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THE CONNECTICUT LABOR PRESS.
THE CONNECTICUT LABOR PRESS
A NEWSPAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.
Published by Connecticut Labor Press Company
286-288 York Street, New Haven, Conn.
Telephone Colony 1082.
Entered as second class matter December 2, 1916, at the postoffice at New
Haven, Conn., under act of March 3, 187y.
3 Cents per Copy
NEW HAVEN, CONN.
VANDERLIP SHOWS WHY WE
CANNOT HAVE UNEMPLO YMEN1
Frank A. Vanderlip, who recently came back from Europe, has
been indicating that he observed keenly while abroad. A couple
of weeks ago Mr. Vanderlip addressed a group of financiers and told
them that in his opinion industrial unrest in Europe is something
seriously to be-reckoned with. Mr. Vanderlip did not paint a rosy
picture.
Immediately following this address a number of persons were
interviewed by the newspapers and several statements were secured
to the effect that Mr. Vanderlip was seeing things in far too dark a
light.
It so happened that following the publication of these inter
views, Mr. Vanderlip found opportunity to make another speech.
He reaffirmed wrhat he had said in the first place. Here is one of the
things he said in his second speech :
"The nation that dominates the world is going to be the nation
that brings about harmonious relation between capital and labor."
Discussing the question of European unrest and its causes he
said :
"It is not altogether hunger and want, because you find the
present order of society questioned and questioned by a considerable
minority in every European country, including England. There has
come to be a suspicion of the efficacy of high wages in the minds of
a great many workers. They organize, they strike, they get advances
and they find they have not more comfort than they had before. The
cost of living is rising in many cases more rapidly than even the rap
idly rising wages and there is great suspicion in the minds of the
great body of workers that there is legerdemain, there is something
by which you can apparently hand them high wages but so manipu
late the value of the wages that they are worth no more to the man
who earns them, and with that suspicion in the minds of men, there
is always inflammable material."
Mr. Vanderlip went on to point out that today steel is being
made in the United States $20 a ton cheaper than in England. He
contended that England's former position in the markets of the world
was due to a differential in wrages. He believes that recent wage
increases in England have obliterated the old-time differential and
he called upon his hearers to speculate as to wbat this would mean
in the markets of the future. He warned his hearers, however, that
"WE CANNOT HAVE UNDERPAYMENT OF LABOR HERE,
EITHER." Mr. Vanderlip sees industrial peace only in industrial
justice and he gives some evidence that his conception of industrial
peace is considerably more advanced than the conception of a great
many other industrial magnates.
When Mr. Vanderlip says that the cost of living is rising in
many cases more rapidly than even the rapidly rising wages and
suggests that a great many workers look upon this with suspicion,
he is not talking idly. With workers the whole question of living
hinges around the relation betwreen wages and the cost of living. The
worker today has stopped thinking about wages in terms of dollars
and cents, but is thinking about wages in terms of what wages will
buy. The worker understands that wages are relative and his real
income is the amount he can buy for his money and not simply the
amount of money he gets.
We advise all employers to give serious consideration to Mr.
Vanderlip 's statement that the greatest nation in the future will be
that nation which most speedily brings about harmonious relations
between employers and workers. The greatest nation and the hap
piest nation of the future will be that nation which most speedily
establishes social justice.
Every loyal American must have the earnest hope that the United
States will lead the world in progress in this direction in the future,
as every loyal American believes she has lead in the past.
Mr. Vanderlip 's statements have lost none of their value because
of his resignation from the presidency of the National City Bank.
TOM BLANTON OF
DEMONSTRATES HE
Tom Blanton has broken loose
Representative Thomas Blanton of Texas made a speech the
other day in the House in which he demonstrated beyond dispute
that he has learned nothing since he came to public attention a few
weeks ago.
