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msniN< SID ON TO ins rrn rv Wanted: Mail Robbers at $5,000 Each & WASHINGTON. — Apparently the mail robbers pulled a boner when they did a bit of robbing at Sullivan, Ind. Anyway, Sullivan is the home of Postmaster General Hays. And It looks as if he was a bit peeved. Anyway, he has Issued this formal order : "To any postal employee or other person who brings In a mail robber the Postoffiee department will pay a reward of not exceeding $5,00«. All essential postal employees will be fully armed and every man is expected to uphold the honor of the service." "These robberies must stop and stop now," said Mr. Hays in discussing the order. "We are going to use ev ery power available to do this, no matter how drastic it is. The West knows how to handle these criminals, This Congress to Regulate Immigration IMMIGRATION is to be regulated by this congress. The immigration bill passed in the last days of the Wilson administration and killed by a pocket veto Is to be put through practically in the same form, according to an understanding arrived at between its sponsors and leaders of the senate and house. As passed by the last congress, the bill provides that the number of aliens of any nationality who may be admit ted In any one year shall be limited to 3 per cent of the number of for eign-born persons of such nationality resident in the United States, as de termined by the census of 1910, and that, after July 1, 1921, the number of aliens of any nationality who may be admitted in any one calendar month shall not exceed 15 per cent of the total number of such aliens admissible In that fiscal year. Aliens returning from temporary visits abroad and aliens who are pro fessional actors, artists, lecturers, singers, or' nurses, ministers, profes sors, or aliens belonging to any rec ognized learned profession, or aliens employed as domestic servants may be admitted even if the maximum have entered the United States in the same month or year, but only aliens of these classes arriving before the entrance of the maximum number shall be counted in reckoning the per Smoot Explains h is Sales Tax Bill & TEXT of the sales tax bill, introduced by Senator Smoot of Utah, shows that the bill imposes a tax of 1 per cent on all turnovers, with an annual exemption of $6,000, the effect of this being to exempt smaller fanners and tradesmen. It has been estimated that the 1 per cent would yield more than $2,000,000,000 annually. In a statement in behalf of the plan Senator Smoot says its advantages are extreme simplicity of assessment and collection, a low tax rate, applying uni formly on all commodities, and ab sence of complicated features which make It difficult for the taxpayer to know at any time what his tax liabili ties are. Senator Smoot defines the Weeks Hops Off in the Flying Game THE first move toward the rehabili tation of the army aviation service has been made by Secretary of War Weeks. It is the placing of orders for 200 modern pursuit planes and 35 Martin type bombers, which will cost approximately $2,240,000. The pursuit planes of the Thomas Morse type, thoroughly up to date In every particular, were ordered from the Boeing company of Seattle, Wash. Hie Martin type ' bombers were or dered from the L. W. F. company of Garden City, L. I. The 200 pursuit planes will cost $1,400,000 and the bombers about $24,000 each. The lat ter will be equipped with Liberty mo tors to be furnished by the War de partment. Discussing plans for co-operation betwen the War, Navy and Postoffice departments In the matter of avia tion management and development. Secretary Weeks said the commission named by the President for this pur pose would seek to evolve some plan just as they used to in the old Wells-. Fargo days." Mi; Hays called in consulation Rush D. Simmons, the newly appointed chief inspector, and the retiring chief inspector, George M. Sutton. He also had before him recommendations made by Mr. Simmons and Mr. Sutton to meet the emergency and the confi dential reports giving details of the more recent robberies. It is the intention of the depart ment to arm all employees who may have charge of valuable postal ship ments, either on trains or in the post offices. These employees will also be directed to shoot when they find them selves confronted by thieves. Employees in the city services who deliver small quantities of registered mall may not be included among those supplied with firearms, but oth erwise the plan will be made a very general one. There have been reports of late which would seem to indicate that some of the mail robberies have been committed by men who were formerly in the employ of the Postoffiee depart ment and who know the "ropes." The department is especially anxious to bring about the arrest of some of the robbers of this type. n centage limits as provided in the act. A few changes have been made clari fying especially the paragraphs con cerning the countries whose political boundaries have changed since 1910. A new provision limiting to 50,000 the immigration from any country in any one year may be added to the bill if its sponsors can satisfy themselves that thejiassage of the measure will not be endangered or deferred there by. This provision meets the objection previously urged against the bill that it reduces below the normal flow of immigration the number of immi grants admissible from Belgium. France, the Netherlands, Denmark and Switzerland, while tremendously increasing the number permitted to come from Germany above