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The Connecticut labor news., 1922-11-03
DUST RAIL BOARD
 GOMPERS> ADVISES
Referring to Boards Denial of Living Wage Says It Should Be Over
 turned and Thrown Out.

Washington, Nov. 3.-"Confusion worse confounded," declaredPresident Gompers in referring to the Railroad Labor Boards denial of living wage.
 "The law in itself specifies living wage" said President Gompers. "The sooner the Railroad Labor Board is abolished and we depend upon the good will and negotiations of railroad management and railroad workers, the better it will be for all concerned.
 "The law provides that the award of the board shall be just and reason- able. Surely anything below a req sonab1e wage is not just and reason able to man with a wife and family To say the railroads will be required to meet the bill and ultimately the public and tell him he is not to get a living wage-that does not satisfy him, nor is 1t just or reasonable. There is no question but congress had in mind a living wage, just and reason able
 "Yet these modern autocrats, super for even to the intelligence of con- purposes of congress as delusive and deceptive. Y
 Any body that sets itself against the living wage, whether it Is a gov ernment agency or not, ought to be overturned and thrown out"
 ! Defenders of the board are panic stricken at the boards rejection of the principle of living wage. These de lenders have insisted that the board would Eventually" find place in the scheme of things, but it's latest de- eision has armed organized labor with another club to use against it.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-11-03
OXFORD DEBATER
 FOR MOREEDUCATION FOR LABORING MAN
Tells of English Universities System, Where Worker Pays One Third
 of the Cost of Education.

M Lindsey, of the Oxford debating team, and president of the Oxford Debating Union, which team debated in New Haven recently, spoke again at Dwight Hall, Yale, Sunday night. He described the practice of British universities in making it possible for laborers to take courses with them during the summer, and said that the educatoin given to laboring men and to college students must be brought into closer harmony. MT. Lindsey is at present on a tour throughout the country, working under the Workers Education Bureau Of New York, and trying to find how much interest there is in American universities in. social and industrial conditions.
 "The link of labor with learning, of the expert with experience, has been the most significant thing in the British labor movement. he said, "The working class and university education are getting too far apart"
 "The situation as l see 1t today IS as follows:
 'In Europe and England and America in the last so years, there paralleled in history-a movement
 
 hours nor with any particular creed, But with an upset in the whole struc- ture of society. For want of better word, we call this labor movement In every country there are symptoms of great unrest, and the cry for a new world. In Russia, the movement has assumed very black figure. In Ger many the movement is the only re- ceptacle for the old bankrupt German empire. Tn England it holds the sec ond largest political party.
 No one knows what this move ment will be in America.
 Each country has it's appropriate answer to the problem. The answers of England and America are very much alike, because both are demo- cracies.
 "In England the most powerful in softening the workers at titude of violence, has been education of the workers"
 MT. Lindsey explained the system in English universities, whereby the la borer received his ducation during the summer; the worker himself pays one-third of the cost, the gov ernment one-third and the university One-third.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-11-03
Shows Clearly Why Or ganized Labor Cannot Consistently Support Senator Mclean and
 Other Candidates On
 the Republican Ticket

President Patrick F. O'Meara ot the Connecticut Federation of Labor gave out to the press today some o1 the reasons why the wage earners and their friends in this state are anxious to have change in the politi- cal life of the state, and also extended to the National Congress.
 < MT. O'Meara states that the time has arrived that talking plain of con ditions is what is wanted.
 He first takes up the Newberry scandal sand the vote to seat an in dicted man in the Senate of the United States by Senator Mclean.
 He quotes. few lines of the state laws of Michigan pertaining to cleo tions and primaries as follows:
 ' Every person who, directly or in- directly, by himself or by other per son in his behalf, gives, lends, or agrees to- give or lend, or offers, or promises any money or valuable con- sideration or office, place or employ ments to or for any voter, or to or for any, person, Tn order to induce or have such person induce any voter to vote : for or refrain from voting for or sup port or oppose any candidate, etc"
 Will 1t be supporting American ideals on November 7th, 1922, for any elector to go to the polls and vote to return to the United States Senate a man who voted to permit MT. New berry a seat in the Senate, like Sen ator Mclean did, when court records show that the enormous sum of SIo5, ,ooo was spent in violation of the laws of the state of Michigan to elect MT. Newberry, and the. same court records show that irrespective of Mir Newberry's claim that he was un- aware of the use of such large sums of money, that summoned witnesses to the court were permitted to get by using the claim that they did not re- member what took place, still with this stench created by admission of the enormous sum spent by MT. New berry's agents, MT. Mclean tells us here in Connecticut that it was law fhl to do this, and he so voted
 Then again during debate on the tariff bill in the past session of the Congress, Senator Mclean made the ator William H. King of Utah, to the effect that "it was his hopes that the president of the Connecticut Fedora ton of Labor would tell the voters of the state of Connecticut during the, fall campaign why he was opposing the many provisoins of the tariff bill," and I am now endeavoring to state to the voters in the Trade Union movement and their friends why I am opposed to any legislation that will further enrich the already great num- Der of the purse proud element of these United States
 I shall always be opposed to tariff that will not benefit the wage earners of my state, and by legislation enact ed by the republican party for the
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-11-03
ELECTRIC RAILWAY
 EMPLOYES RESIST
 COMPANY "UNION'

