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The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-26

In less than a month, Daly re- turned, heard from the employer that the lasting depart1nen was perfect in every particular, excellent work men, fine workmanship, every man working every working day. In the suasive manner that only Ed Daly could apply, he induced the employer to go with him to the lasting room. The employer agreed, provided Daily would not talk to the lasters. In fact the employer invited Daily to eN- anime the lasting. He went from bench to bench until he had seen all of their work and at the door of the lasting room congratulated the em- ployer on the excellent workmanship he had examined. In fact he had never seen better lasting. Standing on the threshold of the work room Daly invited the employer to enter into the customary agreement for union lasters and to give Daly an op- portunity to talk to the men in the noon hour or after they quit i'll the afternoon. The employer burst into anger and again threatened him with arrest and told him under no circum- stances was there anything doing. y Daly applied all the persuasive logic OI WHICH even lie Was CdpdDle, Dul made no impression on the employer, The latter invited Daly to leave the premises.
 Daly seeing that something heroic was in order to accomplish his pur- pose turned towards the lasters, as he was at the door of the shop, put two fingers to his mouth, produced a we'll known whistling sound, which was +, lo he tablishment dropped the tools of his trade, put away his apron and reached for his coat to follow Daly. They were all union men.
 The employer threw his hands in the air, congratulated Daly on being a real diplomat, the lasters returned 10 their benches, Daly went to the office, and with the employer signed union agreement and the employers shop has been working under union conditions ever since.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-26
RAILROAD OFFICER HELD FOR MURDER
 BYSTATE ATTORNEY
Charge Is Made That Railway Oh1c- ials Conspired to Precipitate
 Tragedy.

Conspiracy on the part of officials of the Atlanta, Birmingham & Allan tic Railroad, whose workers have been on strike for more than a year i'll protest or disregard of rulings ot the United States Railroad Labor Board, Is charged in connection with recent riot in which one man was killed and several are believed to have been fatally injured.
 Six arrests have been made in con nection with the affair, four being held on charges of murder The ac- cused men are K. r. Puckett, A. B. & A. yardmaster; G. W. Wyle, his clerk; and two negroes. None of the strikers was in any way involved in the incident The investigation now being made by state authorities promises some interesting developments.
 A confession has been obtained from Albert Everett, wounded negro, which points to the possibility that the railroad might have con spired to start the affair. Everett is said to have declared that Puckett was in his office when the shooting began. This Puckett
 steadfastly denies.
 Prosecutor Samuel Hewlett says
 the state has evidence that the trag-
 edy was started by negro employees of
 the railroad throwing stones at white
 boys who had called thein "scabs'
 and "strikebreakers."
 Everett says that when the boys
 retaliated they were fired upon from
 either the yardmaster's office or a
 nearby building. This, according to
 the prosecution, tends to show that
 the fight was expected and that the
 men had been assembled there to en-
 ter the fray immediately after the
 rock-throwing began.
 The operation of the struck rail
 road is one long series of derail
 ments and other accidents. Equip
 ment and rails are i'll frightful con-
 dition, observers state, and the hnan-
 cial losses of the carreir continue to
 pile up.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-26
Big Time at Rock
 Night of June 6
Proctor Bros. to Put on Monster Gambol at the Arcadia
 That Night

The season at Savin Rock may open officially next Tuesday, but it won't be really on until Tue esday, June 6, when Proctor Bros will put on a monster cabaret and Moonlight Dance at The Arcadia. As the an nouncement says Something doing every minute" seems to be verified by the entertainment program. First there will be William Miller and Mabel Ward in modern Apache dance. There will be stag and deer contests and lottery dance and The Masked MarveH will perform after which Hazel Hill, the cleverest juve- nile dancer in vaudeville, will furnish just a little plank steak" Babe Frank in her own combination of the Chicago and Frisco and several oth- CTS are down on the bill for the eve ming besides the regular dancing. It looks like a big evening.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-26
NON-UNION LIES
 STIR IRE OF UNION POSTOFFICE CLERKS
Open Meeting Turns Into Tirade of Abuse of Organized
 Men.

