The Connecticut labor news., 1924-12-06
BY THE WAY
Comment and Criticism About Things
 Doing in the World.

IuaTd III Congress prOCla1rnS. Daily the people are regaled with Old Guard plans for giving the grand bounce to all Progressives in Con gress. Old Guard newspapers are ex- horting Republican leaders to keep a stiff upper lip and proceed ruthless1y with the canning" Apparently there is great fear that the Republican lead CTS are afraid to tackle the job of ex- polling the rebels from the c. O. P. ranks and 1t is hoped to instill them with sufficient courage to take de cisive action.
 Meanwhile the people are not show ing any wild interest in the plots to suppress the Congressional Progress sives. The people are showing a much keener interest in what the dominant party plans to do in the field of 1egis1a- ton. They believe that the party lead CTS can better expend their energy in shaping legislation, for the benefit of the nation than in schetning to put the skids" under members of Con gress who have always stood for the interests of the producers.
 It looks very much as if the Old Guard was riding for good, hard fall Unduly pufed up by the Coolidge vic tory. the Old Guard IS hoping to pun ish all who do not stand for its re- actionary policies In planning this campaign the Old Guard will very like 1y overreach itself and get bad tun- b1e. As the Bible says, Pride goeth before a fall"
 American critics of British bullying of helpless Egypt might do we'll to remember that only recently the United States indu1ged in a choice bit of bullying herself.
 Two men alleged to have been i1n- plicated in the murder of Vice Consul Imbrie at Teheran, Persia. were found guilty and sentenced to life imprison- ment. Despite the fact the life inn prisonment IS the punishment for mur-
 
 country demanded in peremptory tones that the two men be punished with death. Persia compiled and the men were executed One wonders if the same demand would have been made on a strong nation, such as France or Japan The chances are that If either France or Japan had chosen to punish slayers of an American citizep with life imprisonment, as large part of the United States does, Wash ington would have sent no demand for the in1iction of the death penalty.
 Bullying by the United States does not of course excuse the. conduct of Great Britain toward Egypt The action of Great Britain IS on par with the bullying of China by Germany after the assas ssinat1on of two German matum sent to Serbia by Austria after the murder of Archduke Francis Fer dinand at Sarajevo. As the New York World points out, the British govern ment has used 7f1 assassination in Egypt as the Germans and the Aus trians used assassinations, for the pres of political demands and the achievement of results which diplomacy has been unable to accomplish.
 "The same forces are not necessarily present in the background" says the World But III so far as there IS precedent for this event, 1t promises England Egypt and the rest of us small reward
 The Russell Sage Foundation, in an exhaustive report on public and pri- rate employment offices, says that the transfer from one section of the coun ry to another of workers or of men going to new jobs in increasing num- ,ers is an unrooting of home and com | nunity relationships that should be 1 ooked upon with concern This IS a. ,oint often brought out by organized 1 abor
 In the past it has been the custom o talk very loosely about shipping nen from one part of the country to mother. as though they were merely | attle or commodities; and as though | he desirability of shipment from an industrial and social point of view we're unprecedented.
 Fortunately this viewpoint is chang ng and organized labor can justly take :. large share of the credit for the