The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-16

| Out Of A. f. Of L.
 Washington, June 16 - One o1 the various ways things seem to bt going these days is indicated by the fact that Samuel Gompers has beer kicked out of the American Feder- ation of Labor and seems about te become a member of the c. l. O.
 This GOmperS is Samuel J.
 Gompers, a son of the famous
 labor leader who was head of the
 A. F. of L. for many long years.
 He is chief clerk in the Depart
 ment of Labor and 8 charter
 member of Lodge No. 12 of the
 American Federation of Govern
 ment Employees, an A. F. of l..
 union.
 The unions executive council has suspended Lodge No. 12 and Severa other government employe lodges with a membership of about 2,00( because these lodges joined in g fight to protect members against the administrators so-called economy drive without permission Of the unions national officers.
 And now the suspended lodges
 have had a mass meeting and
 condemned the A. F. of l.. and
 voted to urge the c. I. o. to start
 organizing federal employees.
 But if Gompers is not union man in good standing he is at least in good company. John Lewis and his United Mine Workers have been suspended from the A. F. of L. and the federation's president, William Green, is under charges brought by his own union, the aforesaid United Mine Workers.
 They Learn About Electricity
 The people at the Rural Electrifi- cation Administration used to think they knew all about electricity, but they learn more every day. Their agents keep in touch with the farm people to whom REA brings juice for the first time.
 One farmers wife bought a vacuum cleaner immediately after her house had been wired. This seemed rather funny because there wasn't rug on the premises But she explained that as soon as the apple crop was sold she was going to buy rug. and that she would then use the vacuum cleaner. And there's another farm family which bought an electric range as soon as electricity was wired into the house, but persist in using kerosene lamps for light as matter of personal prefer ence.
 The farmer who was paying an electricity bill of $15 8 month turn ed out to have no electrical appli- ance in his house other than re- frigerator. But he was leaving the refrigerator door open all day and all night to keep the place cool and he thought it was worth it. Another rural customer who does- mt bother to put electric lights in the house is raiser of frogs. He bought electricity so he could run a wire to the edge of his frog pond and put electric bulb under the wa ter in order to attract flies and other insects which frogs consider palatable.
 Some farmers write in that the hens lay anywhere up to twice as many eggs since electricity came and made it possible to put a radio in the hen house. One especially grateful man wrote the REA to thank it for saving the lives of four newly-b0rn calves. In a moment of desperation when they seemed to be lost he carried them from the barn to the house and revived them with the bath room heater he had installed a few days previously.
 On the other hand REA gets quite a few complaints, indicating that smart SaleSmen are selling re- frigerators, vacuum cleaners and other electrical appliances in areas where there is no immediate hope or thought of providing electricity. Not Always Quietly
 Occasionally someone asks what has become of Mrs. Dolly Gam, who officially became second lady of the land during the Hover admin istration by virtue of her position as sister of and hostess for former Vice-President Charles Curtis. The answer is that she is living quietly here in Washington.
 Sometimes, however, Mrs. Gam does not live as quietly as at other times.
 About 3 o'clock on a recent morning she was awakened by loud crash on the front porch. Fearing that something had hap pened to her nephew Harry Cur tiS, who had been out on a late social engagement, she leaped from bed, called the maid, dash cd downstairs and found figure enmeshed in a tangle of rugs and potted palms.
 This turned out not to be Harry, who soon came downstairs himself. They tried to make the stranger go away But the man refused and kept insisting that Dolly Gam, whose name he didn't know, was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen He kept on refusing and insisting until the patrol wagon came.
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