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THE CONNECTICUT LABOR PRESS
HOME PROGRAM
EMPHASIZED IN
GALL FOR FUNDS
RED CROSS WILL OPEN
CAMPAIGN ON NOV. 3
Membership Primary Purpose.
$15,000,000 Asked for as
Means of Fulfilling War
Obligations.
The enrollment of members for 1920
and the collection of $15,000,000 to en
able the organization to fulfill its war
obligations at home and abroad are
the objects of a nation-wide campaign
to be conducted by the American Red
Gross, beginning Monday, November 3
and continuing until Armistice Day,
November 11. Local appeals will be
made by chapters where it Is neces
sary to secure funds for local pro
grams, according to the statement of
Dr. Livingston Farrand, Chairman of
the Executive Committee of the Red
Cross, In formally announcing the cam
paign.
During the war there were two an
nual Red Cross campaigns, the War
' Fund Drive In the late spring and the
Christmas Roll Call for membership.
Th only campaign this year will be
the one In November, and in succeed
ing years there will be only the annual
Roll Call, In which the Red Cross will
.seek the reaffirmed allegiance of the
American people expressed In dollar
memberships. The money so derived
will be used for American purposes,
and the approval is to be regarded as
a mandate to carry on future pro
grams. .
To Concentrate on Home Program.
"The first task of the American Red
Gross Is, of course, to complete Its ob
ligations to American soldiers and sail
ors," said Dr. Farrand In announcing
the program. "The organization plans
as Its future policy to concentrate Its
efforts upon peace problems at home
unless America should again be in
volved In war or confronted by great
disasters creating special emergencies.
"The Red Cross programs are pri
marily within the field of public health
and will aim particularly at co-opera
tlon with official actlvltes federal,
state and local. The Red Cross will
seek not to duplicate the work of es
tablished organizations, but will en
deavor to supplement other agencies
where they already exist or to stimu
late and organize work where none
such exists."
The tremendous task of the Ameri
'can Red Cross in the war has, how
ever, left a continuing obligation which
cannot be fulfilled for some months to
come, Dr. Farrand stated. In an amend
ment to the Army Bill, Congress has
prolonged the responsibility of the Red
Cross abroad by authorizing Secretary
of War Baker to transfer to the Red
Cress such medical and surgical sup
plies and supplementary and dietary
foodstuffs now in Europe as Is not
needed by the army abroad or at
home Jfto be used by- the American
Red x Cross to relieve and supply the
pressing needs of the countries In
volved in the late war."
Inventories of these supplies are now
being made. To them will be added
such material as the American Red'
Cross itself has In Europe, and these
will be distributed in the countries
where the organization is . concluding
Its war. relief program and where be
cause of the ravages of war, famine
and epidemic the distress is most pro-
' nounced, as in the Balkans, Poland
and other Eastern European countries.
To meet these obligations and adminis
ter this foreign relief the Red Cross
must raise at this time a fund of $15,-
,000,000, Dr. Farrand stated.
Asks for Smaller Amount.
' The Red Cross authorities realize
that the astonishing generosity of the
American people during the war and
the present high cost of living at home
might legitimately lead many to ex
pect a release from further demands
for assistance to other people," contin
ued Dr. Farrand, "but we must remem
ber that our Allies were much harder
hit by the war than were we and 'that
we have incurred obligations to them
which honor demands shall be dis
charged. In naming the sum of $15,
000,000 the Red Cross has tried to de
termine the smallest amount which
"will enable it to round out its work
and make effective the appropriation
of Army goods rather than to estimate
the generosity of the American peo
ple." In conclusion Dr. Farrand said:
"It Is believed that the end of our
foreign obligations is in sight, and ac
cordingly the Red Cross is turning its
chief energy and attention to the de
velopment of a clearly defined home
program, which already includes sys
tematic preparedness for Disaster Re
lief, a widespread Nursing Plan, con
tinuing Home Service operations. First
Aid instruction and a Junior Red
Cross program, all of which will de
pend for their success upon large and
vigorous Chapters. For these reasons
the enrollment of members is the chief
purpose of the November campaign.
