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The Connecticut labor news., 1924-04-26
BRANDEGEE OPPOSES

(Continued from Page One) age IS so considerable that action should not be delayed and a compromise is jus tifed
 The census of 1920 shows that 1,O6O,- 858 children between ten and fifteen are at work in the United States, and that 3IS,O63 of these children are between ten and thirteen years of age. Mississip- pi allows boys of twelve to work in mills, factories and canneries. Delaware and Virginia permit children of twelve to work in canneries Five states do not prohibit night work for children. Some of the worst examples of child labor are i'll griculture-beet- fields, cotton pick ing tobacco, etc.
 The census shows that child labor is NATIONAL. It exists in some degree i'll every state, within or without the law
 }. An increase in federal power is in evitable because of the increasing inter dependence of the states.
 This was recognized by Congress when it passed the two child labor laws since declared unconstitutional. Both were passed by large majorities and were generally acquiesced in.
 Reasons for federal regulation are:
 (a) The nation has an interest in all it's children their health and literacy af- fleets citizenship, prosperity, and national defense. (The nation can exclude illi- terate immigrants. It needs also to pre- vent illiteracy in the native-born.)
 (b) Every state has an interest in the children of other states. No state has the power to exclude illiterate or unheal- thy natives from another state. .
 c. Children not reasonably protected are handicapped and suffer from unfair competition in the race for health, edu- cation,-a life.
 (d) Manufacturers in states which protect children are handicapped and suffer from the unfair competition of states which exploit children
 ". There is further justification for the nation stepping in to protect children (the wards of the nation) in backward states, because the children cannot vote and their parents are not always trust worthy judges of the 'children's best interests.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-04-26
Gary Uses Congress
 As Calamity Goat

New York, April 26-Let congress be the "goat" for any recession in business, is the hint Judge Gary gave the business world at the annual meet ing of the steel trust He referred contemptuously to congress because thievery and graft is being investi- gated.
 The judge favors probes-if.
 He is dead set' against wrong do- ing-but.
 He favors investigations-if they offend no one. Neither must the grafters be driven out of public life.
 Here is how the judge would ride two horses going in opposite direc- tions:
 Nobody can object to an exposition of the truth, always providing circum- stances justify. There are many in
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-04-26
P. 0. HEADS BILL
 WOULD AID. FEW
News Plan For Increasing Wage De-
 nounced as Most Unjust.

Washington, April 26-"As unsatis- factory as it is unjust" IS Congressman Clyde Kelly's opinion of Postmaster General News wage offer to postal workers.
 MT. New would raise wages $200 a year for all employees in frst-class post offices having annual receipts of $6O0,O0O or over, and $10O year for employees in first class offices having annual re- ceipts of less than $6OO,OOO.
 ''The work in the offices above and below that artificial dividing line is iden- tical," said Congressman Kelly "The hours are the same, the carriers routes are of equal length, the same responsi- bility exists and the same degree of com potency is required.
 "The scheme IS apparently based on the idea that the receipts of the post of flee have a relation to the cost of living, and that the cost of living is the only factor in determining just wages. I de ny both postu1ates. There are many post offices located Tn great industrial dis trlctS where the receipts are cornpara- lively small and yet where the cost oi living is fully as high as in the centra city itself.
 E'Nor is the cost of living the only factor. If it were the proposal to ado only $l00 or $200 a year to the presen rate of pay is a sorry joke. One hun dred dollars year means R week ant $200 year means $4 week.
 Under such a proposal the clerk ant carrier getting the highest possible pa, now would receive an increase of 57 cent day, and that drop in the mill ponc would only go to the employees in New York city and the other larger offices The clerks and carriers in other cite: would have to be satisfied with an addi tion of about 28 cents day"
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-04-26
STONE SELECTION

