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The Washington times., 1921-09-04

Benoistf uas formerly Miss katherine RobfnsoH.
Miss Ruth Virginia MGrlOeH Is engaged to y. B.,
Dapies, jr. Mrs. T.. &C.. Hefheringf0n, Uho UGs
married as long ago as yuiy, Das Miss CienentinG
BartOIucci-D Dundas and made a home here Tor her
brother, the late Lieut.. BGrt0iHcci- DMdds lcken
he U1s attached to the Italian ltbGssy.
The Washington times., 1921-09-04

.SS A LLsthe World LoDes a LOuer -Gnd more
Is II particularly his lass Pictured beI0l0 are
d group of girls Uell knoIrn and liked In Wash
ington, ,cho hare been recently married or are
about to be married. Until yesterday Mrs. Han
son EdUard Ely, jr., loas Miss Anne Carter Lee,
and she is "a granddaughter of Gen. Robert e.
Lee After NEXT Saturday Miss Louise DetanO,
The Washington times., 1921-09-04
EARL BEATTYS
PLAN A VISIT
TO AMERICA
Forced to Cancel Chicago Engagement But with
Come to washington for the Arms Farley
Former Ethel Field Going to France With,H
Family for Short Stay Gifted Wife OF Sea
4. Lord Greatly Admired i'm London. !. r.
BY GERTRUDE LADY DEcIES. r "a
By GERTRUDE LADY DEcIEs.
Especial Cable to Universai service) - ~

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Az s +gas.- a~...<". " = ,'+."' LONDON, Sept g..
T1z ARL BEATTY, who married Ethel Field, of Chicago
II will not go to the United States until the disarmament
conference at Washington He is obliged to remain at
the admiralty office account of the illness of Lord Lee
and therefore has been forced to cancel his private
visit to Chicago ,.'-I RI, p. .e;r r ze; .. HI.
However he is scheduled to attend the Washington
ference in his official capacity of first lord. a.. %
The Beattys going to France this month and will
make Lille their headquarters while the continent They
taking two of thersons with the Lord Boredae the
eldest being Dartmouth cadet Lady Beatty who has
taken the late Lady Henry Somerses house. the Pory
at Regate has greatly improved the mansion She has
errng taste and judgment in home decoration being
those gifted people who what iswrong with the interior
of house the first time she it. She how to fur
nish it comfortably well artstcally. .~.:
The Washington times., 1921-09-04
CAPITAL PLANS
WEI COME. FOR
PEACE PARLEY
Quiet Prevails Now, But Washington is Hummfng,
With Preparations For Entertaining Disarm-
y amenf Visitors White House Social Calendar.
Reception I'M Celebration of Centennial Of
Central American Republics. - "
BY JEAN ELIOT

C\iNCE the recess Dell rang congress, WaSnihgton
has had the air of the proverbal deserted village
Most of the big houses still boarded up and at the
homes of many Of those who have slipped away for
few weeks care-takers summing themselves on the
doorsteps and trim maids entertaining their gentlemen
friends" on the verandas of evening. tfss.#
The town has sleepy look, indeed, and the warm
weather Of the last few days has contributed little to
its somnolence It's merely surface quiet however, for
already elaborate preparations under for the
great conference in November about which
political, diplomatic and socal-will revolve.. =
The Secretary of State Mr. Hughes is devoting much
time the consideration of the important matters which
will up for discussion before the conference and
conducting negotiations delicate matters of
international relations which he wants to have settled
and of the way before the delegates together
to discuss disarmament AS understand it, Henry p.
Fletcher Undersecretary of State has charge of the
general arrangements for the and his special
assistant Basil Miles, is busy bird dog with the
physical arrangements" ...-' >='. 80 ~
He has had to map out some sort of housing cam
paign-athough believe that the actual business of
finding quarters for the various delegations is being
undertaken by their embassies and legations-and
it's up him that the various committees pro-
yded with suitable places in which and all that
sort of thing. .'''
The Washington times., 1921-09-04

