davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-05-04

ing 1t all the time in our directors
 meetings and our management meet
 ihgs.
 We set down just two things as
 the ethics of our business: first, that we have no right to make money unless we serve the community; sec ond, that the real service to the con- munity IS not something indefinite, but is the selling of goods cheaper and cheaper, provided they are made and sold under just and fair condi- tions.
 With that in mind there is a spirit- ual as well as a business compulsion on Us to cut expenses.
 But there never comes to us now the suggestion that we can lower our expenses but cutting salaries and wages. We know that this would be the most short-sighted way of ap- preaching the problem.
 Mistaken Economy To those who are against the mini mum wage law, the easiest solution to their business problem seems to be
 to cut wages down. But they do not see what is really the big cost in usiness-waste, and devote them selves to getting rid of that If you are in any doubt about what 1 say, l refer you to MT. Hoover and his group of engineers who have made a report on waste in industry com pared with which what I am saying
 here on the subject is very mild. When we are forced by the exist | ence of a minimum wage to apply | our corrective endeavors to the real | source of high CostS-WaSte-we shall l be taking real step forward. | A Striking Example. | In this connection, I will call atten-
 ton to a result which cannot be ig-
 nored-to the man who has produced
 the best commodity, for the price of
 its kind in the world, produced 1t in quantities never before dreamed of,
 and produced it so cheap that 1t can l be sold in competition with the cheap
 labor of Europe-so cheap, indeed,
 that no country can make 1t to com pete with him.
 1 refer to Henry Ford He has
 produced twelve hundred thousand
 automobiles a year-eight minute
 has financed his whole business from
 the profits and has become the rich
 est man in the world.
 And the minimum wage he pays is
 so high that if 1t were proposed in
 Massachusetts those who advocated | it would be set down as crazy Even at his high minimum wage he has been able to employ the lame, the crippled, and the blind of the com
 munity, not as a charity but at pro- fit. The statistics in his autobiogra- phy covering these facts are amazing. That demonstration of the possibil-
 bilLty of the minimum wage speaks
 louder than my words, and I hope 1t may be borne in mind in any de- cision of the minimum wage question In American Cloak and Suit Re view
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-05-04
Ethics For Press
 Adopted By Editors

Washington, May A code of ethics for American newspapers was adopted at the first annual meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, held in this city
 The first declaration is: The right of newspaper to attract and hold read CTS IS restricted by nothing but consid- erations of public welfare"
 It will be of interest to note the ap- plication of the following declaration when big business wants certain news papers to misstate causes for the next big strike:
 "A journalist who uses his power for any but selfish or otherwise unworthy purposes Is faithless to a high trust"
 On the freedom of the press 1t is de clared that this 'is to be guarded as a vital right of mankind. It is the un- questionable right to discuss whatever is not explicitly forbidden by law, includ- ing the wisdom ofs any restrictive statute.
 Freedom from all obligations except that of fidelity to the public interest IS vital.
 "Prom6tion of any private interest contrary to the general welfare, for whatever reason Is not compatible with honest journalism"
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-05-04
BaerfaCts By ]. M. BAER, The Congressman-Ca Cartoonist. International Labor News Service
End Prison Slavery

Florida is trying to settle her whipping it into shape.
 The Constitution of the United States legalizes slavery of men in prisons as follows: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as, a punishment for crime, shall exist in the United States" "
 However, that does not justify cruelty. Nothing in the days of slavery can compare with the cruelties practiced under the lease system of Florida Cruelty to prison labor exists in other states of the Union, also. The news papers are justified i'll focusing on it the light of pitiless publicity.
 In slavery days the human had a value to his owner. He cared for him as for horse. He even fared better than some workers under (Our present. industrial system that allows long periods of unemployment when the worker does not even receive a fodder diet Southerners were. proud of their paternalistic care of their slaves.
 When a state, however, turns a prisoner over to an exploiting employer On the basis of som uch payment to the state per day (With nothing to the prisoners) and gives the employer the power of life and death over the individual, it is inevitable that the "boss' will
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-05-04
Idle Army Is Wanted
 By Steel Trust Head