Buffalo, N. Y, Nov. .3.-Interna- tional officers and district officials of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees between the Atlantic and the Missis- sippi river attended a conference in this city in behalf of striking street car men who are resisting the in installation of the company union
 Thomas E. Mitten, of, the Philadel- phia Rapid Transit Company, is be- hind the fight against the unionists, who refer to this particular. company union" as Mittenism.
 The visiting trade unionists assured members of their union on strike in Buffalo that funds would be forthcom- ing
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-11-03
BOAT CAPTAINS TO
 WALK OUT UNLESS
 WAGES ARE RAISED
Shippers of Tidewater and Grain Yes sels Demand Increase in
 Wages.

1 New York, Nov. 3-A strike oi F, 900 captains of tidewater and grain boats and decl, scows which would
 greatly complicate the serious situa-
 ton now facing New York i'll the handling of the winter supply of coal IS threatened Union leaders declare that the only way such crisis can
 be ayerted is for the boat owners to meet the demand of the captains for an increase Tn wages. The wages now are said to be from $65 to 500 a month. The demand Is for $IIo a month for all captains. with $I.5o ex- tra for night, Sunday, or holiday work
 The hall of the International Long shoremen's Association, Io4 E1ev- enth avenue, was crowded Sunday afternoon with tidewater, boat cap tains called together by John Slete, chairman of Local SAY, to hear a re- port of the special committee which has endeavored for the last month to boat owners Acting with this com mittee are Joseph Ryan, vice-presi- dent of the International Longshore- mems Association, and Walter Holt, chairman of the District Council of the Longshoremen.
 Many of the delegates to the meet ing urged in speeches from the floor, that the men go out on strike on November I, unless the boat owners agreed to their demands before that time. Sentiment of the meeting, ac- cording to union leaders, was decided ly in favor of strike on November I, but finally the advice of the leaders prevailed to wait until after Novem- Der 8, when conference will be had with representatives of the Coal Merchants Association.
 MT. Ryan said that the New York Boat Owners Association had not only refused to meet with the com mittee, but had advised it's members not to deal with the union at all. The Coal Merchants Association, Mr. Ryan said, is the only organization that has consented to meet with the union committee to discuss a wage agreement. Represented in this asso- caition, he said, are all the big coal companies.
 There is no agreement at present between the union and \ the boat owners. MT Ryan said that two years ago the tidewater boat captains were paid $IIo month, but that since that time the pay has been greatly re- duced
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-11-03
GOMPERS HERE FOR BIG MASS MEETING SUND Y
LIVING WAGE DENIED BY R. R.
 LABOR BOARD
Says if Living Wage Were Granted
 to Employees It Would Bank rupt Railroads.

