The Connecticut labor news., 1923-08-11
BY THE WAY
Comment and Criticism About Things Doing in the World.

strikes out when he tackles other matters.
 Ford says of trade unions that they are fine for speeding up loafng" and that they are also good for interrupt i ing work.
 i The five million or more trade unionists in America would like to know where Henry gets that loaf ing" stuff In view of his remark able lack of even the simplest truths about labor, Henry's announcement l that he doesn't want to be president isn't so very disappointing. Friends of the railroads have pro- duced figures to show that the rail road business IS picking up, car load | Iings are heavier, average car move
 ment per day is longer, and alto including the old bank roll. This IS said to be due to higher efficiency of management and reduced
 operating cost, part of which Is re- duced wages.
 needed more brains in management. l The present recovery proved what la 1 bor said. Wage cutting hasn't con Itributed to railroad recovery-it
 never does, but all manner of man
 agement devices have helped nightly.
 There still is plenty for manage
 ment to do-and if Wall Street will
 keep it's hands off management prob
 ably will deliver the goods.
 The Iron Age, introducing that
 good old act entitled Labor and the Farmers, shows that Iron Age has Host none of it's editorial cunning. | No group of workers can get any thing, except at the expense of an-
 other group, says this good old stand by magazine.
 l We are to infer from this, oi
 course, that the prohteering outfit has got its loot nailed down where i,
 can't be touched or damaged or in
 terfered with for the future
 i That assurance will be received
 with relish by the prohteers, and they
 will no doubt be greatly comforted
 But just why is 1t that nobody can
 touch the tremendous margin that dis appears between the farmer who
 raises wheat and the worker who
 finally buys the wheat in loaves of
 bread?
 I Mayhap the Iron Age is giving us
 glimpse of the Sacred Bull 1 The Worker, organ of the Com
 munist party. continues to foam and
 rail. This outfit is expert at foaming and railing. It assails Gompers reg ularly. Wall Street isn't nearly as hateful to the communist crowd We
 learn from The Worker that Sam Gompers IS face to face with the la
 bor party idea" and that he can't dodge 1t or get away from it and we find also that Gompers Is in league with Hughes to prevent recognition Eef the soviets.
 ] It Is satisfying to see The Worker Icarrying on in this manner If there
 had been any 1et-up in bitterness,
 nastiness, perverseness and general hatred for the trade union movement, 1t could indicate only that The Work CTS staff was i'll or off it's feed, or in jail. As it IS, we have the assurance l that the whole staff Is in the best of health and entirely satisfied with the \ world
 Morris Hillquit said few days ago: "The average organized work 1 CT of America IS politically a genera ton behind the workers of the ad- vanced countries of Europe * *'' MT. Hillquit fails to point out what Nit is that the workers of Europe have got through their superior wisdom and tactics that IS SO much better | than that which American workers | have secured
 Those who are generation ahead of us surely should have something wonderful to show the world In four short-sightedness, however, we fail to discover in Europe anything, political or otherwise, that we exactly hanker for
 The trouble with Morris is that he is disappointed salesman of social ism
 It is disclosed that West Virginia coal owners have been substituting newspaper correspondents. The most discouraging feature of 1t all IS that some of the newspapers don't seem bit concerned Rut after all, why should they, inasmuch as-they agree with the mine owners anyhow?