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The Connecticut labor news., 1921-05-20
The City Manager Plan

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 In order that both sides of the City
 Manager Plan suggested for New
 Haven, and on which the voters will
 register on June IA, may be discussed,
 THE LABOR NEWS will publish
 the views of either side, without
 prejudice or taking any responsibility
 for the arguments contained therein.
 Communications are, because of linn ited space, expected to be br1et and
 to the point.
 There is some confusion of the COunCil-managcr or city manager plan of city government i'll the minds of many of the voters, and there are quite a number who wrongly believe that these plans are one and the same. This Is not the case.
 The council-managcr plan differs from the commission plan in the tact that the members of the council do not assume the actual executive man agement of the city departments, but delegates the administrative work to
 the city manager
 The .city manager plan preserves
 the merits of the commission plan, which are the short ballot and the standardization of power. By "central- ization of power" is meant the plaC- ing of all powers in a single board. This gives to the mechanism of the city the single controlling composite mind which is essential to the sue cess of any business organization. The council-manager or city man. ager plan as provided for in the char ter to be submitted to the voters of New Haven on June I4th gives the people a better control of the gov crnment, because it enables them to select their true representatives, un- hampcrcd by any consideration of the business experience or salary earning capacity of their favorites. More over, these representatives, after cleo ton, have in turn a more sure grip on the city government and admins tratiOn through the manager. E. A. Human, editor of the Labor Review, published by and for organ izcd labor at Dayton, Ohio, says of the city manager plan: Prom the standpoint of the laboring man no
 objection can be voiced to the coun- cil-managcr form of government. In fact, our experience in Dayton has shown the system to be satisfactory in every respect; not meaning that labor receives any special considera ton, but 1t does receive all that 1t asks-an even break
 "One of the favored political man
 euvcrs to defeat city manager char
 ters is to stir up the municipal em-
 ploycs by the assertion that they will lose a civil service protection and become subject to the whim of the
 manager, who will discharge them
 all including the uniformed fire and police forces" said Donald A. Adams, chairman of the city manager cam
 paign committee, today. "In no man. ager-city has anything of this sort
 ever occurred On the contrary the record of the manager cities in deal ing with labor on the civi lscrvice is particularly good. They have been
 quic kto adopt the cight-hour day and to advance the rates of pay Pro-
 motions have been by merit and in
 most of the cities politics have dis appeared from the administrative per SOnel "
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-05-20
OPEN SHOP DRIVE
 HAS "FLIVVERED
 ASSERTS GOMPERS
A. F. of L. Head and Other Lead CTS Report Labor Has More
 Than Held Its Own.

Cincinnati, May 2o-For the first time since the open shop drive was launched, Samuel GOmpcrs went on record this week as declaring it a failure
 The open shop drive," said he, 'has fivvcred completely. Like an ancient hivvcr it has been very noisy but not effective. It has done no real damage to organized labor We have held our own.
 If, however the drive is to be carried on, it must be contest to the end We say in the words Shake spcare put into the mouth of one of his characters, Lay on, Macduff, and "Hold, cnoughn"
 MT. Gompers' statement as to the organized labor movement holding it's own Is in part based on the member ship report which will be made to the Denver convention next month. This will show, according to Frank Nor riSon, secretary of the Federation, a total of approximately 4,ooo,ooo or the total of a year ago, when the final figures were 4,o86,ooo.
 This showing in the face of the in dustrial depression, large volume of unemployment and various drives on the movement, is held by Messrs. Gompers, Morrison and others of the council to be a substantial victory over circumstances under which a substantial decrease might have been looked for.
 "While some organizations, made up in large part of men i'll war trades, have lost quite heavily" says MT. Morrison, "others have made real gains. The miners, under John L. Lewis, for example, have gained heav- fly. So have the seamen under Furuseth. Onthe other hand, ship building and munition trades show losses. Frank Duffy can speak for the carpenters"
 Mir. Duffy, general secretary of that union, declared his organization, de- spite the lull in the building trades, shows a gain of more than 10000 over year ago.
 We close the year with nearly 5o,- 900 members" he said. ''While we have lost in some special lines and unemployment has hit our people heavily, we have made gains in oth- CTS"
 The unions which have suffered the larger losses are the machinists, who had many "war babies," and the long shoremcn, following the disastrous internal conflict in New York The holding up of membership, Mr. Morrison maintains, Is the more re- markable because the federation and a great many international unions have fewer organizers at work The federation itself has 25 fewer on the road than year ago.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-05-20
THE CITY MANAGER PLAN

