The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-10-09

key, and they were bad enough. But
now when a man has filled I'D on a
combination of hair oil, lemon extract,
Jamaica ginger and home hooch there's
no telling what will happen, not to
mention bloody murder.
1t seems queer, but according to all
accounts many people failed to hear any
noise, when the big drop in prices
happened.
Great doings are in prospect for the
profteering restaurants and the gilded
lunch rooms. Special Agent W. P
Hazen ofsthe department of justice has
aroused himself to white hot anger
over the robber prices being charged
for cooked foods and proclaimed with
great force and vigor that the knavery
must stop, or else he will sic 'en with
the old dog Lever act October Is is
the date when there must be shown on
the part of the proprietors of eating
resorts throughout the state IAN honest
effort to return the prices of cooked
foods to fair margin of profit"
Let everybody yell for joy and some
body sound the hewgagl At last the
department of justice is on to its job,
e.ia tiiSlCS WI sc yet To COI1l0 TOT the
the food highwaymen, to wit: Third
warnings have been given more than
luO restaurant proprietors in Hartford,
New Haven and Bridgeport, and the de-
partment proposes to permit these pro-
pr1etors to show, by their published
menu cards, that the prices have been
actually reduced"
But let's hold our horses bit. What
do we know about third warnings ?'
Somehow or other that doesn't sound
just right; smacks of something ho1-
low within. All, now we have it:
Three Investigations were made by
the department agents on September 9,
IL and 20, which showed that the ma
Jorlty have failed to make REDUCTIONS,
in fact, some have made advances in re-
tail prices"
Got all het up over nothing much.
Three investigations didn't get long
suffering public darn thing But hope
| springs eternal. Keep your eye on the
day and date, October IS. J Brother
Hazen has got a terrible title back of
him !; .l1e may fetch EN- in the end. He's
not an official dressed in a little brief
authority, but the special agent of the
bureau of investigation of the depart
Inent OF justice Tor the connecticut dis
| trict." That alone should strike terror
to the hearts of the profteers and pre-
vent, at least, any more advances"
The following is going the rounds OF
| the state press: 'The labor headquar-
tiers estimate 5000 men idle in Bridge
| port, the greatest number since 1914
while the Manufacturers association
! puts the number at from 1000 to 5000. .
If the lesser number, 1000, of men
idle is the right number, that fact is
bad enough and to be dep1ored But
why is it that always in these cases
there is such big difference in the
| figures given? So-ca11ed competent and
trustworthy authorities are, like doctors,
| always disagreeing and regardless of the
Importance of the matter in hand All
guesswork, and one mans guess as good
as another's, that's about the size of it
Bradford farmer tells me that he sells
/ honey to New Haven retailers for &c
cents pound. Said retailers are charg-
| ing dollar pound. Same til1er. of the
soil says he sold potatoes to the com
mission men for IS cetns a bushe1; re-
tail price, $1.o0. I'm hearing these
things all the time and, although | listen
close and hold my breath, | never hear
of any organized effort toward cutting
out the middlenan.