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The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-03
HELPLESS
 WITHOUT UNIONS

By International Labor News Service
 New York, Oct. 2.-"Without la
 bor unions the laborers would have
 to take in wages and conditions what
 the employers offered" says Albert
 Bushnell Hart, professor of govern
 ment in Harvard University, in his
 new book, We and Our History: A
 Biography of the American People"
 Prof. Hart, whose book sketches
 the history of the United States from
 the discovery of America to the ac- |cession of Calvin Coolidge to the
 presidency, emphasizes the position of organized labor in the United States.
 He devotes several chapters to organ ized labor, its history, methods and policies.
 He declares that the right to stop work IS one of the American rights
 of freedom" and says of compulsory arbitration:
 Most of the states have some sort of machinery for settling labor diff culties, but no law has yet succeeded in compelling either side to arbitrate.
 Still more, no one can be compelled to accept the decision or the ruling of an arbitrator. The wage-earning class, especially the most highly paid skilled workers, feel that they form
 class by themselves, that their in terests are different from those of
 their employers, and the only way to get their rights is to stand up for
 them and even to fight for them" Prof. Hart believes that machinery
 has raised the standard of living for workers but he says that "it would be a terrible thing for mankind if the steadily increasing use of machines were to make machines of the human beings who, work them" He adds: Much improvement has come about by using machines for the rough, heavy work, and by the rise in the standard of living. The people in the United States in every section and in every calling have better houses, food, clothing, medical care, social advantages, and schooling than any previous generation. There is more chance to earn and save and to give the children better opportunities than their fathers had.
 "On the other hand, the laborers lin certain industries have aided them selves by their trade unions to secure better conditions, They( have de- manded and secured in many states shorter hours of labor, higher wages,
 more regular pay, and protection against accident. They and their friends have had to fight for these inn provements, and are still demanding the same kind of laws in the other states, and still peter conditions everywhere"
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-03
WOMAN HEAD OF UNIONS
 IN GREAT BRITAIN DENOTES
 LIFE TO CAUSE OF LABOR

Bondfeld preferred to go on working | for the rest.
 "In 1898 she left shop work and took up the paid position of assist ant secretary to the Shop Assistants | Union, and in the same year she showed that she was not goiny to be merely a specialist in the interest of one small section of women's works by running for election and winning the post of member of the West Ham Trades and Labor Council "Her experience of the Trades Union movement is more complete and varied than that of any man. She is at present secretary of the National Union of General Workers, member of the executive of the Woman's Trades Union League, and a member of the National Admins trative Council of the Independent Labor Party.
 "In addition to her industrial work, politics tempted her. She is a So- cialist of a moderate shade. Since the granting of suffrage to women in England she has twice contested the constituency of Nottingham, and though without success, as yet, on both occasions she increased the labor vote by many thousands.
 Has Many Friends.
 Outside this catalog of activities there is hardly any Margaret Bond field. They mean, to those who know more hours daily without intermis- sion of hard, bitter work, with un- grateful figures, and plans and routine than ever the worst. of her past employers dared to put upon her
 Such life leaves scant time for anything social Yet she has many friends She has made them in her long path up to the leadership of the union; they are all without exception people who work altogether alongside her. It is gray life fo those who cannot understand the spiritual fire that aninates it. It is the life of the cloister, hard, dull, mistaken even, as it must appear to many.
 "Only a fanatic, perhaps using the word in its best sense of utterly single minded devotion to duty and to the interest of others, could have lived it. Margaret Bondfeld has, Never in the worst hour has she shrunk from 1t, or laid 1t aside.
 Through it all she has kept the same sober cheFfulness with which she started We'll might one of the delegates say, half jokingly, half ten. derly, as he cana out of the congress room in which she has been elected: Labor now has its Lay Saint-Mar- garrett"
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-03
THOMAS F. GOODE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR TAX COLLECTOR

