The Connecticut labor news., 1924-04-26
BY THE WAY

Death sentences and sentences to long prison terms have been decreed by the soviet so-called courts as the result of trials which the American Federation of Labor, i'll common with the civilized world, has denounced as farc:al and po- 'itical
 Three men and one women have been sentenced to death at kiev and twenty have received sentences ranging in length from five to ten years.
 The victims in this latest soviet out rage are known as among the best of Russa's intelectuals Many of them are professors of distinction
 The charges were counter revolution which means anything from being a non bolshevik to being an out-spoken oppo- nent of the soviet regime. This crime is comparable to being a democrat the United States during a republican administration, or vice versa It Is a lized countries.
 Following right after the kiev trials more than 100 persons charged with being enemies of the soviets have been placed on trial i'll Petrogad
 Plot IS the cry of the bolsheviks- a convenient cry raised whenever any person opposed to the autocracy is to be put out of the way, either via the firing squad or the dungeon
 No explanations has yet been given for the large number of recent arrests n Moscow and other cities" says 8 newspaper dispatch.
 Why should a barbarian dictatorship explain to civilization?
 Reports. very likely spread by foes of organized labor, that the cooperative shop plan on the Baltimore X Ohio rail road is not working we'll. are emphatic ally denied by Daniel Willard, presi- dent of the railroad Speaking of the plan, which was tried success fully a | year i'll the Glenwood shops of the rail road and is now ill operation in the other shops of the system, Mr. Willard said:
 "In the six weeks the plan has been in general operation in the 45 shops of the system it has succeeded beyor our expectations. Experience has con vinced me that the plan will succeed in large way"
 The cooperative plan provides for re- cognition of the shopmens union as es- sentlal to the management of the rail l road and the fullest measure of co-op- 1 eration between workers and manage ment i'll the operation of the shops The | Baltimore & Ohio is finding that the l plan IS giving general satisfaction and Is | demonstrating the truth that it pays en- | ployers to work in harmony with orga- nized labor
 ltaly's recent election, with its Fascis- l ii sweep can hardly be regarded as an | expression of the will of the Italian peo- pie, as 1t was held under an electoral | law especially designed to assure victory for the Fascist party The entire coun- try was declared single election dis trict and the Fascist ist had only to re- ceive one quarter of the toatl number of votes to become entitled to three fourths of all the seats.
 This is hardly an example of major ity rule, as it is known in the democra- tic nations and with the election ma chnery in the hands of the Fascisti coupled with their well known record of brutal intimidation, there could be little doubt of the result of the "election" Apparently the only reason the Fascis- held the ''election" was to give Pre- mier Mussolini and his dictatorship the aspect of constiutionality.