10 made, isn't III sfAF. -...
So the boxes at the Ma.
tional Horse Show. al. 5
though somewhat deserted by what
are known as the "old famillss,"
who srpced them In the days
when horses were pals and
before the younger generation be-.
came welded to speed. and the
smell OF gasoline. will nevertheless
be filled to overflowing by an army
OF open-air devotees-men and wom-
en- who hunt, play polo. ride several
hours each day, breed their own
mounts. etc. These devotees of the
tanbark will do their utmost TO
bring the National Horse Show back
to its former glory. *
Gone. however. ara the days when
the -Four Hundred patronized the
horse show exclusively, and gone
also are those halcyon days when a
woman of wealth would order eight
cen marvellous toilettes, one for each
morning, afternoon : AMI evening
session at the, horse show, and after
donnlng them would sit in her box
surrounding the ovai to display her
creations" @.rg ~, e.
In place OF the above mentioned
one finds at the National Horse
Shows these days smart-looking
young women In old.fashioned skirt.
ed habits, IN more extremely mod
ern niannish GOATS and oreeches and
every other kfIwn riding ria.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-08
Statewide Building Strike Threatens Bosses
Ignore Workers Request for Conference on Wage
Trolley Cos. Near
Auoid Paving Bill
Measure Releasing Them, Favor
ably Reported, But Is Referred
Back to F1nanciers.

The Connecticut Company almost got
away from some of its state and town
taxes in the legislature this week, when
the committee on roads, rivers and
bridges favorably reported bill by
which trolley companies would be re-
quired to pay for paving only eight
inches on either side of its rails instead
Of paying for paving the entire space
within the rails as law now provides.
The bill was reported to the House but
after reading a discussion arose that
finally caused it to be referred to the
committee on finance, which is now
wrestling with the problem of increasing
the states revenues instead of adding
20 them and it will get another hearing
there.
The bill docs include the right for the
state or municipalities now owed pay
ments by the trolley companies tor paw
ing assessments to place 1eins against
the companies to cover these unpaid bills.
This was somewhat of a surprise to the
trolley company advocates and will no
doubt be strenuously opposed before the
finance committee Indeed it is limited
that this was perhaps one of the pertin-
ent reasons for having the bill recon-
mitted rather than to have the question
Of loss to state and towns threshed out.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-08
No Notice Given of Session on
ure, But Solons Hear Those
Tipped Off to Oppose It.
Women's Working Bills Also
Opposed.
Especial l\The Labor NeWs.)

\SpClIdl liz LdDOl NGWS.
Hartford, April 8-Organized Labor
and its bills got another trimming in the
legislature this week, when the commit
tee on labor held a snap hearing" on
cne of Labor's mot important bills and
then blandly closed the hearing because
no one appeared in favor of it. 1t did
listen, however, to number OF repre-
sentatives who opposed the bill which
was to protect workers from noxious
and poisonous paints and gases, who had
evidently been tipped off that the bill
was to be heard while the Labor repre-
sentatives who wished to favor it were
not given any warning at all.
The bill was originally assigned for
hearing on April IA, but by some queer
juggling IN committee was advanced
without warning to its sponsors to Tues
day last when it was jumped in between
a lot of Consumers League working
class bills and heard. Of course there
was no one to favor it as none inter-
ested knew it was to come up. Efforts
to have it re-opened are being made and
will be followed even to appeal to the
governor.
The hearings on the Consumers
League bills which had to do with the
employment of women and minors more
than so hours a Wek, might we'll have
been listed the case of Wells against
Welles' because everything that Miss
Mary {. Welles, representing the Con-
sumers' League, advocated, Attorney
Ralph O. Wells, representing the Con-
necticut Retail Merchants Association
and the Manufacturers Association, op-
posed strenuously. Mr.. Wells did agree
with one part of the bills, that prohibit
ing children under IA from working in
Wells stated he didn't believe children
of that age should work anywhere and
was warmly thanked for his aid by Miss
Welles. Tobacco growers present ask
ed that such young children be allowed
to work in the tobacco fields and this
Miss Welles strenuously objected to say
ing it was one Of the evils sought to be
removed.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-08
UTILITIES BOARD HAS
mo SENSE OF EQUITY"
So Charges Stamford Chamber of
Commerce Officer in Protest
on Gas Charges.

