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The Lamar register., 1922-03-29
ELkS MEET
Lodge Initiates Two New Members
and Holds Important Meeting.

Lamar Lodge No. 1919, b. p. o. F.,
held largely attended meeting on
Tuesday evening at which the plans
adopted for financing the new home
and the manner of promoting it were
discussed, and the members were en-
thusiastic over the proposition to build
home OF their own-one that will ac-
commodate the rapidly growing men,
bership of the order and be an induce
ment to others to unite with them.
Two candidates. George Corzine and
Richard o. Horton. had been in cap
tivity for some hours and were pre-
pared and very gently introduced to
the lodge. There being only two Of
them they received the full attention
usually given to large class and are
now full-fledged Elks.
After the impressive ceremonies
lunch was served in the club rooms
and a pleasant evening passed by all
the crowd.
The committee that has the new
home in charge expect to raise the
funds by campaign to be begun at
once and carried forward as rapidly
as possible. As soon as the fund is
raised the plans will be called for and
the home constructed to suit the avail
able funds-not try to raise fund
to suit certain plan of building. The
lodge expects to push the work at
once.
The Lamar register., 1922-03-29
STILL BREAKING p. o. RECORDS
Prowers County Poultry Raisers Max
ing New Records and Then
Breaking Them.

The Register last week stated that
poultry raisers of this section had set
new postoffice record by shipping
105 cases Of eggs on Tuesday of last
week, but this figure has already been
retired to the background. On Satur-
day our poultry raisers loaded the
mails down with 118 crates of eggs
and then came right back again on
Monday of this week with 154 crates
the latter figure being almost one
third of car lot. Over fifty thous-
and eggs in one day is same eggs even
for the busy hers of Prowers county.
The big developments in the poultry
business is also having visible eff
feet on the Lamar postoffice and the
receipts are mounting up rapidly and
it is certain that this will be the re-
cord year for the Lamar postoffice. 1t
may reach the necessary sum to make
this a first-class postofFice, which will
greatly increase its facilities for ac-
commodating the public 1t is sure to
do this in another year if it fails this
time.
The Lamar register., 1922-03-29
Black Locust Trees Thrive.

Jesse o. Wyatt. Lamar Colorado,
purchased 1000 black locust seedlings
in April, 1920, through State Forest
er w. J. Morrill, at Fort Collins. He
reports that 700 Of them are in good
condition and are now six feet tall.
He says: any trees have done fine.
/ have never watered them. l lost
some because did not have enough
ground prepared and set some in new
ground where most of those died"
This brings out the Importance of
planting trees on land that has been
previously cultivated.
The Lamar register., 1922-03-29
keeps Wire Men BUSY.

The storm of last week in the ter
ritory north and west of Lamar was
the most destructive of telephone and
telegraph lines known here in years
On stretches of several miles on the
road between here and McClave there
were only very few poles left stand
ing and the wires were broken in
many places. Both the telephone and
telegraph line crews have been busy
ever since repairing the damage and
the work is not nearly complete yet.
The Lamar register., 1922-03-29
In New Quarters.

Manager s. L. McCloughan of the
local Western Union office has moved
to his new quarters in the rear room
of the Lamar National Bank and is
now handsomely fitted up to accom-
n1odate the public. All the equipment
is new and the office is one of the best
in the valley.
The Lamar register., 1922-03-29

Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Sayler have
the plans drawn and will soon com
mence the work of building a hand
some new home on their present loca-
tion on South Second street. Their
present residence will be moved to a
location in Paseo Place and occupied by
the family during the period of build
ing their new home.
The Lamar register., 1922-03-29

Mrs. Emma Erickson from Missouri
has been visiting with her sister, Mrs.
C. W. McIlvaine, and family at their
ranch north of Lamar.
The Lamar register., 1922-03-29

Ray Christy from Thomas, Okla
homa, has been here the past week
visiting with his brother, R. L. Christy,
and family.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-12
IABORERS' UNION
 REORGANlZES WITH
 MUCH ENTHUSIASM
New Haven Tradesmen Reopen Old Charter and Secure More Than
 200 Members.

