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The Connecticut labor news., 1922-03-10
BERRY IS REELECTED
 HEAD OF PRESSMEN
Beats Opposition By More Than Two
 to One Despite Detractors.

Pressmen's Home, Tenn, March 10. Official canvass of the referendum vote shows that George L. Berry has been reelected president of the In- ternational Printing Pressmen and Assistants Union He received an electoral vote of 2o8H over D. J. Far rell, who received 117H votes. The incumbent ce-presidents-Jo M. Brophy, w. H. McHugh and s. B. Marks-were reelected by the same general ratios. Secretary-Treasurer Joseph C. Or received 3oIH electoral votes over A. B. Kreitler, who re- ceived I14H votes.
 The referendum approved per capita tax increase and increased the death benefits. The per cent. assess ment is to be continued until May I next.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-03-10
THE PALACE

Proof, absolute, undeniable proof, that there is still loads of mirth in this old world will be given at the Palace when Joy Week starts thea ter goers on a laughing rampage next Monday This is going to be a big Palace week, put on and pushed over in a thoroughly big way. Joy Week shows bring I4 acts to the Palace and also double portion of screen fea- lures. Each act is one calculated to create mirth and the combination of all fqsms one uninterrupted session of joy.
 On Monday, Tuesday and Wednes- day real dyed-in-the-wool mirth creator heads the vaudeville bill. This is Polly Moran, the famous Keystone Comedy gir land the noted Sheriff Nell'' of many a screen howl. Polly is just as funny on the stage as on the screen as is testified by the efforts of scores fbig circuit managers to ob- tain return engagements of this snap period of bubbling comedy is found on this bill in the act of Shaw and Bee, who, as fun mixers have long enjoyed a high rating in vaudeville The one touch of the more serious on the first of the Joy Week bills comes in the form of Mme Doree's Operalogue, but this I5 minute per iod with the gems of grand opera only lend weight to the bill and by com parison accentuates the comedy num- bers. Her company consists of 10 vocalists all with grand opera train ing and experience. Completing the bill are the Four Belliots in their gymnastic offering of comedy; Maker and Bedford in College Chums," an- other act of laughter; Davis and Walker in "A Lesson in Dancing" and Jed and Buddie Gray, who start the show off to fast comedy pace
 Like the vaudeville the screen will also deal exclusively in fun making pictures. Two features have been palced. The first, Clyde Cook nj ''The Toreador," a comedy as mrin full of mirthful action as Charlie Chapli'ns famous "Carmen" Following this comes David Butler in "Bing, Bang, Boom," which Is five reels of the full range of fun varying from the smile and low chuckle to the loudest screams of laughter
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-03-10
PENSION BENEFITS DENIED TO WORKERS
 OF GOVERNMENT
More Than 8o,ooo Can Not Partici- pate Rules Attorney
 General.

| Washington, March Io.-Approri- mately 20 per cent. of the government employees in the classified civil service are barred from pension benefits of the retirement act under an opinion by Attorney General Daugherty trans mitted to Secretary of the Interior Fall, who administers the act Sec retary Fall estimated that 8o,ooo em- ployes were affected and that out of 8,ooo who had retired under the act, four-hfths, or 6,4oo employees, have been drawing their pension illegally under the opinion.
 The attorney general ruled, accord ing to a review of the opinion sub mitted to Secretary Fall by the solic- itor of the interior department, that only those employees who held their positions as the result of competitive examinations were entitled to the benefits of the retirement act Thus Secretary Fall said all those em- ployes who entered the classified service as the result of presidential order without such examination, to the number of 80, 900 were excluded.
 The attorney general held further that, while the President by executive order might include within the classi- fled service particular positions and classes, such an order would not en- brace persons who hold particular positions except upon competitive ex- animation.
 In his review of the opinion, the solicitor of the interior department said that 50 per cent. of the employees who, having reached the retirement age, were retained in active service for two year periods under authority of the act because of special value to the government, did not enter the service through competition, and would be excluded from the benefits. He declared these, with all others barred by the opinion had been con tributinS 2H per cent. of their month ly pay to the pension fund as required by the act.
 Asserting that approximately 6,4oo employees who had retired have been receiving pensions illegally, the solic- itor said that unless Congress enacted legislation for their relief, there was no way for their pay to continue.
 Secretary Falls attention was call ed by the solicitor to ruling of the comptroller general that if a depart mental disbursing agent pays a per son money contrary to his construc-- tion of the law, the agent IS held per sonally responsible for repayment of the sum SO paid. The solicitor also said that the sum deducted from the salaries of the employees not benefit ing, must be refunded
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-03-10
CHILD LABOR LAW
 BRIEF IS NOVEL

