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The Connecticut labor news., 1923-03-30
CRUSOE
 SOCIAL ENGINEER

i "a hand" The machine tended to make the worker a part of 1t; to re- duce him to a cog in the wheel The workman was treated as the one bit of machinery not yet invented. Man as machine is clearly portrayed on Adam Smiths description of pin making, as practiced in his day: "One man draws out the wire; an other straightens 1t; and third cuts 1t; fourth points it; fifth grinds 1t at the top for receiving the head; to make the head requires two or three distinct operations; to put 1t on is another it is even trade by itself to put them into the paper; and the IS, in this manner, divided into about manufacturies are all performed by distinct hands"
 The IS manual operations here de scribed were decrased just as the machinery was invented. Mrs. Browning said that in her day 1t took seven men to make a pin. The dam age to the man himself involved in the process of his playing the part of Ia cog in the wheel has never been better stated than by Ruskin, when he wrote: We have much studied and much perfected of late the great civilized invention of the division of labor, only we give it a false name. It IS not, truly speaking, the labor that is divided, but the men-divided
 into the mere segments Ot men broken into small fragments and crumbs of life; so that all the little pieces of intelligence that are left in a man are not enough to make pin or the head of nail. Now it is a good and desirable thing, truly ito make many pins in day; but if we could only see with what crystal sand their points were polished-sand of human souls, much to be magnifed before it can be discer4fed flor what it is-we should think there might be some loss in it also: And the great cry that rises from all our manufac turing cities, louder than their fur mace blast, Is all in very deed for this: that we manufacture everything there except men; we bl lanch cotton ,and strengthen steel, and refine sugar, and shape potter; but to brighten, to single living spirit, never enters into our estimate of advantages"
 The making of men as well as pins and shoes does not seem to be in- cluded in factory's program. The distance between stupidity and crime is short The treatment of man as commodity is not only a stupid b1un- dr, but a criminal blunder. After classifying souls with flour and cot ton cloth, the next step IS to sel lthem along with the other commodities. And to sell souls is nothing short of a crime.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-03-30

large industry is to be restored, she needs skilled workmen and trained ex- ecutives and the impulse of se1f-in- terest that is absent from nationalized industry"
 Furthermore, for purposes of re- storation, gigantic sums of capital and the professional personnel to direct reconstruction must come from abroad No doubt few specu1ators and concession hunters intent on sev- eral hundred per cent. per annrm will be willing to take the risks, but the great flow of capital investment at reasonable rates cannot raise until the whole system is advanced to the fun damental position upon which secur- ity and confidence must rest"
 Referring to measures, for human itarian relief in Russia, MT. Hoover recognizes the true situation about some of the Russian propaganda or ganizations which the International Labor News Service has attacked when he says:
 But one essential is critically necessary; in order that such Amer ican effort shall be Tn responsible hands and not exhausted in propagan- da, 1t should be administered through some of the above religious bodies"
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-03-30
HERE'S AN NEXAMPLE OF NEED FOR STRONG LABOR PRESS;
 DAuIES OVERLOOK TRUTH

only another reminder that business today has no conscience and that. materialism holds sway throughout our country and the world. This also was emphasized by MT. Babson when he said that what Europe needed was some good old-fashioned religion" and he might have added with good grace, the United States also. It Is our opinion and firm conviction, however, that, regardless of the naterialistic concept that is so prevalent through out the world, the masses are awaken ing to the dangers that threaten through it, and will by clear thought, sound judgment, and sane action, bring about and mold changes in such a way as to entrench and stabilize real democratic government. It is we'll to remember, however, that in working for this achievement time and patience will be required and that the best two mediums through which it can be accomplished are the American Federation of Labor and the Labor Press of our country
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-03-30
PRICES TO BE UPHELD
 BY GOVERNMENT AID?