(Continued from Page One.) That was the one place where he might have been dangerous"
 According to the Peoples Legis1a- tive Service, of which Basil M. Manly is the director, Stone is a member of the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, New York
 Mir. Manly declares that if Mir Stones appointment was not dictated by Wall Street the new attorney gen. eral is entirely satisfactory to those interests"
 MT. Manly's report, in part, follows:
 Harlan F. Stone, whose nomination tor attorney general has recently been sent to the senate by President Cool 1dge, IS now a member of the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell Until recent ly he was a member of the law firm of. Satterlee, Garfield & Stone. The newspaper publicity creates the i'm pression that he has not been a mem Der of the firm of Satter1ee, Garfield x Stone for several years; but his autobiography in Who's Who for l91z-23, which IS annually submitted to the author for revision, shows that he was at that time member of this firm and at the same time dean of the Law School of Columbia university. Sullivan & Cromwell, with which MT. Stone is now connected, has been one of tLe 1a,j;,,r 1,,,, G~,,,. : d. "A ganization and defense of trusts and combinations
 William Nelson Cromwell, senior member of this firm, states in, his au- photography in Who's Who, 1522-23':
 Organized. 1899, National Tube Co.,, American Cotton Oil Co.,; since then many other corporations; ap- pointed assignee and re-organized Decker, Howell & Co.,, 1890, Northern Pacific Railroad Co.,, and later many others, and put all on a paying basis Officer or counsel of more than 90 of the largest corporations in U. s. and one of the organizers of the United States Steel Corporation
 The members of the firm of Sullivan & Cromwell are, officers or directors in at least the forty corporations listed in | the Directory of Directors of the City of New York, following:
 American Bank Note Co.,, American l Brass Co.,, American Cotton Oil Co.,, An derson, Meyer & Co.,, Letd., American Water Works & Electric O., Finance
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-04-26
LABOR THREATENS REPRISALS AGAINST
 N. Y. PLAYHOUSES
Dismissal of Union Treasurers Com plicates Clash Arising Out of
 Equity Demands.

New York, April 26-As the next move in negotiations to settle the diff ferences between the Actors Equity Association and the Producing Man agers' Association before the threat ened strike June 1 must come from the P M. A., Equity and Broadway theatrical circles expect that new peace offers will result from the next meeting of the round robin group oi managers, to be held III a day or two in the offices of Sam H. Harris.
 A new complicating element enter ing indirectly into the troubled the atrical situation IS the drastic action taken by the B. F. Keith and the Shubert management against mem bers of the recently formed union of theatre treaSurers.
 Keith managers have dismisssed the treasurerS at the Alhambra, Regent, Franklin, Fordham and Coliseum the atres, according to John J. Maloney, general manager of the Keith offices, because of their membership in the new union, which was chartered on April by the American Federation of Labor.
 The Shuberts have dismissed one box office employe and disciplined an- other for si1nilaE reasons, American Federation of Labor officials have threatened reprisa1s.
 The only remaining difference be- tween the P. M. A. and Equity. which belongs to the A. F. of L. in the att tempt by Equity to obtain the closed shop, or at least to have a large per centage of Equity members guaran- teed in every cast.
 Both Florenz Ziegfeld and Al H. Woods have announced changes in their plans due to the war clouds. Mir. Ziegfeld announced that Equity's stand caused him to order the withdrawal of the "Follies," Kid Boots," and two road productions, May 31
 MT. Woods has decided to delay production of two new plays until the danger of an actors strike is definite ly past.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-04-26
CITY MANAGEMENT GETS ANOTHER BUMP
 BY DAYTON TAXES
Rate of s13.6O Grows to $2s2O With Big Deficit to Be
 Made Up.

Further evidence that the city man ager plan of civic government, which the workers of New Haven over whelmingly rejected and which IS now being foisted upon Waterbury Ii pos sible, is not the success it was claimed for it but really is worse than our present forms of city government, crop up daily in Dayton, O., which was held forth as the model city by pro- ponents of the plan when they were trying to put 1t over hereabouts. Now comes Dayton with a big deficit, a bigger tax rate than New Haven by Dayton Review facing even worse with the manager commission govern ment stumped to find a way to get out. Says the Dayton Review: That the city commissioners are giving evidence of absolute helpless ness in the face of deficit of SIPS, 1000 i'll operating revenue Is admitted. And 1t IS also admitted that the 'unfortun- ate part of the whole affair is there are some folks who think the situa- ton has been brought about through some care1essness or extravaganza on the part of the commissioners.
 Fortunately the commission-1na ager form of government does not per mif the commissioners to have any thing to do with the city's finances other than to enact legislation. The expenditure of the money Is in the hands of persons experienced in such matters and these men are responsi- ble to the manager-not to the com missioners.
 (Which brings us down to the mat ter of finances.
 First, 1t would be we'll for each Daytonian to repeat the next sentence over and over again until it is indeli- ply impressed upon his mind
 The city officials have absolutely nothing to do with assessing, collect ing or distributing tax money. All of this is in the hands of coun- ty OfhC1alS, who deternl1ne the amount that Dayton shall pay and receive The city is deprived of voice, vote or par ticipation in any movement connected with taxation.
 This Is outrageous, but it is the state law.
 Suppose you do your own figuring !:
 Tn 1914 the tax rate was $136O on each $1,OOO of taxable property. In. 1924 the tax rate is $2820, an increase of $14.6O, of which the city receives $2O5.
 There was no conservancy tax in 1914 Tn 1924 this tax was S3.473, which must be added to the other items shown in the 1924 list to get the total of $282O"
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-04-26

