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The Connecticut labor news., 1924-03-29
Wall Street Sings Poverty Song
 While Profit Records Are Made

1 after healthy amounts were set aside to pay for taxes, depreciation and de- letion. This does not include profits
 of $1OOOO,000 that were put back into the business in the form of stock divi-
 dends. The previous years profits
 were $6,o64,o15.
 uL,2 p1et were ETAOIN SHRDLU A net profit of $4,357, ,7O8 is reported 1 by the Walker refractories |. company. This is after all expenses
 and taxes have been paid and is against $3,O37 ,333 the previous year.
 The Columbia gas and electric com pany reports a clear profit of $1 ,O71,- GOA for February of this year. In Jan uary of this year the American water
 works and electric company made clear profit of $1 ,333,oO7.
 The reason for numerous scandals associated with petroleum is indicated by the Phillips petroleum company's report. Last year this concern made profit of $12,452,O3O, after interest and taxes were cared for. These startling figures are against profit ot S9,ZOO,- 035 the previous year.
 The North American company, a holding company for public utility cor porations throughout the country, has net profit of $o, ,385, ,458, after all taxes, interest, depreciation and other charges have been met This is equal to $3.11
 on every $10 share of common stock.
 The California petroleum corpora tion shows net profit of $6,1O4,498
 after interest, depreciation, depletion, federal taxes, fancy salaries and other
 charges were met. This compares with a profit of $3,655,5 the previous year:
 Dividend payments by the 39 com panies comprising the. Standard oil group during the first three months of the present year aggregate $34,e75,867
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-03-29

right is swept from them. They are at the mercy of the injunction judge, who calls on them to show cause why they should not be punished for contempt"
 That Is what the court says but this is what the court means:
 I consider you guilty of violating my injunction. If you can not prove to my satisfaction that you did not violate it will sentence you to jail.
 There is no law or court rule to guide the injunction judge. There is no trial by jury. The worker is not presumed to give full sweep to his economic preju- to give full sweep to his economic preju- dices and class hates.
 An act that is legal when no strike exists is base conspiracy in the eyes of an injunction judge when workers are forced on strike to raise their living stan dard.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-03-29
CHILD LIFE PROTECTION
 INDORSED BY GOMPERS

Washington, March 29.-Organized labor's approval of the May day child health association in announced by President Gompers in a letter to that organization.
 T am sure," said President Gompers 'that the organized wage workers wi l gladly do their full share in support of the work undertaken by your organiza- ton. It is one of the first concerns of the trade union movement that there shell be conditions established which make possible the proper care and de- velopment of khild fife, and any addi- tional effort in that direction is to be welcomed and encouraged"
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-03-29
M'CALL MAGAZINE
 HASOPEN SHOP

Dayton, March 27-McCa11's maga- zine will be issued as non-union or "open shop" product, so far as the printers are concerned, when the Day ton publishing plant is opened accord ing to report from Dayton, Ohio
 Superintendent Robinson announces that his instructions are to run an "open shop composing room, which is equiva- lent to saying the plant will depend upon class of workmen made up of non- union men, scabs and strikebreakers, for no union man will work under 'open shop" conditions. MT. Robinson states he has no option in the matter that his instrucins are from New York, and he must obey.
 Conditions which will obtain at the Mccall plant are merely the progress sive action of the local printing can cer.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-03-29
COURTS GUARD PROPERTY; IGNORE WORKERS RIGHTS

What would happen to that judge if he took this position with horse thief or with corporation charged with mo- nopolistic practicesa
 The question answers itself.
 When workers demand the same treat ment accorded that horse thief or corpor- ation, they are accused of wanting to violate the law"
 The labor injunction undermines our entire system of government.
 It is revolutionary; it is cowardly and unfair.
 Under it judge not only usurps power but he corrodes the popular mind to de- fend his usurpation.
 The labor injunction has no place in the life of America. Workers will agitate against it until an enlightened public opinion drives it into oblivion.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-03-29
LABOR ENDED
 IN TWO IOWA PRISONS

Des Moines, Iowa, March 29.-The state board of control has terminated the Misunderstanding company's con tracts for convict labor in the Ana mosa and Fit. Madison prisons. Chair man McCo1l of the board said the trade union movement was the main factor in ending these contracts.
 Convict labor foes will continue their agitation, as it Is feared that the con- vict labor trust will endeavor to secure new contract
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-03-29

