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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-10

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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-10
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-10

Miss Katherin and Miss Charlotte
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-10
WEST TOWNSHEND.
Visit Ancestral Home.

The first of the week Miss Nellie \.
Porter and Miss Grace Porter motored
from their home in Rumson, \. J., to see
the old family home of their grandpar
ents, Essex and Aurilla Gray Atwood.
The brick house was built in 1926 and
is now owned and occupied by w. W.
Van Ness. who let them go through the
house. They then had their lunch on the
door rock of the old church and later had
n very pleasant call on Mr.. and Mrs. c.
.. Kimball. talking over "reminiscences
Of childhood days when they used to
come here with their parents to visit at
grandpa's. Essex Atwood came to this
place from Fayetteville in 1914 and was
popular merchant for p years. In
1865 his son-in-law. Alfred II. Porter of
Brooklyn. y. Y. became a partner. the
firm name being Atwood & Porter. They
occupied the store now owned by Grout
& Deane. They were in business until
1869 when they sold to Lucius Walker
and Mr.. Atwood moved to Brattleboro.
Mr. and Mrs. Atwood became members
of the Congregational church here when
it was first organized in 1850.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-10

Raymond Brown was weekend Wis
itor in town.
Frank Howe of Springfield, Mass, was
at his home Sunday.
Miss Gladys Chapen is in Brattleboro
taking a teachers training course.
Mrs. Harold Gale and children have
leen visiting her sister. Edith, at Lon
dondcrry part of the week.
Herbert II. Burnap made a business
trip to South Londonderry on the train
Saturday. returning on his wheel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Hunting of
Springfield, Mass, has been n guest at
the Lawrence homestead a few days.
Those. attending the high school at
Townshcnd from this place are Miss Es-
ther Stratton. Miss Viola Wheeler and
Miss Leone DeCeH.
Florence and Lillian Worden are stay
ing at the home Of their uncle. a c. Had
lock, and are attending school Their par
cnts Mr.. and Mrs. G. l.. Worden, viii
move here soon.
DR.. George I. Gale took Rev W. T.
Bissel to Brattleboro Wednesday by au-
tomobile for treatment. Miss Alma Bis
sell. his sister. who has been at the par
souage some time, returned to her homo
ia Springfield, Mass, Wednesday morn
ing.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-10

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The Connecticut labor news., 1921-07-29
Gathering at Momauguin This After noon Attended by State and Other Politicians Not in Sympathy With the Colonel.

What can be taken as another slap at the Ullman domination of repub- lican politics in this section of the state, is on this afternoon at Swift's s Momauguin, where prominent repub- licans from all over Connecticut, in cluding State Chairman Roraback, several state officers, possibly U. $. Senator Brandegee and about 400 others are gathered together at a complimentary dinner to Edmund l. Coffey of this city. Coffey led the fight against the recent city manager plan, which Colonel Ullman advo- cated and while his recent appoint ment as deputy U $. internal revenue collector is taken as the excuse for the dinner, the line up of those be- hind the movement indicate clearly that it is more of def to the Ull- man faction. The chairman of the committee is w. Scott Flames, who has for years been very anti-Ullman, while the presence of State Chair man Roraback and several others adds to that tint.
 Coffey sprang into the limelight in the election last fall by bringing Sen ator Borah here and touring the state
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-07-29
Absolutely Refuse to Allow Improve ment Located There Although City Is Unanimous That Is the Place,

There will be no comfort station on the New Haven Green. That point is now definitely settled 1t ap- pears, the proprietors committee and the park board who now have juris- diction over New Haven's famous central square having puts its collec- tive foot down fatly on the project despite the fact that the aldermen and practically all New Haven wants the comfort station and is of an al most unanimous opinion that the low CT Green is the proper place for it. But the seven or eight men who have the Green under control decide the rest of the public cannot have 1t there and as they have the power, that would seem to end it.
 The comfort station project has been a sore one from the time a reso- lution to establish one was passed by the aldermen at the request of the New Haven Trades Council some seven or eight years ago, After some years of dickering over appro- priation and site, money was finally provided to erect it and a site select ed on the Green up back of Trinity church, Then Trinity, the Quinnipiac
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-07-29
DINNER TO E. j. COFFEY ANOTHER
 SLAP AT THE ULLMAN DOMINATION

in the interest of Senator Brandegee's reelection. 50 successful was he that he became a big factor in the dis tribution of political plums and was a serious contender in the race for the internal revenue collectorship until he withdrew in Collector Eat on's favor. Then Eaton was nomin- ated and appointed.
 When Colonel Ullman and others went to Hartford to rush through the city manager plan Coffey got up on the floor and fought him. He wasn't successful there, naturally, but wasn't daunted and carried the fight back to New Haven. Through his efforts the anti-managcr commit tee was organized and Waged a dcCis- i've battle against Colonel Ul1man and the manager plan. Then he was ap- pointed deputy under Collector Eaton and the anti-Ullmanites got speedily busy to show their appreciation.
 Coffey was also one of the Him tied number" at the dinner given to . Governor-cleCt Lake last winter just before he took office This dinner was arranged by Mr. Flames and the Ullman faction was not invited, which lack aroused quite some comment in political circles, Now Coffey is the guest of honor and few Ullmanites will be found around the guest table this afternoon.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-07-29
PARK BOARD DEAD SET AGAINST
 COMFORT STATION ON THE GREEN

