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The Connecticut labor news., 1924-08-30
AS THE WORKER
 SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest of Important Events of the Week, Here
 and Abroad

Baltimore and Ohio, oldest railroad in United States, making plans to cele- brate hundreth birthday
 Germany will not enter League of Nations, Berlin banker tells Institute of Politics.
 Increase in car loading reported
 President Coolidge formally accepts nomination; declares for more tax cuts and rule of common sense
 Germans accept French terms for end of Ruhr occupation
 Middle State Oil Company placed in hands of receivers.
 British troops quell demonstration of aborers at khartoum, Egypt.
 Five thousand workers in mems gar ment trade of Boston end strike.
 Rule of Fascist over Italy scored as violent at Institute of Politics meeting.
 Workers object to "welfare work" Presbyterian mission secretary declares i'll Labor Day message.
 Five Soviet judges sentenced to long terms for bribery.
 National Association of Manufactu- rers attack proposed child labor amend ment.
 Federation Bank of New York, own ed by organized labor, builds up resour- ces of $6,3OO,OOO in fifteen months
 Moderate gains in trade reported prospects considered bright
 Pan American Federation of Labor to meet in Mexico City December B.
 Body of Matteotti, slain Italian So- near Rome
 Adam Huebner, general secretary treasurer International Union of Uni ted Brewery Flour, Cereal and Soft Drink Workers of America, dies in 
 Anti-klan candidate for Sheriff in Texas found dead from pistol shot.
 Gov. Bryan, accepting Vice Presden- tial nomination, declares honesty, eff clency and economy i'll government needs of the hour.
 Striking silk weavers of Paterson, N J ., agree to arbitration plan.
 Shoe workers strike at Stoughton, Mass III protest against wage cut
 Mobolization Day attacked by heads l of Presbyterian and Northern Baptist l churches.
 French troops complete evacuation Of l Offenburg, and Appenweier
 Stagehands and musicians in theatres of leading cities demand wage increase.
 Russia grants citizens right to change name whenever they please.
 President Coolidge to lend full sup port to plan for loan in aid of Germany.
 Motion picture operators in New ork vote to strike.
 Thomas Cantlin, said to be oldest 'allroad engineer, dies in Buffalo, N Y.
 Employment declines in manufactur- ng in July, U. s. Department of Labor epOrts.
 Lucy Page Gaston, cigaret foe and efOrmer dies near Chicago.
 New Yorker confesses to having set nore than 100 fires.
 Senator Dial, of South Carolina, and rival arrested following clash, l which Dial swings chair at opponent. Chicago Federation of Labor endor- es La Toilette Wheeler ticket. Snow in Utah and Wyoming; hot ave in Kansas Two hundred and four Phllippine ! cOutS sentenced to five years imDris- | nment on charge of mutiny. United States uses 8OOOOOO tons of l aper a year, Department of Agricul- Ire reports. Federal Trade Commission accuses g tobacco companies of unfair compe- ton
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Air Flivver Not Here
Yet, Says Professor

