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The Connecticut labor news., 1925-02-07
MINRES' PRESIDENT REELECTED BY OYER
 73,OOO MAJORITY
By International Labor News Service

By International Labor News Service
 Indianapolis, Ind, Feb. 7.-The official canvass of the votes cast at the eelction December 9, held by the In- lternational Union, United Mine Work CTS of America, has just been com p1eted by the tellers.
 President Lewis was reelected by a majority of 73,366H votes, he receiving 136,2OoH votes and George Voyzey 62,843 Phillip Murray was reelected vice-president by o0,7o21a votes over Arley Staples, Murray receiving 12o,- 8OOH votes and Staples 6o,O38. Will fam Green, now head of the American Federation of Labor, received l3o,9/ votes and his competitor, Joseph Near ing 51 ,8861z, giving Green majority of 87,2oO1z votes. As MT. Green re- signed to become head of the A. F. of L., Thomas Kennedy, his successor as ecretary-treasurer of the miners, will fill out the term for which MT. Green was elected.
 John Mossop, Albert Neutzling and Thomas c. Morgan were reelected as international auditors, and Thomas Paskell, Thomas Holiday and William Young were elected as international tellers.
 The following delegates were elected to the next convention of the A. F. of L.: John L. Lewis, William Green, Philip Murray, Frank Harrington, Lee Hall, Thomas Kennedy, Walter Nes- bit and Fred Mooney There were A candidates for places on the delegation.
 The size of the total vote at this election was cut down considerably on account of many members and locals being out of standing because of un- employment and the further fact that there were no real contests for any of the major offices.
The Connecticut labor news., 1925-02-07
CHICAGO SCHOOL HEADS SEEK
 TO SUPPRESS REPORT HITTING
 PLATOON EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

acting party secretary and general all- the following illuminating extract IS taken, showing the hurry-up obedience of the American Comrades" to the orders from Moscow: -a.
 "We are enclosing the thesis on re- organization of the party on the basis of shop nuclei which was unanimously adopted by the central executive com mittee number of days before the receipt of your letter.
 "We think that you will find it in thorough harmony with the policy on shop nuclei of the Commintern (Com- munist InternationaD. We have, as you will note, corrected our errors in conception and organization of shop nuclei as confined in the original reso- lution on factory nuclei adopted at the second convention of our party in January, 1924. Especially as concerned with language organization, dues, etc.
 "We suggest to you that you deal in a special communication on this question in a great part with the role of language groups and members or auxi1iaries when the party is a party of shop nuclei. This will no doubt go Ia long way in getting the language federations more energetically behind the reorganization.
 fa1f0xxrino fha plan of organizing shop nuclei in fla vorable, yet isolated instances, for the purpose of experience and demon stration of the superiority of shop nuclei over the territorial or geograph- ical form of organization. This is on the basis of information gotten through the industrial registration. We have organized some shop nuclei in the city of Chicago and in Gary. These are in the needle, printing, ma chine shop and steel industries. They have not been organized within a par ticular territory or ward, but from To- cality in general These are working out fairly well, despite inexperience, and indicate much promise for the future.
 t"The party is also now proceeding to organize shop nuclei in southern Illinois in the coal mining territory. The reorganization is meeting with fine results. We hope to be able to write you soon of practical successes. Also in the case of Pittsburgh steel and coal territory. Tn Cleveland, too, factory nuclei are being established"
 When the bureaucracy in Moscow gives it's orders the Communist propa- gandists in the United States and throughout the world hurr yto obey!
The Connecticut labor news., 1925-02-07
American Reds
 Hurry to Obey
 Moscow's Orders
Here's a Sample of Obedience.

A faithful and typical illustration of the mute obedience to Moscow's orders by the Communists in America is found in connection with the present effort to re-organize the Workers Party on shop nuclei lines instead of geographi- cal lines.
 The Communist International at Moscow has issued orders that this be done; the Workers Party of America hastens to answer that it will be done and that the beginning has been made.
 From a letter addressed to the Com munist International, signed by two we'll known Communists, Martin Ahern, director of the shop nucleus re-organ- ization work, and Earl R. Browder,
The Connecticut labor news., 1925-02-07
By Staff Correspondent, International Labor News Service.


