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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-05-10
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The Connecticut labor news., 1923-04-27
ONTARIO AND WESTERN ROAD
 SETTLES DIFFERENCES WITH
 MEN ON STRIKE FOR YEAR
As the New Haven Controls This Road Local Shopmen See Indications That Movement to Settle Difficulties Here Is
 Not Far Distant.

Officials of the New York; Ontario & Western Railroad have arrived a satisfactory settlement with the who have been strike that road July of last and the their former the shops according the headquarters of the local strikers
 This road controlled by the New Haven and the taken by the officials settling the strike of its hopmen hailed by the local strikers of weakening the of the New Haven speedy of differences existing dently expected by strike leaders.
 they satisfactory women from outsiders who know nothing of the work a declared strike leader. Tt New will the conclusion settlement will thousands dollars putting the road back working basis We bound
 "Government inspectors condemning such that the road has been compelled tracng of locomotives for Today undue number of delays reported This indicates that power available officials of the road would have the public believe.
 Tn the settlement of striking employees early for local strikers said another leader bound road officials believe becoming day.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-04-27
Government Is Blamed

New York, April 27.-L. F. Loree, president of the Delaware X Hudson railroad, attacked government regu- lation of railroads, in speech in this city. MT. Loree Is a leader in the group of hard-boiled managers who are enforcing Wall streets lockout of railroad shop men.
 He said the present tendency is to- ward government ownership. 'This calamity, if it comes,' he said, twill be the price paid for incapacity of leadership" on the part of the gov ernment to handle the railroad ques- ton. MT. Loree said declines in the value of railroad stocks show that the investing public has lost confidence in railroad values.
 The railroad official talked exactly like a man who is loaded up with in fated railroad stock and who would like to unload on the government while acecting horror at the thought of losing his holdings.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-04-27
OFFICIALS NOT KINGS: CAN'T STOP CRITICISM

Springfield, H., April 27-When men were kings by an alleged divine right, criticism against government could be stopped, but not in these days, said the state supreme court, in dlsmlSslng the city Of Chicago s $Io,ooo,ooo libel suit against the Chi cago Tribune.
 The newspaper criticised the city administration of 1920 for it's part in the gubernatorial campaign of that year The city's claims for damages sounded like the plea of an employer for a labor injunction.
 The bill alleged that the city had been damaged by the Tribune's arti- cles. Investors, 1t was claimed, would not buy city bonds, and the articles influenced contractors and others who had business dealings with the city, to demand onerous terms of payment. It was also alleged that the city's credit had been impaired
 This action is~out of tune with the American spirit and has no place in American jur1sprudence,' said the court.
 Since the people are sovereign, and since the magistrates are servants of the people, the magistrates can do wrong and the people have a funda- mental right to criticise them and to expose their inefhciency and corrup- ton, that they may be displaced.
 So long as critics of government refrain from advocating violence of the governments overthrow, every citizen has a right to criticise an in or corrupt government with out fear of civil, or criminal, pro- secution."
 The suit is the first of it's kind in this country, it is said. If the city won, the press of the nation would be gagged.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-04-27
OR HAS SOME PUBLIC OFFICIAL
 DISCOVERED HE MADE MISTAKE
ASK
 WAGE INCREASE

After negotiations with officials of the American Railway Express Company had proven futile, A. No1linger o1 Chicago, representing more than 7000( members of the Order of Railway Ex- press1nen, has asked the United States Railroad Labor Board to pass on their request for an increase of ten cents ar hour.
 The increased cost of living since the last decision of the board went into ef- feet in 1921 Is the main reason advanced by the express1nen. who point out that more favorable rates of pay are to be found 1ri similar lines of work where the responsibilities are not as great.
 The following declarations are made by the expressmen:
 Living costs have increased since the last decision of the labor board, 1921.
 More favorable rates of pay are tc be found in similar lines of work where the training and skill is not so great as that required of expressmen.
 In an industry so vitally important to business and the public. wages should be commensurate with responsibilities in- cured by employees.
 On the other hand the company says:
 A wage increase IS not justified on the basis of living costs or rate of pay elsewhere.
 The duties of the employees have not increased.
 The financial condition of the com pany will not permit a wage increase, without a corresponding increase in rates
 Efficient work by employees is not proper basis for a demand for an in crease.
 Wages of expressmen were not de- creased as much as in other industries.
 The expressmen are now operating under a wage scale known as the boards decision Mo- 217, which went into effect August 1, 1921. Under this scale, the average salary of express agents, according to the statistical bureau of the labor board is nearly S120; that of train messengers and other train employees. $141 that of shop and store employees S137, making an average for all express men near 3131.
 No date has been set for the hearing, as the railroad labor board cannot operate until President Harding completes it's membership by the appointment of three members.
 Col Robert M Watkins, shipping board representative in Hoboken, de- c1ared today that the demands ot the men are prohibitive-
 Ut would make operation of the almost impossible" he said.
 Besides the wage increase, the marine transport workers demand the release of all men jailed during the war on various i'll connection with the draft law
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-04-27
OF POPULARITY NAMED
 SCHLEIFER BILL SO INDICATES
SECRET LOBBY AGENTS FOR M
 POWERFUL BAND

