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The Connecticut labor news., 1924-09-20

setts and Wisconsin but in all three States were permitted to operate many of the dangerous machines.
 Accident figures reflected this differ ence i'll legal protection Power-work- ing machinery caused larger percent age of the accidents to the 16 and I7 year olds than to children under 16- protected by law-or to younk workers between IS and 21-better able to pro- tect themselves.
 Accidents were also more serious 10 the 16 and 17 year group than to either the younger or older workers Of the injuries to workers under 16, 1079o re- suited in death or partial disablement for life For those I6 and 17 years old who were injured the rate was 13.446 killed or permanently disabled; for the group 1S-21 years the rate was 12.7S6.
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President John w. Murphy of the aldermen, warmly backed up Mir. Crawford and declared 1t has already been shown that it Is almost humanly impossible for one man to operate the big cars and do the work of conductor also. The passenger paying fare IS en- titled to protection and safety and he vigorously opposed the plan to extend the system as the company intends Frank A. OMeara of Hartford, chair man of the trolleymens conference board, opposed the plan from the view point of the trolleymen as did Fred Walker, president of the local trolley mems union, and Hugh Reilly, mem
 Der of the executive committee.
 Manager Punderford declared the proposed ordinance had been originated by the trolleymens union and that the union had employed Attorney Craw ford to present it. He declared the city has no jurisdiction and speaking from the standpoint of the employees warned them that 1t is better for them to have one-man cars and employment than no cars at all and no employment either. He admitted that the plan was in tended to reduce the companys pay roll, but when asked by Chairman
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place on it himself as a starter, even though he is a democratic chairman ot one of New Haven's wards. He then asked Delegate John H. Casey of the typographical union, who had been strenuously declaiming for LaFollette to act on the committee but MT. Casey found that he was too busy to serve. Then the chairman suggested John Ii. Dunn of the holders, another democra- tic ward chairman who has joined the LaFollette supporters but MT. Dunn couldn't see his way clear either to act on the committee. He declared he was doing his bit by spreading the gospel of LaFolletism over the state and thought that was enough for him to do.
 Delegate Pede of the cigarmakers, a socialist packer of the Wisconsin pro- phet accepted a place on the commit tee as did John Strachan of the car penters and finally Chairman Fitzgerald succeeded in getting together a com mittee of five which promised to help along the efforts of Senator LaFollette to have himself chosen president of he United States.
 All of which was not very pleasing to State Chairman Tator as 1t wasn't at all the spirit that the expected the coun- cil to show following its reported en- Gorsement of the candidates month of so ago. It showed him plainly that Or ganized Labor men in New Haven are not enthusiastic over LaFollette al though a small number of "spouters" have made noise that sounded as if Labor was a unit behind him. He ac cepted what was offered gracefully how ever, deciding that few crumbs were better than not slice of the loaf at all but it was plainly evident that he was disappointed by the lack of enthuiasm shown.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-09-20
P. 0. EMPLOYES TO KEEP UP FIGHT FOR
 INCREASED SALARIES
All Mail Organizations Unite to Make Determined Effort to Pass Bill
 Vetoed By President.

That the affiliated organizations of postal employees are determined to carry on their fight to have Senate Bill 1898 enacted into law despite President Coolidge's veto is evident by the stand taken at an executive board meeting of the National Association of Letter Carriers, the National Fedora ton of Postoffice Clerks, the Railway Mail Association and the National League of District Postmasters. The bill Is now before the Senate as un-
 finished business and while President Coolidge has inferred to unauthorized representatives of affiliated body that he might sign a bill scientifically drawn the affiliated bodies will con tinue their efforts along the lines sug- gested above. That they will have the support of many members of the Sen ate and House is evident by the state ment of Congressman O'Su1livan of Derby as published in the Union Pos tal Clerk of September as follows:
 Connecticut Representative Predicts
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NEW IMMIGRATION LAW (Continued from Page One)