In little weeks citizens TIaven pGrtdnt q"es04s p d % ha 5 has risen M the sOmm @ n brief hou @ to oOTn up @ f nT & h1 m tn tiI ne and abandonment of civic Whether or not the people hands and placed in of few chosen one of class that with the governments of other cities where the plan has to be created equal and in their to why the City Manager is to bring the affairs of the city closer to the people, by do@ wt an T & s or se1i of n gh d % re a n i m dr % o the inconsistencies for in speeches and interviews day with government by the proetarat'
 Webster its edition, defines the ''proearian' one the earning Thus according Mr. Adams infringement of which pays greatest zen All the wage earning need do hereafter listen vote as then go hom9 dP M prepare to foot the bills Truly Mr. Adams and others movement promise if the plan adopted that New Haven will be run business institution That True It conpoEaon on with capital stock o many hundreds Of ml not to be considered until the shareholders have all been cared for dgress proposed look into what would be the situation the city being son city like factories did business depression on few months The public works tories would have laid off all it's help allowed hundreds providing thousands automatically The City Manager wo" have closed City o as there Woud the police would be left that would the "a business institution
 What those behind the proposed charter for the They will afford their affairs. By the council they will be required only half hour millions. they will simply O. k the managers doing and incidentally following out the powers given them in the charter in with the majority Big Five that will control the board
 As attracting better to city affairs doubt it. Woodruff to head the whatever there public spirited their Henry F. English and Prof Theodore Woosey
 
 
 Buckand wife of the vcerden of the New Haven road? libraries k. Fred M Adler education than of their number Former Senator Stephen Whitney? Hardly. Then what all about, anyhow?
 which the bill rushed through the legislature,
 
 the public rush that would take he1r breaths away the of the movement True among of the movement But this that has had behind and mead by imerical words of dissatisfied fanatics The showed that Despite
  coming and the people begin to understand they will undoubtedly vote 1t down.
 In Adams took the plan would Organized Labor Organized advantages all it wants simply equal right other fellow But if did seek advantage, the effect retue Mr. Adams told Labor fared Angeles candidate elected him. told of how in DaytonDayon o. of all paces law of and the things suit himself And the people have noth do about t.
 worker, <the proleteriat should polls and great big solid NO
 
 posed charter, decidedly UnAmerican therefore,
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-05-20
N. Y. CENTRAL MEN

Buffalo, N. Y, May 20-Prospects of the New York Central Railroad Com pany to reduce wages were rejected by representatives of the roads engineers and firemen after four hours of secret conferences here this week.
 The company proposed return to the wage scales in operation before the de- cision of the railway labor board, which was effective on May 1, 1920. This in effect meant an average reduction of 2l per cent.
 Following the rejection of the proposed reduction, the New York Central officials asked that the men join with the company in submitting the lower wage schedule to the railway labor board for readjustment. The men refused to do this, and 1t was said that the company will appeal alone for action by the labor board.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-05-20
NO BEER ACTION
 YET FOR MONTH

will not be asked to rush through the Nolstead Anti-Bcer Bill The tariff is to have the right of way, and as that measure will not be reached until about June I, it will be the middle of June before the Beer Bill is reach ed, and much later before it is con sidcred by the Senate.
 Hearings were resumed this week. Manufacturers of patent medicines and industrial alcohol were the first to appear. If others want to be heard, they probably will be given the opportunity.
 Drys are confident they will have smooth sailing. They believe they can pass the bill with but few hours of debate and are not worried about efforts of the vets.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-05-20
Forward, Ye TOilers!

