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The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-27
FRESHMEN OPEN
 DOORS WIDE TO
 DISABLED VETS
Make Agreement With Publishers to See They Are Provided :
 With Work

One of the first definite cooperative
 moves made in this district toward obtaining certain and secure employ ment for disabled veterans who have been trained as pressmen and feeders by the United States Veterans Btu reau, materialized today with the signing of an agreement by Isaac. Il. Blanchard of the New Y York Employ ing Printers Association; Philip Um- Istadter, president of the Printers and Pressmen's Union, No. ST; John E. ] Taylor, president of the Job Press
 men and Assistants Union No. I;
 mems Assistants Union No. 23; and
 F. A. Silcox, director of the Bureau
 of Industrial Relations.
 Under the terms of the agreement
 a plan has been worked out whereby
 disabled war veterans trained by the
 United States Veterans Bureau and
 fitted for work in the printers trades,
 are to be taken into printers shops
 and pressrooms and given a 3o-day
 practice shop. test in the particular
 branch of the industry for which they have been trained At the end of the
 training period all of the veterans who
 have successfully qualified in their
 work during the test period are to be
 given permanent jobs in the printing
 shops, and will be recognized by the
 respective unions as full f1edged mem bers of the trade
 A great many ex-serviee men have been given institutional and place ment training in the work of the printers trades and are well fitted to their places in the industry. This de cisive and forward looking step on 1 the part of the employing printers
 and the printing unions in full CO operation with the United States Vet lerans' Bureau will do much to stimu- late the absorption back into civil life of those disabled ex-service men who since the dark days of war have been working and studying. that they may Iagain assume the responsibilities of competitive life.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-27
PRESIDENT O'MEARA
 RECOVERS AND BACK ON THE JOB ONCE MORE

President Patrick F. O'Meara of the Connecticut Federation of La Dor returned to his duties as the representative of the Plumbers and Steam Filters Union on Wednes- day.. after being absent for the past two weeks, having spent 10 days in the Hospital of St. Raphael where he went to have an operation.
 President O'Meara wish. e s through the columns of The Labor News to thank the great many friends who visited him at the hospital, and he assures all of these friends that when he gets a < few spare moments that he will try to reply fo the hundreds of letters and telegrams that came to his bedside during his stay at the hos pital President O'Meara states that when an occasion like what he has gone through comes about, and to see the assistance that is offered. that 1t ertainly makes a person feel all better at the start.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-27
TERMS OF RAIL
 BOARD MEMBERS
 TO EXPIRE SOON
Coolidge Must Re-appoint Three Whom Harding Named During
 Congress Recess.

Unless President Coolidge reap points them, three members of the United States Railroad Labor Board I-R. M. Barton, representing the pub | lie; Horace Baker, representing rail- road management, and E. F. Grable, representing the e1nployes-will be ouf of jobs when Congress convenes I in December.
 They were appointed by President Hardingafter. the last Congress had adjourned and under the law Presi- dent Coolidge must re-subnit their names or appoint new men,.
 In White House circles it seems to
 be taken for granted that Baker and Grable will be re-appointed but the l situation IS not so rosy for Barton. It is said that when President Hard 1 ing named Barton it was understood that he would remain in office until about the first of the coming year
 when he would be succeeded by Gov ernor Morrow of Kentucky, whose term expires about that time
 Barton stands very we'll with the
 railroad interests and it is said he is exerting this pull" in an effort to in duce President Coolidge to disregard Harding's plan to take care of Nor
 row. 1t Is generally recognized that
 Barton is not qualified for the posi- | ton he holds and some of the ad- visors of the administration have told l the President that he should not miss ] the opportunity to get rid of an em- barrassing liability.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-27
CEMENT TRUST"
 DISSOLVED BY
 JUDGES RULING
Knox Finds Manufacturers Protec-
 tive Association, With 1e Members, to Be in Restraint of Trade.

