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The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-05-01
ANSWER COLLECT"
Question Asked New York, Might
Also Be Sent to Hartford.

Washington, April 3O.-If trade
unlonists can not nominate a member
of organized labor in primary can
they expect to draw sufficient strength
from established parties to elect on a
so-called labor party ticket?
This question is asked William Kohn
of the American Labor party, New
York city, by President Gompers.
The A. F. of L. executive calls at
tention to the A. F. of l. recommended
ton that wherever possible the NOM
nation and election of tried and true
unionists or of assured friends should
be secured"
eff the workers of New York" said
President Gompers, would confne
their activities to the primaries in en-
deavoring to nominate ON either the re-
publican or democratic tickets true and
tried trade unionists, they would be
doing something practical. If they fail
ed they could unite to defeat the least
acceptable candidate who would be on
the ticket in the elections. If the work.
ers would be true to themselves they
could secure the nomination of true
and tried trade unionists in many New
York districts, both congressional and
legislative.
ct would be easier to draw votes
from one party into another where the
issue was between, enemies and friends
of labor than it would be to convince a
sufficient number of these voters in
both parties to withdraw from them
and support a .so-called labor party
The latter could only bring one result,
which would be the reelection of enc
mics and defeat of friends of labor"
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-05-01
THE FUNNY JUDGE.
Gary Goes "The Terrible Judge"
One Better in Laughs.

Many of us have laughed heartily at
that old vaudeville sketch, "The Ter
rible Judge" Here's laugh on a
judge, up-to-date:
New York, April 30.-Judge Gary of
the Steel trust is developing into a
hrst-class funny man.
At the annual meeting of trust stock
holders, the judge said that our men
generally do not belong to labor unions,
and that 1--WE stand for the open shop,
which permits man to work when
and where he p1eases upon terms mu-
tually agreed upon, whether he does or
does not belong to a labor union"
And then the judge forgets his plea
for individual bargaining and hints that
he may establish company unions" in
the steel trust He said:
Much consideration of late has been
given the subject of shop committees
whereby groups of men may present to
the management for discussion and de-
cision any question relating to employ
ment conditions"
In one instance the judge calls for
individual bargaining with workers and
in the next instance he says workers
can unite and suggest that the terms
are not acceptable.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-05-01
UNAUTHORIZED STRIKES AND DUAL
ORGANIZE TONS LABOR,S MENACE

The organized labor today the unauthor
within of labor
POLITICALLY ambitious persons who though
for the ballot leader
ship the contracts the end disruption
and bac individual members and the
whole.
artfcaly created. There must
authority hope enroll support
sufficient the of majority and triumphant
troll right Imaginary ills not be corrected False
mythical will
Possibly has suffered from dual authority
Workers America 1890
date Of the organizations BIRTH dual has been
pressed What today happening in the ranks Of the railroad
brothehoods but few commonplace within the
ers union.
Every international president Of the miners has had fight
rich
performance the reward of routed
defeat.
nation suffering partial paralysis of industry
members of the Wtchmen
been able capitalize wagehearng delay and take the off
their radical appeals against the authorized leaders of the
ntion union.
do betterments They
want ofice-wages secondary.
nothing will be by the rebellion. Not single
the increased eventually or
of the unauthorized strike The
dubbed bone fe forgotten
the will again be conducted orderly
and then the unthnkng membership falls
tim Il such rebellion movements
Surely would dollars and cents and redoubled public
trade to get the fact fixed their
rebeons will the
hand will reard make
difficult.
adage GA divided against itself not stand,
applicable to labor unons.-American Coal Miner.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-05-01
campaign of the A. T. of L. The trade
unionists said

campaign of the A. i. of L. The trade
unionists said:
rs this question predicated upon a
possible declaration of national politi-
cal party to the effect that employers
are trustees and administrators of
wealth in the interests of producers and
consumers alike?' Surely this is inter-
esting. By what right have they OBJ
tanned trusteeship? By Divine Right?
American labor entertains no such de-
fusion. Trustees derive their authority
from a principal who trusts them. Pro
ducers and consumers have, so far as
the records show, never agreed upon
any trustee of the character here sug-
gested. The thrift section of the ques-
ton should be kept distinct from the
ridiculous assumption of capitalist trus-
teeship and is dealt with in reply to
question 81.
Notwithstanding is not a device for the
promotion of thrift and cooperation.
1t is device for the entrenchment of
privilege and for the subsection of
workers. 1t is calculated to produce
docility of spirit and to discourage or
ganization among the workers. With
out organization and without freedom
of action among workers there can be
no true and effective cooperation with
employers for any of the objects which
are worth while in industry The cap
italist who asks the workers to accept
proflt-sharine has no notion that he is
acting in the, capacity of a trustee in
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-05-01
IT'S LOOKING GOOD.
No Cause to Complain Yet of La.
boris Political Campaign.