England has just held a competition
for light airplanes, and the display
has not done anything to encourage
the hope of an era of cheap airplanes
for everybody. The Henry Ford OF
air travel has not yet made his ap-
pearance. The small-powered air
plane" says Prof A NJ. Low, an
official of the competition, is noisy.
very dirty, very uncomfortable. de-
cidedly dangerous and exceedingly
unreliable" In place of being a ma
chine which anybody can handle, it
can be operated with any considerable
degree of safety only by very care
fully trained and skilled pilots. OF
Is planes entered for the British con-
test, only eight survived the qualify
ing tests, though, as Prof. Low says
there are not many people who have
quick flying sense, and the gym
nastic ability characteristic of the
picked men who handled the ma
chimes in this competition" After ali
1t may be questioned whether the
world has anything to gain from the
invention of a plane which would fill
the air with adventurous flyers at an
expense no greater than the cost of
the cheapest automobile, or of a good
horse and carriage. The dangers and
annoyances of such traffic would
probably far outweigh any possible
advantage s.-ColumUus Evening Dis
patch.
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Their mediocrity was becoming more
and more apparent in the full glare
of Bonaparte's triumphs. And Ma
poleon was anxious to go in order to
como back as Caesar had como back
from Gaul. The conquest of Egypt
and India would have been the step
ping stone to-he knew only what.
So of he sailed for Egypt with $4,000
men. BY the good fortune that at
| tended his every enterprise at that
| time he evaded the English fleet,
| which was waylaying for him.
Arrival at Alexandria.
He arrived at Alexandra, the monu-
| ment which another youthful world
conqueror, the Macedonian Alexander,
erected for himself following his
whirlwind campaigns in Asia and At
RIGA. A safe landing was effected on
tho very shores where Pompey the
Great, Caesar and Marc Antony had
successfully set their foot to conquer
Cleopatras realms only to be success
sively conquered by her charms.
Tho valor Of his soldiers made short
work Of the resistance of the Name
dukes, the Mohammedan rulers who
were misgoverning Egypt In the name
of the Sultan of Constantinople.
Soldiers" Napoleon's proclamation
rung, referring to the Pyramids, I'M
der which he was camping, "23
generations of human history are
looking down upon you" 80
But the memory of the 20 preceding
generations was dim and blurred. The
Egyptians themselves were wellnigh
insensible to the past glories of their
land. They were sinking deeper and
deeper in the mire of abject slavery
at the hands of brutal and rapacious
NJ the Tprkjeh Sultan
,Napoleon's intervention, however,
rent Egypt asunder from Turkey
Unwfttingly, he headed her toward a
new destiny. Whimsical fate attended
to the rest.
Mehmed Ali Arises.
Among the men the Turkish Sultan
was mastering to repel Napoleon's in
vasion of Egypt was a young Alba
MAN, born in the same year as Ma
poleon G769), by the name of Meh-
med All. Love of reckless adventure
induced him to join the happy-go-
lucky irregulars, among whom he
held tho grade Of lieutenant.
And while the Albanian soldier of
fortune was on his way to Egypt Ma
poleon was beginning to experience
the first adversities of fortune. His
fleet was destroyed in the battle of
the Nile by Admiral Nelson, and the
intended conaueror of India was shut
In as in a mouse trap.
I'VE are condemned to do something
greatn' he exclaimed on hearing the
news of the humiliation of his fleet
He did de something great, but it was
not what he had intended. Presently,
, news reached him from France that
caused him to escape on one of his
remaining frigates homeward-there
to become first consul and then en-
peror-leaving behind the army to
Gen. Kleber and Egypt to the oncom-
ing Mehmed ALL
Discovery of Rosetta Stone.
Yet Bonaparte's Egyptian expedi-
tion was destined to have some other
far-reaching consequences. It was
while his forces were condemned to
idleness that the first step was thrown
toward the solution of the riddle Of
hieroglyphics. One day a French
officer, much bored by the dreary life
of his fortress on the Rosetta River,
was spending q few idle hours rum
tcontinued on Third Page.l
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Outlook for American Labor Federation
With Green, Instead of Compers, at Helm