.Incensed by what they claim to be deliberate falsehoods uttered by officials of the anti-union association of postoffice clerks" and which were published in the Gas the clerks allege) "Labor hating Register" New Haven Postofice clerks affiliated with the A. F. of l.. challenged the non-unionists to prove their statements, but up to time of going to press the challenge had not been accepted. After pub fishing the alleged untrue statements, The Register, according to tlle union clerks, refused to publish their reply and challenge issued through Local 237.
 The rumpus started at an open meeting in the City Hall annex in New Haven on Saturday night to which Acting Postmaster ,Birely was invited and made an address. Officers of the United Association of Clerks ran the meeting and during 1t took credit unto themselves for every inn proVement that has been made i'll the postoffice working service. By de- liberate misstatements and worse in .,uendoes they tried to discredit the Labor branch of the service, but the result, except for the publication of their statements as facts was only to disgust many of their own members and start a movement among them for membership in the Labor organ ized branch. Particularly was the claim that the clerks non-union asso- ciation, formed in 1885 got the eight hour day in 1912, nearly p y%ars aft erward. As a matter of fact the eight hour day was secured by the union clerks organized in Ioo6, and aided by the entire force of the A. F. of L.
 After the meeting the president of the Postal Clerks Union, who was present, challenged the remarks that were passed during the meeting. How ever the anti-union chief had to make train" A leading member of the union, who was also present, demanded of the big "chief" the num- Der of members his association had, He answered 3o,ooo. When told that the other organization was willing to prove they had more he replied that any one could doctor books. When one stops to consider that the na- tcnal office of the National Associa- ton of Postoffice Clerks has stand ing offer to prove its superiority over the non-union body one can ap- preciate such talk.
 The speakers Saturday were care full not to mentoin that all branches of the postal service are in the A. F. of L., Carriers, Railway Mail Service, Rural Free Delivery and Clerks. The organization of non-union clerks is now almost extinct. Figures publish ed in their own magazine show that they have less than I3,ooo The Ma tionai Federation has over 27,ooo members who are paid up to date
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-26
CHILD AND ALIEN
 LABOR IN BEETS
American Farm Worker Not Pro-
 tected by Sugar Tariff.
LOW WAGES ARE BEING PAID
Yankees Not Wanted" Say Field Managers in Colorado and
 Michigan.
By H. E. MILES,
Chairman of the Fair Tariff Leaql

ChaIrnfan or the r alr arin League. The American farmer and the American worker are always the chief l objects of solicitude, put forward by ] the high tariff politicians, when an up- | ward revision of the tariff is in order. | That has always been true and is now true in Congress in connection with eff l forts to enact the high rates in the Fordney so-called Permanent Tariff Bill.
 The farmer as we'll as the worker, however, has come to realize that any benefit he may derive from an exorbi- tant tariff, levied in the name of pro- tection on an article which he pro- duces, is more than offset by the tribute which he must pay on arti- cles which he consumes but does not raise.
 Sugar is a good example of how this works out with reference to the farm l CT. The American beet sugar industry prospered under a protective tariff of one cent pound oa Cuban raw sugar. The Emergency Tariff Act increased this 60 per cent. One of the arguments advanced for this tremendous increase was that the beet sugar industry need ed this protection in order to protect the American farm laborer engaged in raising sugar beets.
 Unfortunately for this argument there is very little American farm labor in the beet sugar industry as the rec ordS of the Department of Labor and the Department of Agriculture show.
 Sugar beets are raised and harvested almost entirely by the cheapest grade obtainable of foreign labor, contracted for by the sugar manufa cturers and turned over to the beet growers.
 Field bosses in the beet sugar sec tions have indeed frequently told in- vestigators that American labor is not wanted because "a Yankee can't stand the hard work"
 Child Labor In Majority
 Not only is the larger part of the beet sugar labor this low priced for eign labor which we are warned against but even a larger part are the children of these foreign families.
 In Colorado alone, one of the most important beet sugar states, the Ma tional Child Labor Committee found 5000 children between the ages of six and fifteen years, practically all of alien parents, regularly engaged in the cultivation of sugar beetS
 From the time the beets are in the ground until they are delivered at the factory the hardest kind of manual la bor is required. And much of this is done by small children. These children spend long, hard hours on their hands and knees wedding and thinning the beets. Then when the beets are full grown they spend more long, hard hours lifting the heavy roots to their knees and with a wide sweep of a dan gerously sharp knife cut off the tops.
 The Federal Children's Bureau made an intensive study of the Colorado sit
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-26