Washington, March 3o.-The next congress will accept the principle of price standardization is the startling prediction by Congressman Clyde Kelly of Pennsylvania.
 The suggestion that business man may file list of his prices with tue government, and that these prices would be investigated by a govern ment board is a startling departure from the theory that no one can in tcrfere with a mans business.
 This change has been brought about, according to Congressman Kelly, by the United States supreme courts contradictory decisions on price fixing and the right of business men to set their own prices.
 It is now proposed to set up ma chinery for price standardization to permit any independent manufacturer a sch edule of his prices with the fed era1 trade commission, which could investigate and determine whether the prices were fair A retailer handl- ing this article would be required to offer to resell them to the manufac- turer for the price he paid for them before he would be permitted to offer lem for sale to the public at prices lower than the standard fixed prices.
 Under the system manufacturers of well-known articles would have the right to set retail prices and would have the law aid them in stopping retail price cutting by compelling the retailer to first offer to return the goods to the manufacturer for the price he (the retailer) paid for them.
 This portion of the bill makes 1t aasy. for the manufacturers to wink he other eye when they dep1ore gov ernnhent interference with business
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-03-30

As appears from the foregoing list of names, several of the most promi- nent communistic officials of inter national type are implicated in the sensational embezzlements. The missing funds belonged to the com munistic internationale or more strictly speaking to the propaganda bureau of the internationale
 This bureau is divided into nine sections, of which the seventh em- braces Finland, Esthonia, Lettonia, Lithuania, and Poland. The chief of this seventh section was Eino Rahja, who thus now seems doomed to dis appear from the positions of trust of the sovdep. Furthermore, Rahja last acted as head of military espionage in the communistic central commit tee, having also been employed in the military organization of the Fin nish communistic party.
 Ja1mari Kotrianta has acted as spy chief for the Finnish reds in Russia and besides this has been espionage head of the Russian cheka on Karel ithmus where he had This headquar- 7 ters in Vaikeasaari parish.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-03-30
By HENRY E. JACKSON

Taken by permission~from Robin son Crusoe, Social Engineer, by Hen " E. Jackson, published and copy righted by E. P. Dutton and Com pany This interesting book was re- viewed in The American Federation ist for January.
 I go into a modern factory and visit first. the managers office. I see on his desk a typical book on political economy like those used in all col 1eges and universities until recently, and still used in most of them l open it and read a passage like this :: Labor, like flour or cotton cloth, should always be bought in the cheap est market and sold in the dearest" !" This states the policy on which the factory IS operated.
 Then I go into the factory to search for this commodity, called labor. 1 can not find it. It glares by it's absence. What do I see? I see only men, lovers of sunshine, hungry for music, husbands of women, fathers of children, for whom they would sacrifice their lives and are doing SO, men just like the manager and myself There is something wrong somewhere. What I see in the
 
 gers book do not agree.
 There's only one thing wrong; the statement in the managers book is a lie. Otherwise 1t is all right Like the students answer to Professor Huxley's question:: What is a lob ster?" The student said it is a red fish that moves backward. To this Huxley replied: "Your answer is entirely correct, except for three things; it is not fish; it is not red; simple matter of fact there is not such thing as labor to be bought and sold and never was. Labor as com modity is pure fiction. It has nothing to do with fact It is the creation of political economists imagination which manufacturers have tried to convert into a fact and failed. We have been led to suppose that political economy is an exact science. Now we have discovered that we have been deceived.' When a laborer comes to carry pounds or yards of labor to sell as a commodity? No, he comes empty handed; he brings only him self. We have, then, no such com modity as labor; we have only man who is willing to labor; a very differ ent proposition. As soon as you join a man and his labor together, you are on new ground and have a new standard of values You are handling not a commodity, but living man, who requires an altogether different treatment.
 The false conception of labor as commodity, transformed man into
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-03-30
12 COMMUNIST OFFICIALS CHARGED WITH LOOPING OF
 RED PROPAGANDA FUND
By International Labor News Service.