x Trading Corporation, Hartman Bros, Inc, New York Pacific Commercial Co.,, International Nickel Co.,, Pacific Devel- opment Corporation, Seaboard Fisheries Co.,, Inc Tiffany Development Co.,, Manati Sugar Co.,, D. Appleton Co.,, De troit Edison Co.,, Great Falls Power Co.,. Manning, Maxwell & Moore; Hecker Cereal Co.,, Hecker-J ones Jewel Milling Co, Merck & Co.,, Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co.,, Montana Power Co.,, Southwestern Milling Co.,, Standard Milling Co.,, North American Co.,, Equit- able Trust Co.,, New York, General Steel Corporation, Milwaukee Light, Heat X Traction Co.,, Orinba Mills, Union Dye & Chemical. Corporation, West Kentucky Coal Co.,, West Penn Power Co.,, Wisconsin Edison Co.,, West Penn Railways Co.,, West Penn Traction & Water Power Co.,, New York Business Buildings Corporation. Cuba Cane Sugar Corporation, Turner & Seymour Man ufactuing Co.,, N. K. Fairbank Co.,, Pittsburgh, Lison & Western Railroad. Time has not permitted study of the relations of these corporation to cases now pending before the Department of act and war frauds, which are not pend ing but should be pressed by the De- partment of Justice. Attention should, however. be directed to certain facts. Tb;e lice of coroorotiopc indicates close connections of the firm of Sullivan x Cromwell with Stone X Webster and also with Sanderson X Porter. Those two firms played a large part III the hand ling of the cases of war frauds now pending, particularly, in connection with cantomment contracts, directly or indi- rectly involve those two firms
 1 Tt is obvious, therefore, that i'll pros ecuting these cases the Attorney Gen. eral will be brought into conflict with the interests of corporations with which the firm of Sullivan & Cromwell are closely connected and in which they have a financial interest.
 Herbert L. Satterlee, senior member 
 been connected for many years, is the son-in-law of J. Pierpont Morgan.
 Members of the firm of Satterlee, Garfield & Stone are officers or directors of the following corporations:
 Cast Steel Ship Corporation, Atlanta & Charlotte Air Line Railway Co.,, Brad street Co.,, .Bradstreet Realty Corpora ton, Bronx Refrigerating Co.,, Building & Sanitary Inspection eco, Montana Power Co., (also through Sullivan & Cromwell Morris Plan CO of New York, Atlanta Hygiene Ice Co.,, Carney & Kerr, Inc ; Want a Home Realty Co.,, City Island Home, Inc; Industrial Finance Corporation, Jarrett-Chambers Co.,, Inc.
 It would appear from the facts set forth above that if the appointment of
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-04-26
Would Drug Employees
 With Company Union

San Antonio, Texas, April 26.-The local street car company has organ ized a company union" for it's em- ployes, but organized street car men reject hte plan.
 The company promises everything in the line of scientific welfare" but the workers prefer to conduct their own union.
 It is stated that street car magnates in many localities have suddenly be- come interested in the welfare of their employees. This interest grows in pro- portion to the strength and activity of the street car mems unions
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-04-26
NEW DISABILITY RULE

Philadelphia, April 26-A man whose physical affiiction has been so aggravated by an accidental injury, suffered in the course of his employ ment that he becomes totally disabled, is entitled to compensation until he recovers.
 This was the unusual decision given by the state workmen's compensation board in the case of a textile worker who was awarded $10 week.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-04-26

vestigations being carried on that are unworthy, while some that are worthy are being carried too far
 The judge declared that "the worst thing we have is our American con- sgress.' After this demagogic utter ance he said he favors Investigations by congress If they are properly ano honestly conducted with a worthy ob- feet in view"
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-04-26
PUBLIC URGED TO BUILD;.
 LUMBER PRICES JUMPED

Washington, April 26-The South ern Pine association worked up an n-your-own-home propaganda and then ''jurnped'' the price of lumber. Houston Thompson, chairman of the federal trade commission, told the sen ate Daugherty committee.
 Thompson charged prize fixing by the southern pine and west coast 1un1- Der associations.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-04-26

MT. Stone was not dictated by Wall Street interests, and particularly by J. P. Morgan & Co.,, it will at least be com pletely satis factory to them
 ''It is also obvious that Mir. Stones as Attorney General will either be biased
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-04-26

in his administration of the office of Att torney General, or will be greatly en- barrassed by the necessity of prosecut- ing former clients and corporations irT which his firms and law partners are f. nancial1y interested.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-04-26
STREET CAR MEN STRIKE.

