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The Connecticut labor press., 1920-06-05
FAMOUS SAYINGS.
Show How Worker Stands With
 Great and Near Great.

The public be damned I'm not run ming this road for the benefit of the public. I'm running it for my own beneft.-William H. Vanderbilt of the New York Central railroad
 The damned fools don't know what is good for them.-J. Pierpont Morgan, speaking of the steel workers in Sep tember, 1901.
 What's the constitution between friends ?-Timothy Campbell of Tam many Hall.
 I see no solution for the problem un- til hunger compels capitulation.- Charles L. Eidlitz, president of New York Building Trades Employers Association during the lockout in July, 1905
 Habeas corpus be damned. We'll give them post-mortems instead Adjt. Gen. Sherman Bell of Colorado militia, defying orders of civil courts in 1904
 To hell with the onstitution.-Major McClelland, commanding the state mil itia (paid by the Mine Owners Asso- ciation) during the Colorado miners strike and lockout in 1o03-4
 God knows, I don't.-Wil1iam How ard Taft at Cooper Union February, 1908, when asked What is man to do in. financial panic who IS out of work and who is starving?"
 The rights and interests of the labor ing man. will be protected and cared for, not by the labor agitators, but by the Christian men to whom God in His in- finite wisdom has given the control of the property interests of the country George F. Baer, mine owner and presi- dent of the Philadelphia & Reading railroad during the coal strike of 1912
 Thus have our rulers spoken and thus do they still speak
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-06-05
ARTFUL DODGERS.
Stock Dividends Show Patriot.
 ismo of Wars Profiteers.

A few weeks ago the supreme court of the United States decided that stock dividends" could not be taxed under the income tax law. This meant that cor porations with enormous earnings could keep the money in their strong boxes and pay dividends in the form of an in crease in capital stock. In this way the fortunate stockholders would be able to get their dividends without contributing to the support of the government.
 It was estimated at the time that the decision would cost the treasury hun dreds of millions of dollars
 That this estimate was not exagger- ated is shown by reports which are appearing daily in the leading newspa- pers.
 Sears-Roebuck & Company, the big Chicago mail order house, is the latest concern to take advantage of the decis- ion. It has voted 40 per cent. stock dividend amounting to thirty million dollars. This stock was selling for $20 a share in 1907 With the stock dividends paid the stock now has an aggregate market value of $6o0.
 The General American. Tank Car Company has declared dividend of 800 per cent, payable in common stock
 The Union Bag & Paper Corporation has declared a 50 per cent. dividend payable in stock.
 The Brunswick Bake Co1lender Company stockholders have voted to distribute a 200 per cent dividend in stock to holders on record May Is.
 This is the way patriots of Big Business" support the government in a national crisis.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-06-05
THE INJUNCTION.
Surprises English but That $ Nothing-It Surprises
 Us, Too.

An English labor leader, describing America to Englishn,en, speaks of the injunction as it is found in the United States and expresses great surprise at at finding such an instrument. His opinion is that it wouldn't work in England.
 The injunction also is a source of constant surprise to Americans and most Americans are puzzled to know how 1t all came to pass. Great oaks from little acorns grow, we are told by all authorities on plant life. Nobody pays much attention to an acorn and an oak grows so slowly that nobody mo- tices the process. Once the injunction was little bit of an acorn of a thing relatively How it got to be such a big, deeply rooted institution is known only to those who have dug out the facts. It surely doesn't belong i'll our garden, but there it is-a constant surprise; a constant irritant, and a menace to a lot of other social vegitation that is good and useful.
 The Englishman thinks it wouldn't work in England and we hope it never does It won't always work in Amer ica. We'll tussle with it until we find
 the right way to get rid of it.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-06-05
LABEL $ ORIGIN.
First Used by Cigarmakers to
 Offset Coolie Made Smokes.

