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The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-19
MINIMUM WAGE BILL KILLED IN HOUSE
Some Legislators Did Not Want Act to Apply to Any Employed
 in Agricultural Field.

The bill providing for. the appoint
 rnent of minimum wage commission
 to consist of three members to be ap- pointed by the Governor, one of whom
 shall be a woman, was killed in the
 House at Hartford on Tuesday. An un-
 favorable ajority report was submitted by eight members of the committee on labor and there was a favorable minor ity report signed by four members. The bill and the proposed amendment ex- empted farmers.
 The bill provided for the payment of $ to each commissioner for each days service. Investigations, inquiries and hearings would be authorized in order to arrive at stated minimum wage for women and minors. Every employer of women and minors would be called upon to keep a register of the names and ad- dresses of all women and minors em- ployed by him, the occupation, number of hours employed, etc., and the commis- sion would have power to examine all books, payrolls and other records of any employer of women and minors in relation to payment of wages.
 There was long debate on the bill. Prisk of Wallingford, chairman of the labor committee, said the results in other States did not ap- peal to the committee, Representative Shaw of Bedding favored the bill and said Connecticut had been too slow in adopting legislation of this kind. Rep r sentative Rogers of Manchester of fered an amendment providing that the act shall not affect any one employed III the agricultural field Representative Thompson of Somers said the law should apply to farmers.
 The unfavorable majority report was accepted and the bill was rejected.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-19

cussing with them the mutual problems
 of existence.
 "I do not say there are no employers
 of this sort i'll the United States. We
 have had in New York City examples
 very recently. What followed? The
 other night the strikers met and tried to form soviet. They failed, because fear
 of the police and public opinion kept
 from the meeting many who really twished to be there. But the fact that I they did not attend the meeting does I not mean that they were not in full sym pathy with it's thought. It is not inn probable, indeed, that of people who | wished to join this movement there were
 enough, really to fill not one but several halls, .psychologically ready, despite the
 fact that they did not assemble then, to rise when appropriate leadership and circumstance should simultaneously occur.
 The better labor organizations are not infected with this spirit of unrest, 1 think, to any serious degree. l am sure the American Federation of Labor, for example, is 100 per cent. loyal to the Government and to American institu- tions It wants to and will remain in that psychological condition, but it is not fair that upon its shoulders should fall the full responsibility for fighting Bolshevism throughout the United States.
 "As matter of fact no one group can cope with such situation. It has become a national matter and must have attention by all the people of the nation who remain right-minded. Itself IS not a group movement, but national move ment. It must be dealt with as such through united action throughout the whole nation by people who believe in our government and in our laws, most of which are just # properly interpreted.
 Even if the laws are wrong, we have much machinery with which to change them. No revolution is required i'll order to accomplish revision of any detail of our code. From time to time we even have made changes in our Con stitution when the ajority of the whole people have desired them. Steps are provided under our system of govern n1ent which will give our people any thing they want in the way of legal changes-if they are wanted by the ma jority.
 "AH that we need to do in order to get anything which we ought to have is to elect to oss'fhce good and honest men. men will Serve us in whatever proper way wetmay direct. It is absurd to think that we need Bo1shevisra 7ia order to accomplish any good we may require. BolshevisTn would beaa long and nfesoTne road for the United States to travel in its searching for good gov ernment. The establishment of soviets would be a programme for securing bet ter economic conditions which it would be difficult for America to carry out sue cessfully 4.-
 "It is my firm belief, and have given the matter, naturally, very much and earnest thought. that radical labor movement could not possibly succeed here. Like great and rapidly burning fire, it quickly would reach its peak, die down and leave light ashes which the wind would blow away. But it would leave ruin in its wake. Contracts, for employer or employed, for buyer or for seller"
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-19

