The Connecticut labor news., October 06, 1923, Page Six, Image 6

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LABOR (Connecticut) NEWS
YES, WE HAVE NO AIRPLANES TODAY;
A STORY THAT DIDNT "STAND UP"
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, Here are two newspaper stories about coke workers. The New York
Times printed one of the stories, the Washington Daily News, member of
the Scripps-Howard chain, printed the other after a special correspondent
had been sent to check up on the Times yarn.
The whole thing carries a lesson about news and newspapers. Any
how, 'yu pays your money and you takes your choice." Here are the
two stories; both "news," but oi-viously not both truth:
Coke Workers Going to Daily
Toil in Airplane: Sedan Cars
Take Coal Miners to Their Work
(Special to the New York Times)
Uniontown, Pa., July 14. That ' the
luxuries of peace in the Fayette Com
pany coal region far outshadow war
prosperity was indicated today when
Edmund Henriques, a coke worker,
returned to his home in Gates from
.New York with a Sopwith airplane
which he will use to carry him "to
and from his daily toil.
For several yea s the flivver, which
had been domesticated .among the
mining towns of the . Connellsville
region, has been passe, and high-pow-
' ered sedan cars have traveled the
highways . bearing the miners from
their homes to the coal pits and back
again when the days toil was ended.
Henriques startled the "aristocrats
of the coke region" when he returned
from New York with his Sopwith
"camel," a British built airplane with
which he is familiar through five
' years' service in the Royal Air Forces.
He made the flight frbm -New York
in his new machine in four and a
half Jiours, and will use it during the
summer to' attend Sunday . baseball
games in Chicago and Cleveland. ,
His home is several miles from the
coke ovens at Gates, where he is em
ployed, and he has-found it annoy
ing to be forced to arise so early in
the morning and go to work. Being
a high-class employe with a good job,
and not wishing to lose his place
from lateness, he concluded, thaj the
safest and fastest method of trans
portation, the airplane, would just
about make his lot a happy one. Act
ing on this 'conclusion, he "got him
self one," according to his way of put
ting it. .
Henriques has been the" owner for
some time of a high-powered motor
, car " , but .tire troubles and other me
chanical accidents exhausted his pa
tience. His. Sopwith will take him
anywhere he wants to --go a few
hours, and he , has no fear of being
late at the coke plant in. the future.
In .1920 Henriques . piloted an air
plane fr'm New York to Nome, Alas
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FLYING MINER'S
STORY NOT TRUE
Uniontown Workers Amused at Fan
' ciful Yarn.
(From Washington Daily News)
Uniontown, Pa. That story of the
"Coke Worker Going to Daily Task
in Airplane; Sedan Cars. Take Miners
to Their Work," to quote a headline
from the New .'York Times, and to
check upon a dispatch carried on
some press wires Saturday, may te a
good story; but it is not news ?It
c rinf f ntA
"The coke oven workers of this
town, where the coke worker was re
ported to'have been gliding to work
v in his airplane had a good laugh when
told that the rest of the country be
lieved they were taking up aviation
as a means , of getting to and from
their work. -,
Miners and cokers spent a part of
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yesteraay watcning turauuu 0111
Quixano. Henrique doing stunts with
his new Sopwith plane, it is true. But
Henriques is not a "coke worker."
He is an assistant superintendent
over a score or so ofFrick mines in
" this neighborhood.
Henrieques told me in his polished
Oxford Univrsity English how he
learned to .fly with the British Royal
Air Forces, how after the war he at
tracted attention in this, country by
flying from New York to Alaska, and
how he bought his present plane to
use it in an advertising medium for a
new fire, extinguisher, which a Mason-
town concern 15 putting on the mar
ket. . , .
Henriques-is a modest, businesslike
chap, and was highly amused by the
weird effort to ' use his activities to
spread the idea that the miners were
scattering their excessives wages in
their air. On the contrary, miners in
this region, working in the United
States Steel Corporation mines, -are
not very flush now, they having been
defeated not long ago in strike
which was broken" by the importation
of negroes' from the South. .
Labor Organization
Leads to Liberty
Chicago, 111., Oct. 6. "Every bit of
progress that has been made has been
made as the result of organization," de
clares the International Steam Engineer,
the official organ of the International
Union of Steam and Operating Engi
neers, in an -editorial leader on trade
unionism.
"Progress lags just to the degree that
organization lags.
"Whatever advance has been made in
shortening hours, raising wages and ele
vating working conditions can be meas
ured by the yardstick of organization.
