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The Connecticut labor news., 1923-12-29
HENDERSON HITS
 BACK AT BARDO
 WITH BOTH FISTS
Shopmen's Official Charges New Haven Road Manager Is
 Wrecking System.

Robert Henderson, secretary of System Federation Y of the railroad shop crafts did not let, General Man ager Bardo of the New Haven road get away unscathed with his attack on MT. Henderson as published broadly through New England last week. MT. Henderson this week came back with an equally caustic reply some of the high spots of which are as follows: -
 tI just wish to say that the strike of the shopmen never was as much alive since uly I, 1922, as 1t is just now. The management know and are now realizing that the shopmen have them licked to a standstil They are now making frantic changes in off, cialdom of the mechanical department under the guise of improved service which will not materialize. The changes being made, in my opinion, and in the opinion of many others, that 1t is Mr. Bardo's last dying at-- tempt to make his own position se- cure for while longer. Believe me, if as he (Bardo) says that the strike is thing of the past, there Is great big white ghost of that strike hover ing over the New Haven, and it can't be shaken off. Itis just now reaching its harvest of officials ,and before the
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The Connecticut labor news., 1923-12-29
STATE LABOR DEPT. HEADS ATTENDING
 LABOR LAW MEET
Mackenzie and Deputy Burke Go to Washington For Con-
 ference

Harry E. Mackenzie, commissioner of labor and factory inspection, and John J. Burke, deputy commissioner of labor, have been appointed by Governor Templeton delegates from Connecticut to the annual conference of the American Association for La bor Legislation, swhich is being held in the Hotel Willard, Washington, December 27, 28 and 2o. The asso- ciation meets in conjunction with the American Economic Association, the American Statistical Association, and the American Sociological So- ciety.
 The Association for Labor Legisla- ton is responsible for the American Seamen Act and many other laws. In conjunction with the other socie- ties mentioned it has available infor- nation on labor conditions which would be almost impossible to get otherwise.
 Thomas L. Chadbourne of New York is preside,ct and Henry w. Farnham of New Haven Is honorary president.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-12-29
MEXICAN LABOR FEDERATION IS
 WITH OBRECON
Send Message to Gompers Setting
 Forth Their Loyalty to the ..-. Government k-

Organized Labor in Mexico is steadfastly behind its government, even as Labor in the, United States was behind the government in the World War regardless of political af1liation, according to messages sent to the American Federation by the Mexican Federation to offset the propaganda that only the Red or rad ical labor element is behind the pres ent government there.
 Charges have been made that only the extreme radical forces, the "Boi- sheviks" of Mexico, are behind the present government and that the moderate labor leaders and organiza- tions as we'll as the upper and middle classes are behind his opponents. The documents presented below show where Mexican labor officially stands, and indicate certain of the lines divid- ing the forces now in opposition.
 A statement by the Mexican Fed eration of Labor, containing the text of telegram sent to Samuel Com pers, follows:
 "In order that the false reports which are being sent to the United States may not be wrongly inter preted by American labor, the leaders of the Regional Federation have has tened to send a report to the presi- dent of the American Federation of Labor, asking at the same time the help of his supporters in combating the reactionaries residing in America territory. The telegram reads as fol- lows:
 "Mr. Samuel Gompers, Washington, D. C.: Undoubtedly you have knowl- edge that some military elements, led by Guadalupe Sanchez, are revolting against the government and that the head of the rebellion Is the prevarica- tor Adolfo de la Huerta. This armed movement IS attempting again to es- tablish reaction and to revive the people that once prevailed here. We have the honor to communicate to you that the Regional Mexican Fed eration of Labor absolutely supports the government of President Obre- gon, and that we are getting ready to organize armed groups of workers to fight the revolution on the field whither the struggle has been carried and on which the labor movement does not refuse to accept the fight again. We are asking in the name of labor solidarity the support of the Pan-American Federation to avoid especially the development of enemy movements in that country
 "Fraternally,
 "Gen. Sec'y, Ricardo Trevino, "Sec'y of the Interior,
 "R. Cervantes Torres"
 The Central Committee of the Mex ican Federation of Labor issued a general manifesto pledging the sup port of the organized workers of Mex leo to the Government of President 0bregon.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-12-29
JOHN J. LANDRICAN:; REAL LABOR MAN.
 DIES SUDDENLY
Poison and Death Follows While He's South.

