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The Connecticut labor news., 1922-09-01
GEO. |. FOX BOBS
 UP AGAIN WITH AN
 ATTACK ON SCHOOL
Private Schoolmaster Revives Old Attempt to Have Tuition
 Charged.

Schoolmaster George L. Fox, New Haven and Connecticut's chief and self-appointed custodian of the educa- tional affairs of the state, broke out again this week when, before the board of finance in New Haven, he reiterated his annual demand that a tuitoin fee of $40 a year at least on all pupils in the public high school. Fox conducts private tutoring school and if the tuition fee was charged in the public schools his own fees would probably go up accord ingly.
 Fox appears in opposition to every liberal educational bill presented either before the legislature or the New Haven city boards. He has argued on everything retroactive from abolishing free text books to reducing the teachers salaries and has made himself nuisance to many people by his attitude. The annual appropriations for New Haven were MT. Fox demanded aside from the teachers pay at least 10 per cent, cutting off free text books in the high schools, to do away with the compul- sory assessment for new schools yearly and to reduce and limit the total appropriations for schools.
 His attitude got a rise out of Mayor FitzGerald and the Rev. MT. Foster, the former declaring that So per cent of the pupils in the high schools are children of workers who must get an education that way and are entitled to 1t and he had no sym pathy with MT Fox nor his remarks Rev. Mr. Foster went further and was challenged to a debate through the press on the subject.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-09-01
PUT SKIDS UNDER SEN. M'CAHEY FOR
 AID TO UNIONS
Senator From Tenth District, How < ever, Erases Strikebreaker
 From Ticket.

Senator Hugh McCahey, of the Tenth district in New Haven, who was one of Labor's chief supporter. ip the fight against the anti-strike bill in the last legislature, was properly punished for his actions when the Ullman roadroller in New Haven at the city convention, last night, neatly and decisively rolled over the senator and busted him for a renomination. McCahey had seen it coming, how ever, and has announced himself as a candidate for county sheriff and IS all ready poking a thorn or two into the Ullman faction and his supporters predict that he will be nominated
 Even though busted as senator, Senator McCahey didn't lose his grip. In fact he insisted on being chairman of the convention, and making the and although Colonel Ullman rushed had hise way. Nathan Reback, a young attorney, was nominated and in a strongly democratic district peopled mostly by railroad men many of whom are now out on strike, seems to be due for a beating In fact Senator McCahey is the second re- publican ever to land in the district
 McCahey, who is an old union bricklayer, showed he still had the spirit of organization in him when the caucus in the ward in which he lives was held Tuesday night When the ticket was made up and approved McCahey learned that strikebreaker had been nominated The caucus was over but that didn't feaze McCahey and he promptly took an eraser and plotted out the name
 Colonel U1lman protested and sug- gested substitute.
 There can be no substitute for a dead man, said McCahey, land that man is dead-politically anyway" He had his way and instead of three delegates to the nominating conven- ton the ward was represented by only two.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-09-01
 COMBINE FAILS TO
 DUST CHAIRMAN
Ullman-K King -Healy Faction Unable to Stage Big Come
 back

