St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 1, 1918

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E "showed no sign of abating + a 5 as Baad "artillery firing. ily Post-Dispatch in St ya by season is greater than fore tn the history of this newepaper.. » true of the Sunday Post-Dispatch. This “Cir- F Renks open to all.” “First in Everything.” { Saeed ~~ ibneatintapninenlies se ———— een ene rn ERIN plaid THH AMERICAN ARMY CE, Thursday, Jan. 31 (Ey JC —Conditions were quiet on’! American sector all day today, valine of the fog which tonight Beyond | Czernin Said to Have Repeatedly Assured President of Sincerity LONDON, Feb. 1 (By A. P.). T is known positively, ac- | cording to ae dispatch from Berne to the Daily Mail, that Count Czernin, the Austro - Hungarian Foreign Mintster, through private inter- mediaries, has sent message after message to President Wilson, assuring him of the sin- cerity and guilelessness of Aus- trian diplomacy. hae LOVISANS KNIT $60,000 / men, WORTH OF SOLDIER GARMENTS aw ee em we About 24,000 women, children and comprising the knitting of the St. Louis Chapter, American Fed Cross, with a shop at $00 Olive } , street, have turned out garments for the soldiers since the opening,: Sept. 19. About 30 of the knitters work daily at the shop. The October output was 138U- gar- ments, that of Siete 1677 for December 10,6658. It is expected | tae January when all returns ure in, will increase the latter iber record, @ few shots from botli sides at reg- | by 2000. _ istered targets, there was very little | There was virtually | ‘ho 4nfantry activity. Additional detaily of yesterday’ Ml crtetiots and SS Show that omy'the heroism vf} cruits at Jefferson Barracks of the knitted artic but at present Many been sent to France, the shop is engaged in providing 1080 | ’ 5a2 sc ed arfs, 948 socks, 1896 helmets for re- A to- sweaters ‘the platoon in the trenches nearest ; tal of $765 garmenis has been sent the listening post raided prevented te: is ate 4 oe me - ™ by : * Ta eine %) Ne P 4 enemy from entering the ches and perhaps capturing pris- ite the Barracks since Dec | As soon as the barrage fire lifted | noe Platoon came out of its dugouts! +} pees stepped to tho firing platforms. = to hold the position. og A. the fog. - approach. who tried cv enemy ’ Mumber of Germans, “When the cae Their rifie fire held off a superior! Sov ! that the Americans were determined Later number ul | “bloody enemy rifles and other equi} tnent were found beyénd the | @@n position. a “One of the soldiers wounded in| y's raid by the Germans told) over the parapet with a view to de- ié is opportune | __Four.dan ; hair and comes from a farm | ~~ t vt -and’ placed me in Amert- jated Press four days ago in! Ne shell-wrecketl village near the “American lines what he hoped to do! a: p the Germans. -diséppointed American in France. He | ; caught a chunk of steel from an en- “It hit me | thereby | patting him out of action for sonré| Today he is the most emy thigh explosive shell. ta the leg,’’ he said today, he. Was Drafted Man. ago this youth, who has | pmreserck, N. D,, emerged from | ne trer ature rape it > een gt of his tough some thea but. thev withdrew | . am -}+been in his first-line _ ter, ' that sun shining out and the | ou ‘are out there under the | ing flock of Germans. in | . you forget all the bad: a ‘and your one idea in life’ e job we came here for. | eon with a division of former Na- | 1 Guardemen. I was put in that clk gn after being drafted. from the National Guard division y took me and three or four oth- this .outfit. it am not sorry for the change: Weause-the unit is the best in the ‘my. ce I have been in the line ve he my best to get a German ) good start. I have had tough ck 90 far, but I am going back to-| en fh France a few weeks. | ’ Fand hope to have better luck | time. htened? that the first time to a trench I didn’t like it | expected a bullet every | mute. After one hour or so, hoyv-- er, curiosity got the better of me ie! have not been the slightest | isince. 