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The Connecticut labor press., 1920-05-15
SKILLED WORKERS IN WATERBURY NOW
 PRESENT DEMANDS
Organized >Machinists and Others Ask Increase and Shorter
 Week.
NO CHANGE IN STRIKE
Unskilled Workers Turn Down Plan to Call Upon
 Holcomb.

Waterbury, May 14.-The long ex 1 pected action by the skilled workers employed in the mills here and in neigh.
 boring towns, in demanding substan. | t1al increase in wages and a shorter l working week, was taken on Tuesday l night, when the machinists and allied 1 trades in a mass meeting, formulated
 demands calling for a 5 per cent irl-
 crease in wages and A hour week The demands were mailed to the en- ployers on Wednesday and on their answer will depend future action by the
 workers. The tradesmen are well or
 ganized and in position to enforce their
 demands.
 While they are absolutely essential to the working of the big plants here the organized and skilled tradesmen have always been at the mercy of the unskilled worker who could at will so disrupt conditions in the shops as to unbearable. The strike of the unskil1ed workers that has been on here for sev- era1 weeks past has made 1t especially trying for the skilled workers, who have been going about in slow and regular way to seek better wages but have been unable to get consideration any more than were the unskilled men who went on strike. Now they have taken the matter up direct and expect to get action.
 The strike of the unskilled workers goes on unchanged, with the exception that strike benefits are now being paid and food dispensed to those with fanil- ies who are in need. Unmarried men are getting $1 a day while married men with families get more, with food secured by the committee and much donated by local merchants. Two car loads were given to the strikers by one wholesale firm this week and aided ma terially in relieving conditions.
 A plan suggested to the New Eng land workers organization, said to have come from the manufacturers under covers of the workers officers, to have Governor Holcomb step in and endeav- or to settle the strike, was turned down cold when presented to the meeting of the strikers on Tuesday. The rank and file couldn't see wherein they had any thing to hope for in what the governor might try to do for Labor, and so de- cided they wouldn't take a chance with him. The officers, believing they could do as they chose with the workers, had prepared a telegram to the governor but when the workers heard of 1t they promptly rejected 1t.
 The mills are continuing to operate but under great difficulties. The forces are so greatly reduced that the office help has been sent into the mills but the physique of the men is not such to stand such work and they are breaking down under it. The Federal Workers unions organized by the American Fed eration of Labor are growing steadily and it is hoped that through them will soon come a plan to have the strike settled to the satisfaction not only of the A. F. of L. men, but to the others who went out on strike.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-05-15
PAPER MAKERS TO
 ORGANIZE 1,5OO
 WORKERS IN CITY
Mass Meetings in Trades Council Hall Tonight and
 Tomorrow.

Mass meetings of the 1,50O odd paper makers and box makers employed 1T New Haven and vicinity, will be held at Trades Council hall tonight and to- morrow night at 7 o'clock under the auspices of Local 221 of the Paper makers International Brotherhood at which general enrollment of all such employees into the organization will be carried on. The meetings will be ad- dressed by General Orgamzer William Zaranko of the International Brother hood and several of tke local officers and, together with the quiet organiza- ton work that has been going on for the past several W eeks, great results are anticipated.
 A meeting of the Local was held on Thursday night attended by Organizer Zaranko and reports made then indi- cated that the workers here are prac- tical1y unanimous in feeling that the only hope they have for relief from ex- isting conditions is through organiza- ton and they are coming in rapidly. So great is the demand that the mass meetings were considered necessary to expedite the work of enrolling them
 Although organization work has been quietly going on 1t has evidently reached the ears of the employers for this week voluntary increase of five cents an hour was given the paper makers. Such things have been known to happen here before when organiza- ton and affiliation with the A. F. of L. was in prospect and no longer fools the workers.
 While none are being paid decent living wage, increase is not the only thing bothering the workers in the box and paper trades. Organizer Zaranko startled the TraGes Council at its last meeting when he told it that workers engaged in these lines, especially in the heavy paper making industry, were working from 12 to 15 hours day at a wage that barely suficed to keep them in food Their 1abors are so strenuous that when their long day is up they are exhausted as.d tumble into bed like logs into a runway, with no prospect for the morrow but to get up and do it all over again. Labor shortage, due to the fact that labor cannot be had under the conditions and wages paid, adds to their troubles so now they are going to at tempt to remedy them.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-05-15
NO "AFTER WAR"
 INDUSTRY SLUMP
 IN NEW ENGLAND
New Haven Road Canvass Shows Tremendous Boom
 Instead.

