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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-02-27
MORE BROKERAGE
HOUSES LANDING
IN BANKRUPTCY
Suspension Of Mosher & Wallac.
Announced by Exchange
LIABILITIES TOTAL $175,OOO
Other Suspensions and Bank
ruptcy Proceedings Figure
in Days Proceedings

New York, Feb, 27 (By the Associ-
ated Press)-The Consolidated Stock
Exchange this morning announced
the suspension of Mosher & Wallace,
brokers' The suspension OF Thomas
H. Crowley OF the firm Of Thomas
H. Crowley was also announced.
Involuntary bankruptcy proceed
ings were later fl ed in federal court
aga nst Mosher & Wallace upon a pc.
tition OF creditors. Liabilities are
estimated at $4,000; assets not
listed.
Another involuntary bankruptcy
was filed against the firm of Gambel
& Yates.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-02-27
Midnight Walks for Health.

A famous English physician, On
authority on atmospheric pollution, has
made the interesting discovery that
the hour when the air is purest is
midnight. Impurities In the ntmos-
phere begin to increase about 6 o'clock
In the morning
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-02-27
POLICE AND MINERS
FIGHT IN so. AFRICA
Many Casualties in First Clash be-
tween Strikers and Officers in
Rand District.

Johannesburg, Union South Africa,
Feb. 27 (By the Associated Pressl-
The first fighting in connection with
.le mining strike in the Rand dis.
trict took place today when police
charged two parties of strikers at
Boksburg, using their clubs to quell
disorder.
Fierce hand to hand fighting occur.
red and both sides suffered a large
number OF casualties.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-02-27
WEATHER FORECAST

Cloudy and south snow flurries to.
night. Tuesday partly coudy and
colder.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-03

Connecticut failed to pass any laws improving conditions of labor, turned down bill favorably amending the com pensation Law and nearly passed an anti strike bill.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-03
ROADS MUST GIVE
 HALF OF EARNINGS
 OVER 6 PER CENT,
If Government Can Find Any Who Will Admit It, Will
 Collect

Washington, Feb. 3-Railroads which earned more than 6 per cent. upon the value of their property used in transportation during the period from Sept. I, 1920, to Jan. I, 1921, are required under an order issued by the Interstate Commerce Com mission, to turn half of the excess so earned over to the Government.
 The odder as issued by the commits sion makes effective sections of the Transportation Act of 1920 and pre- scribes rules for the application of these sections.
 Railroads during the four months period specified in the order, are un- derstood to have earned a consider able amount in excess of the per cent. limitation prescribed by Con- gress, but the valuations not having been given out for the individual lines, the amounts cannot yet be calculated. The Transportation Act, in addition to providing that until March I, 1922, rates should be made by the Inter state Commerce Commission, suffc- tent to give the railroads 512 per cent. on their properties, provided for the recovery by the Government of half of all the amount earned by any road
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-03
that sum will i'll effect be plain theft.

that sum will i'll effect be plain theft
 In every important particular, the rail roads under government control made a better showing than before or since.
 Unfortunately, this information will not receive the wide dissemination given the propaganda statements. When MT. Hines testified the event was of first class importance. He was given an ac- count of its stewardship. ct the news papers gave very little space to his de- clarations. To have done so would have been to make ridiculous the malicious editorials that have been written about the propaganda sent them from Ivy Lees mill.
 Still, the truth will prevail. It will gradually seep into popular conscious ness. It Is inconceivable that the rail- road problem, affecting the destinies of the nation, will eventually be settled upon the basis of the overwhelming misinfor- nation that the managers have given the public. To concede that this might hap pen would be to confess lack of con- hdence in the intelligence of the people
 It is pretty generally recognized that the collapse that threatenes this country, if it has not already happened, may be laid directly at the door of the railroads They have hamstrung commerce until it cannot move. They have imposed crush ing freight burdens upon the nation, and until they are removed there will not be revival of business
 When the public uflly appreciates what has been done to it by the Wall Street financial clique that dominates transpor- tation there will be such a storm of pro- test that Congress will be compelled to do something about 1t.
 As long as the nation is compelled to guarantee the railroads per cent on bil- lions of dollars of non-existent value just so long will there be unemployment among industrial workers and cruel dis tress among the farmers.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-03
HINES GIVES LIE TO RAILROAD PLOT
 AGAINST WORKERS
Former Director Proves Labor Did Not Slack, But Did
 Do Bit
By CHAS. M. KELLY. (SDecial to The Labor News)