Scranton, Pa, April Refused r cents an hour increase, 600 Scranton Electric Railway company workers suspended work.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-02-19
Barbara Needs
No Publicity Man
ny United Preas Leased Wire

Los ANGELES, Web. l0.--Ggr5-
ara La Mari, thc too beautiful
Girl, might rs well dispense wTth her
publicity man. she's gaining front
page "p!ay' across the continent
via the court room.
While 4 Hollywood attorney was
before one Judge here DENYING he
attempted to secure "hush' honey
from the actress manager over a
divorce complaint, she was hciug
hunted with subpoemae ordering
her before Justice Handy in ease
involving her latest husband.
l.. Schneider, a money lender, Sc
cured the subFoenae for Miss In
Mari in his efforts to collect $50 aud
SIS interest for so days use of
the money which, Schneider claims,
was loaned Jack Daugherty, the
actress fifth and last husband.
Possibility CT some community
property which might make her IL
able for the debt inspired the money
lender to order Miss La Mari into
court.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-02-19
FEWER STYLES. BETTER SHOES

A question which has long puzzled many indlvldu-
ais is be hrashed out by the National Shoe Retailers
at their annual convention. That is the question OF
whether the public submits to demands freak shoe
styles A purchaser anxious to buy durable COM
Portable and healhfu shoe is often much discouraged
by finding that these qualities rarely compatible
with the --latest thing in shoe styles and that the deal
er carries only the latter The customer feels perfect
ly that if only the freak shoes never manu-
factured at all, shoe buying and wearing would be
much pleasanter affair.
Manufacturers and dealers sometimes like to
blame consumers Tor the expensvey great variety OF
shoes, and consumers blame makers and retailers. A
sensible retailer places the blame accurately when
he says:
THE manufacturers dealer and the public are the
three factors which determine style No single factor
is supreme and if the first two would cooperate they
could save the public well as themselves q great
deal of needless expense"
Fewer but more sensible styles according to an
other retailer would the public millions It would
also save the makers and sellers something for their
production cost would be lowered and periodic losses
would be removed Since $50 pre- cent Of the new styles
created are of interest to any given lndvldua 1t
is obvious that lot of money goes to waste IN false
stimulation of style demands and in unstandardlzed
production. If the retailers will enlist the cooperation
of the manufacturers in movement to cut down TINS
waste the public, in sheer gratitude ought to volun-
teer its cooperation
Imperial Valley press., 1924-02-19
CENSORS .AND DRAGONS

The main difficulty with extreme censorship OF
any sort is that it lays emphasis on doing away with
certain problems-which frequently won't be done
away wi5h-instead of preparing people to meet and
master them
Judge Ben L. Lindsey, referring 10 the activities
of the Clean Books League and similar groups OF cen
sorship enthusiasts, says:
All of this nonsense IS calculated to relieve homes
schools and churches of their responsibility to prepare
youth for the path Of lheinstead Of all this over
straining to prepare the path of life for youth
Our part conceive to be not so much in devot-
ing much time and effort to finding ways to spare
youth something they can't be spared by putting re-
sponsbility for them on censorshps to watch what
they see, read hear or think but to spend more time
and effort in homes. schools and churches TO equip
them with the knowledge necessary to grapple win
and conquer evil wherever it is encountered on the path
of life This is all being neglected. largely because OF
these chasers after the false gods Thus they become
a menace to the best interests of modern youth and
not help-as doubt they want to be. ST. George
was armored and he slew the dragon
Judge Lindsey and the others who believe that the
Clean Books League is the wrong track entirely are
not advocates of uncleanness in fiction the stage
the moving picture screen. Censorng dirt cannot
keep out of the house. but providing soap and scrub
bing brush and paint and varnsh and teaching youth
how to use them will enable them to keep their own
lives in a state of wholesome cleanliness
Imperial Valley press., 1924-02-19
u. S. FORESTS She Says ID. rs"
WILL BE GONE Are Still
IN so YEARS Alive
nv United Press i,rar,,a w,r.

