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LABOR (Connecticut) NEWS
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OPEN SHOPPERS STOPPED
." BY BIG UNIONS NOW TURN
Threaten to Close Up
Theaters Unless Play-
1 - ers Association Is
Curbed But That's
Only Another Bluff to
Carry O n Fight
Against Organized
- Labor. '
Balked in their efforts to disrupt
. the active Organized Labor unions xin
the building trades and manufacturing
lines, the "Open Shoppers" are now
trying to induce public sympathy to
ward their nefarious aims by attack
ing the theaters and threatening ,'to
. - close up the playhouses unless the
"terrible" labor element that has en
tered it through the Actors equity
Association, (the actors union), is put
down and out Of course it's a bluff
because the . palyhouse managers
would starve to death if the actors
' quit on them, but the insidious pur-
nose is to turn the public against -all
Organized Labor through the medium
of the threat that, the - piaynouses
might be'clased unless the actors
union is put out of business. ;
. " Of course the "Open .Shop" organ,
the Hartford Courant, was quick to
grasp the threat and broadcast it un
' der bjg headlines Even Hartford,
blase as it is. with-its insurance wealth,
' didn't fall fdr. the stuff but just to
...keep mmbers of -Organized Labor in
touch with the extremes to which the
anti-union forces are going in their
efforts to disrupt Organized Labor,
the attack on he actors is reprinted,
from the Hartford Courant. It's so
' ridiculous that all is needed is to "get
, 'the hook" that is thrown out and let
it go at that. 'The attack follows:
Is the American stage doomen? Will
the theater soon, because of the attacks
made upon it . by uionized actors, stage
hands, musicians, etc., become a mere
shadow of its former self? That is a
.. question which is agitating the. true lo
vers of the theater and a constant thorn
n the side of producers who find them
selves handicapped at every turn -by , the
' variant demakds upon them. .
' The romance of the theater has seem
ingly began to fade out and the threat
ot, constantly increasing labor troubles
has taken its place, all stemming from
the "chip-on-the-shoulders" attitude of
equally ultra-aggressive allies, the musi-
cians and theatrical stage employees.
It is. becoming obvious that the theater
cannot long continue 10 pruspci
the continual barrage attacks of its la-
bor . unions. . j
A prominent. New York banker, who
has contributed liberally to the develop-
ment of the theater in America, said
wnen mierviewcu uu u "m. . ,
I can see but one solution to the la-
bor problem in the theaten And tmtk,
Ubor problem I include : the actor who
sworn his artist's status for the 'full
, .... L;. - orftct'c ctatitc frr th fiill i
dinner 'nail insignia of the laborer. - I'aris aressmaKers , win two-aay struce
Relieve tliat the time has passed for ;
statements, for pleadings, for argu-'
ments. 1 believe that-the tmly cure tor shows no signs of slackening, Secre
the closed shop infection which amicts tary of the Treasury Mellon declares.
dramatic artists is to. close trie theaters, Some industries are slowing down hut
tightiy, board them "up, until those
t peopie through hungeri come to their,
, senses." . j
"it is a drastic cure, lie continuea,
"but sometimes drastic cures are more
merciful than prolonged probings and
" temporizing with the malady"
"The ultimate closing of the ' theaters
under present conditions is ineviabie,"
he added- sadly, "because managers can
not do business . The labor conditions
x and regulations in the theater have prac-.
tically eliminated it in many -sources as.
an - avenue of investment. Managers '
who" have not stamina enough to control
the situation in their own theaters, who ;
supinely submit to being led by the nose
by a tew agitators among actors and'
stage hands, cannot look tor sympathy
. in their problems, nor respectful consi
deration of their business f rom " intelli
gent business men."
"1 do not hold the managers guilt-'
less," he continued, 'but 1 blame the ac-(
-tor primarily for this , deplorable condi
tion, for the actor is the custodian of art, '
and he has dragged his art in the mire.,
He should be the leader n the theater.
and he follows the lead of the stage-
' hand." ' '
, 1 A closed shop is the goal of Equity,
- That the Actors' Equity Association is
set on regulating the source of actors
with a czar-like hand is indicated in the
current issue of the magazine. 'Eqiijty,'
its mouthpiece:
. "Equity s traveling representatives are
being empowered to suspend members in
the field who refuse to obey instructions
and regulations of the A. E.'A.rand the
I offending member will be present with
1 printed slips officially suspending them,
pending permanent council action."
Frank Gilmore is secretary-treasurer
of the 'Equity," and he believes in dues.
