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The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-15
Arbitration Suggested BY Workers. as Means to
Settle Building Trades Dispute on Wage Reduction
SEE CLOSED SHOP
IN BILL TO CURB
REAL ESTATE MEN
Country Legislator Doesn't Want
Honesty Enforced in Business
Either, He Says.

Because it establishes precedent i'll
Connecticut for the closed shop" and
anything savoring of 'closed shop" is
abhOred by the present bunch in the Gen
eral Assembly, the bill to regulate and
restrain real estate operators and pro-
tect the public from their "sky-rocketing'
of real estate prices, had a narrow escape
in the House Wednesday and is expected
to get an awful bump in the Senate when
it comes up there for passage. Neverthe-
less the House passed it, because Leader
Buckley and several other prominent
legislators wanted it passed by the
House.
Representative Russell, farmer from
bill, declaring it established a 'closed
shop" and enforced honesty in business
1t is dangerous to try and enforce hon
esty in business, he declared, to which
Representative Nickerson expressed sur
prise and declared honesty was certainly
in need of enforcement in some busi-
nesses.
The bill will take care of the real
estate curb broker who has his office in
his hat" said Leader Buckley, "and will
stop their preying on the unsuspecting
public and will not embarrass the legiti-
mate real estate broker" That didn't
satisfy Mr. Russell, either, he believed it
would establish "closed shop" and
didn't want any closed shop. The bill
was introduced by Representative Hail
of Orange and went over despite Mr..
RussellS closed shop argument.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-15
Winchester's Denies 1t
Sought Foreign Help
Police to
Control AUiat0rs

Connecticut will soon have to estab-
lish an aerial police if the bill favorably
reported by the judiciary committee to
the House this week becomes law.
Also any aviator who may want to land
anywhere in this state must do so on
regulation aviation field to be established
by the several municipalities not at
flying" either or is liable to get pinched,
providing the state aerial policeman is a
better Wingman than said aviator, accord
ing to the terms of the bill.
The bill puts aviation under jurisdic-
ton of the motor vehicle department but
fails to provide for any means of the
motor vehicle inspectors chasing an avia-
tor who may ignore the rules and regula-
tiOns as may be set forth. The stunt of
a motor vehicle policeman giving chase
to birdman and from his perch on the
ground loudly calling upon viOlator OF
the law to descend from 5000 to 5000
feet and be arrested will provide more
fun for the pOPulaCe. already fed up
the freak air stunts.
AS to aviation fields, Hartford is al
ready agog with moves to establish such
landing ground but no other city in the
state has yet made any effort to provide
such place, What an aviator who
but cannot land anywhere else but in
Hartford, is to do isn't set forth in the
bill
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-15
STRIKE
LIKELY AS BOSSES
REFUSE TO AGREE
Conference Ends in Deadlock and
Unions Prepare to Enforce
Demands May 1.

As stated in the last issue of The
Labor News the sub committee of the
Union No. ~ of New Haven held a
conference with a committee represent
ing the Typothetae at its Offices in
Church street last Friday afternoon and
after lengthy discussion reached no
agreement, as the Typothetae evidently
is opposed to granting any further in
crease than the $35 which they offered on
January l and under no circumstances
would agree % the inauguration of the
44-hour week on May |. The Typothe-
tae committee claimed that the $35 scale
they had established was minimum and
they had no objection to paying any one
more if they could prove their worth
There are some cases where members of
No. AZ are receiving more than the $35
but in order to do SO they have to be
wonders, and in some cases it is next
to impossible to receive $35, as there are
offices which the Typothetae does not
control. This meeting was simply held
at the request of No. AZ SO that the local
DrietOrS that $35 a week was not enough
in money and that the 44-hour week was
to be inaugurated on the 1St of May,
as a referendum vote has been taken on
that proposition and the international
Typographical Union will see. that it is
carried to a successful conclusion.
There will be a special meeting of No.
AZ held in Trades Council hall, this
evening at S 80 o'clock when the mem
bers will be informed of the action of
Continued on Page Eight.)
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-15
Anti-Strike Commission; Poison
Spray Prohibition and Direct
Election of Judges Among
Those to "Get the Hook
(SDecial to The Labor News.

