The Connecticut labor news., 1921-06-17

J The campaign had been one of extreme caJolery from the outset, the proponents ot the City Manager plan even going so lar as to solicit the aid and support of Organized Labor in New Haven by point ing out to them the benefits Organized Labor would accrue If the plan was adopted and even setting forth glowing reports Of how well Organized Labor had been treated in other cities where the Civ Manager held sway. Organized Labor wasn't to be fooled in that way. however
 but by direct communication with the central labor bodies in those very cities reported on, found out readily enough that instead of gaining anything. even
 had anything been sought to gain. Or ganlzed Labor was up against the same old ant1-labor crowd even more so than
 III cities where democratic government prevails and the worker has a real chance.
 To this was added the fact that many
 ot the proponents, not all of them of course, but Sizable number of the most
 active workers for the change. were closely affiliated with the anti-labor "open shop crowd that right here in New Ha- ven IS waglng a war against Organized Labor, seeking to cut the wages and the privileges now enjoyed by the workers
 enerally so that even if the plan might | be friendly to Labor elsewhere, very lit- tie could be looked for from the powers bhlnd the local attempt to reform the city and take 1t from the hands of the mass ot voters and put control in the hands of
 chosen few. Even the propaganda used | III the campaign was secured from anti llbor sources, 1t was developed, so the efforts to cajole Labor into supporting it were complete failure.
 l In only two wards of the entire Is of
 the city did the manager plan receive a majority, although precincts of other
 wards did vote that way but were over come by the workers precincts in the
 same ward. The first ward, which is
 made up mainly of business and college
 interests, the City Manager plan was car r1ed by 10 votes in a vote that was er- t-emely large for that district In the thirteenth ward, which yet IS not even a
 part of the city proper and made up largely of exclusive residential districts, | the proponents got a majority of 35S votes.
 The ultra exclusive section of the 10th ward also returned a majority of 127 for the charter but the mot quite so exclu- sive" section upset that by majority of l83, thus giving the ward as a whole to those opposed to the City Manager by
 a majority of 57 votes The Morris Cove section of the 18th ward, made up iof cottage and bungalow dwellers, also
 came across for the City Manager with 1 F majority, but was completely over
 come by the upper district precinct oc-
 cupied largely by shop workers, and the
 ward as a whole went against the pro-
 posed change by 21S votes.
 To analyze the vote of the other wards, made up largely of workers both organ
 ized and unorganized would require a
 volume. The second ward, almost ex-
 clusively workers district, went against
 the plan by 816, the third, another work CTS district hit the plan by 1211 votes, while the fourth, where the railroad union men largely prevail, knocked 1t for a
 goal by the handsome majority, 1,732. The fifth and sizth, made up largely of foreign born citizen workers, went against 1t by 346 and 726 respectively, while the seventh another solid workers district,
 went 9O5 against 1t. Even the eighth
 ward. a part worker and partly exclusive
 residential section, did not fulfil the hopes
 of the charter proponents but in both dis
 tricts defeated them, the total majority (Continued on Page Eight)