PUBLISHIED DAILY under order of THE P1RESIDENT of THE UNITED STATES by -OMMITTEE on PUBLIC INFORMATION GEORGE CREEL, C14 alrman * COMPLETE Record of . GOVERNMENT Activities or. 2 WASHINGTON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1918. No. 472 POSTMASTER GENERAL CALLS FURNITURE CONSERVATION RAJLROAD DIRECTOR ANNOUNCES UPON MR. VAIL FOR SUGGESTIONS SCHEDULE HAS BEEN RESCINDED STATION- AGENTS' WAGE AWARD ON WIRE SERVICE PROBLEMS The War Industries Board announces FOR OTHER THAN TELEGRAPHERS that the furniture conservation schedule, OFFIcE OF TrE POSTMASTER GENERAL, which was to go into effect January 1, BASIC MINIMUM IS PLACED AT $70 Washington, November 22, 1918. has been rescinded. This action has been THEODORE N. VAiL, Esq., taken because there no longer exists the To This Is Added Flat Rate of $25 195 Broadiway, New York, N. Y. pressing and imperative necessity for, the and trans- My DEAR MTE. conservation of material, labor, Per Month-Exceptions Made VAIL: I desire to avail portation for strictly war needs. myself of your broad knowledge and ex- The freeing of the furniture industry Where Employees Receive Other perience on the subject of electrical com- from the conservation restrictiois and munications with a view to a more ex- the raising of the barrier against the Pay Jron Outside Sources. tended use of telephone, telegraph, and semiannual furniture exhibit, which is a cable during the period of Government feature of the furniture trade, announced The United States Railroad Adminis- control of land wires and American cable Board last week, properties. by the War Industries tration issues the following: will enable the furniture industry, it is Director General McAdoo to-day an- I take it that your studies of the past to get back quickly on a normal years have included in the consideiation, believed, nounced his award, effective October 1, of the problem of universal wire service, basis. with respect to rates of pay, rules for The schedule applied to the manufac- overtime, and working conditions upon with which you have dealt in your annual ture of bedroom, dining room and up- rdports, the problems associated with a railroads under Federal control for the holstered furniture, chairs, parlor frames, agents whose regular assignment does unified and extended cable system. Will library, parlor, and bedroom you, then, be so kind as to give me the extension, not require the sending or receiving of tables. Active patterns were reduced 50 train orders by telephone or tele- benefit of your studies and observations new patterns were to railroad having special consideration to the prob- per cent, and no graph. The order applies to approxi- be introduced during the war. Beveled mately 2,500 employees. lems as now presented, to the end that I mirrors were eliminated, bedroom mirror may have before me for consideration 25 per cent and dining Basic Minimum Rate $70. suggestions growing out of your large plate reduced room armchairs and toilet table chairs There is established, first, a basic min- experience. discontinued. Metal ornamental tacks Sincerely, yours, imum rate of $70 per month, and to this and nails, metal ornamental trimmings, basic minimum and to all rates of $70 A, S. BJRLESON, and metal wheel castors weA eliminated. Postmaster General. for pack- and above in effect as of January 1, 1918, There were detailed instructions prior to the application of General Order ing furniture wo'rked out 'ith a view of No. 27, there is added $25 per month. protecting the furniture and saving trans- The only exceptions to this basis are to DEFENSE COUNCIL REMOVES portation space and lumber. those individuals who are paid $30 per month or less for special service which HOLIDAY TRADE RESTRICTIONS MAIL MATTER FOR BELGIUM, only takes a portion of their time for out- Instructions to Postmasters on Rates, side employment or business, and also to The follpwing statement is authorized and Conditions. all agents who receive $50 per month or Classification, month director less, a straight advance of $25 per by Grosvenor B. Clarkson, acting OFFicE or SEcoND Assr. P. M. GEN., is granted. of the Council of National Defense: Washington, November 20, 1918. Eight consecutive hours exclusive of Before the armistice the Council of Na- Postmasters will take notice that mail the meal hour constitutes a day's work. tional Defense, composed of the Secre- for Belgium will be accepted at the Postal Overtime for the ninth and tenth hour of taries of War, Navy, Interior, Agricul- Union rates of postage, classification, and continuous service to be Paid pro rata. ture, Commerce, and Labor, entered into conditions for dispatch from New York All after the tenth hour to be paid for at an agreement with representatives of in mails for Bruges by the way of France. the rate of time and one-half. The usual leading industries and retail Interests to On November 28, 1914, the parcel-post provisions with respect to right of appeal the effect that the sale of Christmas service