"The individual worker may shirk his
duty ; he may maintain his stand as an
individual ; he may go from job to job
searshing the ideal cinditions he wants
to enjoy, Jbiit wherever he goes he will
find the same average level.
"Ther is no escape, for he is a work
er, and, as such, is forced to compete
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wuii cvci y wumcr 111 ins inuustry.
VlA il,C UlrA nn1 m.. !.k 4-1.
jKjtj i n uiuoi nave, auu any juj null lie
gets is owned by some employer."
All of which means,, according to
the International Steam Engineer, that
the individual , worker must seek his
identity in that of the mass. He must
organize, and become an integral part
of some organization. He must accept
the inevitable conclusion that the "day
of individual action is over and its sun
has set and the daysof collective, united,!
concerted action is at hand, for the good, the past not only to the members of
of one is bound up in the welfare of all." j the two organizations directly in-
Ivolved but to our citizenship in gen-
READ THE LABOR NEWS. teral.
Proposals to Convention
(Continued from Page Four.)
against wage reductions.- Wage re
ductions mean the abridgement of the
power to purchase, to consume and
to use the products of labor. Wage
reductions accentuate depression and
unemployment.
LABOR BANKS.
"Banking and credit are as insep
arable as life and air. Credit as now
administered too often increases un
earned, incomes at the expense of
earned incomes and constitutes a bur
den upon necessary industry.
"We have pointed out the ideal of
credit administration through a pub
lic agency." Through the growing
number of labor banks some progress
toward the ideal may be made. La
bor banks are much nearer the mass
es o fthe people than are th,e insti
tutions of what is commonly called
Wall Street, and they are more -re
sponsive td fundamental needs. As
banks, we look upon these - labor in
stitutions as helpful, even though they
constitute NO remedy.
THE VOLSTEAD ACT.
The Executive Council believes
that the Volstead Enforcement Act
must be modified. An exhaustive in
vestigation of the. effects of the Vol
stead Act has shown that there has
been:
i. A general disregard sof the law
among all classes of people, includ
ing those who made the law.
2. Creation of thousands of moon
shiners among both country and city
dwellers.
3. Creation or an army of boot
leggers.
4. An amazing increase in the traf
fic in poisons and deadly concoctions
and drugs.
5. An 'increased rate of insanity,
blindness and crime among the users
of these concoctions arjd drugs.
6. Increase in unemployment due
to loss of employment by workers in
45 industries directly or indirectly
connected with manufacture of liquors.
7. Increase in taxes to city, state
and national governments amounting
to approximately one thousand mil
lion dollars -per year.
"Having in mind these results of
the extreme interpretation of the
prohibition amendment contained in
the Volstead Act, as well . as the
enormous expense of the attempt to
enforce that unenforceable legisla
tion, it is our conclusion that the act
is an improper interpretation of the
prohibition amendment, that it is a
social and a moral failure, and that it
is a dangerous breeder of discontent
and of contempt for all law.
BEER AND LIGHT WINES.
"We, do NOT. protest against the
Eighteenth Amendment to the Con
stitution, which now is a part of the
fundamental law of the land. We
urge, rather, that all citizens in evey
walk of life demand from their Reps
resentatives and Senators in Wash
ington immediate relief .from the un
warranted restriction contained in the
Volstead Act; and we likewise sug
gest to the citizenry of the country
the wisdom and advisability of bear
ing in-mind the attitude toward this
issue of officeholders and aspirants to
office in "coming elections, that there
may be restored ; to the people the
lawful wines, which, under the pro
visions of the Eighteenth Amend
ment, can and should be rightfully de
clared as non-intoxicating liquors.
POLITICS.
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"The American Federation of La
bor non-partisan political campaign
committee directs the attention of
wage-earners, and their sympathizers
to two principles that should be fol
lowed in the next campaign. These
are : .
"No "freedom-loving citizen should
vote for a candidate that will NOT
pledge himself to oppose any form of
compulsory labor law. . -
"No justice-loving citizen should
vote for a candidate for any office
who will NOT pledge himself to op
pose injunctions and contempt pro
ceedings as a substitute for trail by
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"Let your slogans be
"No judge-made laws; abolish the
injunction abuse; make justice
blind in fact as well as in theory; ,no
compulsory labor law; no sales tax;
no subsidies for the. privileged few,
and no remission of fines to food pro
fiteers. WOMEN IN INDUSTRY.
