The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-24
BY THE WAY Comment and Criticism About Things Doing in the World.

Col. Forbes says Doc. Sawyer ha: been lying; Doc. Sawyer said Col. For bes was a bad actor Gen. O'Ryan says Col. Forbes was member of conspirine gang everybody says somebody else was either a liar or crook, or both. It has been a pleasant party-this in vestigation into the conduct of the Vet erans' Bureau.
 Apparently there has been a good dea of playing ducks and drakes with this bureau charged with caring for the dis abled veterans of the war. Nothing could be more revolting than to debauct such bureau.
 The truth about the whole thing be- longs to tlle people and let it come.
 The National Founders Association has prepared an exhibit to show the Ire markable development of open shop ap- proval among all classes in America J The first thought III this connection IS that there has been no such growing ap- proval, but that approval has diminished. Propogandists are trying hard to keep the so-called open shop alive, but it's a hard job. The whole thing was a fraud from the beginning and even payrooll can't keep a fraud alive forever
 The tenacity of the propagandists would be more admirable if it were dis played i'll a better cause
 
 Trotsky recently wrote an article, pub llsed in Russia, pointing to Limited States of Europe" establised on a soviet or bolshevik basis, as a result of the trlomph of bolshevism in Europe. The bolsheviks continue unabated their efforts to undermine and destroy other governments, particularly the more dem ocratlc governments.
 Those who think the bolshevik propa- ganda is dead and that the bolsheviks have abandoned their effort to foster re- volution i'll other countries are looking with unseeing eyes upon lot of things that are doing throughout the world
 While bolshevism lives it must be judged by what 1t does, and not by its professions of piety.
 Laws laws ill never-ceasing stream are coming from our legislative halls and yet there is general complaint of the disregard of law i'll the United States. The more laws, the more 1awlessness and still our legislators go on passing more laws III an apparen attempt to regulate everything from the wagging of dogs tail to the movements of the stars in their courses. Perhaps, as the National Industrial Council suggests:
 Those who view with alarm the pres ent widespread disrespect and disregard for law may find the real key to the sit 'uation in the ever-increasing volume of new legislation which has completely overwhelmed courts, lawyers and the people of the country"
 
 How low wages i'll one section hurt the workers in other sections is we'll illustra- ted by the bituninous mining situation in the state of Washington There the mining industry is suffering from the competition of coal mined by Oriental labor in Vancouver Island at a wage scale of an average of at least $2 day under Washington wages. The coal min ed by non unionized Oriental workmen is hauled 10 miles by water transporta- ton into Washington at the same freight rate operators in the state pay for 3O-n1ile haul by rail into Seattle. As result, soft coal mining in Washington is depressed and the miners suffer.
 The only sure safeguard of the work CTS from low wages is organization in every part of the world To paraphrase a famous slogan: Workers of the world, unitei You have a world of good wages to gain and nothing to lose but low pay"
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 ~ Friends of minimum wage legislation will rejoice in the news from Wisconsin that sweeping investigation of the ern- ployment of women and minors shows that the oft-repeated statement that the minimum wage" becomes the maxirntn7 wage" has proved to be false econom- ic conclusion in as far as Wisconsin is concerned. The investigation. which was made by the State Industrial Commis- sion disclosed that 43.6 per cent. of the work employees less than eight and one-half hours and that during the past year the trend of wages has been upward