The Connecticut labor press., 1919-06-14

A quiet little woman i'll black usually sits close to President Gompers on the platform. She signs her letters R. Lee Guard and sometimes gets replies be- ginning, Dear Sir" For years Miss Guard has been private secretary to President Gompers and few men have a more intimate knowledge of the labor movement than she possesses.
 E. There are three or four women at the press table, one of whom represents the. Weekly People" of New York, socialist labor party organ. Her prede- 5cessor on the job is in Russia helping Nick Lerine. f.I
 Two New York Herald editorials make no particular hit here. One of them quotes the executive councils re- port which says 1t is essential that the workers should have a voice in deter mining the Jaws within industry and commerce which affect them, equivalent to the voice which they have as citi- zens ln determining the Legislative .enactments which shall govern them. 2 It then says that if by "the laws within industry IS meant hours, conditions. health, recreation and wages, employ CTS prbably will find no fault" but if
 actual business management and con- trol of policy" IS meant employers will obj ect." The Herald says voting in politics IS because of citizenship, while voting i'll industry is because of % property or stock qualification" Ii says one IS a business matter, the other a political matter.
 + The other editorial thinks maybe MT. Gompers' conception of what the war was fought for IS too marrow" and argues that Ill view of Mir. Gompers' hat 1oh its fair share, there is no chosen class that Is to benefit because of the war. The thing hidden behind the editorial is reactions demand that labor stop talking about progress and get ready to have taken away from 1t some of the gains made during the war. These edi- torials are not De1ng praised here.
 w. (. Roberts, veteran Labor report CT, who compiled the new Labor Year Book and Encyclopedia, is getting praise from all sides. Roberts had to read the records of 38 conventions, aside from a great mass of other mateia1, in com piling the book. Besides that he had to read proofs of everything in the book. Y
 There is another reading stunt worth mentioning. John P. Frey, editor of tie Holders Journal, is here doing his first active work after a long siege of ill., ness Frey is an inveterate reader. He reads all manner of deep stuff! scienti- tlc lore and ancient history. While con- fined to his bed he took a course in architecture. Compelled to lie flat on his back, he mad an apparatus built that would hold a book in position where he could look up at, the pages Few editorials get closer attention than those Frey writes for the Holders Journal. Hedoesn't write upside down A. resolution has been introduced pro- viding that the president of the Fedora ton hereafter get $10,000 per year and the secretary %,50O.. 'f7''; ;-'7t
 =.> Delegate Co1poys, Washington labor editor, told thG convention he had heard rumors that brewers were financing the trip of. labor men to Washington on June IA to protest against prohibition.
 He said this was untrue and that the Brewery Workers union was financing the trip. Il ,. .. .'. ''t.@a:S
 A hotel elevator operator said. "Is yo' attendin' the convention ?" Re assured, he took hold of his lapel, smiled a mile wide and said, Does yo'. see that?" It was a union button. -fe
 En route to the convention in the dining car, one we'll dressed young man was finding fault with the service. To his companion, also well dressed, he opined that the service was rotten and folks here didn't know how to behave themselves anyhow. To his companion eh said, with explosive emphasis, Thank God, Billy, we were educated in Europe. The waiter, soft spoken, eyi- dently we'll read and informed, said he had fought on three fronts in France and had been gassed and wounded. He got different kind of education in Europe, and he didn't wish things were the same here. ... ,": 4't. ..... .,l......