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Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-11-07

Mrs. T. H. Downing who has
been with her mother. Mrs. G. w.
Weeks for some time on account
of the illness of her little daugh-
ter. has returned to her home in
Stayton. The little girl has Just
about recnvered now
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-07-21

carly morning hours. The city was hardly taken by surprise but shop workers rose earlier and walked to their places of employment without grumbling SO great was the sympathy of the public with the men.
 Mayor Studley resided on upper Elm street and about o'clock went over to Whalley avenue to get car to City Hall as was his custom. He waited but no car came and finally he inquired from a passerby the reason "Why there's a strike on," was the reply to which the mayor replied: By jove, then I'll walk with the rest of the city," and he did
 Meetings we're held day and night in Aurora hall and Trades Council hall and on the evening of the first day the mayor was asked to address the men in Trades Council hall. A committee had been sent for him and donning his coat he accompanied them over to the meeting place and the men to be cool and peaceful and themselves as special constables to protect not only city property gener- ally but the railway property also.
 It wasn't the company's fault that disturbances did not arise. As a sub terfuge they caused big black signs to be placed on the front and rear of the cars they attempted to run, bearing the words: "United States Mail," and induced Chief of Police Wrinn to put policemen on the cars to protect the few strikebreakers they were able to secure. Then they start ed out and tried to resume some service. Unfortunately for their scheme Mayor Studley was in the chair and able to cope with the situa- ton. When the car with cop aboard was about to pass City Hall the mayor walked out and held 1t up ordered the cop back to the station, much to said cops delight and then informed Chief Wrinn that New Ha- ven was paying it's policemen to pro- tect the city and not the property of any private corporation and not to put any more policemen on the cars unless disturbances arose that war ranted such action. No disturbances arose until the end of the strike and there were no more police protected cars.
 The suburbs were especially hard hit by the strike but to meet it the New Haven road ran trains every few minutes between North Haven and West Haven, East Haven and Mt. Carmel so people in those places were able to get into the city and within walking distance of most of the big shops. Stops were made at Winchesters and down town where the bigger industries were located and little inconvenience to the workers was had.
 On Thursday the entire public was with the trolleymen and refused to ride on the cars the company attempt
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-07-21
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The Connecticut labor news., 1922-07-21

ed to run We Walk" buttons sprung up like mushrooms and there was hardly a person in all New Ha- ven who did not wear one. The splr- 1t behind the slogan was manifest especially at such times as some per son did attempt to board one of the cars, especially at the Green from where attempts to start were made. With not a striking trolley man in sight the public took it upon itself to demand that these people get off the cars and they surely did.
 John K. Punderford, now vice president and general manager, was then head of the electrical and engi- neering department and with Starters Hussey and Welch, who were not in the union, attempted to keep the ser vice going. None of them liked the job but had to stick to it. Cots for strikebreakers were sent to the Grand avenue barns and great hullaballoo set up by the company about their going to resume service. They did attempt to do so but got the surprise of their lives when the public abso- lutely refused to ride on the cars and finally late Saturday afternoon, the ofhcails gave in, swallowed their chagrin and sent for the strike com 1nittee which consisted of James Burns, P. J. Cronin, Thomas Hallor- an, Nathan Simon, Dennis FitzGerald, John Looney, Sr., Joseph Shaw, James Ryan, and George Bowen.
 A short conference led to the rec ognition of the union, the guarantee to take back all of the discharged men and early Saturday morning the men Hooked to the barns, boarded the cars and the Saturday night shoppers were carried to their homes. The strike was over with a complete vic tory for the men. Such scenes as sel- dom are witnessed especially in a la bor victory made the city center look
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-07-21

fuel to the fire There was no dis pute over the then rate of pay but the men did have some actual grievances over the arbitrary manner in which they were treated and in this they had the support of the riding public which was so disgusted by the man ner in which the road was being run
 Within a week after the discharges had started the men had formally completed plans for the organization and in the earl y morning of July 2o
 when all runs were over, there being no all-night service at that time, they met in Herman Sons hall, then at George and Church streets, and or ganzed the union. At the first meet ing more than 300 were present and signed the roll call and made applica- ton for a charter. They were assist ed in the organization by John J. O'Neil of Bridgeport, general organ
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-07-21

