The Connecticut labor press., 1920-01-03
PLEASE FIND A
 HOME FOR OUR
 FRIEND STREMLAU
New Prohibition Director All Ready to Go to Work But
 Has No Office.
MAY BE IN NEW HAVEN
Former President of Connecticut Federation Congratulated on Ap-
 pointmenT by Host of Friends.

JuliusG. Stremlau, of Meriden, pro- hibition director for Connecticut and former president of the Connecticut Federation of Labor, is like lot of the members of the organization he form erly headed, looking for a rent. In other words he hasn't been able as yet to find suitable quarters for his new office.
 MT. Strem1au informed representa- tive of The Connecticut Labor Press that he has been de1uged with con- gratulations from friends all over the state and outside its boundaries upon his appointment, an evidence of regard which has pleased him greatly. He has also had many applications for positions as deputies under him in his new office but these will receive attention later.
 Though January 1 was the date set for the taking over of the work of enforcing the prohibition law the job of looking after this end of the govern ment business for the present will con- tinue in the hands of Collector James J. Walsh of the internal revenue bureau. The beginning of the new fiscal year finds MT. Stremlau not in a posi- tion to care for the duties of his new office, and of necessity the enforcement of the wartime prohibition act and the national prohibition law must remain for the present with MT. Walsh.
 The reason for MT. Strern1au being unable at this time to take charge of the prohibition enforcement in Con- necticut is the fact that the government is unable to provide him with an office in any of the federal buildings of the state sufficient to care for the require ments of himself his field agents and he C1o ho1 he vising architect will make an inspection of the federal buildings in Meriden, New Haven and Hartford to determine which one would be most suitable for the requirements of the office.
 MT. Stre1nlau received official ap- pointment for his new position on Christmas eve and went to Washington Monday to confer with Daniel C. Roper, commissioner of internal revenue, and returned Wednesday evening. He was informed by Mr. Roper that there had been about Is applications filed for ap- pointment as inspectors, the ap1ications being received at Washington and some of the names have been submitted to MT. Stremlau and it is expected the re- mainder will be forwarded to him to- day. The time for filing such applica- tions has now expired. From the
 
 lau is to make his appointment of three field inspectors.
 The work of MT. Stremalu's office will not be to ferret out the vio1ators of the prohibition act but for the most part will be of an educational nature. The granting of licenses for handling liquors and wines, the latter for sacra- mental purposes, will revert to the office of the enforcement officer, and if he had been exercising the duties of the office at this time, MT. Stremlau would have had charge of the work of enforcing the law with respect to the wood alcohol violations that have re- suited in many deaths in New York City, Connecticut and in Massachu- setts towns. MT. Stremlau said yester- day he anticipated much assistance in the performance of his work from the newspapers of Connecticut.
 It is hoped by MT. Strem1au's many friends in New Haven that his office will be finally located here.