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The Connecticut labor news., 1921-06-10
Finds Bridgeport Has Been Exploited Under Scheme, Recommend ed for New Haven Un- der City Manager Plan.

The danger of one-man power, such as proposed under the City Manager Plan for New Haven, was clearly indicated this week. when the state legislature kick ed out of office, the One-man tax commits siOner in Bridgeport, because, under the scheme, the office has been used to ex- ploit taxation Tn some properties and to reduce assessments on favored friends. The action was not against the tax com missioner, who is admittedly a capable and honest official, but against the sys- tenn. The One-man tax COmm1ss1On scheme has been in operation in Bridge port six years and in that time the grand list boosted many millions and the tax rate also shifted until it's highest in the state.
 The one man tax scheme IS part and parcel of the City Manager Plan ln New Haven under the charter to be voted up- on next Tuesday, It was charged be- fore the legislature this week, that under it Bridgeport had suffered and the one man commissioner unable to prevent the exploitation of the city and its property owners Big financial and industrial cor porations 1t was shown, had escaped full taxation while small householders and property owners, small businessmen and the like were Over-aSseSSed and made to pay the entire burden of the increase while the big fellow" escaped.
 The charges were so drastic and the proof so conclusive, that the House first adopted the bill ordering the one man commission ended and board of at least | three assessors elected by the people. It wont +o the Senate which a fter hearing the charges, promptly agreed with the House and kicked out the one man rule The action is warning to New Haven as to what could happen here if the one man tax commissioner, and one man city manager, is permitted to be fOisted on l the city,
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-06-10
MORE REASONS LABOR
 SHOULD VOTE AGAINST
 THE CITY MANAGER PLAN
CONNECTICUT IS STANDING PAT ON
 PROHIBITION BILL
Again Refuses to Ratify Dry Law and Does So Emphatical1y
 in the Senate.

The Connecticut Senate refused Tues day to ratify the prohibition amendment to the United States Constitution By ats action in voting, IS to- 10, to indefinite ly postpone resolution of ratification sponsored by the prohibition party in the Senate, and then i'll refusing to recon slider 1t, made ratification impossible by fhis session as adoption of the resolution by the House would only create disagree ing action. Two other states, Rhode Is- land and New jersey, stand with Connec- ticut in refusing to ratify.
 Senator Brown of Norwich moved that the resolution proposing ratification be considered at once.
 His reason for advocating ratification at this late day, he said, was to secure Whatever assistance such action would give in the enforcement of the prohibi- ton amendment.
 Senator Brooks moved indefinite post pOnement
 Senator Brown called for a roll call His motion for roll call prevailed. Ii resulted in the indefinite postponement of the ratification resolution, 1o to TO-
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-06-10
Legislature Kicks Out One
 Man Tax Commissioner
Machinists Against
 . City Manager Plan
Big Meeting Last Night Votes Op- position Making Labor Unani-
 nous in City.

The City Manager Plan was denounced and a unanimous vote taken to oppose it at the polls on Tuesday next, by the New Haven Lodge of Machinists at monster meeting held in Machinists' hall last night. The machinists had delayed talk ing action on the subject until every member had been given ample time to study the proposition and made up his individual mind as to its intents and pos sible benefits The result was that when the matter came up last night every member present was opposed to the scheme as outlined
 The action of the machinists makes Organized Labor in New Haven praCti- cally unanimous against the proposed change in the city's government. In line with the Trades Council official action week ago, most of the local unions have voted to oppose the plan It has been shown conclusively to them that under 1t, not only organized labor, but the worker at large, would have practically no say III city government
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-06-10
Carpenters to Elect
 Officers on Monday
Many Contests for Various Places Assure Lively Battle of
 Ballots.

The annual election of Carpenters Union, Mo- 79, of New Haven, will be held at Carpenters Hall on Monday night and the usual lively contest for offices will be waged There are four candidates for the presidency, one being John L. Richards, who is the present head of the local. Several candidates for vice-president and many nominees for trustees will also be in the contest and merry time IS predicted
 The carpenters are live organiza- ton as is attested every year by the interest in the various offices and the many candidates presented. This year is no exception. Secretary John H.. Smith and Treasurer George West are renominated without opposition.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-06-10
of Bill.

