The Connecticut labor news., 1922-06-09
RESOLUTION NO. I5.

WHEREAS: Many thousands Of wage earncrs have been out of em- pioyncnt for the past year, and WHEREAS: Manufactured goods are coming into our country from Europe due to cheap labor conditions in competition with American labor, and
 are allowed to continue our workers will still be in the army of unem- p!oycd, causing great suffering among ...~ workers and their families and reducing the American standard of living with low wages; therefore be Ii
 RE SOLVED: That we, the Con- rcCtiCut Federation of Labor in con vcntion assembled go on record as faEOring the American Valuation plan a~ endorsed by the following inter nations Of the A. F. of L.:
 International Brotherhood of Book binders, American Flint Glass Work CTS, United Hatters of America, United Textile Workers, American Wire Weavcrs, International Union of Steam and Operating Engineers, International Union of Leather Workers, National Print Cutters, Painters, Paper Hangers and Decor ators, Steel and Copper Plate En- gravers, Glass. Bottle Blowers, Actors Association, Steel Workers, Window Glass Workers, Elevator Construct OrS.
 Respectfully submitted,
 PATRICK GINTY,
 United Hatters No. 10, Danbury.
 Referred to Committee on Resolu tionS
 RESOLUTION NO. I6. To the Officers and Delegates of the
 Connecticut Federation of Labor
 Convention Assembled in Stam
 ford, Conn.
 adopted by the Metal Polishcrs Local gates to the Convention of the State Federation of Labor instructed to in troduce them before that body with hopeful expectation that they will be approved of:
 WHEREAS: The Metal Polishers members of Local No. 5 of New Haven, that were employed by the Winchester Repeating Arms Com pany located in the same city were compelled by stress of the most press ing circumstances to request a mod est increase in their wage, and
 WHEREAS: The Winchester Re beating Arms Company, true to it's historic policy of refusing to hear their appeals for a wage that might come within the Shadowy distance of being termed fair, establishing con ditionS suitable in slight degree at least to the approach of that standard of living we call American, and further emphasized by terming dis sent made no exception in this case, and
 WHEREAS: The Metal Polishcrs employed by this company in COnsc- qucnCe of the abrupt and diSappoint- ing refusal 10 grant, the we'll mcrted and justified increase in wage went out on strike, are now out, and will continue to be out until tn1s gigantic corporation is forced by public Opin ion to reinstatc those striking Metal PoliShcrs and to adjust their gTiev- anCcs, and
 WHEREAS: The lapse of time in tervening between the day the Pol ishers left the employ Of this com pany to secure modicum of justice and the presentation of these rcsolu tiOns to the Convention has not less ened one iota the bitterness they feel, or altered one jOt their determination to wiring from 1t the justice we be lcve and declare we arc entitled to; therefore, be 1t
 RESOLVED: That we, the dele gates of the Connecticut Federation of Labor, in convention assembled in the city of Stamford, June, 1922, do here reiterate our promise to give our earnest support to the Metal Polish- CTS i'll their admirable, persistent, and courageous struggle against this mammoth corporation, and will con tinue that support until the ends they seek are accomplished, which sum- med up is simply justice.
 Respectfully submitted, Signed: Metal Poli>hers International
 Union Local No. 25.
 RESOLUTION NO. 1z. To the Officers and Delegates of the
 Connecticut Federation of Labor
 Convention Assembled in Stam-
 ford. Conn.,:
 WHEREAS: There is located in the City of New Haven a corpora ton conducting business under the title of Cowles Manufacturing Com pany. and
 WHEREAS: This corporation ever bitterly rcsentful of any indication of association among it's employees in a Labor Union, or to meet with them to adjust questions relating to shop con ditions, hours of labor, or compensa- ton for labor performed, and
 WHEREAS: There were members of the Metal Polishers Local No. 25 of New Haven employed by this Company that did dare defy the auto cratic dictums of this Company, and did not orly associate with each other in a Labor Union, but also courage Ou>ly- asserted their determination to resist reduction under whatever GuiSe it was to be applied, whether by increase in the amount of work, q higher finish of the work without Il compensatory increase in pay, or by a direct dchation of thcr Wagci; and
 WHEREAS: Such an attitude as