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The Connecticut labor press., 1920-03-27
EASY MONEY.
Seeking It Just Like Trying to
 Ride Bucking Broncho.

Rocking Chair bore the false designa- ton of "a piece of easy money" for years. Rocking Chair was the mildest, most peaceable and innocuous specimen of horseflesh imaginable and there was a standing offer of $50 to any man who would and could ride him. Fifty dollars for doing what all the cattlemen in Wyoming, northern Colarado and Mon- tana. were accustomed to do as daily task looked like easy money.
 Consequently whenever a puncher went broke in poker game or needed new pair of chaps, he took a little trip to the Circle M ranch and prepared to collect the easy coin. In spite of appearances, however, Rocking Chair was not an easy money horse. He had every trick known to the bucking horse He could kick you as you mounted, he could claw your feet from the stirrups with his hind hoofs and if he missed you from behind, he would bite you on the knee from i'll front.
 Worm fence, sunfsh, weave, he knew them all and once he got his head down., a derrick was necessary to lift it. He could fall over backward on his rider more unexpectedly than any horse alive and he could run full speed into barbed wire fence without hurting him. self. Dozens of top hands, crack riders tried for easy money on Rocking Chair. Some of them rode him-with their spurs locked in the cinch and choking the saddle horn, but mighty few ever rode him Straight up" and those who did, did not call 1t easy money when they collected the $50 with blood run ming from their ears and nose and mouth and their interior arrangements feeling like they had just been run over by traction engine
 The maj jority of the riders who tried Rocking Chair did not even have time to pull leather. They reached for the pummel and came up with handful of sand.
 There are thousands of investors to- day who are listening to the call of easy money. They are reaching for the pommel and coming up with handful of sand and it Is not oil sand either. Wild cat investments are more difficult to tame than Rocking Chair They look innocuous and promise quick and easy profits but nlnety-nine investors out of hundred who try them out are left in broken heap on the ground.
 Government securities, Liberty Bonds, War Savings Stamps and Treacury Savings Certificates may not furnish the excitement of easy money invest ments but they are safe and they carry the investor where he wants to go The Wyoming bronco busters may have gotten excitement out of a few minutes on Rocking Chair but they paid for 1t by many long hours in the hospital.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-03-27
LABOR $ BIG AXE.
Will Get Enemies Going and Flew
 for Friends Coming. ..

Labor Is sharpening tWo-bladed axe and with it intends to hack away at the fourishing tree of privilege until 1t is destroyed. A deliberate and sys- tematic program is being mapped out for a double assault upon it during the present year.
 On February 18th a conference of workers and farmers was held in Chicago for the specific purpose of dis cussing cooperation and co-ordinating the activities of all agencies now striv- ing to bring producer and consumer to- gether and independent of the middle men who infest the channels of trade. Eight profits are taken from a bushel of wheat from the time 1t leaves the farm until it gets to the mill, and three profits are extracted after it is ground. Cooperation will dispense with at least eight of these profits and save for the consumer the tribute thus collected.
 This conference was attended by del- egates representing the American Fed eration of Labor. the railroad brother hoods, various farmers organizations and cooperative oscieties and agencies.
 The other blade of labor's axe is the ballot. In many states there has been a definite alignment of industrial and agricultural workers, and their power will be felt III pending political contro- versy. Cooperation will be a decisive step in the direction of better con- ditions, but it is apparent to leaders i'll the labor movement that full relief can not be secured until representative government is restored and there is a radical change of the personnels of congress and state legislatures.
 Autocracy and plutocracy are organ ized and militant, and are in possession of powerful weapons with which they have been influencing and shaping pub lie opinion. But labor is also aroused and has the power of votes, and if it wisely employs its prerogatives of citi- zenship there will be sweeping and wholesome change in the methods of government-LaborH Herald
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-03-27
COAL STRIKE DANGER
 INVERTED FOR PRESENT
Operators Agree to Raise Retro active to April 1 When
 Fixed.

