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The Connecticut labor news., 1921-12-09
Ten-Cent Fare, Reduc- ton in Wages and Operating Costs, Re- lief from Jitneys and Legislative Aid Wipes Out Deficit.

A surplus of about $7OO,0O0 in the treasury of the Connecticut Company at the end of the current year Is forecas sted by returns filed with the public utilities commission for the eleven months ended November 30.
 This reversal of last years deficit of $1 ,436 0O0 is attributed to the increased fare together with economics in oper- ating methods, a gradual reduction in the cost of material and fuel, recession in recent months in rates of pay and relief from unregulated jitney conpe- tition.
 The records show that during the period of trusteeship-seven years trackage of sixteen miles has been added to the Connecticut CO. system, $2,264,O ,OOO has been spent for new rolling stock and $1,1OO,OOO for additional power house capacity and other necessary additions to the property. If it should now be re- turned to the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co.,, the property would be i'll fully as good condition, as far as can be seen by utilities con11nis- sion records, as it was when seperated from the railroad company in 1914.
 The return of the Connecticut Go. to the New Haven road, or the termination otherwise of the federal control was re- commended in a special report of the public utilities commission submitted to the 1921 session of the Legislature No action was taken by the legislature
 Notwithstanding financial conditions brought about by excess costs that forced the discontinuance of payments of rentals and an extension of time for the pay
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-12-09

The establishment of Judicial Labor Tribunals interfere and decide between Labor Capital mnded this week to Congress by President Harding his
 the opening of the thus joining the ranks of the shoppers who strike laws the country While recognizing Labor right organize the president then that their rights after
 be taken from them and that they be forced incorporate
 The presidents recommendations brought speedy reply from President of the A. declaring reverted back conditions of 400 when determined the the prohibited asking for employers from paying compulsory slavery they of
 The presidents recommendation line with declarations General Daughery before bar association Cincinnati legal adviser favored compulsory jurisdiction compulsory legislation this subject'
 recommendations of the president and the are follows:
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-12-09
STATE RAISES MORE SALARIES OF
 STATE EMPLOYES, CUTS VACATIONS

$4ooo; Margaret McReynolds, statis- tician, $1 ,6oo to $1,8oo: Elizabeth F. Jewett, $I,6oo to $I,85o; Fife P. Sprague, clerk, $1, 1,2oo to $1,35o; Mary L. Desmore, clerk, $I,15o to $500; Eva F. Cowdrey, clerk, $o25 to ST. o75; Elizabeth G. Tompkins, $o25 to $I,o75; Harriet F. Taylor, $84o to $I,o5o; Gladys F. Alderman, steno- grapher, 5000 to $1,o8o; Frank L. Hamilton, examiner, $I,ooo to $2,ooo; William c. Pratt, examiner, $I,75o to $2,ooo; John T. Gill, examiner, $I,4oo to $I,7oo; F. A. Norton examiner, $I,2oo to $I,5oo; L. Keith Barclay, ex- aminer, $1,ooo to $I,8oo; Joseph J. Wosnich, examiner, 5000 to $I,2oo.
 Other increases granted were the following: E. Irvine Rudd and Joseph r. Wadhams, engineers of the public utilities commission, from $3,6oo to 5000 and from 5000 to $500 res pectively; Deputy State Treasurer Thomas H. Judd from s, 500 to $4,- 900; Chief Clerk Walter R. King, state treasurer's department, from $2,- 500 to $3,ooo
 Superintendent Erskine of the Con- necticut Reformatory at Cheshire ex- plained the purchase of two printing presses for 5000 from the revolving fund of the institution and the board approved the proposition. The assist ant clerk of the New Haven county commln pleas court was raised from $1,ooo to $I, 500 and the salary of the assistant clerk of the Waterbury Dis trict Court was placed at $I,5oo a year. There is an appropriation for this purpose.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-12-09
ZACCO-V -VANZETTI NOT
 ORGANIZED LABOR MEN
 TRADES COUNCIL TOLD
COMFORT STATION
 UP TO PARK BOARD
Aldermen Formally Put Site on
 Green Up to Obstinate Officials.

