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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-02-14
Oscar Wells Goes to Cuba
For Indefinite Period

Oscar Wells. president of the
First National bank of Bfrmfng-
ham, will leave Friday afternoon
for Havana, Cuba. by way of Key
West. Fla. to take UP his duties
next Monday ms n member Of the
Superior bank Liquidation commis-
sion of Cuba. other members Of
the commission are Miguel Iribar-
rem, secretary of the Cuban treas
ury, and Porfirio Frances Of the
Havana branch OF the National
City bank Of New York.
Mr.. Wells said last night that he
would be in Cuba for an indefi-
mite time. He has just returned
from Washington, where he con-
ferred with state department Off
cials regarding the Cuban appoints
ment He received a cablegrnm
several days ngO from President
MenocnI of Cuba advising him of
his appointment to the commis-
sion.
This commission was created by
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-02-14
Fireman, Local Hospital
Killed; Robbery Motive

crushed in ON the right side by n
heavy blow from some blunt In
strument. The coroner stated that
death had resulted almost in
ntnnfIy.
Robbery IN believed to have been
the motive for the attack, ms the
negro ffreman's pockets had been
ransacked and left pulled out OF
his trousers. An Elgfn watch.
which hospital attendants state he
always carried with him. had been
taken.
At Iate hour yesterday the po-
lice and the coroner had discovered
mo cline to the mystery. Several
people were examined by the coro-
ner, but without results.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-02-14

Lira Jemison. negro, the night
fireman Of the steam boilers Mt the
st. vfncent's hospital was muir
dered In the basement of the hos
pftnl between midnight and day
light yesterday morning.
His body was discovered at 6s10
o'clock yesterday morning by ne
gro porter, whom one Of the nurses
had sent to the basement to see II
the fireman had fallen asleep M
the building was getting cold.
The porter came back and re-
ported that the night fireman was
dead. Coroner Russum and the po-
lice were notified hmm ediately, md
they made an investigation Mt once.
The negro 1ireman's head had been
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-02-14
Events Of Today
In Birmingham,

Lecture ON crop diversification at
10 o'clock at the TutwiIcr.
jefferson Theatre-"Mary,. musical
comedy.
Lyric--Keith vaudeville and pic
lures.
Loew's Bijou-vaudeville and pic
lures.
strnnd-GeorEe Fitxmaurice's 'Pay-
ing the Piper.v
AIcazar-tsWhen New York Sleeps
Trinnon-Marshall Neflan's ssDinty.''
Rialto-Bustcr keaton in sThe Sap
Head
Gnlax--Bebe Daniels In sYou Never
Can Tell"
Princess--COmedy and serial.
Odeon--Comedy and serial.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-02-14
Paderewski In New York

New York. February 13.--Ignace Jan
Paderewski. former premier Of Poland.
and Mrs Paderewski arrived here today
on the steamship France.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-05
COURT SETTLES IMPORTANT POINT IN
 COMPENSATION LAW
Term Employe Immaterial Says Supreme Tribunal, in Case
 Against City.

The mere fact that city employee may be designated by title-for which no provision is made in the city charter does not mean that the employee IS not city employee within the meaning of the Workrnan's compensation act, aCCOrd- ing to a finding of the supreme court in the case of Alice L. Burrel1 against the city of Bridgeport, in which Mrs Bur rell was awarded compensation by the compensation commissions for the death of her husband. The case was taken to the supreme court on reservation in the superior court.
 Cornelius Burrell was, at the time of his death, holding a position under the director of public works of Bridge port designated as Superintendent of the office of director of public works, tantS as might be necessary for the per formance of his duties "at such rate of compensation as the common council shall prescribe" There was no provision for the charter for the office of Superintend- cnt of bridges
 The common council in 1900 passed an ordinance empowering the director of public works to appoint a superin- tendent of bridges at a salary of $85 a month. The ordinance has since been amended increasing the salary, but not otherwise.
 Justice Gager, who wrote the opinion, after going into detail regarding the duties of the superintendent of bridges, which were always under the supervision of the director of public works, states that 'Burrell was in fact simply super lntendent, foreman, overseer, call it as you may, employed by the director, look ing to the director alone for instructions and responsible to the director alone. The method of employment was under the charter a hiring like any other ern- plOyee under the director" All of the justices concurred in the opinion
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-05
CARPET STRIKE IS
 FINALLY SETTLED
Thompsonville Weavers to Resume Work After Five Months
 of Strife

