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The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-10
WATERBURY STRIKERS VOTE DOWN
TO RETURN TO FACTORIES
JAIL SENTENCES
= FOR STRIKERS In
WATERBURY RIOT
Six Sentenced, Another Bound
Over but All Enter
Appeals.

Waterbury, July 9.-Six strikers were
jailed for terms of from 80 days to one
year and another was bound
over to the Superior court under $1,000
bonds on a charge of melting a riot,
for the part it is alleged they took in
the clash between the strikers and the
police near the Scovi1le factory on
June II and in which one striker, a
youth of 18 was shot and killed and
two policemen seriously wounded. The
cases were heard before Judge Will
liam J. Larkin on Tuesday and quickly
disposed of after the court had listened
to the testimony of policemen. The
men before court claimed that they
were victims of circumstances and had
no part in the shooting or fracas but
the police said they did and that was
the end of it.
Liberto Sporzo of South Main street,
who was accused in the police testi-
mony with starting the trouble and in
citing the riot, was ordered held in
sureties of $1,000 for the next term of
the superior court. Sporzo urged the
crowd to shoot, according to the tes-
timony.
Others sentenced were Gae1mar Sim
kamar of 784 Bank street and Nicholas
Mas1off of 517 North Main street, 80
days in jail; John LaBramo of 7o
Edgewood avenue, six months in jail !;
Salvatore Castelletti of Wilbur station
and Alderico Rossi of 285 Bank street,
Vincenzo Struggle of 162 Mill street.
claimed an appeal and the bonds were
fixed at s., 900 in each case. The COM
plant against Sporzo remained un-
changed
The police are still investigating the
cases of Bernardo Favalo and Mike
Kalachuk, who are held in the New
Haven jail on a charge of having ex-
plosives in their possession with intent
to take life Kalachuk has confessed
his part in the handling of the bomb
found in the woods near the home of
Judge William Larkin, jr., on Satur-
day. the police say, while Kavalo denies
any part in the affair. The police 81.
that they have information that the
bomb waskmade in New Haven. Both
men are under $4,000 bonds. New
York police bomb experts are coming
here to aid the police in their investiga-
ton.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-10
ENGINEERS BANK
SPEEDILY GRANTED
NATIONAL CHARTER
First Workman Financial Insti-
tuition Starts With Million
Capital.

The first real Workers Bank, one
owned and operated by actual workers.
is at last fact. 1t is located in Cleve-
land, O., and is owned by the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers and has
been granted a national charter by
John Shelton Williams, Comptroller of
the United States Treasury
APPLICATION was made through Chief
Warren S. Stone and members of the
national advisory board less than 10
days previous. Usually 90 days are re-
quired by the Treasury Department to
pass upon the approval of a charter for
a national bank. In this instance the
approval was made in eight days.
The Brotherhood is now authorized
to proceed with the organization of its
cooperative banking company, which it
is understood will start with a paid up
capital of at least 81, 100000. This fund
is Immediately available from reserves
in the treasury of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers.
This will be the first national CO.
operative banking institution in this
country, and is probably the Inaugural
ton of an entirely new banking and
credit system for the labor movement
of America.
1t is the purpose of the Brotherhood
to establish branches of this great
financial institution in various railroad
centers of the country.
The Brotherhood recently purchased
site for its new banking house
opposite its splendid headquarters build
ing in Cleveland, Ohio, where a per-
manent bank building is soon to be
erected. At the beginning the present
structure on these lots will be utilized
to house the bank.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-10