Tom Blanton now says that
succor and protection in the labor
Texas representative said that although the American labor move
ment nad. witnin it men oi anarcnistic tendencies tnere were
thousands of loyal Americans and "even congressmen" who belong
to the trade unions. . Just what Blanton is driving at is not clear.
Since only a few weeks ago he declared that the labor movement was
a menace to the country it may be
labor movement is not one of his
The Texas fire eater, in his most recent outbreak, laid almost
all of his emphasis upon the declaration that anarchists find safety
and protection in unions. If this means anything, it very clearly
means that it is Blanton 's opinion that the trade unions of America
knowingly shelter and protect those whose philosophy contemplates
the destruction of American democracy.
Tom Blanton, on the floor of the House, gave "warning" that
President Gompers should "purge" the unions of anarchy. He went
on to say :
"I have warned Congress heretofore that no matter how many
good men there are m the unions,
unions of this country, among organized labor, that anarchists find
harbor and succor and protection.
While there may well be,
movement, persons of anarchistic belief or tendency, to say that the
American labor movement knowingly shelters and protects those who
destroy the institutions of the
ignorance or in malice.
Pending further evidence, we
to select the classification under
SAMUEL UNTERMYER ON THE
HOUSING
Every once in a while, Samuel Untermyer, of New York, dis
closes something.
Every once in a while he has
Sometimes he says something
he says bunk.
His most recent pronouncement is that the present housing
situation is due to "the abuses of
Mr. Untermyer makes the
much of the trouble is due to the fact that the great life insurance
companies, savings banks and other investment corporations are
abandoning their former practice
estate and that this is the most
housing problem.
Mr. Untermyer said that "at
suranee companies with total assets
they held in mortgages on real
while their holdings in railroads and other stocks and bonds reached
the appalling aggregate of $1,855,189,565.00, which was more than
2y2 times their holdings in real estate mortgages."
Mr. Untermyer 's statements and his figures should be of con
siderable interest to working people in view of the fact that work
ing people pay a great many of the insurance premiums and furnish
the labor which builds all the houses.
$1.00 per Year
SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1919.
TEXAS
LEARNS NOTHING
again.
the "anarchists find harbor and
unions of the United States." The
surmised that friendship for the
motives at the present time.
the fact remains that it is in the
here and there in the trade union
country, is slander made either in
will allow Tom Blanton himself
which he should be known.
PROBLEM SOLUTION
something to say.
worth listening to and sometimes
intrenched wealth and power.
further interesting statement that
of making loans on improved rea
serious obstacle to a soution of the
the end of 1918 there were 15 in
of $3,197,029,627.00. Of this sum
estate, a total of $706,312,568.00
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REACHING FOR PENNANT
WITH GEORGE WEISS
Young Owner of the Weissmen
Has Hopes and a Smile.
"Aw gee !" frowned Jimmy. "It's
Saturday and I can't go to the ball
game !
"Go ahead, we can manage !"
"Yeh! You can manage, but I can't!
My pockets bid me stay away !"
"Broke. Jimmy?"
"Yep! Busted!"
I pondered.
I reached for the phone.
I spoke with George Weiss, hero of
many a corner lot kid.
Jimmy and I went to the ball game.
There it all was again the bleachers
with the white shirts and straw hats and
kids and faces, mostly faces the grand
stand with here and there a lot of blue
or pink denoting girl, the chicken wire
to keep the ball from mussing the gen
eral appearance of the fair ones, the
peanuts, popcorn, crackerjack and
chewing gum boy, the cold soda water
right off the ice fellow, the official score
card vender, the reporters, the luke
warm fans, the players benches with
their white and gray clad teams the
diamond all smooth and even and brown
the field all smooth and fresh and
green the automobiles, the score board,
the signs the gane, all rush and ex
citement and sportsmanship.
"Gee whiz, look at Chief Meyers.
