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Głos polek., 1920-09-16

szybko, gdy w krajach p6fnocy
jest W najpiekniejszym swym
rozkwicie, w po1udniowych VIE
dnieje jak kwiat przezyty.
Wszystko wiec przemawia sto-
sOwnie do klimatu i istnieja-
cych Warunk0w "a ujednostaj-
nieniem praw ola kobiety, a to
jej zapewnionem zostalo przez
ratyfikacye sufrazu.
Skad wiec ten niepok6j, gdy
dobro ludzkosci / jednostek wo-
halo przez szeregi wicklow o re-
ktyfikacye krzywd 0 koniecz-
nose wprowadzenia w 1ancuch
piracy spolecznej te po1owu No.
du ludzkiego. Czy moze ME
udolnoSG umyslowa kobiety, jej
niemoe fizyczna, albo wrodzona
przewrotnoSc duchowa So tego
przyczyna? Ma kazdy z tych
zarzut6w mOzemy odpowie-
dzieG przeczaco. - Umyslowa
wartoSc, zdolnoSG wybitny ge-
niusz kobiety, zaznaczyly sic
chlubnie wobec Swiata i narO-
du2
OgTaniczamy sic tylko ma swoj
skich przykladach, poczawszy
cd wielkiej ludowej epopei Ma
ryi Konopnickiej, do obdarowa-
nej nagroda Nobla wynalazczy-
nj - badaczki wlaSciWoSci che
micznych kosztownego Radium.
Scena ma swoje wielkoSci swia-
towe, jak n. p. Helena Modrze-
jewSka, Spiew inne sztuki pie
kne swe przedstawicielki moz-
naby niemi ksiegi zapelnic. Co
do silly fizycznet zapytujemy,
czy kobieta dotad jak laIka, lub
salonowe bawidefko czestokot
traktowana, miata sposobnos6
ia rozwinaG!
Czy w obrazkach migawko-
wych, ME zachwyca mas zrecz-
nose dosiadajacych konia Pc
dzacych ma mich w szalonym bic
gu mieszkanek zachodnich sta
now Ameryki.
Wzorujqc sic ma naturze, ME
widzimy tel uderzajacej roani-
cy miedzy zwierzetami tego sa-
mego gatunku, a plci odmien-
nej, lecz przyznaiemy powodu
rozmaitych wzgled6w fizyc
cznej natury, nizszo5c silly fly
cznej kobiety, jednak ME ozna-
cza to ami jej niemocy ami nieu-
dolnosci - poniewaz So niezli-
Głos polek., 1920-09-16

godn4 politowania istote ofia-
re. TAX vice dwie silly spree
gfy sic, ably kobiete pozbawiG
naleznego jej miejSca: siIa bru-
talna pzemocy fizycznej, i
chorobliWe rOZbudzenie zmy-
slow. Piekno$G kobiety wielka
tn odgrywala role, i ten wiaSnie
dar natury, ten jei wdziek, kt6-
ry mia4 rozstrzygac o jej pre-
znaczeniu, pchnQi ia ma droge
pr0znosci, lenistwa banalnosci
zycia. Kt6z ME zna strasznych
dziej6W haremowego upodlenia,
kaganca okrutnych zwycza-
j6w, koranem u$wieconych,
kt6ry zniewala kobiete do ukry-
wanna sic pred obcymi 5wia-
tenn.
Me litOWano sic nawet mad lei
flzyczna niemoca, skazujac ja
ma ciezkie prace przy domu w
roll - jak to miewalo mieisce
u koczujacych plemion indyj-
skich, 1ub nawet pomiedzy ia
ponczykami. w bezwzglednem
pos}uszenstwie musiafa ona spell
MAC swe ohowiazki rodzinne |
s}uzebnicy, ktorej zap1ata by
Ia 1yzka strawy i troche odzie-
MIA. Nawet we Francyi, tym
wysoko kulturalnym kraiu -
kobieta zamezna ME posiadafa
przez dIugi czas prawa osobi-
stej w}asnosci. Czytajac row
niez historye r6znych stan6w
p6}nocnej Ameryki, uderza mas
fakt Observation-Disclosures prawa
odnoSnie kobiety, w okreSleniu
wieku jej peInoletno5ci, to Jest
pTawa stanowienia O sobie; w
niekt6rych stanach wick ten "a
liczyG raczej MONA do okresu
dzieciacego, a ME do miodzieh-
czego - naraiaiac ma passive
zdziczalych namietno5ci lub wy
zysku nie$wiadome / niewinne
ofiary. Wprawdzie W Chinach
innych goracych klimatach,
wick zame$cia, zwyczaiami IL
swiecony, poczyna sic bardzo
wcze$nie - od lat IL PREDICT,
ale teA kobieta zaczynaiac tax
wczeSnie okres obowiazk6w ro-
dzinnych, starzeje sic bardzo
Głos polek., 1920-09-16

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The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-10
ALL OVERTIME STOPS
in LABOR DEPARTMENT
Government Employees Not Idle
There at Any
Rate.