"Women 'workers are permanent
members of our various industries and
have been notably increasing in num
bers. Unorganized they constitute a
menace to standards established
through collective action. Not only
for their protection but for the pro
tection of men .in industries, there
should be organization of all within
the industry. Because there are spe
cial problems of procedure in this
field we recommend that the presi
dent ot the A. h. ot L.. call a con
ference of officials of such organiza
tions as are particuary concerned
with the problem of organizing wom
en wage-earners in order that a more
thorough organizing campaign be
planned and inaugurated.
AMERICAN LEGION. -
'The relations between the Amer
ican Legion and the American Fed
eration of Labor have continued dur
ing the year to be cordial and help
ful. We recommend continuation of
the friendly and co-operative rela
tions which have been so beneficial in
KU KLUX TCLAN.
"During the year the Ku Klux
Klan has continued its campaign
of terrorism on such a scale that its
operations can not be overlooked
This secret organization promotes
discrd among our people and strife
within the ranks of organized labor,
seeks to destroy the cherished Amer
ican principles of religious freedom
and tolerance and purposely fosters
racial prejudices.
"The Ku Klux Klan is destructive
of that freedom and devotion to the
principles of liberty which we regard
as the first essential ' in democratic
civilization. The Ku Klux Klan seeks
also to take into its own hands the
administration of punishment, .thus
setting itself up as superior to gov
ernment in the enforcement of law.
We know of nothing that could be
more intolerable or more hostile to
the purposes of organized government
or the trade union movement.
"We believe that no trade union
ist can consistently participate in the
activities of the Ku Klux Klan or any
similar organization, and we unhesi
tatingly denounce its efforts to sup
plant organized government, to pro
mote religious intolerance, racial, an
tagonisms and bigotry.
THE FASCISTI MOVEMENT.
"The effort to organize Fascisti
groups in the United States i,s of im-l
mediate concern to us. We denounce
this effort as a token of hostility to
our democratic institutions and par
ticularly to our American trade union
movement." Promotion by a foreign
power of a hostile movement ort our
soil cannot be lightly regarded by our
movement or by our people in gen
eral. No disclaimers from abroad
can alter the character of the Fas
cisti nor change the fact thai the pff-
soriner in America must partake ofj
the nature and purpose of the" parent
body in Italy.
We call upon workers of foreign
birth to refrain from joining the
Fascisti or any similar movement in
our country. ' The inevitable result
of continuance of such efforts as that
represented' by the ' organization of
fascisti groups in -America can lead
only to a more determined resolve to
bar the doors more tightly to those
who abuse the freedom and institu
tions of our country.
FAILURE OF CONGRESS. j
' 'The Sixty-seventh Congress will
find an unenviable place in history.
Reaction and incompetence, backed
apparently by no other thought than
personal and partisan political ad
vantage, made it impotent to remedy
any or tne evils troubling the people
ot our country. The only consola
tion labor has is that while it did not
obtain the remedial legislation that it
sought it prevented the passageof
"LAME DUCKS."
"One of the ereatest issues before
the people of the United States is
the menace from legislation enacted
by 'lame ducks.' Of those voting for
the ship subsidy bill in the House
seventy-one were-'-'larne ducks,' mem
bers who had been repudiated by
their constituents, and with -that vote
only was the bill passed by the House
such a wave of resentment swept
over the country that Senator Norris
introduced a bill providing that the
terms of Congressmen should expire
in uecemDer after the election and
that a Congress of the newly elected
representatives be called 'together in
the following, January. The bill pass
ed the Senate, but was pigeon-holed
in. the House. It is believed that the
next Congress will take suitable ac
tion to eliminate this incongruous
menace to legislation. -
. SOLDIERS' BONUS.
"Congress failed to enact legisla
tion providing for adjusted compen
sation for former service men. The
war is over, but some of thcyse who
remained at home to legislate for
those who were offering the supreme
sacrifice are now refusing adjusted
compensation to the men who main
tained the, political freedom of our re
public." The council closed its , report wtih
a renewed demand for further restric
tion of immigration, terming the cry
"shortage of labor" a myth sent out
by interests seeking to flood the na
tion with cheap foreign labor.
Italso reviewed the labor legisla
tion situation in each state of the
Union.
In the review Connecticut is sadly
lacking, in fact not mentioned, aa
among the states that enacted legisla
tion to benegt theworkers. Alabama,
California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana,
Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Neva
da, New Hampshire, New Jersey,
New York, Ohio,," Oklahoma, Penn
sylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Washing
ton, Wisconsin and Wyoming," all did
something for Labor, either in pass
ing bills favorable to the worker or
killing' bills antagonistic to labor. But
Connecticut is lacking.
