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The Connecticut labor news., 1923-05-04
SOUTH AFRICA.
SHERIFF IS
 OUSTED BY THE FLORIDA SENATE

Tallahassee, Fla, May 1.-The state senate has removed J. R. Jones from the office of sheriff of Leon county. Jones is charged with secur- ing 1920 a head" from the Putnam Lumber Company for every convict ed prisoner he turned over to their lumber camp. It was at this place that Martin Tabert, North Dakota boy, died from the effects of whip ping by company employe.
 Dr. T. Capers Jones, camp physic- ian for the lumber company, testified before the special legislative commit tee that Tabert died from other causes and that he Oones) was un- aware of any condition that would justify prisoners complaining. In it's report the legislative committee called upon the state board of medical ex- aminers to investigate Dr. Jones "to the end that the medical profession be purged of a seemingly unworthy member"
 Representative Kennerly of the committee said the lumber company and its officials made display of armed forces to frighten a negro ex- convict who offeTed to show the in vestigators the spot in the pine swamp where Tabert died and where other convicts had buried the body.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-05-04
POLISHERS PLAN BIG OPEN MEETING
 AND SMOKER

The second open meeting and smoker of the Metal Polshers and Buffers International Union, Local 25, will be held on Sunday afternoon, May 9th, at 3 o'clock, at Trades Council hall, 2I5 Meadow street.
 All metal polishers and buffers of New Haven, both union and non union, are cordially invited and urged to attend.
 Speakers, both of local and national importance, will address the meeting. Go and learn what the workers of your craft are doing. Learn about your own future prospects, what it is possible to accomplish. Let all get acquainted anyway. The committee in charge assures good entertainment, the talent they have secured being of the best Refreshments will be served
 Don't forget the date, Sunday, May 9th, 3 p. m., Trades Council hall, 2I5 Meadow street.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-05-04
POSTAL SERVICE
 NEEDS MEN, NOT
 FLOWERY WORDS
Department Has Reached Crisis, Due to Pinch-Penny
 Policy.

The under-manned postofice de partment is in the midst of another crisis, and officers of the National Federation of Postofice Clerks ap- peal to those workers to use their heads and not indulge in mock hero ics and "expostulations to the flag, the country and a glorifed service"
 The statement is signed by Presi- dent Hyatt and. Secretary-Treasurer Flaherty. The union executives call attention to the fambuoyant express sions of loyalty by paper patriots. Against this policy is that of the Fed eration of Postoffice Clerks whose officers warned the department more than a year ago that the service needed additional clerks.
 We were gently rebuked for our presumption" the federation officials say "The department continued to rely for it's facts upon the expert investigations of postofhce inspect ors The unrelfability of this source of information is shown in the pres ent breakdown.
 We have had much philosophical 'humanizing' of the service recently. A little practical humanizing, as evi- denced by better treatment of the employees Dy supervisory OHlCldlS would go far in meeting the problems of this unusual postal situation.
 We are not suggesting that the members of the National Federation of Postoffice Clerks work overtime without pay. The law does not per init such service. Moreover, we have always held that the longer work, day is wrong in principle and curtails rather than increases output We hope that this crisis will convince the department experts of the correct ness of our position on this issue"
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-05-04
GOMPERS FAVORS HARDING PLAN FOR
 PERMANENT COURT

President Samuel GomperS of the American Federation of Labor IS in full accord with the proposition of the United States entering the Per manent Court of International Jus tice. A staff correspondent for the New York World quotes him as fol- lows:
 With the proposal for the United States to enter the International Court of Justice, l am in full accord. MT. Gompers said. That is an ini- participation in all efforts to main tain peace between nations.
 Those of us who believe in the whole League of Nations program will find in it an earnest that the United States does not repudiate her international responsibility Those of Us who believe in the administra- tion's pledge. to assume that respon- nations will find opportunity to mani fest good faith.'
 While the antiourt crusaders are much encouraged by the President Harding declaration that he had ln mind no campaign to obtain lndorse- ment of his international tribunal
 