The matter of locating the proposed new comfort station on the New Ha- ven Central Green, preferably near the Bennett Fountain, is now squarely and officially up to the Park Board the board of aldermen at its meeting on Monday night, unanimously and formally asking the park board to CO., operate in placing 1t there, as recom- mended by the committee headed by Alderman Peter F. Connolly which has long been considering it. The location of the comfort station has been held up by certain members of the park board who for reasons known only to themselves, will not agree to it's going on the Green. The formal action of the aldermen, insist ing on approval or disapproval, may bring these reasons out.
 It developed at the meeting that there Is now no appropriation avail able for the erection of the station, the charter providing that appropria- tions not expended in the year for which they were made, shall revert to the city treasury. Therefore the ap- propriation originally made has gone back but the aldermen promise, if the site is settled, to quickly provide the necessary funds to build
 The comfort station is one of the most needed improvements in the city every city half it's size being equipped with such stations, while New Haven has none, except in some parks The Trades Council has consistently been after a station in the city center for six years and hopes eventually to get
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-12-09
Capnakers Strike
 at Alper, Grail Go,
Union Charges Its Men Were Laid
 Of on a Subterfuge

Because as alleged, the firm of Alper, Grail & Co.,, capmakers of Congress avenue, discharged union capmakers on the ground there was no work and then endeavored to fill their places with non- union men and still hold their agreement with the Caprnakers Union, strike has been declared against the firm and has now been on several days. National President Zaritsky was summoned from New York and after being made ac- quainted with the claims, authorized the strike and called the union workers from the factory. The company asked for arbitration of the matter and when the union agreed, refused to go ahead with it, according to union officers.
 The strike at the Mortimer, Newman Co., factory on Meadow street which has been on for the past 20 weeks continued unabated, the strikers being firm in their determination to win and the company taking advantage of the present slack time in the capmaking trade
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-12-09
CORONER QUIZZES LEONARD, OWNER OF
 RIALTO BUILDING
Probe of Fire That Cost Nine Lives Now Nearly Finished by
 Officials.

The coroner's probe into the fire
 that wrecked the Rialto theater ana
 has already cost nine lives is about finished but what has been learned o1 conditions in the building or the cause of the fire, the public knows no more about than it ever did, except that the coroner's stenographers have sue ceeded in making many pages of tes- timony and the names of some of the witnesses summoned before the of6c- ial. Among those examined during the week, was Former Senator Harry A. Leonard, owner of the building whom, as told in The Labor News last week, was protected in the lease by insurance against just such casual ties as occurred What the coroner asked Leonard, or what his answers were only the future will tell, but Leonard was on the stand all morn ing Tuesday and therefore must have had some lengthy discussion of the affair and his part in 1t.
 From some of those whom the coroner couldn't bottle up by orders the utter disregard of fire hazards at the theater have come out: William Rhein, stage manager of the Hyper IOIl, SldlCd llldl 1IC 4ldu OuI1I iron" on the stage of the Rialto, a device never known of or needed in movie houses. This was done last June on orders of the management and is used to shift scenery. Rhein didn't know anything about a permit for this change, being simply hired to do the work.
 Another important revelation was the statement of Morris H. Rubin, an insurance man, that he had personally warned the management of the Rial to, the Saturday before the fire when he went to the theater to insure an piano owned by member of the or that the theater was not amply protected against fire, that in fact it was dangerous. The manager told him to write to President Black of the corporation controlling 1t, about 1t. Rubin says aside from hav ing no asbestos curtain and other inn movable chairs were in the balcony which when overturned added to the panic The windows or exits were not properly adjusted, he said he pointed out to the manager.
 The coroner's report is expected to be out some time next week, If he gets Black and the state manager, one Maxon, before him. Neither has replied to his request to appear and be examined and as they live outside the state extradition may have to be resorted to to get them
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-12-09
Industry Slowly
 Improves in State
Employment Bureaus Show Increase in Those Placed, Especially
 Women.