Ain't he some guy though look at them
shoulders. And whaddye know, if that
ain't Jack Nagle throwing them down
to second like he used to when we
knowed him. Don't you like the way
Red Torphv whips that ball across the
diamond? There's that Courtney
they say he's got a war cross don't
look like a fighter, but you ought to have
sen him pitch that no-hit game that
time, borne speed and curves oh,
boy !"
"Guess they're going to begin, Jim
my, Let's keep score !"
Thev began almost immediately by
executing one of those squeeze plays
that gets you all excited and prepares
you for the worst or best as the case
may be. It was a good game until one
of those queer things happened to the
young boy they had pitching and he
couldn't find the plate at all. The best
pitchers have those times you know
Run after run came across the plate and
Jimmy just couldn't look at the score
board when at last the third man was
called out.
"And I bet a dime they'd win -oday,"
he groaned.
Such is the uncertainty of life and
baseball.
Presently it was all over and Jimmy
had lost his dime.
"It was a good game, though !" said
optimistic Jimmy as we stood watching
the players run across the sun swept
field to the club house in a far corner.
A nice clean looking bunch of fellows
they are bareball plavers as they ought
to be each man trained and in perfect
trim.
"Ain't they some bunch gosh would
n't I like to be like them?"
"You may be some day, Jimmy
here's Mr. Weiss!"
And because Jimmy's main ambition
in life is to be a reporter person like
Hellen Mary and Mr. Editor, I let Jim
my do the honors. He shook hands with
the young owner and asked him point
blank what he thought of his ball club.
Mr. Weiss being young and new to the
business wasn't prepared to say, but he
admitted that he liked some of his
players and was going to get more un
til he had a club which would put the
coveted flag on the pole for that special
purpose. He had a late start this sea
son but he's young enough to have
hopes and sportsman enough to appre
ciate the showing of the fans at the
games He's going to give them a run
for their money.
"I like good ball and good ball means
good players. I'll have good ball if I
have to scour the country !"
His blue eyes looked very determined
as he said this and woe unto the boy
who doesn't play his best brand of ball
for Weiss. Kind of think he'd smile
chummily at the boy who did though.
Presently Jimmy was shaking hands
and saving goodbye and in no time we
were homeward bouna.
"Well?" said I.
"Gee he didn't say much, did he?"
"No. Why didn't you ask him more ?"
"Because, I saw his club play, I heard
him say he'd have good ball as soon as
he could get it and I know from past
experience that anything George Weiss
promises to do, he does !"
All of which leads us to believe hat
Jimmy will make a good reporter and
George Weiss will have a good team.
So, rooting for the fellow who tries,
let's all applaud at the next home game
the Weissmen play.
Hellen Mary.
It's a wise merchant who has the
union label placed on his printed mat
ter. You should receive your Labor Press
every Saturday morning if you . are a
subscriber. If delayed write us or
'phone Colony 1082.
Demand the union label, shop card
and working button at all times, for
no trade unionist has any more moral
right to purchase non-union and sweat
shop goods than he nas to take the
place of a fellow-worker on strike for
better conditions.
OLE HANSON SAYS I. W. W. HATES
GOMPERS MORE THAN IT DOES HIM
Ole Hanson, mayor of Seattle, gave
an address at the closing session of the
National Manufacturers' Association
convention in New York. He reviewed
the hist of the Russian revolution
and used the circumstance of the over
throw of the Romanoff dynasty and the
subsequent faH of Kerensky as the
basis for the policies he idvocated in
dealing with the anarchist element.
Mayor Hanson said that he looked to
ward labor to live up to its traditions
and to become eventually the chief fac
tor of insurance against the spread of
Bolshevism. In this connection he con
tinued :
"Labor will form the main guard
against the red menace in this country,
if labor is true to its traditions. Some
Bolshevik leaders such as a number in
Seattle and Tacoma, Wash., have proved
traitors to the A. F. of L., but over the
whole land, of course, these Judases are
very few.
"The international reds saw the ne
cessity of securing some already organ
ized force in this land of ours, and they
chose the I. W. W.'s to do their work
and carry out their policies in America.
