The Connecticut labor news., 1922-01-20
LABOR TAKES BIG
 SHARE IN ESSAYS
 FOR LARGE PRIZE
Hart, SChaffner & Marx Contest Brings Forth Much Economic
 Discussion.


 The importance of the labor move mcnt in the economic life of the Unit ed States Is emphasized by the fact that two of the SIX studies awarded prizes or honorable mention i'll the Hart, ,Schaffner X Marx essay con test for 1921 dealt directly with labor subjects, while three of the others contained extensive chapters devoted to the influence of labor on particular industries.
 The one which will be on greatest interest to most union men is the study entitled The Attitude of the American Federation of Labor To- ward Legislation and Politics." by Miss Mollie Ray Carroll, Ph. D., As sociate Professor of Social Science of Boucher College, Baltimore. This essay received honorable mention i'll the Class A division.
 This study details the growth and progress of the Federation since its founding in 1881; and deals under Standingly with it's development along craft rather than political lines. The trade union and social legislation de sired by the Federation are analysed in detail The study IS especially in teresting because of the clear way i'll which 1t explains and why the labor movement i'll America has developed so differently from that of European countries where direct political action has been the goal.
 The study on "Conditions of Elm ployment in the United States Postal Service" by Harry Nadell an under graduate of Harvard University, which received honorable mention in Class B, IS another i'll which labor will be greatly interested. It shows how the postal service, underpald as it is, forces those who take 1t up to remain in 1t because the very nature of their work tends to unfit them for other lines of endeavor.
 It is also shown that postal clerks and carriers suffered greatly as a re- suit of high prices during the period of imitation. Their wages were very tardily advanced, but the author now secs brighter outlook as result oi the downward trend of living costs, as he does not believe wages are likely to be reduced i'll the Federal service. It is pointed out that there is hostility between the employees or ganizations and the postal author ities, and number of instances where the men seem to have been discriminated against are detailed.
 The workingman, i'll his role Of ultimate consumer" will find much to interest him i'll the essay entitled The Theory of Consumption" which won the 1000 first prize ill Class A. This study, a very comprehensive one, was made by Miss Hazel Kyrk, Ph D., an educator of note now en- gagged in research work.
 Charles Stillman Morgan, Ph. D., economist, in the Bureau of Va1ua- ton, Interstate Commerce Commits sion, won the second Class A prize of $500 with a study entitled "The Regulation and Management of Pub lie Utilities," in which the analysis of the labor factor plays a promin ent part
 The first prize of $500 in Class B went to Paul T. Nutting of Oberlin College for a study on Public Prob fems of Bituminous Coal" and the second Class B prize of $2oo went to William John Schultz of Columbia University for his study on "Six Years of Imitation"
 The judges who passed on the merits of the manuscripts submitted, were: Prof. J. Laurence Laughlin, of the University of Chicago; Prof. J. B. Clark, of Columbia University; ,he late Prof. Henry C. Adams, of the University of Michigan; Prof. Edwin F. Gay, former professor of economies and dean of the School of Business Administration of Harvard University and now president and ed itor of the New York Evening Post; former United States Senator Theo- dorc F.. Burton.