The Connecticut labor news., 1922-03-17
FEDERATION SHOWS UP MANY
 BILLS IN CONGRESS INTENDED
 TO FURTHER RESTRICT WORKERS

{ RESTRICT WOkkEkS such work unless otherwise directed by the President of the United States. l This was passed by the Senate, Feb ruary II, and was sent to conferenre. Notwithstanding this the United contract to the Newport News com pany February IS. One of the pecu- l liar features of the giving of the con- tract to a private concern is the fact that there is only one navy yard on the Atlantic coast big enough to float the Leviathan. This IS the Boston Navy Yard. It will therefore be neces- sarv to tow the vessel to Boston,, dock 1t and after the completion of the re- pairs necessary to be made there the vessel will be lowed back to Newport News The cost of this procedure will be $6oo,ooo.
 Adding to the Unemployed.-The unemployed of the District of Colum ba are the latest victims of congress sional action. H. K. IoIoI, which pro- vides appropriations for conducting the government of the District, was reduced $o,ooo, 900 on its way from the district officials to it's passage in the House, February 10. MT. Dawes, the efficiency expert knocked off $2,ooo,- GOO and the House $4,ooo,ooo. The appropriations eliminated provided for the building of conduit to save the people of Washington from a threatened water famine, improving the streets, alleys and roads of the | District and other necessary public works. These improvements are not i T I,,+ T |, 1 means of supplying work to the thousands of unemployed in Wash l ington. Members of Congress con tended that they were carrying out the policy of President Harding, who, in addressing the recent Unemp1oy- 1 ment Conference, warned those talk ing part that the government would not spend any money to help the un- employed. The action of Congress also emphasizes the necessity of sui frage for the District of Columbia. l the people of the District were permitted to legislate for their own interests, these improvements would have been provided for,
 Chinese Coolie Bill.-Walter S. Dill lingham, chairman of the so-called l Hawaiian Emergency Labor Commis- sion, left Honolulu, February I for Washington to again urge upon Con- gross the passage of the bill to admit l Chinese coolies under bond into the 1 Hawaiian Islands. According to state nents made by him, the attempt to coolieize that territory of the United l States will be made first in the Senate.
 Aids Patent Office Employes.-A bill (H. R. 7o77) to increase salaries and add 10 the number of employees l N I 1, the Senate, February I5. Although paid out of funds in the treasury but from the surplus receipts of the office a most determined campaign was directed against it. Representa- tive John I. Nolan of California, who
 never loses an opportunity to raise his voice in the interest of the wage
 earners, left a sick bed while the bill
 was before the House to advocate its passage. After an all day fight he
 won out by a big majority.
 Workmen's Compensatoin.-Rep
 sentatives of insurance companies and
 their sympathizers are making a fight
 against the Fitzgerald bill (H. R. Ioo34) providing for workmen's com pensation for persons injured III in
 dustry in the District of Columbia
 Representative Underhill of Massa-
 chusetts has presented a bill (H. R.
 o546) having for it's purpose the pro-
 lection of casualty insurance com
 panies. The Fitzgerald bill has all
 the good features of the Ohio bill
 including a state fund from which
 compensation shall be paid This is very objectionable to the insurance
 interests. That Representative Un-
 derhill is interested more in insur-
 ance companies than in labor IS evi-
 denced by the fact that in speech
 made in New York, April 2I, 1921
 before the National Metal Trades
 Association he untruthfully charged
 that during the war "the attitude oi
 union labor and it's leaders was sc
 selfish, seditious, so disgraceful and
 disloyal that from that time until to-
 today" he was from Missouri and had
 to be shown. The Underhill bill is
 favored by insurance companies
 which is satisfactory evidence that ii
 will not be for the benefit of persons
 ini11red in ind11Strv