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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-02-27
PLANTERS BANK
The Progressive Bank,
Abbeville, S. C.
WILL LIFT QUARANTINE
SUNDAY MORNING
Index Journal.

Index Journal.
The quarantine which has been in
effect in Greenwood for the past
eighteen days is to be lifted on sun
day morning according to an an
made this afternoon by
Mr. w. A. Williams, chairman OF the
hoard of health. Church services
NAV be held as formerly on Sunday
morning. School will open on Monday
as well the picture shows. No fur-
ther restrictions on public gather
nes on account of the influenza, is
anticipated by the members OF the
board of health.
The drug stores of the city are re-
ouired to continue the use OF sanl-
tary cups and the cafes the sterlllza-
ton of all dishes. "
Greenwood has been under strict
quarantine for the past eighteen
days and during that time no public
gatherings of any nature were per-
mitted. The people of the. city will be
glad to learn that the quarantine is
to be taken off and also that the in
huenza epidemic is now considered
be under control.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-02-27
JEW YORK NAMES
FOUR DELEGATES

Albany, N. Y, Feb. 26.-New
York state Democrats, through their
delegates assembled in unofficial con-
ention here today, selected the dele
gates at large and the alternates at
arge to the Democratic national con-
'ention at San Francisco, adopted a
,arty platform, and, by resolution,
instructed the delegation at San
Francisco to vote as a unit on all
matters.
The delegates at large, selected
Ger long hours of conference are:
Gov. Alfred E. Smith and Miss
Elizabeth Marlbury of New York,
Miss Harriet May Mills of Syracuse
nd Louis Desbecker of Buffalo.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-02-27
GIVES BIRTH 10 TWINS
FOR THE FIFTH TIME

Jersey City, N. j., Feb. 26.-Mrs.
Richard Doherty, wife of Judge
Doherty, of the court of common
tpleas in Jersey City, today gave birth
to twins for the fifth time in their
married Life of ten years. The young
Esters and the mother are doing well
The family now includes six girls
and two boys, two children having
died.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-02-27

Engraved Visiting Cards and We'd
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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-02-27

this morning on the farm of John c..
Pruitt, near. Starr. Parkes was arrest
ed and brought to jail.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-02-27
Abbeville to Issue Bonds

Mr.. T. G. Perrin, city clerk at Alb
beville, was in Greenwood yesterday
conferring with Mr.. J. R. : Devlin,
city clerk, in reference to necessary
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-02-27
Anderson Negro Killed

Anderson, Feb. &c. Ed 4Parkes !,
killed sam Frazier, another negro,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-02-27

Huffman Truck
buying ECONOMY
unlimited the
J. IA
weight capacity merchant retailer
Huffman adaptable nearly 200 hauling problems This
high
There unit in it's entire which
possible deliver
thing capacity The Huffman of transportation
Faae yourself with the heavy construction of the truck
chase that commonly found
trucks construction With the Huffman tried tested and
proved there built under connu
transportation its economically and
itself as y
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-07-03
TRADES COUNCIL TO
ASSIST LOCAL UNIONS
Names Committees to Take Up
Troubles in Dairy and
Theater.

Committees to assist the Steam Engi-
neers and the Moving Picture Operators
in adjusting difficulties they are having
in New Haven, were appointed by the
Trades Council on Thursday night and
will wait on the employers in an effort
to bring about harmony.
The engineers asked assistance at the
New Haven Dairy plant where the firm
has raised no objection to the men join
ing. the union, has granted an increase,
but where some inside opposition is be-
ing met in unionizng the plant. At least
one engineer there who was very active
along union lines before he got his pay
raised, cannot see the union now that
he has benefited through it. 1
The movie operators want assistance
at the Winchester Theater which is now
unfair the manager having discharged
his operator and intending to run his
machine himself. This is contrary to
the agreement existing and until it is
Strengthened out, the theater is outside
the union.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-07-03
POSTAL WORKERS
in MASS MEETING
RESENT ''RAISE'''
Gather i'll Bridgeport to Plan
Campaign to Compel Con-
gress to Act Fair.

