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The Connecticut labor news., 1924-01-05
Action Up to Congress.

To clinch this policy there should be inserted in future public works ap- propriation bills clause allowing the amount of work begun in any year to be adjusted inversely to the volume of general business, MT. Mallery as- serted. The appropriations should be made available over a hve-year period. Another useful step would be to as semble all the scattered public works agencies in one department, as con templated in the government reor- ganization plan approved by President Coolidge.
 Since the aggregate public works of towns IS vastly more important than that of the federal government he added, the city official must act bold ly as public man, not as private citizen He must have the vision to build when the business man IS not building and to slow down when the business man Is in high gear.
 Until Joseph set up reserve of grain in years of plenty to protect the Egyptians against years of famine, the people suffered whenever crop shortage occurred" Mir. Mallery con cluded Until our towns, states and federal government set up a reserve on public works in boom years to give employment during lean years, the people of the United States will continue to suffer periodically as they suffered in Io2I."
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-01-05
NATION TO PAY IF CHILDREN
 ARE NOT PERMITTED TO PLAY

lionized The minimum wage ,or least wage paid to any worker. Is 72 cents per hour The Chicago brick are the cheapest in the country, selling for SIP per thousand. The man labor hours per 1000 brick is one hour and ifty-six minutes. In Florida brick is still made by the old hand method. The workers have no union. Their man labor hours per 1000 brick is from IA to 16 hours. The highest wages paid in the country for mak- ing brick is living wage, paid in Chicago and IS the cheapest labor"
 1 merely mention this to show that such workers need more leisure and play, but they can never get 1t nor can they be helped by recreation or ganizations until such ancient and wasteful methods of manufacturing are abolished.
 We desire that the children of this nation be taken out of industry and permitted to play If we don't, the nation will pay. We tried to take them out by national legislation, but the United States Supreme Court has decreed that they must remain in industry and be deprived of play un- til, perhaps, the constitution IS amended, very slow process, or un- til public sentiment IS asserted strong ly enough to force the change. How unlike Lincoln Is our United States Supreme Court of today! That great patriot of Illinois and of this nation said, We are for the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict be- tween the two, we are for the man before the dollar" How would Lin- coin, if he were with us, express him. self on this evil of the child in indus try today, who will reflect America tomorrow In the United States one child out of every 12-and for some states one child out of every four is a child laborer.
 Over 100000 children from TO to I6 years of age are working in the United States in factories, mills, can neries, agriculture, mines and other industries and occupations. Nearly 400, 900 of them are between 10 and IA years of age.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-01-05

appear that they are able to adapt their system to the changing needs of the moment. The truth is that they simply hand out new names for de- velopmens that are taking place against their will and against their intentions. Their doings in Russia never had anything whatever to do with socialism or communism. If now, because of the new economic policy they are throwing aside the communist labels to which they form erly held so fast for propagandist reasons, they are doing this in order to set aside these purely verbal ob- structions to the economic develop economic improvement they are hop gime can be heightened. It is entire ly in accord with the parasitical char acter of the entire Bolshevist system that, in order to accomplish this pur- pose, it does not hesitate to deliver over to foreign capital the most inn portant values of the country. But it is this very parasitical character which makes absurd the hope which is oc- casionally expressed in Western Eu- rope and in Germany that the Bol- shevist regime, by surrendering all of its communist methods, can develop a going economic system. The para sitica1 organism is not capable of creative effort. It is forced to de vour all germs of positive policy of production in order to keep itself alive If an effort were made to set aside this parasitism, there would van ish herewith the foundation of the rule of Bolshevist dictators and it would disappear. This impossibility thattheBilshevist system may heal it. self from within must be understood in Germany"
 The above statement is the result of five years of close observation on the part of leading radical thinker of Russia's nearest and most inn portant neighbor. It deserves atten- ton on that account, but it can also stand on is own very evident merits.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-01-05
MILLS SLACKEN IN NEW ENGLAND
Federal Department Report On the
 Cotton Industry Shows Big Slump.

Washington, Jan. 5-The temper ary slackening in cotton textile manu- featuring in New England is revealed in a report from the department of commerce. The report, which is for the country as whole, states that last month cotton consumption toal- ed 531,63I bales, as agains 54I,825 in October, and 57o,Ioo bales in Novem- Der, 1922. Prices of cotton goods av- eraged higher in November, it was stated.
 Stocks of cotton held by mills and warehouses on November 30 totaled 5,2Io.ooo bales, compared with s. o22, ,ooo bales held at the end of No vember a year ago.
 The wholesale price of cotton aver aged s cents per pound for Novem- Der, 30 cents in October and 25H cents year ago.
 The United States civil service com mission announces an open competi- tive examination to be held January 26, 1924, to fill the position of post master at Baltic. ..-
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-01-05
Adoption by Congress of Federal Policy of Advance Planning of Pub lie Works Urged-Plans for Steady Employment in Use of American Industries Described.

