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The Connecticut labor news., 1923-01-05
DEATH RATE DECLINES.

Washington, Jan. 5.-Decline in the death rate from heart disease, inhu- enza e'' and pneumonia and tuberculosis in all it's forms, the three principal causes of death in the United States, were the outstanding features of 1921 which shows the lowest death rate recorded in any year since the be- ginning of the annual compilation Tn 1000, the census bureau reports.
 There .were Io,I68 deaths by auto mobile accidets 1his is a gain from o,1o3 over 1921. Suicides numbered 11,I36, compared with S,o5o in 1920.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-01-05

: The principle that the pecuniaTy
 loss incident to bodily injuries suts-
 tained in the course of employment
 should be borne by the industry,
 which Is to say by the community at
 large-this principle Is now so uni versally accepted that "to assert the
 contrary IS to set the face against the
 enlightened opinion of mankind" The
 responsibility of industry for work injuries is asserted in the statute law of all industrial nations. The merits of this juridical doctrine are no long CT a subject of dispute. Present-day debate turns only upon the scope and scale of industrial responsibility and upon administrative details.
 But it is one thing to assert a legal principle, another to give it practical effect. The present status of Workmen's Compensation in the United States is to be ascertained, comparison of the benefits provided with the pecuniary losses which those benefits purport to cover. A useful review of American compensation laws at the present day will deal pri- marily with the question of adequacy, of consonance with the principle which these laws profess to embody.
 Territorially the American com pensation system is nearly universal
 Only the District of Columbia and six southern states (Missouri is the only state of much industrial i'm portance without compensation act. The others are Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina) still maintain the common law of unhallowed memory. Industrially the system is less com prehensive. Most of the states ex- clude agriculture and domestic ser vice, many exempt establishments which regularity employ fewer than four, five, or even ten persons; some few exclude a particular extra-hazard- ous industry, such as mining or log ging Railway and marine workers engaged in interstate or forei gn com merce are, in the absence of congress sional legislation, excluded as being without the jurisdiction of the sev- eral states. Summing up all these ex- clusions it is perhaps within the mark ] to say that the American compensa- l ton system covers from two-thirds to ] three-fourths of the total number of wage workers. (Only a very labori- I ous calculation from the census data 1 for each state would give an approxi- | mate estimate of the actual propor- ton of wage workers embraced by the several compensation 1aws) Even within these territorial and industrial limits the laws are further restricted by the verx general exclusion of occupational diseases. In respect to scope then, much new legislation is needed to extend the principle of compensation to all work injuries.
 With respect to scale of benefits the showing is much less satisfactory. The primary purposes of a compensa- ton act are three: to encourage the prevention of work injuries as much as possible by affording a direct in centive to such prevention, to restore the earning capacity of those injured workmen who are capable of rehab- ilitation; and to shift the pecuniary cost of work injuries from the imme- diate victims and their dependents to the community at large. conomic re- lief to the sufferers is not merely the ,
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-01-05
PRIVATE CONTROL OF FACTS
 GREAT SOCIAL MENACE.

Much of the present confusion congestion and
 sided control of the product of facts the of privileged few together with about their activities and their Given changes in edu and in knowledge of conditions and opportunities would result Publicity about the of industrial and financial captains and the sequences of their ongs would bring overwhelming check of public sentiment bear what they do. They would take much do things that will stand inspection This far from being the whole of the change that would su but change that would alone bring about nothing less than a revolution in the regime make the re instead of disturbed and partial function Agitation humane and reasonable motives of business has place. but that place part of wider process of education which will modify the of the social situaton-John Dewey in The World Tomorrow
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-01-05
Insurance Expert Declares Compensation
 Insurance Inadequate
Every Worker Should Read Carefully the Import ant Admissions of This Pennsylvania
 Offirial

Just where Workmens Compensation stands the United States foefuy explained by E. H. Downey of the Pennsy Department of meeting the American Economic Association held Pittsburgh
 He dealt with and wildly described how lacking the thrown about the lives of the workers.
 While his address is somewhat lengthy it printed American Economic Review and full urge every worker read word for it is vital that he know present status of this important matter.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-01-05

referees, which is maintained at the joint expense of both parties.
 Under the agreement the referees will act on II per cent wage in crease demanded by the union, work out a plan for the control of outside contract shops to prevent farming out of work, a plan to care for employ ment during the peak period and the question of wage scales for men and women, the union demanding that they be eoualized.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-01-05
REMEMBER OLE HANSON,
 ANTI-UNIONIST, PER Not as Gay, or Rich, as He Used to Be When on the Boss
 Payroll.

