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The Connecticut labor news., 1921-09-09
PERStiING PEEVED AT LABOR'S WAR
 VICTORY, ASSAILS GOMPER,S SPEECH
A. F. of L. Head, However, Is Quick to Return the Compliment and Point Out Where Overseas Lead CT Fell Down On His Offensive.

Washington, Sept, 9.-Genera1 Per- shing and Samuel Gornpers had a tilt Wednesday night at dinner given as the conclusion of the exercises here cele- brating Lafayette -Marne Day over the question of whether labor won the war.
 Mir. Gompers had spoken of the rec ord of the American Federation of La Dor during the war.
 General Pershing apparently regarded Mr. Gomperss remarks as a claim that labor had won the war. Some of those who heard his remarks quote him as hav- ing said, in part:
 The policies of this republic are not determined by labor unions or by any other organizations, but by the consen- sus of it's patriotic citizens of whatever affiliations.
 "I want to say that every American is patriot whether he belongs to some labor organization or is just an ordinary citizen and that 1t isn't question of labor unions, it isn't question of any organization, it isn't a question of whether we belong to some association or not
 Tt is a question of whether we are loyal citizens of the United States It seems to be about time for us to rise up and say that America shall be ruled and governed by American citizens and not by organizations which have their own selfish purpose to serve."
 Mir. Gompers issued the following statement:
 "It is to be presumed that those who read the extract from General Persh- ing's speech at the Lafayette -Marne Day banquet concluded that in my address which preceded had made the claim that labor won the war.
 Of course I made no such statement and much as 1 regret the necessity for saying so, there was no ground for the rather testy remarks of the leader whom
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The Connecticut labor news., 1921-09-09
LABOR UNION HEADS WARNED TO ATTEND
 MEETING THURSDAY
CONN. CORPORATION TAXES DECREASE IN
 YEAR, $6S,OOO,OOO
Despite Increase in Number Liable Revenue Received Drops
 Of Greatly.

The taxable net income of corpora tions, subject to the Connecticut cor poration net income tax and subject tc federal taxation. decreased $68 804, ,965. .6e in 1920, of which $41, 1,659, 9,2o0.03 was or the income taxable by the federal gov
 ernrnent and $27,245, ,705.66 subject tc
 Connecticut taxation, according to figures
 announced yesterday by Secretary Pot
 ter of Tax Commissioner Blodgett's de-
 partment
 The net income subject to federal and
 Connecticut taxation on August l, 1921, was $382 o84, ,885.oO and $oO,604, ,563.o6, respectively, as against $424, GA, 145.93, respectively. on August 1, 1920. As has already been announced the Connecticut corporation net income tax was S1,8l2,- 0o128 this year on the 1920 business as against $2257 605.62 in 1920, on the bus mess done in 1919.
 It was pointed out that the decrease on the 1920 business was large despite the fact that 252 more corporations were subject to the tax on August l, 1921 On August 1, 1921, 2,414 corporations were subject to the tax, while in 1920 only g. 162 corporations had net incomes subject to taxation. This year the total number of corporations which had to make re- luIllS was O,UOS. 90 IIldl all InOSe cor porations which were not subject to taxa ton had either deficits or else their straight exemptions left no net income for taxation purposes.
 Secretary Potter's compilation also sets forth that the 1921 deductions all lowed by Connecticut on excess profits and war profits aggregated $14Oo9, ,791.H as against $26,498, ,060.H deducted in 1920. On the 1921 deductions allowed a tax of $281 .oo5.82 would have been col, lected. In 1920 the tax, had it not been for the deductions, would have tota1led $529, 9,961.21.
 In all the 2,414 corporations which were taxed here in 1921 on 1920 business got total exemption of $3, ,597, ,523.7O as against a similar exemption of $3,775,- 208.6O a year ago. These exemptions taxes that would have been col lected of 71,75O.47 and $75,5O417 re- spectively
 The report shows that 1,734 corpora tlons were taxed on their entire net in- comes and 680 on parts of their net in- comes i'll 1921, as against 1908 and 354, respectively, i'll 1920. The federal ex- emption calls for a flat $2,OOO for twelve months operations.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-09-09
KELLY DENIES HEATING ON EVE
 OF DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY FIGHT
Wears No Mans Collar" Says Opponent of Cahill in Addition to Asserting His Consistent Union isn-Underhand Work Continues to End.

