The Connecticut labor news., 1924-09-27
BY THE w AY
Comment and Criticism About Things
 Doing in the World.

To secure the ratification of the chilt
 labor amendment to the United State
 Constitution is big job and require
 the help of every believer in the aboli
 ton of child labor
 The states are not falling over them
 selves to endorse the amendment and ]
 1t plain that there is hard work ahead
 of friends of the children. To dat,
 Arkansas is the only state that has ap
 proved the amendment. Georgia, Louis
 jana and North Carolina have rejected
 it.
 Numerous organizations, including
 the American Federation of Labor, are 1 fighting for the amendment, but the hell of every progressive man and woman IS needed in the battle Union men and women can help by supporting the or ganizations that were waging the fight, l by letting 1t be known where they stand on child labor and by urging their rep ! resentatiyes in the state legislation to 1 vote for the amendment.
 The fight will be hard, but the vic tory will be worth all the time, energy and work that 1t takes 10 win it. As Thomas Paine said, in speaking of ty- ranny, which child labof most assuredly is, Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquereds yet we have this oonsola- ton with us, that the harder the con- fict the more glorious the triumph"
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 Old party politicians profess to he unable to understand why the farmers are Hooking to the support of La Fol- lette Very likely most of the politi- grievances, but to those who really don't understand why the farmer IS discon- tented, study of report on farm in come just completed by the Department of Agriculture IS recommended.
 The report discloses that the Amer ican farm since 1920 has not yielded commercial return on its invested capi- tai or a fair wage for the average farm operator Considered from the stand point of the return for the farmers own labor after deducting commercial interest return on his capital, the aver clans know that the farmer really has age farmer, says the Agricultural De- partment, actually earned less than was paid to common hired hands.
 Is it any wonder that the farmers are strong for La Toilette? They re- alize that something Is radically wrong and they see in La Toilette the only candidate who offers program de- signed to help them make agriculture profitable. Hence their coolness toward Coolidge and Davis and their enthusi- asm for Battling Bob."
 w A Appleton, general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Union in Great Britain, points out that the hundreth anniversary Of the establish n1ent of trade unionism in England seems virtually forgotten He wrote recently in the: Federation's quarterly report:
 "ft is 1924 and just 100 years since trade unionism became legal possibili- -v; but who knows, who cares? No meetings have been held, no demonstra- ions and no expressions of thankful ness in respect to an act which did for he common people very much what Magma Charta did flor the nobles."
 It is probable that nothing in the his .ory of Great Britain so helped the wage. workers as did the Act of 1924 which repealed the laws forbidding of worlmen And yet, as Mir. Appleton says:
 Tn decade which reeks with peeches and utterances concerning La ,or's rights and Labor's exalted posl- ion. not a word appears. to have been aid about the effort and sacrltlce which preceded and accompanied this egal revolution~@ I
 Trade unionists of Great Britain are lot the only ones who forgot those who ! ought that workers of, thesfrese11t gen srations might benefit Workers in the rnited States are also prone to forget he pioneers of trade unionlsm and heir unselhsh efforts in behalf ot the wage earners.