The Connecticut labor press., 1920-05-29
RESOLUTION NO. 13. Legal Employment Assessment
Conn. May 24. 1920.

General Assembly of the State of Con- nectlcut Fconvenes, the great amount of work that IS necessary to bring before the members of the Assembly and those that we try to get interested from the standpoint of being friends of the La Dor Movement, which entails time and much research work, and
 WHEREAS, The employment is abso- lutely necessary at times of persons that are i'll possession of the informa- tion so badly needed during those times, and
 WHEREAS, The time has arrived wherein we must approach all of these subjects and conditions from business standpoint and with a basis to work from that angle, and '..
 WHEREAS, Many State Federations of Labor have during an Assembly being in session well trained legal minds con- stantly III attendance, when occasion re- quires 1t, and
 WHEREAS. The work of the Connec- ticut Federation of Labor has reached a stage wherein 1t will take large sums of money to carry cut our Organiza- tion and Legislative programs, and
 WHEREAS, Employers of Labor have seen 1t, as business proposition that 1t IS beneficial to them to employ staff of attorneys and others 10 see that Legislation is proposed and worked for that IS to their interest, and WHEREAS, It behooves the wage earn- CTS of Connecticut to do as the other side to industry does, to protect itself, must have the funds to do with, so therefore be 1t
 RESOLVED, That during the first quar- ter of the fiscal year of the Connecticut Federation of Labor, that each Local Union shall place upon its Membership an assessment of twenty-five (25) cents per capita tax, the same to be forward ed to the proper officer of the Con- necticut Federation of Labor, upon the completion of the last day of the Respectfully submitted, PATRICK F. O'MEARA, Delegate, Plumbers and Steam Fit ters Local, No. 342, New Haven, Conn.
 Referred to the Committee on Con- stitution.
 Covered in substitute resolution. At the last days final session of the convention on report from the com mittee on constitution, a substitute reso- lution, No. AZ, for resolutions 10, II, 12 and 13, already acted upon was
 
 the initiation fees from local unions hereafter be $3 and dues of Central bodies $25O per quarter, which were carried i'll the previous resolutions and changed the per capita tax from pro- posed rate of cents per member per quarter to three cents monthly, with unions required to file monthly reports. RESOLUTION NO. IA. State Trade Schools. WHEREAS, The 34th Convention of the Connecticut Federation of Labor, held in Meriden, Con-, on June 2, 3, 4, 5 1919, acted upon resolution, namely | No. 26 regarding the State Trade | School located in the said City of Mer- iden, and
 WHEREAS, At the close of the Con- l vention the Committee appointed had | been unable to carry out the instruc- l tions contained in Resolution No. 26 and
 | WHEREAS, Since that time in the City | of Stamford the activities of the Local State Trade School in doing work in direct competition with the Building | Trades Mechanics of said City has been l brought to the attention of both the | Building Trades Council and the Gen. tral Labor Union, and
 l w dEREAS, llICSc bodies have been unable to obtain re- dress from the officials in charge of the State Trade School inasmuch as on Wednesday, May 21st, 1920, said offic- ials asked for and obtained permission from the Building Committee of Stam- ford to erect or repair portion of a frame house in said City; be it RESOLVED, That this Convention ap- point a Committee to take up and inves- | tigate the whole subject of State Trade l Schools in Connecticut with a view of eliminating competition from this l source.
 The Stamford Central Labor Union, By E. M. ScoTT, Delegate. Referred to the Committee on Reso- lutions.
 Adopted.
 RESOLUTION NO 15
 Election Day Legal Holiday To the 35th Annual Convention of the
 Connecticut Federation of Labor,
 held at Waterbury, Connecticut,
 May, 1920: WHEREAS, The right of suffrage is the most important duty that an Amer ican citizen can exercise today; WHEREAS, In the performance of this privilege every opportunity should be