It Is the primary ambition of the
American Red Cross to be of service'
to Americans."
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DRIVERS RAISE WAGES.
SCENE FROM "POLL Y WITH A PAST,"
At the Hyperi on Next Week.
ORGANIZATIONS MEETING AT
TRADES COUNCIL HEADQUARTERS
215 MEADOW STREET
Detroit, Mich., Oct. 24. Organized
truck drivers employed by the United
Fuel & Food Supply company asked the
management if the rumor was true that
thev were to be discharged. They were
told to "get their time." And then the
unexpected happened when a score of
non-union drivers asked for their "time"
also. When the delivery system was
completely tied up, the management
raised wages $1 a day and now every
driver is union.
You're all right from your head up if
you have a union label in your hat
BOOKBINDERS, Local 134 Last
Tuesday. Secretary, Charles Kidd,
307 Blake St.
BUILDING TRADES COUNCIL
2nd and 4th Wednesdays, Hall No. 1.
Secretary!, R. J. Beadle, 215 Meadow
St.
BRICKLAYERS AND PLASTER
ERS, LOCAL No. 6, B. M. & P. I.
U. of A. 1st and 3rd Mondays, Hall
No. 2. Secretary, Ernest J. Meakins,
East Haven.
CAP MAKERS; Local No. 20 2nd
and 4th Saturdays, Hall No. 2. Sec
retary, S. Levin31 York St.
CARPENTERS, Local No. 79, U. B. of
C. & J. of A. Every Monday even
ing, Hall No. 1. Secretary, Henry
W. Mayer, P. O. Box 336. Business
Agent, George F. Mordecai, 215
Meadow St.
CIGARMAKERS, Local No. 39 2nd
and 4th Tuesdays, Hall No. 1. Sec
retary, Fred A. Grube, 215 Meadow
St.
COAL HANDLERS, Local No. 432
Every third Tuesday, Hall No. . 1,
Secretary, John P. H. Jones, 60
Eaton St. a
CORSET WORKERS' UNION 1st
and 3d Thursdays, Hall No. 2.
ELECTRICAL WORKERS, Local No.
90 1st and 3rd Tuesdays, Hall No.
2. Secretary, William Dedrick, 215
Meadow St.
ELECTRICAL WORKERS, OUT-
MUil, iNO. ooi isi ana ora oaiur
day, Hall No. 1. Secretary James
Duffy, 38 Eld St
HOISTING AND PORTABLE EN
GINEERS, Local 478 2nd Friday.
Hall No. 2. Secretary, J. W. Robe
son, P. C. Box 842. Business Agent,
Frank A. Fitzgerald, 215 Meadow
St., P. O. Box 842. i
IRON MOLDERS, Local No. 60 1st
Friday, Hall No. 2. Secretary, John
Peterson, 84 Gill St
IRON WORKERS, BRIDGE, STRUC
TURAL AND ORNAMENTAL, JNo.
154th Friday, Hall No. 2. Secre
tary, William Dawson, 94 Elizabeth
St. Business Agent, M. J. Louden,
215 Meadow St
PLUMBERS AND STEAM FIT
TERS, Local 349, U. A. J. P. and b.
F. 2nd and 4th Mondays, Hall No.
2. Secretary, William F. Walsh, 211
York St., West Haven. Business
Acent. Patrick F. O'Meara 215
Meadow St.
PAINTERS, DECORATORS AND
PAPERH ANGERS, Local No. 4W
1st and 3rd Wednesday, Hall No. 2.
Secretary, George T. Pimer, 677 2nd
Ave., West Haven. Business Agent,
R. J. Beadle, 215 Meadow St.
PAINTERS, DECORATORS AND
PAPERHANGEKS, Local no.
2nd and 4th Wednesday, Hall No. 2.
Secretary, Max Freedman, 465 Oak
St.
