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The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-10

Forty-fve were opposed to deporta-
ton conditionally, while IL favored de-
portation conditionally The remain
ing replies give divided expressions of
opinion. Most of the replies represent
polls of members taken at regular
meetings.
"The replies will be astounding to
those who have dared to- doubt the
loyalty of the American workingman, %
the Digest says. 1--WE are assured that
the workers of America are loyal and
law-abiding that labor has no use for
red agitators and never has had; that
agitation is confined to unnaturalized
aliens, who ought to be deported.'"
The opposition to deportation seems
to be based mostly on the criticism of
interference with free speech, not be-
cause of any support which the labor
leaders would give to communism or
bolshevism, as it is understood in this
country. =-.t t
Sixteen officials wanted to know what
is meant by a red agitator," and they
did not care to reply until they were
sure that the term was not synonymous
with aggressive labor lead err" All in
ALL however, the symposium should be
encouraging to the faith that labor will
not prove recreant to her duty to Amer
lean principles
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-10
CONNECTICUT. Fedora TON OF
LABOR PROVES BOON TO THE
NAUGATUCK VALLEY INDUSTRIES

concerning strike
Naugatuck valley unique nasmuch the
Labor both the
ployees and the employers.
again Of country
large Connecticut Federation of Labor the only
United States which devote atten
organization of und workers thereby preventing the
of radical from sowing the seeds of dcord
the dissatisfied
working conditions .
highly pleasing encouraging feature of the situa
ton that the larger of the Naugatc val
doing in this
haven't got the idea yet It takes long time for
realize that Labor organization of kind
whatever There difference
radicalsm orderly
between employer and employee through the
medium of trade nnOnism.
The really big Naugatuck valley,
representative of The Connecticut Labor Press has
past of from
gratifying of Organized Labor real worth
conditions that have from the large
employing interests of this state.
feeling of appreciation the
Organized Labor has made and
Federation well
ton affect the entire community and the to
the industrial situation of the state
When it realized that this the first strike OF the brass work
Naugatuck valley that has been by
disorder the significance OF the Connecticut
Lbor and vigorous intervention becomes
m field for the agaors
ing building their forces When the strike
the radical leaders in the state whose
during Immediately after
taking charge of the situation
OrnbuTn the Connecticut
head
and worked ndefagaby
night the workers
orderly branch of that body Of the hardest
everybody involved him personally well
organization he represents debt of gratitude
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-10
LABOR PARTY,S DEFEAT OF
LABOR, S FRIENDS AND ELECTION
OF LABOR'S FOES A WARNING

On Tuesday party of Hartford very
mayor Hartford Brainard who ouspoken
Organized who business
fought organized labor for
all Republican ticket which has about much
Organized Labor the individual has for pest
ence
incidentally party defeat
Mayor Knsea the Democratic who has at all
himself favorable Organized Labor and
important 18th him went other
city officials who have always sided with Labor.
achieving party all prophecies
by of the situation before the election fore
gone clearly the leaders
everybody else The result could not
have otherwise. = -
majority of coming from the Democratic
party defeated by plurality of mighty fine
showing taken by the Labor party
would have been elected by impressive
majority party of the field self evident
Republicans realized that this would the result at the
the Hartford Couran the OF
welfare OF Labor
party before Organized Labor first heard OF did
Labor much the
within Of
its interests, parypolitcal jealousy guarded
it's all what has Labor gained 1t has placed
VIGOROUSLY opposed Organized Labor an admins
tration absolutely antagonistc to It's interests
the which has brought about
Federation Labor pursued that policy with
perssency worthy better and it's leaders possessed
half vision enjoyed by the onlookers they must have pursued
with eyes wide open to the consequences.
different would have been the result IT the American Fed
nonparisan policy had been pursued The
back of candidates
tickets would have
marked that city
industrial life example the of the country which
the Labor
AS it Hartford city party
participation the Organized Labor through
out country example from the indie
pendent Labor party movement.
warning the Hartford Labor partys performance
glowing illustration of lost opportunity sad
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-10
ANTI-STRIKE Law.
British Labor Ministry Declares
It Complete Failure.

