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The Connecticut labor news., 1925-01-24
BARRIERS OF NEW HAVEN HOLD
 INSTALLATION
Officers Installed on Thursday, Jan. 6. 18th Anniversary of Organization
 to Be Celebrated May }, 1925.

At the meeting of the New Haven Barbers Union Local 215, held on Thursday, January 8, the following officers were installed by Brother Frank D'Angelo:
 Ralph Pastore, president; Ralph Alfano, vice-president; Joseph Maya, recorder; F1oren A1fano, secretary treasurer; Louis Caliendo, guide; James De Celie, guardian; Lorenzo Cimmino and Felice Panagrossa, f. nance committee; Valentino D'Ambro- sio and Ralph Caccona, sick visiting committee; Charles A. Golf, Ralph Anastasio and Salvatore Spagnuolo, trustees. ..--.
 Ralph A1fano, Louis Caliendo and Floren Alfano were appointed dele gates to the Trades Council, and Charles A. Golf was appointed chair man of the grievance committee. These officers were elected at special called meeting on December 2o 1924, and will hold office for three years.
 Floren Alfano was again elected busi- ness agent of the union, also for three years.
 On May 3, 1925, will occur the 18th anniversary of this organization, and a special committee is already at work preparing suitable celebration on that date, the details of which will be given at late date. It is expected that In- ternational President, James C. Shan essy, of Indianapolis, Ind, will attend the celebration.
The Connecticut labor news., 1925-01-24
SEAMEN PAY
 FOR DISSIPATION
 OF THEIR UNION

Washington, Jan. A.-"Dreaming never produced anything but a realiza- tion that it was all dream" said An drew Fursuieth, president of the Inter national Seamen's union, in an appeal to non-union seamen to start the new year by returning to the trade union fold.
 You non-union men, who are help ing the shipowners to take away all that we gained in healthier day-when we did not expect things to come to us with out effort-you, when you wake up, will ind that you have slept with your door open, and that you have been robbed not only of all savings, but of your clohtes,' said President Fursueth.
 You had $85 to $o0 in wages; you alone know what you receive now. You were paid overtime for overtime work; you are still working the overtime, and often more than ever, but the pay is gone
 When you were deprived of your rights under the law the union was there to advise you and to protect you.
 You are compelled to accept grade book, the purpose of which is to black list you, and when you protest you are shown the door and told there is no more employment for you.
 You have followed the jack-o' Ian tern light through the wilderness inro the swamp. You have listened to the promises of the I. w w, the Nellie By Outfit, the Mariners relief, the Marine pals, the Cartlede outfit and you know how many more-all promising the same thing-something that was 10 come without effort and without price. You have found 1t just like any mirage; you have found 1t was not water, but sand. Will you not now in this new yeaf, look at the facts as they are7.
The Connecticut labor news., 1925-01-24
WASTE IN INDUSTRY WORRY BUSINESS MEN
Confer With Secretary of Commercs
 Hoover on the Question.

Washington, Jan. 24.-Waste in in dustry and the excessive costs of dis rtributlon are attracting the attention of business men, who conferred i'll this city with Secretary of ommerce Hoov- CT on this question:
 In his address to the conference MT. Hoover said that lone of the greatest wastes in our whole system of distri- button IS the unnecessary number of links in the distribution chain and the excessive number of chains" He re- ferred to waste from excessive sea sonality of production and distribution, ployment; waste due to lack of trans portation and terminals, and waste from a lack of standards of quality and grades.
 It was stated that during the decade ending in 1920 the elements engaged in distribution increased 10 times as fast as those that were directly en- gagged in production.
 While commodities are being pro duced at an increa singly lower cost, the. charges for these commodities are increasing because of a multiplicity of sales organizations and middle men,
 The business men made no specific recommendation and it was agreed that a knowledge of all facts is the first requisite.
 A significant feature of the meeting was the absence of any reference to salvation through legislation It was agreed that the ills of faulty distribu- tion must be solved by those directly interested.
The Connecticut labor news., 1925-01-24
CHILD EMPLOYERS
 USE OLD SCARECROW

Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 24.-In trans hitting the federal child labor amend rnent to the state legislature, Governor Kendall ridiculed the claim that this proposition is revolutionary and social istic" ss:... #.
 That is familiar objection inter posed against all enlightened reforms by the cupidity and avarice which sancti- fes money at the sacrifice of men" the governor said
 "The power sought to be conferred upon congress is no diqerent either in nature or extent from that at present possessed by the legislatures of the states themselves. Many states, among them our own, have exercised 1t. It is not conceivable that, if granted the au- thority, congress will enact a statute dis turbing the salutary conditions which prevail in Iowa.
 Some states, however, notably those in the extreme south, have declined to measure the interests of humanity against the accumulation of money, and have refused to establish any limitations upon the sordid greed of interruptions employers. ! From early morning until late evening, without holidays for recra- ton, little people of tender years-the pride of the present and the hope of the future-are sentenced to a slavish labor which dwarfs the body, stunts the
 
 "It is to correct such deplorable sit uation as this, and to conserve the health, promote the happiness and as sure the education of the nations youth that this amendment to the constitution is demanded by the philanthropic inn pulse of the age"
The Connecticut labor news., 1925-01-24
NEW TRADE UNION
 OFFICIALS RENEW FEALTY| TO WORKERS
President William Green of the A. F. of L. Promises to Give All His
 Strength to New Position.

l Washington, Jan 24-"Without res ervation, of strength, intellect or ability which l may possess, l give myself to my present position" said William Green, president of the A F. of L., at dinner given by resident officials of international unions affair was attend ed by large number of trade unionists and their ladies, Other guests of honor were James P. Nolan, newly-elected vice president of the A. F. of L., and George F. Hendrick and William ]. Tracy, president and secretary treasurer of the A. F. of L. building trades .1e- partment, also both newely elected.
 "As I survey the situa tion," continued President Green, 'I am impressed with this fact, that the work of organization and education must be carried on in every unorganized field and i'll every community Ill thorough-going, vigorous fashion. Th:, appeal to unite i'll this great, humane undertaking, must be made not only to the workers them selves, but to the sense of fairness and justice which is so characteristic of our American people. ...
 The field IS a vast one and the work is so great, but the service which can be rendered through organized effort is on insetimable value. Organize the unorganized must be our slogan It IS a work for humanity, for not only through the independence and freedom which come through organization can men and women reach that standard of life and living commensurate with American citizenship and enjoy in full measure happy life"
 In referring to the former president of the A. F. of L., Mr. Green said:
 Tt seems but yesterday since Samuel Gompers, one of the foremost residents of this community, and the great leader of the hosts of labor, was here among us. His dramatic death and burial and the incidents in connection herewith are still fresh in our minds It is very difficult for us to realize that he has
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The Connecticut labor news., 1925-01-24
DEADLY TUNNEL WORK CALLSFOR
 SHORTER HOURS
Organized Compressed Air Workers Fail in Negotiations With New
 York City Officials.

New York, Jan 24-Organized com pressed air workers have failed in their negotiations with city officials to shorten hours on the new tunnel to be built under the East river. These unionists, known as sand hogs" de- clare that their long list of fatalities and intense suferings is at all end, and If they fail to secure relief from the state. legislature, now in session. they will refuse to work on the tunnel.
 According to the union, almost 50 per cent of their members employed on the last tunnel job were stricken with "bends" Several died because of teh excruciating pains.
 The unionists point out that that tunnel job is the last one in this coun- try since 1921 where men laboring un- der compressed air have been forced to work excessively long hours. AL most 800 of the 1650 workers were attacked by "bends" during the IA months of tunnel construction. The tunnel commissions figures show 49o cases of "bends,' and the other 300 cases were diagnosed as muscular rheumatism" by hospital attendants (not physicians) employed by the tun- ne1 contractors.
 The medical air1ocks in which these cases were treated were taxed beyond Continued on Page Eighty
The Connecticut labor news., 1925-01-24
CLEAR THOUGHT
 STOPPED BY OPTOMISTIC RUBBISH

