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The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-19
Movie Operators Agent
 Finds Shocking Conditions
 Al the Winchester 7heater
BARBERS' PROTEST
 GETS QUICK ACTION
State Commission to Get After Bar bers Running Unsanitary
 Shops.

The complaints registered by the state conference of union barberS at Bridgeport, last week, that a large number of barber shops about the state were paying no attention to their license provisions, were unsani- tary and nowhere near up to the standard set by the state for these public places has brought a speedy reply from the state barbers commits sion which promises to get after these places right away.
 Edward H. Landers of Waterbury, member of the board, in a state ment today says the commission will immediately investigate the shops about the state and any found want ing in the requirements will be speed fly shut up and prosecuted In addi- ton the commission intends to put up stiffer examination for barbers in the future and shut out the number of inexperienced butchers that have been putting the trade to discredit
 "The selection of barbers is a very important duty," says MT. Landers, and the commission will insist on full ability, cleanliness and that the shops whether they are union or non-union be kept in a thoroughly sanitary con dition."
 To that end Mr. Landers started this week an upstate tour and the other members will-go about other sections. Any barber shop found in an unclean condition will be promptly taken care of
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-19
MalcOntents Within the Party Agree ''TO Be . Good For This Fall" in
 the Hope of Beating Mayor FitZGerald.

Just one more chance Colonel, or you're done" are the terms of peace or rather armistice declared in the New Haven republican ranks this week, when the faction opposing the failing domina-- tion. of Col. I. M. Ullman finally agreed to lay down their arms this Tall, in the hope of victory through the pending split in the democratic ranks over the general registrarship. The Coffey-Rice brothers and anti-city- crowd have agreed to again lie down with the lions and be good in the hope of local victory for the republicans.
 The announcement that a truce had been declared came as a surprise to very few in the know, as most people never doubted but that before the colonel would let the matter go to a fight he would find some way of bringing the malcontents around to the fold It wasn't so easy as some people thought, however, for when they did finally agree to the roundup they did so with the understand ing that the colonel would have to make
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-19
ULLMAN TO GET ONE MORE CHANCE
 TO REGAIN CITY FOR REPUBLICANS

good and carry the city against Mayor F1tzGerald this fall or give some one else chance to lead the party
 Town Chairman Charles w. Birely also came in for a part of the drubbing and the antl-LUllmanitcs insisted that he must come out and assert himself Tn the open as to his plans and policies or he too would also be slated for "the gate" Birely, it is claimed, has been trying to keep in with both sides with the city pOstmastershp in Jew, but has been quietly leaning to the colone1's side all the time. The crowd demanding action and more results from the Ullman lead ership are peeved at that attitude and now demand that Birely declare himself for the general party good.
 The first evidence of the armistice came Monday night in the aldermanic meeting when Mancel Rice, alderman at-large, opened the political row by in- duiring into the financial condition of the city and charging the mayor with not making a full report as required. The mayor answered him and for a couple of days the pickering went on, the mayor charging Rice with peanut politics and blandly inquiring why the financial situa- ton hadn't troubled him until just be- fore the election drew nigh. Outside the little political ring the taxpayers gener- ally paid little attention to the squabble putting 1t down to politics pure and sim pie and letting it go at that.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-19