Labor can find no cause for COM
plant in the manner in which politi-
cal affairs are shaping themselves.
Primaries and elections so far have re-
suited in a general upset of the react
ionaries The satisfaction does not
come so much from the defeat of GER
tain men as it does from the accumu-
lating evidence that the workingmen of
the country have determined to take
an active and intelligent part in the
selecting of state and national officials.
From Maine to- Nebraska, and from
Michigan to Georgia, labor can find
cause for JOY. When there has been
an open contest between advocates and
opponents of the League of Nations,
the former have invariably Won
Wherever reactionary congressman or
senator has given the people chance
they have sloughed him, no matter what
party label has been tied to him.
There is reason to believe the Amer
lean Federation of Labor plan will be
more successful than its friends antici-
mated
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-05-01
BEAT KEPT PRESS"
English Railwaymen Do a Little
Publicity of Their Own.

London, England, April 30-Wide
circulation is being given the story how
railway workers publicity defeated the
government in the recent strike of these
employees.
When the strike started practically
every newspaper in England was against
the strikers, who were charged with
being bolshevists, revolutionists, ETC.
The railway men enlisted the services
of many writer's of repute and stand
ing, cartoonists were secured, and wide
distribution was made of attractive
posters explaining the mems wage de-
mands. A system of letter writing was
started and full advantage was taken
of moving pictures. The strikers main
tanned an incessant bombardment of the
charge that the government was at
tempting to reduce wages, and they
proved their charge out of the mouths
of government officials
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-05-01
THERE'S TWO SIDES TO THIS
s'PA7RIO7IC DUTY PROPOSITION

Every day from
assuring that the patriotic duty of
Liberty them take with
the but to to
is the average wage going to hang onto
Liberty while for the necessities of life high
impossible for him make both ends meet?''
suggest that he patriotic duty of the
people from the wholesale robbery being
INDUCED in by profeers at this time
that it is 'the duty Of the
the ride of
going
Let's kill off few hundred soft berth governmental bureaus
NOR than esst'b bunk
get the fub dub and
something definite and decisive can't be deliver the people
condition exploitation which makes the choice
holding Liberty buying square meal for ones
family imperative.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-05-01
WORKERS, ATTENTION.!
Don't Be Misled by False Adver
Using to Take This Job
in Detroit.
Detroit,> Mich, April Fl, 1920.

DetroitA Mich, April Fl, 1920.
To the Editor of The Connecticut Labor
Press:
We are still on strike in the cities of
Detroit, Flint and Pontiac, Michigan,
against the A. Albrecht Co. of Detroit
and the Dupont Engineering Co., of
Wilmington, Delaware.
The supply of non-union men is rum
ming low, so these two companies are
denying that strike exists on their
work to impress union men. The Du-
pont Engineering company is now max
ing special effort to induce union men
to work for it, by saying that the strike
is over, or, it was only little trouble
that is now settled.
- This is done through labor scouts"
who open offices in the various cities,
get men to sign up for 90 days, pay
transportation, deduct it out of the first
weeks pay, herd men in bunk houses,
feed them on the job, keep their bag
gage if the men quit, when they find
out that a strike. exists, load them in
trucks at the depots, rush them out to
the job under armed guards and do
everything that is obnoxious to the
principles of decent human being. A
competitive bonus system is now in
NOSuS oii liiNI JUS "INiNDy "Oi ID
speeded up under promise of extra
money, which we are reliably informed
does not materialize.
A concerted movement is developing
in the state of Michigan to fight or
gained labor; we are prepared to meet
it, but cannot hope for success if union
men as well as non-union men allow
themselves to be persuaded in coming
to this state. We expect this fight to
be of long duration, SO urge all men to
stay away from Michigan, especially
Detroit, Flint and Pontiac.
Please see that this matter gets all
the publicity possible, such as publish
ing this letter in full in all trade jour
mails, labor papers, referred to central
bodies and read at three successive
meetings of all unions that come in
possession of this notice.
Our turn might come to help you!
We will be glad to do it!
Yours for victory,
DETROIT BUILDING TRADES COUNCIL,
FRED'K G. PALLIAER,
Secretary.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-05-01
POLITICAL POLICY
BEGINNING TO HAVE IT'S EFFECT

evidence present partisan
political policy Of the American Federation of Labor having
effect clearly demonstrated the United
week. when Senator Sterling republican, of South Dakota
the amendment the civil retirement BILL exclude
the benefits of that legislation employees affiliated
with unions using the strike, who said
People who to withhold the right of organization
federal employees bowling graveyard of class
There
accomplishment
striking absurd their
forbs this and equally absurd to talk their supporting other
strkes.''
Lenroo republican, joining
ling against said ''When
become outlaw? It
that the unrest in the country and extreme radicals
the that they much desre'
AS result of these arguments the amendment promptly
defeated.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-05-01
HIGH TREASON.
Member of Parliament Suggests
That Idle Rich Go to Work.