The report of the British ministry ,oi
labor shows that anti-strike legislation
even during the war failed of its pur.
pose. Under the munitions of war act
1915, compulsory arbitration was intro
duced in the munitions trades. at the
option of the board of trade and strikes
and lockouts were prohibited. Despite
war conditions, it is stated that this
system had ''on1y qualified success.
Commenting on this report, the Lon
don Times says:
"The fundamental objection to any
scheme for the compulsory prevention
of strikes is that no statutory prohibi-
ton and penalties will deter men from
striking, if they are SO minded. Ex-
perience in other countries demon
strated this fact before the war, and
experience in this country during the
war, when then patriotic impulse was
strong, clinched the argument.
IF compulsory arbitration failed to
prevent disputes in a time of national
emergency, what hope is there that it
would be more successful in normal
times? The Whitley committee report
ed against it two years ago and the evil
dence of the present report reinforces
their opinion.
at is recorded with evident satisfac-
ton by the ministry of labor that the
awards of the arbitrators in the 5000
cases dealt with during the five war
years were almost universally accepted
by the opposing Sides.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-10
UNION OPENS SCHOOLS.
Ladies Garment Workers Inau.
gurate System to Aid Workers.

The International Ladies' Garment
Workers union has inaugurated sys-
tenn of unity centers in various sections
of New York city that are operated
without cost to the members of this or
ganization. Meetings are held in the
public schools. The studies include the
teaching of English, the labor move
ment and trade unionism, literature,
are, music. educational films, health lee
lures, gymnastics and social recreation.
A large amount of literature explain
ing the purposes of these centers has
been issued. One of these pamphlets
states:
The shop has been your only school.
1t has given you limited and mar
row education. You need a union shop
in the school as well as in the fac
tory"
The union also maintains a workers
university in a public school. The
courses include: Labor and manage
ment; trade unionism; present tenden-
cies in literature; economics of the in
dustrial system; psychology; public
speaking; correction of speech defects
English, grammar and written compost
ton; American history and American
civics; modern European history; cur
rent events and reconstruction prob
lens; elementary science; the co-opera-
tive movement.
Teachers for these classes are recog-
nized authorities, and well-nown physic-
1ans lecture on health.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-10
SURE PRODUCE MORE.
Workers Must Do So But Milk
Trust Need Not.

The workers of the United States
have been urged to speed production
as the surest, swiftest, in fact the only
method of restoring normal conditions
and bringing down the cost of living.
1t is good advice. Rents cannot be
kept from kiting unless houses are pro-
dueed. Wooden clothing is affected
with a scarcity price. Sugar prices soar
as price-fxing is abandoned; and the
remedy is production Textile workers
and shoe makers must work to catch UP
with needs. All this is true. Produc-
ton is the panacea work the cure,
Except in milk Just as a sharp
drop in foreign demand affords some
prospect of relief from city prices I'M
justihably high. great milk company
that made sly per cent. profit when the
country was at war and that today
charges cent a quart more for milk
than its largest nominal competitor, for
bids farmers to produce more than in
the past on the threat not to handle it
in which case it must for a time be
wasted.
Labor ought to produce more, but a
Milk Trust ought to decrease the sup
ply in order to maintain excessive
prices And yet there are people who
wonder at the growth of radicalism =
New York World Editorial.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-10
GOMPERS' POSITION AS
LABOR'S MAINSTAY SAFE
ALL BUILDING TRADES
In WORCESTER GET ST
New Agreements Firmly Estab-
1ish Rate as Minimum
Hour.

