New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 18, 1922, Page 3

BRITISH AND U5, MINERS T0 UNITE Will Aid One Another in Time of Labor Disputes Atlantlc City, Sept. 18.—An alli- ance between the coal miners of Great Britain and the United States to aild each other in time of strike is being planned, it was learned yes- terday whan William Green, secretary treasurer of the U'nited Mine Work- ers of America, announced that a conference to bring about such co- operation had been suggested by the Miners' Federation of Great Britain and had been favorably received by the officers of the American union, Buch an alliance, Mr, Green ex- plained, would prevent the exporta- tion of British coal to America to ' break strikes here, or from America to Great Britain when miners there were striking. He said that a con- ference of representatives of the two miners’ unions would probably be arranged soon. Members of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor, which concluded its sessions yester- day, expressed hearty approval of the proposal last night and eaid it would probably hasten the end of coal strikes in both countries. Mr. Green, who also is a vice president of the American Federation of Labor, sald the British Miners' Union had sent a check for $22,000 to the United Mine Workers to hedp to finance the recent nation-wide strike. The suggestion of a confer- ence between the British and Amer- fcan miners, Mr. Green gaid, had come from Frank Hodges, secretary of the British union, as a result of correspondence about British coal shipped to the I'nited States during the recent coal strike. The Amer- ican union first informed the British organization that Welsh coal was be- ing sent here to break the strike ‘“We were agreeably surprised to re- ccive the British miners' suggestion,” | saia Mr. Greene. “While the British union appeared powerless to halt coal shipments to America, Mr. Hodges expressed the desire for an alliance that would prevent such situations in future “The suggestion of a conference will be submitted to our executive board next month, and probably will be favorably acted upon “l do not believe the thousands of tons of British coal that came to this} country during the last strike had any effect, but I took the matter up with the officials of the British Min- ers’ Federation and they appeared to want to co-operate “While we have no fear of British coal breaking any strike in America or American coal breaking any str .« in Great Britain, there should be gome understanding. It is quite prob- able ‘that an alliancfe to safeguard the miners in both countries will be. brought about.” Transport Workers Involved. Whether transport and marine workers of Great Britain and the United States will be rcpresented in the proposed conference, Mr. Green did not know, but it was pointed out that the miners could not prevent ex- port of non-union coal to Great Brit- ain in time of strike unless they had the support of the marine and trans- port . workers to prevent the move- ment of coal from non-union fields to the seaboard. Should an alliance be made be- tween the British and American min- ers, labor leaders said today, it would be one of the most formidable labor combinations in the world The United States Mine Workers, with 600,000 members, the largest labor union in America, and the British Miners' Federation, comprising more than 1,000,000 workers, are the two principal labor bodies in the world During his recent visit to America to attend the convention of the Am- erican Federation of Labor as fra- ternal delegate from the British Trades Union Congress, Herbert Smith, acting president of the British Miders’ Union, in an interview at Cincinnati, said that closer co-opera- tion was needed to protect the mutual interests of these two great miner or- ganizations. He said the British min- ers’ sympathies were with the Ameri- can strikers, and that if necessary would refuse to mine coal to be sent here. He said, however, that Ameri- can miners should take the same at- titude. He pointed out that during the’ British miners’ strike a little over & year ago hundreds of thousands of tons of American coal had been sent to England. The miners of Greut Britain are well organized and could shut off all exports if necessary, Mr. Smith ex- plained. It is different in America, where there are non-union coal flelds. Mr. Green said today that aill but £0,600 of the 600,000 union miners of the country, who have just ended their five months' strike, had returned to work. Normal Output Near Record. “While it will take some time to tell the exact number of men who have returned to work,” sald Mr. Green, “prelfminary reports show that there are not more than 50,000 men still out. Most of these are in the non- union fields of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Theirs may be a long strug- gle, but the organization will put its entire resources back of thelr fight Coal production should soon be nor- mal, both in the anthracite and bitu- minous mining regions.” Mr. Green estimated miners were on strike at TFayette county, Pennsylvania, against the United States Steel corporation; 2,600 in Mingo county, West Virgini 5,- 000 ip the Kanawha fields, West Vir- ginla; 15,000 in Central Pennsylvania and 3,000 in the State of Washington, that 25,000 BOY DIES OF INJURIES, Bridgeport, Sept. 18.