1 am afraid of no Ger- y alive now. I fee) that. I can Bic ‘any of that crowd with my fists, he a German with a gun is ho worse : aga without one if I have got myself.” tin the last few hours the cor- ‘is t saw the same man ly met | cot in a fleld hospital. = Bemoans Bad Luck. @ you ever hear of such bad ™ said the soldier smilingly. Now I've got a piece bit out of not lee by a shell splinter. There ” Prone satisfaction. That is that rmans have to stay far away bt shells at us instead of com- “up to where. we. could get at Goodness knows how long I up now, but, belleve me, back to that line again-— fT Want is another chance. tist I want something to worst War. "20U wee [ have been operated on ; ia ate take ether, and food is not : me just now. But I would > Whéle months’ pay for one eofetenk smothered in onions. Some day, when my luck y will have all the things I st int = 6life—-Germans fF and ontons.”’» now being delivered in the | . ae re -_ nee me iM tvor + one nf, at Well, I don't. mind | ; ty ; ing | ' and | trenches and gun pits just | 15. is furnished is a worth 44 a pound. The wool which Canadian anieentins: ome oe ee ‘GROUNDHOG “DUE TOMORROW DESPITE ‘‘PORKLESS” RULE eR OR ee ee a Despite the “‘porkless’ tomorrow will be Groundhog day. The ; iheinnth ized yroodchuck, has trench all win according to tradi-. time for him -to and peep as the ¥ and Kr eb. tion, is*the accepted crawl up on the fire-step *? Stal ciding whether the ti: for opening his spring offensive. The generally accepted version if the groundhog peeps from his dugout on Feb. and finds he crawls back in hole and stays there for ft, ") his remain cold. backbone of wmter broken. force. 29§.716 Knitted . and ‘ figure | ‘les have | regulation, : groundhog, otherwise verbaliy | the } six weeks, } during which period the weather will | If it is cloudy he comes |} The Only Evening Booch in St. - ee me ———— ee ene eintiaamaeinemndl Louis ae mee pemdetnaplanendie a ne ty ee ee 2 Aa anette er ‘ Se ieieedind —- ~~ ———— “ BILSIEIK FORCES. CONFISCATE 40 RUMANIA Steamships and Several Warships | in Black Sea Seized After Break Between Governments. KIEV REPORTED TAKEN N SHIPS ‘House today, ‘that they "PRESIDENT SAYS WAR CABINET | WOULD HAMPER WAR CONDUCT Sieistiecinib anes ‘Rekatons From Both Parties to Reiterate Opposition to Pending Bills. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (By A. P.) —At a conference with a dozen Re-| publican and Democratic whom he summoned to the White President Wilson re- ‘iterated his opposition to the pend- ing bills to create a super-war cabi- net and a Director of Munitions, con- tending that they would hamper ‘him in the conduct of the war and were unnecessary. ———— — = 86,000 FUEL ECONOMY TAGS . ARE BEING DISTRIBUTED TODAY F ive More Entente Warships Re: | Are to Be Tied to Coal Shovels and ported at V‘adivostok; Food From Chana Forbidden. LONDON, Feb. 1 (By A... P.D- Owing to the break between the Bol- shevik Government and Rumania the Revolutionary Committee otf the Black Sea. fleet has resolved to con- means of transport belonging to Hix- from fiscate Rumania, according an Telegraph About 40 steamships and ' to change dispatch Petrograd. ' several warships have been seized in Flack Sea harbors. Kiev. which for some time has invested by the Bolshevik who are engaged against the Ukrain- has surrendered, according to| ien Exchange: Telegraph ‘from Petrograd. been ians, A dispatch to the Exchange Tele-/and electric Petrograd dated Thurs- ‘Bolshevik forces entered night. They have occupied the arsenal. The town after four shots had been fired.” Kiev, ¢apital of the government of | Kiev, lies the right bank of the. Dnieper. called the Russian cities” and in about 250,000 inhabitants. ‘dispatches said that many Russian nobility, the DBolsheviki, had a In Kiev. Polish Legion Said to Have Declared War on Bolsheviki. LONDON, Feb. i.—News has been ‘received in Kiev from Minsk that ithe Polish Legion has declared war against the Bolsheviki, a Reuter dis- patch from Petrograd says. _ The report of the Polish legion's nee a ee graph from aay, Says: IKiev last OT) [t is 190° Recent the of of taken up their 4 y » ti Tice A = Continued on Page 2, 2 Columa 1, | Teta et) iat hina a ( ‘id hit EN : = : Was as January | 2 3° 4 : 6 7 8 * * >. 31 POST- DISPATCH for every day in January _....No Issue meperree vi Riss .. 178,716 . .178,893 .. 158,852 .. Sunday ..179,665 .. 180,754 . .179.134 . .179,202 ..175,485 . Sanday . .179.677 . .180,039 . .186,414 . .181,198 . .180,478 . 