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Government Control
of Coal Industry
Washingtin, Oct. 6. Supervision of
the coal industry by the interstate com
merce caommission is. the outstanding
recommendation of the cdal commis
sion's final report.
The commission declares that the rig
id monoply of the hard coal industry
makes government control necessary and
suggests a tax- on ..royalties and differ
ential profits to curb the arbitrary pow
ers of "the monopolists. The tax would
not decrease the price, of coal, but would
add to the public revenues and thus ben
efit the people indirectly.
In- the bituminous coal industry the
commission recommends regulation of
transportation service by granting or
witholding cars to establish an equilib
rium between demand and supply, sup
plemented by government licensing of
dealers who buy and sell coal in inter
state commerce.
The commission says the coal ccon
sumers have the main remedy for high
prices of anthracite in their own hands
they may use alleged substitutes for
hard coal, thus influencing the coal prof
iteers to loosen up.
The report expresses regret that the
coal industry itself has manifested ei
ther a lack of desire or inability to
regulate the industry in the. public in
terest. The commission's recommenda
tions are made because of the industry's
delinquency in this respect. ' .
The coal question now shifts .to .con
gress, wheih under the Constitution has
authority to regulate interstate com
merce, although of late years the jur
isdiction of congress has been' largely
nulled by the Supreme Court of the
United States exercising the utterlp. un
constitutional and usurped" opwer to ve
to' acts of congress declaring public poli
cies when those policies conflict with
the policies approved by the irresponsi
ble judiciary
Telephone Liberty 6345
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Insurance - s
Realty' Management -Investments
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Mortgages , '
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MECHANICS'
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Ye OLDe HARDeWARE STORE
754758 Chapel & 314 State Streets
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271 BLATCHLEY AVENUE
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There are such stores that hold the
trade for -miles around, some of them
built up without largely increasing" the
capital. '
The merchant buys small -standardized
stocks of the best sellers that are being
sold in the large cities. He is careful to
display the exact pattern that is being
popularized. '
His stock is kept complete at all times
by small but frequent orders placed with
the Jobber or Manufacturer by TOLL
LINE.
Shipment is made the same day Joy
express or. parcel post and a quick deliv
ery made possible Customers are enthu
siastic over the fact that they can buy
what they, want in their home town.
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TELEPHONE COMPANY
P. O. Box 1886 Phone Liberty .0047
18 to 22 CHURCH ST.
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT
MIAN'S
EVAN , L. ,STETTNER, Mgr.
NEW HAVEN'S LARGEST
AND ORIGINAL
CASH OR CREDIT CLOTHIERS
Everything to Wear for Man,
Woman or Child.
THE FURNITURE REPAIR &
UPHOLSTERING SHOP
Succeeding
Chamberlain-Hallock '
Repair Shop
Rear of 61 Orange St., New Haven.
Furniture Repaired, Refinished, Re
upholstered. Mattresses Renovated
, and Made to Order.
GO FIRST TO
Sugenheimer's
Men's Furnishings,
Women's Wear
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THE A. E. ALLJNG
RUBBER CO.
7-9-13 CHURCH ST.
NEW HAVEN, CONN.
IF IT'S MADE OF
RUBBER
WE HAVE IT
New Haven
Rubber Store.
819 CHAPEL ST.
H. M. HODGES & BRO.
Paints, Wall Papers,
Glass, Painters' Supplies, Pictures and
Picture Framing
952 Chapel St.
Two '
Stores:
290-292 York St
THE CO-OPERATION
of PATRONS. and EMPLOYEES -for
the BETTERMENT of the ' ,
SERVICE is earnestly solicited.
The Connecticut Company
New Haven Wall Paper Co.
Wall Papers
- Paper Hangers' Supplies
33 Crown Street
THE BOOTH & LAW COMPANY
"YALE SEAL" PAINTS, OILS & VARNISHES
nd PAINTERS' SUPPLIES
35-37 CROWN ST. NEW HAVEN, CONN
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The Southern New England Telephone Company
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Telephone Building
114-126Court St., New-Haven, Conn.
PAGER'S
Union , Label Men's Wear
Hats and Furnishings
The Right Quality at Popular
' Prices. , ,
6-8 CONGRESS AVE.
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YOU can get stereotypes and
matrices, as well as electrotypes,
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EDW. H. PARKHURST CO.
365 STATE ST.
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All leathers, all styles, all sizes;
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Girls' and Boys' School Shoes of
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For Women, Grover Soft Shoes
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