New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 28, 1922, Page 5

GASTORIA For Infants and Children, { Mothers Know That LGOHOL-3 bie Ireparationfors efal me"‘zflwkfi““‘ Bowelsof Genuine Castoria Always Bears the Signature Exact Copy of Wrapper. SALARY COMMITTEE OPPOSES PAY CUTS Will Recommend to Common Council That Present Scale of Wages Be Maintained for Next Year. At a meeting of the salary commit- tee of the common council last night, it was voted to allow salaries to stand at thelr present figure, the commit- b ) of In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. tee refusing to put into effect the per cent reduction which was vot by the city meeting board. The salar- ies in the general government I were taken up one at a time was the only member favoring t cuts while Councilmen M. T. Kerwin, M. F. King, M. S. Porter and Bur- ton C. Morey were opposed. The re- port of the building commission, rec- accepted. The police commission’s recommenda- tion for 10 per cent reductions was ommending no cuts, was rejected, leaving the payroll at The Little Store With LittleProfit 400 Main $t. 400 Main St. THE DRESS GOODS SHOP Wednesday Will Be SILK DAY AT OUR Anniversary Sale Big Specials Throughout the Store 40 Inch CANTON CREPE $1.00 Y4 black and colors SILK CHARMEUSE blue only $1.50 Yd 36 Inch RAJAH SILK all colors 47C Yd. 36 Inch BLACK SATIN 45 in. All Wool FRENCH SERGE all colors 36 Inch CHIFFON TAFFETAS all colors $1.40 Y¢ STRIPED SILK SHIRTINGS $1'19 Yd. BASKET CLOTH in all the newest colors 47C Yd. 36 Inch RATIN all colors 47C Yd. 54 in. All Wool SKIRTINGS very special and balloted upon. Councilman H. 8. Hart i i T en not affeet the supernumerary payroll which will bo cut to $4 a day beginning Satur- day, Chairman A, F, Eiclstaedt was greatly displeased with the commit. tee's actlon, He warned that the re- port would be the last he would submit as chairman of that commit- tee and that he was “through."” MONEY 1S SECURED BY FALSE METHODS Working of Private German Or- ganization Is Discovered London, March 28-S0 many fraud- ulent attempts have been made to collect money from relatives of sol- diers reported missing in the great war that the Britlsh war office has warned them to be on their guard, One woman living in London, says the war office, caused to be inserted in German newspapers an adveriise ment asking for information regard- ing her son who was reported “miss- ing" in 1917, Soon she received a let- ter from an organization calling ft- self the ‘“Dead Soldiers' society,” Cologne, stating that it found a clue to her son's whereabouts. A soldier hearing the same name, so the reply ran, was a patient in a hos- pital in Southern Russia in May, 1919, suffering from a nervous breakdown. The society it was added, would at once dispatch one of its agents to secure his return if a remittance of £10 was sent to cover traveling ex- penses, The mother applied to the war of- flce for particulars which her Ger- NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, man correspondent asked for, That office, took up the case and discov- ered, with the aid of the German po- lice, that the “Dead Soldiers’ So- city” was not a reliable concern and that at the date of inquiry the ma- jority of its members were in prison. COAL MINERS'HEAD HAS PAST RECORD Président John L. Lewis Veteran of Fonr [ndustrial Conflicts 10 ed ist he Indianapolis, Ind., March 28.—(By Assoclated Press)—As the leader in the impending nation wide coal strike, John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, will enter his fourth big industrial conflict. Unless present indications go awry, he will lead labor's largest strike army in the history of the United States for the strike set for April 1, threatens to call out more than 500,000 workers scattered throughout the United States. History Of Strikes Conflicts. between employers and workers in which Mr. Lewis has stood out prominently, are these: The 1919 soft coal strike of 395,000 miners, which was broken by the gov- ernment, after which the miners got a 24-cent a ton increase in the wages, their largest single pay advance. The first attempt, made in 1913-14, to unionize the steel industry, Mr. Lewis having charge of the field workers of the American Federation of Labor; the movement failed, ac- cording to undon men because of widespread unemployment. The great copper strike in upper Michigan during 1913, in which Mr. Lewis, as general field agent