The republicans of Connecticut had their caucuses this week and they were fully as lively in rows as were the democratic primaries held the week before, the efforts of the Ull- man-Healy-King coterie to oust J. Henry Roraback as chairman of the state central committee making fur fly in many towns of the state. The efforts, judging from the returns, were a failure and J. Henry will con tinue to head the committee, if he desires to do so, after the next state convention. The fight was especially bitter in New Haven, where Ullman controls, and held his own, but lost many of the nearby towns. Tn Bridgeport, where John T. King staged a comeback in the city but dropped most of the county, and up above Hartford where Frank Healy, attorney general now, was able to carry only his own home town, Windsor Locks. Dopesters say as a result of the fight Roraback will have at least 24 and possibly more of the state central committeeman with him.
 It was a straight out and out fight for control of the committee with the forces lined up openly. In New Ha- ven Colonel Ullman's well oiled ma chine carried nine-tenths of the city while the Roraback men, under E. J. Coffey, tried to dismantle the colonel. They frankly expected a beating and got it but professed to be but just starting an organization that will be working as perfectly as the colonel's by next year when the town commit tee is at stake and be able by that time to make better showing.
 John T. King. had little trouble in coming back in Bridgeport where his party has been pretty well shot since he dropped leadership a few years ago. Former Mayor and Lieut. Gov. Wilson was out, against him but Cliff has been out of the l1melight lately and Kings former supporters rallied to him. King also carried Greenwich where he was formerly strong also, but that's as far as he went.
 Hcaly's showing upstate was dis appointment to the other anti-Rora back men. They expected Healy to clean up the districts thereabout Among prominent republicans the feeling prevailed, however, that con trol of the state should not be turned over to the anti-Roraback combina- ton and they made that impression felt
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-09-01
WOMEN ATTEND STRIKERS MEETINGS
 HEAR FACTS OF SITUATION AND GIVE
 STRIKERS CHEER BY THEIR ENDORSEMENT
Failure of Big Four Chiefs to Bring About Settle ment Does Not Discourage New Haven Men Who Are Sticking Firmly to Strike De- spite Reports of Road Officials.
 "Waiting Game" Now on
 Both Sides

Instead of being dshearened the and families of the striking shopmen the New Haven road determined than that their folks will the strike good and a they, the womenolk have for time while the fight continues This amply determined
 meetings held New Haven and elsewhere along the New Haven which the womenfok attended be than 300 being the held Music Hall
 New Haven Wednesday morning They had been receiving the daily from strikers individually be expected realize the full of the struggle fully and when they determination stick by the thousands they joined heartily with them and urged them the fight This spirit the of their folks did
 to hearten the than anything could have done of them actually about home affairs and how families feeling about it. Now they know the railroad fight to the bitter end will surely from the New Haven
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-09-01
Striking Trainmen
 Ask for Prayers

Roodhouse, H., Sept. Firmly believing their action in refusing to move trains is righteous, members of the rail unions at Roodhouse have asked the Roodhouse preachers to pray for them and have opened two of their mass meetings with invoca- tions.
 Rev. C. C. Crow of the Christian church opened the mems meeting with prayer. In the gathering were other c1ergymen, including Rev. John s. Brinkham of the Baptist church, who has promised to pray at the next meeting.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-09-01
UNIONS MAY PUNISH
 DISLOYAL MEMBER,
 TEXASCOURT HOLDS
Right of Brotherhood to Discipline Is Sustained nj Recent
 Proceeding.

Austin, Tex, Sept I'm an inn portant decision establishing new legal rule covering all striking labor ganizatoins, Federal Judge J. C. Hutcheson, of Austin, has just hand ed down a written decisoin upholding the right of the Brotherhood of Rail way Carmen of America to expel, fine, and otherwise punish individual members who refuse to comply with the unions strike order.
 The right of the striking shop crafts to try and punish scabbing members under their own laws was contested by the attorneys for the Southern Pacific Railroad. The at torneys had already secured an in junction preventing the striking shop crafts from 'ipterfering with inter state commerce. and the carrying of United States mails" although no such interference has arisen from the acts. of the unions or their members. The railroad attorneys held that the disciplining of union members who are now scabbing for the railroads would violate this injunction.
 In denying the railroads conten- ton, Judge J. C. Hutcheson decided:
 eff the proceedings be, as stated in the said application, conducted Tn ac- cordance with the regularly estab- lished rules of the lodge, existing be- fore the injunction went into effect, and the trial be conducted fairly and impartially in accordance with the es tablished rules and regulations of said order, there will be nothing in viola ton of the injunction order"
 This important decisoin applies not only to the carmen but will act as legal precedent in determining similar cases arising in this and future labor struggles.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-09-01
Women Riot In R. R. Shop Strike