Washington, April o-Secretary of
Labor Wilson has stopped overtime in
his department, except in emergency
cases. This order is in contrast to
those who attract public attention by
their claims that government employees
are id1ers.
Secretary Wilson issued this order:
"It has been brought to my atten-
ton that the pressure of work in some
of the bureaus has resulted in almost
daily overtime work being required of
some of the employees. Observation has
convinced me that while temporary
emergencies may be met by working
overtime, the continuation of such over
time over prolonged periods brings
about a nervous strain that creates
fatigue and destroys morale, in the end
that it decreases rather than increases
efficiency.
1T is therefore directed that no civil
service employees shall be required or
permitted to work overtime except in
cases of emergency, in which event the
emergency and the need to work over
time to overcome it shall be reported
to the secretary for his approval. Ali
persons in director positions shall be
notified accordingly
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-10
SENATORS WORRIED
BY. NEWBERRY CASE
Michigan Member "White Ele-
phant" On Hands of G.. O. p.
Majority.

Washington, D. c., April o.-Senate
republicans must now get down to real
business on the Ford -Newberry elec-
ton contest case. Senator Newberry
and 16 co-defendants were convicted of
criminal conspiracy in the United States
district court of Michigan. Newberry
was sentenced to two years in prison
and to pay fine of $4,000.
I Senator Newberry will fight his case
through all of the courts. In the mean
time what will the republican leaders
of the Senate do?
Months ago supporters of Henry
Ford, who ran against Newberry for
the Senate, charged that Ford had been
cheated out of the election, and de-
manded an investigation. Senator
James E. Watson, republican, is chair
man of the subcommittee of the Com
mittee on Privileges and Elections, au-
thorized to investigate the charges, but
has gotten nowhere with the inquiry.
The republican majority in the Senate
is so small that the ousting of New
berry might prove fatal. But, since
Newberry has been convicted, the wise
partisans are afraid to stand by him
lest there be reaction against the re-
publicans, and Newberr,T has become a
white elephant" on the hands of the
republicans Thew are afraid to give
him up, and afraid not to.
1t is now urged by the democrats
that the "fu1l and complete investiga-
ton" of the Ford-Newberry election
ordered by the Senate proceed without
further delay."
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-10
FEDERAL BUREAU
SEEKS CHANGE in
STATE LABOR DEPT.
Would Combine Employment Eff
forts in Zone of Three
States.

George w. Kirchway, dean of the
Law school of Columbia university, was
in Hartford this week and conferred
with William S. Hyde, commissioner
of labor and factory inspection, in re-
gard to a proposed consolidation, in
certain respects, of the United States
employment service, and the state labor
commission. Dean Kirchwey is execu-
tive director of the United States en-
ployment service, and his consultation
with Commissioner Hyde was the re-
suit of a conference held in New York
City recently between officials of the
United States employment service, and
Capt John J. Burke, deputy labor COM
missioner of Connecticut.
Under present plans the United
States will be divided into zones by the
employment service, New York, New
Jersey and Connecticut comprising one
zone, to be presided over by Dean
Kirchwey. In many localities it has
been found that there is large amount
of labor available, while in other local
tiles there is no labor. At the confer
ence held in New York this question
was brought up by Deputy Commission
er Burke, who offered several sugges-
tions, which were discussed by the fed
eral officials.
By such plan it is hoped to end the
ever shifting of all classes of labor by
bringing about uniform working con-
d1tiOnS in each zone
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-10
PAY MINIMUM WAGES
OR QUIT, SAYS GOMPERS
Employers Who Won't Should
Give Others a
Chance.

Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, pleaded
for a minimum wage for workers in
an address at an editorial conference
of New York trade and technical
papers this week.
NO employer should be allowed to
continue unless he is in a position to
pay his employees a minimum standard
wage" said Mr.. Gompers. "Such an
employer ought to get out at once and
give some one else a chance who can
put the business on a paying basis"
Mr.. Gompers defended the labor
group in this country and said that
while it was not infa11ib1e, at the same
time it had made less mistakes than
any other group measured in numbers.
The American Federation of Labor, he
said, was organized 80 years ago with
$4,000 workers in all parts of the coun-
try and has grown against all odds to
four and one-ha19 millions and soon
would number 100000.
1t is not true" said Mr.. Gompers,
ito say that we represent but FIVE per
cent. of the inhabitants of this coun-
try, but, based on the general ca1cu1a-
ton of each American home counting
five to family and if therefore, there
are 100000 people in this country
we represent rs per cent. of these
100000 and not five per cent"
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-10
CARPENTERS HAVE
LITTLE TO WORRY
ABOUT In STRIKE
Many Get Other Jobs While
Large Large Number
Leave Town.

With a large number of the men who
went out to enforce the demands for
ST an hour already on jobs with inde-
pendent contractors, and another large
number taken places in other towns
nearby where the ST an hour minimum
prevails, the situation in the carpenters
strike in this city, is more than well In
hand among the workers. Those who
are still idle areoso, simply because they
are being held here instead of allowed
to take jobs out of town, so that when
settlement does come, men will be on
hand to resume work on the jobs struck
against. The only ones hit by the
strike, are the contractors association
members and the owners of the build
ings being tied up because of the con-
tractors action.
Requests to send men to all parts of
the state are being received by the Car
penters' officers daily. All over the
state where the demands have been
granted, and that now means practically
everywhere, the building boom is SO
great that sufficient men cannot be Sc
cured to carry on the jobs. Therefore
contractors are insistently seeking that
the men idle here be sent to them, many
even making extra inducements to get
and then keep the workers.
Local contractors, not members of the
association, also have their hands filled,
and are daily putting on more men as
work progresses and room can be made
for them. Unless settlement is reach
ed next week, the men now being held
here will be released and sent out of
town to jobs calling for them. AS
large number of the men now idle are
single men, once they go it will be hard
to get them back and as a consequence
work here will be considerably held up.
The number officially on strike re-
mains about ESQ., but this includes many
that have taken temporary jobs and are
ION strike" only against their former
employers. Whether they will give up
these temporary jobs when the former
bosses come to terms, is a problem to
be adjusted when that time comes.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-10
BIG PLANS MADE
FOR MASS MEETING
In TORRINCTON
A, T., of L. to Join State Bodies in
Reorganization
Wednesday.

Torrington, April 9-There will be
nothing half way about the plans for
the general reorganization of the labor
movement in this town at the monster
mass meeting to be held in Central La
Dor Union hall on Wednesday night
next, April Il. Not only are the local
labor leaders in cooperation with the
movement but the officials of the Amer
lean and the Connecticut Federations of
Labor, the International Association OF
Machinists and the Building Trades or
ganizations have joined heartily in and
will send special representatives to the
meeting and Keep them here to assist
in the re-organlzaton.
Every class Of worker in the section
will be represented, the builder, the shop
worker, 1aborers and others and such
boost will be given to organization
generally that Torrington will probably
be recognized in the immediate future
as 100 per cent. organized town. Sec
retary and Organizer Ira M. Ornburn
of the c. F. of L. will open the or
garlization session. At a conference in
New York this week with Secretary
Morrison and other A. F. of 1. officials
he placed the subject before them and
representatives of the Federation will
be sent to Iorrington to attend to the
reorganization.
The State Council of Carpenters will
be represented by President Thomas
O'Brien of Hartford, the State Con-
ference of Painters by Secretary Joseph
Johnson and the Machinists by Organ
izer Joseph Tone.
Through the efforts of officers of the
local unions great enthusiasm has been
stirred up and the meeting will undoubt-
edly be a monster one Free discussion
of the plans will be had and thus every
question that might prove an obstacle
later, ironed out at the start. The pur-
pose is to unite all crafts into a sort OF
cooperative body, wherein all may act
together and assist one another instead
of going it alone as has been in the
past. While the organizations are al
present by no means inactive or in
effectual it is the belief that by big
general get-together and stay-together
conditions for all the workers can be
materially improved and kept in thai
condition.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-10
BUILDING TRADES
FOR ASSOCIATION
OF CONTRACTORS
State Council Convention En-
dorses Plan to Organize
Bosses.
SEE BENEFIT TO BOTH
Would Make Possible General
Agreement Covering
All Trades.

