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The Connecticut labor news., 1921-02-25
IMPORTANT MEETING
 OF PRINTERS SUNDAY

A very important meeting of the New Haven local of the Typographical Union will be held at Trades Council hall on Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, at which action on the book and job office scale will be taken up. Another important matter to be discussed IS the reported action of several employing printers who have joined the "open shop" movement to have the label dropped from all printing which comes their way or can be influenced, the idea being if possible tc have the label re- moved from printing wherever possible so as to boost the open shop move.
 Reports of tine special activities of one or two printing proprietors along this line have been made during the past week or SO, some of the representations made to aid the scheme being such that action to counteract them is essential by the union. It is therefore important that every printer should be present and get in touch with the situation.
 The New Haven newspaper contract expires on May and under the pro- visions of the agreement notice to open the scale must be given the pub fishers 60 days prior to expiration, so it is necessary that the union on Sunday take the necessary action to open the present newspaper wage contract.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-02-25
IMMIGRANT FLOOD
 ADDS TO BURDEN OF
 STATE INSTITUTION
Large Percentage of Detectives
 at Mansfield Are Foreign Born Report Shows.

A large percentage of the mental defectives and, epileptics cared for at the Mansfield State Training School and Hospital are foreign born or the issue of foreign born, according to the report of the trustees of the in stitution> which has been submitted to Governor Lake. It is one of the little thought of burdens this country assumes" say the trustees, of whom Judge L.. P. Waldo Marvin of Hart ford is president; 'by extending too ready a welcome to such immigrants that such large place must be pro vided in institutions such as ours for the reception, treatment and perma- nent care of them and their descend ants.
 Continuing the trustees say: Every one knows that the character of the immigrant has changed in recent years, especially since the tide set in from Italy and from the little coun tries of southeastern Europe and Asia. The life history of many of these inn migrants and the environment from which they come are such that, while they may get by the immigration auth critics at Ellis Island, they and their offspring quite surely and naturally show the results of ili-nourishment, promiscuous intermarriage, and lack of anything approaching suitable educa- tiOn'
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-02-25
MATTERS UNIONS y WIN DECISION IN
 INJUNCTION FIGHT
Judge Maltbie in Superior Court Throws Out R. & W. Go.
 Petition.

A complete victory for Jeremiah Sculley, other officers and four locals of the United Hatters of North Amer ica, is scored by the labor men i'll de- cision handed down in the Superior Court at Bridgeport yesterday by Judge William M. Maltbie in which he denies petition for injunction and dam ages for alleged conspiracy to lnJure it's business brought by the K. x w.. Hat Company of Norwalk and other places. The case has been pending since last fall when the hat company s secured a temporary injunction against the unions and officers and asked the court to assess damages, the action be- ing very similar to that of the famous Danbury hat cases
 The company charged the unions and men with conspiring to prevent 1t from securing hat bodies from union shops and that orders for $4O0,0 ,0O0 had been received but could not be filled because of, this interference, except at greatly increased expense It further alleged that following a strike against 1t in 1918 the unions conspired to boycott the company's goods and had seriously interfered with its buisness, and further charged that the union men had vlo- lated the temporary injunction.
 In his decision Judge Maltbie finds that there was no violation of the 1n- junction by the union men and fails to find wherein they have interfered with the company contrary to the law or court order. He therefore denied the petition of the hat company. Mayor David E. FitzGerald of New Haven represented the union.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-02-25
English Blocks Plans For
 Comfort Station on Green

New Haven's celebrated Green may be public property but 1t IS not intended that it can be used for the comfort of the general public evidently, according to action of the president of the park commission, which now has charge of the square. The president, Henry F. English, has, according to members of
 he a1dermanic board, absolutely set his foot down against the proposed com fort station being located anywhere on the Green except perhaps up back of Center church and the result is that the entire comfort station situation Is up i'll the air again.
 As told exclusively i'll the Labor News two weeks ago, the alder1nanic commit tee headed by Alderman P. F. Con- no1ly, had decided that the comfort sta ton should be located on the lower Green at the head of Court street, the present walk from Church street to separate ornamental buildings which would not only not mar the Green ill any way but really add to its attractive ness. The location was agreed to by many other city officials as ideal, con- venient and everything seemed rosy un- til Mir. Connolly put the matter up to Mir. English for formal approval by the park commission.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-02-25
DRAFT BILL TO ALLOW UNIONS TO
 ORGANIZE FIRMS
Labor Heads Start Plan to Enter Any Business Where Need
 Arises.