like picnic. Everybody was hilari- ously happy and expressed it loudly. It was a we'll fought and orderly bat tie and the victory was one we'll worth rejoicing over therefore,
 The union has had many disputes with the company since especially in latter years when wage questions be- came acute. These have always either been settled by mutual agreement or gone to arbitration and one of these latter occasions Mayor FitzGerald, then not in public office but prac- ticihg lawyer, was chosen as third man on the board His decision was so fair to the men that he like Mayor Studley during strike days was made an honorary member of the union. Both will be at the banquet The union has met with many obstacles as natural, but has succeeded in meet ing them all successfully. It has al ways been we'll offcered and is at present and today, while wage ques- tions have been mighty serious of late the best of feeling exists between the officials and employees.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-07-21

charged were to the last one rein stated, the union was recognized and collective bargaining began which has, even in times of stress over wage and working matters, succeeded in heading off all troubles since The strike made John P. Studley, then mayor and very genial one, the most popular executive the city ever had and his prompt action in the trou- ble so brought him before his general public that at the succeeding election he was returned to office after carry ing every ward in the city, a feat never before accomplished.
 Back in 1902 the company had on its rolls something like 435 men and the number was getting so unwieldly that to deal with them individually caused much discontent, charges of favoritism and the like so that the men decided to organize.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-07-21

L., and by Thomas Hare of this city, then organizer of the New Haven Trades Council
 Ten men were selected to apply for the charter which was granted on August and still hangs in Trades Council hall and of these 10 not one is now employed on the cars but have launched into other and better paid businesses, and all are still alive and are expected to be guests of honor at the coming banquet. The eleven were:
 Bernard M Hope, now police ser geant; Charles Platt, now city lamp inspector in New Haven; Harry Noo ney, now in business in Newark, N. J.; Thomas J. McNcty, now general bridge tender and inspector i'll New Haven; Frank Fisher, now in the coal business in West Haven; John Shu- grue, now with the New Haven Gas
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-07-21

Organization was distasteful to the company officials and the secretary, one Candee, browsed about seeking to find out the ringleaders. Bernard M Hope, now sergeant in the New Ha ven police department, was the first picked upon and got his walking papers. Then on Monday, July 2I, five others, suspected of being active in the organizing, also were given the gate without any reason being
 vcn for the action. These were Charles Hall, Terrence Reynolds, Edward Dickerman, James Leddy, and Frank Buss. Others followed in quick order until finally more than score were discharged and the com pany confident it had busted up all ideas of forming union.
 But the company had reCkoned without it's host and had only added
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-07-21
ORGANIZATION FORMED WHEN
 LEADERS ARE DISCHARGED AT
 ONCE PULLS SUCCESSFUL STRIKE
Four Days Battle for Principle Ardently Back ed Up By General Public Taught New Haven Railway Officials Lesson They Never Forgot and Was Only Trouble Ever
 Brought to a Head.

Wednesday, oleymen New in Haven trolley Local of New Ha toeymen labor
 
 be of whow
  of formed toward the organization.
 other guests of wirbe Reilly Michael Whelan Invitations will also be Onbur of the New Haven Board of Aldermen
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-07-21

demanded the recognition by the company and the reinstatement of the men discharged for their activities in organizing it. This was promptly and indignantly refused by the company heads. As a defy the company dis charged more men including such popular employees as Peter Gilligan, John Falsey, Matthew Kennedy, con ductors; and John Legrand and Thos. McNety, motormen.
 This was the last straw and when the company continued to refuse to meet a committee, the men met in old Aurora Hall on the then Union street, and long since torn down to make way for the railroad cut. This was on the morning of August 5, after ? o'clock when all runs were done and the cars safely in the barns. A declaration was drawn up for pre- scntation to the then superintendent
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-07-21