—Nicholas Pele, aged four, hit by the automobile of 8. E. Havens on Saturday, died last night. Havens furnished a bond un- 4l the coroner makes a finding. PALACE DETROIT PLA OF FORD CO. DESERTED Manufacturer Expects Adjustment of Fuel Problems Shortly Where- upon Shops Will Re-open. Detroit, Sept, 18, (By Assoclated Press)——An industrial than 100,000 today entered upon a period of idleness, and the mammoth Ford Motor Co. plants were deserted, except for caretakers, for the first time in months, As nfany of the idle factory work- ers were seeking new jobs Henry Ford renewed his efforts to solve his fuel problem, His task, he maintained, was to obtain fuel at what he consid- ered a reasonable price. To accept coal at prices quoted him, Mr. Ford previously had declared would be a “submission to profiteers.” No statemept had been made by the manufacturer today as to the prob- able duration of the suspension of work at his plants, but Edsell B. Ford, president of the company, voic- ed the hope that a way out of the fuel difficulty might soon be found. Whether the reported plan of the chamber of cbmmerce of the United States for a nation-wide co-operative agreement among manufacturers would ald the company still was in doubt. As outlined here the plan is in agreement with Mr. Ford's stand in the coal situation to the extent that it would provide against undue price inflation, as well as for trans- portation to all industries large and small of enough fuel to keep them in operation. City Items Meet me at Schn.arrs for dinner.— advt Mrs. Arthur Tuck of 17 Wakefleld court has returned after a vacation at Boston, Mass. Latest Victor hits at Henry Morans'. —advt. Members of Stanley Woman's Re- lief Corps will hold their September birthday social with Mrs. 8§ G. Web- her at the Bungalow, Sunset Rock, Wednesday, September 20. If stormy, the picnic will be held the next fair day. CAUGHT BY POLICE Hold Man Sus- Hoboken Authorities pected of Participation in Killing of Stamford Man Last Year. | Stamford, Sept. 18.—An officer went to Hoboken today to claim Joseph McMahon, who is said to be the Jos- | the killing of Bernard Kilkelly in: the Dewey club holdup on August 28, 1921 and who has heen arrested there 1t is anticipated that McMahon will resist and requisition papers may be necessary. Seven men were arrested and convicted as parties to the hold- ! san up and all are in state's prison. A man named Casey was not caught and there are two others yet to be found who were said to have been in the affairs, The police are of the opin- ion that McMahon {s the man they want under the name of Casey. STUDENT Kfos_SELF John H. Greene, 20 Years Old, Be- lieved to Have Commiitted Suicide After Love Affair. Bridgeport, Sept. 18.—The death of John H. Greene, 20 years old, New Rochelle college student, whose body was found in Fairfield last night, was attributed by the young man's father to an affair of the heart, according to information received here today from Police Sergt. B. H. Silk of Nor-{ walk, No direct mention was made | of the girl in the case, it was stated. Greene was found on Benson road last night by Edward Forbes, an au- tomobile driver. Beside the body was | a motorcycle and a 38 calibre re- volver from which two shots had been | fired. One bullet had entered the body. LONDO IBLE ATTIRE San Francisco Buyer Says British Metropolis Is Proud of Creations New York, Sept. 18.