Washington, Jan. 6:-Adoption by Congress of a federal policy of ad- vance planning of public works IS es- sential as an aid in combating re- curing cycles of unemployment, and the enactment by the state of unem- ployment insurance laws Is needed to giv euniversal effect to plans for sta bilizing employment already in use in American industries according to speakers at the I7th annual meeting of the American Association for La bor Legislation in. the New Willard Hotel here last week
 Otto T. Mallery of the Presidents Conference on Unemployment de- clared that if all the towns in the United States had cut their public works during the boom year of 1923, the lessened demand for men and ma terials would have reduced the cost of building to private individuals.
 Only few towns" he said, Gre membered the recommendation of the Presidents Conference on Unemploy- ment to go slow on public works in good times and to expand them in hard times as a reserve against un- employment. The one great practical achievement of 1923 was by the fed eral government. As a result of Sec retary Hoover's letter to President Harding advising a curtailment o1 construction. no new federal work was begun which could be postponed. Thus not only was high cost of con struction avoided by the government but every citiren benefited who was free from federal competition for the same men and materials. There is therefore a large volume of public wok left to do when slack business year shall come"
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-01-05
1rregua1r Work Hits Consumers.

Discussing the social cost of irregu- lar employment in mining coal Hor- ace B. Drury of the Institute of Eco monies said that the bituminous coal
 mines fthe United States work on an average only 70 per cent of full time year and that this is due to bad l management. @ "1t Is not because mine can not
 work every day." he declared, "for in 1913 9 per cent and in 1916, I2 per cent of the bituninous mines worked
 as many as 300 days It is not be- cause bituminous coal mining is in its nature seasonal, for the consumption of bituminous coal is fairly indepen- dent of the seasons. It IS in the main mere lack of correlation between pro-
 duction, transportation and consump- ton including the opening of more
 mines than could possibly be used, which keeps the average mine from opearting more than about four full days a week"
 According to Mr.. Drury, if the op-
 eration of bituminous coal mines were
 regularized 1t would mean that at I least 100000 men could either be used
 to produce more coal or be transfer
 red to other industries. "1n these days" he said, when many industries have complained of a
 shortage of labor, due to the curtail- ment of immigration, wastage of
 the labor of I6o,o or POO, ,ooo men in single industry IS not to be dismiss ed lightly. Further, and more import ant the earnings of the whole body of bituminous miners could be increased 20 per cent, the cost of coal to the consumer could be reduced by 10 per cent, and the operators could make profits on 40 pc rcent. longer operat- ing time-all through no other reform sthan the regularization of mine opera tion."
 The most important step that must| be taken to bring about the continu- ous operation of soft coal mines, Mir. Drury said, would be the develop ment of some principle by which ev- CT ycoa 1operator opening minel would guarantee to every workerl coming to that mine certain mini mum compensation, both on days of actual operation and on days of shut downs"
 The details of such a plan, MT. Drury asserted, could be so arranged that no increase in wage cost would be involved. On the contrary, an ar engagement is feasible which could be counted on materially to decrease wage cost, at the same time that it increased earnings.
 Probably no other waste in the coal industry" he concluded, com pares in either its financial or social cost with the waste of mems lives and working capacity through irregu- lar employment. Certainly, there IS no other waste which, if men would only turn their wills towards its con quest, could so cheaply be elinin- ated."
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-01-05

