The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-21
Especial to The Farmer.)

especial TO me F1rmef.D
Hartford, April 21.-'Iet every
manufacturer attend and show once
and for all what honest capital in
the state OF Connecticut thinks of
such measures" wrote the secretary
of the Manufacturers Association OF
Connecticut to all the large employ
ers of labor, concerning the Trades
Dispute bill which yesterday came up
for its second hearing before the joint
committee of Judiciary and Labor, at
the state capitol.
The result was one of the greatest
out-turnings of manufacturers and
big business men that ever attended
a hearing at the capitol; on the other
hand the labor men and forces in
back of the bill were equally active in
getting out their adherents, and when
the time for the meeting came in the
Supreme Court room, the spectators
were damned In the room like sar-
dimes. and the crowd filled the ada
cent corridors
Adjournment was taken to the
House chamber, and even this capa-
oious room was completely filled by
the gathering, with large additional
crowd in the galleries.
Yesterdays hearing was almost an
exact duplicate of the previous hear
ing two weeks ago. the same argu-
ments being brought out on both
sides. and the hearing being enlivened
with many unusual tits between the
spectators and the committee, and
between the opposing forces.
Rev. George w. Hull of Bristol
opened the battle for the adherents
of Senate Bill 81, which gives labor
unions the right to strike, picket and
boycott Mr.. Hull reviewed the argyll
1nents for picketing and boycotting.
He said that everyone more or less
is engaged in boycotting something or
other all the while
For years" he said. IT have been
engaged In an active boycott. and
have tried in every way to induce as
many people as possible to join me
in II, and yet the courts have never
interfered with me in any way.
refer to the boycott against the liquor
traffic and everything connected with
it,
MI Hull then stated that he had
secured a copy of a confidential let
ter sent out by the Manufacturers
Association pertaining to the Trades
Dispute bin in particular, and Social
lists in general. Mr.. Hull resented
very strongly the references in the let
ter to Socialists, as "the indictments,
the inefficient. ETC.. and also holly
resented the comparison in the letter
5etween the Socialist party in Con-
necticut and the Malta or BLACK
Hand" OF Italy
The epistle which aroused his wrath,
ne read as follows:
Confidential.
Boycott and let the innocent suffer!
The idea that two or more men
might combine TO ruin the business of
another in order TO settle a personal
grievance against fourth party would
have made our grandfathers turn IL
their graves-accustomed as they were
10 piracy on the high seas, privateer
ing and other gentlemanly pastimes.
"And vet in the year of grace 1911
there il actually a bill before the Cen
eraI Assembly which plainly states:
lit shall be lawful for one or more
persons acting in their own behalf or
in behalf of trade union in contem-
plation or furtherance of a trade dis
mute to abstain from pur
chasing the products or patronizing
the business of any employer and to
induce others to so abstain from pur-
chasing such products or patronizing
such business.
eft seems incredible. doesn't it?
Yet there it is in black and white. |
Furthermore one hearing has already
been given to this bill Senate Bill 94)
and the Senate Chamber. with the
picture of the Continental Congress
was packed with Socialists. who bang |
ed their desks, shouted and whistled |
at the utterances of their speakers.
.'One of these Socialists, advocating |
this bill, was asked whether he believ |
ed in the secondary boycott which per- |
Knitted men to injure a third party |
for purposes of their own, and he re- |
pied that it was the fortunes of war. /
What war? One that the malcon- |
tents. the inefficient. and the agita |
tors are arousing against those who, |
or whose fathers. have had the grit, |
the abstinence or the foresight to |
gather property.
In Italy we are reading of a plea |
SAINT little society which is popularity !
believed to have the run on these ,
principles:
we don't like John Jones. Let's |
put him out of the way.'-Exit, John !
Jones'"
Under the Constitution of Connec-
tfcut, american citizens" Of socialist