Washington, Feb. 3.-Truth, moving on 1eaden hells, has finally overtake11 fleet footed falsehood, far as railroad propanganda is concerned. The whole tissue of lies that has been constructed by railroad executives for the purpose of discl editing workers and misleading the public was shot to pieces when Wal ker D. Hines, former director of trans pOrtation under federal control of rail- roads, testified before the Senate Com mittee on Interstate Commerce.
 Here are some of the statements vouched for by MT. Hines, who for twenty-five years was a high railroad official and never has been charged with being too friendly with the idea of gov ernment ownership of anything.
 The workers did not slack, as the rail roads said they did. They produced, dur ing Federal. operation, more traffic units per hour, than ever before. In 1919 they were IS per cent more efficient than in 1915, when the roads were under private management.
 Mir. Hines made his calculation upon the amount of units produced per hour, and not upon the home made statistics of railroad propagandists.
 The railroads were not undermaintain- ed by the government. They were in fact, in better shape when they returned to their owners than they had been for many years
 The government did not take over the railroads for political reasons It took them oyer because locomotives and cars were in such bad shape that the carriers could not meet the transportation needs of the nation. The railroad presidents admitted this fact and favored govern ment intervention.
 The government does not owe the railroads $1 1oOOOOO,OOO for undermain- tena11ce, as the railroads demand It does not owe them more than $75OOOO,O0O, Mir. Hines said and anything paid above
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-03
LABOR LAWS PASSED IN 1921
 WILL PROVE OF MUCH BENEFIT
 BELIEVES NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

interest in this legislation, as reflected in the press, gives promise of State action that may open the door to an era of statesmanship in America dealing with unemployment"
 The Presidents Conference on Unem- ployment is referred to as setting unem- ployment before the country in an Of- ficial way as primarily a problem of in- dustry Its program of emergency re- lief, it is stated, is i'll line with the "Standard Recommendation" fornu- lated by the Association for Labor Legislation in 1915, with the co-opera- tion of more than 300 organizations in 115 different communities.
 At Washington" Dr. Andrews as- serts, lone of the important work1nens s compensation bills prepared by the As sociation during the year we'll on the way to final passage. The United States Senate on June 10, following a favorable report by the Judiciary Com mittee, passed the Johnson-Mills bill to restore the protection of the State work mems compensation laws to injured long shoremen and other harbor workers, but at this writing the bill has not yet been reported out by the House Judiciary Committed As a result, the families of thousands of injured workers along the nations waterfronts are needlessly suf- fering. Meanwhile, the Jones-Fitzgerald bill to extend Worknens compensation to workers in private employments in the District of Columbia still hangs fire in the House Committee"
 The summary says that thirty-one States and Congress amended existing compensation laws which provide f1nan- cial assistance and medical care for in- jured workers, extend the acts to cover more persons and injuries, reduce the waiting period, increase benefits, and, in the case of Ohio, to cover occu- pational diseases Missouri passed a new act to replace the one repealed by referendum, but 1t is suspended until November, 1922, by new referendum petition.
 The Federal Vocational Rehabilitation act was accepted by twenty-two States, bringing the total number of States hav-
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-03
KANSAS LEGAL WAGE LAW