"The first doctrine a new member is
taught is the doctrine of cowardice. He
is taught to destroy what he can, but
to protect himself in all emergencies,
and thus it is that this organization has
in its membership ccwardly assassins
and destroyers of life and property.
"'The I. W. W. decided long ago,
after consultation and under the direc
tion of Bolshevists from foreign lands,
that the best way to overthrow our
Government was to gain possession of
the labor movement in this country. I
might say that I am not particularly
popular with the I. W. W., but the head
of the American Federation of Labor,
Samuel Gompers, is very much more
hated."
On the problems of reconstruction,
Mayor Hanson advocated a policy that
would provide for the inauguration of
a comprehensive programme of public
works, development of water power and
reforms in the immigration laws. With
respect to the latter, he said :
"As to the immigration, it seems to
me that we should be more careful in
the future than we have in the past:
that the intending immigrant .-hould
first sign a questionnaire before leav
ing foreign soil and submit it to our
representative prior to his being allowed
to board ship for this land of the free,
and if found questionable, admission
should be refused. We must not allow
entrance of folks to our country who
will become dangerous to the public
safety. All men in this country should
learn English. If they will not learn
English and do not like our language,
they should go back to where they came
from.
"As for those aliens who would de
stroy our government, who are against
all government, they must and shall be
deported from the United States, and if
COMMON LABORERS
WANTED IN BRISTOL
Hartford, June 13. "We have just
received a request from one of the large
manufacturing concerns 'n Bristol offer
ing 45 cents an hour for 150 common
laborers, and the demand for workers
of all grades is becoming very pro
pronounced," Raoul D'Arche, who is in
spector at the local United States Em
ployment Service Station, saicl yester
day. "Within the last 10 days we have
received a large number of calls and
are finding jobs for all capable appli
cants. Even during the past few months
SCHUYLER MERRITT
FAVORS CAMPAIGN
Congressman From Fourth Con
necticut District Writes to Mrs.
Samuel Russell, Jr., on Suffrage.
Seconding United States Senator
George P. McLean of Connecticut, who
declared, in reference to the state-wide
$100,000 fund campaign in Connecticut
for citizenship work and other public
services in connection with the coming
of complete enfranchisement, "I must
consistently favor any effort that will
induce them (the women of America)
to take an intelligent and active inter
est in politics and public -questions,"
Congressman Schuyler Merritt of ihe
Fourth Connecticut district, in a letter
dated June 10 to Mrs. Samuel Russell,
jr., chairman of the campaign commit
tee, declared that he is thoroughly in
favor of the plan to take measures for
educating .. ... women who will soon
have the vote, so that they may vote
intelligently. Congressman Merritt's
letter follows:
"My Dear Mrs. Russell:
"I am thoroughly in favor of the
plan of the Connecticut Woman Suf
frage association to take measures for
educating the women who will soon
have the vote, so that they may vote
intelligently.
"As your association appreciates, it is
not enough that a man or a woman
should be generally intelligent in order
to vote intelligently, but it is essential
that the voter should have a clear idea
of the fundamental principles of the
government of the United States upon
which the whole structure of its politi
cal and economic life has been built.
"We hear constantly of people glibly
suggesting changes in the Constitution
or loing away with the Constitution
who have no conception of why the
Constitution was written as it is and
why it is that the Constitution has been
essential to the very life of the United
States and to the freedom of all the
people in it.
"Among other reasens, I have always
favored the suffrage for women because
I believe they will add a useful con
servative force and that they will do
their duty as voters with that same con
scientiousness with which they perform
their other duties. They will perceive
that the real upit of our society is the
family and that there is no such thing
as liberty without order and without
law.
"I hope therefore that the effort to
raise an educational fund will be suc
cessful and that in that education they
will give due prominence to the funda
mental principles gi government with
out which this country could not have
existed and cannot now exist.
"Yours faithfully,
"SCHUYLER MERRITT."