New Haven building trades labor CTS to the number of about 15o, showed up at the meeting held in Machinists' Hall on Saturday night last and assisted i'll the restoration ot the Building Trades Laborers' Union, which was sort of "shot to pieces" when the industrial slump hit this section more than a year ago. In addition to those present at the meet ing, more than 100 others have signed the charter list, which was re-opened, and at another meeting to be held within a few days the union will elect permanent officers and get going again.
 While the union has been practi- cally defunct for some months, its charter was never surrendered, sufflc- tent members having held on in hopes of better times, to retain It. 1t IS therefore unnecessary to apply for a new charter and the old one was simply re-opened and enrolment be- gan The response was gratifying to those assisting in the reorganization.
 The meeting was addressed by General Organizer NJ. F. Sullivan ot Brooklyn, in charge of laborers or ganizations, and by Joseph Tone, or ganizer for the Machinists, who has assisted in the local reorganization. After the addresses, temporary chair man, secretary and treasurer were chosen to perfect the reorganization plans and as soon as these have been able to attend to the routine another meeting will be called and the per manent elections held Committees of organization and to aid in inducing others not affiliated with the organ ization to do so were appointed and are now actively at work.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-12
NEW HAVEN IS SEEKING ANNUAL CONVENTION OF
 TRAINMEN BROTHERHOOD
MERIDEN (. L. U. TO
 DISCUSS DISEASES
Will Hold Open Meeting in Co., operation With U. s. Health
 Men on May 2o.
Especial to The Labor News.)

\0PCNA0A AO ! A1@ 0s&DOA ANC"os1
 Meriden, May 12-The Meriden C. L. U. i'll keeping with the advanced policy adopted some time ago of edu eating it's members and the general public not only along organization lines but in matters of general public interest and welfare such as health and community betterment, has ar ranged with the Public Health Serv- ice of the U. $. Treasury department for an open meeting on Monday eve ming, May 20, at 7 o'clock, daylight time, at which the question of vener- cal diseases will be discussel< The exhibition arranged by the public health service and a speaker from that bureau thoroughly conversant with the subject will be at the meeting and a very instructive meeting is assured.
 The meeting will be the first of series of such public meetings to be held by the Meriden C. L. U. in line with its plan to get its members and friends closely in touch with matters of general importance. The disease question to be discussed IS one now, agitating the entire country, as such scourges do every country following great wars. Its seriousness now is great according to health officials, who are gald to co-npeEate with any organizations willing to learn the facts.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-12
BRISTOL SCHOOL
 STRIKE SPREADS.
 ALL WORK STOPS
Efforts of "$1 a Year Man" to Cut Wages Ties Up Entire
 Building.

Bristol, May 12.-With the walk off this week, of the plumbers, plumb CTS apprentices and mason appren- tices, practically all construction work on Bristols new high school came to stop. The strike started several weeks ago when the wages of car penters were cut without warning and they quit Non-union men were employed and the bricklayeTs and laborers refused to work with them and now the plumbers and appren- ticcs have quit, taking all union trades out of the building.
 The plumbers went out Monday and declared they will stay out until all labor difficulties on the building are settled. The plumbers appren- tices did not go out then because the the mason apprentices did not go out with their men but when the brick layers got after their help the youths all quit together on Tuesday.
 The wage cutting was due to the efforts of Albert F. Rockwell, a "$1 year man" to keep the expenses oi erection down to $648,ooo as he esti- mated, when given authority to do the work. At meeting in City Hall Saturday the figures were gone over and it was estimated that even with the slashing attempted, the building cannot be erected within that figure At the time bids were. called for the lowest bid was slightly under a mil lion, but Mr. Rockwell thought it could be done for less and offered to have it built for $o48,ooo
 There is no contract existing be- tween Mr. Rockwell and the city. MT Rockwell simply being given the pow CT 10 erect the school, and to over see the work. He engaged Super intendent Foley, and Mr. Foley brought his assistants along with him to the high school. They, with Pur- chasing Agent Sanford, are on a sal ary, so that it makes no difference to them whether any work is done at the school, so far as their salaries are concerned
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-12
Reds" h1cite Murder and Riots Ln Chicago Ln Ne1u
 Effort to Disrupt t1e American Federation of Labo
Railroads to Seek Further Wage Cut
Will Not Reduce Rates Until Labor
 Is Given Another Slashing.