Company; Terrence Reynolds, who quit the company to go on the stage as a singer and who is now mem Der of the New Haven Fire Depart ment; Patrick Doherty, now an en- gineer. on the New Haven road; James Healy, now in the real estate business in Jersey City, and Dennis Clyne, now commercial traveller and former state senator.
 With the receipt of the charter officers were selected with Bernard Hope as first president, Charles Platt as vice-president; Harry Mooney as recording secretary; Frank Russ, now with the Eidlitz company which built the Hardness Memorial, as financial secretary; and Thomas ]. McVety as treasurer. The union immediately
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-07-21

The union is the direct outgrowth of the discharge by the company, then known as The Fair Haven & Westville, of more than a score of employees who were actively urging the formation of such union. The discharge was almost immediately followed by a strike which lasted four days and was one of the most remarkable labor disturbances ever staged here or anywhere else for that matter. In fact except for the seri
 ousness of the matter a visitor to New Haven might have mistaken it for a jubilee on the part of the troll leymen in which the general public joined heartily and made such an inn
 pression on the company officers that after a struggle to keep up their end at the close of the fourth day they threw up their hands and uncon- ditionally surrendered. The men dis
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-07-21

Hull, but like all other attempts at getting together was turned down.
 Early Wednesday morning the en- tire force met again in Aurora hall and after the committee had reported the failure of it's efforts the strike was declared The meeting was held under direction of Organizer Hare and lasted until after 4 o'clock. The first cars were to leave the barns at 4 80 a. m. but at 4:I6 the strike was declared and not car was taken out
 Then men on the one or two "owp cars that had been instituted were notified and ran their cars into the barn as soon as they could get them there and the city was without trolley service. The tie-up was complete and not a wheel turned during the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-11
W|NN|NCLADS
START OFF IN
BATTLES TODAY
Central and Tech, With New
Marks, Go Right on Again for
Engagements on Courts.

Tech and Central, winners in yes
terday's high school championship
contests. are out after more blood to-
day. Central is up at Port Deposit,
Md, playing a return engagement
with the Tome School team. Tech
engages the strong Quincy A. G.
team at Liberty Hall at 1880 o'clock
tonight.
In the high school engagements
both Tech and Central made records
for the season. The Manual Train
ers halted the light Western team by
a score OF 80 to IL. Central gained
a 35-to-19 decision over Eastern. II
was the first time this year that n
winner has scored moro than thirty
points in the series.
Eastern gave Central fine opposi-
ton until Joe ODea, the Capitol Hill
pivot man, wore himself out. There
after, despite substitutions, Central
forged right to the front. Coach Col
liflower used all his subs for the en-
gagements.
Western was no match for the
Tech huskies, who showed improved
form and held the Red and White
boys to three floor baskets. Games
will be played Tuesday. and on Feb
ruary 2S it is expected that Central
and Tech will start in on the final
battle Of the titular engagement.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-11
VIRGINIA WINS
AFTER SECONDS
FAIL To SHOW
First String Players Bring
Home Victory in Kendall
Green Gymnasium.

Virginia basketers showing flashes
Of their real form went in against
Gallaudet and brought Pop" LAM
gan a victory by a 33-to-25 count at
Kendall Green last night. The
Charlottesville men play against
George Washington at the Coliseum
tonight and 1t is n sure bet that they
will produce a fine brand of basket
ball judging from their work in the
second half of the Gallaudet game.
Lanigan sent his second string In
against the Gallaudet lads in the
first half. When time was called the
score was 16 to IL in favor of Gal
laudet. The first string of players
entered the going in the second floor
session and climbed until the score
was % to 16 in their favor.
Thereafter Darlington, Oppleman
and Sexton worked smoothly and
came through with a victory. The
Virginians showed a vastly i'm
proved system of play over their
performance at Catholic University.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-11
MAY
FALL At HUGE
BUFFALO MEET
Speediest of Athletes to COM
pete on One of Fastest
Tracks Constructed.