By Deufay B. Hovey, ST. Forward, ye toilers! Comes now the When you must choose to go or To advancc :n3 your cause, secure your
 place, Or lag, disgraccd, in Freedoms face Forward, ye toilers; Stand not dis
 mayed Fore masters ranks, SO thin arrayed. You've got the power, the right, the
 way; But lack of will your might can
 stay.
 Forward, ye toilcrs! With measured March forth together to win more Shoulder 10 shoulder and eye to eye They move a world who dare and
 try,
 Forward, ye toilers; In unions might Find Labor's need, justice and right. Bide not "sometime"; do your part And joy is yours, now and alway.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-05-20
MANUFAC ACTURERS UNPAID PRESS

Membership Association of Manufacturers costs somewhat alarmed at the reluctance with which members their being made show the the folly of deIn quency
 Among the inducements and help along the work of editorial and refectng the viewpoint of the Nato of Manufacturers labor questions.
 of the membership committee writes that if this advertising would have mar of dollars.
 association having publicity department of pro of recognition without the expenditure of is members ought continue this campaign of the N A.M against labor
 newspapers during the past have conrbuted to of N A. M labor publicity? How understand that they have served special interests Just truly as if they had accepted definite subsidy?
 The N M M effect, that has been able to get advertising millions of doar without for it, The N A advertising 1t be editors and pub fishers.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-05-20

If the has been the employment situation improving the Department of Labor Washington obliged inform that the Bad conditions March, they April
 But this and still growing of the unemployed will to the of the Republican eve it's trying tuaton Senator Penrose himself from sick bed to dece that the Emergency Tariff Bill for longer but Its effects will be-
 
 first anyhow.''
 This will not help the manufacturers the country further willing held out that if they survive short time help them the Tariff Bill that the Emergency Bill will raise the prices of the idle bill themselves higher who already strike against the high for them and work the 3OOOOOO 5OO0OOO idle be
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-05-20
SUE UNION HEADS

Atlanta, May 2o.-Rccovcry of sal asked in seven damage suits tOtaling $4,Io3 filed here against national off cers of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Han dlcrs, Express and Station Employees.
 The petitioners were clerks cm- ployed by the Central of Georgia Railway, when, they assert, J. W. Thomas, grand vicc-prcsident of the Clerks union, called a strike May Y, 1920, which the grand president later declared illegal.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-05-20
CITY HELP QUITS

Rome, Ma y2o-Thc hremen, pc liCcmen, street tsWccpcrs and other municipal employees went on strike this week and they threaten that all municipal functions will be suspend ed unless the prcfcct rcvokes the or dnancc which provides that hrcmen must be present in all thcatcrs dur ing performances.
 The theatres will be forced 10 close and the strikers threaten to suspend the light and trolley services. The gravcdiggcrs have joined in the strike and no bodies are being buried.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-05-20
UNION BAKERS WIN.

Rock Island, H., May 2o:-Organ- ized bakers in the tri-cities-Rock Island, Moline and Davenport--have defeated anti-union shop employers who have seen their organization smashed through assertions. There are but two anti-union plants i'll the three cities.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-05-20
COURT ALLOWS A
 LIMITED PICKET

Cleveland, May 2o.-Limited pick eting will be permitted at the plant of the Mullins Body Company of Salem, O., according to a decision by Judge D. C. Westhaver in federal court. The company pctitioned against the picleting of its plant by striking en- ploycs and sought an injunction against 1t.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-05-20
GET UNION SHOP,

Chattanooga, Tenn, May 2o- Sheet Metal Workers Union has signed union shop agreement with employers to the dismay of anti union money getters who are capital izing patriotism in this city.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1921-09-02
ON CRAZY BRIDGE
American Crossed River Where
Misstep Meant Death.
Reader Will Be in Full Accord With
the Statement That 1t Was a
Creepy, CHASTITY Process"

An American tells of crossing The
Teesta river, in the Himalayan region
on q rickety bamboo bridge.
The bridge, always dangerous, was
at that time Il mere ragged Skeleton
OF Itself, and to make matters worse
was slippery with green SLIME. Such
bridges are usually rebuilt uAce III
two years, but this one had evidently
not been touched for much longer
than that. On this narrow, tottering
structure, open ut the sides, the Amer
lean had to cross over the turbulent,
rapid river, 300 feet wide and seventy
feet below the bridge.
The instant one steps on such
bridges they recoil from him and swing
and shake in an alarming way, rolling
from side to side and pitching like a
ship in Il storm. They swerve With a
sudden jerk every time II lifts his
foot not only sideways and length
wise, but downward and forward, as
ones weight %depresses the bridge. This
goes OF until one passes the middle Of
the bridge, after which the osciilatilg
structure kicks up behind one as lie
ascends.
Now, this American got on fairly
well as long as he could see the ham
boo rod on which he had 10 walk, al
though the open sides heightened the
Sel.Se oi insecurity. But away from
the bank, ii one looks down to see
where to place his foot, the rush of
ieapiny water in the torrent below
gives him the giddy sensation that both
he and tie bridge. are running swiftly
up tream.
Yet II must keep his eye upon the
single bamboo Overhanging the abyss
and find a shaky footing upon it, since
to miss 1t means certain death.
The American was Il quarter of the
way over, perhaps, when as he stepped
from II bamboo to the next it tilted
up and he could see most of those in
front were lying loose and disjOinted
in their V-slings. They had been
broken away by the passing Of per-
sons who had preceded him. He could
not swing round to go back forward
was his only course.
He went on with long strides to get
a foothold OF this shaking, swinging
line of Shiny bamboos. After each step
he had to half close his eyes to coun-
teract he giddy feeling of the upward
rush of the bridge. 1t was a creepy,
CHASTITY process. A false step meant
death In the raging gulf below. After
what seemed an age he reached the
opposite bank.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1921-09-02

