The labor standard., 1919-03-01
COMMUNITY LABOR
 BOARD TO ACT ON
 TIMELY RESOLUTIONS

sion of Education - National
 Labor Board - Congressi0nal
 Action Desired
 HARTF ORD - At the meeting o1 the Community Labor Board, District Mo- of Hartford on Monday, March 3, Edward P. Clarke, one of the labor representatives introduced resolutions which wefe adopted urging Hartford voters in the April election to favor the widening of Morgan street and open new street to be called Bulkeley stxeet as a timely much needed inn provement and means of lessening unemployment. Another resolution endorsed the governors letter to municipalities urging the construction of public works. The following recommendations and resolutions which were introduced by MT. Clarke were laid on the table for further study and consideration on the part of the members of the board.
 From the report of the Commission on>Industrial Relations: Basic causes of unemployment
 (a) Unjust distribution of income.
 (b) Land monopolization.
 One step towards remedy for (a) is the congressional enactment of an inheritance tax so graded that while making allowance for generous sup port of dependents and education of minor children, it shall leave no large accumulation of wealth (not more than $1, ,O0O,OO to heirs) to pass into hands which had no share in it's pro- duction. The revenue to be used
 CD Extension of education.
 CD Development of other impor- tant social services which should properly be performed by the nation.
 (3) The development, with states and municipalities of great construct i've works, such as road building, irri- gation, reforestation which would ma terially increase the efficiency and welfare of the entire nation.
 Remedy for (b): The forcing of all unused land into use by making the tax on non-productive, land the same as on productive land of the same kind and exempting all improvements.
 
 National Labor Board : Recommendation: That the Presi- dent create National Labor Board to assure in all industry living wage and every right to union organiza- tion; collective bargaining and col lective participation of the workers in control of industry. This board should not only perform the functions performed in war times by the Ma tional War Labor Board, but should combine with those, most of the functions of the War Industries Board, as we'll. It should be commissioned to secure priority in production to the necessities of life and to see that those necessities are produced and dis tributed in the most economical meth cd known to American engineering; on the one hand to abolish competi- tion and the criminal waste it entails and on the other, to do away with all opportunity for profteering in those products of labor on which the very life of the people depends.
 The history of American industrial organization during the war is con- vincing demonstration that such a CO., ordination of our industrial life would increase production and permit a proper standard of living to all useful workers.
 Congressional Action
 RESOLVED, By the Connecticut Labor Board, District No. 1, State of Connecticut, That we call upon the Congress of the United States to at once take such steps as will create employment opportunities under con- ditions generally attained by organ ized labor in this country; more par ticularly, we call upon Congress to legislate along the lines hereinafter indicated:
 l. The establishment and develop ment of a. permanent federal employ ment system.
 2. The reduction of the workday as generally and as rapidly as may be possible.
 3. The undertaking of necessary public works such as road building, the development of water power and irrigation, the reclamation of arid and swamp lands, reforestation, govern ment housing, and the development of the land and resources of the nation generally.
 A. The establishment of a compre- hensive system of social insurance against unemployment.
 5. The enactment of more strin- gent child labor legislation.
 6. The establishment and rapid development of system of vocation education And be it further
 RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be forthwith transmitted to the President of the United States, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representa- tives.
 State Action
 WHEREAS, The State of Connecti- cut, together with other states, is confronted with grave unenploy ment problem immediately due to the