The Connecticut labor news., 1923-03-02
WILL START CAMPAIGN TO ELECT MEMBERS OF THE
 BOARD OF EDUCATION
Communication From Akron, Ohio, Discloses That Employment Conditions In That City Are Far Different Than Stated In Wide
 spread Advertising Campaign.

The answer of Mayor FitzGeraId
 to the resolution sent by the Trades
 Council two weeks ago in which the
 mayor was requested to remove
 Arnon A. filling as a member of the
 Board of Education was received
 Thursday and taken up at the regu-
 lar meeting of the New Haven
 Trades Council held in Trades Coun-
 ell hall Thursday evening.
 The reply which was a rather
 lengthy one dealt specifically with
 various parts of the resolution, evil
 dently with the idea of leaving no
 doubt in the mind of anyone of the
 reasons why the mayor refused the
 request to remove MT. filling from
 the school board.
 When the communication was read to the members a lengthy discussion
 followed in which some of the dele gates characterized the statement of the mayor as rather evasive, a criti- cism which was vigorously denied by other members who pointed out that there was nothing evasive about a reply which stated that he refuses to grant the request to remove a mem Der from the school board.
 However it was decided that the Trades Council continue the efforts towards the removal of filling and while everyone present was convinced of the futility of following the present course of action plans were discussed as to the best plan to be followed in an effort to have the wage earners represented on the school board. A motion was then made and adopted that the New Haven Trades Council put in operation all the ma chlnery at its disposal for an amend ment to the charter providing for the election of the members of the Board of Education
 A communication from Martin Lawlor, ecretary-treasure of the United Hatters of North America. stated that the Sarnoff- Irving Hat Co. of New York, which formerly oper- ated union shop and given valuable assistance by members of Organized Labor in former days, were now op- erating under conditions unfair to la Dor and having work done either in p their own shops under non-union con- 1ltions or having the work done in a dummy factory"
 The names of the secretaries of the 1nions in the various cities through put Connecticut in which stores of the oarnof-1rving Company were located were requested and it was voted that he information be forwarded
 The committee in charge of > the -aising of funds for the entertain nent of the visiting delegates to the 'tate convention of the Connecticut Federation of Labor, which will be leld in this city in Junev reported progress.
 Letters from Senators Mclean and 3randegee in reply to communica- ions urging them to vote against the Ship Subsidy bill were received Sen tor Brandegee stated that he would onsider the matter while Senator Mclean stated that he intended to ,ote in favor of it's passage Con ressman Tilson, representative from his district, stated that the bill had lready come before the House and urther that he had voted in favor f it.
 A lengthy communication from the Akron Central Labor Union was re- eived signed by several members of he various unions in Akron and stat 1g that the real purpose of the letter vas to notify all members of unions throughout the United States as to ne real conditions existing in Akron t the present time. This step Is taken ecause of the extensive advertising ow ping carried on by leading manu- acturers of Akron in which Akron is tyled as the City of Opportunity" .