The Connecticut labor news. (New Haven, Conn.) 1921-1925, 1921-04-01
METAL WORKERS
AND PLUMBERS JOIN
MUTUAL ALLIANCE
Executive Boards to Unions Get
Together to Prepare for
Bosses Attacks.

One of the most important meetings
that has been held in this city IN some
time, which relates to the coming test OF
the employers to force upon the work
ers a reduction Of wages. was that held
on Monday evening by the JOINT boards
of the Sheet Metal Workers Local US
and the Plumbers and Steam Filters
Local $40 AS the employers of these
t1adesmen are generally speaking from
the same establishment, the boards telt
that the time had arrived wherein the
concern Of one OF these trades should be
the concern of all.
r. past years when dispute occurred
that only effected one Of these trades
the employer would employ the non
union element, and place them side by
side with the tradesmen other than those
effected. Yet here was a situation that
should interest all, for they were all
working for the same employer, and to
permit this in the future was telt by
the Joint boards as menace to the
labor movement insofar as 1t effected
the metal workers and the plumber and
steam filter.
The Joint boards did not decide on any
definite program, other than to have an
other meeting in a weeks time to draw
I'D definite rules that will not conflict
with the Building Trades Council rules,
and to submit them to the locals Of the
crafts, and then to have them operate,
so that when anyone of these crafts be-
came embroiled in trouble the support
of the other would be forthcoming,
which is a great change from that IN
the past.
The labor organizations have been
very interested during the past week in
l.. ~ cto Nv no
daily papers of those who have been run
ming their establishments on the anti
union shop plan, and it was very inter-
esting to note of the cases of two of
them as expressed by those in renarking
on the situation at the Trades OuCncil
Hall.
The representatives of the Plumbers
and Steam Filters remarked that in the
instance of the name of the HOrn-LoW-
den Co that it was a fact that this same
concern has union agreement with the
Plumbers and Steam Filters, which was
properly signed by the concern. Then
to publicly announce that while this
agreement was in effect, that just the
opposite exists in the establishment show
ed very forcibly that here was a con-
Germ that could not be depended upon, for
the fact is that in all honesty this con-
yet to go to termination, and then to
repudiate this, should convince all those
that desire fair treatment from a con-
Germ that this latest violation of con-
tract by an employer would also tend to
show that any contract entered into by
this same concern would be treated like
wise
Another instance was cited in the case
of the Marcio shop where Mr.. Marcio
after taking an obligation to live faith
fully to rules that were agreeable to him
when he took the obligation, went right
out and done the opposite, and that a
local union in New Jersey had placed a
fine on Marcio for violation of these
rules, and that to show his soreheaded-
ness he lines up with the anti-rnion shop
outfit. Here is another case of a man
that fails to live to an honorable agree
ment. Will the people that he now solic-
its work from under the list submitted
be treated other than the way that he
treated his organization when he took
an oath to do things that were honorable
and broke it?