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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-12-09
New Laws Recommended
By Attorney General

P1erre, -. ~, Dec. o.-AtloTHey uen
cral Byron s. Payne will, in a report
make a number of suggestions to the
coming session Of the Legislature
along lines of legislation which his
department has found to be changes
which would make existing laws more
definite.
One of these which will no doubt
be- of more or less interest to the
whole state is that of Sunday amateur
baseball and moving picture shows
The recommendation in this line is
that either such games or shows be
given a legal standing or that the pro
per legislation be enacted which will
allow the enforcement of the law pro.
hibiting them.
He also asks for regulation of pub.
lie Sunday dances.
Wants Greater Rewards
He asks for more adequate provi-
sions for meeting expenses of law en-
sorcement officers in criminal cases,
and the privilege of greater rewards
for the apprehension of criminals than
now are allowed. other measures
asked for are:
Providing more definite provisions
for transferring escheat estate to the
state.
Giving residents Of norganized
counties the right of voting for state
and national candidates and adequate
compensation for assessors of unor-
ganized counties.
Enactment of legislation which will
assist i'm determination of insect pests
at public expense.
A more accurate and complete sys-
ten of licensing motor cars.
Fixing specific regulations as to
control of county highways. Also
making more clear the regulations as
TO what are section line highways.
Making proper provisions for re-
Cording soldiers discharge papers and
legalizing any such recording which
has heretofore been made.
Strengthening the powers of the
securities commission in regard
to sale of stocks of companies in this
state.
Reenactment of the provisions of
the code which require state officers
to file election expenses with the sec
Of state instead of county Off
Reenactment of the law which gives
counties and townships the right to
pay for surety bonds of their officers.
Transfers Of Property
Recommends that the legislature
c5nsiocr the resolutions of women's
organizations of the state in the mat
ter of wills and succession of proper
ty and transfers of the same.
Also a number of recommendations
to the matter of control of schools
districts, especially as to their powers
6f Indebtedness and care of the same:
also as to the rights and powers OF
county commissioners in the control
Of state property in the hands of state
officials and employees; increasing the
powers OF the probate court in the
matter of cleaning the records in mat
ters which come before that tribunal.
These, along with numerous techni-
cal corrections. show the needs as
found in actual administration of ex-
listing laws.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-12-09

Baby Is Born With One Tooth
Kennebec, S. d., Nov. 30.-To bC
born with a tiny pearIy tooth in ones
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-12-09
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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-12-09
Sanitary Barber Shop

MiIt Ulrich, Prop.
A nice clean. quiet. strictly sani-
tary place to get your barber work
done. Bath room ir connection.
Agent for Aberdeen laundry. Slower
Building. Miller, s. Oak.
Laundry Leaves MONDAY evening
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-24
COAL MINERS PROFITS
CAN MEET new AWARD
Federal Trade Commission Sees
No Reason for Raising
Price.

Washington, April 23.-The Presi-
dent has made public~the majority and
minority reports of the Coal Commits
sion appointed by him after the recent
coal miners strike was called off, The
majority report, with a 81 per cent.
wage increase, almost doubles the
award of Fuel Commissioner Garfield,
which was rejected by the miners.
The award includes the significant
statement that the coal industry is
'speculatively overdeveloped.'
"a recent report of the Federal
Trade Commission furnished. ample ma
terial to back up this statement" the
miners said. "In the Central Pennsyl-
vania coal field, for example, this re-
port shows that there was an advance
in the cost of labor required to pro-
duce a ton of coal from 81 cents in
1916 to $136 in 1913 or 54 cents, while
the amount realized by the operator
for the sale of coal advanced from
$1.36 to $2.49, an increase of $113 or
more than double the increase in the
cost of labor during the same period.
According to the figures of the
Federal Trade Commission, as brought
out in the exhibit, 1abor's share in each
dollar paid by the public has actually
decreased by 1o per cent. since 1916,
while the operators share has more
than trebled."
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-24
PRINTERS TO NOMINATE
OFFICERS TOMORROW
Election of Delegates to G. F. of
L. Convention Will Also =
Take Place.

Typographical Union, No, AZ, of New
Haven, will meet tomorrow afternoon
at o'clock in Trades Council hall,
Meadow street This is an important
meeting and all members should be
present as the annual nominations for
local officers must be made at this
meeting. The election will take place
on the fourth Wednesday in May
when besides local officers to be elected,
the members will vote for international
officers.
There is a contest on already for
the delegateship to the international
convention which convenes this year,
for the first time since America en-
tered the war, at Albany, NJ. Y, in
August The contestants already in the
field are both daily newspaper workers,
and strong advocates for the local at all
times, and by the time the full number
of nominations is made it will be GER
tainty that a strong contest will be
made.
Besides the regular routine business
to be conducted at the meeting tomor-
row delegates will be elected for the
Connecticut Federation of Labor con-
vention at Waterbury in May.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-24
COURT DECIDES
STRIKE UNLAWFUL
IN MASSACHUSETTS
Enjoins Workers Attempt to En-
force Collective Bargain
Contract.