the num ber actually arriving annually from Germany for a considerable period preceding the World war. proposed general sales tax as follows : "A tax on the gross value of goods, wares and merchandise, whether raw material or manufactured, or partially manufactured products, whether of domestic or of foreign origin, and such as are generally sold or exchanged and delivered for domestic consump tion, whether in barter or on a cash, credit, or installment basis, which tax shall accrue at the time of sale or lease of all such goods, wares and merchandise, at a rate of 1 per cent of their total value at the time of such change of ownership. The tax also applies to the total amount or amounts received on all leases of goods, wares and merchandise." Merchants and others making sales subject to the tax would make quar terly payments to the government. The bill exempts sales and leases made by the federal government, states and municipalities, foreign gov ernments, mutual ditch or irrigation companies and hospitals and other corporations organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, or educational purposes, and also goods sold or leased for export. for air routes which could be used commercially, if possible; to prepare a code of laws for government of the air service in the United States; the adoption of standard machines for various purposes to aid the Postoffiee department in standardizing their avia tors ; to adopt some plan for meeting damages created by government planes in the performance of duty, and to combine, if possible, the train ing schools of various departments and landing fields wherever practica ble to do so. NO STATISTICS ON ACCIDENTS Not Positively Known How Many Workers Are Disabled ■i\ ^ Yearly. SHOULD H AVE ACCU RATE DATA Figures Would Show to What Extent Compensation Laws and the Safety Movement Have Mitigated Condi tions in Industries. It is not known how many Industrial accidents occur yearly in the United States, suys Margaret Gadsby, writing in the Monthly Labér Review, pub lished by the United States bureau of labor statistics, on "Inadequacy of In dustrial Accident Statistics Published In State Reports." "To what extent toave workmen's compensation laws and the safety movement mitigated the accident evil In American industries? We are un able to determine with any degree of certainty. What are the causes of in dustrial accidents? What is the ac cident-frequency rate in the leading Industries; the accident-severity rate? We do not know. Where can prevent ive measures be most effectively ap plied? It has never been adequately determined ; there is no adequate com parable data. "How many industrially disabled are there in the country who will be af fected by the recent legislation ex tending the rehabilitation to the indus trial cripple? No authoritative statis tlcts are available. What is the an nual loss in productive efficiency threugh industrial accidents? What Is the annual cost in time and money lost through accidents in industry. We do not know ; there are no figures available by which it can be deter mined. "Accurate data as to the number of accidents, the causes, nature of injury and degree of disability of accidents occurring in each industry are essen tial for effective prevention work, as well as for the establishment of ad equate and reasonable compensation insurance rates. "Not only is there no uniform meth od of tabulating statistics of accidents for the entire country, but few states can be said to have accurate knowl edge of the total number of accidents occurring within their borders." Want Wage Reduction in Indiana. Recommendation that building crafts men accept a reduction of from 15 to 20 per cent in wages was made by the general labor committee of the Asso ciated Building Contractors of Indiana. Charles J. Kern, president of the State Building Trades council, de clared to the executive board of the council at a recent meeting held there was no justification for such a de crease. At the meeting, it was pointed out, some increases were recommended. J. H. Owens, secretary of the labor committee, said the proposed reduc tions would result in a decrease in building costs of from 5 to 10 per cent. Company Houses Pay. In a study of housing of employees made by the United States bureau of labor statistics, it is stated that "re ports from eight different coal com panies in Pennsylvania show a gross return of 11 per cent on a total inven tory of $2,855,912." Among the rea sons advanced by employers for main taining company houses are the fol lowing: "Greater loyalty from em ployees ; more contented and more ef ficient workmen ; a better control of the labor situation; serves to adver tise the company and to keep it favor ably before the public ; facilitates part time." Strike Involved Many. When the carpenters working on the new University hospital building at Ann Arbor, Mich., refused to accept a 20 per cent cut in wages, and walked out, they threw 60 other laborers em ployed In pouring cement and strip ping forms, out of work. There were 63 carpenters employed on the job. They were getting $1 an hour. The bricklayers and some of the stone set ters are still at work. Million Union Men in New York. The actual number of unions and unionists in New York city is known only approximately, but all figures In dicate that the total of union mem bers is in the neighborhood of 1,000, 000. It Is estimated that there are at least 1,000 local unions In the me tropolis, of which total about 800 are affiliated with the American