One dollar an hour as the minimum
wage for workers engaged in the
Building Trades was firmly established
in Worcester this week, when practical
ly all the tradesmen went on ST an
hour or more scale The agreements are
to date from April |, so the pay enve-
lopes this week will be some heavier
than in the past Not the slightest sign
of trouble was experienced in bringing
about the arrangement, the contractors,
readily seeing the workers viewpoint
and meetingeit half way. .l
The sbricklayers have already been
getting the 81 an hour or more and the
crafts that benefited this week were
the five locals of carpenters, the Paint
ers local, the Paper Hangers local and
the Iron Workers locals. Several other
trades, including the fathers, plumbers,
steamftters, sheet metal workers have
agreements which expire on May l..
They are now negotiating for the ST an
hour with the expectations fine for Sc
curing the same, without difficulty as
did the other crafts.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-10
JUST PURE BUNK!
Claim of Supply and Demand
Trickery, Says Official.

The claim that the law of supply and
demand is as immutable as is the law
of gravitation was referred to as trick
cry and unalu1terated bunk by Fair
Price Commissioner Mccain, in a
speech to members of the Chamber OF
Commerce at Philadelphia.
THE law of supply and demand
isn't being given fair chance to oper-
ate" he said "The law OF supply and
demand has been diverted from its nat
ura1 tracks-has been shunted onto a
siding"
The speaker declared that in the case
of wearing apparel the law of supply
and demand hasn't got look-in."
Investigations made by special
agents of the department of justice of
the charges of percentage over cost
made by the retailer on the articles of
wear for men, women and children. dis
close a plundering of the public in COM
parison with which train robbing is as
respectable, but not as profitable" he
said.
The commissioner stated that mems
oveIcoats are selling in this city at
prices 81 to 10Y per cent. higher than
cost to the retail dealer, with ready
made clothing 90 to l07 per cent. high
er, women's s.hosiery 100 to $50 per
cent, and high-grade shoes 100 to ia
per cent. higher. He warned his hear
ers of growing social unrcsv, which
is directly caused by profteering and
not by foreigners, and declared that
business men who cannot see the storm
clouds that are gathering in the social
sky are as blind as bats ana as deaf
as adders."
The speaker asid that these eondi-
tons create 10 bolshevists for every
Goldman and Berkman that soviet ark
can haul to some Russian port.
''We cannot say to those people who
protest, Go back where you came
from, because where they came from
is here"
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-10

men, 1t is interesting to note that the
one time Gompers was defeated for
president-in 1801-it was as a result
of dissatisfaction on the part of GER
tain Chicago leaders, for the most part
now passed away These did not like
Gompers' way of doing business, and
induced John Mcbride, of the United
Mine Workers, then, as now, the largest
union in the Federation, to oppose him
In this convention, held in Denver,
Mcbride mustered 81 delegates and
LILO votes to 80 with 976 votes who
lined up for Gompers. The fight for
Mcbride was led by Phil H. Penna,
who in the last few months has been
operators who have been, fighting the
soft coal miners demands for higher
wages and better working conditions.
/ Defeated, Gompers went back to
work at his trade as a cigarmaker,
occasionally helping as an organizer,
until the next year, when the conven-
ton was held in New York. In the
meantime-and this is interesting in
view of the present demands for COM
pulsory Observation-Disclosures had be-
come enamored of that product of the
Antipodes, then hailed as the cure-all
for labor troubles On this issue Com
pers won, casting LOAF votes to 1923
for Mcbride
In these fights, as in others since,
Gompers had the opposition of the Soc
ialist element Strangely enough, in
1881, at the first meeting of the Fed
Grafton of Organized Trades and La
Dor Unions of the United States and
Canada, which later became the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, Gompers was
the subject of bitter attack on the
ground that he was socialist. Mark
Crawford, one of the few survivors of
the first meeting, tells how in conse-
quence Gompers was forced to take the
floor on question of personal privil-
eye to combat the charge tnat he was
one of those who according to Craw-
ford were even then boring from
within" the labor movement.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-10