Thompsonvile, August 5.-The strike of the Brussels weavers in the plant of the Hartford-Bigelow Carpet Co. here has been settled. After session of three hours last night the men voted to return to work next Monday.
 The Brussels Weavers will accept a wage reduction of 20 per cent. and the loom hxers a reduction of 10 per cent. John w. Pierce, superintendent of the company agreed to modification of the closed shop.
 The agreement provides that the con- pany has the right to employ non-union labor, and that if such labor, can be persuaded to join the union by the union element, they may be allowed to do so.
 No discrimination IS to be shown to- wards the men, and they will return to their looms Monday as if nothing had happened.
 This action by the strikers is the out come of a conference in Philadelphia earlier this week of the Brussels and Wilton Weavers' Association at which the local striking employees were repre- sented. The union evidently agreed to ratify the terms of the manufacturers.
 The 800 weavers have been out on strike since February 28. and the shut ting down of the plant has been costly tO both sides
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-05
Brandegee Is Again
 With Big Interests
Senator Is One of Six to Vote Against Bill to Control the
 Big Packers.

Senator Brandcgcc Of Connecticut, disclosed his hand again in the Sen ate yesterday and showed that he is lined up with the big interests instead of looking out for the welfare of his constituents. Brandegee was one of the six republican senators to vote against the bill to control the packing industry and therefore force fair prices to the consumer, which bill was passed despite his opposition and that of a few others and now goes to the President for signature.
 The bill while far less drastic than the original Kenyon bill which gave the government absolute control over the packers, was the result of a con- ference between House and Senate. The House passed 1t and the Senate agreed yesterday. Tt was qustion of getting this partial control or no control at all," said Senator Kenyon, the author, who while not satisfied with the final draft believes it makes an entering wedge whereby the pack CTS can be compelled to be fair to the consumer and the producer in the future.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-05
ORGANIZED LABOR HERE STARTS DRIVE
 ON UNEMPLOYMENT
Big Conference of All Local Union Heads to Be Called to
 Improve Situation.

A statewide campaign by Organized Labor to relieve the unemployment situa ton and to create better feeling gen. orally between all workers and, em- pIoyers, has been mapped out and will be carried on all over Connecticut, starting next week in New Haven and then ex- tended to every other town, according to plans announced at the meeting of the Trades Council last night. As a starter the presidents of every local union in the city will be called together for a confer ence at which Emmett L. Adams, repre- sentative of the A. F. of L., will outline the details of the campaign and the work will begin.
 MT. Adams was sent here several weeks ago to study the situation in Con- neCticut, which situation is admittedly as bad if not worse than anywhere in the country. Under the plans In the works no attempt will be made to or ganlze the now unOrganized unemployed the main object of the campaign being to get the workers back at work and endeavor to restore the state and coun- try to normal condition. MT. Adams was called to Minneapolis this week to address national convention there but will return, 1t is expected, by Monday cillo IOSllIllC llIC WOIk III
 While one or two of the factories have rcopened on short time and with greatly .cpleted forces, the industrial situation hereabouts is not improved appreciably. Reports from various unions, with the possible exception of the building trades which are now pretty we'll employed, show many thousands yet out of work Most of these are unorganized workers but their being unemployed upsets the entire labor world and therefore Or ganized Labor is to strive to relieve the situation.
 While the four big brotherhoods on
 railroads are not affiliated with the "A. r. of L., the local officers of their unions will be invited to the conference and as a fine understanding exists be- tween the organizations, they will no Il" doubt be represented.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-05
Marshal al1ner Not
 in "Medicine" Firm
Has No Interest in Alcoholic Prep aration Despite Hartford
 Police

