$t3w WfJ, 0' ,, to t fH -EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHIEA.DELPHIA, TUESDAY, APRIE 8, 1919 ,8 ( .4 v r Pi v h. (V I j V TEXTILE LEADER ANSWERS MURLBUT Gustavo Geigas Denies Skilled Knitters Average $2000 to $3000 WHAT OTHER SIDE SAYS (lustiiv (JpiRns, leader of the Full I'nohloiiMl Knitters' Aisoelntron in this I'ity. this nfternoon denied assertions In- ('. StnnleyHnr)bnt, president o the Men mid Mi.iinKcments Textile Council, Hint the average wanes of n skilled KtocliitiR knitter here are from .$2000 to X::000 a .voar. The knitters, with other workers in th fill I-fashioned hosiery trade, are on strike. Several meetings have bceu held between the men and their em ploys.' In n statement Issued to the news papers, Mr. Hurlbut also declares that the increases granted during the war period, with an increase now offered, will bring the knitters' earnings to a point above the increase in living cost. This also is denied by Mr. Ocigas. Mr. Ilurlbut's statement follows in full : , , "The Philadelphia Full fashioned Hosiery Manufacturers Association has offered to its knitters a 15 per cent in crease in wages. "The present wbrcs paid by the mills in Philadelphia exceed by 10 or It" per cent the wages paid by the majority of the mills outsldo of the city. ' "This additional increase in wages, will bring the Philadelphia full fashioned knitter to u point where he will be receiving about 25 per cent in wages over what a full fash ioned knitter is making in the majority of the mills outside ef Philadelphia, and these mills outside of the city are strong competitors of the industry here in the city. "Statistics show that the average wages of a skilled knitter in Philadel phia range from $2000 to $3000 n year. There are some kuittcrs who have made nvpr S4O00. "Statistics show that the cost of living has advanced from no per cent to. GO per cent. This additional in creased wngc scale will make the total increase for knitters in Philadelphia ' from ."5 per cent to 70 per cent. The full fashioned hosiery knitter has al ways revived higher wages than work ers in any other line of the textile in dustry in "the United States. "Willi reference to hours, the hosiery association has decided, except where the employes desire to work longer hours, to establish a work week of forty-eight hours, with such additional time as is necessary for cleaning of the machines, at the end of each week. It takes n competent knitter from a half hour to two hours to cleau his ma chines. "Several conferences have been held between representatives of each of the mills on strike and representatives of the manufacturers, in an honest effort to give the employes every advantage of any fair proposition which has ever been presented; to inquire into their needs, woiking conditions and establish u loyal co-operation. "The kniters. however, have shown absolutely no willingness to co-operate, cither in the matter of hours or in the ' rtiattriof' wages, and haye refused to consider the industry as an industry in Philadelphia, but have permitted mills outside of the city of Philadelphia to operate at lower rates of wages, con ditional upon a promise of the manu facturers outside the city of Philadel phia to give to their knitters the same , amount of increase as the hosiery man ufacturers in Philadelphia agree to give. , "It would appeifr, however, that for -" the same class of work, it is only fair both to the men and women working In the mills and to the manufacturers themselves that a more or less uniform price be made and that to use the man ufacturers of Philadelphia as a means of forcing up wages out of proportion to fair demands and permit other manu facturers to run on the condition that they will meet the Increase the manu facturers of Philadelphia might give, largely interferes with the spirit of loyal co-operation between the "employer '"'and the employed, which is the only intention and earnest wish