The Connecticut labor news., 1923-12-08


 "The President has capitulated to big business His message will cause as much joy in Wall street as 1t will cause grief among the rank and file of the people. He seems to have bid entirely for the support of republican convention (which big business is now obligated to select for him." The democrats in Con gross while disappointed at the lack of progressive spirit by the President are silently elated because in his fail-- nre they see great hopes of demo cratic success at the polls next year
 How subservient to Big Business: was the President is shown in his at- tack on the soldiers bonus plan and his whole-hearted swallowing of the Mellon tax reduction scheme which everyone knows is simply the wishes 'of capital to relieve the tax on big urearned incomes and saddle the bur- den of carrying the government on the man of small income who earns 1t either by sweat of brow or equally hard tasks
 As to Soviet Russia the President again falls right into Wall streets maw when he declares against any recognition until that land of turmoil acknowledges it's obligations, in. oth- CT words pays up to Caapital the money capital here put up to the czar and his government crowd to carry on the war which disrupted the country. When Wall street gets back its private loan then Russia can knock at our doors, says the President, and Wall street adds Amen" He got a rise out of Sen. Frank B. Brandegee of Connecticut by advocating the joining of the World Court, the sen- ator being one of the irreconcilab1es Tn Congress who want nothing to do with Europe in any ofrm- But like a good old stand pat republican Frank says the message IS all right if the proper reservations, whatever they can be are put on as a string to go- ing into the world court
 President Coolidge also favored the consolidation of railroads so that the capitalistic crowd could squeeze out the little fellows and gobble up the entire transportation facilities of the country. Again he didn't make much of hit with his own party who see in such move eventually govern ment ownership which they most assuredly do not want How he fits with the rank and file of the railroad workers can be foreseen when he de- clares boldly that the Railroad Labor Board should be let severely alone. Wall street, whose servant the board has become, agrees with him natur- ally.
 The farm blocs in the Congress got a wallop that they haven't recovered from yet sufficiently to resent The President bluntly told the farmers to go hang themselves with their trou- oles and solve them themselves. Of course he felt sorry for them but what ,an a poor President do when cap tai cracks its whip.
 The army and navy forever waves he President in advocating the in- :rease in number and force of both services despite the fact that every worker in the country is sick of war md all it's ills, even to maintaining m army. He would do even more, le would increase the coast guard orces with the special intent of en- orcing prohibition by. stopping He doesn't advocate us- ng the army and navy on land and ca but that would be the next natur- I step and might easily lead to a military dictatorship over the coun- ".
 Incidentally he wants the President ,iven power over coal strikes, Cliff ,inchot of Pennsylvania having got en. altogether too much credit for lezding off the recent threatened rouble in the mines.
 On the whole the message is a dis inct disappointment here.