New York, April 27.-"Judge Gary wants two or three men for every job as was the case nine years ago., said Frank Morrison, secretary of the A F. of L., n an address before tne con- vcntion of the United Hasers o1 North America.
 The trade unionist called attention to a statement during the war by a representative of the steel trust that 100000 Chinese should be brought here to work on the farms,
 "He did not say in steel mills said Secretary Morrison, flor he knew If Chinese were imported for farm work white labor could not compete ano would be forced into the mills. The meat packers were demanding I,ooo,- GOO Chinese at that time"
 The speaker said the present lmml- grafton law was passed after the war to stop the influx of cheap labor.
 "Organized labor should prevent corporations from bringing in millions of immigrants to replace workers now here," said Secretary Morrison. "Only today I was told clay workers are leaving New Jersey ythe thousands and employers are complaining that they can not get men. They will only pay a certain wage They, too, want freer immigration. They want to get us where we were in 1914, with mil lions unemployed"
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-05-04
Careless Law Making Endangers
 Our Democracy

Seattle, May 4-Our structure of branch of 1t is brought into such dis repute with the people generally as is the case with our present state 1egisla- ture, says w. M. Short, president of the Washington State Federation of Labor, writing in the official bulletin of that or ganization.
 'The dissatisfaction with the 1egisla- ture Is not confined to any particular group, but each session sees an increas- ing number of people from every walk of life leaving the capitol disgusted with the legislature"
 President Short advances several theories for this condition and de clares that 1t is neither practicable nor possible to take 97 people for the lower house and 42 for the senate chosen from every walk of life, and assemble them together once every two years for a period of 60 days, and expect them to give the necessary thought and time, and apply the 1egisla- tive skill necessary to the proper enact ment of our laws, and dispose of from 5OO to oOO bills ln that short period with no opportunity for previous thought and consideration Yet this Is the condition that obtains'
 he trade un1onist recommends that the legislative system be replaced by one legislative body, and that the state be redistricted, with a mandatory re- diStricting after every census. The new legislative body should remain in session at least nine months of the year and salary of not less than S3.6OO should be paid members
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-05-04

care nothing about the prisoners life
 Under this system the wardens, police and others. who get some of the graft out of the system, are very anxious to get any stranger who happens along, i'll jail and keep him there under a sentence as long as possible Justice Is inn . possible Evils pile up, but labor is cheap
 The North Dakota boy who was sent to jail was not a criminal. He was contracted out to a Florida employer, forced to labor and finally beaten to death. He is only one of many who meet an early death under the vicious lease system.
 How is the situation in your state? Organized labor has al ways fought the lease system and all forms of exploitation of prison labor. The evil IS still with us It Is time to get stirred up about
 In the name of Humanity, which Is now only used as a slogan to, fight for i'll time of war, let's get up on our hind legs and abolish this cruel peonage system and all forms of industrial slavery.
 The best way to go about 1t Is to get every man who labors to ioin a union. Only through or eanized effort will your influence be effectively and powerfully felt.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-05-04
THE REACTIONARY JUDGE MUST GO The Twelfth of a Series of Comments by New York Supreme Court Justice
 On Our Courts and Their Power

will he reverse it? The Dred Scott decision was pronounced by the highest tribunal on earth From that decision, there is no appeal this side of heaven"
 Well, the Dred Scott decision was re- verSed, not peaceably as Lincoln fondly hoped, but through the utter destruction ot the unrighteous system which 1t was designed to buttress and perpetuate.
 Not through an appeal to Heaven but by the might of an aroused people through four years of civil war crowned by L1ncoln's own martyrdom was the i1- famous judgment nul1ihed.
 Let those who stubbornly persist in their blind opposition to peaceable means of curbing the power of the courts to subordinate human rights to property rights-to put the dollar above the man-and establish the ruthless rule of the money kings over the people, take warning. For as Lincoln declared, The people of these United States are the rightful masters both of Congress and the Courts, not to overthrow the constitution. but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution"
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-05-04
By JOHN R. FORD,
ustice, New York Supreme Court.