Nearly 200 postal employees from all
parts of Connecticut Journeyed to
Bridgeport on Sunday last and at a
meeting in Forresters Hall, in that city,
took up the wage increase granted them
by Congress and started plans to make
vigorous protest against the unfair
ness of the award The increase-35
cents a day minus the assessment for
the retirement funds regarded as
either an insult or joke and the postal
men not only in ~Conencticut but
throughout the country are going to re-
sent it.
While the matter was discussed in
detail and laid squarely up to Congress,
the postal men did not complete their
plans sufficiently to warrant the begin
ming of a public campaign as yet Com
mittees were appointed representing
each district to thoroughly canvass
every man in the service, get his views
and suggestions as to procedure and at
another meeting to be held within a
few weeks, the general campaign will
be started.
The meeting was held under the aus
pices of the Carriers Association, labor
organization being taboo in the postal
service. Association or union, the re-
suit will be the same, the men being of
a mind not to stand for the treatment
given them by Congress, especially after
the Congressman had been loudly tout
ing of the justice they intended to see
done to the postal employees. If they
consider IS cents day justice in these
times, the postal men are preparing to
justify them even to taking the matter
to the polls.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-07-03
MOLDERS STRIKE
WHEN WAGE SCALE
IS TURNED DOWN
Barnum Metal Works Refuse In
crease While Other Foundries
Grant It.

Following the refusal of demands
made by the Iron Mo1ders union in
New Haven, for 80 cents an hour and
an eight hour day, the As molders en-
p1oyed at the Barnum Foundries went
on strike this week and although the
company has made strenuous efforts to
get men to take their places it hasn't
succeeded in doing so. The men are
not interfering in any way, not even
picketing the plant, but still the COM
pany is unable to fill the places.
The demands were made simultane-
ously on all the foundries in the city.
At the> Magnus Foundries they were
Immediately granted but the Barnum
people, absolutely refused to agree. The
McLagon Co. always hard heretofore
for the organized workers to deal with
has not yet granted the demands but
has made a partial adjustment and the
situation there is yet in abeyance.
The head of this firm is former
Mayor Farnsworth, who some years
ago led the prosecution of union offic-
ials for picketing about his plant during
a strike While he has not yet agreed
to the eight hour day he has raised the
pay of the molders to the $7.20 a day
demanded but the men are yet on the
nine hour scale to get it. 1t is hoped
that before any trouble ensues at that
plant that the eight hour day can be
arranged. So far there isn't sign of
an open break and the molders hope to
adjust the matter at a coming confer
enCe,
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-07-03
TWO BAKERS SIGN
WHEN CONFERENCE
IS AGAIN REFUSED
Leave Masters Association When
Leaders Continue to
Ignore Workers.

Disguised with the attitude of their
own colleagues, in bluntly continuing to
refuse a conference to the employees
they locked out on May l when they
asked an increase in wages, two men,
bers of the Master Bakers Association
of New Haven, withdrew from the
association this week and signed up
with the men. They are the firms of
Hecklinger & Frank, and Kreykenbohn
Bakeries and their men are now back
at work and their business returning
rapidly. Both declared that they had
requested that a conference be held
with the men but the other bakers re-
fused SO they signed up themselves.
The master bakers are beginning to
feel the strain and if union men assist
more by demanding only union made
bread it will be but a question of days
before the trouble is over, the delegates
reported to the Trades Council Thurs
day night. One master baker told
business associates that he had already
lost $4,000 by the lockout and that he
wished it was over He didn't put his
loss down to the fact that insistence on
union made bread was responsible for
his sales loss but the journeymen can
trace it to that source.
The bakeshops opened by the journey
men are now turning out bread in large
quantities and with what other union
made bread is being made in the city
and coming in from outside, there is nc
difficulty to be had in securing it. The
bakers have so far not asked for any
other assistance than to demand union
made goods and if their request is fol
lowed they will win in a short time.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-07-03
LABOR TEMPLE
CAMPAIGN BRINGS
MANY CONTESTANTS
Program for Labor Day Delayed
but Prize Voting Goes
Merrily On.

