The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-02
BUSINESS MEN
 ARE SCORED
Trades Council Bitterly Assails Organization in Attack on
 Minority Report

New Haven, June 2-Coming a few hours after the acticn of the railroad employees in assailing the minority public utilities report by petition to the Legislature, the New Haven Trades Council last evening adopted resolutions bitterly arraigning the mi nority report also, and the Business Mems Association, whose bill it's in effect is, and endorsed the passage of the majority report by the Legis- lature
 The resolutions read:
 whereas, the minority report of the Judiciary committee of the Gen. eral Assembly on the public utility bill Is an arbitrary and unwarantable in- vasion into the organized industrial rights of our brother railroad employees by creating a commission with arbi- trary powers in the management of the business in which they are engag- ed and depriving their organizations of progressive possibilities heretofore enjoyed, and
 Whereas, Said minority report on said public utilities bill is a modifica- tion of the so-called Business Mems bill, with certain objectionable fea- lures eliminated, but which elimination is insufficient to eradicate it's vicious ness to organized labor, and
 Whereas, Said minority report is championed by the advocates of the Business Mems Association, an organ ization unalterably and empha tically opposed to organized labor as evil denced by their conduct and the man. her of treating their employees in deny ing them the rights secured to all free men, and further by their expressions and overt acts before the committees of the General Assembly in oppos- ing all and every bill organized labor espouses, and also in their conduct to- wards organized labor in the Hartford Garment Workers strike and more es- pecially by one Normand F. Allen of Hartford, who precipitated said strike, and who is chairman of their 1egisla- tive committees, and who openly stat ed that he would have an open shop in every industry in the State, and
 Whereas, The majority report of said Judiciary committee on the said public utility bill, is one more fair and equitable to the organizations of railroad employees, and conserves the rights and insures the demands of the people of the State in creating a tri- bunal that is impartial and which will hear complaints and prescribe reme- dies, with the power to enforce it's orders by process at law on the pub lie service corporations to which 1t applies, and .s
 Whereas, Said majority report ade- quately safeguards the relations of the people and the employees in the con- ferring upon the railroad commission additional powers and duties and fur ther effectively prohibits the fictitious and artificial value of stocks and bonds at time of issuance and organization of every and any kind of corporation by prescribing penalty of ten thou sand dollars, or imprisonment of not more than five years, or both, and
 Whereas, The salutary effect of such law, if passed, will, we believe, have the effect of encouraging invest ments in all lines of business, now, therefore be it
 Resolved, By the Trades Council of New Haven that we favor and ln- dorse the majority report of said Ju- dietary committee on said public util- ity bill, for the reasons hereinbefore enumerated and urge our representa- tives in the General Assembly to vote for it's passage