162,604 .. Sunday . .183,789 . . 183,467 . 189,425 . .184,640 . 184,033 follows: 367,145 *® 145,788 ........ Blizzard 366,798 185.050 185.015 165,380 Sunday 184,887 373,027 184,536 *}with troops, | dispatch | surrend ered | : “Mother . seeking safety frorn | Suggest Ways in Which Savings May Be Made. Patriotic householders may be dis- tinguished by their shovels after the (86,000 “fuel economy tags’”’ now in the possession of the Board of Fidu-| distributed. The today DY: who will | their cation have been distribution was started giving the tags to the puplis, them to their own neighbors’ homes. The tags are to be tied to the coal | shovels, and bear the following hints: Cover furnace and pipes with asbes- | and weather- stuff TOOTHS ‘tos or other insulation, ‘strip your windows or eotton; keep your eracks at ‘degrées; ‘all the time; ing. If you fomething is nace, See an maker of your | practical sift- coal, fur- the for test your ashés by find much good wrong with your expert. Write to furnace or stove directions, and. save light as much as possi- ible. | The plan was ‘Federal Fuel suggested hy the Administratiot - em ena BILL INTRODUCED TO MAKE had ' | Government Wiesiends Measure | Legislature Providing for Abso- lute Prohibition. Sil. THOMAS, Virgin Islands, l (By A. ; day introduced in the Legislature a | Ineasure prohibitin gz the importation, manufacture, sale. giving away or having possession drinks within six proval of the bill. [n .proposing this legislation, Government pointed of the temperance movement throughout the world, especially in! the United States, and recommended that the Virgin rather than await f} superior. authority, to ot months after the the mandate of | ee etme ive | “ASTONISHING” THINGS FOR TRENCH SOLDIERS IN PARIS: PARIS, ¥F ah. 1. +By of the French . trench has been asking soldiers returning from leave what astonished most in Paris. cal replies: To see people meals. To see unoccupied cellars. To find there dA. sitting down to | | | Louis Fuel Committee , O00 | brought | ween | ministrations over | Ilinots | Missourf Administrator , under ‘ting one's hair not grocers. To find people who want to go the country. | To see funerals | To be agked to sit duwn when get- cut. To hear. civilians about their hardships. ST, LOUIS FUEL CONTROL OF complaining A telegram of protest sent by Fuel Administrator Administrator Garfield y.rsion of Illinois against by the Lo with coal to barges loaded 34 of war supplies climax to the issue Missouri and Tlinois save worth Yu the Odo - by itt ad- to St. Louis. Crossley ask Gartield for an immedmte ing on the point. which he has advisement for field, adjacent rul- na‘ several davs, TEMPERATURE WILL RISE THE TEMPER ATU RES Sam Ostsee - -e 1. Se") [Wed CARE IF sh Sh, INTER WENT ON ASTRIKE ? High, D. S11, ; 7 a. m. Official fore- | cast for St. Louis aud vicinity: Pair tonight and tomorrow; ris- ing temperature Senators | 68 | heat only the rooms you use | ras | THE VIRGIN ISLANDS DRY eb. " P.).—The Government to- | intoxicating | ap- | out the extent ' Islands take action | ‘and P.).—One| newspapers | them | Here are a few typi- | _asked if he a‘ { their | | conditions | women conductors as grievances. are women who are} 3 , torman tO} | were | indicates, pmany ‘is no ‘women as conductors. ‘obtained as needed, ADJACENT FIELD DISPUTED , Street Williams of Illinols to] railway Memphis! * : 1Ce6 has | i as ‘the the control of the)! will, ; J] rz 7 | +; Sever ' pany's during the required two weeks’ train- ! ; ce 54! to TOMORROW; 8 ABOVE TONIGHT | men were obtained from those who / responded. seale is 25 to 33 cents @& hour, dc- | | Ways, } vertised for |ing men through its employes and bj) | letters ' found — prefers ‘ for With the A ssoctated RIGS CR AE RELE SR ABAD LL LOD DES BRIE PE BG ISLE PE REE PELE IE Press News Service ee ae ee I Re ne neat te ST. LOUIS, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 1, 1918-20 PAGES, a meme PRICE4} ®t. Lawes and Phewhbere. Tweet ——— ee ee ge me a meme on ne ee eee ORGANIZERS HERE TRYING 10 FORM Four Labor Agents iio Been in St. Louis for Four Days At- tempting to Line Up Men. OPPOSE WOMAN — Strike Proposed, if Necessary, to} Enforce Demands for Better Pay and Hours. “our street railway