Good, they having taken another
party's car for a pleasure ride around
he streets of Shelley without the
owners permission. They are nov
serving their sentence.
Latent Eye Defects-Causes Head
ache, Dizziness and Stomach De
engagements. A specialist can remov,
the cause. See DR.. H. H.. Scarbor
ough at Eccles Hotel, Tuesday, Sep
TENDER 6.--adv 1t
Mrs. Charles Simon and children
left Saturday for Chicago, to joir
Mr.. Simon, who is in the y. s. inter
nal revenue service and assigntd to
position in Chicago. Since leaving
here some weeks ago Mr.. Simon has
spent some time in Washington, q.
c., preparing for his work.
Manager Heasley Of the Orpheum
gave a free matinee Friday to the
five hundred Sunday school children.
After the show they marched around
the block between Broadway, Bridge,
Main and Pacific streets, and the
procession was about four blocks,
or one continuous rectangle.
Fire Insurance, Beebe. Phone 100.
Mrs. c. l.. King, wife of the court
house janitOr, was badly scalded
about the face, neck and arms Tues
day. She was carrying a boiler of
hot water from the stove, and STUN
bled over something, fell and spilled
the water over her body. She will
probably recover without permanent
injury.
Two hay stacks and a barn belong
ing to Mr.. Hofer, who lives east of
town, We're destroyed by fire Monday
evening. Mr.. Hofer had been burn
ing some trash and thought the fire
had zone out, but later it seems some
straw from the rhreshing machine
which was there blew over the Goals
and started the blaze in the night.
The Pulmotor which is kept at the
fire hall by the local chapter of the
Red Cross proved an efficient medium
for saving lives last Friday, when the
siiidll VI LEWIS barnes was
revived after falling in an irrigation
ditch. DR.. Beck worked with the
child fully half an hour before she
could be brought to normal BREATH
ing.
l.. E. Woodruff %journeyed to Salt
Lake City on a business mission, and
to visit old friends, last Friday, and
while there received a message from
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1921-09-02

home announcing the arrival of a
ten-pound baby boy at his home. Mr..
Woodruff came home Monday wear
ing a broad smile. Mr.. and Mrs.
Woodruff are now the happy parents
Of four boys and four girls.
Temp Hopkins, Mrs. Margaret
Hopkins, II Miss Annis Hopkins,
motored 10 st. Anthony Thursday to
visit Mrs. M. ]. Grey and Mrs. e. A..
Hopkins.
Miss Sue Biethan left Thursday
morning for Ann Arbor, Michigan,
after a three weeks visit with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. D. H. Biethan.
Miss Biethan is medical librarian at
the University of Michigan.
Fire Observation-Disclosures, Tel. 12O. If
DR.. H. r. Chapman, in charge of
the Baptist student body of the state
university at Ann Arbor, Michigan.
was in this city the latter part of
last week, and while here visited the
Misses Biethan, who attend his SER
vices during the school term at Ann
ArbOr. Dr.. Chapman has spent some
time in Idaho this summer delivering
addresses at the various Baptist con-
ferences throughout the state.
On Sunday Rev. Peterson at Firth
united in marriage Miss Mamie Carl
son and Mr.. Jens Anderson. The
happy couple left for a short wedding
trim to Salt Lake City. after which
they will be at home to heir friends
in Blackfoot. Mrs. Anderson has
been employed in the Percy Jones
printing office for some time past,
and Mr.. Anderson is an employee Of
the local postoffice. Both are among
the popular young people of this
city, and their host of friends wish
them a long and happy married life.
Fire Insurance.. H. Early.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1921-09-02
SENTIMENT IN BUSINESS.

