The Connecticut labor news., 1924-11-22
SILENT CAL" WAS DEAF TO
 APPEALS FOR THE CHILDREN
Word From Him Would Have Saved Amendment From Defeat in Massachusetts,; Friends Will Carry Fight to State Legislatures
 This Winter.

that competition no longer because the most powerful of them have their mon ey in the Southern mills.
 ize the mill workers of the South, the cry is raised that the Yankees" are trying to dictate to the Southern work CTS, but Yankee" money actually con- trols the Southern mill situation and is dictating the labor policies of the South as we'll as of the North.
 i Another reason why Massachusetts voted as it did is because the Massa- chusetts mill owners controlled the greater part of the press of that state, some of the clergy and some of the politicians of Massachusetts, and they have unlimited means for spreading the lies and propaganda with which they have found it possible to confuse the minds and appeal to the fears and prejudices of the uniformed masses of Massachusetts.
 Opponents of the Amendment. The outstanding opponents of the amendment, it was revealed during the Massachusetts contest, are:
 The National Association of Manu- facturers, whose president, John G. Edgerton, textile manufacturer of Tennessee is reported to have said the other day in speech that the child la Dor amendment was meant to restrict production and to compel uneconomic advances in wages"
 The Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association, whose president Is Joseph Grundy, the man who testified before the Borah investigating committee that he had raised $600,000 in Penn sylvania outside of Pittsburgh for the Coolidge campaign fund
 The Southern mill owners who, for time were almost alone in their oppo- sition to child labor legislation. The combination finances number of organization, including the senti nels of the Republicans led by Dennis A. Coolidge, president of the United Shoe Machinery Corporation, of Massachusetts the Citizens Commit tee for Protection of our Homes and 1 Children" Gmagine a committee under this name fighting to keep children in mills and under ground) of which Her 1 bert Parker, an attorney of Boston, lis chairman and whose directors in c1ude the names of the wealthiest manufacturers in Massachusetts, and l the records show that these same manufacturers have millions invested 1 in Southern plants; the National | Committee for Rejection of the Twen- tieth Amendment" which has offices in the Union Trust Building in Washing ton, next door to the offices of the Ma tiona1 Association of Manufacturers. Here we find the names of the princi pal open shoppers of America serving as directors.
 Spread False Propaganda In addition to the daily newspapers, the combine maintains a number of propaganda sheets, including Industri- al Progress and The Woman Patroit. 1neSe papers nave no legltHndte CIT culation but from time to time print enormous editions which they circulate among business men, farmers and even members of organized labor.
 That is the combination that is out to beat the child labor amendment and which has succeeded in invading the church and enlisting the support of at least few of the most distinguished disciples of the 1ow1y Nazarene.