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CHICAGO ILLINOIS, NOVEMBER (, ISIS On. Dollar a Yaar, Sinfla Copiaa S Canta
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Central Clerks Strike
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I a Conference
1 Company
.YARDS ID UP
lich., Nor. Clortu of
i Central Railroad num
are out on a strike for
The clerks hare allied
with the Brotherhood of
•lu, and asked for a con
i the officials to settle
ices. The officials turned
tr. Work was stopped in
offices of Detroit, Chicago
In more than oO places
■n diviaion, including Kal
Iiet, Chicago HeighU,
y, Battle Creek, Bay City,
nd Wyandotte, all freight
igenten and ticket sellers
d business is seriously
Mofft. mediator for the
>a Department of Ijsbor.
rking since Monday try
[ the two clashing sides
re nee He gave up and
roit at 6 o’clock Tuesday
tie time the ultimatum is
■ brotherhood went into
i'age increase.
is’ been brewing between
hood of Kailwsy t lerks
in pany since lust May.
temanded an increase of
r cent in wages and re«
leniority nghta ami made
it ions. Some of the in -
given, but the clerks de
*ere only s»ps thmwn to
tak.
•ster of Cincinnati, inter
udent of the brotherhood,
t to take charge of the
e requested that the rail
> meet a committee to
demands of the clerks,
t was refused E. D.
oral manager of the road,
e policy of the company
grievances from commit
sting different cities, but
d not treat with a com
■anting the organisation.
Mr. Hedge.
ms, general superitemi
iehigaa Central, said Mr.
conferred with him and
diator had some plan of
ready to be announced,
■ttlement may be reached
ither than those of Mr.
been made to reach an
ly either the railroad or
ood.
|-of the striking clerks
i afternoon at which Pres
ter, S. C. Manaell, chair
general committee of the
and others made
MACHINISTS AT THE
PRATT & WHITNEY
SHOPS ON STRIKE
Two Thousand Ken Out and
Company Is Unable to Get
Strike Breakers
ON STRKE FOR EWHT HOURS
Hartford, Conn., Nov. 1.—Owr
2,000 machinists and specialists struck
at tho Pratt * Whitney plant, Hart
ford, Cobb., for an sight-hour day,;
time and one-half for overtime and
recognition of a shop committee. The
company has positively refused to
meet a committee of their employes,
either before the strike or since, not
withstanding the fart that a commit
tee of the most prominent citiiens of
Hartford, com posed of Mayor l<aw
lor, I)r. Carter, of tho Congregational
Church; Mr. Angus, one of the largest
contractor* in New England, and Mr.
p. E. Holden, one of the mo»t prom
inent lawyers in Connecticut, consent
ed to try to arrange for a conference
between the company and a committee
of ten employe*.
Eight-Hour Wave.
Since the ITatt A Whitney men
struck a strong wave of organization
ha* spread itself over the entire city
and suburb* of Hartford. There are
dozens of other shop* where the men
arid women are demanding the eight
hour day, and it look* a* if the man
ufarturer* would have to come down
from their self-constructed pedestal
and mingle with their employes, and
at least recognize them as human be
ings who are entitled to d« some think
mg for themselves.
The most inconsistent action of the
Pratt A Whitney Company is the re
fusing to grant the eight-hour day to
their employes in Hartford, when it
is well known that tho tool trust,
which controls their shop, ha* already
granted the eight-hour day to the men
in their employ in Plainfield. N. J.
The Niles Itement-I’ond Company con
trol the principal tool shop* in this
country, and practically defy all com
petition.
MADE SIX MILLION
IN THIRTEEN YEARS
Detroit, Mich. — James t'ousens,
tire-president and general manager
and the mam prop of the Ford Motor
Company, who resigned bemuse he
couldn't agree with Mr bords war
policy," could afford to quit.
In thirteen year* he has wen $2,.r>tK> .
grow to $6,000,000.
He entered the employ of the com
pany as a stenographer. He wrote
the minute* of the first meeting of
the board of director* in long hand.