The old saying that Business is
Business" gets a jolt once in a while
when some big business firm stirs a
little sentiment into the mixture.
Recently a big chewing gum firm put
a new brand on the market and call
ed it Wrigley's P-Ks. There have
been many guesses as to the meaning
of the name. Some have said that
it was the initials of the slogan
Packed tight-Kept right but
really it's just a little matter of SEN
timent. P. X. are the initials of
Philip X. the son of the founder of
the business, VIM. Wrigley Jr. P. X.
is now in the business as one of the
Vice-Presidents.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1921-09-02

Fire Insurance.. H. Early.
Oren Bills is enjoying a two week!
motor trip through southern Utah.
Gordon Thompson and Mike Bis.
choff are taking a weeks outing al
Mackay.
B. w. Clevenger left for Salt Lake
last Saturday to spend a few weeks
vacation.
Ford For Sale-Wire wheels, in A.
l condition, 1918 model, price $3.50
Call Moreland Meat Market, 4O6-R-1,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Rice spent
a few days at Soda Springs early in
the week.
Young couple want farm work for
fall and winter. H. J.. Nielsen, Pres
ton, Idaho.
Mrs. George Miltenberger return
ed last week from Pittsburg, Pa,
where she vas called to attend the
funeral of her mother.
FARM WANTED-Wanted to hear
from owner Of a farm or good land
for sale, price reasonable. L.. Jones,
Box 551, Olney Illinois. 1t
Mr.. and Mrs. B. w. Clevenger and
son, and Miss Nancy Reese, left last
Thursday for a two weeks motor
trip to Salt Lake City and southern
Utah.
George Miltenberger left Monday
for Mackay, where he will fill the DO
sition of linotype operator in the
Mackay Miner office during the
month Of September.
Mrs. S. V. Clevenger returned
from Seattle on Tuesday, August 20,
after spending the summer with her
sol Vail, who is attending the Uni
versity of Washington.
Life Insurance-Beebe, Tel. 12O
After spending a very pleasant va
cation in Blackfoot, Miss Freda Sol
lenberser left Monday evening for
Davis City, Nebraska, where she will
teach in the high school.
Two boys of Shelley. seventeen or
eighteen years old, were sentenced to
ten days in jail Saturday by Judge
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1921-09-02
Character Revealed by Old Shoes.

There is a good deal of character re.
yeaied 10 9 pair of old shoes If one
wants to study them. Shoes that are
worn away on the outside denote a
d1sorderly and unsystematic mind. The
shoe which is Worn away at the toe
before 1t has commenced to go any.
where else denotes conceit and self
satisfaction but q hard-headed busi-
ness person that is apt to get along.
Inc heel worn away and the toe
turned up indicates a tinge of vulgar
'ty.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1921-09-02
ALIAS SUMMONS.

In the District Court of the Sixth
Judicial District of the State of Ida
no, in and for the County of Bling
ham.
Eva D. Ward, Plaintiff, VS.. ]. l..
Ward, Defendant.
The State OF Idaho sends greetings
to j. l.. Ward, the above named de-
PENDANT.
You are hereby notified that a COM
plant has been filed against Won in
he District Court of the Sixth ,Ju-
dlclal District of the State of Idaho.
in and for the County of Bingham.
by the above named plaintiff, and
you are hereby directed to appear
and answer the said complaint with
IN twenty days of thes service of this
summons if served within said Ju-
dicial District, and within forty DAYS
If served elsewhere:
Said action is brought against YOU
to obtain a decree of divorce dissolv-
ing the bonds of matrimony existing
between o and plaintiff.
And you are further notified that
unless you so appear and answer said
complaint within the time herein
specified, the plaintiff will take iudg-
ment against you as prayed in said
complaint.
Witness my hand and the seal of
said District Court, this 1st day of
September, 1921.
F. NJ. FISHER,
sea- Clerk.
By LEXA BENTLEY.
Deputy.
A. S. DICKINSON.
Attorney for Plaintiff, Blackfoot,
Idaho, residence and p~ostoffice ad-
dress. S2-9-16-23-3O OF ct
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1921-09-02

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