The Public Utilities Commission be-
fore which must be argued the protests
against gas meter charges, the regulation
and need of jitney bus lines, and other
public matters, lacks a sense of equity
acc'1ding to the charge made before it
by Charles H. Leeds, an officer of the
Stamford Chamber of Commerce, this
week in voicing Stamford's protest
against gas company charges there. So
great was the protest and such mass
Of statistical figures did the companies
endeavor to show that two days have
already been required for the hearing
and the matter is not over yet.
The professors against the gas COM
pany opened the hearings but were
quickly superseded by number of ex-
pert staticians introduced by the gas
company to show the value of the plants,
the costs of production and the like
That took up the whole two days and the
protestants will have to go to Hartford
again to get their side heard
The delay finally SO exasperated Mr..
Leeds that he objected and declared the
utilities commission lacked a sense of
equity, referring to its action in deciding
III favor of Meriden protests when bills
against it were pending in the 1egis1a-
ture and now delaying other protests.
The commissioners afterward said they
didn't take the charge seriously.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-08
Railroad Men
Wait Decision
of fWage Board
Meanwhile Hundreds of Cars in
Need of Repairs Fill Sidings
While Men Are Idle.

Pending the hearing by the Railroad
Wage Board established by act of Con-
grcss, the wage controversy on the
New Haven road is at a standstill the
men, thousands of whom have been al
ready laid off in the roads expense re-
duction policy, simply waiting patiently
for a decision by the Federal author
tiles. The New Haven, with the other
roads of the country, is included in the
list of applicants to the Wage Board
and meantime while thousands Of its
men in the shops are idle and hundreds
of cars are piing up on sidings along
the road sadly in need of repairs. The
su1nmer rush will be we'll on before
these cars can be put into service again
and another tieup next winter is the out
look.
The drive for wage reductions is now
being made principally against the car
and shopmen, those who are particu-
The drive is being materially assisted by
such capitalistic papers as the New
Haven Register, in propaganda mainly
to fool the public into the be-
lief that the carmen are simply common
help that can be picked up anywhere at
any rate of pay and put to do the work.
"McAdoo mechanics" they are being
labeled. while as a matter of fact they
have to be the most highly skilled me-
chanics in railroad service
To be a carman means capability to
pull down a car and build it
over again. Not only that but a car
man has to be his own Inspector, find the
defects, lay out and make the repairs
and finish the job without assistance.
He must serve four years apprentice
ship before he can qualify. In addition
to all that e/has' to know by heart a
29O-page book entitled The American
Railroad Codf of Rules and The United
States SafetN Appliance Laws" which
is more techniSa Sa1 than an income tax
blank. After / bat if he can do iron
work, painting, carpentry, upholstering
and pattern making he might be able to
qualify for the minimum wage scale, an
entirely differenApropositiv1 from what
the Register would have the public be-
lieve.
Continued on Eighth Page.)
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-08
CITY CANNOT PAY
ITS EX-SOLDlERS
Bill Introduced at Behest of
Mayor Gets Knockout in
General Assembly.

The efforts of Mayor FitzGerald and
the city of New Haven to pay those city
employees who went to the World War,
compensation for the time they were in
service, the same as other cities and
towns of the state have done with its
employees. were killed in the Legislature
Wednesday when a bill that would allow
such payments was rejected on unfavOr-
able report of the committee on cities and
boroughs of which Representative Fred
L. Ford is chairman.
When the war was on the city sought
to carry on the employees who went to
or were called to the colors, but objec-
tions arose from some penurlous tax
payers who made the point that such
payment could not legally be made un-
der the city charter. The adninistra-
ton from the mayor down through the
aldermen were in favor of making the
payments and to that end caused a bill
to be introduced at Hartford by which
it could legally be done. 1t provided
that the city could pay the men the diff
ference between the pay they received
from the government and that received
from the city and not all, as charged, to
pay in full for the time they were in
service
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-08

