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The Connecticut labor news., 1921-05-06
STRIKE CRIPPLES PLANTS
 ALL OVER STATE
New Haven Bosses Who Refuted 44-Hour Pledge Are
 Badly Hit.

JOurneymen printers to the number of about 75, employed in a dozen printing establishments about the city, went on strike on Monday last to enforce the agreement made two years ago for the establishment of the 44-hour week in the printing industry throughout the land Strenuous efforts have been made by the employing printers who refused to life up to the agreement. to secure nOn-uniOn help but so far they have been unable to do so and their plants are practically crippled Lees, Futile, More house & Taylor, Van Dycl1, Fields and Mullen X Lilly are the most severely hit the majority of the others being one or two man shops where practically noth- ing is being done except by the owner.
 Six shops about the city have abso- lutely signed the agreement and work ing overtime now to keep up with the rush of printing. These are, according to the report made to the Trades Council, last night, Bussman's, Cunningham Corbetts, The Ornburn Press, The Times Press, and the Washington Press. Two others have made tentative agree ments which will probably be made for mai tomorrow and the trouble in their shops settled. One shop which had made an agreement, the City Printing company, failed to live up to it and the label was taken from 1t and its employees joined the strike.
 Efforts on the part of the Typothetae to secure nOn-uniOn help have so far resulted i'll more damage than benefits to them, according to reports coming from the shops Inexperienced youths were put on some linotype machines and have crippled the mechanism. it is stated, while artistic jobs are at a standstill be- cause skilled men cannot be secured to arrange them i'll type. The bosses are said to be protected" by the strike in
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The Connecticut labor news., 1921-05-06
LABOR'S PROTEST ON THE SALES TAX
 PEEVES TILSON
Congressman Objects to Constitu- ents Telling Him Anything
 About Their Desires.

Connecticut congressman and senators and apparently lined up" for the repeal of the excess profits tax and the imposi- tiOn on the consumer of the sales tax, according to letters received from them by the New Haven Trades Council, last night, i'll response to protest of the Council against the sales tax. Indeed Congressman John Q. Tilson of the New Haven district, is really peeved and chagrined because the Council has taken a definite stand on the matter and sent its views to him. He happens to be a member of the ways and means commit tee, which will begin hearings on the bill next week and his letter had the tone of one who Is incensed because his con- stituents had the tenerity to express their views to him on legislation he will have a large part in forming or other wise.
 He is sorry to learn the Council has taken a determined stand on the matter, he informs 1t, and then goes on to ex- press a whole lot of views of his own as to why the excess profits tax adds burdens to the business men. It IS 1ntl- mated that the sales tax will relieve that. It will and add the burden to the unfor- tunate consumer, the worker, and that is why the Council protested.
 Senator Mclean also intimated that he believed the excess profits tax unfair and offered to send along lot of litera- ture gathered at Washington along that line He said he thought a small turn over tax might be more beneficial all around.
 Senator Brandegee passed the buck to TilsOn, informing the Council that Tilson would be on the committee steer ing the bills and might have more in fluence along the Councils desires. He also minated, however, the excess profits tax would receive very careful consideration as to its repeal and the substitution of the sales tax.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-05-06
Green1uich Building 7radesn1en Get Increases
 While Bosses Ezse1vhere Refuse 70 Arbitrate
ORNBURN PRESS AND TIMES PRESS RUN
 ON AMOUR WEEK

The Ornburn Press, Inc, located at 206 York street, near Elm, and publishers of The Connecticut Labor News; and The Times Press located at S61 Grand avenue, and publishers of The Con- necticut Times, are operating on the 44-hOur week sched- ule agreed to with the print CTS some months ago.
 The job departments are therefore working uninter- rupted in both plants which are ready and fully equipped to do any and all kinds of printing and AT THE OLD PRICES.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-05-06
EX-CONG. LONERGAN
 IN GOOD HEALTH IS
 COMING HOME SOON