Washington, Feb. 25.-Approva1 has been given by international labor union heads and their attorneys to a tenta- tive draft of bill to legalize the right of labor unions to organize all fields of industry despite individual contracts between employers and employees pro hibiting union membership.
 The bill which is designed to offset the effect of the United States supreme court decision i'll the Hitchman Coal & Coke Company case upholding the validity of these individual contracts, will be submitted at once to the execu- tive council of the American Fedora ton of Labor for final approval.
 The union heads also instructed their counesl to ascertain if it would be pos sibfe to ask for rehearing of the case of the Duplex~Prirting Press Company against the International Association of Machinists i'll which the United States supreme court handed down decision declaring secondary boycott by labor unions illegal. The attorneys were di- rected to proceed with their application unless the time limit allowed by the court had expired.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-02-25
TILSON'S ENTRY
 IN COURT FIGHT
 STARTS TROUBLE
Congressman S Ambition to Land Supreme Court Berth Believed z Ullman Plan to Hamper
 Opponents.
SENATORSHIP INVOLVED
Lake Promised Nomination in McLean's Place, Is Report, if
 He Makes Tilson Judge.

A story that hosts of lawyers look upon as joke, but which politicians know to be anything but a joke and see in 1t a move on the part of the New Haven republican machine to upset the program of its opponents relative to the high courts judgeships,. was circulated about the state this week and certainly has started something. It had to do with the aspiration of Congressman John Q. Tilson of New Haven to step into the Supreme Court bench which politicians know to be true and i'll which even the United States senatorship is said to be also in the turmoil
 By reason of the age limit Justice Gager will retire from the> Supreme Court next year and it's up to Governor Lake to nominate his successor. Ordin- arily one of the superior court judges would be elevated and this was intend ed, Judge Burpee being logically the man i'll point of seniority. That would leave the vacancy in the Superior Court and 1t was considered that Judge Earn est C. Simpson of she Common Pleas court would go up there, leaving the Common Pleas open. And there comes the. rub.
 The rumpus dates back to December when w. Scott Flames and a number of the so-called Blakes1ee, Woodruff faction got up little dinner to Cover nor Lake at the Hotel Taft Colonel Ull1nan and his lieutenants were not in vited and that started considerably political pickering. After the dinner 1t leaked out that the purpose was to show Governor Lake the qualities of Judge Simpson, who the party was willing to have go up, but more particularly to fix things for Attorney George E. Hall Blakeslee's son-in-1aw, to succeed Judge Simpson. Things were going rosily un til it finally became apparent that the B1akes1ee crowd couldn't reasonably ex- pect to nominate to both places and finally City Attorney Sheridan T. Whitaker was practically agreed upon for Common Pleas to settle the squab- ble. The governor was about to nomin- ate him, 1t is stated, when Tilson sud denly cropped up and now the whole pot is spilling over
 Ti1son. according to information be- lieved pretty reliable, has had all idea
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The Connecticut labor news., 1921-02-25
BUILDING TRADES PREPARE TO RESIST REDUCION IN WAGES
Arbitrary Cut of From 20 to 25 Per Cent. Planned By Bosses
 to Cause Trouble.

A meeting of the executive board of the newly organized State Builders Exchange is being held in New Haven this afternoon to further perfect the plan adopted by\a meeting here last week, by which the wages of building tradesmen are to be ruthlesSly cut from 20 to 25 per cent. and the cut put into operation as soon as the contractors can get around to it. Meantime ths work CTS themselves are doing quite little bit, or organizing and at a general state meeting of all trades to be held here on March 12 will have plans about complete to take the matter up with the er1- p1oyers.'
 The contractors here last week did not consider the wishes of the workers and evidently didn't pay any attention to the still high cost of living but sat down to simply slash wages without re- gard to anything but their own profits. closed doors but at its conclusion President Harry A. Leonard gave out a statement denying it was an open shop move and also. issued the following scale of prices to be put into operation ::
 Carpenters, steamhtters, plumbers, timers, fathers, painters, electricians, roofers and metal workers, all 80 cents per hour.
 Masons, stone cutters, tile settlers, marble settlers, plasterers, and iron workers, all 90 cents per hour.
 Mason-tenders, 5O>cents per hour.
 This scale Is a general reduction from the rates of wages now obtaining. For instance carpenters, steam filters, plumb CTS, timers, fathers, painters, electric ians, rooferS and metal workers are re- ceiving $1 an S1our the new rate show ing a reduction of 20 cents an hour Masons, stone cutters, tile settlers, mar ble settlers and plasterers are now re- ceiving $1,12l. The new rate is 90 cents an houry Iron workers have been receiving sl.O6H and mason tenders from 60 to 70 cents.
 These reductions were claimed to be absolutely necessary if building Is to be stimulated about the state this year. The Exchange had nothing to say about cutting the costs of materials, tools<an high interest rates satisfying itself with taking a pot shot at he workers, wages, which they think they can control arbi- trarily.
 Meantime the call sent out by the State Building Trades Council for the mass meeting on March 12 is meeting with general response from organized, and also unorganized workers in some cases, from all over Connecticut. Re plies already received indicate that at least 500 delegates will be present, all most every building trades union to be represented by two or more. All over the state the. sentiment prevails that the workers should and will resist the arbitrary wage cut at this time because economic conditions do not warrant any reduction now.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-02-25