group. And now comes the question,
first, is it a majority group? And,
second, If SO, what will be Green's
stand on the question as an officer of
the federation?
Those who know him we'll say that
he will let none Of his personal con-
victions hinder him in carrying out
the lawful commands of an organiza-
ton Of which he is an officer and an
agent. He regards the tenure of
office in an organization as an osten-
sible agency and the officer as a
mouthpiece for followers In every
thing that Is lawful, just and proper.
At the same time, however, 1t is
pointed out, he recognizes that an
officer must assume the status of a
leader. that he must be trail-blazer
as well as a servant to the desires of
the organization which he represents.
Leaving the settlement of this prob
lem for the future to decide, 1t must,
nevertheless, not be overlooked as
one of the problems.
x X X
Another rather ticklish question is
one which embraces a triangular re-
lationship of the American Federation
of Labor, the United Mine Workers of
America, of which Mr.. Green is sec
rotary, and the railroad brotherhoods.
The brotherhoods control coal mines
near Charleston, w. Va The miners
working in them are on strike for
better wages and better working con-
ditions. The employers of the miners,
strangely enough, are employees of
the railroads. And organized labor in
one group Is striking against organ
ICED labor in another group. The
Federation of Labor stepped into this
picture at It's last convention in Ell
Paso. A resolution was adopted on
the floor which authorized the execu-
tive council of the A. F. of l.. to take
action as 1t might deem fit to bring
about a peaceable solution of the dis
pute. The executive council, under
this authority, authorized and directed
the president of the A. f. of L., then
Mr.. Gompers, to meet Warren 8. Stone,
chief of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Engineers, and the president of
the corporation controlling the mines
for fhe brotherhoods, and talk the
matter over. The instructions to Mr..
Gompers were to ask Stone to recant
on some of the stands taken by him.
Before Mr.. Gompers could do so death
had overtaken him.
This leaves William Green. presi-
dent of the federation but also an
official OF the Miners International
Union, in a rather difficult position
should the plan originally decided
upon by the executive council not
be modified. Modification is looked
for at the quarterly session of the
executive council in Miami late In
February, and in all probability
some other measure will be substi-
tuted, such as sending q committee
Of the executive council members to
interview Mr.. Stone.
For years 1t has been said in labor
circles that when another man than
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bH CONSTANTINE A. CHEhHELI,
| Former Commissioner of Albania to
the United states.
r T is q far cry from Napoleon to
Woodrow Wilson, moro especially
whore Egypt is concerned. And
i IL the Moslem- sounding name Of
Mehmed Ali Is to be linked with
| that Of the overload of Europe and
Of the preacher Of mankind the COM
bination might seem more banning
than the hieroglyphics of tho Rosetta
Stone appeared to Bonaparte's SOL
diers.
But fate has q trick Of weaving
together the invisible threads of the
| acts of men, widely separated though
they be from one another, both in
time and space, in order to produce
some of its startling effects.
The fact Is that the crisis which
Great Britain Is facing now in Egypt
is the combined work Of tho Corsican,
Napoleon Bonaparte; the Albanian.
/ MAhm cd Ali. and tho Scotch-Ir Irish
| Woodrow Wilson.
. OF tho three men the first started
Egypt on the way to g. new destiny;
tho ssecond guided her in the way Of
separate existence; the third breath ed
the hope of emancipation from for
eign ;control into the breasts OF her
people.
CoBbined Work Reaches Climax.
The combined work of these three
mem of genius reached It's final con-
summarion in 1922, when Great Brit
ain was. forced to proclaim the Land
Of the Pharaohs an Independent SOW
ereign state" under tho rule of a
direct descendant Of Mehmed Ali.
Andi ia was because the British
given Independence failed to measure
up to tho Inspirations which Napoleon
made possible, Mehmed Ali cultivated
and Wilson gave substance so that
the Egyptians rose up again to COM
plete the work of their national
emancipation. E
The story goes back to the closing
days of the French Revolution. to the
year 1898.
1t was the time when the panic
stricken Tories of England were COM
bining the continental power Of Eu-
rope against France in an effort to
put out the fire of republicanism
that was sweeping the continent:
when the ragged soldiers of the Dr.
rectory were marching boldly under
the strains Of their comrade, Rouget
de Isles la Marseillaise," against
the united enemies Of the republic:
when the youthful. Corsican was ru-
France-and himsedf-in his restless
mind
Napolcon's Trying Fights.
The Little Corporal had just returned
from his brilliant Italian campaign.
The crushing defeat he inflicted on
Austria broke up the. first English
made coalition. But. the Tories were
forming new one,' and the British
men-of-war were a constant menace
to the safety of the republic and a
check to his own ambit IONS.
GO capture the giant corsair that
infests the seas" cried -Earras, the d.
rector, when the youthful, general
suggested that the way to break Eng
land was to deprive her of the wealth
she derived from her Indian empire
And Napoleon conceived the plan Of
conquering India via the preliminary
conquest of Egypt, then a. province
of the Turkish empire.
To be sure, the mediocre directors
were only too glad to have hAfn 60 on
some distant and risky enterprise.
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by DAN S. RING.