SACRAMENTO, Feb. f9.-Tmbcr
cut in the Uu4Sed States is being re-
placed by rtforcstation at a rate Of
only % per cent, according to state
Forester NJ. =. Pratt, who recently
delivered addresses in various parts
of the state in the interest Of CON
scrvation of America S forests.
At the present rate OF felling and
consumption, estimated to be Gee,
100000 board feet per year, the IA
tion s forests will be converted into
stump land within 50 years, accord
lug to Pratt. The Pacific coast NOW
has about three quarters of the vjr-
gin timber OF the nation, and -
states are paying as much as &25',-
000,0C0 in freight rates per year
to have timber trom this great area
hauled to them.
Pratt estimates that California ;
timber at the present rate OF cutuag
will last only 100 years, Oregon 5
100 years. Washington S 80 years.
The only hope for future generations
to have any lumber at all is for
federal and state governments 10
cooperate III the planting of forests
at even faster rate than they are
cut down.
Fire is the greatest menace to the
nation S timber, next to the axe, ac-
cording to Pratt.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-02-19
Bed Time Stories
Copyright, 1923, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
Ey HOWARD f. GARIS
UNCLE WIGGILY and TIE
WIND FAIRY

lrclc Wiggily was just starting
o"J from his hollow stump huaga
low one DAY to look for IN adj
venture, when along numbered NJ.
:s~ash, the polar bc@r gentle
m4a.
Hello, Mr.. Nhitewash!' greet
a1 the rabbit.
"Hello! Hcllo," g,untcd the
polar bear gentleman lie spoke
ir rather Il hoa.Sc voice, fer he had
.aught 4 bit OF cold, sleeping or
a cake of ice. Too bad about
Graadlr Goose Gandcr, ism t Il!
went or Mr.. Whitewash.
"What 5 too bad about Gr@odpa
7oo>ay Gander'" UNcle Wlsgi!y
wanted to know.
He was 50 lnNious for sw.@l
that he cracked the Ice and tapped
around IN the half frozen water
of the duck pond, " explained Nj.
Whi,cwash. THAT wo1id have
been all right had he been Il Paia'
hear like me. With warm far on.
But Grandpa Gaosev caught colu,
md NOW he has the epizootic.
"Oh. / IN - sorry. - cried Uncle
Wisg;ly. Il didn't know thai
Gr@ndna Go2Sev was i'll. III go
over to See.him and chcor Kim up.
II twinkle my pink nose for HIM
and Inake him laugh.
1T would he an ac! OF charity,
arcwltG Nj. Nhitcwa>h. lie did no:
Imperial Valley press., 1924-02-19

rMy mother and grandmother
both say they never saw such I'M
proycmcnt rs Tanlac has made in
me aud they, like myself, think it
is the grandcst medicine on carth,' -
is the glowing tribute of Mrs. Ruth
Warnholz, 2O39 Send AHcY Oakland,
Calf.
"Evcr since childhood, / suffer
Cd from stomach trouble and the
past ten years it las been extremely
bad. My appetite was very poor,
had fallen off until ! only weigh
ed eighty pounds, and that miscr-
able, worn-out feeling that was
ever with me bcggars descriptions
,"Tanlac helped my grandmother
so much that ] decided to take Il,
aud, oh, how fine and happy ] feel!
Why, for the first time in years l
have no stomach misery and | am
eating 50 ravenously that l. have
actually gained nineteen pounds.
Tanlac is for sale by all good
druggists. Accept no substitute.
over 10 million bottles SOLE.
lake IanIac Vegetable Pills. adv,
Imperial Valley press., 1924-02-19
by Uuitcd Press LEASED Wire

LOS ANGELES, Feb. l9.- They
stin have 'em occasionally. The
d. 7. s. which have made many
Il hoozer Il menagerle keeper have
not been entirely eliminated by the
t1}Stcad act.
So it would appear from testimony
given by Mrs Mary Richards III
Justice Blake 5 court, when she de
ci;rcd that her husband. James
Richards, grabbed Il shotgun and
sought to Kill the snake he thought
he saw her wearing around her neck.
Mrs. Richards SAID her allcg2dly
soUsed spouse drank quart of moon
.hinr each day and frequently dur
ing his wettost periods She blew
cat the oil lamps in their home to
prevent his conversation from igmit-
ing.
"Hc's been drunk for 90 years, ="
she said. Last week he grabbed Il
broom and ran all over the barnyar6
chasing rats, when there weren t
any there