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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-04-07

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The Connecticut labor news., 1922-06-02
No Need to Wear
 Non-Union Straw
Hatters Give New Haveners List of
 Merchants With Union Goods.

There IS no need of an organized labor man wearing a nonunion straw hat this year as was perhaps true ot the past because the United Hatters of North America in a communica- ton 10 the New Haven Trades Coun- Gil last night gave the names of sev- eral dealers in New Haven who are handling the union made article. These are c. w. Brandt, Congress Toggery Shop, J. L. Disbrow, John Flanagan, Hardy Hat Co.,, Sugen- heimer & Co.
 The communication brought forth quite a discussion on proposed amendment to change the constitu- ton to provide that every delegate must have at least five union labels on his wearing apparel Many frank ly did not know where such union made goods could be had but the dis cussoin brought out here and there information where one or another kind of article could be had, the re- suit being that a whole outfit of union made goods was made up
 A campaign to push the clothing labels will now be inaugurated through the various locals and the members informed where such goods can be had.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-06-02
Labor Non-Partisan
 Board Is Complete
Each Local Union to Have Five Dele gates Instead of Three
 in Body.

The Non-Partisan Political Cam paign Committee of Organized La bor i'll New Haven has now completed it's organization and according to re- ports made to the Trades Council last night is ready to function. Every union organization in the city, wheth- CT affiliated with the Trades Council or not, has joined in the movement and to enable more general represen- tation the general committee will be increased to five members from each local union instead of three as at first
 The remaining vacancy on the ex- ecutive board of the general commit tee was filled by the selection of M. F. Brennan of the brotherhood shop crafts. This board will have general charge of mapping out the program of campaign.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-06-02
Women Unionists to Smoke
 Only Union Labelled Goods
New Haven Cigar Shippers Vote to Taboo Non Union Brands in Case They Desire SOlacing Weed-Elect Officers Including New
 Business Agent to Handle Affairs.

Not as an admission that, as like their "society" sisters, they enjoy puff at a cigarette, miniature per fecto, or one of the new fapper pipes, but as a declaration that if they do smoke they will smoke only strictly union made cigarettes, .cigarros and tobaccos, the New Haven local of the Tobacco Shippers Union, at a large ly attended meeting last night went on record by unanimous vote to urge also all their women acquaintances who do smoke to do the same thing The action followed addresses before the meeting by Business Agent John w. Murphy and Alexander Dreissens of the Cigar Makers Union during which the male members of the to- bacco trades jocously urged their women co-workerS to smoke only union labelled goods. The women workers weren't stumped for a mo- ment but went the cigar makers rep resentatives one better by promptly endorsing a woman's smoking if she so desires and pledging themselves to the strictly union made brands of solace hereafter.
 The meeting was an especially large one due to the annual election of officers which was scheduled for the
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-06-02
STATE FEDERATION TO
 OPEN MOST IMPORTANT
 CONVENTION MONDAY
MACHINISTS PLAN
 l5,OOO FIELD DAY
Savin Rock on Saturday, July I.

What promises to be the greatest Labor gathering ever held in Con- necticut is the state field day now being arranged by the Connecticut District Lodge of Machinists and at Savin Rock on Saturday, July I, Fully I5,ooo and probably 10000 or ganized workers from all parts of Connecticut will be present and with several international officers of the machinists and other organizations who will make brief addresses and a fine line of athletic events, gala day is expected.
 The committee, headed by Willianl Atherton of Bridgeport, has been actively at work for more than a month on the preliminary arrange ments and has received assurances from every local lodge of machinists in Connecticut that it will undoubt- edly be present with at least 90 per cent. of the membership. The long seige of unemployment that the ma chinists have suffered, will naturally bers in upper parts of the state to come to Savin Rock but nevertheless it is reported, ways and means will be found to provide for their attendance The machinists were perhaps the hardest hit of all shop crafts during the period of depression and now that there are signs of work picking up, they have determined to be in a posi- ton to protect themselves in the fu- ture, hence the field day.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-06-02
TROLLEY WAGE
 PERPETRATORS TO
 MEET TOMORROW
Speedy Decision on Wage Dispute, Only Question at Issue,
 Expected.

