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THE BRIDGEPORT TIMES
And Evening Farmed
(FOUNDED 1790.)
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1919.
IlUtESPO.NSIBILlTY
JUDGE GARY, testifying before the Senate Inquiry Commit
tee, feels that there should be laws holding labor un
ions to more responsibility. He expresses the view that indus-
1 trial corporations are held by law to more responsibility.
! But Judge Garv is discussing the right to strike, and the
right to hire and discharge. And in this area capital and labor
tand on an equality of irresponsibility, if that is the word
Judge Gary prefers.
Capital may at its own sweet will hire and fire, may open
up, shut down or lock out, as it pleases. May negotiate with
organisations of its workmen, or may not, as impulse or self
interest dictates.
Labor on the other hand may work or strike, may siay In
or go out, may loaf on the job or jump production, according
to its feelings and its desires.
The law confers almost parallel rights upon capital and
labor. They are equal in irresponsibility to the law, because
there is no law to control the conditions.
In the moral areas capital and labor are almost if not quite
upon an equality. The self interest of capital tends to keep it
at work. The self interest of labor is force keeping it on the
job. But when self interest dictates to capital a lockout, or a
wage cut, capital does not suffer as keenly as labor, which
haa less to live on.
Capital is merely an expression for the wages of Judge
Gary and his associates. Under no circumstances will Judge
Gary and his friends suffer as much from the strike as the la
borers will. The moral forces which prevent labor from strik
ing are rather greater than those which restrain capital.
The thought is expressed in the Declaration of Independ
ence, in which it is said in substance that men long endure
the evils they know rather than fly to those they know not of.
A statute bringing strikes into the jurisdiction of the law
could be drawn to enforce responsibility upon capital and la
bor. There are such statutes in the world, and they work very
well.
When a strike is threatened the facts might be brought
to the established tribunal, and the dispute adjusted for a term;
a year or two years. Frequently the conditions could be set
for the entire industry. The advantages of such an adjustment
are too obvious to require argument.
Under just laws Judge Gary would not be at liberty to re
fuse a meeting with the recognized agents of his employes,
their chosen representatives; he could not avoid the eight hour
day, which is established in international opinion, and in In
ternational law, as represented by the Peace Treaty.
Judge Gary by his unreasonable refusal to deal with labor
according to established usage is as much to blame for the
strike as anybody else.
He was requested by the President to adopt certain meas
ures to prevent the strike, and he declined the request. The
strikers were asked by the President not to strike. Having
committed the overt act that presses for earliest attention, the
strikers will feel the earliest consequences of the displeasure of
the American people.
But Judge Gary and his associates will in due time re
ceive their share of chastisement, for the American people are
determined to bring all ruthless and selfish forces into subor
dination to the common weal.
THE FALL AMENDS IE2YTS
TN EIGHT VOTES the Senate rejected 35 amendments to the
JL Peace Treaty, which had been offered by Senator
Fall,' Republican, of New Mexico and favored by the majority
of the committee on Foreign Relations.
At no point did the opponents of the Treaty muster more
than 31 votes, and the Senate by majorities ranging to 28 re
fused to remove Americans from the various committees and
commissions which are raised in the Treaty, to execute its
provisions.
Senator Lodge affects to find consolation in this over-
whelrning defeat of the committee of which he is a member
because the vote against the amendment was a little less than
two-thirds of the entire vote.
From this circumstance Senator Lodge affects to find that
two-thir.ds of the Senate will not ratify the Treaty.
The conclusion will be proved, by events, most unsound,
Senators who might line with their party, as favoring certain
amendments sure to be beaten, cannot be counted upon to vote
down the treaty, continue the state of war, and compel the
United States to get the nest terms it can.
The vote upon the Fall amendments may rather be receiv
ed as showing that the Senate will ratify the treaty, with per
naps, some minor reservations, of an interpretative nature
which will not in the least affect the value of the instrument
as a means of preventing war.