—The stride made by London as a feminine fash- ion center during the last few years was evidenced at the Ifashions Exhi- bition at Holland Hall Park, London, which opened last week, according to Miss Jane McMahon, a buyer from Francisco, who is at the Hotel Martinique after a month in England. “London is proud of its reputation as the originator of what might be called ‘sensible’ attire, which it has been steadily building for some time,"” sgid Miss McMahon, “and while for/ many generations Faris reigned su- preme as the creator of everything | new in women's wear, now it ig Paris that has looked to London far several new types of garment that have been evolved there, and they are subse- quently copied in the French capital.” | “Many Americau buyers who for- merly attended only the Parish fash- ion openings now also visit the salons in the West End of London to buy| model gowns and other articles, and | especlally sports clothes, The work- | manship of the tallored things is much better in English attire, and buyers are more and more looking to| England fon this distinctive type, just | as they go to Parls for the dressier | costumes.” — | Warning From Health Department! “Everybody is warned against the peril of rats. They carry cholera and typhus germs and spread bubonic | plague.” Protect your health by wip-| ing out these pests! Start TODAY oyal Guaranteed Rat Paste 3 Destroys all rats. ¢ handy tube. Sold | by Dickinson Drug| and guaranteed army of more | Itional Woman's party, is declared to ibe “the first study on so comprehen- |(h9 woman's point of view.” eph Casey wanted in connection with | | York state laws are basged directly on| Co.—advt, THURS,, FRL AND SAT. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1922. T e Where Marines Landed to Guard Americans’ Live \ \ City anu harbor of Smyrna, rich Asia Minor seaport center, where United States marines have landed and where American warships are being sent to protect our nationals. Turkish forces are within 20 miles of the city following the disastrous rout of the Greek army and thousands of refugees are entering the city daily, bringing famine and pestilence. Insect, Rear Admiral Mark L. Bristol, United States high commissioner at Constantinople, in charge of American interests in the Near East. WOMAN DISCLOSES LAW'S INEQUALITY Her Sex Inferior to the Male on| Statutes, She Finds ‘Washington, Sept. 18.—A staff of women lawyers, under the direction of Mrs. Burnita Shelton Matthews of Washington has been looking up all provisions of the Constitution and laws and judicial decision affecting women in New York state, and the result, made public today by the Na- sh fa thi to vi th la; th ra th th m to sive a scale of New York's laws from A summarization of the report|at made by Mrs. Matthews and her staff cites the following as the chief in- equalities of women in New York: ““Mothers do not have equal control and custody of their children; moth- ers do not have equal control over the services, earnings or real property of their children. The mother has the primary responsible for the illlegiti- mate child; mothers are discriminated against in inheritance laws; women are discriminated against s adminis- trators of estates; married women band. New York has, during the past the married woman is legally still in much the same position as the slave on a southern plantation in not con- trolling her labor in the home, wheth- er she works for her husband and family or for outsiders in the home; wives are not equally protected when conjugal rights are violated; women may not serve on juries." According to the report, of m u ih la O R a the New | m; the old English common law, which, it is pointed out, “considered women legally inferior in every respect to Comment in this connection is rnished as follows: he married woman in particular was discriminated against; she was little more than a chattel of her hus- bnda. New York has, during the past 75 yea modified many of the worse features of the common law with re- spect to women, but even today the wives and mothers of this state are in many respects in a position of legal inferiority.” A summary of the report given out by the National Woman's party men- tions these as among the general dis- criminations against women in the state Unequal Authori “Guardianship of York has so-called si in ril m ou ¥ v Over Children children; New equal guardian- complete equality to has ruled | father alone who receives for the held him, allowing him both share. | ily, but also any payment she may re- ceive for furnishing board, nursing, etc, in the home to persons| per 24, and attention is called to the outside prove an agreement by him to give T ip law, but the law does not grant mothers with | thers. If the parents are living| apart, without divorce, the father has e first right to the control and cus- dy ot the child. The appelate di-| sion of the New York supreme court | ‘it is the undoubted rule| at the husband is regarded in the w as the head of the household and e law awards to him the care and custody of the children.” A court case illustrating this if that of a child whose parents were sepa- ted. Both parents were suitable persons to care for the boy, though the mother was financially able to provide a better home for the child an was the father. The question of the child's custody came before the courts twice; the first time he was ree years old and was given