The Connecticut labor press., 1920-11-20
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 the 35,000 operatives in the cotton mills of Fall River, and the 30,000 in New Bedford, will remain at the scale that has been in force for the past six months. This agreement was made this week between the manufacturers and agents of the textile unions. And, most significant, Is the fact that of all the cotton mill towns of New England, Fall River and New Bedford are the only two cities with textile unions thorough ly organized and of universal member ship in the mills.
 Detroit seems to be the hardest hit of any of the great industrial cities, owing to serious curtailment in the production of motor vehicles Some 75,00O men, it is reported, have been thrown out of work in the great boom on it seems, there were some mighty exciting doings in labor circles and popular game of the day was Stealing Labor" It was the practice for many of the big concerns i'll need of labor to send out trucks where construction work was in progress and there man with megaphone would shout out Every man wanting SIP a day for eight hours work hop aboard a truck" Then there would be mad scramble for the trucks.
 But there is no stealing 1abor' in Detroit now, and the firms that did the stealing were the first to lay off men when business depression set i'll. In this connection, odd as 1t may appear, the general run of store business in Detroit is far better than in most in I,.1 II os4s af 4I,o s~,I: that the wage workers saved up for the proverbia1 rainy day, Rents, too, have decidedly fallen in price which is great aid from the standpoint of the worker.
 Further proof that shorter hours make for efficiency in labor comes from the great Ford automobile plant In- stead of reducing their forces by 25 per cent, as did most of the Detroit auto mobile plants in the last two or three months, the Ford managers cut the working week to five days. When the reduction was made production in creased, the Ford engineers report. Dur ing the last month, running but five days a week, the Ford plants turned out more finished products than they ever did in any month of six-day weeks.
 Paul M Warburg, former vice-presi- dent of the Federal Reserve Board, has just returned from Europe where he made special study of conditions and particularly in regard to industrial re- construction. Writing in the New York Times MT. Warburg says among other things: At present the world is divided into four camps. On the far right and left we see the extreme and destructive wings of capital and labor, respectively. We find the Bo1shevik and his like as unmindfu1 of the human rights of others as the ultra-capitalist and nationalist. Wedged in between these two there are progressive capital and constructive organized labor. 1t is the union of these two constructive fac tions that may be hoped to save what will prove worth preserving of our old society
 Constructive organized labor" con- tinues MT. Warburg, in Europe has shown itself quicker to recognize its duties and opportunities. Constructive organized labor has found ways to get together across national lines, and it has shown the courage and vision to think and act both nationally and interna- tionally at the same time. It is con- servatiye organized labor in its various forms--let us make no mistake about 1t that so far has stemmed the tide of Bo1shevism in Europe. It Is on the sanity and sagacity of the leaders of conservative labor more than on any other factor that Europe's hopes must rest today"
 Another very Important point favor able to organized labor is made by Mir. Warburg when he says: Unlike the Bo1shevik, conservative organized labor does not wish blindly to conhscate and destroy but to preserve and construct For that reason 1t does not approve of imposing on its former enemies con 1 tributions in excess of any endurable or practicable means of taxation, which would send the debtor nation on the certain road to complete depreciation of | its currencies, with recultant bankruptcy and violent social upheava1s, such as | have annihilated Russia" C Not much good cheer in the recent election for the vets. Congress is dry CT than ever. Out of the 435 members | elected to the next House of Represen- tatives, 302 are classed as against lib- i era1ization of the Volstead act. There i were ZS/ members who voted for the Vo1stead act. Of this number 238 were | candidates for reelection; 217 were re- elected and 21 defeated, according to the compilation made by the Board of Temperance.
 Of the 100 members who voted against the measure, 76 sought re-elec- ton, and of these Is only were defeat ed. Of the o1 reelected it is known | that many of them will not be found 1 fighting on the side of the vets. A show down will come early in the com ing session of Congress when that body will be called upon to provide large ap- propriations for the enforcement of prohibition. As at present, the law is being violated in practically every city in the land, 1t is said, and we certainly know that it is in all the cities of Con- | necticut.
 Apropos of the above, rise to ask: | Are the two famous Connecticut leagues still alive? I refer to the League Opposed to Prohibition and the Personal Liberty League. Some time previous to actual prohibition the l leagues, it was understood, were going to do something wonderful along about election time, if not sooner, and the singers of "Oh, How Dry I Ann" began 4 |. 1.