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The Connecticut labor news., 1923-07-06
LABOR WANTS
 CONTROL OF JOB, ., NOT INDUSTRY

Philadelphia, July 7-Labor does not want commercial dictatorship nor is there any widespread desire to con trol industry, said B. Seebohm Rown- tree of York, England, who is lectur- ing at the Friends summer school at Haverford College. MT. Rowntree operates a chocolate-cocoa company in England and employs several thou sand workers.
 There is a mistaken impression current about labor, namely, that labor wants the control of industry he said. Except for a small radical element that is not true.
 "The thing that labor chiefly wants, and is determined to have, is voice in determining the conditions under which 1t shall work, and the recognl- ton that 1t Is a cooperating factor 1n industry rather than servant
 MT. Rowntree said that the estab- lishment of unemployment insurance stopped revolution in England.
 Contrary to a general supposition, labor as whole does not want to re- ceive the benefits of insurance. The I,8oo,ooo men out of work in Great Britain want work badly, even if they are receiving help
 ''It has been argued that with such insurance there would be a tendency to lie down on the job and go without work. But have not found that true, Coincident with the paying of the in surance benefits government employ ment agencies are trying to find jobs. When they get one that is fit to the man applying for benefits, it is offer ed. If he refuses it, he gets no bene fit. That sore of thing can be con trolled. But the fact is that the men want work"
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-07-06

process of government is exposed. The governments safety is in the compensating fact that the more dangerous type is cannabilistic; ulti- mately they destroy each other believe , in political parties, parties prompting the afiliation of their members through the adherence to principles of government, but the mo- ment a party becomes dependent on a following prompted by fspoils or special privilege, then it should be destroyed"
 Assistant Attorney General Grim fired these critical shots at the De- pertinent of Justice and the Harding administration in an address delivered during the past week before the alumni association of William and Mary College, at Williamsburg, Va, one of the oldest and most venerable institutions of learning in the United States He reminded his former class mates that in making such criticisms he did so from his r years expert ence with the Department of Justice both as an official and as an attor- ney defending clients against 1t.
 Department of Justice officials in Washington are said to be greatly disturbed over such a public censure by one of Attorney General Daugh
 erty's assistants. Although MT. Grim carefully avoided mentioning any names, his address is regarded as
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-07-06

It Is clear, however, that this ST. 285 is passed on to the purchaser who must pay in addition for the dealers profits on the sale and often plus the 3 or 4 per cent. commis- sion fee of the agent through whom he buys. If the selling price is $6,ooo to erect, the actual overhead" above the cost of labor, material and land which the purchaser must meet out of his own pocket would be s. 285.
 Public Is Fooled by Misstatements.
 With every advance in wages to building tradesmen the public Is led to believe that the advance necessi- tates a corresponding increase all along the scale For instance a 10 per cent advance in wages, according to this theory, would add $500 to the cost of a $5,ooo house.
 In reality, 1t represents an insignih- cant item of the whole cost, $I3o to be exact, just as the recent advance in wages to steel workers added merely a few cents to the cost of producing ton of steel. An i'm crease of so per cent. in the wages of labor employed on the house in question would actually represent S65o, or just II per cent. of the total cost of construction and decrease in the same proportion would simply work the other way around.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-07-06
WORKERS GETTING BACK WAGES LOST
 IN SLACK PERIOD
Reports to Labor Department Show Consistent Gains-66 Strikes
 Over Country.

Industrial conditions throughout the country continue firm" but B disputes having been reported to the bureau of conciliation of the United States Labor Department during the
 past week This is an increase of seven over each of the two preceding weeks.
 On June I6 there were 65 strikes
 before the department for settlement, in addition to r controversies that
 had not reached the strike stage. But
 82 cases are pending, which is a
 small number for this season. Attention of federal conciliators
 has been devoted recently mainly to seven strikes have been called in
 support of demands for increased
 wages and improved working condi- tions. Only relatively small num- Der of men, however, are involved. This IS likewise true of all contro- versies that have been reported to Washington for several weeks. It is explained by Labor Depart
 ment officials that workers are suc- ceeding in gaining recognition or their demands without resort to strikes except where dealing with small employers.
 Shoe Is On the Other Foot" Organized workers, because of the labor shortage, are getting back some of the wages taken from them few years ago, when the organized en- ployers threw 5,ooo,ooo men into the street and then started campaign of
 defation. The "shoe is on the other foot' now, say labor conciliators, and only in rare instances are work CTS compelled to resort to economic power to secure wage increases and better working conditions.
 Pants makers of the National Pants Co. of New York struck about 10
 days ago for a wage raise. They
 went back last week with an increase of $4 week and acceptance by the
 employer of all union conditions.
 The largest strikes of the last cerned, were at Buffalo, N. Y., where 500 clothing workers are out in sup port of wage demands, and at Phila-
 delphia, where 3,7oo coat makers and | bushelmen are asking for an increase
 of $5 a week.
 Vest and Pant Makers Out. Four hundred vest makers, 200 gar
 ment cutters and 700 pants makers
 are also striking at Philadelphia for a boost of $5 in the weekly wage rate. | A small number of ladies' garment
 workers are out at Camden, N. J. An unknown number of loom fxers
 are out at Warren, R. l., and 500 en1- ployes of the Corticelli Silk Co.,, at
 Leeds and Hawdensville, Mass, are striking for wage increases. | A strike for 10 per cent increase involves 1,5oo employees of the Kairn
 Linoleum Co. of Kearney, N. J. Other strikes include 70 printers at Sioux City, Iowa; 200 fathers at Wa l terloo, Iowa, and about 200 packet steamboat employees at Pittsburgh, Pa
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-07-06