The arbitration board, consisting of Justice John K. Beach, Attorney Joseph Berry, representing the com pany, and Attorney James H. Vahey, for the men, selected to again arbl- trate the trolley wage question, will Degln their hearings in the New Ha- ven County court house tomorrow, Saturday. morning at 10 o'clock. The only question to be arbitrated, is the wage matter, the Connecticut company insisting that the men ac- ccpt another reduction of five cents an hour while the men, will now stick to the original demand for a restora- tion of the rate prevailing a year ago before the same arbitration board, by vote of two to one, reduced the rate five cents per hour.
 It is expected that the hearings this year will be speedily concluded, inasmuch as there Is only one ques- ton at issue, and the arbitrators are familiar with the main facts surround ing conditions under which the men labor. Again the supreme court meets next week and Justice Beach will have to take his place on the bench and it is belieced therefore that the hearings will be concluded by Monday at the latest and the decision handed down very soon after.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-06-02

evening" The ballot resulted as fol lows: President, Mary Reynolds; president, Christine Riley; busl- ness agent, Mary Autwater; recording secretary, Katherine Beecher; trus- tees, Mary Dowd and Jennie Mag gelet; auditors, Rose Neadle, Gather inc Bushman and Christine Riley; delegates to Trades Council, Helen Shields, Mary Reynolds, Katherine Beecher, Mary Autwater and Chris tine Riley.
 The office of business agent to which Miss Autwater was elected Is a new positoin and established to have someone on the job at all times to look after the interests of the mem bers and the union at large, just as the unions of male workers have done While little IS heard publicly of the Cigar Shippers Union, never theless it is one of the most active and progressive organized labor bodies in Connecticut and has an or ganization 100 per cent. perfect in the trade i'll New Haven. It has always Loyalty co-operated with the cigar makers in all negotiations affecting the trade in general and with a per manent business agent will be able to do so more generally in the future.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-06-02
GOMPERS GATHERS CHILD LABOR FOES
 TO GET NEW LAW
Amendment to Constitution Only Way Possible, New Association
 Is Told.

Washington, June 2.-At the call of President Gompers of the A. F. of l.. representative of a large number of national associations opposed to child labor, assembled here yesterday and formed permanent organization for the absolute abolishment of child labor in the United States. The meeting was the result of the recent supreme court decision nullifying the Child Labor Law.
 After the conference MT Gompers and spokesmen for the new associa- ton appeared before the House judiciary committee to urge legisla- tion prohibiting or regulating em- ployment of children in mines, factor ies and similar arduous occupations Representative Chandler, republican, New York, said 1t was the opinion of himself and other members of the committee that the supreme courts ruling had made it impossible to ac- complish anything by legislative regu- lation unless and until a constitution al amendment had been adopted.
 The organization will institute a campaign for such an amendment which will be known as "The Per manent Conference for the Abolition of Child Labor" MT. Gompers ac- cepted the post of permanent chair man. A committee of 10 was ap- pointed to draft a constitutional amendment and "the best form of law to meet the situation.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-06-02
WINCHESTER PAYS
 SALARIES OF TWO
 N. H. BALL PLAYERS
Also Pays for Ticket Printing to Secure Adv. on Back and
 Sale.

