The Connecticut labor press., 1919-05-03
THE EDITORS NOTEBOOK.

the committee from union labor or
CARNATIONS in their campaign of selling
| Victory loans. Labor organizations
everywhere are helping in this work
| All of the better class of labor papers
come to the desk of The Connecticut
Labor Press and without exception they
are boosting the loan. Those who are
| asked to subscribe should realize that
they are. not giving anything to anyone
| except themselves although they are
| helping the government. If you make a
| deposit in the bank in your own name
| you don't expect pat on the back for
| it. Many who never knew what it was
| to save began when the government first
| issued its Liberty loans No matter
how worthy the cause, it is never an
| easy matter to get people to dig down
into their sea1skin purse, SO if a com
mltteeman approaches you with a pro-
position by which you can help your
self and the government at the same
time, give him encouragement
Organized labor in Connecticut did a
good service when it paid for a Red
Cross ambulance. Now, keep the good
work up bv investing literally in Vic
tory loans.
Last week this paper had an article
written by Sol Sontheimer about his
work in the labor forward movement in
Utah. Now it is learned that the move
ment there is gathering fruit for the
reporters are. to form a union. The
Tribune of that city was opposed to the
union and at a conference of publishers
it was agreed not to employ men laid
off by the Tribune. The Tribune then
locked out three reporters actively en-
gagged in organizing the union. The
union is waiting for its charter and
when it arrives there will be fight for
the recognition of the union.
Perhaps the Salt Lake City publishers
don't know it but their action in agree
ing not to hire anyone discharged from
the Irlbone is violation of the Sher-
man Interstate law and comes under
the head of conspiracy. The two big
clrcuses in this country, Barnum &
Bailey's and Ringlings, were joined to-
gether this spring although for some
time both were owned by the Ringlings
When they were separate enterprises
and employees, had trouble, they would
get job with one circus right after
they were discharged by the other. The
circus owners were not long in discov-
er1ng this SO they made an agreement
not to engage any help from each other.
Under the law, this was conspiracy
and the circus people had no legal right
to do it.
In Connecticut, it is reported that the
Remington-U. M c. Company of
Bridgeport and the Winchester concern
of New Haven have an understanding
of a somewhat similar nature. While
x4yOr%l-rr1ar1 t7ira1 ;r ono shoe of@o~
they have worked in another, they are
not engaged, it is stated, until it is
known that they have ceased their en-
ployrnent and are out of job.
The Connecticut Labor Press is in
vlted to print some propaganda from
Scott Nearing. One is an American let
ter, summary of the week written
especially for workers in foreign lands
and the other contains long article
intended to show the physical weakness
and defects of American men, the
cause being given as the system of cap
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg, it
would get big laugh. No armies in
the great war had such fine outstanding
men as the American armies.
Scott Nearing was supposed to de-
bate the League of Nations with Pro-
lessor Albert Bushnell Hart of Har-
ward in New York on Sunday night
The Harvard professor thought it was
going to be a debate but all that Near
ing talked was red revolution. After
wards he said he was sorry he went to
New York and if he had known that
Nearing was going to talk nothing but
revolution he would not have gone
President Wilson cab1ed his approval
of Employment Sunday by saying, 81
hope that the people of the country will
universally observe Employment Sum
day." Nearing replies to this as fol-
lows: observe it? How? By having
the cellar whitewashed, or by hiring an
additional kitchen maid ?"
The lower regions have always been
rather more than bone dry so the pro-
hibitionists will have no excuse for ex-
tending their activities into the next
world. A good many years ago there
was a band of orthodox Christians,
cleric and lay, who, while resigned to
the non-alcoholic joys of paradise after
death, looked forward to one grand
final ante-nortem spree. Such was
George Buchanan, the humanist, who,
having only three weeks to live set up
cask of Graves wine by his bedside,
dIlu Wrought. So NdIld1lLly CIldL he HI
ished it before the three weeks were up
Charles Peetz, owner and editor of the
New Era a labor paper of Louisville
KY, is making strong fight to have
the claim of the employees of the
American Can Company, who are mem
bers of the Sheet Metal Workers In
ternationa1 Alliance, re-opened by Will
lam Howard Taft and Basil M. Man1ey,
associate chairmen of the War Labor
Board.
The day after Samuel Gompers was
injured in New York the only person
who was permitted to see him was
Frank Morrison, secretary of the
American Federation of Labor Among
those who sent messages were the Earl
: of Reading, Joseph P. Tumulty, Will
lam G. Sharp, former Ambassador to
France, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Chaun-
cey M. Depew and Secretary of Com
merce William c. Redferd.