The Connecticut labor news., 1921-02-04
BiU to Prohibit
 Strikes Presented
 Bv Hartford S0Lon
Is Referred to Committee on La bor and Will Get a Warm Re ception When It Comes Up for Hearing Committees B e g l n Work With Sunday Laws Up Next Thursday.
(Special to The Labor News

Hartford Feb. 4.-An ant1-strlke bill such as those slid over ln middle west states, by which strikes that m1ght be considered as industrial warfare are forbidden (and, oh, yes, lockouts are mentoined, tool has been offered III inc Senate by Senator F. s. Goodwin of Hartford and assigned to the com mittee on labor for hearing. That 1t will get a good hearing when 1t comes I'D is assured as 1t IS part of the na- tion-wide movement to restrict If not disrupt, Organized Labor and will there fore be treated accordingly by the labor legislative boards.
 The committee on Labor, as well as the other committees, got together for brief sessions this week and went over the mass of bills before 1t. They are so many and varied, and include such number that cover the same purpose, that so far the Labor committee has been unable to sift them out and group them for hearings. Compensation law matters alone make up more than a score of bills and will have to be group ed together and probably two or more hearings held them.
 Several of the other committees got out assignments but the only hearing of interest to the workers scheduled so far is that by the judiciary committee on Thursday next on the Sunday recrea- ton bills These include the proposal to repeal the law allowing moving pic lures on Sundays allowing Sunday aft ernoon concerts lega1izing professional and amateur baseball on Sunday alter moons, and the general bills defining, restricting or permitting work on the Sabbath. =.
 The committee on appropriations IS literally swamped with "salary grab and other appropriation bills. If there is a court officer, state employe with commission job or anyone else who draws his pay from the state that hasn't got in a bill raising his salary then the committee doesn't believe it. With the howl going up to reduce the wages of workers because of the de creasing cost of living" 1t would appear that the salaried state employees haven't yet felt that decrease or, like the work CT, do not believe 1t.
 Hearings generally on these and other bills will start next week and then the Legislature will get down to business in reality. Several hearings have all ready been held but they were mainly on judicial appointments and banking mat ters and not affecting the general public except in the case of the blue sky laws by which the public will be pro tected from wild cat stock" specula- tors in the future.
 While not offered by Organized La bor, a bill setting the alcoholic content of beers allowed in this state at four per cent has been offered. It author izes the Assembly to memorialize Con- press to amend the Volstead act so as to set that amount as the standard maxi mum of beer and will be vigorously fought by the prohibition element.
 The bills sponsored by Connecticut Federation of Labor were presented by Representative St. George and include the following:
 Providing for constitutional amend ment as follows: Election of judges of the supreme court and judges of the superior court shall be elected by the people of the state and the election of the judges of the lower court by the voters of the counties, districts and towns or boroughS. Amending lnt1nl- dation act to permit conferences on later conditions. Providing for the appoint ment of the governor of an advisory labor board A bill providing for com pulSOry health insurance was also to be proposed but as a measure covering that matter had already been offered it was decided to support that instead of presenting another.
 The proposed "Can-tStr1ke" laws pro- hibit strike or lockout carreid out by or in respect to employees whose terms of employment are fixed by the state or the United States or by any political subdivision; in violation of an agree ment or for conditions or employment conflicting with an agreement between an employer and his employees, or any employer and any labor union; in viO- lation of any arbitration award, or for conditions of employment conflicting with the terms of this arbitration; or to enforce conditions of employment where the party from whom such con- ditions are sought has not first been given reasonable opportunity to con- slider any act upon these conditions ;; or where there is no trade dispute in voving issues of direct benefit to the acting parties.
 Under the second section it will be unlawful for any person, firm, associa- ton or corporation wilfully to create any such industrial warfare or to aid it in any of the following ways: In ducing any person to engage or con- tnue in such industrial warfare; pay ing money or furnishing material help of any kind, or agreeing to do SO, to any person on condition that such person engage in or continue in such unwar- ranted industrial warfare; stationing pickets or patrols; in any way directing or leading others ln carrying out such unwarranted industrial warfare. The bill further provides that anyone in I-- ,,., of +3a +bitonc r11entiOpad