ALWAYS THE ISSUE
LFRED STEWART O'BRIEN, who is a newspaper man
and a Socialist, is candidate for mayor on the Socialist
ticket, and very well able to present the tenents of his party.
says: "At this time it is impossible to say what the issue of this
election will be." There is but one real issue in a Socialist
campaign, which is that the means by which rent, interest.
dividends and profits are taken to private use, must be socializ
ed under the control and direction of the Co-operative Com
monwealth. Brother O'Brien is opening his campaign with a
xioment of lassitude.
THE KONG WHO DID NOT ACT LIKE A KING
XHE INFANCY of the race is hidden in the mists of the
. ages. How m'en attained kings is a long, long story,
only half told. The father may have been the original king.
The transition from paternal to kingly authority was by dei-:
Mis roads, which need not be retrodden now.
(Continued, in haul Two Columns)
Sketches from Life
By Temple
"MavKo V Air. TTC - TM
LOOKING BACK 50 YEARS
(From the Farmer, Friday, October 3, 1869)
Mr. Charles Nabor who has recently purchased fhe saloon
on the corner of Pembroke and Willard streets, will serve up a
free lunch to his friends tomorrow.
Maggie Mitchell, the popular actress, has been drawing
crowded houses in Hartford and is to appear in New Haven.
Why can we not have her here for a few nights?
We took a look a day or two since at the new vault door put
in for the City National Bank. It is considered a fine piece of
work and is an additional one to those already in use. The
former "lock up" was considered perfectly secure but in these
days of roguery ordinary bars and bolts seem mere playthings
in the hands of burglars and thieves and so the officers of this
bank concluded to make assurance doubly sure.
During the recent great freshet in the Housatonic river an
immense amount of property was carried down the river and
out into the Sound. Lumber in great quantities went by Strat
ford in rafts. Large stacks of hay containing several tons each
came down, looking in the distance like brown tents of some
wild bivouac.
Whiting & Cook have opened their new fish market at No.
84 State street. Mr. Whiting is an old veteran- at the business
and knows how to keep a market while Cook can beat any man
we know of in selling products of the briny deep. We venture
to say that they will do a good business from the start.
The Auburn News has a sorrowful account of a bad mis
take. A young lady refused to marry her sweetheart unless he
stopped chewing tobacco. He agreed and the wedding came off
in due season. Returning from the bridal tour, in the cars, the
other day, he pulled a roll of something from his pocket. She
thought it was tobacco, and therefore clutched it and threw it
out of the window. Alas, it was a roll of money, $2,500 in all,
and it has not been recovered. This shows the evil effect of
strenuous objection to bad habits. "Isn't that like a woman?"
iTERAHS OF
FOREIGN WARS
HOLD MEETIN
Report Made By Committee
on Looking Up Wounded
Men in Hospitals.
LARGE CLASS OF
NEW MEMBERS
Comrade Lashar Appointed
on Staff of Commander
For Drive.
THE OFFICIAL A. E. F. COMMUNIQUE
ISSUED ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
October 3 (No. 142) American troops fighting with the
French have driven back the enemy and taken Blanc Mont
and other positions in Champagne. Between the Moselle and
the Forest of Argonne wo carried out the usual artillery and
patrol activity, taking a number of prisoners.
(Continued from First Two Columns)
Men needing authority above them, that there might be
concordant action of the group, respected the holder of the
authority, and it became easy to praise him, and profitable, and
the good deeds of the king were proclaimed by trumpets.
Albert of Belgium, who with the good Queen Elizabeth is
the guest of America, did,' in a kingly position, conduct him-.
self UXLIKE a king. Hence America loves him, proclaims him :
hero; extends to him the benediction of a noble welcome.
The best kings, take them as they run, have lived in Eng-'
land. Those who have read Dickens "History of England,"
written for the young, will remember how seldom there was a
good Kirig in England, and how frequently it happened that
there was a poor king, and a worse man.
The Czar was not a good king. Constantlne was not'
good. The Rulers of Rumania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Ger
many and Austria were bad propositions.
By simple rule of mathematics it is ascertained, from anj
cient and modern examples, that kings are bad actors, aa they.
say.
Albert of Belgium carried himself like a man. Few are
the kings who have risen to the stature of men. They don't get
a chance.
Albert surmounted his difficulties. He was heroic, to the
uttermost?
He is a king good enough to be a President. He is a king
whose people would be willing to elect him to the presidency
He is welcome and ten times welcome in America.