State and local associations of con-
tractors, to deal collectively with their
employees of all trades, as the building
trades workers now are united and deal
collectively with each other, started re-
Gently in Hartford and about to be spread
throughout the state, was emphatica1-
ly endorsed by the semi-annual conven-
ton of the State Building Trades Coun-
Gil held at Meriden on Sunday last and
the delegates agreed to lend every
assistance asked by the employers in
bringing about such an organization.
While it may seem funny to the unor-
ganized worker for Organized Labor to
be assisting in any scheme to organize
the contractors, the Building Trades
delegates see in the proposed plan a
means whereby both sides can deal col
lective1y with the other, make a general
agreement to cover all trades and thus
head off and entirely prevent clashes
that continually arise through individual
dealing.
The convention was attended by
about so delegates representing Build
ing Trades unions from all parts of the
state. President Frank A. Fitzgerald
of New Haven presided and the rou-
tine business was quickly disposed of.
Conditions throughout the state were
reported as becoming very fair, with
the ST an, hour being rapidly granted
and recognized as a dire need of the
workers to keep pace with the ever in
creasing costs of living. The conven-
ton accepted the resignation of Vice
President Baney of Bridgeport and
elected in his stead Frank J. Cooney of
Hartford. representing Plumbers Local
No. 70. Then the proposed contractors
association was brought up.
The plan as adopted by the Hartford
building trades, no matter what their
line, joining together in one general
association, meeting the representatives
of their workers through the general
Building Trades Councils and making
general working agreement covering all
branches of the trades. So far the
plan has worked out so successfully in
Hartford that contractors in other
places of the state are taking it up and
the project bids fair to result in
state association as has the-amalgama-
ton of the workers in the State Build
ing Trades Council.
Through such plan general all over
the state, the constant chickering's be-
tween employers and the workers could
be speedily adjusted, working condi-
tions made suitable to both sides and IN
fact all the needless dissension that
now prevails, done away with. The
plan is already under Consideration by
the Meriden contractors and at a meet
ing this week with representatives of
the workers, the matter discussed. Such
plan could not fail to result In bene-
fit to both sides and therefore the work.
erS heartily in favor of 1t.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-10
TO CHANGE NAME
OF TRADES UNION
LIBERTY LEAGUE
Executive Board Recommends
Personal Liberty League
Be Adopted.

A proposal to change the name OF the
Connecticut Trades y mon Liberty
League, to the Connecticut Personal
Liberty League, was decided upon at a
meeting of the executive board IN
Trades Council hall in New Haven last
Sunday and will be submitted to the
state convention of the league tor con.
sideration. The convention meets at IL
O'Clock noon on Sunday, May Is, IN
Waterbury, the day preceding the open
ing of the convention of the Connecticut
Federation of Labor.
The idea of changing the name IS IN
line with the recent decision to seek
the afiliation' and cooperation OF Or
ganizations not connected with organ
ized Labor, in protecting the rights and
liberties of the general public. Whle
prohibition is just now the main issue
before the public it is not the only one
that the Liberty league is interested IN
that affects other organizations outside
of Labor bodies.
Invitations have already been sent out
to social, athletic fraternal and like or
carnations to join in the movement to
insist on the liberties and rights OF the
people and by concerted action protect
them and secure several already cut OH
The responses have been more than
gratifying to the executive committee
and it is the belief of the board that
the name should now be made OF q
more general nature and not confined
strictly to Trades Unionism.
That there is much work for the
league to do is evident from the ever
increasing number of proposed pronipi,
t;ons that are cropping up daily out OF
the fanatic boxes. Smoking seems to DC
nert due for a shake-down following
nrohibition and no one knows what next
win crop up.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-10
POSTAL MEN ASK
COOPERATION FOR
A DECENT WAGE
Congress Attitude Not Only
Running Service But
Health Of Men.

