The Connecticut labor news., 1923-08-25
Unrestricted Immigration Lost
 Admits Iron Age, Steel Trade Organ

no tendency to decrase m price, Why?
 This is the question that Gov. McMaster of South Dakota set out to answer. He was the first to investi- gate the matter and do something about 1t. Finding that gasoline cost IA cents wholesale and 25 cents re- at Mitchell to sell gasoline to the public at I6 cents a gallon The in- dependent companies at once lowered their price to 22 cents.
 All of which suggests that perhaps the retail dealers of South Dakota are more responsible for keeping up the price of gasoline than the producers The same suspicion attaches to retail dealers Tn other sections of the coun- try. Until a price war beagn, insti- tuted by Governor McMasters' ac- ton, the wholesale price of gasoline was about the same everywhere, yet the. retail prices remained at about the level prevailing in South Dakota before Governor McMaster decided to see what he could do about the sit- uation
 Little intelligence has been shown in all the billions of words that have been poured out on the, anthracite coal question
 Words, words, words-but almost no ideas or thought behind them. A typical instance is the advice of the Joint Special Coal Investigation Com mIttee of Massachusetts that New England boycott anthracite coal in the event of strike
 Knowing that anchracite coal is vir-@ tually necessity and that to abandon its use would be step backward, the only advice the Massachusetts com mittee can give Is to refuse to use hard coal! Suppose New England fol- lowed this advice, using bituminous coal exclusively, and they should be a strike of soft coal miners Where would New England be then? Alp parently the coal committee never gave this phase of the situation a thought.
 2 If all the committees and organi- cations Investigating" and talking about the coal situation were to de- mand and obtain justice for the miners, there would be no need of urging futile boycott or handing out fool advice Continuous coal pro- duction would then be assured, with satisfaction to the miners and the consuming public, if not to the mine owners.
 Is the United States Constitution Unconstitutional"
 Apparently the United States Cir cult Court of Appeals, sitting in Chi cago, holds that the foregoing ques- ton should be answered by an em- phatic 'sYes"
 n-a ;e Id from the action of the court in de- CTS, accused of violating the Daugh- erty injunction, are not entitled to trial by jury. This despite the fact that the sixth amendment to the United States Constitution provides hat in all criminal prosecutions the shall enjoy the right to speedy and public trial by an impar- -ial- jury"
 No wonder the people are losing respect for the courtsl
 
 Yes, the railroads have no deficits. With few exceptions, their earnings for the first six months of this year made a substantial gain over the same period in 1922.
 As shown by figures made public by the American Railway Associa- ion, net operating income of Class railroads for the first half of 1923 an annual rate of 5.64 on their tentative valuation This compares with rate of 4-53 in the period last year.
 Yet some of the railroads which report such excellent earnings are still fighting their shopmen on the plea that they can't afford to pay the wages the men demand. Which in 10 not lack nerve. !"
 In his last public speech, made at Seattle, President Harding made ,lea to save Alaska from those who would exploit her resources so reck- essly and greedily as to ruin them.
 Against a program of ruinous ex- ,loitation we must stand firmly" said dr Harding, and, "our adopted pro- ,ram must be development of Alaska for the Alaskans"
 It's a safe bet that only constant will save Alaska from he exploiters, as. the birds who would urn the territory's lumber and min ng resources into cash without re- ard to future generations are al- rays "on the job" and never lose an pportunity to advance their plans. resident Harding evidently 1sensed 1e danger from the reckless sQuan- erers of natural resources and en- eavored to warn the people against lem. It is to be -hoped that the arning will be needed
 
 The. Tacoma Ledger spikes in few ords the labored arguments of the teel Trust in favor of letting down le immigration bars The Ledger lys:
 "If the Steel Corporation or any