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The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-24
The SPECIAL EMERGENCY DEMANDS
SPECIAL SESSION OF LEGISLATURE
Say Women of Forty-Seven States, Coming From Every
Corner of the United States to Ask Suffrage
Session of Connecticut.

Forty-seven women from forty-Sev-
en- states, journeying into Connecticut
from the Pacific Coast, from the
northern and southern boundaries of
the country, from states where wO-
men vote, and from states where wo-
mems vote may depend on the action
of the governor of Connecticut, will
join, on May 3, with the president Of
the Connecticut Woman Suffrage As
ISOLATION in launching national pro-
test week in Connecticut consoli-
dated and concentrated protest of the
women of the country and the men
and women of Connecticut against
the refusal Of Governor Holcomb to
call a special session Of the legislature
to act on the federal suffrage amend
ment.
May 3-S, and will embody series of
some thirty or forty meetings through
out the state which will be addressed
by groups of the forty-seven women,
who will spend the week in Connects.
cut as guests of the Connecticut Won.
an Suffrage Association. These wem
men will be leaders of the suffrage
movement in their own states Thirty
of them will represent states where
women are sure to vote in 1920, and
the others will represent 100000
women in the states where the wom-
ems vote will depend on ratification
of the federal suffrage amendment.
Arrangements for bringing these
int ho fofn do
by the National American Woman
Suffrage Association, which is coop
Grating in every possible way with the
state association in the campaign to
make Connecticut the thirty sixth."
The primary purpose Of this protest
week will be to provide the governor
with the proof of the special emer-
gency which he has said he is ready
to receive. 1t will be a protest of
Connecticut people, men and women,
against the false position in which
the state has been put by the refusal
of the governor to give the legisla-
ture an opportunity to act On the mat,
ter. "It will not" says Miss Luding
ton, president of the state association,
'be an attempt to tell Connecticut how
to handle her own affairs, but an en-
deavor to make plain that this is not
Connecticut's sole affair because by
the method provided for ratification of
the amendment the voting of $780,
600 women hangs on the action Of
Connecticut"
According to plans announced today
by the Connecticut Woman Suffrage
Association the women will arrive in
Hartford, Monday, May 8, and will be
given a reception on Monday after
noon. They will spend the night in
Hartford, and on the following day
will separate into four groups of
twelve each to hold meetings in New
Haven, Bridgeport, Waterbury and
Norwich. On Wednesday the women
will form twelve groups of four each
and during the next three days they
will speak at meetings in the follow
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-24
WHAT is AN EMERGENCY?
Less Than Ten Thousand Voters Once
Constituted One-More Than Nine
Million Possible Voters Look Like
One to the Women of Connecticut.

Governor Holcomb says that he can
not call a special session of the legis-
lature to consider the federal suffrage
amendment because no special emer-
gency exists. The state constitution
provides that in case of special emer-
gency the governor may convene the
general assembly at any other than
the regular time.
Francis w. Cole, a prominent Hart
ford lawyer, says concerning the COVER
nor'S Interpretation of emergency"
'An emergency is defined as an I'M
foreseen occurrence or combination Of
circumstances which calls for imme-
date action At present there is an
unforeseen combination of circum-
stances in connection with which imme-
date action is desirable. The situation
is one of interest and Importance not
only to the state but the entire nation.
There can be little doubt that an emer-
gency exists. Unfortunately, the gov
ernor believes that the emergency de-
mands his refusal to call a special ses-
SAOA IdLuGE LudH CdlI OuC III dCCOIU-
ance with the provisions of our state
constitution. The power rests with the
governor and was intended to be exer-
ciSed"
The whole question seems to hinge
upon the Interpretation of the word
emergency" The governor has stated
that he is ready to receive proofs that
an emergency exists, and the Connecti-
cut Woman Suffrage Association has
in turn announced that it will endeavor
to present, by means of accumulated
public sentiment, expressed intensively
during the week of May 3-S, to the
governor conclusive proof that the
question of whether or not Connecticut
women, and the women of seventeen
other states In the country, shall vote
in 1920 is as great an emergency as
was the situation which involved sew
eral thousand soldiers. on the Mexican
border when the governor called spe-
cial session to provide for their voting
privileges
Twice recently the governor has call
ed special sessions. Once to provide
for the vote of several thousand sol
diers on the Mexican border, again
to provide for the vote of several thou
sand soldiers overseas. The present
question involves the vote of some
100000 women in the country.
Naturally a the women are asking,
What is an emergency?'' -
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-24
DISEASE LOSSES
PUT STRIKE LOSS
IN PIKER CLASS
Preventable Illness in Employ
ment Astounds Government
BY Cost.

