The Connecticut labor news., 1922-06-09

operation and as yet it is incomplete
 JOHN HY SMITH,
 THOMAS J. POLL,
 Typographical, New Haven.
 JOHN H. RILEY, GEO. F. MORDECAI, Carpenters No. 7o, New Haven Referred to Committee on Resolu.
 RESOLUTION NO. 2o. To the Officers State Federation ot
 Labor and Delegates:
 RESOLVED: That the Executive Council of the State Federation oi Labor instruct the Secretary to make an effort to organize the Meat Cut ters in Hartford, Waterbury, New Britain and Meriden; and
 WHEREAS: The New Haven local of Meat Cutters has fallen in arrears with the State Federation; therefore be 1t
 RESOLVED: That the officers and Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor be and are here by directed to do everything within their power to keep them in existance Respectfully submitted,
 CHAS HOPKINS,
 Meat Cutters Local 58o.
 Referred to Committee on Resolu- tions.
 RESOLUTION NO. 27. MT. Chairman and Members of the
 Connecticut State Federation of
 Labor, Sirs:
 now and has been passing through AL o-i+;c,J hi- tory.
 RESOLVED: That Organized La bor must use all means in it's power to regain and strengthen our organ izations; therefore be it
 RESOLVED, That this 37th An nual Convention of the State Federa- tion of Labor go on record, as urg- ing all delegates attending this con vention to purchase no hat without the Union Label; it's very easy to raise up the sweat leather and there you will find the label of the United Hatters of North America: also be 1t RESOLVED, That we purchase nc article of wearing apparel without the Union Label is on 1t if possible to be found in your city or town. Also hope that all delegates will give this Resolution their serious attention and urge upon their friends and relatives the good that can be brought about by the purchase of union articles. Hats bearing, the Hatters Label are straws, bananas, bankoks, leghOrns, and wool hats made by members of the United Hatters of North America. Respectfully submitted to this hon orable body,
 PATRICK GINTY,
 DANIEL A. GORMAN,
 Local No 10, Danbury>
 JOHN H. RILEY,
 Danbury C. L. U. Referred to Committee on Resolu~
 RESOLUTION NO. 2S. To the Officers and Delegates to the
 Connecticut Branch of the Amer
 ican Federation of Labor in Con-
 vention Assembled in the City of
 Stamford, June, 1922:
 The following resolutions were adopted by Local No. 25, Metal Pol ishers of New Haven, and it's delegate to the Convention instructed to pre- sent them before that body to be in dorsed and approved of
 WHEREAS: There was move ment inaugurated about two years ago by the different employers associa tions, nation wide in it's scope, hay ing for it's purpose the decreasing of wages and the increasing of the hours of labor; and
 WHEREAS: No section of this country accepted this program more enthusia stically or responded more speedily in putting it into operation of (0rrart1- cut particularly those located in New Haven of that State; and
 WHEREAS: The corporations that boosted this plan of defation of wages none stood out more conspicu- ously than the Peck Brothers Com pany, corporation manufacturing plumber supplies in the City of New Haven, reducing the wage of the Metal Polishers in it's employ in some instances fifty per cent: and
 WHEREAS: The Metal Polishers were after an unsuccessful effort by the use of every honorable means to compose their differences with this firm now come before the Connecti- cut Federation of Labor and request that it grant to Local No. 25 it's in valuable support to secure sem blance of respectful consideration for those Metal Polishers that were com pelled to strike to obtain a modicum of justice; therefore be it
 RESOLVED: That this Conven- ton of the Connecticut Federation of Labor place itself on record as. grant ing to Local No. 25 the support it seeks, to enjoin this corporation from the continuation of it's policy of re- ducing wages in harmony with the wishes of the different associations of and be 1t further RESOLVED: That the Executive Board of the Connecticut Federation of Labor be and hereby is instructed to use such means as it may in it's judgment deem expedient to compel i he reinstatement of the striking