The formal approval wasn't forthcon- ing, MT. English, according to the all derrnan immediately tabooing 1t. The comfort station couldn't be put any where on the lower Green and if 1t went on the Green at all 1t must go up behind Center church or whereabouts, he said. The row that resulted when an attempt was started a few years back to locate 1t up back of Trinity church was still fresh in the alderman minds and they couldn't see where Center church would stand for 1t any more .an would Trinity.
 The argument, according report, waxed warm between Mir. ,glish and MT. Connolly, MT. EnglisI finally de- claring, 1t IS statedt that the comfort station would not be 1 ;ated on the low CT Green except over his dead body. There the stuati | stands for II pres ent. The aldermanic coa1- .ttee having 1t in charge will meet on night and 1t Is stated will pr |. ake up locating tn station or .A rect be- tween the ~ary an' house. A more inl ie- per place could hard e opinion of many oi ..Maaa rho aver 1t might as - East Rock Park as aW street.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-02-25

that has for its objective present five compensation of the them worthy Republican will have it's result the making of political football of
  general protest least be before finally put J. Norwich whose this Edward Buckingham Bridgeport whose year. Both and have functoned without interruption by the Republican admin justp institution of the appointed nd republicans republican members being George Chandler George Beers of New Haven The other democrat Williams chairman of the were made it generally understood that would be without politics 
 being the administration of the law The fnctond the satisfaction of the workers affected
 
 
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The Connecticut labor news., 1921-02-25
WILSON BLAMED FOR
 MARTENS EXPULSION
Ousted Russian Says, American Policy Under Harding Will
 Be Changed Radically.

London, Feb. 25.-A Moscow wire less dispatch, received here this evening, gives statement made by Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, the former -Bolsheviki unofficial ambassador" who recently was expelled from the United States.
 Martens said his expulsion was due to the Wilson group and was not an expression of the will of the American people, even the Senate. With MT. Harding President the American pol icy toward Russia would be radically changed he declared. American com mercial houses already were preparing to trade with Russia.
 Continuing, the statement said that Washington B. Vanderlip was return ing to Moscow, but that any negotia- tions with him could only have con- crete results if the American govern ment gave guarantee respecting an ex- change of goods. The Harding gov ernrnent doubtless would give these.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-02-25
DRYS HAVE FAITH
 IN HARDING REGIME

Baltimore, Md, Feb 25.-"We have every reason to have confidence i'll the enforcement of the Volstead act under the Harding administration Dr. P. A. Parker of Westerville, Ohio, general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of America, said i'll an address here.
 MT. Harding himself will stand strictly for law enforcement. Harry M. Daugherty, attorney general, will be a great force for liquor enforcement. He always voted dry. He is born polite ian, but he is also square and able man. Mir. Hughes is cold, intellectual proposition, but he is also for strict enforcement.
 This incoming congress IS dry, but the liquor interests are acquiring wis dom. They are acting under advice of counsel now. They are concentrating their forces on the succeeding con- gress."
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-02-25
STEEL LABORERS GET
 20 PC. WAGE SLASH
Jones & Laughlin Co. of Pitts burgh Will Also Cut
 Tonnage Men.

Pittsburgh, Feb. 25.-A reduction appreximating 20 per cent in the pay of all 1aborers of the Jones & Laugh1in Steel Company will become effective March 1, it became known here today. Readjustments of the wages of tonnage men, i'll conformity with the new labor scale, also will be made at the same time.
 The Jones & Laugh1in company, one of the largest independent steel conn panies employs in normal times about 25,OOO men. The new rate of pay will be 37 cents an hour. The present rate is 40 cents. About 4o per cent. of the men employed are classed as 1aborers.. !
 There will be no change in hours Or working conditions in the company's plant. The new rate will be approxi- mately the same as. has already been established by several of the other in dependents, the Jones & Laughlin com pany being the last of the big inde- pendents ot make a reduction.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-02-25

Organized resist the open shop drive now being pushed the to disrupt and break labor unions is well under way conference hed at Wednesday at the call President Samuel Gompers and which attendeby officers senng organized industry the Not only conference it's plan for couneracng the open farther declaration Labor cpes and rights steps legal recognition of labor nnons review if possible of the Supreme Court decision Duplex Press which denied the right secondary sympathetic acts o boycott strike
 which bred the need for this conference of the ng the war membership the and their influence only the United States where accused of being weakly enient toward and for the That had appeal to their peoples fight produce War demanded organization in Consequently trade Americans that the has fading memory this They would qudate labor to unfeelng phrase Hence the open shop or an
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-02-25
ASK HARDING TO
 NAME LABOR MAN

