New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 12, 1922, Page 10

GOVERNOR ISSUES HIS PROCLAMATION Sets Wednesday, June 14, for Ob- servation of Flag Day in Schools Following is Governor nual Flag Day proclamation “Pursuant to an act of the General Assembly 1 hereby designate Wed nesday, the 14th day ofJune next Flag Day. That upon this day pupils in the public schools, the zens and the tive citizens this state may consecrate dedi cate themselves anew to great principles and ideals for the flag stands “Let us quicken anil refresh minds with the great truths of and justice, that our citizenship may not only be more active, hut more in telligent and inspired “With the fla devotion, men have and dled for their country, and their fait) 15 consecrated with the triots and with the tears that we may live and contentment “The flag is a symbol of service; it calls for sery Wherever men and women work our flag be displayed on the day here- in designated as the sign of our un- dying loyaity and allegiance “Given under my hand and the seal of the State at the Capitol, in Hart- ford, this sixth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, nine ake's an the cin prosp of i the w \“\- h iherty symbol of their suffered, their fold as u fought, Eyery blood of women secumty, worship, or rest, may hundred and twenty-two, and of the | independence of the United States, the one hundred and forty-sixth EVERETT J. LAKE “By His Excellency’s command 5 “Governor, “Donald J. Warner, Secretary.” MANY FATALITIES OCCUR N SUNDAY List of Tragedies Include Several Unusual Accidents New Haven, June 12,—As Connectl cut did not receive the full brunt of the storm iwhich burst over eastern New York last night, the material and death damages were not large, accord- ing to reports from ;# ections to- day. How the W ‘s end was marked by many incidents tragic and otherwise. The heat drove shore and country every sort of conve every route was heavy, marking th opening of the summer scason in these respects. Automobile One which cost the on fo to traffic and city and ance ov accidents were man three lives was that at the New Haven road crossing east | of the station in Bteriing, where a morning train from Providence crush ed a touring car from Plaintield con- taining four adults and two infants. | The dead sre Byron Phillips, the driv- er, Mrs. Jennic \ette and Mrs. Phoebe M. Hebert. injured woman surviving is M and the two baby girls were scratched. The crossing is gpproach ed over a rising grade, and those who are familiar with it say that autc drivers usually attempt to make the grade on high gear with the frequent result that the machine will stall on the tracks. In Morris, a machine and Carl Wellnitz went to the hos- pital at Torrington with injuries which may include a broken neck His wife and son were also hurt Killed By Auto Catherine Papano, age 7, ran in front of a machine in Naugatuck and was killed. John Claim was struck by a truck in Fairfield and re- ceived a fractured skull Mrs, Mary Rivonok is in the Bridgeport hospital with injuries received in a collision of machines in Congress street, that city. Johr® Klaff, 8, was hit by a machine at Southport and is in the hospital with a skull fracture. Late Saturday at Waterbury, a run horse dashed upon a side wal hitting Mrs. Joseph Drida, of West Cheshire, who died later, Worth, who had been driving horse was hurt. Michael Scanzano, 30, of ton, fell down an exeavation late Saturday and was killed Mrs. Thomas Griffiths of Bridge- port took poison Saturday and died Lightning Kills Man Lightning struck into a gfoup of men near the railroad tracks in Guil- ford yesterday and killed one who was believed to be William Sullivan of Fall River, Mass While handling a gun Saturday. a boy at Glastonbury, accidentally dis- charged it and killed Agnes Cristiff. aged two Rocco Demerious, six, a car in the railroad yard at town, died yesterday overturned the Torring- bank hit by Middle- TROUBLE IN BELFAST. Firebugs are Busy and Many Protest- ants are Being Driven Out of Town. London, June 12.—A Central News dispatch from Belfast today report the extension of incendiarism over the week end into Westmeath in which several country were burned, eupposedly for happenings in Belfagt In every case, says the message, the houses destroyed Protestadts, Tore house, an Elizabethan sion owned by Col. Pilkington, one of the buildings destroyed. When houses were occupied man- | solidarity, a report merely | ‘Warren | by was | Floods like this at Ripley, Cal., could be done away with, vietims say, if a dam were con- structed in the Colorado River at Boulder Canyon. the dam, i | PERIOD OF ;American Federation Gives | Report Covering Unem- ployment Troubles—Criti- } cizes Congress and Other | Branches of Government. June 12.—The rec- crd of organized labor's accomplish- ment in “a r of unusual strife and unusual industrial depression” was laid before the forty-second annual conveption of the American Fedegs- tion of Labor today in the report of | the Federation’s executive council. | The report declared that American | labor durinz the year not oniy suffer- from the widespread unemploy- | mient that existed but was beset “by oppon>nts more active and determined than ever.” In addition to strictures on the con- duct of employers in numerous cases, the report added explicit and pointed criticism of congress and of some state legislative bodies, declaring such JLranches of the government to be succumbing to a wave or reaction of l'ault was found with the action of some courts, inciuding the Supreme Court, and with what was described as President Harding's “proposal to regulate trade unions.” Report In Part. “It is with no little satisfaction in view of these circumstances,” the re- port on the other hand declared, “that we are to lay betore this convention a report of achievement, a report of of constructive | planning, and a report that may only inadequately portray the militant | spirit with which our movement has | come through