The Winchester Company, against which a strike of polishers has been on for two years, is not only fnan- cial1y interested as suspected in the New Haven Baseball club, but pay, for the printing of all it's admission tickets for the advertisement on the back, and pays the salaries of two of the crack players on the team also, and in return had the exclusive privil- ege of the down town sale of baseball tickets at the Winchester store, as an attraction to induce trade within
 This was brought out in confer ences between Manager Weiss of the ball club and a committee of the New Haven Trades Council sent to secure the sale of the tickets in some other place than the Winchester store, which because of the unfair attitude of the company toward the polishers, union men do not patronize. MT. Weiss was agreeable to the trade unoin proposition but explained the difficulties he was up against because of the Winchester interest in the team. He did however take the pro- position up with the directors.
 As a result he informed the com mittee this week that arrangements had been made to also place the tickets on sale at Harry's Cigar Store on Church street, opposite the Win chester store, where union men can get them without going into Win chesters. It was reported to the Trades Council last night that the tickets will be on sale there begin ming next week.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-06-02
Annual M e e ting at Stamford Has to Deal With Anti-LabOr At- tacks, Political Situa- tiOn and Plan Legisla- tiOn Fav b e to Workers.

With the meeting Of the executive board at the Hotel Davenport in Stamford Sunday afternoon and the starting session at Knights of Pythias hall Monday morning, the 37th annual convention of the Connecticut Fed eration of Labor will get under way and 1t most assuredly will be the most important convention ever held by the organization. The executive board will select the various commit tees at the meeting Sunday afternoon, from the list of delegates whose ere dentials have already been returned. The reports of the officers will be scanned and approved for presenta- ton to the convention and the gen eral routine of the meetings arranged for.
 The activity of anti-labor organiza- tions coupled with the unemployment during the past year has caused a situation that Labor must cope with and from the response by local unions the rank and file appreciate it and are eager to join forces to resist further encroachment. The need of Labor entering the election campaign, especially the primaries, will also be before the convention, the official cali stating as follows:
 Remember this fall the voter will be asked to support certain candi- dates for office because of their fine qualities, but as a Trade Unionis st these candidates can have only one redeeming feature-that of fairness to the wage earner Therefore, the necessity of getting together at the 37th annual convention, through the chosen representatives of each Local Union, to formulate a plan of cam paign. We also have the non-union shop advocates to contend with. We are sure you are interested in de feating their objects. If SO, show 1t by being represented at the conven- tion."
 The convention will continue until Thursday with morning and afternoon sessions. In addition on Tuesday the Liberty League, composed of mem bers of organized labor and others friendly to it's purposes will meet and discuss the present prohibition laws the projected "blue laws" and such other matters as are likely to infringe on personal liberty.
 There are I85 affiliated unions ir the Federation and while some oi them have lost individual members through removal from the town or trade on the whole organized labor did very we'll in Connecticut last year and looks forward to a very prosper ous year following the convention
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-06-02
EASY LICENSE OF
 MOVIE OPERATORS
 ENDANCERS PUBLIC
Permits to Run Machines Granted Here Without Proper
 Tests.

Anybody with three dollars, a little nerve and a slight notion Of how to operate moving picture machine can obtain all operator S license in Con- nectictu and the theater going public is being constantly placed in danger thereby, according to charges made by members of the Motion Picture Operators Union and which will be brought before the next legislature in the form of a bill demanding a strict examination of a candidate before license is granted, These facts were brought out before the New Haven Trades Council last night in discussion of a Congress avenue thea ter where the proprietor Is said to have taught his young son how to operate the machine after the per formance for the night was over and then to have secured license for him and put him in charge of the machine during the regular performances. A committee was appointed to investl- gate.
 According to the motion picture operators, all that anyone has to do to get license from the state police in Connecticut is to go to the Capitol at Hartford and ask for it. If some one experienced in motion picture machine work happens to be present, the applicant may be taken into a room where a modern machine is set up and asked a few questions about it. This is rare, however, as no one with experience is on hand and in stead of being put through an ex- animation worth while the candidate Is usually asked a question or two, then if he has $3 gets the license to operate. There are more than I,5oo licensed operators in Connecticut now and large number of them know very little about the machine or its working except to turn the crank after the reel is on. In New York and Massachusetts before license is issued the applicant must show by actual demonstration that he knows every detail of the machine and the laws governing it's operation.
 The motion picture operators of the state gathered at Hartford a few weeks ago and formed state asso- ciation, and this, with the aid of the Connecticut Federation of Labor will seek to have the provisions governing examinations made more strict in this state.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-06-02
BAKERS RETAIN PRESENT WAGE AND
 WIN CONCESSION
Clause By Which They Were Cut Recently Stricken From
 Contract