union organiz- have been in St. Louis four days attempting to organize the conduc- of the United to calling a to enforce their er s tors and miotormen with a view necessary, _ Railways, if | demands for the discharge of women and str ike, conductors, for higher wages ‘for better The hours. orgaMizers, who came from neapvlis, have held four meetings, /'which were attended by conductors and motormen who quit their jobs ‘last Monday because a dozen women | conductors had been placed on Olive trailers. One of these employes, who clined to permit use of his said today that mtre thah car men, in sympathy with the move- ‘ment have approached more than 1900 conductors and motormen on their cars, and that of those inter- viewed numbers hare agreed _ to strike unless the women conductors jare discharged, shorter hours and | better pay given and better working conditions . obtained. The Railways employes 25506 ;and conductors on regular runs and} “extra’’ men. de- 350 | 100 conductors i stopped work or have been dis- | charged since the women conductors were employed, and that more than 150 others have signed an agree- | rrent to strike. Organizers at Barns. ; Committees of United Railways | jemployes, representing the union | movement,*are at work in. every car! /barn, and others approach the con- i} ductors and motormen at night. One organizer satd many of them | +o .gthended the mectthige, behi-nt+siaypechiewice is” Une of the most | headquarters of, the Centtal Trades Labor Unions; 2228 Olive street, ,and several private meetings in the! homes of men who have i ploy o? the company. A motorman on an car told a Post-Dispatch reporter day at the De he had been approached on his car by union organizers. He said he wus would strike for wages, shorter hours, and discharge of the} It learned from another mo- at the De Baliviere sheds! ‘“moveups” or promotions announced there today. This) he explained, that that. either had failed to re-| resigned or were § dis- was that “a ee men port, had charged. Object to Women Conductors” Conductors and motormen say there necessity for employment they say, company followed the example of the railway company in Kansas iCity. The Post-Dispatch lLansas City ra company there recently had given an exesue for curtailed serv- that suitable men were not avall for motormen and conductors, result of war conditions. After | made inquiry at US able al this excsue for six months, the State! Pub Service Commission took a han It placed advertisements wubjications in the name, announcing that pav a ic , A q Ae ing period had been raised from 50 $1.50 a dav, and that the deposit required ‘and faith” had been lowered to $5. Two hundred and fifty suitabie'! LO The Kansas @ity wage pending on the length of s@frvice Richard McCulloch, general manager of the United Rail- said to a Post-Dispatch report- that his company help, but had been seck- er to rural none avaiiable munities at this time. It is no secret that the United Rafl- men from the country yetormen and conductors. It tis; suid the are more eager to work, de- districts, and in rural corn- STREET CAR UNION , East St. Louis, Kansas City and Min- |: name, | ©°5 street | United | motormen | The organizers say that more fhan | and motormen have | e left the em- | Olive-Delmuaur | + ™ LU= | Baliviere sheds that! more | better working | of | Men could be} if the | nd learned that the} Hansas City company had offered | lil Cuni- | show | president anc | never had ad- | had | Delos F. Wilcox Finds New 31-Year U. R. Franchise ‘the Post-Dispatch Says Aldermen Have Made the Measure Worse in Many Respects. By DELOS F. WILCOX. Author of ‘‘The Study of City Government,’’ ‘‘The American City,’’ ‘‘The Government of Great American Cities,’’ ‘‘Municipal Franchises,’’ , <**Great Cities in America,’’ and ‘ ‘Governnient by All the People.’’ NEW YORK, Jan. 31. N my article published ; in the Post-Dispatch several weeks ago, analyzing | ‘‘Board Bill No. 411°’ or Ordinance No. 2 as then amended, I pointed | cut 14 major defects which made me think that the measure was not I now have before me the final a good one from the city’s standpoint. i draft of the bill as recently reported by the Committee on Public Utilities | to the Board of Aldermen. The amendments to the’ bill are apparently intended to meet three of those 14 defects pointed out before. These three were: ‘n) The total absence of provisions for the continuous control of service, | (b) The permission. given tho ney to pay its peau -due mill taxes) of future earnings, and (e) The entire absence of provisions for the amortization of dead sapi- | or for the establishment of a nai railway purchase fund. (A) Without Modifying the ridic- ulous general requirement that ore ‘United Railways Co. shall manage, | ‘equip and maintain its property in| ' first-class condition at least equal to) | the best managed, equipped and maintained street railway system in| any city of the United States, big or little, the committee has appropriat- with slight modifications, some 20 paragraphs from the order of the Missouri Public Service Commission issued May 4, 1915, establishing standards of service with respeéet to the headway of cars, . ventilation, ‘heating, regulation of smoking and other details affecting the service. So far as I can see, this addition to the lordinance has no legal effect what- lever. Under the public ‘service law, as the State Constitution is inter- out tal, Compromise Bill Before Board of Public Service HE proposed United Rail- T ways “compromise’”’ ordi- nance (known as Board Bill 431) is now before the Board of Public Service for its report and recommendations as the action that should be taken by the 3joard of Aldermen. The Board of Public Service has considered 26 of the 44 s@c- tions of the biH, and has ten- tativelvy or definitely approved most of them. The bill eannot be pursed by the Board of Aidermen until the Board of Public Service nas submitted its report. ed, ~~ Bill as Bad as the Old ‘Expert Who Analized Original Franchise for preted by the court of last resort, the ‘orders of the Public Service Commis- i sion with respect to service will pre- vail as against any ordinance of che | city of ft. Louis or any provision of a ‘franchise contract entered into be- ‘tween the city and the company. In 'go far as the provisions of Section 39 of the pending ordinance depart 'from the orders of the commission | now in effect, such provisions will | be void from-.the beginning. 'Fyanchise Functions Misapprehended — ne ne ee ee Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and | Friday, although there is no midday rush period recognized on those days to and from which “the tiansition” could be made. This is a minor mat- ter, but indicates the careless way in which this ordinance has been draft- ed. The fundamental objection to the oclaborate section relating to serv- ice is that it does not effectiveiy pre- ‘serve te the city the powers of con- to the public welfare. On the eontrary, the provisions of 'this section ten@ to surrender the ,city’s paramount position with re- ithis matter in cities where the con-|spect to the control of service and trol of local transit facilities has been | te reduce it to the level of partner- largely taken out of the hands of the | ship with the company through the city authorities, and vested in a state; activities of the Board of Control. ,;commission, acting under genera] | This illustrates the fact’ that the ‘laws. To employ in the local ftan-| whole theory of the ordinance, as chise the detailed provisions of a/'‘it establishes the relations between Public Service Commission order and ‘try to “salt’’ them down for a period lof $1 years, without reference to) {their experimental character and the! i'ners in the enterprise, that their in- changes that are likely to take place | ‘terests are substantially identical, Lin operating conditions and in the Je |! ‘and that therefore they should share -mands of the public during so long | equally in the control of the street a period of time, shows an entire |railway gQperations, The jcity, as |} misapprehension of the proper func-j|such, substantially abdicat its su- tions of a franchise ordinance. 