A N era of progress is foreseen in
~ the offing for the American
"A Federation of Labor by close
a observers of the tides and cur
rents of the organized labor
movement, but there are also signs
of squalls gathering on the horizon
which will have to be met and con-
quered before the annual convention
of the federation next Fall, IL Will
liam Green, the newly elected presi-
dent, is to retain his position.
Green brings to the presidency of
the American Federation of Labor not
only virility and experience on a
broad scale, but also comparatively
young blood. Although 81 years of
age, he is quick moving and agrees
sive, yet not without the deliberate
method of figuring out puzzles and
problems which was a characteristic
of the late Samuel Gompers.
Not only in the ranks of organized
labor has he held positions of execu-
tive scope, but also in the outer world
In Ohio, his native State, he was
president of the State Senate during
one of the two terms he spent in that
legislative body. He there acquired a
broader view than had he been OBJ
serving events only from the position
of "a labor leader during his period of
activities.
Well fitted for the tasks before him,
therefore, Green steps into office to
ind number of problems already
popping up their heads. Among his
chief items of consideration will be
the threatened coalition of rebels in
the ranks of the American Federation
of Labor-whom Gompers called the
"borers from within"-and the potential
threat of an attempt of this group to
sweep to power in the next convention.
Gompers' steady hand will not be
there to hold such movements in
check. This will be the task of
Green.
The latter is an avowed anti Com
munist. A firm believer in the doc
trines of Americanism, his very first
statement, issued upon attaining his
office, demonstrated his attitude on
this question. Our devotion to
America and American institutions
must never be successfully chal-
lenged" he said.
X X
Reorganization and education will
be watchwords under the regime of
Green. Four cardinal principles, as
he has announced them, are: Pro-
motion of collective bargaining; OBJ
servance Of wage agreements; the
continuance of the movement for the
acceptance of organized labor by all
classes as a logical, necessary moral
force in the economic, industrial and
social life of the Nation, and continual
reiteration of the duties and obliga-
tions of organized labor members as
American citizens.
Our problems must be met and
solved upon the basis of American
fair play and in accordance with
American traditions and American
ideals" Mr., Green declared shortly
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after his election. This has a dual
significance, displaying as 1t does that
he recognizes that problems are con-
fronting him, but that he is not los
ing sight of the need for conservative
treatment.
X X
The fact that Green Is personally q
prepayment OF prohibition and a total
abstainer has given rise to wide
spread speculation as to the future
stand Of the American Federation of
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Labor on the question of light wines
and beers, which was so decidedly IA
vored by the Gompers administration.
There is no avoidance of the fact
that there is in the ranks of the or
ganiZed labor movement a sizable
group who are definite devotees Of
legislation for modifying the eight
zenith amendment. From the stand
the federation has officially taken in
the past 1T has come to be taken for
granted that this group is a majority
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Tailor's Eye on Herriot.

The official organ of the German
master tailors has been comparing
the garments worn by President
Ebert and M. Herriot-to the detri-
ment Of the French premier.
The German journal finds that NJ
Herriots trousers are badly cut, and
never appear to have been pressed;
that the waistcoat is far from per-
lection, and that the coat is Free ell
AGocity, fitting only where it touc-eA
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NAPOLEON AND WILSON
SEEN In ECYPTS FIGHT
Thrilling Thread of Tradition Runs
Through Story of Struggle for
Ancient Lands Freedom.

BY CONSTANTINE A. CHEKREZI,
Former Commissioner of Albania to
the United states.
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CONTINUED on Third Page.)
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BY OLIVER OWEN KUHN.

- UROPE Is beginning to pull her
- self from the muck and mire
Of the World War. Since the
IL greatest of all military strug-
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BY FRANK III. SIMONDS.

HE year which Is Just ending
must be reckoned the first in
the long and desperate sue
cession since the outbreak Of
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A era of progress is foreseen in
~ the offing for the American
"A Federation Of Labor by close
4 "A observers of the tides and cur
New Britain herald., 1924-10-31
Casale Pledges Aid to
 New Southwest Road

A wartime administration with General Forbes as commander in chief of the A. E. F., with Harry M. Daugherty as chief of the de- partment of justice, with ex-Secre- tary Denby at the head of the navy department and with ex-Secretary Fall in charge of the department of the interior. was pictured by At torney s. Gerard Casale, Democratic nominee for state senator, at a rally at Landers, Frary & Clark's factory gate this noon. The candidate de- clared that under Republican rule unprecedented corruption was found on all sides and he declared that had the Democrats not been in power during the World war the country's disgrace might have been even greater than during the past administration. .
 Attorney Casale told his audience that, if he is elected, he will work for establishment of new trunk line highway from the southern extremity of the city, through Cor bin, Jerome and Hunter avenues out to Blake road. This. he said. would greatly increase the city's revenues without increasing taxes on the section of the city now de- veloped. and in addition would de- yelop at least one-third of the city now taxed as acreage.
New Britain herald., 1924-10-31
RUSSIA WORRIED
 OVER ELECTION
Fear British Turnover May
 Affect Their Treaty
By The Associated Press.