Lne uhearer crowded with srlaAA
 or running the projection box, sm;
 within the box and the protecting dt on the moving picture machine open,
 he Winchester theater on Winches afternoon by the representative of tf according to the report made by that Council last night. Had a spark hc cured to the machine, fire would nave :hi1d could have gotten out alive and dren in the theater might well have ton of the condition found.
 Some months ago the Winchester management violated it's agreement with the union by hiring a non-union operator. After several weeks of dis cusslon the manager renewed the agreement but declared he intended to dispense with outside help and oper- ate the machine himself That was his privilege so far as the union was concerned and things went along all right until week or two ago it was reported that non-union help was again being employed there.
 The theater is a mecca for the young children of the neighborhood on Saturday afternoons, hundreds of week. A week ago, to investigate the reports of non-union help being em- ployed,. the Operators agent visited the theater and asked for the mar ager. He was informed he was down town at one of the film agencies. The show was going on and having once been employed there, the agent made his way 10 the projection box and found the conditions reported above. Only the greatest of good fortune averted an accident that would surely have resulted in many deaths, the operators declare. The matter will be taken up with the state authorities, not as a union affair, but as pro lection to the public and especially the children who were exposed to the danger.
 Aside from the Winchester, there are only two other theaters in the city not operated by licensed union operators. One of these is the Dream land on Grand avenue and tic other place on Oak street run by an Ital- ian, who has gone to Europe and left his brother, an operator in Europe but mot yet privileged here, to run the machine and the show. He has been here but a short time and although perhaps competent, cannot get a license until lie passes a certain pro- bationary period and examination. Little business is being done at this theater, however, according to reports but that doesn't minimize the danger.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-19
C. 0. P. DROPS RICE
 FROM CAUCUS LIST
But Fighting Republican Appeals to Democratic Mayor for Action
 and Is Restored

Tue spectacle of a republican, even though he be an anti-Ullman repub- lican, going to the democratic mayor of New Haven, David E. FitzGerald, and asking the mayor to act for him in his demand to be restored to the republican caucus list is indeed strange but that is what happened when Russell Rice, son of the late Mayor Frank J. Rice, acted this week when he found that he had been in continently dropped from the rolls and could take no part in the caucus. Rices name is back on the lists again, after he followed the mayors advice 70 demand that 1t be put back, but there wasn't even an excuse made to him that his name had been dropped by error
 Rice, who led the fight against Col onel Ullman and the city managr plan, did not discover that his name was off the list until about II:3o o'clock last Friday night, two and half hours after the time for regis tration had expired He immediately called Deputy Registrar Oviatt from bed and demanded the why and wherefore He didn't get much sat isfaction, he says, and spent Saturday trying to get some. When he couldn't he visited the mayor and asked him to act as his attorney in a mandamuS or something else that would get him restored.
 The mayor advised him to make renewed formal demand that his name be restored and if it wasn't to return and court action would be taken. Rice made the demand, was met with a grin or two, but his name went back on the rolls.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-19
UNEMPLOYMENT SO SERIOUS HARDING'S
 CABINET MAY ACT
Congress May Also Be Shaken Out of Its Slumber Following
 Davis Report.

Washington, Aug. 1o-So serious has the unemployment situation become throughout the country, that Congress may be asked to step in and do some thing to relieve 1t, according to plans made here this week. The cabinet will also lead to dire ends, according to the views held by prominent statemen. The report of Labor Secretary Davis that there are now 5,7350O0 workers out of employment throughout the country will be used to arouse a lethargic congress and it may finally be induced to do some thing after 1t gets back from a vaca- tion now in the offing. This vacation will extend well into September when, ltmthe situation IS not improved, some thing might get started.
 The vast unemployment Is the result of poor national economic management, ac- cording to Eugene Meyer, IT,, director of the war finance corporation, who stated that unless the government acts there would be most serious situation for 1t to confront next Winter Comp troller of the Currency Crissinger also urged immediate steps to alleviate the condition of idlenesS so widespread in this country.
 As an American citizen, I should feel ashamed to go through next winter with five millions men idle" Director Meyer said. There Is work for these men in this country if we will only manage our affairs with a reasonable degree of in telllgence. 1 am not one of those who believe that unemployment over a long period IS necessary to work out certain economic theories. 1 think unemploy- ment IS thing about which something should be done, and can be done. It will be distinct economic asset to the coun- try and of the greatest importance to restore labor to a full degree of employ ment"
 We want to help agriculture" Meyer said. The farmer is a great factor i'll our national prosperity. The nation can not be prosperous unless the farmer is prosperous"
 Industries which are idle must be put in operation" said Comptroller of the Currency Crissinger We must restore some of the credit instrumentalities be- tween the employer and the unemployed 3
 The whole situation regarding unem- ployment probably will be again taken up by the cabinet today and it is possible that snembers of the cabinet may offer a definite program for the administration to carry out.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-19
Again Shows His AntagOnism To- ward Anything of Or ganiZed Workers By Ignoring Cabinet Off Cer.