direct attack on the administration of his chief, Harry M. Daugherty. The latter has been conspicuously silent offering no comment. Mr. Grim, 1t is understood, Is at the point of turning in his resignation anyway, not, how ever, from any reason growing out of his recent plain spoken criticism but because he is discouraged over the "do-nothing" policy of the de- partment He served as assistant at torney general in the Roosevelt and Taft administrations and was recall ed under the Harding administration about two years ago. He is one of the few real lawyers connected with the Department of Justice.
 During the course of his address, MT. Grim asserted that the Depart ment of Justice should be removed from the "whirligig of politics" in which it was caught every four years and that the attorney generalship should be taken out of the cabinet. Even the most talented lawyer could not hope to accomplish much in a four-vear tenure" he said.
 Law Vio1ators Undisturbed.
 "The widespread use of the expres- sion crime wave does not square with my observation" declared MT. Grim. "Sleeping sickness on the part of officials Is more accurate term, and while those directly responsible for law enforcement seem to be peculiarly susceptible, the careful di- agnostician has found it among mem bers of the legislative branch of our government"
 For many years, Mr. Grim de- c1ared, there has been a powerful current of public opinion towing throughout society "devita1izing local government under authority of the state, and saddling police responsibi1- ity on the federal government that is essentially the function of local gov ernment.' On the Atlantic ocean, on the Gulf of Mexico, on the Pacific ocean, a belt around the entire United States, he pointed out, i've have a veritable No Mans Land; bootleg geing, graft, piracy, smuggling, mur- der, are committed in a degree of deliberately and skilful1yi organized infamy which is without parallel in American history"
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-07-06

"A man doesn't haue to De much of an authority on drioing car to know that ifs heap-sight better to De care ful than to loish atferpards that you had been. Carelessness,. not reckless ness, causes most of the accidents. :"
 (The Traffic Officer)
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-07-06
Profits In Equipment

New York, July 7.-Reports by railroad equipment companies show why these concerns are urging stock holders to call on congress to "1eave the railroads alone"
 Profits for the first half of 1923 have been unusually large, and pros poets are bright for a continuance of this condition if congress makes no change in the free hand railroads have of paying for their equipment to companies with whom their direc- tors are interlocked.
 Locomotive companies have been especially benefited because of the shop mems strike, and the three leading locomotive concerns, Bald win, American and Lima, have been operating to capacity.
 All of the equipment companies re- port large earnings, after dividends, depreciation, and taxes have been paid.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-07-06

Dr. John M. Cries, chief of the div ision of building and housing of the Department of Commerce, after a careful survey of building conditions all over the United States, gives 1t as his opinion that labor charges account for only 26 per cent of the con struction cost of the average house.
 The other costs he divides as fol- lows: Building materials, 2o.3 per cent; land, Io per cent; contractor, I2.6 per cent; financing, 6.7 per cent; architect and real estate fees, GA per cent
 These figures show that it is not generally possible to blame one single factor, such as labor costs, for high prices of houses" 5Dr. Cries ex- plained He contended that "while the daily wage of building tradesnen might seem high to man employed all the year, they are not necessarily high when the seasonal character Of the employment is considered"
 $500 Labor Cost in $5,ooo
 House.
 Taking $5,ooo as an estimated cost of constructing an average moderate priced home before 1t Is put on the market for sale, the actual labor cost entering into the construction, on a basis of 2o per cent, represents $I,3oo of the whole The cost of materials, at 2o.3 per cent would be $I,465, making a total of $2,7o5. Add to this the sum of $o5o representing the cost of land, if unimproved, and the combined three factors of construc- ton costs would amount to $3,7I5. That would leave $I,285 for the av- craze overhead" charges. Inciden- tally, this overhead" to take care of the contractors profits, financing and fees is only SIS below the total labor costs and offers a plausible reason for the high cost of building.
 What the purchaser must pay for this house, constructed at a cost of $5,ooo, is. altogether different mat ter. The Department of Commerce has no available figures as to the actual cost to the buyer, since the selling price would depend largely on the location of the house and the pre- vailing market at the time of selling.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-07-06
OPPOSE UNITING ROADS.