has been fully demonstrated" it is
stated. A judiciary unresponsive to
the needs of the time, arrogating to it
self posFers which neither the constitu-
ton nor the purposes of our laws have
conferred upon them, demands that at
least in our time Americans must in
sist upon safeguarding their liberties
and the spirit of the sacred institutions
of our republic.
+ We urge that the judges of Our fed
eral courts shall be elected by the people
for terms not exceeding six years. We
assert that there can not be found in the
constitution of the United States or in
the discussions. of congress which draft
ed the constitution any authority for the
federal courts of Our country to declare
unconstitutional any act passed by con-
gress.
We call upon the people of our
country to demand that the congress
of the United States shall take action
tor the purpose of preventing the fed
eral courts from continuing me usr1rpa-
ton of such authority"
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-10
STILL HAS NERVE.
Judge Lands Says Government
Is Unfairest to Help.

Federal Judge Lands was the chief
speaker at a mass meeting of federal
employees held at the Cort theater in
Chicago last Sunday, and in the course
of his remarks, declared that the United
States government was the most unfair
employer of labor in the country.
He also referred to the recent de-
cision of the supreme courr under
which stock dividends are not taxable
and insinuated that some way would be
found to collect taxes on the huge war
profits of corporations.
Il am here in redemption of prom
ise," he said. During the war | ad-
vised postal and other federal en-
ployes to hold off-to go easy-to stick
to their jobs because we were at war,
and when the war is over, | told them,
4 will go to the front for you and try
and get justice.
"The question has been raised,
Where is the money coming from ?
Even at the risk of being misunder-
stood, I will say the supreme court
of the United States decided it was be-
yond the power of Congress to lay a
tax against a stock dividend. Now l
am not criticizing that court, at least
publicly, this afternoon, but | reserve
the right to have my own opinion as
to that matter. =,
at is a matter of opinion that there
are many melons to be cut of the ac-
cumu1ated profits of 1917; that they are
to be disposed of through stock divi-
dend program. l will give these men
warning that a way win be found
through which the United States win
have the power to tax a stock dividend.
But, remember, am not criticizing any
court
ITO persons who advise with me
about going into the government serv-
ice tell them, Under no circumstances
60 into the federal service, because OF
the injustice with which the govern
ment treats its employees; all except
federal judges, who are VIGOROUSLY
overpaid."
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-10
COURTS AN OBSTACLE.
A. T. Of L. Program Protests
Against Their Acts.

The non-partisan political program of
the A F. of L. includes protest against
the policy of federal and state courts
in setting aside laws. 1t is declared
that this policy is an obstacle to self
government and previous declarations
by the A. F. of L. are recalled in which
it is stated that where a law is de-
clared unconstitutional, and is again
passed by the proper legislative body, it
shall become law and not be subject to
annulment by any court.
"The warning given by Jefferson
that the danger to the people of this
republic lies in the usurpation by our
judiciary of unconstitutional authority
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-10
LABOR REMAINS LOYAL.
Symposium of Leaders Views
Shows Pure Americanism.

The Literary Digest publishes in a
recent issue a symposium of replies
from labor leaders throughout the
United States on the attitude of work
men towards red agitators. Replies
were received from $40 labor officials
and other leaders.
Two hundred and ninety-three per-
sons sending replies approved the de
were absolutely opposed to this method
of treatment 1t is shown, however,
that very few of those4 opposed were
actually in favor of the radical doc
trines.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-10
PUTTING O-OPERA TON INTO THE
CO-OPERA77 TIVE STORES PROJECT

Haven Trades Council
address said something
allow the thing drag would be fatal
ACTION a of is what will put it
Organized Labor in New Haven
with him for they of the
the sale going along exceenty but there still
unity for MORE SPEED thing Of this
be a ROUSING
considering the proposition
cooperative what stands be-
the cost OF the necessities OF e
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-10

ticuary food In order that YOU benefit
The do it NOW the
If everybody
will be a failure.
Get busy at and buy either shares of stock If
about the than already
the big meeting Which it will explained in
speaker from the National Cooperative Societies of New
which head of
It be held the
Friday evening
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-18

