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The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-24
WAGE DEMANDS BUST NEW YORK
 MASTERS UNION
! Builders Exchange Decides to Let l Each Contractor or Master Build CT Go It Alone With Tradesmen.

The new demands made by the building trades union in New York has effectively broken up the Build CTS Exchange, according to develop ments this week when the master builders decided to leave the question of wages entirely with the contractors affected in the edifferent lines of trade with the understanding that whatever members of one union are employed by several Associations the employing organizations must meet the labor delegates in body.
 Only one or two of the crafts have as yet asked for a meeting with their respective employers, 1t was an nounced The builders are known to be anxious to get the negotiations completed in order to know on what pay scale. to base the.f estimates, and prompt action Is expected as soon as the various locals can ratify the action of their delegates in demanding the raise and can instruct their arbitra- ton committees. The present. agree ment expires January I, less than six weeks from now
 Most builders, apparently, expect to be buster in 1924 than in 1923, mak- ing 1t inevitable that the competition for labor should be greater and wages probably higher In this connection 1t was pointed out that sheet metal workers, fathers and housesmiths are at premium today, whereas year ago many of them were unemployed at this season.
 The movement which eliminated in the old Building Trades Councils de- mand for ST day dates back to the bricklayerS' success last June in win ming a two-year contract for SIP a day, $2 more than the men now seek ing raise receive under their pres ent agreement The plasterers, the stonecutters and the hoisting engi- neers, acting independently, soon
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The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-24
lNERDEN MANUFACTURERS ASK
 CITY TO TRAIN THEIR HELP
Make AudaciOus PrOp0- sal Grammar School Be Added to Those Teaching Trades.

The manufacturers association ot Meriden, unable to get skilled help at the wages they wish to pay, are seeking to have the city train the boys and girls in the schools in shop work and to that end make the audacious proposal that one of the grammar schools be turned into a trade school so the children can be turned into the shops trained at the expense of the taxpayers instead of the manufacturers and the following is the proposition they have put before the Board of Education and for real nerve 1t takes the bun:
 To the Board of Education, Meriden, Conn.,:
 Gentlemen:
 As manufacturers of Meriden, we are very much interested in the Trades school. Everything possible and practi- cal should be done to interest our boys i'll this school, giving them the opportu- nifty to acquire practical knowledge of mechanics and develop into skilled work CTS. With this in mind and in view of the extensive building program which is contemplated we ask your honorable body to give serious consideration to a building which will permit the proper development of the trades school.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-24
MFGS. OF STATE
 ENJOY THE ANNUAL
 BELTINC OF LABOR
President E. Kent Hubbard Advo- cates More Energy to. Block
 Shorter Work Week.

The annual indoor sporting event of the onnecticut Manufacturers Association was held at the Hotel Taft in New Haven all day Thurs day and as usual the main bout oi the day was slamming the unions, in creasing the working hours of labor to make more profits for the capital istic bosses and appealing to the Lords on high and in Washington to open the immigration doors so that these lands of steady habits may again be flooded with cheap laborers E. Kent Hubbard O. Middletown august president of the association led in the jousting and the rest of the claque applauded as usual There were others but excerpts from Presi- dent Hubbard's speech to the foray suffice for the tenor of the meeting
 After lauding New England for its past performances, which he admit ted are not now nearly equalled, Mir. Hubbard declared that New England IS not yet doomed. He's not an alarmist and admitted it frankly but then went on to sound the tocsin to his fellows that they must rise and defeat labor Tn its aims, knock out the 48 hour week and get back a Go itouI SIllIt or NC" /, especially textiles, will be ruined In- more fertile fields and where the workers get bigger money but he didn't stress any on the latter point.
 "Only a quarter of a century ago New England was supreme, primar- fly, because of the superiority in man agement, workmanship and methods !! Today she enjoys no such advantages. The introduction of automatic mach inery has depreciated, to some extent, the work of the skilled craftsmen" he said, but didn't say how wages helped more so.
 Probably none of the handicaps which New England endures are greater than the legal hours of labor in force in her several states" he added. Our neighboring state, Massachusetts, once the greatest of all cotton textile states, has had forced upon her a 48 hour week. Small wonder that she cannot con tinue to compete with Georgia, Ken lucky, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina, all of which operate under Co hour law. Small wonder that the great silk industry in our own state finds it burdensome to meet the demands for increased wages when in competition with New Jer- sey which operate under Go hour week. I therefore say we must look to our laurels"
 How legislation is controlled he told as follows:
 I have said that a great measure of the responsibility for New Eng lands future lies with the legislators and the state executives. In the re- port of the legislative activities of the association which you recently re- ceived you found that every bill, with the one exception mentioned, which was opposed by your association, was either killed in committee or rejected
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The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-24
METAL TRADES
 UNIONS OF THE
 STATE COMBINE
Five Locals Form One Big Organiza- ton For Betterment of Work
 ing Conditions.