The union label or union stamp is strictly American in it's origin. It was born in the city of San Francisco, Cal, in the year 1874, and to the cigarnakers belongs the credit for first having used the label successfully.
 During a sand lot agitation for Chinese exclusion in San Francisco, a manufacturer of cigars attempted to employ Chinese labor. The trades un- ionists waged determined and intel ligent resistance, and assured of public patronage the question arose as to how the consumer might discriminate be- tween the union made cigar and the rat shop" filthy made coolie product
 At first a white label was used, plac- ed upon all boxes of cigars made by white men, signifying that those boxes of cigars bearing the white label were made by white men as against the yellow of the Oreint.
 In the following year, during strike of cTgarmakers i'll St. Loufs, label was printed in red ink, and at their next convention, held in Chicago in the year 1880, the reds and whites became em- broiled in controversy as to whether they should adopt the white label or the red label as their universal label, when, as the story goes, one of their ready W1tted delegates arose and shout ed :: MT. Chairman, what's the use of squabb1ing over the color of. the label? Let's take the other color of the flag, and adopt a blue label" And that's the way the blue label of the cigar makers was given birth
 Other organizations, noticing the sue cess of the cigarmakers, set about adopting label of their craft, and in the year 1885 the hatters' label ap- peared, the following yearsthe garment workers, in 1891 the horseshoers', shoemakers', and iron holders label ap- peared, and so on down the line until now practically every organization working at manufacturing craft has adopted label of its craft.
 Don't be just card man; be real union man by demanding the union label on goods that you purchase; de- mand the union label, the union card and the union button wherever 1t can be produced.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-06-05
WHAT IS THE GOVERNMENT DOING
 TO CURTAH PROFYTEERLNG ?

the prcesashing epidemic is the consuming federal of raising If those huge could afford lop off twenty prices without showing deficit then their profits before the drop have been
 The that laid the golden had nothing those prof. who by their admission slice from twenty goods still make handsome profits Oh for day of the old Big Stick!
 flushing politicians golden promises jaing ought of the with the Red forced make good This country filed with prafeers and everybodincung the benefcar of this egitmate greed knows it.
 Walsh, of Massachusetts, hit the nail the
  payers in the published Bully for Walsh.
 Open the books of and focus the penetrating light publicity charmed Of million mbe in their silk pajamas the thought of their fat in being revealed and they succeed in derng this dis until the when the will the halls of Congress- Labor has this year its friends to defeat it's enemies
 Onward the Battle of Ballots!
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-06-05
ONE EMPLOYER WHO HAD THE
 RIGHT IDEA CONCERNING LABOR

of well known employer of labor ing vouched for authentic 
 Williams of the Hydraulic Pressed Steel Cor the that especially interested those problems that pertained that something him employer. He for industrial And in this the But the which to for himself WHAT WRONG could compi caed-t mery placing himself the position of empoye.
 worked with his handsas unskled abofer kled) the steel mills coal the being actually
 
 turing that appreciate the problems other side.
 his desk at the office of the Hydraulic qualified His actions and uerances have given suf fcent evidence advised other employers take 
 is notp this physical mita believe of would something if they would study the Labor question from viewpoint of actual empoye.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-06-05
GOOD WORK.
Telephone Company Saves More Than 100 Tons of News
 print Paper.

The summer issue of the Connecticut telephone directory, which will appear in July, will be a real economy issue. More than 100 tons of neWsprint paper, of which there is such a severe short age, will be saved on this issue alone Furthermore, the telephone directory will be smaller in size, lighter in weight and, in consequence, will be more con- venient to handle.
 Strictly speaking, the next telephone directory will not be a "Connecticut" directory.
 The current and all past issues carried the llstlngs of every telephone in the state. Telephone subscribers in New Haven, for instance, were given book containing the hstings in exchanges in every part of the state, TOT most of which the subscribers seldom, if eyer, had any use.
 The forthcoming directory will be in five parts, one for each of the districts into which the state is divided by the Telephone Company for business reas- ons. Thus the subscribers in each of the 12 exchanges in New Haven dis trict will receive a New Haven district book; all the subscribers in each of the l4 exchanges III the Hartford district will receive Hartford district book and so on.
 The departure from the long estab- lished custom is forced, in large degree, by the shortage of newsprint, but 1t is felt that the reduced size and weight of the book will be received favorably by the telephone using public.
 The telephone company's economy ir paper is one W hich the government and a host of business concerns, both large and small raight well follow.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-06-05

two parties, to sell the dye stuffs. The two concerns were to pool all patents, inventions, etc, and the du-Ponts were to have certain processes turned over to them and in return would pay the English company $100,000 for 10 years.
 It was charged that the pending bill lis in the interest of this monopoly and that it was framed, introduced and pressed in that interest, with all its pro- visions for licenses and embargoes. The whole plan depends pn securing this legislation to accomplish it's ends, and this bill should be rejected as infara- ous.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-06-05