The industrial situation in Connecticut is slowly improving and about 75 per cent of those seeking work were placed last month according to the monthly re- port of the state employment bureaus made public to day by the Labor De- partment. Of those who applied for workers more than 91 per cent were pro- vided. Male applicants do not seem as fortunate as females in securing posit- ions, probably because males refuse yet to work for the low wages that are be- ing offered, especially in the factories. New Haven led the cities in number of those put to work, but even then it was but o05 for the month while more than 1000 applied for work. The report shows how the situation was to Novem- Der 30 and Is as follows:
 Applications for employment in the five principal Connecticut cities were as follows: Hartford, 559; New Haven, 1,109; Bridgeport, 68O; Waterbury, 615 j; Norwich, 5o8 Situations secured in these cities were as follows: Hartford, 512 i; New Haven, o05; Bridgeport, SOP i; Waterbury, 210; Norwich, 522. Appli- cations for help were, Hartford, 556 j; New Haven, 1,OO7; Bridgeport, 53O j; Waterbury, 272; Norwich, 426.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-12-09
Massachusetts Fedora ton Officials Report Men Convicted O1 Paymaster's Murder Have Not, Never Did Have Any Standing With the A. F. of l..

Following the receipt of communi- cations from the Massachusetts State Federation of Labor, in which it is stated that neither ZaZZo nor Van ezetti, the two so-called Labor Lead CTS" under sentence of death for mur- der in Brockton, Mass, have and never did have anything to do with Organized Labor so far as the Amer ican Federation of Labor or it's afhi- ates are concerned, but on the con- trary were members of radical groups" the New Haven Trades Council at its meeting next Thursday will very likely refuse its endorse ment ia mass meeting here on De- cember I8, to protest against their conviction and demand a new trial. A request for such endorsement at the last meeting by committee rep resenting a New Haven Zacco- Vanzetti Protest Committee" but be- fore granting it's endorsement, the Council instructed Secretary Joseph J: Reilly to communicate with the Massachusetts Labor bodies and were, who and what they represented and other facts about the case. In the public press they are being label led as Labor Leaders" giving the impression of Organized Labor affili- ations.
 In the replies received from Secre- tary Joyce of the Bay State Fedora ton Zacco, it is said, once held mem bership in the Shoe Cutters Union, but was never active as leader nor held any office in the union. Van zetti never had any connection with Organized Labor but took part in un organized strikes conducted by rad icals The claims made in the circu- lars of protest against their convic- ton "that they are victims of the in
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-12-09
(Continued on Page Eighty Mellon Would Cut All Income Surfaces
Treasury Secretary Again Proposes
 Release of Wealthy From Levy.

Washington, Dec. o-Further re- vision of the tax laws with reduc- ton of the maximum income surtax rate to 20 or 25 per cent. and adjust ment of the rates on business profits and estates is suggested by Secretary Mellon in his first annual report, transmitted to Congress.
 The secretary also announces that the treasury's policy with respect to deferment of the soldiers bonus is unchanged and he urges prompt fund ing of the ten billions of foreign loans as "one of the outstanding needs of the present economic situation"
 MT. Mellon also informs Congress that the maturity within the next 18 months of $6,75o, ,ooo,o 900 of the short dated debt makes 1t imperative that the government pursue a policy of the utmost economy and avoid new undertakings"
 Revenue revision is the subject up- on which the secretary lays the most stress.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-12-09
Poor, Down TrOdden AppOintees to Get Only One Months Va cation Instead of Two Hereafter - Printing at Reformatory Ap- proved.

More increases in salaries aggre- gating $4,27o were granted employees of the state by the state board of con trol at the meeting this week. Lieu ten<~>.t Governor Charles A. Temple ton of Waterbury presided in the ab- sence of Governor Lake. These in cT5ases and some increases in other departments were recommended by the state board of finance through Chairman Wadhams.
 Mir Wadhams explained that the employees in the insurance department had for years been getting vacation annually of two months with propor- tionately low pay and that increases had been suggested with one months vacation. The vacation period was cut down by the board to two weeks, with the salary increases as recon mended as follows:
 Bryan H. Atwater, chief clerk, $2,6oo to $2,8oo; Charles H. Cooley, $2,2oo to $2,4oo; William H. Wilson, $I,25o to $I,5oo; Eleanor c. McKer- nan, stenographer, SLIGO to $I,3oo; Thomas F. Tarbell, actuary, $500 to
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-12-09
BLIND COOPER JOINS UNION