Hartford, April 15.-The General
Assembly this week had a parlor fete in
its indoor sport OF giving the hook to
Labor and other measures intended to
aid and protect the workers of the state.
1t was a regular riot of time and the
bills fell by the wayside with scarcely
thud so gently did the committees handle
them and so speedily did both branches
dispose of them. In the miNup one or
two minor matters got by on favorable
reports, but even these haven't been
passed vet and may not be when the
powers that be discover that they do
something for the worker as a whole.
The ruCtiOn started bright and early
Tuesday morning with the opening of
the eekly session First flop out of
the hat was d report of the committee
on labor to the Senate unfavorabe to the
bill prohibiting the use OF spraying ma
chimes in spraying poisonous paints or
mixtures injurious to the workers
health Rel ectcd' said the Senate
DrOnto and then took a similar whack at
a bill that provided that passageways
leading to places of employment should
be properly lighted so the worker
wouldn't break his neck getting to his
job. What's a neck two among
friends. especially a wOrkman's?
Meantime the House was having a
royal time all to itself. 1t first took
Continued on Eighth Page)
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-15
Placards Asking Italians to Bring
Relatives Here Last Summer Is
Forgotten When Big Industrial
Slump Hit Factory.

Denial that it ever attempted to in
duce its Italian employees to urge their
fellow countrymen to come here, as good
Jobs were to be had at the Winchester
riant at good wages, was made by the
Winchester firm through A. c. Jewett
OF the "personnel department" Wednes-
day N answer to a reported statement
of John NJ. Fitzgerald lice-presldent OF
the Polisher<' Union, that as conse-
uuence several hundred American work
ers had been dismissed. While Mr..
Fitzgcrald's statement was not as re-
ported, but was to the effect that the men
would have been replaced by this cheap
er help could it have been secured, the
fact remains that the Winchester firm
did endeavor to secure such help and
the daily papers, before being shut off,
published stories to that effect and said
also that the action came pretty near
being an infringement Of the alien labor
laws.
Mr. Jewett is his statement says that
the only inCidc1t that could be construed
as such an effort b. the company was
brief article appearing in a shop publica-
tion in July. 1920. when there was a labor
scarcity and had official standing
Reports hoy. ever, from the factory at
that time, which became public, were
that not only did the shop publication
have such an appeal but the circulars,
Continued on Fage Eight)
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-15
Building Workers
Are Standing Firm
Against Wage Cut
Work Suspended in Many Sec
tions When Employers Inter-
fere With Schedules.

Washington, April 15.-Reports re-
ceived at headquarters of the Building
Trades Department of the American
Federation of Labor in Washington
show that union workers are resisting
wage cuts in all sections of
the country. Practically all of New
England is standing firm against pro-
posals of employers The following
are picked at random from scores of re-
ports:
Members of the paperhangers, deco
sheet metal workers and plumb
ers unions of New Haven, Conn, voted
not to accept any reductions in wages.
The present scale calls for 81 per hour.
Practically all building work in Wor-
Cester, Mass, was suspended when mem
bers of the organized building trades
struck against reduction of 20 per cent.
Carpenters at Dubuque, Waterloo, Sioux
City and Des Moines, Iowa, have quit,
to accept a reduced wage
Building trades Work1nen in Spring
field, Chicopee, Holyoke, and Greenville,
Mass, went on strike rather than accept
a wage reduction of IS per cent. In
chanics failed to report for work Mon
day, when a wage reduction of 20 per
cent was announced.
Failing to reach an agreement with
who demanded 20 per cent
cut, 900 building trades work1nen ceased
to function in Memphis, April l.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-15
7roHeyn1en Get
Ready Agreement
Conference Board to Meet Next
Week to Draft Proposals to
Be Submitted to Company.

