Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-25
NEW LONDON HAS A LABOR PARTY
indications That it Will Be Put Forth at Coming City Flee tio1,-May Be Separate Candidate For Mayor aking Over of the Memorial Hospital By Navy Department Shown to Have Been Wise Mose- Central Labor Union Supporting Higher Salary Demands

Workingrnan, and often distinction IS | made when there is but very little diff 1 ference The man in the office is just l as much a Workingnlan as the man at 1 the bench, still he is not eligible to 1 the benefits of membership in organ ized labor, and as a rule these work ingmen are classed as being opposed to labor, opposed to themselves. The early entry of organized labor, or a part of it, into local politics will get political leaders by the ears, and they will be extremely cautious in the se- lection of candidates for office, and will tend to keep the doubtful ones outside the brea stworks. The party of labor is perhaps just as much divided
 as any other political party and, ever
 thus twill be until perfection is
 reached in politics, and that will not be within the life of any political party.
 That the taking over by the navy
 department of Memorial hospital and
 the just completed almshouse near by
 was an absolute necessity has thus early been demonstrated, as there is now an average of 150 patients at the now called United States Naval hos pital, which includes the contagious building of the Memorial hospital. Some of the best physicians and sur geons in. the navy are on duty there and they have attended to almost ev- cry disease known to the men of med icine, barring contagious diseases, and l they are equipped to meet any iemer- gency. That the navy must have ad- l ditional hospital space is mare plain l when 1t is known that the present l hospital is almost worked to capacity 1 and with no direct bearing on the re- l suits of actual warfare. The medical 1 department of the navy is of the high | est standard in New London and every i man in the navy that comes under the care of the doctors is assured of skill l ed and careful treatment This exam I pie is worthy of emulation by the
 army posts.
 I The New London Central Labor. un- ion is taking hand in the general fbetterment of the city in many re-
 spects and in this work is a valuable acquisition to the Chamber of Com
 merce and to the Teachers league 1T matters that are of benefit to the
 whole people and of not any particular
 class. The union has come out strong
 in the advocacy of deserved increase
 of wages for the school teachers, re.
 gardless of the generous treatment O
 the retiring supervisor of schools Thi.
 official voice of. labor ought to hay, , weight with the board of school visit
 DTS and the teachers come into thei . own. The union is also to take hanC in the coal situation and see to it tha
 there be no favored class when coal il
 being distributed. There will b. , strenuous objection to filling the bin of the rich at low price and com polling the poor to buy coal by tn . bag. do their own delivering and pa, about three times the price for coa 3 that is charged those who have tn l coin to buy binfuls at a time and pa, : for it when convenient
 ; The union also intends to start : crusade against rent profteering an ] will render any possible service in tha : respect to the committee on the par . of the city having that matter i s charge. It will be seen that the un l. ion is not intent in conflning all il T efforts for the benefit of members bu :, for the general good. Such actto e will gain friends for the labor move n ment from those who were wont i s look upon union labor organization a as the closest of close corporations,