get work.
To facilitate the placing of men all the
Mppllcants are classified in :he 1 urenu's
Index.
FELINE TENANT GETS STAY
UNTIL 7 KITTENS CAN SEE
Landlord Defies Tenement Inspector Who Would Have
Him Plug Up Hole Where Mother and Her
Young Have Made Their Home.
Max Schwarzer, who owns the tene
ment house at 217 Bowery, appeared
before Magistrate Harris yesterday on
the complaint of Louis Schlett, tene
ment houso Inspector, who said Schwa r
?/ep had failed to plug up holes In the
walls of a room In the house.
"Judge.'? Baid Schwarzer, "I plugged
up those holes like the Inspector told
me. but no sooner were those holes
plugged up and everything made fine
like the law calls for than I heard a
! meowing in the wall. Judge. I love ani
mals. and I'm not one of those who hate
cats.
"Well. I hear this meowing In the
wall, and, Judge, I get busy and poke
new holes In the wall to locate the noise,
for I floured we had plastered a oat In
the wall and, well. Judge, a man can't
plaster a dumb animal up In a wall and
leave it there to starve and
"Anyway, your Honor. I Anally come
to the corner and poke a hole in the
wkll I'd Just fixed up like the Inspector
wants, when what do I see inside the
wall all thin and scared looking but a
NEW NOTES ISSUED
FOR 4 3-4 VICTORIES
.Mellon Announces Offer With
One for $250,000,000 One
Year Certificates.
Washington. March 8.?Secretary
Mellon announced to-night an offering
of $250,000,000 of one year 4 Vj per
cent. Treasury certificates, and an Issue
of four year 4-% per cent. Treasury
notes for an undetermined amount.
Botli are dated March 15, the certificate
issue being on the usual terms, but the
notes are offered only in exchange for
4*4 per cent. Victory notes pursuant to
I he Treasury's refunding plans for the
gradual retirement of Victory notes.
Payment for the new notes. Secretary
Mellon said, could not be made In cash
by credit In Treasury certificates, or In
per cent. Victory notes. The right
to close the subscriptions for the notes
at any time without notice was reserved.
The one year Treasury certificates,
the secretary explained, were being of
fered to provide for the Treasury's
cash requirements remaining above the
$-1 fi0.000.000 expected from Income and
profits tax collections for March In ad
dition to other resources of revenue.
On March 1R, he stated, about $530,
000,000 of Treasury certificates will
mature, and about $107,000,000 of in
terest on the public debt will become
payable, while on April 1 about $52,
<?'00,000 of certificates will mature and
on April 15 about $135,000,000 of In
terest on the Fourth Liberty Loan will
fall due.
J. W. DAVIS TO HELP
CHADBOURNE'S FIGHT
Former Ambassador to Act as
Counsel for Friend.
! The services of John W. Davis, former
1 Ambassador to Great Britain, have been
offered to Thomas U. Chadbourne, the
New York lawyer who has been accused
of unethical conduct and against whom
I disbarment proceedings are to be In
! ptituted by the Association of the Bar of
the City of New York.
Mr. Davis and th? accused laywer are
I friends of long standing and when nu
merous prominent lawyers made offers
I fo take the side of Mr. Chadbourne
! pgalnst the Bar Association that of Mr.
Davis was accepted. He will he asso
ciated with William D. Guthrie, presi
dent of the State Bar Association, who
1 i ? Mr. Cliadbourne's chief counsel.
No date has been set for the hearing
1 efore the Appellate Division, and it
was said yesterday that there might be
several weeks delay because the Bar
Association had not yet appointed Its
counsel. The customary proctidure In
J disbarment cases Is for the Appellate
Division to consider the case and then
appoint a referee to take testimony.
WOMEN URGE PASSAGE
OF MATERNITY AID BILL
Special Dtspatrh to Til* Ntw Yo*k IIbhald.
New Vork Herald Burrs a. )
Allmn.t, March 8. I
With the plea that New ^ ork State
has been lax In Iti care of mothers and
Infants a big delegation, led by Mrs.
Frank A. Vanderllp, came to Albany
to-day to urge pa'sag'' of the Duell bl'.l,
requiring the State to accept the Shcp
pard-Towner Federal maternity art.
At a hearing before tlie Joint Senate
Health and Finance committees, they
called attention to the appropriations
made by the State for cow?, hogs and
other animals and asked why the same
ruli should not apply to women and
children.
Mrs. Ella A. Boole, president of the
Women's Christian Temperxnca l/'nlon.
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CLARK & GIBBY, Inc.
