The Connecticut labor news., 1921-06-10
Wichita C. l.. U. Reports City ''WOrst Governed and Most Exploited on Top of Sod"- Work CTS Here Warned of Dangers in Making Change Sought By "Open Shop" Crowd.

More evidences of how the City Manager plan ,on which New Haven will vote Tuesday, is antagonistic to Organized Labor and expensive to the city as whole, are given this. week by labor bodies about the country where the plan is in operation. From Wichita, kans, the report IS that through the commission government the city IS the worst governed and most exploited in the country" New port News reports it more expensive but does little for the worker or small taxpayer, while Niagara Falls Labor men declare 1t unsatisfactory to La bor.
 Wichita, perhaps is the most caustic in the comment against the plan. The letter of the Central Labor Union there says m part:
 "Your communication received by Wichita Trades and Labor Assembly and secretary instructed to reply. Wichita has been under the Manager form of government for four years, and, while reasons will show later, am compelled to say it is about the worst governed and most exploited fact that Labor went to sleep and
 
 Rotary Club to put over a touted
 'buSiness mems administration" com posed of factory presidents, whole salemen and bankers who have turned the city over to the commercial mas ters to despoil at will. True, sop was given-one laboring man was elected and is serving faithfully but he Is alone-one against a bunch and what they cont do in spite of him, they accomplish in secret meet lngs at the club without him. 'An effort will be made this spring to retrieve our rights and elect rep resentative commission. There may be hope"
 These and those published in I'll E LABOR NEWS last week give the working1nan here plenty of reason why he should go to the polls next Tuesday and back up the local Trades Council action against the change by voting NO" and leaving no doubt about it. Everywhere the city man ager is in operation reports from La mor men there show that Labor gets even less consideration under 1t thar under any other form of government | Aside from this it Is established right here in New Haven, that 1t IS the "Open Shop" or anti-labor crowd that 1 is advocating the change, and mos of the publicity coming from the offices of A. C. Gilbert, who led the 1 fight against Organized Labor here {
 few months ago. What organized la bor can expect if that crowd gets con
 trol of city affairs anyone can guess
 In addition it was openly charged this week and not denied, that the expense of putting these city manager i icampaigns on, of sending speaker; here from all parts of the country. te advertise it, of paying. corporation lawyers "expenses" to peddle 1t on the public, is being met by the Municipaa l League, an offshoot of The Rocketel Her Foundation The Rockefelle1 Foundation is invested in munlclpa bonds, and the inference IS that bond: | instituted by the city managers. edu cated in management along Rockefei 1 Ter Foundation lines, make pretty l good investments
 l On the whole the worker here ha' i little to gain and much to lose by the
 change. He has his representation
 now on city boards and Commlssion
 and will not have them under the cit!
 manager plan.