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The Connecticut labor press., 1920-02-07
COMPULSORY HEALTH INSURANCE
ENDORSEMENT BRINGS FORTH
IMPORTANT CONVENTION TOPIC

Trades Council in endorsing the
compulsory health insurance criterion prob
strong sentiment favor Of the project will develop
Of the Connecticut Federation of Labor which
Waterbury, the first week June The Council
by the organization Of such
legislative action compulsory health
this ALI other bodies affiliated with the Conne
asked formal their
views upon the subject
It an undniabe fact that health valuable
resulting loss of time illness but also
better standard of health prevention against illness better
understanding health ideals follow the adoption Of health
employers who bear Of the
hehful conditions for their employees
Then protected by health Insurance. who confined
with comparatively mild illness feels that he
time fully before back to work Without such
necessity providing livelihood for his family often
him back his job before he fully recovered resulting often
in another and serious illness later.
Safety first another great factor which follows the ina
The workman of today much
guarded accidents and has fewer of them than be-
health the thing follows regard sick
The employer realizing that he
of employees The when he finds that him
have his fellows ILL., will to it that his fellow worker observes
healthful precautions.
Better supply milk higher ideals of health gen.
orally result from the application of health regulations
AS result the worker and his family have less illness and the entire
community profits Through stmulou of health better
standards of living lengthen life.
According considered model health
bill follows twohs the
ffhs by the employers and one6fth by the state
Those who compulsory health insurance maintain that
compulsory OF the workers results III loss OF employ
ment by those who fail to make good physical showing thereby
throwing out of employment and making extremely difficult
elsewhere which
They that compulsory
invasion Of the workers rights American citizens and other
backs the plan also advanced
undoubtedly be thoroughly
discussed at the convention and it easily the
years
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-02-07
ONE OF EVERY TWELVE
WORKERS THROUGHOUT THE
COUNTRY "A WOMAN

compilation of industrial every
twelve who for living
of the large cities shows that ST. Louis the providers
of the because percentage
the smallest while New has the
Bread winners American families during 1919
of
nearly 100 leading American cities by Department
Dor investigators The cities include Chicago New York
St Francisco Seattle Cleveland The
that practically city composed from Is
of the bread of the family
ounumbered the than
This N. per
of income for families This high percentage
the fact that glove making leading industry
furnishes work which do at home
According the
from children totals
The families
of wives widely in different cities.
In Chicago the of families having
earnings of wives 1913 Cincinnati 1873
bus Ohio So Dallas 3d. Denver So Des Moines Detroit
49, indianapolis A. Kansas City 1915 Memphis SO; Minneapo
lis and ST. Paul. 63; New York
Francisco, 43 Seattle, IL; Louis 4; Wichita Kan 93
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-02-07
Advantages Club Offers
Club Members Terms

First payment any Glenwood coal or gas range
or parlor heater 81 then 81 weekly dues balance
First payment any coal and gas combination
range, Sc, then Sc weekly dues on balance
You receive 1919 discount if payments made
regularly or in advance.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-02-07
COUNTRY IS SICK OF THE
DALLYLNG OVER THE
LEAGUE OF MA TONS

which does guard the evil provisions
who II believe in compromise 81
usually Il believe ought do things
emily and immediately This apparently
and the Senators of both parties feel compromise
regarding the treaty the Nations
this frivolous our
buy real and beginning angry
whatever steps needed to make peace real.
of
treaty hard The difficulty pride
for bringing the dangers of other The necessity
should brought the
Senators and of the President by and who
forgotten the meaning of the words
"barrage'-s gas bombs
Caught on the ires-sbasket cases-and "Lusania
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-02-07

