The Connecticut labor news., 1924-05-17

GOnlpers going to make: asked the nlavor. We don't know He will make his own speech was the reply. We don't want him to raise ,he1l,' said the mayor.
 Well, I am not acquainted with the ways in hell Is there any dissertation or Sunday afternoon i'll asking men and women of sufficient understanding to realize their responsibility as citi- zens to meet together in order to per form their duty toward their fellow men? 1 am further informed that labor paper was forbidden to be cir culated here i'll the ordinary way, but had to be placed in envelopes before copies could be handed to the people of Bethlehem I wonder that the mayor did not insist that they use a perfumed envelope.
 Has 1t come to pass that great movements such as ours, that efforts to control our very sentiments, must be measured by the course pursued by the chief of the great industry in Bethlehem the religious Charlie Schwab, by grace ot the Bethlehem Steel Corporation? I hope not There is such a thing as being too rigid in the endeavor to crush down, to sup press, to oppress."
 To Americanize the Industry.
 Mr. Gompers then entered into dis cussion of the subject which had brought him to Bethlehem, his first visit there in 2 years, the rightful re- people to their employers and toward each other.
 The organized labor movement is making for the thorough American ization of the people of the Republic of the United States,' declared MT Gonpers> We want to make ton1or- row better day than today We want to establish the eight-hour day for workers i'll the steel industry here and everywhere.
 Some are prone to say that the movement to organize the steel indus try and the strike of few years ago were absolutely total failures I quite agree that the movement was prema- ture and that 1t was badly conducted ;; but to say that 1t was failure is to belle the truth demonstrated within the recent past You know that the primary purpose was abolition of the T 41o e1s
 It IS scarcely a year ago when the chief spokesman for the steel industry Judge Gary, asserted that abolition of the 12-hour day would mean ruination of the product more than Is per cent. It IS not more than a week ago, now, that the United States Steel Corpora tion published it's report for the past year, since abolition of the 12-hour day and inauguration of the and 10-hour day, and never in the history of the industry was there so great a produc- tion and so wonderful a profit as with i'll that period, which Judge Gary said would mean ruin.'
 A Steel "Company OnIon.
 MT. Gonlpers spoke on the company union formed by the steel company at the Bethlehem works and display ed a copy of a local paper containing picture Of 25 men who constitute the executive committee of the un- ion" who had "settled' wage matter with the company on the company's terms.
 Why wouldn't 1t be settled by the company when the company controls the 'union'?" asked MT. Gompers. Just imagine the chairman and the members of this executive committee standing up for the men in the pres ence of President Grace of this great corporation! It can't be done. They need real organization, an American labor union, here.
 Industrial disputes. in the steel in dustry, here and elsewhere, will con- tinue to be settled by the company on the company's terms alone, until the steel workers assert their right and character and independence to be heard, not as American citizens alone but as American workrnen united in their determination to have voice in the kind of conditions under which they shall live and work Now they are compelled to do the bidding of Mir. Grace and the company"