A meeting of the state conference
board of the Trolletmen's Unions will
be held within week to start plans for
a new wage agreement with the Con-
necticut Company, to replace the exist
ing agreement which expires on June .
While no definite stand has yet been
taken, informal votes of the several
locals of the union about the state have
expressed the opinion that the trolleymen
will request the maintenance of the
present wage scale and a few minor
changes relative to the bettering of
working conditions.
The Connecticut company, along with
other Big Business has intinated that
1t will attempt to reduce wages when
the time comes up for wage discussion
but as yet no formal notice of such in
tent has been served on the employees.
The employees feel that the wages they
are now being paid are not even yet in
proportion to the cost of living and will
not take kindly to an attempt to reduce
them from the present level. Some
even are of the opinion that the wage
should be increased and bring them
nearer to those paid to other Workers
about the state.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-15

Bill Reported
In Assembly
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE. AS
EXPECTED, I. BOWS TO
MAN A N D
WOULD TIE HANDS OF
WORKERS.
Especial to The Labor News

(SpeC1al to he Labor NeWS.)
Hartford, April 15.-The proposed
anti-strike bill, part of the notorious
nationwide drive intended to disrupt
Organized Labor, was favorably report
ed to the Senate by the committee on
the judiciary yesterday and was tabled
for printing in the calendar and probable
action next week. The report was lust
about as labor leaders and others inter-
ested in the welfare of the workers ex-
peCted, as the attitude of the judiciary
and other committees having to do with
labor measures in the present session has
been rellglouSy y antagoniStic to Organ
lied Labor and subservient to the Manu-
facturers' Association and their attor-
neyS. Not a labor measure has so far
been favorably reported and therefore
the anti l-strike bill was anticipated, even
though 1t was strenhOusl y opposed before
the committee.
The bill didn't even originate in Con-
neCtlcut but was sent on here from the
offices of the old Anti-Boycott League III
New York as similar bills were sent to
every state in the Union. 1t was so raw
in its original form that when it came
up tor hearing a substitute was offered
by the manufacturers which took off
the harsh words and covered them UP
with salve but in no wise changing the
intent of the measure. Even this was
little too caustic apparently for the COM
ntittee for that august body took another
shot at it and itself reported a substi-
tute which if anything is worse than the
original, so far as worker and his
rights are concerned.
Of course it includes lockouts, too but
that's all camouAage.
person, firm or organization shall will
fully cause, engage in or promote any
unWarranted industrial warfare, includ-
ing strikes and lockouts cor attempt to
cause, engage in or promote any unwar-
ranted industrial warfare, nor induce any
person to engage or continue therein. nor
pay any money to aid in or furnish any
help in such warfare, nor agree to do
SO, nor place, station, locate or act as
any picket or patrol in such warfare, nor
do any act for the purpose of inducing
any person, firm or corporation to ter
inmate any employment or business re-
lation with any person, firm or corpora
ton against whom such warfare is di-
rected."
The bill also provides that the state
or any political subdivision thereof. or
any person, firm or corporation I'M jured
or threatened with any injury in any vio-
latiOn of any provision of this act may
employ any appropriate civil or equitable
remedy, and any person or the executive
officer of any corporation violating anv
provision of this act shall be fined not
exceeding $500 or imprisoned not more
tbo,, ,,,o,,+l,c ho+l, ~
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-15
UNION WINS RIGHT
TO MAINTAIN PICKET
Garment Firm Accused Members
of Violence but Cannot
Prove It.

New York, April 15.-Supreme Court
Justice Delehantv has denied motion
to restrain the international Ladies'
Garment Workers Union from picketing
the plant of Borgenicht & Sons Co.,
dress manufacturers, of Ills Broadway.
He based his decision on the ground no
facts were alleged to show the union or
any of its officers committed the unlaW-
full acts complained of, and that if they
were committed they were by officers
or members of certain locals
Our courts have repeatedly held that
under the circumstances presented the
parent body may not be held responsible
for any unleWful acts of the affiliated
locals unless it promotes or ratifies the
same and no such proof is submitted"
the mion said, Furthermore, | am
not il, <essed with the plaintiffs good
faith it appearing that the sole cause of
the strike in question due to the
in violation Of a cOntraCtual obligation"
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-15