The future of the industry under
Henry Ford's guidance looked so go.sl
to him that he invested all hi* savings
in the enterprise.
He rose to the position «f general
manager and aaw his original invest
ment increase to the fabulous sum
mentioned.
WILKES-BARRE
STREET CIR
HER STRIKE
Strike Breakers Imported
To Operate Traction
System
Wilkes-Barre. Pa.. Nov. 5.—The car
bam of th* traction company on South
Main street near Wood street has been
turned into a bunkhouae for the
accommodation of strikebreakers.
Stow* and sleeping cots have been In
stalled in the big barn for the com
fort of the men who are to be brought
to this city in an effort to crush the
opposition of the striking car men.
The strikers arc standing fast. To
show their opposition they marched
in parade through the central city last
night and haunted a banner on which
was inscribed “This is our answer to
the ten days' notice." The time limit
given the men to return to work was
up yesterday, hut not a single man
left the ranks of the strikers to report
back to the company.
The Parade.
Although they had heard of these
arrangements, the striking ear men
held their parade last night as they
hail announced. Headed by a platoon
of police and led by a band composed
of members of Branch federation of
Musicians lest by Thomas Rowley, the
men pansil through the busineee dis
trict. Some of the older men rode in
automobile* supplied by the sympa
thisers. The majority, however, walk
ed. 1‘resident liennis McCauley at the
head. They were joined by a num
ber of members of other branches of
union labor. They all carried Amer
ican flags. They were given an ova
tion by the hundreds of people who
lined the route.
Wagr Increase.
The strike of car men against the
Wilkes-llarre Railway Company 11 the
result of futile negotiations and a
changed decision by the third member
of the board of arbitration—State
Commissioner of lushor Jackson.
[jiot January the men demanded
wage increases, and after repeated
failures to select arbiter* a etnke was
called April l. After a nine day*'
sus|iensnm both sides agreed on a
is.aid. with State Commissioner of
1 .abor Jackson as umpire. The men's
representative refused to sign the
a a uni. which provided for a sliding
scale and a reduction of wages The j
claim that the board hart no right to
establish a sliding scale waa later up
held by Umpire Jackson and the board
withdrew the decision. The company
refused to agree to any change and
refused to meet the international offi
cers of the street cor men's union.
Wholing. W. Va.—Member* of the
Stationary Firemen'* Union report a
steady increase in memberahip and re
newed internet among unorganised
firemen.
MAINE BLACKSMITH |
HAS DISCOVERED
CEUnmiESLOSIlRT
Mil Btacksvnith Unearths
Way to Maka-Uazors Out
ot Unasoyn Capper
COrKR 6 NMD IS STEEL
Milbndgu. 1U, No*.
Walter Foua, tka'village blacksmith,
sixty-eaves yean aid, says he haa dia
caeersd the csataites’ lest art of
tempering copper. He show* copper
kahres that will whittle Ion* •har
ing* frees a hickory wagoa spoke,
sad a copper draw share that alicaa
the knots in the toughest ash hoop
pole. Ha cuts a martins in nn oak
heart plank with n copper chisel and
he has n copper raxor which the vil
lage barber says is about the slickest
tool he ever handled.
Forged Tools.
These tools were forged of discarded
soldering coppers from the sardine
cannery, bit* of copper wire and nn
old copper kettle. They may he
ground, whetted or honed like steel.
Foaa says he can make a copper file,
or a copper hand *aw, or anything
with a cutting edge and of any degree
of hardness.
He says that he hopes to get enough
out of his discovery to spend his last
days without work and then the world
is welcome to it. He is sixty-seven 1
years old and thinks he haa worked
long enough, but until he made his
discovery it looked like years more
of labor for him.