Hugh Frayne, general organizer of the American Federation of Labor, in an interview with Edward Marshall, copyrighted, gives his ideas of the labor situation and MT. Marshall begins bis article by saying that the A. F. of L. many times has pronounced for sanity. A few selections are made from the ir1- terview:
 It would be utterly silly to deny a growing feeling of unrest n n, the Dnffsd in e States" said Mr. Frayt1e. 1t would be as silly to deny that this tends toward extraordinary radicalisn1- -that winch It Las become fashionable to call 'Bol- shevisrn.' Those who scof at the idea have not taken the trouble to make careful study of the situation. They see merely surface foam, and think there is nothing else, forgetting that under surface foam there must be rapid move ment or the surface foam would never be produced. As matter of cold fact this underlying movement IS immense and powerful It may be destructive. If not. the reason will be found in the high intelligence of those who have. the privilege of leadership in these days when the word has such pregnant meaning.
 "The foam is quite the least impor- tant of the facts as they exist. The more important is beyond view, the un- der power of great mass, really III sympathy but not voclferous. secret agencies have been at work and have produced a secret force. It IS futile to deny it. All the investigations of the Government have but glanced at the real facts. They may never be entirely known. The start toward their urcov-. cring. the study of the methods and re suits Of German propaganda, was mace too late to be effective; those silent hid- den effects which we shall have so hard time to combat then already had be- gun to take their form.
 "Of course this would have been lrl- possible if conditions had not been favorable for the troublemakers. we III America had admitted many persons ot the apitational mind, if may coin the term. They had come to our free land from countries where there was little or no liberty, and by reaction were af- fected toward excessive energy aav- ing been accustomed ot secret work through the necessities of life ifa couYl-s tries where oppression was an -acstialfty, they persisted in the habib here, where there was s4zo oprressIor1. They nad brought with them some knowledge Of what we now Cdli -Do!SIlcseAA-s1 - learned the soviet plan where sovlets had been effective. They endeavored to spread Bolsheyism and to introduce the savief plan in the United States, where neither was needed nor desired. They successfully endeavored to spread dis satisfaction with existing things among those who were not and had no good reason to be dissatisfied. It was a habit with them. We did not watch them ora control them. We must take the con- sentences of our innocence.
 aThey had come from countries where they had been denied the rights of orr ganization and assembly, from coun- tries where they had been forced to wrok long hours for little wages, worst of all from countries where employers had been safe in utterly refusing to meet with workers for the purpose of dis
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-19
CIGARMAKERS ELECT
 DELEGATES TO LEAGUE
Secretary Ira M. ornburn of Connecticut Federation of
 Labor Heads the List.

Cigarmakers' Union, No. 39, of New Haven, at its last meeting elected three delegates fo the annual convention of the Trades Union Liberty League of Connecticut in Meriden on June !. The delegates named are Ira M, Ornburn, Philip Montis and J. w. Murphy. The cigarmaking business in this State is at low ebb now and the Kilfeather fac tory in New Haven. laid off number of men last week s.=# Ie.
 At the headquarters ofrthe New Ha- ven union there was discussion about the experiments being made with sub stltuteS for tobacco and it was the opin- ion that nothing has been discovered as yet to replace the divine weed The chemists are able to produce nicotine ar tihcially so that 1t is the same as in to- bacco but when this nicotine Is placed in any nlant other than tobacco the smoke is much inferior to that of tobacco.
 For good many years experiments were made to grow III this country a tobacco that had the same flavor as the finest Havana. The seed was brought from the most famous fields in Cuba, shiploads of soil were brought from Cuba and dumped into a tobacco field here, the tobacco planted and then they waited for results. The tobacco grown when made into cigars made a smoke that about equalled a Flora de Sufield. This led the scientists to declare that the climate was the main thing in connec- ton with the growing of tobacco and no way has been found of transferring the Cuban climate to the Connecticut valley
 The executive committee of the union met this week but no special business was transacted. Business among cigar makers continues to be dull and there is no indication when it will return to the normal condition. Some of the idle are using a corner of the hall where thc striking garment work CTS congregate every day.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-19
FATHER MURRAY SPEAKS.
Chancellor of the Diocese Plays Those Who Favor Bol-
 shevisrn.

Manchester, April 18.-That Ameri- canization was problem of the indi- vidual was the keynote of recent ad- dress at the Manchester High School by Rev. John (. Murray, Chancellor of the Hartford Diocese and member of the State Americanization committee: The foreigner was proverbially shy of large assemblies and of oratory, and 1t was, therefore, necessary mat every Americanization worker acu as an lIIdi- viduaI missionary in his particular field, fhe speaker said. While it was essen fial that the foreign-born learn English, Father Murray pointed out that this alone did not mean Americanization. Tnctlcation of American ideals. was necessary. Father Murray mercilessly fayer foreigners who came 10 the United States to SOW the seeds of Bol- slaevisrn and other kinds of socialism.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-19
LABOR FORWARD ; CAMPAIGN POSTPONED