Cigarmakers Local No. 39, New Haven, Re elected Secretary of the Connecticut Federation of Labor and of whom President O 'Meara said in his annual re- port:
 of trying to be assuming too much to say a few words in this part of my report of the work of Secretary Ira M. OrHburn.
 T believe that without fear of any contradiction, that the Connecticut Fed eration of Labor has today the most hard working, honest ana braInest offic- ial of any local or state organization III the American Labor movement. His work has brought him in contact with many classes and divisions that make up the life of our communities, and request criticism from anyone that IS imbued with honest motives to say that he has been found wanting in any of the ramihcations connected with his work. While 1 have been your presi- dent 1 have never yet had to correct Secretary Ornburn, yea even to issue an order to him, showing conc1uSive1y his initiative abilities and the admin istrating of his office with abnormal skill and fortitude, it IS no secret to impart to you in convention the fact that Secretary Ornburn has during my two terms of office been offered 1ucra- tive positions many times by national and international unions, but after con- ferring with him upon these offers he has in at least three instances agreed to stay with us, and I hope that he will, and I pray that he will be granted his health to further carry ont our organ ization work He is returning to our grand old organization resdlts for every effort spentp
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-06-05
cLERGYMEN UNITE.

London, England, June 4.-The Ma tiona1 Clerical Union has been organ ized for the purpose of securing liv- ing wage for the clergy Rev. Lloyd Evans, who is acting secretary of the new movement, said
 "The members of the Clerical union have no intention of declaring a strike to enforce any of their demands, but will follow the trend of trade urionism to considerable extent"
 Secretary Evans declared that the only remedy for low salaries and poor conditions which the cergymen are forced to accept is a strong organiza- ton, and if this were backed by public opinion, their demands would soon be obtained.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-06-05
THE NINETY AND NINE.

By Rose Elizabeth Smith. There are ninety and nine that work
 and die, s-- In hunger and want and cold, That one may revel in luxury, And be Tapped in the sill1en fold; And ninety and nine in their novels
 bare,
 And one in a palace of riches rare. From the sweat of their brow the des-
 ert blooms,
 And the forest before them falls; Their labor has builded humble homes, And the cities with lofty halls; And the one owns cities and houses
 and lands
 And the ninety and nme have empty
 hands. But the night so dreary and dark and
 long
 At last shall the morning bring; And over the land the victors' song Of the ninety and nine shall ring, And echo afar, from zone to zone, Rejoice for labor shall have its
 own l"
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-06-05
SURE IT'S INFAMOUS.

Sensational charges were made re- gently in the senate that the duPont powder interests and an English con- cern have divided the worlds dye mar ket between them and that the pending dye stuffs protection bill would give these interests world monopoly in the dye trade. It was stated that the duPonts were to have the exclusive market of the United States and Gen. tral and South America with the rest of the world assigned to the English firm, to be controlled equally by the
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-06-05
TAX BRITISH WAR WEALTH

Washington, June 1.-The propo- sal to tax war wealth as a means of reducing the public debt Is opposed in this country. Bankers and corporate interests declare the plan is -confscatory and Secretary of the Treasury Houston says 1t would dis1ocate business.
 The war wealth taxation committee of the British house of commons, how ever, IS giving serious consideration to the project.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-06-05
MUCH OIL IN MEXICO.