New York, June 2o.-The proposed consolidation of the Central of New Jer- counsel of the port of New York au- thority. It was stated that if this mer- ger succeeds the New York Central will control all but two miles of the belt line system from Edgewater, N. J., to Bayonne, a distance of 13 1-2 miles, and will control the industrial area in the Newark district, besides being the only railroad having direct rail access to Greater New York
 Objections to this merger indicate the stupendous problem that must be worked out before railroad consolidation is a fact
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-07-06

'I doubt if any one knows within any fair degree of approximation how many federal detectives there are," said MT. Grim. Their classification on the payrolls of the several de- partments and bureaus prec1udes their Identification
 "It will suffice to say that there are thousands of them," the assistant at torney general warned, "and that the task of managing them is one that would make the founders of the re- public shudder"
 "All of this is grist for the mill of the intriguing politician" MT. Grim declared in referring to the political influences which make 1t impossible for the attorney general of the United States to accomplish anything effec- lively in short term of four years.
 Machine Politicians in Control
 "I can count on my fingers the professional politicians in my exper- fence who at any time rendered sub stantial aid in law enforcement" saiui the assistant attorney general "The crooked politician with his machine Is always arrayed with the other side. The various processes in the Depart ment of Justice have always had peculiar attraction for them and their. number increases in a direct ratio with the increase of it's work.
 "It Is impossible to bring an i'm portant criminal case without fight with them at every point where a
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-07-06
LABOR ONLY 2 PER CENT. OF
 COST IN BUILDING A HOUSE Overhead Charges Almost Equal Labor, Accord ing to Survey Made By Housing Bureau, De- partment of Commerce. to Determine Who GOuges Tenants and Home Buyers.

in to only of
 
 
 of home own out of 0 me
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-07-06
DAUGHERTY'S DEFECTS EXPOSED
 BY ONE OF HIS ASSISTANTS
Attorney Grim Says Department of Justice Is Loaded Down With Political Machine Lawyers And So Many 'Detectives" That No One
 Can Tell the Number or What They Do.

politics." John w.
  detectives and creating that of
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-08-06
SECOND SESSION OF
SCHOOL TO START

The second session of the Stand
ard Training School for Southwest
Georgia will meet at Andrew Col
lege, August 24-3O incIusixe.
Four courses will be offered this
year to those who attend, and a
number of Americas Methodist
probably will go to Cuthbert to at
tend the sessions.
The courses are divided as fol-
lows, and will be in charge of the
instructors named:
Pupil Study - Miss Roberta
Smith, Instructor.
Principles of Teaching-Rev. S.
T. Slaton, Instructor.
Methodist Church-Dr. H. C.
Howard, of Emory, Instructor.
The Sunday school-Dr. R. l..
Duckworth, Instructor.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-08-06
WALKER PUTS VETO
ON COUNTY MEASURE

ATLANTA, Aug. 6.-Governor
Walkers veto of the Ennis Bald
win county bill, whihc would have
extended the term of the county
court solicitor from two to four
passed years, marked his first of
ficial disapproval of a measure pas
sed by the Georgia General Assem-
bly, and resulted in charges of the
floor of the house that the exc
cutive had reached his decision as
a result of political reasons" The
house refused to sustain the motion
to pass the bill over the governors
veto.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-08-06
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bv a Sternlight }
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ight-experience.
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Phone 1876
Representing the
Alliance Insurance Company
of Philadelphia
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-08-06

Professor Fisher of Yale says
eyes, we have no banonas" is
correct English. But he said it
at a Battle Greek sanitarium.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-08-06

Laughing at a woman cooking
over hot stove in August is as
safe as jumping down a volcano.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-08-06

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Evening star., 1923-02-26
EXPLAINS REASONS
FORCOTT0N SLUMP
Federal Trade Commission
Reports on Big Reaction
Starting in April, 1920.