With lockous Of building declared during
the
Friday the 18TH convention of the Connecticut Building
Trades Alliance Waterbury Sunday to discuss and plan
the ockouts the fight between the State Builders Exchange and
the journeymen' unions is well under
If it actual clash in which statewide strike
will solely employers
association the workers. through their regular
which amcable
the fight foresaed the
fit it.
briefly
the declined
holding
waiting how determined stand the will there
be chance of breaking their morale them
the arbitrary will then probably conference
Meantime the for the struggle and if
spreads proportions they will be
ton
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-08
Painters Tell
Public Why They
are Locked Out
Employers Not Willing to Take
Share of Cost Reductions but
Force Men Down.

Why they cannot accept wage cut at
this time, and more particularly why they
are locked out at present and painting
work is being held up, is fully explained
in a statement issued by the Local Paint
ers Union to the public through the daily
press and published by one paper, the
Timts-Leader, this week. The state
ment is as follows:
The Employing Master Painters
Association with whom the union had
an agreement from the 18th day OF April
1920, to April l, 1921, on the latter date
locked out the members of the union
because Of their refusal to accept re-
duction of 20 per cent in their wages
In the agreement between the asso-
citation and the union there is a clause
known as Section 10 which reads as fol-
lows:
1t is further agreed that if either
party hereafter desires any change in
the wage scale or trade regulations said
changes shall be presented to either
party between the 1st and 18th days of
January of each year and said changes
decided upon to take effect upon April
|. folloWing'
In pursuance to the terms of this
agreement the union oR January 18th,
1921. submitted a new agreement to the
association to become effective on April
|, which agreement provided for the
same wage schedule as that of last year,
namely 81 per hour.
Subsequent to the receipt by it of
this proposed new agreement the asso-
citation called meeting of the standing
advisory committee, consisting of four
members of the association and four
members of the union. At this meeting
4
a statement of alleged trade conditions
but refused to furnish proof and made
no mention or suggestion about any
change in the wage schedules for the sue
ceeding year.
about March l. 1921, the association
commenced to agitate in the press as
we'll as in the shops among the men
for a reduction of wages. Many men,
(COntinued on Page Five.)
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-08
FELSBURG IS AGAIN
HEAD OF MUSICIANS

After an interim of two years, Louis
Felsburg for many years president of
the New Haven local of the Musicians
union, was returned to that Office at the
annual election held in Trades Council
hall on Sunday. Mr.. Felsburg's return
to the office he so long and ably man
aged was greeted with pleasure by the
hundreds of musicians of the city who
regretted sincerely his retirement two
years ago. The elections resulted other
wise in the choice of the following:
Charles Smith, vice-president H. G.
Nichols, secretary; Abe Lublnsky,
treasurer; and directors, Harry Benson,
Frank Palmieri, Arthur Ehehald, Fred
Guilford and John Murphy.
Quite a contest developed over the
election of delegates to the national
convention which will be held in St.
Paul, Mimi, during the second week Of
May. 1t resulted in the selection Of
President Felsburg, former President
H. d. Cowles, and Frank A. Palmieri.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-08
TRADES COUNCIL
MOVES TO COMBAT
ANTI-LABEL MOVE
Committee to Draft Slogan to
Keep Union Made Goods
Before Workers.