Washington, March Io.-A brief of many novel and universal features has been filed in the supreme court by the government in the child labor law cases, argument on which was begun this week
 Shakespeare at length in support of the contention that unless the people themselves awaken to the fact that they themselves must defend and pre- serve their own institutions, and not rely wholly upon this court as a tutelary guardian" a serious, if not a revolutionary condition may develop.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-03-10
THE BIJOU

Way Down East" is David H. Grif- fth's greatest picture That's "sure as shootin' in a wa yof speaking and because 1t IS universally acclaimed as Griffith's best, because there has been a persistent demand for it's return to town inasmuch as 1t has been shown here previously and thousands were unable to see 1t is the reason that MT. Po1i went out of his way to set aside everything else that had been ar ranged for i'll the way of entertain ment program and is bringing it to the Bijou for a weeks return starting with tlis Sunday night. For more than 20 years Way Down East" was stage play and it had such an in finite appeal all classes of theater- goers.
 In his other big pictures Griffith "Way Down East" he makes an ap- peal to all who go to the theater to be entertained. He moves in a wider sphere than Is .1snanly possibel on the stage Lillian Gish, wholly pli- able in the hands of this great direct or, sets new high standard for screen actresses. The big thrill in "Way Down East" is reserved, of necessity, for the closing moments when Dave (Richard Barthelmess) rescues Anna from death at the falls in the ice damned river. When re- viewed at it's Metropolitan premiere this scene swen an audience of hard boiled" motion picture experts off their feet. Way Down East" is full of appeal. The pathetic little drama demands the full sympathy of the audience throughout. Interest cen ters upon the web of gossip being woven about Anna and when she is driven from her haven of refuge among those who loved her and whom she loved one finds the great est appeal for the wronged child.
 And what cast is supporting Miss Gish and Mr. Barthelmess. Think of Lowell Sherman, Burr Mcintosh, Kate Druce, Edgar Nelson, Mary Ray, Creighton Hale and George New ille; they are names to conjure with. Manager Menges will present Way Down East" identically as the New York production was put on, the quartet singing for this engagement being by the War Veterans Four, a olcal quartet with unusually fine voices and the effects used in the original >productoin will be used at the Rii011
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-03-10
ROCKVILLE JUDGE
 SAYS "DRY" ACT
 IS WICKED" LAW

Rockville, March 1o-Judge John E. Fisk, presiding in the town court, at the close of a case growing out of men having partaken of a vicious brand of home made whiskey which apparently made them insane, said that he was totally out of sympathy with the Volstead act. He character ized it as a wicked law" and said the city would be better off with few licensed places properly operated un- der law, than as at present. There was no indication in the court room that anyone disagreed with the judge
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-03-10
BRICKLAYERS AGREE WITH GOVERNMENT
 ON WORKING RULES
Conference at Washington Expected to Result in End of
 Abuses.