laborers and peasants of the Soviet Republics were one of the huger forces constituting the Communist International
 This IS great truth.
 The mutual solidarity of the Sow jet Republics and the Communist In ternational is an accomplished fact of everyday reality. In the same degree. as the existence and the stability of Soviet Russia are of importance to the Third International-the strength -ening and the development of the Communist International is of great moment to Soviet Russia In the past the international has helped Russia to beat off the attacks of world cap ital In the future it's assistance will be still more effective. Any success attained by the Communist Interna- tional will strengthen the political and economic position of Soviet Russia, and vice versa. The spiritual moral, and material connection between these two undertakings is based on complete community of interests
 Gro Be Continued Next Week.)
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-01-05
HERE ARE THE HARD FACTS.
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(Continued from Page Six.) be to revolutionize the unions, to transform them into a weapon of SOC ial revolution by means of the every day struggle in favor of all the revo- lutionary demands put forward by the workers within the old trade unions. To conquer the unions means to conquer the masses. The sooner the trade unions change from pure and simple craft organizations into revolutionary class conscious unions, the sooner they will reach one form of organization and one method of fighting. To hasten this process is the main problem of the followers of the Red Labor International"
 FACT NO. I2.
 One of the favorite tricks of So- viet agents and apologists is to say that the Soviet government is not re- sponsible for the acts of the Red Labor Union International, the Third 1nternationale and other organiza- tions having names which appear to convey separate identity.
 There is the closest unity between all of the Soviet organizations, and operations with independent respon- sibility. At the top stands the little close corporation known as the "Po- litbureau." Subordinate to this are all of the other organizations includ- ing the Soviet government, the Red Labor Union International and the Communist International Tn it's is- sue No. 252, November 7, 1922, Iz- vestia official communist organ, con- tains the following explicit authentic statement:
 "The close organic and spiritual connection between the Soviet repub- lie, the product of the October revo- 1ution, and the Communist Interna- tional cannot be doubted. And even if this connection had not been ad- mitted many times by both sides, it would be clear to everybody as an established fact. This is well under stood both by ourselves and by our enemies.
 "In his concluding speech at the fourth session of the central executive Comrade Kalinin remark ed that in summing up the power wielded by the Third International the Soviet Federation was an item of tremendous importance and that the
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-01-05
Stablizing Employment
Steady Work Guaranteed.

Plans in use in American industries to stabilize business through guaran- ted employment and unemployment insurance were described by Earl Dean Howard of Hart, Schafner & Marx, Chicago, and Fred C. Butler, manager of the Cleveland Garment Manufacturers Association.
 The plan adopted two and one ment industry" said MT. Butler, "is an ambulance at the foot of the cliff, but upon the erection of a fence at the top of it. The primary purpose of the Cleveland plan is the elimina- tion of seasonal unemployment through the device of offering an in centive to the only one who has it in his power even to attempt 1t, the em- ployer. So the manufacturers offer their workers reward for inceased production and the workers in turn offer their employers reward for in creased employment"
 MT. Butler declared that the Cleve- land unemployment fund has already cut down a considerable amount of seasonal unemployment.
 "The plan is simple and practical" !" he declared. "It is effective in it's incentive for the reduction of unem- ployment periods. It is fair in its 1imi- tation of the liability of the employer It remunerates the worker in accord ance with the amount of work given him. It guarantees the wage scale as between employers"
 Unemployment insurance laws which would cover all industries would be of great help in attacking unemployment on a national scale, said MT. Butler
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-01-05
Vice-President, Illinois Federation of
 Labor.
By AL TOWERS,

As boy, my playgrounds were that Missouri, where I spent a part of my boyhood days. Our playgrounds were private yards, where we broke windows and collected our pennies to pay for them, vacant lots filtered with ash heaps and tin cans, from which we were us ually driven by the police, and 8 very few spots in the public parks. With all of these handicaps there were many de voted tC outdoor games who never lost an opportunity to get into any game being played.
 | have seen most of those who were keen for play grow into strong men both physically and morally. I have seen many who did not take to these games either because of no leadership or because of the very limited oppor- tinity of that period develop vicious ha- bits and go to their graves before reach ing middle age.
 I, too, we'll remember that part of St. Louis known as Kerry Patch" More of the poorer Irish immigrants. It con sisted of small miserable shacks, goats and tin cans, with no place for play except the streets. Almost as babies the children were driven from the street by the police. They naturally believed that ff1e police were their enemies depriving them of lal freedom. AS result of the lack of plans and place or environment for play, many of the children took to petty mischief and to matching wits with the police. The police, often out witted, because desperate and no doubt were the cause of convicting those who ;n some instances were innocent, thus developing a bitter hatred between the police and the growing youth. It has been said that because of that condi- tion "Kerry Patch" developed more criminals per square acre than any other part of St. Louis. Was it because of criminal instinct or was 1t because of the lack of opportunity for better and fuller expression of life in that congest- ed district?
 Now, "Kerry Patch" in St Louis, is mo more. A great change has taken place There are two distinct reasons for the change. One is the higher wage standard, brought about through the eff forts of the trade union movement, which permits better homes than the sliacks that once made up "Kerry Patch" and the other is the opportunity for hea1thful play and recreation which has been developed in St. Louis.
 I want to refer briefly to a state ment and statistics made by Ethel bert Stewart ,statistician of the Bu- reau of Labor Satisfies of the United States Department of Labor.
 Mf. Stewart said: With the help of more and more modern machinery on the farms fewer people will be employed in the future to produce the national food supply The industrial centers will continue to grow and the social problems will have to be set tied in the cities. Drawing a con &rast between wage standards making for good citizenship and contentment and degraded novels and discontent- ment he made this statement: In fhe Chicago district brick rnanufac- turing is solidly and thoroughly un-
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-01-05
THE SOVIETS
 REFORMED !
German Socialist Experts Analy- sis of the "New Economic
 Policy"