With of voting, the niquuous of Connect cut by the overwhelming six sena tors who their shcke labor Goodwin Trumbul Brown Delaney, Rudd the district did New Haven, and Banks of Fairfield did not
 The taken after considerable discussion which declared the belief that bill proponents stated proposed law would only employers and labor Others buny
 to be but plain attempt labor the One if had the House. the Republican which indicated that wasn't wholly justice the big rolled Even Senator E. of Britain who particularly opposed all could bill against it.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-06-10
Effort to EnsLaue Workers Fails by 25 10 6 Vote h
 Battle h Upper House
SIX SENATORS
 WHO VOTED TO
 COERCE LABOR

The following are the six Connecticut state senators who, by their vote for the anti-strike bill this week, showed where they stood for the working men and women of the state. Re member them in your will.
 F. Spencer Goodwin, Hart ford, real estate operator.
 John H. Tru1nbull, Plain vile, manufacturer
 Allyn L. Brown, Norwich, lawyer lately appointed judge of the Superior court.
 A. L. Delaney, Bridgeport, lawyer and city court prosecu- tor.
 Malcolm D. Rudd, Lakeville, manufacturer.
 Clarence D. Emery, Terry vile, druggist.
 Senator w. H. Hall of Will ington was also for the bill but being paired with Senator Sey- mour of Hartford, who opposed 1t, could not vote. Neither could Senator Seymour, or the vote would have been one more each way.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-06-10
STRIKERS FINED FOR
 CONTEMPT OF COURT

Bridgeport, Juno Io.-Flnes faHslHg from $50 to $25o were imposed Wednesday by Judge kceler in the superior court upon members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America who violated the terms ot temporary injunction issued by him some time ago to prevent striking members of the union from intcrfer- ing with workers at the clothing plant of Currick X Leiken Company in Stamford.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-06-10
PROTEST FROM PANAMA.

Balboa Heights, Canal Zone, June Io.-The publicity committee of the Panama Metal Trades Council has issued a protest against a statemer credited to Secretary of N ar Weel which declares flat Ii. in the Panama canal zone $ or continued round of pleasure, tiat he will make drastic chan lst as soon as he, either in per~ul, vr by commit tee, can visit the isthnuS.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-06-10
ENGRAVERS STRIKE ENDS.

New York, June Io.-A strike of more than 200 newspaper photo en- gravers in this city has ended, The Newspaper Publishers association has signed an agreement with the union. The old wage scale is accepted while differences are being adjusted by con CiliatiOn
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-06-10
FRAGRANT ANII-SIRIKE BILL DEFEAI TIED BY SENATE
 State EeoZer0tiQn oE Labor CQnpereS in Rridgeport
DAVIS WARNS CAPITAL AGAINST
 LABOR UNION SMASHING DRIVE

Philadelphia, 1o-ames J. Davis of labor, ad dressing yesterday the big
  
  the
 he growth of radical
  which is unsettlng Europe"
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-06-10
Proposed LaW Denounced
 as Dangerous to State

Senators, Many of Them Employers of Labor, See in Measure Injustice to Workers and Them selves and Promptly Kick It Out, Up-
 setting Buckley's Victory in House.
 Even Lawyers Fear Legality
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-06-10
HANG OUT THE FLAG

Next Tuesday and get squarely under 1t. This IS a pretty good country after all, despite what the financial interests are doing to us. The flag still means something.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-06-10

In convention this week adopt ed resolutions to insist on pat ronizing Union Label goods. The label is stronger than any open shop movement, so use 1t.
The New York herald., 1921-04-04