Organized Labor ill New Haven performed a sad duty on Friday morning when it assisted in the last mortal rights for one of its staunch- est and most loyal members, John J. Landrigan. MT. Landrigan died sud denly in Florida on Sunday from blood poisoning brought on by an in fected finger which when he left for the south to visit his daughter ap- peared like a trihing injury. His body was brought back. to New Haven ar irving Thursday and his funeral held Friday morning. Members of the Musicians Union acted as pa1lbearers and the union turned out almost en masse while delegations from the metal trades, with which lie was also affiliated, from the Trades Council in which he was for years delegate rep resentlng the musicians, and officers tended the funeral
 To pretend to write an obituary of John Landrigan for Labor men to read would be waste of time. John Landrigan was known over the state iiot oH1y CD d IdOol dIld of ability but leader of men. His "Landrigan's Brass Band" of guar ter century or so ago was known and demanded all over the east and only his gradual growing older forced him to drop his activities in that line.
 But he never dropped his union ism" As delegate to the New Haven Trades Council he never failed in a meeting. As delegate to other Labor gatherings he never failed either and when he was appointed sergeant-at- arms of the last State Federation convention it was like a family re- union to see the delegates come in and shake hands with John."
 As a family man John. Landrigan also was a real man. He, loved chil- dren and is survived by five, all now married. How he loved not only his own but all children was told in The Labor News some time ago when John advertised house he owned for rent. "Children welcome-the more the merrier," said John Landrigan in his advertisement Real estate men thought he was crazy. Maybe he was. But John Landrigan has now gone to his reward an dthe world and many children are better that he had lived
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-12-29
BILL TO RAISE POSTAL SALARIES
 GOES TO HOUSE
Move to Put Mail Men on Living Wage Basis Merits Gen.
 eral Support

By bill offered in Congress last week just before a recess for the holidays was taken, the postal em- ployes of the country may eventually be put on a salary basis that will bring them up to slevel where they can compete with the actual cost of living. The bill was introduced by Rep. Clyde M. Kelly of Pennsylvania and provides for a reconsideration of oo1aries in the postoffice and as Mr. Kelly is a member of the committee on Postofices and Post Roads it has a fair chance of being argued through.
 The bill provides that men of the first class shall receive stipend of $2,ooo; men of the second, $2,2oo, and men of the third, $2,4oo, and substi- tutes be paid at the rate of 80 cents an hour. Now the maximum salary for third grade men is $I, 800 and that for substitutes Go cents an hour The bill was introduced through the eff forts of the postal employees union and has their staunch backing and should have the backing of every la bor organization.
 The bill provides for nothing more than asked six years ago and recom- mended by a special committee ap- pointed to investigate pay III the pos tai service The committe reported, few days before Congress adjourn ed that the scales asked were justi- fled but then the war ended and be- cause there was hope that living costs would drop to pre-war levels the pos tai men were left out in the cold and are sfivering there yet, while other lines of endeavor have been constant ly paid more.
 Members of tn elocal division of the postal unions have waited upon Congressman Tilson and asked his aid He promised it, adding he would do all possible to bring the adjustment about
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-12-29
N. H. ROADS LOCOMOTIVES ARE
 ALRIGHT, BUT STOP AND READ
Upstate People Unable to Get Home For Christ mas Because Engine Couldn't Pull Three
 Car Train Up Grade.

