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The Connecticut labor news., 1923-07-06

IL IS d 1dlI dSSuIllpllOH lIdI tnS
 average home in America in 1920 pos sessed three times the things that the home in 1900 had, says MT. Barnes,
 who continues:
 You may check this roughly by your own observation of the recent increase in bathrooms, plumbing, Iphonographs, telephones, automobiles, and the thousands of things that add to the comfort of the people. So the very colume of our own production Is in itself the most convincing proof that that earning power Is most widely distributed, and the buying power which rests on 1t Is more wide ly distributed than the world has ever seen, because manifestly if wealth were concentrated in the hands of a wealthy few, no such volume of goods could be manufactured and marketed in this country"
 MT. Barnes makes a spirited at- tack on the theory that limiting of production means more work for the wage earners and declares that it has been demonstrated beyond a doubt that production itself by it's economy and the security of it's earn | ing power which 1t itself creates, has vastly enlarged the area of common possession and thus greatly raised the general standard of common living. He says:
 Abroad, we find the old, falfacious theory that there is only so, much work to be done; that by limitation on individual effort 1t can be divided among more wage earners and fur nish more wage payment thereby. And we see distinct slackening of the advance in common possession and of the common living in Europe which we have stimulated here" | MT. Barnes says that the limiting Iof-production theory IS the hardest thing in the world to combat unless there is a. living, vital illustration of
 the effect of the other theory. This illustration is given today, he adds, 1 by American full employment and
 relative prosperity under its own pc i culiar production prosperity. lie continues:
 "The effect of this is most marked
 in that industry which does not occur
 to you as a highly mechanized one, | that of agriculture. The census of the United States shows that in the 20 years from 1900 to 1920 the num- ] Der of workers in agriculture de creased by I,7oo, ,ooo-I,7oo, ,ooo fewer workers in American agriculture Tn 1920 than in 1900. Yet in that time the standard production of farm crops increased 20, 30, 40 per cent. In the pre-war year of 1913, for instance, the five cereal crops aggregated four and a half billion bushels; in 1929
 they aggregated five and a quarter billion.
 'The wheat crop of today requires by careful estimate the expenditure of seven million days labor, but that
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-07-06

come, after many generations, when democracy-the control of the com mon people, as they call it-is going to be steadily established without a revolution It will be, established through the operation of parliament tary procedure and by power of the ballot box. I want the labor party to be party of brains and character"
 Labor leaders, Mcdonald among them, are already looking to the next general election, which, they believe, will be the most important in English history-so far as labor is concerned They predict that if labor continues at it's present. stride, England will have a labor government in three years.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-07-06

Do Not Forget That We Do
 JOB PRINTING.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-07-06
FORCE NO SOLUTION.

Cheyenne, Wyo., July 7.-In a speech in this city President Harding acknowledged that the administration erred when it put guards around mines during the last mine strike in the belief that miners would dig coal
 The mine operators insisted that under law enforcement they could produce al 1.-the coal that was need ed, said the President
 "The law enforcement was provided, but no coal was produced. There can be no coal mining in free Amer ica under force of arms"
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-07-06
Barnes Sustains Plea
 That High Wages Are Due American Workers
President of U. S. Chamber of Commerce Finally Admits the Workers Right to Living Income That Has Been Denied Them By Those
 Who Have No Love For Labor.
By International Labor News Service.

Washington steadily
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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-03-03
GARVEY|S|M IS MENACE
preston News Service)