 Senator Borah has under consdera tion an invitation to make a speech in Missouri The fact has less sig nihcance than the source of the lnvl- tation. It was delivered by Charles Nagel, who was Secretary of Com merce and Labor under the Taft ad be supposed to adhere to the same h chief-the present chief justice, who was one of the celebrated 3I that urged the election of MT Harding as the quickest way of getting into the League of Nations, and therefore might have been expected to hold up the Presidents hands on the court issue.
 Instead he is in Washington urging 'Borah to carry his message to the people of Missouri. Nagel know. perfectly well what the message will be; that the court proposed by the President is a useless, futile thing, besides being a disguised effort to get us into the League of Nations.
 The circumstances suggests that Senator 'Jim'' Reed is collaborating with the republican anti-courtiers out there and gives an index to the thoroughness with which the cam paign to balk the President is being conducted.
 Nagel reported that hostility to the world court was warmer, if any thing, than 1t was to the League of Nations among the people back in the country and that they would be ready to give staunch support to the irreconcilables on this proposition.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-05-04
Coal Owners Trapped;
 Had Bribed Witnesses

Berkeley Springs, w. Va, May A. Four witnesses who were paid from $2oo to $500 to testify against Frank Keeney, state president of the United Mine Workers, repudiated their bar gain and fled from drunken gun men who were guarding them.
 This IS the latest development in the persecution of union coal miners by coal owners in connection with strikes in Logan county.
 With a nerve equal to their corrup- ton, the coal owners attorneys then asked the court to quash the proceed ings against Keeney because 'three Of the states witnesses had been spirited away and evidently tempered with"
 The miners counsel assured the court the witnesses could be pro- duced. In four minutes after the court ordered a deputy sheriff to pro- tect the witnesses, they walked into the court room.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-05-04
Do Not Forget That WE DO JOB PRINTING.
Rv EDWARD TRACY

By the Constitution of the United States everyone IS guaranteed the right of trial by jury. In section three of article three we note the following The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury, such trial shall be held III the state where the said crimes shall have been committed" "
 From the earliest dave however, not only of this country, but also in England from whence we get our common law, trial by jury has not been allowed to everyone
 One glaring example of this is in cases arising out of contempt of court. Contempt of court arises out of injunc- tion, cases From the time when the memory of man hunneth not to the con- trary, in cases of this sort, the judge whose dignity has been assailed has con- stituted himself both prosecutor and eXecutioner, as well as jury.
 It is a question to be yet decided whether the above section of the Con- stitution was inserted i'll support of this long existing condition. or whether it was in derogatiOn of 1t.
 Some hold that 1t ttas no application to anyone held in contempt of court, but is only dcc1aratory of the common law Still others hold that with the knowledge that these infractions were punishable by judge alone, this section was inserted to remedy the existing condi- ton.
 Now this question is to be settled. The Legislature of the State of Wisconsin has just enacted law insuring a jury trial for all persons arrested on the charge of being in contempt of court for alleged violation of injunctions or other court decree. This has been signed by the governor and will remain law unless it is held unconstitutional by the supreme court of the state or of the United States. The outcome of this case when tested will he of overwhelming interest to everyone, especially the workers.
 Wisconsin is to be congratulated on its progressive legislation and the workers of other states could do worse than to
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-05-04
COnvicts Tortured

Oklahoma City, Okla, May A. Florida is not the only state that has prison scandals, according to a re- port on prison conditions in this state to Governor Walton by President Heath of the Oklahoma State Fedora ton of Labor.
 Heath presented affidavits from a score of prisoners that puts the state prison on a plane with torture cham bers in the dark ages.
 Philadelphia, May 4-Much of the eastern pentientiary troubles have been caused by I,7oo prisoners being confined in 500 cells, with I1o guards working in three shifts, says the county grand jury. The food at the prison is "uneatable," the report said, "and on one occasion the bread was sour and the meat was indescribably tough" The grand. jury recommend ed that the prisoners be placed on farms where shops could be built to give employment to the convicts.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-05-04

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The Connecticut labor news., 1923-05-04