New York, March 26.-There will be no suspension of work in the hard coal fields on April l when the present wage agreement expires. The operators on Wednesday night agreed to a wage in crease to be retroactive as of April 1, no matter when it is finally arranged and thus trouble was averted. The sub committe of owners and workers will not complete negotiations for several weeks and meanwhile the following resolutions were made effective:
 Whereas, The regulations now pend ing between the anthracite mine work CTS and operators may require addi- tiona1 time to reach mutually satis- factory conclusion; and,
 Whereas, It is to the public interest that the supply of coal be not dimin- ished; therefore,
 Be it resolved, that pending con- c1uslon of negotiations there shall be no cessation of work and that by mu- tual consent the working conditions of the agreement of May 5, 1916, and the war allowances supplemental thereto, that whatever agreement Is reached shall be retroactive to April 1, 1920"
 The general scale committee of the mine workers representing the three districts comprising the anthracite field met Thursday to receive this resolution. and upon receipt they immediately sent official notice to workers in the field that there would be no suspension of work April 1.
 Labor leaders, however, were careful to point out that this would not mean that a strike, might not be called later if continued negotiations failed to pro- duce an agreement satisfactory to them.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-03-27
LABOR MAN HEAD OF
 INTERSTATE BOARD
Edgar E. Clark, Former Con- ductor, Now Chairman
 of Commission.

Edgar E. Clark, senior member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, is now chairman of that body, having been chosen by his fellow members to the position, winch he assumed March Y. Under the new railroad law this body has been granted large additional pow CTS, and the chairmanship carries with it more responsibility than heretofore.
 MT. Clark was for many years pres ident of the Order of Railway Con ductors, which office he held when first apointed to the commission by Pres ident Roosevelt. Commissioners Rob- ert w. Woolley and Joseph B. East man, whose names had been suggested for the chairmanship, declined the honor in Mr. C1ark's favor.
 Two additional members of the com mission are provided for in the new railroad law, and the salaries are :n- creased from $10,0O0 to $12,OOO per an- mum. President Wilson is expected to make these nominations within a few days and it IS believed that at least one will come from the ranks of labor.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-03-27
TAILORS IN STAMFORD
 STRIKE FOR INCREASE
Employers Refuse to Treat With Committee and Workers
 Go Out.

Stamford, March 26-When the en- ployers association refused to consider the demands made for an increase in wages and a reduction of hours, about 70 members of Local 126, Ladies' Tail ors, of Stamford, went on strike this week to force the increase. Organizer Hugh J. Garland of New Haven, of the Ladies' Garment Makers Union, was called in and on Wednesday sue ceeded in securing a conference with the employers.
 The employers refused to treat with the matter collectively SO no result was attained After the conference several individual employers waited on the union and expressed their willingness to meet the demand but stated they were unable to do so until the others had come to an agreement They did so finally and nine out of B shops struck against were signed up.
 The tailors demanded $40 per week minimum with 48 hour week This Is an increase of about 20 per cent in wages. The workers now have a 54 hour week but instead of seeking the A hour limit as is becoming the basis of working hours, decided to reach this step gradually so as not to interfere with business or the trade.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-03-27
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MEMBERS
 WHO ARE ARRA TED AGAINST LABOR

There appears be- unfortunately inclination the part the Connecticut themselves the side of the employers associations which are
 Inasmuch composed n of about eighty per m m and & other ness of their policy clearly evident the onlooker
 defeated in their efforts needed of wages the scale o the % hG % en sand snonn 1 a o Kept @
 employer and the merchant who would otherwise get
 His urled that much and his years profits in put losing ledger of B1 what M Sfs @ a ond ms @ to n the M big fellow? The latter favor said merchant with little
 the spot cash Isn't that glory and profit
 Quick sharp and decisive results be obtained by some of the merchants from members of organized labor
 some of the chambers the Fed
 hed by that annually In cities the chambers & % nome W b o~ed advertising this publication whether they want to not
 bound hand foot by their membership and when they have asked the for special dspnsation allowing them to advertise in this particular publication has been
 The secretaries have woefu lack of the ordinary business polished prue They have the of Labor as Their attitude has been full of organized courtesy This of only be expected because they
 significant situation however on war o d or s by the % 0 these chamber of and the merchants who members the spener of their community naturally going to force their good made them.
 that labor merchant because he does consider Using publications paying investment If he doesn't think
 him from strictly business point of view absolute right decn just he would decline which
 when representative of the Connecticut Federation of that member of particular chamber of publication, that the representative question will be ALLOWED solicit business Grafers don't light here together with about that time it high time for that community and members of the cha of
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-03-27
HOURS OF LABOR.
Interesting Statistics Compiled
 Among Trades by A. F. of L.