There will be no reduction in freight and passenger rates unelss the Railroad Labor Board gives assur- ances of further cuts in the wages of railroad employees, according to state ments made by several heads of rail roads who have been invited to the rate conference called by President Harding for May 20. Some of1cails declared that they would take the position that a general rate reduction was not warranted at this time with out a corresponding reduction in wages.
 The executives of one of the large eastern roads declared that if the railroad labor board, which has the wage question under consideration, could give assurance that substantial reductions would be ordered in cases still to be decided, the roads might cut rates in anticipation of such ac- ton.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-12
Master Plumbers
 Elect New Officers
Waterbury Contractor Chosen to
 Head Connecticut Association.

New London, May 12-The Master Plumbers Association, Inc, of Con- necticut wound up it's convention here Wednesday with banquet and the election of officers as follows:
 President, Edward Maloney of Wa terbury; first vice-president, E. R. Tierney of New Haven; second vice president, Howard F. Bryant of Bridgeport; financial secretary, George s. Bull of Hartford; treasurer, Charles U. Neumann of West Haven. Delegates to the national convention, Edward Maloney of Waterbury and A. o. Peterson of New Britain
 resolution was adopted provid- ing for the sending of the incoming president to the national convention in the future instead of the outgoing president as has been the custom This year in order to have the outgoing president attend the convention both he and the new president were select ed as delegates to the convention at Detroit in June
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-12
WHEELER ATTACKS LABOR'S STAND ON
 PROHIBITION LAW
Prohibition Attorney Declares Saloon Headquarters for Meetings in
 Old Days.

Wayne B. Wheeler, legislative superintendent and national attorney for the Anti-Saloon League, who is credited with putting over" most of the prohibition laws now supposedly in effect, in an address. to the annual convention of the Connecticut Anti Saloon League ill New Haven Mon- day night, took a yelled shot at President Samuel Gompers of the A. F. of L. for his opposition to the pro- hibition law, and at Labor generally in the use of liquor i'll the days when liquor could be had without making hypocrite of oneself. Mir. Wheeler practically charged that MT. Gompers did not represent the desires of most laboring men on prohibition and that from the corner saloon" to it's detri- ment and is much better off now when headquarters are in their own meeting rooms. Said Mir. Wheeler
 MT. Gcmpers has always been against prohibition. The rank and file of laboring men, however, in most parts of the country vote dry. Labor has been benefited by prohibition as much as any other class. As long as the saloon was the headquarters for labor meetings, clear thinking and effective planning was impossible Labor has made more effective strikes under prohibition than at any other time
 "When MT Speycr, a wet banker of New York. plays to the prejudices of wet laboring men by claiming that the Nolstead act is class legislation he shows either his unfairness or his ignorance of the law. Prohibition of beverage liquor applies equally to both rich and poc4ss The fact that some wealthy people had more liquor stored in their cellars than the poor when the law went into effect is not to be charged against the law. The rich also have more diamonds and
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-12
TROLLEYMEN AND COMPANY CONFER ON
 WAGE AGREEMENT
No Reduction Expected in View of Enormous Increase in
 Revenue.