William R. Palmer, United States marshal for this district, was some what upset by a report that he had financial interest in Cusick's Pleana Tonic, a preparation which members of the Hartford police department said contained 28 per cent of alco hol and which was sold quite gener- ally in grocery stores and other places in that city. Because of the amount of alcohol contained, the pro duct is said to be sold in violation of the Volstead act and the law of Connecticut. Policemen said they had been told that Marshal Palmer had an interest in the product.
 "There is absolutely nothing to the report" Mr. Palmer said and he add ed that he has no connection with any individual company, or firm, that is putting any so-called medicine or liouor on the market. There are many of these preparations sold in stores in this city, including Jamaica oinqer. the sale of which is prohibit ed bv an act passed by the Leglsla- ture of 1921 and which is now in force. Because of the publicity given these products it is apparent that those who deal in them believe thelr sale is not prohibited by law.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-05
Same Old Batting of Workers While Batting Seems to Be Good Declares Connecticut Fed eratiOn President-WOrkers Willing to Do Their Share at Low Wages When
 Employers Come Down in Prices.

The Labor News in this issue prints the paper had this past week with Connecticut Federation of Labor, ter Camp, president of the American broadcast in this country, calling at exist, and which was printed in this city in the Journal and Courier under date of July goth, 1921.
 President O'Meara stated as fol- lows:
 "The labor men and women in this country in its organized form do not wonder in the least at such express sions as contained in the circular.
 Tt is the same old story of batting when batting is good. The wage earners of this country today want work, and they are extremely anxi- ous to take up with what work is now available, but they are wise to the fact that no matter how much of this outcry goes on about foreign made goods that it will not hurry employment any more than 1t ever did.
 "The American wage earner, as stated in the circular, must not be brought down to a wage of $5 or 50 per week, but we as wage earners would be willing to work for this $5 and $6 provided the cost of living and housing permitted them to get along as respectful under this wage as do great numbers of the so-called foreign wage earners.
 "The difference between the United States and these so-called foreign countries as the relations between the country and it's wage earners IS only in the way that financial and indus trial evolution takes place. In the United States today and for years past the form of graft and illegal financial dealings has done more to add to the cost of living and housing than in any other country in the world.
 "In Germany before the war, just to cite one instance of the square deal, if a person went to his or her neighborhood grocer or baker and purchased a loaf of bread, and the law called for the weight of the bread being a certain limit, and if this limit of weight was not in the bread, the proprietor was compelled to cut a slice or two or three and add 1t to the article purchased, or else stand for arrest for illegal sales. "In this country the general ten dency is to cheat in weights and measures and in most cases immun- ity for the act seems established "In foreign countries one of the greatest curses that has come into the life of nation, the jobber and middleman is hardly known.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-05
RAILROAD SHOPMEN
 RESENT WAGE CUTS
Emphatically Deny Story They Have Signed Agreement for
 Reduction.

The railroad shopmen, as we'll as the railroad clerks and station em- ployes, are much aggrieved over the statement reported to have been is sued by the New Haven road officials that they had agreed to the wage cut that was put into effect on July I. The shopmen state the story is unfounded and that they are working under protest under the reduced wage scale, as the following communication will show:
 Editor Labor News:
 "The New Haven Register of Wednesday, Aug. 3, contained an article in regards to various of the R. R. shop crafts having signed an agreement whereby they were to ac- cept a decrease in wages and submit to other than the past regular and ment is very much distorting the facts as none of the several shop crafts have signed nor will they sign any other than the standard eight hour day, time and one-half for over time in excess of eight hours and they are at present working under protest of recent wage reductions. In addl- ton to above facts there is al present funds available, as per report fur nished by Jno. Scott, secy and treas. of R. R. Employees Dept. of the A, F.. of L., to the amount of .$I25, 900 to combat the present injustices handed out by the Labor Board in Chicago, this being about one-tenth of the fund that will be raised if necessary, One organization alone, the powerful Brotherhood of Carmen, has sub scribed $75,ooo. You may publish this statement for the enlightenment of the misguided and as usual misin- formed Register Yours,
 "The R. R. Shop Crafts"
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-05
CENTRAL LABOR BODY MAY HAVE
 A BIG CARNIVAL
Appoints Committee to Investigate Quality of Entertainment
 Offered for Show.