Washington, April 23-According to
figures made public by DR.. Hugh s.
Cumming, surgeon general of the
United States public health service, the
country'S loss through strike is trifle,
compared with the loss through pre-
ventable disease.
The medical man did not make this
comparison, but the information he
gives is a hint to those who deliver
ponderous lectures on the cost of
strikes, the need for greater production
by the workers, and "can't-strike" leg
is1ation.
"In the United States in a normal
year." said DR.. Cumming, "for each
person gainfully employed, there is a
loss of nine days due to sickness, a
large part of it being preventable.
There were approximately 100000
deaths from pneumonia in the United
States in 1913. For every death from
pneumonia in the United States we
count us sick days. There were over
$4,000 deaths from typhoid fever. A
death from typhoid fever corresponds
to loss of from $50 to 500 sick days.
There were over 10000 deaths from
sis corresponds to slightly more than
less than this among colored.
while it is true that these are dis
eases in which the death rates are high,
that is not the chief factor in causing
the high economic loss. Malaria fever
very we'll illustrates the economic loss
to the world due to disease in which
the mortality rate is low.
sAlthough conservative estimates
- Al, raf 111 In ia
fever in the United States at above
100000 cases annually, the death rate
gives no indication of this high preva-
fence. Yet each case of malaria fever
represents a loss of several working
DAYS and continued lowering of effic-
iency.
IF we could eradicate this malaria
in the south, and other preventable
diseases throughout the nation, the in
creased efficiency in man-power would
far more thar offset the loss to the
United States due to the war and the
influenza endemic.
I'VE know that in number of coun-
tries of the old world production has
ceased, or become inadequate, as. re-
suit of disease. Large fertile areas
have not been cultivated since the war,
industrials are idle, or practically so.
In addition to this we are facing an
extensive spread of pestiliantial dis
ease, yet these dangerous diseases can
be controlled, for we know great deal
about them. Altogether the economic
loss is enormous. Typhus fever is
spread by the body louise; bubonic
plague by the fea-infecsted rat; malaria
fever is spread by mosquito.
Il have given only the more striking
instances. 1t would take no stretch of
the imagination to figure the economic
saving to the world if these preventable
diseases could feel the force OF a joint
attack from the nations of the world.
Possibly no single factor would help
more to restore the world to normal
basis
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-24

time to permit The women. of the ma
ton to take part in the coming presl-
dental election has, in the opinion OF
this convention, created special emer-
gency; therefore,
Resolved, by the Republicans OF the
state of Connecticut in convention as
sembled, That the convention places
itself on record in favor of the grant
ing Of the right of suffrage to women,
and the Governor of the state is re-
specially requested to call special
session of the General Assembly for
the purpose of passing upon the
amendment to the Federal Constitu-
ton granting to women the right of
suffrage"
(e) A large group Of leading Re-
publicans in the state presented this
petition to the Governor and laid be-
fore him the urgent situation which
demands that Connecticut should, by
the wish of her people, come in as the
thirty-sixth state to ratify the amend
ment.
John T. Robinson, who was one of
the spokesman of the deputation, espe-
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-24

If you want transformation on exist
ing labor conditions stick to the average
daily newspaper. If you want the facts
read labor paper, preferably The Con-
necticut Labor Press.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-24
SOMEBODY GETTING
MIGHTY BIG PROFIT

No doubt labor gets panning every
time the harried consumer buys a pair
of shoes and is forced to pay about
three times as much as he should. AS
the popular idea seems to be that the
workers in the boot and shoe industry
get the greater part of this increase the
officials of the international organiza-
ton have compiled, statistics showing
that the average increased labor cost is
40 cents per pair of shoes.
The next time the reader is COM
PEELED to pay $12 for 81 pair of
shoes he can deduct 40 cents from the
So increase and then try to figure out
who gets the $3.50 that has been tackled
on. No doubt there are lot of folks
who think the workers should be CEN
sured for getting that 40 cents. i,
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-24
FRANCE PROPOSES TO
ASSIST MOTHERHOOD
Will Pay Benefits to Assist in
Future Welfare of
Child.