The labor forward movement, the
 most important, drive ess fer organized
 labor ever planned in Connecticut, was
 to have opened in Waterbury on Tues day of this week, but 1t was decided to
 postpone 1t until after the General As
 sembly adjourns. This action was taken
 because the active leaders of the Con-
 necticut Federation of Labor in this
 state have so much of their time occu-
 pied now with hearings and bills befure
 the Legislature and every legislative
 day sees some matter of interest to labor that requires their presence. And their work is practically doubled now because the ill-advised new American Labor
 Party, formed contrary to the wishes of the state federation, and also the national body, has alienated many mem bers of the legislature who heretofore were we'll disposed towards the labor interests and the projects of the legisia- tive committee of the Connecticut Federation of Labor. Details of this matter will be found elsewhere in this paper. er.,.
 Ira M. Ornburn, secretary of the Gen. necticut Federation of Labor who is member of the legislative committee of the federation, and who is also an in fluential member of the special com mittee appointed by the governor to in vestigate the trolley interests in this state, is behind the labor forward drive here, and he did not believe that such an important project should be started until those who will be at the active head Of the movement p-iN be able to give a good part of their time towards it. For Il 4, r.aS u t was decided t., P stponc the drive until the legislative sessions are over.
 A somewhat similar movement is now in progress in Utah, and as told else where in he Connecticut Labor Press, Sol SonthclHler, formerly Of this state, | is the international organizer TOT the out there among the Nor ] mons. The proposed campaign Ill Con- 1 aecticut has attracted much interest and l Waterbury labor leaders were 1rn- pleased over the fact that their l ton on any stage" in Connecticut of | such all important undertaking. Secre -ary Ornburn and the executIv. council 0f the C r. of L., will have charge If he w".k s.it II be assiste by pickld ncn from international organizations hus for. ing what will be first >lr' r~rs of Elur to help the caIise ii. his state.
 While it is believed the work at first will be among factory workers, the will soon extend to other lines md the entire state in time will be thoroughly covered. The six interna- ional organizers will represent the fol owing organizations:
 International Association of Machin- sts.
 International Brotherhood of Black miths
 Metal Polishers' International Union.
 International Brotherhood of E1ectri- al Workers of America. Ii
 International Alliance of Atnalsa- hated Sheet Metal Workers. 1,
 Brotherhood )f Boiler Makers and ron Ship BIllders of America.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-19
LEFKOVITS Is SICK,
 UNDERSTIDF COMES

Samuel Lefkovits, yice-presideuf and
 organizer of the Ladies Garment
 Workers Union, was sick this week al
 his home in New York, and was unable
 to make his customary visit to Connecti-
 cut where he has been in charge of the
 strike of the garment workers since the
 girls were called out several weeks ago. The nature of the illness of MT. Lefkovits was not learned, but he is probably run down from overwork.
 While advocating shorter hours of em- ployment for the girls, Mr. Lefkovits works both day and night, and does not put any limit upon his own working hours. The last time he addressed the meeting of the Corset Workers Union III New Haven the meeting adjourned at HIS o'clock at night and he had been busy all day with shirtwaist opera tors making speeches counselling his lieutenant, Miss Emma Kronhart and paying the weekly strike benefit. This was in addition to his work in Hart ford, Bridgeport, Stamford and other places in this state.
 Ralph Yudef1 of New York. one of the international organizers of the union, replaced MT. Lefkovits in this state this week and looked after the unions in Hartford and New Haven paying the strike benefits and making speeches i'll English. The Italian or ganizer remains in New Haven and makes frequent speeches in Italian. At the meeting on Thursday afternoon in New Haven, many of the girls appeared in their new Easter headgear and with the latest fashion of hair bobbing. In regard to the latter, it was agreed that an Italian and colored girl.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-19
WHY WE WILL BE DRY.
Information for Reader of Con.
 necticut Labor Press.

Editor Connecticut Labor Press:
 To settle a small wager will you please tell us what's the big idea of the country going dry, just what Congress wording of the amendment if possible.
 Yours sincerely,
 Hartford, April 9.
 The joint resolution passed by the Sixty-hfth Congress proposing an amendment to the constitution of the United States finally was signed by the Vice-President and the Speaker of the House on December IS, 1917. It follows
 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two- thirds of each House concurring there in), that the following amendment to the constitution be, and hereby is, pro- posed to the States, to become valid as a part of the constitution when ratified by the legislatures of the several States as provided by the constitution:
 ARTICLE -.
 Section 1.-After one year from the ratification of this Article the nanufac- ture, sale, or transportation of intox1- eating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportatlon thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes Is hereby prohibited.
 Section 2.-The Congress and. the several States sha1l have concurrent power to enforce this Article by appro- priate legislation.
 "Section 3.-This Article shall be in- unless it shall have been rati- fled as an amendment to the constitu- ton by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the constitution within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress"
 Under date of January 2o of the pres ent year Frank L. Polk, Acting Secre- tary of State. certified in due form that the proposed amendment to the consti- tuition had been ratified by the leqis1a- lures of the necessary three-fourths of the whole number of States in the United States and declared that t therefore had become valid.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-19
Carpenters Consolidate

Local ell, New Haven Local, Car penters and Joiners of America, grace fully passed out of existence this week, and was merged with Local 7o. The two locals are now one. Although twice one is two, the carpenters have made two unions into one defying the n1ultiplica- tor table. The books, records, docu
 ments, dough bag, etc, of No. ell, were turned over to No. 7o, according to the agreement entered into some time ago President Sullivan of the State Council spent most of the week in New Haven.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-19
Liberty League Meeting