The selection of Burns as head oi his secret service is additional light on the attorney generals viewpoints. Burns record as as trikebreaker is in line with that of his chief, but Burns record as a corruptor of jurors should challenge the attention of every law abiding citizen.
 Burns and Daugherty control the na- tion's secret service while special coun- sel, appointed by the president, is at- tempting to reach the bottom of Teapot Dome.
 Are thinking men supposed to be- lieve that Daugherty is i'll sympathy with that investigation? /
 Will that special counsel be so reck- less as to trust Burns?
 If Daugherty favors the Teapot Dame probe, where has he indicated it?
 The attorney generals plea for his constitutional rights" is sob stuff. The constitution has nothing to do with the president busting or retaining cabinet official.
 According to Daugherty's reasoning a man is morally and ethically equipped to be attorney general of the United States as long as criminal charges have not been proven against him.
 To weep out of jail s not the first requisite of a cabinet official The two essentials are competency and the peoples confidence.
 MT. Daugherty has neither.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-03-29

The United States supreme court has ruled that the federal trade commission can not examine the books of the Amer ican tobacco company to make a case against it.
 The court opposes a fishing expedi- ton into the corporations papers in the hope that criminal action may be ex- posed. The court said:
 Common justice would to demand that before the business methods pursued by a cor poration or an individual should be investigated, the party should be appraised either by formal or by notice of the extent of the proposed in vestigation, in. order that a day in court may be accorded.
 "This is essential to determining whether the commission is acting within its jurisdiction and to meet the charges preferred"
 This solicitous regard for the rights of property is in startling contrast to the
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-03-29

disregard of the rights of human beings when workers are arrested, fined and jailed by an injunction judge.
 Then there Is no demand that workers have their day in court, or that 'spe- ci6c charges be filed against them.
 Under the equity process courts issue orders that were never intended to apply to personal relations or human rights.
 The law protects the meanest criminal in his right to be considered innocent until proven guilty.
 The United States supreme court now throws its protecting arm around the books of corporations. These must not be touched until specific charges are filed, says the court.
 But note what happens when an em- ployer's attorney tells an equity judge his injunction is beng violated.
 Workers are arrested en bloc. Every
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-03-29

New York, March 2o.-Prohts of in dustrial corporations the past year are smashing all e-time records though the public is supposed to accept the mournfu1 poverty pleas that come out of Wall street.
 The steel trust reports a surplus net income of $54,259,oo3, after all charges and dividends have been met.
 The Westinghouse air brake com pany reports net profits of $o,788, ,507,
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-03-29
Larkin Is Expelled
 by Irish Labor Union

Belfast, March 2o-Labor, the organ of the Irish Transport Workers union, announces that at meeting of the ex- ecutive on March IA James Larkin, who was suspended as general secretary on June II, 1923, was expelled from mem bership.
 Larkin was deported from the United States as an undesirable alien early last year and has since been active in labor circles i'll Dublin.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-03-29

Youngstown sheet and tube company $27, ,597. .194. The Owens bottle com pany cleaned up $3,56O, ,563 after all ex- penses were met.
 The above list is indicative of the profits that swell the strong boxes of those who object to "high" wages, and who insist that the government take less and less of the excessive profits.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-03-29

This is the largest total for any three months since the United States su- preme court smashed" the oil trust in 1911.
 May department stores company broke all records with its net profit of $6,68O,542. The Philadelphia company, holding corporation for public utility companies, reports $5,015,O27, and the
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-03-29
DRESS STRIKE SETTLED;
 WORK WEEK REDUCED

Boston, March 2o.-A 42-hour week distributed over a five day week, was won by organized dressmakers after a three-weeks' strike The workers mand
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-03-29
TAX CRAZE REACHES LIMIT

Oklahoma City, March 2o.-The craze to tax everything in sight has reached it's limit in this state. Avia- tors are called upon to pay a gaso- line tax to build highways.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-03-29
LARGE OIL PRODUCTION

Washington, March 2o.-Director George Otis Smith of the United States geological survey makes the interest ing statement that oil demands today are greater than during the world war period.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-03-29
BRICKLAYERS UNITE