His ambition is a 100. per cent, union
with rion-Equity actors on the outside
lookinc in. A mechanic , in a letter to
Gilmore and published in "Equity" said:
"During the past year and a half the
. members of Typographical Union No. 6
employed on morning papers ' have paid
in dues an average of $4 per week a
a total of something like $350 It may
not always have been paid cheerfully,
but it was paid dutifully which is not
much of a difference." This letter sums
u Equity's attitude.
The New York "Commercial'"in dis
cussing Equity's determination to estab
lish the closed shop in the theater, de-1
dares :- j
"Mr. Gilmore, in one of his humorous
writings, whose refrains arealways pleas
or arguments for dues.says:
aw one win continue to pay dues for
a protection benefits equally those who
win 1101 coniriDute to secure that pro
tection. . 1
V)Yrotection do Equity dues af
tord? What protection have they ever
afforded? The present contract between
aift0rfl.and mana8:er was signed before
the afniation with the American Feder
ation of Labor. What have Equity
dues and its labor affiliations done for
ATTACK ON ACTORS' UNION
the actor except to strengthen the hands
of the stage hands and bill posters and
musicians, to disgust and alienate capi
tal, and to destroy the glamour of the
stage? N
"Of what 'protection' were Equity
dues to the cast of 'Fashion 6f 1924?'
Yet in July edition of 'Equity' Alexan
der Leftwich, the producer, was hailed
as Equitv's friend, just as in August
issue of Equity f-iorenz Z,iegteld and A.
L. Erlanger are hailed as Equity friends.
Mr. Gilmore forgets that though he
hasfound the actor something of a dupe,
the American actor is a man as well as
an . artist. In every war he has fought
and bled for freedom. In the world of
business he has proved himself the peer
of winy man. In a word, the actor is no
fool. He is not an ignorant refugee
from Russia or - Continental Europe, to
be" yoked by labor leaders."
AS THE WORKER
SEES HIS WORLD
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Summary and Digest of Important
Events of the Week, Here
and Abroad;
Ten Chicago mill work concerns and
eleven of their officials and fifteen local
officiajs and members" of the Internation
al Brotherhood of Carpenter and Join
ers fined at Chicago on charges of vio
lating the Sherman anti-trust law.
The dollar's purchasing power now
amounts to, only 65. cents, United States
Department of Labor ' announces, in
making public results of a ten-year sur
vey of the dollar's varying course.
H. H. Ferguson, vice-president of the
Illinois Terminal Railroad, refuses to
testify before United States Railroad
Labor Board. ' - - v
Muscle Shoals plant, sought by Henry
Food, is sold by . Government to - Ala
bama Power Company for $3,472,487.
Oklahoma National, Guard .disperses
legislators and prevents session . planned
to impeach Gov. Walton for declaring
martial law in his war'on the'Ku Klux
Klan.
German government formally 'announ
ces end of passive resistance by workers
in the Ruhr. .
Socialists and trade unions hold lorg-
est demonstration in history of Arher-
sterdam as protest against proposal to
build a new Dutch fleet. . ' - -
American Bankers' Association , at At
Klux Klan endorsed by Oklahoma State
Federation of Labor. ' ,
Painter's unions of Ohio go on rec-
ord as favoring the 44-hour week- for
painters in place -of the 8-hour- day in
force ;n most Ohio cities..
r rrtT1 a;cc pr,c;
... u.a
Commerce Commission.
Midinettes or shop girls employed by
ana get one-tnira increase in pay.
Industrial activity in the United States
general business; conditions continue un-
usually good, he says
' A workmen's compensation law for
Missouri is being drafted and, will be
submitted to the voters through the in-
THE FAR EAST
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Business Men's Lunch, 45 Cents.
Served from 11 A. M. to a:oo P. M.
Special Sunday Dinner, $1.00.
A La Carte at All Hours.
Dancing every evening from 10-12.
The Department of Health City of
New Haven has given us a rating
of 100. '
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57 CHURCH ST- New Haven, Conn.
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By. J. M. BAER, The Congressman-Cartoonist.
International Labor News Service
Figures
There are a great many sta
tisticians who are figuring for
the farmer. These' "experts,"
who are employed bv big' busi
ness, try to Show the farmer
that ' it takes an enormous
amount of eggs, chickens, bush-
els of grain f-or pounds of meat
to buy a day's work from a la
boring man at the present scale
of wages. . .
The figures look startling and
they deceive some farmers. The
experts who get up the figures
or the papers -that print them do
not tell' the whole story.
Here, for example, are some
figures of a Wall Street statis
tician designed to show, why
farming is not profitable:
"It takes 63 x2 dozen or 762
eggs to pay a plasterer for one
day's work.