NEW YORK. Feb. 1l.-Records
are expected to fall like the leaves
OF autumn when the foremost
track and field stars compete in the
National A. A. U. indoor champion
ships at Buffalo tonight. Not only
have the entries Of some Of the
worlds greatest athletes been re-
ceived, but the further fact that
the Buffalo track is one OF the
fastest constructed indicates that
startling performances can be looked
for.
1t was on this track that Abel
Kiviat, Mel Sheppard. Ted Mere
dith and others ran their fastest
races, while il was only a year or
40 ago that Walter Koppisch, then
schoolboy, got down under so
seconds for the quarter mile on
the same layout.
In particular, one record is IN
imminent danger. That is the two
mile mark. which should tremble
in the balance from the moment
that JOE Ray hears the gun until
he breaks the tape. Only a lack
OF competition should prevent Ray
from romping off with the record.
the way he is running these days.
Twenty-one athletes. representa-
tives of the best in the local dis
trict, are being sent to the games
from New York. However, there
will be two notable exceptions.
namely jackson Scholz of the New
York A. c. and Bob McAllister,
the flash of light from the Glencoe
Club. Both are great sprinters.
Their absence will render the
task of winning both sprints much
simpler for Loren Murchison of
the Illinois A. c., although Allen
Woodring OF Syracuse, and Bernie
Wefers jr.. New York A c., have
enough speed to head Murchison
in either the 6O-yard dash or the
300-yard.
Notre Dame also has nominated
a pair of headliners in Johnny Muir
ply, new worlds indoor record
holder for the running high jump,
and Gus Desch, who holds the
worlds outdoor mark for the 440.
yard hurdles. BY way OF reply
Penn State is sending on Larry
Shields, its great distancer; Johnny
Romig, another of the same per.
suasion, and Harold Barron, who
finished second in the Olympic
hurdles.
One Of the big moments of the
game will be the meeting Of Co
lumbia University and the Illinois
A. c. in the medley relay. To
win, Koppisch, Marzolf and Graeb,
Columbia's first three runners. must
figure to start Walter Higgins off
on the final leg in the lead Of
Joie Ray. This will be no simple
matter, in view of the fact that
the Western team has Murchison,
Stout and French as running mates
for the great Ray.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-11
Women's Temper Ends
Grid Game With
Hair Pulling

Women play football in
Paris. Just listen to this ac-
count of a recent game be-
tween teams Of fair pigskin
chasers. "a woman's temper
brought an abrupt end to a
football match at the Stade
Elizabeth on Sunday. Excited
by the play and angry because
the score was going against her
team, one of the misses playing
at forward in the En- Avant
team started pulling the hair of
every adversary of the Femina
Club who came within her
reach.
"The Femina Club called an
indignation meeting in the mid
die of the field, and with the
referee on its side prepared to
lay siege on the scrappy indi-
vidual. The game ended with
both teams walking off the
field"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-11
H0YT H0LD0UT,
SAYS HIS PAY
WAS CUT $500.
Yankees World Series Pitch
ing Star Also Wants Longer
Term Contract.

PHILADELPHIA Feb. 11.-waits
Hoyt, the young pitcher who starred
for the Yankees in the last world
series, has not signed his contract.
Furthermore, he admitted today, that
he was a holdout. Asked II he had
signed, he replied:
mo. have not. and / do not in
tend to unless the figures are
changed. have received the con-
tract and was greatly surprised when
1 found that the salary offered was
5000 less than received last season.
l am probably what you call a hold
out. I have had two conferences with
officials of the club, but have not
reached any agreement"
II was told" young Mr.. Hoyt con-
tinued. when asked for an explana-
ton of the cut that the wrong con-
tract had been sent me and 1 was
offered additional figures, but they
didn't quite come up to expectations.
Furthermore, 1 want a two or three
year contract. 1 was rendered one
for a year"
Hoyt is on his honeymoon, and has
been visiting Atlantic City.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-11

basketball tournament but Central
offers the excuse that its coach
will be in the north with the
Georgetown University team while
the Virginians say they have their
schedule full.
A meeting between these teams
on a neutral court in a tournament
would be one of the big features Of
the present season and would stop
the speculation, especially on the
part of members of both teams.
In connection with the winding
up of basketball and the starting of
baseball 1t might be mentioned that
the high school faculty advisors
have decided to retain the ten-game
system for the titular series.
The teams will meet each other
but once, according to the list,
making four high school engage.
ments for each nine and some ten
or twelve contests with other high
school and prep school mines.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-11
Orioles Beaten.