~ us. his industry, his patience, his
thoroughness are not. That his fam
lily suffered reyerses in his youth,
that he was hailed as a mathematical
prodigy at Il, and that he was not
made bitter by hardship or spoiled by
attention are facts which appeal to
all normal men and women. The
story OF his rise to celebrity, perhaps
to immortal fame, is tale of hard
work, concentration, laborious re-
search. The speculative fruits of his
intuition are not what scholars all
over the world are checking up. The
calculations he has made are the evil
dences Of hard intellectual effort long
and industriously follow ed.
DR. EISsTEIS, "intuitive physicist" !"
is a hard worker. Had he been con-
tent TO loaf and dream he would not
have won the place he has. There
Is In this fact something for every
body to consider while DIR. EISsTEiN
measures the universe.
The New York herald., 1921-04-04
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Fair to-day
and Tomorrow: not much change IN
temperature moderate to fresh south
winds.
~ New Jersey-Fair to-day and to-rnor-
row continued mild temperature: moderate
southerly winds.
For Northern New England-Fair to-day
ana probably Tomorrow: not much change
N ne, ,teihperature; moderate variable winas.
TOT southern New England-Fair to-day
and Tomorrow; cooler on eastern Massa-
winds.
o,r& FOR & Western New York-Fair to-day; in
eIeasihg cloudiness tomorrow, probably fol-
lowea oy showers tomorrow afternoon or
nisht; continued mild temperature.
WASHINGTON. April 4. Pressure wa.
niEn to-day over the Eastern and Southern
States' ana low and falling from the plateau
.seion eastward over the Rocky Mountains,
tnr plains States and the upper Mississippi
valley Fair weather has continued almost
Beheraily during the last twenty-four hours
east OF the Rocky Mountains. while snow
mas iaiien in western Montana and the north
plateau region, and rain in the Pacific
states. There was a further rise In tenn
perature to-day In tho Eastern States and
unseasonably warm weather Continued n tha
Mountains = 'o As'sns
The temperature fell decidedly in the north
ana shn West plateau region and the interior Of
Generally fair weather will continue in
tne states east of the Mississippi River to-
morrow morrow and In the Atlantic States Tuesday.
me great lakes, the Ohio Valley Tennessee
aud mississippi Tuesday or Tuesday night
MIG s,iH temperature will continue east OF the
mississippi River until Tuesday night ey
cept that cooler weather will overspread
michigan and Indiana Tuesday afternoon.
:, observations at United States Weather
bureau stations. taken ut p. M. yester-
DAY, seventy-fifth meridian time.
The New York herald., 1921-04-04
Tax on Outgo.
Test for Distinguishing Income From
Capital Increase.

To The New YORK HERALD: The diff
aculty OF deciding what Is taxable as in
come and what Is exempt as capital
arises largely from the fact that IN
equity the same transaction may under
two different sets OF conditions fall
under opposite heads.
The value OF all securities Is continu-
ally fuctuating and money is nothing
more than the yardstick by which the
value is measured. Securities and cash
are mutually convertible at the market.
II is illogical. therefore. to tax an In
crease in value OF securities simply be-
cause they are turned into their equiva-
lent, cash.
The true basis of taxation is the sub
scquent use to which the increase is put.
If II is spent as income it should be
taxed as income. II preserved as cap
ital Il should be tax free. In other
words. the tax should be upon outgo and
ot upon income.
Under this system the man who de-
Ives his living from buying and selling
stocks would pay the tax. while identi-
cally the same stock transactions. IL
erformed as a mere cL> age of invest
ment, would not be taxable. Economy
and thrift would be encouraged by the
fact that savings OF income invested
would not be taxable. and at the same
time the Government would be benefited
by continuing income from the added
capital. +. M. l.
SMITHrowN. April 2.
The New York herald., 1921-04-04
Railroad Labor Board Danger.