POLISHERS AND BUFFERS. Local
No. 25 1st Sunday and Jra naay,
Hall No. 2. Secretary, John J.
O'Brien, 67 Grove St.
SHEET METAL WORKERS, Local
No. 225 2nd and 4tn luesaay, nan
No. 2. Secretary, George Joslyn, 59
Reed St
STEREOTYPERS' UNION Every
two months alternately in JNew Ha
ven and Hartford; first Tuesday in
New Haven, March, July and No
vember, Hall No. 2.
STEAM AND OPERATING ENGI
NEERS, No. 566 2nd and 4th
Thursdays, Hall No. 2. Secretary, F.
B. Govang, 106 Poplar St.
TOBACCO STRIPPERS, ILocal No.
12,046 1st Thursday, rial! wo. t
Secretary, Miss Mary Clement, 179
Greene St.
TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION, No. 47
4th Sunday, 2 p. m., Irades Coun
cil Hall No. 2. Recording Secretary,
E. R. Ottarson, P. O. Box 1269.
THEATRICAL STAGE EMPLOYES,
Local 74, I. A. T. S. E. 4th Sunday,
Hall No. 2. Secretary, J-hn O'Con
nell, Malley Bldg. Business Agent,
Harry Miller, Shubert Theatre.
BOILERMAKERS, Elm City Lodge
No. 61 2d and 4th Thursdays. Sec
retary, Joseph D. Kelleher.
MEAT CUTTERS AND BUTCHER
WORKMEN, No. 556 1st and 3d
Tuesdays. Secretary, John F. Mur
phy, 262 Dixwell Ave. 1
LOCALS MEETING ELSEWHERE
ALLIED PRINTING TRADES
COUNCIL OF NEW HAVEN 3rd
Mondays, Room.,28, Insurance Bldg
890 Chapel St. Secretary, Walter A
Jcjhnson. Box 1463.
BAKERS' INTERNATIONAL UN
ION, Local No. 11 2nd Saturday,
139 Orange St. Secretary, George
Woedtke, 52 View St.
BARTENDERS, Local No. 217 1st
and 3rd Sundays, 2 p. m., Eagles
Hall, 26 Crown St. Secretary, Wm
Daley, 245 Meadow bt
BREWERY WORKERS, Local No. 37
3rd Sunday, 10 a. m.. 139 Orange
St. Secretary, Gus Buehler, 308 Da
venport Ave.
BARBERS' UNION, No. 215, B. I. U.
of A. 2nd and 4th Thursdays, Room
25, Insurance Bldg., 890 Chapel St.
at 8:30 p. m. Secretary and Business
Agent, Anthony Merlino. Office. 756
Chapel St.
CARPENTERS LOCAL, No. 1742, U.
B. of C. & J. of A 2nd and 4th
Monday Labor Lyceum, 38 Howe St,
Secretary, P. Hubbelbank, Labor
Lyceum
ELECTRICAL WORKERS, RAIL
ROAD, No. 803 lSt Sunday and 3rd
Wedensday, Academy Hall. Secre
tary, Louis Leduc, Silver place.
GRANITE CUTTERS' UNION, No
62 3rd Wednesdays, ,35 Broad St.
LATHERS, Local 215 2nd and 4th
Fridays, Room 15, Insurance Bldg.,
890 Chapel St. Secretary, Edwin T.
btevenson, 50 Judson Ave.
LETTER CARRIERS, BRANCH 19
1st Saturday, 400 State St. Secre
tary, Walter C. Ladd, 400 State St.
LOCOMOTIVE' ENGINEERS. New
Haven Division No. 77, B. of L. E.
2nd and 4th Sundays, 10:30 a. m.,
Uaa bellows nail, y5 Crown bt. Sec.
Treas., W. A. Preece, 260 Greenwich
Ave.; Chairman General Committee
of Adjustment for N. Y.. N. H. & H
R. R., F. F. Evans, Room 18, Poli
Bldg., ZS Church bt.