A consent decree, drawn and signed in Washington, has established new working rules for approximately IIo,-
 900 members of the Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers' International Union of America These new rules
 are directly opposed to many of the
 rules of the American Federation of
 Labor. The decree followed a con ference with Attorney General Daugh-
 erty with the leaders of the union. It
 will be entered in the United States
 court in New York
 The work of preparing decree
 that would be accepted by more than
 50 representative of the various To-
 calls throughout the United States
 and by the government followed re-
 search and inquiry on the part of the
 federal officials for nearly four
 months.
 Threat of prosecution, with the pos
 sible inducement and imprisonment,
 of those engaging i'll conspiracies to
 on questionable claims, to prevent the
 workmen, to attack those out of favor
 with the union, to order that supplies
 be purchased from favored firms, and
 the like, was the first step taken by
 the government The conviction and imprisonment of several persons charged with violation of the Sherman law the voluntary disintegration of illegal combinations and the pending trials of others operated favorably in
 obtaining the consent of the union to discuss the matter with the author ities.
 Col William Hayward, United States attorney, has assisted to carry on this work. There were many con- ferences in the office of Colonel Hay ward and many trips to Washington to obtain the advice of the attorney gen. ] eral. Almost from the outset the rep | resentatives of the union indicated a willingness to accept a settlement of the difference between the union and I the government But the question of preparing a decree that would meet | with the approval of the members of the various locals was difficult As | finally prepared the decree provides in brief:
 I. There is to be no limit to the productive capacity of the individual
 workman within the working day or any other time.
 ?. There is to be no limit upon the ! right of the employers to purchase l their material wherever and whenever ! and from whoever they may choose, ! whether those materials be union | made or otherwise.
 3. There is to be no favoritism
 shown by labor toward employer or
 trade associations and no discrimina-
 tions are to be indulged in against | the independent employer who may
 not be member of such an organi- zation.
 4. The labor organization is not to
 be used ,or permit itself to be used, | by material men or contractors or | subcontractors as an instrument for the collection of debts or enforcement l of alleged claims.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-03-10
ELECTRICIANS FOR
 A SOLDIERS BONUS

Declaring emphatically in favor of the proposed bonus for soldiers of the late war, Local 90, Electrical Work CTS of New Haven, this week adopted resolutions to that effect and for warded them to the representatives had a large number of it's members well taken care of, so many of their comrades are in need that the bonus is considered not only just but neces sary.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-03-10
REFUSE TO ARBITRATE.

Fort Worth, Texas, March To- Painting contractors in this city demanded wage reduction, refused to arbitrate and have locked out their employees.
 The contractors also demanded that the employees refuse to work for any one who IS not an actual con- tractor.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-03-10
GAIN IN RAIL NET INCOME.

New York, March Io-The January statement of the Pennsylvania rail road system shows net operating in come of $5,oo8, 700 ,an increase of $5,- 6o2, ,664, as compared with January, 1921, when a deficit was reported.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-03-10
BIG TELEPHONE PROFITS.

New York, March Io.-Last >ar's profits of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company were $54,oo2,7o according to a report just issued by the company
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-03-10
WOMEN MAY KEEP WAGES.

Trenton, N. J., March Io.-The as sembly has passed bill which per mits married women to retain wages earned in their own homes. The bill was introduced by Margaret B. Laird, who is a member of the assembly from Essex county.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-08-06

bury estate OF Alton Towers. The Earl
could not marry Mrs Brownlee because
he was not divorced. But. they loved one
another deyotedly.
The Earl built her a home at Goring.on.
Thames. Here they lived as man and
wife, They rode and hunted together
They crulsed on the Earls yacht, When
he was i'll she nursed him. To his inti-
mate friends, who were i'm on the secret,
the Earl said Mrs Brownlee was his best
pal"
Attorneys for the Earl said he began TO
alter his will soon after his affair with
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-08-06

ously valued from 100000 to $1,5OO.-
600
The reading OF the will was bitter blow
to the Earls aristocratic blood kin. Espe.
clally did their disinheritance come hard
to his daughterin-law, Lady Violet, and
her little son, John George Charles Henry
Alton Alexander Chetwynd-Ta who sue
ceeded to the earldom.
Guardians Of the boy, who is only seven,
determined TO break the will. They sued,
and the hearing of the suit brought still
more family skeletons to light. The Earl,
a bredinthe-bone Britlsher, had quarreled
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-08-06