The sharp fall in cotton prices
which began In April, 1920. and con-
tinued for more than a year, was
due to the general credit defation,
tho great increase In high-priced in
ventories and the subsequent buy
ers' strike" the Federal Trade Com
mission set forth In a report submit-
ted today to Congress. The price
inquiry was made by the commission
in accordance with resolution
adopted by Congress last March. and
the present preliminary report. 1t was
said; would be followed by ynsIa another ,tnes
OF the cotton exchanges.
Cotton Hit Hardest.
The postwar price defiation tho
commission described as OF world
wide character. affecting all COM
modities in this country In varying
degrees and cotton, for which prices
had gone higher before the break.
more than any other IN the eIt low ;,1eoel ieoel
tant and Immediate factors in the
decline. however. the commission
found to be "the marked increase In
supply and decrease in demand.
The. report won't exhaustively into
iRidt HCl COHOlllOuo Tile "dA
period and Immediately after which
brought cotton prices up to the peak
In April, 1920. Supply and demand
were found to have been the con.
trolling factors throughout. with the
high price level prevailing in 1s1s-20
attributed "in part to the expecta-
tion that there would be a world
shortage Of cotton"
Present.Day Prices.
In the subsequent recovery cotton
prices "in money" since August. 1921.
have been above the 1918 level. the
report set forth, and measured in
commodities either slightly below or
moro recently considerably above the
real exchange value Of cotton in that
year" While it thus appears that
cotton prices. compared with the gen.
eral level Of prices. are not depressed
at the present time. this does not
mean. the report said. that cotton
prices 'are at q level which affords q
compensation to the grower which
justifies such an extensive use OF
land and labor In It's production"
Evening star., 1923-02-26
WALL STREET NOTES,
Gasoline Prices Raised Again.
Iron Products Strong.
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. February 2e.-The ad =
vance of ~ cents a gallon In the
price of gasoline by the Standard OIL
company OF New York, announced to-
day, was not an adjustment in price
sch edules. but rather a fresh increase
and brought prices to their highest
since 1920. However. the effect of
this advance upon prices Of the stand
ard OIL stocks. both on the stock ex-
change and the curb exchange, was
negligible.
The buying in Iron Products, which
at one time today carried the stock to
new high, above 90, is simply keep
are running now at the rate OF $780,
600 a month
International Shoe sold around its
high price for the year, largely be-
cause Of satisfactory earnings po-
sition. The report for the year ended
nearly $1o0,o00,o0o and net profits of
about $3.50 per share was sufficient
to cover the SO annual dividend more
than three times over.
Thirty-stx large tanks have been
completed on the Standard Oil of In
diana tank farm at Casper, Wyo.
There are seven more under con-
struction. When all are completed
there will be tankage for 10000 900
barrels.
Ex-dividend today: Delaware and
Hudson, Detroit Brass, Standard OIL
Of New Jersey common and prefer
red.
The Kelley Silver Mines, Limited,
have declared an interim dividend OF
per cent. payable March Is to stock
holders of record March /. This is
the first dividend paid by the concern
The United States Radiator Com
pany today advanced prices on all
radiation 2h per cent
Evening star., 1923-02-26
INCOME TAX FACTS.
No. rs.

Failure or "willful refusal" to Ale
an income tax return and pay the
tax on time subjects the delinquent to
heavy penalties. For failure to file q
return on time-on or before March
Is. 1s25-a taxpayer becomes liable to
q penalty OF not more than $1,000. A
further penalty OF Is per cent Of the
amount due may be applied. unless
a later return is filed, and 1t is salts
factorily shown that the delinquency
was due to a reasonable cause.
"Willful refusal" to make a return
and pay the tax on time is punish
able by a fine OF not more than $40. 900
or one years Imprisonment or both,
together with the cost Of prosecution
and a penalty Of 25 per cent of the
amount Of the tax.
If any installment of the tax is
not paid when due tho whole amount
OF tho unpaid tax becomes duo and
paybale upon notice and demand by
the collector of internal revenue. II
not paid within ten days after such
demand q 5 per cent penalty accrues
with interest at the rate of / per
cent q month until paid.
When return Is made in good faith
and understatement of the amount
Is not due to any fault Of the tax
payer, no penalty attaches. II the
advertisement Is due to negligence,
but without intent to defraud. there
Is added S per cent Of the total
amount Of the deficiency, plus interest
at the rate Of 1 per cent q month
from the time the tax was due.
Evening star., 1923-02-26
I. c. c. GRANTS RIGHTS
TO BUILD RAILROAD
New Line in Utah Will Run
Through Large Coal Min
ing Area.

Permission was given to the Utah
Central Railroad Company. a new
corporation with 100000 in au-
thorizsd capital stock. to proceed
with construction of nifty miles of
railroad In Utah. BY terms Of an In
terstate Commerce Commission order
issued today. the company will be per-
mitted to retain for q period of ten
years any revenues which 1t receives
from operating the line in excess of
S.75 per cent on the capital invested.
The new line will extend from Well
ington to Huntington. with a branch
extending to a connection with the
Utah junction, and It will make avail
able for operation a large coal min
ing area