MACHINISTS, Lodge No. 420 Every
inursaay evening, liy Crown bt.
Secretary, Stephen Denger, 119
Crown bt. Business Agent E. C.
Jriotcnkiss, liy Crown bt.
MACHINISTS' HELPERS, RAIL
ROAD, Lodge No. 726 2nd and 4th
Monday, Room 51, Insurance Bldg.,
, 890 Chapel St. Secretary, Harold P.
Gammons. 118 California St., West
Haven.
MOVING PICTURE MACHINE OP
ERATORS, Local No. 273 3rd and
4th Sundays, T. M. A. hall, 99 Tem
ple St Secretary, Eugene Treiber,
1029 Campbell Ave., West Haven.
MUSICIANS' LOCAL, 234, A. F. of
M. 4th Sunday, Congress Square
xBldg. Secretary, Henry: G. Nicholls,
Congress Square Bldg.
RAILROAD TRAINMEN, Division
1st and 3rd Sundays, 11 a. m., Odd
Fellows' Hall, 95 Crown St.
STREET RAILWAY EMPLOYEES,
Division 281 1st .Friday, Eagles'
Hall, 26 Crown St. Secretary, L. J.
O'Connor, 73 Perkins St.
TAILORS, CUSTOM), Local 184
Every Sunday, 159 Crown St.
WOOD CARVERS' UNION 3rd
Wednesday, Socialist Hall, 129
George St.
SLATE AND TILE ROOFERS, No.
, 6 2d Sunday each quarten 20 Ward
St Secretary, James Smith, Daven
port Ave. Business Agent, William
Smith, 20 Ward St.
WATCH AND CLOCKVVORKERS'
UNION, No. 46 1st and 3d Thurs
days, Insurance Bldg. Secretary,
Carroll McNamara.
PRINTING PRESSMEN, No. 74
3d Thursday, Eagle Hall. Secretary,
Walter A. Johnson, P. O. Box 1463.
RAILWAY TELEGRAPHERS 3d
Tuesday, 10:30 a. m., 1st Friday, 8
p. m., Church and Crown Sts. Secre
tary George S. McCormick, 95 Main
St.. West Haven.
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JAMES J. CORBETT,
Appearing in the Startling Serial, "The
Midnight Man, at the Bijou Every
Sunday Evening.
A VIRTUOUS MODEL,
Attraction at The Bijou Sunday Evening.
IT'S NOT HIGH WAGES HERE
New York, Oct. 24. Associated Press
correspondence from Santiago, Chile,
states that the high cost of living is
forcing the government to act and it
is proposed to stabilize Chilean cur
rency by adopting the gold standard.
Chileans have been affected by the high
cost of living and many public demon
strations have been held.
MACHINISTS' SMOKER
ON 6THJ)F NOVEMBER
New Haven Lodge to Have Box
ing Bouts, Musical Entertain
ment and Speeches.
! CCTSSACKS RAID CHURCH.
Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 24. At steel
strike hearings that were conducted in
this city by the United States senate
committee on education and labor,
Rev. A. Kaznici of St. Michael's church,
Braddock, near here, said on Monday,
September 12, two state troopers at
tacked men as they were leaving church.
The clergyman protested and the cos
sacks replied that they were doing their
duty in breaking up all gatherings.
The New Haven Lodge of Machinists
at its meeting on Thursday night de
cided to have a smoker at its head
quarters on Crown street on the night
of November 6. It wouldn't do to have
an entertainment the night before, be
cause of "Remember, remember, the 5th
of November." The program has not
been selected yet but it is known that it
will include some boxing bouts by New
Haven talent, a musical program,
speeches and eccentric dancing.
There is considerable talent in the
Local unions in New Haven. Francis
McCabe, the sergeant-at-arms of the
New Haven Trades Council, is in great
demand for telling dialect and humor
ous stories but he never appears in cos
tume. Benjamin Leventhal of the Cap
makers' Union, who is a first-nighter at
all union smokers and entertainments,
says that the Plumbers and Steam Fit
ters' Union has the greatest array of
entertainers of any of the New Haven
organizations. This Local does not
have to go outside its own organization
to get entertainers.