the years. The au- dacity of those who have made it their business to attack in every p sible manner the voluntary organiza- | tions of the workers has no parallel | in our country. What our movement | has been compelled to meet has been a condition in which the predatory powers have sought to break down all resistance in every quarter and to en- | rich themselves at the expense of the | wholz people. No experience has tes- | tified as eloquently to the fundamen- | | tal soundness of our organizations and | | to the manner in which they serve the | workers. We shall fight with a great- | er confidence because of the record | that has been made.” ‘ [ The report declared that in the di-| | rect labor field “workers in a number | | of industries have been compelied to resort to cessation of work,” because | | “organized employers” were ‘“unwil- | 1ing to meet workers in conference for | | negotiation.” The most important in- | | stance of this policy was declared to { be the cause of the exisiting coal mine | strike, although troubles in the tex- printing, granite, and | tile, garment | rucking house industries “also | o'ted | “Tha | atea the me Work Cincinnati, 0., i | | | | €d ormanized mine owners repudi- greement with the United rs of America,” the report | suid, | cease work Packing | ployers were likev | tion of agreements The contest go- | | ing among employers and the printing t es union involves a con- temptrous disregard and flagrant vio- | house em- Ity of viola- on [ [ W [ were | “compelling the mine workers to | . ORGANIZED LABOR SUFFERS DURING UNUSUAL DEPRESSION q ietion of an agreement by employers and their associations. Contract Violations, “We have recorded only these viola- tions of agreement by employers which are of national importance, . . We know of no similar period of ‘ime in which there have been so many wanton viclations of contract on the part of great organizations of employ- crs. We submit that it is a vital es- sential that there he a return of good taith in industry, a return to stand- ards of moral which will restore the pledzes of to their true and proper meaning. 1f it is impossible to have faith in pledges given, then the entire industrial structure will be undermined."” Turning next to courts, ‘the execu- tive council protested “most emphat- ically agpinst such tunjust and inhu- mane decisions” as that of the Su- preme Court voiding the act intended to abolish child labor in the i'nited States. Congress “by this decision, must keep its hanis off when the nealth and life and well being of the nation’s children zre concerned.” th yeport asserted, ad-ling that the “Su- preme Covrt of today is far more le- palistic and less humane in its atti- tude and temperanent than was the Supreme Court of 1718." “The year is marked particularly with an increasing hcetility of the ju- diciary toward the effort of wage curners to prevent deterioration of their standards of life and labor,” the report continued, “and ... we recom- mend that an appeal be made to that nigher court of public judgment, and that the public conscience be aroused to the great and grave men- ace which confronts the pcrpetuity of the constitutional rights and liberties cf—all our people and as originally conceived by the founders of our re- public.” Abuses of Power. Instances of “most flagrant abuses of equity power” were declared to be contained in Federal Judge An- derson’'s order at Indianapolis, en- joining discontinuance of the “check- off”" system of collecting miners’ union dues, and in Federal Judge McClintic's decision in West Virginia against strikers of the same union in that state. This latter decision the report characterized as ‘‘conclusive They're using this picture in a campaign for dustrial laws similar to those which prevall in Kansas" when in his mes- sage to congress last December he de- clared “in the case of labor organi- zutions we might well apply similar and equally weil-defined principles of regulation and supervisfon (as he had Just previously recommended for cor- porationg) In order to conserve the public's interests as affected by their | operations." "It is hardly belleved possible,” the reports adds, “that the president im- plied that the present administration intends to further a policy which will deny America's workers the right to cease working collectively and to de- termine for themselves the conditions under which they will give service, Yet the language used leaves little room for a different conclusion.” ‘“The decisions of the rallroad labor board have given ratisfaction neith- er to the workers or the manage- ment," the report remarked in con- sidering the compulsory arbitration subject as demonstrated in transpor- tation flelds, “They have tended tow- ard a mere general demoralization of { morale of mechanical forces, The Esch-Cummins law, through the board, has practically destroyed the concept of voluntary agreements he- tween employers and workers and the subject of compensation for services has become a constant source of liti- gation and irritation." Returning to direct labor matters, organized labor scored a victory, the report said, “against organized cam- paigns for the establishment of the so-called open shop." C. of C. Blamed. “Chambers of commerce through- {out the country, with certain notable {exceptions, have lent themselves to this disruptive propaganda,” the re- port stated. “The United States Chamber of Commerce is about to be- gin construction of a $3,000,000 head- quarters building in Washington on the ‘open shop' basis. The experiment to be tried in the capital of the nation on so pretentious a scale will evidence that the injunction as used is devoid of all sense of fairness and decency and that our courts of equity can be turned conveniently into in- struments of the greatest iniquity whenever it will best serve the inter- ests of soulless corporations and a mad desire for wealth,"” Possibility of *“relief from the con- stitutional use of the writs of injunc- tion" by