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The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-01
BY THE WAY
Comment and Criticism About Things Doing in
 the World:

The campaign will go on, in the effort to build up sentiment for the next congress; for nothing can be done prior to that time.
 It Is up to Labor, up to all lntelll- gent persons, to spread the truth and to save American standards and Americas future from this. proposed onslaught.
 Apparently the lash has been given it's death blow in Florida as the re- suit of nationwide abhorrence aroused by publicity.
 Advocates of this particular kind of brutality fought hard to preserve their slave pens, but in the end pub lie sentiment was too much.
 It was possible to get the facts be- fore the public in this case. It IS not so in every case of injustice Most persons rally to the standard of jus tice when they. understand the issues. If everyone in America could un7 derstand the truth about the steel mills, for example, conditions would be changed. But steel is more pow erful than the outof-the-Way prison slave camps of Florida.
 The truth makes man free only when the truth gets fighting chance. Truth locked up is of no avail. A strong labor press is the best friend industrial truth has. Let that moral, then, adorn this tale.
 Business is getting better,' the papers tell us every day. What does that mean? It means more production, more sales, more money turning over, day by day. In the midst of this the hard boiled ones yelp about cutting wages. The big business man who talks wage-cutting now Is man who, SO. cially speaking, is either crazy fool or has a homiciral mania. Suppose wages everywhere in America were cut 20 per cent today What would happen? In month the buying power of America would be SO shrunken that mills and fac tories on every hand would be shut 1 ting down. Blooey-we'd be in the middle of depression that would make 1929 look like a picnic. Prosperity can live only on good wages-good wages that keep getting better as production keeps on~ in creasing.
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The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-01
READ FEM AND WEEP!
A LULLABY

Former Vice-President Marshall expresses no very complimentary opinion of the nations lawmakers when he describes the Congressional Record as "the s1uiceway through which the fads, fancies, theories, ideas, and plans of wise men, cranks and fools personal and corporate, are run into the sea of oblivion" Yet the de scription has certain merits.-Chicago Daily News.
 GARY-LOUS
 The report of the committee on immigration of the National Associa- ton of Manufacturers contains a fall lacy, an omission and a misrepresen- tation of fact, all vital to the subject which 1t purports to discuss. The committees report, of course, does not reveal what is to be done in bad times with the alien labor it wants to let in now. Were the manufacturers themselves, instead of the whole com munity, to be charged with the slack time support of this much-wanted alien labor, it is to be suspected that they would be able to worry along without it.-Henry A. Wise Wood, in New York Times. ANOTHER SURPLUS
 For the past year much has been heard of labor shortage, following close on a winter of extensive unem- ployment.
 There has been a growing convic- ton, however, that the shortage has been rather commonly exaggerated The so-called shortage appears to have been the elimination of readily accessible surplus rather than an actual scarcity, with the exception oi a few trades and allings.-Industria Commissioner Shientag of New York
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-01

Girls! Use Jonteel Rouge-"Save the surface and you save all"
 Pluto Water-"Thirst knows no season"
 Nuxated Iron-"It floats"
 Ingersoll Watches-"Good to the last drop"
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-01

A new and interesting immigration propaganda comes to light in Pittsburgh. A Hungarian language publication, Szabadsag, having offices. in Chicago, New York, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Detroit, asks employers to join with 1t Ill its ''untiring efforts to convince our lawmakers, our social leaders, and the heads of our unions and the open shop advocates, to unite in a concerted ac- ton to lift the bars against immigra- tion"
 So, it's "anybody's fight" and they'd like to have all join i'll the effort to open the doors for millions of immigrants. Listen to the logic used i'll the letter: No immigration no labOrer, no laborer, no work; no work, no produc- tion, and no production means starva- tion"
 Now the only fault with that is that all production records are being broken right now without opening the door to the immigration flood.
 This Hungarian language publication may fairly be said to be looking out for the prospective immigrant instead of for the immigrants of the past who are now Ill this country.
 One of the things that would bring surest diseaster IS unlimited immigra- tion. An immigration flood means waiting lines at factory gates; wait ing lines mean reduced wages and reduced wages mean stagnation and depression.
 Szabadsag is not even, doing em- ployers real service, although many employers will rejoice in all immi- grafton propaganda.
 The "open shoppers" will be happy, but the unions have more wisdom and understanding.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-01