That both England and France, as
well as the United States, have learned
through war experiences the value of
motherhood can be seen in recent meas
ures for the protection of maternity
and infancy, according to the Children's
Bureau of the y. S. Department of
Labor In addition to maternity bene-
fits which have been in use in England
for some years that country passed in
1913 a maternity and child welfare act
with provisions somewhat similar to
those of the Sheppard-Tow bill now
in Congress.
France, according to recent informa
ton, now has bill in parliament which
provides assistance to expectar1t moth
ers, married or unmarried, during the
whole period of pregnancy. The bill
also provides for free shelter if neces-
sary, for at least 80 days. Pregnancy
and nursing benefits are to be paid,
one-half the cost of these coming from
the national treasury. Consultation
centers and milk stations are to be es-
tab1ished by local authorities.
Certain American cities have made a
good beginning by appointing visiting
nurses, establishing prenatal clinics,
child health centers, and increased hos
pita1 facilities for maternity cases. In
one large city q two-year experiment in
prenatal work among 1875 women
brought highly satisfactory results OF
the babies born to these women the pro-
portion dying before the end of the
first month was nearly one-third less
than in the city as whole, and the
number of stillBirths was greatly re-
duced At the end of the first month
929o of the babies were breast fed, a
result of the utmost importance. Only
two of the 1875 women died.
Studies of maternal and infant NOR
tally in civ and country carried on by
the Federal Children's Bureau have in
dicated clearly the need for, the public
protection of motherhood and baby
hood on basis which would make
proper care available to every mother
throughout the entire United States.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-24

cially emphasized that it was purely
accidental that the power of saving
whether or not the women of Con-
nect1cut and other states should vote
in 1920 should rest with the Governor.
Tor the Constitution merely provides
that the Governor shall call the legis-
lators together in order that the mat
ter may be laid before them, Tins
responsibility as to whether or not the
amendment is passed in no way rests
with him.
In spite Of the arguments presented
the Governor issued a statement saw
ing that he could see no emergency for
calling session, but that he was
ready to receive proof of such an emer-
gency.
It is now the work of the men and
women in the state interested in the
suffrage movement and concerned with
the reputation of their state to prove
to the Governor that in all democracies
the expressed wish of the majority of
the people for action on any question
must provide full legal grounds for
emergency action on that question.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-24
CONNECTICUT WANTS
SPECIAL SESSION

Thirty-fve states have ratified the
Federal Suffrage Amendment. Every
northern state save Connecticut and
Vermont has taken action. Connect
cut legislators want to ratify. Con-
necticut citizens want them to ratify.
The only reason they don't act and
can't act is because Governor Hol-
comb says there is no special emer-
gency to call the legislature together
in special session.
His refusal is made in spite of these
facts:
(1) Over q majority of both parties
of both houses Of the state legislature
have petitioned the Governor to call a
special session.
(2) Four hundred and seventy-eight
prominent Republicans have petitioned
the Republican State Committee to use
it's influence to call a special session.
(3) -Four hundred and seventy eight
prominent Republicans have petitioned
the Governor to call special session.
a. The Democratic party strongly
Endorses the Federal Suffrage Amend
ment in its state platform, and has
done all in its power to forward the
suffrage movement.
(5) The Republican party in con-
vention assembled by a large vote
passed the following resolution:
whereas, Thirty-five states of the
Union have now ratified the Federal
Suffrage Amendment and the ultimate
adoption OF the amendment is assured
and,
whereas, The uncertainty as to
ratification by one additional state in
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-24
RAILROAD STRIKE
WAS UNFORTUNATE
AFFAIR ALL ROUND
Men Rendered Desperate BY
Long Wait Acted
Hastily.
JUDGMENT Was POOR
Illegal Strikes and Outlaws No
Benefit to Wage
Farmer.