Remember Ole Hanson, the won derful mayor of Seattle, who dis covered method of disrupting or ganized labor, which method he expounded in cities throughout the drive two years ago-at so much per expound?
 We'll Ole is in Los Angeles sell ing real estate, and his partner, Joseph Rhenstrom, is in Leaven- worth prison, serving term for land frauds
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-01-05
PAINTERS RAISE WAGES.

Cincinnati, Jan. 5.-Organlzed painters have advanced their wages 5 cents an hour until May B, when they will receive an additional 7A cents. On August g their pay will be ad- vanced 5 cents. This means an in- crease from S7H cents to $I.o5 in less than seven months.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-01-05
O'MEARA
 PROTESTS TINKERINC
 WITH IMMIGRATION LAWS

hat the evident concerted attempt the part of certain letting of the
 immigration be permitted noticed by the taves of Organized Labor clearly demonstrated by the follow President Patrick F. OMeara of the Federation of Labor which letter fully explains itself:
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-01-05

most urgent of these objects, but is the key to both the others. Ade- quate compensation for fatal and per manent injuries will do more than all other legislation to promote industrial safety and to encourage genuine re- mobilization. Yet, it is precisely in respect to these serious injuries that American compensation acts are most deficient
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-01-05

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The Connecticut labor news., 1923-01-05
Comprehensive Program
 Outlined by Labor For General Assembly
FULL TEXT OF BILLS TO BE
 OFFERED AT PRESENT SESSION Every Worker Should Read Them Carefully and Urge Their Representatives to. gort
 Each and Every One @Io

More than usual attention should be given to, of the General Assembly by the working this for of vital interest them a brough for discussion and consideration. The Organ 1zed Labor have laboring diligently for of action and have made sufficient sent decidedly comprehensive line of action.
 During the a number of bills will be in ed fo the benefit of the workers and will be bills framed will be introduced early session They should b. read with by working and of the fo they of vital each and Then each should make his and her business touch with their entative and and make clear that they them these bills.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-01-05

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The Connecticut labor news., 1923-01-05

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The Connecticut labor news., 1923-01-05

New Haven, Conn,
 January 2nd, 1923. Hon. Albert Johnson, Chairman House Committee on I1nmigra- tiOn and ura1izatiou
The Coconino sun., 1923-08-17
WOULD RID GRAND CANYON
PLATEAU OF WILD BURROS

Ne E. Musgrave, state inspector Of
predatory animals, has just returned
from trip to Grand Canyon, where
he went to see what steps could be ta-
ken b. the government to get rid Of
the wild burros that nave taken pos
session of the plateau along the Grand
Canyon and have rendered pasture in
sufficient for any ether herbiverous
animals.
It IS the intention of the govern
naent to get rid Of the burros and
place antelope in a section Of country
20 miles long and as wide as the pla-
teau, making of 1t national game
reserve, and Mr.. Masgrave has been
chosen to devise means Of eliminating
the burros which are now consuming
the pasturage.
He has decided that during the fall
months he will take a force Of men
and drive the burros from the range
to 4 point east Of Pipe Greek, after
which he will construct a fence to
keep them from coming back on the
range. He says that this is the only
feasible plan unless hunters 60 in and
shoot them, and he does not want to
do this If any other method Of ridding
the plateau Of the little animals can
he found.
The Coconino sun., 1923-08-17
A TRIP TO HELL AND
BACK I'M HALF 4 MINUTE