of the matf-ufacturers." In answer to this statement ..Mr. Ocigas said: "I would stake any amount that the .'assertions made by Mr. Hurlbut to the effect-that the skilled knitter averages $2000 to $3000 a year arc untrue. "It is not true either that the knitters In Philadelphia receive higher pay than those in other cities. Mr. Hurlbut is r' paslng his figures on a few towns where wages are low. 1 could name ' many places outside Philadelphia where the average pay is higher than it would be here even if it included the 15 per .cent increase now offered by the maim- facturcrs' association. "Mr. Hurlbut does not tell the public In his statement that the knitter runs to machines and has to pay a helper put of what he makes. The helper gets ' SS or $0 n week. Xor does Mr. Hurl- ' but say anything about the needles for the machines that the kpittcr has to pay for out of his earnings. And he does not say anything about the bad yarn the knitter gets at times, that holds up production ; or about the times when there is no jam n'nu and tiic Hun ter's pay slops. "The highest pay at one of the big gest mills in Philadelphia is $2500 a j ear, which includes the helper's pny. The lowest at this snmc mill is $1200 a year, also Including the helper's pay. "The slocking manufacturers are asking the public to pay extravagant prices for their product ami wouiu like to blame the UicrcaBe on the work ers. Mr. Hurlbut sajs that wages have increased from 55 to CO per cent. "The nveragc increase actually has not been more than JIO per cent, or my 35 per cent, at the highest, to be abso lutely fair. In some special grades there may have been a 40 per cent in crease. In the branches of Hie hosiery trade, other than the knitters the aver age increase has not been above 25 per ccut. "Another assertion made by Mr. Hurlbut is that the cost of living has advanced from 55 to CO per cent, and that the proposed increase of lu per cent in kuittcrs' wages will mako a total vngc advance for them of from 55 to 70 per cent. Every one who sup ports a family knows that it costs any way C5 per tent more to live now than it did before the war. The knitters have asked n 25 per cent increase. If they get it their total wages will not be more than CO per cent higher on an average man they were. "The main difficulty now Is the Men and Managements plan itself. If this had been abandoned by Mr. Hurlbut and his associates, I believe the strike would be over now. If Mr. Hurlbut in sists on keeping the plan, the men will insist on stnjilng out from work." MME. BRESHKOVSKY WILL LECTURE HERE Little Grandmother of Russian Revolution to Appear at Next Monday Night Catherine Tlrcshkovsky, known as "The Little Grandmother, of the litis shin Uovolution.'r will make her first public nppearance before a Philadelphia nudience next Monday night, when she will address a meeting to be held under the auspices of the Xcw Century Club at the Academy of Music. Mrs. H. S. Prentiss Xichols, president of the Xcw Century Club, nnuounced today thai the entire proceeds of the lecture will ho used for the relief of tuo -orphans of Itussia. Madam Ilreshkovsky, who Is seventy five years old, has passed through un speakable physical sufferings. Although born of aristocratic parents in a home of wealth and social distinction, she spent thirty-two years of her life In prisons, dungeons and in Siberian exile. The relief fund established by the aged woman is strictly nonpartipan and noiipolltlciil except In one particular. It will be carried on by those who are Ir revocably opposed to what Mine. Hreshkobvsky calls "the curse of Hoi- shewsin. as now displayed in llussla. Hrlgndier General Kdward 11. Egbert, formerly chief surgeon of the American Ueil Cross detachment in llussia. who will accompany "the Little Mother," will give nn account of recent conditions in Itussia. Another speaker will be Charles K Henry, who was in Itussia in lt)H. "W WHERE TAIL WAGS, THERE