Many examples of baboo English are published from time to time, but an advertisement that appeared in the columns of an Indiana paper must be among the best. Here 1t is, word for word:
 "Mahomed Osman, hair cutter and clean shaver. GentIemen's throats cut with very sharp razors, with great care and skill. No irritating feeling afterward A trial solicited"
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-05-04
TRIMS CLAWS
 OF INJUNCTION JUDGES

follow III its wake
 This question has been before some of the state courts on few previous oc- Cas1ons, and the statutes have uniformly been held to have been unconstitutional as being an unWarranted interference by the legislative branch of the government with that of the judiciary Another case of the tail wagging the dog. In Oklahoma a statute provided that any one charged with indirect contempt might have, if demanded, a change of venue and trial by jury. The rule was laid down that the power to punish con- tempts IS. inherent Tn the court and that the legislature cannot abridge or destroy this power. In Massachusetts a statute provided that where an act charged as a contempt could also be punished as criminal, trial by jury might be claimed. This was also declared un- constitutional in Walton Lunch Com panX vs. Kearney decided by the Su- preme Court in 1920
 This statute just passed in Wisconsin will 1n all likelihood soon be before the courts and the outcome will be eagerly awaited by everyone The lair of La Toilette may not want to be bound by the decisions of other states on this mat ter, and 1t IS possible that the calibre of men now sitting on the bench in that state may be more concerned with human rights than they are with property rights.
 A CursOry search reveals no case of this character appearing before the Su- preme Court of the United States.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-05-04
WANT JUDGE REMOVED.

Tallahassee, Fla. May 4.-Govcr- nor Hardcc has recommended to the state senate that County Judge Willis be removed from office on charge of malfeasance growing ont of the death of Martin Tabert in the convict lease camp of the Putnam Lumber Company.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-05-04
LABOR CONDITIONS
 IN FOREIGN LANDS
CZECHOSLOVAKIA

Firemen's Congress. - Volunteer hremen of Czechoslovakia will hold their first general congress in Prague, from June 30 to July ?, 1923, at which time similar organizations in Amer ica, England, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Italy, Poland, Switzerland and YugoSlavia are expected to have delegates present. Work and organ ization will be the principal topics under discussion.
 DENMARK Unemployment - Latest available figures on unemployment show a to- tai of 48,286 unemployed persons in March, 1923, which is a decrease of I5,ooo under the previous months total. .
 ENGLAND
 Essex and Norfolk.-That labor is becoming restive in the Essex and Norfolk districts is apparent in strikes of the agricultural workers of Nor on the part of the Essex workers who are in sympathy with the farm workers demands. Augmenting these difficulties are disputes in the build ing trades and protests of the rail- road men against further wage re- auctions.
 American Silver Plate.-An exhibi- tion of silver plate, bought in various markets of the world, was given last month at Sheffield University, with a view of comparing the products of competing countries with the famous Sheffield output. Germany and Amer ica supplied the most of the samples. Judges decided that the American ex- hibits rivalled Shefield's, particularly in workmanship, while the. German exhibits were poorer and less costly designed. While Spanish, French and Brazilian articles were considered, the American industry was voted the chief competitor.
 SCOTLAND
 Unemployment-M 1923, un- employment figures for the Glasgow district show a slight reduction under those for January, 1923, the 8o,ooo un- employed in March being $500 less than the January total.
 SOUTH AFRICA.
 According to the latest census of the Union of South Africa, relating to housing conditions, there were I47,75o dwellings occupied by the Eu- ropean or white inhabitants in the UT ban areas of South Africa as com pared with I38,78o dwellings in 1918.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-05-04
SCOTLAND

Unemployment.-March,- 1923, un- employment figures for the Glasgow district show slight reduction under those for January, 1923, the 8o,ooo un- employed in March being $500 less than the January total
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-05-04
DENMARK

Unemployment - Latest available figures on unemployment show a to- tai of 48,286 unemployed persons in March, 1923, which is a decrease of I5,ooo under the previous months total
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-09-20

A New York OptOmetrist has invent
ed a machine for exercising the mus
Giles of the eye. His theory Is that the
human eyeball is pulled out Of shape
by the Juggling of strong muscles
against weaker ones, thus interfering
with the focusing of light rays and
causing nearsight, farslght and astig-
matism. Therefore he considers that
these defects can be cured and that
normal eyes can be kept in good con.
dition by regular exercises that bring
all the muscles of the eye into play.
The exerciser consists Of a ball on the
end of a bent rod which is revolved
by means Of a small crank. The eyes
are exercised by following the motions
of the ball. For neal sight the bal
first IS moved horizontally before the
eyes, bringing into play tire muscles
that move each eye toward or away
from the lose. Then the ball is moved
perpendicularly. This exercises the
muscles that 10Y the eye up or down.
For far sight the oblique muscles are
brought into play by operating the
ball in circles both left and right. AS
tigmatism is corrected by either one or
the ether of the foregoing methods, or
a combination of the two.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-09-20
Vaccinating Cattle to
Prevent Shipping Fever

Although still in the experimental
stage, the vaccination method Of treat.
Ing cattle to prevent their contracting
hemorrhagic septicemia has reached
such a degree Of perfection that II Is
now in use by the United States De
partInent Of Agriculture.
Until the method has been more
thoroughly tried out, the department
will furnish vaccine produced in its
laboratory and also trained veterinar,
ians who will give the treatment at
actual cost.
Losses from THIS disease have been
steadily increasing for several years.
During the past fall and winter the
disease became more prevalent and
virulent than ever before. 1t is most
likely to show itself among animals
shipped long distances, although 1t
occasionally attacks those that have
never left the home place.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-09-20
Find Silage Profitable
as Feed for Baby Beeves

Recent feeding tests with baby
beeves at the Minnesota experiment
station show that silage can be prof,
itabiy used IN fattening baby beeves,
In the tests, which were conducted by
w. II. Peters and n. X. Carnes, calves
getting silage. plus n full feed of grain.
fed more regularly and required less
skillful and careful feeding than calves
getting a heavy feed of grain and no
silage.
The silage-fed calves gained 2.36
pounds per head per day as an average
of n To-day feeding period, while the
calves fed without silage gained at the
rate Of 2.22 pounds per head per day.
Although the calves fed without silage
were valued at 10 cents per hundred
pounds above those which had silage,
the silage-fed calves showed a net
profit of $3.50 per head while those
without silage me- le a profit of $16.15
per head.
In another test barley proved prac-
tically equal to corn, pound for pound.
In making gains on fattening calves.
However, because OF the greater cost
Of the barley and the smaller sa wing
of feed made by hogs following, the
corn-fed calves showed a profit of
$18.15 per head, while the profit on
those fed barley was but $6.91 per
head.
Pure bred beef calves, high-grade
beef calves and common calves show
ing some traces of beef breeding made
similar gains on similar amounts Of
feed. The difference In selling price
was marked, however, the pure breds
bringing SS6.7S per head, the grades
$S3.45 and the common calves only
S56.1S per head.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-09-20
Great Value of Adding
Protein to Hog Ration

The value of adding protein to a
ration, even when pigs being fattened
for market have the run OF a good
alfalfa pasture, was shown In a test
conducted by the Kansas experiment
station last year. One lot was fed all
the corn II would eat, In addition to
alfalfa pasture. The other lot vas fed
all the corn II would a plus onefourth
Of a pound Of tankage per head per day
In addition TO alfalfa pasture. The pigs
In the lot receiving no tankage made a
gain Of IA pound per day at a cost Of
$5.55 per 100 pounds of gain. The pigs
In the lot receiving tankage made a
gain Of lbs pounds per day at a cost
Of $3.50 per 100 pounds Of gain. The
addition of o%ne-fourth Of a pound of
tankage per head per day on alfalfa
pasture reduced the cost Of gains So
rents a hundred
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-09-20
Rotation to Prevent
Disorders of Beans
Hand Pick Disease Free
Pods to Use for Seeding.

