The Connecticut labor press., 1920-09-25

 THE OMOOKER Y cock my hat as / please,
 indoors or out. ''-WaLt Whitman

But Clerk Bollman sees great light ]; happy time soon to come. He says that just as soon as the government changes hands, right after President Harding is inaugurated, prices will drop kerp1unl< and hence the court will be able to plod along on the same money this year as last. Clerk Boil mans faith may be child1il<e, but 1t is sublime, that's why in these times of greed and doubt he should have a niche among the immorta1s.
 Franklin K. Lane, in a report of a field survey covering every section of the country, speaks of farmers as the backbone of the nation" just as IS customary but when he comes to the working man he slips up and never re- fers to the ''horney handed sons of toiP' of his hire" Why and wherefore? l? Well, the ex-secretary of the interior has learned something-labor has moved up few notches in the scale of humanity.
 Now and then there bobs up story that the ministers somewhere or other, all beat out over the costs of living and deplorable failure in getting sal ary raise, have concluded to start a union and go on strike if their stipends are not increased. So far, so good, but like newspaper reporters and other weak-kneed humans, the parsons never get together to .sthe sticking point so that unions and SErikes never material ize. Dpwn i'll the Pine Tree State, i'll the old town of Kennebunk, the min isters talked about forming union, and they talked so much that they set the whole town talking.
 And what do you suppose happened !? Why, alas and alack, the parsons with the help of the town folks, talked them selves out of job entirely. The bosses of the churches up and told the com blaming and erring brothers of the cloth to get up and git, skeedaddle, get to hades out of the preaching business, speaking mildly and not using any too controlled the church purse strings, of course, and so the parsons had to go forth.
 But what happened then? Did the brotherhood of a lost cause pine away and starve? Not bit of it. Read the L Leech and Rev. Arthur E. Leech are manufacturing vanilla extracts. Rev. Royal A. Rich is about to open store for the sale of, corn crisp and .other confections of his own manufacture Rev. Oliver E. Curtis is in the grocery business.
 I print the above as an object lesson to union labor men. The parsons were up against the capitalists of the church and while they had to quit the pulpit they didn't quit cold. Not getting what they wanted, the preachers started something. Union labor men have got their strong unions, backed by the big A. F. A. but just the same they need to start something Start voting, for. candidates for office who are in full sympathy with the cause of organized labor.
 Probably of all creatures who aspire to law making and statesmanship, the aldermen of the average city are the most stupid. New Haven aldermen are no exception. Having passed nuisance of daylight saving ordinance that has bothered the people and the railroad all summer, they now find that it doesn't J1De With other c1tleS, as its time end- ing IS a month too soon So now an- other ordinance has been passed pro- longing daylight saving, much to the discomfort of working people who must arise an hour earlier these dark mornings than they would have had to with return to standard time.
 Then again along comes the august body and passes a jitney ordinance that proves to be boner, And this with elab- crate instructions before them from the corporation counsel and the example of previous jitney-ordinance boners pull ed by the aldermen of Bridgeport and Waterbury. So now, following public hearing last night, another ordinance regulating street traffic is in order. No wonder our old friend, Attorney M !. Quinn, laughs and people wonder what fiumadiddle of an ordinance will be sprung next