Five local unions of the Amalga- mated Sheet Metal Workers Interna- tional Alliance in New Haven and Hartford counties were ama1gamated into one union No. 40 with headquar- ters in Meriden at a meeting ir Building Trades ouncil Hall, Meri- den, on Sunday The local unions in volve are: No. v of Hartford, No Ioo of Waterbury, No. 225 of New Haven, No. 3o7 of Meriden and No Cog of Bristol. Meriden was selected as headquarters because of its cen tral location.
 :. The following officers were elected; President, Louis H. Taylor of Hart ford; vice-president, Dennis O'Brien of Meriden; recording and cores bonding secretary, Louis $. Trif1n .ot Hartfor financial secretary, William A. Wel1ner of New Haven; treasurer, Daniel Kelly of Hartford; conductor, John Heinick of Meriden.
 The executive board will consist of the above officers and the following Ernest J. Kunz of Hartford; Thomas R. Thibault of Waterbury, John J Ford of New Haven, John Heinich of Meriden and John Plaski of Bristol Frank A. Shanley of New Haven was elected business agent and is also a member of the executive board
 MT. Taylor, the president, was for merly adjutant of Rau-Locke Post No. 8, American Legion, of Hartford and is at present member of the executive board of that post. He was formerly recording and corresponding secretary of the Hartford entral La bor Union in addition to holding severa loffices in the local Union Mo- v of Hartford.
 MT. Trifin, the recording and cor responding secretary of the new union, has been recording secretary of the local Union No. v of Hart ford for the past three years. Mr. Kelly was president and treasurer respectively for Is years of the Hart ford local union.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-24
BARBER QUITS
 AFTER 50 YEARS
 OVER ONE CHAIR
Middletown Man Takes Well Earned Rest From Razor
 and Shears.

Middletown, Nov. 24.-After devot- ing more thau so years behind a bar ber's chair, harles F. Cramer of this city, has decided to retire from active duty and enjoy life. Accordingly, he has put away his razor, comb and brush, departed from Fred Vests shop and gone 10 live with his daugh- ter in Hartford.
 Customers patronizing the shop have missed Mir Cramer in his ac- customed place and upon inquiring for him learned of his departure from the trade. Needless to say many expres- sions of regret were heard from his scores of friends. It would be inter est1ng to note just How many heads of hair MT. rarner cut during his half century of service, or how many times he drew the steel blade so carefully over the upturned face, while remov- ing the hirsute growth. Mir Cramer's years of service as barber is thought to have established a record in this vicinity. Mir. Cramer is in excellent health and plans to visit here occa- sionally to renew acquaintances.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-24
Would Force Corpora
 tiOns to Provide For Veteran Employees as They Do Stockholders.

Boston, Nov. 24.-Corporations should be required to pay veteran employees old age pensions and when dividends on common stock are paid out of surplus earnings, the law ought to compel drawing on the same sur plus for the protection of the work CTS against unemployment, Gov Will liam E. Sweet of Colorado declared in an address here before hte Ford Hall Forum on Twentieth Century Demo cracy"
 Gov. Sweet also asserted that ac- cording to the consensus of opinion of those who have visited Russia under the soviets, Russia has "come back faster and farther" than any na- ton in Europe and has sown the seeds for an everlasting democracy Gov. Sweet was the first man holding high political office to address the forum in Is years.
 Democracy is sort of govern ment- and can be attained only through evolutionary processes, Gov. Sweet said, and added that when democracy becomes static it ceases to exist. The task of democracy, he said, is to discuss and agitate con-
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-24
COAL COS. HEAD
 PREDICTS GREAT
 STRIKE IN SPRING
Will Be Worst Ever, Says Snead, Who Was Fuel Administrator
 During the War.