Pittsburgh, Pa, Feb. 15.-The cali
ing OF f.. Y. Clarke, of the ku klux
khan, to New York City to testify be
fore the grand jury in connection with
the relations of the Garvey movement,
to the khan; the murder of Rev. ]. E.
Eason on the eve of his departure to
testify against Garvey; the failure OF
the Black Star Line; the failure of the
Garvey printing enterprise; Garvey' ;
arrest by the government officials on
a charge of using the mails to defraud
Garvey's martial troubles, etc, as wei;
as the general dissatisfaction ano un-
rest his activities have stirred up
among the uneducated Negroes
throughout the country all contribute
to make Garveyism one of the great
est menaces to the Negro race Inls
country has ever experienced.
Garveyism is the exact counterpart
among Negroes in America of the IN
klux khan among white people. 1t is a
serious menace and a dangerous prac-
tice for the ultimate future peace OF
the races.
Both of these ill-timed movements
are in their essence an appeal to preju
dice and unbridled passion. and il
/ permitted to go unchecked will result
In horrifying racial conflict.
The Garvey movement inculcates a
spirit of race hatred. distrust violence
and revenge. 1t creates false impress
sion in the minds of white people as to
the real aims and purposes of Negroes
who are striving. earnestly, honestly
and sanely for the betterment of condi
tions among Negroes and between the
races in this country.
Garveyism must be checked at ali
hazards because it is an evil propa-
ganda sowing the seeds of bitter rae
ial antagonism and strife.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-03-03
CLEARS HOTEL OF SHOES.
Woman Revenges Herself on ClerT
by Taking Every Pair i'm Sight.

Paris, Feb. 15.-Strategic efforts OF
jealous woman to trace her faithless
spouse upset the entire clientele of a
Montmartre hotel this morning ami
gave mOmentary thrill to the neigh
bors.
Unable to obtain information from
the hotel clerk, the angry wife feignetl
illness and sent the clerk to a plfarm.
acy for medicine. When the clerk re.
turned the woman had disappeared
but in her place stood an irate client
demanding the whereabouts Of his
shoes. which he had placed outside the
door for the valet. Mounting with the
indignant client. the clerk was startled
to find all the shoes in all the CORR
doris missing The deDunciation of the
guest aroused the remainder of tho
sleeping occupants and fifteen voices
were added to the melee.
Under the menace of bootless clie7
tie the clerk summoned the proprieto,
The latter succumbed to threats and q
moment later the startled Montmar
trois saw procession of Is stocking
footed men and women conducted
along the street by the weli-show bu,
grooming hotel owner. The procession
entered shoe store. where they were
outfitted at the hotels expense. They
proceeded to the police station to lodge
a complaint against the unknown We
man.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-03-03
NATIONWIDE NEGRO CONFER.
ENCE CALLED APRIL 10.
Beginning the Week of April 18th.
Ending April 29th-and Goth Ami
versary of Ex-Slaves Con-
vention and Street Parade.
Editor Mitchell. Jr.,
Richmond Planet.
Washington, ID. c.,

February IA, 1928.
Dear Friend:-You are hereby re-
quested to eject or appoint five or ten
members OF your organization to repre-
sent you at the Nationwide Negro
Conference to be held at the Cosmo-
pOlitan Institutional Baptist church n.
street between 9th and 10th. n. W..
Washington, ID. c. Beginning the week
of April 10th. extending through the
18th day. making total twelve day
conference.
The object Of this conference Is TO
devise ways and II cans of aiding .he
100000 Negroes who are planning
to leave the South, the 10000 900 Of
the United States and the 4OO. OOO, 900
or darker races scattered throughout
the earth. There Is a nation wide I'M
rest among the darker races Of the
earth and the coming together in tn -
conference of our leading people and
organizations is the only way to re-
lieve the situation during this present
and serious strain. Editors. appeals
are made to all ministers bishops,
lawyers, doctors, and public school
teachers.
Sunday School Y. NJ. c. A., Y. w. C.
A.. Epworth Leagues. Editors, Chris
tiau Endeavor Societies, Urban Leag-
ues; Such Organizations as the Nation
al Baptist Convention Inc.) the Nat.
ional Baptist Convention Unincorporat
ed. Membership 10000 Bethel A.
NJ. E. Connection. (600.000) Zion A.
NJ. E. Connection 600,O00;) C. M. f.
Connection 600 0O0) Presbyterians
(100000) EpfscopIaians (75,O0O; }
Lutherans (50.000;) the Shriners; Ma
sons, Odd Fellows; Knights OF Pytli-
ians; knights Of Jerusalem; Elks;
Moses; Good Samaritans; ST. Lukes;
Chaldeans; Woodmen Of the World !;
National Races Congress; National AS
ISOLATION for the Advancement OF Col.
ored People, and National Equal
flights League of America.
Negro Universal Improvement Asso-
citation Lincoln Political League: Ne
gro National Press Association: Bows
Scouts; Big Brother and Big Sister
Movement.
This conference is called under the
Joint auspices Of the National Minis
ters EvangHlistical Alliance of Ameri-
en-. the National Henderson C fviI
Right Leagues, the White Cross Free
Labor Bureau Of America and Minis.
ters and Deacons Union. DIR. Simon p.
w. Drew. president Rev. r d. Bolts.
secretary. The Ministers and Deacons
Union of the District of Columbia. Rev
bishop Isaiah P. Brooks. president.
III you are minister preach it in
the pulpit Sunday; If you are lawyer
or doctor tell your clients or patients
or If you have a lodge tell it in your
meetlng; II you ar q merchant or Ia
oorer tell 1t on the job. spread the
news from person to person.
For further information write or
phone DR.. Simon p. w. Drew. Chair.
man OF the Committee of Arrange
ment; Rev. Isaiah Brooks, Of Transpur
tatlon; Rev. r. ID. Bolts. General Sec
rotary; Rev. john H. Stephenson
Field Secretary; Main Office. 921 N.
Street, N. w., Branch 1917 CorcoraL
Street. N. W.. Phone North 1908.
Very truly yours,
REV. SIMON P. w. DREW.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-03-03
CHINA IS ADVANCING
(Crusader Service.)