same period last year from Great Bri- tain and Ireland.
 It is anticipated that immigration will grow in volume during the coming months of this year, since there was de- lay in beginning operations under the new law.
 Out of quota of 34,007, Great Brit ain and Northern Ireland have obtained according to last reports, 1854 immi- grant visas.
 The largest number of visas has been granted in Germany, the total being l. 868. Sweden has obtained 1,493 and the Irish Free State, which has a separate quota under the new law, 737.
 Italy, which had sent 14,716 inmi- grants to the United States in July and August last year, had received only 7 immigrants visas at the time the last report was made to the Labor Depart ment.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-09-20
Fighting of Wrong Done by Presidential Veto.
By Patrick B. OSullivan.

Where facts are self-evident, they demand no proof. They are accepted in their utterance. So apparently mer- itorious have been the demands of the postal employees that the American public has scarcely asked for the proof. As evidence of this almost unanimous approval on the part of our people, the thousands of letters bear witness which were addressed to the recent Congress beseeching a stand of hrmness for cause to which almost all of us felt ourselves solemnly pledged. 1 recall no measure before the recent session concerning which more people were Interested. This must have been due solely to the feeling of indebtedness which is owed the postal employe. Be- cause of this outspoken expression by men in every walk of life and in num- bers which were staggering, 1t IS all the more extraordinary that the clos ing days of the Congress should wit ness the events that presidential veto brought about It seems unbelievable that the pagan philosophy of placing higher value to the saving of dollars than to the happiness of human beings should temporarily prevail If the President was sincere in the veto mes sage, he was, at least, unjust in his ac- complishments. The members of Con- gTess will waste little time at the next session in reversing the judgment of the Chief Magistrate. If there is any mistake to be made where the scales are in balance, would by far prefer to err on the side of assisting men and women in obtaining their just dues and the comfort and happiness to which every human being is entitled.
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cal Union never endorsed any party or person and what authority these two delegates to the council had in voting such support remains a mystery to the other members.
 Come on, jobbers, attend the meet ings of your local and show some spirit and endeavor to curb such matters as these. The next meeting will be held Sunday, September 28, a week from tomorrow. Turn out and see w1at you think of the doings there. More anon.
 Very respectfully,
 AN OLD PRINT.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-09-20

heated or cooled as weather condic1nos may require.
 Collisions or accidents will be made impossible and perfect outside control will be possible.
 Pilots and passengers will sit in roomy luxurious cars, surrounded by every convenience. They will be able to scrutinize every inch of the road way ahead of them a hundred miles, and back of them if they wish.
 The quiet of the interior of their cars will enable them to enjoy the music of an opera being sung in Eu-. rope and to watch the scene and the action on the stage where 1t is sung.
 People will be in communication with their friends and relatives of great distances. They will see them and speak softly to them and they will be seen and receive replies.
 Dreaming? Yes, dreaming a dream of day after tomorrow and it will come true.'
 One could elaborate endlessly on the coming of the inventions that will make this possible and not go far astray..
 Power, a new super power, will do all this. It will revo1utionize the whole world and do it quickly. It will do more in five years than the discovery of steam did in the past hundred.
 You are invited to sit with us and think for five minutes about what has happened by way of mechanical in ventions and electric devices in the past 50 years-that is if we can spare that much time from the baseball score and the thrilling adventures of Mutt and Gump.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-09-20
Accidents Kill and Iniure Child Toilers
 In Three States