343 Broadway 6 East 43rd St.
Tal. rrnnktln 31?? TaL Murray HOI
cat, and slip's sitting them protecting
seven little kittens. Judse, those kittens
were Just born. She must have crawled
In there and had them while we were
working on the wall like the inspector
ordered.
"Judge, r used coaxing and milk and
a bit of fish and meat to get the cat
to come out and bring her babies, but.
she wouldn't move. All she'd do was to
meow weak llko and stare at you as if
she was daring you to hurt her seven
babies. I tried all ways of getting her
i out and I look in with a light and see
that those babies of hers were still
blind?so young *neir eyes are still shut.
They wre hungry, too, and I shoved
some milk in to the mother cat because
she was sort of thin and weak looking.
"I asked about It and a man told me
that it took nine days for a kitten's eyes
to open. And, your Honor, I ain't got
the heart to '/
"Neither has this court," interrupted
Magistrate Harris. "This case is ad
journed until those kittens get their eyes
open."
declared that she found in the present
appropriation bill an item for $130,000
for a swine and sheep building: at the
State Fair at Syracuse, but nothing for
the rare of babies.
Under the Duell bill the State would
i appropriate $75,000 to meet a Federal
| appropriation of $85,000. The women
favored this bill In preference to the
i Davenport bill, under which the State
would appropriate $100,000 tor care In
maternity cases and would reject the
offer of the Federal Government.
CHIEF BACK, SO 8 POIICE QUIT
Atlantic Citt, March 8.?Six of
Ventnor City's nine policemen resigned
and handed In their uniforms to-day
wh?>n William Sprague resumed his In
terrupted duties as chief. Sprague was
dismissed by former Mayor Godfrey
more than a year ago. He was rein
stated by a ruling of the Supreme ju-t,
which held his dismissal was illegal.
UNTERMYER ASSAILS
INSURANCE METHODS
Continued from First Pa*e
?inre companies to invest in the same
i sort of securities that life Insurance
1 '""mpanles and savings banks have
i found so safe and satisfactory. There
are not any cats and dogs In the stock
market that the fire Insurance compa
nies have not got among their invest
i ments. A group of the large compa
i nles in this State as a result of their
investment policy have had losses ag
gregating 110,000,000 or more on liquidat
ing on falling markets.
"Th? fire insurance companies sent
j th<? brainy and defiant men who are
at the head of them to appear before
our committer. They told us how they
invested their funds and that it was
none of our business. We think the
time has come for a showdown. We
want to know if these companies with
$fi50,fl00,0fi0 of unearned premiums in
their hands are not amenable to any
law.
"Each of half a dozen large fire in
surance companies in New York earna
an average of a million in interest a
year in unearned premiums?the policy
holders' money, all of It. We think
these people are in the insurance busi
ness and not in the stock gambling
business, but Judging from lists of their
investments it looks as if with them
insurance was only a side business."
John M. O'Hanlon, representing the
State Federation of Labor, for the
American Federation of Labor opposed
the bill making the investment of 40 per
cent, of insurance company assets in
building loans compulsory.
GOV. MILLER CONFERS
ON HOME RULE BILL
To Try to Pass Tolbert-Ull
man Amendment.
Special Dispatch to The New Yo?k Herald
New York Herald Bureau, )
Albany, March 8. J
While both Houses of the Legisla
ture plowed throiwh ponderous calendars
to-day, a series of conferences on home
rule occupied the attention of the lead
ers. Gov. A1IIW and the home rule ad
\ oca tee.
The Tolbert-Ullman constitutional
amendment has been picked out of the
dozen or more home rule pfopoeals as
the basis for action. 8everal amend
ments were derided upon and will be
Introduced In both Houses to-morrow.
They exclude counties from the pro
visions of the act. Under the amend
ment the governing boards of cities,
towns and villages are to have control
over their local affairs.
It is understood that the bill now has
the backing of Senator Lusk, the ma
jority leader, and that If It passes the
Senate Speaker Maohold will not hold
It up in the Assembly.
j Senator Tolbert talked with Gov. Mil
ler this afterenoon on the bill In ?n
effort to enlist his support. It is not
I believed the Governor will place any
i obstructions in Its way, although he
would rather have had the whole Home
Rule problem threshed out first by the
New York Charter Revision Commission.
The determination of the Home Rule
advocates to get action at the regular
session is prompted by the failure of
the Charter Revison Commission to be
ready to report in time for an extra
ordinary session of the Legislature this
summer.
