The Connecticut labor news., 1921-03-18
BUILDING TRADES
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 the large amount of time lost by the building trades workers through weather failure of employer to have material on hand when needed and other reasons, cut his earning capacity down at least one-third of the working year, and therefore he cannot afford a re- duction now and live decently.
 The camoufage the employers are throwing out also came in for a show ing up, one incident given, exposing their hand properly. A delegate report ed that when the wage reduction was proposed and refused the employers published advertisements in the daily press declaring that in cutting the work CTS wages they-were also cutting their own profits. They cited figures show ing that where they had been charging $1 50 an hour to the home builder and paying the worker $1 an hour they were going to cut his pay to 80 cents and their own charges to SIPS an hour, ap- parently cutting their profits five cents more than the wages. The contrary is however true as while under the old scale they were making 50 per cent. pro fit off the worker without doing thing for 1t themselves, under their new scale they would make 56A per cent, an in crease in their unearned profits of SIX and a quarter per cent. Similar 1n- stances were being shown up when the conference adjourned for the noon re- cess.
 The early afternoon was taken up with addresses of advice given by six international officers who were present Conditions throughout the country and especially the east were gone into thor ky, oGHoio1c ord +haxy selled the men to stick firmly together in resisting a wage cut now as it is not warranted by the facts. Those who were present and addressed the confer ence were: M. J. Garrett, plumbers and steamftters A. M Huddell, hoisting en- gineers; George Thornton, bricklayers and plasterers; T. M. Guerin, carpen- ters and joiner Charles Cul1om, paint CTS; and F. J. Sweek, electricians.
 MT. Guerin of the Carpenters i'll ad dition to his general remarks declared that despite all the propaganda about wages holding up building the real facts were that there will be no general build ing boom in this country until the pow CTS that control the finances of the country decide whether or not they are going to loan their money abroad to rebuild the devastated war areas or spend 1t at home to carry on the work sorely needed here. Until this IS settled, and he declared it wouldn't be soon, the worker might just as well pre- pare for layoff and might as we'll take it ill resisting this bluff wage cut, as for any other reason. They are going to be out of work anyhow despite what the bosses say, he declared, and might just as well take the 1ayof fighting for their rights, in which case the public might be informed of some of the do- ings of the open shoppers and financial interests.
 MT. Guerin also scored the public papers for its attitude and declared that thc organised 7Vorker 7UaS getting such nefarious deal from them that he should 7vake ut aud refuse to bay them, They should support their 09eW press aud # they paid half as much attention 10 subborting 1t as they d0d 9n subbort- ing the mfair press, they 70omld be a1 q position to haUe c daily ne70sbaber- of their o7vr zUhere they could get thew side befOre tue public and sho7U ID the doiugs of the interests 1Vh0 are honnd- ing the 70orkingmqn of al classes.
 Every international officer present declared the international organizations were prepared to back up the fight here as well as elsewhere. It's not move ment confined to Connecticut alone but is countrywide, they said, and it must be settled now for all time. Disruption of the building trades unions, so that workers in other lines could be shown how the builders had to take wage cut and would submit weak ly to cuts in their pay, is the intent of the fight being waged against the building trades, they declared, and it