Instead of there being any after-war slump in industry i'll New England, and especially that portion of it served by the New Haven road, there is i'll fact a greater rush than ever, according to a survey made by the New Haven road officials and reported to the stockhold- CTS by President Pierson. Of list of more than 100 factories, started as war babies, and thai might ordinarily be expected to drop down or out when the war was over, President Pierson finds that the entire bunch are not only going to continue but are more than rushed with orders.
 These facts were given the stock holders with view to pointing out the necessity of further extending the roads facilities for handling this out put. The task as set forth by the off cers is a gigantic one and because of present cost conditions one that will have to be very carefully gone into.
 The road, as the policy of the officers is outlined, does not intend to interfere in any way with present wage arrange ments, despite what other roads may. have in view for cutting. down the scale paid to the employees. "To even consider such policy now would be foolish" MT. Pierson declared at the recent stockholders meeting. The pres ent high costs of materials and necessi- ties of life are such that the officers realize the men must be paid i'll propor- ton and are therefore unwilling to even consider any suggestion toward lowering wages at this time.
 The road and its help are now gener- ally in accord and while the employees are interested in the general wage ad- vances being discussed by the national committee appointed by President Will son, there is no disposition among the employees of the New Haven at pres ent to attempt to force raise in wages. a shortage of help and is widely adver- tising for employees. It makes it plain that the help is not wanted to break strike" as DO strike exists, but is want ed to fill vacancies
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-05-15
NEW AGREEMENT
 OF TROLLEYMEN GOES TO COMPANY
Increased Wage, Flat Rate and Shorter Day Among Things
 Asked.

A flat rate of wages instead of the graduated scale as at present, an in- crease to 75 cents an hour and reduc- ton in working hours per day, are among the requests submitted to the Connecticut Company by the State Conference Board of the Trolleymen's unions and now under discussion with the company. The contract with the company expires on June 1 and a new wage and working agreement has been presented by the unions. The agree ment also suggests changes in the op- eration and pay for the 'one-man" trol- ley cars and time-and-one-half for over time. The present rate ranges from A cents for beginners to 50 cents an hour for flve-year men with no increase for overtime. One-man car operators get five cents an hour additional.
 The new agreement has been under discussion by the various local unions for several months, some locals going so far as to insist on a flat eight-hour day, I5 cents or more an hour and double time for overtime. The State Conference Board after visiting all locals and hearing the discussions draft ed an agreement embodying many of the suggestions and setting flat rate WILL OVGTllIIlG dllQ SllOIIeT HOuTS. neSS- will be argued with the company offic- ials and 1t is expected an amicab1e agreement reached before the present agreement expires.
 The agreement was presented this week and conference held at the New Haven offices. It was purely prelim- mary and went little into details aside from a general discussion of the sev- era1 requests. Further conferences will be held at Hartford and New Haven where local conditions can be looked into as included in the agreement The present working time is 10 hours but with the shortage of help the men have been working much overtime without grumb1ing, doing so to aid the company in every possible way to provide service to the public. -
 Since the present agreement was made the one-man car has come into operation and for time threatened dis cord. It was adjusted, however, by the company voluntarily giving an in crease of five cents an hour to the oper- ator.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-05-15
6O-DAY DRIVE ON FOR ORGANIZATION
 OF COOP SOCIETY
Workers at Enthusiastic Meeting Decide to Go Ahead on
 Own Plan.