Baltimore, April 27.-Labor is the
 one interest that is not represented in the exclusive and powerful "Monday Lunch Club" located in the nations capital, says Frank R. Kent, Wash ington correspondent to the Ba1ti- more Sun The newspaper man prints the names and connections of the members who are lobbyists for big business. They represent every inter est. From them come many of the measures introduced in congress, and most of the last-ninute amendments that are tackled on to bills as they go through.
 'There are extremely few senators and representatives not affected one way or the other by these men," says the newspaper man, who states that lawmakers are subjected to constant pressure from them and are continu- ously on the defensive against them. "Of the 145 who have headquarters in Washington there are, perhaps, 45 or 50 who are really effective, with
 sufficient financial or voting strength
 back of them to compel consideration
 'They have formed themselves into what s called the Monday Lunch
 Club Ii is little known organiza- ton and 1t does not court publicity
 and it has had very little Yet it's members are, perhaps, the most inhu- ential group of men in the country. Their names are not we'll known. They are not interviewed by the newspapers and they stay and work largely in the background, and quiet ly. Few of them make public speech es and their pictures do not often ap pear in the public prints.
 "Ther club is not business or ganization. It is a social affair, run on friendly basis, and they meet once week at lunch. There are in cluded in it's membership the Stand ard Oil representative, the American farm bureau representative, the repre- sentatives of the coal interests, the leather interests, the beef interests, the railroads, the silk interests, the glove interests, the fertilizer interests, the cotton interests, the banking in terests, 'the wire interests, the steel interests, and a number of other simi- lar interests"
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-04-27
PLAN TEST OF
 UNION STRENGTH

A definite test of strength of the labor organizations of the railroads
 may be forthcoming in the not toe distant future if tentative plans or the part of some of the roads are car ried into effect. It is proposed, ac- cording to reliable information, that
 the carriers from whom the Brother hood of Clerks, Freight Handlers and Express and Station Employees are seeking a restoration of the old wage level of 1921 avail themselves of their privilege under the transportation act and demand a test vote to see wheth- CT these unions are really represen- tatiVe of the class of employees for whom they speak.
 On some of the railroads the com pany unions have largely superseded the national unions. The Labor Board rules procedure in such cases provide that the companies can call a ballot to determine how representa- tive the petftioning organizations are. In order to make it's claims valid a labor organization must show by such cent of the voting strength of that class>o of workers.
 The relative strength of the na- tional and the local unions differs with the various roads, but in some instances there is good reason for sup posing that the national organization has lost control. In addition to the clerks, who are of considerable inn portance because of their large mem bership, it is understood that the switchmen also are contemplating fresh wage demands. This union formerly was considered the~ most powerful of the non-train service or ganizations, but there have been heavy defections from its ranks in re- cent months. The train service broth erhoods are not expected to enter in to the present series of wage dis putes.
 Following the referendum among the employees the successful organ ization will name representatives to confer with the railroad heads. In case of the failure of such negotia tions the next move would be to pre- sent the case to the Labor Board for settlement.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-04-27
ROADS UNDER PROBE; |DON'TLIKE NEW PLAN

Washington, April 27.-Nearly 10 months after railroad shop men sus- pended work throughout the nation, the interstate commerce commission begins an inquiry into the condition of railroad equipment and manage ment generally. A questlonnolre has been forwarded to more than two score of the leading transportation systems. Some of the prominent an- ti-union roads are included. The shop men will be represented by their counsel, Henry Hunt, former mayor of Cincinnati and former public group member of the Railroad Labor Board
 The shop men say 1t is now poss1- ble to compare the condition of roads that have accepted the Baltimore agreement with roads that are main taining a lockout. The latter roads refused last September to accept a settlement proposed by President Harding.
 The anti-union Lehigh Valley is the first road to be probed~ The commits sion is acting under that portion of the transportation act which calls for "economical management" Some ot the hard-boiled managers and hnan- ciers are furious at what they term the commissions presumption" They are willing that the government guarantee them a fixed return, but they object to any investigation of the manner in which they spend money contributed through high freight and passenger rates.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-04-27
Court Aids Employers;
 Wage Farley Is Called