Topeka, Feb 3.-Minimum wages for women workers of Kansas are $8. 50 a week An effort will be made before the industrial court, which will hold hearings ip February, to increase this amount. The merchants of the state will oppose any change. It is prove to the court that increase of overhead charges will drive business from the state. That's another old one.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-03

over per cent.
 The commission, in fixing the rates. found a tentative value for railroad property by groups throughout the United States, but did not segregate this to individual roads.
 General increases were granted in rates in 1920, and, during the last four months of the year while traffic vol umes were large, railroad earnings were reported in excess of the 6 per cent. clause; but for all of the months of 1921, and so far in 1922. the re- turns have not indicated that any sums could be collected by the Gov ernment under the law.
 The statute also provided that in case excess earnings were recaptured by the Government, the money should be paid into a special fund for the purpose of lending to railroads and repaying advances made by the Gov ernment to railroads.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-03
Resolutions of COOPERATION

WHEREAS Labor's strongest asset is It's Purchas1ng Power, combined with a general application of Cooperative Prin- ciples and
 movement ever promoted in our civ bv Labor to officially advance the spirit of
 WHEREAS the firms here represented are on record as having manifested their oeslre tor cooperation with the working classes:
 THEREFORE, although it is not i'm 1erred that this list covers all firms flair" to Labor, the concerns herein Represented have shown their desire to cooperate with our membership and it is agreed that we will be guided by Consistency as our Principle and give them our hearty patron age and support in accordance with fine established policy of our organization.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-03
Enactments By Con- gress and 40 States Protect Safety and Health, While Feder- al Lawmakers Hold Up Others of Import anCe.

New labor laws enacted i'll 1921 by show gains in the protection of the safe ty and health of wage earners, although on the pressing issue of unemployment the legislative record is practically blank labor legislation issued by the American Association for Labor Legislation.
 Of particular import is the progress made during the year in Federal-State for vocational rehabilitation of industrial cripples," says Secretary John B. An dreWs
 "Twenty-three additional States in 1921 Federal act for re-educating industrial cripples, making a total of thirty that have adopted this significant development in worlumen's compensation legislation ''
 "Unemployment continued throughout the year." he adds, yet Congress and more than forty States met in legislative session and adjourned with apparent in- difference to the immediate need for adjourned with apparent indifference to the immediate need for adopting con- structive program for permanently com batting the disastrous results of indus trial depression.
 California alone took forward step in enacting law for long time advance planning of works by the State to help in preventing unemployment. The Ken yon bill, just introduced in Congress, aims to set the Federal Government upon a similar course of distributing public works intelligently.
 Tn Wisconsin, bill for unernploy- ment compensation was advanced by a favorable report from the Senate Judi ciary Committee and the nationwide
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-03

Grand Ave. Bullard's, oI-o7 Orange St. Window Shade Co.,, 758I Orange St. FLORISTS Coombs Flower Shoppe, o78 Chapel
 St., near Hotel Taft; Phone Col ony 37; and two stores in Hartford. McQuiggan, John J., 123 Church St., Opposite the Green). Myers Flower Shop, The, o36 Chapel
 St. Phone Liberty 374o and 3741. FLOWERS BY TELEGRAPH Delivered anywhere in United States
 or Canada by Coombs Flower
 Shoppe, o7S Chapel St., near Hotel
 Taft; Phone Colony 37; and two
 stores in Hartford.
 FUNERAL FLOWERS Coombs Flower Shoppe, o78 Chapel
 St., near Hotel Taft; Phone Col
 ony 37; and two stores in Hartford. FURNISHINGS Besse,-Richey Co., 7ZS-7S2 Chapel St. St.
 Store" 85-89 Church St. Pagers, 6-8 Congress Ave. FURNITURE Adaskin- Bowditch Furniture Co.,, 68 Orange St.
 Boston Furniture Co.,, 821 and 823 Grand Ave.
 Bullard's, o1-o7 Orange St. Chamberlain Co.,, The, 46-5o Orange
 and 87-oI Grown St. Hall, w. B., 458 to 40 State, near
 Elm St.
 Kelly, P J., Furniture Co.,, 1o8 Crown
 St.
 Royal Furniture Co.,, $50 Grand Ave. Stein, S., 57 Broadway.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-03
GLOVEWORKERS' SHOP PAYS

