The Connecticut labor news., 1924-09-06

question settled to the satisfaction of | all. The motion was seconded Dele
 gate Tone wanted to know how tfle
 Grievance Committee was gong 10 | find out whether 1t was true or not as
 the newspaper representative would
 probably refuse to be questioned or
 admit anything.
 Delegate O'Nei1l Bridgeport, raised
 the point. as he said he did every year.
 of excluding reporters from the con-
 vention and having all matters for pub l 1ication issued through the Press Com mittee. Free entry of reporters caused | just such controversies as the present. | he said. It Is not the publics business what goes on at the convention any more than 1t Is in any other organiza- tion.
 Delegate Lang, Bridgeport, agreed
 with him and said that delegates had told him after reading press reports that there was no need to come to the convention as everything was out in front to read. The manufacturers and ! open shoppers can sit at their desks and read everything that goes on in the convention and reporters had no business in the session. He would recommend that they be excluded or restricted to publishing only what the Press Committee approved of. Secretary Egan stated that he had been dumbfounded by the remarks of the president as he personally knew both delegates of the Machinists and felt they would not be party to such a move. He agreed with the motion to turn the matter over to the Gfiev- ance Committee and settle 1t. If 1t was wrong in fact that should be known.
 Delegate Moffatt. Stamford, asked whether there were reporters present then and President O'Meara answered that there were and that there had been reporters admitted to the conven- ton since 1915 when 1t was voted to have the meetings open. Delegate Moffatt replied that If the statements had been taken down by the reporters personally and not given out by dele gates there was nothing more 70 be said On that line. He approved the motion to send 1t to the committee as there should be no further discussion there. It was unlikey that the com mittee could get any further informa- ton from the reporters inv9Tved and he personally believed the matter shoud be let stand as 1t was with the statements of both sides acceDted as made. It seemed to be personal fight he added and there was 100 much of that personality creeping into the or ganization. Too much Is heard down his way of personal quarrels in New Haven and they were getting sick ot it. He offered an amendment that the matter be dropped where it was. with the remarks of the president and the Machinists denial recognized
 President O'Meara ruled the amend ment out of order as 1t cnanged the entire meaning of the original motion.
 Delegate Ginty, Danbury, declared quash the matter An injustice nav have been done both sides and he ap- proved the resolution to send 1t to committee. Get the reporter and if he doesn't come through with the facts. he said, keep every reporter our of the conventoin. If he was involved and the conventoin didn't clear him he would get the reporter himself and attend to him personally he concludec
 Delegate Reynolds, New Haven sec onded the motion to commit
 Delegate Bennett, Greenwich de- clared that personal matters were en- tering altogether too much into Fed eration affairs and that the organiza- ton was dwindling in consequence. He pointed to the convention and asked if the delegates themselves thought 1t representative of the Federation. He declared 1t was not and the Fedora ton was going to destruction If steps were not taken to stop the scandal mongers and that the officers should not listen to the gossip. He asked MT. Ornburn what good would result from a committee investigation.
 Mir Ornburn answered that he be- ieved a healthy result would be had. He knew Delegate Hotchkiss as loyal union man and hard worker and did not believe he would be a party 10 any such move as reported. He was also convinced that President O'Meara's statement was as 1t had been given to him and if both bod been done an in justice by the Union, usually fair to Labor, 1t was time the labor organiza- tions knew of 1t.
 Delegate Bennett stated that the statements made by the delegates in volyed should satisfy. The reporter couldn't be made to answer anyhow and if MT. Hotchkiss had been wronged or any other delegate wronged they had redress. It was like ly that the delegates at large would believe the report made anyhow, he said. as many might look upon 1t as a whitewash. He declared himself dis gusted with the wrangIing. It was hurting the convention and Federation. From a representation of 5OO it had dwindled to about a hundred due to such things, he declared, and if it wasn't stopped the organization would go on the rocks. He moved to table the entire subject.
 Delegate Hotchkiss, declared he didn't want to delay proceedings but wished to assure the convention that the officers knew there was no per sonal feeling of antagonlsm between President O'Meara and himself and that they worked in close harmony. He was speaking for Local 42O, how
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