Years ago when the labor move more in a formative state than at the present time and before the boot and shoe workers, under that title had all of those engaged in turning out boots and shoes in their organizatoin the trade had sub divisions, one ot which was truly progressive and militant group called the lasters. The are now in Heaven, but the good work they performed keeps their memory fresh even under modern trade developments
 There had been contention among there had been many contentious cramped and unhealthy workshops. The lasters' union insisted on better pay and better working conditions. The executive officer, Ed. Daly, had but one leg, but those who knew him best testified that he could do as much kicking with the one foot as any other man might do with two,
 An unruly employer in Lynn con- SClbCu d happy tHOuSHb' 14C "ould go out into the country, purchase a piece of land, erect a shoe factory, hire non-union men, manufacture tor the trade, and be remote from the activities of Daly and his official pals All went well. The factory was ready for workmen. The employer adver- tised for non-union men. In surpris- ingly short time all of his lasting benches were connected with evi- dently and eminently first class last CTS. This soon became known to the trade. Ed Daly made a visit to the firms office and was threatened with arrest if he went around the new shop encouraging lasters to join his union. Rough language did not rattle him and his pleasant manner made the employer feel perturbed at having spoken rudely to him. Daly promised to call again. The employer advised him not to.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-26
BaerfaCts By J. M. BAER, The Congressman Cartoonist.
 International Labor News Service Hear Ye! SenatOrships For Sale! 

aCtiOnary senators must have realized that they could not be reelected without spending more money than the law al lowed.
 They are safe in spending any amount, now. Daugherty fixed it tip for them.
 The ''open" shoppers and other anti-unioniSts have ob- jected to unions. They claimed that they were "class-move- ments" Is there any more capital conscious, sovietized class-movement in the world than the group of millionaires who are now buying seats i'll the United States Senate?
 This group formed the origin al organized classmovement in America.
 When Morgan, Gary and Rockefeller are added to the Newberries, Gilletts, Winslows and other millionaire members of Congress, there will be no more powerful class-movement in control of government in the world.
 This is the issue. Preserve our institutions. Use your political power at the polls. Prevent the United States Gov ernment from being pol-looted by the "plutes."
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-26
the banker may be had without cost

the banker may be had without cost at any time.
 Money accumulated by ordered thrift and sclf-dcnial should not be risked, and when one listens to a stock salesman he should always bear in mind that he is taking the chance of losing in few moments the sur plus which it has taken years of care full living 10 build up.
 Every man who starts on a savings campaign, or who by careful business management has acquired confidence, desires to protect what he has so that 1t will work for him. The best way to make sure Is to consult his banker the moment any investment appeals to him as being worthy of his con SideratiOn.
 Investing money is risky business, for investing money in most cases means lending money, and there Is an element of risk in most loans. The safest way is to take every possible precautions against losS-and the best way to do that is to investigat c before you invest,
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-26