LIVES BILL Ridley Park Bulldog Smiles Not on Former Master; Courts Must Decide Who's Who Possession may be nine-tenths of the law. but affection seems to be a cmsc contender in the case of n Hoston bull ,. ; ..i.!..i.' i i iii. ; irnii-r, muni nun ui'l'uuH' mu mnui cent third nart.v" to n suit for his nos-' session brought in the Delaware county courts. Tt is doubtful, however, if the twelve "tried and true" jurymen will listen to the dog's side of the story. Bill, as he was then known, was presented to Raymond S. Munson, gen eral manager of the American Steel I Casting Foundries Company, by Dr. D. It. Stratton. of Depow. X. Y., in the spring of 1910. Mr. Munson's family i became grently attached to him. During his wanderings around Itidley I Park Rill came to the house of MKs! Ressie Minor, socially prominent, and a ' granddaughter of Mrs, I.ucy AVright, of Chester pike and Rartol avenue. He liked it there and stayed., He was known as "Billic" at the home he selected. A few days after the arrival of her guest Miss Minor noticed nn advertise ment proclaiming Mr. Munson the owner of the dog. She cnlled up the MunsonR and was thanked for her hos pitality to "Bill." who was taken to his original home. Helping Tempus to Fugit Advertising is chief hand-maiden to ambition. And men who are proud of their products are am bitious for their wide dissemination and use. , Without advertising, any surprisingly better commo dity will gradually win a following through word-of-mouth recommendation. This may take years to accomplish. The same result is brought about in a fraction of the time' and therefore at a fraction of the cost by general advertising. It is a phenomenon of today that a new mode is adopted simultaneously in Charleston, in Seattle, in San Bernardino and in Bangor, Maine. The old days of long cycle between the metropolitan usage and ultimate rural adoption are past. Our whole country adopts its new ideas to-day, together and at the same time. ' For national adoption, advertise. It saves time. Advertising spact in the Butterick publication is for sale by accredited advertising agencies. Butterick Publisher The Delineator Everybody's Magazine Two dollars the year, each WS Har sToiti: on n Kits sjr J Charge 1"'' " J Account I 1 m 7 Jd -4 I JJoHVv0 b I m 'ibq, UT ' rfji m m v. w i wr K l I 2y to 3 ' l id SNIPER KILLS MAJOR Marine Officer, Resident of York, Dies. Fighting In .Haiti Washington, April 8. Major Johu I. Mayer, of the Marine Corps, whose home is ip York, Pn.. was killed Fit day near Miraflores, Haiti, by bandits, according to n message received by Major General George Harnett, com mandant of the Marine Corps. Major Mayer was. killed by a shot from a sniper while lending his men against a band of bandits. After a long period of quiet in that section the ban dits are said to hac resumed their ac tivity. Major Mayer graduated from Annapolis in 1012 and wns stationed successively at orfolk, Ya. ; in South Carolina and in Haiti. He is survived by a sister. Miss Julia 1 Mayer, living in Xew York. VICHY Omnui tj at toltlti undtr Iki'iirict entrcl tt tht Frtnch Conriuutnt Natural Alkaline Water Used at meals prevents Dys pepsia and re-' lieves Gout, In-4 digestion and Uric Acid. Atk your Physician 1 Not th Nunc 923 MARKET STREET I Notice to Contractors and Mill Owners ONE great reason why you can count on prompt deliveries is because most of the supply houses deliver with Autocar Motor Trucks Standard Supply and Equipment Co., J. Jacob Shannon, Maddock & Co., Collieries Supply and Equipment Co., etc., etc. You see Autocars Everywhere Atitocar SUs Wilmington 306 E. 4th St. Philadelphia M.yket & 23d St.. . r... . 