between the Tnited States and in cases of individual grievances are es- goods should undergo certain restrictions Belgium was suspended; and it will be tablished. with regard to the employment of labor observed that this notice does upt rees- The Text of the Award. service, but pro- during the Christmas season and the con- tablish the parcel-post text of the award follows: servation of transportation and delivery vides'only for service under Postal Union The facilities. Certain other , agreements postage rates, classification, and condi- UNITED ST LTES RAILROAD were likewise entered Into. tions. ADMINISTRATION, The Council of National Defense now For articles-prohibited transmission in Washington, November 23, 1918. believes that as one df the steps essential the regular mails to Belgium, see section SUPPLEMENT NO. 11 TO GENERAIJ to the rapid establishment of normal 50 on page 126 of the Postal Guide for ORDER No. 27. after-the-war conditions it should, and it 1918. hereby does, lift its ban in connection OTTO PRAEGER, Effective October 1, 1918, superseding with holiday buying, in the desire to give gecond Asst. P. M. General. General Order No. 27, and in lieu thereof a natural impetus to the reemployment of as to the employees herein named, the those normally engaged In the produc- following rates of pay, rules for overtime, tion of holiday material and in the holi- FREE LIST SUSPENDED. and working conditions upon railroads day trade. The council is further im- Hereafter no copies of the Official under Federal control are hereby ordered: pelled to this decision by reason of the U. S. Bulletin will be furnished free ARTIcLLE 1. necessity now confronting us to get our except to executive officers of the RATES OF PAT. military forces and munitions IUnited States Government, and to factory For agents, except as provided for in workers back to the ordinary pursuits of diplomatio representatives of all regular assignment life with the least possible shock in mak- foreign Governments. Article IV, Whose ing the change. (Continued on page 3.) 2 - THE OFFICIAL U. S. BULLETIN! MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1918. "LIGHTLESS NIGHT" ORDER SHOE CONSERVATION PROGRAM RAILROAD SAVINGS REPORTED REVOKED UNDER CONDITIONS TO BE CONTINUED UNTIL JUNE 1 AS THE RESULT OF ECONOMIES In Force Only Where State Fuel B. M. Baruch, chairman of the War The United States Railroad Adminis- Industries Board, authorizes the follow- tration issues the following: Administrators Decide Con- ing: Marked economies in the operation of tinuance Is Necessary. The War Industries Board has notified the railroads by tie Government are shoe manufacturers that with some ex- shown in reports submitted to Director Every plan and request for coal con- ceptions the shoe conservation schedules General MzAdoo. servation made during the war by the of June 29 and September 30 of this year, Figures made public by the Director United States Fuel Administration has applying to manufacturers for the spring General show saving8 of $25,286,207 per been so cordially received and so fully season of 1919, with rulings relative annum in three regions-the Southern, and thoughttlilly carried out by the pub- thereto, will remitin in force and will be Southwestern and Northwestern-in the lic that the policy of the administration effective on all shoes shipped to retailers conduct of Aransportation facilities, both henceforth will be, gradually to elimi- until June 1, 1919, when automatically passenger and freight by unification of nato restrictive orders, and to carry on they become inoperative. terminals and the cutting down of train necessary voluntary cQnservation through The exceptions, set ferth in a supple- service without in the least interferihg educational means, it is announced. ment to former schedules, are as follows: with the proper and quick dispatch of In pursuance of this policy, orders have (a) All finished stocks of leather and cars. been issued setting aside the " lightless fabrics of colors restricted in the recom- Striking reductions along this line have night " order except where State aidmin- mendations, amendments, and additions taken place in the Northwestern region, istrators, because of conditions local to referred to, such as light gray, pearl, where $25,229,352.45 a year has been their States, feel the necessity for its smoke, natural chrome, etc., in the hands saved. According to the report of R. H. continuance and direct that it be kept in of the tanners, fabric mahufacturers, Alshton, regional director for this section, effect. Removal of other restrictions will shoe manufacturers, or in process of man- made to the Director General, this cur- follow, it was announced, in confidence ufacture, may be cut for shoes, and such tailment in expenditures was made up that the public, ah:eady appreciating the shoes sold and shipped to the wholesalers as follows: necessity for conservation, will carry it and retailers at any time after the date Some of the Principal Items.