Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-17
ATTEN TON!
Meeting of Painters Local, $50, to be held in their rooms MONDAY NIGHT, April 17th at 8 o'clock. Business of vital importance.
 Per order of the
 COMMITTEE

large would be affected financially very little if congress passes just taxation act"
 The farm bloc in congress- Mir. Gompers sadd. is not farm bloc at all. hut financial bloc made up of lawyers representing the banking and trust inter ests Of the country. which seeks 10 dictate to the mud farmers"
 Referring 10 the Success of labor Tn securing the ra of laws regulating the working Of women and children he declared: Organized labor is going to ask for more and more until it gets suffi- cient to have the comforts of life that the worker is entitled to and the rich man en joys. Where wages are good and hours of toll short. honest business is pros ere s. The wage-cuttinG. open shop policies of the financial interests are but reactins against then selves. for to cut the earning power Of the worker reduces his power of consumption and If real normslcy is ex- CT to he attained then that policy mus stop. The safest way, the only way to re- turn to norrnalcy is to pay the highest wage industry will tear. Then the family will have the money to s7end. the business man will get it. the country will beneiit and the circle be completed by it coming back Into industry"
 Organized labor is not going to suDine- ly submit to an industrial autccracy in America Mir. GouDers said. Tt wonld get right down to the ground in political life go into primaries right away. see that men friendly to labor are nomi- nat and elected. and go 10 the limit to de- feat those who have shown their sntag- onism. There are nov r men in con- gross who have always proved themselves ! 100 per cent. loyal to the working pe3- pie of the land. There should be many | times that number and there VIII be in the ] next congress if the organized workers assert themselves as they should and must" Organized labor had a large part in the election of Woodrow Wilson 10 the presidency. During his adm 'nistra- | tion- rnan ny laws beneficial to everyone whc ! tolls were rassed. This was not due tl any iculL' but solely because Mir Vii son had real insight into the needs of ths people. Labor asked no privileges then and asks none now but it will not stand | for being driven bs ok to serfdom." | When delegates Of the brewer workers brought Up the prohibition law. he said
 We would only be running around in cir
 cles trying to have the amendment repeal | ed. Thirteen states could prvnt it Flee
 the right men to congress and We will b,
 able to have the Volstead act amended s' that the worker can get a sniff at a glas
 of beer while the rich man who has hi
 cellar stocked with booze is watching tn
 ice melt in his highball'
 1 Delegates present reported that al
 American Legion post in Bridge -ort "i
 being used 10 cut the wages of workers which brought forth from NIT. Gomper
 an endorsement of the legion.
 If such a thing is' roing on in Bridge nort or anywhere else T want to know it he said. q have been told by Commando MacNider and Vice Commander Berry
 head Of our pressmen's union. thsc the le
 zion and the 4. F. of L. llave much fl
 common and that the legion heads will no
 submit to it's great organization being use
 for any purposes against the interests c
 the workers. Let me know of such eases
 We'll soon nut a stop to theu.'