wrote to Lady Shrewsbury, declaring he
and Lady Violet intended to put Lady
Shrewsbury completely outside their
lives"
Lord Shrewsbury and Lady Shrewsbury
were not living ORether HIS lordship
was In the midst OF his love affair with
pretty MRS, BroYnlee. Nevertheless he
decided to take hand in the squabble
on behalf Of his wife, the woman who bore
his name.
He wrote to Pennoyer, suggesting n con.
ference to patch up tho disagreement.
Pennoyer wrote back, from the American
embassy, declining an interview. Lord
Shrewsbury hot under the collar, penned
scathing note, assuring the young man
he was mot gentleman" and threatening
to put all the letters before the American
ambassador To which PennOyer shot
back brief "Go ahead"
Another letter from Lord Shrewsbury 10
Pennoyer demanded an apology TO Lady
Shrewsbury. When Pennoyer refused to
apologize 10 the woman who referred 80
sconfully TO "the American" Lord shrews.
bury sent copies OF all the letters to Am.
bassadOr Page. The ambassador acknowl.
edged them, and there the matter rested
The rest of tho world might never have
heard Of the tIn between Lady Violet ami
Lady Shrewsbury and the counter-tiff be.
tween Lord Shrewsbury and Lady Violet's
American husband II Lord Shrewsbury
hadn't been augered by the refusal Of his
grandsOn's stepfather TO kowtow to him.
The Americans attitude caused the old
Earl TO make new VIII, leaving all his
money 10 Mrs Brownlee. The will caused
this guardians of the disnherited grandson
to sue. The suit caused the paintilf'a
solicitor to read Lord Shrewsbury's glurs
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-08-06
Who "Dropped in'' at
Shrewsbury Case"

LONDON.

SVHE door to the august British court
room opened and in walked William
Howard Taft. ex President OF the
United States, Chief Justice of the United
States Supreme Court and distinguished
visitor to England.
Inc presiding Judge, in his wig and black
robes greeted him. The solicitor stopped
In the middle Of his argument, waiting
respectfully. With duo ceremony Justice
Taft was escorted to g place of honor on
the bench.
There he flashed the famous Taft smile
and settled back to listen. The presiding
Judge gave a sign to the solicitor to pro.
ceed. and the solicitor began to read some
letters.
AS the reading progressed the famous
Taft smile faded. The twinkle vanished
from the Taft eyes and little spots of red
began TO appear In The Taft cheeks The
presiding Judge was coughing nervously,
but the solicitor plugged on.
Sn0ering references to "the American"
were becoming frequent in the letters.
Finally the solicitor read letter from "the
American" to Lady Shrewsbury. When he
finished ne began to address the court.
Lord Shrewsbury" he said regarded
this letter from the American as a great
insult to his wife He also felt that, in
view OF HIS daughterin-law's marriage to
an American, the young Earl might become
saturated with republican views. 1t was
perfectly obvious
The solicitor paused, for Justice Taft
had risen, his face a fiery red, and was bow
ing adieu to the presiding Judge. The
Judge himself was distinctly iustered, and
across the courtroom swelled low mur.
mur The next moment this stopped at
the rap Of the gaVel, but Justice Taft was
stalking toward the door. 1t closed behind
him emphatically, some hearers thought
What was 1t all about? Why did old
Lord Shrewsbury feel that an American
had insulted his wife? Why did he de-
nounce the American and republican
IDEAS? II was most unfortunate, agreed
British Jurists, that an exPresident of the
United States-England's honored visitor,
Justice Taft---had CHANGED into the court
where this particular case was being tried.
at the particular moment Lord Shrews-
bury's letters were being read.
For the answer to those questions the
reader must know what recently has been
revealed to all England-that secret ro'
nance ruled the last ten years of life Of
the late Charles Henry John Chetwynd
Talbot, twentieth Earl Of Shrewsbury,
premier Earl Of England Hereditary Great
Seneschal Of Ireland sportsman, big game
hunter, sometimes known as the coach
ing Earl"
When the old Earl died last year mem
bers Of his family were astounded to learn
that he had made a will, leaving the greater
part of his S1,0G0,0 900 estate to "a rank out
slider" Mrs. Eleanor Whyte Hughes Brown
lee, young widow.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-08-06