Atlantic City, N. J., Nov. 24--PTe- diction of the most serious coal strike in the bituminous districts in the his tory of the country next spring, when the present wage agreement expires, was made by L. A. Snead, assistant to the United States fuel adninistra- tor and director of distribution dur ing the World War. Mir. Snead, who is president of two coal companies in Washington, D. C., is here recuperat- ing from a recent illness.
 "A coal strike in the union bitumin- ous fields, agecting about 75 per cent. of the nations coal production, is cer- tain," MT. Snead declared in an inter view. There are three major prob lems on which neither the operators nor the miners will arbitrate. One is the wage question, the other the 'check-off, and the third the national versus direct agreements. Any one ot the three will prove sufficient to bring about a strike.
 "The bituminous miners are now receiving war wages and will insist on at least the retention of the pres ent wages and may ask for an in
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The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-24
STAMFORD TYPOS STRIKE AND TIEUP
 BIG "OPEN SHOP"
Bosses Issue Usual Statement That It's a Failure, But Union
 Has Facts.

Stamford, Nov. 24.-Employes of the Condo Mast Press at Sound Beach went on strike Monday. The men claimed that Go in the composing room and 40 in the press room went out, or 90 per cent of the composing room free and 80 per cent. of the pressmen.
 w. B. Britain, representative of the International Typographical Union, said the trouble was over both wages and hours; that the schedule had been a 48hour one and the union rules call for 44-hour week. The strikers are union men.
 A statement by the company said: "The Typographical Union at the in stigation of organizers from other cities and against the vote of the em- p1oyes of our own plant, have de- clared strike against the Condo Mast in the composing room A few press men also went out. Eighty per cent. of the total number of employees of the plant were working this morn ling"
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-24
RESERVE BANK CROWD CAUSED 1920 DEPRESSION
 WITH WALL ST. GANGS
So Charges Senator BrOOkhart in Sensational Expose in Which He Demands Separate
 Bank For Labor and Farmers

of a Federal Reserve for labor proposed last night by Senator for labor proposed by Senator Smith w. Brookhart of vital the plan for bringing relief organizing them for the operative marketing of their products
 Wall Street domination the Federal Reserve he charged, lo2l caused by the Reserve Banks program financial had ample Since between 5 and 40 of the bank deposits the by labor provides additional 25 the that larger should be the lone armerr vhic have
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-24
Penn. Railroad
 Recruits Aliens

Efforts fthe Pennsylvania Rail- road in it's Americanization campaign have resulted in 7I5 alien employees applying for first naturalization pa pers out of I,5o8 interviewed in the Northwestern region, according to a report of the company Of 564 Ital- ians interviewed 24o applied for pa pers Of I3o Poles interviewed Sc applied. Fort Wayne Division leads in the number interviewed, with a total of 554, of whom 200 applied. The hicago Terminal Division leads in the number of applicants, 222 ap- plying out of 547 interviewed =.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-24

The plan was preached at the annual dinner of the American Acadmey of Po- litical Science at the Hotel Astor
 Without making any definite statement, however, Senator Brookhart left the clear impression that the next Congress would effect legislation along the lines which he had outlined and proposed by hirn-legislation which, despite the op- position which 1t ususally calls forth from certain great hnancal institutions, would be pressed for consideration. He believes the government is obliged to aid in the undertaking since, according to his calculation, there is now in the Treasury $204,OO0,000 which came from the farm CTS and from labor Ill the shape of prof its of the wartime United States Grain Corporation and surplus from the Fed eral Reserve Bank, collected i'll bring ing the farmers to their present plight. "
 Senator Brookhart would have the farmers take page from the book of Henry Ford When the deflation pinch came in 1920 Ford, instead of going to Wall Street, called on his dealers to pay cash. They did and now he has a surplus of $2,000000,000 and his own banker" said the speaker That is what the farmer should do''
 All of the farmers present-day ills are traceable. in Senator Brookhart's view, to the secret meeting of the Fed eral Reserve Bank governors and re- gional directors i'll May, 1920
 This board" he said, "has the great est economic power in our country and in all the world, and it IS a govern ment board. No proper understanding ot the present economic situation can be had without considering the admin
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-24
Happy Thanksgiving
 For Penn. R. R. Men