Hartford, May 6-Former Congress- man Augustine Lonergan, who went to Hot Springs, Ark, some time ago for treatment for his health, has completely recovered, and his office is being re opened in preparation for his return. He left Hot Springs some days ago and was expected to spend a few days in New York City, At his home on Ashley street it was said yesterday that the exact time of his return was unknown, but it IS believed that he will be in the city next week
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-05-06
SAYS LABOR MENACES
 REPRESENTATIVE GOVT

Hartford May 6-"Labor, using econ- omic force to Coerce the government, as the British labor party councils of action did when British aid was contemplated for the Poles against the Bolshevist forces. is the greatest menace in the world today to representative govern ment," said Prof Lindsey Rogers of the Harvard School of Government, address ing the Trinity College Political Science club. Tuesday night. He said that the action of the railroad brotherhoods in forcing through the Adanson law was the only parallel case in the United States, and assigned the lack of popular control of the foreign relations of the government as the reason for the action of labor.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-05-06

Instead of a decrease ln wages, or even holding to the scales paid during the past year, the building tradesmen of Greenwich were this week actually given an increase i'll wages ranging from p to 70 cents a day and new agreements made with the contractors to con tinue until May 1, next year. The increases were not demanded nor asked by the workers but came about amicably in conferences between employers and employees under the Joint Arbitration Plan committee which has existed be- tween bosses and men in Green wich since 1908 and which has ever since functioned so efficiently that peace and good feeling has reigned in that district.
 The wage discussion came up in usual course about four weeks ago when under the arbitration plan both sides met to discuss af- fairs for the year. The result is that the bricklayers who were receiving $1,O6A all hour are now to get $1.1212; the carpenters, who received $1, now get $1.O3 :; the electrical workers, who re- ceived $1 now get $1.06A; sheet metal workers get $1 an hour :; fathers $1 an hour, and common or building laborers $6 a day. Other trades are adjusted ill pro- portion.
 The Joint Arbitration Plan commit tee is a permanent organization formed in January 1908, and consists ot five representatives of the contractors and five representatives of the tradesmen. The first article in the agreement pro- vides that no strikes or lOCkOutS shall be ordered or permitted, either by single unio1. or firm or the bodies as a whole until the arbitration plan has been put into effect and efforts made to adjust any differences that may arise. In case the arbitration plan parties itself cannot adjust the matter 1t shall elect an out side and disinterested umpire, whose de cision shall be final and authOrat1Ve There shall be no cessation ot work either while the matter is being ad- iusted. Definite rules are laid down 1T the agreement to protect each side anC insure harmony.
 When the plan was first instituted only three trades were represented, the car penters, plumbers, and painters A year
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The Connecticut labor news., 1921-05-06
PROHIBITION? SURE! BUT BREWERY WORKERS
 ARE STILL WITH US

Hartford, May 6.-Of the members of the Brewery Work kcrs' Union here 125 are still employed in Hartford in their old places of employment, Otto J. Schuctz, long an officer of the union and president of the Connecticut Personal Liberty League, said. He added that ali are employed in making the various forms of near beer' and other bever- ages containing less than one-half of one per cent. and said that the local brew cries are carefully keeping within the law.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-05-06