Readville, Mass, Sept. Mrs. Annie Demazario, wife of a striking railroad shopman, was arrested ana charged with assault and battery on persons unkonwn during riot which broke out when 12o strike sympath- izers stoned workers as they were leaving the New York, New Haven & Hartford yards Railroad and local police restored order.
 The women in the crowd were the worst offenders during the stone throwing, the police said.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-09-01
VIOLENT ACTS TO DIS TURB RAILROAD
 TRAFFIC

(From the New Jersey "Freie
 Zeitung," Newark, N. J)
 The less Sam Gompers has to say about the railroad strike, the better it will be for the working man. The good MT. Gompers, with his British inclinations (dur- ing the years of war he partici- pated quite strongly in the bait ing of the Germans), is hardly a man to obtain friends for the striking laborers. His desire for power is as great as his vanity, which makes him believe that he is still playing an important role in the labor movement.
 He honors President Harding with his special hatred for the reason that the President has shown the door to this eternally querulous man.
 However, these attacks of the good MT. Gompers-who, as a matter of principle criticises ev- erything that President Harding says and does while he has all ways praised what MT. Wilson, who is so similar to him in char acter, has done-will only have as the necessary consequence putting in the right light, the Presidents well considered and quiet way of acting and speaking.
 The right to work the Presi- dent maintains, is guaranteed by the constitution, and also the right to stop working; and these rights will be maintained in spite of MT. Gompers. This view is also entertained among the shop men as 1t appears from the for nation of the company unions which are independent of the Federation of Labor. Only with in the last few days such unions
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-09-01
Use Subsidized German Language Paper to Practically Oh a r g e Gompers and Other Leaders With Treas on Against Country and Treachery to Workers.

Germany during and before the war, resorted to some of the most insidious propaganda ever known of to influence the minds of America against its enemies m the World War but for dirty. vicious and absolutely untruthful and underworld methods to give the public generally and the strik- ing shopmen especially a false idea of the real causes of the strike and its method of conduct Germany will have to take back seat to the railroad executives of the country. They have now even resorted' to adopting a Ger man language paper published in Newark, N J., and from the ten- or of the articles undoubtedly subsidized to spread their nefari- ous doctrine and are spreading it by mail to banks, businessmen, public at large and even among the strikers to disrupt the latter's loyalty
 In their latest effort, failing to start anything among the men be- fore, they stoop to an attack on President Gompers and other Labor leaders, practically charg- ing them with disIoyalty to the country and treason to the men they represent. Gompers neg lect to kow tow at the throne of President Harding is held up as a scheme to embarrass the admin istration and the whole thing is so foul and so unfounded that the workers must pay no attention to 1t. Not as a means of spreadire this propaganda but simply to show to the strikers to what depths the railroad executives will stoop, The Labor News re- prints the latest efusion from the
 Erie Zeitung'' of Newark and if that isn't Germany at its worst personihed then nothing ever war. It follows:
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-09-01
Big Brick Plants
 Increase Wages

Huntingdon, Pa, Sept. 1.-Begin- ming today three brick plants of Mount Union will increase the wages of all classes of their employees. They are the Harbison Walker Co.,, the General Refractories Co.,, and the United States Refractories Go. La borers who have been receiving $2, 70 day will receive $50, and all skilled workmen will d receive advance wages accordingly.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-09-01
HUGE COPPER PROFITS.

