The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-16
Union Official
 Addresses Large
 Audience Here
Winners Of Contest Con ducted By Local Print CTS Announced At The Meeting Last Night.

Industrial dictatorship is back of experiencing declared Fred Hewitt Of Washington, editor of the Machin- lsts Journal and an official of the Interna&ional Association of Machin- ists before a mass meeting held last evening in Carpenters hall in Elm street, under the auspices of the Cen trai Labor union.
 Mr. Hewitt, who lives in Washing 1on. ana who is in constant touch
 with the labor movement outlined Ihe struggle of labor from the war 70 rhe present date and prescribed a remedy for the evils of unempIoy- < ment by declaring that a, labor party would have to be formed to see that r 1aoOrS rights were considered.
 He said that the ideal for which the iaIe war was fought has been crush Cd namely democracy. and that when people thought that the much abused E word meant industrial as well as po- E i1tcaI democracy.
 The war was to bring new era; K 3 new light was to shine but it has Hewitt.
 He told of the War Labor Board consisting of five representatives of labor, five of manufacturers and two
 men chosen from public life. which was created by President Wilson to Settle the claims made by labor in an Impartial way. Labor. at the out Eset, he said, laid down the principle of its right to organize and treat as collective body. 1.-The employers and the interests accepted this principle F apparently in good faith, but the ink had scarcely dried on the armistice when they started to attempt to dis organize and rupture labor. The fp1ncip1e of the war no longer pre- walled" he said.
 The American plan was bitterly at lacked and denounced by MT. Hewitt, who declared that it was an ''un- American plan and was only cloak for the open-shop movement; an or gantzed effort to do away with col 1@ctive bargaining" According to the speaker the manufacturers and other allied interests are guilty Of breach of faith and that the Cham Der of Commerce and Manufacturers as sociations favortng this plan are in the plot Of the employers to dominate labor and create an industrial dicta- torship.
 'The present situation and period l of unemployment is a manufactured reason for it with the wealth of this l country equal to the worlds, with nour unlimited resources, with the de- mands for clothing, coal and other willing workers"
 MT. Hewitt laid the Responsibility for the failure of the labor movement to present a united front to the eva 1 sion of responsibility by the individual l laboring man and said that the only cure was for the worker to shoulder /I dicted government ownership of the railroads as the only way out of their l present predfcament.
 In concluding he said: Labor must
 map out a course The world is sick the country is sick and the people are
 sick. It, is the sovereign right of the
 people to control and force is not nec-
 essary to accomplish what we can do by right of suffrage. The worker must use his political power with his
 economic power. The only ray of
 nope is new political party of all | forces of labor to assert their right
 at the polls and to assert them at the 1 coming election this fall The state 1 IS the instrument and servant of the
 people peep and not the people the ser Patrick J. O'Meare, secretary of the ! Connecticut Federation of Labor, and Carl Lang also addressed the meet
 The winners in the Union news
 paper title contest were drawn by a
 committee of three. They are:
 7aE F1rSt WoI1d1 Prize of s5, John Lombard
 Miss c. Artz, 25 Whittier street; third
 prize, Fred A. Whitehead, 251 Frank
 street; fourth, Bertha Cashman, Bo,
 770; fifth. Florence B. Huber, 547 Sea.
 view avenue; sixth. Anna Esposito
 IA High street; seventh, Henry
 Spencer, sos Union avenue; eighth
 Herman Fitelson. 1854 East Mair
 street; ninth. Steven Kremas, 891
 East Main street; tenth, Loretta F
 Donahue, 5S1 Beechwood avenue;
 eleventh. Louise Weishin, 4S6 Berk.
 shire avenue; twelfth Miss Beatrice
 Scheibel, 1494 Seaview avenue: thir-
 teenth, Miss Daily Kelly, 125S Brook
 lawn avenue; fourteenth Mrs Thoma:
 Clarke, Toilsome Hill Road, Fairfield
 Hollister avenue. The prizes will bt
 mailed to the winners today aIons
 withtwe1ve special prizes which were
 awarded for neatness by the judges.