Boston, April 23.-A strike to enforce
collective bargaining is an illegal strike,
according to recent decision OF the
supreme judicial court of Massachu-
setts, in the case of, the Folsom En-
craving Company VS.. William Mcneil
ct al >
This is the first decision on that
subject in this country" William M.
Noble of Boston said. "The signifi-
canoe of the opinion. has not reached
the newspaper columns because the
words collective bargaining are not
used in the text, for the reason that
the term collective barbaining' is not
known to the law as legal phraseology."
Justice Henry King Braley wrote the
opinion and says, that at a meeting of
the local union, of which two of the
defendants are president and secretary,
it was voted to submit to the photo
T. engraving establishments of this city
form of proposed contract providing
among other things for scale of wages
and hours, for fixed ratio of appren-
tees and that all disputes not covered
by the agreement should be submitted
to an arbitration committee of two from
each party, but if they failed to agree,
fifth member was to be chosen by the
committee"
AS the agreement was not accepted
by the photo engravers, the union called
strike which resulted in a suit to
enjoin the union from compelling the
employers to sign the agreement. The
vital sentences relating to collective
bargaining are the following:
The plaintiffs could not be COM
PEELED to make an involuntary contract,
or to substitute compulsory arbitration
for due process of law.
'The right of the plaintiffs at all
times to hire in the labor market, and
to retain in their employment such
workmen as they might choose unham-
pered by the interference of the union
acting as a body through the instru-
mentality of strike, or of boycott,
or of black list, is primary right
which has never been abrogated but
remains unimpaired by our decisions"
The opinion then states that the de-
PENDANTS were guilty of having delib-
erately, Intentionally and materially in
terfered with the right of the plaintiffs
unmolested to carry on business in their
own way and should be permanently
enjoined."
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-24
CONVENTION CALL
] SHOWS IMPORT OF
COMING SESSION
A. f. of l.. Meeting Has Many
Serious Matters to
Consider.

The official call for the fortieth an
nual convention of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor was received by the
New Haven Trades Council, the Con-
necticut Federation of Labor and other
Central Labor bodies this week and
announces, as heretofore forecasted,
the change in date for the session to
be held in Montreal from June II to
June continuous until the business is
finished. Conditions both in Montreal
and Canada caused the change, the call
states, and therefore the breaking of
the usual custom of having the conven-
MON in the second week in June.
That the convention will be perhaps
the most important eevr held by the
Federation, because of conditions and
the gigantic questions now affecting the
wage Garner, is assured. That is in
dicated in the call which says in part:
at is, of course. entirely unnecessary
here to enumerate all the important
subjects with which our forthcoming
convention will concern itself, but the
reminder is not at all amiss that every
effort must be made to broaden the
field and means for the organization of
the yet unorganized workers; to strive
to bring about more effectua1ly than
ever better day in the lives and homes
of the toilers; to defend and maintain
by every honorable means in our pow
er the right to organize for Our COM
mon defense and advancement, for the
exercise of our normal and conStitu-
tional activities to protect and promote
the rights and interests of the workers !;
to assert at any risk the equal rights
before the law of all workers with all
II u Ell IL
ers against the effort to entangle the
workers in the meshes of litigation be-
fore the courts in the several states !;
to make effective in our every day lives
the principle declared in the law of Our
Republic (the Clayton law), That the
labor of human being is not COM
modify or article of commerce. to
arouse our fellow-workers and fellow
citizens to the danger which threatens
to curb and take away their guaranteed
rights and freedom to meet and help
solve the vexatious problems of peace
and reconstruction to emphasize the
dominating and determining economic
character of our movement and to
carry on such political action as, the
interests of labor will warrant and the
trade union movement has directed !;
these and other great questions of equal
Importance will, of necessity, occupy
the attention of the Montreal conven-
ton.
wherefore, the importance of our
movement the duty of the Hour and for
the future, demand that every organ
ization entitled to representation shall
send its full quota of delegates to- the
Montreal convention, June 7. 1870"
Arrangements for ample hotel
accommodations have been made and
reservations may be made from now on
by communicating with Gus Franq, sec
retary of arrangements committee, 2
St. Paul St. East, Montreal.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-24
SEEK AID HERE TO
FIGHT INDIVIDUAL j,
CONTRACT SCHEME
Machinists Delegates Show Up
Attempt to Disrupt Organ
Ied Labor.