The first meeting between the rep resentatives of the Trolleymen's unions of the state and the officials of the Connecticut Company was held at the offices of the company i'll New Haven on Wednesday and nego- tiations for new wage and working agreement to replace the one that will expire on May 31, were started. The session was brief, the trolleymen as in the usual course simply presenting the tentative agreement prepared by their state conference board and the company officials accepting it for re- view before making any counter prop ositoin. Within few days, 1t IS ex- pected, the company will be ready with it's answer and by the month end it is confidently expected that the agreement will have been reached and arbitration not have to be resorted to as was last year.
 There has been much adoo i'll the daily press about the trolleymen re- fusing to again arbitrate because last year the arbitration award went against them. That is absurd because under the rules of the Street Railway dispute anywhere in the country must De SuDl1ltleu to dIDltI dtlOH DeIOIe action can be taken.
 The enormous increase in receipts and reduction in expenses shown in the report of the trolley company made public this week, will probably lead the company officials to with hold any attempt to reduce wages further, it is believed. To attempt and put into effect another wage cut, would certainly result in a general demand for a decrease in fares, whcih the trolley company does not want until it has reaped some more cream and gotten back onto a dividend pay ing basis
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-12
SEW. DAVIS WARNS MANUFACTURERS TO
 STOP WAGE CUTS
Upsets Convention by Also Demand ing Rigid Immigration
 Laws

New York, May I2.-Warning the National Association of Manufactur- CTS in convention here this week, that they must curb their excessive wage cutting and declare an armistice in it's war upon Organized. Labor, James J. Davis, secretary of labor in President Harding's cabinet, sort of upset the equilibrium of the convention and gave 1t another tip when he added that the manufacturers must support a more rigid restriction of immigra- ton instead of seeking to secure cheap foreign help. Said Mir Davis:
 Labor may have had it's fits of arrogance, employers themselves have not been without them, and at pres ent the temptation to employers is to trim their wage scales to the needs of the hungry, unemployed at their gates,' he said.
 Nothing could be a more tragic blunder of short-sightednes even in the business world things are never constant as we would like to make them. Just now the pendulum has swung to the interests of the em- ployer As prosperity returns the pendulum will swing again to the man who works. If you fill him with resentment now he will pay you back in the same coin when he gets the chance.
 "A reductoin of 25 cents per day in the wages of the 4o,ooo, ,ooo laborers in the United States," he declared, would decrease the purchasing power of the nation $Io,ooo,ooo a day-three billion dollars year He presented himself as a champion of the Earn ing and saving wage" Many large employers have been paying it for years, he asserted, enabling labor to pile up resources which helped America survive the worst depres- sion that ever hit it's business"
 The convention listened but in the resolutions adopted didn't promise to comply with the warning or requests The delegates did adopt resolutions condemning the soldier bonus; pledged support of the United States Veterans Bureau in soldier re-habili- tatlon; urged government support of the Merchant Marine; advocated changes in the Federal tax law of 1921; urged that the Stanley bill on patents be defeated in congress; asked coordination of Federal rail road rate revision and labor adjust ments; approved the establishment of national transportation institute at Washington, and condemned "the effort to reduce the army or navy be- low the limits of national safety"
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-12
GLENN E. PLUMB
 REPORTED DYING
Advocate of Government Owned
 Roads, Sinking of Heart Failure.

Washington, May 12-Glenn E. Plumb, counsel for the 1o larger rail road labor organizations and author of the celebrated Plumb Plan" of railroad operation and ownership was declared by his physicians to be dying at his home here today. An an nouncement said his death was mat ter of hours from an affection of the heart.
 MT. Plumb's failing health induced him to cease work with railroad la bor organizations early this spring He was born in Iowa in 1866 and spent much of his active career as a lawyer in Chicago in street railway operation. In 1919 he attained na- tional note by advancing a plan for operation of railroads, then under government ownership, with manage mcnt vested in boards of directors equally representing the public, the executive staffs of railroads, and rail road employees.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-12
ROAD SHOPMEN WIN
 GREAT VICTORY ON
 EARNED OUT WORK
Railroad Labor Board Decides Dou- ble-Crossnig Attempt by
 Roads Illegal.