The Cumberland tivy.j reiepnone
& Telegraph company has given an
advance ranging from 10 to 20 per
cent In the wages of wire employes
and $1 a week In wages of Its opera
tors. Its wire men were receiving $60
to $95 per month and its operators
$12 to $22 a week.
the present administration does not see
fit to perform this necessary duty, the
time will soon come when the sovereign
people of this country will elect new
servants who will obey the expressed
wish of the people.
M'ADOO TO SPEAK,
VANDERLIP COMING
Former Secretary of Treasury to
Speak in Bridgeport, Vander
lip in Hartford for Suffrage,
Former Secretary of the Treasury
William G. McAdoo and Frank A.
Vanderlip who has just resigned as
president of the National City Bank,
New York, have joined the force of
speakers who are helping the state-wide
fund campaign that is being conducted
from June 9 to 15 to raise by public
subscriptions in Connecticut $100,000 for
an educational program to help to better
prepare the 350,000 women of voting
age in the state for the ballot, Mrs.
Samuel Russell, jr., the state campaign
chairman, announced.
Both Mr. McAdo and Mr. Vanderlip
sent word they are deeply interested in
the campaign, and the citizenship pro
gram, and are coming to Connecticut
on he earliest dates their engagements
permit.
Air McAdoo will speak in Bridgeport
on Monday, June 16, at 5 o'clock The
meeting will be in the ballroom :f the
Stratfield Hotel:
Mr. Vanderlip will speak in Hartford
at Foot Guard hall.
As previous engagements prevent his
coming to Hartford prior to June 16,
it is thought a fitting climax to the
campaign to have him speak on Wednes
day evenine, June 18.
The first campaign teas at which re
ports of subscriptions obtained by thi
volunteer workers were made were
held throughout the state Tuesday, and
speakers were heard at a number oi
meetings. Dr. Allan MacRossie, twice
Red Cross commissioner to Europe,
spoke at the campaign headquarters in
New Haven, and Capt Frank Hansccm,
chaplain with the American Expedi
tionary Forces, spoke in Hartford.
Early reports from the workers indi
cate that the men are subscribing as
generously as the women, Mrs Russell
said.
"Some of orr workers are having
amusing experiences with men who are
supposed to be conservative," Mrs R.is
sell said. "They offer 'reasons' why
women don't need the ballot, but admit
the need for citizenship work now that
ballot is on the way and wind up by
subscribing just as freely as those yho
have always been pronounced suffra
gists." there was a steady demand for tool
makers, pattern makers, die sinkers and
other machine experts, but now local
concerns are sending requests for ma
chine hands, clerks and other compara
tively unskilled workers"
The Bristol concern referred to also
offers to refund transportation to
workers remaining three mont.is and in
addition the contractors supervising thi
new construction work are supplying
quarters at 75 cents a week. Other
concerns are said to be holding out in
ducements to laborers. A few days ago
Robert Fox of T. R. Fox & Son of this
city told about the demand existing for
common labor and other contractors
and builders say that they find the de
mand greater than the supply.
A M. business neonle use it.
roll
Salvation Army, which is engaged m Kn
the erreatest business in the world the sal- l1
vage of men.
The Salvation Army is not content to save
men alone. It sees to it that they keep
saved. If the man who has been helped
falls he can come back again. And the
Salvation Army will go after him and get
him if he doesn't come back himself.
Girls who have been in a Salvation Army
Home are asked to become personally re
sponsible for aiding other girls to climb the
path to Self-Respect on which they them
selves have risen. They do it. It is an end
less chain.
The Salvation Army never lets go of any
one. . - " "
Salvation Army
abor's Buying Guide
Merchants who have joined the New Haven Trades Council in
the great
Campaign of Co-Operation
Between the Business Men of New Haven and
Organized Labor.
Also See Buying Guide on Page 2.
Watch This List It Is Growing Daily
BAKERIES
Federal System of Bakeries, 60 Orange
St.