Still insistent that there is noth- ing to arbitrate, the State Build CTS Exchange, despite. a formal request from the building trades unions as is published in another column. persists in continuing the lockouts of the building trades in New Haven and about the state until the tradesmen accept the arbitrary wage cut of 20 or 9 per cent. adopted" by the boss es. The situation has become so acute, that Mayor FitzGerald of New Haven has taken steps to bring about a settlement and to that end has called a conference at City Hall, New Haven, for late this afternoon, but whether or not he can accomplish anything is problematical.
 The issue is now clearly de- fined and further continuance of the trouble is absolutely up to the employers The various unions all over the state so generally adopted the arbitration plan, which was first preached by one of the employers, MT. Stewart, an electrical contractor of Hartford, that President Frank A. Fitzger- aid of the state building trades council last Monday sent a for nal notification to the Builders Exchange informing them that the men were ready to put the matter to arbitration. This was sent in plenty of time to be taken up at the meeting of the Build CTS Exchange executive board on Monday last, but so far no answer has been received nor any infor- nation had as to whether the board considered it or simply re- jected it forthwith.
 The situation as far as the lockouts are concerned has changed very little during the week, the trades locked out or being forced to quit when they re- fused the arbitrary wage cut, simply having their number added to. The con- tractors. continuing their usual policy of propaganda. announced blatantly during the week. that they would resume opera tions on Monday next, with non-union help ii necessary. That may fool the public for awhile but 1t isn't fooling the workers any, who simply ask where the contractors are going to get enough of these nOn-unlOn men to resume work Tn any degree that would make a showing. What few nOn-union men the contractors might be able to get they are welcome to, the workers state, and point to the efforts made by contractors in Boston and other higher paid places than New Haven and how they fell down when they sought nOn-unOn men.
 Because the tie-up Is affecting business generally, Mayor FitzGerald decided to act and as 1t was well known that the union men are willing to arbitrate the matter, he simply sent out invitations to employers to attend the conference at 5 o'clock this afternoon to discuss ways of ending the dispute. His action was the increasing unemployment situation but by requests of many citizens who have waited on him during the past few days and urged him to step in and settle the dispute if possible While the con- tractors. are particularly invited, repre- SentativeS of the employees will also be present. They will undoubtedly agree promptly to impartial arbitration If ask ed to do SO. The contractors on their part will be put to the point of having to absolutely declare themselves either willing or not and then the public will he given an idea of just who Is to blame for the situation
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-05-06
Builders Exchange Ignores
 Formal Request Of Workers
 to Adjust the Wage Dispute
Formal Request Made To
 Builders For Arbitration

@ New Haven, Conn, May 2, 1921. MR. J. A. Mckay, Secy, ctiCutT Builders n No. 82 Church St., New IIaven Conn. DEAR SIR: Following the confer which held April l4tl l921 that both hold  which follows: That o scale and the stuation be arbIr The of
  Local Unions agreeable submit their arbitration board each on
 
   Trusting that will this your of May 2nd a favorably
 Very yours,
 F. A.
 President C. s B.. T. C.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-05-06
HOLD PRESENT SCALE.

Grand Rapids, Wis. May 2-Cereal workers have renewed their wage agree ment with the Grand Rapids Milling company.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-05-06
STAGE EMPLoYEs UNITE.

Rome, Ga, May 2.-Stage employees in this city have organized and are afili- ated with the trade union movement.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-05-06
Joint Arbitration
 PLar, Again Results
 Fine Agreements

Policy Adopted Between Green wich Contractors and Labor Unions in 1908 Shows Way to Other Employers About State to Overcome Present Unsettled Bosses Decide Liv ing Conditions Do Not Justify Cuts.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-05-06
NEW HAVEN MAYOR CALLS MEETING TO
 AID IN SETTLEMENT

Puts It Directly Up to Employers at Meeting Late Today to Do Something About Getting To- gether and Relieving Situation That Is Seriously Affecting State and City-Little Change in Lockout Situation.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-05-06

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Pueblo chieftain., 1921-01-19
Famine In China Threatens U. S. Trade

The famine now sweeping five of the northern
provinces of China, threatening the extinction of 49,
100000 people, will within year the destruction
of all Americas with that Republic, accord
ing to information given the American Committee for
China Famine Fund by ]. J. Underwood traveller and
writer, who has just returned from the Far East
Leading business of Peking Mr.. Underwood
declared had convinced him that unless the famine can
be countered by help from abroad the suffering and
death prevalent in the rural sections will spread
the cities The surplus product of the producing class
of China outside the farmers, is the keystone of the
arch on which American with China rests.
The producing class depends absolutely upon the farm
ers for food So, Mr. Underwood asserts, it will be
merely matter of months when, food lacking, produc
tion will cease and American ships engaged in the
China trade will float idly at their moorings and
American manufacturers who depend upon China for
trade will have to seek new customers in some more
fortunate land.
American commerce with China last year aggregated
346.271 ,S76. Mr. Underwood pointed ont that China
has the last great of materials and she has
the man-power to make them productive He declared
that only by swift action the part of America could
a portion of the vast millions of people in the famine
district be saved, and that it only humantar-
ian, but economic duty devolving upon the United
States.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-01-19