By The Associated Press.
 Moscow. Oct. 3i.-The defeat of the labor government in England has produced divergent opinions in soviet Russia. In some quarters 1t is fear ed that 1t means thsRdeath of the present Anglo RussiaH treaty and projected loan, while in others 1t is insisted that the conservatives will be forced to come to terms with the soviet because of England's econom- ic need of Russia.
 It Is generally admitted that the Cause of abor and socialism in Eng land has received a distinct setback which indirectly affects the com munistic cause. M. stekloff in the newspaper Izvestia, organ of the federal central executive committee, says that no political party in his tory ever deserved defeat more than Premier MacDonald's. In his opin- ion the publication of the spurious Zinovieff letter" had a great effecy on the result, as by this move Mac Donald signed his own death war rant in favor of Baldwin and Cur zon."
 Tt is now evident" he adds, that in England as in all other countries the labor party can capture power only by a definite and open class struggle" ...
 M, Stekloff foresees some diplo- matic complications between the British government and Russia as a. result of the labor defeat, but says it would be a mistake to assume that the elections were the work of the British people against the Anglo Soviet treaty.
 The treaty will in one way or another be ratified even with the conservatives in power" he con- tinues. England has the alterna- tive either to anninilate us or to come to an agreement with us; therefore it will come to an agree ment with us. It is quite possible that such an agreement was easy to reach while Macdonald was in pow CT. but the necessity for it remains while the conservatives are in pow er,"
New Britain herald., 1924-10-31
SECRET SERVICE MEN CALLED IN
But Find That GIpatric Deal
 Was 0. K. ,|

Hartford. Oct. S1. Among the financial transactions of c. Harold Gilpatric was one involving $500,- 900 of state funds and which ab- sorbed the interest of federal secret service agents, state officials. in- cluding the newly appointed state treasurer. Anson T. McCook. the states attorneys office, and the of- ficers of a Hartford bank until it was proved that the money had been handled in perfectly legal manner.
 The transaction was one with Liberty bonds and was being put through at the time GIlpatric at tempted suicide on August '. The state treasury was selling five of It's s100,0o0 Liberty bonds and was go- ing to buy city of Bridgeport bonds which paid higher rate of interest
 The Hartford Aetna bank sent the Ave Liberty bonds to its correspon- dent bank In New York city and that bank. turned them over to the federal reserve bank of New York for payment. These bonds reached the federal reserve bank on the very day that the news of Gilpstric's at tempted suicide was in the news papers. August 8. A check in the bank called the attention of his su- perior officers to the account of the attempted suicide. The federal re- serve bank at once communicated with the secret service In Washing ton and an officer was sent on.
 Investigation by the secret serv- Ice man soon satisfied him that the bonds transaction was regular and not part of Gilpatric's defalca- tions and the deal finally went through its regular channels, being carried outr by Deputy State Treas urer Judd. J
 Deputy Treasurer Judd said to- day everything about it was perfect ly legal, It was a routine transac- ton.
 The difficulty arose because Gil- patric had signed the bonds without swearing to his signature, intending to fulhll that duty at the time of the transfer as had been his GUS tom. But before that time came he had decided that he was at the end of his financial career and decided to take his life as well.
New Britain herald., 1924-10-31
25TH ANNIVERSARY
Dr. and Mrs. Charles W. Lee of South Burritt Street Married Quar- ter Century Ago in Niiddletown.

Dr. Charles W. Lee and Mrs. Lee of so South Burritt street are ob- serving the 18th anniversary of their wedding today. pr. Lee is a well known dentist, having been practic- ing fer about 2S years. Dr. and Mrs. Lee will leave Tuesday on trip to Atlantic City and Washington in observance of the event.
 They were married in Middletown, October 31, 1899. Mrs. Lee being the former Miss Lima D. Wilcox,
 ughter of the late MT. and Mrs.
 Nry r. Wilcox of Middletown.
 was for several years q teacher
 ;he New Britain Normal school. lc ceremony was performed by icy. William M. Newton of Mont :nAier, Vermont.
 pr. and Mrs. Lee have no children.