 friends of what it is pleased to call tree American labor," by which 1t means labor that is free to work for whatever the boss determines, can not but look with interest on the fact that one of the great political parties, according to the press is being urged to incorporate in its next platform a declaration in behalf of the open shop" Strange are the ways of the |propagandistsl
 Ii there is an effort to revive inter est Ill the recent attempt of Br1gadler- General Dawes, and one or two oth- CTS, to lntilCt upon the already over loaded republican party an issue as Iatal as the open snop'' issue, 1t prob ably IS doomed to failure. Since the president Ot the American Federation ot Labor has made clear to the Coun- try just what the Wage-earners would think ot such an lssue i'll the realm ot politics, the politicians have manifest ed a keen desire to leave that ques- ton severely alone. The New f ork N. A. M. convention IS not likely to prove powerful enough to induce any political party to premedltate self-ae- struction.
 There are among the members of the National Association of Manufac- turers, many honest, upright employ CTS, whose integrity IS beyond Ques- ton. The official proceedings ot the organization in its conventions, how ever, would be much more begtting to an organization which frankly stood before the public as National Asso- citation of Highbinders, or a National Association of UnprinCipled Prop |agandists.
 As to the childish assertion that the union shop rests upon a theory of force, monopoly and destruction, any attempt to characterize 1t would be much like applying tar brush to a coal pile on a dark night. The con duct of the trade union movement is always public. It can never be any thing else. Its conduct Is the best answer to the ravings of organized greed, as manifested in the recent convention of the organization ove1I which MT. John E. Edgerton presides in more or less pious dignity.
 It is forgivable for any employer to misunderstood the fundamental differ ences between the employment of union wage-earners and non-union wage-earners. Ii is forgivable for misinformed employer to even go so far as to insist upon the employment of unorganized wage-earners. If he is misinformed, he may some day be- come correctly informed. The unfor- givable thing is for an organization, formed purely in the interest of greedy reaction, to masquerade before the public as a pious brand of Chris ton brothers, seeking the moral up lift and the public welfare. A con of Manufactur CTS. is in the main one of the most perfect manifestations ex- tant of hypocrisy and undiulted bunk. The Congressional Mulhall N. A. M investigation is not yet forgotten.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-01
SEVENTEEN LABOR BANKS, WITH EIGHT MORE PLANNED, IS
 RECORD IN THREE YEARS

(By International Labor News Service) Washington D. C., With more than $6OOO-OOO,- 900 capital stock millions of deposits than comfortable and urplsse t~enyhree labor banks
  achieved in three
 Opening of the Federation Trust Company New York City marked the seventeenth labor bank doors for organized, their doors within the enextfe weeks
 The of labor banking has been almost phenomenal although marked by careful judgment and banking In labor banks differ from other banks three important  l. Stock held by trade unonis for few shares held by necessary experts 2 s limited to small preventing trol by small B. Dividends usually limited with surplus profits going de- posiors
 Here list of the banks labor banks which
  temptation
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-01

Do Not Forget That { WE DO JOB PRINTING.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-01