Denying that he is lined up with Jailer Ed. Heating in a scheme to capture the democratic organization in New Haven to help out Sheriff Tom Reilly control the county dele gation next fall, Terrence B. Kelly, opponent of Thomas E. Cahill for the democratic registrarship in the primaries to be held this afternoon, declared emphatically to The Labor News yesterday, on the eve of the great fight that he wears no mans collar" and is in the fight for him self alone. He also asserted his con sistent af1iliation with Organized La bor and the trials he underwent some years ago as carriage maker to carry out his affiliation, which was unnecessary as his unionism was never doubted nor impugned. The only reason laboring men are against MT Kelly in the fight being his align equally ardent foe to the organiza- ton.
 Mr. Kelly declared that the meet ing at Harmonic Hall wherein Jailer Keating nominated him for the regis trarship, was called by his (Kelly's) friends to boost his candidacy for the registrarship. While he admitted that his supporters were practically all the Heating organization, assisted by Tom Reilly's county organization of sheriffs, he declared that only a coincidence and said he welcomed Keating's help gladly because he knew the value of it. Among other democrats today, however, the opinr,, ion was expressed that Readings aid will prove of costly value to Kelly
 As forecast in The Labor News last week the Heating Kelly forces car ried their bluff of wanting names
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The Connecticut labor news., 1921-09-09
Industrial Problems
 Soluble, Says Hays
Awakened Public Conscience Needed
 He Declares.

St, Louis Sept. 9-Economic difficult ties and industrial problems which now seem serious, can be and will be solved in only one way and that is by finding exact justice and enforcing it, Postmas- ter General Hays declared here in a Labor Day address before the annual convention of the National Association of Letter Carriers.
 Every problem is soluble," he as- serted. It is simply matter of a square deal For myself I am convinced that the true solution of the questions arising between labor and capital lies in all awakened public conscience in a thorough medication of the spirit of fair dealing among men; then in organiza- ton. and in wise humane leadership and in the establishment of boards of con- Ciliation or arbitration which are abso- lutely free from the polluting touch of selfish interests or political denogogues, to which the interests concerned may freely and confidently appeal.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-09-09

Yes, I have always felt that marriage meant the fulfillment of my ideals,' said Miss Mcintyre, in an swer to a query prompted by the an- nouncement of her marriage. "As for my choice of Bob I need not say that my heart decided for me. We have so much in common.
 1T count very greatly on our con geniality And then, of course, we share the experience of the war, the greatest adventure of our lives
 First Woman at the Front.
 It will be recalled that Miss Irene and her sister, Gladys, (now Mrs. Russell A. Harmon), were the first women to get to the front in the World War, where for 10 consecu- famous "Sallies' refreshment booth under the menace of the German guns.
 With every advance of the troops the sisters pushed forward, braving the same hazards, enduring the same hardships as the men, yet always carrying on their loyal work of to the hunger and thirst of the "doughboys." It was under these conditions while leading life as difficult and dangerous as that of the fighting men themselves, that Miss Irene met the man she married.
 Right here let it be understood, however, that that meeting was not the real beginning of the romance. As Miss Mcintyre explains, 1t was mere ly a passing incident not particularly noted by either until more than two years later and long after both had returned to the United States.
 But this is getting ahead of the story. Miss Mcintyre consented to tell it herself after her interviewer had urged that her host of friends
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The Connecticut labor news., 1921-09-09
Ornburn Meets With
 Cigar Makers Board
Vlce-Presldent Elect Invited to Con-
 ference Now On in New York.

The executive board of the Cigar Makers International Union of Amer ica, is meeting in the Continental Hotel in New York City today and tomorrow, on the call of President G. w. Perkins, to consider routine matters and to make plans for the carrying forward of the Blue Label campaign and the campaigns for the use of union labels generally.
 Although he will not take office officially until January I, l. M. Orn- burn of this city, president of the Trades Council and secretary oi the Connecticut Federation of Labor, who was elected second vice-presi- dent of the Cigar Makers Inttrna- tional body in the recent elections, is in attendance at the session. His presence was requested by President Perkins, for consultation with the president and the board as a whole, to familiarize him with the duties of the office.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-09-09
Connecticut Men
 For Roads Subsidy
Four of Five Congressmen Vote Half
 Billion Bonus, Other Absent.

Four of Connecticuts republican con- gressmen, stood Loyalty behind the rail- roads in the grab for $50O,O00,O00 sub sidy, and the fifth, Freeman of the New London district, was absent and there fore not voting, according to the roll call as published in the Congressional Rec ord.
 Tilson, Fenn, Glynn and Merritt all registered 'yes'' to giving the railroads another half billion of the public funds, which, will naturally come out of the mass of people instead of big business which is behind the measure and has even induced President Harding to urge it.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-09-09
Establish Camp For
 Striking Polishers
Men Locked Out of Springfield Fac tory Get Sympathy of Local Merchants,

A tent camp to provide quarters for the metal polishers and their families who were locked out and then struck against the Moore Drop Forge Co. of Springfield, has been established at Shaker Lake outside that city by the New England Con- ference of Metal Polishers and is be- ing given local support by tradesmen and others in the vicinity who are in sympathy with the men. The camp is under direction of John Fitzgerald, district vice-president of the Metal Polishers, and other union officers. Tradesmen in Springfield have ex- tended long credits to the families and otherwise showed their sympathy while other unions in the vicinity are seeing to the financial support of the camp.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-09-09
Hartford C.L.U.Hit
 Closing of Markets
Committee Report Next Week Ex- pected to Score Action of
 Officials.

Hartford, Sept 9-A committee ap- pointed by the Hartford Central Labor Union to investigate the causes leading to the closing of the public market re- ported to the Central Labor Union We'd nesday evening that 1t has made progress in its investigation and has interviewed number of city officials, who explained the reason for the closing. It was said that the committee will make written report later.
 It is probable that Emmett Adams, rational organizer for the American Fed eration of Labor, will speak at the Gen. tral Labor Union meeting next week. MT. Adams IS we'll known in labor cir cles and will probably discuss unefnploy- tnent conditions throughout the country,
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-09-09

MT. Daugherty apparently sought to forecast enactment of legislation for the United States patterned after the dis credited Lemleux act of Canada and the industrial Disputes Act of Colorado
 MT Daugherty suggests that at first the investigation should be compulsory and acceptance of the findings voluntary because he thinks our present study does not quite warrant compulsory awards. Ills intention IS, however, that after fur ther study and experience there should be binding awards
 United States cabinet members do not go about the country offering their mere personal opinions. They are understood as Vo1clng the viewpoint and policy of the administration of which they are part.
 Attorney General Daugherty's Bar As SocIatlon speech forecasts legislation in- tended to compel workers to submit their aspirations and their demands for justice 10 compulsory investigation and award. Compuls1on always Is followed bv p1,n- 1Shment for violation of the compulsory order.
 In principle conpulsion is wrong. In practice 1t will not work.
 In principle compulsion Is autoc-atic in practise It will not be accepted by free people.
 Let the warning be sounded. This vii clous proposal, so frequently exposed by the American Federation of Labor, so repeatedly denounced by the great lovers ot freedom, so consistently discredited in practice, again threatens our people
 The men and women of labor must be on guard.
 Mr. Daugherty says that ''the expert ence of the past shows that in most cases full, accurate, reliable publicity of the facts has been sufficient to compel an ad- justrnent of these cases" meaning in- dustrial disputes. Mr. Daugherty evil dently thinks facts are absolute Most facts are relative and not absolute
 In addition to having committed him self to an un-democrat1c principle which IS repugnant to the whole American con- cept of social organization and conduct, the attorney general fails to find the truth in history.
 The ''experience of the past" does not show that industrial adjustment has been brought about by full and reliable public ty. In the first place, 1t does not show hat there has even been full and reliable publicity in our great industrial disputes. In the second place 1t does not show that
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The Connecticut labor news., 1921-09-09
WilIir1aantic Makes
 Profit On Its Ice
Municipally Owned Plants Also Fur nish It to Public at Cheap Price.