Holding that the association is a
 combination in restraint of trade and therefore illegal under the Sherman
 antitrust law, Judge John Knox, in the United States District Court Tn New York yesterday, ordered the dis solution of the Cement Manufactur- ers' Protective Association. The as socaition IS composed of the Atlas
 Portland Cement Company and Is other corporations engaged in the
 production of cement
 Originally the suit was filed against the association and its component corporations and the officers of the association-E. P. Alker, C. Raymond
 Hulsart, Miss M. B. Phalen, secre- tary, and Marion C. Alderman. The individuals are restrained from furth- CT operations in the association by the decision.
 The government charged that the association maintained clearing house by which the supply of cement was regulated and this contention was upheld by Judge Knox. The Cement Manufacturers Protec- tive Association was created in 1910 with the Atlas Company as chiet
 member. It practically controlled the entire cement output of the United States and its marketing.
 Upon the whole" Judge Knox's de-
 cision reads, land without further dis
 cussion of the great mass of evidence which goes to make up the record, l think that real competitive effort tended to become more and more feeble; that manufacturers, by reason of the exchange of statistics, were equipped to regulate their production
 and by common consent and concert ed action did so, to the end that the cement supply would at all times be a lap or two behind the demand and thus create higher prices.
 '1n enabling this to be done the
 officials and agents, together with its
 membership, materially limited the full and free operation of the con
 tending forces of competition to
 which the public, under the Sherman
 law is entitled, and unreasonably af- fected interstate trade and commerce. (Continued on Page Eour.)
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-27
HOLDERS UNION ! PLANS MEMORIAL
 TO JOHN NOLAN
International Convention Votes to Erect Monument to Late Con-
 gressman and Brother.

Cleveland, Oct 26.-The interna- tiona1 convention of the Holders Union of North America concluded in this city last week after three weeks spent in cleaning up import ant business which had accumulated since the last international conven- ton held in 1917. One of the most important acts of the convention, of general interest to the entire labor world, was the decision to erect a handsome memorial to former Con- gressman John l. Nolan, who was an international vice-president of the Holders Union and member of Local I64 of San Francisco. The resolution, sponsored by Editor John P. Frey of the Iron Holders Journal, calls for the appointment of an i'm ternational committee to act jointly with a. committee from the San Fran cisco local in selecting suitable de- sign and site for the memorial in the great city at the Golden Gate
 Readers of The Labor News will recall that Congressman Nolan was one of the pioneers of the labor group in Congress. He toiled' necessarily to safeguard the rights of the people and secure fair consideration for the needs of the workers by our national legislature He faithfully represented the peoples cause in Congress from 1913 until his death early in this year. Such was the respect in which Nolan was held by his fellow citizens that they elected his wife, Mrs Mae Hunt Nolan, to carry on his work as rep resentative for the Fifth California district
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-27
CLERKS AND FREIGHT MEN
 GIVEN INCREASE
Employees of 65 Roads Boosted By Labor Board-New Haven
 Not Affected.

, Chicago, Oct 26.-The United States Railroad Labor Board this week made public decision awarding increases of one>to two cents an hour to clerks. station forces deck, ware house and platform freight handlers and similar employees of 65 carriers.
 An unusual provision of the decis- ion is that the "sum of the increases granted to the employees in each sec ton shall be distributed by joint ac- ton of the representatives of the carrier and of the employees in such manner as to bring about just and equitable rates for the employees in each of the various sections for which increases are provided.
 The opinion prefacing this and oth- CT provisions found that go carriers an demployes of the class involved had negotiated agreements increas- ing pay for some of the groups, but that there was no uniformity in the agreements.
 The decision followed close upon another denying an increase to signal men. The present decision reads:
 "In the case of the signalmen their present rates of pay and the very favorable treatment they had received in previous wage orders and adjust ments made 1t seem negotiable to award them an increase of wages un- der the state of proof before the board. In the case of the clerical employees proper, 1t Is undoubtedly true that their present wages and the previous wage awards and orders af- fecting them through a long period of years do not show that they have ever received treatment which could be termed preferential"
 A dissenting opinion accompanied the previous decision denying an in crease to the signalmen.
 The carriers affected include the Atlantic Coas Line, Bosom and Al bany, Bosom & Maine, Chicago & Easern, illinois, Chicago & Wesern Indiana, Chicago, Indianapolis X Louisville, Cincinnatti, New Orleans, & Texas, Pacific, Erie, Illinois Cen tra1 Maine Central with the Portland Terminal Company, New York, Chi cago & St. Louis, New York, Ontario & Western, Richmond, Fredericks- burg & Potomac, Seaboard Air Line and the Southern Railway Company and subsidiary railroads
 New Haven Road employees are not affected in this raise because early in the summer the New Haven Road "ducked" a hearing by the R. R board by making an agreement with its employees in this class whereby the latter got the raise.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-27
ENGINEERS OUT TO PROTECT THEIR
 LICENSE LAWS
Will Meet to Block Movement 1T Bay State to Lift
 Restrictions