A The Bureau of Mines says that
SO far a. they know. the climate
docs not have any effect upon the
duced
Q. What arc the duties on wheat,
corn, wool and cotton provided in tho
new tariff bill? F. r. +.
A As passed by the house tho
schedules are wheat. 30 cents a bushel:
corn, 10 cents a bushcl; unwashcd
wool, Is cents a pound: washed wool.
so cents pound: secured wool. 45
cents pound, with compensatory
duty OF IS cents a pound in addition
to existing duties upon tho manu-
cents a pound. with a compensatory
outy or cents a pound in addition to
existing rates upon tho manufactures
thereof. These schedules may be
changed. of course, in the senate
Q. What is a bush league? j. ]. X.
A This in baseball parlance indi-
Gates a minor league OF professional
| or scmi-professional baseball teams
world? R T. S.
A. It is estimated that the Jewish
population Is moro than 1900, 600.
Q. When were the Sons of the
American Revolution organized? B. b.
A. The National Society of the Sons
OF the American Revolution was or
ganized April 80, 1889. and incorpor-
ateu pE act OIL congress- June y. 1905.
Q. Which state has tho greatest
mileage in surfaced roads? In all roads
surfaced and unsurfaccd? 8. o. A.
A Ohio leads in mileage of surfaced
roads-having s1,sOO miles. Indiana
comes second with 1000 miles. Texas
has the greatest mileage OF all roads
combined. tho total being 12s, $50 miles.
Kansas ranks second with Ill, ,o52
miles.
Q. Which state ranks nrst in crop
value? A c.
A. According to value OF crops pro-
duced Texas ranked first in 1919, the
valuation being s1,076, ,lS3, 900. Iowa
came second with a total $S6l. .Sss 900.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-01-19
Opposition To A Larger Congress

1t is not surprising that there should be opposition
to the increase in the number of representatives in
congress from 4s5 to 4s3 proposed by the bill
pending
For many years there has been growing senti-
men that the lower house of congress getting too
large to work smoothly and satisfactorily, and it is
doubedy true that the business of the house could be
transacted by house of 400 less much better
than by house of the present number
Another strong reason against the proposed increase
the necessary increase of cost This is merely the
additional salaries tho they involve large amount An
increase of 10 per in the number of members
an increase in expenses all along the line, and the total
increase is reckoned at million and a half dollars
The strongest reason in favor of such an increase
in numbers is the desire to avoid cutting down the
Der of representatives from any state The number of
congressman allotted to any state is based upon popua-
tion If state Increases greatly in population dur
ing the ten year census period and another state
creases little at ALL there evidently must be
change in the number of congressman Then if the total
number of representatives is not changed no state can
have an increase unless there is decrease somewhere
else decrease in the number of congressman is always
Objectionable to the people of the state thus affected
Such a reason, however, is not sufficient to out
weigh the very good arguments against the proposed in
crease The probability to be that there will
be change the number of representatives but that
some states will lose while others will gain as result
of the reapportionment
In any event the number of congressman from
Colorado will remain the at present four This
signifies that the rate of growth in population in Colo
RADIO for the ten period, 1910 1920 was ap-
proSmatey the same the rate for the entire country
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-01-19

Q. How many states did the Demo-
Gratis carry in tho last presidential
election? T. NJ. d.
A In the recent election the Demo-
Gratis carried ten states-AlahamA.
Arkansas, Florida, Georgia. Kentucky,
mississippi North Carolina, South
Carolina, Texas and Virginia
Q. What is the "Cypres doctrtne?~
w. S. T.
English and American law is rule
OF Interpretation whereby a testa-
mentary gift which cannot take ef-
feet in the precise manner intend
ed by the testator is given in
which was intended. Tho doctrine has
been applied in two classes of cases:
in the creation of fce-tail estates and
in charitable gifts.
Q. How much is a widow exempt
from income tax NJ. II.
a. The exemption OF widow Is 81
900. the same as for any other single
person, unless she Is maintaining n
home for dependent children or rela-
tives. She is then entitled to 5000
exemption as the head of a family.
with an additional 500 exemption for
each dependent minor child.
Q. What Is and where is the Bar
CELLO? o. e. r.
A. The Bargello is in Florence and
Is a National Gallery of Art
Q. Does climate have anything to do
with the quantity and quality of Pc
troleum that a well will produce? J..
n. M.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-01-19
TODAY'S EVENTS