The been active in civic and political life in New Haven from the he voting merits he recprocahon from his for that labor of all these labor of loyalty for the In this he makes emphatic that lose that labor for party the
 At the present Mr. Goode s valued enploye of Tobacco of New Haven. he special the and food us While engaged these duties he gained the of his the of Justice for his fhuess and especially for his fearless He has been actively identified with the Democratic and Board of Common Council aboshment At the of his election that body marked the that said ward returned democratic.
 If this the day and where the great night Thomas the of New Haven.
 When day of the choice candidates Goode the Tax Collector City solved the problem four candidates the office by taking fitness of each of the four and found that Thomas Goode 
 lection wasm made. /
 Hundreds of each going their chiefly the his ship and this the candidate himself has placed his cards known that casual friends and the public general him he only their they have the efficiency capabity should be required of delegated and under of oneo the of New Haven.
 In Tom Goode before New Haven and asks them carefully before decide their He Haven by its electors he would privately customary thorough job he seeks and accordingly
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-03
Employers Treatment of Labor Held RespOn-
 sible for Accidents

By International Labor News Service.
 Washington, D: C., Nov. 2.-That employers whose labor policies cause frequent changes in their working forces are responsible for many acci- dents, is indicated by study of the relation between labor turnover and industrial accidents, made by Harry D. Kitson and Claude Campbell of Indiana University
 The study Is based on total of |28,o3o industrial accidents. An an a1ysis of these accidents shows ra- tio of approximately one accident to one new man hired. Thisiis four times as great as the range of accidents among the total number of workers on the pay rolls examined and in it. self constitutes striking evidence that new employees are big factor in rais- ing the number of accidents.
 The investigation further shows month to month varies directly with the number of new employees.
 It is stated that while it is true that the fluctuations in accidents fol- low to slight degree the huctuation in the average working force, they correspond far more closely to the fluctuations in the number of new employees. This supports the conten- ton that the influence of new em- ployes in producing accidents is great CT than the influence of mere increas- ing industrial activity as measured by the total working force. The auth ors offer the following suggestions for the prevention of accidents:
 T. Tn order to reduce accidents, re- duce the turnover If the number of new employees could be reduced to zero, the number of accidents would very likely be reduced 75 per cent
 g. When the costs of turnover are being computed from such items as spoiled work, damaged machinery, etc, the amounts paid in settlement for accidents should also be included.
 B. More time spent. in instructing new employees might aid materially in reducing the number of accidents.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-03
Printers Health Clinic Helps Typos
 ROut Disease
By International Labor News
 Sar~xr;ra

SeTV1Ce.
 New York, Nov. 2.-The health cliric of New York Typographical Union has given such beneficial results during the first three mo lths of it's existence that the joint committee in charge recom- mends the continuation of the work on permanent basis with per. capita assessment of E cents per month to defray the expenses.
 The object of the clinic IS to as-' sure the members of the union the best possible medical examination with especial reference to deter mining what extent preventable conditions in the printing industry IS responsible for inroads on the health of union printers. During the first three months more than 1000 printers were given medical examinations. Dr. LouisI. Harris, director of the bureau of prevent able diseases of the New York city health department, is medical di- rector of the clinic.
 Scores Of the members that have been examined have evidence of physical defects, which, If not dis covered, and which if neglected, would result in their premature disability" declares Dr. Harris. Our. work has been largely pre- vent1ve, but curative also in many of the cases.
 The benefit of permanent work ot this character in helping in the adjustment of wage scales, in safe guarding the lives of many of your members whom your union can ill-afford to lose. and its value in preventing disability and financial stress through sickness ought to commend it most powerfully to all"
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-03
By International Labor News Service