'perior position as a Governmental | The important thing, -ffrom the/authority with respect to the whole city’s point of view, is to establish; matter of the development and con- |certain general standards and secure | trol of the street railway business. during the life of the franchise con- | Defect as to Mill Tax ‘Payments finuous control of service to enable | aPuainat (b). The second defect ip |the orig- it to adapt such standards to chang- r di tale 4 | ing conditions and enforce them. In j|/7% ©F@inance wile he Femmittee so for as this control jinder ex xisting | |laws is vested in a Sfate Commission | ‘and eannot be agfxumed by. the local! taxes are to be paid. authorities, the Purpose of the fran-} is now drafted, the 'chise should be (to establish by con- | the time the ordinance goes into; tract a reserve \control which.’ will | Cffect are to be paid by the company | come into operation {f, at any time, ithe . ‘are changed so as.to take away from | “!! deferred payments. ‘the State Commission the full andj; ©&4 ordinance provides ‘finportant things ta be considered in ‘the preparation of u street railway lfranchise,*it is extremely difficult to draft adequate provisions covering mentally unsound. It assumes that the city and the company are part- As section 40) .at the time the contract is made. Section 39 of Yhe ordinance, be-| "et earnings. sides departing in ifrom the Service Commission, attempts to, Ut putting 2 confer upon local authorities, namely, infer that the company's S “share” is the director of publie utilities and | the net earnings up to 7 per cent up-| the Board of Public Service. the en-| ©" Capital value. It Should be noted forcement of the service rules, put | hat if the net earnings allowed to |when it comes to tHe vital question| he company aré only sufficient to 'of the establishment of further rules | 8ive ita fair return upon its invest- and the enforcement of additional ment during the 3% years to come, a ‘regulations, the city’s powers are|'"4nifest hardship is being impoeea ‘vested in the Board of Control in| ¥P0n it for the first tive years of that |which the compafiy has an equal | ‘voice with the city. : One Blunder Pointed Out. i used Lo pay up the back milil taxes. It I do net wish to criticise the rules | 18, ywiore likely, however, that the net (of service copied by the committee; #arnings allowed during the first five from the order of the Public wag v0 pee are sufficient to yleld the neces- Gommission. These may be d@de-|5*'Y return unon the company’s in- quate and appropriate for pfesent | Vestment and to pay the mill tax be- ‘conditions in St. Louis. [will call) "es, | attention, however, to ohe blunder |!"8S for the remainder of the 91- ‘made by the committee in adapting | 7°#" period covered by rae encase |the paragraphs of, he Commisston’s| #7 ¢xcessive. (c) The only other defect of the tomorrow; the ; _ lowest tempcr- | mand less wages and better withstand: OTder to the ppyfpose of this ordi-, , hard working conditions. nance. The imission's order pro- MeCulloch declared that no men) | vides for the establishment sane “reuah.” original ordinance which the amend- Ments seem intended to cure is with Movement by Responsibility. ak AMSTERDAM, Feb. 1 (By A. "Pd. —TThere was a clash Negeri tnaous eentrol which fire eswentiar? ‘the city and the Company, is funda- has attempted to correct relates to | the soures from which the back mill} lias to | within five years after that date, with | onstitution and laws of the State | | interest at 6 per cent per annum on | Der The amend-} da exclusive jurisdiction which it has! fand the interest npedon. shall he} trades unions, throug & ‘paid out of the company’s share of the! conmmission, also disclaim The ardinance does | gfbility®:nd the strike certain details , NOt specifically define what the “com- | sequently to have beem ¢ rules fixed by the Public! P@"y’s share of the net earnings” is, | far as these two authoritative 4 und 3 together we may | are concerned. period, as/ts net earnings will be de- | made pleted te the extent that they are | believed that It definitely disap) jed its clinax in Berlin and ta" 3 . | | receding. said to show lack of centraliged « ers and the police in the nort ern part of Berlin Thursday. policeman was killed amd a dozen strikers injured. There were minor — disturbances In other emcee in the suburbs of Berlin. The German press ‘agrees that the outbreak has “ek fy, i The dem cnet trol. Reports from the. chief. ac trial sections of Germany ‘itr ithat the strike moverent. jis finding the | carry it along. Mond ) The Socialist, Party cade support. necessary. f to in Berlin Wednesday eventing’ cide upon the attitude of the. re view of the extension of she 1 st The committee considered @ i which, the Vossische | Zoitnng. 