Especial to The Labor News.)
 Waterbury, Aug. Io.-Carrymg h's antagonism toward Organized Labor to the extent that he wouldn't even welcome the Federal Secretary ot Labor to Waterbury, Mayor William H. Sandland of this city, who sprarg into notoriety when he refused 10 welcome the State Federation of La bor convention a year ago, found It convenient to be absent when Secre- tary Davis, of President Harding s cabinet, visited the local lodge of Moose here last week. Sandland eVl- dently couldn't even stand the term Labor and kept away. His presence wasn't missed much, however, as Addison A. Ashbsrn, who is can didate for the republican mayoralty nomination against Sandland, quickly jumped into the breech and welcomed Secretary Davis.
 The Connecticut Federation Of La bor met in Waterbury unfortunately while the big brass strike was on in the valley. Sandland was under the thumb of the employers and doing everything in his power to embarrass
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-19
Keating Faction Again
 Seeking Control to Put
 County Safe For Refill y
CHANGE PLANS IN
 LABOR'S CAMPAIGN
 ON UNEMPLOYMENT
A. F. of L. Representative and Orn- burn First to Make Survey of
 State Conditions.

Emmett L. Adams, representative 'of the American Federation of Labor, who has been sent here to aid IF an unemployment survey and Campaign gn of organization and boosting intended to relieve the situation, has returned Il or, brief trip to conventions i'll the middle west and agaIn taken up the work. On his return some slight changes in the tentative plans mapped out in the campaign were made and iI.s'ead of starting with New Haven and extending over the state sim ul;aEeous movement will be started all over Connecticut.
 Jc that end Mir. Adams and Secre- tarl l. M Ornburn of the Connecticut Federation of Labor wifi visit every local central body and organize gen cal committees Of their affiliated ic calls and finally bring one big gen eral committee of the StAte together for definite invcst;gation and work. By this means Ii is figured a detailed Knowledge of actual conditions all over Connecticut can be had and ef- forts concentrated upon one place or another until the unemploymcnt. i5 relieved.
 It was originaiy intended to start the work in New Haven and then brareh out. To, this end the heads nf all the local unions were warned 10 be ready to attend d general meeting when MT. Adams got back, but after brief survey of conditicrs III the state Mr. Adams and Secretary Orn- burn decided that conditions a.e SO bad that the entire state should be canvassed first SO that s compl eiicn- Sive knowledge of lust what condi- tions are and where they are the worst can be had and the work to re- iieve them taken up intelligently.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-19
TROLLEY WAGE
 DISPUTE NOW UP $ TO PERPETRATORS
Mass of Confusing Statistics Be clouds Real Issue of Conten-
 ton of Men,

After three days of testimony in terspersed with a mass of bewlldering statistics on the relative costs of hV- ing and wages in industry, the wage dispute between the trolleymen of the state and the Connecticut Company was submitted to the arbitration board this afternoon on briefs from both sides following short arguments on the points brought out during the day. The trolleymen finished it's side with the testimony of a number of employees as to the comparison be- tween their wage and living costs while the company put on one Leslie Vickers, chief investigator and statls- tician of the Industrial Conference Board, who not only got himself all tangled up at times but also the law yerS and the arbitration board.
 In one instance MT. Ickers stated his board, made up according to the list of members read of most of the open shop interests and Big Business of the country, supplied figures inn partially to both sides in wage dis pute. Attorney Vahey later asked him if that was so and when he an .that Investigator Sturgis, for the mems side, was refused statistics when he asked for them. Vickers couldn't answer.
 On another occasion when he was giving comparisons and average wages Mr. Vahey put problem of 10 men working at $50 week, but only five employed the whole week and the other five a half week and asked him what the average pay per week would be- Vickers speedily took paper and pencil and shortly an nounced that it would be SI6.5o per week Chief Arbitrator Justice Beach had been figuring also and corrected MT. Vickers saying the sum would be $22. 50 and after the expert statlstlclan
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-19
AMERICAN LABOR IS
 TO HONOR LAFAYETTE