The strike of the railroad yardmen
was illegal, the judgment displayed was
very poor, and the formation of an out
law organization was the height of
SIC lily. Yet everyone who understands
the circumstances is compelled to ex-
tend some need of sympathy to the
men who have been rendered desperate
by the endless waiting, waiting for an
increase in wages that never came.
The claim that the strike was melted
by the l. w. w. is pure bunk. There
may have been one l.. w. w. in every
hundred strikers, and it may have been
that an occasional l. w. W. assumed the
leadership in some locality, although
this is not known to-be fact. But the
strike itself was a spontaneous affair
brought about by pure desperation on
the part of the men, following the
breaking off of negotiations between the
railroad managers and the railroad en-
ployes, when the former said no in
crease could be granted without the
consent of the public, although at the
moment this statement was made, on
March so, attorneys for the railroads
were before the interstate commerce
commission viciously pressing the de-
mands that teh railroads be allowed to
advance rates from rs to 80 per cent.
in order to pay So to per cent on
So, 900 100000 of watered stock.
However, as the men have already
existed on promises for 18 months, they
could have frightened their belts and
waited a little while longer until the
railroad labor board has had chance
to pass upon their claims The nif re-
lief is not secured, the yardmen, acting
in unison with the other IA railroad
crafts, could function in a legitimate
manner and be assured of the cordial
support and sympathy of every wage
Garner in America
1t causes an uncomfortable feeling
to even imagine what the result would
be IF illegal strikes should become gen
eral There are hundreds of thousands
of workmen in the United States just
as desperate as the switchmen and
trainmen who went out, but the former
knew that through the operation of
their legitimate trade union they will
eventually secure permanent relief.
They are not being led astray by either
their own desperate plight, or by
thoughtless leaders.
AS during the war, the hope of
America today rests in the legitimate
trades union. Remove the trade union
and there is not particle of doubt
that revolution would result within
80 days.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-24

MISS KATHERINE LUDINGTON,
Regional Director of the League of
Women Voters Leader of the Cam
,paien to MAKE Connecticut the
Thirty-sixth."
ing cities and towns: Manchester,
New Britain. ThompsoDville, South
ington, Pennington, Windsor Locks,
Bristol, Ansonia. Meriden, Naugatuck,
Wallingferd, Guilford, Branford, New
London, Stonington, Jewett City,
Mystic Mantle, Willimantic, Putnam,
Danielson, Central Village, Middle
town, Haddam, Saybrook, Essex, Nor
walk, Stamford, Greenwich, Danbury,
Ridgefield, Torrfngton,. Winsted, New
Milford, Litchfield, Thomaston, Lake
vile, Rockville, Stafford Springs.
A motor corps will be provided to
make the tour of the state.
On Saturday the flying squadron
will meet again in Hartford, and will
ask for hearing before the governor
on that day, following which a large
mass meeting will be held. Mrs. Car
rie Chapman Gait, president of the
National American Woman Suffrage
Association, will probably be the chief
speaker at this meeting.
Members of the Mems Republican
Ratification Committee have announc-
ed their approval of and readiness to
cooperate with plans for the protest
week, and it is possible that they will
also furnish speakers for the various
rallies. Members of the ratification
committee were guests of Miss Lud-
ington and the Political Committee of
the Woman Suffrage Association at
a buffet luncheon held recently at suf-
frage headquarters, when further plans
for the protest week were discussed
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-24
POLITICIANS NOW
WORRY OVER LABOR
POLITICAL POLICY
Articles in Daily Papers Dis
counting Move Show
Fear Clearly.
TRICKERY is PLANNED
Will Attempt to Prevent Work
ers Following Out
Set Plan.