Mory's (Barker System) Bakery, 392
State St.
BUILDING CONTRACTORS
The Larkin-Carey Co., 166 Brewery St.,
New Haven.
COAT, APRON AND TOWEL
SUPPLY.
New Haven Coat, Apron and Towel
Supply, 63-69 Lock St. Phone
C-2628.
CIGAR MANUFACTURERS
Lewis Osterweis & Sons, 18-20-22
Church St.
FEDERAL BREAD
Federal System of Bakeries, 60 Orange
. St.
FROZEN DESSERTS
Semon Ice Cream Co., 110 Bristol St.
GENERAL CONTRACTORS
The Larkin-Carey Co., 166 Brewery St.
HOT BREAD HOURLY
Federal System of Bakeries, 60 Orange
St.
Mory's (Barker System) Bakery, 392
State St. -
ICE CREAM
Semon Ice Cream Co., 110 Bristol St.
BUCKEYE SHOPS
ARE UNIONIZED
Semi-Annual Meeting of State
District Council of Sheet Metal
Workers Is Encouraging.
The State District Council of the
Sheet MetaV Workers' Union held its
semi-annual meeting in Trades Council
Hall, New Haven, last Sunday. Will
iam H. Partridge, the state business
agent, reported that business was very
good and constantly improving. He
said that he had cleaned up about 30
buckeye shops in Hartford and had
unionized them. Buckeye shops in the
lingo of the sheet metal workers means
small concerns that are not unionized.
It was reported that one firm in
Greenwich had started what it called
an efficiency system. According to the
dope of this plan, if a man goes to
work at 8 o'clock and finishes the job
at 9 o'clock, he is paid for one hour and
gets nothing until he starts on another
job It is the custom in the union shops
for a man to get at least a half -day's
pay if he starts a small job.
The International Union and the
Locals of the state have each paid 50
per cent, of the expense for the state
business agent and this agreement runs
pw-up
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ICE CREAM WHOLESALE
Semon Ice Cream Co., 110 Bristol St.
LAUNDRIES FLAT.
Majestic Laundry Co., 63-69 Lock St.
Phone C-2628.
LAUNDRIES SHIRTS AND
COLLARS.
Majestic Laundry Co., 63-69 Lock St.
Phone C-2628.
LAUNDRIES WET WASH.
Majestic Laundry Co., 63-69 Lock St.
Phone C-2628.
MASON CONTRACTORS
The Larkin-Carey Co., 166 Brewery St
OSTERWEIS CIGARS
Lewis Osterweis & Sons, 18-20-22
Church St.
SAVINGS BANKS
Connecticut Savings Bank, Corner
Church and Crown Sts.
SEMON 'S ICE CREAM
John Semon can't make all the Ice
Cream so he makes the Best at 110
Bristol St.
out in Ji4y. after a trial of six months.
This experiment has been so satisfac
tory that the state locals want to have
it continued for another six months.
The business agent reported that he
expected to soon unionize the shops' in
Bristol and New London.
Local No. 225 of New Haven met on
Tuesday night and an interesting re
port of the meeting of the State Dis
trict Council was made by the delegate.
Frank Shanley. This local now meets
on the second and fourth Tuesdays of
each month. Mr. Cobey, one of the
influential members, is on the famous
Chamber of Commerce committee of the
Building Trades Council.
BUILDING TRADES.
At the regular meeting of the New
Haven Building Trades Council on
Wednesday night nearly all organiza
tions reported work in a flourishing '
condition.
A recommendation came from the
board of business agents requesting that
a general meeting be held among the
building crafts, to discuss the carrying
of the universal working card of the
Building Trades Department of the
American Federation of Labor, after
September 1. The matter was referred
to the board of business agents.
Secretary R. Beadle was appointed
as press agent for the Council.
System
Plain Tales of
Plain People.
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(CotutABy of Collier's
Fund Campaign: