The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-03

| (Chick) Bowen who recently lost his | job as assistant city clerk of the city court was put up against Town Clerk John E. Doughan. Next day there was a bet of 100 to I that Chick wouldn't have a look in.
 7, The Italians of the city had to have a show also and the major was right there with another slip. Once upon a time Lorenzo Furculo had been wards now mainly populated by peo- pie of Italian extraction. Therefore MT. Furcolo was the goat and he got nominated for city controller against l Controller Arthur D. Mullen
 Everything was then all set except for the Hebreks. They couldn't be left out in the cold so the major passed the slip over Nto nominate Samuel Eskin for city sheriff against the present sheriff, Frank A. Pal mieri Twas done and then the major let the constab1es, the select men and grand jurors aspirants fight 1t out among themselves as to who was to be who on the final analysis There was movement in the works to knock out Roscoe P. Brown as constable but the major didn't dare carry 1t through because at a meet
 
 l two before there was a revolution threatened if the major carried on his 1 scheme to put Roscoe down and out Hence Roscoe was nominated even l though he didn't care a continental whether he was or not Not only that but he was put in first place on the ticket in the column for con- stables
 The republican women. have been gtting uppish lately and had to be cajoled, according to the majors viewpoint, although he is understood to have said they have no place in politics. With the city offices out of the way the convention got down to town offices and a woman, Mrs. Sara Rhein, was nominated for regis trar of vital statistics. She has a chance of election providing the present registrar, Andrew P. Allen, decides he has had enough of the office and quits running between now and Tuesday.
 That's the republican ticket as nominated not by the rank and file of the republican party in New Ha- ven but by the same old party ma chine which has been seeking since Mayor FitzGerald gave them a trim ming six years ago to sneak back into power locally. MT. Walker, the nominee for mayor, personally Is fine fellow but that doesn't make him a fine mayor. Whether or not he is opposed to Organized Labor doesn't make much difference either to the Chamber of Commerce evidently be- cause the esteemed Journal Courier of Thursday in reply to the article in The Labor News last week took occasion to remark editorially that MT. Walker couldn't be blamed for what the chamber did on the "open shop" question.
 Now The Labor News did not say anything whatsoever on what MT. Walker did on the Open Shop" It did remark simply that as head of the chamber MT. Walker had gone into the anti-union rut that the chamber is in and has been in since Col. l. M. Ullrnan and John E. Ottarson, presi- dent of Winchcster's, dominated it. Yet the Journal Courier picks up the "open shop" proposition and declares for it being advocated before the chamber. For which many thanks are given because The Labor News was loath to charge him with that and the Courier by thus denying something that was not said, admits that he must have had a hand in it at least.
 What The Labor News did say and repeats 1t that when the Monson stores, of which MT. Walker is head, were being remodelled, the job was done by "unfair" labor. Mr. Walker at that time, according to Labor men in the building trades, was approach ed and asked to have the job done "fair." Tie job went on as it was. That to members of Organized Labor was enough to mark him as to where he stood toward the organized crafts the Chamber of Commerce when the chamber was out fighting tooth and nail to disrupt organized labor in this and other cities.
 Now as to the rest of the ticket. Lorenzo Furculo, who was a senator when the powers that be were trying to put over the anti-strike bill, didn't know where he stood until told by Colonel Ullman to belt the Labor men. He was approached and asked his stand, his countrymen being very much involved if the bill went over At first he was with his constituents against the bill but when the show down came he was very much with the colonel and so voted That's enough for him.
 Frank Barnes, the nominee for tax collector, is and always has been al fine fellow without caring contin- ental whether he was working man or not. He's always had plenty of the wherewithal and when controller was really an asset to the republican par ty. Before being elected controller some years ago Frank was with the Gas comnany but is now selling cleo