A tip 70 he'll and back in so sec
onds.
That was TIE experience of Juan
Mendoza, a blast furnace feeder at
the Clarkdale smelter, early yester-
day morning. Not once ii hundred
times could man be placed in sim
liar situation and live to tell the tale.
Mendoza was working on the feed
floor, barring down one Of the blast
furnaces; that is, he was, prying of
the accretions which had accumulated
upon the inside walls. The long steel
bar which he was using slipped from
his grasp, and in an effort to recover
it he lost his balance and fell squarely
into the furnace.
Hearing the story, one would feel
ashamed to ask whether or not the
man got out alive, If he was ever
got out at all. That one should fail
to meet death under such circum-
stances is next only to a miracle. But
Mendoza didn't figure that his Hfe's
span had been completed, and he
suddenly decided that with life he
still had chance for heaven, even
though he had landed as close to hell
fire as one could land while still on
earth.
No one was working witch Mendoza,
nor did anyone witness the accident
The man had to act for himself He
proved himself possessed of an ex-
traordinary activity and blessed with
a nimble wit. He had no sooner land
The Coconino sun., 1923-08-17
LARGE AMOUNT TIMBER
FROM NATIONAL FORESTS

National forests in Arizona and
New Mexico furnished eighteen mill
lion feet of saw timber, eight thou
sand cords of wood and five thousand
fence posts during April, May and
June, according to report of the dis
trict forester Sawmills are crowded
and timber sale business is increasing
in the southwest. All cutting is su-
pervised by the government.
Not since the disastrous slump in
the lumber business following the war
have the sawmills of the southwest
been so busy as at the present time.
Building activity throughout the eoun-
try with heavy demand for lumber and
structural timbers is keeping all the
mills on full time while some of them
are running extra shifts. Mill stocks
of lumber do not have chance to ac-
cumulate as orders pass production at
some plants.
Strong markets for timber products
react in heavy demand for government
timber The timber cut on the south
western national forests during the
second quarter of 1928, as shown by
forest service reports, exceeds the cut
of the first quarter of the year by
nearly half and practically equals the
second quarter cut of 1922 when TIM
Der operators were struggling to re-
new the stocks at sawmills after a
long shutdown.
About two-thirds of the total cut
of the last quarter, states the district
forester, took place in Arizona where
on one forest alone, the Coconino, near
Flagstaff, eight million board feet of
yellow pine saw timber were cut. The
The Coconino sun., 1923-08-17
MIDWEST OIL co. STRIKES
OIL AT FARMINGTON, N. MEX

Late Tuesday the Midwest Refining
company, drilling in we'll number 2 on
the hogback dome, brought in an oil
well flowing 700 barrels daily.
The oil is of the same high grade
as that found in well No. |, Of the
Midwest company, on this same struc-
turc, which tests 81 baume. This is
the highest test oil found in America
and is practically the same oil as that
OF the Shiprock Oil company we'll, To-
Gated two miles east of Harrington,
which is about twenty miles from the
shogbaclS dome wells. This proves that
the field in which this high grade oil
is found is very extensive, oil men to-
day said.
This we'll brought in Tuesday night
was started about the middle Of last
January and was drilled to the depth
Of about 785 feet and was then aban
doned, the report being given out that
they had passed through the sand that
had produced oil in we'll No. | and that
it was dry. Shortly after this, the
Midwest company cemented the hole
on the theory that water might en-
ter the oil sand beneath. It was thus
let stand until few days ago, when
the drill was again started in this
well and a flow Of oil was encounter
ed that is practically twice that OF
well No. 1.--Gallup Independent.
The Coconino sun., 1923-08-17


Tusayan forest in the vicinity of Will
lams was second In amount of timber
cut during the quarter
In New Mexico the amount of tim
Der cut from the national forests for
the April-June period amounted TO
| z 100000 feet. The Carson forest in
the northern part of the state with
headquarters at Taos with a cut of
three million feet leads the New Mex
I leo forests.
Total money receipts to the govern
ment for the timber cut during the
quarter amount to fifty thousand dol
lars. Twenty five per cent OF this un-
der federal law goes to the states in
lieu Of taxes for the support Of schools
and the building of roads.
Forestry officials predict that the
lumber cut on the national forests of
I this part of the country will continue
heavy throughout the year. Logging
conditions have been good during the
spring months and there is no indica-
ton that rains will interfere greatly
with summer logging.
Logging operations on national for
ests, the district forester points out,
insuring another cover Of young tim
Der on the same land. Cutover areas
are left in such condition that the
land is safeguarded against erosion
that might result from heavy rainfall
and watersheds of towns and irrigat-
ed regions are carefully protected. All
national forests are being put under
timber management Elans. The ag-
gregate of timber that may be remov-
ed each year will be held to an amount
equal to the annual growth. BY these
methods the forests viii be handled
like huge farms and timber will be
grown in successive crops just as other
products Of the soil are grown.
The Coconino sun., 1923-08-17
GAME WARDEN ADVOCATES
A LONG CLOSED SEASON

