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The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-20
Coal Dealers
 Fight Federal Fuel Yard

Washington, Oct. 2o-The Nation al Retail Coal Association and Wash ington coal dealers have mobilized their forces to persuade Secretary of the Interior Work to recommend to congress the abolition of the govern ment fuel yard, which was estab- lished by congress some years ago to protect the government against the greed of profteering coal middlemen. e The government has one of the most up-to-date coal distributing plants in the United States, including a delivery service. The coal is brought directly from the mines and resold to government establishments at cost plus distribution expenses: The operation of the yard has saved the government thousands of dollars. Work doesn't believe in government in business and is under stood to be lending a sympathetic ear to the walls of the coal prohteers.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-20
Catholic Women Aid
 Child Labor Curb

Washington, Oct 2o-The conven- ton of the National Council of Cath ollie Women in session here adopted a resolution supporting an amendment of the United States Constitution which will empower congress to en- act legislation against child labor. '
 The federal amendment is made necessary by the fact that the su- preme court of the United States, ex- ercising a usurped power, has rem dered decisions declaring that two child labor restriction laws enacted by congress and signed by the Presl- dent, designed to prohibit un-Amer- ican employers from coining the la Dor of children into profits exceeded the legislative rights of congress as conferred by the Constitution. \
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-20
LABOR BODY IS
 RIGHT IN BEHIND
 HOME RULE PLAN
New York Federation Votes Four to One to Support
 Move.

Albany, Oct 2o.-The support oi organized labor swung behind the "home rule" constitutional amend ment to be voted upon by the people next month, through action of con ference of the State Federation of Labor here.
 After discussion which extended throughout the entire afternoon, the delegates voted, oI to IS, to support the amendment. Several delegates d3d not vote because instructions from their local unions would not permit.
 The action was taken over the pro- test of William E. Fitzsimmons of counsel for the federation's legislative board, who said complica- tions were liable to arise between the ''home rule" provisions and the pres ent labor laws.
 William F. Capes, secretary of the State Conference of Mayors, denied this and said the amendment would in no way injure labor.
 The present eight-hour and pre- vailing rate of wages laws were dis cussed,- The former were declared un- workable and the latter unsatisfactory by some of the delegates.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-20
FIREMAN BARRED
 FROM BEING UNION
 MEMBER BY COURT
But That's Because Union Men Do Not Go to Polls and Get
 Rights They Own.

Perhaps as wrong to the Hartford Bremen, who shortly ago were inter ested in organizing union as flrme1 through the mid west enjoy the anti union Hartford Courant prints the fol- lowing decision We reprint 1t so that union men will see what they are up against in city governments and perhaps get busy and amend the laws by gong to the polls and primaries
 The following court decision IS of wide interest says the Courant.
 Hutchinson vs. Magee Supreme Court, Pennsylvania, June B.. 1923.)
 The plaintiff, captain in the Fire Bureau of the City of Pittsburgh, was tried and ordered dismissed for viola ton of an order of the director of the department of public cafety, which for bade members of the fire department to be members of an organization known as the Firemen's Protective Association, a trade union of hremen. Upon plain tiff's application to the court to restrain his dismissal, his petition was dismissed and the order dismissing him upheld. (4 Law and Labor 306.l The plaintiff ap- pealed to the supreme court The su- preme court sustained the order of the director of the department of public SdIety as redSOndDIe ToguldI1On say ing =.
 Tt is generally conceded that asso- citation with an organization which, on any occasion or for any purpose, at ternpts to control the relations of mem bers of either the police or fire depart nents toward the municipality they un- dertake to serve, is, in the very nature of things, inconsistent with the discipline which such employment imperatively re- quires, and therefore must prove subver- sive of the public service and detrimen- tai to the general welfare; hence we are unable to say that the court below erred in not holding the municipal authorities named as defendants abused their power when they acted on this view
 "As found by the court below, the order here in question was within the discretion of the director, and that dis cretion, being based upon reasonable and legal ground is final If plaintiffs desired to retain their positions in the public service, they should have obeyed the directors order: having elected not 10 do so (which, of course, was the pri- viIeges of each of them, as individuals they cannot successfu fully complain of the ton, however the stipulation of counsel, filed with the record, that plaintiffs should retain their respective positions pending the determination of this case and, if the decision favored defendants, plaintiffs would resign from the associa- tion objected to; in the meantime. their official status as employees of the city not (to) be affected" !"
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-20
A. F. of l.. Convention
(Continued from First Page.)
OUSTING OF DUNNE.