 We must find way to get rid of the reactionary judge-the servant of plutocracy. 1 can think of no more effective remedy than that advocated by | Theodore Roosevelt-the recall of judges under such safeguards as will prevent too | nasty or inconsiderate action.
 Roosevelts own language in his l Lincoln Day speech of 1915 was:
 My own preference would be to have | judges elected or appointed for an indef- mite term or during good behavior. but subject to recall by popular vote every two years, which system, ln its essentials would be like that which has actually, although not nominally, obtained in Yer mont, except that 1t would substitute | popular vote for legislative action" | In the same speech speaking of the | power exercised by the courts to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional Roose- velt declared:
 Marshall performed great and need ed service, one of the greatest services any statesman ever performed, when in a period of national weakness he put the Supreme Court behind the national ideal But such practice as he inaugurated could be maintained permanently only If 1t was exercised with the greatest mod eration. For over half century 1t was thus exercised. But under the strain of what 1 must call class pressure, the pressure of the privileged classes. this power has during the past fifty years come to be exercised in utterly reckless fashion. The result has been in lamentably large number of cases to make the courts the bulwarks of special privilege against justice"
 The class pressure in earlier times to which the courts bowed was that of the slave holding interests, To their influence the infamous Dred Scott decision was at tributed. Indeed Lincoln charged that the decision was part of a conspiracy be- tween the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, two Presidents of the United States and a certain United States Sena- tor At that time the Supreme Court was the same learned, dignihed and august body which we have today and it's decrees were then as now commonly received almost as reverentially as the children of Israel received the Ten Commandments from the Lord on Mount Sinai
 The Dred Scott decision was rendered in 1857 and Lincoln declared:
 Somebody has to reverse that deci- ! sion since 1t was made, and we mean to reverse 1t. and we mean to do 1t peace , ably"
 That statement was taken up and made much of by his adversaries and he was accused of undermining the authority of the courts and melting to lawlessness by his criticisms. Said his chief critic:
 "He tells you that he does not like the Dred Scott decision. Suppose he does not. how is he going to help himself? He says that he will reverse 1t. How
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-05-04
PRINTERS TAKE STAND AGAINST
 COMMUNISM

In bulletin issued by officers of the International Typographical Union Communism and radicalism are scored ,as menaces to Organized La Dor and the action of the Washington local in closing the doors of the Typographical Temple to radical meetings is highly commended. Per mission to hold a meeting was re- gently withdrawn when it was learn ed that partisans of William Z. Eos ter were going to attend. Govern ment officers arrested several radicals who appeared at the hall.
 While the international assumes no measure of control over political actions of typographical union mem bers, discFetion is advised in pre- venting any connection, however re- mote, between the name of the union and any radical movements" the bull letin says. 'Enemies of the labor movement are quick to make capital of such things and do unionism in justice.
 The so-ca1led boring within process, with which Communistic leaders are reported to be attacking the labor movement, as a matter of fact is of no consequence or import ance at all. Among the rank and file of labor there Is a clear under standing that radical proposals fo1 leveling inequalities in society in volve despotism of the most abhor- rent sort, and that maintenance ot such a state would require terrible slave-driving pressure until the last spark of spirit had been crushed out of workers and they were made au- .tomatons, sans pride, sans hope, and sans ambition. Add to that gloomy prospect the likelihood of an early death by hanging and you have the Utopia sought by handful of crack brained 'intelectuals' whose troubles arise from overdoses of mixed philos- ophy taken on empty minds.
 "An idea of the cost of commun- ism may be obtained from the follow ing totals of executions consummated in Russia's reign of terror as compiled by the Goulois, a leading Partisan daily:
 "Twenty-eight bishops and I,I25 priests, 6,775 professors; $500 physi- clans; 53,65o army officers, and 48,5oo privates of constabulary and police forces; I2I,o5o land owners; 355,25o members of the 'intelligencia'; 1o3,35o workmen, and 8I5,Ioo peasants."'
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-05-04
Emigration No Solution

London, Eng, May 4.-"It is an old trick to urge emigration in periods of unemployment" says the Daily Herald in opposing the suggestion that the unemployed be shipped to the various Dominions
 When famine devastated Ireland, emigration was the panacea," says the Herald. "When Scottish agriculture ceased to offer prospects to reason able prosperity, of a decent living even, to the countryman, the emigrant ships were full. Every industrial slump has seen it's thousands of fam flies leave our shores. But the lands across the Atlantic have ceased to cry out for indiscriminate populations. Emigration on a huge scale is no longer possible. To continue to speak of it as possible merely betrays a de- sire to avoid thinking straight"
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-05-04
HIGHER WAGES LIFT ALL LIVING
 STANDARDS
By EDWARD A. FILENE,