London, England April 3O.-The de-
mand for greater production by work
ers usually comes from those who have
never worked and never intend to,
writes Alfred Short, member of par
lament, in a local newspaper
This appeal" he says. us not likely
to be responded to unless the govern
ment will take such action as will in
sure the elimination of 'profteering and
some definite assurance that the in
creased wealth will not go to expand
the already bulging pockets of the few
and some guarantee that the workers
will not be permitted to starve in the
shadow of abundance, the result of
over-production.
Cultured dissertations upon currency,
rates of exchange, and the need for
economy may sound nice, but they cut
no ice with the man in the street, who
knows he is the victim of the immoral
and unrestrained activities of the soul
less and avaricious octopus of COM
MERGE"
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-05-01
WHAT BOTHERS ME?
Perhaps It's Same as Bothered
Boston Financial Expert.

Roger Babson, Boston financial and
statistical expert, has recently issued a
pamphlet entitled What Bothers Me"
which indicates how far an open-mind-
ed man may go, despite naturally re-
dictionary tendencies. Speaking of his
experience during the Boston police
mems strike, he says:
II went into one of the largest banks
with some securities. Marching up and
down in front of the bank were soldiers
with rifles A negro porter sat within
the door with a belt of cartridges
around his neck like string of beads.
Everything was guarded as if this was
the most sacred spot in America.
"On my way home x / saw a
group of people / learned that a poor
family was being evicted from its home
The landlord had put up the price of
rent and they were put upon the street
"a mother with several children and
an old grandmother.
Gas I sat in my office later the vision
of the Bolshevist came to my mind. For
the first time l momentarily caught his
point of view-that this government is
organized to protect property rather
than people. No soldiers were ready to
protect that poor family which was be-
ing evicted But when bank or store
is being threatened the entire state
guard is Immediately called.
81 realize that there can be no blame
on the soldiers or officials. The fact
remains that under the Jaw, as set up
today, property and capital receive
greater respect than health and happi-
ness.
"This fact is the cause of the radical
movements of today and only as we
rectify the situation can Bolshevism be
curbed. In any city where a call from
a poor widows home will receive the
same attention as the call from prom
inent jewelry store, there will be no
growth of Bolshevism''
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-05-01
SUGAR PRICES ONE INCREASE
THAT s NOT DUE TO LABOR

We know why has reached its prices The
who'll
bags of
profit nearly 40 Sugar offering
for making whole lot
taking advantage of it, Here's instance least where
referring responsible
for high prices
few retailing for five pound At
of % which charged
about cent AS produced districts
abomnabl
be raised It simply of downright
eering launched upon helpless public with in
officials who
to t.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-05-01
"TRUSTEESHIP" AGAIN.
Republican Platform Makers Re
vive Theory That Capital
Is "It".

Washington, April 30-Republican
party platform makers have revived the
ridiculous theory that capitalists are
trustees" of their property, which they
administer in the interests of the people.
In a questionable issued by the ad-
visory committee on policies and plat
form of the Republican national COM
mittee this was asked:
What form of proft-sharing, if any,
will promote thrift, cooperation and a
better understanding of the function of
the capitalist as trustee and and adj
ministrator' of wealth in the interests
of the producers and consumers alike ?"
This question was answered as
Americans by Samuel Gompers, Mat
thew Vol and Frank Morrison, plat
form committee, rational non-partisan
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-05-01
HERE'S ANOTHER ONE.

Denver, April 3O-The Continental
Oil Company is the first Standard Oil
subsidiary to take advantage of the
United States supreme court decision
that stock dividends are not taxable I'M
der the income tax law.
The Continental company has de-
clared a stock dividend of 200 per cent
There will be distributed $4,000 shares
of the new stock at a par value of
500 each The dividend rate of II per
cent will be paid on the new stock.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-05-01
HOW ABOUT THIS?
Fighting Bob" and Labor Put
1t Over Good in Wisconsin.