legislative action lay in the political field, the report said, The executive council described its renewal of non-partizan political cam- paign organizing in advance of the fall elections and expressed ‘satis- faction over the wonderful enthusiasm expressed” by every local organiza- tion of labor in the effort which it said proved that “Not only the wage having contemplated “a system of m-l 7 Refresn and so purely healthful —“ICED’ Sold only in Sealed Metal Packets to preserve the original fragrance of the leaf. upon human needs and aspirations. Some criticlsm was implled of “a wage based solely upon costs of liv- ing, or subsistence, or a saving wage" In the field of international labor organization, the report sald, little al- teration of past policies had been ne- cessary during the year, and an atti- tude of friendliness and association rather than unification was described. Delegates of the American Iederation of Labor to the British Trades I'nion congress, it was indicated, ‘found many ‘lsms’ creeping into and gain- ing some ground in the British Trades union movement, though as yet a large majority of the leaders and a majority, but a small majority, of the rank and file do not subscribe to or accept any of them."” COMMENCEMENT PLANS. ‘Woman's College at New London in Midst of Annual Festivities, New London, June 12.—Class meet- ings and the alumnae reunions were held at Connecticut College for Wom- en today. Gove. Everett J. Lake will be here late in the day to stay over night for commencement day tomor- rorw. He will be a speaker at the H200 to the facuity, students and alumnae. The three classes which have been evening will be given over to suppers the alumnae body which met today and discussed the campaign for rals- ing a $2,000,000 endowment and maintenance fund. The junior class planted its ivy and afterwards held its exercises in the Blackstone Plant quadrangle. The reception by Presi- dent B. T. Marshall will follow. The evening wil lbe given over to suppers and the senior "stonewall sing.” ON CHINA, COMMENTS London Times Takes Issue With Ac- tion of Chincse Activity. London, June 12.--Referring to Li Yuan-Hung's reassumption of the presidency of China, the Times says that 200 members of parliament sup- porting his recall are not sufficient as they do not constitute the necessary | majority, according to the provisional | constitution. The newspaper, however, approves ILi Yuan-Hung as ‘apparently the candidate” for the presidency and says there is little doubt that in the end earners, but the great mass of our citizenship are crying for relief.” The campaign effort will be to focus votes behind a program of “opposition to compulsory labor law" and “opposi- tion to injunctions and contempt pro- ceedings as substitute for trial by jury,” the council said. People Awakening. “(Congress has proved that only those who are well-to-do or control great interests can induce it to lis- ten,” the council said, in detailing the reason why it asked the Federation | to enter the campaign for satisfac- | tory candidates. *“These facts are slow- ly penetrating the minds of the people. | They are beginning to realize the change they thought they wanted has been an injury instead of benefit. Un- less there is a change in the person- nel (in the House and Senate) peo- ple can prepare themselves for still greater suffering and injustice. “The idea seems to prevail that the outcome of the 1020 elections means that every liberty of the peo- ple can be taken away provided some individual or group of individuals representing the privileged few desire it for their benefit” the report con- tinued. “The statement is often made {that if the United States capitol | could be transported to the England of the fifteenth century, half the members of congress would b4 ‘to the manner born,' ' State legislative bodies also were taken to task in some cases, chiefly in the matter of compulsory arbitra- [tion laws. The Kansas industrial court was described as “an utter fail- ure” and similar legislation in Colo- lrado was said to be ‘“equally as ab- surd and fully as dangerous.' Harding Accused President Harding was accused of ON YOUR VACATION You will want the news from home. Keep in touch with New Britain while you are at the shore or in the mountains by having One Killed In This Auto. Tree. Smack! One killed. In Central Park, New York undoubtedly be watched with great interest by the workers and employ- ers alike. “There is but one answer to the entire campaign of employers for the disruption and destruction of the la- bor movement, and that is continued organization, eternal vigilance, and the highest degree of solidarity. Banks and Business. Banks have lent assistance to busi- ness organizations ‘“to compel em- ployers who desired to dn; fairly with the trade unions to aiter their course,”” the report further asserted. In this connection it was suggested that the boycott was available. avings and deposits of wage workers in banks must be so con- trolled by workers as to proféct fully the wage earner's interest in this contest,” was the proposal advanced. Operations of the Federation of labor in manifold directions were discussed in brief paragraphs in the report. Out of “more than 400 bills introduced in congress” during the present session, it was said, ‘90 per cent are inimical to the interests of labor and the people.” A period of declining prices hav- ing set in, the theory of “cost of liv- ing" as argument for wage increases interested the Kederation greatly, the report said. Studles initiated for de- velopment of a new formula were de- scribed, and a tentative proposal ad- vanced in the statement that the rule should now be: “In every industry and gainful occupation a wage based Poor é6 A PENNY the pennies in street car fare. chases. Know are offering. pennies were as large as our quarters. luncheon to be given by the trustees|he Will be regularly chosen. Barlhou- “Lays Down The Law” To L. G. 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