Measures to safeguard existing en- gineering license laws in Massachu- setts will be taken November at a conference in Springfield of the joint board of hoisting and portable engi- neers and fremen of Western Mas sachusetts The call for the meeting was sent out Saturday by Joseph L.. Marion of Holyoke, president of the board, to the two locals of hoisting and portable engineers in Springfield, one in HolyoI1e and locals of firemen in Holyolle and Northampton.
 The recommendation of the Vest ern Massachusetts board will be car ried to the state branch meeting of the union in Boston, November IA. Statements that the recent hremen's strike at Holyoke cost the American Writing Paper company $2,ooo,ooo will probably lead to. an attempt, to lower the state laws requirements for licensed engineers and fremen, 1t is supposed, allowing manufacturers to draw upon greater number ot men in case of strikes The union feels 1t IS prepared to show that the Holy oke strike was caused by alleged coercive measures of certain paper companies.
 Charles E. Eaton, business agent of local o8, Hoisting and Portable Engi- neers, was elected treasurer at a meeting a few nights ago; William Brophy of 1919 State street, former recording secretary, was elected sec retary, and Frank Place, recording secretary. The election was called to fill the vacancy caused by E. M. Whites resignation as secretary treasurer It was voted to divide the duties of the office and elect two men, one for each position: None of the candidates encountered opposition
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-27
WAGE INCREASE IS CALLED NIGGARDLY
 BY RAILWAY MEN

Cincinnati, O., Oct. 26-E H. Fitzgerald, grand president of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, Handlers, Express and Station Employees, termed the increase granted to members of his brother hood by the United States Rail road Labor Board as "niggardly' and said that the incoming Con gross will be urged to abolish the labor board and allow the railroad managers to agree with the broth erhood committees on wages and working conditions.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-27
SCF1LEIFER GOES ON
 TRIAL
Labor Leader Accused of melting Railroad Shop Strikers to Acts of Violence Puts Case Before Jury.

The long delayed trial of Ernest Schleifer, representative of the Ma chinists' Union, charged with melt ing the striking railroad shopmen to acts of violence during the turbulent times of the strike al year ago, is on at last before juryTin the Superior court at New Haven Instead of fleeing" as 1t was openly stated. he would in some of the inspired" press of New Haven, MrIt Sch1eifer has been dallying aroundf New Haven for several weeks waiting for the august states attorney, A. A. Alling, to get ready to bring the case to the fore. When it was finally called this week, Mir. Sch1eifer was right there with his attorneys, T. J. Spellacy of Hart ford, Banjamin Slade and Samuel H. Platcow of New Haven,
 The first day, Tuesday, was devoted to drawing a jury, Schleifer having chosen to put his came before his fellow men. The ease reached the court on a decision from the Supreme court that the point faised that Schlei- fer had violated nos existing law did not hold but the case should be tried on it's merits After the selection of the jury the court adjourned, no ses- sion being held Wednesday in respect to the late Judge Shumway whose funeral was held that day
 Yesterday MT AIling started right nto portray the Terrible conditions that existed when aselfleifer gotssthe gang all excited and ready to com init any old kind of crime to win the strike. He painted word pictures for the jury that would have alone
 (Contin11ed on Page Four.)
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-27

These statistics show:
 I. That majority of the roads are earnin ga profit greatly in excess of -5M per cent. Some of them in eight months~have earned two, three, and four times as much as they received as rental during federal control-a rental described by Senator Cummins as being so high that 1t shocked the moral sense of manl<ind.V
 q That this year the carriers will have operating revenue and net prof. its greater than in any previous year in railroad history.
 3. That many railroads, in an effort to conceal their real earnings, are spending for maintenance, and in other ways, hundreds of millions of dollars more than were spent last year or in any. other, year.
 4. That if the profit ratio of the first eight months of this year is main tained during the remainder of the year, the aggregate net profit will be sufficient to pay an average dividend on every share of stock outstanding including millions of 'watered" secur- ities-at rate of about 80 per cent
 Profits Exceed Federal Rentals.
 Contrary to the ''poor mouth'' claims of the carriers, their reports 11dQG to IuG COIIlIIllSSfOn SHOW tHdt the aggregate profits made by all is approximately $7o, ,ooo, 900 greater than they received as rental during federal control.
 Practically every road east of the Mississippi and west of the Hudson river has available for dividends net profits greater than the federal rem tai, which was based upon the aver age earnings of three of the most prosperous years in the history of the railroads. 4
 The profit account, however, does not tell the. entire story of railroad prosperity
 Official records disclose the as founding fact. that this year the car riers are spending at least a quarter of billion dollars Anore., for main tenance than was ever before spent for this purpose.
 Largest Revenue in All History.
 It has been calculated by the com mission and admitted by rail man agers that the total income of all roads this year will be above $6,- 500 ooo, 900. This is a cool billion more than their income last year and also the alrgest operating revenue n the history of the railroads
 If is also estimated by the com mission that. the net profit for the year after the expenditure of vast sums for maintenance, for propaganda 2 taxes and all other legitimate and illegitimate expenses, will not be less than ST, 100, 100000. It may easily go another hundred millions
 Of this sum, $457.872, 900 will be sci aside for interest on bonds and other funded debts. It is significant that the bondholders are getting an aver age of only 4.85 per cent.
 If the net profit is but $I,Ioo.ooo,- GOO there will remain after interest or bonds nearly $65o, ,ooo,o ,ooo with which to pay dividends on $7,242, ,ooo,o ,ooo oi stock outstanding. The latter figures
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-27
INJUNCTION SUIT
 AGAINST BAKERS IN HIGH COURTS
Massachusetts Baking Co., Loses First Point Against Union Men
 After Strike.

