The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-12

There's Connecticut's unfair rnanufac- turers and business men trying to die tate policy of subservience to for e1gn government, according to C. E. Davison, secretary-treasurer of the In- ternational Association of Machinists. who has just finished stay of several weeks in the southern republic and to whose attention the action of the Con- necticut Open Shop Crowd'' was called.
 Tt is not enough that Mexicans are willing to purchase from Americans, paying the price demanded" said MT. Davison. They must be forced to buy from manufacturers who treat workers as commodities and foreign nations as objects for exploitation. Intervention is all those people think about, he said. "They would use the bayonets of Amer ican soldiers to prevent Mexico from giving effect to policies that all fair men must recognize as just and humane
 The Connecticut Open Shop Confer ence took cognizance of letter written by Antonio l. Villarea1, secretary of agriculture. addressed to William- H. Johnston. president of the International Association of Machinists. stating the purpose of the Mexican government to purchase several million dollars worth of farm machinery and implements and requesting that Mir. Johnston supply the names of firms that are fair to Or ganized Labor
 In series of resolutions that are be- ing sent to Senators and Representatives and the various commercial Hobbies at Washington 'this request and proposed action" are denounced as "a discrimi- nation by foreign government in favor of a principle ini1nica1 to the best inter eSts of the industrial life of the United States" and, the resolutions state, ''should be looked upon with disfavor and as an act unfriendly to the people of a nation whose good -graces 1t IS seek ing"
 Orders for agricultural implements, road building machinery, fire apparatus and various (dther manufactured pro- ducts have already been placed with American concerns recommended by the officials of the Machinists' Union, Mir Davison said. Negotiations are pending for additional large contracts all of which are to be placed with firms in the United States or Canada that are fair to organized labor.
 "Naturally, this policy has aroused the open shop crowd Tn this country and they are making a mighty howl about discrimination. A few months ago they sent their petted hireling, Ole Hanson. into Mexico. to see what could be done about 1t. He made a number of at tcmpts to persuade the government out ot its program, but he didn't get far with his work.
 "They they sent Mrs H. L. Gould. chairman of the woman's section of the United States Chamber of Commerce. She. too. failed in her mission of con- verting influential Mexicans to the open shop Mrs. Gould left Mexico with very poor opinion of Mexican officials, but that seemed to worry them not at all
 They are ready to pay gold for ma | terials and supplies. and they assume the | right to conduct their internal affairs in | their own way. They claim the right to buy from whom they please, of such l terms as are naturally satisfactory to buyer and seller. If American open shoppers and labor baiters don't like their methods, they are, of course, free | to sell their goods elsewhere. They