To offset the campaign of propaganda
against union made and union-label
goods started by the open shop inter-
ests, the New Haven Trades Council,
at its meeting last night, appointed a
committee to draft a propaganda slogan
for union men which will be forwarded
to the various unions, read at each
meeting and the fact that in insisting
on union label goods they have the
greatest weapon, kept forcibly before the
minds of every member. The recent
campaign, especially among some men,
bers of the printing trade, to leave the
Allied Printing Trades Label off all
work possible brought about the discus
sion. The committee will report slo-
gan along the lines of the patriotic
slogans used during the war to instill
patriotism and by having it constantly
before organized workers expect to Off
set the drive against union-made goods.
An instance of how the label has been
''used' was given in a communication
from the Tobacco Workers Information.
Union wherein was reported that the
label had been dropped from such former
we'll known union-made tobaccos as
r.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-08
Unemployment is
Still Going Up

Washington, April Sin spite of re-
newed activity in automobile plants and
a resumption of operations in three or
four other industries, industrial unem-
ploy1nent in the United States continued
to increase during March. according to
labor department statistics From all
sections, however, increased employment
on farms was indicated in the verbal re-
turns made by federal agents, though
the actual number of men so engaged
was not susceptible of statistical prcsen-
tatiOn.
The department found that 1924 in
dustrial establishments in the United
States ordinarily employing more than
500 men each, had on March 81, 1887
786 workers on payrolls, against 1922
Oil employed on February 28, net de-
crease of 24,825, or Is per cent. The
March number was 40,308, or rs per
cent. less than the total January 81.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-08

In accordance with the instruction
voted at the convention of building
trades unions here last month, about a
score of unions in all parts of the state
have reported to President Frank A.
Fitzgerald of the state alliance that their
wages have been reduced without notice,
their agreements broken and they have
been forced to quit their jobs These
reports will be taken up at the conven-
ton in Waterbury Sunday at which
every building trades union in the state
will again be represented and formal
actiOn taken on the cases.
In accordance with the rules laid down
by the convention of last month, era its
buildings where one trade has been dis
criminated against by the employers and
a' the whole situation is expected to
'le up in the air" on the 18th when
! st OF the existing agreements expire,
the journev1nen will lay plans to meet it
NICn it comes. The convention will be
':eld in Building Trades hall in Water
t''r: and open at 1880 o'clock Sunday
morning. Aside from officers of the
building trades, State Federation of La
Dor officers will also be present and ad-
wise with the men in combating the
efforts to disrupt the unions.
In expectation of their being locked
out on Monday when their agreement
expires, the New Haven local of Plumb
ers and Steamftters will hold a special
r-eeting in Trades Council hall tomor-
row at noon after the days work is done
and which plans to resist the wage cut
expected will be drafted While moth
ing formal has been received from the
bosses as to the cut, the men have in
dividlally been told that a reduction
would be put into effect on Monday
Like the other unions the plumbers have
out something more tangible to go on
than the propaganda being put out by
the bosses and will therefore probably
Continued on Page Eight
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-08
LABOR'S INSURANCE
BILL GETS QUIETUS

Hartford, April 8.-Another of Or
ganized Labor's cherished bills got it
in the neck" in the Legislature yesterday
when the judiciary committee brought in
an unfavorable report on the measure
that would provide state insurance
fund and provide for compulsory COM
pensation for workers injured or con-
tracing disease while in industry. The
bill was about to be summarily rejected
in the House when it was discovered
that Representative Pendleton, who had
introduced it by request was not pres
ent, al therefore out of courtesy to
him it wa>-tabled until he is in atten-
dance The ,~Suit, however, will prob
ably be the samC as that met with by
other Labor bills.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-08
PRINTERS CONFER
ON WAGE SCALE
Meeting This Afternoon May
Come to Amicable Under
standing on Pay.

The scale committee of Typographical
Union No AZ held a conference with
the committee representing the Typothe-
tae in its offices in Church street this
afternoon at which time it was hoped
that some anicable agreement could be
reached with the Typothetae in regard
to wages and the Inauguration of the A.
hour week on May l. This conference
was called at the request of the union
who are now and always has been will
ing to meet the bosses more than half
way.
The newspaper scale also expires on
May l and the publishers have been pre-
sented with copies of the new agreement
together with the request for confer
ence. as required under the provisions
of the present working scale. Up to
thisa time the publishers have made no
move and the printers are waiting for
them to act.