By International Labor News Service
 Washington, D. C., Sept s20.-Seven thousand four hundred and seventy eight industrial accidents to young workers under 21 years of age occurred in one year in three States, according to study just completed by the Chil- dren's Bureau of the United States De partn1ent of Labor.
 Thirty-eight of these accidents re- suited in death and go in partial dis ablement for life.
 Wisconsin, Massachusetts and New Jersey were the States included in the study The cases of industrial acci dents to minors were only those III which compensation had been paid; that is, in Wisconsin, accidents causing dis Massachusetts and New Jersey, acci- dents causing disability of more than 10 days duration.
 The smallest number of accidents and the lowest accident rate ocurred in the case of children under 16, Each of the States studied had attempted to protect children of this age by prohibiting them from employment in certain occupations, chiefly in the operation of the more dangerous machinery, which is the source of greatest industrial hazard to the young worker.
 Children of 16 and 17 were prohibited from some employments in Massachu
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-09-20
PLEASE DREAM A
 MINUTE
By FRANK E. WOLFE Written for International Labor News
 Service.)

A few days ago a man flew from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific coast.
 The flight was made in the course of one day, and nearly all in the day light
 Heavy headwinds and dangerous crosswinds, fogs and rains hindered and checked his progress yet he made it.
 The flyer ate two meals that day one in New York, the other i'll Cali fornia.
 The same day a Frenchman broke the worlds speed record by flying 55l miles per hour.
 A few years ago the Wright Broth CTS were hopping off the ground at Kittyhawk and wondering if they were going to get the machine they had evolved to make sustained fight
 A few years hence we shall be able to make the coast to coast flight ln half the time that Maughan con- stunned.
 A little later we shall see that ef- fort again ec1psed by land machines doubling the speed and adding more certainty and absolute safety.
 In other words, with utmost ease, comfort and safety, passengers will make the journey from coast to coast in a few hours and they will not leave the surface of the earth
 They will skim over roads as smooth as plate glass, pleasingly colored and
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NEW IS BLAMED
Continued from Page One)

House, who vetoed the measure that Congress and the public approved overwhelmingly.
 MT. News suggestion to the pub fishers was plainly an attempt to frighten them from any future espousal of the wage objective of the postal employees, He was trying in this in direct way to hamper the postal work CTS by depriving them of the oppor- tunity to reach their employees through the medium of the newspa- pers."
 Woll criticised the action of the President in vetoing the bill on the ground of needed curtaihnent of postal expenses.
 ''The Coolidge bogey of tremend ous deficit" he said 'was simply an other fgment of the imagination to de feat the postal employees efforts to rasie their pay standards"
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-09-20
OPEN SHOP COAL
 OPERATORS START
 ANOTHER BATTLE
West Virginia Mines Again Threaten To Be Scene Of
 Conflict.

CIarksburg, w. Va, Sept. 20.-An-
 other conflict between capital and labor
 is brewing in the Central West Virginia
 coal region It is based on the old ques-
 ton of the open shop. Already, accord ing to non-union coal operators, the
 struggle has resulted in much destruc-
 ton of property through the blowing up and burning of Triples, the destruc- ton of mine houses and the damage of interior mine workers.
 On the one side are arrayed the open shop coal operators, the most of them formerly in the union field who have severed contract relations with the unions. It is declared the present union wage scale is too high to permit profit able operation of mines with the pre- sent coal marketing conditions.
 These operators are organizing the Central West Virginia Coal Operators Association. A State charter has been obtained and organization steps are un- der way a special committee being out working in the field enlisting members who are operating mines on the open shop basis in Harrison, Marion, Monon galia, Taylor, Braxton, Upshur, Bar bour, Lewis, Randolph, Preston, Nicho- las and Clay counties. Two meetings have already been held, and, awaiting a report of the special membership com- rnittee, another meeting will be held here soon to perfect the organization by electing officers.
 On the other side is arrayed the mi ners' union, or the United Mine Work CTS of America, which got foothold in this section several years ago when the big Consolidation Coal Company forsook the open-shop basis and signed a union contract All the other opera tors followed suit. For years previous ly the mines of this section had been operated on the open-shop basis The union organizers were kept out of the field
 The Miners Union finally organized the field fully and there was scarcely an open shop plant in this section. When the depression of the coal in dustry, following the wartime prosper ity, many had to shut down. Then fln- ally they began to drift away from the union. Here and there operations on the open shop basis were attempted The union organizers were kept busy.
 Finally the drift to the open shop be- came such that extraordinary steps had to be taken by the Miners Union. The International organization took cognl- zance of the situation and lately has sent special corps of international field workers and organizers into this section. They are holding big mass meetings, usually on Sundays, at diff ferent places in the region. One held at Monongan had some 10000 men, wo- men and children present. An equally large crowd attended one at Gypsy, and another at Reynoldsville. Other big meetings have been held at various places in the region in and around Clarksburg, Fairmont and MorgantoWn.
 These meetings are still Ill progress as part of what is described as a gl- gantic intensive diver on the part of the union through its international organ1- zation to unionize all the plants in the Northern and Central coal field of the State.
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DEMOCRATS NAME
Continued from Page One.)

