Show WORKING oRi GUlLS TRAMPLE STOCKINGS IN RAGE I I OMAN NAMING CHEAP HOSIERY I FAilS TO SHO Kansas W Workers Show Disdain Disi Dis Dis- Dis- Dis i dam dain for Industrial Court Idea They Can Dress on Per Year TOPEKA Kan March 3 United I I Press Topeka's Topeka's working girl wage j I war reached the demonstration stage I late hate Thursday when a crowd estimated at more than girls descended upon I department stores tores protesting that a working girl could not dress herself on a year S SAt I I At Crosby Brothers a a. large department depart depart- i ment mont store the girls demanded to see I Miss Nell Berger a head woman who I testified before the Kansas Industrial court In a wage hearing that a girl could clothe herself on that amount Miss Berger did not appear leaders of ot the girls said The mob then de demanded demanded demanded de- de that the manager of ot the store show them the cent 25 stockings six pair of which the Berger budget al allowed allowed allowed al- al lowed a girl yearly yearl They trampled the hose on the floor talking excitedly After leaving Crosby's a part of the demonstrators visited another store and then dispersed Miss Alice K MacFarland head bead of of the women's de department de- de of the Industrial court ourt estimated estimated estimated esti esti- mated that a working gIrl needed a year to clothe herself hersel This was disputed at the wage nearing hearing by employers T Textile Workers Hold Picket Lines HOPE R. 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I March By the Associated Associated Asso Asso- Press A Press A few tew broken heads re- re I today a ap souvenIrs of yesterdays yesterday's yesterdays yesterday's yesterdays yesterday's yester yester- days day's first attempt to reopen cotton mills closed by the strIke nearly six weeks ago Meanwhile ile the results of the attempt were debated throughout the Pawtucket and Blackstone valleys where nearly textile workers are out The experiment was decided upon when mediation broke down through refusal of ot both mill mUl owners and strikers strikers ers era to submit their differences to the chairman of the state board of mediation mediation medi medI- and conciliation Manufacturers I maintained that a large percentage of the operatives desired to work at the 20 per cent reduction in wages and the increased working schedule offered them Wednesday night overseers of the Hope mills made a house to house canvass inviting operatives to report for duty Thursday morning At half hal past six workers began to drift dritt toward the mills and were greeted greet greet- ed Militia 1 moved In to form torm lines Unes paralleling the picketers Then for the first time in weeks the I mill whistles sounded calling the operatives operatives operatives op op- op- op to work Twenty-four Twenty In all out of ot a working force of of ran the I gauntlet of f pickets to get to the he plant lant Coal Operators Want to Fight WASHINGTON March 3 United Press Press Leading Leading coal operators of ot the country countr are ready fo to o fight out a nationwIde nationwide na na- Coal oal strike i If it results from the miners refusing to accept wage reductions This is clearly the outstanding sentiment sentiment sentiment sen sen- of the board of directors of the National Coal Coar association comprising some of the principal operators of ot the country meeting here tOda today Illinois Miners S f f 5 May Stage Bolt SPRINGFIELD Ill March 3 Pr Press ss Illinois union mine leaders threatened today to bolt from the solid soUd ranks of the United Mine 1 Workers Yorkers and make separate peace with state operators oper oper- Frank H H. Farrington president of the Illinois miners predicted as union officials gathered here that his organizations organIzations organizations organ organ- would throw the April 1 strike plans overboard and accept the In vIta vIta- Continued on page page 4 I WOMAN NAMING Continued from page 1 tion of Illinois operators for a n. parley In case Farrington's program program is Savored Ja- Ja by other union officials of District Dis- Dis DI Dis District No 12 it will mean that miners rs of Ohio Pennsylvania and Indiana will have to fight their own battles battIes President John L. L Lewis of the United United United Unit Unit- ed Mine lIne Workers has repeatedly refus refused re- re re I fus fused d to allo allow Y separate units of the central competitive district to ireat treat j with operators in their territory Technically Lewis must give glye his sanction to the plan of Farrington but according to the insurgent leader the plan will be rushed through despite any stand taken by Lewis Roads Hope to Keep Excess Earnings NEW V YORK March 3 Representatives tives of several railroads will meet hero here Monday to discuss the advisability ity of seeking a a. court test of the order of the interstate commerce commission commission commis- commis sion slon directing that earnings in I excess of 6 per cent on their property val value e i be turned Aver to o the government I I Bessemer The B js Lake Erie Chesapeake Chesapeake peake Ohio Ohl the he Buffalo Rochester Pittsburg the Union Pacific Southern Pacific Delaware Lackawanna Western Vestern and numerous smaller roads will have representatives at nt the con con- ference The transportation act of 1920 provides provides provides pro pro- vides for a recapture of excess earnings earnings earn earn- ings with which the government may form a contingent fund out of which loans to needy carriers may be made Canadian Miners 1 I Threaten Strike CALGARY Alta Atta March 3 A A strike affecting coal miners In Western Vestern Canadian fields is threatened for April 1 Robert Livett chairman of ot the scale committee of the United Mine Workers Workers' Workers Workers' Workers Workers' Work Work- ers' ers of America declared today that a walkout wa was possible in the event that wage wago reductions announced here were put Into effect The t territory affected is District No 18 comprising southern Alberta and part of eastern British Co Co- Co- Co lumbia Mr Livett's announcement was a n. se sequel sequel sequel se- se quel of the failure yesterday of representatives representatives representatives of the miners and officials of the Western Canada Coal Operators' Operators association to agree on a new wage scale The operators issued a n. statement statement statement state state- ment that new rates to be In effect after April 1 would show wage de decreases decreases decreases de- de creases running from 30 to over over ver 60 per percent percent percent cent and would be a return to the 1915 scale with a few tew exceptions s South African Mines Resume LONDON March 3 The 3 The number of strikers returning to work In the coal and gold mines of the Rand districts districts' of ot South Africa Is growing rapidly and conditions conditions' are much quieter says saysa a Reuters dispatch from Johannesburg Nearly men including officials are now back at work |