The Connecticut labor news., 1922-01-13
LABOR MEN WARNED AGAINST WILES OF
 "CREEKS BEARING GIFTS'' IN DISGUISE

the Committee on Education of the Mer- chant Association and the Educational Committee of the National Association of Manufacturers. Committees, as we all know, are largely dominated by the person holding the position of Chairman. To and behold the chairman of both these committees was the same gentlt man-Henry E. Miles.
 The labor movement of New York City, after serious consideration, held a conference attended by a representative A After an all day session it was unani- mously decided that the labor movement was emphatically opposed to this attempt to "Garyize' the schools and committee consisting of representative from each local union was organized to actively fight the Miles committee.
 The city election that year was largely fought out on this issue. The people rejected those candidates favoring the so-called Gary Plan' and that is the last heard of 1t i'll this section of the country. As told to us by some of the influential labor men of New York, who are con movement of New York City, it was nec- essary for the labor movement to liter ally drive Miles and his group out of New York before the fight was finally over.
 The position of the labor movement on the question of tariff legislation was well defined at the Buffalo convention of the American Federation of Labor Ill ment do not pose as statesmen but their records on matters of vital interest to the people of this country can we'll be placed alongside of the records of some of our elected statesmen CD and the results will show that our labor officials have proven to be the real true friends of the American people.
 During the past year hundreds of thou sands of skilled Americans have been without employment. This, at a time when our country is conceded to be the richest nation of them all. Unenploy- ment-bread lines-yes. unemployment to such an extent that President Harding called a conference of the leaders of in dustry to find some means of relieving the unemployment which is so costly to the workers of our nation.
 In the fall of 1917, when it was ap- parent to many that the end of the war was in sight, the leaders of labor i'll an- nual convention assembled at Buffalo, realized that with the ending of the war our country would be flooded with the products of Europe and Asia in order that the bankrupt nations of those to con- tinents could again possess themselves of real Gold. Realizing the condition which would exist and realizing that the only remedy lay with Congress the following resolution was unanimously adopted:
 ResOlved-That this convention go on record in favor of a policy of industrial preparedness, and that such preparedness be in harmony with the standards of labor as recognized by the American Federation of Labor, and the enactment of laws by Congress that will adequately protect all wage earners of our country against the loss of employment through any industrial invasion on the part of the products of any other nations"
 The resolution could not be more spe- cihc It says i'll substance that the labor movement demands of Congress such legislation as will adequately protect all American wage earners from une1np1oy- ment through an industrial invasion on the part of the products of any other nation.
 The Congressional Committees in charge of new tariff legislation have heard from Labor. The presidents of several international unions have already appeared before these committees and de- manded that proper consideration be given to the American workers
 We might mention specifically William F. Clarke, president of the American Flint Glass Workers Union, one of the best informed labor men in this country C1aske returned to the United States last March after an eight months tour of Europe, travelling through twelve of