GETTING OUT OF CONFUSION
Holding
. To Bring
Conferences
R. R. leu Together
DEPUTATION OF TRANSPORT MEN AND
ASSOCIATED UNIONS CONFER WITH
PREMIER AND MINISTERS.
London, Oct 3 Negotiations be
tween the government and labor rep
resentatives other than railwaymen
were resumed today in an effort to
bring the authorities and the railway
representatives together for a settle
ment of the railroad strike.
At at early hour a conference took
place on the government side in
which the premier, Georgo N.
Barnes, minister without portfolio.
Sir Robert Home, the minister of
labor, and Sir Eric Geddes, the min
ister of transport, participated. At
that time no hour had 'been fixed for
the renewal of the mediation effort,
but shortly after noon it was learned
that a deputation of the transport
men and associated unions had gone
to confer with the premier and the
ministers.
Karlier dn the day, J. H. Thomas,
the railway union's secretary, an
nounced that the members of the de
putation which took part in the
"Downing street conference yesterday
were unanimous in support of the na
tional union of railway men in re
fusing the government's offer regard
ing a settlement. The government
had insisted that work must be re
sumed by the railway strikers before
the negotiations could be reopened,
but it appeared that the labor lead
ers objected both to this proposition
and to -the carrying out of the. govern
ment's order holding back the pay
of men for the last week they worked
before the strike.
Instructions to the miners' organ
ization as to their attitude towards
the strike were issued1 .by Robert Smil
lie, their leader, today. All the min
ers' federations were advised against
precipitate action In the present Junc
ture, but the miners were ordered not
to undertake the duties of striking1
railroad men.
. (Responsibility for withholding the
railroad1 men's wages Is assumed by
the -government in a. statement issued
from Downing Street last night. It
reads:
"The members of the national -union
At an overflow meeting of the Vet
erans of Foreign Wars of the Unite
Slates last night at their lodge rooms.
189 State street, a detailed report was
made by the committee in charge of
looking up wounded, crippled and
sick overseas men in the local hos
pitals. When at was announced that Ed
ward J. Price, whose home is in the
North avenue extension, was inca
pacitated for work from the effects
of gas and wounds, a fund of $700
was immediately raised and a sub
stantial check out of that amount
was immediately voted to take care
of the immediate needs of the man.
It was also announced by the in
vestigating committee that while
Price was serving in France, his wife
found it impossible to secure the al
lottments from her husband's pay for
ten months. These allottments are
still due'.
The case was immediately put on
record and the details forwarded to
the Legislative committee of the Vet
erans of Foreign Wars in Washing
ton, which will give it prompt atten
tion. It was also announced that accord
ing to orders from National Head
quarters all service men who have
had trouble with the Vocational
Board, Allottments, Liberty Bonds or
back pay, to bring their troubles to
the nearest Veterans of Foreign Wars
post and that they would receive
prompt and careful attention.
A large class of new members was
induoted into the order last night
among whom were Joseph J. Devine,
attorney at law and Sergeant Con
nery of the Traffic Squad.
Comrade Thomas H. Lashar, has
been appointed National Aide on the
staff of the Commander-in?chief and
in this, capacity will have complete
charge of the drive for membership
which will sweep all over Southern
New England within the next few
WITHOUT Eur much effort apparently Mr. King, th9
Republican leader, has plunged the Democratic par
ty of Bridgeport into a confusion which promises to keep May
or Wilson in power for another two years. There are three
candidates, each with his group of ardent supporters, who have
conducted th.e primary campaign, with the aid of astute dis-i
turbers so as to obtain the maximum quantity of dissalisfac-
tion.
To make the situation yet more confused Mr. King has 15
delegates, without whose aid no candidate can be nominated.
And the candidate who gets those delegates will be seriously
handicapped with popular doubt as to how he got them, be he
ever so innocent.
In order to have anr standing as a Democratic convention,
the nominating body will have to represent the mind of 45 dele
gates, who can be said to represent the party.
It is not too late to undo all the confusion, which the clev
erness and resources of the opposition have created. There
are two roads out.