New York, Feb. 15.-Julean Arnold.
Commercial Attache of the Bureau OF
Foreign and Domestic Commerce at
Pek1ng, China. was the guest Of honor
at luncheon of the American Manu-
facturers Export Association held at
the Whitehall Club, II Battery Place,
yesterday. Mr.. Arnold who has spent
twenty years in China spoke on the
subject What is Happening in China
and told of the financial soIvency oil
the Far East and the business oppor-
tunlties open to America there. Tire
factory chimney now vies with the
pagoda for place in China's sun, the
speaker said. In spite of political dis
turbances, China's foreign trade is ad
vancing.
the salient facts regarding China's
trade brought out by Mr.. Arnold were
the following: China is not overpopu-
lated. Shanghai at the mouth of the
Yangtze Valley, has population O.
l 100000 and will probably become
the largest city of the world. West
China with a population of 100. OOO,-
600 is without one mile Of railway or
even Ford car Modern reinforced
concrete structures. however. are
Swinging up by the scores throughout
the industrial centres. which are now
being equipped with the latest machin
ery for silk and cotton mills, flour
mills. and other industrial plants. s1O0
OOO 600 has been spent In Shanghai
the last two years in modern building
and factory construction.
American trade with China has in
creased fourfold during the past TWEEN.
~ years and now is equivalent to
about 100000, 900 in imports and ex.
ports. China is financially safe. as the
country has never departed from n
specie basis and has not during the
teriod or the war or since. suffered
from an inflated currency. It's per
capita foreign debt is about $3.50
winch. compartG with that of other
nations, is very low. specially so i'm
light of China's resources in man pow
er and materials
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-03-03
AFRICAN PRINCE ASTOUNDED
AT MORAL LAXITY IN L. s.
preston News Service)

Chicago, Ill. Feb. 23.-While spent
ing a short visit in this city last week
Prince Bulawa Cetewayc commented
in part as follows on American ways
and moral standards: 81 think your
American standards of moral are too
loose. l have observed this in both
races here. Maybe these women you
call flappers are responsible. We do
not have them in our country. My coun
try is almost as thoroughly civilized
as America. Most Zulus go to church
on Sunday. And morally they are the
finest people in the world. Commercial
lied vice is unknown. In parts of Afri
ca where such conditions exist. they
are the products of the Anglo-Saxon. -
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-03-03
IGNORING FREEDOM

Du Bots cares not for an Empire for
Negroes, but contents himself with BIO
ing secondary part of white civiliza-
ton. We Of the Universal Negro I'M.
provement Association feel that the
greatest service the Negro can render
to the world and himself at this time
is to make his independent contribu-
ton to civilization. For this the mil
lions Of members of the Universal Ne
gro Improvement Association are
working. and it is only a question OF
time when colored men and women
everywhere will hearken to the voice
in the wilderness even though Du
Bots impugns the idea of Negro liber
alton.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-03-03
1877 MIDDIES DROPPED.
Required to Resign for Failure in
Recent Examinations.