The New Haven Trades Council has under consideration a monster carni- val this fall, under the title of a "Week of Merriment" and after the proposition was outlined to the meet ing last night, a committee was ap- pointed to investigate the reliability of the promoters, the quality of the entertainment to be provided and the general details and report back to the next meeting, at which it is likely if everything is found as represented, the project will be formally launched. Music Hall will probably be the scene of the affair and will be decorated in a way never seen here before.
 The Council was addressed by rep resentatives of the B. C. McGuire company of New York, whose spe- cialty is furnishing the entertainments for these carnivals and after their plans were outlined the Council voted to favor the proposal but before go- ing ahead with it, to look carefully gave mass of recommendations from Elks, Moose and Eagles lodges and the like, for whom they had pre- scented carnivals and if found as re- ported, there can be little doubt of the success of the carnival here.
 The result of the fair of last year, which was hit by the industrial de- pression which broke just before the event, led the Council to act slowly in authorizing the project this year and therefore the reference to a com mittee to investigate.
 The committee is as follows: Au- gust Striby of the Bakers; Frank Thomann of the Electrical Workers, Eugene Treiber of the Brewery Workers, John Fly Smith of the Car penters, and John w. Murphy of the CigarmakerS
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-05
Factories Force Allen Workers to Become Citizens;
 City Park Department Cuts Laborers to BOG n Hour
Postomce Force
 Doubt |Hurnanizing'
Outline of Hays Plans for Depart ment Lead to Belief They
 Will React

Whether or not Postmaster Gener- al Hays plan to "humanize the postal service" is to humanize it or make it more of a slave-like job, Is giving members of the local postal workers unions much concern just now. Re ports received from Washington say that Hays intends to cut off many thousands of the carriers and clerks which means the doubling up of those retained, while It is generally ad- mitted that the service is hampered now by not having enough men.
 Then again it is reported that all overtime hours are to be cut off but if a carrier should happen to bring back any mail he is unable to deliver in the specified time, he must sign a long statement of reasons why and wherefore, all of which must be done on the employees own time after he is supposed to be through.
 There are several other items in the schedule of intended Improvements" that lead the local carriers and clerks to the belief that instead of bettering their condition Hays plans will only add to their burdenS
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-05
|O'Meara Takes Issue With Camp
 Circular on Labor Conditions Here
HARTFORD JOINERS
 AGENT ROW YET ON
National Office Recognizes Gerety While Parsons Has Local
 Support.

Hartford, Aug. 5.-Despite the fact that the local union of carpenters had voted that George A. Parsons is it's business agent, the officers of the In- ternational Brotherhood of Carpen- ters have agreed that George J. Gerety is still business agent and the controversy over the office is thereby no means settled. While Mr. Par sons is doing the work, Mr. Gerety still holds onto the automobile and other paraphernalia of the office and general mixup is brewing there fore.
 Mr. Gerety is retaining the automo- bile owned by the union and the books of the organization, under his contention that Parsons was illegally elected, but in their absence MT. Par sons IS using another machine and getting along with what his packers term limited facilities" The local union apparently recognizes MT. Pa sons as it's business agent, but tie that he was illegally elected and still recognizes MT. Gerety.
 So far as the other unions in Hart ford are concerned, they are rather at a loss to know which of the busi- ness agents to deal with, but it ap- peared to be the opinion of several officers of the Hartford Structural Building Trades Alliance that MT, Parsons has the inside track and will be recognized by that organization of which the carpenters are a part. It was explained that the alliance is purely a central conference body of the local unions and hence would probably take the decision of the local branch rather than that of the Ma tional Carpenters Union, with which the alliance has no connection. MT. Parsons is now understood to be do ing practically all work expected of the business agent.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-05
Unions Will Take in
 Colored Worknen
tween Freight Clerks and Station Employes in South.