Charlotte, N. C., March 2o.-Brick- layers and masons in this city have or ganized and are affiliated with the trade union movement.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-02
DAUCHERTy HlS
 LOST CONFIDENCE
 Gf GGi HiE iiiiiE PRESIDENT
Senator Lenroot Says Harding Was Without Legal Authority In
 Transferring Oil Lands
FALL UNDER IS SURVEILLANCE
Sinclair Wires Will Appear Before Committee a. Soon as Business
 In Europe Completed

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.-That President Coolidge has requested the immediate resignation of Attorney General Daugherty, be cause NIT. Daugherty has lost the confidence of the President, of Congress and the people of the United States, was asked in resolution introduced by Senator Wheeler today.
 Senator Lenroot, in speech absolved President Coolidge from any blame in connection with the Teapot Dome scandal, becamr he bluntly declared former President Harding was without legal au- thority in issuing an executive order transferring to the ring control of the reserves from the navy to the interior department.
 Senator Willis announced in the Senate late this afternoon that Albert B. Fall and Tom Johnson, his ranch foreman, had been under surveillance by the Department of Justice agents since January 20, and that the Governor of Louisiana was in- structed to have Mir. Fall under con -tant guard while in New Or leans on a recent visit.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-02
TWO LETTERS WRITTEN BY PRESIDENT LINCOLN
 SOLD FOR S1.25o EACH

PHILADELPHIA Jan. 51.--1wo let ters written by Abraham Lincoln to his secretary of navy, Gideon Welles, brought $1,250 each here yesterday at a public auction of Civil war docu- ments.
 Tn one of the letters, relating to the gunboat Monitor, Lincoln said that he was decidedly of the opinion that she should not go sky larking up to Norfolk" for he wrote Lieutenant Worden had told him the Monitor could be easily boarded and captured. In the other letter, dated August 23, 1864, President Lincoln said that he would be defeated for reelection by Mcclellan.
 A letter in which he asked for a war steamer to cruise the Potomac and protect he approacf..s to Wash ington broLslL $47o.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-02
GOVERNOR BONE PROMISES
 AID TO BRITISH AVIATORS

WASHINGTON, Jan 27.-The ter riterial government of Alaska will render any aid ossible in facilitating squadron leader A. s. c. MacLaren of the British Royal Air Force in fly ing over Alaska during the spring of 1924, it was stated at the interior de- partment today.
 The British aviator will attempt from April to June to fly around the world and his proposed itinerary will carry him over Alaska, land and wa ter. In recent communication to the Secretary of the Interior, Gov ernor Scott c. Bone announced any service that can be reasonably ren- dered to facilitate the flight over the Territory will be freely granted.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-02
Fall Able to Appear

WASHINGTON Feb. 1.-Ex-Secre- tary Albert B. Fall is in condition to appear for examination in the Senate oil inquiry, the investigation commit tee was told today by special medi- cal committee which was appointed yesterday to examine him. The chair man announced a subjoena for Fall, requiring his presence before the in vestigating committee at ten o'clock tomorrow The Senate concentrated their attention upon Denby while the House took up the Walsh oil lease annulment resolution which was pass ed by the Senate yesterday.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-02
REED TO ACCEPT AS
 COOLIDGE MANAGER

TACOMA, Jan 31-Mark E. Reed
 of Shelton, speaker of the lower house of the Washington legislature and long prominent in politics, announced over the long distance telephone to the Tacoma News-Tribune Saturday that he had decided to accept the ap- pointment as manager of the Coolidge campaign in the State of Washington.
 MT. Reed announced that he had sent a telegram today to William M. Butler, national manager of the Cool idge campaign, in Chicago stating his acceptance He said that he would start work at once toward getting Coolidge delegation from this state to the Cleveland convention next June.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-02

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30.-Mabel Normand and Edna Purviance, who figured in the shooting affray at the apartments of Courtland Dimes, veal thy oil promoter, New Years eve, will be forced to get out of the mo- vies, if the plans of Will Hays, the overland of the Screen," are carried out. Mir. Hays had nothing to say in regard to the affray other than that ,ne movies must be kept clean at all costs and that actors and actresses must behave themselves if they ex- pect to remain in the business.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-02
SEAT TIE MAN SHUT
 NHILE: DINING WITH
 WIFI: IF ASSAILANT
Veteran of Two Wars Dangerously Wounded When Husband Finds
 Two Alone in Cafe Box
SOUGHT TO TEACH A LESSON

