The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-22
AND CRITICISM ABOUT
 THINGS DOING IN THE WORLD

Look out below! Here's brushful of wet paint!
 The Employers Association of Chicago breaks into the Chicago papers with big ads in an effort to fight the electric railway employees. Of course the employers didn't sue ceed, but that wasn't their fault. That was because the workers in that occupation have solid, fighting union.
 But the employers said this in their
 paid advertisements: "1n behalf of our thousands ofem- ployes we appeal to an indignant pub | lic," etc.
 Now where do these employers get off at appealing "in behalf" of our
 thousands of employees" to an "indig- 1 nant public?"
 l Did the employees delegate these employers to act as spokesmen? They
 did not
 Did the public authorize the em-
 ployers to say that the public was in
 dignant? It did not. It was all pure bluff and bunk
 Not single union of employees registered any protest against the just demands of the carmen On the contrary, every other union was with the carmen. And the public, which is largely composed of union work ers( has registered nothing but satis- faction How long will organized reaction
 ary employers try to get away with faking and misrepresent and spe-
 cial pleading?
 Capital always has the interests of the workers at heart. Yes, hkell 1t does!
 If unions and public sentiment per-
 mitted it we should still have peon-
 age, dungeons deep and dark, the bal ley slave and the indenture of youth. peonage in Florida lumber camps i Now comes another good old game
 releasing prisoners for private ern- ployment. The International Seamen's Jour nal calls attention to this good old
 game, quoting from description in
 the Fresno (Cal) Bee: Twelve men, serving sentences in
 the Fresno county jail for offenses
 ranging from plain drunk to grand
 larceny, were paroled yesterday and
 started on their way to fish canner- ies in Alaska"
 The Alaska Packers Association has recruiting agents combing Cali
 fornia jails for recruits-and it gets them. The prisoners go under con- tract to spend six months in Alaska,
 where they will arrive shortly before President Harding reaches that ter
 ritory. The Alaska fishermen are or
 ganized, but the cannery workers still decline the benefits of unionism,
 wherein there seems to be lesson too obvious for repetition. As the Seamen's Journal says, the same practice used to obtain in man ming ships, but when the seamen be-
 came organized and voiced their pro- test against such disposal of crim-
 inals that practice gradually went out of fashion,
 There are those that don't like to have unkind words said about the bolsheviks or their American agents. So be it. Truth, however, will out. The soviets have set out to cap ture the world wheat market and they say they'll do it if they have to sell wheat at half price. Starvation Tn Russia? Oh, let American charity take care of that!
 1 Another matter comes along. The communist party has come to the con | clusion that the anti-religious cru sade has been "going too far" and "wrong methods" have been used. | The campaign will be fixed up to look
 a little different and then business will go on as usual. There must be little diplomacy mixed with the smashing; that's all.