Washington, Feb. 25.-Organized la bor called upon President-elect Harding yesterday to appoint to his cabinet as secretary of labor, "a recognized repre- sentative of organized labor" and "a real spokesman of the working people of our country, and who understands the toiers'
 The request. made in the form of a telegram to the President-elect at St.. Augustine, Fla, was declared by labor leaders to be practically an endorsement of the type of man as James Duncan of Quincy, Mass, vice-president and member of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor, whom they regard as the one candidate who is a recognized representative of organ ized labor"
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-02-25
TEACHERS BILLS
 AND CHILD LAWS
 STIR LEGISLATURE
George L. Fox starts Tirade Against School Matters and Is
 Silenced For Once.
fSDecia1 to The I ,abOr News l

Especial to The Labor News)
 Hartford, Feb. 25.-Because of the holiday week and few important hear ings scheduled. little of general interest to the workingman cropped up Ill the Legislature this week. The most i'm portant matter perhaps being the discus sion over the teachers bills and those providing changes in the child welfare law. The bill prohibiting the employ ment of children under IA in any way which was up for hearing before the educational committee was recommitted to the committee on labor which will schedule another hearing on it. The Connecticut Company came up with the first of its taxation relief measures when President Storrs and others ask ed the state to relieve 1t from paying repairs tax and to reduce the space within the tracks to eight inches aside the rails which the company would have to maintain. Trolley car patrons are now compelled to pay for good roads for autoists under the law and this couldn't be so it was contended Friday sessions were attempted again today but will be dropped hereafter as enough members cannot be drawn to the capitol to make 1t worth while for the session.
 George L. Fox of New Haven fur nished considerable amusement on Wednesday when he attacked the teach CTS salary and text book bills presented by the state board of education and wikch were up for hearing before the committee on education. Mir. Fox's mai nindoor and outdoor sport is to attack the public schools and he never misses an opportunity to do so inas- much as he conducts a private school himself. He ran up against snag at this hearing however and for once was silenced although he had talked for an hour or more. The silencing was done by Principal Donovan of the Crosby High school of Waterbury who called Mir. Fox for some of his statements and finally confounded him with them. The result was that Fox hurriedly left the hearing.
 Fox, as usual, was especially bitter in his arguments called the bill an in vention of the devil, called the teachers present privileged and favored class and generally abused everyone and ev- erything that had anything to do with the bill. He wound up with declaring the matter as bunk, pif4e, fap-doodle and lot of other things that would soon have Connecticut like Massachu-
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The Connecticut labor news., 1921-02-25
CARPENTERS STRIKE
 WHEN WAGE IS CUT

Bridgeport, Feb. 25.-Building i'll this city Is virtually at a .standstill today owing to the refusal of carpenters to accept the reduction in wages from $1 to 80 cents per hour, decided upon last week by the Bridgeport Builders Ex- change. Sixty-two carpenters left their work here this week i'll protest against the reduction, and in addition 1t Is esti- mated that 65O more are idle on account of the slump in building operations now existing. These, 1t is said, will not ac- cept work at the reduced rate.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-02-25
BASIC INDUSTRIES. GIVEN HARD RAP
 BY U. 5. OFFICIAL
Comptroller Williams Charges Crisis Due to Unnecessary Clos \ ing Down of Mills.

Washington, Feb. 25.-Prohteering steel, iron and coal industries are singled out TOT special criticism by John Skel- ton Williams, comptroller of currency, in his annual report
 By closing down mills and mines the output of steel and iron, following the armistice, was reduced approximate ly one-fourth for the purpose of enabf- ing manufacturers and operators to ob- tain, because of the insistent and per emptory demand for coal and iron, the eXorbltant profits realized during the war instead of the more moderate pro- fits which they would have to accept if the maximum output had been main tained,' said MT. Williams.
 While the profits of steel mannfac- turers and coal operators were swollen the country became poorer from lack of production, brought about by the un- necessary closing down of mills and mines and the incidental idleness of la Dor. As steel and iron are so largely at the very foundation of industrial activity and business development, 1t IS essential that the prices of these funda- mental products should come down to a fair, just and normal basis if we are again to attain the prosperity for which we hope"
 The official repeats his charge, made last summer, that a small group of New York bankers set Interest rates for call money, raising and lowering them at their pleasure. In answer to the claim that banks should charge high rate because of the risk involved, MT. Will Hams said:
 If the security for these loans was so precarious as to justify such rates of interest, no bank had the right to risk it on the money of depositors. If the security was good the rates were cruelty extortionate exactions from the neces- sites of borrowers, demoralizing in business, destructive of values, hin- drances to prosperity and dangerous to ,,,,n1ic nanca and ,,,a1 fnrn,