Of the horrors of Turkish massacres
and deportations. Saved by an Ameri-
can woman, she has come to this coun-
try and entered Oberlin College.
With her came fourteen other Arme-
nfan girls in charge of Miss Adelaide
8. Dwight, Near East Relief worker,
who has been instrumental In helping
to save hundreds of thousands Of their
people from death by starvation. Miss
Dwight, who is not given to exagger-
alton and has seen conditions at first
hand, says more than million people
are facing death by starvation in Ar
menia and will perish unless America
aids.
Herself an eyewitness to the slaugh-
ter Of hundreds Of helpless women
and children by the Turks and vic
tim of the deportations, Miss Dake-
sian, an unusually pretty girl, says
there is untold suffering In Armenia
and Syria She praises the efforts of
the Near East Relief, formerly the
American Committee for Armenian and
Syrian Relief, to- save as many Of
these people as possible. At Erfvan,
the capital of the Arm enian republic,
one hot meal is given out daily, and by
this relief alone the city's death rate
has been cut from a thousand daily to
an average of twenty. At Alexandra
pol, where the refugees from Turkish
Armenia were driven by thousands, the
situation is appalling, Miss Dakesian
says. 1t is to avert these wholesale
deaths that Near East Relief is making
a nationwide appeal for funds.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-02-07

The official report issued by the
American Federation of Labor shows
that all previous records have been
distanced in the increase of membership,
the number in good standing on January
1st, 1920, being 1924 greater than on
January 1st, 1919. The American Fed
Grafton of Labor begins the New Year
with a membership of 4,056,768, as COM
pared with 3,219, 527 year ago. This
is a gain of 1924 in the past II
months.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-02-07
BOY SCOUTS IN
YOUNG ARMENIA
Strangest Troop of All in Con-
stantinopIe Being Made Into
Good Citizens.

American Boy Scout training Is aid
ing prominently in the rehabilitation
of hundreds Of little Armenian boy
refugees from the Turkish massacres,
who have been organized into a scout
troop in Constantinople as the solution
Of one Of the most troublesome prob
lens that confronted the Near East Re
lief workers in that city.
Hounded and driven for four years,
having seen their parents and relatives
slaughtered or worse by Turks and
Kurds and themselves forced to beg,
steal or do almost anything to exc out
the barest existence, these boys had
completely lost their moral sense when
they finally found refuge in the Near
East Relief orphanges.
The boys had been clad in rags for
so long that they had forgotten how to
take care of Clothes This was tragedy
when the Near East Relief had need of
every pair of shoes and of every suit
Of clothes for new boys constantly COM
ing in.
Then the boys were organized as
Boy Scouts and given their uniforms.
They began to be careful of their
forms.
They had been SO often hungry they
had come to steal without compunc-
ton. When they first entered the or
phanages they continued to steal. One
boy stole a purse from his American
teacher. For two or three weeks after
he became Boy Scout he was obvious
ly uneasy. One day he came to her
with the purse in his hand.
ST don't want to give it back" he
said reluctantly. But I have to. I'm
a Boy Scout now"
To form more scout troops to trans
form these little unfortunates into
good citizens, Is one of the reasons
why the Near East Relief, 1 Madison
avenue, New York city, is making its
appeal for funds.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-02-07
100000 STAND
IN BREAD Line
More Than 100000 Face
Death Is Message Brought by
Miss DakeSian.

Imagine a bread line Of 10000 fam
ished people waiting for twenty-four
hours a day for the dole of food that
is the sole barrier between them and
death from starvation. That is the
situation in Alexandropol, city in
Russian Armenia, according to Miss
Hermine Dakesian, pretty Armenian
girl. one of the survivors Of four years
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-02-07
CAPMAKERS WIN OUT.

A general increase in wages of IS
per cent, a compromise of two more
holidays with paw, instead of the four
asked for, has been granted to cap
makers in New Haven following con-
ferences held last Saturday. The cap
makers presented their demands at the
first of the year and after preliminary
discussion meeting was arranged be-
tween a committee of employers, the
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-02-07

employees and officers of the Interna-
tional union After a brief discussion,
IN which the additional holidays played
the greater part, agreement was reach
ed. 1t gives the workers eight holidays
with pay instead of six as formerly
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-02-07

Say, wouldn't it be great if we all
took hand in booming the other fell
lows labels as we'll as our own?
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-02-07