Club across Chapel street and several others along the Chapel street line, got out an injunction and stopped It after work had been far advanced and at cost to the city of about $7,ooo,
 The aldermanic committee on sew CTS was then given the task of finding another site. The lower Green at Court street was suggested and al though an ideal place was promptly tabooed by the park officials. They suggested Elm street between the library and courthouse but it might as well be on East Rock as there and that site was dropped. Then the al dcrmcn again tried to convince the park board that the Green, with all ornamental structure back of the Bennett fountain would be the proper spot. Again horror arose at the sug- gcstion and a few days ago the park authorities uttered an ultimatum that il couldn't go on the Green any where.
 This puts it back to the aldermen again to find site. The only other available one in the center is in front of the City Hall annex but as changes will soon have to be made there, to build the station there would be only a temporary makeshift It all re solves back to the old fact that New Haven people do not own the Green even though they think they do,
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-07-29
PLUMBERS WARNED
 AGAINST NEWARK
Advertisement in Local Paper Tells Nothing of Lockout on
 There

The same old gag of enticing or ganized workers from one city to an other through newspaper advertising, without telling them there is strike or lockout on, is again i'll the works, this time from Newark, N. J., accord ing to an advertisement appearing in the New Haven Register this week. According to the advertisement, plumbers, good lead workers, are wanted and while "open shop" con ditions are announced, not a word is said to give the prospective emplOye the information that a lockout against plumbers and steamhtters is on and has been on in Newark for some months. He can find that out when he gets there and can either go to work on an unfair job or get out if he has the carfare left.
 The advertisement was brought to the attention of Plumbers local No. >34o of this city and at once the off cers sent out a warning to the mem bers and to other local unions about the state, to keep away from New ark, explaining that the lockout is on there and that any union man who fell for the advertisement would be taking a very long chance of even getting job after he got there. The advertisement is signed by the Build ings Trades Employers Association which is similar to the Builders Ex- change established in this state and which has declared a lockout against organized building tradesmen. There fore union plumbers in this vicinity will pay very little heed to the bait held out to them.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-07-29
Many Husbands Also at Home
 While Wives Are in Factories
REPUBLICS PASSING ENDS "STINGING" OF
 LOCAL UNION MEN
Newspaper Plant on Chapel Street to Be Sold at Auction Next
 Wednesday.

By an order passed by Referee Hoadley in the bankruptcy court yes terday the assets of The Republic Publishing company at o92 Chapel street will be sold off at auction on Wednesday next and then will end, except for the creditors, a story in which Organized Labor men in New Haven and vicinity were twice "stung." The first was when they supported the "Rcporter," the paper started by the Elm City newswriters in their strike of two years ago and again when they swallowed the bait that The Republic, the paper that fol lowed The Reporter, was to be or subscribed heavily.
 the strike and made an immediate hit. While the newsWriters were not affiliated with Organized Labor their application was pending and therefore the various unions in this city opened their doors to the members with the result that when the permanent plant was being put together and a perman- ent daily established, hundreds of union men in New Haven took full yearly subscriptions to help the cause along. The permanent paper never came out, mlsmanagement by the To- cal men in charge of it's affairs and withdrawal of financial support from Boston causing 1t to die aborning. Therefore the subscription price was lost to the union men.
 Then a little more than a year ago a local combine got hold of the plant and started Sunday newspaper, with great promises for a daily Tn the lm- mediate future. Canvasscrs visited unions in the city and plainly declared that the paper was to be an out-and- out Organized Labor organ. This statement was absolutely unfounded as the bunch behind the movement cared nothing for Labor and the dodge was used solely to get sub Scriptions to the new journal. It worked and again Organized Labor here was milked for hundreds of dol lars.
 The Republic had short life but an exceedingly merry one. After about a month of prosperity publish ing the paper became one merry dodge of a sheriff after another with d weekly struggle to gather in the payroll. Mismanagement, or rather no management at all, soon caused it's demise and although many gullible persons about town were induced to buy stock in the venture they didn't come fast enough. Then an attempt was made to bust into the daily field to save the sheet. That ended 1t.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-07-29
HARTFORD DECLARES NEW HAVEN
 FIRM INCOMPETENT TO BUILD SCHOOL
Even Though M. ]. Gibbud Com pany Was $5oooo Lower Than Nearest Competitor Board Throws Out the Bid.

