The Connecticut labor news., 1923-02-16

r A resolution drawn by a committee
 consisting of Patrick F. O'Meara, Ira M.
 Ornburn and John Fly : Smith, acting
 under authority and with the unanimous
 approval of the New Haven Trades
 Council was today placed in the mails
 and will be delivered to Mayor David
 E. FitzGerald, requesting the mayor to
 remove Arnon A. filling as member of
 the Board of Education because of the
 inadequate and discourteous reply given
 to the Trades Council when asked the
 reason why the use of the auditorium of
 the High school had been refused two
 weeks ago for meeting of the striking
 shopmen also because of his interfer- ence with the vote of the other members of the board and his open hostility to or
 ganized labor.
 In an effort to establish definitely the
 real reason why the hall was refused a member of the Trades Council called on every member of the Board of Educa- t1oh and asked for statement which was readily granted except in the case of
 Arnon A. filling, who said: You can not get a statement from me at any time for anything and you can tell MT. Orn- burn I said that he is foolish to think he can.",
 When this statement was read to the members of the Trades Council at their meeting Thursday night 1t caused an uproar and after considerable discussion it was finally decided to request the mayor to remove him as member of the board.
 For the past few weeks MT. A1ling has been going out of his way to show his hostility to organized labor, appear ing at the railroad hearing in Hartford and also during the trial of Ernest Schiller in the city court
 Whatever his privileges are as a state attorney, or whatever the motives which havef prompted filling in taking this view of everything pertain ing to organized labor is a debatab1e question. The members of the Trades Council feel that as good citizens and taxpayers in the city of New Haven many of whom have children attending the public schools, they are entitled to and demand that any person who allows his prejudice to rule him to the extent shown Tn the reply to q civil question by taxpayers IS not a fit person to remain in I position where good judgment is de- handed at all times.
 The resolution which was sent to the ! mayor reads as follows:
 Whereas, Certain public officials have seen fit to take stand antagonistic to | he interests and advancement of the l wage earners of this city and state, as by the action of the Board, of Education in withdrawing a permit, ! issued. for the use of the Com nercia1 High School auditorium for a ! meeting of the railroad shopmen, and
 Whereas, The withdrawal of this per nit, apparently, was the result of the personal activity and animostiy of one ,f the members of said Board of Educa- ion, Arnon A. filling, who, according O the best obtainable information, by i, personal activity and solicitation. sue eeded in influncing the members of said Board of Education to take action of ome kind to accomplish the withdrawal f said permit, and
 Whereas, The said Arnon A. filling as absolutely and positively refused to tate any reason or reasons for his action l this matter, notwithstanding the fact hat special efforts have been made to earn from him his reasons for the posi- ion he has assumed and Whereas, Investigation disc1oses that 1e children of wage earners of tn City l f New Haven constitute a large ma ority of the children in our public ,hools under the jurisdiction of the oard of Education referred to, there ore be it
 Resolved, That we, the New Haven rades Council, as representatives of the z age earners of this city, consider the ction of the said Arnon A. A11ing as ! ostile to the best interests of the wage arners of the city and state. displaying
 no mistakable manner his hostility and ( linosity, and be it further Resolved, That Honorable David E. itzGerald, Mayor of the City of New a aven, be and he is hereby requested to t move forthwith the said Arnon A. t Hing as a member of the Board of b ducation for the reason. that he has f ven clear and unnistakab1e evidence of . s unfitness to perform the duties of