The Connecticut labor press., 1920-06-05
WOMEN WORKERS
 COVER NEW HAVEN IN LABOR TAG DAY.
Labor Temple Campaign Starts of With Vigor and
 Vim.
BRIDGEPORT SENDS AID
Many Already Entered in Con test for Big Liberty
 Six Auto.

With scores of comedy and active young women distributing tags, a dozen or so active young men spreading the stickers for automobiles and show windows and hundreds of organized labor men assisting, the tag day on to- day to boost the fund for the erection of a labor temple in New Haven IS hound to be success. he campaign started early and will continue until 7 o'clock tonight by which time 1t IS ex- pected not only every organized labor man and woman in the city but the1r thousands of friends will have had op- portunity to assist Labor here to build its own home.
 The young women, and number of the older women, too, who have be een workers all their lives, recruited III New Haven are principally members ot the Tobacco Shippers, Corset workers and other unions composed of women almost exclusively. The spirit ot help Dervading III Organized Labor ranks was also ernphatica1ly shown by the aid piven by 25 comedy members of the Bridgeport Corset Workers Union who came to New Haven in automobile busses early this morning and through out the day gave yeowoman help to their sisters here in distributing the taes. The offices at Room 9 Academy building were crowded from early morning with corps of active workers and their enthusiasm left no doubt as to the successful end of the day.
 Each tag and sticker distributed to- day will count as votes in the automo- bile. trip to Cuba and pony cart con tests to be carried on through the sum- mer Each tag counts as 70 votes and each sticker as 50 and the candidates all ready entered were busy on the job of getting those who had the tags and stickers to promise them at the end of the day, so the race there may now be said to be merrily on.
 The race for the ansomobile IS at tracting many contestants Already one traffic policeman, who knows. well the merits of the Liberty Six car to be given away, has secured good start and yesterday turned in an account of 1850 votes which he had secured from businessmen who have already secured stickers for the window displays. A half dozen other policemen and several ordinary citizens have also filed their entries and 1t is a safe bet that the Liberty Six will not be shy a claimant when the contest IS closed. Several firemen and policemen have already also entered the contests for the two weeks trips to Cuba to be given TO member of each department while a dozen or so young people have put in a bid for one of the pony carts With the campaign to be followed all summer along those lines there will be some voting done. The entries close on June 18th, so there is yet time for others to roll in.
 Immediately after the tag day is over preparations for the big field day to be held on Labor day will be completed. Already monster parade of Labor day morning has been planned to be fol- lowed by big labor outing and athletic carnival probably at Lighthouse Point where the big grounds have been se- cured and the card for the athletic events being arranged. Among the stunts in the line of athletic entertain rnent being planned is one of the old fashioned side-splitting battles royal, that years ago were wont to convulse audiences here. It IS ncarYy a score of years since entertainment of that form has been seen in or about New Haven and with the amount of talent" avail able now 1t should prove roar. The athletic events will be of statewide in terest with prizes attached that will en- sure keen contests among the various Labor Organizations of the state.
 Meantime the campaign will be car ried out through the SO or so local unions with lcuse-to-house canvass of their members so, that Labor will do its own part toward erecting its home. Suitable prizes either memorial tablets or windows in the new building will be provided for the locals making the best showing in the campaign, the unions to be subdivided as to size so as to give each chance in it's own class and do away with any idea of big union be- ing able to get away with the prizes over the little fellows.