Washington, April 27.-The Nation al Women's Trade Union League has issued a call for a conference in this city on May 14 to find some means of stemming the tide of reductions in the salaries of women employees in the District of Columbia" following the nullihcation of the women's s minimum wage law by the supreme court of the United States.
 The invitation has been forwarded to trade unions, women's organiza- tions, fraternal bodies and labor off cia1s of many states.
 "As an immediate result of the de- cision of the supreme court, wages in some instances has been cut to $o, $8 and $o a week" the invitation states
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-04-27

arily suffice, but to add further proor | that the essential element in strike IS the intention to return to work we quote from a Supreme Court decision: In the common aCCeptation of the term 1t is not a strike for the work man of an employer to quit his em- ployment and go elsewhere, without any intention of returning, nor is 1t strike for workmen to refuse to enter into the employment of a par ticular contractor. A strike in such quitting work by body of workmen ployer to accede to some demand that they have made upon him, and which he has refused; but it is not strike for workmen to quit work, either singly or in a body when they quit without intention to return to the work whatever may be the reason that moves them so to do" (Unden vs. Schaeffer, I88 Pac. 3o5, D. 3o6, Supreme Court of Washington, 1o2o.)
 The duration of a strike in no way effects the rights of the workmen as to their recognition as being strikers, but frequently the claim is made that immediately the shops are manned by an equal number of workmen recruit ed since the beginning of the strike that the strike is ended, so in the case of the New Haven railroad strike, the officials declaring that since last Octo- Der the necessary number of men have been recruited to carry on the work hence strike no longer exists in their opinion, even though they have made frequent reference to this remaining of their shops they still gave recognition to the strike as late as last month when they requested that the injunction be made perman- ent by the court.
 For further proof that men who strike still retain a claim to their jobs is given in the decision of the Com missions who interpret the Compen- sation Laws. Assuming that an em- ploye has been at his place of em- ployment for several years and then joins with his fellow workmen Tn u strike and after lapse of time, upon the ending of the strike, returns to his work and shortly after his return Is injured so that payments for injury are made under the compensation laws Decisions have been frequent in just such cases and always the
 (Contiuued on Pace Fiphf
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-04-27
GOING ON STRIKE DOES NOT MEAN THE WORKER CEASES TO BE
 AN ENIPLOYE OF THE CONCERN
Legal Decisions of the Courts In a Number of Instances Prove Striker Is Still an Employe Even Though Not Actively Engaged
 at His Occupation.

Some weeks ago at a public hear ing held on the present railroad situation, particularly as it applied to the lockout of the former employees of the New Haven railroad, the ques- ton was asked if the speaker believed that a group of employees could quit the services of an employer as strikers and still lay claim to their former positions as work1nen of the company.
 To this we reply, with emphasis, yes, for the right to strike has been recognized by government, both fed eral and state, and the quitting of work simultaneously by the employees of a corporation, where the act Is in duced by desire to preserve or inn prove upon their working conditions by withholding their services from such employer until he conceded to their wishes is a movement wherein the laborer does not relinquish his claim to his job during such suspen- sion of work.
 We must for the sake of clarity distinguish between an employe quit ting his job and a group of employees striking, when a single person quits his work and so notifies his employer he forfeits all further claim to his job, but a group quitting together and suspending their services until such time as the causes for disagree ment are adjudicated is strike.
 Legal opinions are many on this subject and for brevity this from the 31 Yale Law Journal, page 321: "A strike is stoppage rather than an abandonment of work" gives us an definition of a strike that is clear cut, yet brief. Law books are many on this subject and the legality of the strike has been universally established in this country, to prove how general ly this recognition to strike IS given to workmen we will quote few ad ditional legal opinions.
 "The act of quitting work speci- fcally, such an act by body of workmen done as means of forcing compliance with demands made on their employer" (Longshore Print ing Co. vs. Howell, % Oregon 527,- 541.)
 "A combined effort among the workmen to compel the master to the concession of certain demand by preventing the conduct of his business until compliance with the demand Farmers L. & T. Go. vs. Northern Pacific Railway Co.,, Go Fed. 8o3,821.)
 The above definitions would ordin-
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-04-27
Has Connecticut Been Unprotected
 From Anarchy and Sabotage Frol,l The Very Beginning of Its History
New Steel Production Record Despite Labor
 Shortage Cry

New York, April 27.-The nerve of big biz is shown by Judge Gary's demand for more immi- grants at time when the steel in dustry has smashed all production records.
 More steel has been manufac- tured this year than during any like period, even during the stress of the war, when steel production forces were keyed to the highest pitch.
 Judge Gary and the controlled press ignores this fact while they would create the impression that the steel industry is falling to pieces because of a lack of un- skilled labor. The New York Times prints this Pittsburgh dis patch on the record production of steel:
 Steel production has increased continuously during the first three months of the year, and with March showing an average rate of 1ngot production of about 45, 5oo,oOo tons a year, the rate at the close of the month was prob ably above 46,ooo,ooo tons. The probability Is that the average rate, say from March to June inclusive, will be above 45,ooo, ,ooo tons, thus making the best showing for sus- talned production the steel indus try has ever recorded.
 "In calendar year the highest production during the war was 43,61o, 200 tons-in 1917; the high est production before the war was $3o, ,284 ,682 tons, in 1912, and the highest since the war, 4o,88I, 1902 tons, in 1920"
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-04-27
House Bill No. 864.
 State of Connecticut "Houce of +irac

|
 House of Representatives April l Judiciary reported through MT Buck
 ley of Union, Chairman of the Com
 mittee on the part of the House, that 1 the bill ought to pass.
 An Act Concerning the Advocation, Encouragement or Justification of Injury to Persons and to Public or Private Property. !! "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representative in Gen. eral Assembly convened: L 'Any person who shall, in public or private, either orally or in writing,
 printing or in any other manner, ad- vocate, encourage, justify, praise, in- injury to or destruction of any pub lie or private property or advocate, encourage, justify, praise, incite or
 solicit any assault upon any organiza- ton of the army of the United States, the national guard or the police force of this or any other state Or of any officers or member thereof, or the killing or injuring of any class or
 body of persons, or of any individual shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than ten years or both" .
 Of course this bill on its face ap- pears harmless enough, but what its interprettion may be by prosecuting officials antagonistic to the efforts of workers striving to better their con- ditions. The trouble at the present time IS not so much with the laws as they were originally intended, but with the false interpretations placed on their provisions by attorneys and the courts.
 The fact are, as Chief Justice Taft of the United States Supreme Court has pointed out recently, that econ omic ideas rather than legality have influenced court decisions and nulli- fled the will of the people. The or ganized worker Is just as anxious for orderly government as any class of citizens in the country, bar none, but experience has taught that it is wise to look askance at new legislation which on it's face indicates one thing but which may be interpreted in an entirely different manner.
 It seems decidedly strange that this state has managed to exist up to this time and only now 1t has been dis covered that 1t IS necessary to enact law such as this so-called Schleifer Bill. As matter of fact does not this movement to enact this law look like an attempt to blanket or cover up an abortive effort by a public official attempting to make his sweet will or his idea of economic necessity the law of the state, rather than the necessities of the public for adequate protection?
 There is a growing impression in the public mind that fewer rather than more laws are the necessities of the day And there Is no question but that the misinterpretation of the laws have added to this impression.
 The necessity for this law is claim ed to have been revealed as the re- suit of the decision of Judge Webb in the Superior Court when he decided in favor of a demurrer filed by At torneys Benjamin Slade and Thomas
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-04-27

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The Connecticut labor news., 1923-04-27
TO ORGANIZED LABOR

THE LABOR NEWS is your paper and it's advertisers de- pend on your support. Tell them you Saw It In The News and everyone will be happy.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-04-27
PUBLIC SAFETY DEMANDS THAT
 GREAT CARE SHOULD BE TAKEN
Every Test Should Be Applied to Make Sure New Law Cannot Possibly Be Construed By the Courts as Means of Further Curtailing
 the Liberties and Rights
 of the People.

Just what hoped accomplish by of bill now before the General Assembly, famlary known the Schefer B rather hard but promptly and universally dubbed with the title attached indicate that the public mind of States A. filling along the of former Russian Cars the of the Soviet leaders.
 The bill refer to
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-04-27
MILLER COMPANY WORKERS
 STRIKE AGAINST DEMANDS
 THEY CONSIDER VERY UNFAIR
Especial to The Labor News.) )

Especial to The Labor News.)
 Meriden, April 27-Monday night open meeting will be held hall of the Meden Central Labor Union sder the of the strike of the employees of the Edward Miller Co.,, manufacturers of electrical fixtures
 The workers claim that the company increased their hours 9 per day and demanded 10 hours production. The workers though could for this demand outo ons strike
 The organized workers of this recognized the justice of demands of those who defense of their rights and plan them every way possible in this fight for their rights
 Several speakers will be present and address the meeting and effort made perfect organization the strike.
The Arvada enterprise., 1923-11-22
To Eree, Memorial tome.

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members Of Ia" organization.