1. . Atlantic City 3424 Atlantic Ave. Our E aster t SUITS &l Dolmans') . sap C Are Greatest of All Easter Values THEY surpass any showing in the city in fact, identical styles to ours are selling at $29.75 to $!J5.00 in other stoics. New styles arrive daily, keeping as sortments complete. . Second Fluor I I Unmatchable Values Dresses $ y Featured, at Frocks that are lotly In tlielr new concen- trons for Kaster modes. Hlch slllc, Batins, taffetas anil all-wool seiKeF. Sfcoml Flour 15 $1.50 Nainsook QQ Night Gowns t?pl Silk Slip-On $0.98 Sweaters, at & ' Mreet I'loor New Skipts $4.98 to $7.98 All-wcol serKea, poplins and Pan amas, bliowlng tiimmlngg of Mil, braids, button and neat tiickeil effects. Street Floor Neio Styles in Smart Voile Waists $1.98 Fully 20 charm ing new collar and lace e m broldery trimmed models. Street Floor 1 1 nB&3S3331 c Unusual Special! New Easter Hats $g.98, l.lsore flat brim sallois with wide f? e o r e ette tlnnge. Flower a 11 d ribbon trimmed. Street Flour I. la ot Women's & Misses' New Spring Suits, Capes and Dolmans 12-98 S.98 The now fnshlons of. the season aro ad mlrably expressed In lse popular pricea garments. All new spring colorings). 4v lh 1 A-IW I fir1 Women's Silk & Serge Easter Dresses JpCp.98 p f M and M.Q Silk taffetas, georgette crepes, satins and all-wool Berge In styles tlmt are unusually stunning and different Girls' Gingham Dresses ftCa neat plaids, nhecliB and stripes. SUes from 8 to J 4 yearn t Children's Spring Coats $Q.98 Of navy blue serge Cj ' and checked mate- rials. Slits'! to Ji yearn. kjHOME OF STYLE AND ECONOMY! STRAWBRIDGE & CLOTHIER Special Announcements for To-morrow (Wednesday) v p mjsAt f 00 Additional New Easter Hats . Hxo-Wn Every day something new. New ideas developed and presented. Every worthy style shown here as soon as launched. For to-morrow FIVE HUNDRED HATS FRESH FROM OUR WORKROOMS. Small demure shapes for matrons, snappy little hats for the younger women; the new Large Hats ihat are now coming to the front. Shiny lisere straws, straw and lacey braids, dull straws and rough straws, in all the fashionable colors. Fashion gives wide scope in trimmings, and we have taken advantage of it, affording an un precedented variety. Black, navy blue, brown, red, purple, sand and many other shades. v Also Fifteen Hundred Smart Rcadv-to- Wear Hats-$2.95, $3.95 and $-1.93 1 welve Hundred Hats for sports wear from S1.50 to .$6.50 Eighteen Hundred Girls' Hats, at $1.93, $2.93, $:5.95 and $4.95 One Thousand Untrimmed Hats, stylish shapes $1.93, $2.95, $.'5.95 and $1.95 A Great Assortment Flowers, Wings and Fancies 35c to $3.50 Straw brldjtp Clothltr Market Street, West A Style for Every Woman In These New Easter Suits With prices rancinp from S25.00 to $193.00. mid with provision made for the extra-full figure, and wjth ' all the requirements of the "out-door" woman taken imo consideration, and pome ultra-exclusive models, ready for women with many afternoon affairs to think of i practically every woman can be suited. ! For the Woman Who Requires a Smart, Practical Suit There's an especially attractive collection at $35.00, including belted models with the newest ideas in plaits and tucks. Suits with box coats loosely girdled at the waist-line, and some on plain-tailored, close-fitting lines. Of men's-wear serge and poplin, in navy blue and black. For the Out-Door Woman Sports Suits, $25.00 to $75.00 Jersey Suits, in plain colors and heather mixtuies and smart combinatoins of colors. Loose, straight-line models with belts, others box-plaited in Norfolk effects; also models with the invetted plait in the centre of the back, some finished with military straps on the should ers, and some very good-looking Sports Suits of English and Irish Dent 1 weeds. Suits for Extra--Full Figures, $32.50 to $60 Practically all the styles favoied in regular sizes are shown in these, modified and adapted to the requiiements of the full figure. Men's-wear serge, poplin, gabardine and worsteds. Black, navy blue, reindeer and shades of gray. --,- StrawbrliiK.' A t lolhler -Srfuml Dour luUc Street This Is One of the New Silk Dresses At $30.00 It is of taffeta in a lovely soft shade of taupe combined with crepe Georgette in the same shade, and .trimmed with wooden beads in self color. Others of taffeta, crepe Georgette, satin and crepe de chine. Some are in tunic, otheis in straight-line effects. One model is embioidered in coloied chenille. The crepe Georgette Flocks aie lined with silk and trimmed with beads. Plum color, taupe, navy blue, l'.