Year
 Estab- Banks in Existence. l1shed Mount Vernon Savings Bank, Washington, D. C. ..................... 1920 Brotherhood of Locomotive En- gineers' Cooperative, National Bank, Cleveland, Ohio\ ................ 1920 Peoples Cooperative State Bank Hammond, Ind. ................"........ 1921 *Empire Trust Co.,, N. Y............... Amalgamated Trust and Savings Bank, Chicago .............................. 1922 Philadelphia, Pa.........,..,......-...... 1922 Brotherhood Trust & Savings Bank, San Bernadino, Calif.................... 1922 Cooperative Bank and Trust Co.,, Tucson, Ariz. .............................. 1922 Federated Bank & Trust Co.,, Birm- 1ngham, Ala. ............................... l9AA First National Bank, Three Forks, Montana ,....................... 1922 Brotherhood Cooperative National Bank of Spokane, Wash. ........... >-- Federation Trust Co.,, New York City - Commonwealth Mutual Savings Bank, Milwaukee, Wis. ................ 1915 Transportation Brotherhoods Ma tional Bank, Minneapolis, Minn.. 1923 A1nalgamated Bank of New York, N '. C. 1923 Brotherhood Savings & Trust Co.,, Pittsburgh, Pa. ............................ 1923 Brotherhood of Railway and Steam ship Clerks, Cincinnati, Ohio........ 1923 Banks Projected:
 National Bank, St. Louis, Mo.................... 1923 Fraternity Trust Co.,, Harrisburg, Buffalo, N. Y. Cincinnati, Ohio ..........,................... - Paterson, N. J. .............-............... - Transportation Brotherhood's Ma tional Bank, Minneapolis.......... - Port Huron, Mich. .......................... - Locomotive Engineers Co-opera- tive Trust Co.,, New York City. - International Ladies' Garment Workers, N. Y. C........................... - Federated State Bank, N. Y. C.... -
 Opening of the Federation Trust 1oh New Work attended hv
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-01

Opening Trust Company the bank owned by in York; depoitors
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-01
Paintings Come to Life In Superb
 PhOtOplay
Novel Effect Created by Herbert Brenon in Picture, The
 Rustic of Silk"

Bringing paintings to life!
 That IS the feat Herbert Brenon accomplished in filming The Rustic of Silk" his initial Paramount picture featuring Betty Compson and Conway Tearle, which comes to the Rialto Theatre all next week.
 The producer wished to introduce a small historical retrospect into the action. For this purpose he chose two of the loveliest of Fragonard's $ Louis XIV paintings and literally brought them to life on the screen.
 One of these paintin gs shows a beauty of the period reposing in a swin gin an exquisite garden of that day; the second is called La Lecture, ' and pictures a young gallant of the day reading to the lady of his heart.
 Brenon and his scenarists develop ed a small play-within-a-play from these two paintings, with Betty Compson and Conway Tearle in the chief roles- Every detail of both pie lures was exactly reproduced before the camera, including the formal gar den and the lavish costumes.
 To carry. out the illusion of bring ing the paintings to life, the camera man resorted to an intricate photo- graphic process, whereby the specta- tor first Sees the original painting, and then this dissolves into the same picture people with the actors, but retaining the frame which encircled the original painting. The entire eff feet is of the people of the picture coming to life and moving about on the screen. "The Rustic of Silk" is the story of a humble daughter of the people who falls in love with a great statesman, who subsequently, becomes prime minister of England. The girl is the great-granddaught of French noblewoman, and Brenon's historical cut-backs not only add to the beauty of the picture, but are of dramatic value to the finished photoplay. :
New Britain herald., 1923-02-17
FUNDING BILL PASSED

All people of this country except
those who allow their hatred of Eng
land to cloud their sound judgment
will be glad that the debt funding
bill, containing the plan proposed by
an American commission and agreed
to by England. has been passed. The
discussion of it gave an opportunity
to air grievances against that nation
which have nothing to do with the
wisdom or folly of agreeing to this
arrangement, but the final vote of 20
to 10 indicates fairly well the popular
feeling in favor of reaching an agree
mcnt that will do much to make
peaceful discussion of other matters
In Europe more possible, and which
will give confidence to business of this
country. Whatever one may think of
England and English'nen personally,
it is good to know that the two great
business nations OF the world have
met and settled their business trans
actions in way that should be an
example TO the rest of the world.
New Britain herald., 1923-02-17
A WELL.DEsERyED REST.