SorreI Salad.-Gather the sorrel, if possible, early in the morning. with the dew still on it. Wash well, chop two cupfuls and mix with one-half cupful each of seeded raisins and ing and serve garnished with fresh leaves of sorrel.
 ,DandeIion SaIad.-Gathsr the dan delions which have been bleached un- der wood or leaves; wash and chop; sprinkle with little chopped onion, salt and pepper, and add a dash of vinegar. The dandelions may be serv- ed with a mayonnaise or a boiled dressing and garnished with sliced radishes.
 Boiled DandeIions and Sorrei.- Wash a peck or less of dandelions in water enough to thoroughly cleanse. If picked and put into deep pail the dirt settles, after they have been soaked and stirred, in an hour or two. Cook until nearly done in boiling wa ter then add the Sorrel and cook until that is tender. Drain, chop, then re- heat and season with salt, pepper. butter or bacon fat, and garnish with hardcooked eggs.
 Dandelions cooked with 8 ham bone or with bacon make a most appetiz- ing dish. The dandelion is rich in iron and splendid blood purifier.
 Boiled Pepper Grass.-Gather the pepper grass in the morning with the dew still on 1t. Wash and cook with ham or bacon just as the dandelions are prepared.
 Water Cress.-This Is another valu- able spring tonic, rich in the minerals needed in the blood. Eaten with 6 sprinkling of salt or in combination with lettuce it makes a most piQuant salad.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-26
BUY ONLY UNION-MADE GOODS

uaIlon. UT I,UtI InCIuucu in unIs suuuy seven-tenths were the children of con- tract laborers. Over one-fourth of them were under ten years old, small percentage under eight. Less than one-fifth were as much as fourteen years old. Considerably over a half ranged from nine to thirteen. From 69 to 85 per cent, according to the process in which the child was engag- ed, worked nine hours or more a day. From one-seventh to one-third, again varying with the process, worked eleven hours or more a day. The average working day for all processes was usually between nine and ten hours.
 Evil Effect on Children
 Postural deformities and malposi- tions were found in 70 per cent of the children examined by the Bureaus physicians. Another serious effect is the interference with their educa- tion. Among 93O children from nine to sixteen years of age for whom school records were obtained over 40 per cent were from one to seven years below the normal grade for their age.
 The general study of the National Child Labor Committee in Colorado and Michigan indicates that these con- ditions hold generally throughout the beet raising sections. A farmer who owns or leases land contracts with the sugar company to furnish a certain number of acres on which beetS are to be grown The company agrees to fur nish the hand labor. The company then contracts with a laborer, usually a Russian, Jap or Mexican, to do the work on a definite number of acres.
 The number of acres laborer con- tracts to care for is based largely on the number of children he has,
 The labor employed in the Colorado beet fields Is practically all foreign la bor. Mexican, Japanese and Russian. The Mexicans and Japanese, however, do not work their children as much as do the Russians. The Russian chill dren often begin work as early as four or five years of age.
 In Michigan conditions are very sim liar. excepting that the nationalities of the workers are more diversified, and there are fewer Russians and Mex leans and no Japanese. They are made up largely of Hungarians, Slavs from the small provinces. Polish and Germans In Michigan. as in Cobra do, the beet people are exploiting the foreign laborer and his children.
 All of which pretty thoroughly pune lures any pretense that a high tariff on sugar will in any way protect Amer ican farm labor.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-26
CIGARMAKERS PLAN
 TO BOOST UNION GOODS

Philip Montis and John w, Murphy will represent Local 37 at the New England Label Conference to be held in Springfield, Mass, June 22, g and 24. Ways and means for boosting the sale of union made cigars is the principle business of the convention.
 MT. Murphy also was elected to represent No 3o at the Connecticut Federation of Labor convention at Stamford
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-26
FIREMEN
 TO ENTER POLITICS

Houston, Texas, May 26.-Oficial entrance into politics of the Interna- tional Brotherhood of Locomotive Bremen and Enginemen as an or ganization to cooperate with other labor rganizations was embodied in motion passed unanimously at the convention of the brotherhood. Politi- cal activity on the part of the broth erhood heretofore has been prohibited by the organization laws.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-26