By International Labor News Service
 Washington, D. C., Nov. 2.-Why Margaret Bondfeld, chairman of the General Council of the British Trade Union Congress, has been called La bor's saint is told by William Boli- tho, in special dispatch from Lon don to the New York World. Ir telling of Miss Bondfeld's life, MT Bolltho writes:
 This means a lot for women, said Margaret Bondheld when the tellers told her she was elected chair man of the General Council of the British Trades Union Congress in London, September 26. She spoke soberly, looking round as if to read the eyes of each member of this su- preme cabinet of British labor
 The moment was the greatest one in her life, and in her way of think ing, the greatest of all possible hon ors and of all possible moments She went up and took her seat at the head of the table, in the presidents chair, now hers by right of election.
 "'You men have shown that labor believes in the equality of women. That was all. The grave, hard faces round her relaxed a little. Margaret Bondheld is tidy, stout little woman of so win the most charming voice that has ever been heard on plat form in England
 Devoted Life to Labor
 Then, opening her black, business like handbag with snap as if to dis miss the matter, she began the agenda for the day It was disposed of, say the delegates, in record time. That Is Margaret Bondfeld She IS the most unsentimental woman in the world, outwardly. Yet she has devoted the whole of her life to the betterment of her fellow workers.
 Tt is queer ambition for a woman, after all, to direct this cold assembly of grave, elderly men, oc- cupied with highly abstruse and dull subjects of wages and contracts, sit ting behind closed doors in severely furnished office room.
 "But ever since she went to work. a queit, profoundly serious little girl of B, she has steered her course to- ward it with the same passionate, convinced desire that other girls have bestowed on any of the worlds more obvious prizes.
 Began as Teacher.
 .She began as supply teacher for a boys class in public school in a poor quarter of >Somersetshire town, where she was born, in 1873. Leav- ing this she was apprenticed by her mother to one of the worst trades m Iondon-sewing cheap garments for export to the Colonies
 "1n 1894 she joined the Shop As sistants' Union and two years later was. the first woman delegate to at tend the Trades Union Congress as a representative of that union. She had seen the black side of the wom- ans industrial life, knew every cranny of it's bad working conditions, it's sweated labor, its hard bosses, who believed themselves above the law, has counted every hour of slav- cry in the B that were then expect ed of all women in shops in London.
 She had lived in with them all, and was one of them forever. With her brain and ability she. could cas- fly have cut herself out of the busi- ness and tried to forget it. Margaret
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-03
Atlantic Coast Line
 Announces Pay Raise

Chicago, Nov 2.-The Atlantic Coast Line this week announced through the United States Labor Board increases approximating $37I,- oooa year for employees in the shop crafts departments, numbering 6,35o The increases are three cents an hour for mechanics, two cents for appren- tices and one cent for helpers.
 Increases of 10 cents an hour were announced in communication to the board from Portland (Maine) Ter minal Railway company for employees in the coal discharging plants
 Both increases became effective October E.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-03
UNTRUTHFUL ADS FLOOD FAR WEST
 WITH LABOR
By WILLIAM COOK, Editor, California Oil Worker.

Long Beach, Cal, Nov. .2.-Un- scrupulous real estate sharks, pro- motors of "get rich quick" schemes and "open shoppers" have brought untold suffering upon gullible workers who have hearkened to their song of prosperity and opportunity, sold their little belongings, quit their job and embarked upon the road of adventure to the land of the Golden West.
 Eastern newspapers, magazines, and periodicals have ben carrying advertisements from Chambers of Commerce, real estate boards and oil promoters telling of the demand for labor, how the job was looking for the man and ot enormous wages paid in every field of endeavor.
 This has resulted in a rush of work CTS westward, coming by train and automobile in an never ending stream to find on their arrival that instead of the job looking for the man, three hundred men were camped on the trail of every job.
 Many Stranded in Camps.
 Charles Grimm has just arrived here from Ohio, crossing the country by machine. He informs me that every automobile camp between Ohio and California IS crowded with the stranded travellers Unusual weather conditions have held these people in camp until their slender means had been exhausted and they were unable to proceed or return
 On the desert" said MT. Grimm, it became a common occurrence to be stopped by automobilists begging for inner tubes, tires, gasoline and f,,1 L, across the road to force us to stop He wanted an inner tube Having none we did the next best thing and carried him to the next town where we bought the inner tube, food and gasoline. We induced the garage man to take him back to his automo- bile where his helpless family awaited his return. Hundreds of machines filled with hungry families were sen limping their way toward the Land of Promise (O."
 The Long Beach field has reached the peak of oil production Hundreds of men are being laid off and more will follow Wells are being put on pump, othees are below pump level and are shut down Some indication of water IS shown in number of wells. This condition was predicted some Six months ago by Walter J. Yarrow, former advisor of the Cali fornia Oil Workers Union and one of the ablest geologists i'll America.
 Building Workers Idle.
 The Shell Oil Company had some what disastrous fire here some time back and the. plant is being rebuilt One night of last week three hun dred men camped outside the gates to be on hand when call was made for men. The watchman informs me this is common occurrence every morning.
 Seven hundred bricklayers are idle in Los Angeles and 75 in Long Beach. Carpenters, painters and other build ing mechanics are coming daily in droves. License tags from every state in the Union adorn "fivvers" that show every evidence of having negotiated the sandy desert.
 I would advise every man who has
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-03
Ice Company Worker
 Denied Compensation