'The American Federation of Labor was acting on a much larger case than when William F. Dunne was un- was acting on a much larger case dent of the A. F. of L. 'Dunne by himself was not important enough to justify the dax of debate and the mak- ing of national issue What the con vention did was to throw out the thing for which Dunne stands as one of the half dozen most prominent, ex- ponents in America. '"The American labor movement threw out the last truce of revolutionary dogma, the last trace of hostility to constitutional methods.
 '.Dunne himself made the issue. When he declared for revolution, for commu- nism by revolutionary means, for deh- ance to the constitution, for the whole Russian program, he made 1t Impossible for democratic trade union movement to tolerate his presence.
 Make no mistake; 1t is the stern front put up by labor that has held re- vo1utionary teaching down in America. In Chicago where Foster started his de- structive work and whefe he claimed his greatest strength, he has just been com pletely repudiated by labor. The Chi cago Federation of Labor, following in the footsteps of the Illinois state feder- ation, has just repudiated soviet Rus sia, the Foster amalgamation' scheme and the political party idea. American Labor is holding the line for democracy and for constitutional and evolutionary progress. That is why Dunne was un- seated"
 Du1rne was expelled because he came to the convention as one of the half dozen leaders of the communist move ment in the United States, represen- tative of Moscow, bent upon the de- struction of the American Labor move ment and upon the full revolutionary program of the soviet dictatorship.
 Action in unseating Dunne was mo- tice to. Moscow; it was notice to the communist propaganda i'll the United States and it was notice to everyone else that communist cannot mix in with American Federation of Labor affairs
 In the debate Dunne also was accused of being a member of the Ku K1ux Klan -" wearing a blue shirt by day and a white mask by night" and he didn't de- ny the accusation.
 On the contrary, 1t lost great deal of the trihing headway it had made pre- viously. For the Russian people there was an expression of friendship, but for the dictatorship there was only a repti- tion of the opposition repeatedly record ed
 The resolution calling for recognition of Russia, No. 4o, went down to smash ing defeat, along with other red propo- sals.
 The committee on resolutions, in its report, declared that it had examined all former A. F. of L. declarations and found no reasons for departure.
 If the people of this country are giv- en the opportunity to vote, to elect, to endorse or to repudiate this system, this tyranny, this over-lordship, and so de- eide their fate and destiny, the Aneri- can Federation of Labor~s shall offer no objection to whatsoever may be their choice.
 Until this condition is first complied with, your committee believes such ac- ton as IS contemplated in resolution is unwarranted and unjustifed and it
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-20
MACHINES CAN BE MADE SAFE,
 SAYS CHEMICAL TRADE ORGAN
By International Labor News Service.