The union label supersedes the boy
colt by concentrating the purchasing
power upon union products.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-04

anarchy and is filled with millions
of human beings actually on the
verge Of starvation. The first three
years of the French Revolution
were far less prosperous for that
new regime, yet it took Europe near
ly quarter Of a century to defeat
the revolution and the empire, which
presently organized France on the
new basis.
1t is the pleasant theory of the
careless and thoughtless that each
new age, each new moment ir ais
tory, presents brand new problems,
America at Paris resolutely elimi-
mated from the discussion of the re-
organization of Europe and the
world the facts of the past and in
sisted that we lived in world in
which the old had been burned up,
and out Of the fire human nature.
and geography as we'll, had emerged
purified and transformed. With this
in mind the world, but America
more than the rest, has turned it's
back upon history at the precise mo-
ment when it is repeating itself in
a striking fashion.
When the Turks were seeking to
break into Europe and were pounding
at the walls of Constantinople, the
Western nations, occupied with their
own interests, the Western peoples,
II one prefer this designation, per-
mitted Byzantium to fall; indeed, led
by the romantic emotions expressed
in the Crusades or by selfish reasons
to the exploitation of the Egean
Islands, contributed to the ruin of
the Eastern Empire. The result was
the arrival Of the Turk before the
walls of Vienna and the continue
ton Of wars growing out of Turkish
questions Of which we can hardly
believe we have seen the last.
The extinction Of Poland, an act
Of pure selfshness, planned by Fred
erick the Great, but contaminated
by Hapsburg, Romanoff and Hohen-
zollern dynasties, has led to strug-
giles which have in turn ended the
reign Of each Of these houses, de-
stroyed Austria, given Russia over
to anarchy and raised in new form
the Slav menace for Germany. which
has oontindld with few Interrupt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-04
Notes Didn't Save Us

We shut our eyes from 1914 y
1917 to the significance to our o.
country of the World War. We N
lied upon notes, as we are now EeFl
ing upon the promised ratifcshm!
Of another "scrap Of paper" VIZ
the consequences be less grave u VI
the present year Poland falls -
the Bolsheviki arrive in the hear
Of Europe?
The fact which is becoming clear
er and clearer with each success"
month is that the World War
not over, that we have not achie'p
peace, that the great conflict, Wy
the French revolutionary upheash
which it daily tends to resela''
more, will prove struggle OF nsH
phases and that we are, in fs@I
merely entering the second phase
Europe cannot long continue a.
Bolshevik and half democratic. n"
can Europe, left to itself, flna VI
moral or the material strengsn
defeat Bolshevism. The situation v
the situation of the war, when y
Western nations were only saw
from defeat by the enlistmen.
America. confess that every s0'e
of evidence that comes to
in Washington from Europ
sources, save in the case of Bnrs
and France, points straight toSs
the triumph of Bolshevism on y
Continent or else to the restorsas
of German militarism to
strength and vigor as the oppou
Of the Reds" Either solution
hardly less dangerous for Amer
than for Britain and France.
between Ludendorff and Irou
what is there for us to chooses
The way to get into trouble =
run away from it. We proveo .
in the German case. You cant
long in Washington, at the p'
hour, without feeling that our ,
sian policy is an exact repll0
our German course. and that N
lead Us back to Europe by the
ignoble and expensive method
Copyright, 1880. McClars q
paper Syndioatsl
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-04
Poland Seen as the Only Wall to
Withstand the 'Red''
Deluge