bor s Board @ has declared that that a living
 wage is "a bit of melAuous phrase. ology, we'll calculated to deceive the | minimizing" The board says that if a living wage were granted transporta- tion employees 1t would bankrupt the
 railroads.
 The decision was made in connec- ton with the demand of maintenance of-way employees to raise ninimum rates of B and 35 cents an hour The board gave these workers an addition al two cents an hour mainly because rates in private industry justified it. Az O.. Wharton, labor member of the board, dissented from the ruling that the living wage is "an elusive thing" He asserted that rates of pay in private industries of similar char acter should be made of secondary consideration, and the prime factor to be considered is whether rates fixed were just and reasonable, which meant an adequate and living wage under the transportation act.
 He maintained that the board should not consider private industries as basis for setting a living wage. Added labor costs, he said, would be dDSoIOCd AdA SC Poil Dy 4AS1Sco@a efficiency of the men and by manager sial ability. # .s4 ; The majority opinion attacked the budget method of determining what should be a living wage, and made this attempt to create the impression that advocates of a living wage would hold the workers to that minimum:
 That 1t would be wise and practi- cal to undertake to establish an arbi- trary standard of living for several millions of persons is not apparent. That the desires and requirements of all men are equal and alike Is not cor rect, and that any committee of ex- perts could set up an average living standard upon which a wage scale could be practically based has not been demonstrated anywhere"
 The majority decision means that the Railroad Labor Board merely registers what is the prevailing wage standard on the outside. regardless Of living conditions or the effect on rail- road employees. If a trust can succeed in smashing unionism and thereby grind it's employees to the lowest mark, this will be the standard for the Railroad Labor Board, according to the decision. <.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-11-03
PROFITS IN, SIMPLIFYING.

New York, Nov. 3.-Would the sme1ter trust plead pauperism if ask ed to pay a higher wage rate?
 This trust, known as the American Smelling & Refining Company, Simon Guggenheim, president, is advertising as a matter of record, a bond issue of $7,5oo,ooo and bearing about 5H per cent interest. To show that it can meet all requirements this interesting information is given:
 During the past IoH years the company has charged off to deprecia- tion and depletion $37,651, 1,33o.82, and has paid $77,25o,244.35 in cash divi- dends."
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-11-03
Government by Law
 Ignored by Judge

Columbus, Ohio, Nov .3.-Federal Judge Sater illustrated what organ 7zed labor means when it demands government by law when .he sen fenced two men to jail for 90 days for making sarcastic remarks about a group of strikebreakers in railroad coach.
 The men were not accused of vio- lating law, and were denied trial by jury. The court considered the men did wrong It is his personal opinion. There, is no law to sustain him.
 When trade unionists oppose gov ernment by injunction, toryminded persons accuse them of demanding license to violate law"
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-11-03
WANT ONE DAY OFF.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Nov. B. Organized fire fighters in this city are urging the provincial government to establish fire department hours simi- lar to the Province of Ontario. The Ontario act provides that every sm- ploye of fire department shall have 24 hours absence from duty every week. Where the double platoon sys- tenn operates, the "A hours release at the change of platoons shall not De regarded as day off duty.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-11-03
MILLIONS IN OIL.

Philadelphia, Nov. .3.-In advertis- ing the sale of $35,ooo,o 900 5 per cent gold bonds the Gulf Oil Corporation of Pennsylvania states that it's clear profits after interest, taxes, depletion, depreciation, etc, have been paid "have not been less than $o,ooo, ,ooo in any one year during the past five and one-half years to June 30, 1922"
 It is stated that profits for the first six months of the current year are in excess of the total clear profits for the entire year of 1921.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-11-03
, AIDING SHOP MEN.

San Francisco, Nov. 3.-Officers of the State Federation of Labor are re- ceiving contributions for striking shop men. At the recent convention of the state body 1t was recommended to all unions in the state that assessments be levied or contributions made equivalent to 25 cents per member per week
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-11-03
GOVERNOR IN CONSPIRACY

Charles Town,> w. Va, Nov. B. Governor Morgan has conspired to crush union activities in West Vir- ginia, declared Attorney Townsend, counsel for organized miners on trial here, The attorney dared the gov- ernor to permit an investigation of contributions to his campaign fund.
 Judge Woods sustained the miners objections to being prosecuted by the coal owners, and ordered the county prosecutor to take charge.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-11-03
REJECT WAGE CUT.