Assemblyman O'Connor of New Tork
failed In his motion to have the Rules
Committee, discharged from further con
sideration of his bill to abolish The
Bronx Parkway Commission.
Assemblyman Cuvllller's motion to get
out his bill creating a reserve militia
of world war veterans with provision
that they are to h?* paid $10 for each
month served In the war was beaten
by a vote of 78 to 51.
TIip Assembly also voted down As
semblyman Merrlgan's motion to force
out his bill providing that women shall
be represented on political committees.
Assemblyman Joseph L. Steinberg said
lie has the assurance of a favorable
report from the Rules Committee on his
bill transferring from the New Tork
city Bureau of Licenses to the Police
Commission supervision over and power
of licensing taxlcab drivers. The bill Is
backed by Chief Magistrate William
McAdoo, and Mr. Steinberg said that
In the light of the present crime condi
tions in New Tork city it is one of the
most Important measures before the
Legislature. Last week it was not be
lieved the bill had much chance of pas
sage. but Mr. Steinberg believes he has
convinced the leaders of its necessity.
The Senate paased to-day with little
opposition the Fearon bill, carrying out
Gov. Miller's recommendation on State
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printing. The measure would remove
the State printing: monopoly in Albany
by permitting the awarding of many
contracts for department printing in
stead of awarding it all in a single con
tract, thus eliminating cpmeptitlon.
Under a bill introduces to-day by Sen
ator Straus of Mew York 16,000,000
would be appropriated for the inspection
of all dairy oowa for the purpose of
stamping out tuberculosis among them.
SHRINERS PLAN LONG
PILGRIMAGE BY SEA
To Leave Here for San Fran
Cisco, Thence to Honolulu.
Sam Francisco, March 8.?The British
steamship King Alexander, formerly the
Cleveland, has been engaged by a travel
bureau for a Mystic Shrine excursion |
from New York to San Francisco and
Honolulu in May and June.
The ship, carrying 1.200 Bhriners, will
leave New York late in May, will arrive
here In time for the national conclave
of the Shrlners in June, and will then
depart for Honolulu. A savings bank i
will be a feature on board.
The bureau announced that before
the vessel leaves her home port an
American bartender wilt be sent, to
England to instruct the five English
bartenders carried on rhe vessel in the
art of making American libations.
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SHOEMAKERS TO WOMEN
1 TWcst 57 to Street
BAT TEN
service?
with a small s
It is well to keep an eye on
the word that takes a new
meaning. When a perfectly
good word assumes a defini
tion that our grandfathers
never associated with it, and
goes junketing around the
business clubs and conven
tions, getting its name in the
papers and forming unseemly
associations with other words,
it will bear watching.
The word Service has been
doing that very thing, and
it is about time Service came
to its senses and went back
to work at its old job.
All over this country there
are people who, when they
buy something, don't want
any more than they think
they are going to get.
Service to those people is
not something for nothing
that they do not want, but
something that they do want,
delivered when they want it,
at a price that is within reason.
If you buy a vacuum clean
er or a player piano or a cook
stove, you don't want some
body calling you up every
two or three days and asking
if you are satisfied. You don't
want to be filling out, stamp
ing, and returning Service Re
port Cards which contain
blank spaces where you may
fill in the names of a few
friends who may need just
such a purchase as yours. All
you want is to be let alone
until the piano gets out of
tune or the belt on the sweeper
breaks (which it will), and
then you want to telephone
somewhere. In less than three
hours you want a Ford runa
bout to show up in front of
your house. You want to see
a young man get out with a
stout black bag, come in and
fix the thing, collect his sev
enty cents and go on his way
rejoicing.
That is service with a small
but competent s, and it is
better than a money-back
guarantee, better than re
quests to "bring it in and let
us look at it"?even better
than sweet letters from the
Service Department. There is
a legitimate need for that kind
of service. There is not so
much need for the kind that
the sales department capital
izes and tries to sell and spell
with a capital S.
Tf a thing is worth having,
it ought to be worth buying
and paying for. Selling cost
is a proper and necessary eco
nomic expense, but not a sel
ling cost which includes the
cost of giving away things to
people who don't want them.
If you have something that
people ought to buy, you tell
them about it.
If the goods are right and
the price is right and you tell
your story often enough and
long enough, you won't have
to worry about Service. Your
dealers won't pester you for
Service, either. You can ren
der most of the service you
need to render anybody right
out there in your manufactur
ing and shipping departments.
And the cost of this service
will go into production cost,
where your distributors and
your consumers want it, and
not in your selling cost, where
you had better not let people
even suspect it is.
Once a month, or more frequently, we issue a publication
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