Willimantic Sept 9-Indications are that the city government of Willimantic will derive a good sized revenue from the sale of municipal ice at the pumping station ice plant before the next harvest Over 10000 tons of ice was cut and stored last winter which filled five houses.
 Despite the competition of several in- dependent dealers 1t was stated that two of the larger houses and a small one had been enptied of contents so far this sea- son with the prospects of the greater part of the other two houses being sold during the next three months.
 The city receives at the rate of $1.5O a ton from Louis w. Ives, who has the contract for the purchase of the ice The ice is being retailed to householders at the rate of forty-five cents a hundred. Willimantic is the only city in the state having municipal ice from natural re- sources.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-09-09
DAUGHERTY FORECASTS ACTION TO CHAIN LARL4t;
 "DUTY TO RESIST" DECLARES A. r. OF L. PRESIDENT
LABOR UNIONS WILL
 LIVE UP TO TT, IF
 THE BOSSES PERMIT

Occasionally MT. Gompers , Gompers says something that can be regarded as basic," says the New York Commercial, we'll known financial organ. "1n a recent address he said: What we ask and upon which we insist, is the right of volun- tary associations; to counsel with each other in man fash ion, American fashion, if you please, deciding that which we believe to be conservative, constructive and progressive platform; to deal with employ CTS so that we may have some consideration around the table; to try to agree upon terms and conditions of employment con sistent with the best interests of both industry and the coun- try
 If labor unions could only live up to this statement of principles a vast amount of our labor, and, therefore, of our economic difficulties would be disposed of. Every right think ing American can subscribe to this platform
 The Labor Unions have and will live up to it, if the employ CTS association will allow them to do so.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-09-09
Workers Must Be SlaUes To Saue .. S., Banker Says sIn the Sweat of Thy Brow Shall Thy Earn Thy Bread,' Says Chicago Fmancier
 in Speech

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The Connecticut labor news., 1921-09-09
UNEMPLOYMENT IN CONNECTICUT SHOWS
 SOME IMPROVEMENT
cates Conditions Are Be coming Better

Marked improvement is reported l in the general tone of bushes: l through Connecticut, particularly il textiles, according to a survey by the l.. ; Department of Labor. Many mills which have been closed ol working on q reduced basis have in, creased their working force. Meta trades are still quiet, with the out look not encouraging. High costs act as a deterrent in the building line. Tobacco and other farm labor is plentiful. Consensus of opinion is that further industrial improvement will be slow
 Hartford Prices Reduced
 In Hartford reduced prices and immediate deliveries arc offered as an incentive 10 customers. There Is no housing shortage reported from Hartford. Several plants have closed, however, for vacations, Some indus trial leaders look for a slight inn provement in the near future.
 Bridgeport and Waterbury are two out of p large cities which reported employment decreases during August over July. Bridgcport's per cent be- ing 3.8 and Watcrbury's I.2
 Employment increases are reported in New Haven, O. per cent; which is one of ,2S cities showing an inn provement
 The report on certain cities in Con- ncctiCut is as follows:
 Bridgeport.
 Unemployment prevails to some extent in practically all industries, but to lesser extent in textiles than in metal products. With one minor exception no plants are entirely closed. The recent issue of city bonds to the extent of S3oo,ooo make possi- blc municipal improvements that will furnish employment to 800. Concen- tration among families and removals from the city have relieved the hous ing shortage. The next three months is expected to sec definite industrial 
 New London.
 Unemployment is greater in ship building. in the building and metal trades, and among unskillcd labor, There has been d general exodus of foreigners, due to depressed condi- tons. The silk mills, because of in creased orders, have added to their forces and started overtime work Observers predict gradual business revival
 Middletown.
 Unemployment IS general Several large concerns are closed for lack Of orders. One typewriter company has re-opcncd, with third of its normal force. and is on three day per week basis. Immediate prospects do not seem bright.
 New Britain. Metals and metal products show heaviest unemployment. The city Is a large number on public 1 rotating groups so 1 hat many will benefit. The fall | should show decided improvement.
 New Haven.
 Unemployment is general except i'll he clothing industry. There-a are few plants operation full time or with ull forces A $I,5oo,oo laboratory i will be constructed for Yale Univer- ity giving employment to many From 300 to 500 are employed on trcet work Building is below nor nal It is generally believed that business will pick up in the fall.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-09-09
Most Important Session of Trades Council to Be Held and Take Up Unemployment Situa- ton and Discuss Plans for LabOr's Flu ture Activity Here.