Interesting facts relating to the na- tion's industries are brought to light in compilation just finished at the office of the American Federation of Labor. The chart was made up from reports on the conditions obtaining i'll III trades and occupations. as submitted by officials of unions.
 The number of workers involved in these trades borders close on 800O,0O0. Additional reports from score of oth- CT unions with membership of 750,0O0 are not included in the report.
 The table shows roughly that long hours of work and other evils still ob- tain in many trades. Of 90 trades which gave complete figures, P report that they enjoy a 44-hour week, Al others work AS hours per week, while 27 trades work more than 50 hours per week. Of these the following are most important:
 Fire fighters, 24 hours daily, days continuous employment; matters, 1O-14 hours daily; retail clerks, 10 hours daily, averaging 60 to 6 hours weekly i; glove makers, 8-9 hours daily, A to 50 hours weekly; marine engineers, 8-12 hours daily, for days per week; hotel and restaurant employees, over hours udlly TOT SIX dllu d lIdStlOl AdyS PCl week; iron, steel and tin industry, 8-12 hours; lace operatives, g hours per week; laundry workers, 48 to 54 hours weekly; masters, mates, and pilots, 8-13 hours daily, mo limit; seamen, 8-l2 hours daily; stage employees, "indefin- ite."
 Of the III trades listed, v required overtime work. Most of the overtime, however, is compensated for by time and-one-half or double-time rates of pay. Ten trades give unemployment benefits to their members, in practically every case the amount of such benefit, however, being limited.
 To the question: "Is the 8-hour day too long; if so, what standard would you recommend? ?" the general answer favored the 44-hour week. The brick and clay workers said they would be 'glad to get hours" the diamond workers hoped for a maximum of 40 hours; while the draftsmen, federal employees, granite cutters, jewe1ry work CTS, miners and firemen desired from 36 to 40 hours as maximum.
 In 5 of the crafts the unions attempt to seek employment for out-of-work members, either through their business agent or through lists issued at head quarters or published in the official journals.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-03-27
CHARGE PROPAGANDA
 TO DOWN LABOR BILLS
Women's League Puts Thing Squarely Up to Gov.
 Smith.

Albany N. Y., March 26.-Charges that powerful and perilous influence" is exerted over public opinion i'll the state by well financed and active combination" backed by the Associated Manufacturers and Merchants, and aid ed by Speaker Thaddeus C. Sweet of the Assembly, are contained ill a report filed with Governor Smith by the New York State League of Women Voters, through its executive council and the chairman, Mrs. Frank A. Vanderlip.
 The report declared that this com bination under the direction of Mark A. Daly of Buffalo, secretary and leg islative agent of the Associated Manu- lecturers and Merchants, is interfering with open and orderly legislative action on important matters, special reference being made to the eight-hour day, mini mum wage and health insurance.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-03-27
GOVERNMENT AIDS
 STATES ROAD WORK
Connecticut in List Getting Valu-
 able War Dept. Equipment.

Washington, March 26.-Va1uab1e equipment, which will be useful in the construction of roads, has been given by the War Department to the State Highway departments of 29 states The states receiving the apparatus are Ari- zonia, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Penn sylvania, South Carolina, South Dako- ia. Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming.
 Included in the equipment are 1,500 field ranges formerly used by the army. It is expected that these will serve con- veniently in preparing meals for con- struction gangs doing road work. Con- crete mixers, concrete carts. excavators, clam-shell buckets, blows, tractors, re- inforcing steel, scrapers, hoisting en- zines and various materials were also prorated among these same states.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-03-27
MEETINGS OF NEW HAVEN
 UNIONS THIS WEEK.
GATIIRDAY