Schwartz. of Ohio. and Abraham Tuyin,
Of New York.
Citing President Wilson's message
TO Congress in November, 1913, saying
thus the war comes to an end, the
memorial said, continued confinement
of conscientious objectors lis manifest
ly unjust"
''rhe reasons for their confinement,
IL any there were, ceased one and
half years ago." IL said. These young
men in an attempt to follow the die
tates of their consciences refused to
accept military service-many of them
because of religious scruples, all OF
them because of dictates Of their con7
sciences. Conscientious objectors to war
are and should be classified as political
offenders.
1--WE are proud Of the fact that free
dom Of conscience is cardinal prin =
ciple of American institutions.
Hundreds Of our conscientious. OBJ
iectors have since the armistice been
released. 1t is unjust still to keep
others in prison.
among those still in military con-
finement are Carl Haessler. of Wiscon
sin. and Philip Grosser, of Massachu d.
sets, the latter being in extremely bad
health. They are the only two con :
scientious objcctors still in Alcatraz
military prison, San Francisco).
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-18
NEBRASKA DEMOCRATS MEET
Contest in Convention over Seating
Of DELEGATES Due

Omaha, Neb.. May 1S.--(By a. Po
Nebraska Democrats met in state con
vention here today. Drafting of party
platform, nomination of presidentia !
electors and selection of state central
committee were the principal events on
the schedule when the session was called
to order. William Jennings Bryan was
absent. and his brother. Charles W.,
served uotice that unless the delegation
from Lancaster county. chosen May IL
at Lincoln. was seated, he would leave
the convention.
Another delegation was chosen yes
terday by the regular" Democrats at
what was termed postponed county
convention. The struggle over seating
the Lancaster county men. according to
leaders. promised the most interesting
event of the gathering.
Before the convention met. indica =
tions. the leaders said. pointed toward
control by the regular Democratic or.
ganization and Endorsement of President
Wilson's administration and Senator
G. VI. Hitchcock's effors for the peace
treaty and the League Of Nations.
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DEATH CHAIR FOR CRIPPLE
Problem Of Executing Wooden.
leaaed Man Solved

New York. May 1S. - Sing Sing
prison attendants announce they have
solved the problem how to electrocute
John Egan. who has a wooden leg. The
man, who is convicted of murder in
the Bronx, is to be executed June Il.
In the twenty nine years the electric
chair has been used an electrode has
prison attendants have decided it would
bungle matters if the electrode were
fastened to the wood of the leg. The
wiring of the chair will be changed and
the electrode shifted to the left side.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-18
REQUEST RELEASE
OF WAR DIRECTORS
Socialists Call on Baker and
Present Memorial of
Party
WOMAN HEADS DELEGATION
BY the Associated Press

Washington. May 1S.--A committee
appointed by the Socialist party called
on Secretary Baker today to present
memorial asking for the release of con
scientious objectors still held i'll prison.
The delegation was headed by \ woman.
Elvina s. Beals, of Berkeley, Calf,
and the other members present were
Herman ID. Kent, Of Wisconsin; Carl
Parsons. Of Minnesota; Joseph w.
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tions from investigation and prosecution
by the Department Of Justice.
THE laws Of the United States ap-
ply, without distinction, to all the peo-
pie Of the United States, and no group
or class should be exempt merely be-
cause it calls itself union or a grange"
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MISSING GIRL FOUND
Daughter Of Rich Cuban Manufac-
turer Reported at Los Anoeles

New York, May 1S.-(By A. PD-
Henrietta Bulte. fifteen year old
daughter of wealthy Cuban cigar
manufactures, who disappeared from
her home here April II. has been found
in Los Angeles. after nation wide
search, according to information re-
ceived today at police headquarters.
The girls father will leave at once
for the Pacific coast to bring her home.