A ten-year closed season on all
game is all that will save Arizona ami
mails and birds for sportsmen, accord
ing to G. NJ. Willard, state game war
den, who was en- route to Douglas.
Deer, mountain sheep, antelope, tur-
key and quail are diminishing so rap
idly that in a few years the game will
be totally eXterminated the warden
said
s"There is now q permanent closed
season on mountain sheep and ante
lope, he declared. "But reports made
by the deputy game wardens through
out the state show that these animals
are still being hunted. Whenever We
ere able to catch anyone in the act
Of violating the game laws we arrest
them and have a Jail term assessed in
addition to the fine.
II have been travelling around the
state for several months and the scar
city Of game IS appalling. There are
few deer, few quail and turkeys are
not as numerous as they were.
Part of this is attributable to the
unspo methods of the Phoe-
nix and Salt River Valley hunters.
The hunters in the Salt River Valley
would shoot female hunming bird
from her nest.
"A favorite hunting ground with
Phoenix sportsmen is the place where
the white-wings nest. These men viii
go to the breeding place and kill the
mother birds as she sitSon the eggs.
The game warden SAID that an at
tempt would be made to have a senfi-
permanent closed season made for the
game that is rapidly becoming extinct.
Under the present Legislative methods,
the bill raust be passed by the legisia-
ture and then submitted to the people
for their approval.
He believes that the future OF sport
in Arizona will be decided in the next
few years and that unless. some prompt
and immediate action is taken, there
will soon be no more game.
JaTelins and bears are plentiful in
Arizona. The javelin is d species of
the wild pig and is now3protected by a
closed season of several years dura-
tion.
Efforts will be made by the game
warden to have a number Of small
streams restocked with game fish.
The Coconino sun., 1923-08-17
SNOWFLAKE BOY HAS NARROW
ESCAPE FROM LIGHTNING

Word was received here last Satur-
day by telephone that Ambrose Hunt
and a young fellow by the name of
Brow narrowly escaped death BY
lightning while on the road between
Hunt and st. Johns
A tourist came along and found the
two boys lying under a government
truck in an unconscious condition.
They picked them up and took them
into st. Johns for medical aid. The
young rnen. lay in an unconscious con-
dition for over four hours.
One of the heels Of Ambrose's shoes
was knocked off by the lightning.
Ambrose is shaking hands with him
self that it was his heel that was
knocked off instead of his head. =
Snowflake Herald.
The Coconino sun., 1923-08-17

ed on the molten charge than he re-
bounded, seized the bar which had
preceded him into the furnace, placed
it upright, and Skinned up it to
safety.
his legs and hips, bat the physicians
report that they see no reason why
he should not make a speedy recovery.
Those acquainted with the condi
tions find it hard to understand why
Mendoza was not suffocated by the
intense gasses in the furnace, even
though he escaped being roasted alive.
This was probably due in part at least
to the fact that the force of the blast
had just previously been reduced as
an aid to the barring-down process
Jerome News
The Coconino sun., 1923-08-17
LIGHTNING KILLS HORSES
NEAR PETRIFIED FOREST

John D. Dewitt had his team killed
by lightning Wednesday out on the
Petrified Forest road.
Mr. Dewitt left his team tied to
his wagon, while he went into Hol-
brook on business and when he re-
turned both horses We're dead.-Snow-
flake Herald.
The Coconino sun., 1923-08-17