-cnch blue, white, flesh color and black in the collection. All excellent models. Crepe de Chine and Taffeta Frocks, $22.50 Made with skiits in stiaight-line, box-plaited, panel and tunic styles, and with the quaint, simple bodices that arc so fashionable, some finished with dainty white Swiss cqllar and vestee, others but-ton-tiimmed. Tailored Serge Dresses, $12.50 to $47.50 - StrawbrMB &. Onthlpr Second K(oor. Centre 1W) ' I B 11 !ifn If' This Good-looking Cape with The Long Coat Front, $25.00 Easter Candies and Novelties Enough to Make Kiddies' Eyes Sparkle There's old Jack Rabbit, and he looks just ready to scuttle in among the wee chicks, fiesh fiom their shells. And theie are eggs by the wholesale some all crated and leady to ship. And theie are heaps of cunning little speckled eggs, that look as if the Robins might have passed this way. And theie are great Chocolate Lggs to till with candies, and others all rich and cieamy and deeoiated with tbat nice, crisp, ta&ty icing that' kiddies love. And oh! so many, many other things! Chocolate-coM-red Cream Kggs fie to "jc each Decorated Eggs 15c to S2.50 Pure Jelly Eggs 10c a pound And various, other kinds of Small Eggs liOc pound Hollowed Chocolate Eggs, to he filled with candy l.'ic to $2.30 FILLED BONBON BOXES FOR THE GROWN FOLKS Hand-painted and cietonne-covered. Many are having them filled with Wilburbuds at $1.25 a pound, or with our delicious Clioco lates and Bonbons at $1.00 a pound. - Straw brlds .t lloiln. i- Hanenien ri I v flM V in j vum. rtiiuilll'i , wiliiuut liic vent, i Kjj braid-bound, $20.00. One with a i . trimmed with rows of braid at the '(..a host of other styles fiom $25.00 l;fctive bn It is one of a collection of Capes and Dolmans, At $15.00, a very smart bi aid-trimmed Cape with vest. Another, without the vest, braid-trimmed and surplice vest and the hem. $22.50. And .00 to $50.00. ilmatis start at $20.00, for an unusually attrac- raid-tnmnied model, unlined. Others of velour, silyei tones, Bolivia and serges, $25.00 to $75.00. Many at the higher prices lined throughout. Coats of Fancy Mixtures Mannihh Top Coats, in the loose, swagger-back st vies, or smaitly belted, $20.00 and $25.00. Several very atti active models with the yoke and sleeves lined, $27.30, $30.00 and $;17.50. Smart, Practical Coats An especially attiactive model of poplin, in black ami blue, finished with a deep collar; body and sleeves lined, at $22.50. Velours in light tan, a few silvei tones, in box-coat length, $'23.00. Otheis of blue and black seige and poplin, $27.50 to $43.00. ... - ttraibrUlK'- A- f'lolhler- Second Floor Centre Fine Stationery for an Easter Gift Writing Paper and Correspond ence Cards in attiactive boxes, many kinds from which to choose $1.00 to $11.00. Special at 85c Vestal Linen Cabinets, containing 24 sheets of white ov tinted Writing Paper, 21 gilt-edge Correspondence Cards and 48 envelopes. Soecial at fioc - A,e,liea,n Lawn Writing Paper 18 sheets and 50 envelopes at more thau one-fourth reduction. Slranbrlilae & Clothier Alule 10. Centre Men'sSoft Shirts ' Special at $1.65 An extraordinary showing of fine Percale and Madras Shirts at this very low price. They have all been made over well-fitting, comfortable patterns and the varictv of tasteful Ktripe effects to chtrose from is .beyond descrip tion. Hlriwbrldge Clothier Kat Htore, Hixhth Street Our Greatest Semi-Annual Sale of Floor Coverings Important Information The present situation in the Rug and Carpet market, as shown by a week's careful study right at the source of production, shows that PRICES ARE VERY FIRM, with a direct upward tendency in