Hartford, Nov. 2.-Compensation Commissioner George B. Chandler has denied the claim of Douglas Evans of 35I Ann street for com pensation for an injury received while he was working for the Ice DeIifery company of this city. Evans broke his ankle on June I6 when he fell down an elevator shaft in house on Charter Oak avenue The commis- sioner finds that Evans was hired by the day and that there was no con- tract in force on the day he was in- jured.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-03

job or any prospects for the win ter to hold fast to what he has. If you must come to the Pacific coast, have sense enough to come in the spring time when the rainy season is over. Cold as you know it in the east never reaches California, but in the Eainy season you get awfu1ly damp, a<zdamp that penetrates the marrow of your bones
 Central councils should endeavor to have their local papers warn the workers to stay away from California until spring time at least.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-03

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Seward daily gateway., 1923-06-13
SCIENTISTS DISAGREE:
EUROPEAN EXPERTS AT ODDS
 OVER RELATiVlTY THEORY

PARIS, June "A division in scien- tific circles has been made here by the relativity theory of Einstein, challeng ing old conceptions of time and space.
 Former Premier Painleven, first a mathematician and later a politician, is threatening to drop politics long enough to prove that the earth has stopped turning. In fact, he asserts it never did turn. M. Painleve mas new theory of universe, based on lnechan- ics. He says Einstein is right, except that he is not right enough.
 Professor Langevin, phycist of the College of France, inventor of the sounding machines by hich ships can be piloted at sea, has made what his friends describe as religion of the Einstein theory, combating old theO- ries and all others with much ardor.
 Emile Picard, the genial permanent secretary of the Academy of Sciences from his retreat in the Institute pal ace, has sought to dodge this battle of the worlds. However, he is inclined to the belief that the old-timors were fairly correct.
 Director Ballaud, of the Paris Ob-- servatory, says that in many respects science is still like Diogenes stumb- ling along with his lantern, "as for me I have no opinion as to the relative merits of the discussion. It would take me two years of my life to become familiar with the Einstein theory. and as I am 75 now, really haven't the time to spare" .1
Seward daily gateway., 1923-06-13
DEMPSEY WILL GET DOWN
 TO GRIND AGAIN SOON

GREAT FALLS, June l2-.Dempsey who will battle Tommy Gibbons in Shelby, Montana, July 4, Is taking a real layoff from training this week Returning last night from three day fishing trip at the Rock Creek bunga- low of c. B. Power, in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, he spent today with friends riding about the city in an au- tomobile, visiting the several falls of the Missouri and the refining plants and wire mills of the AnacandA Cop per Mining company.
 Dempsey looks to be in the best of physical condition and declares ne is enjoying his outing immensely. He will enter training again Monday at the camp and will not leave it until he goes to Shelby July I. on special train.
 Lee Moore, 126-pound boxer from Los Angeles, arrived here last night as sparing partner of the champion and Monte Farrell, coast middleweight is expected to arrive next week.
Seward daily gateway., 1923-06-13
ALASKA RAILROAD B 1! ] L|..R|F HELD UP |F:O|IR5 5T.NO WEEKS
 BY WAsHOUTS
REPORTS TODAY SHOW DAMAGE BY FLOODS UNDEREsrImAr-
 ED BY PUBLIC