toward un-American restriction of per-
sonal rights and liberties and that there
is a great need for such an organiza-
ton is evidenced by the plans now afoot
to Danish tobacco in ali forms and
other similar crack Drained efforts
aimed at individual rights.
1t is proposed to include through
fraternal, social and trade union or
ganizations a great mass of citizens who
will make a formidable force of con-
tention for the reformers who would
regulate the lives of their fellow beings,
regardless of the wishes or desires of
the regulated, and it is expected that
the new organization will be decided
factor in the coming state election and
at the next session of the General
Assembly. 1t will also have something
to say to candidates for election to
Congress.
The Personal Liberty League of Con-
necticut is a branch of the National
Personal Liberty League and part of
the great national movement for the
protection of the rights of the people
against the ever growing hysterica1
wave of regulation and oppression.
That the appeal for aff1liation which
will be determined upon at tomorrow's
meeting will meet with a vigorous re-
Sponse seems assured.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-10
BOXING MATCH AND
SUNDAY EXCURSION
FOR LABOR TEMPLE
Labor Day Field Day Plans
Called Off for Better
Scheme.
SHOW TO Be IN ARENA
While Two Steamers Will Take
Crowds to Coney Island
in August.

The refusal of the New Haven Box
ing Commission to permit boxing ex-
hibition at Lighthouse Point park on
Labor Day in connection with the field
day planned in connection with the
drive for a Labor temple fund, effec-
tually put the plans for field day out
of business Instead the executive COM
mittee in charge of the drive has Sc
cured permission for a boxing show to
be held in the Arena on Labor Day
night and card that win prove an at
tractive one is now being arranged.
The show will be the first to be run
under supervision of the boxing COM
mission and will therefore assuredly be
free from all taint of frame-ups or
other deals that have marred the sport
here in the past, and everyone who at
tends will be sure of real run for his
money.
While some of the preliminaries, all
good ones, have been arranged it is
thought best not to announce any until
the main attractions have been secured
Plans in the works now are for at least
two of the best boys in the ring for the
stellar bout with semi-fnal that will
be only a shade less in Importance
Only matter of detail is holding up the
big bout and it is expected confidently
to have the card signed up before next
week end.
Meanwhile the drive will go merrily
on. The same plan of giving every
contributor something for his money
will be carried out and in this line ar
rangements are about concluded for a
mammoth Sunday excursion by water
from New Haven to Coney Island and
return in the middle or latter part of
August A steamer capable of carrying
1000 persons has already been char
tered and as it is cinch more than that
number can be secured to go along,
arrangements are now being made for
second steamer AS soon as the two
steamers can be arranged for on the
same day, that day will be announced
and there will be one grand big Labor
party sailing down the Sound for Coney
some Sunday.
For the past week the committees
have been visiting the several local or
ganizations enlisting support for the
fair and other events in connection
with the drive The response has been
more than pleasing, some locals prompt
ly arranging for at least one season
book of fair tickets for each and every
member as we'll as taking entire blocks
of the tickets to dispose of. The vot-
ing contests were also picked up and
given such whoop that it is becoming
a hard task to keep track of the con-
testants now, so far as giving aut any
standings is concerned. No sooner is a
standing attempted than a fresh block
of votes upsets it.
Business men generally about town
are also proving very friendly toward
the Labor temple movement and there
seems to be no doubt of its coming to a
successful end with the close of the
fair next November.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-10
CARPENTERS CLOSE UP
UNORGANIZED DISTRICT
Organizer Sullivan to Install New
Local Along Shore Line
at Madison.

Through the efforts of General Or
ganizer William J. Sullivan, carpenters
and joiners in the district between
Branford and New London will be en-
rolled into local of the Carpenters
Brotherhood at Madison next week, and
will start with about so MEMBERS The
charter and other details have been at
tended to and at the meeting next week,
officers will be elected and the new
local formally affiliated with other or
ganized crafts.
The territory embraced by the new
union has been uncovered heretofore
jurisdiction over men working therein,
being taken either by New London or
Branford locals heretofore. Neither one
was in position to capably attend to the
matter, distances being the main OBJ
stacle. Mr.. Sullivan made several trips
through the district and succeeded in
rounding up about so resident carpen-
ters of the section and organized them.
Madison being the most central point,
that was made the headquarters.
An amicable arrangement as to
boundaries has been started with the
New London and Branford locals so as
neither will in the future overlap into
the new unions territory.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-10
LITTLE EFFORT TO
CAPTURE SLAYER
OF SOKOLOWSKY
Wife, Suspected of Crime, Makes
Good Getaway While
Case Lags.