Senator Bob LaFollette of Wiscon-'
sin, aided by organized labor, mopped
up the earth with the reactionary out
ht in that state, which includes SEN
ator Lenroot and Congressman Esch.
author of the railroad bill.
Senator LaFollette and his friends
elected the 70 delegates to the Repub-
lican national convention, one of these
delegates being James Thompson, who
will be backed by LaFollette for Sem
ator Lenroot's job in the senate at the
election this fall.
This is the first real test between
the forces of progress and reaction
since the A. F. of L. announced its nom
partisan political campaign. The re-
suits are eminently satisfactory.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-05-01
AMERICA MISSING.

The governing body of the Interna-
tional Labor Office, created as part of
the League of Nations feature of the
Versailles peace treaty, met last week
in London and discussed the question
of permanent headquarters at Geneva
and the arrangements for the Interna-
tional Labor Conference which is to
meet at Genoa on June IS, to consider
the application to seamen of the con-
vention adopted at Washington.
Meanwhile the London meeting has
decided that a Health Section shall be
Immediately established. Owing to the
fact that the United States Senate has
not ratified the peace treaty. American
labor has been prevented from partici-
pating in the International Labor Con-
ference
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-05-01
EXPERTS, AHOY!
Efficiency Men Needed to Put
Some Dope Over on This.

In a bulletin issued by the Metro
politan Life Insurance Company it is
stated that the effect of tuberculosis is
to cut the average lifetime of white
males three and one-half years and the
lifetime of colored males approximate
ly five years.
This economic loss is ignored by So
called efficiency" experts and editors
and politicians who tell workers they
must work harder to save the world
from starving to death because of loss
of man-DOWer.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-05-01
MOULDERS NOT TO MEET.

The membership of the International
Moulders' Union has voted not to hold
convention in 1920. Each year the
union votes on this question, and it
carries about once every five years.
Thus, while the laws provide for a
referendum to decide this matter the
meetings generally have a five years
spread
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-05-01
WHERE DOES IT GO?

indianapolis, April 3O.-Coal miners
at Ti1tonville, Ohio, recently put this
note in every car of coal sent out by
them:
1--WE miners got 90 cents ton for
this coal. How much did you pay for
it?"
Jack Bell, one of the miners, writes
to the United Mime Workers Journal
that a contractor living at Osceoid,
Arkansas, informs them that this coal
sold for $11 ton. Another letter from
Mckinney, Collin county, Texas, states
that coal is selling in Texas for $3.50
a ton" of 1900 hounds.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-05-01

the administration of the property he
possesses and the implication to that
effect in the question is evidently a
crude and clumsy effort to give stand
ing and circulation to a misconception.
Does the question imply the resurrection
of the idea of the trusteeship of wealth
which was believed to have been in
TERED with the remains of the late
George F. Baer?"
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-03-01
GRAND FORKS MONDAY, ]. lsac,
FARM LANDS.

tta MONEY IN. EARLY TAHLK
Grapes. Small Investment, heavy
Sis,as S..h gsssss 0Hlsk re,Srns, a
some OF tho invest Early Table aeapcs
I'M the .wottd-hlE. rich. luscious
are ripe and ready fsr market before
similar eraNea raised In California,
oe., IN lsl1 HE sNnss Kind Of .xrsspss
sold for zee n w~he!eesls y q com
sssvesiys sFa. s.t 4 MED that = fully Dc.
Santa Rosa VIII Yield more than 5000
pounds OF grapes per acre. which AZ
2oc per pound amounts to 3l.eoo.o0
These krapee BEGIN to bear the second
year and will last practically AHltfe-
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special skin or experience requir-
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vestmeat ve kHov Of Santa Rosa
is an IDEAL Rsss to live. Finest
sll-she-zesrseeaa1 climate in United
spot Gesa. ea1s erinsinx water.
Best Sasa IN EaacSssA Two and three
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sssalaE- asasnR M naa6ax> Lameer
n WHOLESALE RrHsus Land assese <e1u
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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-03-01
HAT CLEANING

HAT CLEANING
We CLEAN AND REBLOK LADIES'
mems = We also dye all kinds
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ders rrempuy filled. Parcel post paid
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NOW IS THE TINE TO HAVE YOUR
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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-03-01

Things have jest abo4f rcached III
point where tn aycaee f1eAr anat
peeeend r do anything Dnee1 keep
his family frum ss1Rx6 IA III CHI
thing hats pro6fy tucked a n ca-
0Der e dT ep~ Of arae0eA'
a Kind Of n ~v1sa ever vNk
Or Two.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-03-01

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Equipment $3.50. Stock $500. Selling
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terms. Bonds or good property might
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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-03-01

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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-03-01

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Then carefully fold dotted line I IN
ito entire length. Then dotted line :
turn over and you'll fina . surprising
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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-03-01
HMIP-sALEsMEN
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Grand Forks, N. D.

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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-03-01

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