Annapolis. Md, Feb 13.---One hun
dred and fifty-seven midshipmen were
found so deficient in the recent semi
annual examinations at the Naval Acad
envy that they have been compelled to
resign and ten have been dropped
back into a lower class. It was an.
nounced today at the academy.
One hundred and fifty-eight other
middies who were deficient to more
minor degree. will remain in their re-
spective classes, further continuance
in the service being dependent, upon
the outcome of the annual examina-
tions in May.
AS is usually the case. the majority
OF those who "flunked" are OF thu
Fourth or "plebe" class. the total be.
ing 90. ~ lyT7v
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-03-03

Negro Improvement Association and
Black Star Line and Marcus Garvey
that we will not consider his attacks
on the Black Star Line seriously. He
lied before in reference to this corpor.
alton and had to swallow his vOmi,.
He has lied again, and we think a
statement Is quite enough to dispose
OF him in this matter.
This envious, narrOw-minded man
has tried In every way to surround
the Universal Negro Improvement AS
ISOLATION and Marcus Garvey with sus
picion. He has been for long time
harping on the membership OF the Uni
versal Negro Improvement AssOciat-
ION as to whether we have millions Of
members or thousands. He is interest,"
ed because he wants to know whether
these members are all paying dues or
not in that he will become very inter-
ested in the financial end of it. as
there would be lot of money avail
able. Du Bots does not know that
whether the Universal Negro Improve
ment Association had money or not
he wouldn't have the chance of laying
his hands OH 1t i'm that there are very
few leaders that we can t:ust ~.
dollar and get the proper change
This Is the kind Of leadership that the
Universal Negro Improvement Associ-
alton is about tC destroy for tho bui:d
ing up of that which is self-sacrific-
ing; the KIM Of leadership that will
not hate poor people because they are
poor, as Du Bots himself tells us he
does. but kind of leadership that
will make itself poor and keep itself
poor so as to be better able
to interpret the poor in their
desire for general uplift. He
hates the poor. Now, what kind OF o
leader is he? Negroes are all poor
black folk. They are not rich. They are
not white; hence they are despised By
the great professor. What do you
think about this logic this reasoning,
professor? You have been to Berlin
Harvard and Fisk; you are educated
and you have the Technique of civil.
lfzation."
THE FAILURE OF A CRITIC
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IAN WITH PATCHED HEART Is
SAID TO BE RECOVERING.

Atlanta. Ga. Feb. 21.-Gienn Free
man, whose life is said to have been
saved by remarkable operation Mon
day night at the Grady hospital, is
said to be recovering. The surgeons, it
is said. sewed up bad knife wound
In the right ventricle. The heart was
lifted out of the normal position and
five stitches taken. SO delicate was the
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-03-03

Du Bots haips upon the failure o:
other Negroes but he fails to inform;
the public OF his own failures. In his
fifty-five years Du Bots has made SUI.
cess OF nothing personal. In all his
journalistic, personal and other bust
ness efforts he has failed. and were II
not for Mary White Ovington Moor.
field Storey Oswald Garrison Willard
and Spingarn, Du Boia no doubt
would be eating his pork chops from
the counter OF the cheapest restaurant
In Harlem like many another Negro
graduates of Harvard and Fisk.
TEST OF EDUCATION AND
ABILITY
When 1t comes to education AMI
ability. Carney would like to be fair to
Du Bots in every respect Suppose for
the proof Of the better education and
ability Carney and Du Bots were ais.
mantle and put aside all they
possess and were placed in the
same environment to start life over
fresh for the test or the better man:
What would you say about this. doc
tor? Marcus Carney is willing now be
cause he Is concefted enough to he.
ifeve that in the space OF two years he
would make YOU look like tramp in
the competitive rivalry for higher
place In the social. economic world.
Let not our hearts be further
troubled over Du Bots, but let fifteen
million Negroes of the United States
of America and the millions of the
West Indies South and Central Ameri
ca and Africa work toward the glori-
GUS end of an emancipated race and q
redeemed motherland.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-03-03

operation that the surgeon was COM
PEELED to frequently replace the mans
heart in his body so that its regular
movement might be regained.
Glenn was stabbed by his sweet
heart just before midnight Monday at
Houston and Butler streets. She is said
to have plunged the knife into his
heart following q quarrel.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-03-03
SUPPORT FOR MOVEMENT