While details of the arrangements
for the big field day and athletic tour
nament on Labor Day az Lighthouse
Point in connection with the Labor
Temple Drive of the New Haven
Trades Council, are temporarily held up
through unavoidable circumstances,
there is no let up in the interest being
manifested in the campaign. On the
contrary the contests for the Liberty
Six automobile, the pony apd cart and
the trips to Cuba are on in full swing,
with popular policemen and firemen
running neck and neck In the voting
and some ordinary layrnen and lay
women, too, coming right along in the
race.
In connection with the Labor Day
events, the committee had considered
adding a boxing tournament but as yet
the New Haven Boxing Commission
has not seen its way clear to grant the
permit The reason offered is that the
Lighthouse being outside the city prop
er. cannot be properly policed, but as
the boxing commission is the creature
!sof the entire board of aldermen and not
alone the city proper, there may be some
way of getting around that feature. 1t
no other offers there are the regularly
elected town constab1es who have police
power and with special constables, could
do all the policing necessary if that IS
the only objection. Until this is settled
the remainder of the program is sort
of up in the air.
1t has practically been decided not to
have a parade as first planned, because
of the sentiment against parad1ng these
days. The committee intends to map
out such program as will fill the day
with entertainment of various nature
at the Lighthouse.
ARRANGEMENTS for the big fair in No
verber are going fine, already Is booth
spaces having been disposed of, large
support assured by local merchants and
much interest being taken in the con-
tests The Liberty Six automobile IS
being eagerly contested for lO persons
already having been entered and their
| friends pi1ing up votes for them. The
standing of the contests to date is as
| follows:
Traffic Officer John Gallagher, $3.50
votes.
Traffic Officer John Cassidy, $3.50
votes.
Traffic Officer Frank McDermott,
3,210 votes.
Traffic Officer Patrick Murphy, 3,439
votes.
Fireman T. A. Hamilton, Co. E, $50
votes.
Herrick Foote, $3.50 votes.
Police Sergt Lyons, 1890 votes.
Miss Caroline Merchant, 1895 votes.
Police Sergt Reilly, 1886 votes.
Acting Mayor Murphy, 4,02O votes.
Trips to Cuba
Fireman ]. w. ODonnell, Co. o,
3,708 votes.
Fireman David Beecher, Co. IL, 1894
votes.
Pony and Cart
Master Francis Omellian, 1850 votes.
Miss Gertrude Sanders, 1870 votes.
There are numerous other entries but
so far they have not reported in their
votes, the lists altogether totalling
nearly 100.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-07-03
ALL STATE TO BE
REPRESENTED AT
POLITICAL MEET
Labor to Hold Important Session
in New Haven on
July II.

Practically every labor organization
in Connecticut will be represented at
the gathering in Trades Council Hall,
New Haven, on Sunday afternoon, July
II, when Organized Labor will formally
enter the political arena and take a
prominent part in the primaries and
elections this coming fall. In response
to the invitation sent out by the State
Federation of Labor, following instruc-
tions at the last convention, replies
have come from all parts of the state
to the effect that the locals will be rep
resented and be prepared to do their
part in the campaign.
The principal business of the session
will be the selection of state central
committee to be composed and act in
every respect like the state committees
of the political parties. This commit
tee will carry on the campaign through
the several local committees, who will
in their turn be assisted by the differ
ent organization committees and the
rank and file of the organizations. 1t
is intended to make the scope of the
campaign so broad that nowhere will
labor's influence be missing this year.
Where nominations of persons friendly
to the worker at large cannot be secured
direct, action to offset it will be planned
and where out and out enemies of the
worker are put up the compaign will
be to prevent their election.
The meeting will start at l o'clock
and organization affected as speedily as
possible. A detailed campaign will then
be mapped out and Labor set forth to
secure the election of its friends along
the non-partisan lines adopted by the
A. F. of L.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-07-03
CORSET WORKERS
PROTEST AGAINST
PAYING FOR THREAD
Claim They Are Threatened With
Discharge if They Support
Locked Out Cutters.