To all men the law of compensa.
ton applies. AS we deserve reward
| so are we rewarded. A well-spen'
life bears fruit in inner satisfaction
the rejoicing OF the heart. reward
with which no other can compare.
When Z. H. Dawson resigned from
the presidency of the American
Hosiery Company Thursday hes had
the satisfaction of looking back with
an easy conscience and knowing that
he had done we'll by the company
in whose ranks he enlisted ffty-four
years ago and by the army of en-
ployes who have given their share
of service to the common end that
the enterprise might flourish.
Mr.. Dawson has not retired. His
fine mind is still needed to help
direct the ship of business along its
course. He is still member of the
board of directors His experience
and judgment are at the command
of those whose money is invested in
the company. He will not be SO
active in it's management, as in the
past, but it is reassuring to the stock
holders to know that they can call
upon him for advice and that it will
be forthcoming.
When a man has devoted more
than half century to any single
enterprise he may be pardoned for
asking to be excused from further
responsibilities of the daily grind. He
is justified in asking that younger
shoulders take over the burden. Mr.. |
Dawson has pursued this course and |
while the younger men in the organi-
zation were loath to have him step !
aside, they gladly marched into the
breach
Mr.. Dawson expects to enjoy a |
well-earned rests His associates, The |
Herald and other friends express the |
hope that his days will be filed with !
his evenings with the glory |
of beautiful sunsets and his nights
with restful slumber that comes to [
men who have worked hard.
New Britain herald., 1923-02-17

business conditions 20 he per cent
above hoFmals-'o the seed condition
Of business and industry in New Eng
land,
II is interesting TO note that Bah-
sens predictions, made when We were
in the midst Of the great depression,
are coming true, tie said Ions ago
that as the depression hil New Ehg-
land before il touched other parts Of
the country, New England would he
the first 10 recover, Ills personal in'
vesliga,ians Of the different parts Of
the country. which he is now conduct
ing, show that New ENGLAND has been
the first section 20 recover, And OF
more interest still practically speak
ing, is the experts procurement
that the demand for Connecticut
hardware SHOULD be very great for
some years to come" Statements such
as this, coming from man Of Mr.,
Babson's international reputation, Is
the hest sort of advertising this state
can receive. and is OF especial value
TO this city.
Another bit OF advertising Mr., Bah
son gives-and II must be remember
ed that his statements are read all
over the eountry--is that New Eng
land Is fast becoming the great sum
mer playground of the United states
--as people go 10 Florida and Cali
fornia in the winter. they visit New
England in the summer"
A little human touch Is given the
statement by his quoting
Ford who pays New England the
compliment OF saying that although
he expects TO sell more OF his cheaper
cars In some sections OF the country,
and more OF the more expensive ones
In other sections, he expects TO sell
more OF both in New England, thus
that the prosperity of this
section. in Ford's opinion. is not con-
fined to any particular class OF peo-
Pile.
New Britain herald., 1923-02-17
WILL xor NE FORGOTTEN.

Grover Cleveland Rergioll simply
will not be forgotten, Just as the
thisy American people. attending "a
their own business, get TO the point
of hanishing him from their MEM
cries along with other disagreeahlc
things about which something ought
TO be done" Ne perpetrates some
ne@ thing which makes MS ashamed
of ourselves for forgetting him.
/ II this habit of forgetfulpess were
merely casual or occasional II would
not be important. We might even
feel that Bcrgdoil. out OF the eoun-
try was satisfactorily placed. But
forsetfulness Is not casual and ocea-
sional. II is getting TO be rather a
characteristic Of the people and IL IL
becoming more pronounced as life
activities increase. We have too
many things pressing us for attcn-
ton to spend time keeping reminded
Of matters about which. we feel. we
can do nothing. Were II not for this
habit of forgetfulness. inehicieney In
office would be remembered on cleo
ton days: our judgment would not
be clouded by the --latest achieve
ments" OF men with the result that
we would forget other deeds, not
achievements" of theirs in the past.
1t would be well IL we would remem-
Der the things of today and by them
be guided when we act tomorrow.
This time the rumor OF Bergdoll is
concerning his reputation of an en-
gagement contract. the matter hav-
ing been settled, according to report,
by a monetary transaction. Quite
like him, of course. And, incidentally
1t might be well to begin our habit |
of remembering, by remembering the
affair of Bergdoll and the little bill |
he has to settle with this country.
New Britain herald., 1923-02-17
Member Auait le.ese or circulation
rInEMEN INJURED