Atty, Harry L. Brooks of New Haven
 FOR SECRETARY OF STATE John A. Markham of Hartford
 FOR TREASURER
 William s. Meany of Greenwich
 FOR COMPTROLLER
 James R. May of New London
 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS
 Rollin U. Tyler of Haddam.
 Philip Tfoup of New Haven.
 Ernest o. Wagner of Salisbury. Mary Mitchell of New London.
 Dora Egan of Waterbury,
 Mary C. Summer of Hartford
 The convention was opened with a ringing speech by Congressman P. B. O'Sullivan of Derby in which he didn't hesitate to call things by their right name, denounced the Kan emphatical1y, declared for amendment to the Volstead law, showed up the grafters at Wash ington and in fact laid down keynote that has seldom if ever been surpassed Ill Connecticut political history, now even in the days of the brilliant orators like Tom Waller, George P. Mclean and others of the old school. It was not one of those stand pat harangues such as was delivered by his fellow congress- man Schuyler Merritt to the republicans the week before. It made hit not only with those who heard 1t but the press of the state, even those politically opposed, admitting that the address was a work of art
 There was no disturbance or hesitan- cy on the part of the resolutions com mittee in drafting a platform which al
 John C. Cornell of Bridgeport. so departed from staid party lines and declared emphatically the political be- liefs of the democracy. It denounced the Klan by name, advocates many pro- gressive labor measures and contained a measure for anti-child labor legisla- These are detailed in another column.
 On the child labor proposal Mrs. Josepha Whitney of New Haven did not think the plank emphatic enough and presented minority report in which she advocated an out and out declara- ton for the passage of the proposed amendment. It was warm ly seconded by others and was passe1 by the convention as a whole with ac claim and was written into the party platform.
 The nominations were all unanimous, Mayor Albert Phillips of Starnfor1 who was expected to oppose the final nominee, not only doing so but second ing his nomination by Mayor FitzGer- aid of New Haven. The other nominees were picked in like manner not Wh1m- per of opposition to any arising and for once the democratic party in this state left its convention solidly united and ready to do battle with the foe.
 During the address of Chairman Sul- Iivan and later in the convention trl- bute was paid to the late Sheriff Tho mas L. Reilly and brief period of s1- Ience was devoted to his memory and a e n,mittee appointed to draft suitable resolutions and present them to his family.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-09-20
THE PALACE