Altoona, Pa, Nov. 24-Notices, posted Thursday, announce that ow- ing to a reduction in expenses found necessary throughout the Pennsyl- vania railroad system, the Altoona works will be closed so far as prac- ticab1e until the morning of Decem- Der 3.
 The shutdown became effective at 7 a. m. and affected all back shops" meaning virtually all operations but ing plants.
 Approximately I2,ooo men will be affected.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-24
NEW HAVEN ROAD LOCOMOTIVES ARE
 CERTAINLY SAFE
Yet Here's One That Blows Of Cap and Kills Brakeman
 Oiling It.

Danbury, Nov. 24--Coroner John J. Phelan is Investigating the peculiar accident which resulted in the death of Dwight Bennett, 34 years old, a freight brakeman, of 1907 State street, New Haven, who was killed when the gas cap of a lubricator on the engine flew off, hitting him in the face at the Hawleyville station where the car was being repaired.
 Railroad officers who are investi- gating the accident say that grease
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-24
SCHLEIFER GETS PRISON
 SENTENCE BUT APPEAL IS
 TAKEN TO SUPREME COURT
States Attorney filling Played For Unfair Tactics By Attorney Slade For Defense in Asking
 Verdict of Jury Set Aside-Bond Raised to S1OOOO But Quickly Furnished.

Arnon A. filling chorted in glee Scefer, for the machnt sentenced from three and onehalf five States by Judge Newell Jennings the Superior Court in New Haven guilty violence of the striking New Haven road shopmen November P of last Aings joy short regned however for singng Attorney Benjamin Sad of New Haven denounced his the trial of the filed immediate notice of appeal and the will Court for another Mr. Sche fers $100OO rernanded.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-24
Sees Labor Running
 England By 1926
Vast Increase in Party's Vote Leads
 Leaders to Foresee Victory Soon.

Wallsend, England, Nov. 24-There will be a Labor government in this country in 1926 and Ramsey MacDon- aid will be prime minister, said Pat, rick Hastings, Kings counsel. and la bor member of Parliament, in tue course of a speech to his constitu- ents here recently. He deduced this from the fact that before 1910 Labor votes could be counted by few thousands, but in 1918 the number was two and quarter millions, while last year 1t was four and half mil lions.
 At that rate of progress, he said, there would be Labor government in power in 1926.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-24
Road Refuses to Pay

Washington, Nov. 24.-With one exception the transportation act is satisfactory to the trailroads-they dis like the provision that they turn over to the government one-half of their annual earnings in excess of per cent and place the other one-haf in a reserve fund. A test case is now before the supreme court because the Dayton-Goose Creek railroad, small southrn line, has refused to observe this law
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-24
Navy Yard Shop
 Help Asks Raise
Admiral Promises to Look Into It
 But Has String Hanging Loose.

Coincident with the increase in the volume of work at the New York Navy Yard representatives of the machinists and pattern makers have applied to Rear Admiral C. F. Plum kett, the commandant, for an increase in wages. Admiral Plunkett has promised to review the situation.
 Admiral Plunkett, addressed a meeting November 7 and expressed the belief that wages in the yard were on par with those elsewhere in this vicinity.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-24
Speed Meter Profits

New York, Nov. 24.-Automobile owners nearly doubled the profits of the Stewart-Warner Speedometer company during the first nine months of this year. The net earnings were $5,s47,oo5 after charges and taxes were paid. Tn the same period last year profits were $3,5I4,o78.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-24
GOVERNOR URGES LAW TO
 COMPEL OLD AGE PENSION
PRINTERS RAISE WAGES.

Miami, Fla, Nov. 24.-The Typo graphical Union has secured two year agreement with arbitration pro- visions. Commercial shop rates are: Day work, A hours, $44 week; night work, A hours, $47 a week The newspaper rate is $4z a week
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-24

Association Against the Prohibition Amendment announces "war to the finish on Pinchot and prohibition
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-24
WIN, DESPITE INJUNCTION.