Washington, June 4.-There is sufficient oil in Mexico to meet the re- quirements of the United States for many years, reports the federal bureau of mines. Immense oil fields also exist in Latin American countries that bord- CT the Gulf of Mexico and the Carib- bean sea.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-06-05
LABOR NOT SLOWING DOWN

New York, June 4.-Charges that labor is slowing down, and that 1t is inefficient are untrue, according to Dr. John Whyte, who conducted a research for the National Association of Credit Men, A questionnaire was sent to manufacturers and 16o replied The re- plies contradict the inehiciency charge that is parroted by every advocate of anti-strike legislation, every profteer and every trade union opponent.
 Say wouldn't it be great if we all took hand in booming the label
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-06-05
WON $1 AN HOUR BY STRIKE

Duluth, Minn, June 4.-The car penters, who were compelled to strike to enforce their demands for an in- crease to $1 an hour, have returned to work, having secured an agreement that continues for one year.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-06-05
CARPENTERS RAISE WAGES

Jackson, Mich June A wage rate of 95 cents an hour has been estab- lished by Carpenters Union No. o5l.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-04-29
CONFESSES TO
KILLING GIRL
Former Soldier Declares He
Strangled Telephone OPP
orator by Request.

BY Associated Press:
PONTIAC, Mich. April oS-An-
son Best Of Flint, Mich. factory en-
.pioye and former soldier who. this
morning confessed. according 10
Prosecutor Glenn G. Gillespie. that
he strangled Miss Vers Schneider.
a telephone operator Ast Sunday
morning was further questioned bv
the authorities Wednesday night for
the purpose Of clearing up what ap-
peared 10 be discrepancies I'm the
statement attributed 10 him by the
prosecutor. Best was quoted as say
ing he killed the girl whom ne had
met only two hours earlier because
she asked him to; that she wanted
20 die because she was tired of life
and only in the way Of others" The
statement, the prosecutor said gave
no other explanation OF the crime
discovered when the girls body was
found on the porch or an unoccu-
pied house IN a restricted residential
section.
Circuit Judge X ?. Rockwell, be-
fore whom Best was arraigned this
afternoon. was expected Thursday
10 TX the date Of his trial. probably
for Friday or Saturday.
Alfred Webb and another man
taken in custody in connection with
the case. were released wednesday.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-04-29
WOOD WOULD HAVE
BOUGHT HUN ARMY"
Former Congressman Makes
Assertion During Johnson
Meeting at Richmond.
b Associated Press

RICHMOND. Ind April 26-A
plea for getting away from the cen
tralization Of power affected during
the war iu an effort 10 win quickly
and for au Americanism apart from
the League of Nations was made br
United states Sen. Hiram johnson
9f California candidate for the
nomination for president of the
United States. spea king here We'd
resday night 20 a crowd of approx
matelv 1000 persons The senator
was three hours late arriving Iu
Richmond and went Immediately
from his train 20 the Coliseum bee
ginning speaking within one minute
after be entered the hail
Preceding Sen. Johnson's speech
former Cong Frederick lands Il
LOgansp0rf. spoke for almost tWO
hours Lands was rOundly hlssed.
and many persons left the hall when
he said. II Gen. Leonard Wood and
his campaign managers had gone 10
France they would have bought the
German army
Sen Johnson in mis- address as
serted that the administration ar
Washington could bring about a So
luton Of the high cost OF living u @
would begin properly. He declared
that expenses must be- cut in Wash
inEton. charging that there had
been an extravaganza that passes
human belief" He declared the
United States did not need large
peace army.
Speaking OF the League 81 Na-
tions. ne declared that American
people must decide where the
American youth shan fgh-
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-04-29
NTERURBAN COMPANY
SEEKS RATE INCREASE
BY Associated Press

BY Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, April 2S.--
Petitions asking for an increase in
the interurban passenger rate from
? 2 c 70 sc a mile were filed with
the Indiana public service commits
sion late "Wednesday by the /. and
c. and the T. III. /. and T. interur-
ban companies. The companies also
ask for an increase in the commu-
tation rates on the basis of the
proposed increase in the straight
fare rate.
II was indicated that the COM
panies later would petition for an
increase i'm freight rates. Charles
J.. Henry. cf the l. and G. company.
said he understood the J. L. T. and
other Indiana traction companies
would file similar petitions for fare
increases.
An estimate OF the deficit in the
net receipts of S303.767 for 1920 IL
the present fare is continued was
made by the r. II. l. and l.. com
pany. An increase Of SS1,214 in
operating costs this year as com
pared to last year was set out by
the I. and G. company in its petition
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-04-29
BISHOP WHITE
REVIEWS WORK
OF Is YEARS
Episcopalians of Northern In
diana Venerate Aged
Prelate.