The facts are that the sale of these seats in Uncle Sam's sen ate is made necessary by rul- ing Of the United States Su- preme Court in the NeWberry case. According to Attorney General Daugherty, this decis- ion nullihes all laws intended to prevent the corruption of pri- mary elections for senatorships.
 The sky is the limit!
 Without filing any statement, Wall Street may spend unlim- tied sums through their million aire friends to elect them to the highest legislative branch Of our government.
 Slush funds and corruption will now pour into the cam paign chests of the B senator. ships that are. to be chosen on November 7, 1922. After the defeat of Senator New, who voted for Newberry, other re-
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-26
Nuu h4~ ~e.Q
MOULDERS
 GO OUT ON STRIKE

Terryville, ! May 26.-About $ brass moulders at the factory of the Eagle Lock Co. walked out this week when they learned that their request for a 20 per cent. increase in wages, asked for last week, had been re- fused An offer to readjust wages on spoiled work was made by the com pany but was not accepted by the men.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-26
Mortgage Sharks
 Check Building
Charge Exorbitant Commissions tc
 Secure Loans Besides Interest.

Washington, May 26-Exorbitant commissions paid to money lenders who take up second mortgages is a major reason why people cannot af- ford 10 build. Another reason is high bonuses paid for sums advanced to builders.
 These statements were made by speakers at meeting of citizens, called to discuss the rent situation in the nations capital One speaker stated that in most cases home own CTS have their home mortgaged so heavily as to almost cover their actual value, and that in reality they do not own their homes at all
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-26

Like the horn of the hunter sounding Far and faint from the hill, Setting the red blood pounding. Making the pulses thrill With her fairy pipers, playing Their mad and merry slss, The white Spring goes to the Maying. And she calls to the heart of me.
 -Christian DaviA-
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-26

dish or Tr9S0 greens, for some where within rid ing distance there will be found the common dande- lion, sorrel or cowslip, each of which is good for
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-26

The Story of Our States
 By JONATHAN BRACE
 XLVI.-NEW MEXICO
 ] $ ':: 5: i: < < .' :|| = ]; .' M<SST%SM "A name im- Ns/AGEN plies, New HS( SS&A NM Mexico's his- WA A'=A /A ly allied with %$SL Old Mexico.
 .l9t2 It was the Spanish who were it's first ex- plorers, De Vaca visiting this region in 1536 and Coronado four years later. The natives were the Pueblo Indians, all though they are somtimes errone- ously reputed to have been Az tees as they were we'll advanced in the arts and had a cOmpara- lively high civilization. These Indians were conquered in 1898 by Juan de Onate and became subject to Spanish rule, being forced to work the mines and pay tribute. Missions were estab- lished and Santa Fe was founded about 1905.
 Except for a period of ten years when the Indians revolted and maintained their indepen- dence, New Mexico remained un- der Spanish control until in 1921 Mexico gained its independence from Spain and New Mexico became province of Mexico. Thus it remained until the out break of the Mexican war, when in 1846 Colonel Kearny marched from Fort Leavenworth with his troops, occupied Santa Fe and declared this region part of the United States. By the Treaty with Mexico in 1848, the upper part of the state was formally ceded to the United States and the Territory of Mexico was or ganized in 1851, which reached from Texas to California.
 Arizona was set off from New Mexico in 1863 and a few years later a portion was contributed to Colorado. Application for ad- mission as state started in 1850, but it was not until 1910 that New Mexico became the forty-seventh state.
 New Mexico ranks fourth in size among the states with an area of 122, ,634 square miles, but is sparsely populated and accord ingly has only three electoral votes for President.
 co by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate)
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-26
THE REASONABLE GREENS.

Even if one lives in a city, there Is no reason why you should be denied
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-26
FOR SALE

SEATS IN THE UNITED
 STATES SENATE.-Ninety- six of the choicest seats of the greatest legislative body in the world are to be auctioned off 10 the highest bidder.