The Connecticut labor press., 1920-05-29
RESOLUTION NO. 9. Official Journal Publication.

WHEREAS, There has existed in this
 State for some time past a condition relative to soliciting for advertising space III various magazines; whether they be a convention, Labor Day or spec clal editions, that has brought to the Labor movement most severe criticism by those who have subscribed to the various publications on account of un- scrupulous persons engaged in the
 work and
 WHEREAS, Many Implications have occurred by the aforesaid mentioned activities that has indicted the Labor
 Movement, and which has caused many persons then our friends, to repudiate
 future cooperation, and
 WHEREAS, The past and present Executive Councils have many times at
 tempted to solve this very annoying
 situation, and
 WHEREAS, The action of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, i'll suspending the Atlantic City Labor Movement for
 duplicating the work of the American
 Federation of Labor, in attempting to
 raise funds for convention, has prompt
 ed the present Executive Board of the
 Connecticut Federation U1 Labor to
 have the Secretary furnish it with an approximate cost of the Conventions of the Connecticut Federation of Labor,
 and finding that the printing of Officers Reports, Convention Proceedings, com
 mittee expenses, hotel expenses, trans portation of supplies and so forth,
 badges, pencils, pads, hall rent, sergeant at-arms, and so forth, that an approxi-
 mate total of $700O0 is spent on Con- vention and paid for entirely by the
 Connecticut Federation of Labor, and : WHEREAS, The cost of such enter tainment as is generally accorded by any Central Labor Union, to visitors dur
 ing convention week, is so minor, that for the benefit of the Labor Movement of the State, that it be
 l RESOLVED, That the Constitution of the Connecticut Federation of Labor be l amended to read as follows:
 'The Connecticut Federation of La
 bor shall issue yearly book or maga- zine, the same to be published by the | and under the supervision of the Execu- | tive Council, that no Central Labor Union, Trades Council, Building Trades | Council, Label Trades Council, Metal | Trades Council or Local Union, shall l publish book or magazine, having for l it's purpose the raising of convention | funds, that all expenses connected with | Convention of the Connecticut Fed
 eration of Labor, that the said expenses
 are be paid for by the Connecticut Federation of Labor, and that any Gen.
 tral Labor Union, Trades Council,
 Building Trades Council, Label Trades Council, Metal Trades Council, or Local l Union, issuing magazines, books or spe-
 cial papers, and uses and issues re-
 ceipts and contracts, with the name of l the Connecticut Federation of Labor l thereon, without first receiving special permission to do so from the Connec- ticut Federation of Labor, shall be inn mediate1y suspended by the Executive Council from membership in the Con- necticut Federation of Labor" PATRICK F. O'MEARA. E Referred to the Committee on Con- stitution
 Referred to the convention. Adopted RESOLUTION NO. 10. Increasing Per Capita Tax. Waterbury, Conn., May 24, 1920. WHEREAS, During the past year, the Connecticut Federation of Labor has
 become victim of the high prices of the many commodities that are needed to carry out its work, as provided for i'll the Constitution, and
 WHEREAS, The greatly increased cost
 of these many articles has placed the Federation i'll a non-active position due
 to small finances; therefore be 1t RESOLVED, That the per capita tax of