With the eception of sending out a
call to the police of other cities, to look
for and arrest Mrs. Frank Sokolowsky
wanted here for the murder of her hus-
band, little or nothing has been done
towards apprehending the woman whom
it is now generally believed murdered
Frank SokoloWsky, an organizer for the
A. F. of L., as he lay sleeping at his
home on Beers street, New Haven, two
weeks ago today All trace of the
woman after she reached Bridgeport
has been lost and the police here or
elsewhere seem to be very little con-
cerned whether they get her or not.
Warning was sent to Toronto, Can
ada, where the couple once resided, and
last week a woman, somewhat answer
ing the description was taken in charge
there. She had little difficulty in prov
ing she was not the one wanted and
with that arrest interest seems to have
dropped and the police are sitting back
quietly waiting for her to make some
false move that will lead to her being
picked up by some patrolman.
Neither has the coroner's Office yet
handed down a finding although vol
luminous evidence was secured by the
coroner. All doubt about Soko1ow-
sky's loyalty to his cause and the Wa
terbury strikers, which doubt was raised
by enemies to labor Immediately after
the murder, has been dispelled. Every
vestige of clue that might lead to any
indication of dis1oya1ty has been run
down by Labor and each and every one
has only served to prove that Soko1ow-
sky was heart and soul in the cause.
Ira NJ Ornburn was appointed ad-
ministrator of Sokolowsl<y's estate by
Judge Gibson in the probate court dur
ing the week This is only formality
to allow Mr.. Ornburn to clear up un-
dertakers and such other bills as may
be due, Sokolowsky's estate amounting
to only a couple of hundred dollars at
most, barely enough to pay the expense
of his funeral. His little fve-year-old
daughter is yet in the custody of the
authorities and will be detained prob
ably until the case is formally settled,
when she will either be given over to
relatives or sent to some chlldren's
home
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-10
STRIKE STOPS WORK
ON HARKNESS MEMORIAL

Work on the great Harkness Mem
orial quadrangle at Yale was almost
entirely stopped Thursday when more
than 200 hod carrierss~ mortar mixers
and laborers went on strike when their
demands for an increase from 65 cents
to Is cents an hour were refused. The
walkout necessarily caused the stopping
of the bricklayers and plasterers so
that for some hours the only work 60
ing on was by the carpenters.
The men went to Trades Council hall
where a meeting was held and a COM
mittee appointed to wait upon the Marc
Eidlitz Contracting firm direct and
present the demands and not to attempt
to negotiate through the superintendent
of the job as had been done and proved
a failure Yesterday some of the brick
layers were back at work, mixing their
own mortar, it was stated, and being
served by number of unskilled labor
ers picked up by the firm.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-10
TILSON REPORTED
AMONG JUNKETEERS
CRUISING PACIFIC
Connecticut Congressman Among
List of Daring "a on
Transport.
SECRETARY DENIES IT
Says He's in New Hampshire for
Summer in Which Case
He's Safe.

Twenty-four members of Congress,
their wives, families and friends, the
official list of whom given out at sail
ing time included the names of our
own suave Congressman John O.
Tilson, of New Haven, are now
on the Pacific ocean on one of the most
outrageous jrnketing trips ever perpe-
trated on these United States and all
the more outrageous considering the
conditions under which the country is
1aboring today. They have gone on a
tour of the Orient, without reason or
excuse for the tour, taking one of the
largest and most costly to operate
transports in the government service.
To run the ship alone costs $1,000 a
day and they will be gone for 90 days
the ship alone. Each member of the
party is to contribute the magnificent
sum of $1.75 a day as an offset against
his or her board or lodging, making a
total cost of $157.50 for a three months
vacation, which even the congressman
themselves admit will hardly allow the
government a chance of breaking even
on the ice water bills.
The report that Congressman Tilson
was in the party got about New Haven
during the week and was promptly de-
MED by his secretary The latter stated
Mr.. Tilson is in New Hampshire for
the summer. In which case perhaps
he will show up here during the 90
days and settle all doubt as to his being
on the junket. -
The party was originally cast for
about $50 members of Congress but the
junket was exposed by Labor, published
in Washington, taken up by Labor pa
pers the country over, worked finally
into some of the fearless regular press
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-10
OPEN SHOP PLAN
TO DISRUPT LABOR
BEFORE CHAMBER

The New Haven Chamber of
Commerce, through its industrial
relations committee, will on
Monday night take up the recon-
mendations sent out by the
United States Chamber of Com
merce, which as told in The La
Dor Press last week, was going
the rounds as part of the con-
certed attempt to break up Or
ganized Labor. The "open shop"
proposition is one of the main
parts of the recommendations
which are in twelve clauses, as
published last week, and which
if the employers could put them
into effect, would give the Or
ganized workers about as much
chance as Uncle Tom" had un-
der Simon Legree."
1t is most certainly expected
expected that the Chamber will
adopt the recommendations and
solemnly vote to pun them into
effect. The Chamber has taken
many solemn votes, but the only
one to take effect seems to have
been the informal one not to
induce any new business into
New Haven, and that surely
seems to- be effective.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-10
GOING TO GIVE
BUSY REFORMERS
A BATTLE ROYAL
Connecticut s New Personal Lib.
'erty League Executive Board
Meets Tomorrow.
A BIG ORGANIZATION
With Vastly Increased Member
ship League Promises to Be a
Notable Factor in Politics.

John ]. Carrick of Danbury, secre-
tary and treasurer of the new Personal
Liberty League of Connecticut, which
succeeds the Trades Union Liberty
League, has issued a call for meeting
of the executive board to be held at
Trades Council Hall, 215 Meadow
street, New Haven, tomorrow at 10 AS
a. m.
1t will be the object of this meeting
to devise plans for securing the affilia-
ton of fraternal organizations, social
clubs and such other bodies as may be
interested in the maintenance of person.
al liberty, in addition to the numerous
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-10
MAY DROP PIECE WORK.

Chicago, July 9.-Ofhcers of the
Cigar Makers International Union are
calling attention to production changes
in this industry that makes it necessary
for these workers to give thought to the
idea of changing the rate of pay from
piece work to day or week rate.
1t is stated that with the introduc-
ton of machines the cigar maker is
becoming specialist, and under this
system he rarely learns the trade in its
entirety.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-10

trade unions which formed the old
Trade Union Liberty League and which
now comprise the nucleus of the new
organization.
By thus extending the scope of the
Organization :. membership it is ex-
pected that it will be greatly strength
ened and that its campaign for the pro-
lection of the liberties of the individual
citizen, now threatened in every direc-
ton by the encroachment of govern
mental regulation, can be made much
more effective.
While this movement emanated in the
first place from a desire to oppose the
government of the majority by the
minority in the matter of prohibition
the objects of the. League are by no
means confined to Prohibition alone. 1t
is the intention to combat all tendencies
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-10
DETERMINED TO STAY OIT
UNTIL WAGE CONCESSIONS :.
ARE MADE AS DEMANDED
MANUFACTURERS AGREE TO ORGANIZATIONS, SHOP COM
MITTEEs AND REINSTATEMENT THROUGH EFFORTS
OF c. F. OF L.. ATTORNEY-POLICE CHIEF PERMITS
MEETINGS FINALLY DOESN'T GET
EXPECTED RESULTS.