 Chicago, Feb. 7.-William McAn- drew, superintendent of the Chicago public schools, has been endeavoring to suppress the report of a commission just prior to the Christmas holidays to investigate the platoon schools of Detroit, Akron, Ohio, and Pittsburgh. ! Details of the adverse report of the being submitted to MT. McAndrew, and Chicago daily newspapers charged that he was trying to suppress the report.
 Report Kept Secret.
 Inasmuch as the Chicago Federation of Labor and the Chicago Teachers Federation had led the fight against the platoon system, junior highs and intelligence tests which the Board of Education had decided to adopt last spring, the Chicago correspondent of International Lavor News Service vis- ited the office of Superintendent Mo Andrew on two separate days and ask led for a copy of the report or to be permitted to read it. Superintendent McAndrew declined to be interviewed or to release the report.
 In its report, which was made after an investigation in other cities, it was learned from authoritative sources, hte commission lists numerous reasons why the platoon system should not be established in the Chicago schools, the main ones being that the new system is not needed here, that it is unsuited to Chicago, that it is too costly and that most of its good features are al- ready in vogue in the local schools.
 Several Startling Features.
 Several features of the commissions report are said to be of startling nature Thus the platoon schools in Pittsburgh are said to be shown in the report to have no assembly rooms one of the more boasted of features of the platoons. Many of the Detroit platoons, the commission is reported to have found, contain swimming pools but no auditoriums.
 Moreover, the Pittsburgh system is shown to have been so unsatisfactory to begin with that any kind of a sys- tem-the p1atoons in that case-was better than its predecessor.
 The report concludes with recapIt- ulation to the effect that Chicago shoul dsolve its own school problem in its own way and should not attempt to transplant into its schools system which the commission is unable to recommend.
 Organized labor in Chicago undoubt- |ed1y will have something urtfher to say on this matter as soon as 1t can obtain official and authoritative infor- nation on the subject.
 Report Victory for Union.
 The report of the commission is re- garded as at least partial victory for the unions and as an entering wedge to topp1e over the whole plan of the Board of Education, which has been regarded as an effort to prevent the children of workingmen from ob- taining anything beyond a meager common school educatin and to con fine them to the status and class of their parents.
 ; Great credit is due to Victor A. Olander, secretary-treasurer of the Illinois State Federation of Labor, who was chosen to lead organized labor's fight against the platoon system, junior highs and intelligence tests.
The Connecticut labor news., 1925-02-07
GREEDY LANDLORDS
(Continued from Page One )

wept for the Irish tenants It is be yond comparison worse than that of Germany, or England, or Scotland, or , Italy
 Tn order to find a rental system as bad as ours one would have to go to the Poland or Russia of the years before the war. Since the war I do not be- lieve there is a country in Europe which has not reformed its tenant system, SO as to give the tenant some rights in law as a tenant beyond those fonceded to him by the landowner.
 Compare our tenants with those in Germany before the war The emperor once wanted for his private use a cer- tain farm which he owned. He notified the tenant to move. There was no lease which the tenant could cite to give him the right to stay; but there was the law and immemorial usage He fought the emperor in the courts, and the monarch gave way to law and custom.
 "In rack-renting America the tenants have no rights save what the landlord vouchsafes them. We grew into this while land was cheap. We must change 1t or we must somehow have cheap land again"
 The remedy, according to MT Quick, is the simple one of taxing the rich and idle lands now held for speculation into use. With this should go a 1essening of the burdens of taxation now borne by the farmer on every article he uses or sells.
 This would end absentee landlordism with its by-products of tenant farmers and rack rents. It would remove from the development of industrial sections the same 'tdead hand of the speculator' which is choking our agricultural de- velopment
 If relief in this form is not given, MT. Quick predicts, our people, both indus trial and agricultural, are on the round to become peons of the landlords.
The Connecticut labor news., 1925-02-07
BY THE WAY
Comment and Criticism About Things
 Doing in the World

Henry Ford, who gets great deal of publicity as a man of good works, has bought 10000 tons of rails in Belgium. The Interborough Rapid Transit Com pany, New York, is negotiating for S. GOO tons and it is said it will save SIS a ton if it cari get the terms Ford got So Ford must have saved that amount per ton.
 Henry Ford sells his fivvers to Amer ican workmen who are able to buy fivvers because they earn fair wages. But they could not earn fair wages. if all American industry did what Ford did when he went to Belgium for his stell rails
 Seeking out the lowest paid workers is short-sighted policy, and Henry Ford ought to know this.
 That fair play for convicts is justi- fled not only from humane standpoint, but from the standpoint of results is demonstrated by Canada's experience with modern prison methods.
 E. J. McMurray Solicitor General for Canada, recently told the Kiwanis Club of Ottawa that more far-sighted and human methods in the Canadian prison system are having their results.
 Mr. McMurray referred in particular to the parole system, adopted in 1899. Of the 16,885 prisoners paroled since then more than 14,8O0 had made good. he said.
 The speaker pointed out that modern methods of punishment are two-fold; to deter others from crime and to reform those who have erred. Prisoners serve half their time before subject to parole and the whole system is based on merit and the conduct of the men, he said
 The address of Mir. McMurray indi- cated unmistakably that Canada is find ing that 1t pays to treat human beings justly and fairly. Certain States in the United States having archais and bar barous prison systems might study the experience of Canada with profit.
 