The executive committee of the Trades Union Liberty League held a well attended meeting in Bridgeport, Sunday, June 1.
 Later the committee visited the meet ing of the Bridgeport Bartenders' Union Tn a body and several of its members addressed that body. The latter pledged its full support unanimously.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-19
Ornburn Elected Delegate

At a meeting of the New Haven Trades Council, Thursday evening. President Ira M. Ornburn was unani- mously elected delegate to the annual convention of the American Federation of Labor, which opens in Atlantic City. June 9. Patrick F. O'Meara, president of the Connecticut Federation of Labor. whose name was placed in nomination. declined , --i
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-19
ALL ARE WORKING.
No Idle Hands Among Electrical
 Workers Union.

The cross with palms is awarded to Local Union No. 90, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; of New Haven, for every member not en- gagged in army or navy service is work in~ at his trade. Requests for work men received this week had to be turned down and this is an unusual state of affairs for there are usually a few at the of the union headquarters.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-19
4 Capmakers Elect

The Capniakers' Union of New Haven at its last meeting elected Samuel Leventhal, the business agent of the or- ganization delegate to the biennial con- vention of the international Convention to be held in New York. MT. LeventhaI represented this union at the biennial conventions since the New Haven urlior has been in existence, and is therefore familiar with the duties. He has large acquaintance in New York and knows the city thoroughly, so there is no danger of his getting lost in the big city.
 The question of having a 44-hos,r week, instead of one of 4o hours. will be one of the principal topics at the con vention, and the chances are thai srch a measure will be passed. The Cao- makers Union will meet tonight and choose delegates to the annual conven- ton of the Connections Federation of Labor.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-19

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The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-19
EMPL LOVERS MUST ASSUME THEIR FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR
 INDUSTRIAL RECONSTRUCTION

of Labor Talks of the Growing Feeling No One Group Can Cope With situa
 ton-Racal Labor Movement Could Not Possibly Succeed in Cure Discomfort by Legally Forbddng It.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-19

Above all things, see that the Cigar makers label adorns the box from which you get your cigars.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-11-02
SAYS MANY SMUGGLERS
TRAFFIC I'M GERMAN

DUSStEI1DORF, Nov. 1T Is a
y. onder that the Cologne cathedral
mas not hecn sold I'm the channels OF
Illicit trtae. Sarcasttcally remarks a
writer In the Berlin Zeituug Am Nit
tag. who has just made n trip
through the occupied districts and
asserts he has seen at first hand the
smuggling and tax evasion that 90
un daily. lie estimates that every
train into Germany from Frankfort
end other Rhineland cities carries
several hundred thousand marks
worth of untaNed goods. ranging
from tobacco and chocolate To auto
mobile tires
Some Of the Illicit traders he as
ScrtS. spend six nights a week ON the
trains. 1T great personal discomfort.
in order to Smugglc through supplies
such as soap. chocolate. tobacco
shoes and automobile tires which.
though untaNcd. are sold in Berlin
and either inland German .Citics-at
"a, menduuS profit.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-11-02

where they We're guests of Mrs. Ed
ward Kitch.
The condition OF Mrs. G.. Gang, y.
Eleventh St. who submitted to an
operation at Epworth hospital last
week. is slightly improved.
Mrs. Charles Hutchins, Of Glen,
Mich. is visiting friends here.
Mrs. j. j. Wolfe, y. Eleventh St.
who has been III the past two weeks.
is improving.
Miss Jessie Long left Saturday
morning for a visit at New Castle,
Indiana.
Miss Isabelle Myers, y. Seventh
St. left yesterday for Stanford, y.
D.. where she will spend the winter
with Mrs. Patience Brewer. who
formerly resided in River Park.
At the Churches.
Methodist Episcopal, Seventh ST.,
south OF Mishawaka av., Rev. c.. l.
Rulison, pastor. Sunday school at
$3.50 a. m. Marshall Ball. superin-
tendent. Morning worship at 10:45.
sermon by the pastor. subject. THE
Profitableness of Sacrifice" Ep-
worth league at $50. Neil McGrew.
president; leader. Miss Jessie Hive
ley Preaching at 1870 p. m. sub
ject. Youths Supreme Opportuni-
ty." Ladies' Aid on wednesday aft
ernoon at the home of Mrs. Ed
ward Allspaugh, s. Eleventh st. Mrs.
L. G.. Brown will be the assisting
hostess.
Free Methodist. Fourteenth and
Vine SITS. Rev. Il. F. Hitchcock, pas
tor. Sunday school at 10 a. IN. l.
+. Wolf, superintendent. Morning
worship at IL o'clock. Preaching by
the pastor at 1880 p. m. Prayer
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-11-02
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