East Liverpool, Ohio, Nov. B. Members of the National Brother hood of Operative Potters in the san itary trade have rejected their em- p1oyers' wage cut demands. The em- ployers first asked for 20 per cent cut, which they later changed to 10 per cent cut.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-11-03
MASS
President O'Meara
 Tells Some Truths
 About Candidates
MRS. WHITNEY IS
 NEW HAVEN RESIDENT
Rv acrident tMrs Tosenha Wh;

By accident, Mrs. Josepha Whit ney, candidate for Senator in the Ninth District, was given a resi- dence in Hartford, while as a mat ter of fact she Is resident of this city and has been for many years, where she has made a host of friends who will support her loyal y at the polls on Tuesday next, irrespective of party affiliations. Mrs Whitney will carry to the office wealth of experience, which will be highly profitable to her con stituents. .,.t.s.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-11-03
RAIL EXECUTIVES TO GO ON

New York, Nov. 3.-Chairman Guy Ter of the Association of Railway Ex- ecutives denies that the rail managers will divide into groups, although some of the activities of the association will be divided.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-11-03
WiH Discuss Issues of the Poi> cal
 Car,1paigr at the Hyperion Theatre
Hon. Thomas J. Spellacy, Hon David E. FitzGer- aid, and Other Speakers Will Be Present and
 Outline Labors Interest in
 Tuesdays Election.

At the Hyperion Theatre Sunday night the of this will the unusual advantage of having the of listen of speakers dscusse the of the political than whom forcefuly with authority. And the people it themselves hear what these speakers have have that is of vital mport to their and future welfare.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-11-03
FUR WORKERS GAIN.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Nov. 3.-Organiz- ed fur workers have secured an agree ment with manufacturers in this city, the first in two years.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-11-03
PROFITS IN, POWDER.

Wilmington, Del, Nov. 3-The Hercules Powder Company has de- clared a stock dividend of 100 per cent.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-11-03
DUST ONE MAN CARS.

Toledo, O., Nov. 3.-The common council has prohibited fte use of one man street cars in this city. Too dangerous, the city dads aver.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-11-03

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The Connecticut labor news., 1922-11-03

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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-07
CHAPTER XII
LiIith PLAYS Her Game

Molly stood at the door. with the boys
grouped about her, till his~ stiff figure
vanished from sight. then she broke
down into bitter sobbing.
"What shall we do:--oh, what shal!
we dog
The boys were greatly distressed /:
Molly crying Molly. who was always
so brave, who hardly ever shed tear !;
they tried clumsily to comfort her.
Don't cry. old girl; we'll manage
somehow. Don't worry about the old
beast! l jolly well hope he gets run
over, or breaks his neck
Molly laughed.
"You mustn't say that, but sss but
I did think he would have asked what
we were going to do, or IT he could
"Help! I should think so," said Ned
disgustedly. He'd never help US II We
were all starving"
yard" one Of the other boys said
abruptly. "He put lovely wreath on
the guv'nor's grave, too. jolly decent
of him, ] think"
There was Il monlcntary eagerness IN
Molly's fearful eyes.
did he? Yes. that was kind. That's
more than the vicar did, or any one else.
and they knew father, and Mr.. Harden
didn't >,
''Fe isn't half II lad sort Ned said.
81 think he would have como in to sec
you only rather chokcd him of,
didn't think you'd want to be bothered
with him today
II shouldn't have minded Molly
said. w.,
She would like to have seen John
Harden. -,
"Where did he go?" .,
"He went in next door," Francis tolt
hcr-"to Mrs. Fernald's.'
"Oh!' said Molly shortly.
When presently she peepcd from the
window she saw Harden walking ur
and down with Mrs. Fernald.
Lilith wore white frOck and Grim
son rose in her waistbelt, and her beau
tiful face was shaded by hat Of some
soft black material.
II am so glad you have Gomez sh'
was saying softly. II was longing fol
company. Alec il asleep; this is one OF
his bad days" She looked up ut him
81 am really a very lonely person. She
told him with smile.
$50 am J." said Harden. llc thought
of the big empty rooms at Manor
Dyke. "I've just Been to Mr.. Danger
fields funeral" he added quickly, rs il
to change the conversation.
Iilith's eyes. changed.
Have you! How very good Of you.'
coNrrNuEn ToMoRnow
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-07
CHAPTER XI
Dark DAYS