Following a ho1dup of about three weeks during which the members of Labor organizations and others inter ested in the forming of a cooperative stores society in New Haven were given a chance to study and decide on which of two plans for reducing the high cost of living they preferred, 60-dav drive for members in the cooperative society proposed under Trades Council aus pices is now under way. The commit tee in charge and a large number of other workers interested, decided unanimously that the plan as originally outlined, suited them best and 1t will now be carried to glorious finish.
 The committee in charge, represent ing all unions in the city, held up its canvass for subscribers three weeks ago when Bridgeport concern planning to operate chain stores here, proposed that the workers join in with them. They were allowed to explain their proposition to a mass meeting at which the Trades Council plan was also ex- p1ained in detail and then the canvass held up to give the workers a chance to decide for themselves just what they wanted to do.
 At a largely attended meeting in Trades Council hall last Sunday after noon 1t was decided to go ahead as or iginally intended and the committee was instructed to start a 60-day drive for members. At the end of that time 1t is practically assured the society will have been sufficiently financed to go ahead and do business. While the delay has put the start back about month 1t was deemed best to do so and make it defn- ite that there can be no complaint in the future that the workers did not have chance to say for themselves.
 The subscriptions for stock were coming in rapidly before the delay and with the increased interest made by the mass meetings, and clearer under standing of the problem, there isn't any doubt now but that the plan will be carried through to a success. Such stores are proving highly successful in other parts of the country and there is no reason why it will not do likewise here. .-.-
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-05-15
NO, THERE'S NEVER
 ANY TROUBLE SEEN
 IN THE OPEN SHOP"

No, there's never any trouble in ''the open shop"
 Last week that was disproved in Hartford when non-union workers on an open shop, Manufacturers Association job, went on strike for more pay and tied up the works. Now it's dis proved again, this time in Wor- cester, Mass, where one of the biggest ''open shop" advocates in the country got it in the neck and had to give in with a raise all round to $1.10 an hour.
 The contractor was Edward ]. Cross. He employs several hun dred men in building trades and a union man was as welcome as a skunk at lawn party. Recently the organized workers of. Wor- cester signed agreements with fair contractors for wages rang ing from $1 to $1.12H an hour.
 No sooner did the non-union men hear of it than they wanted some of the gravy too, so laid down their tools, marched in a body to Cross office and de- handed $110. Did they get it? They did not.
 Then they told MT. Cross they wouldn't go back to work until they did get 1t. So as not to have any trouble in his 'open shop" MT. Cross came across.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-05-15
CHAMPION LOAFERS OF THE COUNTRY
 ARE IN CONGRESS

For the week ending Saturday, April 24, the United States Sen ate was in session a total of 27 hours and 20 minutes, according to Labor. The Congressional Record shows more than 300,000 words were put in by the august signors during that time.
 Nothing for the benefit of the people accomplished.
 For the same week the House was in session 25 hours and 12 minutes. With nearly half the members absent, those present spoke 272,00O words into the Record. The House took a whole holiday on Saturday.
 Passed railroad deficiency" bill for benefit of private inter ests.
 Nothing done for the people.
 Ask your senators and con- gressmen about this waste of time and words when they come back home.
 Remember, they are demanding that you be on the job producing all the time, "a full days work for full days pay"
 Interesting, isn't 1t?
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-05-15
TO READJUST
 ALL WORKERS WAGES
New Scales Will Be in Opera
 tion by July 1.

Washington, May 14.-Readjustment of the wage rates for skilled labor in all navy yards and ship yards operated by the government working on govern ment contracts will be made before July 1 by special board representing the navy department, shipping board and the organized crafts.
 Appointment of the board was agreed upon today at a conference between Secretary Daniels, Chairman Benson of the shipping board and representa- Establishment res Ind e will affect about about 7o,ooo men in navy yards and 130,O00 in ship wards.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-05-15
NEW ENGLAND IRON
 HOLDERS IN SESSION

Norwalk, May 1.-The annual meet ing of the Connecticut Valley Confer ence Board of the International Iron Holders Union opened today in Hiber- nian hall, Norwalk, with delegates from locals of Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont i'll attendance. William turned it over to First Vice President Daniel Daley of Westfe1d, Mass.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-05-15
DECIDE TO FAVOR
 ANTI-STRIKE BILL
Senate Committee to Report in Measure on Rail-
 roads.

