The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-26
CAPMAKERS TO DEMAND WEEK,
 NOT PIECE WORK
One of the Important Matters to Come Up at Biennial Con-
 vention in May.
LEVENTHAL IS DELEGATE
Organization Plan in the West. New Haven Local Has
 Meeting Tonight.

Local Z8. of New Haven, United Cloth Hat and Capmakers of North America, will meet tonight and elect a delegate to the annual convention of the Connecticut Federation of Labor in Meriden. As reported in The Connec- ticut Labor Press last week, Benjamin Leventhal Is to represent this local as delegate at the llth biennial general convention which will begin i'll New York the first of May. The opening session will be held in Cooper Union from 10 a. m. to 1 p. m.
 In the call for the convention, Max Zuckerman, the general secretary treasurer, says: "The passing from a war to peace basis created numerous great problems i'll our trade, for which a proper and immediate solution must be found. These problems affect the life of every member, of every local It is therefore absolutely essential that every local union make supreme ef- fort to be represented at the convention with the entire delegation to which it IS entitled, composed of its most able and representative members"
 The forthcoming convention will not merely have to solve all the trade prob lems that have accumulated during the two years but it will to do an enormous amount of constructive work in order that the organization may be enabled to do all 1t can for its membership and labor under the new conditions.
 The 44-hourl week Is one of the inn portant matters to come up as well as having week work instead of piece work. According to members of unions in this state they believe it will be to their advantage to change from piece york to week work. ...-. t1>@
 The convention will also concern itself with the elimination of unfair ccmpeti- ton. the corporation danger, the general organization campaign, educational ef- forts, unemployment, the returned sol- d1er, political prisoners, the constitu- tional liberties, the Mooney case, the American Labor Party, the covenant of peace and the League of Nations.
 During the war when labor was scarce and the manufacturers were unable to get all the help needed new factories were st ted in the west with girl work rs. The United Cloth Hat and Gap makers of North America has been en- gagged for some time and it still at work III uIl1orlizing these shops and IS meeting with some success. For this work, an assessment of $5 was levied on each member and Local No. of New York assessed each member Sl0.
 In regard to the strike in Cincinnati, the Headgear Worker, says: <> , Our organization campaign, started several months ago, has done its task i'll Cincinnati with the same persIstency and with the same efficiency that has always distinguished the work If the United Cloth Hat and Cap Makers, and on February 9th our general executive board granted a charter fer our new Local Uo. ,34, Cincinnati, which at that time already had considerable mem bership of the most intelligent anc self dignihed men and women, workers of the cap making trade in Cincinnati Our general organizers, J. Roberts and Caro- fvn Wolfe. with the assistance and ad- vice of the chairman of the general ex- ecutive board, Brother M. Zarirsky. who visited Cincinnati twice, carried on a systematic, thorough and successful educational campaign which has finally resulted in bringing the majority of the cap makers .nCincinnati to realization of their hunni1ating position and the un- precedented exploitation to which they were subjected, and has awakened in them new spirit of dignity and protest.
 The men and women cap workers of Cincinnati now look back with that feeling of surprise and amazenlei1r with which people usually look a. themselves a1Ccr lHey nave passed tnrOuSn all ln- ternal crisis. It seems inconceivabIe to them now how they coufd stand those conditions so long. and this 1ee1ing still more intensifes their determination to once for all make an end to<that ire sponsible exploitation and to make their voice, their collective and organized voice, heard in the cap making industry of Cincinnati"
 At the meeting tonioht, the New Ha- ven Local is expected to take some action on the Victory loan. Through this local, about $10,000 of bonds of the