The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-29

If tho late un1aInented Emma Goldman, formerly of almost any where in the good old U. S. -a. where good collection could be hal in re- turn for an old fashioned tongue flashing, had been at the United Church Forum last night Instead of languishing unwidMngly in Soviet Russia, she would have yielded the gold-studded championship belt She won for being the worlds champ pion hurier of invectives without a strug g.e to Charles Norman Fay Of Cam bridge. Mass, a retired but by no means retiring business man ard master of barbed rhetorfc, who spoke there last night on '-Collectivism vs. Common Sense." And take it from those who ought to know, getting the eminent Emma to yield anything is a. he-man's job. By the same token, Uncle Joe Cannon would have shown as q wild-eyed radical in comparison with MT. Fay, whose address was series of vatriollc attacks on the American Federation of Labor and several other of his pet abomina- tfons That brilliant race of agita- tors the 1ri5h,' was one of MT. Fay s .softest bon mots. Some of the others didn't get off as easy as the Irish. In answer to one of the questions which followed his address, MT. Fay said:
 ''The Jewish nation through all its history has been known as a nafl on that likes to give the least and get the most. IS MT boiilpSIS plo- gram, His doctrine is the most pay for the least work"
 Coming down to tsIe American Fed eration of Labor itself, MT. Fay un- burdened himself of this:
 '.The American Federation Of Labor claims a membership of 4,300,00o n,en They publish no statement of receipts and expenditures, but have by repeated inquiry been unable to find any union labor member who [ Hor mt n rate their membership last year would pay over $50, 0,000,O00. The Federation does publish a list of benefits paid Inst year they paid out six or seven million. This year tine labor machine if their statement is correct, will take in over $50,000,00 and will pay out about s45,00O,0O to the professionals that run the game. That is what or ganized labor is. The strike is a side show, They don't call any more thar they have to. As the 1nterchurch re port sayss The strike is called fol the. purpose of organization
 MT. Fay doesn't believe in letting un ion a man when he is down, so h' took several wallops at the Demo cratic party, including the statemen that Democrats and demagogue' mcan mt about the same thing to him.
 MT. Fay was formerly connected wi l the gas interests in Chicago ant related that during one of his difficul 1ies with what he described as "th aldermen, the newspapers, the politi ciSns. the reformers and the citizens ly darling plan of forcing the city t pay a claim the gas company hal against it Here's the plan in MI Fay's own sweet words:
 'I couldn't get the directors t back me up in turning off the ga and leaving the city in darkness: They were afraid of public opinior Finally half of them said they woul back me up if the newspapers woul side with us. went to the the said Fay, you are trying to draw red herring across this monopoly The other man, Stone, of the Dail News. now head of the Associate Press. said substantially the sam thing"
 The upshot was, as MT. Fay relate ik, that he sold an~ his stock in th gas company and left it flat, just 6 he did the National Manufacturer association
 Here is the bouquet that organize ton got from MT. Fay: At th time I was vice-president of tf Manufacturers association they coul not get together on any policy Wha ever. Each man wanted things h own way and I finally pulled out c that account
 When asked about the Mulhall il vestigatioa, MT. Fay said: I don
 
 Investigations, they are largely ma ters of politics"
 Referring to his experiences in r scruiting help after he had locked o1 the employees of a typewriter compa1 he at one time controlled in Chical because they had asked for an eiSh hour day, MT. Fay sad:
 W "On the advice of detecti agency which makes a specially
 handling strikes I advertised in thr different ways: for union men
 closed shops: for non-union men
 non-union shops: and simply for me open shop. That was to detect Spi that my advisers said would be Sc into the plant to reorganize it.''
 @s At the conclusion of MT. F'ays a
 dress, in accordance with custom,
 answered questions from the audien,
 one of which was: ''Is it a fact tn
 the open shop advocated by the ma
 ufacturer means the closed shop