of the American Federation of Labor, as- sisted in the general conduct of the strike. Strike troubles, however, have been only a small part of Mr. Lewis’ work within the organized labor movement. In 1910, at the age of thirty, he was elected a representative of the Illinois union miners, and in October, 1911, he became general field agent of the American Federation of Labor, re- signing in February, 1917, to become statistician of the United Mine Work- ers of America. On Oct. 25, 1917, he was elected vice-president of the United Mine Workers, and on Feb. 6, 1920 became president, having for a short time previously been the un- ion's acting president. its Since 1916, Mr. Lewis has par(i(‘i-’ pated in all interstate conferences be- tween miners and operators in the ad- justment of questions affecting the mining industry. Since 1917, he has had charge of the administrative and field forces of the union in extending the organiza- tion into many non-union fields. In 1910-11, he was a member of the commission, composed of miners, op- erators and public men, which was created by the Illinois assembly to re- vise mining laws, and in 1916 he de- clined an appointment from Gover- nor Lowden as director of the Illinois department of labor. During the world war, he was a member of the national committee on coal produc- tion, and later cooperated with the national fuel administration on prob- lems affecting coal productions and distribution. In the first year of President Harding's administration, Mr. Lewis served on the commission that correlated the work of various government bureaus dealing with the welfare of ex-service men, and also on the commission that laid the foun- dation for the recent unemployment conference. History Of Lewis In brief, Mr. Lewis' life story is one of a miners’ son, born in an Towa hamlet, who has become the leader of one of the most powerful labor or- ganizations in the world. He was bern Feb. 12, 1880, at Lucas, Towa. and after attending the public schools, entered the mines to work with his father. Later, he supple- mented his public school education with courses of reading and study in specialized subjects, particularly eco- nomics. In his twenties he traveled extensively through the west and southwest states, engaging in coal and metalliferous mining. He is married and has two children, a son, age nine and a daughter, age two. As president of the miners' union, Mr. Lewis has for months past been in disagreement with Alexander How- at, who he deposed as president of the Kansas district union, and Frank I"arrington, the Illinois district presi- WFE SAVERs After Smoking— to sweeten the breath After Eating— to aid digestion Uniform Price Pep-O-mint Wint-O-green Lic-O-rice Cion-O-mon Cl-O-ve (Waich for the Alphabstical Ads.) dent, who has championed Howat's side. In these controversies, Mr. Lewis' policies have won approval whenever brought before the union's conventions. The factional fight, however, is a latent threat of a rife in the unity of the miners' forces in event of the great strike. LIQUOR SMUGGLING ALONG SEA COASTS Problem of Rum Running on Waterfront Growing Larger Washington, March 28.—Romance of the coast guard service of the carly days of the new American re- public has been revived by the fleets of liquor smugglers along the coun- iry's shores. Prohibition officlals discussing to- TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1922, whie has b ous along hoth scal ds declared that the whiskey ships have brought hack to the coast guard the duty for which it was originally established, Created In 1700 “to prevent depre- dations along the coast," the earliest duty of the coast guard was to war on the pirates who preyed on the merchant shipping in and out of the ports of the new nations and who had thelr strongholds on the islands adjacent to the southern shores, Modern Captain Kidd Nowadays, officials remarked, the liquor ships following the wake of Captain Kidd and his swashbuckling crews are miving the men of the| coast guard the stern chases and! sometimes the bloody battles that! was the daily portion of their pre-| decessors In the stirring times of the | bold black flag. As an instance of history repeating itself, officials declared, the islands of the Bahamas, where rum smug- glers now make thelr headquarters, were once the base for followers of “Jolly Roger" and it has been report- ed through official channels that one of the families of the island