SEATTLE, Jan. 29.-Major William J. Muirhead, veteran of the world and SpanishAmerican wars, and for mer traffic manager and port com missioner, was shot and dangerously wounded last night while in cafe dining with Mrs. Derby, wife of a travelling salesman. Derby took five shots at Muirhead, whom he said he wished to teach a lesson. Two took effect, one in the lung. Derby is in .ol
Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-02

WASHINGTON. Jan. .27.--The na- val affairs House committee began an investigation today to determine by what authority Secretary Denby of the Navy department turned over the naval oil reserves in Wyoming to AL bert B. Fall. The latter's appear ance before the Senate committee has been postponed until Tuesday on ac- count of his alleged serious illness.
 It is declared that Secretary Denby and Attorney General Daugherty will both resign from the cabinet as a re- suit of the Teapot Dome scandal.
 President Coolidge has ordered the employment of special counsel to en- gage in the prosecutions of all found o7lilty of fraud in the leases.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-02
;|TY OF ANGELS
 SELECTED POINT
 ID START FLIGHT Original Plans Called for Seattle as Place to Start World Flight,
 But Are Changed SEWARD IS ON ITINERARY This City Picked as Landing Place for Naval Planes on Account of
 Standard Oil Tanks
SEWARD IS ON ITINERAR,

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.-Los An geles has been selected by the Army Air Service as a starting point for the attempted flight around the world instead of Seattle, as originally planned. Four planes will be used in the flight and landings will be made in Alaska at Wrangell, Katalla Seward, Kodiak, Unalaska, Attu and thence to Japan.
 Large quantities of highly refined gasoline will be placed at all these points, as we'll as engine and plane parts to guard against break-downs.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-02
LEVINE EVTOMBED SU|uDAY IN MOSCOW,
 MERCURY 8 BELOW

MOSCOW, Jan. 27.-Nikolai Lenine was entombed Sunday in the Red Square in this city. Leon Trotzky was absent from the funeral of his chief owing to a severe illness. Half a million Bolsheviki passed the bier, while the body lay in state in the big government building. The funeral ser vice was short and several hundred thousand persons shivered in the cold while the interment was going on.
 The mercury registered 30 below zero.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-02
CHARGES MADE
 OF FRAUDS IN
 TEXAS LAND CASES

WASHINGTON I n. 27.-Charges were made today tha. R F. (Icager repu5l can national >mm.tteeman for Tcxa., has exercised q roll'ic.l pull w.t.! the attorney $ neral and post master general to stit,2 an inquiry in cnd frauds in Texas, were made to- day in resolution introduced by Senator Heflin.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-02
Sinclair to Appear

PARIS, Jan. Solitary Sinclair, the oil magnate, cabled to Senator Lenroot today that he would return to America as soon as his business in Europe is completed, and would ap- pear before the Senate committee as requested. Sinclair stated that he had nothing to hide from the public in connection with the oil leases.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-02
WASHINGTON Eah

WASHINGTON Feb 1-President Coolidge in a conference today re- quested that Senator Walsh and oth- CT Democratic Senators desist in their assaults, and let the court clear up the oil lease mess. The solons in the Senate declined to do so and Senator Pittman declared Secretary of the Ma " Denby constant and continuing danger to the United States. During the Senate's debate on Denby, Presi- dent Coolidge and Theodore Roose- welt walked about town for three quar- ters of an hour. Denby himself ini- tiated move to transfer the control of the Navy reserve oil lands from the Navy to the Department Of the Interi- or, Rear Admiral Latimer, judge ad- vocate general of the navy told the House Naval Affairs committed
Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-02

Doheny also testified that his com pany employed McAdoo on Mexican affairs. McAdoo was then out of the cabinet and received fees of quar- ter of a million dollars and poheny also stated that the late Franklin K. Lane was employed by his company at fifty thousand year.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-02