New York, Jan. 24-In-a f1rst-page article that could be read with profit by every organized worker, The An na1ist, financial newspaper, calls on business men ito keep their feet on the ground"
 There is.evidence that good many mental shelves are ciuttered with optimistic rubbish which ought to be cleared out" the editor says
 Business men are urged to avoid what experts in morbid psychology call 'day-dreaming attempt to lose ones self in i6ctitious, imagina- tive state of affairs where all goes we'll for ones desires"
 The Anna1ist called attention to a statement 1t made last August that 1t was folly for business men to build on the $200O00,000 in creae the farmers received, through the advance in the price of wheat, because the factory workers had lost three times as much purchasing power in the preceding four months"
 That Is why trade has declined more in the industrial sections of the coun- try than 1t has gone up in the agricul- tura1. The optimism which could see only the farmers gains, ignoring the greater loss in factory wages, is fair sample of the mental rubbish that cur rent inventory taking ought to make an end of.
 'Let business throw away its book of incantations and devote itself in stead to sound and scientific naviga- tion"
 The Annalist says that the 10 per cent. wage reduction in Fall River textile mills has not produced fuller employment "and the probable spread of these reductions to Rhode Island will do nothing in the near future to increase purchasing power"
The Connecticut labor news., 1925-01-24
CHILD BAN
 WINS IN CALIFORNIA
State Legislature Ignores Hysterical
 Campaign and Passes Measure.

Sacramento, Calif., Jan. 24.-The state legislature ignored the hysteirca1 campaign against the federal child la bor amendment. and passed that meas ure by an overwhelming vote.
 In the senate there were only three votes in opposition and 3o in favor of ratification. In the assembly the vote was 6o for and nine against.
 California IS the second state that has favored the amendment, the other being Arkansas Louisiana, Georgia and North Carolina legislatures op- posed the amendment. Legislators in the latter state so1emn1y declared that the amendment would foment a revo- 1ution by children and destroy our civilization. The same hysteria was used in Massachusetts, where the amendment was rejected by popular referendum intended to advise the legislature.
The Connecticut labor news., 1925-01-24
TRADE UNION BANK
 MAKES NOTABLE GAIN

New York, Jam 24-The Federation Bank of New York, the largest bank controlled by unions of the A. F. of L., has made spectacular gains since its organization, 20 months ago. At the present time its resources total $8,5O0,OO0.
 eter J. Brady, member of the Photo Engravers' Union, whose energy and organizing genius made the bank possible, has been reelected president. He states that resources will reach $1O,00O,000 at the second anniversary of the banks establishment.
 Owing to the banks remarkable growth, it will soon become necessary to increase the capital to $1,000,000," i" said President Brady. "The new issue will be widely distributed among union members"
The Connecticut labor news., 1925-01-24
CLAIM SEVEN-DAY LAW IS VOID AND
 NOT UNIFORM

St. Paul, Minn, Jan 24-The state supreme court has set aside the state law that provides for one-day-rest-in seven for persons employed "in or about any mechanical or mercantile establish ment, factory, foundry, laundry, power plant or stationary boiler or engine room in this state"
 Exceptions were made for street cars, hospitals, clinics, telephones and tele- graph companies, undertakers, news papers, canneries, and other callings.
 In declaring the law unconstitutional, the court said:
 ITO be valid the act must operate alike upon all who are similarly situ- ated, If it selects particular employees of the class, and gives to them priv ileges which it withholds from others employees of the same class; or if 1t selects particular employees of the class and impose upon them burdens and re- strictions from which 1t exempts other employers of the same class, 1t denies the equal protection of the laws to those discriminated against and thereby vio- lates the constitutional mandae
 "An examination of this statue shows that anyone who employs men in pow CT plant or boiler or engine room IS within the law if the heat or power gen erated is used Ill hotel, shoe fac tory, a bakery or a restaurant, but IS outside the law If 1t is used in news ment, four mill, or cannery,
 "The need for day of rest is the same whether the ernploye is generating heat and power for use in one or an- other of the lines of businss mentioned.
The Connecticut labor news., 1925-01-24
NEWSPAPER OWNERS OPERATE FOR PROFIT