Washington, May 14.-A sub-com- mittee of the Senate interstate com- merce committee decided yesterday af- ter brief discussion to report favorab1y the Poindexter anti-strike bill for rail- roads, referEed to it earlier in the day. Senator Poindexter, chairman of the subcommittee, said minor amendments would be attached, which do not i'll any way invalidate or impair the efficiency of the measure" and added that the bill was designed ito prevent tieing up of interstate transportation on railroads"
 The bill would go back to the full committee, the senator said, within a few days.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-05-15
STRIKE IN NEW LONDON.

New London, May 14.-Laborers em- ployed at the submarine base, Central Vermont freight handlers, and labor CTS employed on new theater contract here are on strike for more wages Part of the strikers at the state pier have returned. About 200 unskilled la borers are unemployed here as the re- suit of the various strikes.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-05-15
NICE TRIP FOR HYDE.

Governor Marcus H. Ho1comb has appointed William s. Hyde, commits sioner of labor and factory inspector, and William E. Duncan, deputy factory inspector, delegates to the annual con- vention of the Association of Govern mental Labor Officials of the United States and Canada, to be held in Seattle, Wash, from July 12 to 17.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-05-15
BAKERS TO STRIKE.

New Bedford, Mass, May 24-A strike of more than 100 union bakers will go into effect here tonight, accord ing to an announcement at the union headquarters of the bakers All but two of the bakers have refused to sign an new working agreement called for $45 for foremen; $38 for second bakers and $35 for bench hands.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-05-15
PAPER MAKERS QUIT.

Ho1yoke, Mass, May 14-Five hun dred unskilled workers in the mills of the American Writing Paper Company struck Wednesday to enforce demands strike has extended to other shops.
 These workers asked for an increase of 25 cents an hour several months ago. At the same time wage increase of II cents was given to Eagle Lodge of Papermakers; one of seven cents was given to the unskil,ed workers, bring ing their pay up to 56 cents an hour.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-05-15
IRON WORKERS GAIN.

St. Louis, Mo- May 14.-Wages are increased from $1 an hour to SIPS an hour by Local No Is, Bridge, Struc- tural and Ornamental Iron Workers. The work week is A hours, and the men are paid $10 for an eight-hour day, with double time fors overtime
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-05-15
MIDDLEToWN STRIKE.

Middletown, May 14.-A meeting oi Central Labor Union was held Monday evening when the strike of moving pie ture operators and stage employees was discussed. The union will not act until it has heard from the organizer in New York who is expected to arrive here in day or two, when further action will be taken in support of the striking theafer men.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-05-15
STAGE EMPLOYES MEET.

The International convention of Stage Employees will be held in Cleve- land on May 24. It is expected that matters of vital interest to stage em- ployes will be considered by the con- vention.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-05-15

The union label IS essentially an emblem of peace, both in suggestion and in practice.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-11
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
HERE AND THERE.

Every once in a while one of US
should drop his main endeavor and go
out into the highways of everyday
life and just wander around-keeping
his eyes and mind wide OPEN
He should go here and there, ano
everywhere
There should be no hurry. for that
would spoil it all. If it should rain
all right, then to get under cover If
it is too hot-then for the cool of the
shade and sleep along some bank,
played to by a ripping stream.
For there can be no composure of
soul when one has decided to take a
change for rest and benefit. unless as
one goes here and there he willingly
allows himself to be as a pipe for
any wind to play upon"
To get the greatest benefit from a
ramble out into the here-and-there,
state OF open mind. You must be able
to catch colorings. and your brain
must be able to knit its observations
into things of beauty.
What a thrill of pleasure at the
sight4of new things.
A new road. a new forest, a new
stream, a new town. a new hotel
mere and there. What is SO wonderful
as the Travelled man or woman, who
has absorbed. and lived? And what
is so pitiful as the one who has be-
come cramped in soul thru an alb
sorbed existence in one spot?
Keep moving around-here and
therei
Pick up things of interest as you GO
mere and there. And multiply your
own pleasure by giving it away to
: others.
We are all magnates of beauty and
! worth in some degree or other So
tnat as we 60 here and there, we
should attract our kind to us-and
multiply it's worth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-11
sPEECHEs BY MAIL