Notices were sent out this week
 by Joseph J. Reilly, secretary o1
 the. New Haven Trades Council
 to every local union president ol
 other acting officers in the city including the railroad brother hood unions, inviting and urging them to attend the meeting of the Trades Council on next Thursday night, which bids fair to be not only the most important meeting ever held by the Trades Council, but the most vital to Organized Labor in the entire state. Emmett l.. Adams, field representative of the American Federation of La Dor, will be present and outline to the meeting the survey of unem- ployment in the state, the plans to remedy the situation and the gen eral campaign to be carried on by Organized Labor throughout the country to ensure the workers having voice in their own indus trial affairs.
 MT. Adams has been in Connecti- cut tor about a month and has se- cured comprehensive idea of con d1tlonS herc and what might be done 10 relieve the unemployment and get a majority of the workers back on their jobs before real cold weather. With Secretary Ornburn of the State Federation, he has arranged similar meetings to the one to be held here Thursday night, in all cities of the state and when the plans are out lined a general state committee will very likely be organized to carry them out
 While there has been some relief Tn the employment situation during the month, it is so small as to be hardly noticeable and it seems to be up to Organized Labor to try to re- lieve it further. With hundreds of men sleeping on the Green nights because they have nowhere else to go, if such conditions continue <ntil cold weather, a crisis the like never seen here before will ensue It there fore behooves every delegate to the every local organization to be pres ent Thursday night and take part in the planning to relieve it.
 FARMERS LEAVING STATES.
 Winnipeg, Sept. o.-The Canadian Department of Immigration reports that during the year 1920 2o,338 settlers entered Canada from the United States via ports in western Canada and that 75 per cent. of them located on farms. Wealth estimated at $7,759o83 and effects valued at $2,322,745 were brought in with them.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-09-09
HEROINE OF 1O2D REGIMENT, ORIGINAL
 SALVATION ARMY DOUGHNUT GIRL, IS
 WEDDED TO MAN MET ON BATTLEFIELD
Miss Irene Mcintyre, Who Brought Succor and Cheer to Many New Haven and Connecticut Boy at Seicheprey and Other Fronts,
 Is Bride of YD- Veteran.

Midst that must have strongly with her
  New and boys who the front Peterbo N H. who she had the battlefield Miss Mcintyre  Haven doughnuts
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-09-09
New Britain Gas
 Rate Cut 20 P. C.

New Britain, Sept. o.-Mayor Cur tis has been notified by the New Britain Gas Light Company, that the price of gas will be reduced 20 cents per thousand cubic feet in this city after the September readings.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-09-09
Special to The Labor News.

Washington Sept 9Jnited States Daupb the American are 100 per cent organized, said
 II IS an ndputed fact that the public have to what the quarrel about strike or lockout and similar controversies
 lie said further that tere some definite agencies for finding these making an mnaria1
 ana went on to conclude that Compulsory two compel them inquiry of this sort
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-09-09
RISE FROM $8 TO So.

Newark, N. J., Sept. o-Beginning with October I union carpenters of Newark, Montc1air, Bloomfield and the Oranges will get an increase in wages of ST a day, raising their wages from $8 to So. The new scale will continue to April I, Io22,
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-09-09
WIN AMOUR WEEK.

Albany, N. l., Sept. o.-Union electrotypers and stereotypers of this city have won the 44-hour week, a strike lasting five weeks. The re- duction in hours has been effected with the former rate of pay for the 48-hour week.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-09-09
FOUR-MONTH STRIKE WON

Racine, Wis, Sept. o-The United Garment Workers of America have scored victory in the settlement of the strike at the Alschuler Manufac- turing company's plant in this city. The management four months ago declared it's intention to run a non- union shop. Four months of that sort of labor seems to have been more than sufficient to convince the management of the fallacy of the siren calF' of the union busters and their press agents.