"It takes 23 chickens weigh-'
ing 3 pounds each to "pay a
painter for one day's work in
New York.
JTt takes 42 pounds of butter,
"or the , output from 14 cows,
fe wand milked, for 24 hours, to
pay a plumber $14 a day.
itiative instead of awaiting for the 1925
legislative session.
Judge Sam B. Hill, Democratic nomi
nee for Congress in the Fifth Congressional-district
of Woshington, who was
endorsed by organized labor, defeats his-l
Republican opponent in special election.
Federal. Trade Catnmission, in a re
port on costs and profits in the grain
trade, finds that the Cost of vhandling
grain can be and should be reduced.
District of Columbia Commissioners
send ' ultimatum to Prohibition Chief
Haynes, making serious charges against
his agents ana demanding' dismissal of
six.
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
and Order of Railway Conductors vote
to demand wage increase of approxi-.'
3 q tuV ; vvestern
and Southern-sections of country.
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STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP.
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statement of the ownership, man-
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agement, circulation, etc, required by
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the Act of Congress of August 24,
1912, of The Connecticut Labor News,
published, weekly at New Haven,
Conn, for October 1st, 1923.
State of Connecticut, County of
New Haven, ss. ,
Before me,; a Notary Public in and
for the State and County aforesaid,
personally appeared I. M. Ornburn,
who having been duly sworn -according
to law, deposes and says that he
is the manager of the Connecticut
Labor News and that the followiner is,
to the best of his knowledge and be
lief, a true statement of the owner
ship, management (and if", a daily
paper, the circulation), etc., of the
aforesaid publication for the date
shown in. the above caption, required
by the Act of August 24, 1912, em
bodied, in ' section 443, Postal Laws
ands Regulations, printed on the re
verse of this form, to wit:
1. That the names and addresses of
the publisher, editor, managing editor,
and business manager are: Publisher,
I. M( Ornburn, New Haven, Conn.;
editor, I. M. Ornburn, New Haven,
Conn.; managing editor, W. W. Barry,
New Haven, Conn.; business man
ager, Harry B. Ornburn, New Haven,
Conn.
2. That the owners are: (Give
names and addresses of individual
owners, . or, if a corporation, give its
name and the names -and addresses
of sVockholders owning of holding 1
or more of the total amount of stock.)
Ornburn Press, Inc., New Haven,
Conn.,J. M. Ornburn, New Haven,
Cpnn.
3. That the known bondholders,
mortgagees, and other security hold
ers owning or holding 1 per cent or
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facts
that Lie
"It takes a hog weighing 175
pounds representing eight
months' feeding' and care, to
pay a carpenter for one day."
Let's figure a little more. We
find that 632 dozen eggs in'
Washington cost $33-75, which
is tJie amount the plasterer, who
gets $12 a day would 'have to
pay for ' them. Who gets the
$21.75?
Twenty-three chickens weigh
ing 3 pounds ' each at 40c per
pound would cost the carpenter
$27,601 Who -gets the differ-,
ence between $27.60 afid a
'painter's daily wage?
Forty-two pounds of butter
at 60c is $25.20. If plumbers
get $14 a days who gets the '
$11.20 from "each of the
thousands of plumbers? ;
One hundred and seventy-five
pounds qi pork at 40N,per pound
would cost the carpenter $70
and surely no carpenter gets
one-fourth that amount.
Agricultural statisticians had
better get busy and figure' out.
who gets the -differenceand how
many farms it would buy each
year. "
more - of totaf " amount of bonds,
mortgages, or other securities are: (If
there are none, so state) None:
-. 4. That the two paragraphs next
above, giving the names' of the own
ers, stockholders, and security hold
ers, if .any, contain hot '"only the list
of stockholders "and security holders
as they appear upon the books of the
company but also, in cases where the
stockholder or security holder appears
UDon the books of the comoanv as
trustee or irfany other fiduciary rela
tion, the name of the person, or cor
poration for whom such trustee is
acting, is given; - also that said two
paragraphs contain statements em
bracing affiant's full knowledge and
belief as to the circumstances and
conditions under which stockholders
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lin a capacity other than that of a
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bona fide owner; and this affiant has
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any interest direct or indirect in the
said stock, bonds, or other securities
than so stated by him. .
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copies of, each- issue of this publica
tionsold or distributed, through the
mails or otherwise, to paid subscrib
ers during "the six months preceding
the date shown above is. (This in
formation is required from daily pub
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I. M. ORNBURN, Manager.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 29th day of 'September, 1923.
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(My commission expires 'May, 1924.)
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