By International Labor News Service.
 Washington, De C., March 3o- Definite charges of footing Red prop aganda funds by prominent Russian communist officials have just reached the United States through Finnish newspaper reports. Following is the account published in Finland:
 According to information obtained by the Finnish Information Bureau 1t has been ascertained that great irreg- ularitieS have occurred in the admin istration of the money concerns of the communistic internationale, these having been going on for two years. The sum of 6,75o,ooo gold rubles is not accounted for. In connection with the irregularities are mentioned the names of Frossard, Narimanov, Eino Rahja, Ja1mari Katranta, Sa- doul, Totti, Severin, Kingisepp, Ra- del>, Sinovjev, Paulig, and Voskresen- ski. Of the embedded money, 5,Ioo,- 900 are in cash and .I,65o,ooo gold rubles in securities.
 Eino Rahja failed to account for 100000 gold rubles. Kotiranta, Paulig and Voskresenski have fled from Petersburg.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-03-30
OFFICIAL RECOGNITION
 WILL NOT CURE RUSSIA, SAYS SECRETARY HOOVER
By International Labor News Service

By International Labor News Service
 Washington, D. C., March 3O- Official recognition of Russia by the United States will not cure the ills of the Soviet; says Herbert Hoover; Secre- tary of Commerie, in letter to C. V. Hibbard, of the International Com mittee. of the Y M C. A. It is an answer to propaganda which Amer ican labor has been fighting :. for a long time. The following excerpts from the letter are particularly sig nihcant:
 Tt is hopeless illusion that there will be a flow of foreign savings, business or skill into Russia, by the simple act of official recognition by our Government. Indeed there has been DO appreciable investment in Russia from the several countries which have extended recognition, all though some of them are exporting capital in other directions. This is not an argument for or against recog- milton, but simply a statement that the question of restored productivity to large industry rests on other fun damentals, such as the security and the freedom of initiative, and these can only be created through the in
 
 sian people must work out all these problems in their own way They might succeed upon the present line by the ultimate abandonment of large manufacture, for it is conceivable that they can do without large. industry and establish a 1ow-grade' agricul- turaf state dependent upon exchange of food to other countries for manu- factured necessities. All that char itable relief can hope to do is lift special groups from utter Restitution up to the level of the general poverty and thus to pro1ong life for the fu- ture"
 "What Russia needs is economic the recreation of pro- ductivity- Her peasants need agri- cultural machinery and animals. Her workmen need tools, her industries need raw materials, her factories need new machinery, her transportation needs repairs and equipment. If her
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-03-30

job; political machines put 'em into better ones
 That brings up a thought, A lot of the lame ducks are out on the ocean, going to far places, like the Canal Zone and Alaska Do they swim there? No, these ducks ride in fine boats, going on missions" Mostly the missions" are to keep lame ducks from going hungry. Sometimes a touch of 1amenes is great thing.
 Let su look further Spring is com- ing. All torch bearers ought to get out and roll up the membership!
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-03-30

When will we see the last of the in- spired bung about Russia? Perhaps when the propagandists run out of ink and wind
 Borah tells us that the choice in Russia is between the soviets and a re- turn to czarisn \ Did the Senator never hear of democracy, which might be a bolsheviks came into power over the dead body ot representative government smashed by bolshevik guns? An, strange are the ways of pervesity!
 Foreign Affairs" high-priced pub llcation for high brows allows the writer of its leading article to say that in Rus sia " the power of the state passed into the control of a 1aboring class that had not the slightest familiarity, through practice, with the exigencies of govern ment.
 This will surprise many who never into the hands of any 1aboring class Well-1ntor1ned persons have 1t that the government passed into the hands of a clique of despots who make no pretense of giving the laboring class any voice.
 When Lenine says Russia has "a dictatorship" ht knows what he is talk ing about. Why this continued flow of untruth?
 Down in Patagonia they have found a skull that is a million years old. That interests all scientists. Until this dis covery no skull more than half million years old had been found.
 All of this may be true, but there are plenty of skulls on living shoulders that so far as the public can tell, have been dead longer than the gentleman from Patagonia.
 Down in Texas the professors sub jected the girl students to an intelligence test Girls didn't do so well. They challenged the professors to stand for an intelligence test. The professors didn't do as well as the girl students. Some how this reveals condition that a great many persons have long suspected.
 A. few days ago a, human f1y'' fell 10 alive he would have got S1OO Al thousand watched him climb and fall and less than 10 went to his funeral
 So goes. fame so goes the human mass. The king is dead; long live the
 But suppose. some human fly could climb up bit higher and stick there for look at what IS going on all around.
 He'd see aliens being srnuegled in on the Atlantic seaboard. He'd see them landed exactly as the coastal rum hun ners handle their bottled goods. Ques- tion is Which yields most profit?
 He'd see railroads still cripp1ing along, losing money instead of ending their lockout and putting. good men : He'd see newspapers printing lies as as ladies wear roses.
 He'd see lame ducks waddling into soft jobs. People vote 'em out of one
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-03-30
COerce Women Workers