By International Labor News Service
 New York, Oct. Io-That there is no excuse for most accidents caused by machinery is the conclusion to be drawn from a recent editorial in Chemical and Metallurgical Engineer ing, a leading organ of the chemical and metal trades.
 Chemical and Metallurgical Engi- neering points out that humanitarian ism and good business both demand prevention of industrial accidents and expresses it's belief that in most cases machinery can be made safe for the workers. It says:
 "In its recent completion of study of the causes of 35o,ooo industrial accidents, the National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwriters has performed service definitely worth while to our industries. AL though carried out principally to make possible a new schedule for the underwriting of insurance for work mems compensation, this study should be of service to plant managers and operators at large.
 "The most striking revelation of the analysis is tse, seriousness of ma chine operation as an accident factor Because of the wide and growing ap- plication of machinery to every unit process of chemical engineering this finding IS significant. The percentage of machine accidents in our indus tries varied from POI per cent. in those that are strictly chemical to 4O.5 per cent. in the paper industry. The percentage of total accidents oc- curing at the point, of operation of these machines varied from I45 to 34 per cent In other words, from one sixth to one-third of all accidents were traced to this single critical point.
 Accidents occurring in manual processes can in many cases be avoid ed only by alertness and care upon the part of the workmen. Largely for that reason they are the most diff ficult to eliminate. However, even here we find that we can in very many cases remove the causes of ac cidents The point of operation of machines, if our observation is cor rect, can in the majority of cases be made foolproof readily and at small expense
 Increasing safety at ony cost is hum unitarian measure and as such appeals strongly to those responsible in management. The savings in in- surance alone through the removal of this hazard bid fair, under the new system, to defray the expense of the additional equipment found necessary in making changes.
 Although these figures show that from 65 to So per cent. of the total accidents in our industries occur at other points or through other agen- cies than operation of machines, the wisdom of removing this one fruitful and growing point of hazard is evil dent There will be constantly les sening justification for neglect at this or any other palce in the plant as the causes of accidents are further an- a1yzed and the means of their pre- vention made clear"
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-20

man, a professional man, an economic or fnancier, is agreed that the fight of the United Mine Workers in 1922 stopp- ed the retorgarce movement Ill wages 1n industry in America. The bottom was reached when the mine workers said to the captains of industry: You shall not further pass,' and since that time our country has enjoyed a period of prosperity which at least is better than is enjoyed in many of our neighboring civilized countries.
 And with 1t all, in the year 1923, we were able to negotiate a continuing wage scale in the bituminous industry affect ing some 100000 men, and upon the same basis as we lad settled i'll 1922, for another year period and Ill our an thracite fields we have recently been able to negotiate a contract for an ad- ditional two-year period, carrying with ti eth universal eight hour, day-wh1ch was not enjoyed by all of our people many desirable changes ill working con- ditions and ten per cent. increase III wage. Our people, in consideration of their former condition, which was tar from ideal are of the opinion that this accomplishment represents what to them spells substantial progress, improved liv- ing conditions and higher plane of ci- tizenship and well being
 'I feel that the great trade union or ganizations, organized under the banner of the American Federation of Labor, are following a policy that will and does appeal to the fair thinking and right thinking citizens of our land, and feel that to continue following those policies future success will accrue to the men and women of labor i'll the fu- ture as in the past And in that task, MT. Chairman, which lies before all the workers of our country I will say that the men of the mines represented by the United Mine Workers of America will be pleased to march ip this army of labor, contributing what may be possible of their strength and their energy and their talent for the future success of the men and women of labor"
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-20
Republican Women Hit
 Child Labor Curb

2 New York, Oct 2o.-The Women's
 Republican Club, Inc, has put itself
 on record as opposed to an amend
 ment to the federal Constitution con ferring power upon congress to regu- late child labor The federal child la Dor amendment is made necessary for adequate protection of children by the action of the supreme court in declaring that under the Constitution as it now stands congress is without authority to wrest from employers the power to turn the health and lives of children into profits.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-20
NINE YEARS STRIFE?

And as I address you at this hour, i'll the federal court of Arkansas, it is again being retried, demanded back by the Supreme Court of the United States, and it may be that our organization will be compelled for another nine-year per iod to resist the encroachments of the employers i'll this legal manner in the Coronado litigation And if such is our lot, so be it; we intend to fight in every honorable, proper and legal way so long as hope exists
 T think the average citizen of our land today, whether he be a working
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-20
EDUCATION OF WORKERS