Waterbury, July Undetermined to
the manufacturers make increase their
their
to do the striking skilled and uned workers of Waterbury
tories meetings held Thursday and today
the strike The
to to work without being
would be
hope for through the shop
The
the strike indefinitely and according shown
do
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-10
PATTERN MAKERS OUT.

Schenectady, N. Y, July 9,-Pattern
makers employed by the American
Locomotive Works are on strike to en-
force a wage rate of $1.35 an hour.
These highly skilled workers have been
receiving 90 cents.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-10
BREAK PROMISE; STRIKE.

Toronto, Ontario, July 9-Broken
promises forced machinsts employed by
the Bawden Machine & Tool company
to strike to enforce a wage rate of IS
cents an hour
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-10
WILL ARBITRATE.

Burlington, Iowa. July s.-After re-
sisting demands of the Bakery and
Confectionery Workers union for
seven months, the Iowa Biscuit COM
pany has concluded to arbitrate differ
ences.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-10
PRINTERS RAISE WAGES.

Buffalo, N. Y, July 9.-Wages of
newspaper printers have been raised
$3.50 a week through an agreement
between Typographical Union No. 9
and newspaper managers.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-10
Labor,s Buying Guide Revised to Date


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The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-10
GET 81 AN HOUR.

Portsmouth, N. H., July 9.-Negotia-
ton, backed by strong organization,
has made it possible for the Carpen-
ters' union to raise rates to 81 an hour.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-10
TEXTILE WORKERS UNITE.

Edgewood, R. l., July 9.-Textile
workers have organized two locals at
this place They are chartered by the
United Textile Workers, affiliated with
the A F. of L.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-10
TRANSFERS GAINING.

Oakland, Cal, July 9-Organized
teamsters in this city are winning their
demand for ST an hour. p
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-10
PLUMBERS RAISE WAGES.

Toronto, Ontario, July 9-The
Plumbers and Steamftters' Union has
raised wages to 90 cents an hour for
its 700 members.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-10
WANT 4O-HOUR WEEK.

New York, July 9-Organized car
penters in this city are demanding a
40-hour work week.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-10

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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-10-15
BRITISH WARN REDS
Russians Ordered to Return Eng
Iish Prisoners.
Great Britain to Take Certain Ac-
ton" Should captives Be Held
by Soviet Government.

London, Oct. 9.-Great Britain has
threatened to take certain actor"
against Soviet Russia if steps are not
taken by Oct. 10 for the release of
British prisoners held by the Bolshev-
XII, says the Herald, organ of labor,
which prints what purports to be the
text of notes exchanged by the British
and Soviet governments.
Leonid Krassin, head Of the Russian
Bolshevik trade mission here, mas re-
piled on behalf Of the Bolsheyik re-
gime that it will promise to fulfill the
conditions required by Great Britain
when the latter carries out her part OF
the bargain made last July for the
mutual release of all prisoners, and
cessation of all hostile action.
The NUMBER of prisoners in British
hands in Egypt, Persia. Constantine
pie and Batum, it is declared by NJ
Krassin, has not been communicates
to the Soviet government. which de-
Sires their return to Russia.
Regarding Russian prisoners under
British control, Foreign Minister Cur
ION said in his note: A very limited
number Of Russian subjects are in our
hands and Great Britain desires to get
rid Of them. They are being retained
solely as a means of inducing the Boil
sheviki to fulfill their undertaking.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-10-15

Over fifty years ago young
physician practiced widely in a
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for his uniform success in the
curing Of disease. This was DIR.
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and placed one of his prescriptions,
which he called Golden Medical
Discovery" in the drug stores OF
the United States so that the pub
lie could easily obtain this very
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blood maker. DIR. Pierce manu-
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roots and banks a corrective
remedy, the ingredients of which
nature had put in the fields and
forests, for keeping us healthy.
Few folks or families now living
have not at sometime or other used
this Golden Medical Discovery"
for the stomach, liver and heart.
Over twenty four million bottles
of this tonic and blood remedy
have been sold in this country.