 Conhding persons who have hoped that the Pennsylvania Road might mod fly its policy toward labor are due for a shock when they read details of the company's plan for holding an election of 'employe representatives" in Feb ruary.
 A pronouniciamiento on the subject of the election shows that the Penn ylvania has no intention of changing its policy of fostering company unions" and that it will stoop to any method to prevent the workers from electing men of their own choosing.
 The February election Is for telegra- phers and the election was ordere des- pite the recent vote taken by direction of the United States Railroad Labor Board, in which the telegraphers em- ployed on the Pennsylvania voted to 1 i'll favor of representation by the Or der of Railroad Photographers, national 
 The Pennsylvania has made it clear that it will not permit the men fair choice by inserting in the notice sent to the telegraphers a provision that any one accepting the nomination must be an "employe representative" and note a of the union. In the election last year the ''employe repre- sentatives" appeared before the Rail- road Labor Board and declared they
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The Connecticut labor news., 1925-02-07
LINCOLN
Bv SAMUEL GOMPERS

And there emerged from poverty and obscury, gaunt figure, the figure of Abraham Lincoln; the figure of whose spirit will live long there hope the hearts of and the minds of men to demand achievement and the maintenance of freedom, justice and democracy
 Lincoln lived for the attainment of these prncipes Lin coin died in the struggle for these principles.
 Lncolns spirit and high ideals dominate every ment of and events which have for their purpose light and hope the work and the lives of the tong America ave- of the whole world.
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Man-Made World

If l believed in change, should
sketch world where women would
live upon shelves, shelves without lad
ders. one would take them down
when one wanted them. They would
be delighted to be taken down, clap
ping their little hands, Growing like
babies, and yet understand ones
deepest thoughts.
One would also take them down in
the morning to do the housework. At
other times one would live sternly and
bravely with other men as stern and
brave, Until one came to need again
the women Who would be akin to
those very expensive dolls who say
papa" aud mama" when you press
spring.
When one got tired of their roper
tory, one would send them to the shoI
10 have a different record put in.-
Prom 9Th Triumph Of Gallo" by w
/ = George.
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Tire Tale Recommended
as Superior Lubricator

Tire tale, rather than graphite and
other oily preparations, makes the
best lubricator between the inner tube
and the casing.
Motorists are cautioned, however, to
exercise care in the use of tire tale,
as too much Is fully as damaging as
too little. Too free use of tire tale
a special prepared soapstone for tire
use-will cause quantity of the pow
er collecting in one place, generate
heat, give the tube soft and bubbly
appearance and form a weak spot.
The tale should be distributed evenly
over the surface; shifting or rotating
tube is simple and efficient method.
Graphite is an excellent lubricator
for tire subjected to extra heavy duty
and excessive speeds. Racing drivers
use graphite but only after sitting
through sieve made Of cheesecloth
onto the revolving tube. This meth
cd Is necessary, otherwise several
flakes of graphite might accumulate In
one point, thereby causing deteriora-
tion-the oil In graphite being foe to
rubber.
For the average motorist--for the
man who does not run his car continu-
ously, day In and day out, the judi
cious use of tire tale is strongly rec
commended.
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MOTORTRUCK BIC
HELP TO FARMER
Economical Movement of
Live Stock and Other
Produce to Markets.