Washington, Aug. I9.-Amerlcan labor has been asked to "approprIl.- ately refer" to LaFayette day in all Labor day celebrations. The request was conveyed in letter to President ing secretary of the Lafayette com mittee.
 Last year the Lafayette day fell on the same day as Labor day, This year Lafayette day follows on the next day after Labor day.
 Added interest in Lafayette day IS found in the fact that the anniver- sary. of the first battle of the Marne falls on the same day. President Gompers is requested to convey to the labor movement the desire of the IaFayette national committee.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-19
Organized Labor Lines Up Soidly 70 Give Open Shop
 Theater Aduocate Royal "WeLcon1e to Connecticut
WHO OWNS THE GREEN HAS HOW OLD IS ANN
 THROWN INTO DISCARD

The question of How old is . Ann?" or "Why does a hen . cross the street," has been thrown into the discard here . abouts by the query that is puzzling New Haveners and . that is Who owns the Green2" . Most everybody thought the public at large owned it until . the park department which has , it in custody refused to allow a comfort station to be erected , thereon. Now they want to know about 1t.
 The query came up at the } Trades Council meeting last night but no one was ab> to answer it, therefore the Council which several years ago started
 the movement for the comfort
 station intends to find out and
 also to find out why the comfort station is not being erected and
 will put the questions up to the
 city administration to answer.
 If the park board owns the
 Green steps will be taken to
 take it away from them and
 placed where it belongs-at the
 disposal of the public.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-19
Playhouse Strike Will
 Start Here If Hyperion
 Attempts to Dust Uuions
C. F. of L., Trades Councils, Local Unions and All Central Bodies Combine to Support Stage Hands, Musicians and Movie Operators ill Resisting Drive Against Organ
 iZatiOns.

The strike of musicians stage hands and m New York to combat the open shop plans theca managers and shop advocates tended to this and the With the wedge of the 'open shop the Hyperion Theater extend to other heaters this matter of Whether will find Organized Labor only the crafts affected but right the and ready it. Action
 already taken by the Connecticut New the individual unOns will between and
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-19

The show down will come at the Fly perlon theater, which IS scheduled to open on Labor Day with burlesque at- fractions, which, by the way, have long been barred from this city, and the city didn't seem to suffer for the want of amusements. The first drive will be against the musicians and to cover up the ulterlor motive, the new lessees of the Hyperion, the Columbia Amusement Co. has inserted advertisements in the local papers callirg for mosicians under open shop conditions and stating prefer ence will be given to former service men. Just to show to what lengths the Co., lumbla IS going to the advertisement is reprinted herewith.
 MUSICIANS WANTED
 The orchestra for the Hyperion
 Theater for the coming season is
 in process of organization. The
 Columbia Amusement Co.,, which
 will operate the Hyperion on the
 open shop plan, is ready to re-
 ceive applications from local mu-
 sicians, former service men pre-
 ferred, with a guarantee of a long
 seasons work and fine remunera-
 tion. Applications may be made by mail or in person to
 w. D. FITZGERALD, MANAGER,
 Hyperion Theater.
 Rumors that the Columbia planned to offer inducements to ex-service men, and USE" them to bust any strike the thea ter employees might undertake to protect
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-19
R. R. Funding Bill
 FavOrably Reported

Washington, Aug. Io.-Favorable report on the administration rail road funding bill was ordered We'd nesday by the Senate interstate com merce committee.
 The bill would authorize the war finance corporation to use not to ex- ceed $500, 100000 to purchase railroad securities from the railroad admins tration and prescribe interest rates upon securities hereafter accepted from the carriers.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-19
COAL MEN ARE
 ADOPTING OPEN SHOE

On report of the delegates of the Coal Handlers Union, that the ko- mold Coal company and the Warner Miller companytwere endeavoring to establish open shop conditions by em- ploying non-union coal handlers in violation of the agreement existing, the New Haven Trades Council last night at the. request of the coal handlers appointed a committee to wait on the coal dealers and adjust matters
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-19
JUDGE ENDS" STRIKE.