Federa tion of Labor and 200 outside unions. Unions to Fight Wage Cut. Officials of the International Ladies Garment Workers' union announced the organization was prepared to fight any attempt by the Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers' Protective asso ciation to introduce wage reductions and Increase working hours proposed. Insist Upon 44-Hour Week. General sentiment of local unions in favor of supporting officials of the In ternational Typographical union In their insistence on establishment of the 44-hour week in commercial print ing shops, was voted at the semi-an nual Ohio Typographical conference at Marion, O. INDUSTRIAL COURT IN LONDON Through Its Workings Many Impor tant Agreements Have Been Made and Controversies Ended. An industrial court was set up I d London In- the latter part of 1919 un der the provisions of the industrial courts act, approved November 20, 1919. Up to March 3, 1920, 208 differ ences which could not be settled by negotiations between the employers' associations and the trade unions had been referred to it, and in many Im portant cases agreements had been readied. The court had settled the general wages agreement for the Scot tish building trade, gas undertakings throughout Great Britain, the smelter trade, the clay Industry, the bobbin and shuttle-making Industry, the seed crushing and oil milling Industry, the organ-building trade, and wages of women employed In railroad shops. The cases were for the most part heard In London, but the court also sat in other large cities, with a chair man, a representative of the employees and a representative of the employers constituting the*tribunal. Some cases were dealt with by a single member of the court. The differences were chiefly wage questions, but other in dustrial matters came up. There are two women members of the court, Vio let Markham and Cecile Matheson. Life-Saving in the Mines. In 1911 the death rate by violence In the Mines of the United States was 4.71 per 1,000 men employed. In 1919 the death rate was 3.23 per 1,000. The decline has been fairly steady, and the federal bureau of mines is credited with the major part of the Improvement. The bureau lias preached the gospel of safety first to owners, foremen and common laborers. It sends training crews from mine to mine, showing the best ways of meeting the problems of »ach particular "digging" with tjie least possible danger. It has studied foreign methods of life-saving in mines, and imported all that appear adapted to our conditions. There is room for still further re duction in the death rate, but what has been accomplished already Is en couraging. Farmhand Supply Increases. An Increased supply of farm hands Is evidenced In a report of the indus trial commission, which shows that during March of this year 1,124 men were placed at work on farms, as against 478 men In 1920. The figures were compiled by the 11 free employment agencies of the state of Wisconsin. The men placed this year by the employment offices are of a much higher grade than in former years. Practically all of the men sent out are experienced farmhands, many of whom drifted to the cities during the last few years. There is a keen de mand for good farmhands, and some demands even for Inexperienced men. Unemployed Might Build Roads. Seven hundred thousand men now unemployed can be used this year In building 40,000 miles of new highways embodied in the nation's $1,000,000, 000 road-building program. J. R. Draney, president of the Asphalt as sociation, declared In an address at the organization's annual meeting. He added that the road-bullding program, if not curtailed, also will place In serv ice many thousand freight cars that are now Idle and will Increase freight tonnage to the extent of 100,000,000 tons, and yield the railroads revenue In excess of $100,000,000 on road material alone. Contractors Organize. Organization of a state-wide organi zation to be known as "The Associated Contractors of Massachusetts" has been achieved through a meeting of delegates from the building interests of the larger cities of the state. The object of the association Is announced as seeking to aid the building industry through co-operation between con tractors ; by fostering trade schools and recruiting the apprentice ranks of the industry ; by promoting collective bargaining with their employees on the basis of a distinction between skilled and unskilled workers; and by working for legislation improving building laws. FIGURES SHOW GOOD IDLENESS DECREASE. Improved conditions in the un employment situation are noted by the public employment office of the Massachusetts depart ment of labor and Industries, which says that In March there was an Increase in the calls for help of 35 per cent over January and 37 per cent over February, but a decrease of 24 per cent from the number of March, 1920. Labor Unrest in India. There continues to be a succession of strikes, of which the tramway strike at Calcutta and a strike of 6,000 employees at the Parel workshops, Bombay and Baroda, central India, are the most Important. Would Employ Chinese. A concurrent resolution introduced In the legislature asks congress to al low Hawaii to Import 25,000 Chinese for agricultural work for five years, nfter which they would return to China. WRtCLEYS £3 "AFTER EUERY MEAL Mint leaf, peppermint or lus cious Juicy fruit, either flavor is a treat for your sweet tooth. And all are equally good for you. Teeth, appetite and digestion all benefit. 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