Julius Kaliski, one of Germany's S best known and brainiest Socialists, writing im the Socialist Monthly" of Berlin, answers the questions, Have the Soviets reformed, and is there any possibility that they can re- form?" Kaliski is an editor of this influential publication and one of the leaders in the movement which has Council, which is embodied in the prestige and power.
 Kaliski's conclusions are as fol- lows:
 "The Bolshevists try to make it
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-01-05
Industry Adopts Unemployment
 Insurance.

Mir. Howard said that the Hart Schafner & Marx unemployment fund IS a natural development of the sys- tenn of relationship between tn com pany and the Amalgamated Clothing workers of America
 "The depression which so suddenly descended upon the industry in 1920, he declared, forced the attention of the whole country to the question of unemployment. In our case it stim- ulated both the company and the clothing workers union to redoubeld thought and planning, the result of which is the. unemployment agree ment"
 William J. Mack, who assisted in the development of the unemploy- ment fund in the Cleveland garment industry, declared that unemployment can be reduced and that it must be reduced by working along national instead of merely local trade lines.
 "In Cleveland unemployment has been reduced. Only very small part of the unemployment fun dhas been paid out. But 1t must be remembered first that this has been due in part to the workers and not solely to the employers, and second that the bene- fits have accrued not only to the em- ployers but likewise to the employees. g
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-01-05
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-04
JOURNAL WILL OPERATE
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BOARD FOR WORLD SERIES

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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-04
Says u. S. Seeks
Prosecution DeKay
For Political Acts

London, Oct. 3 (By A. P)-Some-
what of sensation was created to-
day at the resumption of the hearing
IN the extradition proceedings
brought by the United States gov
eminent against John Wesley De
Kay, formerly of Providence, r. T.,
when De ksy's counsel requested
PERMISSION to produce evidence to
show that the American government
was prosecuting the case, no. on ac-
count OF the transactions alleged. but
to punish Dc Kay for his political
activities and his pacitsm.
The United States government
wants De Kay returned to the Unit .
ed States in connection with the fall
ure OF the Atlantic National Bank OF
Providence in 1913.
James d. Cassels. counsel for De
Kay. vii. call important witnesses TO
substantiate his allegations. He said
also that light would be thrown on
the action OF the American govern
ment in delaying for more than ten
years the prosecution o; De Kay. Sir
Henry Maddocks, counsel for the
United States government, opposed
the move.
The magistrate ruled that under
the extradition act he was bound 10
hear all evidence tending to show
chat the prosecution was in fact
brought to punish De Kay for his
political activities. He invited Mr..
Cassels to open his case at next We'd
nesday's hearing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-04
Sees Need More
Time to Put Dawes
plan into Execution

Paris. Oct. 3.--tBy A. PA report
from Owen y. Young. temporary agent
general for PREPARATIONS under the
Dawes plan. to the reparation commits
sion. read at this afternoons meet
Ing or that body, shows that the work
OF putting the experts report into ex-
ecution is not maintaining the speed
and punctuality with which it started.
The London conference decided that
the experts plan would be considered
by tho reparation commission as hav-
ing been put into execution If the COM
mission could announce the fulfillment
OF certain conditions by September l
and certain others by October &. The
commission was duly enabled 10 make
the first announcement on time
The agent-Eeneral. however now re-
ports that. although he considers every
effort has been made to fulfill the lat
ter measures. he thinks that further
time should be allowed Germany and
the raparation commission. According
~ 1t was decided to extend the pesbd
from October G until seven days later.
Mr.. Young's report begins by recall
Ing that under the London agreement
the reparation commission should by
October 6 be In position to announce
five things: First that necessary laws
had been voted and promulgated: sec
ond. that the executive and controlling
bodies provided under the Dawes plan
had been installed: third. that the new
German bank and railroad control had
been constituted: fourth. that certifi-
Gates representing the railway bonds
and industrial debentures had been de-
posted with the trustees: and fifth.
that the contracts had been concluded
assuring subscriptions of the 500, O00,-
900 gold mark loan.