American Labor has given full inn petus to the movement for adult work ers' education. The movement that until now has been more or less in its in fancy, struggling to find its way and fit itself for service Is now one of the full f1edged major concerns and activities of the trade union movement.
 This follows adoption by the A. F. of l.. convention convention here of a report containing detailed recommenda- tlons on workers education.
 The Workers Education Bureau" says the report "has devolepd certain 1t is prepared to place at the disposal of nominal service charge. It can and will assist local groups in the organiza- ton of study classes, i'll the prepara- t1on of courses of study i'll the desig- nation of proper and well trained teach CTS, and i'll the selection of adequate text books and syllable A field secretary has been added to the staff to assist To- cal groups i'll the organization of col leges and study classes. In addition, 1t IS prepared to conduct correspondence courses for adult workers and place at their disposal a library loan service. An editorial committee has in active prepar- atlon modern series of books written for adult workers in the social science, literature and the natural sciences.
 Your Committee wishes to call es- pecial attention to the fact that the prin- ciples of local autonomy and group re- sponsibility and the voluntary nature of adult education are the principles upon which the American Labor movement rests and command this adult workers education movement, particularly to the American worker
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-20

therefore recommends non-concurrence in this resolution
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-20

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The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-20
1907 STRIKE DEBT
 PAID BY WIRE MEN

Chicago, ILL, Oct. zo.-Ine great commercial telegraphers' strike of 1907 burdened the Commercial Tele- graphers' Union of America with a debt of SI4,ooo. The last dollar has been paid and the union faces the fu-
 ture with a clean financial slate.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-11-29
Flogged Youths
Parents Are Paid

Langdon. y. D. Nov. 2s.-Payment
OF s2o.o 900 has been made by the
Putnam Lumber company Of Wiscon-
sin TO the family OF Martin Tabert
OF Munich. y. D, who died in a con-
vict labor camp conducted by the
company in Florida, following a fog
ging given by Walter Higginbotham.
whipping boss"
This payment has been accepted BY
the Tabert family as settlement of
it's claims against the lumber COM
pany. according TO an announcement
today by States Attorney Crimson OF
Cavalier county, who was instru-
mental in having Higginbotham
brought TO trial and convicted on q
charge of second degree murder.
The settlement win IN no way af
feet the handling OF the case of
Higginbotham who has appealed TO
the Florida supreme court 20 have the
verdict of second degree murder
against him set aside.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-11-29
Doctors Endorse
Truth Serum

New Orleans, Nov. 2s.-Methods of
testing mans veracity through the
administration of scopolamin were de-
clared by several prominent ply
sicians to be an important eontrihu-
ton to medical science after a demon
stration here by DIR. r. E. House of
Ferris, Tex, with five prisoners held
at the parish prison on various
charges as subjects.
The test of the truth SERUM" de
clared by DIR. House to be a drug
given by obstetricians to produce
twilight sleep" was administered in
the presence of officers Of the Orleans
Parish Medical society," health and
police officials and newspaper men.
Some of the answers given by the
subjects while under its influence were
opposed to their stories told previous
ly to police officials, others differed in
important details, and some were
maintained absolutely.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-11-29

but the facts were withheld for some
time from the father.
He stated that the two women had
gone. early In the morning of Octo-
Der s. TO the straw shed where they
found Lana asleep. wrapped In a
blanket. They woke him. and the
mother asked him II he was going TO
leave the farm. As he half arose to
reply she attacked him. and he reach
ed for his revolver, 1t was seized by
Abby and was discharged. the az cali
Der bullet penetrating his abdomen.
Although badly wounded. Thomas
declared. Lana staggered to the en-.
trance OF the shed where Vajgrat's
shotgun was lying. He reached for
the muzzle and Abby. who had rushed
after him. grabbed the stock. In the
struggle that ensued. struggle in
which Mrs. Vajgrts took UP a long
plank and struck the wounded man
over the head. the gun went off, tear
ing a great hole In Lana's side.
During the grim battle between the
two women and the farm hand
Thomas said, Adolph was in the barr
doing the morning chores. and only
after the discharge OF the shotgun
did he come running to the straw
shed. to find Lana dead and his
daughter on the ground In faintinf
condition. Frustrated by the tragedy
Adolph and his wife hurriedly threw
some straw over the body. and IN
the afternoon the husband drove {,
Crete. where he related what had
been done To Dr. Conrad.
Commenting ON Najgrts statement
that he had assisted In the killing
Thomas declared that tho defendant
had been 40 goaded and grilled 10y
George Runty OF Milford. who had
taken him into custody. that he hac
teen scared to death. :"
"Runty. seeking to immortalize him
self as detective" Thomas con
tlnued. had oven frightened Vajgrt
with a story that tho citizens OF Mil
ford were waiting to get him" anc
he never admitted of his free vii
that he had anything TO do with tn,
crime"
THE state called one witness. Or
Conrad OF Crete. before the court ad
iourned who described the visit OF
Abby and her mother to him on tn,
Saturday preceding the murder vhor
he told them that the girl was in q
dellcatp condition.
| Under examination by the county
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-11-29