The national Administration. deeply
concerned over the transportation sit
uation. which Is closely interviewer
with the Industrial SITUATION. calls
public attention to the fact taa un-
der the law OF the land it is the tunc-
ton OF the United States Railroad
Labor Board, which moves With the
speed Of caterpillar. to settle the
dispute as to wages and working con-
ditions, and this is true enough. 1t
Is true. though the Administration
knows that so-called national agree
Tents were mode by single man
with a snap Of his fingers II is true.
though the Administration realizes
the transportation crisis IL In a fair
way to ruin the country.
But II Is also ne that the people
q the United tes would not be
patient II an y fleet were bonn
hurding and devastating our coast
and some administrative authority
charged with meeting such o situa-
tion functioned in so deliberative. re-
mote and tardy way that 1t die not
begin TO meet the situation until ali
lcas over.
This patton. afflicted as II is with
bureaucratic red tape and indulgent as
IL can be with public machinery that
doesn't function in minor matters.
never Is tolerant Of any authority.
administrative or legislative. that
pompously. iaboriously and tediously
puts in its 4ime asserting or estab-
fishing its Jurisdiction while the coun.
try goes 10 the dogs 1t Is the tenn
per and Ii is the genius of the Amer
ican race to get things done when
they have to be done In public af-
r2irs when the officer or the body
hat Is charged with doing things that
have to he done falls down on the job
in a crisis the American people make
II their particular business to see
hat either the non-functioning ma
NlHtI. EttS W llt Stidp htfiP " 'iiHa
other men are put in charge who can
ret action out of it,
1t Is not a question Of whether the
railway wages are going to be ad-
justed so that the carriers Of the ma
tion can stay on their feet, the indus
tries of the nation can operate and
the man power of the nation can go
back to work. That question Is not
debatable The readjustment Is go
Ing to take place because the Ameri-
can people will not allow the nation,
for lack OF 1t. TO pile up In wreck.
The question Is how long the United
States Railroad Labor Board itself
can daily over this national problem
and find itself still part Of the
United States Government.
Not much longer.
The New York herald., 1921-04-04
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Mass meeting, Citizens Committee TO Oh
tain Justice for the Wounded, George w.
Wickersham. chairman. Carnegie Hall.
p. NJ.
Dinner to Bishop Nichoai OF Serbia. by
DR.. II. g. Mendenhall. Hotel Pennsylvania.
tonight.
"The Neighborhood House Review or 1921
to be presented atop Hotel Pennsylvania for
bene-tt of Association OF United Neighbor
hood Houses, tonight.
sador. by Italian colony of Brooklyn, Pros
pect Hall, tonight.
Senator Irvine l.. Lenroot of Wisconsin will
speak at the Women's National Republican
Club. 80 West Thirty ninth street. p. M.
Meeting of National Association OF Owners
OF Railroad Securities with heads OF tour
railroad brotherhoods. Hotel Astor, 1920
A. NJ.
Meeting OF the Eighty-sccond Division AS
sociation of New York. X. of Q. Hall. S03
East Twenty-thlrd street, p. NJ.
European Costume" for high senool
classes, will be discussed by Ethel Trap.
hagen at Metropolitan Museum Of Arr, =
p. NJ.
Dinner. Catholic Charities. Hotel commo-
dore, 80 p. NJ.
Psychoanalysis Is Unsound," Will Dursnd.
affirmative. Andre Tridon, negative. Labor
Temple, Fourteenth street and Second ave
nue.. s:t5 p. NJ.
Columbia Trus. Company. entertainment
and dance, Hotel Astor, s p. NJ.
Alpha Kappa Phi, dance. Hotel McAlpin,
p. NJ.
Dartmouth Association dance. Hotel Bit
Don seitz win speak on "The Free Press
at Y. w. G. A., 6lo Lexington avenue, s:15
p. NJ
Henry w Taft win speak on Later A.
poets Of Hoshevism," Town Hall. f13 West
Forty-trird street. p. NJ.
The New York herald., 1921-04-04
Albert Spalding's Recital.

Albert Spa ding gave his second and
last violin recital of the season yester-
day afternoon in Carnegie Hall before
large audience. Next season this dis
tinguished American artist will play In
Europe. Mr.. Spalding was at his best
yesterday. 1t Ia, indeed. doubtful IL he
has ever before been heard to 50 good
advantage in recital here. A player
known for his fine and scholarly ac-
complishments, but one less responsive
10 the quickening beat of dramatic in
stincts. his delivery yesterday had more
fire and warmth. seemingly, than before.
AT any rate, he stirred his listeners in
such manner that they responded to
his performance with much genuinely
warm applause.
He gave delightful rendering OF
Coreli's La Folia." as edited by him
self. one in which technical difficulties
were thrown Off with ease and smooth
ness, and phrase and accent were finely
placed. And so he played again in two
numbers which followed, namely in the
adagio from Bach's + minor sonata
and kreisler's arrangement of Tartimfs s
variations In these works, and else
where, his admirable command of style
prevailed. The bravura touches In the
Tartimi music caused the piece to stand
forth as one especially wen delivered.
An effective selection. with organ and
plano accompaniment, with Robert
Gayler at the organ. was the prelude
from lie Deluge." by Saint-Saens. Fol-
lowing the opening classic group MI.
Spalding and Andre Benoist gave a
fine ensemble performance of Bee
thoven's "Kreutzer" sonata. for violin
and piano, at the close of which they
received numerous recalls.
The New York herald., 1921-04-04
Friends of Music Give Last Concert
Works of Johann Sebastian Bach Provide Afternoon
of Repose and Beauty.