Seeking moral as we'll as financial
support in their strike against the
United Shoe Machine Company of Bev-
er1y, Mass, representatives of the $500
striking machinists employed at the
plant are visiting the machinists and
other labor organizations in this city
and state and laying their cause before
them They visited the New Haven
lodges during the week and their story
of the actual cause of the strike gives
a very different impression from that
the worker was led to believe through
the reports given in the press.
The strike began about six weeks
ago and was due to nothing but the
company's insistence upon putting into
force the individual contract plan
which is considered to be the most
strenuous effort on the part of capital
to disrupt and cripple labor organiza,,,
tions. By the individual contract
system the worker must make contracts
to remain outside all labor organiza-
tions, not to be or become member
of any such organization, must contract
to work a certain length of time for a
certain stated wage and in fact must
renounce practically all MS rights to
freedom of his labor Wages did not
enter into the strike although increases
were sought and thus gave the COM
pany the opportunity to inject the in
dividua1 contract" wedge.
If the individual contract" plan is
allowed to go through organizers for
any craft would be prohibited from
even suggesting organization to any
man so bound up, as to do so would
lay the organizer or any other member
of an organized craft open to charge
of conspiracy. The importance of
blocking such a move is so great to
every member of Organized Labor that
support to the men fighting it will
assuredly be given.
While the Machinists' Grand Lodge is
carrying on tie strike to the full ex-
tent provided for in its constitution, a
large number of the men out have not
been affiliated long enough to receive
full benefits and to assist in carrying
these along until the strike is won, the
are asking some lnan-
cial aid also
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-24
COURT SUSTAINS
MJUNCTIONS HELD,
OVER STAGE MEN
Decides Hartford Men Cannot
u Strike Against Movie
Theatre.
IS AGAINST CONTRACT
Had Agreed to Allow Operator to
Attend Lights, Is
Ruling.
IS AGAINST CONTRACT

Judge William M. Maltbie in the
superior court, at Hartford, has denied
the motion of the International Alliance
of Theatrical Stage Employees and Nov
ing Picture Operators of the United
States and Canada and Local 486 and
Local "a of Hartford, for dissolution
of the Injunction prayed out against
them . by the Majestic and Princess
theater in that city. The injunction re-
strained the defendants from calling a
strike against Mr.. Morrison's theaters.
Judge Maltbie writes long memoir
andum of opinion and says:
These unions are voluntary associa-
tions. Their contracts are binding upon
the individual members When certain
of the members of Local "a instituted
Local 486 to take over a portion of
the field of employment previously COW
cred by the former, they took with
them, at least in equity, the obligation
contained in the contract with the
plaintiff. They also took with them
their knowledge of the circumstances
and this fact was only the reason of
the waving of the necessity of his en-
ploying house electrician, that he was
willing to open his theaters as union
houses. Local No. 486, however con-
II oliI lllO lliIIO vi It's vi
June, 1919, when the matters was
brought before it by the complaint of
Local "a, to have the benefit Nof the
tract. Under such circumstances [
think that Local 48o, in assuming the
field of work formerly occupied by
Local "a, assumed with it, and has con-
tinued under the obligation to the plain
tiff.
Both locals also claims that the
plaintiff has violated his obligation un-
der the contract and the bylaws of the
unions by continuing the employment of
kearns, after his expulsion from the
union. Both unions were bound not to
require the plaintiff to employ a house
electrician and that necessarily in this
theater involved that use of an oper-
ator to do the work upon the sign and
the like. work. Kearns was expelled
for doing that very work. 1t certainly
does not lie in the mouth of these
to say that, having forced
kearns out of the union for doing the
work which they agreed that he or
some other operator might do, they will
now strike because the plaintiff con-
tinues to employ him upon II.
Il think, therefore, that the threat
ened strike is in derogation of the con-
ractura1 obligations assumed in the
first instance by Local 84 and now
binding upon it, and also upon Local
1856. If, however, the obligation of this
contract is not directly binding upon
Local 4S6, it still remains that a strike
would be merely for the purpose of aid
ng Local "a to avoid the force of its
contract. A strike under such circum-
stances is not justihab1e~ either in law
Or morals" -....---.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-24
BAKERS VOTE TO
JOIN CONFERENCEOF
ALL new ENGLAND
Connecticut and Massachusetts
Lead Way to Bigger
< Organization.

