The Connecticut labor news., 1921-11-25
Propose to Appeal to Federal Government for Laws That Will Make Voluntary As sOciatiOns Liable to Attacks T h rOu g h Courts at Will of Elm plOyers.

The Connecticut Chamber of Commerce, at the suggestion it is said of one of it's members, IS gO- ing to get after Organized Labor again. At meeting of the exec utive board to be held at the Ho- tel Taft. New Haven, on Tuesday next, a proposal will be discussed for appealing to the Federal gov ernment to enact laws providing that all unions must Incorporate. Just how they propose to go about doing this has not yet been dis closed and probably will not be, the past policies of this anti-labor batting bunch of propagandists being to slip something over and then tell the public about it after ward. It is understood however that the plan, is part of nation wide movement and will be pres ented to the opening of the new Congress next month. From the makeup of that crowd at Wash ington at present, anything anti labor will probably receive very favorable consideration so it is up to Organized Labor men there fore, here as we'll as elsewhere to get busy and prevent this attack on their organizations. Once forced to incorporate the unions would be kept into constant court turmoil by the anti-union inter- ests, their funds depleted and their homes even in danger of being taken away from them.
 It has been the ambition of the anti-Organized Labor interests for years to compel the labor unions to incorporate so that once incorporated they would be at the mercy of their antagonists. With their yearly re- tainers and highly paid lawyers, enough litigation could be started and kept going thN year round to keep the unions in courts all the time and at great expense The hope is that the individual member, 6nally tiring of this continual putting up of funds would gradually be discouraged and drop out leaving the union nothing but a name. If that didn't work, once incorporated, the individual incorpor- ators could be held responsible and their savings, homes and everything else, even their liberties, taken away from them.
 There is no more reason why unions should be compelled to incorporate than that all business should be forced to incorporG-e. They are or ganized voluntary associations in di- O od ones who are trying to do them out. Right here in Connecticut there are thousands of business places, many of them ardent antiunion spots, which are not incorporated and never in tend to incorporate and thus evade the corporation and like taxes. These cvasions have become of such magni- tudc that they led the last legislature to provide for a special tax and roster of these "unincorporated" businesses and while naturally a large number of small and struggling concerns were hit by it it will succeed when becom- ing effective on January I, in bring ing these anti-union crowds up 10 the mark and compel them to pay share of the expenses of the government which they have been lodging for many years.
 The executive board of the state chamber at the same meeting next Tuesday will also consider a resolu ton favoring the disarmament of the nations of the world. That is right in keeping with their policy, disarm the nations, but arm them with law to compel the unions to incorporate and then they will not in the future have to pay their hired gunmcn to ''disarm" and eject workers who have been compelled to organize for their own protection.