the Earl Of Shrewsbury IN 1904. and they
had one son, the lad who inherited his grand.
fathers title, but not cent Of his millions.
Several daughters also were born TO them.
Lord lngestre was Killed early in the
World War In 1915. Some time afterward
his widow met young Richard Pennoyer,
native Of Los Angeles and an attache of
the American embassy IN London. They
fell In love, They were married. And
thereby Lady Violet brought down on her
head the wrath Of her Shrewsbury ain.
laws who had frowned upon her attrac-
tion to the American" from the first.
Hot letters were exchanged The first
was from Lady Shrewsbury 10 Lady Violet
protesting against the engagement Lady
Violet replied, 81 should like to say that
in the first place the children do not re.
quire your pity; they are my children and
! am their sole guardian, and | have no
wish for them TO be with anyone who Is
unkind to and about me, and as for the
American, as you call him, you need have
no fear that he will be brought into the
Shrewsbury family; my one wish is to
get out of it,"
After her marriage to "the American"
Lady Violet wrote a letter to Lord ShreWs-
bury, accusing Lady Shrewsbury Of "spy.
Ing on me and putting my children against
me-" At the same time Mr.. Pennoyer
ryice Inc. Great Britain Rights Reserved,
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-08-06

Mrs, Brownlee began.
He made codicals, be-
queathing her jewelry.
He made codlcils, Civ
ing her his fine hunt.
ers. He made codlcils,
by which she was to
receive the Shrews.
bury family heirlooms.
Finally. only a few
months before his
death, he drew up an
entirely new will. This
document gave his
nurse, his best pal, 4"
his wife In all but
name" practically his
entire estate, yarI-
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-08-06

with his daughter
in law because she
loved an Ameri-
can.
Lady Violet was
the daughter Of
the Marques OF
A n @ sey She
married Lord In
gestre, only son OF
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-08-06

on America and Americans 10 the court.
ANA those remarks caused an exPresident
OF the United States TO quit the courtroom.
London isn't sure whether Justice Taft
resented the reference to republican
views or whether he simply sympathlzel
with fellow-American who had dared tell
the premier Earl of England just where
to get on"
For Justice Taft d9u't explaln-he
merely departed. Yet that, in the eyes Of
the American colony in London. was as
significant as though he had written
twenty-page explanation.
The New York herald., 1922-05-28
Fifty-seven Vessels Crossing
Atlantic-25 Bound for
This Port.

The greatest array of liners ever noted
In the transatlantic Iares since the war
is shown on the chart to-day. consisting
of fifty-seven steamships of immense ag-
gregate tonnage. twenty-five of which
are bound for this port and thirty two
for Europe. Nine of the fifteen largest
merchantmen afloat ate depicted. with a
combined gross tonnage of 271.000, In
Guiding the C.unardsr tquitania (P-29).
which sailed yesterday from Southamp-
ton and Che-bourg the White Star liner
Adriatic (D-23) which departed hence
yesterday for Queen stown and Liver
pool; The French liner Paris (M-11). in
mldeocsan. on her way to Havre. and
the Cunarder Mauretapia. record-holder
of the Cunard fleet. making swift time
on her course for Cherbourg and South
ampton.
In the fleet of thirteer vessels shown
flying The Stars and Stripes. the largest
ie the George Washington (O-4, one of
a few naturalized Americans that retain
their original names, or her way from
Bremen, Southampton and Cherbourg,
the ports she sailed from when she flew
the nautical ensign of Germany. Others
in the American list are the Peninsula
State ODD, off yesterday for Plymouth,
Cherbourg and Bremen, with every cabin
berth taken; the American lines one
cabin ship of democracy" Minnekahda
(J-19), bound for Hamburg with more
than 500 passengers. and the Red Star
liner Kroonland (O-20). from Antwerp.
Southampton and Cherhourg.
The Swedish American liner Drott-
ningholm CD-42), on her first trip west
ward as an oil-burner. Is nearing Sandy
Hook. and her owners predict that sha
will be able to cut abeu, day from her
former time from Go .ncnburg because of
the efficacy of the new fuel.
The Lamport & Holt liner Vestris
ftP-39), is makins the trip from New
York to Plymouth. Cherbourg and Ham
burg under charter to the Royal Mail,
which has two of itJ own ships I'm the
lanes, the Oropesa (P-24). coming this
way, and the Orduna DAD. which