Plant beans on the same land not
oftener thar once In three or foul
years, particularly If disease has beer
prevalent. Soils which once become
thoroughly infected as a result of con
fnuous cropping are seldom safe. t.
use for the same Dr. closely relate,
crops for years to come.
Wherever practical, destroy all dis
eased vines and trash by burning.
Ii the bean straw from disease,
vines Is TO be fed, do not use the
manure on a field that is To be planted
to beans.
AS far as possible avoid %cultivatini
the beans early in the morning wher
there is dew on them, or when they
are wet with rain.
Hand pick d~isease-fre. pods, or Il
possible, select d~isease-free plants
for seed. Use these TO plant "A SEED
plot on land which has never raised
beans, and which Is removed some
distance from the main crop.
Remember that hand picking of SEED
as it ONE from the fail or thrasheI
for the purpose of controlling disease
Is OF no value, since it is impossible
to detect even a small percentage OF
diseased seed.
Seed treatment Of beans Is of nc
practical value, since any chemical
that would penetrate the seed deepl!
enough to destroy the disease-produc
ing. organism would likewise be apt
TO kill the seed.
Spraying with bordeaux mixture
$3.50 formula, ever when done thor
oughly by competent persons, is a
best unsatisfactory, improbable and
only partially successful.-Walter G
Sackett, BacteriolOgist, Colorado Tx
pertinent Station.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-09-20

the places visited were Nashville,
Tenn. DeAver. Colo; Lincoln, Neb.
Crookston, Mimi; Madison and James
vile. Wis. Fort Worth, Tex. Okla
homa City, Saltwater and Guymon,
Okla. Peoria, Ugbana and Aurora, Ill. {:
Columbus, o.; Lafayette, Ind. Lex
ingtOn, KY. and DeS Moines, la.
His journey will continue through
out the fall months when he will be the
center of attraction at many of the
large fairs. 1t is planned to bring him
back to Chicago the first week in De-
CemOer for the International, this be-
ing the first time that the grand cham
pion barrow at this show has ever been
returned the following year.
Oklahoma King has stood up well
and actually gained flesh during his
travels. This is all the more remark
able in view of the fact that he has
been shipped as any ordinary hog
would be moved about, in a crate by
express. AT his numerous stops, how
ever, he has been accUrdert royal re-
ceptiOns and honorS have been heaped
high upon his pOrcine head. In one
city nothing was considered o good
for one of his royal standing and he
was given quarters in the lobby of the
leading hotel.
This noted animal began life in the
classical environment Of the Oklahoma
Agricultural college. Under the cor
slant supervision Of a former pig club
winner he was grown and fitted for the
great competition at Chicago and am
ply justified this faith by defeating
nearly 800 of the finest market hogs In
the world for supreme hOnors.
Competent judges have conceded
that Oklahoma King Is one Of the most
perfect types of market barrows that
has ever been produced, and 1t is for
the purpose of allowing as many peo-
pie as possible to personally inspect
this ideal porker that the breed asso-
cintions have saved him from the
butchers block and have sent him on
his history-making tour of the United
States.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-09-20
GOOD CORN CRIB
PAYsDW|DENDs
Grain Should Be Properly Housed
70 Prevent Waste.
THIS BUILDING IS UP TO DATE
Provides Adequate Protection Aoalnst
ths Weather and Rats-Also 10
Great Saver OF Labor
on Farm.
BY WILLIAM A. RApFoRD

Mr.. William A Radford will answer
questions and give advice FREE OF
COST on all subjects pertaining to the
suoJect or building work on the farm, for
the readers of this paper. On account OF
mis- wide experience as Editor, Author and
MANUFACTURER. he Ia, without doubt, the
highest authority on all these subjects
Address all Inquiries TO William A. Brad
ford, No. 1927 Prairie avenue, Chi ago.
H., and only inclose two-cent stamp for
reply. H." 49,. r''
The 1923 corn crop will be worth,
providing present prices hold until the
crop Is harvested, something like
three billions Of dollars. With the
drop In the price of wheat, the corn
crop will go far toward maintaining