The Connecticut labor news., 1921-02-18
LABOR MATTERS
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age travelled, the receipts taken in and other details to be furnished the com mission. Failure to do so or to make a false report was to be penalized the same as any other case of perjury or
 failure to obey state laws.
 Frank O'Meara of. Hartford, presi-
 dent of the Trolleymen's State Confer ence Board; John J. Looney of New Haven, J. H. Reilly of the Danbury
 Central Labor Union, and other labor
 men spoke in favor of the bill, as did
 & Bethel road; President Storrs of the Connecticut Company and number of others.
 The jitneymen were represented by Attorney T. L. Hubbard of Bridgeport and at the outset he declared they sought regulation but didn't propose to | accept quietly the soft of regulation offered i'll the bill. MT. Ives i'll his re-
 marks had declared his favor by saying
 it would eliminate the jitney competition
 and MT. Hubbard made much of this as he did about the proposed gross tax v and reports.
 That the Connecticut Company must
 make some sort of definite promises to the state before getting absolute relief was indicated by House Leader Buckley who asked President Storrs when the state might expect to get it's back taxes
 If relief was granted. MT. Storrs an- swered that that was problematica1 as the competition was now costing a mil lon and three-quarters year and he couldn't tell how soon the road could catch up
 Several other bills in which labor is much interested were Up before the La Dor committee yesterday. Fred L. Neebe, treasurer of the C. F. of L. ; Frank Fitzgerald of New Haven, head of the State Building Trades Council, and George F. Mordecai of New Ha- ven, representing the carpenters, spoke i'll favor of a bill which would provide that all state work let out i'll the fu- ture be done by citizens and by local labor wherever possible. Recent cases of aliens who absolutely refuse to be- come citizens getting lucrative public contracts were pointed out. There was no opposition.
 Chinese laundries also came in for a drubbing before the Labor committee on bill which prohibits the laundries be- ing used as sleeping apartments also. Hundreds of Chinese about the state sleep right beside their piles of wet. clothes to the danger of the public. The bill providing for proper toilet equip
 nent i'll factories brought out dispute between Miss Mary Wells, representing Buck, representing the Manufacturers. Mr. Buck contended that the facilities provided were in the main alright, but Miss Wells took issue with him saying many were disgrace.
 Other hearings during the week de- veloped some interesting doings i'll state matters. For instance the claims com mittee and the state was startled by the admission of Compensation Commits sioner Williams of the Fifth district that he was collecting $oO month for his house rent in Waterbury. He said the former comptroller had authorized it which brought a sharp reply from MT. Webster saying he didn't. Danny fore that, also says he didn't and after that Williams came back with retort that Webster had 70 K'd' the expense anyhow. Anyhow again, MT. Williams will have to pay his own rent here after as Attorney General Healy de- clares the charge illegal
 The committee on appropriations also got busy during the week and Topped off $2,37o,0O0 worth of prospective roads from the appropriations asked for that purpose. This was done following action by the committee on roads, to more than dozen measures and re- to more tha na dozen measures and re- ported favorably on many more which, however, total $1 ,371 ,000 for additions to trunk lines and about $3,O0O,OO0 for regular department work.
 The county commissioners of the state met and voted to recommend the return of license money paid by saloon keepers for 1919 and which they received only half value because of war time prohibition' Before this goes through the commissioners may have to explain just what saloonkeepers closed up when war time prohibition went into effect and are therefore entitled to rebate. According to police records there were mighty few.
 Little but ordinary routine was done by either branch of the Assembly dur ing the week, the sessions lasting i'll some cases as long as four minutes, the record the Senate made Tuesday. All committees are now busy, especially the judiciary.