The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-04-14
THE ECONOMIC LEAGUE.
A Movement to Start a Branch in This

A Movement to start brdHcH III LIS | City.
 A movement to organize in this city a branch of the Economic league was 1 started Saturday night 1t meeting of | about fifty citizens held in Harmonic 1 hall. This league is an organization which has sprung up in the cities or 1 Connecticut, and the work of the or ganization in Hartford contributed l largely to the election there of Ignatius 1 Sullivan as mayor The organization is to be started here by members of the
 Trades council and its object will be to secure the election to municipal offlces
 of men who shall be endorsed by the league.
 Andrew P Kelly, of the Sixth ward, a locomotive fireman, presided over the
 meeting. In opening the meeting Chalr-
 man Kelly stated that 1t was not the
 intention of the labor unions of New
 Haven to enter politics. He said that
 the labor men of Connecticut instead
 had started the ball a-rolling through
 the organiza tion of the Economlc
 league, and he pointed to the success
 that has attended the efforts ot the
 laboring men in Bridgeport Ansohla
 and in Hartford in electing mayors or
 these municipalities. He said that the
 laboring men were being educated to
 the fact that in politics lay their only
 salvation, and that through the Eco
 homie league their success would doubt
 less be accomplished. The workingmen
 of to-day, he said, were a broader
 minded set than they were years ago,
 and for that reason they were better
 fitted to fill municipal offices. He be-
 lieved hat strikes were detrimental and worked public injury, but the situation of the laboring man could be much ln-
 proved through legislation, and to se- cure this it would be necessary to elect men from the ranks of the working people. It was with this end in view that the Economic league was being formed.
 After he had further explained the purpose of the meeting and the object of the Economic league Chairman Kelly introduced Herbert N Casson, of New York, who pointed to the success of the Economic league movement so far in this stste. He said that other cities were following the example of Bridge port, Hartford and Ansonia and organ izing for the campaign. In Danbury he said, the hat-makers would have a candidate for mayor in the next elec- tion and in Waterbury the wage-work- CTS were considering the candidacy of a brass-worker. In Norwich he said that the labor unions were organizing an Economic league and that Charles F. Thayer. lawyer in that city, was deeply interested in the work. MT. |. was chairman of the democrat ic state central committee in the 1900 and is the present mayor of Norwich Mir Casson said that MT. | Thayer was already being considered by [ the Economic league as their candidate for governor With three cities elect I ing mayors as the vanguard of the Eco homie league movement he did not . think that it would be long before the would have reached the point . n it's development when the league should branch out in it's field and dwell lpon the question of a gubernatorial MT. Casson said that Mir Thayer would be an ideal candidate for he Economic league, inasmuch as he las taken a deep interest in the affairs If the labor unions
 After he concluded John ]. O'Nefl. of Attorney George NJ. Wal ace, Charles Gay, William J. ORrien md William Trueman spoke. After the speakers had finished the following res ,lution was adopted:
 Resolved, That it is the sense of this meeting that we form a league to be snown as the Economic league, and thy citizen wishing to become a mem Der of the same can do so by giving lis name to the chairman of this meet ng.'
 Mir. Trueman was elected temporary ecretary, and it was voted to hold mother meeting and perfect organiza ion at an early date. Thirty-five of hose present signed the roll of mem 'ership.