The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-26

The Council assembled to put into operation the many resolutions adopted by the recent Denver convention, but after referring these to subcommittee for fixing into shape, took up current dolngs affecting the Labor world. The recent decision of a Carolina judge de- claring the Child Labor Law unconsti- tutiona1, was soundly denounced as was the attempts of the open shoppers to foster anti-union spirit in the rising gen. eration by false statements and texts in the text books being used in the public schools. To prevent this in the future and to give the proper information the | council will start campaign of publicity setting forth the real situation and point ing out the mistruth in the texts already i'll use.
 The unemployment situation came in for a big share of the doings of the week. At the opening session Monday it was the main topic of de- bate the sentiment of the executive board being expressed by President Gompers 1n statement issued in the evening. The present unemployment situation Is an ''economic crime" that is resulting in loss of $27, ,5oo,ooo a day in wages to the workers of the country, President Gompers declared Wage reductions will not relieve the situation, the veteran labor chief said, adding that such action will further curtail our domestic purchasing pow CT, and more factories will close be- cause the people haven't the money to buy their products.
 "The present depression" he added, will become even more acute and the reductions, if they can be forced up- on us, will not only prove boomer ang to the employer but menace to our economic, financial and politi- cal structure. In all this talk about readjustment and reconstruction, why IS It that the pressure IS always brought to bear upon those whose standards of life and every day exist ence would be demoralized and deteri- orated by reduction in wages, and why this drive to reduce their wages first The rank and file cannot un- derstand how readjustments and re- construction can mean only reduction Af their wages.
 'I have been asked who among the capitalists has suggested reduc- ton in the rate of interest on a loan or a reduction of profits, or even a simultaneous reduction of wages and profits.
 The cost of living has not come down. Instead, with prohteering un- checked and unreStrained, 1t Is going up, especially rents. Ninety per cent. of the homes i'll the United States were built before the war but the eN- orbitant rents gouged out of the ten ants by the proflteering and un- scrupulous landlords is blamed on the high cost of labor during the war"
 Child Labor Laws.
 A statement urging congress to rec tify what was described as the wrong done by the decision Of Federal Judge James ]. Boyd in court at Owen-Keating child labor law un- constitutional was issued Tuesday.
 The decision should be appealed to the highest court of our land" said the statement, "and 1t Is to be strong ly hoped that the United States su- preme court will remove the blemish which Judge Boyd has put upon the judiciary of our land and prevent children of our land falling into the grasping and greedy hands of exploit CTS and from grinding their bones in to profits'
 The council also asked that steps be taken ''to bring the judiciary with in the folds of it's component, and not doifllhaling part ol tIe government ol our republic"
 Defending the right of congress to use it's taxation powers to drive the manufacture of phosphatus matches out of existence as was the alleged purpose of the Owen-Keating bill, the council said:
 The same taxing power was eN- ercised for the protection of the dairy interests against the competition of oleomargarine and the exercising of this taxing power is sustained by the courts, but when the same power is used to safeguard the life and health and promote the welfare Of the chil- dren today, the future citizens of our