The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-04

seen looming on the horizon again.
 OVERNIGHT PHENOMENON
 All this might not have brought strikes, however, had it not been for an overnight pho. nomsnon. 4 militant, two-ilsted nose-smRshing, leadership began to capture the seats of the labor mighty.
 Tor many years the latter had been suprcmo-coanple com. placent and supreme. Bill Green, Matthew Woli, John Frey, Mike Tighe and similar assocl. ates had drawn fat salaries, is. sued pious press platitudos, grown paunchy, lethargic and pathetically ineffective In lifting their brothern from the utter hopelc,aness into which most of organized labor sank during the depression.
 The new men now at the front arc American. born, A. F, of l.. members, not reds or radicals. Operating behind tho smoke. screen of their nominal union chiefs, they are putting up n ter- rife fight
 sTEEL UNION CONVENTION
 Illustrative of this now lead. arship was the recent convention of tho Amalgamated Association of ron, Steel and Tin Workers, an affiliate Of the 4, r. Of l..
 A year ngO thls union was al. most dead. It's dues.pn ylng Mcm. bcrshlp numbered only 5000. TO- day C hNs MOrc than 1O,OOO.
 Last year also whom Elmer Cope, . militant progressive, nt. tackled President Tlghe and his eoterto of offlc0 holding honch- men, he was expelled from the convention,
 This year nll that was changed. COpc's prORressivcs took over the convention from entrance Co exit.
 When Tigho introduced Sen. ator "puddler Jim" Davis aa the guest speaker and tho ex-labo, sccretNry began \ babb,e about tho "copartncrship of capital, employer, and labor", delegates all over the hall rose and walked out,
 Finally. awcpeing aside It's old leadership, the convention or. dored q showdown fRht with the stool industry over the issuo of union recognition, tt command. cd Tighe to deliver an ultimatum to employers, and called on all locals to prepare for q general strike if the demand was TO. jeeted.
 Then, not trusting the exeeu. ton Of this program to the hands of It's own officers, the eonvon. ton directed that each union district be represented on . board Of strategy to plan tho battle,
 Faced with labor revolutions thls thin, probably the pessimlH- tlo prediction Q! Roosovelt'r ad- vlsors may not be so far from wrong.
 MAIL BAG
 T. Met. Ocala, Fia.-Up 10 June 30, foaa, tho government had paid out n total of ssil,sio,. 900 in pensions Co Spanish War veterans. This sum greatly OK. eeedA tho actual cost Of tho war, which was sbst, 900, ,000. M. T. Lexington, ky.---The re- port of tho CItiRens Committee for Sana Liquor Laws, just made public, holds that high state anu federal taxes and tariffs on I'm. ports arc chiefly responsible for the excessive cost of liquor. Ao- eordtng to tho committee, liquor prices could be cut ib per cent | if tho prohts Of distillers and wholesaiers were reduced to tha same level as prevailed before prohibition. V, A. a. R., lM. Gansv0rt, Ind,--The average air mall pay per mile, under tho new alr mall system, will ba 27.9 cents aA compared with approxl. mately A2 cents per airplane mile before tho airmail contracts were cancelled, As a result, somo se,- 100000 wil, bo saved by tho Treasury, and tho airmall sys- tenn will he Increased from 2b,. 24s milca to 3s,b4s miles. tCopyrish,, teae, by United Tea. ture Syndicate, Incl