Let all members, divisions ann
friends Of the Universal Negro I'M
provement Association organize the
more to support this great cause NOR
ally and financially. If this is done.
and Fundamentally. we need not fear
the result even though thousand Du
Boises rave.
With the very best wishes for your
success I have the honor to be
Your obedtent servant
MARCUS CARNEY.
Universal Negro Improvement Asso-
citation. New York, February 13,
1923.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-03-03
RIVAL CARNIVAL COMPANIES
HAVE TROUBLE.
preston News Seryice)

New Orleans, La. Feb. 20-Mardi
Gras was too much for two rival carri
val organizations here last Thursday
night when members of the two groups
met on an uptown street and trouble
started resulting in a shooting affray.
Miss Irma Chenault aged IL years,
was struck by stray bullet and one
of the combatants was shot by a police
man.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-03-03
MARCUS CARNEY FLAYS DR.. DUBOIS AND
BRANDS HIM AS A Halter Of DARK PEOPLE,
IN SCORCH|NG REPLY To CENTURY ARTICLE
Continued from Page ID

der that the trudite Doctor keeps a
French beard. Surely that is not typi-
cal OF Africa; it is typical of that blood
which he loves SO well and which he
bewails in not having more in his
veins-French.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-03-03
THE MAN WHO LIES.

Du Bots is such liar when It comes
to anything relating to the Universal
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-03-03

or less clearly that the problem of tue
American Negro is very different
from the problem OF the South Afri-
can Negro or the problem OF the Niger
ian Negro or the problem Of the South
American Negro. We have not hishcr-
to been so clear as to the way in
which the problem of the, Negro in
the United States differs from the prop
lem of the Negro in the West Inoiss.
For a long time we have been told
and we have believed. that the race
problem in the West Indies, and parti.
cularly in Jamaica, has virtually been
settled"
Now Du Bots speaks of this settle
ment OF the problem of the race in
the West Indies and Jamaica with 4
great deal OF satisfaction. What kind
of settlement is it? Du Bots know.
we'll. but he is not honest enough TO Il 1
NIT it, because he himself visited ia
maica and saw the situation there,
wherein an arrangement has been ef-
fected whereby the white man is elc.
waited to the highest social and econom
ic heights and between him is social
lily and economically elevated the mn
latto type of Du Bots, and beneath
them both is the black man. who Is
crushed to the very bottom sociary
and econmically.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-03-03
THE NEGRO PROBLEM

AS proof of the intention underly-
ing the National Association for the
Advancement OF Colored People we
will quote from Du Bots himself. He
states in his article:
I'VE think Of our problem here as
THE Negro problem. but we know moro
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-03-03
SETTLEMENT OF THE
PROBLEM

Du Bots regards this as settlement
of the problem in the West Indies and
Jamaica. Now this is the kind Of a
settlement that he and the National
Association for the Advancement o.
Colored People want in America. anu
they have not been honest enough to
come out and tell us so that we
might act accordingly. This is why Du
Bots bewails the black blood in his
veins. This Is why he regards Marcus
Garvey and the Universal Negro I'm
provement Association as impossible
This is why he calls Marcus Carve,
"black and ugly" But while this set
Element in Jamaica and the West In
sies satisfies Du Bots and probably
would satisfy him in America he
must realize that the fifteen million
COLOR ed people IN tn. United States OIL
Ana do not de: sire such a settle
meni: that outside If himself and a
halfdozen men of his school Of
thought, who make up the Executive
OF the National Association for the All
vancement Of Colored People the ma.
jority Of Negroes are not studying him
and his solution Of the problem. bu -.
all OF us colored people of whatsoeve:
hue are going to fight together fol
the general upbuilding of the Negro
race. so that in the days to come we
may be able to look back upon our
effOrt with great pride. even as others
worse positioned than ourselves have
struggled upward to their present So
cial. economic and political standln.
among races and nations.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-03-03

THE FAILURE OF A CRITIC