Chicago, March 3o.-Offcers of the Illinois State Federation of Labor charge the Illinois Bell Telephone Company with Tesorting to unfair methods in its fight against wom- ans eight-hour bill
 Thousands of girl telephone oper- ators are being coerced or misled in to writing personal letters to state senators and representatives against the bill,'' says the Weekly News Let ter, published by the State Fedora tion of Labor
 "Ofhcia1s of the company, actirfg through women occupying executive positions, are insisting that the girl operators sign such letters. Other are resorting, to similar tactics.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-03-30
By JOHN A. WOLL, President, the Glass Bottle Blowers
 Association.

In an address delivered by Roger
 Babson, statistical expert and busi-
 ness forecaster, before an audience of about 5000 business men of Phila-
 delphia at the Academy of Music,
 MT. Babson said: ..High wages never hurt any city nor any country" draw ing attention to the fact that 90 per cent. of the purchasing power of the city population was in the pay en- velopes of the wage earners, thus pointing out that business prosperity depends upon the wage earners' pur- chasing power, and added that "when a wage earner buys a silk shirt he does it to raise his social standard just as a business man moves into a better home and buys an automobile to raise his social standard. He ad- vised giving more thought to the other fellow in everyday life and asserted, I've are all economic broth
 ers," and as for himself he had been completely converted to the principles and practices of the Golden Rule.
 In forecasting the business outlook for 1923 he named four factors as a basis why business would be better in 1923 than in 1922, yet he ex- plained that he hesitated in express ing any confidence as to the sta. .bility of better business owing to the attitude of peoples minds, "for after all," he continued, ''it is not figures but personal feelings of the people that must be considered in business.
 It was apparent, however, that this line of talk did not set well upon the great majority of that vast audience. This was further shown when 1t was found that of the six daily news
 papers printed in Philadelphia, no mention was made of any. of the sali- ent and vital points of the address as herein set forth, so far as could be ascertained, though other phases Of 1t were referred to in the columns of the different dailies- This attitude toward a statement of fair advice based upon principles of truth, and the suppression of it by the daily press should burn itself into the minds of the wage earners and make them resolve to greatly extend the labor press O fthe country and so1idly support it, for it is only upon this press that they can depend for truth and enlightenment in matters of vital in government and in in dustry that so affect their everyday life
 The" attitude of the audience and the action fthe press as depicted is
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-03-30

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The Connecticut labor news., 1923-03-30

When will we see the last of the in sp1red bung about Russia? Perhaps when the propagandists run out of ink and wind
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-12-10
If Railroads Won't Give Fair
Rates, Let's Take Them Over

when tho mails were taken cut
or private hands.
who would now favor turning
our mail service over TO private
owncrahipT
Tho chief argument hga'nst
public ownership OF railroads
seems 20 be- that a president and
congress cannot be- elected that
win shut out graft and incorn-
petenee in railroad affairs. May.
10 that Is true. but In spite Of
Incompetence aud graft in gov.
eminent our malls have been
satisfactorily handled by the
government.
And II We can't shut out graft
and collision with respect TO
railroad management with tho
klnd OF men we've been sending
20 flu our official offica;. lets
reform and send those that viii
do their duty.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-12-10
The Ak and the Hair