Not only is the l. Newman & Sons
Corset Company refusing to treat with
its locked out cutters collectively but is
using intimidating methods to prevent
the corset workers from attending
meetings of the unions or giving the
cutters any aid, according to reports
made by the delegates to the Trades
Council on Thursday night Several
girl members of the Corset Workers
union who had attended meetings on
Monday last to discuss the lockout of
the cutters were told the next day, they
reported, that if they attended any
further meetings they would be dis
charged.
set makers inasmuch as they have a
grievance of their own which they in
tend to air pretty soon. This is in the
matter of paying for the thread they
use to stitch the corsets which of course
remains in the garment, and becomes
part of the goods owned and sold by
the factory but which the girls have
really paid for. In no other shop out
side New Haven is this practice con-
tinued and the girls do not intend to
stand for it any longer here.
The amount of girls pay depends
entirely on the amount of work she
turns out and the more she turns out the
more she has to pay for thread to put
into the garment. For instance girl
making about SIS a week will find a
thread bill of 81 or $3.50 against her
while if she makes more the thread bill
increases proportionately. There is no
comeback as the girl must have the
thread to do her work, must buy it from
the company and then give it back to
the company in the finished garment
free of cost.
The lockout of the cutters is now on
its third week 1t has been brought to
the attention of the International Gar
ment Workers officials and the entire
strength of that organization will be
put behind the workers to secure the re-
turn of the collective bargaining princi-
pie and frustrate the apparent attempt
to disrupt the organization.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-07-03
NOW ADMIT GOMPERS
Is GRAND OLD MAN
Recognition of Leader and Or
ganized Labor Is Gradually
Coming Round.

1t may be long time coming. but
recognition of Sam Gompers and the
American Federation of Labor is COM
ing more and more every day as the
following editorial from the New Ha-
ven Union of Thursday night indi-
Gates:
"GRAND OLD MAN.
"Sam Gompers rightly belongs in that
world-class of honored and useful citi-
zens, the class of Grand Old Men
There aren't many in the class living
today, but there is quite lengthy roll
of them when you begin back with
Methuselah and come down to July,
1920.
England has her Gladstone; France
her Foch; Germany her Wagner; Rus
sia her Tolstoi, and so forth and so
forth, for generation after generation
The United States of today isn't lack
ing in Grand Old Men. There's Tom
Edison for instance, and good1y
sprinkling of white-haired leaders here
and there all over the country. With
them you must rank Sam Gompers, who
more than any other American, is re-
sponsible, for the progress labor has
made within the United States"
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-07-03
STREET CLEANERS GET
RAISE BUT WANT MORE
Are Now Paid So, But Even That
Isn't Enough Everyone
Will Admit.

s. The newly organized union of street
cleaners in New Haven, was formally
affiliated with the Trades Council on
Thursday night and it was reported that
since their organization the pay of the
city workers had been increased from
$2.75 to So a day but that eevn that
munificient sum is not sufficient to keep
family these days. The raise was
granted voluntarily and is as far as the
public works department can go with
out special action by the aldermen
In order to assist the street men in
getting more the legislative committee
of the Council was instructed to wait on
the city officials and present the case
for the men. Action by the aldermen,
who fix the pay of these employees will
be necessary and by concerted action of
the Council it is hoped to get it.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-07-03
POLICE DICTATION
PREVENTS END OF
BIG BRASS STRIKE
Men Might Have Voted to Return
if Coercion Was Not Again
Resorted To.
DIDN'T HAVE A CHANCE
Waterbury Chief Wanted to Run
Meeting and Then Count
Secret Vote.