In the years that followed Molly al.
ways said she grew up" during the
few days Immediately after her fathers
death.
There was so much to see to, so
many responsibilities which she had to
shoulder.
After The first bitter outburst of grief
shd anger. Mrs. Dangerticld went bacl;
70 her couch and declined to be dis
turhed.
=. Settle everything rs you like, !ut
!eave me alone,' she said to any one who
%as Iold enough to ask her opinion. Sine
arahk great deal of tea in those days.
Snl read more novels than ever in ner
NE before. She cried over most of them
cotlously; she told Molly that they re-
minded her painfully Of the way her
cwn husband had made love to her in
'neir courting days.
He was such mastcrful man," she
ssiG' ,gulping down sob. ~ always
sa'a ! would marry mastcrful man,
!" never marry at allI
Molly made no comment. She Won
sered II her mother ever remembered
~" a"w many times she had referred to
me dead Henry as a "domineering
July how many times she had
s'eamed at him that she would not
eordered about; how many times In
nl ot rage she had declared that the
v'st days work she ever did was when
M ~ married him. But apparently all
Ms was forgotten now; she spoke OF
'h us u he had been a model husband,
,Iom,sht OF romance, and the boys and
sy avoided looking ut one another,
~1S Nentured no contradiction.
cue steadily refused to go into mourn.
~ Jour father hated to see me In
! will not wear it," she declared
and AZ she seldom left the
SSSsnit mattercd very little.
3W"'Ss ncrSrs 'rr"r 'r"r'civ tried In
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-19
LOCAL EVENTS I'm MUSIC

Piano-Narch from Faust. krug
Nathan Levy
Dance-Water Nymphs
Dorothy Granger
Nocal-Forgotten .......... CoWels
Jaunita Calendar
Piauo-Pomponnetre ..-... Durand
Jeanette Cohen
Vocal-Pale Moon .-....-.. Logan
Mildred smith
Thru ........Penn
Nelms Iseman
........ Dennee
Louise Kelly
Vocabulary Night .--..... Grace
Allah ............ Chadwick
Jeanne Champagne
Piano-Amaryllis-OId Dance
Air by King Louis TIII
Arranged by Gonaerts
Margaret Ort
Vocal-Rose In the Bud .... Forster
Carol Hager
Piano-Hymn 20 the Mountains
............- -......- Tyrgoe
Torjussen
Marie Schafer
Vocal-Duet Whispering Hope
.............. Hawthorne
Mrs. Bessie Hamilton Nelma Iseman
Piano" Martha" Flotow-DOrn
\erniCe Simpson
NocaI-Respouse Mary Helen BrOv&
Florence StrOm
Vocal-O Moon upon the Water
.......N ...... Cadman
Marie Klnkoff
Piano-2nd Nalse ...... Durand
Trella Rough
NocaI-Italian Duet .-.... COmpana
Julius Niedbalslli. Miss Hazel Harris
Arrangements have been virtually
completed for the s.. Joseph County
Music Memory contest 70 be held IN
the south Bend High school auditor
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-19
The Sparkle
HLASH-what a sudden blaze OF
Il light

HLASH-what sudden blaze of
K light
y Sparkle-look, it falls straight
in through the taxicab door.
Now it's dancing along the street.
Someone's having fun with the
passers- by-somebody up in one of
the windows of one OF the demure
hoUses-someone with a looking
glass in the hand.
Didn't YOU ever do IT yourself
sit and flash the light up and down
the street. and watch the different
ways il affected different people?
Look az that old gentleman! He's
furious If he had his way. he'd
smash that mirror into dozen
pieces and send the person who IS
holding il, TO Jail for six months.
Why?
Oh. he thinks It's an insult or a
slight 20 his dignity and that is the
one thing he can never endure! Ma
tions may fail worlds may be
broken into bits-even rents may
rise and the price Of food go up
nothing worries him except his own
There's a woman. She's TOO
cross TO look up, even when the
mirror shines straight in her face
Yet if she did look up. perhaps she
would see a laughing child and
find her day the brighter for the
sight
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. a gay place
it makes of the stupid street.-The
little laughing glance OF the mirror
and the sunshine,
II makes me think Of one I know
and love so very dearly-one who IS
always quiet and demure 20 the out
err eve. But look close-there, did
YOU catch that CLEAN Of the eyes :?
Something laughed somewhere and
was glad.
Something kind and friendly
something patient and tolerant
something that believes in what IS
good and true and right-no matter
how hard the grim old world tries
20 tell another story.
He's a quiet mantle one OF
whom I speak But some day when
] he says go0d-by and turns that quiet
. face OF his 20 another outlook on
another world. Wen all be surprised
90 see what myriads or friends he
left behind him
Rich friends and poor friends
men and women-children-
/ and dogs. too. He never can pass a
/ dog without the sparkle
I I'm glad I saw the dancing light
I in the dull street this morning Il
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