Closely contested games featured
last nights floor tits in the Church
Of the Good Shepherd League. The
Stanton Juniors won from the Oriole
A. c., 81 to 10. Smalls field toss
ing kept the orioles in the running.
He made five double-deckers. In
the other game, the Good Shepherd
Juniors won from LaSalle, % to 16.
Radice and Duehring played the
best game for the Tctors, while
Joseph and Collins starred for La
Sale
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-11
Can't Find Tights to
Fit 285-Pound
Wrestler

STATE COLLEGE, Feb. IL
College wrestling managers have
their problems. Just at present
the one that Is bothering Man
ager Ken Bailey, of Penn State,
is how to get pair OF wrestling
tights for Jess Sarson, the Nit
tany heavyweight who has been
selected to grapple against Le-
high today.
Sarson weighs 285 pounds and
is only 5 feet 10 inches tall, so
it is, indeed, a weighty problem.
The big fellow has shown that
he can wrestle, however, for he
proved more than a match for
Tiny McMahon, last years vet
eran, in the recent trials. Special
tights have been ordered, but
have failed to arrive, and Man
ager Bailey is now considering
the possibility OF having two or
binary pairs stitched together
in order. to clothe the big fellow
for his first meet.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-11
Author Il T. g. Andrews.

THE title Of our book is, pro-
sically, Worlds Sporting
Record Book, 1922" and the
author is T. S. Andrews, Of Mil
waukee, Wis.
The plot of this story Is appar-
ent from the title. Mr.. Andrews
has been using the thread Of this
same plot in his books for the past
twenty years He has also used
many Of the same characters, al
though of late years we note a dis
position on the part Of Mr.. An
drews to get away from some Of
the old figures that move through
his tales.
For instance, we are panied and
grieved TO observe the passing
from his narrative the names of
John L. Sullivan and Robert Fitz-
simmons. We presume, however,
that the high cost Of white paper
has been taken into consideration
by Mr.. Andrews, something that
other authors might well remem-
Der.
The fiction interest in Mr.. An
drews' book Is we'll sustained this
year by the usual collaboration Of
fistic managers, who cover de-
cisive out-pointings of their young
men with analogous references to
"no-decisions."
The illustrations are unusually
well done, including a Photographic
pose of Johnny Wilson that gives
him the general aspect Of a regular
pugilist.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-11

We tossed the book aside, and
turned to our favorite story, find
ing in the very first chapter the
stirring arrative of a four-round
struggle between Georges Carpen-
tier and one Bourgeois, an incident
completely covering Carpenters
start in life back in 1907. It is
summarized in one line, as follows:
E"WOn-Bourgeois, 4 rounds"
We turned the page, still follow
ing the tale Of the brilliant French
man.
Then we came to another line
which caused US 10 reflect on the
futility Of words when our author
takes pen in hand.
Some Of the foremost members
Of the literat in this and other
countries wrote miles and miles Of
language trying to tell the same
tale that our man tells with one
simple twist Of his wrist.
He sums up the saucer full of
folks that assembled yon July aft
ernoon in Jersey City, and he tells
neatly and concisely the tremend-
Gus tale that ended with the hero,
Georges Carpenter, making an i'm
print Of his Greek profile in the
resin dust.
He does 1t in a single line, where
as It took at least 5000 words for
the most humble member of the
literati to introduce his personal
The line is:
"K. o. by Jack Dempsey, 4 Rds."