The Connecticut labor press., 1920-12-11
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} A chain lunch-room concern, doing business in Connecticut cities, recently
 announced that just as soon as the new
 menu cards could be obtained from the printer food prices would be reduced
 That was several weeks ago and nc
 new price lists have been forthcoming
 Meanwhile prices for eggs and some , other things have been advanced. These
 prices may be continued or, perhaps, ii
 will give the concern chance to, re-
 duce back to the old figures by aid of the printer. In either case it means
 further illustration of how the public is
 being humbugged on every hand.
 Some of the editorial pif1e about I 1abor's readjustment, meant to be taken
 seriously, affords only amusement
 Here's fair sample cu1led from a long
 Winded editorial in a New Haven daily
 paper: The producers have not been
 doing their full share. They have been
 trying to produce in many instances just
 enough to get by. and yet they have 1 expected to have the same reward, and Many have regarded 1t as favor to the
 community that they should work at l alb
 Alas and a1ack, too bad it is that these overworked editorial scribes, iii the employ of p1utocratic newspaper l proprietors, are so worried over the failings of the producers. How comes l that we never hear them 1amenting over 1 the short comings of the non-producers, the many men who never worked for, or earned, an honest dollar in their lives?
 Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee that thrift may follow fawning. Here follows meat for men, something sound in the views entertained. Editor Forbes of Forbes Magazine, a financial writer of note, said recently: If ever our present economic structure IS ruth 1essly torn down, the cause IS likely to be unemployment. The amount of en- forced seasonal id1eness in this country minds of the financial and business communities There Is lacking among employers a proper feeling of responsi- bility, a due realization of what they owe not only their employees but the nation. To allow unemployment to be- come extensive this winter will be ex- tremely dangerous.
 Continuing along on the above lines, Editor Forbes concludes thusly: This Is no time for each employer to think only of himself and let others suger as they may. That selfish, shortsighted,
 unbusinesslike attitude has brought grave trouble to other countries. If persisted in long enough and carried far enough, 1t would assured1y bring trouble here also. Continuity of employment Is a problem which should be exercis- ing the minds of every employer and
 every business association III the United States If 1t does not exercise the minds of business men, 1t will probably
 be taken out of their hands and handled
 by others less capable of effecting the
 desired results. If a million men who
 are willing to work cannot find work,
 they are not at all likely to go hungry
 slbmissively."
 Robert C. Deming, Americaniza-
 ton director of the state board of edu-
 cation, recently announced that o,472
 immigrants came to Connecticut during
 the first sia1months of the present year,
 and predicts that 24,000 will have reach ed Connecticut by the end of this month,
 and at the end of the year total of 24,o72 will be reached.
 I met MT. Deming recently, and he is
 very fine man to meet, by the way, and talked with him about this immigration problem. He said that Connecticut's social, educational and industrial insti- tutions are confronted by a great prob lem by the arrival of these foreigners. But when I spoke of the incoming hordes to this country, Brother Den1ing had nothing to say for publication at this time." There are many good and | wise men who, in my opinion, are alto gether too cautious in expressing per- sonal opinion about such vital questions | They leave it to George.
 And about the only George ready to l speak his mind and act as well, seems | to be just now enrolled within the ranks | of organized labor. At the present ses- sion of Congress officials of the Fed | eration of Labor are expected to be up and doing. and make great fight in support of a bill to stop immigration | temporarily. I quote from a recent | issue of The Federationist, which says l that restriction of immigration IS the | ail-important question to organized la bor and asks local unions to appoint | committees to wait upon members of | Congress and insist upon the protection | that Congress should give our people. There are plenty of 1nd1caf1onS, now ever, that the fight will be sidestepped because there are many among the pow CTS that be who are eagerly looking forward to an overflow of foreign la bor Its the only way they say, to break union labor's strangle hold on in- dustry, keep wages down to where they belong and provide for the open shop. If we get any restrictive immigration bill at all at Washington, at this session of Congress, it Is likely to be make shift affair.
 A great ado has been in the news papers over the drop in the price of pork this week Some of the articles and editorials in connection, if they were believed, would have us back to pre-war time prices on all foodstuffs Because the succulent pig fell to 25 H cents a pound, or whereabouts, some of the newspapers worded the news mat ter in such way as to indicate that all meats had taken fall. The con trary is true, some meats and many other foodstuffs are as high as ever. The wish for low prices IS father to the thought with some papers. It's pro- paganda on their part. They seek to convey the impression taht a pre-war