Word was received from Commis- sion headquarters today that the dam ages to the right-of-way between the Nenana River and Cantwell is much greater than was at first estimated. Practically sixty miles of roadbed are cutoff but washouts at both ends, and it is also reported that damage has been done to bridges and culverts be- tween the two points.
 It was stated that no traffic would be maintained over the road for at least two weeks, passengers and mails destined for Fairbanks being diverted by way of Cordova and Chitina. All passengers on the Watson and the steamship Alaska were put off at Cor dova, and will be taken from Chitina by Sheldon & Galen stages.
Seward daily gateway., 1923-06-13
RUM RUNNERS SH|F I
REVENUE CUTTERS KEEPING A
 CLOSE CHECK ON FLEET

NORFOLK. lure 12-Rum runners who have shifted the scene of their on- erations from the Jersey coast to the Virginia capes, faced co1n Ac concen- tration of coast guard craft here to- day.
 When the rum runnCl Cartona, with a cargo of liquors from Bermuda. WAS reported at the Norfolk coast guard of, flee yesterday to have dropped anchor alongside the Istar, which has be"n ct the capes for several days, 'wo other coast guard cutters were sent to join the revenue cutter Manning. They wer" the tug Mascouun and tue cutter Apache. obtained from Norfolk a.d iia'tinore, respeC>' "'. ''' for mer having been OGLfitted with guns at the navy yard before leaving. It is understood that a third coast guard boat has been ordered from New York
Seward daily gateway., 1923-06-13
BACKING .IS MYTHICAL ] }
Ack BID FOR SHIPPING BOARD
 BOATS UNDESIRABLE

WASHINGTON, D. C., June l2- A thorough investigation has conVinc- ed the shipping board, Chairman Las ker announced today, that there is no prospect that the bid of more than a billion dollars made by John W. Slack of Silver Creek, N Y, for the boards merchant fleet would ever be execut- ed if they were accepted.
 An inquiry was conducted by the shipping board in conjunction with the other government departments which MT. Stack has business transactions that the offer has been definitely class with, with the result, MT, Lasker said "it was but a summer dream"
 This conclusion will be ,communlcat- ed to the special committee on the shipping board now sitting in New York and before which Mir. Slack has been invited. The Silver Creek bidder will be free, the chairman said to ap- pear and give any further details or his proposal and backing that he may desire.
Seward daily gateway., 1923-06-13
PARTY OF ENGINEERS
 LEAVE: SEATTLE. F. .-' .:.'SATURDAY
STANDARD OIL COMPANY WILL RUSH CONSTRUCTION OF
 PLANT AT SEWARD

Word was received here today that a party of Standard Oil Engineers will leave Seattle on the Alameda. Saturday, en route to Seward to su- perintend the erection of the Standard Oil dock, buildings and tanks. It was stated that work would be rushed on erecting the plant, and it would be ready for business before fall.
 Recent arrivals from Seattle state that this company has greatly in creased its proposed capacity, tank of 10000 barrels capacity being built to hold fuel oil, and two two million gallons tanks being erected to hold distillate and gasoline. Other tanks will be erected for kerosene, and by products, a full line of greases and oils being handled.
 Officials of the Resurrection Bay Lumber Company, which has the con- tract to furnish materials for the buildings, announce that deliverey will start immediately.
 If this company builds according to expectations it will furnish work TOT a large number of carpenters and la borers.
Seward daily gateway., 1923-06-13
IOWA. PAIR GU UILTYrOF .......-.-.,.... .o . LODGING INCOME TAXES


 DUBUQUE, Iowa, June 13-A A. and w. F. Cooper, wealthy Dubuque manufacturers and businessmen, were found guilty on three counts of con spiracy indictment which charged them with making false and fraudu-- lent income tax return during the years 1918, 1919, and 1920 by federal court jury here last night.
 Conviction of the Coopers on the conspiracy charge means that the government may proceed with. the col lection of about $750.O00 in income, e1 cess profits and war profits, and pen alties and fines. It also means that the Coopers are liable to imprisonment