Workers' Union of New Haven,, which
has a strike, will soon give a box party,
for which invitations will be sent to
members of all New Haven unions.
Benjamin Leventhal has a version of
the court's remarks when the striking
milliner in New York was arraigned for
hitting a policeman in the eye with an
egg. An account of the young woman's
arrest was printed in The Connecticut
Labor Press at the time. Mr Leven
thal said the judge reproved the woman
for throwing eggs while they were so
expensive and said they were too costly
to tnrow away, rie torn ner n sne was
brought before him again on a similar
charge she would be severely dealt
with.
A member of the Capmakers' Union
painted a poster announcing the box
party and nailed it on the dead wall on
the site of the old post office. The post
er, however, did not state where the
party was to be held, so Mr. Leventhal
holds that its value was negligible.
AFTER THE POLICE.
CAPMAKERS' UNION
WILL MEET TONIGHT
Report to Be Made of Recent Box
Party for Benefit of Strikers
in St. Louis.
Rockville Committee to Press
Charges Against Captain.
The New Haven Local of the Cloth
Hat and Capmakers' Union will meet
tonight, when a report will be made of
the recent box party given for the ben
efit of the striking capmakers of St
Louis. It is estimated that the sum
raised will be about $150. The Local
union is sending the St. Louis strikers
about $100 a week. T.he box party was
so successful that the Ladies' Garment
Rockville, Oct 24. The general com
mittee of the striking textile workers
in Rockville is to "press charges against
Captain of Police S. J. Tobin, accord
ing to announcement made. In the
statement the strike committee says :
"We are determined to press charges
and compel Captain Tobin to resign.
We believe that the action of Tobin is
a violation of the law and as respect
able and law abiding citizens we de
mand that he be made to respect the
law. We have positive proof of actual
violence and in behalf of the citizens of
Rockville we demand that this man be
brought up for trial. We have positive
proof that Captain Tobin violated the
law he has sworn to uphold and that he
has without provocation brutally as
saulted innocent men and helpless
women.
(Signed) "Charles Merk,
"Thomas Ferguson,
"John Launders,
"General Strike Committee."
Announcing to the Public
a Readjustment of Trolley Fares :
Beginning November 2nd a readjusted schedule of f ares will
be effective on the lines of the Connecticut Company by which
passengers will pay according to the distance they ride.
There will be no change in the fare in the central area of the
city.
The present 6-cent fare will be retained, and will pay for
transportation within the central area-a distance on any line up to
two and one-half miles from the center of the city.
The present 6-cent fare also will pay for a ride from any point not more than V2 miles from the center to any
point not more than V2 miles beyond the center.
For rides beyond the central area a charge of two cents per zone will be made, and eaclj. zone will be approxi
mately a mile in length in theiresidential area and four-fifths of a mile in the country districts.
This system has been decided on because it seems to be the most equitable, arrangement that can be made, and
because there have been public requests for it.
The Connecticut Company had three alternatives : -
(1) A high flat fare of not less than eight and probably ten cents in the present, area without changing the
fare limits; x
fe) The division of the system into a greater number of six-cent zones, or,
(3) The distance system with the six cent minimum fare and small increments.
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The history of fiat rate fare increases indicates them to be unpopular with the public and unprofitable for the
companies, and The Connecticut Company believes the distance system will commend itself to the public because of
its fairness to all riders.
In announcing this readjustment, The Connecticut Company wishes to emphasize that it is a question. as to
whether the revenue the new schedules shall produce will be adequate, but it believes that the public now thor
oughly understands the financial difficulties that beset the electric railways and will appreciate its efforts to
readjust fares with as little inconvenience to the car riders as possible, and with the purpose of assuring con
tinuance of street railway service to the people. '
Further details of the readjustment will be published later.
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