The Connecticut labor news., 1921-07-08

There is no use settling up with
these anti-union bosses and merchants,
Mr.. Adams told the Trades Council
delegates, because even if the workers
iaH over the country too-A- tHe bosses
at their own wage offer and bowed
to them lit wouldn't do the worker
any good or furnish him with more
work because there isn't any work to
be done and will not be until Big
Business and other profit crazed in
Iterests get ready to loosen up and do
their share. They are boarding money
and materials to reap high prices that
they made during the war and which
has made them drunk with lust for
more. They have gone wild for these
profits and even if. granted their own
terms by the workers would still hold
the strangle hold over them and by
continuing to restrict production, and
thus to force unemployment. Even
if given everything they wanted in
wage reductions it wouldn't put 10
per cent. of the unemployed back to
work in the immediate future because
there won't be any work to be done
as long as those fellows are allowed
to go on with their schemes, Mr.
Adams declared.
Neither is there any use in trying to
get at those fellows in a bunch as
they are aligned, he added, because
one can duck and hide behind the
other. The way to reach them and
the way that will be followed in the
campaign now launched in Connecti-
cut will be to reach the individual
merchants who have affiliated with
these anti-union combinations and by
concentrating direct on them bring
| forcibly to their attention the fact
that it is on the worker they must
| depend for the success of their buSi-
ness and if they want to continue in
Iantagonism to him, the worker will
come back direct and continue to
come back until the unfair merchant
! is forced out of business or changes
his tactics.
The Chamber of Commerce, Kiwan-
| is and Rotary clubs and the like, he
said, are all dominated by these anti
union interests and are all against
| Organized Labor therefore. To at
tack them collectively might be done
successfully but a quicker and more
certain way of meeting their drives
is to go after the members indiVidu-
| ally and concentrate on them one or
two at a time just as these anti-labor
combines pick out one or two unions
at a time and make drive to disrupt
them and use the disaffection started
thereby as a wedge to smash into
others and stronger bodies.
! Mr.. Adams referred to the most re-
{; cent attempt of the railroads to get
its hands into the government treas
ury with a five hundred million dol
lar loan and declared that this was
| just another attempt to control the
finances even of the government so
that relief could not be given by the
government to other lines of business
and perhaps halt the industrial de-
preston. The stocks offered by the
railroads as securities for these loans
couldn't be put on the open market
successfully and while the government
might be protected by them on the
loans, it would mean practically that
the government is actually paving for
1.-THE running of the roads while not
having anything to say about their
| management.
The campaign may take six months
or a year but it is going on right
merrily from now on General Or
ganization work will also be carried
on to the end of further uniting the
| workers for their own interests and
it is expected that before snow flies
again, the battle will be we'll on the
way to victory for the workers.