Chicago Nov. 24.-Organized meat cutters and butcher workmen defeat ed an injunction and the owner of a chain of IS stores who broke his agreement and attempted to operate under the anti-union plan
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, 1923-04-07

1T is hereby brought to puGljc notice
that the Trademark shown below
; which was registered in the United
States Patent Office, Washington, D. G.,
on April q, 1903, in the name Of Under-
wood Typewriter Company Of New York,
NY, corporation organized and eXis-
ing under the laws of the State Of New
Jersey enl Trademark certificate No.
IS, 6 is,updtherefol has this cate been
registered in the Office Of the Government
S Secretary Of the Virgin Islands of the.
United States at St. Thomas, in ac-
cordance With the provision, in the rcgu-
l4tions governing the ~regislratIon Of
Patents AID Trade marks ia the Virgin
Islands. approved 30 June, 1920.
, 1923-04-07
Publication.

IT is hereby brought to public no
L tice that the Government has,
this date, authorized Reverend A.
w. SCOTT, to perform ciyiI-reli-
gious functions in the Municipality
of Saint CroiX.
Government of the VirgiR Is
lands of the United States, saint
CroiX, % March 1928.
j. J.. GAFFNEY,
Government Secretary.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-17
Story Of Banker Gift
OF 100000 to Girl Is
Traced by Examiners

CHICAGO, Mar. 15.-While au-
thorities checked a story that Fred
w. Popp, president of the inopera-
tive Logan Square Trust and Saw
ings bank, whose body was discov'
cred last Friday m4der circumstances
that suggested to suicide, gave $780,
900 in real estate to Miss June Ba-
con, a woman friend, David Wiede'
Manu.. Jr., vice president of the
bank, indicted on charges of forgery.
today prepared to tight for his free
dom in a habeas corpus proceeding.
The bank was closed Friday night
by order of state bank examiners.
Wiedemann, the son of the presl-
dent of the Harvey, Ill, National
bank, was arrested when it was dis
closed forged notes had been discov-
cred among the banks papers. He
was indicted yesterday on three
counts of forgery.
Miss Bacon, i'll at her home, denied
that Popp was other than flnan-
cial counsellor to her. While otfl-
Gals awaited her recovery, search
was continued for two others, MISS
Claire Heilmann and Ross Miller,
wanted for questioning regarding
Ponn's alleged indiscretiOns.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-17
WOMAN CONVICTED
Of MURDER GIVEN
LIFE IMPRISONMENT

CHICAGO, March IA squat
middle-aged Polish woman, Mrs. Til
lie Klimek, who affected dresses OF
decent black" during her trial here,
today held unique position in Chi
cago criminal history. being the only
woman ever sentenced to life impris-
onment for murder in this county.
Mrs. Klimek's case was given to a
jury last night, and on the first bal
lot the question of her guilt was
established, with four jurors voting
for the death penalty. On the sec
ond ballot the twelve jurors agreed
on life Imprisonment. Mrs. Klimek
was charged with the murder of her
third husband, Frank kupczyk, by
poisoning.
Throughout the trial, Mrs. Xii
mex, characterized by the state as a
woman "Bluebeard," and still facing
trial with a cousin, Mrs. Nellie Kou-
Xix, for conspiracy to murder her
other three husbands and other rela-
tives, remained calm. Even the
jurys verdict failed to shake the
composure of the little Polish
woman.
With a detached air she watched
spectators congratulate the jury and
heard her cousin collapse beside her
with a loud groan. On her way to q
cell her only remark was, 1T was
warm in there"
Only five women have been con-
victed of murder in Cook county in
the last forty years. In recent years
twenty eight have been acquitted OF
that charge. Most of them were
charged with numbering their hus-
bands.
Fourteen persons, tn ir t of
whom are dead, have been listed as
victims of the women's poison con
spiracy. The fourteenth, the present
husband of Mrs. Klimek, is in hos
pital, said by physicians to be re-
covering from effects of a poison.
He has been treated for four months.