The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-08
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lary of the state, the supreme court. Can it be possible, might I ask, for such a man as judge to have the so- called open mind when a matter concerning the wage earner would come before him?
 The statement of Judge Nickerson cannot be charged to him solely, for he must surely admit that he was speaking for somebody else when he made these unfortunate statements; just such opinions are held by em- ployers of large numbers of men Tn wage earner lower his already bad social condition in order toScompete with the Chinaman. 1 beg you all to picture the degenerate conditions that this propaganda will bring to our midst, and 1 also beg you to get busy and study out this immigration problem so that we will be able to show that with we'll working plan ot cooperation in industry ;n tn1> state, that the present laws are work ing out to the benefit of the many as against the few Garys and Nickersons of this nation, for I want you to remember that the serious over crowding of locality with cheap la Dor, IS both curse and a menace Il plead with all members of or ganlzed labor not to let the smooth talking e1nissaries of big business that are, today travelling into the most remote parts of the United States in stituting and propagating to have the present laws eliminated from the statute books
 "The question of educating our L. IL l.. has been neglected by the tradesmen dltion to see employers and not our selves interesting themselves as they l are in this noble work, and still the
 employees are doing nothing to even | investigate these trade educational in st1tut1ons- There IS time worn statement that Is being made by en-
 ployers that due to the restrictive
 policy of trade unions that schools must be opened to educate our youth, still when trade unions ask i these same employers to restrict ap-
 prentices only to the extent that the
 number in the schools will be taken
 care of as they finish their courses
 they are met with the indictment that trades unions are trying to stop the
 American boy from learning a trade | You all know that the policy of the state of Connecticut Is to crowd these schools with young men and
 women with promises of big things
 to follow when their courses are complete. This method has now been
 in effect in Connecticut for some 1u
 years, and after the experience that
 many of the graduates have under
 gone III trying to get employment, there has set in reaction against the
 method, and today very little enthu-
 s1asm IS in effect in Connecticut along Il the line of trade education When
 the day comes that lemployers will
 realize that they must not take into
 the schools more students than can be
 accommodated in the trades of the
 community wherein the students. re-
 side, then will the day of intense CO.,
 operation, upon the part of the trade
 unions take place, but just so long as employers insist that where there is a
 trade that takes up the labor of soc
 men, and they desire to have 300 ap-
 prentices with these 300 men, and to
 have 500 apprentices more for that
 trade in vocational schools of the
 community, 1t Is simply cheating and deceiving the students, for they
 are seeking education, that never will be of any use to them when they have completed their hours of studies, and
 surely this actions of those engaged in the work of vocational training is unwise and will not work out in ( practical way, for the thought o preparation is discarded by them if their effort to fill these institution:
 with pupils and care not what the result will be. The general summary of this will be the creation of seri ous economic evil
 "Shortly after the convention of tht 7 state branch adjourned at the city O Y Stamford, Conn, in 1922 there came $ upon the people of this state yer,
 serious disturbance in the industria l world. On July 1st, 1922, the shol V crafts employed on the New York
 New Haven & Hartford R. R. in re f senting a wage reduction were com k Ipelled to cease work.
 u Immediately every known agenc, e that could be brought into the fel,
 of trying to defeat the shopmen go S busy. This movement was led by tn r, | Association of To~