Either two candidates may agree upon one of the others,
or all three candidates may retire, in favor of a fourth, who
will be the unanimous choice of the Democracy.
It is already pretty well determined that the existing can
didates cannot agree in favor of each other, which leaves really
but one alternative, let all withdraw in favor of a fourth.
Here is a problem to be solved. By using a little brains
and little unselfishness the Democracy can help the ettjL and
help itself. Failing in the necessary intelligence and
tion to conditions it is to be feared that Mr. King v
more heave a hearty laugh at opponents who have been
years signally unsuccessful in their political collision
j?1.35i
FREXCII RATIFICATION 1&0 I
12.25 j
Y 372 to 53 the French Chamber approved, yestey52.50.
Peace Treaty. There was some argument ai?x it.
It was said that the frontiers of France were not suf.raiently
protected, that reparations were too small, that Germany had
no been sufficiently disarmed, and that there should have been
further allocations of German territory. These were. such sug
gestions as might follow from extreme patriotism, by which
mn.n ni.nhohlv ramp from e-rnnns which desired to harass the
government.
The arguments which were made with such energy in
the United States Senate were not heard in the Chamber. -No
Frenchman suggested that French sovereignty would be sac
rificed to a super-state or that France would be dragged into
affairs not her own concern, or that Great Britain would dom
inate the League.
France, it is to be assumed, values independence and
knows what sovereignty is, and does not desire to enter into
engagements by which she must sacrifice either.
The legislators of France and England are probably not
abler men than those in the American Senate, but they are less
accustomed to frivolous, partisan agitation, and are surround
ed by those who having suffered more from the war, are pre
pared to resent unreasonable opposition to a program of per
manent peace.
And it is of course true that the League of Nations which
binds everybody to identical understandings requires the sac
rifices and reciprocities which every agreement imposes upon
those who make it.
1)
n
of railway men broke their contracts
and stopped work without notice in
complete disregard of the effect their
actions would have on the persons
and property of ordinary citizens in
their charge.
"They inflicted damage on innumer
able people, left food the people de
pended upon for subsistence to go to
waste, put vast numbers to great ex
pense by leaving" them stranded with
out conveyance, and inflicted great
losses upon many by preventing them
from reaching destinations. The
damages to which they are liable in
law are vastly greater than the
amount now being withheld.
"If an early resumption of work
occurs, different considerations may
arise. In the meantime, the country
is still subjected to unexampled in
jury by the railway men's action, and,
in these circumstances, the govern
ment would not be justified in handing
over to the strikers a sum which
would be used for prolonging a strug
gle undertaken without any consid
eration for the welfare of the puolic
and which is endangering the whole
Ufa of i the nation." ' v
days. Comrade Claud Coffin was ap
pointed officer of the day in wmcn
capacity he has been acting in a
temporary manner for the past sev
eral meetings.
Captain Avis, of New Haven, was
a guest of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars for the open part of the meet
ing and delivered a short address
which was received in an enthusiastic
manner. Captain Avis is the editor
of the Veterans Journal of New Ha
ven and assured the assembled V. F.
W.s that his paper stood solidly be
hind them in all their work.
EDERAL GRAND
JURY WILL NOT
INDICT PACKERS
Chicago, Oct. S The Department
of JusUce attack on the packers led
by Attorney General Palmer has ac
grand jury.
Special prosecutors were named,'
and a month ago the campaign to ob
tain indictments was begun. It was
largely conducted in newspapers until
Judge Carpenter rebuked the gov
ernment officials and threatened ta
dismiss the grand jury. This was
the dp following Attorney General
Palmer's Albany speech attacking the
packers.
The grand Jury will be discnargeS.
today. Now the whole matter must'
be submitted again to another grand
jury, Disruct Attorney' Cline, who ia,
losing sleep over the sugar situation,.
is not disturbed by the packers cases,.
Many witnesses will have to be rey
called and the work gone over again.1)
GEBMAS CLERKS ORGANIZE. 1
Weimar, Oct. 3 As the result 0j
conference between various German)
organizations the Clerical Offlca
Workers' Central Union has been or:
ganized. It comprises more thanA
350,000 members, making it, it is con-'
tended, the biggest organisation of
office worker in world.