SAI IORDAY. Cap Makers, No. 20-Hall No. 2, 215 Meadow street.
 SUNDAY. Typographical Union, No. H-2 D. m., Trades Council Hall, 215 Meadow street.
 Theatrical Stage Employees, No. "A Hall No. 2, 2l5 Meadow street. Tailors, Custom, No. 184-l5o Crown street.
 Musicians Local 234-Congress Square building. Moving Picture Machine Operators, No. 273-T. M. A. Hall, 9o Temple street.
 Locomotive Engineers, No. T-1O: 80 a. m., Odd Fellows Hall, o5 Crown street.
 MONDAY Carpenters, No. 79-Hall No. 1, 215 Meadow street
 THURSDAY. Machinists, No. 420-9o Temple street.
 Tobacco Shippers, No. 12O45-Hall No. 2, 215 Meadow street New Haven Trades Council-8 D. m., 2l5 Meadow street. Corset Workers Union-Hall No 2, 2l5 Meadow street. Watch and Clock Workers Union. No. 46-Insurance building, 800 Chapel street.
 FRIDAY, Street Railway Employees, No. 281- Eagles Hall, % Crown street. Railway Telegraphers-8 p. m., Church and Crown streets. Iron Molders, No. 60-Hall No. 2, 215 Meadow street.
 SATURDAY. Letter Carriers, No. 19-400 State street.
 Electrical Workers, Outside, No. 531 Hall Mo- 1, 215 Meadow street.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-03-27
NORWICH TEACHERS
 MAY JOIN A. F. OF l.

Norwich, March 26.-Public school teachers of the town formed the Nor wich Teachers league this week with a membership of g, which is about three-quarters of the total teaching staff of the schools The league is not affiliated with the American Federation of Labor but the officers indicated that this was among the future possibilities for the organization.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-03-27
MACHINIsTs DENTISTS.

Armory Lodge 61o, Machinists, at Springfield, Mass, has established CO., operative dental clinic for the benefit of it's members and their families. The success of the venture is indicated by the following extract from letter re- ceived from one member:
 Our dental clinic is now in working order and is very popular with our members so far. It is saving the mem bers from 50 to 75 per cent. on all work ione."
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-03-27
MIDDLETOWN ELECTS.

Middletown, March 26.-The Middle town C. L. U. elected officers at its last meeting. The election resulted as fol- lows: President, Fred Baumann; vice president, A. Fontanelli; financial sec retary Patrick H. Quirk; recording and corresponding secretary, Stephen Puglisi; guard, C. Pasculano; trustees, Charles Smith, Max F. Petzold, Charles Betz.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-03-27
ARREST MINE OWNERS
 AND WORKERS ALIKE
Both Sides Taken in to Face Conspiracy Charges.

Terre Haute, Ind, March 26.-Ed Stewart and William Mitch, president and secretary-treasurer, respectively, of District No. II, United Mine Workers of America, were arrested here by a United States marshal on a charge of conspiracy to increase the price of coal
 The men were the first of the mine workers to be arrested following in- dictment by a special federal grand jury at Indianapolis.
 Other men arrested here are: J. s. Riddle and Harold Henderson, counsel for the mine workers; John Heslar, Robert Perry, John Little, F. McQuaid and Harry Lenzt members of the ex- ecutive board of District No. Il, and Will J. Freeman, Homer Talley, former president of the Indiana Bituminous Voal Operators Association; George Waltham, coal operator; M. L. Gould, J. C. Kolsem, Phil H. Penna, secretary of the Indiana Bituminous Coal Oper- ators' Association; Hugh Shirkie, A. M Ogle, David Ingle, Charles Pettinger and U. c. Hall. All are held under $10,OOO. bail.
 Evansville, Ind, March 26.-Jabez Wooley, Evansville coal operator. was
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-03-27

Evansville, Ind, March 26.-Jabez Wooley, Evansville coal operator, was arrested on an indictment charging him with conspiring to violate the Lever act in fixing the price of coal. Bond for $10000 was furnished.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-03-19
fredericksburg Normal