Note is made OF the fact that two
officials of the fire department were
painfully injured at fire early yes
terday morning. not because there Is
anything remarkable about the pain
full injuring OF fremen. fighting fire In
bitter cold weather under most disad-
yantageous conditions, but rather be-
cause there is,..in fact. nothing re-
markable about'the 'l'ineident." Fire
men feel that It is n fifty-ffty chance
whether or not they will be injured
each time they answer an alarm.
Taking those dangerous chances Is
part Of their work. They take those
chances willingly.
But 1t is worth while. especially at
this time. to call attention to the fact
that these men might have been killed
instead of being painfully injured"
Firemen may be killed any day. 1t Is
worth while for people who hear an
alarm about four o'clock of cold
winter morning, turn over in bed and
complain, perhaps. because they have
been disturbed in their sleep-it is
worth while for such people to remem-
Der that the ringing of that alarm
means the firemen of the city on duty
will not turn over in bed" not COM
plain" but will go out into the cold
to do the work they expect to do
in which. quite possibly, they may
find death waiting for them. Such
thought. by people who do not have to
take those chances, may convince
them that they would not care to be
in the fremen's shoes even If there
were but one fire year-since that
one fire might bring danger. And such
thought might make people a little
backward about standing on the
street corner and shouting against
the two.platoon system, or shouting
for cut in the pay of the firemen.
New Britain herald., 1923-02-17
ARoYs, COURT

There is a great deal more to the
matter of the Boys Court which is to
be operated again this year in the
Boys Club, than appears at first
thought. OF course the idea of the
boys hearing other boys in their pleas
to be excused for committing some
small offense within the jurisdiction
of the court, is intriguing and inter-
esting. The picture of boy sitting
in Judgment on another and discharg-
ing or sentencing him appeals to
everyone at all interested in boys. All
will say it is a splendid idea, capable
of much good.
But the intensely important part of
the whole affair is the success or
failure of the venture, not the JUS
tice or injustice of the judgement in
one particular case. The sentence will
never be severe enough to be serious;
no great harm would be done if one
or two boys who deserved the censure
of the court escaped punishment But
II is important that the boys be allow
ed to learn by experience how much
more satisfactory life will be in their
small world II justice prevails. than
II citizens of that boys world are al
lowed to do about as they please.
And the only way they may learn this
SO that they will never forget it is by
oEactical experience.
The judgment of the bays' court
will be wrong in many cases. A popu-
lar boy will be treated more leniently
than an unpopular lad. A strong lad
will probably get off lightly where
little chap may be given "the limit" If
he transgresses. Those wrongs will
come in this boys world just as they
come in the world of the grown-up
boys. But the court must not be
discontinued for all that. There may
be chaos in that boys world for a
while, but the reform should be al
lowed to come because the boys see
that Justice is necessary-that the
weak boy must be treated as fairly az
the bully who. because of his strength
Is able to punish those who punished
him.
The Boys Court will be a great
success If the boys are. allowed to dis
cover the great value of malice to-
ward none and charity for all''-and
discover 1T through practical expert
ence in seeing the failure of q world
conducted on any principle other than
equal right for ALL
New Britain herald., 1923-02-17

selves aEe eoReeraed-hot At all no in'
yesiigalion that Is real inyesiiga'
ton viii be allowed,
There might be no wrong in inVes-
tigating the actions OF the foreign
diplomats provided congress itself had
"elean hands" but as the present en-
foreement law is administered. and as
congress is acting, there is being bred
a group OF politicians even more
hypeeritieal than the politicians Of
the past, Enforce The law, II you
mean business, gentlemen, by begin
ming a, home, un.il you do that and
stop patroniEing TIE beotleegers as
some Of you are deins, yon make
Yourself ridiculous and despieahle by
turning your attention TO the emily
people living in'this country who are
allowed TO have liauor at all,
New Britain herald., 1923-02-17
"THE OTHER FELLOW

Members Of Congress go on attend.
ing to the personal business of 'tht
other fellow" with great gusto. A
really amusing dispatch comes fropI
Washington as follows: AN inquiry
into the importation of intoxicating
liquors by foreign diplomats was or
dered today by the house by vote
of 1so to 49,"
Certainly members of Congress, 1ss
of them, want to look into this ter
rible matter as to whether or not the
diplomats are doing funny things with
the liquor they are allowed to have.
Probably these fs9 members would
favor an Investigation Of physicians.
druggists or anyone selse-except
themselves. Eut as far as they them