many kinds and grades. This more than confirms our statement at the beginning of this great Semi-annual Sale, that prices at the mills could not be expected to fall very soon, and that the Reduced Prices in This Sale Are so low as to afford protection to"bur customers, be ing from 10 to o0 per cent, below our regular prices of this season, and therefore insuring the Rugs you buy in this Sale cannot be bought at a lower price later. OUR ENTIRE STOCK of Rugs in carpet sues standard wool and worsted Rugs and also Summer Rugs or Perch Rugs is included at reduced prices, and excep tional values are also available in CARPETS. ORIENTAL RUGS and LINOLEUMS during this month. - Sfuwbridsi & t ioth.i r 1 ouriii Kloor t TwelveGrowingPansy Plants 50c Fine, Healthy Ones With Large, Full Blossoms. Unusual Value, A particularly hardy and beautiful variety in baskets of 12 Filbert Street Crosa ual nlonta men for 50c. $y Str.iv, brlJge L Clothier Boys' Blouses and Waists for Spring Attached-collar styles, of blue chambray, dark ground madras and fancy percale 75c. Attached-collar styles of fancy madras and percales $1.00. Neck-band styles of white ma dras and pongee, and of fancy ma-dras-r-SUO. Neck-band and attached collar styles of fancy rep and madras ?1.25. Neck-band and attached-collar styles, of white madras and pon gee; of fancy madras with at tached collar to match $1.50. Neck-band and attached-collar btyles, of white and fancy ma dras $1.75. Neck-band styles, with turned back cuffs; of silk-slripe madrus $2.25. Strawbridge, . Clothier 2d Floor, Eit Our Collection of Men's $1 Neckwear . Affords particularly satisfying selection to men of good taste in dress. Practically every desirable pattern is represented and the fabrics comply in every way with fashion's recent dictates. Their quality and careful making will appeal to men who want good value for their money. Strawbrldgi i. Clothier Aisle 1 Market Street ! PREMIER ' kVUWAVi i Suspenders at 50c Forsome time we were unable to get good Suspenders to sell at 50c, but we have just received a shipment whichwe can sell at this popular price in full confidence that the purchasers are getting full value for their money. Strtwbrldt A Clothier Aiile 1, Market street Model 5100 Electric Case 20x23x46 Mahogany I i:qulppd with I Universal tone aim. & Sixteen Premier Phonographs (Electric) Special $110.00 We have ju.st sixteen Premier Phono graphs the model shown in the accompany ing reproduction from the Premier Catalogue ' All With Mahogany Case And all catalogued to sell regularly at' con siderably more than this special price j $110.00. The Premier Reproduces Equally Well All Makes of Disc Records Equipped with dependable electric motqr for alternating or direct current". Bear in mind we have only sixteen, und can get no more to sell at this price when these. fev are, gone. Act accordingly, - Suitable Terms of Convenient Payment Can be Arranged ' . strawbrldge Clothier Fifth Floor, Wtyt Parasols to Deligl Small Girls Patasoln in gay flowered pat tein, or dainty plain shades, qme be-frilled others with shir red edges or plain; of cotton, mercerized cotton, or poplin, j-ome with silk wrist cord. Para sols for little girls 75c to $2.50. Strawbrldge 4. riothler All T, .Market Street Cut Glass Always the Appropriate Gift for Spring's Bride Cut Glass Pitchers $5.50 to $13.75 Sugar and Creams $4.50 to $8.00 Flower Vases from $5.00 to, jS.OO Cut Glass Compotes S3.00 to $fi.50 Olerv Travs $3.00 to $6.75 Cut Glass Howls $4.50 to $12.00 Cut Glass Baskets. S3.00 to $12.00 Spoon Trays $1.50 to $3.00 Kelish Dishes $5.00 to $8.50 Cracker-and-Cheese Dishes $8.00 and $10.00 Candy Boxes $12.00 and $15.00 Ice Tubs $4.00 to $5.00 strawbrldge 4 nothler Uasement yfi STRAWBRIDGE & CLOTHIER MARKET STREET EIGHTH STREET mmmmmmmmimimpmmmmmmimm FILBERT STREW ,' i ns. mjUjHf,, Oil Al ,G r' ""V Y s; i - tir BF & 'I, . 'J.Kai sS'.Ai xs. . . -, t. v 1'Tn -'.v 'ZZSte?.. . '' TiiSriA i !