On Monday, President Chandler
made an address in Falmouth on the
the call of the teaching profession.
Miss Roberts held a round table for
the teachers on school classroom
problems, at Harrisonville on Tues
day.
President A. B, Chandler, Jr., has
left to attend conference of tie Po-
tomac chapter of the AIumnae associa-
ton which will meet in Washington on
the .4th. This chapter is one Of the
largest and most active of the various
aiumnae chapters of Frederic ksburg
Norma. school.
On Friday, DR. E. c. l. Miller, of
the Medical college, comes TO the
Normal to deliver a lecture on "Quacks
and Facts in Medicine" DIR, Miller Is
well known lecturer IN the state,
and following the recent lecture by
DR.. Baughman, OF Richmond, gives
the sec1hd of the series from the
faculty of the Richmond medical
school. The student body in this way
has the advantage OF hearing men
who are known as authorities on the
su b jects OF which they speak.
Miss Williams, the supervisor of
music in the school, LIS attending the
national convention OF the music
teachers associa ton which is meeting
at Philadelphia
DIR. w. J. Young, of the faculty. has
returned from lecture tour under the
extension bureau of the Normal school.
On Monday, he spoke to the student
body OF the Petersburg high school,
and on Tuesday at TIE jefferson high
school on the subject, The Calling OF
the Teacher as a Vocation" On Tues
day evening. he addressed the home
and school league of Suffolk on the
subject. The school as the center of
community life" ga
On "Wednesday, he lecturEd before
the Junior and senior classes OF MAury
high scool in Norfolk, and the Wood
row Wilson high school in Portsmouth.
On Thursday, he spoke TO the student
body of the Newport News high school.
and on Friday at Hampton high
school DR.. Young. In his lecture.
called attention to the fact that Amerf
can ideals have been forged in this
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-03-19
AUCTION SALE.
TRUSTEES AUCTION SALE
OF A
VALUABLE FARM IN CHESTER
FIELD COUNTY. VA.

Acting nader and pursuant to the
terms Of = certain deed Of trust from
d. W. Sutherland to me As trustee
dated February Is, 1919, and recorded
in the clerks Office of the circuit court
of Chesterfield County. Va. in deed
book No. ls2, page So. default hav-
ing been made in the payment Of a
part Of the debt secured thereby. and
being required 50 to do by the bench
ciary there under. l. the undersigned
trustee In said deed, VIII sell at auc-
ton on the premises on
SATURDAY. MARCH 20, 1899.
1T ) O'Clock p. NJ
tbs real estate described As follows:
All that eertAins tract or parcel OF
land. containing lao acres. more or less,
lying and being in Chesterfield county.
Virginia, on the south side of Midlo-
THAN Pike. about nine miles from the
city Of Riehmond formerly Manches-
teri known n Gravel Hili' and ad-
joins tbs lands Of Austin r. Moore and
MArshaIl Cook on the east. on the
south by Hfrxm Hancock. and on the
west by A. r. Hnrdesty. on the north
by Midlothian Pike and Furcron estate
This In . mice farm. In q high state
Of cuitivstaoa. and buildings in good
repair.
TERMS. An cash. by direction of the
beneficiary
B. T. WATKINS. Trustee.
- North Ninth Street
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-03-19

entirely lost sight OF and what We
pay for is service.
The farmer In Brasil produces the
coffee berry; the farmer in Japan
furnishes the tea: the American
farmer furnishes the cereal which is
4 near-coffee, and God Almighty fur
nishes the water freely from the
faucet.
Now 1t cannot be said that the
farmer Is entitled to 50 per cent Of
the price Of cup Of Postum. How
could he figure the thimbleful OF
grain which made that cupful?
Be Everything and Get All.
II the farmer Is prepared to give
all the service he Is entitled to all
the profits. For instance. If he will
grow the wheat and grind 1t. bake II
into bread. wrap the bread in a sani
tary manner and deliver 1t to the
housewife, he Is entitled to all of the
consumers dollar. As II Is, service
In this connection. regardless Of the
price OF bread, far outweighs the
time which the farmer actually puts
into growing that wheat. but econom
ical distribution based upon the ex
perience of years of grain distribu
ton now gives the farmer his 80 pei
cent and all Of the other expenses
are included in the 20 per cent