Pulsating with that ever appealingly vibrant theme, mother love, The Spirit
 of the U. s. A, the much talked of
 and widely heralded> screen production
 canning to the Palace on Sunday, Mon
 day, Tuesday and Wednesday, is one or
 the most notable achievements of the American picture making industry
 The great production depicts story of the days when the United States was
 forced into the World War. Opening
 with realistic glimpses of the placid life
 of an American home in the valley of
 peace with home ties welding the family
 as one, the picture flashes on the screen
 series of domestic happenings and events that are the rays of sunshine
 proceeding the coming of the dark, threatening clouds of. trouble, sorrow and strife that cast their menacing sha-
 doWs over every home in our land dur ing those days when all the world saw
 red.
 Then quickly the home scenes vanish as the calls of the bugles awake great, powerful America from a peace-loving nation into a responsive host standing shoulder to shoulder in readiness to fight for the cause of civilization, for the relief of the oppressed and the safety of democracy
 Mary Carr and Johnny Walker are the stars of the cast, "The Spirit of the U. $. Az bringing the two together for first time since that memorable produc- tion Over the Hill" The stars are in turn supported by one of the largest casts assembled for a motion picture drama.
 Flo Lewis is a comedianne and in being a comedienne she is an artist as any person at all familiar with stage 1 lane will testify. Miss Lewis moulds in song, story and personality just as finely as a sculptor does in clay. She has new vehicle this season which IS called From Burnheart to Heartburn" and 1t fits the comedienne's abilities like glove. Every Palace goer is sure to be delighted with this headline attraction.
 Everybody who sees vaudeville and l everybody in vaudeville knows the Arm naut Brothers, those incomparab1e en- tertainers with the acrobatic bodies, the violins and the whistles. For three of [ it's biggest seasons they were stars at the New York Hippodrome when the spectacular productions of this house we - world famous.
 The bill offers another feature act in the Fletcher and Clayton Revue, min iature musical comedy introducing sextette of speciality entertainers whose work forms an ideal vaudeville offer ing. Songs and dances with just a dash of comedy all relieved by a novelty background fills out the routine of this really charming revue.
 IL, an out c,f the ordinary arrange ment of songs and dances, which they choose to call Youthful Ideas" Irene Martin and Rulline Francis have part and thoroughly pleasing vehicle. Talent and the joy of youth play the great part in this act The Plaza Brothers are Spanish athletes who have made spe- cialty of hand balancing until they are positive sensation in this section of ii gymnastics.
 There will be a complete change his Palace bill on Thursday. f
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-09-20

$, You remember the gloves I bought the other day?" began the annoyed GUS toner. You said they'd last me two years"
 "Yes, madam" replied the saleswo- man.
 "Well, I lost them," said the GUS toner. What are you going to do about it?"
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-09-20
Indestructible

structible?
 Clerk-Yes, to be sure
 Customer-I'll take one of this size. Clerk-Better take two; you might break one.-Good Hardware.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-09-20
He Must Be We'll Trained

Ashe-So your brother has got job as an artist on newspaper?
 Beeche-Yes, he draws the crosses on the pictures to show where the crimes were committed.-London Answers
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-09-20

Miss Watson: Give me a sentence with the word 'picaniny."
 Huck Finn: Down South here they pick up lot of cotton. Up North they ain't pickin' anyp'
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-09-20
That Would Be Sad

What could be more sad," said the scoolmistress, than man without a country?'
 "A country without a man," answered
Putnam patriot., 1924-04-11
Y CONFERENCE APR. is
Boys of County to Gather as Plain
 field For Annual Event

At Plainfield next week Saturday there will be held the second annual Older Boys Conference under the aus pices of the Windhsm County Y. NJ (. A. The purpose of the conference is to las before the thoughtful older boys of Windham County the great challenge that life presents to them and also the wonderful opportunities of advancement and service which life holds for them.
 The number of boys who may at tend from any given community Is not limited. There are two provisions, however. The first is. all delegates must be fourteen years of age or over second. each delegation of seven boys or less must be accompanied by an adult leader.
 A very interesting program has been arranged. the principal speakers being J. B. Palmer of Hartford, and F. P. Conlon, State Boys Work Secre- tary of New Hampshire.
 One of the features of the gathering will be the swimming contests to be held in the pool of the Community House. There will be 20 yard free style; 20 yard back stroke; 20 yard breast stroke; 60 yard swim. free style: so yard relay race. four men to a team; underwater swim and fancy diving contest. Ribbons will be awarded tc the winners of first, second and third places.