Tho one hundred and fourteenth
anniversary of the birth OF General
Robert f. Lee will be observed thru
out the Southern States today.
DR.. David Starr Jordan, chancellor
emeritus of Leland Sanford. Jr. Uni
vcrsity and ono of the best known of
American educators, celebrates his
10th birthday today.
Tho Mississippi Valley Association.
organized at St Louis a year ago to
promote tho interests OF the mid
die west, will open its first annual
convention today in Washington. d. C.
A notable wedding in New York to-
day will be that OF Miss Mary Wash
ington Bond Morosini, a great great
grandniece OF George Washington. and
Captain William Lafayette Crabbc, OF
the u. s. Marine corps.
The Allied prcmiers arr TO meet in
Paris today to discuss tho subject of
German disarmament, the reparations
question and the future attitude OF tho
Allies towards Greece.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-01-19
The Romance Of Words
aDEsUuTORY-
0DESULTORY~
Copyright, 1920, by Tho Wheeler Syn
dicate Inc1


Copyright 1920. by Tho Wheeler Syn
dicate, Inc.)
Accustomed as VIC are to regarding
"desultory" as a synonym for lazy.
or "disinclined to effort we would
naturally maintain that the man who
referred to a circus-rider as n person
of "desultory habits' was entirely
wrong in his choice of words. But the
fact remains that, Judged solely from
the derivation OF tho term, he would
be quito correct, for. as Coleridgc
says, I'm order to get tho full sense
of a word we should first present to
our minds the visual image that forms
its primary meaning" or tho reasons
which lay behind tho birth OF tho
word.
To get at tho image on which "dcsUl-
tory" rests, wo should dissoct it,
learning that It Is from the Latin do
and salte. and. literally, means "to
lean from one thing to another.
precisely as tho performers in tho
amphitheater--techni called de
sultors"-rode two or three horses at
once and leaped about, never being on
the back of any one of them more than
"A moment or two at n timc. A dos
ultory" person is not therefore, ono of
slow or lazy habits, but one who
jumps from one conclusion or study IN
another, never continuing AIRY long
enough to obtain real benefit from it
w-"Calculation."
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-01-19

this state Such statements made in the OF
the campaign by the friends of the amendment 1t is
possible that the members of the commission believed
them then; it is possible that they believe them now
But those charges cannot be proved for the very good
reason that they not true.
The tunnel amendment defeated for good and
valid reasons which it is necessary to recapitulate
here The advertising campaign conducted upon a
basis of truth and of sound The truth and the
reasonabeness of those advertising affected in
any way by the identity of the persons that paid for
them, but matter of fact they paid for by the
business of the Arkansas valley, Pueblo contrbut-
the largest amount and the contributions being for
small individual amounts
The theory of improper influence is sufficiently
demonstrated be false and absurd by study the
returns upon the amendment More votes cast
against the amendment in Denver than cast
against it in Pueblo Outside of the Denver group of
countless and the counties directly along the Moffat
line only three counties Colorado voted for the pro-
posed amendment
The report of the railway commission may well
additional proof that the people of Colorado
did very wise thing when they voted against the Tri-
tunnel amendment.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-01-19
IN DAYS NEWS"

Anatole France, who has caused
something of n sensation by declaring
himself in favor of sovietsm. has long
held high rank among French literary
mSn. lie was born in Paris in 1874.
and his father being Il librarian and.
bookseller. 1t may be said that he was
literally bred - literature. In early
life he adopted journalism as a pro
fession, and after a brilliant career of
some years an editor he gradually
drifted into the more pretentious work
OF authorship. He had written numer-
Gus poems. biographical sketches. lit
crary criticisms and number of
novels. a skeptic in religion and
science, doubling all things, his opin-
ions and doubts he has put forth thru
the fictional characters he has Great
cd. Critics have pronounced him tho
most graceful writer of modern
France In 1895 he was admitted to
the French Academy