3 MILES OF COPPER
1.000 FEET IN WIDTH
Seattle, Nov. 4.—According to a
statement by l’harks l, Peabody, et
pert miner, the heat of the aun during
the recent summer, which was the
hottest on record, has for the first
time since the pun haar of Kusaia
melted the snow on the mountain*
and exposed a belt of copper ore 1.000
feet Wide and thre. miles long
Traversing this or* son* are eight
distinct strata of whist and quartme
from 2* to 200 feet in width, free >
impregnated with cha\opynte carry
ing \a!ues from 2 t# 9 per cent cop
per. Also in the tame brlt i* f ur 1
a great quantity of malachite or* , ar
Tying a copper value of $70 a ton
Peabody came from Alaska not to
aell locutions, but to purchase ma
chinery and tram's ay equipment «<th
which to develop them
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MAY USE POWDERED COAL
Chicago, III.—Powdered coal for
locomotive fuel may come into general
use a* a result of a test being made
by the Chicago & Northwestern road.
The mal m pulverned and forced into
the fire Ih \ by compressed a*r. It is
said that the test has proven that this
fuel is almost as smokeless as pe
trwleum fuel and as effective and
cheap as straight coal
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CALIFOKIIA
IIJEI
Executing Two Men
Every Week For
Five Weeks
EMU LOMIS WHS FIRST
Sacramento. Nov. 6.—California be
gan November 6 to bang two men a
week for live weeks, according to the
"execution calendar” as it now stands
in the governor’s office.
The executions are slated for con
secutive weeks, excepting Thanksgiv
ing week. The governor did not w ish
to have a condemned man go to hit
death the day following the holiday,
so the men who were scheduled to be
hanged on that Friday were reprieve.)
for a week.
The first on the death list are Karl
Loomis of Sacramento and Ixwiis
Bundy of l-oa Angeles, boy murder
ers. Ixromis was hanged at Folsom
November 5 and Bundy at San Quen
tin the same day
2.000 TAXI DRIVERS
i READY FOR STRIKE
New York.—A stnke of 2,000 tax 1
drivers in case of the refusal of the
demands of the men for $3 a day was
mentioned yesterday by the Greater
New ^ ork Council of the International
Brotherhood of Teamsters.
Secretary Kdwm Gould of the Coun
cil said yesterday
’Negotiations have been opened
with several taxicab companies which
now pay their men $2.oO a day for
an increase to the $‘t rate, but no re
sult has >et been reached TVl*' old
agreements with the companies will
expire on November 1, but if the com
panies decide to continue the confer
ence the stnke will await the result
»f the negotiations
**In rase of refusal every taxicab
i company in the city not paying $3 a
day Will be invo'ved, for nor union
drivers will then ke admitted to the
Brotherhood "
FORD MOTOR CO. TO PAY
600 PER CENT DIVIDEND
l*etroit, Mch Pi«tnbution of n
at*a k dividend of an hundred per ,
cent, »t preernt price of atock. enuuU,
to $1 MW,000, waa recommended by
itnckholdrra of Von) Motor Company
of Canada in WalkerviUe today. An
nouncement of their action waa fol
lowed by offere to Detroit hrokera of
1300 a a hare for new atock. Kor the
prraent atock |1.350 haa been price
offered on par value of $100. the pr»
poaad atock dividend ia part of p'an
to increaae capital atock from one mil
ton dollar*. It will U
i transfer of *n million
dollata^fNMfeurplu*.
STREET CAR IIIIIIIG- '
TlONISSIIEDAGAItlST
TORTURE IATOR
_
Tbe Mayor Takes Sides WUi
the Striking Street Ral
my Employes
RESTRAINED BY THE COURT
Ft Ways*. lad* Nam. t-Ai In
junction against Mayor Willinm C.
Homy and other city rfkhh at ft
Wayne, a largo number af tha mem
ber* of various unions, and Afty-eight
former employes at tha Ft Wayna A
Northern Indiana Traction Company <
to prevent them from aaMaUmg oUuot
car striker* at Ft Wayna, was asked
by the United States Mortgage and
Trust Company of New Yerii late.
Tuesday afternoon in the Uni tad
States Hut net Court at Indianapolis. .