4 was regarded as offering @ 4 basis for’ | pt : wenm er ed to molitiod nd mestice ebhalit omitting the desires in regard to te policy expressed by the striker committee also considered r to prevent the incitement of an “iat pe: % of bakers. The fighting in ‘Berlin in which de policeman was killed was bro about by an attempt on the part. ae crowd of men and women to infer fere with the street car traffic. pe other policeman was motets riously. . The afternoon newspapers ~— been compelled to reduce the num ‘ber of their pages, are being operated without i tion, so far as the latest show. | Gerinan newspapers gen¢ mate the number of strike 000. They all say that gration of the movement y ing rapidly. The riots of| yé are sald to have bee strikers realizing that the was doomed to early f Lack of pt ° The trades unions are 4 pay out strike benefits. | |cation of the lack of ¢ mill taxes due "| rection, it is said that only a4 ben. plants of Berll suspend operations I t 1ocratic party anounced y that it had not takem ‘ss a of plage The part played . hy Scheidemann, Friedrich Bbert” Hlerr Braun, Socialist leaders, § plained on the ground that mene anxious to prevent the strike fr redulting in digorganization and ing. While the party as such dorsed the political demands regar ing domestic affairs which Wi by the strikers, {tts ral? the present strike @e an ins for forcing the. Government these demands. lenders Are Warned. The Tageblatt warns | in which case the net earn-" ) leaders to bring the outbreak t conciliatory conelusion, on of the effect abroad and for t - ons % nt * Stier a ge: ¥ i ¥ ¥ aig a a of the future prospects for hey th. : 5 a 3 e Fi - ; see 4 J G “3 ~ kes . Se RE ys “si ee 4 : Z . 92%. of the above, on week Reichstag majority parties. ‘Th ‘an ature tonight for the return mail to the = coming out with So, if relatives and me get letters tn pes ee A sees written on ePaper. they will know ¢ than likely that these pleced together where ,and enemy gune roar y through mays and night. ay’ ea etate and Want Ad -a@ selected list of farm , Bt eit" | from al! parts of the, p ten were back in billets. | : days, was distributed in St. Louis and its suburbs. except St. Lonis. ae _ probably light snew near Lake will be 8 |. Missouri: Gen- (eraliy fair to- night... and to- ' morrow; warmer tomorrow and in north and west portions tonight, Lilineis: Fair tonight and not quite so cold in morrow partly cloudy anc ariner, Mic h- igan, .” - ; north AL tg it tu! lhad been discharged to make places | and “nomrush” periods. ‘for women conductors, and that no woman conductar had been advanced | in any way ahead of men employed | before her. Healso stated that t ) company had no khowledge of a i- | ous effort to organize its employes in ,a labor union. | MeCulloch characterized the em- | Ployes’ assertion Wisk the company ‘was about to take advantage » of its ;men by employigg wWymen as without warrant ve Be age hg The wom- he said, on the extra Ust and Page 2, Cotuma 5, ,en, « ‘outinned: o midday rush -feriod is Banh except on rday and consequently there can no transition period during the these pr to the ordinance, the committee with no other apparent pur- pose than to gain two or ‘ines of typewriting, has the paragraphs relating to periods on Saturday and on the coe week days, with the result that tran- sition perieds are established du-- jng the middle of the day on senthy. & in. adapting middle of the day except on that day. . respect to the amortization of dead capital. The amendment to section 41 changes the character of the or. dinance in a radical way, but doce« not make it any better. It provides | that instead of a share of surplus earnings over 7 per cent net shall be applied by the Board of Control for the construction of extensions addi. tions, Improvements and betterments without a corresponding increase ip eanital value. It is entirely prorer. oner that the it the city's Continued on Page 3 Columa 1, ak the reduction of capital value, or for | | erty party declares that the strike leaders are playing { ‘Saes n