Dalmatian coast and from the Wis
tula to tho Tigris, still stand in
arms.
But patiently the ratification Of
peace will not affect the Bolshevists.
Even the sending home Of certain
number Of REDS" cannot be calcu-
lated to strike more terror into the
heart Of Lenine than was the dis
patch Of Won. Papen and his asso-
ciates to Germany during the war
successful in bringing the Kaiser to
hear reason. We did not stop Ger
man intrigue in America by our ex-
pulsions, we did not even mitigate
the evil, and the reason was that
the trouble was in Germany, not
In America, and as long as we were
not ready to lend our strength to
crush tho evil in its home it con-
tinued to menace us in ours. Our
experience with Bolshevism will not
be different.
In tho present article I am going
to try to retrace certain events, sig
nificant, in my judgment, Of the
world situation to-day and particu-
larly important in their relation to
the Bolshevist problem. In recent
days the Bolshevists have reached
the Baltic, the power Of resistance
ok;the Let's and Lithuanians is ex-
hausted, Poland and Rumania, alone
Of the border states, remain. Poland
had large army, but it has also to
face the German menace, for the AL
lies have failed to give Poland Dan
zig, and the. title of the mineral dis
tricts Of Silesia awaits adjudication
by plebiscite. Despite an improve
ment in domestic conditions Poland
is incapable of maintaining an army
Of 100000 in the field long without
Allied subventions which are not to
be expected, and with this army
the single remaining bulwark
against the Bolshevists will disap-
pear. AS for Rumania, she is ready
and willing to make peace with the
Bolshevists, having been treated
with contempt by the Western ma
tons, and for the present such a
peace falls in with Bolshevist neces,
stiles.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-04

first step Is the destruction Of Pc
land. And in the present state Of
Allied policy, who can doubt that
Poland is doomed?
The worst phase of the Polish
problem lies in the fact that the So
called liberal elements, all over
America and Europe, have contrib
uted largely to discrediting the Po-
lish state in advance Of its extreme
danger. Thus once more, wholly un-
Intentionally, in the main, but not
less fatally, they have prepared the
way for the enemy. The Poles, who
under Sobieski saved Europe from
the Turk, are now necessarily the
main bulwark against the Bolshevist.
Exactly in the same way, the Poles,
who centuries ago blocked German
expansion into Russia and preserved
the Slav from Teutonic conquest, are
again the single barrier to new Ger
man expansion.
If Poland Falls
Let US suppose that Poland, with
out effective aid from the Western
nations, succumbs to Russian attack,
as the armies Of Denikin, Kolchak
and Yudenitch have already sue
cumbed, remembering that it ia
against Poland that the next Boil
shevist assault will infallibly be d.
rected, what then? Obviously there
will remain only the Czecho-Slovak
state as partial barrier between
the Bolshevist and the hopeless and
wellnigh insane population of Aus
tria on the north and the hardly less
disturbed peoples Of Hungary on the
south. And to aid the Czechs the
Allies will have no other chance
than the dispatch of troops across
Germany.
1t may be that in this situation
Germany will be able to resist Boil
shevism, 1t may be that she will not
succumb, that the elements Of un-
rest and disorder will continue to be
impotent, but this means that the
military and Junker elements, re-
gaining control, called to power by
the German people to protect them
from the Eastern danger, will create
new armies, fight . new war, prob
ably viotoriouA but carrying with II
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-04
By Frank H. simonds

WGshsn0t ton, u. u.
!" HE more one touches the
situation at the national
capital at the present hour
the more one is struck with
the astonishing indifference to inter-
national problems, the enormous con-
centration upon domestic questions,
and, beyond all else, the rather puer-
lie effort to discuss and view ques-
tions which are essentially interna-
tional from totally parochial point
OF view. It is as if by common con-
sent all mem in public Office were
seeking to abolish, by silence and by
avoidance, the great events and the
great deeds Of recent years and be-
lieved that by such a course one could
dispose Of the great problems which
have resulted from recent world dis
turbances.
The most striking illustration Of
this tendency is found In the atti-
tude toward Bolshevism. We have
in Washington, as everywhere else
in the United States at tho present
moment, discussions Of the so-called
Red peril" One hears solemn dis
cussions based upon the argument
that the extension Of the policy 0fs
deportation to include q few thou
sands instead Of few hundreds Of
alien anarchists will presently re-
move the danger which exists for
the nation in the Bolshevist disturb
ance in Russia.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-04