Conferences which lasted over a period of six weeks between commit tees representing the master and the journeymen bakers of New Haven, were concluded last night when an agreement was reached that the pres ent wage scale would be retained and the objectionable clause in the past agreement providing that it could be broken on 30 days notice, was re- moved The master bakers insisted on the 3o-day clause and the journey men strenuously objected because ii was under that clause that the master bakers were able to reopen the agreement of last year and send the wage matter to arbitration by the Rev. James Magee. The employers asked for $5 a week cut but MT Magee was generous to the workers and only took off four. To prevent any such move during the present year the workers insisted in striking out the provision. All but four bakers signed up, Thompson, Beck, Cham berlain and Root, who have been an tagonistic to the union for some time not being party to the agreement.
 While the American bakers have settled their troubles, the Italian bakers, Local Union 48, are on strike against nine Italian bakers in New Haven There are 27 such shops and they demanded $2 a week reduction all around. The men refused and all but nine dropped it. These nine are sticking out because the union de clines to stop the delivery of bread to stores and homes on Sundays. The union claims it is without power to stop 1t as that IS a matter for the authorities.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-06-02
BRISTOL STRIKE
 FINALLY SETTLED
 AS WORKERS WIN
Carpenters Wages Are Restored and They and Other Crafts Re
 turn to Work

Bristol, June 2-The strike of union journeymen building crafts which has tied up construction on the new high school being erected here, was settled on Wednesday when the workers returned to their jobs after winning every grievance. The strike was caused by an arbitrary wage cut on the carpenters employed in the finishing and they refused to accept 1t. When their demand for a con tinuance of the prevailing wage was denied they struck. Non-union car penters were put on the job in an endeavor to continue the work and made botch of it and brought on a strike of bricklayers, plasterers, hod carriers, plumbers and apprentices or all trades who refused to work with the non-union men.
 As a result all work stopped on the building and instead of being finished in time for the graduation exercises this month, the school will now not be finished much before the opening of the fall term. The carpenters are restored at their old wage and that grievance being, settled the other crafts went back to work automati- cally. The strike was an example of the value of unity of action of the crafts affiliated in the building de partment or any other department of organized labor The settlement was brought about through a conference between William J. Sullivan and AL bert F. Rockwell, "a dollar a year man" who volunteered to have the school constructed within an appro- priation of $64o,ooo when contractors had bid nearly a million. He failed and sought to cut wages to safe something on his bet. He failed in thai also and caused a strike
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-06-02
Orgy of Bank Crashes
 Breaking All Records
 Gets Silence From Press

vital information that delayed the organization of the Federal Reserve System.
 Failure of bank a day in 1921 reveals an appalling con dition that should be remedied and that the Federal Reserve System did not remedy.
 The policy of suppression would be fostered by bill now before Congress providing for the fine and imprisonment of any individual who makes a statement that may injure the credit or reputation of any bank. This puts the Golden Calf on a higher plane than any other institution. Thou shalt not take my name in vain" i'll this case would be punishable by fine and Imprisonment.
 The office of the Comptroller of the Currency admits that state banks throughout the United States severely criticised and objected in every conceiv- able manner to publication of the facts of bank failures.
 Statements of the bank fail ures during 1922 are available but since newspapers will not print facts and dare not be- cause of objections by the hnan- cial interests backing them, newspaper men are, of course, not interested in digging up the facts.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-06-02