The affiliated shop crafts on the railroads of the country won a sig nal victory this week, when the Rail road Labor Board handed down a de- cision declaring that practice being adopted by railroads of farming out repair work is illegal and must be stopped. The farming out of the re- pair work in most cases to dummy concerns so as to remove the work CTS from the jurisdiction of the labor board and it's rules, was the most serious dispute affecting the railroads now, and in fact a strike vote is be- ing taken to authorize a waIkout to prevent it's being continued Mean time appeal had been made to the la bor board and it's decision, while made in one case, is to be considered as general and may head off further trouble if the railroads obey it.
 Whether or not 1t had an inside tip as to the forthcoming decision the New Haven road two weeks ago, as told exclusively in The Labor News, stopped its efforts to send it's repair work to outside shops and re-opened it's own shops in New Haven, East Hartford, Van Ess and other places, with a reduced force but this has been steadily added to. The result was the restoration of hundreds of men to work and the probable calling in of thousands of others now that the de- cision is out.
 Under the decision, thousands of formerly railway employees now working for contractors at wages varying from the labor board scale
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The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-12
Delegates at Meeting Now On at Toronto Hope to Bring Big Gathering to Connec- ticut Next Y ar. Wage Hearings Are Resumed at Chicago.

New Haven may be the scene of the next annual convention of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, now meeting in Toronto, Can, if plans and hopes of the membership along the New Haven and other New England lines are agreed with by the convention now in session. The con vention opened in Tornoto on Tues day and got down to business of re- ceiving resolutions Wednesday and yesterday and when the credentials committee reported o6o delegates were seated While Boston is said to be also seeking the convention, the New Haven delegates hope to secure enough support to have the next meeting come here and it is reported, many of Boston's men are agreeable to give the New Haven division a chance to entertain.
 The principle business before the convention this week is the action on the so-called outlaw strikes" of early last year, when trainmen, especially yard crews went out without author ity to prevent wage cuts and changes in working rules. Most of the or ganizations that joined in these walk outs have already been censured and penalized. The convention will also decide on closer affiliatoin with the conductors brotherhoods, similar to that now being arranged between the engineers and fremen. Amendments to the insurance laws to increase the amounts of policies; the establishment of cooperative enterprises and the action to be taken by the brother hood toward regional boards of ad- justment and the rules of the United States Railroad Labor Board will also be decided
 Hearings on the railroad wage question were resumed by the Labor Board at Chicago on Monday of this week, when the pleas of the railroads for general reduction of 10 per cent. were taken up. The board had just concluded hearings on applications of trainmen on 2o4 roads for the re- storation of the wage scale prevailing in May, 1920, and is therefore in a quandary on the new demands of the roads for another decrease. The hearings will last we'll into June it is expected any any decrease or increase granted is therefore not expected to become operative before July I.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-12
WHOLESALE RAIDS ON "LABOR QUARTERS" NETS
 200 REPUTED LEADERS
Foster, Recently Denounced by Gompers, Ac- cused of Inciting Radical Followers to Upris- ing That Cost Lives of Three Policemen.
 Took Unrest in Building Trades as
 Opportunity for Onslaught.

While the daily of the filled these days tales of wholesale of labor leaders following and the murder of three policemen Chicago of the week. there nothing for the real Organized Labor worried about heabouts for unbiased dispatches from Chi plainly that following the labor and indictment yesterday of eight of them the facts being produced indicate clearly that the due solely the radical and W. w. element led by Foster whom Samuel Gop president of the A. of L. speech weeks roundy denounced asked driven Foster and his horde have grasped the building trades caused by decision of Judge k. M Land reducing of those workers, his follow and thus aid his efforts destroy the American Fed of Labor.
 In fact the New York Tribune which is admittedly unbiased odays lays the blame Foster he radical dissatisfied because had everything they desired.
 Samuel Gompers jouneyed Chicago and the of the Federation of Labor, the urged
 and the keeping of explicit pled Foster tried drive him who did threatened with clubbing So the controversy has dragged the tragedy
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-12
Bakers Confer on
 Wage Agreements
Unable to Agree and Journeymen Will Take Up Matter
 Tomorrow.

Further conferences between com mittees representing the Master Bakers Association of New Haven and the Journeymen Bakers Union were held this week on the wage and working agreement which should have been signed on May I but was held up by the negotiations The result will be reported to another special meeting of the Bakers union tomorrow at Trades Council hall It is understood that the master bakers insist on another decrease in wages despite the one recently put into eff feet when Rev. James Magee decided want the old wage restored. The re- suit of the bakers action tomorrow will be reported to the employers at another conference to be held Mon day.