Kansas City, Kan, Dec. o-Oficers of the Coopers' International union have received a membership applica- tion from Charles Groth, of Roches- ter, Pa.
 The cooper who secured the ap- plication writes: "Will say that Charles Groth is one of the best me chanics I ever ran into. The man is stone blind, but he can make one of the best looking barrels that you ever laid eyes on, and also, when it comes to making tools he is there with the goods"
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-12-09
CONNECTICUT COMPANY TO MAKE
 $7OO,OOO NET PROFIT THIS YEAR

ment of taxes to the extent that the Con- necticut Co. now owes the New Haven Co. $3, ,443, ,0O0 for rent, and the state$1, : 882, ,22O.83 III back taxes, the trustees have refused to decrease the amounts spent for the upkeep of the physical property in order to make material reductions in operating costs. In years prior to the trusteeship, 21 per cent of the gross in come was considered sufficient to keep the property in good condition At no time since the trusteeship has the expen- diture for that purpose been less than that percentage, and in 1920 over % per cent of the gross income was so applied.
 Dividends at the rate of 334 per cent were paid for the three years preceding the change of control in 1914. The most prosperous period in the company's his tory was the second year of the trustee ship when the net income, over total charges, was a triae less than $200O.OOO. The operating costs for 1914, 1915 and 1916 varied from $5,185,000 to $5,643,0O0 The prevailing rate of fare was five cents.
 Operating costs which were $5,643.OOO in 1916 have more than doubled In 1917 they increased to $7,821000, in 1918 to $8 15OOOO, in 1919 to $9,21O,OOO, and in 1920 to $12,417.OO0. That is operating costs taxes and lived charges required & cents of each dollar revenue in 1916, 4o cents in 1917, 98 cents in 1918, oo cents in 1919, and $1.11 in 1920
 Rates of fare at cents, a distance tariff with a minimum fare of 6 cents, short fare zone with a minimum fare of 7 cents were plans tried which failed to check the decrease in net income. The only assistance which the trustees were able to obtain from outside sources was $1. .38 which was advanced by the United States Housing Corporation in recognition of the transportation needs of the various Connecticut communities supplying war essentials, and certain equipment trusts, most of which have been paid off. No vital trackage was discontinued. The Legislature offered relief in various ways.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-12-09
PLAN TO
 DOMINATE LABOR

Acknowledging Labor's right to or ganize and that perhaps 1t is much justified in its struggles against Cap tital, President Harding in his mes sage to Congress this week, at the same time takes back handed shot at the organizations and recommends | legislation that would establish Judicial Labor Tribunals, which right on the surface appears nothing more than Industrial Courts, like in Kan sas, to curb Labor solely The par ticular reason given IS to protect the public which suffers when caught be- tween Capital and Labor struggles. According to some newspaper head lines Wall street is very much suit ed by the message" As to Labor, the President says:
 Capital and Labor.
 While this set of problems is com monly comprehended under the gen eral phrase, capital and labor 1t is really vastly broader. It is question of social and economic organization. Labor has become large contribu tor, trough its savings, to the stock of capital, while the people who own the largest individual aggregates of capital are themselves often hard and earnest laborers Very often 1t is extremely difficult to draw the line of demarcation between the two groups, to determine whether a parti- cular individual is entitled to be set down as laborer or as capitalist In a very large proportion of cases he is both, and when he is both he is the most useful citizen.
 Right to Organize.
 The right of labor to organize is just as fundamental and necessary as is the right of capital to organize. The right of labor to negotiate, to deal with and solve its particular problems is an organized way, through it's chosen agents, is just as essential as is the right of capital to organize, to maintain corporations, to limit the liabilities of stockholders. Indeed, we have come to recognize that the limited liability of the citizen as member of labor organization liability of the citizen as a stock holder in a corporation for profit. Along this line of reasoning we shall make the greatest progress toward solution of our problem of capital and labor
 "In the case of the corporation which enjoys the privilege of limited liability of stockholders, particularly when engaged in the public service, 1t is recognized that the outside public has a large concern which must be protected; and so we provide regula- tions, restrictions and in some cases detailed supervision. Likewise in the case of labor organizations, we might we'll apply similar and equally we'll defined principles of regulation and supervision in order to conserve the public's interests as affected by their operations.
 Just as it is not desirable that a corporation shall be allowed to inn pose undue exactions upon the public SO 1t is not desirable that labor organization shall be permitted to ex- act unfair terms of employment or subject the public to actual distresses in order to enforce it's terms. Finally, just as we are earnestly seeking for procedures whereby to adjust and set tie political differences between na- tions without resort to war, so we may well look about for means to settle the differerres between organ
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-12-09

