The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-03
UNION LAWS MUST BE FULLY ENFORCED.
 DECLARES BEADLE'
Painters Business Agent Points Out Dangers From Within
 Ranks.

NdnKS.
 The past year has been spent, by l to combat the on-coming uprising propagandists who were composed ot | the calanity-howling employers and sprinkling of former members oi few weak-kneed members, states R Beadle, business agent of the Painters l in New Haven. There is no doubt that the remaining members of the various labor unions are those who are able to stand the acidtest and | those who have the spirit of Amer | ican principles and desire to main 1 tain their present standard of living.
 Tt is easy for mechanic to be- come affiliated with our unions, un- der the pretense that he believes in 1 the true principles of the movement only 10 derive the benefits of good job and living wages and numerous other pleasures until such trying
 times arrive as presented during the past year, and then to use the weapon of the propagandist, Open Shop, American Plan and 'Bolshevism.' Ii l is, however, true that a man Is man
 and to show the proper respect for his family will work at anything and at any price before he will see his dear ones suffer from lack of food or l clothing. But man will not at the
 same time forget the principles of the l labor union of which he was mem l Der now, and assist in destroying the l conditions once established, possibly l by his own aid.
 I We take 1t for granted that the l figures as compiled by the United l States Department of Labor relative
 to the increase in prices of food | clothing, housing rents, fuel and l light, furniture and furnishings and ! SO on from December 1914 to DeCcm- | Der 1921, are correct. If so, the most blind, the indebtedness of the reduc- ton in wages, which means the re- l duction of the standards of living o1 1 the American people, Many trades
 were forced to accept reduction 1T
 wages, and did so, rather than sacri- l flee their membership, and by so do l ing they are in better position tc l withstand further reductions and also l Il Il, of T, | ploye1 in establishing the non-unior l shop.
 It is time to quit kidding others | and ourselves in our bylaws, Consti
 tutions and agreements. Our genera
 constitutions are made to govern the membership, not conflict with our re- 1 ligious belief or our duties as a citi zen; our bylaws must not conflict
 with our constitution, therefore leav- ing lawful organization for eacf
 craft in which men may affiliate. Eacf II member on application should ac quaint himself of these facts and the
 organization accepting the applican should also acquaint him of his duties Il and then enforce the rules.
 "The agreements, between employ CT and employe which are so ofter
 referred to as a scrap of paper, arc
 of the same principle A satisfactory
 agreement is reached between the employers and their association, o1
 independently as the case may be
 and the employees through their or ganization. The officials of both art
 instructed to sign the agreement
 after due deliberation by the associa
 tion and organization and it's satan:
 choice which disregards and violate:
 the document first
 "But to detect the individual who
 gives no regard to the agreement ht
 had ordered signed, and he will bt found today lined up with the propa gandist, selfish, antagonistic elemen opposed to the American Organized
 Labor Movement and American prin
 ciples Let us profit by our exper
 fence and if necessary sift the pres
 ent membership, be a self-appointet detective, weed out those propagand
 ists, pinch yourself all over, not II
 one place, for fear there may be .