New York, Jan 24.-The Wall Street Journal contributes to the cause of real ism by combating the popular delusion that newspaper Is not a private-con- trolled institution, operated for profit.
 A local newspaper, in an editorial ar ticle, declared that "the American news paper has always been an institution af- fected with public interest"
 To this, the Wall Street Journal bluntly replie: "A newspaper is pri- vate enterprise, owing nothing whatever to the public, which grants it no fran chise It Is, therefore, affected with no public interest. It is emphatically the property of its owner, who Is selling a manufactured product at his own risk. If the public does not like his opinion or his method of presenting news, the remedy is in its own hands. It is under no obligation to buy the paper.
 ITO say that a public interest IS ere ated because newspapers are carried isl the mails at special rates, fixed by the post office itself, Is sheer nonsense. If 
 that were true, everything else carried in the mails would be affected with a public interest
 For ridiculously obvious reasons there are many newspaper owners will ing enough to encourage the public in the delusion that 1t is the editor of a newspaper who dictates the selection of news and the expression of opinion. He only does so subject to the correction and suggestion of the proprietor Of the paper who, most properly, considers his newspaper as a plain business proposi- tainly no less, and the public is all the better served when there IS no pretense of being anything else-'
The Connecticut labor news., 1925-01-24
SHORTER WORK WEEK
 NO SCARE TO REDITO

New York, Jan. 24.-The New York World is not alarmed at hve-day week demands. After reviewing the reduc- tion of hours an dthe revolution in in dustry through labor saving machinery the editor asks:
 "The hve-day week? Well, why not :? A Saturday morning clipped off the schedule and we shall have 1t.
 What dream this would have seemed hundred years ago. Then a 14-hour day, six days week, was common enough. One of the first fights of our infant labor unions was for the 12-hour day, and then for the eight-hour day.
 "So, after a period of readjustment, we are beginning to find the early commentators on the industrial revo- lution were right after all. They, see ing machines appearing everywhere, were delighted, and predicted that machines would eventually relieve hu- man beings of long and degrading labor But economists scoffed. Karl Marx, i'll particular, jeered and snarled and proved by algebra that machines only served to grind the 1aborer more Lcrue1ly. But economists sometimes are wrong.
 Machines, without a doubt, have made it possible for us to produce our subsistence with less work, leaving us more time for leisure"
The Connecticut labor news., 1925-01-24
BIC ANTHRACITE
 MINE STRIKE IS
 INVERTED IN PENN,
Miners Decide Not to Walkout or Promise of Consolidation
 Board to Act.

Wilkes Barre, Pa, Jan. 24-At the verge of walkout that would have closed every hard coal mine in Dis trict Mo- of the United Mine Work CTS of America, the district in which more than half of all anthracite is pro- duced, o3 delegates to a general meet ing here peacefully closed four-hour session with a promise from the an thracite conciliation board.
 Demanding the settlement of the strike of 12,O00 miners of Pennsyl- vania Coal Company, starting on it's third month, 50O00 men were ready to lay down their tools and join the pro test Instead they look forward now to peace at their own collieries and a
 Neil Ferry, personal representative |of ]. L. Lewis, international president of the miners, turned the tide from industrial war to prosperous peace.
 MT. Ferry first advised the striking Pennsylvania men to go back to duty. He said that on that contingency would rest a general meeting of President Lewis peace commission which would formulate an immediate appeal of all grievances for presentation to the con Tci1iation board
 Mr. Ferry assured the miners that a strike at this time would be disas- trous to the nation because of the i'm mediate coal shortage 1t would cause. He said also the strike would be illegal and a fracture of existing contracts. The better way to settlement of all troubles would be through the chan nels offered by the conciliation board and miners commission.
 With promises and advice apparent ly assuring the redemption of the Pennsylvania miners from idleness and with MT. Ferry ready to call meet. ing for review of grievances, 1t was not necessary to take a strike vote. The delegates returned back to their unions to notify them the mines are to go on producing. Union officials be- 1ieve the danger of winter strike has definitely passed.
The Connecticut labor news., 1925-01-24
Join the New Union

