The Connecticut labor press., 1919-07-05
ORNBURN TALKS
 OF CONVENTION
 TO THE COUNCIL
State Federation Secretary Gives Impressions of Atlantic
 City Business.
DON'T FORGET THE LABEL
Local, State and National Matters Acted Upon by New Haven
 Trades Council.

Delegates to the New Haven Trades Council celebrated the evening of the Fourth of July by attending regular meeting of the council and listening to an interesting address by the councils president, Ira M. Ornburn, who gave his impressions of the annual conven- ton of the American Federation of Labor at Atlantic City,
 A communication was received from the general office of the Union Label Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor, calling the coun- cirs attention to the fact that trades unionists will soon be preparing to cele- brate Labor Day. The communication says: On the day that labor cele- brateS, every trades unionist should be a consistent advocate of the union label, shop card and working button, and see to it that all of his wearing apparel from hat to shoe, bears the union label ; that stores in which he spends his money have union shop card display ed; that all who serve him wear'a union button, and that all printed matter bears the union label"
 Lieutenant A. R. Teta, leader of the 102d Regiment Band, wrote that the organization is now known as the 1O2d Infantry Association Band, it appears in uniform and plays at the regular union rates.
 F. T. Haw1ey of the United States Department of Labor information and education service wanted to know if 9 special meeting of the central body so he could deliver an address regard ing conditions which confront the gov- ernment and particularly the Depart ment of Labor. He wrote he made the request because he might not be able to attend a regular session.
 The Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America wrote that the American Federation of Labor at its annual convention had pledged its undivided moral support in the execution of a strike against the John F. Jelke Butterine Company of Chicago. A request was made that a committee be appointed to visit all gro ceries and other merchants handling these products and request them to dis continue handlin~ the products made by this company. The .cernks4ly makes. 30 different brands of butterine. Accord ing to the communication, butterine, the poor mans butter" is an article exclusively used by the toihng class.
 Matthew Woll, assistant to Samuel Gompers as chairman of the committee on labor of the Council of National De- fense, wrote regarding books on trades which are free in libraries. He en- losed an article he wrote on Libraries Supply Books for Workers"
 The business manager of the United States Bulletin, a weekly publication giving information about government activities, sent a subscription blank. The subscription is $1O year in this country, SIS elsewhere. This does not seem much at first but when considera- ton is taken of the fact that The Con necticut Labor Press, with it's great staff of writers, is only $1 a year, the difference in the cost of the two pub lications is about as great as the "duca- tional, informing and entertain ng value of the two and modesty prevents Us from saying which is the more valuable journal.