The Ice Trust is at it again.
Following a vivid propaganda
story published in the daily press
last week, which in regular 'sob-
sister, style recounted the terri
bic shortage in the ice crop last
winter, the Ice Barons immedl-
ately started a drive, at the indie
pendent ice dealers, that is in
tended to put them out Of business
and will, very naturally, leave the
ice trust free to do it's will about
what price it will charge to the
public.
The move to put the indepen-
dent dealers, out of business be-
gan with a boost in the price OF
ice to them at s. a ton, a raise
of ST or So depending on how
fortunate the independent dealer
was last year, and then restricting
them to charge no higher price
than that charged by the ice
trust. They can either take the
ice at the S. price or leave it and
go out Of business and the latter
is what the ice trust in this vicin-
ity is figuring on their doing.
Two years ago when the Trust was
having a fight among itself and one
Harry w. Walker of Bridgeport, owner
of the Berkshire and host of other ice
companies was trying to put the local
Hygienic Co. out of business, the lnde-
pendent dealers were greeted with ac
claim. There was a woefu1 shortage of
ice hereabouts then, following open
winter just like the recently passed one
and Walker, with his many ponds up
state and in Massachusetts had lots of
ice to sell to corral the trade.
According to some of the independent
dealers now, although the prevailing
price of ice was $4 a ton he offered it to
them at So, providing they would go
after the Hygienic company's trade.
They could even underSell the Hygenlc
price of 40 cents hundred and take 80
Continued on Page Eight.)
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-15
SPERRY BUILDING
FIGURES DO NOT
JIBE WITH FACTS

"Conditions here worst in the
country" said William A. Sperry
of the Sperry Engineering COM
pany, referring to the building
trade, according to a story spread
on the first page of the New Haven
Register last night. Mr.. Sperry,
according to the story, said he
based the statement on the best
statistics available and that Con-
necticut was the worst of the lot.
The Labor News doesn't know
where Mr.. Sperry got his Statis-
tics if he is quoted correctly, but
it does know that statistics gath
cred and published by the F. w.
Dodge company, one of the most
reliable houses in the country in
that line and one whose figures are
accepted by business men OF all
classes as authentic, report for
March that give an entirely diff
ferent view especially as concerns
New England which includes
Connecticut
These Dodge company figures
are published on Page 4 of this
issue and seem to make Mr..
Sperrys yarn in the Register look
suspiciously like more bunk pro-
paganda.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-15
RESIST NON UNION SHOP

Boston, April 15.-Organized black
Smiths drop fOrgers, and helpers held a
conference in this city on threatened
wage reductions and the non-union shop.
Every New England local of this inter
national was represented, and the union
lists perfected plans for vigorous Of
fensive movement The delegates re-
ported that the nOn-uniOn shop agitation
had failed to affect the morale or the
numerical strength of the union
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-15
BROTHERHOODS AND
A. f. OF L. TO UNITE
ON LEGISLATION

Washington, April 15.-The
four brotherhoods of railway en-
ployes have joined forces with the
American Federation of Labor ito
defeat legislation inirnical to the
rights Of wage workers." said a
statement given out this week by
the Federation of Labor after a
conference of leaders in which
bills pending before Congress
were discussed.
A committee of the American
Federation of Labor and the un-
affiliated brotherhoods was organ
lied to consider labor legislation
and to report at a meeting of the
general conference later.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-15
Fox Anti Teacher
Pay Bill Is Killed

Hartford, April 15.-The bill proposed
by George L. Fox of New Haven pro-
viding that no board of education shall
pay higher salaries to high school teach
ers than to teachers in the grammar
school was rejected by the house yes
terday. This bill would have called up
pupils TO pay fees to make up ior ti1e
difference in salaries or force them into
private schools, one of which Fox runs.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-15
ADD SMOOT AND GLASS
To MCLEAN COMMITTEE f.

Washington, April I5-Ihe repubI1-
can conference has amended the report
of the committee on committees and
added one member to some of the major
committee, two members to the commit
tee banking and currency, of which
pected that Senator Smoot, of Utah, and
Senator Glass, of Virginia, will be ap-
pointed as members of the banking and
currency committee as it is one of
the most important ones in Congress and
memberships in it are much sought after.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-15
LABOR MEMORIAL DAY

Washington, April l5.-The fourth
Sunday in May-May p, this year-is
labor's memorial day The A. F. of L.
has designated this time as a day upon
which to pay tribute to the memory of
those whose lives have been given to the
service OF the labor movement.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-15
N. E. Typos Head
NouU a NetD HaUener

Frank w Wiggins, president of the
New England Typographical Union, has
resigned as secretary Of the Waterbury
Local of the union. and removed to New
Haven, where he has become connected
with the composing department of The
Labor News and the Ornburn Press.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-15
Conference BetUeen Bosses
and Union Representatives
First Step 70lUard HARMONY

BOTH SIDES APPARENTLY SINCERE IN EFFORTS TO END
TROUBLE ALREADY IN MANY PLACES IN CoNNEc
TICUT-MEETING GOES THOROUGHLY
SITUATION BUT WORKERS FEEL THEY SHOULD
NOT TAKE WAGE CUT UNTIL ASSURED COST
OF MATERIALS WILL STAY DOWN ALSO
CARPENTERS AGREE TO PLAN AND
VOTE WORK
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-15
HIGH COAL PROFITS.