P. o. Clerks Union, Local 237 of
this city, in common with its fellows all
over the. country, is asking aid in wag-
ing an energetic campaign uoon the
representatives in Congress to save the
service, and incidentally treat the work
ers decently by pulling from the COM
mittees where it is buried, the bill ap-
propriating proper increases in pay for
the postal employees. The attitude of
the present Congress in burying the
postal workers under myriads of red
tape is not only running the service but
actually injuring the health of the en-
ployes.
Right here in Connecticut, although
the men are-not doing much grllmbling
out loud, the situation has become more
than serious. Clerks are leaving the
postal employ in punches in the New
Haven, Hartford, Bridgeport and other
city post offices and taking jobs where
ing. This puts countless piles of extra
work on those who remain and as the
mails go on no matters what happens,
it is breaking down not only the morale
but the health of the postal men.
Postal employees are working on a
basic salary of from $500 to 1900 per
year, passed in 1907, Is years ago when
that was pretty fair salary for the
ordinary worker. Two years ago, while
begging the postal employees to stick to
their jobs during the war, and not take
the al1uring jobs offered, Congress
magnanimously gave them bonus of
$500 and then raised it to $500 year
after. Even this bonus is now in
danger of being cut off, while congress
men play with soldier bonuses to corral
the ex-soldier vote.
To head off all influence that might
be brought to bear on them in the inter-
ests of the postal employees, Congress
is now preparing to rush through the
postal appropriation bills for the year,
although heretofore this bill has never
been passed until late in June. By rush
ing it through now Congress hopes to
stave off increasing the postal employees
until June 80, 1921, and meantime the
men can fast and the service grow
slower for all they care.
The Trades Council some weeks ago
sent requests to the Connecticut rep
resentatives, that the Federal employees
be fairly dealt with in the matter of
wages. At the last meeting replies
were read from Congressman Tilson
and Senators Brandegee and Mclean
Aside from promising to look into
the matter the replies were not encour-
aging.
The clerks and carriers ask that the
salaries be made from ST 800 to s., 4OC
per year on the same basis of merit as
now prevails. They ask round robin
of letters be sent to the congressional
representatives, and it would seem as II
it's up to the individual Labor man to
get busy, take. his pen in hand and send
them.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-10
new LONDON PAINTERS
STRIKE FOR INCREASE
Reject Compromise Offer of
Bosses and Reaffirm
Demands.

New London, April 9.-Local Union
No 897 has declined to accept the COM
promise wage scale offered by the Mast
er Painters of the city and as con-
sequence the members reported at
Painters Hail Monday morning instead
of on the jobs. The locals demand of
IS cents per hour for painters and 90
cents for paper hangers was met by a
counter proposal by the contractors of
IS and 80 cents, respectively. At spe-
cial meeting of the local it was the
meantime Local No. 8o7 voted to re-
fuse all clearance cards for a period of
80 days from the settling of the trouble.
Therefore all painters and paper hang
ers are requested to stay away from
New London for the present, especially
while the boys are on strike.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-10
WILLIMANTIC JO[NERS
DEMAND 81 AN HOUR
Mill Men Included in Resolutions
Adopted at Special Meeting
Tuesday.

Willimantic, April o-At a specially
called meeting of the Carpenters and
Joiners Local Brotherhood, on Tuesday
night, demands for ST an hour mini
mum wage for millmen as well as out
side carpenters, were formulated and
were presented to the contractors and
shop owners here today. The demands
also include clause providing for a
"A hour week in the mills the same as
on outside work.
The meeting was attended by about
Us workers and was addressed by State
Organizer William J. Sullivan of New
Haven. A committee to present the
demands to the contractors was ap-
pointed and Mr.. Sullivan requested to
be a member and assist in securing
favorable action on them.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-10
CINDER PICKERS JOIN
PRICE BOOSTING GANG
Ashmen Raise the Price Because
the Cost of Coal Has
Gone Up.

Everybody's doing it, so the "cinder
pickers" in New Haven this week in
creased their prices and the poor house
holder has to pay them. 'Cinder-pick-
ing is an art not generally known of
about town but nevertheless it has been
fourishing and with little competition.
1t is fostered by the "Ashman's Asso-
ciation' who first get paid for carting
the ashes from your backyard and then
pay cinder pickers for culling them on
convenient dumps, after which the
"Ashn1an" sells them back to some
householder for banking the fire over
night and in many cases keeping any
fire at all
This week the price per load went up
IS cents and inquiry why brought replv
that the price of coal had gone up.
Cinders once having been coal, natural
1y followed but labor was again blamed
and the excess charged to pickers on
the dumps.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-10
DON'T FORGET THE
COOP MASS MEETING
ON FRIDAY NIGHT
New Angle to High Cost of
Living Fight Also to Be
Explained.

While the called mass meeting
to listen to details of the plan for
the formation of the Cooperative
Stores being fathered by the New
Haven Trades Council, and which
is to be held on Friday night at
Trades Council hall was import
ant enough, developments this
week have made it doubly i'm
portant that every worker inter
ested in the movement should be
present at the meeting.
Speakers from the Co-ODera-
tive League of New York will
present the plans under which
Organized Labor throughout the
country is organizing and making
successes of cooperative stores.
Speakers representing new
"chain-store" cooperative plan
have also requested privilege to
express their aims and it has been
granted.
It's up to the individual there
fore who is interested in cutting
his costs to be present and hear
both sides of the argument and
then decide for himself.
THEREFORE GET OUT TO
THE MEETINGl