Was it Mr.. McAdoo. or was it some
body else who wanted the government
to pay the campaign expenses OF can
didates for office? Whoever it was
appears to have overlooked the fact
that the government is doing that very
thing already to a considerable extent.
1t is announced in a press dispatch
that 10000, 900 letters containing con-
gressionaI campaign speeches. sent
thru the mail free of charge, will be
received by American voters before
election. according to the estimate
made at the government printing Of
flee.
Cornelius Ford. public printer. says
that 7f,9sS.75O "franked" envelopes
have been ordered by senators and
representatives already and that or
ders will continue to come in until the
last of September. 1T is considered
certain that the previous record of
76.699,S76 ranked letters sent in the
campaign four years ago will be far
exceeded. altho paper now costs the
government more than IL cents a
pound. and it is hard to get at any
price.
Envelopes with the frank stamp
printed on them are furnished to con-
gressmen at government expense
There is no charge from the postal
department for delivery. The saving
in postage to candidates at the rate OF
? cents a letter for the output. in the
present campaign is 1880. 900. The
envelopes ordered to date have also
been furnished at the government
expense.
In the language of the street. says
the Sioux City Tribune. this is fierce
WIZ must a suffering public submit
Is not the world distressed about it:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-11
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
LEGS.
BY LEE PAPE


No persin is compleet without legs,
and neither is eny table or chair, the
name difference being that peoples
legs bend in the middle. thus making
the knee more useful. On the other
hand if the legs of tables and chairs
bent in the middle, nobody would be
satisfied exsept the people that like
to see axsidents. This proves every
thing is all right in it's place.
Legs vary according to whose they
are. flys leg looks all rite on a fly,
but if you put it on a elefunt, nobody
would ever notice it not even the ele-
funt.
Peoples height depends cheeny on
their legs. Wen you see a tall man
setting down he don't look eny higher
than enybody elts, hut as soon as he
stands up his legs become responsible
for almost twice as mulch. On the
other hand wen a little short man
stands up nobody Is in the leest ser
priced.
The werst kind of legs to have is
either bow legs or mock knee legs. If
you had to have either one kind or the
other it would be. a matter of taist.
altho bow legs are proberly the werst
on account of being saw the farthest
away. old proverb says that a bow
legged man cant stop a pig up a alley.
but it proberly wouldent be mulch
satisfaction to him even If he could.
Your legs separate, you from your
feet and vice virtue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-11
HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
BIZ MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON.

II the young man said he would go
TO the straw ride with you. and then
accepted another Invitation to the same
affair. knowing it was the same, his
act was inexcusable. If however, he
Is gong to another party, it is all
right for him to do so because your
date was indefinite.
Dear Mrs Thompson: 1 am a wild
ow and man came to see me, win
ming my confidence, love and devo-
ton. Then he told me he never could
marry. Now he is preparing to marry
a girl much younger than he and
bring herNhere to this town to live.
What should be my attitude towards
him? Should / pass him without
speaking and treat him as he de-
serves or should 1 act as tho did not
care when in reality my heart is about
to break?
My life has been full of sorrow and
l do try to forget, but now this added
to the rest is hard indeed. Please help
me. LONESOME.
The brave thing for you to do is to
speak and act as If you didn't care
He did not play fair and in reality 1t
is n blessing that you did not marry
such a man.