IF a fellow is able to spend money
faster than he makes it, why work at
all?
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-05-24

quaintance young Shrady had listened
TO vivid accounts OF the achievements
of the great general. For some time
the form which his design should take
greatly perplexed Shrady. and well Ii
might, for here was to be erected a
great memorial by the congress of the
United States to cost a quarter of Q
million dollars, and In the capital Of
the United States, TO commemorate the
victor of many battles In the conflict
for the preservation of the Union, and
who had won the battle that ended the
war. But, inspired by the thought.
Shrady conceived the idea OF a monu-
mental marble platform nearly 800
feet In length, with Ulysses S. Grant
on horseback at a height Of some forty
feet In the center, two great bronze
lions on either side guarding the fias,
and a group Of cavalrymen In action
on the right and a dashing artillery
group on the left. With this concep
ton he went TO work nearly twelve
years ago. Shrady died. after a physi-
cal breakdown from the many years OF
effort In completing the great memo
rial. II was his lifework.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-05-24
FINDS IT HARD TO GET AWAY
Scotsman Who Would Leave This
"Land of the Free" Discovers
Red Tape I~ntervenes.

Immigrants who think II Is hard
to get into the United States should
try to get out after once they are In,
If they wish TO encounter a real prob
lem," said a native OF Scotland. who
has lived In indianapolis several years
and who has taken out his first natu-
rallzatIon papers.
The man wished 10 return 10 Scot
land TO live, and several months ago
took up with the British representa-
tlves In the United States his proposal
10 quit this country for his old home.
Il have been In correspondence with
several British representatives. said
the Scot. 'and there seems TO be an
endless amount of red tape in the pro-
cedure. The British representatives
seem fearful lest ! mny become n
charge on Great Britain. / have sworn
10 almost everything and hope soon
TO get my passports. "-Indianapolls
News.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-05-24

DAY OF NATIONAL SYMPATHY
Significance Of Memorial Time ls That
Sorrow is Shared by Every
Patriotic Spirit.

There is In sorrow a sacred lonen
ness that resents Intrusion. and yeI
there is a longing in every human hear
bowed down, for a sense OF the sym,
pathy Of others. Memorial day is the
rendering to those who mourn. the
token of a nations compassion.
1t was a noble prompting that sci
the day aside. 1t is not a mere formal.
ity, the occasion for a show of grief.
Those gone before will be remembered
daily and every grief-stricken heart
win have Its private sanctuaries. But
this day the burden OF sorrow IL
shared, the loss of all is commemorate
ed the hope of all is reaffirmed.
The new graves shall have their
heaps OF bloom and let there be at
least a blossom for those that are
sunken and sodded. The lowly and the
unmarked must have the common care
And with the reawakened memories
Of the dead. let there come a quicken.
ing of the sense Of responsibility to the
To those to whom a nations
gratitude is due as defenders let there
be lacking no just recognition Of the
Indebtedness. lest the outward show OF
sorrow fail of that which proves ex
preston of sympathy genuIne.-Ex
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-05-24
GENIUS OF THE SIGN BOARD
Aztec All, What Is the Small Matter
of an Apostrophe Between
Friends"7

Some years ago | watched n sign
painting genius while he put the final
artistries on n masterpiece: Ladies'
and Gents Restaurant
Pardon my inquisitiyeness." said /.
but why do You put the apostrophe
before the 81"
THE which before the what?" he
questioned c%ourteously.
The little curly-talled mark after
that e and that I. Some call II an
apostrophe."
"Posserphe, is lt7 Well, young fell
Ter, / seen and | make that dlngus n
hundred times, and | never knew that
Il had a name. Posserphel That's n
good one; I'll have TO spring It on the
gang. Some painters always paint II
after the S, but / always put II before
the 8. because l think that II looks
more artistic there. Otherwise, II
ilon't make no difference where you
out tide Laval Monthly.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-05-24
INK STRICTLY ON. THE IOH
Good Reason Why indianapolis Ma
Felt That His Week Had
Started Out Wrong.

This story has to do with a mar
whose Christian name Is Joseph and
who works at a factory down town.
Monday Is wash day at his home
That, be 1t remembered. was the dag
when an explosion at the indianapolis
Light and Heat company's Mil street
plant cut OFF electric current fror
many homes of the city. This mar
arose somewhat earlier than usual
helped I'LL the boiler with rainwater,
wheeled out the electric washer. and
tried to start operations. The washes
would not work. He spent two hours
trying TO find what was wrong witt
the washer, and finally gave up In diS
gust, going TO work, and arriving late
he found the power of there.
Him, that explains why / couldnv
get that washer started" he said. II
surely started my week of wrong
indianapolis News.