Chicago, Feb. 3.-About I4 months ago the Gloveworkers' union of this city engaged in glovemaking on a small scale as an experiment, with a few members interested in the pro- the first annual report showed pro- fit justifying payment of per cent. dividend Despite the business slump, the glovemakers' business venture did not lose a day
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-03
A Directory of Our FRIENDS

In pursuance of the movement which has for its purpose the urging of all work ing people to give their combined support to reputable concerns that have uniformly shown friendly attitude toward the cause of Labor, there will here be found directory of enterprises which we feel can be conscientiously endorsed and which are, therefore, justly entitled to our good will and united cooperation.
 It does not necessarily follow that con- cerns which are not here represented are unfriend1y, nevertheless those listed on this page have demonstrated their friendliness in various ways and should have our sup port.
 Cooperation is always two-way matter and it is our duty to cooperate with those who cooperate with us. Consult this directory carefully before making any pur- chaSeS.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-03

ing accepted the act to thirty. The Shep- pard-Towner act was passed by Con- gross, creating a Board of Maternity and Infant Hygiene, and appropriating money for State and Federal use Six States thus far have accepted the act.
 New Mexico enacted child labor legis- lation for the first time, and school at tendance and minimum work age re- quirements were extended in thirteen States and to Porto Rico. The lifting by women of reCeptaciles weighing sev- entyfve pounds or more was forbidden by California mining code was Cre- ated i'll Illinois, and a new law regulat- ing tenement manufacture was enacted in Wisconsin.
 Women's hours were restricted for the first time in New Mexico, the eight hour day being extended to hotels, laundries, factories, restaurants and places of amusement. Hours and standard work ing conditions for women determined by the Industrial Welfare Commission of California were made legal requirements for all industries.
 Free employment services were cre- ated for the first time i'll Nebraska. North Carolina and North Dakota, and in Illinois they are to be extended to towns and villages. The California State Board of Control was directed to arrange for the extension of public uOrL,S tO relieve 11nernD1Ovr71eDt in fines of emergency.
 Immigration was restricted by Con- gress in a law limiting the number of aliens of any nationality who may be admitted to the United States in any year to } per cent of the number of foreign-born persons of that nationality resident in the United States according to the census of 1910
Evening star., 1922-03-18
Greatest Amaryllis Show
Of World TO Be Held Here

The biggest amaryllis show ever
held anywhere In the world will be
opened to the public free tomorrow
morning in the Department Of Agri-
culture greenhouses, 14th and B.
streets northwest. This show will
remain open from . am. until pm.
daily for, week.
This gaudy array Of blooms. native
to the South American and other
tropical countries. constitute the
ninth show of this sort arranged by
the department. DR.. W. A. Taylor,
chief Of the bureau Of plant industry.
examined the specimens yesterday
and officially approved the plans Of
house. secretary and Mrs. Wallace
personally conducted q party of
Cabinet members and their wives and
other officials through the amaryltis
greenhouse today. -
The United States Department Of
the world, DR.. Taylor explained. as
doing most Of any agency or In.
dividuai for the commerciaiizing OF
the amaryllis and domesticating 1t as
an ornamental plant in this country.
Botanical experts from ALI over .Ine
world come mere TO seq tno 1u y,S
show and to get bulbs from Oncie
Sam.
In the show this year are 1.075
plants, most Of which are individua!
species. differing in conformation ana
shades or variation OF coiorlng.
Eighteen of these are Towering for
the first time. There are q numner per
Of 1913 and 1890 seedlings which the
specialists Of the department have
produced. The new plants have now.
ers mostly Of q lighter shade ana
represent the steps in the .enorts OF
Evening star., 1922-03-18
GUAM, SIAM AND JAVA
SUBJECTS OF LECTURE
Future of Siam Brightly Pictured
by DR.. Henry E. Champion.
$4,000, 900 in Java.