A new union of men and women is fast growing Organized for the pur- pose of helping you to be always well dressed. Your honest name is the only qualification necessary. Dues are pay able as you are paid. Clothes mean so much-why neglect your appearance when you can look like million dol lars and not even miss the small dues ? Join the union today, in New Haven, no Church St, in Hartford, 9 Asylum St. Model Clothing Co.-Adv.
The Connecticut labor news., 1925-01-24
MINERS URGE SOCIAL LAWS

Springfield, ILL, Jan. 24.-Oficials of the United Mine Workers in this state are circularizing locals in behalf of the legislative program of the state fedora ton of labor. This includes an injunc- ton limitation bill, trial by jury in the worknen's compensation act and wo- mems eight-hour bill
 The miners are especially interested Illinois coal
The Connecticut labor news., 1925-01-24
State Rights
 Set Aside

St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 24.-State legis- lators are asking how they can give cities the right to control street car companies without having some fed era1 judge invalidate the act.
 The last legislature empowered a commission to set rates. Street car companies favored the plan, but the commissioned opposed the Duluth street car company's plan for rate ln- creases and now federal judge prac- tically annuled the law.
 The street car companies and their packers, however, howl for state rights when they discuss the federal child labor amendment.
The Connecticut labor news., 1925-01-24
POSTAL MEMS
 LIVING WAGE IS NOT RELATED TOPROFITS

Washington, Jan. 24.-In a few words, Senator Smith of South Carolina demolished the claim that wages of postal employees should be based on the departments i'm come.
 In discussing the wage increase for these workers, the senator said the question lis not as to whether the operations of the postofice de- partment are profitable or not profitable" 2-
 Are these employees properly compensated? Ninety per cent. of this body said they are not Now what has an increase in revenue got to do with the adequate com pensation of the men? Do not let us put the cart before the horse and then go in the wrong direc- ton. Let us pay these men wages to which they are justly entitled and to which we overwhelmingly said they were entitled.
 We did not consider, when we originally passed this bill, the ques- ton of raising additional revenue. At that time the question was merely whether or not these em- ployes were properly compensated"
 Senator Smith insisted that the employees should be assured a living wage. This, he saids is of first importance. Then, if it is found that those VITO receive the serv- ice of the department are not pay ing their adequate share, rates should be increased.
The Connecticut labor news., 1925-01-24
WAGE INCREASES

According to the "Labour Gazette. . changes in rates of wages-reported for England, during November, 1924, re- suited in an aggregate increase of about f50,000 in the weekly full-time wages Of 6e0,OO0 workpeople, and in an agg1e- gate reduction of about 3,5O0 in the weekly wages of over 60,000 work people.
The Connecticut labor news., 1925-01-24
RAILWAY EXTENSIONS

It is reported that the four large rail- way groups of Great Britain are ar ranging to spend about f30,000,O00 on renewals and extensions
The Connecticut labor news., 1925-01-24
LABOR SHORTAGE

The shortage of labor supply of Paraguay is said to be serious, re- f1ecting a paramount need fol. irnmi- grafton.
The Connecticut labor news., 1925-01-24
DEATHS IN COAL INDUSTRY

Washington, Jan. 17.-Reports to the bureau of mines show that 155 mine workers were killed during November last. Of this number, IA lost their lives in the bituminous fields.
The Connecticut labor news., 1925-01-24
PUBLIC RELIEF STANDARDIZED

By a decree of the Federal Minister of Labor in Germany of December 4, 1924, public relief throughout Germany is put on uniform basis, with the view to considering each individual case up on it's own merits.