1 "A brave start was made to noun,
 the hill, but the driving wheels spun
 around like a child's pinwheel, steam 1 spit from 20 places on the pufing To- comotive and the train came to a stop.
 Then for two hours Engineer Smith
 tried all the tactics he knew to get
 over that piece of track. Twenty ! times he backed up and started, but
 of no avail. Sometimes he went back
 a quarter of a mile and started with
 high hopes but he couldn't make the grade. W
 Passengers in the smoking com
 partment fell to wagering nickels
 that he would gain or lose ground
 on each attempt. A big boulder
 spot where the smoking car stopped there was gain of 10 feet, some times there was a loss of as much and more.
 ' Hope almost deserted the passen- gers when the train crew unsoupled the baggage car and an attempt was
 made to draw that alone over the grade, but progress of only IS or 20 feet was accomplished with the spin ming drivers. As a last resort a trainman trudged off across the lots to a farmhouse and a telephone and communicated with Winsted. Then, after an engine crew could be To- cated and fires started up in a loco motive there, 1t came along up the hill and gave friendly push to Con ductor O'Hern's train as far as Nor folk summit The Norfolk passen- gers were hopelessly late for Satur- day night dinner and the train reach | ed Canaan at about II o'clock, in stead of 7, but here the pleasant sur prise awaited a considerable number of passengers who had figured on the possibilities of hiring automobile ser vice to take them up into the Berk- shires.
 "Conductor O'Hern never made a l more cheerful speech than when the train reached Canaan and he an- nounced that all passengers for Great Harrington, Berkshire county points and Pittsheld should get into the rear coach. It was taken up the Berkshire division by an extra. locomotive and the Stockbridge man who had count ed out $8 to hire an automobile trans ferred it over into the pocket to buy Christmas presents for his kids"
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-12-29

he strikers are cited to snow Cause as to why they should not be adjudged in contempt of the injunction order is- sued several weeks ago by the Superior Court restraining from interfering with the few strikebreakers employed to take the places of the entire force The citation charges the strikers "are annoy ing" such workers the Condo Mast people have and this annoyance must be surnmarily stopped. Therefore the court is again asked to intervene.
 When the strike started the Condo Mast people declared themselves "done with organized labor forever" Their next move was to go to. court to start real mixup with the organized trades and when the organized trades met them with the full support not only of prln- ters and their kind but all organized la bor of Connecticut and New York, Con- de Mast changed its tune.
 A hearing on the original restraining order was scheduled for two weeks ago yesterday but was postponed on request of the petitioners and agreed to by mu tua1 action by the unions involved. 50. that hearing went off and the Condo Mast people continued to try to do bus mess with inferior help and found 1t couldn't so jumped into court again the day after Christmas with bleat that the strikers are annoying their help Most of the strikers are already employ ed elsewhere but tflas doesn't mean any thing to Condo Mast The word has gone around that strike is on at the plant and that is what hurts. Even "rat" will hesitate to get into a tight corner if he can avoid it.
 But here where the run comes in ap- parently. There are certain other big publishing concerns in New York just aching for the chance Ito get outside and bust the unions but they still want to be near enough to New York to reap high prices for printing there. So they want the Condo Mast people to win out here so they can then move in and es- tablish an open shop colony. According Eff the strikers lose many large publish ing houses in New York willm owe into the suburbs and follow the Condo Mast lead in organizing and fighting for the open shop"
 These same dispatches said "Mean- while temporary 1uli has come in the fight, strike leaders now devoting their efforts against a New York firm of photo engravers which does work for the Condo Mast Press.
 That press dispatch was sent out from Stamford on December 24, the day before Christmas. There was nothing in it that intimated the strike leaders were attempting to coerce the workers of the Condo Mast plant:
 Yet the day after Christmas, Decem- Der %, the strikers are cited into court on January 2 to show cause why they are not Tn contempt for annoying the in the plant.
 The naughty boys must do so because its court order. Between now and then however Condo Mast may have an other change of heart and want the hearing postponed
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-12-29
MINERS TO MEET
 OPERATORS JAM 4
To Begin Negotiations for New Wage Scale in Ohio, Indiana
 and Illinois.