Thanksgiving matinees for those who
will make the day a real holiday.
Hotels and restaurants will serve spe-
cial turkey dinners. with cranberry
sauce and all the fixin's.
Places OF business and many public
buildings will be closed. including
banks. office buildings. court house,
city hall and schools. Omaha public
OF the week. Many students Of the
schools closed Wednesday for the re-
mainder OF the week. Many students
of the University Of Nebraska, which
closes for Thanksgiving day and FRI
day, were expected TO arrive Wednes-
day evening from Lincoln.
Thank offerings will be taken and
sermons on Thanksgiving delivered at
many of the churches throughout the
CITY
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-11-29

Tomb of Christ's
Time Discovered

Philadelphia. Nov. 2S.--An un-
disturbed tomb dating from the time
of Christ has been discovered in the
Valley of Kedron, near Jerusalem, ac-
cording to word received from DIR.
w. F. Albright. director of the Amer.
lean School of Oriental Research In
Jerusalem, DIR. James Allan Mont
gomery, president of the school an.
nounced today.
THE tomb contained more than
a score of ossuaries," DIR. Albright
wrote. "A dozen of these bore the
names of and geanologies Of the occu.
pants. All the dead apparently be
longed to one family. which flourished
about the time of Christ. The slow.
ly increasing number Of such inscrip-
tion groups is already beginning 70
provide me with valuable material
for the nomenclature and eventually
for the history of the new testament
period F."
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-11-29
Coolidge Is
to Release
.Violators
Men Convicted Under Espion-
age Act Will Be Freed
Before Christmas,
Says Report.
Few Must Stay in Pen
BY Universal Service.

Washington. Nov 2S.-The long
awaited release Of political prisoners
is close at hand. 1t was intimated at
the White House today.
This followed the announcement
that a special commission named by
President Coolidge has been studying
the individual cases Of men sent to
jail during the world war and has
submitted report recommending
clemency for a large number.
The commission was made up of
Newton ID. Baker, secretary OF war
at the time the men were imprisoned,
Major General Harbord and Bishop
Brent Of the Episcopal church. They
have been in almost continuous see-
sion for two weeks and only COM
pleted their findings last night.
Some time between Thanksgiving
and Christmas. the president will af.
fix his signature to the documents
that will release the greater majority
Of this type of offenders from fail. It
was the hope that this could be made
Thanksgiving gift to those who
have served much longer sentences
than imposed for like offenses by any
country engaged in the war, but the
work could not be completed In time,
il was stated.
The president insisted that he would
not issue blanket pardon, but that
each case must rest on its merits
and that in at least a few Of the more
flagrant cases there would be no in
reference. Former Secretary Baker
is said 10 have taken the same view
During the time he was in office
practically all of the cases were be-
fore him and he had a personal know
ledge OF each
Those who will be denied clemency
are not political prisoners in the
strict meaning of the word, It was
declared, but persons holding Ameri-
can citizenship who are said to have
been vicious IN obstrucf,ng the war