The Connecticut labor news., 1922-12-29
O'MEARA TALKS ON
 OPEN SHOP EVILS
Takes Issue With Several Statements Made at Recent Meeting of State
 Manufacturers' Association.


 Asserting that only through trade unlonsm can the wage earners of the state win just compensation that will enable them to do their duty by their wives and children, Patrick F. OMeara, president of the Connecticut Federation of Labor, yesterday issued a statement in which he vigorously assailed the Manufacturers Associa- tion for it's open shop policy which he predicted would result in many i1- dustrial disturbances.
 Pointing out glaring inconsistencies in the remarks of the president of the association MT. O'Meara said:
 One thing in particular struck me as very inconsistent on the part of MT. Hubbard when he stated that in- dustrial disturbances were reduced in this state in the year 1921 and 1922, when as a matter of record one of the closing incidents of the con- vention, was the appropriating of S5.ooo to help carry on fighting, and to have greater number of dis turbances than ever and it is my pre- diction, that with such moneys iap- proprlated, that you will see strikes against lnjustices in the year 1923 of a greater number than ever before in SOhHGCT1CuT.
 Tt is to be regretted that; MT. Hubbard takes it upon his associa- tlon's record for 1essening of indus trial disturbances, when as records show, thas For every conference ar ranged between employers and em- ployes in Connecticut that have to do with adjusting wages and hours, there is a corresponding number of letters and agents sent into these very local- ltles and have attempted to break rfp peaceful conferences then in progress j; and Ii is this kind Of missionary work by the manufacturers asociation that the S5,ooo IS appropriated for It is not the manufacturers association that. has reduced labor disturbances at all, it is the trades union movement as represented by the Connecticut Federation of Labor, that has done more through organizing the wage earners,i and educating them in indus trial development than the manufact- urers' association.
 "I care not what Mir Hubbard Or any of his officials make claim to, for they are claiming most every thing nowadays, but facts prove and not open boasting.
 Tt is certainly amusing to note SOIlC oi lHe TulcS duOpleu Dy MT Hubbards' association, and the most amusing of them all is the one that reads: We are opposed to black lists
 Well, that is a very babyish rule in so far as Mir. Hubbard's associa- tion is concerned, and I certainly would refer the great number of mem bers of the railroad organizations that have been seeking work in other lines for reference as to my statements. These men, large numbers of whom have big families, upon applying for work, and whose identity being known as' men that were engaged in an in dustrial disturbace, have been refused employment for that reason solely, so I am convinced that if MT. Hubbard would state that we adore our black list system, for it helps us to diseov- CT who are members of labor unions, he would be telling story nearer to the truth, than the way that the rule was originally intended, for we have laws .a-plenty for anyone that breaks the peace of society. Still the people of Connecticut have an inner organi zation working every minute in their
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