Various political organs are accusing
the American workman of being shy on
common sense They are not using
these exact words, but the inference is
plain.
They say the non-partisan plan of the
American Federation of Labor will not
prove effective because the worker is
exceedingly jealous of his fellows, and
he will resent any attampr on the part
Of other workingmen to advise or
counsel HIM as to how he should vote.
The articles infer that the wage learner
will look to the professional politician
or lawyer candidates for his political
solidarity of the workers can easily be
broken by the regulation OF stories that
certain leaders are getting a lot of
inspiration, arc will ignore the sugges-
tons made by the leaders of the Amer
lean labor movement. This is equivalent
to saying the wage-earner is darn tool
when it comes to voting.
Again, the political organs say the
money out of the plan, or that other
leaders have been promised political
jobs, or any one of half dozen stock
rumors that are current during cam
paigns. 1t seems to be the belief of
the politicians that the worker will
easily "fall' for any canard that may
be started against officials of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor. They assert
the workers proneness to be suspicious
and Jealous of his fellows assures the
success of the disrupting schemes.
All of the above is a direct challenge
to the intelligence of the American
workman.
Where a candidate has previously
held office the campaign for or against
him will be an automatic affair, con-
sisting of the circulation of printed
records of his work while in Office.
Where candidate has no public rec
ord, missionaries will be sent him, and
his answers will be printed, together
with the result of an investigation OF
such private acts as may serve to give
an inkling of what his public course
may be- With these records before
them the wage-earners will not be ask
ed to take any mans word. They can
study the documents and draw their
own conclusions.
Contrary to the assumed belief of the
political writer's the American workman
is well supplied with good, hard, COM
mon sense. This is evidenced by the
thoroughness of the preparations for
the coming campaign. National affairs
will be handled by the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, state affairs by the
State Federation of Labor, while local
matters will be looked after by COM
rnittee composed of three delegates
from each trades union.
ANYONE who thinks the worklngman
IS an "easy mark in. the political game
IS destined to be rudely dlsillusioned.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-24

to the trade unions. The Manufacture
ers' Record and the Cincinnati Enquir-
er are two shining examples.
A recent article in the Manufactur-
ers' Record was really pitiful in its
efforts to create sympathy for the re-
dictionaries, reminding one very much
of the boy whose shril1 whistle helps
to keep up his courage while passing
through a deep woods on a dark night
Taking up the political program of la
Dor, the Record states that it cannot
succeed because the American labor
movement has within it so many alien
voters that the labor vote is really in
consequential This in spite of the fact
that American citizenship is a prere-
quisite to membership in practically
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-24
SOMETHING FOR THE
VOTERS TO REMEMBER

If war profteers, food profteers, or
any other kind of prohteers put an
unlimited amount of money back of
candidate for public Office, the natural
inference, is that the prohteers expect
to be benefited by the election of that
man.
That the men who made millions out
of war contracts, and those who ex-
pect to make millions out of prohteer-
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-24

every organization affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor.
The Record then launches an attack
against the radical leaders" of the A.
F. of L., winding up its article with
the statement that it is not opposed to
trade unions, but only the open shop
policy should be recognized in this
country.
The Record really ought to advance
a worth while argument or get another
editor.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-24
MUCH ADVICE GIVEN
FREE TO THE WORKER

1t is really amusing to note the
cajolery, threats, pleas and laundering
denunciations of organized labor being
carried in the papers and periodicals
which a year or two ago were bonn
bastic and sarcastic in their references
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-1920, 1920-06-30
LYNDONVILLE

ne Rev. and Mrs. Levi, Hubur,
ough new comcrs III town, ar1
AMY doing their part in COM
nifty interest, aS Nj. Iubur is to
as scoutmaHtcr for one Of the
ops of Boz Scout and Mr.. HUI
" is to DC the Guardian Of 4 troop
Camp Fire Girls. Both are OK
.cnccd in this wctH, having held
liar positions in :orle" ra.is!c3,
will not doub; hc ucco full. Mr.,
cur HIS also Stated iindornar-
Sunday school cll-.. for tao small
children of the chu, ch, AMI iloy
meet in study Cvc:' Sunday al
n.
bout 80 of The members CT n.
tchin on's church in ;kIby motor
to Barton Sundnv to attend his
ular service. While Mr.. IIutchin-
was pa5toY Of the ConHYc Gational
3 Tch here, he also SUPPLIED lie Air
s church, to the Great satisfaction
all. -, T..
A. W. Edmund and family arc
tav or camping rip, their head
saarters being at Skinner, Me. They
&c ACCOMPANIED /" Mr. and Mr..
IS Jenne, and Mr.. end Mrs. Cyrus
y from Derby.