Americanized and Christianized
Guam, Buddhist Saim and Mohamme-
dan Java were the subjects Of a lee
ture before members Of the National
Geographic Society last evening by
the passage Of the South sea island
ers in ancient times from Asia.
through the Dutch East Indies and
out among the tiny islands. Both
racial characteristics and customs
show that the islands were peopled
Agana, capital of Guam. was found
by DR.. Champion to be a surprising
" well kept town of 5000 inhabi-
tants. Philippine blood was intro
duced in Guam under the Spanish
regime. and the natives now follow
dress.
Siam has been stimulated wonder
fully by Western civilization, accord
ing to DR.. Champion. He prophe-
sled that its progress among tho, ma
tions of the orient will be second
ment is especially emphasizing edu-
cation and Is training the younger
generation to cope with the new con-
ditions.
Java, which on the map seems but
a small island. surprises the traveller
by its size and its swarming popu.
lation. DR.. Champion said. 1t Is about
the size Of the state of New York, but
1t has a population Of over $4,000, 900.
more than a third that Of the entire
United States. With its tropical
vegetation, marvelously terraced
hills, and an Industrious population
working under the substantial gov-
ernment of the Dutch, Java, accord
ing to DR.. Champion, Is one Of the
most interesting regions Of the East
Evening star., 1922-03-18
.MR. DAVIS REPORTS
ON STRIKE STATUS
Operators Divided on Ques-
ton of Negotiating, Some
-FIatIy Refusing.

The exact status at the present tins
of negotiations instituted by the De-
artment of Labor toward foresta1linE
the threatened coal strike called for
April ]. was announced yesterday by
Secretary of Labor Davis just before
he left Washington for Illinois.
Operators in two fields have fatty
declined TO join in any interstate
agreement as TO wages. Secretary
Davis said. while operators in three
nelds have sisnified willingness to
attend a conference of operators or
all states in the central competitive
field will meet together with repre-
sentatives of the miners.
The Pittsburgh Coal Producers AS
sociation and the Southern Ohio Coal
Operators Association are the two as
sociations which do not care to Join
in an interstate agreement. The for
mer has positively declined to Join
in the renewal of the central COM
petitive field agreement.
The Southern Ohio Coal Operators
Association has declined to join in
any interstate agreement, but VIII
meet its own employees TO negotiate,
The Eastern Ohio Coal Operators As
ISOLATION and the Central Ohio Asso
citation will meet in a joint confer
ence. as will the the No. s, Ohio Goa
Operators. The latter, however, seeh
meeting with representatives OF
their own employees and union off
GERS, to negotiate their own scale.
The Indiana Coal Operators Asso-
citation accepted the invitation of the
meetings called January and March
., but the second acceptance was
qualified by an oppression of futility
of such a conference after the decla-
ration of miners policy and demands
framed at the United Mine Workers'
convention on February i.
The situation in Illinois is some
what different. The three operators
associations are ready to attend any
conference Of the central competitive
states without any qualifications. and
request conference with the repre-
sentatives of their own employees and
state officials of the miners union II
a conference before March 81 fails
to be held.
For the Illinois miners. President
Frank harrington protests the ap-
pointment Of any federal commission.
as he is confident that nc can secure
a settlement for Illinois.
Evening star., 1922-03-18
SEES LETTER DESIGNED
TO HARM THE UKRANIANS

Senator Willis of Ohio. who recent
ly received a letter from Cleveland
signed by the American Ukrainiap
Black Hand today made public a
letter from Elias Szkwarck, COS
Briggs House Chicago. charging that
the Black Hand letter was an effort
on the part of Poles TO give the
American Ukrainian citizen bad
name.
Mr. Szkwarck declared that he and
others of Ukrainian blood would be
glad to Cooperate with the United
States Department of Justice in an
effort to find and bring to justice the
party who had sent the Black Hand
letter. in which the Polish legations
and consulates in this country and
Canada were threatened with destruc-
ton.
Senator Willis has turned the letter
of Mr.. Szkwarch over to Mr.. Burns
chief of the bureau of Investigate
Department of Justice, to whom he
also sent the letter from Cleveland. in
which the threat was made to blow
up the Polish consulates and lega
tiOnS.