The Society OF the Friends OF Music
yesterday afternoon in Aeolian Hall.
The programme comprised three works
by the young master Johann Sebastian
Bach. They were the sixth Branden-
burg concerto and the cantatas "Ah.
Hapless Man" and Gods Time Is
Best" For the performance of this
music there was orchestra, an organ
operated by wilfred Pelletier, a harp
sichord played by Paul Eisler. the
chorus of the society and the follow
Ing soloists Miss Marion Telva. con-
tralto; George Meader. tenor. and Will
lam Gustafson. bass The conductor
was Artur Bodanzky.
The young composer. Johann Sebas-
tian Bach. remains young while me-
teoric musicians grow old in twenty
four hours and greet the dawn with
gray hair. Struggle and strife NIL the
dust of the day and ambition hides the
stars OF the night. but 1.-The poems that
Will not sing themselves fall into the
eternal silences while Bach sings on
yesterday. to-day and tomorrow. He
apparently knew no ambition except
to write honest music and made no
struggle doing 1t. He wrote with the
simplicity of genius, just as John Bun
yan did. and every time he rose from
his desk the world was made more
beautiful by another masterpiece.
To listen TO the music performed yes
terday was to know the ineffable peace
of the Sabbath as it was made for man.
The Brandenburg concerto was given in
the Mottl arrangement, and fresh and
sweet indeed 1t sounded in the compare
lively small hall where Its wonderful
arabesque of voice parts couldSbe traced
by the ear without effort Perhaps had
the first allegro been taken a trifle more
slowly the voices would have been still
better displayed. but on the whole the
work was Welt performed, and In partic-
ular the anxious trumpeter must have
gone home satisfied that he need not
fear to meet his Bach.
Mr.. Meader accepted the commission
to sing the solos in "Ah. Hapless Man"
Many other things are easier to do. and
at one. moment when the singers ever
lurking enemy made himself felt in the
tenor's throat the difficulties became
formidable. But Mr.. Meader triumphed
and finished with an artistic delivery to
his credit. The chorus sang the chorale
very well, but not at all In the style OF
Bethlehem. Miss Telva and Mr. Gus
tafson were heard with Mr.. Meader in
the other cantata. which Is better known
The New York herald., 1921-04-04
,en NOTES ana 1924 coo marks Or note.

sen notes ana 1,624,o0o marks OF notes
issued by other banks in Bavaria, Sax
ony, Wuerttemberg and Baden.
OF these last two kinds of money
there were also in circulation COM
bined total of nearly $4,000, ,UOO
marks, bringing the grand total OF all
paper money In existence in Germany
up to 100, ,OO0, 100000 marks. Reduced
10 gold values the total actual circula-
tion amounts TO 5,000,000,000 marks
and the money in existence to total
Of 6,T20t000, 900 marks.
Germany's gold reserve against cir
cuation now amounts 10 less than 2
per cent, and If the paper We're re-
duced 10 gold value TO less than 20
per cent. This per cent. reserve, Is
smaller than any country in the world
with the exception OF Austria and
some of the other minor central Eu-
ropean States. Germany is expected 10
DO an international business to clear
herself of indemnity obligations. Her
gold reserve at present is. not Of much
Importance, but eventually 1t will be
the nucleus which will stabilize her
exchange. If she loses the gold she
now possesses she will have t6 find
more TO function as the mobile por-
tion of her reserve resource at home
and abroad in the exchange of goods
and the clearance Of international
payments.
The New York herald., 1921-04-04
A City Hall Park Cynic.

The black and while cat which
lives In City Hall Park ought to carry
a happier countenance than he has
He appears to have the hunting
privileges on six or seven acres Of
good sparrow land
Dogs rarely molest him, for dogs
are afraid of Broadway.
The cat does not have to worry
about getting the new three cornered
style Of hat.
He does not have to pay his wife,
if he has one, 100000 year.
He need not run down TO 120
Broadway to get State income tax
blank.
If Comptroller CRAIG starts an ar
@ument with him he has plenty OF
rees 20 climb
The traction situation is nothing in
The cars life. nor is the enforcement
of the volstead act Of the slightest
moment to him.
And yet the cat never looks utterly
happy. AS he sits on the edge Of the
northwest fountain and gazes at the
busiest street In the world his face
expresses world weariness.
When a cynlc earnestly sets out TO
be a cynic nothing will stop him.