New York, Sept. I.-Profts of $323,2o3 for the second quarter of the year are reported by Utah Cop per Company. During the same pc riod last year deficit of $58o,oo5 was reported.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-09-01
Men Win ''Open"
 Shop By WalkOut

Brockton, Mass, Sept. I.-Edge- makers employed in the Joseph F. Corcoran Shoe Company's factory here went on strike this week de- manding an open shop, in SO far as ventilation was concerned. Every time they opened a window the fore man closed it. The operatives won, and with the windows open, returned to their benches.
 is doing everything in it's power to keep up the bluff. The holiday rush will tell, 1t IS expected
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-09-01

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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-11-25
ut i-Lynching Sentiment
asst Gaining Ground

Atlanta, Ga, Nov. ii. Especial to
THE APPEAL).-That there has
been surprising increase of anti
lynching sentiment in Georgia re-
Gently and growing determination
on the part of Georgia people that
the sanctity of the law must be up
held, was clearly indicated in reports
made to the State Committee on
Race Relations in its recent semi
annual meeting in this city.
1t was pointed out that during the
present year twenty-five indictments
have been returned against alleged
lynchers and four convictions Sc
cured, carrying pententiary SEN
fences. Fifteen of these cases are
still to be tried. most of them on the
charge Of murder, besides a number
of damage suits growing out of in
iuries and losses inflicted by mobs.
In one lynching case both the deputy
sheriff and the chief of police are
under indictment. 49, ..-. e
81 The significance Of these facts was
by the statement that in
The 81 years ending with 1921 there
had been 430 lynchings in Georgia
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-11-25

,basks and revels, but where! is his
heart and sympathy. Is he gloating
as America guards the gates" and
fires undying hatred into the Yellow
people or is he unmindful of the ef-
fects and merely considers it as the
"order, of the day." - j
The black man has some part to
play again in the affairs of the world
and maybe he will be called upon
when the "yellow peril' grips the
white world. This same black man
may not always rally to the colors
and he may not always rest content
ed with the abuses and discrimina-
ton of the American government.
The Japanese are not allowed in this
country as citizens and the black man
- allowed here with no voice in tn.
government and very little; share IL.
US unallured joys. How far distap.
is the upheaval we do not know, but
it is coming and with the ee'rising tide
of color" it will be hard to figure the
American black man out of it. The
Japs are barred from without, but
the blacks are within like the Greek
horse perhaps.-(The Chicago Whip,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-11-25

fore US day by day, forever beckon-
ing with it's tomorrows and Turing us
with big events just around the cor
ner from today-it would seem that
that gripping panorama ought to hold
US all in cur seats upon this planet.
We may be forsaken, we may be cold,
sick, unlove1y and unloved, and yet
it would seem that the daily story of
life about US, the great tragic events
that are looming before US in Eu-
rope and in. Asia, and the great COM
edy that should cramp our sides with
anguished laughter here in America,
should hold US tightly upon the
planet: Yet 10000 of us have VOL
unfairly got up and walked out, left
the show cold and fat, and for what :?
Perhaps they are going to the big
show, perhaps they are only going to
bed. But they are missing mighty
good thing, nevertheless. The spin
ming world never before has held so
much to charm the eye and engross
the soul as it holds today. :. ~
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-11-25

Armistice Day appeal to the Presi-
dent to recommend the bill in his
message to the session as attribute
to the colored American soldier dead.
Then Friday morning the league tele-
o,raphed, Just prior to the meeting Of
the cabinet to hear the rough draft
Of the message on Friday, to Vice
President Coolidge of Massachusetts,
Secretary Of War Weeks of Massa-
ohusetts, Attorney General Daugh-
erty and Secretary of State Hughes
who had just taken up the lynchings
Of Mexicans in Texas, asking each
to urge the President to include the
Over bill in the message. It also
telegraphed President Harding in.
referring to the state department in
tervening for foreigners. -.
T. Last night the league held mass
meeting in the Columbus Avenue A.
NJ. E. Zon church to hear Secretary
Trotter reorpt on the audience with
the President on November 4 when
the petition for his naming the Dyer
bill in his cali for the extra session
with 10000 signers from nearly 80
states was presented bv a league
delegation of eight. securing his as
surance of aid to the bill.
The audience endorsed the repoY
md voted q telepraphic appeal to
Senator Lodge which was sent this
morning and read as follows:
"Mass meeting of YOUR supporters
,,nder auspices Of Equal RIGHTS
League in Zion church last NIGHT
voted to ask you as chairman of the
order of business committee and Re.
publican leader to do =, your utmost
fer Dyer bill beino considered first
and continuously till enacted. Mex.
lean cases, Louisiana Ku Klux show
need Imperative" IN. A. N. Shaw
President.
If the President does not name the
bill in his MESSAGE, league urge.
race to at once petition line to recon-
mend it in regular message unless il
IS nassed at special session. r..
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-11-25