The riling of this complaint following
the dismissal of a previous suit for in
junction in which only former em
ployes of the street railway company
and Joseph C. Colgan, member of the
executive board of the Amalgamated
Association of Street and Electric
Railroad Employes of America, were
made part les.
The lomplaint seta forth that the
plaintiff is holder of a mortgage on all
franchises, rolling stock, etc., of that
traction company and that its inter
ests are being injured by the acts of
the defendants.
lily Employes Accused.
Mayor Mosey and the employes of
the municipal lighting plant are
brought into the suit because, it is
i alleged, the) an- conspiring with the
strikers and labor unions to cripple
! the business of the traction company,
which has control of the lighting
plant. They allege that patrons of the
lighting plant are being induced to
v lolate Mm terms of the contracts and
cease service with the traction rotn
pan> ,
An injunction is asked against the
! mayor and other city employes to pre
vent them from soliciting business
among person* who have definite
term contracts with the Et. Wayne
Lighting Company for lighting pur
• post s and against the other <lef- id
■mts to prevent them from using
iniiin d.ition. threats and displaying
placard* to prevent persons from rul
ing on the street cars ami also to
prevent th. running of notices in
newspapers by union* threatening to
impo.-c liii-'s on member* caught rid
ing on • ars
MACHINESTS WALK OUT
Chicago, III. Two hundred workers,
mostly machinists, went on strike at
the plant of the Kdwards Valve and
i Mfg. Co., Kant Chicago, h riday. Pis
1 missal of the foreman without cauae
I and desire for a standard wage scale
} was the reason. The tirm is making
shrapnel shells exclusively.
The strike of Chicago machinists
; against several firms making war mu
i nit ions progresses slowly hot satisfac
| tori I y to the striker*.
I
ARIZ. MINERS
WILL NEVER
Pres. Charles Moyer lb
Clltton Directing
the Strike
GOV.HMTfflffSIMBB “
Cliftaa, Art*.. Not. U1
aval hand red af the Mat*
the aeeae, the atrth* at «
miner* of the Clifton aaa
districts, is Arisons, is still sa. Tho
consistently refund to
representatives sf tho
which an affiliated with 1
Federation of Ninon,
strikers claim that they will Ml ffvs
up their memhership la tin on—
iaatioo.
Because he has refused to tBnw khn
self to ho •‘Ammoniaad," Go eoraor
Hunt has boon denounced by tha cop
per operator* as showing partiality
to the striker*. The militia is oa tha
ground to prerent strife sad illsluih
anre, not because they were seeded,
but to satisfy the demands of the alias
owners, who alleged fear of violence
and destruction of property.
President Meyer.
President Charles Moyer, of tho
Western Federation, is on the aeaas
with Executive Hoard Member Gay
Miller. Every effort has been made
to secure the managin' consent tu a
conference, but while they ex press a
"willingness” to enter into negotia
tions for a resumption of operations,
they Insist that “any federation, what
ever Its name, title or disgu.se,** he 1
eliminated from the question.
Secretary Wi’-on promised that he
would send as many offic .a j of his de
partment as neersssrj to Antona to
assist J. S. Myers, n preset.votive of
the department, who has been here
for thr*-e wre'.s investigating the sit
uation
Governor llunl.
lU-cuuee Governor Hum stated that
there were grievance* that needed ad
justing and that "this is the ttaas
for adjusting them," he is accused by
the operators of "inflammatory"
speeches, but by present indications
this will not alTeet the situation,
which await* but the word of the mine
manager* to reach a pe aceful solution.
A proclamation requesting the peo
i pie of Arizona to aid residents bi
the Clifton strike tone, was issued
Wednesday by Governor Hunt. The
governor asked that food and clothing
be sent to the district, where several
thousand copper miners have been on
strike since September 11.
Toledo, O.—Prof. Nearing, who seas
ousted by the University of Pennsyl
vania, has acce pted a deanahip in the
municipal university of this city. Hs
1 will teach erousmics and political and
| social science.
a ine Blacksmith Discovers Centuries Lost Art