By EDWARD A. FILENE, President, William Filene's Sons
 Company, former Director Cham
 Der of Commerce of the United
 States.
 A real minimum wage means a leveling up in the whole housekeeping of the city, of the state, and of the nation.
 It means that we have got to get our scales right, that we have got to make the conditions in our cities and states such that people can get a living if they are willing to work
 It means that we have got to give them enough training so that they can earn a living 1 am convinced that the minimum wage IS one of the big means toward public efficiency
 A minimum wage properly fixed means leveling up; a wage of S, or SC, or S8 means a leveling down. The low wage IS therefore more costly for the state and nation, measured by all the higher and truer standards, and also measured by the actual final total cost in dollars than is a living wage
 Wastes Great Toll
 Finally, If we have to pay a living wage, Ii will help us to get away from the habit of thinking about lower wages as the only remedy for high cost of production
 The big thing in business and in dustry that makes for high costs is waste-waste growing out of ineffic tent management, and inefficient labor We have not yet begun to appreciate that, much less to control it; because the easiest thing in the world, unti inc to down wages, or, at least, to attemp 1t. But our industrial waste Is enor nous, even in those businesses with reputation for careful and efficien management
 In our store we pay probably two million or more dollars year il wages-a pretty big payroll. Yet have often said that I shall die dis graced.
 We are quoted all over the world as being efficient in our line, and wt are certainly as low in our expense: as are most of the stores; we clain that we sell cheaper than most O. them do-at any rate, the people seem to think so and have rewarded us by giving us patronage that has | helped us to build the greatest busi ness of its kind in the whole world
 And yet l say that l shall die dis graced.
 Why?
 Because the margin between the cost of production and Of delivery tc the consumer is larger today than when l went into business Oi course, the cost of all kinds of serv- ices are included in that, and the amount of service rendered has greatly increased during this period but 1t is a thing that ought not to be
 Fighting Increases in Cost
 We are fighting this increase in the cost of carrying on business as hard as we know how. We are consider
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-05-04
CLOAKMAKERS GAIN.

Clevt1and, May "A wage increase of Is per cent, through arbitration, has been secured by cloaknakers in this city This increase puts Cleveland in the same wage class as other cloak CerlterS.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-05-04
HUGE OIL PROFITS.

New York, April 27-The Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation reports it's net earnings last year were $3o,- o437o4, compared with $Io,785,313 the previous year.
, 1923-02-21
To Those Who
Have Not Entered

What are o doing to insure youn
self OF one OF the really BIG prizes in
the distribution. Are you doing
YOUR part-or are you sitting back
N hoping our friends will do It anT
Up to now the majority OF the votes
That most OF tho candidates have re-
eelved have been a 5 by subscribers
who have been coming into tho office
in tho regular course of business.
laying up their Tribune subscription
anc casting their votes to the credit
OF some n OF the Nominees. This
should not be the case when the value
of all the prizes is considered. Every
candidate should be doing his or her
utmost towards making THEIR prize
as big IS possible. II your friends
s'e that you are doing YOUR part,
they will jump in and help you pile
up a winning Iotal- II. however.
trey see you are unappreciative and
ore expecting you friends to do It
GIL they will throw their support
elsewhere. It'a up to you, candidates.
DC YOUR PART-your friends will
do theirs.
, 1923-02-21
XXI RIA
100000 EXTRA VOTES