Cleveland, O., Dec. 2o.-A joint meeting of the bituminous miners and operators of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois will be held in Cleveland Fri day morning, January 4, to begin ne gotlatlons on a new wage scale affect ing the mining industry in these three states to replace the present wage scale, which expires March 3I.
 The call was signed by Michael Gal lagher of Cleveland, chairman of the joint interstate conference of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, and John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America.
 When the miners and operators of the thre states met in joint confer ence at New York last January 24 they adopted a resolution providing for the coming conference.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-12-29

The engines on the New Haven
 Road and its subsidiary, the C. N. E., are in fine condition, according to
 Manager C. L. Bardo, so fine that the
 road is laying off its shopmen by hundreds But read the following from "The Hartford Times" which certainly cannot be accused of slam ming either the New Haven or C. N. E.:
 Travelling westward over the Cen tral New England railway on Satur- day afternoon and night was an ad- venture, filled with disappointment largely with expectant hopes of get ting somewhere, but topped off with pleasant surprise of railroading forethought, (by an employe).
 Ihe 5:3o. train got away from Hartford in very fair shape, loaded however with passengers. Conductor Den. O'Hern figured that with the wet track and the heavy traffic the train would lose some time and prob ably reach it's destination, Millerton, about half an hour late. But Con ductor O'Hern had no forecast of what was going to happen on the Norfolk mountain.
 "Engineer Ed. Smith maneouvered the old rattle-box of a locomotive skilfully along the wet iron and he pulled into Winsted just respectfully late. The usual thing is to drop off the rear coach at Winsted and climb over the hill with two cars-the bag gage coach and combination pas senger coach and smoking car, but the holiday exodus was so great night that Engineer Smith was required to drag the rear coach along to Canaan. He tried, manfu1- ly and ingeniously, and thereby hangs a tale.
 Between what the old timers know as Colebrook and Grants station there is a precipitous grade and many bends in the track and the rails were get and slippery with congealing rain, and Ed Smith, Den. O'Hern and the train crew had their troubles for over two hours trying to get over that grade. The locomotive ran out of sand or else 1t got plugged up in the sand pipes with pieces of waste, of coal or cobblestones which the railroad men say have habit of getting into the sand box while the are in the East Hartford yards under modern railroading con- ?itions.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-12-29
CHENEY RApS MANUFACTURERS
 WHO SEEK IMMIGRATION HORDE
"Used to Be Let George Do It, But Now Giovanni
 Do It," Connecticut Mill Owner Declares

We got into the habit of saying Let George do it, and now we are turning around and saying, Let Gio- vanni do it. We can do it ourselves, and if we don't do it ourselves we will break down in our virility, in our moral and physical stamina, and we will become bunch of parasites letting these other people whom we pretend to look down upon do our work for us," declared Cheney of the Cheney Mills, So. Manchester, before the National Immigration Conference this week.
 Now, you might think I am talk ing against immisration. Nothing of tn kind. My spirit says open the doors to all those who wish to come. My common sense says, No, let's have 1t in such quantities as we need and can properly assimilate," he con tinued.
 Nobody in the country realizes the need of quality in the personnel of labor as against quantity so much as the American industralists do, Mir Cheney said "It is the curse of our lives that we have to deal with shifting, inefficient, restless, unstable labor element. Quality, de- probability, character are the es- sence of success of any we'll man. aged, we'll conducted industry"
 "I believe that the greatest inf1u ence theer IS today in America look ing toward the welfare of the work ing man, are the industrial leaders of this country. I believe they have heart, because it affects not only their surroundings, but their per sonal business gain, the welfare, the character, the prosperity, the satisfied state of mind, the intelligence, the integrity of those who work with them. That is our first and chief concern. Quantity is an entirely sec ondary matter.
 After giving some of the protests against the selective immigration law made last year and agreeing that in some localities and industries there has been Shortage of labor" he called attention to the final results of
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-12-29
Appeals Suit For
 Union Recognition