Washington, D. C., June D. Newspapers do not dare print this fact:
 During the calendar year 1921 the doors of 528 state and private banks were closed.
 Of these I63 were able to reopen, or to make satisfac- tory arrangements.
 That left 365 failed banks.
 Liabilities of these failed banks totalled approximately $o6,ooo, 900. Thus, the average per bank was $263,ooo
 In the southern geographical division there were I3I failures. In the western states there were I22 In the Pacific states there were 43 and in the middle states there were 60. There were but five in the eastern states and but four in New England
 The facts regarding the fail ures of state banks were made available to the press by a statement issued by the Comp troller of the Currency on April 7, 1922. A diligent search of the newspapers of that and succeeding days fails to reveal any use of this statement It appeared, however, in certain confidential services to bankers. Rotten conditions cannot be remedied when necessary in formation is lacking It was this policy of suppression of
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-06-02
Label Drean1land
 Unfair to Labor
Unions Tire of Passing the Buck"
 By Manager and His Brother.

The Dreamland theater on Grand ized Labor by the New Haven Trades Council last night on request of the Motion Picture Operators after Presi- dent Ornburn as committee of the Council, had reported that he could get no satisfaction from the proprie- tors This was similar to previous reports made by committees from the operators and the council previ- ously.
 The theater is run by brothers one of whom declares himself in favor of unionism and the other refusing to recognize or make an agreement with the operators. It appeared to the Council to be a case of passing the buck from one to the other so nego- tiations were dropped
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-06-02
EVERY LABOR MAN

Should make certain that he se- cures a copy of NEXT WEEKS Connecticut Labor News. It will contain a detailed account, day by day, of the doings of the conven- ton of the Connecticut Federation of Labor, a convention that will most certainly be the most inn portant ever held.
 The forces rampant against Or ganized Labor are more active than ever. The convention will strive to meet them. You need to be in touch.
 Telephone or mail your order. Let us have it by Wednesday. The address is 286 York Street, New Haven, and the telephone, Colony 1o82.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-06-02

With toaing 900 ruled by the Railroad Labor Board the ehood early this week and further toang railroad shop and other aside from the
 through their influence the Labor Board have succeeded situation that bids fair make the threatened strike last look like pker For the first in history all the broth ehood railroads of the the and held will plan the campaign.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-06-02
ERROR IN LABOR LAW.

Baltimore, June 2.-Bungling draft ing of an amendment to the work mems compensation act of Maryland during the last session of the legisla ture will bar employees making more than S2,o a year from the acts pro- vsoins, according to Attorney Gen eral Armstrong.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-06-02
LOCKOUT IS SMASHED.

Garment Workers Union No. II3 de- feated a two-months' lockout ot re- duce wages. The bosses broke an agreement, and the union resorted to court procedure to secure observance of the contract. The workers soli- darity, however, proved more effective than the courts, to secure justice.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-06-02
BUTCHER WORKMEN TO
 MEET.

St. Paul, Minn., June 2.-The nth general convention of the Amalga- mated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen vii convene in this city on Monday, July 24.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-06-02
SHOWS EXPRESS PROFITS.

New York, June 2.-The American Railway Express reports a balance for last year of $77o,33o, as compared with a deficit of $3o,835,887 for 1920.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-06-02
RAILROAD BR0THERH00DS UNITE
 TO RESIST FURTHER WAGE CUTS
MOST STUPENDOUS STRIKE EVER
 WILL FOLLOW LATEST ATTEMPTS TO
 DRAG MILLIONS FROM RAIL WORKERS

More Than 100000 Men Affected By Cut An nounced This Week and Many More Ex- pected to Be Hit By Decision Tomorrow. Action Brings About Unity of All
 Crafts for First Time.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-06-02
SUPPRESSED NEWS!

Note Because Of suppresso vital the Inter Labor News one story suppressed by the daily This will pub these
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The Connecticut labor news., 1922-06-02
TO ORGANIZED LABOR

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