Detroit, Mich, Aug. 1o-.A strike is ended when the positions of union ists are filled by strikcbreokcr5, ac- cording to Circuit Judge W ebster.
 The honorable court reasons that under these conditions there IS no excuse for picket;ng and has there fore enjoined the members of the Typographical union from "in any manner" interfering with the strike breakers.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-19
With Picture House Crowded With Young Chil- dren, Unlicensed Woman Operator Operates Machine, With Child On Floor Beside Her and All Safeguards Wide Open.
 Only Good Luck Averts
 Holocaust

children, an unlicensed woman opera Il child seated beside her on the floor ors and all protecting paraphernalia was the shocking condition found at CT avenue a week ago last Saturday e Moving Picture Operators union,
 unions delegates to the Trades wn, or any other slight, mishap oc-
 resulted and neither woman nor
 a holocaust among the young chill according to the descrip-
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-19
WATERS WIN OLD CONTRACT

Rochester, N. Y., Aug. I9-Cooks and walters have rencweo the1r oid contract, despite efforts of anti-urior- ;ste to cut wages and working con ditions.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-19

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Smyrna times., 1921-03-02
DELAWARE D. A. R. MEETS IN
SESSION AT WILMINGTON
STATE CHAPTERS HEAR INTER-
ESTING REPORT YEARS WORK
Mrs. ]. w. Clifton, of Smyrna, Elected
Vice Regent For Another Year.
Other Officers Elected.

The State chapter of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution met
in annual meeting in the New Cen
tury Club, Wilmington, Thursday.
All the old officers were reelected.
They are:
State regent, Mrs. S. M. Council;
vice-regent, Mrs. ]. w. Clifton; sec
ond vice-regent, Miss Marion R. Nc
Kim; secretary, Mrs. ]. Harmer
Rile; treasurer, Mrs. William S. Led
mum; State historian, Mrs. John G..
Sharpe; State registrar, Mrs. J..
Pearce Cam; State librarian, Mrs.
]. Ernest Frazier.
The session opened at 1920
o'clock with many delegates and
guests present from all over the
State. Mrs. w. L. Duff, chaplain,
read a prayer of George Washing
ton; and Mrs. S. M. Council, State
regent, extended the welcome. In
the absence of the secretary, Mrs. J.
Hammer Rile, the minutes of the last
annual meeting were read by Mrs
James H. Scott. Each of the -four
chapters, Caesar Rodney, Whining.
ton; Cooch's Bridge, Newark; Col
Haslett, Dover, and Elizabeth Cook
Smyrna, were represented.
| Following the opening service:
interesting reports were given by al
the chapter regents and the State
regent.
In the annual report of Mrs. S. M
Council, State regent, $50 member
of the d. A. R. were reported a
now being in Delaware. During tn
year four-Mrs. Eelden S. Eeemel
Mrs. Warden Humphrey, Miss Laur
James, all members of Caesar Rod
ney Chapter, and Mrs. Caroline Speak
Smyrna times., 1921-03-02
COMING NEW CASTLE COURT.
Cases Against Recorder of Deeds Cole
and His Son To Be Tried.

While there are a numbe- of cases
to come before the grand jury at the
March term of court, which opens
next Monday, March 7th, there are
some important cases which We're con-
tinued or held over from the last
term. These include the case of James
Irons, colored, charged with the muir
der of George L. Hanson; the case of
George S. Brewer, charged with rape;
and the cases against Furman G. Cole
former recorder of deeds; William G.
Cole, deputy recorder, and Albert Fen
nimore and Walter Babcock, clerks
in the recorder of deeds Office. While
the Cole case was not on the docket
the case will surely be tried at this
term, probably among the first. 1t is
understood that forty counts will be
registered in the Indictment against
the quartet. Other. cases coming up
from the last term include the case
/ of Robert w. Kramer, charged with
extortion; Jesus Garrido and Frank
Paris, charged with highway robbery;
TeC6r N. OOASIdhOS, ShcAS ASSu WIN SAAA
bezzlement as bailee, and larceny
charges against Edgar Pratt, Alvin
Downingham and Ellis Downingham
Seven charges against Fred B. Cush.
man for embezzlement will probably
not be pushed. In addition there are
a number of Italians charged with vio
lations of the liquor laws, whose cases
were continued from last term.