The Connecticut labor news., 1923-09-08
BY THE WAY Comment and Criticism About Things Doing in the World.
Three cheers for the union miners

They've just lost strike of Y months but they haven't gone back on their union. Though forced to work on an, "open shop" basis, they declare they will maintain their or ganization and will await the first. op- portunity of winning a contract and union recognition.
 That's the spirit that built up the great American labor movement to what 1t is today and will make 1t even stronger and more powerful in the days that are to come.
 Union men and women don't need to be told that organization is bene- fitting them. They know it. But 1t is hard sometimes to convince the un- organized workers that unionization will help them.
 What the unorganized workers are slow to see, however, those employ CTS opposed to unionism are quick to see and occasionally will frankly ad- init. This is the case with the Me chanics and. Metals National Bank of New York, which said in recent issue of it's financial and business re- view:
 "One class of labor, that which is organized, is preeminently thriving today, while other are languishing, or at best receiving only moderate re- turns for their effort"
 Presumably the Merchants and Metals National Bank, representing as 1t does strong business and fnan- cia1 interests, could hardly be called an advocate of organized labor. Yet the bank has no hesitation in admit ting that organization IS paying good dividends" to union men and women.
 Remember this quotation and show 1t to your non-unionist acquain- tance the next time he says unions don't help the workers.
 Egyptian workers are waking Up and are organizing. Though 1t is difficult to form unions in Egypt, as of the I3,ooo, 900 popu- lation aref engaged in forming of some sort, organization is making progress.
 At the beginning of this year the trade unions had about 6o,ooo mem bers divided among several dozen or ganizations, including groups of printers and bank clerks. The bank cleTkS- numDer LOGO
 The unions have formed the Ma tional Egyptian Trade Union Fedora. ton, which is pushing organization work Before the World War there were hardly any strikes but in the last few years there have been sew eral labor disputes.
 Newspapers have featured King Tut" almost to the exclusion of other Egyptian news, perhaps con veying the. impres sion that the coun- try IS largely. populated by "dead ones" Evidently there are plenty of Tive ones' among the Egyptian workers.
 Listen to this extract from the text of the injunction issued in Chicago by Federal Judge Carpenter against the International Ladies Garment Workers Union:
 That you do absolutely desist and refrain from soliciting, encouraging, demanding. coercing, intimidating, molesting, or harassing the employees of Mitchell Brothers Company to the end that said employees shall join or become affiliated with the Inter national Ladies Garment Workers Union.s5
 It's going pretty far when court says that a man shall not even en- courage or request another to join a trade union No wonder President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor scathingly denounced the injunction. If the decree is not a streight-f t-from-the-shoulder blow at then we don't know al straight-f from-the-shoulder blow at when we see 1t.
 United States Coal Commission says that the high prices of anthra- cite last winter were due to profteer- ing jobbers and wholesalers. Some of us thought as much long before the coal commission spoke.