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-Senator Walsh of Montana, reviewing the work of the Senate committee in the Fall T. not Dome leases, declared to- day that ecretary of the Navy Denby must resign immediately or face Sem ate impeachment proceedings.
 The House today appropriated one hundred thousand dollars for use by President Coolidge in prosecuting the Teapot Dome plunderers.
 Senators Lodge, Lenroot and Curtis are in conference with the President at the latter's invitation, at the White House tonight to help solve the prob lem of the administrations policy in the lease scandal.
 The Senate passed much of the aft ernoon debating Senator Walsh's res.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-02
AMERICAN SHIPS MEET OFF
 PANAMA FOR PRACTICE

PANAMA, Jan. 3O-The first units of the American Pacific fleet which is to engage in maneuvers with the At lantic squadron, in a test of the effec- tiveness of the Panama canal arrived off Balboa this week.
 The entire fleet comprising ten bat tleships, 32 destroyers, 10 submarines one light cruiser and IA auxiliaries would be here tonight.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-02
Greqory Will Not Prosecute Case

WASHINGTON Feb. 1.-Gregory
 will not be employed to prosecute the Naval oil, leasing cases it was off, cially announced from the White House today after E. L. Doheny told the Senate Committee that Gregory had been in his employ some time ago.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-02
COOLIDGE STILL
 OPPOSED TO BONUS
 FOR VVAR VETERANS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.- Pres- dent Coolidge today reiterated his op- ocsiIion to the settler bonus when a delegation representing the Ex-Serv- ice Mems Anti-Bonus League called upon him.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-02
Will FOregO InspectiOn

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.-Secre- tary of the Naval Denby announced today that as a result of the Teapot Dome scandal he would forego his inspection trip to the fleet, now in Panama, but that 115 editors, invited to go as his guests, would make the trip.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-02

EW YORK, Jan. '31-The Worlds Washington dispatches says that Her bert Hoover will be made Secretary of the Interior following the removal of Secretary Work, and that his re- moval will be followed by the resig-
 nation of both Denby and Daugherty.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-02
Prosecution Appointed

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3O.- Presi- dent Coolidge announced today the appointment of Silas H. Strawn, of Chicago, republican, and Thomas w. Gregory of Texas, democrat, and for mer U. s. Attorney General to be special counsel in conducting the prosecution in the transfer and lease of the naval oil reserves. The House has summoned Denby before the na- val affairs committee in probe of the oil leases.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-02
Republicans Sitting Over Fire

FORT WORTH, Jan. 30-William J. Bryan said today: T hope Albert B. Fall is not guilty, but I have no doubt of the guilt of the Republican party which is sitting over an oil fire in the Teapot Dome case, and there is no telling whom the fire will scorch or where it will spread"
Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-02
Denby Refuses to Resign

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3O.-Secre- tary of the Navy Denby announced after yesterdays cabinet meeting, at which the oil lease investigation was considered, that he had no intention of resigning at the present time.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-02
Legality Question Is Up

WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 1.-Sec- retary of State Hughes issued for nal statement declaring that the ques tion of legality of the Naval oil leases and of the policy of leasing the re- serves was never brought up in any meeting of the Harding Cabinet.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-02
BLOW PROVES FATAL

CHICAGO, H., Jan. 31.-Henry R. Harris, father of Mildred divorced wife of Charlie Chaplin, died here this week as the result of blow on the head, administered by taxi dri yer.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-02
DOheny Wants to Testify

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.-E. l.. Doheny appeared unexpectedly at the Senate office building today and ask ed permission to be heard by the oil lease investigation committee.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-02
SENATOR REED WILL TRY
 TO CAPTURE NOMINATION

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 31.-Senator James 4. Reed, Democrat, of Missouri, has announced that he will enter the race for the Democratic nomination for Presidential hOnOrs.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-02
o,ution to annull the Teapot Dome leases.
Fall Gamhied Hcayily

NEW YORK, Jan. 20. Former Sec retary Fall is declared to have gam bled heavily in Sinclair oil stocks in the New York stock exchange.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-02
NATIONALLY KNOWN
 ECONOMIST IS DEAD

SEATTLE, Jan. 30.-Dr. J. Allen Smith, a nationally known political economist writer, and member of the University of Washington faculty for 27 years, died today.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-02

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31-Warships recently on duty at Vera Cruz have been ordered to return and remain there.