In celebration of the 25th ami
versary of Rt Rev. John Hazen
Whites charge as bishop of the
Episcopal diocese of northern Indi-
ana. a complimentary banquet was
held at the oliver hotel Wednesday
evening by members of his diocese
and parish. The celebration was
attended by many distinguished pre-
lates from other cities.
In his roply TO the toasts Of the
speakers o. the evening, Bishop
White said that above all things a
firm trust in God was the certain
guide upon which men could depend
TO guide them III their careers upon
this earth. He said that il should
pervade every act in the lives Of
men and particularly in the work of
those who directed the affairs of a
parish and diocese. Following this
Of % years and attributed to the
guiding hand of God the fact that it
had turned out so we'll.
High Tribute.
High tribute was paid by the
bishop 10 those who had worked
with him in diocese and parish. If
any progress had been made il was
also due TO the splendid cooperation
of clergy and laity. He concluded
with an appeal for future coopera-
tion with the bishop in charge of
the flock of the diocese of northern
Indiana, whether il be himself or
his successor.
Father L. G. Rogers of Mishawa-
ka, secretary of the diocese, present
ed statistics showing that the dio-
cese had increased $50 percent dur
ing the last % years.
Rev. r. w. Averill. Fort Wayne,
presided as toastmaster. Those re-
spending to the call of the toast
master were; Bishop w. A. Leon
ard. Cleveland: Canon Reade. Gin
F'r. J.. g. Rogers: +. w.
Fr c. H. Young, Chicago;
Stuart MacKibben and Bishop
White. who spoke on Twenty five
Years a Bishop"
The 25th anniversary committee
was composed of Rev. r. J. Long,
chairman: Rev. +. W. Averill. Rev.
W. J. Hawthorne. J. Alvin Scott,
T. II. Brandon and +. d.
Castor.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-04-29
HARDING HAS BIG
MARGIN IN OHIO
Latest Returns Show Senator
Leading Wood by Major
ity of l5.I86 Votes.
Ry AssorIafed Pc

~ sAoTN' AAAfA 4 ttHNr
COLUMBUS. o.. April eS.-With
but 1O3 precincts out of Ia total of
5.SS2 I'm the state missing. returns
at midnight from Tuesdays presi-
Dental primary election in Ohio
gave Sen. Warren Gs Harding a lead
OF 15,1S6 votes over Maj Gen.
Leonard Wood. The vote stood:
Harding, 125,0O3; Wood, 109,S17.
Daughtery (HRrding's campaign
manager) has been defeated. on the
face OF available returns. by Will
lam II. Boyd, Cleveland attorney
and Wood candidate. for delegate at
large 70 the Chicago convention.
With but 199 precincts missing
Boyd had a lead OF 1914 1t was
believed this lead might be reduced
TO approximately 200 by late re-
turns The vote stood: Boyd, 104.-
S9S; Daugherty. lO3.0S4. The vote
on other district delegates compiled
from all but 2T2 precincts in the
state. showed. Calvin (Harding)
114.O97: Willis (Harding) 115,413:
HerriCk (Hardiugl 1886; Turner
CWood) 1O1.942
Three candidates for delegate at
large apparently are elected.
The presidential preference vote
is practically complete. all but 10 or
the SIS counties in the state having
made complete returnss
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-04-29
FLEET OF L. 5. NAVY'S
SEA FIGHTERS WILL
VISIT GOTHAM HARBOR

by Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 2S.-Headed
by the battleship Pennsylvania, hav-
ing on board Sec'y of the Navy
Daniels, Admiral r +. Coontz. chief
Of naval operations, and Admiral
William B. Wilson, commander in
chief Of the Atlantic fleet, an arm
ada Of Americas greatest sea fight
ers, will sweep into New York har-
Dor Saturday for a two weeks visit
Eight great battleships, the Penn
sylvania, Utah. Florida, Delaware.
Oklahoma. Nevada, Arizona and
North Dakota, accompanied by de-
stroyer squadron three OF 50 vessels,
a train OF hospital ships, colliers
and repair vessels, the Shawmut of
the air force and a small feet of
submarines, making more than 80.
vessels in all, will make up the Wis
iting feet on board are more than
200 officers, including four men who
have attained the rank of rear ad-
miral and higher. and upward Of
10000 marines and blue Jackets