There will be a hearing in equity session of Superior court in Boston week from Monday, Nov. 5, on the special masters reports on the two injunction suits of the Massachusetts Baking Company, which has many branches in Connecticut, against the Springfield and Ho1yoke Bakers Unions and others, in accordance with the stipulation of counsel who accepted the suggestion of Judge Alonzo R. Weed in Superior court, yesterday afternoon. Findings in all other motions before Judge Weed bearing on the same cases were with held
 There were in attendance at the courts conference at the bench with Judge Weed, Attorney Herbert A. Baker, counsel for the plaintiff, Vice President John F. Gatelee of the Springfield Central Labor Union, and Attorney Theodore c. Lewis, both representing the defendants Attor- ney Bakers motions comprised one for a preliminary injunction against the bakers, another for the produc- ton in court of transcripts of some o fthe testimony offered at the hear ing by Special Master William G. McKechnie, the third having to do with the extension of time in which Attorney Baker might file exceptions in the two reports of the special mas ter. MT. Gatelee asked in two mo- tions filed by him that the reports of the special master be confirmed
 The two special masters reports will be heard by the presiding justice of the equity session of Superior court in Boston on their merits, so the counsel stated after the confer ence. There was especial interest in the outcome of the conference with Judge Weed because of the plaintiff S motion that the two suits be com mitted to another special master, but there was no action on this matter
 (Continued from Page Four.l
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-27
Electrotypers Win Nine
 Wage Raise Contracts

Omaha, Neb., Oct. 26-Oficials of the International Electrotypers and Stereotypers' Union announce new wage scale contracts in nine jurisdic- tions carrying wage increases up to s.
 The successful unions are Cincin- nati, New Orleans, Denver, Spring field, H.; Elmira and Niagara Falls, N Y; Worcester, Mass; Memphis, Tenn; and San Antonio, Tex
 The new rates for journeymen run from $6 to $7 day and from $40 to $44.5 per week.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-27
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Dictator Wipes Out
 City Government

Madrid, Oct. 2o.-Gen. Primo Ri- vera, military dictator who recently abolished national constitutional gov ernment in Spain, has taken another step toward the complete destruction of democratic political institutions by abolishing city councils and city gov ernments.
 King Alfonso, who is mere jump ing jack to execute the dictator's s orders, signed the abolition decree when Rivera presented it to "his majesty"
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-27
Anti-Union Storekeeper
 Will Be Fitted Against
 Labor's Friend, Fitzgerald
Both Parties Hold Conventions Tonight and if the Expected Happens The Labor News-Wil Have Some Interesting Reading Next Week.
 Hackett Flops Over and Makes Votes for
 "Little Giant" Who He Seeks to Defeat.

Tonight Labor News goes press of political parties New Haven being held and from ad Labor of New Haven The Democrats will undoubted renoninate Mayor David E. the Republicans be wakover the Little wanted be republicans expected non
 According all the Republican cards for Char Walker of Chamber of Commerce hereore and thereof be the for against Mayor Fitzgerald In fact the stacked than week at things and especially the nominee for The committee by
 all could rely That ended the committee discussion and day through the Mr. Walkers was touted probable Mr. Walker when asked had nothing say and date is much His coming the front did the blanket the of friends of Fred Orr Frank Homan Judge oyt lot of other candidates who mght have made good fight in election.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-27
RURAL SCHOOLS LACK
 TRAINED TEACHERS

Washington, Oct 26,-"More than o5 per cent of the well-trained teach CTS are employed to teach the chil- dren living in towns, cities, and con solidated districts" declares the U. s. bureau of education, while the A. 5oo,ooo children who live on farms and attended one-teacher rural schools have the services of less than 5 per cent. of the well-trained teachers.