The Connecticut labor news., 1924-10-25
HOYT, SELF-MADE MAN, LABOR BET
 AGAINST TnSON
Firm Believer in Rights of Workers Nominated By Democrats Against
 G. O. P. Standpatter.

By unanimous vote of the nominat- l ing convention, William T. Hoyt of Milford, head of the Hoyt Silver Com pany of Milford and New York, was
 named as the choice of the democrats
 of the Third Congressional district to
 run against Congressman John o. Til son of New Haven, now head of the eastern speakers bureau disseminating so-called reasons why the electorate should return Calvin Coolidge to the
 presidency and incidentally John O.
 and the rest of the reactionary repub-
 lican congressman MT. Tilson's rec
 ord on Labor measures IS too well
 known to the voters of the district to
 need any further attention here. It
 has been all AGAINST and in favor
 of the vested interests. MT. Hoyt on
 the other hand has been TOO busy mak
 ing living for himself to become ac-
 quainted generally but there is in his
 career many reason why the work
 CTS should vote to put him in the seat
 now occupied by MT. Tilson.
 Mir Hoyt first and foremost IS a na- tive son. He was born in Newtown
 but in his infancy his father was trans
 ferred to the pastorate of the Congre- gational church in Cheshire and there
 he was brought up At the age of Is, ministerial salaries being abnormally
 low then as now he had to go to work and he got job in the Holmes & Ed
 wards Silver Co.. factory in Bridgeport at the magnificent sum of $5 per week. He has been connected with the silver business ever since working his way through the factory to salesmanship on the road, at which he made such a sue cess that he has finally established his own firm and is still making good
 Factory life in MT. Hoyt's early days was not what 1t IS now He has seen the development from the old unven tilated, dirty shop to the modern sani- tary workplace and Is bold in giving the credit to all this to the Labor Unions, in which he IS a consistent believer. He is only few years out of the shop and knows the workers needs as his friends among the silver workers of both Bridgeport and Meriden will tes- tify by their votes on election day. He IS a progressive through and through and has announced his belief in the principle of Organized Labor and col lective bargaining
 He has also declared himself as fav- bring the repeal of the E,sch- Cummfns law in favor of the passage of the postal employees salary bill ve- toed by Coolidge just before Congress He also believes that the boys that were rushed to the World War to save this country at the risk of their lives have not been treated fairly or as the people of the country would have them dealt with if the peo pie could have say about 1t without the interference of the moneyed inter ests who object to seeing the soldier get the recompense due him and which was literally given the veterans of the l other countries whose debts were of | more importance to the present admin istration than the welfare of the men who fought.
 Congressman Tilson assumes his re- election is assured because the workers | of the Third or New Haven district | are asleep and will vote b1indly if at | all It is up to the workers to show him something.