The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-11-01

ven building contractor to keep his or
ganization intact and compels him to
enter the competitive field thereby add
ing to the confusion and charging the
circle of its influence.
(h) In consequence, when disorgan-
1zation has resulted and the local con-
tractor finds his organization disrupted
and with the best work in the city going
to firms foreign to New Haven he can
not employ steadily the New Haven
mechanic. Therefore, much labor resi-
dent IN the city and maintaining their
families in homes in New Haven is COM
mutlng to other cities, spending a pro-
portion of their wages in railroad fares
and much time going and coming as
should be unnecessary.
Your committee decided to hold one
more conference with the New Haven
builders and to invite to said conference
representatives of the larger out of
town firms. This conference was at
tended by representatives of such COM
panleS. We found that the companies
conferred with were willing to work in
harmony with New Haven interests and
des1rous of preventing confusion and
Reorganization. There is no DISPOSE
ton on the part of your committee to
recommend to the people of New Haven
through the Chamber of Commerce that
competition should be stifed. On the
other hand, we assert that there should
be more competition rather than less.
ne out of town builder has the same
right to come to New Haven and bid
for work that the New Haven builder
has to go elsewhere to bid for work,
which will appear more fully in con-
CluS1OnS and recommendations of YOUR
committee which follow:
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMEN-
DATfONS.
l. In general terms as individual, a
t1rm, or a corporation, should give Cd
portunity to New Haven contractors to
bid comparatively on construction work
which they are planning. It is our opin-
ion that that policy can in no way harm
the party contemplating building opera
tons. 1t may prove to that party's ad-
vantage, financially. It is certain to
stimulate the building business in New
Haven and when the issue is favorable
to the New Haven contractor it is GER
tain to be helpful to New Haven build
ing mechanics and to New Haven SUD-
ply concerns. On the cost side it seems
to your Committee from the best evil
dence we can collect that the New Ha-
ven contractor is able to meet the out
side contractor on COSTS
2. On the side of the contractor, it
is the sincere belief of YOUR committee
AS business men that they ought to
agree among themselves to cooperate
in the interest of the community as we'll
as of themselves and in the interests of
their business. Some plan must be feast
Bile, and it can be arrived at, by which
competing firms can say to the person
who has the contract to let that thew
will stand back of the successful bid
der with their full resources to see him
through the job within his contract time
and within the specifications. On the
other hand, it is our conviction that this
lays on the New Haven mechanic in the
building trade the duty of cooperating
also. A contract with labor must be re-
garded by labor as a debt which it must
discharge. That means that if the en-
ploying interests of New Haven CO.
operate each with the other to fulfill
the contract the building mechanics
must not interpose by the usual methods