The Connecticut labor news., 1921-09-02
A. F. OF L. BOARD POINTS OUT DANGER
 OF UNEMPLOYMENT
Executive Council Declares Unless Crisis Is Met Officially, Sltua-
 ton Will Be Dire.
Special to The Labor NeWS.)

pcrous crisis and unless dealt With III an ettclent, intelligent and humane lash ion, the coming WNter may hnd the feeding Ot the hungry and starving not alone d problem of the old world but problem Ot the new world, said the A. lt. of l.. executive council ill d statement issued at its quarterly meeting i'll th!S city.
 The time has passed for mere phras- ing" the unlOnlsts declare. he time Tor action is here. Following false eco- nome principles, reducing the purchas- ing power of the wage earners, throw mg our industrial order into hostile camps, do not make tor confidence ana slabllity Ill our productive processes.
 Every reduction III wages has only increased the desire to withhold produc- ton i'll the hope and belief that still fur ther reductions of wages will take place.
 Demand Action Now.
 Demand is made that federal and state governments immediately concern them selves with putting into operation pro- cesses of production for public improve menr of buildings, roads, etc, and to use the credit of the country for the encour- agement ot productive processes
 Tt IS time that the industrial, Com- mercial and nnanclal interests, ot our land turn from the path ot prejudice, hatred and selhshresS and follow the course ot humanity and avoid the black clouds of Restitution and starvation that are shadoWing so many people i'll other roads.
 "lhe present unemployment IS due to non-production on the part of employers and the constant and persistent efforts laCS ttle great mass of our people-the wage earners of our land-to purchase the commodities and necessities of life.
 iii production Is to be enhanced, the consuming ability of the people must be enlarged.
 Tt has been demonstrated that reduC- ing wages does not increase production.
 Wages have been lowered III many instances and i'll all cases every sort of promise has been made for an increased production, and yet we have today the greatest number Ot unemployed workers"
 Open Shop Aids Cause.
 The open shop campaign and the "aggresslve hostility ot unfair em- ployes" has strengthened rather than weakened the solidarity of the or ganized labor movement, 1t was de clared in a statement by the eNecu- tive council. The council based it's decision, the statement said, upon re ports submitted by affiliated national and international unions.
 Analysis of the reports, the state ment said, showed that d reduction in payment of dues by the federa- tions membership was due principal ly to the wave of unemployment throughout the country. Secretary Frank Morrison took occasion to de ny reports published that the fed eration had suffered a slump of 75O,- GOO members during the present in dustrial crisis Mr. Morrison referred to figures announced at the Denver convention which showed a decrease of I72,2I2 members during the past year, but declined to give any figures on the present membership.
 Calling upon all affiliated unions to join in a great organizing campaign, a statement by the council said:
 The executive council is keenly alive to the tremendous forces at work to destroy trade unionism. It is appreciative of the depressive in dustrial situation and impressed strongly with the desire and need of organizing the unOrganiZed ln a solid trade union phalanx. It has deter mined to inaugurate a comprehensive and extensive organizing campaign"
 To Stay in Politics.
 Plans for nationwide campaign to elect members of the House of Representative favorable to labor were made at the session.
 The councils program is to form a permanent non-partisan political campaign organization to function in all local, state and national elections, State federations and local Centarl bodies will organize committees to cooperate with the central commit tee at Washington.
 The council also had before it a large number of subjects to be inves- tigated, including the practicability of producing and exhibiting motion pie lures by the federation through it's own studios and theatres. The COun- Cil was also considering ways and means of establishing chain of daily newspapers.
 The council has been Investigating all bills now before congress that af- feet labor. Results of this inquiry will be reported to the rank and file of the workers and they will be urged to bring all possible pressure to bear on their representatives in Washington to defeat objectionable legislation.
 After Nelson Bill.
 An appeal to the "Citizens of Amer ica" for defeat of the Nelson bill, just passed by the Senate, was issued by the council.
 The statement described the bill, which relates to the issuance of war rants by federal judges as the most subtle and perniciOus attack yet made in the history of our land upon the constitutional safeguards of the rights and liberties Of our people"
 No attack yet made" continued the statement, "has been more sub tie and more vicious in character and more fundamentally destructive of the liberties of all our people than that contemplated in the bill intro duced by Senator Nelson of Mime sota and passed in the Senate by a cavernous route and darkened ways "a bill which has for it's purpose the placing into the hands of our federal courts q power formerly possessed only by kings and in which citizens were treated as subjects rather than the sovcrigns of a ma ton.
 "The particular bill giving the right and opportunity to any judge in a federal district to issue warrant for the arrest of an indicted person who may live in a far distant state, and