of Bi- mini, now a fountain head for illicit spirits, is directly descended from a famous freebooter who made the IMlorida waters a mariners graveyard two hundred years ago. Watch For Vielators Coast guard scamen of today, offi- clals maintained, search the waters of the South Atlantic for bootleg hulls where once their forerunners scanned the seas for a pirate sail or listen at the mouths of Klorida rivers for the put-put of the gasoline craft} with its contraband cargo where the cars of a newly formed service were attuned to catch the creak of block and tackle or the scrape of oarlocks. But besides the war on rum run- ners in the south, officials pointed out the coast guard is kept on the alert along the whole Atlantic coast off New York and Boston, and on the Pacific, in the waters of Puget Sound, where the Canadian smugglers bring across the line, imports forbidden by national prohibition. RUSSIA RETURNING 70 0LD TIME LIFE Dreaded Cheka a Thing of the Past and Peopl® More Free Moscow, March 2V.—Curtailment of the powers of the dreaded Cheka has loosened Russia’s tongue and is re- day the problem of rum running storing a measure of its old life. No¢ Feel Heavy After Eating? Cut ont those rich foods and sub- ftitute more Bread in your diet— BRIAD is pure thrift food, bringing to your table bigger nutrs- tive value than any other food you BRIAD never taxes digestion foods, can buy at any price. or clogs the system as do richer t important of all, Bread builds health, renews wornout tis- sues, guarantees energy for the day Insist upon New-Maid Bread The splendid, nutritious loaf made by bakers who insist on all-pure ingre- dients and fullest food value, = s jonger greatly fearing the ire of the inquisition, most of Moscow's resi- dents, though still somewhat chary of talking politics in public places, | have little hesitation now in express- ing what they think of things in gen- eral. They smile more often, give more “parties,” and are beginning again m; extend old time Russian hospitality | to strangers without fear that the presence of an unknown’ guest in quarters will bring an armed Cheka agent there to investigate. Aristocrats Returning 1 Pallid young men of the old class| of aristocrats, who survived the world war, perhaps two or three campaigns of the civil war and who spent time in prisons are returning to their old | habits of enjoyment. Some of them| look like ghosts returned to a Inndi that is a graveyard of their former wealth but, if they are ghosts, they are merry ones and dance gaily on their own tombstones. Conditions have changed and they must spend a part of their hours in working. They have few or no serv- ants and must do their own washing and cooking. The princess who once ordered from Paris a half dozen gowns at a 's tasks, wé;:(cl’,fo}idleb // time, herself, mends that one of 1914 vintage which she managed to save. Rut she wears it gally and, since the Cheka menace seems one only to re- member and even joke about, she dances in it all night. Reviving Pleasures The “ghosts’” are happy to escape the grave, The nightmare years seem behind them. They are revel- ling in freedom. Four years of army rations, two ycars of prison soup, a year or 8o of nothing much at all and now—-champagne and caviar, even it it takes the last of the rubles they earn as clerks, mechanics, chauf- feurs, or any other job open for a prince, baron or count. A bottle of vodka may represent the price they got for the last trinket their aristocratic old grandmother managed to save. But the Cheka is not at the door tonight. Tomorrow may go hang. Due to unevenness of the coast line England’s exact geographical center never has been determined. Trees on the northern side of a hill make more durabel timber than those on the southern side. Mutlet Willinery @, BOOTH’S BLOCK 257 MAIN ST. FOR THIS WEEK in connection with our Spring Opening, we present Copies of the Hats shown at the Spring and Summer Fashion Show of the Millinery Associa- tion of America. The originators of these Hats are known the world over as style cre- ators extraordinary and the hats were styled to obtain the approval of the most critical audiences—Milliners from all over the United States. THE EXH IBITORS: Ferle Heller—Bruck Weiss—Peggy Hoyt—Simmon Bouvet— Joseph Mann— L. P. Hollander We have secured from the Fashion Hat Co., who purchased these hats, copies of models shown. They are here ready for your inspection. PRICED TO PLEASE