Plans for the formation of a New
England Conference of all the New
England branches of the Bakery and
Confectionery Workers of America,
started with the amalgamation of the
Connecticut and Massachusetts, state
bodies were discussed and favorab1y
acted upon at the convention of the
Connecticut branch at Waterbury last
Saturday. The delegates unanimously
voted to join the movement and to send
a delegation TO the first conference
which will be held at Springfield, Mass,
some time during July.
The movement has been under discus
sion for some time and the Massachu-
sets state convention held asweek pre-
vious also unanimously voted to take
part and to that end sent its president,
William J. Meade, TO attend the Con-
necticut convention last Saturday and
formally pledge the support of the Bay
state men. There were delegates pres
ent from practically every part of Con-
necticut and the merger plan met with
instant approval Connecticut and
Massachusetts,, will therefore take the
lead and it is confidently expected that
by the meeting in July the rest of New
will have enrolled.
The Connecticut convention also dis
cussed the plan for a uniform wage
agreement throughout the state and for
better working conditions all around.
Reports were made that much progress
along the latter line was being made
and that the uniform wage agreement
was progressing favorab1y and might
be brought about amicably without
action by the state body.
New Haven was represented at the
meeting by August F. Striby and
George Woedtke
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-24
STRIKERS ARE FINED
ON ASSAULT CHARGES
Willimantic Workers Change
Plea to Guilty After Trial
of Four Hours.

Willimantic, April Exchanging
their pleas to guilty of assault after
their trials had been on for four hours
before jury, two of the three arrested
textile strikers were given fines and
jail sentences by Judge Kellogg in the
superior court here this week. The
iai1 sentences were suspended and the
men released on paying the fines.
The prisoners were members of the
Ama1gamated Textile Workers and
were charged with assaulting one John
Kolone, who went back to work last
fall. They were defended by Attorney
George E. Roewen of Boston sent by
the Textile organization, but after he
had let the case go on for some time he
consulted with States Attorney Noone
and entered the change of plea. The
fines were 500 and $50 and the days
90 and 80 also. The third accused, a
woman, was let go on nolle.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-24
new BRITAIN COMPANY
STOPS WORK ON SHOP
Blames Workers Cost, But Says
Nothing About Own
Charges.

New Britain, April 23.-Orders have
been given to the Torrington Building
Company to discontinue all operations
at the aluminium shop of Landers, Frary
& Clark, on South Stanley street.
Foundations of six-story building to
contain $4,000 square feet floor space
have been laid but no further work will
be done this year. This was confirmed
by the president of the company, who
gives as the reason that the demands
for wages from all classes of workers
in the building trades make it impossi-
bic for them to continue any further
building operations
1t is notable that the excuse given
puts the blame entirely on wage de-
mands and says nothing whatever about
the excessive costs of tools the COM
panyr makes, and which the workers
must pay, nor about the enormous in
crease in the price of materials needed
for the buildings. It's all laid on the
wage of building trades workers-of
course.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-24
WILLIAMS TO RUN
FOR SENATORSHIP
in 10Th DISTRICT
Well Known and Ardent Labor
Man Throws Hat in
L-- Ring.

Plainfe1d, April 23.-Former Repre-
sentative Charles H. (Char1ey) Will
liams of this town, has announced his
determination to seek the nomination
on the Democratic. ticket for the office
of senator from the Twenty-ninth Sem
atorial district this fall, and thereby
portends an interesting fight, and one in
which Organized Labor can heartily
take part. For Charley is not only a
Union" man but has been black1isted
for being one. Despite This blacklist he
managed to beat out one of the shop
owners in 1916 and represented this
town in the Legislature in 1917.
While in the Legislature Williams
certainly was there with both feet for
the interests of the workers and al
insistent. But that didn't feaze him
any and he continued to insist and even
resorted to poetical ridicu1e of ceftain
anti-labor measures that were being
pushed over on the Assembly. While
his ridicule couldn't stop the jugger-
naut it did bring forcibly to mind just
what was going on = = = =.
That session was the celebrated "war
movement" session made so much
political capital of by Governor Hol-
comb and his hackers. AS soon as it
was over Representative Williams tried
to do his duty further by enlisting in
the United States army but being over
the military age was not permitted to
do so. He was bound to get into the
fight, however, and went to Canada
where his services were quickly taken
and he went over seas.
When he got back home he found
that despite his efforts for mankind the
blacklist still prevailed against him
and he wasn't able to get job in his
own home town. He had to go out of
town to work but thinks he can find
time to carry on his campaign through
sthe district. The district is now rep
resented by Session L. Adams, also of
this town. His occupation is given as a
town official and the state manual gives
Ais job, or jobs, as clerk, registrar and
treasurer, but despite this he probably
has plenty of time to conduct his cam
paign, so it's up to Charley's friends
to get out and help him. There are
half dozen republicans out for Adams
Senatorial toga so a rumptls might
crop up there that will aid Williams.