/ tons since the Congress Of Vienna
set it's final seal Of sanction upon
the extinction Of Poland.
In the World War neither the
British nor the French could take
full measure of the value Of Serbia,
and Britain embarked upon the
fatal Gallipoli venture. The result
was the arrival Of Germany at the
Golden Horn, the direct attack
upon Egypt and the indirect men,
ace to India. Too late, the impor-
lance of a barrier at the Danube
was appreciated and the loss Of the
troops sacrificed at the Dardanelles
bemoaned.
To-day Poland fulfills the same
role that Serbia had in 1915, that
Constantinople had in the fifteenth
century. She is the advanced senti-
mel of our Western democracies, just
as Byzantium was the single bar
rier of Christianity against the
! militant gospel Of Mahomet. But
Poland cannot single-handed hold
the gate, nor is it for the immediate
interests Of the Germans that she
should occupy that gate.
Two years ago, at this very hour,
the Bolshevist agents were listen
ing in BrestSLitovsk to the harsh
sentence imposed by victorious mill
taristic Germany. They were COM
PEELED to cede provinces, recognize
obligations, yield everything. The
world laughed~a rather wry laugh
at the plight Of Trotzky and Lenine.
But to-day the Russian Revolution
is master of most Of Russia, the
Ukraine has fallen, the Baltic prov
inces wait like ripe plums to fall to
the now unresisted invader. The
last semblance Of domestic revolt is
being crushed out; only Poland is
left of all our policy of the Gordon
sa,,ttGire, which becomes now as I'M
resisting as marsh fog, however
impressive it may seem to the eye.
A year ago the world waited i'm
patiently upon the Paris Conference,
just coming together, to obtain
peace. 1t believed that by some mys-
ferrous legerdemain the few score
OF statesmen and politicians, SOL
diers and officials gathered at the
French capital could organize the
chaos created by nearly five years of
destruction, and that by drawing
few lines on the map, accommodating
mass of words on white paper,
these men could restore order, pros
perity, comfort-do everything but
recall the dead, who lay by millions
on all The battlehelds, from the
Marine to the Vistula.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-04

fresh victories, which would replace
the memories Of recent defeats, would
infallibly seek to regain their old
situation on the Rhine and the Mo-
selle, once they had established it
on the Vistula. For Britain and for
France this would mean the threat
of 1914 ten times magnified. Could
we permit France and Britain to be
destroyed, to pass under the German
yoke, as Germany and Austria
passed under the Napoleonic yoke a
little more than a century ago? If
we did we should find ourselves, like
Britain in the earlier era, engaged
single-handed in a struggle against
the Continent of Europe, with prac-
tically no ally.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-04

grave menace to the West and a
permanent cessation of any payment
Of indemnities, for the Western ma
tions will be compelled to forego the
payment Of moneys while Germany
is fighting a Bolshevist menace, only
less grave for them than for her and
bound to be almost fatal if Germany
is conquered.
If Germany be beaten, Bolshevism
will arrive at the Rhine and the
Alps, at the frontiers of Italy and
of France, and the domestic condi-
ton Of Italy makes such a circum-
stance gravely disquieting. But if
Germany is successful she will have
forged new weapons, opened the way
to the commercial exploitation of
Russia and escaped from that state
of military impotence which makes
her resistance to Allied demands
purely formal at the present hour.
Either way, too, the danger for
America is patent. We have been
going through stage Of national
apprehension resulting from the rel
atively restricted operations Of a
handful of "Reds," representing a
Russian anarchy still far removed
from our shores. But what would
be the situation if Bolshevism should
sweep over all Central Europe?
What if the armies Of Trotzky and
Lenine should presently acquire the
cohesion necessary to repeat the
achievement of the armies of Rev
dictionary France? Does any one
suppose that the domestic nantes
tations would be less disturbing
than now? Would we be able per-
manently to escape the duty Of join
ing with Britain and France in a
new struggle against foe far more
menacing than was Germany,
against a doctrine far more de-
str.ictive of our ideas and our civil
lization than the Prussian?