Waterbury, July 2-Instead of peter
ing out as was expected by even some
of the organizers, the strike of the
$4,000 skilled and unskil1ed workers in
the brass mills hereabouts has appar-
emily taken even firrner grip on the
men, and following coercive methods
used by the authorities to drive them
back to the shops, the strikers have
grown stubborn and will now not &c
back until the employers decide to deaI
with them. The shock of the killing III
the young striker in the clash of last
week has worn off and the fight has
now become dogged one to the finish
The strikers, especially those among
the New England Workers, we're about
ready to return to work last week, and
if they had been permitted to go ahead
in their own way and have a meeting
would undoubtedly have voted to do so
But that way didn't appeal to Police
Chief Beach. He wanted to run the
meeting his own way and offered the
strikers permit to meet if they would
meet his way and no other.
In the first place he insisted that the
meeting be supervised, .r he should
have said conducted, by his representa-,
tives. A vote would be allowed, he
3 dSlOuSiy =NOIoCiitSdy Dul IL lluSl DC
secret ballot and then the ballots were
to be taken by his men to a different
hall and counted. The result would be
vote was tabulated
Even the most illiterate among the
foreign born workers could see through
that. A secret BALLOT taken away anC
counted by outsiders selected bv the
6 6
suit. That was the vote would be ir
favor of returning to work at the mast.
ers' terms and there would be no way
of proving that the vote hadn't beer
that way. When the chiefs proposal
and the men informally they promptly
turned it down and decided to have nc
meeting at all rather than one run b,
the chief SO the situation stands JUS
there. as54-~ s..,ss
During thezaweek the Manufacturer.
issued a proclamation that any of their
men who had not returned to his place
by July IA would be crossed off the pay.
rolls, as the books of the companies
must be posted and the men could no
be carried any longer. This, too, is re.
garded as a big joke by the strikers
the extreme limit stated, being taker
as an indication that the manufacturer:
expect by that time to be in need OF
again resuming operations and would
like the men back to resume. The mer
are not going back now until the man.
ufacturers meet their committees anc
adjust matters. What chance the man.
ufacturers had of breaking the strike
is now lost and all the threats or pro.
paganda the employers put out will MOI
bring them again into line as they were
last week
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-07-03
FILL VACANCIES ON
The EXECUTIVE BOARD
Trades Council Elects Garland
and Warner to Governing
Body.

Two vacancies occurring on the ex-
ecutive board of the New Haven
Trades Council because the mem bers
were not returned as delegates by their
respective unions, were filled at the
meeting on Thursday night, following
The retiring members are Charles
Roh1er of the Cigarmakers and John
Strachan of the Carpenters, and to fill
their places Fred Warner of the Nov
ing Picture Operators and Hugh J.
Garland of the Corset Workers were
named.
Neither Mr.. Rohler nor Mr.. Strachan
desired a return to the Trades Coun-
Gil, so at the local elections held during
the past month they were retired. Both
have been active members of the Coun-
Gil but concluded it time to give some
one else chance in the central body
and retired.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-07-03
FATE OF THE COOP =
STORE NOW HANGING
AT DANGER POINT

A slump in the enthusiasm that
surrounded the proposal for the
New Haven Trades Council to
start a cooperative store to meet
the high cost of living, has reach
ed such proportions that the
Council at its meeting Thursday
night, made it the special order
of the day for the next meeting
at $50 O'Clock, to decide whether
or not the project should be con-
tinued.
A number of members of the
several unions have already taken
stock in the organization and
many others promised to do SO,
but these promises are not
materia1izing. Therefore in order
to give back the money to those
who have already paid in or to go
ahead with more enthusiasm, will
be decided at the next meeting
and it behooves everyone inter
ested to be present and speak his
little piece.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-07-03

Murdered he lay sleeping presumably by his previously
faithful wife
his fveearod daughter Frank Sokoowsk of the active
but conservative and most respected of the American
Federation of Labor working the Waterbury
being made the subject of
trated upon person dead or alive
Hardly had his body stened the of death than enemies
personal but Of Labor generally
that his death due to his being paid of the
had found
with whom he officially personally
eff Frank Sokolowsky traitor his
Obun of the c. F. of L. under whom Sokolowsy
with whom
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-07-03
NoN-UNION SOFT DRINKS.
Brewery and Soft Drink Workers
Circulate List of Makers.

A circular distributed by the Brew
cry and Soft Drink Workers of New
Haven and vicinity announces that the
following firms of soft drink man
ufacturers refuse to recognize Organ
lied Labor: The Atlantic Bottling
Works, the Star Bottling Works, the
New Haven Bottling Works, Coca-Cola
Bottling Works, also Crystal Bottling
Works, Ansonia, and all other shops.
The following firms employ union
men and have signed agreements with
the organization: Smile Bottling
Works, B1akes1ee's Bottling Works,
C1anceY's Bottling Works.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-07-03
FOOD PRICES JUMP.

Washington, July 2.-Retail food
prices throughout the country increased
per cent between April IS and May
IS, according to the federal bureau of
labor statistics This figure is based on
a survey of the prices of 43 articles
of food in different cities. Food costs
on May IS were per cent higher than
on January Is The greatest increases
were in sugar, -four and potatoes.