Philadelphia, Dec. 2o.-The Broth erhood of Clerks, Freight Handlers and Station Employees of the Penn sylvania Railroad has filed notice of .an appeal to the United States cir cult court of appeals from the decis- ion dismissing the Brotherhood's sdit to compel the railroad and it's officials to recgonize the organization as the qualified representative of the men negotiating wapes and working con ditions. Counsel said the case would ultimately reach the United States supreme court.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-12-29


 "Your statement that it is the destiny of the United States to mother all of the children who were ill need of mother hood is entirely opposite to my views, !" Davis wrote. How long would American resources be able to main tain an American standard of living in the face of unrestricted admission of the Unfortunates of the world.
 Explaining his position further, sec retary Davis said:
 There are hundreds of millions of Chinese in the various stretches of Asia whose living conditions and mode of life are truly deplorable. Probably mil lions of them would be glad to make their way to the United States. What woud be the result?
 "The standards of living in Afherica would soon sink to the level of the coo- lie. Would you include the Chinese in you classification of those whose des- tin, it is for America to mother?
 Would you continue to admit with out restriction the Mexicans who are today crowding our Southern border :? Do you know that today the state of New Mexico IS forced to pay interpre- ters and translaters in order to conduct the business of its legislature and that in Some of its courts; business is con ducted Tn language other than Eng fish! Would you advocate an immigra- tion policy which would ultimately i'm pose this same condition on the state of New York, Or the government of the United States ?"
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-12-29
United States No Home For Europes Foundlings
 Declares Secy DaUis
WHILE PORKERS PAY TAX 1o.6 PER CENT. OF
 WEALTH IS FREE

Chicago, Dec. 2o.-While the nations tax total increased 2I7 per cent in the last 10 years, Io.6 per cent. of the total wealth in 1922, or $54, 100000 was beyond the reach of the tax collector, accord in, gto figures made public by the National Association of Real Es- tate Boards. Of this amount $35,- COG, o,ooo,o ,ooo was exempt personal property of which a large part was tax exempt securities.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-12-29
EDWARD BATES PASSES ON.

Utica, N. Y, Dec. 2o.-Edward A. Bates, secretary of the New York State Federation of Labor, and an active figure in the trade union move ment, died in this city. He was 68 years of age and was a member of the Typographical Union.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-12-29
SHOE WORKERS
 UNIONS MERGE

Haverhill, Mass, Dec. .2o.-Prelim- mary plans for a consolidation of the Shoe Workers Protective Union and the United Shoe Workers of America have been accepted by representa- tives of both organizations. A joint convention is to be called shortly to ratify this action
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-12-29
Big Publishing Firm, After Asking Injunction Hearing Put Off, Now Tries Another Tack. There's Reason Behind It-The
 Open Shop Crowd.

Stamford Dec. 26-Takng example from the supposedly el of the New Haven road strikers from picket employed the Condo Mast Publishing of this township Wednesday tried another break the strike employees which
 with the spread through the plant and ally crippled It the strikers January before Judge Allyn L. Bridge port, ono
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-12-29
Condo Mast Strikers Are Cited To Court To Sho1U
 They're Not An Contempt
WASN'T PAID FOR JOBS, BOY TICKETS
 FATHERS HOME

St. Paul, Dec. 2o.-Because his father, an attorney, had postponed payment for chores done, I4-year- old J: C. Otis, IT,, of this city, picketed his home, wearing. a sign This house is unfair to labor"
 Mr. Otis paid up and the sign went indoors.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-12-29
American Standard of Living For Workers Not to Be Levelled to That of COolie While Pm Here," He Tells Rabbi, Advocating
 "Open Shop"

Washington Dec 27.-Cafyng his problem secretary of labor Davis declared today letter Rabbi of Rochester, N. Y that policy of permit the United States become kind of world a home the