was never applied to the higher types,
but to Guineas, Sudanese and Sene-
canadians only.
tc) It's derivatives, 'negroism, 7"
negrofy," and its compounds, negro
head, negro-fy, negro-monkey, are all
clearly In their associations, degrad-
ing. 800
(dJ It's feminine form, .negress,,
is justly and correctly used to define
your wife and daughter and sweet
heart, if you favor the use Of the mas
culine term. Is
(e) It has been the word used by.
the Southern whites for two centuries,
when formally speaking or writing
about an unworthy or criminal man or
woman OF the race. For when he
speaks of the worthy he invariably
says "cOlored.
"a It is not differentiated in the
mind and thought of the whites from!
their favorite and generally used
lamOng themselves) terms, negro
and niger"
I'D As stated BY an eminent Japa-.
nese diplomat It has an unquestioned
influence IN cutting us OF from the.
thought, sympathy and desperation OF
millions OF colored Africans, ASH
atics and islanders Of the yonder
world
Very truly yours,
OWEN N. WALLER, Ii. b.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-11-25
REASONS FOR RIOTS

Al1~seven Twin City dailies carried
a seven-column "streamer" over the
stories Of two recent crimes in which
Negroes" were the offenders.
Every one, except the so-called
radical daily "played up" the word
Negro or "black"- in the headlines
and sub-heads. The stories were
highly colored and garnished with
choice imaginings of the reporter,
and, especially in the Minneapolis
case of assault and robbery, were
well calculated to make real mans
blood bell.
But some mysterious something
shut up the St. Paul case. On the
second day not line appeared, in
spite Of the fact that the story had
taken nearly the whole front page
the day before. And in Minneapolis,
the authorities are still hunting for
the ."Negro" who committed the
crime. ~,
Inc point is not that colored men
did not commit these crimes. Evil
dence seems to prove that they were
guilty g. The point is that crimes
were "played up" all out of proper.
ton to their Importance. The point
ais that the race and color of the
criminals were unduly stressed.
Newspapers, by their very nature
are bound by a great public trust
In matters dealing with this work
aday world they are the Bibles Of the
masses. To quote Prof. David F,
Swenson Of the University of Mime.
sofa, IF the editors do not learn that
this playing up of Negro crime
must stop - = they will wake
up some morning to find that they
have despatched themselves and
their city with blood"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-11-25
WALLER Against "NEGRo.' &c
Noted Brooklyn Doctor Says II Causes
Mental and Physical Segregation.

Seine time ago the following letter
was printed in the New ork News.
It is just as true now as when it was
FIRST printed. az. 8
Sir: cannot too heartily congra-
tulate you on a recent editorial dis.
couraging the use Of the word negro. y
There is no greater delight enjoyed by
the white people Of the United States
today than the spreading use of this
unfortunate term. Why? They real
lie that it is the most potential factor
at work at the present to bring about
both a physical and mental segrega-
ton Of the people OF color. It's use is
on the Increase only because our
speakers and writer's. especially De
sBois and Washlngto felt that It's re-
petition, I'D nauseam. Is necessary to
retain the good win OF the masses.
The term negro" is not only absurd
~ inaccurate as applied to millions OF
scolored people, but It Is also alarm
ingly injurious for the following rea-
sons:
ta) It has never stood historically
or in the present anywhere IN the
world forAanyt kInE noble OF unlifting.
Most high grade Africans repudiate It.
I'D n Africa and out Of Africa Il