Washington, Aug. 5.-At a con ference in the A. F. of L. building, presided over by President Gompers, a plan was outlined by which the Brotherhood of Railway and Steam ship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Ex- press and Station Employees will take over colored workers now char tered directly by the A. F. of L. Until the plan is finally worked out the brotherhood will take up or cause to be taken up the reduction of wages enforced upon number of COlored workers in this calling.
 In order that the agreement may be made effective as early as possible, President Gompers and the brother hood officials were authorized to take all necessary steps. Colored work CTS, present at the conference, signed the agreement.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-05
BAKERS BALL TEAM
 DEFIES ALL COMERS
Becoming so Formidable That Rival Teams Are Already Dodg-
 ing Games.

So formidable is the baseball team of the New Haven Bakers Union be- coming that already rival teams are beginning Ito duck" their schedules as evidenced yesterday when the Grand Avenue Clerks ball team failed to show up at Beaver Park diamond where they were expected to meet the Bakers. The Bakers managed to scratch a picked team from specta- tors and had practice game anyhow, to get ready for the return game with the Gilbert Bakery boys which will be played at the park next Wednes- day afternoon.
 The Bakers desire to issue chal- lenge to any other union team in the city or out of it for that matter. Challenge acceptance can be sent to Capt. George Mona, c Asylum street, and will be promptly attended to .
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-05

During the war, while thousands cf New Havens American boys were iH Lu1ope hghting this cheap foreign help s battles, these foreigners were put on Tn nurues m the local factories and enjoyed tnc mgh wartime wages prevailing. W hen the war was ended and the Amer can boys came home they found thelr JoDs held by these foreigners and the foreigners wouldn't let go and the fac tory heads wouldn't fire them. The re- suIt IS many ex-serviCe men are yet out ot work.
 When the general depression followed the election of last fall, this cheap for eIgn help readily consented to any old wage cut the factory heads desired to put into effect The American man with family to support didn't take so kind ly to the reduction and were promptly laid off and are still laid off and more are being laid off daily. Being unOr- ganized they were helpless to resist and tne foreigners are still on lie lobs
 The practice became so general of keeping this cheap help on the job, even though they were not citizens and had no intention or desire to become such, finally stirred up wave of resentment. Everywhere about town condemnation of
 
 ot It must have finally reached the ears of the officials of the companies. They didn't desire to rid themselves of the cheap help, however, and believe they have solved the problem by insisting that the cheap foreign help become citi- zens. The foreigners want the jobs, at least until conditions are settled in Eu- rope so that they can return home with their big wages received during the war, ard they therefore applied in patches for their first papers.
 In one room i'll the Winchester fac tory, in the part now working, there were i've ot these foreigners. They had been here for several years and hadn't thought enough of the country to even find out where the office of the naturalization clerk is located. They didn't want to ind out now either and the result was that another employe, a native born American had to visit the city clerk s office this week and secure five sets of papers for these foreigners to fill out Others even sent their wives or other members of their families after the papers not caring enough about the mat ter to go after them themselves, all trough the offices are open in the eve ningS.
 At the steel and wire mills 1t was re- ported a large batch of American work CTS have recently been laid off and a bunch of husky Poles and other for eigners put in their places. The con- pany IS said to have under way scheme for educating" and 'Americanizing this help and is intending to start regu- lar classes for them In many of the factories at work at present, hundreds of those called back to work can hard ly speak the English language They can be had cheap, however, and that's what makes all the difference to the en- ployers, evidently.