we mosey along lifes pathway seek the brighter
things-the laughs. Very very often solemn courts
OF justice pay tribute to risibtes. Thus our sor-
row at the wonderful increase in crime submerged by
the gaiety of judicial Interpretation.
Sell me pint, said Massachusetts booze detective
as ne entered place that filled with all kinds of
wet goods of unmstakable appearance and aroma He
got his pint 1t contained 80 per cent alcohol.
Case against the seller came to trial Court decided
that the detectives request "Sel pint" did not
meet the requirements of the sales side Of the law 1t
was too indefinite might anything Sure 1t might
mean, in liquor cache request for rainwater or So
luton of quinne or casup, strawberries stove pol
lsh, or sheep Dip Sure again. Nothing like court to
keep everything accurately dovetaed with everything
else and our wellknown bulwark unsulled
Also, the court decided that mixtures containing from
80 to 80 per cent alcohol not necessarily distilled
liquors" and that the distllaton must be proven In
other words high per cent Of alcohol is entirely nno-
cent until it is proven guilty. Great legal head-eh?
Did you judicial luminary while he was en-
gagged in viyisecting hair in its very center with the
keen blade Of his mental ak? Great sight
Leader FRAME ,fondou
While opening day with one
dramatic fights history Frank ns on
gagged explaining the house organization little OF women In
a hotel paror
Let's hope that when the Pole they yo
find that the Interior department TO oeny sin
Clair 80
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-12-10
! =
ny G. A. KANDAU

MTAsHlNGToN, Dec. lo--in'
w dams IN tho u. y. nre
worth an average Of $4,000 each,
and they deposited an average OF
800 each in banks during tho
fiscal year ending Juno 30, 1928,
according TO the annual report or
the commissioner OF Indian az.
fairs, just ISSUED.
Not only has the total wealth
OF the Indians mounted rapidly
during the past 10 years. but
their population has increased as
well. Tho number Of Indians IN
tho United States exclusive OF
Alaska is now $4,000 as com.
pared with 3io,ai7 in 1929. and
is an increase OF 1854 over the
1918 figure.
Tho total Individual and tribal
property possessions Of the In.
dlans now exceeds si,o0o,o00, 600.
The exact sum. Commissioner
Burke reports. IL sI.oiO,S10.Si9.
which represents gain OF more
than $3.50, 100000 over 1922.
Tho two moss important
sources or wealth for the Indians
ARE the oil deposits discovered on
various reservations and the
grazing lands. Revenue from
leases on the oil lands brought in
about 100000. OF which tho
osagea alone obtained slightly
over 500. 100000. Reservations in
grazing states Melted the Indians
over $1,000. 900 In cash rentals.
Another important source Of
income was tho Reimbursement
the Indians received from the
United States government for
lands taken from them at vari-
Gus times in the past. The Chip
powas OF Minnesota. for instance.
were awarded nearly 'i,50o.0o0
as duo for lands and timber OF
which they were deprived by an
act Of May %. 1908. when the
Minnesota national forest was
enlarged.
Tho number OF Indians attend.
ing government and private
schools increased considerably
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-12-10
Frieda's Follies

THE FUN people have with old
maids.
THIS WOMAN meant 70 be smart.
IT WAS ~ a house party.
A CERTAIN man had unsuccess.
fully tried to kiss her
FOR WEEKS.
IT WAS the day before her de-
parture.
SIZE WILLED dis kiss TO me.
SHE MEANT to be funny.
But 1T hurt.
GAILY ] accepted the legacy.
THE MAN, for revenge looked
pleased.
THAT WAS more than she did
WHEN ] collected II
THAT NIGHT by mistake.
As HE staggered away overcome
by my ardor.
FLIPPED on the electric light.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-12-10
Stenogs and Speed

- French champion stenographer by tipping SO words
minute and keeping it up for 20 minutes? This is at
the rate of 1880 words an hour
month previously, in country, Bessie Friedman
of New York clicked off $500 words an hour and got
the American cup
The French champion will come to America for con-
tests-which displays courage, considering that the
American champ is nearly twice as fast.
1t rumored in Washington that President
nomination. II he o for
Judge prosperity right Duke
pass