New York, April 15.-The high price
of coal, especially. last winter, is recalled
by the annual report OF the Philadelphia
& Reading Coal company. Last year
was a record one. Profits increased from
$3,805, ,486 in 1919, to $6,672,222 in 1920
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-15
TRUST BOOSTS PRICE
TO PUT INDEPENDENTS
OUT OF RETAIL FIELD

Ice to Cost Peddlers $5 a Ton and
They Cannot Charge More
Than Trust Charges Customers
or Seek to Get Any New Trade
That Trusts Now Claim-Brew-
cries Available for Municipal
Plant if Gouging Becomes a
Fact.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-15

THE LABOR NEWS JOB
Printing Department is equipped
and ready to take care of all your
printing needs. 1t is already
44-hour shop and will be after
May l. The phone is Colony
1082-Give us a call.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-15

han six months or both"
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-15

Continued on Page Eight.)
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-06-27
MORSE CHURCH
IO MEET THIS
IWEEK AT FARGO
Convention Of the
NORTH. ~ p; .ls,l.t Section
g Opens On Tuesday

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n Of - church. and the other OIL
Srnhers Of the Women,s Foreignl
.sonsry federation Of the church,
hrsn1 neariy 1000 people Is FAR.
@ next week. Rev. /. D. Ylvtmker.
adAnt Of the North Dakota dA-
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sIhere VIM be probably 1,0ee lay
Aeates and pastors from within
I state here for the main conven-
Rev. M. Yylvisaker says Each
Of the TO congregations in the
: = entitled to one lay delegate
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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-06-27

Boston. June 2z-Threats 81 l
duckfng in the nyersmay be an ef-
fecttve method Of compelling children
to learn the bible but At does not meet
the approval Of the Massachusetts So
tiety for the Prevention 81 Cruelty ia
Children. Agents OF the society have
recently induced a. western M6ssa.
chubetts mother to adopt more 8 IS
proved educational methods.
Investigators sent out ia response
it~osprotests from neighbcr8 learned
that i was the woman's custpmswhSr
anyssof the children failed Mo rive
strict. attention to bible study, to places
the offender In q burlap baE. throw Il
over her shoulder, and march down ia
the river bank. Dangling the bas
over the cold water, with threats 81
tmmersion usually brought quick
acduiescence In her demandssafor
closer perusal Of the commandinenta
and beAtitudes.
The plan apparently had been In
operation for some time for several
of the older children In the large
family were found to be able to recits
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-06-27

Already the excessive ONES of the
association have bsSn inafalisdsand'al-
thonetsthe financial. district tssnaastng
throughsa period Or postwar dspees-
sion,, the guiding spirits OF the curb
believe tho new headquarters will
mark the b~egtnning4o f = new andl
prosperous career. .t
8 OF the entire membership. q now
constituted-vAriously estimated at.
900 to 600---Almost as per cent Of the
old guard Of veteran members have
Threatened. to hold aloof and continue,
their operations In the roadway OF
Broad street,
This faction may md itsen BAKED.
however, by tho attitude OF the city
authorities. The police oItgsssAs 8
found It necessary to "corrxTs the
msrnbers within IA irregular square
because their increAstnE numbers OBJ
strIcted street trAfic. s.a:
Among the members OF the CurbAas-
ISOLATION are z number OF nj more
or less directly. connected withtthe
'''big board Is the stock exchange IL
known in the Wall street y~ernAcular:
Some stock exchange firms have
voiced their opposition to the idea Of
. regular home or headquarters for
the curb" Others believe 1t will add
to the strength and responsibility Of
that organisation.
One OF the arguments advanced IN
favor OF . hxed habitat for the curb