Although it's bid was more than $5o,ooo lower than the nearest com pcttor, the M. ]. Gibbud Company of New Haven was denied the con tract to build the new Brown street school in Hartford, by the Hartford school board at meeting on Wednesday night when a committee reported that it did not consider the Gibbud company competent to do the work The contract went 10 the Southern New England Construction Company of Hartford, whose price was $5zo,ooo. The Gibbud company had bid $5Io,ooo. Other bids sub mittcd were: Bent-Bartlett Co.,, Hart ford, $Oo3 1000; G. Cudeno, $6o7,03o; C. H. Cunningham X Son, Lynn, Mass, $6I6,ooo; and the ..'W. Bishop Co.,, Worcester, Mass, $645,ooo.
 After opening the bids and find ing the Gibbud companys more than $5o,ooo lower than the closest com pctitor's, the committee voted to in vestigatc the COmpany's work and reliability before awarding the con tract. As result three members of the committee, with Isaac A. Allen, ir, the architect for the committee, came to New Haven where they made ClOSc 1nNGSllSdllOll Ol OlHtl WOl k done by the Gibbud company and made inquiries concerning the firm. A school recently erected in East Haven by the Gibbud company was visited and the work inspected. Upon it's return to Hartford the committee, with the advice of the architect, re ported that they did not consider 1t wise to award the contract to the Gibbud company. As the company $ bid was the lowest received 1t was then discussed as 10 whether 1t would be best 10 throw out all bids and ad- vertisc for new ones or to consider the others, eliminating the Gibbud bid It was decided to take the lat ter course.
 The Southern New England Con- struction Co. bid, the next lowest, was considered satisfactory and the contract was awarded to that firm.
 In making the bids the contractors were permitted to make bids fo, both a two story and a three story structure. and the building commit tee was authorized to accept which ever plan was considered best. The bids for the three story structure were considered low enough to war rant the erection of the three story building.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-07-29
ELECTRICIANS TO
 HAVE BIG BLOWOUT
 AT DUNN'S AUG. 28
Local 90 Invites Non-Union as Well as Union Men, and Women
 Will Be Welcome, Too.

Electrical Workers Union Mo- 90, of New Haven is going to relieve its pent up energy on Sunday, August 2S, at Dunn's farms on the Milford turn pike with one of the biggest blow outs ever an electrician was called upon to attend Not only are the members Of Local 90 to be present en masse but union members from all parts of the state will attend and in addition a cordial welcome is extend ed to every electrical workers, wheth- CT a union man or not, to enjoy the festivities. Women are welcome, too. and altogether 1t looks as if the wires will be Snappy over the Orange hills all day.
 A fine program of sports with suit able prizes has been awarded. For first there will be a ball game be- tween picked teams, the prize 10 be decided at the farms Then a tug of war will follow with $Io for the win ming team. Next Is a potato race with &. 50 for first and second. This will be followed by a three-legged race with like prizes, then a hundred yard dash with $2.5o for the winner; 5o-yard dash for women with a similar prize and other prizes for quoits, casino and pinochle
 The menu arranged makes one hungry to think of it. First there will be real old fashioned clam chowder all day. Then at dinner will be served steamed clans, chicken, blue fish, Holsters, potato salad, sweet corn, sweet potatoes, common potatoes, to- matoes, celery, lettuce, soft drinks and near beer If that isn't enough watermelon and the like will wind it up so it looks like a big day all around
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-07-29
TRADES COUNCIL TO
 DISCUSS CARNIVAL
Promoters to Present Offer at Meet ing of Labor Body on Thurs
 day Next.

Representative of the B. C. Mcclure Company of New York, promoters of fairs, carnivals and like entertainments, appeared before the executive board of the New Haven Trades Council at it's meeting on Wednesday night and submitted a proposal for the conduct of a fair and carnival by the Trades Council here this coming winter. Several plans were outlined whereby the car nival could be made a big attraction not only to organized workers but every one in the city, with novelties that would entertain all.
 As the proposition was new one and the executive board had no pow CT to act the representatives of the Mcclure company were invited to appear before the Trades Council at it's regular meeting on next Thurs day night and submit it's proposal to do SO. The fair conducted by the Trades Council last fall in connection with the Labor Temple Building not as big a one as it would have been had not the industrial dcprcs- sion begun to make itself felt Since then because of the same depression, activities along the Temple line have been allowed to lie dormant. It will be up to the Council as a whole to decide whether 1t wants to start things again this winter or not.
 The executive board also discussed means of providing better accommo- dationS for tenants of the halls and hereafter the difficulties that some unions have encountered in getting into the halls on meeting nights will it is expected be overcome.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-07-29
PARSONS FACTION WINS IN HARTFORD
 JOINERS CONTEST
Local Union Votes Salary to Man Alleged to Be Illegally Elected
 Business Agent