to the other; the second time he was five vears old and the court awarded him | the father, saying: ‘The father by reason of his paramount right in law, | is entitled to the custody of the child jdren. this time. A boy of three years of age may properly be deemed to be such tender age that considerations of his welfare call for his having a| other's care, but the same cannot be said when the child has reached | the age of five.' “The serwices and earnings of chil- | dren still legally belong to the father | nless he gives the child the right to {s own earnings. If a child is injured nd death does not result, it is the damages loss of the child's services. nly when the father is dead or a de- serter, does the mother have any right to any of the father alone controls any real estate| money awarded. The hich may come into the child's pos- sesslon. A court case illustrating this | point was that of a husband who had | deserted his wife and child and who | collected from the tenant the rent of child and fits The court up- to collect the child’s and the mother's house which the other owned jointly. “In the case of the lllegitimate chil- | dren, the mother is primarily respon- ble. The custody and control of the child are hers. It takes her name and | usually can inherit only from her. | Husbands Own Wives' Labor “Husbands own their wives' labor the home home. New York's Mar- | ed Woman's Property act, (ganting | arried women the right to control property and to control their wages utside the home, does not cover the field of women's work in the home. | | court in Kings county in 1 her such payments. She cannot even require her husband to pay her for work she may do fn connection with his business. If he promises to pay her for such services he is just promis- ing to make her a gift of something which legally belongs to him. On the other hand, if a husband works‘in his wife's busienss his claim for a salary is legally valid. “Court cases illustrating this show instances of women working for as long as eleven years in nursing or keeping boarders only to have the en- tire sum due them for this work, in some cases amounting to thousands of dollars, paid to the husbands. “Since the wife's services belong to her husband, he collects damages when she is injured, the theory being that such an injury is a property loss to him “Inheritance laws discriminate against mothers. Fathers have great- er rights than mothers in the inheri- tance of real estate from their chil- “Women are discriminated against as administrators of estates, the judge being required to prefer fathers to mothers, brothers to sisters, and in lesser degrees of kindred men to women and unmarried women to mar- ried. “Women may not serve on juries The laws of New York use the words ‘male citizens' in defining the quali- fications of grand and trial jurors. The question of a woman's eligibility to serve came before the supreme 20 Julia. V. Grill, a woman law argued the case. The dec that ‘jury service was not to nor a part of suffrage,” and, al- though the judge had no doubt of the ‘expediency’ of permittingw om- the ‘expediency’ of permitting wom- enactments would be required to re- move this disqualification “Conjugal rights: Although the courts frequently say that the hus- band’s right to the conjugal society of his wife is no greater than her right to the conjugal society of her hus- band,' this principle, it seems, doe not work out in actual practice, instance, when a husband proves that another man has committed adultery with his wife, the husband, as a mat- ter of course, is entitled to damages. “If a wife's marital rights have been invaded she finds it much more difficult to establish her case or to collect damages, as many court in- stances prove." incidental TRAIN SERVICE. Notice has been received at the lo- The husband still owns not only his ife's services to himself and his fam- | lodging, the family, uniess she can | cal railroad station that the fall time- table of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad will go into ef- fect at 12:01 a. m. Sunday, Septem- fact that the train service will reteurn to Easern Standard time on that date Her Rival Is The Frozen North FREDERICK Niles, O,—Would leave your |se bride and a comfortable home to go exploring the cold, bleak winds and desolation of the arctic Frederick G. Maurer, a member of Stefansson's expedition, did just that|pl thing. After a week's honeymoon ha‘(s you in M Marty Brooks Presents MAURER, ARCTIC EXPLORER, t cail. Now he's coming back to] And his wife, Delphine Jones‘ aurer, says she's content. “He has dedicated his life to ex-| oring.” she s “I must not in- rfere.” | AND HIS WIFE Maurer is enroute to Seattle aboard spend a few dave—then off for the|tne gjjverwave from Wrangel Island, | north again here he has been for seven months home here to be with him again sails W His wife goon will leave the of parents tor a few days before he for the frozen north “STOLEN SWEETS’ For’ winter. wrinkle easily. FALL LADIES’ COMSTOCK-SINGELLTON Wed Local Man His Meriden Girl to Some Time in October at Home in This City. Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Elizabeth Livingston Singellton, of Meriden, to Gregory Jamieson Comstock, of Bel- videre, this city. The announcement was made by J. Lawton Singellton, of Meriden, brother of the young | . Mr. Comstock is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Comstock and is em- | ployed as a metallurgist in the Inter- | national Silver company of Meriden He is a graduate of Yale University and the Sheffield Scientific school, | class of 1017. He is also a member of the Home club, the Highland Country clab and the University club of Hartford | Miss Singellton was a former resi- | dent of Atianta, Ga. but since her graduation from the Frobel school at | New Yerk has lived in Meriden and | taught in the North Colony kinder- garten. The wedding will time in October at home in New Britain. take the place some Comstock ;\\'ell Known (‘héracters | Held For Pickpocketing Stamford, Sept. 13.—Herman Cohn |and William Gillman, alias William | Sein, both of New York, were arrest- |ed by railroad officers at the local station today charged with trying to | pick the pocket of Henry Astwood of 30 West 12th street, New York. The police later said that Cohn had heen arrested 42 times in various places and Gillman 10 times and that both |were known to them Canal Street, Stamford Scene of Big Shooting Stamford, Sept. 18.-—Nicholas Lom- banglo of this city, arrested last night is said to have fired three times at Benny Arena in the latter's saloon in Canal street, There had been a quar rel over payment for llquid refresh- ments, Lombardo was a poor marks man PROTESTS REMOVAL ORDER. Loss of Miss Booth Would Be Irrep- arable, Battle, New York, Sept. 18 —George Gor- don Battle in a public statement yes- says 9 A Merry Musical Comedy LIGHT OVERCOATS Many young men wear way into the Convenient to carry because they don’t SUITS Full of style and service. Plenty of youthful snap and dash, without overstep- ping the grounds of good taste. SWEATERS For motoring, golf, hiking, hunting— Critton or Slip-Over. NICKERS FITCH-JONES CO. — Men’s Wear — CITY HALL terday protested the removal of Commander Evangeline Booth as head of the Salvation Army in Amer- ica. Such action, he declared, would be a misfortune to the organimation |and to this country. Mr. Battle said in part: | “She has the respect, the admira- |tion and the affection of the Amer- ican people. Her withdrawal would |be an irreparable misfortune. It, {s greatly to be hoped that General | Booth will reconsider his decision.” I Some of the leading supporters of | the local organization are expected to take active steps to have the re- | moval order rescinded. A communi- cation v be sent to General Booth, giving practical reasons why the or- der should not take effect. A state- ment from influential sources here, it is thought, will be more effective than a general petition, although a move- ment is under way to get signatures to a petition throughout the country. POLAND'S POTATO CROP Country Will Have 225,000 Carloads | For Export This Year. 18.—Reports from the nation will have a surplus of .000 carloads or potatoes for export this year. Po. land is the second largest potato pro- !ducing country in Europe, and this year a very large crop will be har- |vested The figure is put at approxi- mately 5,000,000 acres of potatoes, or 93 per cent of the prewar area de- to potatoes, and more than 1% in excess of last year's planting. The greatest improvement noted in the eastern provinces, ere the area devoted to potato planting this year is 133 per cent greater than last year It is estimated that this year the Folish potato crop will be 230,008 loads in excess of last year's pro- jon, when 1,680,000 carloads were grown A decided falling off in the con- sumptioh of potatoes in Poland 18 |noted, the amount last year being only about 75 per cent of prewar consump- tion Improverishment of the popu- lation must not be construed from |this fact, as it has been established that other foods—meat, eggs and dairy products—have been consumed /in larger quantities than before the | war Last year only potatoes were exported largely due to government restrictions placed on |exportations o as to insure an ample for food and for seed New York, Sept Poland indicate that voted per cent is wh 3.000 carloads of | quantity Big Beauty Chorus