The Connecticut labor news. (New Haven, Conn.) 1921-1925, 1921-07-08
Trouble Looming Large
Among SOlOns Who
Know n o t Which
Way to Jump and Still
Get Glad Hand From
Constituents.
(Special To The Labor Press.)

in all its glory. The honeymoon is over
and now is the time for settling down
and settling up confronting the gentle
men of the House and Senate; also the
lone, but not lonely, inhabitant of the
White Mansion at the other end of the
Avenue.
When the special session opened up
everybody was billing and cooling about
how lovely the prospect was, how per-
fectly beautiful was the harmony exist
ing between and among all factions and
what a delightfully."- enjoyable time was
to be had by those present as they liked
things for the future. The country was
to be pulled, not to say yanked, out OF its
troubles, set on its feet and given one
quick shove into prosperity, and then the
boys were to go home and meet the glad
extended hand of welcome and the bright
smiles and gratitude of an admiring pop
ulace whose sole desire would be to re-
turn the bringers of said prosperity to
the hall of legislation in 1922. 1t was a
time of rejoicing and exceedingly great
happiness.
Now comes the aftermath and trouble
is sticking up its ugly head disturbing
the harmony and causing cold glances,
hard words and harder realities to come
between the adOring SWANS and their
loving partners In other words, hell is
about to break loose. Dear Heart reaches
for plate while Darling grabs the ice
pick and the house is all Cluttered up
with relics of too short honey moon.
Some relics to be useful later on as
ammunition and weapons in the fight now
looming up.
In Devil of Fix
All of which opens up the story which
follows. This country is, like the Min
nesota sheriff caught over the line in
Canada and socked in jail for carrying
gun and a quart, in a devil of fix.
The most conservative estimate is that
five million people are out of work and
the number growing each day; conditions
surrounding trade with other countries
are no better, if as good as they were;
finance and finanCiers are up a tree with
other foreign exchange always muddy
ing the waters of business, and the out
look for a pickup in industry continues
to be clouded by hopelessness.
All of those facts are being realized
and the program outlined when Con-
gress met is still in outline-very nebu-
lous outline at that-and now comes Mr..
Mellon of the Treasury with scheme to
refund the debt owed by the Allies and
other countries, which scheme is pre-
scented in very vague and uncertain terms
to the Senate in the form of a bill by
Boise Penrose of Pennsylvania.
1t is whispered that the bill is a con-
CoCtion of international bankers who are
trying to save their bacon and it appears
to have been the cause OF coming to-
gether of Senators and Congressman
from the South and West who are COM
mencing to believe that the United States
is not the street that begins at a church
and ends at suicides dock. They rea-
son that there are others to be looked
after besides international bankers and
that the United States covers consider
ably greater territory than Wall Street
does, the cause for their belief being
found in the mutterings of constituents
back home now turning into bitter and
vociferouS denunciation of the sloWnesS
of Congress in renedying conditions.
New Congressman Revolt
Combinations of Senators, made up of
both Republican and Democratic e1e-
ments, have been formed for various
purposes, the word bloc" being used to
describe such combinations because of
the absence of party lines and the neces-
sity for an appelation, until now you
hear nothing of Republicans or Demo-
Gratis, but always of this or that bloc,
which may be an admission that there
amt no such thing anymore as Re-
publican or Democrat-ju st blocs.
This week there broke out another
pretty shindy due to the fact that the
Newlyweds of the Republican ilk in the
House claimed the other ladies of the
establishment who belong to the Republi-
can machine were not giving the honey
mooners a look-in at the cooking, table,
setting, cake making and other games of
chance.
They are real 1ady-like at present and
now that they have no desire to embar-
rass the dear old party, but-Well, they
just amt going to be ignored and sat on
any longer, They demand the right to
talk even if there is company present !;
to sit in the paror and play their own
music on the piano and sing the songs
they like So they have organized an
other bloc and called upon all the new
Congressman to rally round and carry
on. And that's another thing unpleas-
ing to the older statesmen who thought
they had it all sewed up last November.
All in all, there's some mighty fine bloc
ing being done by all hands.
Director General Says NAY"
Pretty soon if not sooner, the lid will
be off as pretty a concealed scrap as has
been seen for many years. 1t is a three,
not to say four, COrnered mixup which is
rapidly taking on the nature of battle
royal, the reason for which may be found
in the unwillingness of the Director Gen
eral of Railways, James c. Davis, to
accept and pay instanter, rightaway and
at once, claims for losses, alleged to be
correct, by railroads.
1t appears that Mr.. Davis has been
long connected with railroad manage
ments as counsel for railroads and is not
willing to act hastily on claims presented.
A reading of the following may lead to
the conclusion that he has good reasons
for his unwillingness and the business of
the treatment given claims by Mr.. Davis
seems to be indicated by the fact that a
number of roads have accepted the set
Element as decided upon after invest1ga-
ton by the railroad administration
Forty-four roads whose demands have
been adjudiCated claimed $96,821 ,8Ol as
due them and were allowed in final set
Element $42, 286,914, or 4368 per cent OF
the amount claimed. This is regarded
bv the railroad administration as fair
average of what may be due other car
riers whose cases are in process of adj
iustment. 1t is evident that in filing
their claims the railroads purposely made
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