In less than two years this country
has Witnessed an amazing development
In transportation over our highways.
Economical movement of live stock and
other produce from the farm, and the
increasing shipments of various kinds
of freight by motortruck has become
constantly growing problem for the
road builder. Transportation in this
country has direct bearing upon most
of the problems which the American
people must meet and solve. The farm,
with its foodstuffs, must be brought
closer to the city buyers. The farmer
must be able to sell his produce more
nearly direct to the consumer. The
economical transportation of freight by
motortruck should be encouraged and
aided in so far as 1t does not deprive
the railroads of their just share of the
business. interviewer with this prob
lem of transportation Is the fact that
the motortruck, If properly developed.
will go long way toward solving our
transportation problems. and bringing
about natural economic solution Of
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Lanfrew chewed upon an lnlagInar
mouthful he said finally: "God knows
Some women-beautiful women-art
poisonous. Rare cases. They carry 3
deadly poison, DeWolfe Some infiu.
ence, some bane, some corrosive with.
ering, devilish, fatal fluid or vapor OF
aura--whatever you choose. Whe
knows what 1t is? But she-that
woman-when you find her, will blast
a man like"
He stopped
Peter drew deep breath. He said
almost incredulously, did you tell me
that you got the impression from Mr..
Parmalee that he was going to inyes'
tigate something's"
yes Been Invited to investigate
something" the lawyer said.
Devote stared at the carpet. Aft
or pause he got up and held out his
hand.
Let this alone" said Lanfrew-
GBut Of course If you want anything
else, come in again"
Peter went home TO his apartment.
He found there an envelope brought
by messenger from the Office of Pen
nington, Gould and Goodhue. 1t CON
tanned cable from Brena, overseas.
do not go any deeper, I beg you.
am in mortal fear" it said. II am
coming to America. All my love-"
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how to bring the farm and its produce
closer to the city consumers, and how
to adequately relieve our existing
transportation problem.
Purpose Of Truck.
The motortruck Is here to stay. The
sole purpose Of the truck is to carry
loads-anything and everything we eat
and wear or in other ways use-over
the road. Out of this change in trans
portation has come truck traffic." Of
which we speak just as easily as
though it had always been with us.
Truck traffic requires three things: the
truck, the goods to be hauled, and the
road. Just as the development of rail-
road motive power progressed beyond
development of railroad roadbed so
has the development of the motortruck
business developed beyond the ability
of the highways for which 1t was pri-
marily intended.
Damage Done by Truck.
Because the roads have not been
ready to withstand that sort Of traffic,
there has been an uproar In some sec
tons of the country against the motor
truck. There are those who claim that
In spite of all that the truck has
achieved, its return to the public does
not compensate for the damage which
1t has done to highways never built in
anticipation of its coming. Here and
there legislation of various kinds has
been proposed to limit speed and
weight of the truck and the load which
1t may carry. In other words, instead
Of building the road to fit the load ex-
tremists have taken various measures
to block progress of highway develop
ment that must be provided for because
1t is a natural development of our
transportation system and because 1t
Is here to stay.
Our present roads were built to
carry certain load. Over 80 per cent
of our roads today were not built to
carry heavy traffic. Neither were our
railroads originally built for the traffic
and rolling stock that today they must
Withstand.
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Automobile Now Termed
Neighborhood Expander

The automobile has made neighbor-
hood bigger term. With a good car
1t Is as easy to visit your friend ten
miles distant as 1t used to be to call
on one within sight Of your home.
Not only has the automobile enlarged
the neighborhood; it has in a sense
made the whole country one neigh
borhood, and broken down sectional
lines.
1t Is an interesting study during the
touring season to note the states from
which cars hail as they speed by on
pleasure bent. Remote parts of the
Union will be found represented in
every popular touring section. Those
who travel by automobile come into
more Intimate touch with the coun-
try than those who travel by train.
The car goes right by the door; the
life of the people unfolds in an ever
changing panorama
The motorist who keeps his eyes
open can get knowledge of the
country and the people excelled only
by that of the pedestrian as he moves
at his snail-like pace. Added knowl-
edge always means the breakdown
Of sectional lines. Give credit, then,
to the automobile as a unifying influ-
ence in national life.
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Adjust Gap Distance on
Spark Plug More Often

Experiment has shown that when
the electrodes of spark plug are
formed to sharp point, and high
tension current passed through, the
gap which the current will jump may
be much greater than If the ends Of
the electrodes are formed blunt in the
usual manner. This knowledge has
been used on cars which have given
trouble due to the plugs fonling from
the oil. After the electrodes had been
sharpened, they were set to the usnal
gap. after which they gave no further
trouble from fouling. The probable
explanation of this is that the oil does
not collect SO readily on the small
points, or that the current cuts through
the oil more easily. 1t will be neces-
sary to adjust the gap distance more
frequently as the small points burn
away quicker than the blunt points.
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" came to ask" Devote began.
"YesY' the other interrupted with a
growl.
Peter pointed at the letter.
II know" snarled Lanfrew. I'm
at your service"
"You were the last man who ever
saw Compton Parmalee,' Peter began.
HE came to draw an instrument in
my Office
"a Wilt"
eyes"
(which leaves to his widow
1.-THE man isn't legally dead yet"
Lanfrew said severely.
'He has been-say gone-for several
years."
Apparently wiped out. Yes. And
there Is nothing more to be done. We
exhausted every means except that of
nasty publicity. It's futile. 1t Is
folly for you to waste your time.
Where did you meet Mrs. Parmalee-
old friend?"
81 met her in London
The old lawyer arose, thrust his. jaw
out as If making it flexible and ready
to bite, and stared for long time at
Peter.
Are you the son Of Devote Of the
Equity"
yes"
Let 1t alone"
"What alone?"
'This affair. Let sleeping dogs lie.
who you are. Used to know your
father. / can talk to you confiden-