Every $500 club of subscriptions, either NEW or RENEWALS, will
enttle you to 1000 900 EXTRA votes in addition to the usual votes issued
at the time each subscription (se regular vote schedule) is turned in.
This big 100000 offer coupled with the present liberal vote sched-
ue, is the biggest and best vote offer of the entire campaign. Subscrip-
tons are worth more votes these next few weeks than they ever will be
again.
A $500 club may include subscriptions of any length of time up
to six years.
A candidate has the privilege of turning in more than one club. Two
clubs, for instance, would net you 100000 votes AS soon IS you COM
plete your first club, you start on your second.
Subscriptions may be secured anywhere. Candidates ar NOT re-
strcted to their own district. You can obtain subscriptions from friends
and acquaintance in any district, any town, city or state.
The $500 does not have to be turned in all at one time. You can
turn in the subscriptions IS you secure them. Accurate record is kept
at the Campaign Department. The 100000 Extra Vote Ballots Ire is
sued at the close of the offer for the Extra votes due.
This 100000 offer is the biggest and best offer that will be made.
If you have entered the campaign, here is your chance to make a
fine beginning and build up your way to success. If you have just
started, let this vote offer put you in the lead.
A special ballot of 5000 extra votes will be issued at the end of
the first period for each NEW subscription turned in.
During the second period only 5000 extra votes are allowed with
a new subscription, 10000 during the third and only 5000 during the
last period.
, 1923-02-21
To Those Who
Have Entered

To you who arc stu considering
the Gift Distribution RIGHHT NOW
is the time to send In your lame and
make YOU start. You never have
Ead-or never will have-sucn an op.
portunity for making BIG money
quickly WITHOUT INVESTMENT
OR RISK as you have In this Tribune
$4,000 distribution. Clip out hat
nomination blank zee that IT reaches
the Campaign Department immcd-
lately. you ARE GOING TO RE.
GRET IT IF YOU DON'T. Remem.
Der this statement and ACT NOW.
Note the vote schedule that is now
in effect. Get your pencil. Do a little
figuring and see for yourself how
fast subscriptions count on the first
period" Remember. 100 900 EXTRA
votes are given for every $500 in
subscriptions.
, 1923-02-21
District No. 5

District No. 5 includes all the territory outside of the city of
Casper lying east of the city of Casper, including the following:
Wendover, Torrington, Guernsey, Cheyenne, Gillette, Sheridan,
Wheatland, Salt Creek and all towns in vicinity. One or two of the
cars and as many cash prizes III there are active contestants will be
awarded in this district. Following is a list of those entered in this
testants will be awarded in this district. Following is a list of all
votes cast for publication up until last night.
Mary +. Fitzhugh, Douglas, Wyo. 5000
Miss Myrtle Froman, Salt Creek, Wye. &C. 400
Dana Henry, Parkerton, Wyo. $4,000
Mary L. Harvey, Salt Greek, Wyo. .1O5OO
Miss Gladys johnson, Salt Greek, Wyo. al 900
Jack Mason, R. +. D. 5000
Miss Ethel Palm, Albin, wyo. 5000
L. H. Rate, east of city $4,000
Mrs. ID. b Sherwood, X. f. L. 10000
Mrs. G. s. Stone, r. F. D. .....5 5000
G. L. Tappey, Parkerton, Wyo. 5000
Miss Viona Wood, Sheridan, Wyo. 5000
Miss Ruth Shaw, Labonte, Wyo. 5000
Miss Marjorie Smith, Glenrock 5000
, 1923-02-21
District No. 4

District No. 4 includes all the territory outside the city limits
of Casper lying north and west of the city of Casper, including the
following: Powder River, Arminto, Thermopolis, Worland, Greybull
Frannie, Cody, Lander, Riverton, Shoshone, Rock Springs, Kemmer-
err and all towns in vicinity. One or two of the cars and as many
cash prizes as there a S active contestants will be awarded in this
district. Following is a list of all votes cast for publication up
until last night.
Miss Dora Cook, Casper, R. F. D. 5000
Mrs. Dorothy Clark, Powder River, Wyo. 14530O
Miss Adelaid Elliott, Mills, Wyo. $4,000
j. G. Hustad, Mills, Wyo. 100000
Chas. johnson, Jr, Thermopolis, Wyo. ...,,...............520O
Miss Martha Nostrom, Thermopols, Wyo. ...................5000
James L. Quinlivan, Mills, Wyo. 1900
E. G. Roedigen, Glendo, wyo. 5000
Roy Schneider, Crosby, Wyo. 5000
Mrs. r. NJ. Taylor, Arminto, Wyo. .697OO
Mrs. Charlotte Pfeiffer, r. F. D. $4,000
Miss Helen johnson, Forsythe 1000
Miss Gertrude Stacey, Shoshoni 5000
Miss Erma Yohe .s5700
Mrs. Sylvia Nord, Riverton. 80. $4,000