Hartford, July 2o-Thc mixrp over the election of a business agent of the local union of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners was settled this week, so far as the local union Is concerned, when the faction con trolled by George A. Parsons domin- ated the meeting on Monday night and voted to pay Parsons the salary of business agent due. from July I and to recognize him as business agent. George J. Gerety, who has been busi- ness agent for the past three years, is still recognized by large follow ing as the business agent and the in ternational headquarters at Indian apolis may be called upon to settle the trouble finally.
 The election was held in June and the only name on the Australian bal lot used was that of Gerety. The Parsons faction, however, had worked quietly and mustered sufficient force to write Parsons name in on the ballot to elect him over Gerety. This was claimed to be illegal inasmuch as Parsons had not been formally nominated as provided and Gerety refused to give up the office or para phernalia, on July I, when the change in office should have been made
 The Parsons faction in it's turn again controlled the meeting and re- fused 10 sanction payment of the sal ary to Gerety. They didn't have enough, however to pay Parsons so the whole thing went over until last Monday night. At that meeting, with about GOO present, the Parsons faction again dominated and voted the salary to Parsons. The Gerety faction at the close, however, refused to concede the election of Parsons and will carry the fight on with the allegation that he was illegally elected
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-07-29
Sales Tax Not to
 Be Considered Now
Fordney Urges That Witnesses Re
 frain From Discussing It.

Washington, July 2o.-The sales tax as a method of raising any part of the four billions of revenue need ed by the federal government next year is opposed by members of the house ways and means committee. Imposition of "purchasc tax" re- peal of the excise taxes on candy and bottled soft drinks and amend mcnt of the l>te tax provision were among suggestions made to the com mittee by witnesses. The chamber of commerce of the United States, in a communication, urged a general turnover tax on all business transac- tions. Other recommendation of the chamber of commerce were repeal of excess profits taxes and war excise taxes. A tax on all turnovers was urged. ,ayt M
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-07-29
NEW YORK MUSICIANS GET
 TWO WEEKS NOTICE

New York, July 20.-Musicians in every leading vaudeville and moving picture th9ater here have received a two-weeks' notice of discharge, it was learned yesterday. This action was taken, according to the theatrical managers, because the directors of the Musicians Mutual Protective Union refused to discuss with them a proposed cut in wages of about 20 per cent.
 The Musicians Mutual Protective Association was organized three weeks ago when the New York local was expelled from the American Fed eration of Musicians for refusing to recognize transfers from other locals.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-07-29

While the practice IS not general 1t is sufficient in proportion to ac- count for the actual want of many families in this city. A visit to the city supply yards any day when men are applying for work and a few casual questions will determine that many skilled factory mechanics who are seeking jobs on the city streets are compelled to do so because their former places are filled with women In some instances also 1t has been learned that both husband and wife are working together in the same shop, the wife on job formerly held by man and both dumping into the family larder while the married man who had the job before Is elsewhere seeking food for his family
 In one instance in one of the large factories of the city the endeavor to put women on the higher paid mems jobs is clearly apparent. The woman in this case and her husband worked together in the shop all during the war period and having but one grown boy in the family, accumulated quite store. About three months ago the husband was laid off but the wife was retained and put on a more tech nical job formerly carried on by IIdH. l IlS nuSDdIlQ Has not D6en dDIe to get his place back yet but the wife is kept working every day and while she doesn't get anywhere near the pay the job called for before Is turn ing out the work. A number of other instances in the same factory are along the same lines with the woman of the house working and the husband home washing the dishes
 Nobody questions the right of the employers to use women wherever possible but to put them on jobs formerly held by married men and not to pay them the same wage that was formerly paid to the men, is con sidered to say the least, morally wrong if not financially. The city Is doing all in its power to care for these men of families and other single men who must have work or starve.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-07-29
WHILE DOING WORK FORMERLY DONE BY MALES ARE NOT BEING
 GIVEN THE SAME RATE OF PAY
Hundreds of Skilled Mechanics in Applying to City for Street Jobs Tell How Their Former Positions Are Now Held by Women Who
 Can Be Employed at Cheaper Rate.

Hundreds of men of family walking today without employment because jobs they formerly held down be Pam of the they apply to the and the places where work may be had for kind of job that will keep and ther families actual when they hear that their old jobs apply for them they find shifted
 jobs and the jobs held by before ditoa increase This of applies mainly the factories especially machine jobs which and while the do decy the getting must ve they do the attitude of the their places and giving