 in New Law Firm
Former District Attorney and Alien
 Custodian in Partnership.


 Hartford, Dec o.-Francis P. Gar van, son of the late Patrick Garvan of this city, has entered into a CO., partnership with George J. Corbett of New York City and Thomas J. Spellacy of this city under the firm name of Garvan, Corbett & Spellacy for general practice of the law with offices at o7 Wall street, New York City. He was formerly alien proper ty custodian and assistant attorney general of the United States MT. Corbett was recently vice-president of New York. MT. Spellacy was former 1y United States attorney for the dis trict of Connecticut, and assistant at torney-general of the United States.
 MT. Spellacy and Edward M Yeo- mans are engaged in the practice of the law at 30 Asylum street here
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-12-09
GOMPERS DECLARES
 IT MEANS SLAVERY

The suggestion made by President Harding in his address to Congress that steps should be taken to set up z judicial or quasi-judicial body under the law to avert the danger of strikes and lockouts and pass upon the merits of disputes between capital and labor was attacked by Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor.
 "The Presidents message to Con gress," said MT Gompers, "is in most respects an admirable document, but he, like altogether too many men, fails in his understanding of the rela- tions between workers and employers. of the struggle of the workers throughout the ages for the Tightening of their burdens, for the improvement of their standards of life and work and the aspirations which are in the hearts and minds of the great mass of our people"
 Would Enslave Labor.
 The Presidents proposal for the establishment of a court with legal powers to decide as to wages and condition of employment MT. Com pers described as nothing more nor less than a revision to the conditions obtaining more than 400 years ago, when the Court of Quarter Sessions determined the wages of the workers and prohibited them from asking for more, or employers from paying more than the courts decision, and con demned men to compulsory servltude and slavery if they resented in any way the decisions of the court.
 Surely the President should have had these facts in mind" said MT. pers, when he said it is not desir- able that the workers shall be per mitted to exact unfair terms of em- ployment.
 "The exactions of corporations are for private profit; the demand of the workers for higher wages and better conditions is an aspiration for better things, for better day, and who is he who would attempt to curb the as pirations of the great mass of the people! Higher aspirations of the masses makes for human progress; industrially, economically, politically, and socially; and be it remembered that labor organizations do not de mand or exact any conditions of em- ployment for themselves, but for the outside the place of labor organiza- tions'
 To Prohibit Strikes.
 "It is quite evident that the Presi- dent has in mind the establishment of court or courts to determine the conditions and wages of the working people, and evidently with the aim that those courts can and will prevent strikes and lockouts. Surely the ex- perience of such courts in the Aus tralasian countries, surely the exper- fence with such court in the state of Kansas, should have lesson for us. In New Zealand and in other Aus tralasian countries they have gone through the experience of more than 20 years, and their utter failure has not only been recognized there, but they have been abandoned. Every observer and student knows these to be facts, and in the state of Kansas, where just such a court has been in existence for the past two years, there are today more strikes and larger number of men on strike than at any time in the history of Kansas
 ''The analogy which the President makes as between the international
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-12-09
LURING UNEMPLOYED.

Sacramento, Cal, Dec. o.-Organ- ized labor is incensed at the attempts to flood this city with unemployed. The Master Builders Association is publishing advertisements in the daily newspapers Inviting the world to Sacramento because of an unprece- dented building boom"
 Trade unionists have exhausted their vocabulary in denouncing this contemptible effort to increase dis tress among the unemployed.