The Connecticut labor news., 1924-03-29
Ornburn Still In Race
 As Delegate Despite
 Committee '|Frame-up"
OPEN SHOPPERS IN
 HARTFORD BOOST
 ORGANIZED LABOR

Hartford, March 2o.-In an effort to take slam at Organized Labor especial ly in the building trades and give heart to the Open Shoppers" who are un- successfully trying to disrupt 1t, Secre- tary T. J. Kelley of the Hartford Elm ployers Association i'll his report to the annual meeting last Friday unconsciously paid the same Organized Labor as fine a tribute as 1t could receive. MT. Kelley read with pride statement that through out the country last year loss of $7O0,7 100000 had been sustained by troubles in the building trades and then patted Hartford county and its workers on the back by saying that not a dollar of this loss had been sustained in the county.
 Of course he took the credit for it to the Open Shop and its crowd. Anyone who knows how solidly Hartford County building tradesmen are, organized how ever must speedily put the credit where S- lations that exist between the contrac- tors and organized labor of the county rather than to the feeble efforts made by the Open Shoppers to bust into these relations.
 Mir. Kelley also put his foot in his mouth again, fguratively speaking, when he with more pride, told the Employers that the Open Shop crowd had secured building contracts valued at approxi mately five million dollars last year. This vast sum shrinks into insignihcance when the hundred millions or so of work done throughout the country IS taken into consideration. We are look ing forward to a larger volume of pat ronage on the American plan basis in 1924" he added and no one disagreed with him because if 1t doesn't vastly in crease in volume the profits will hardly pay for the extensive advertising cam paign MT. Kelley and his open shoppers are putting on weekly in their effort to bust the unions
 Speaking of the $7OOOOO,OO0 strike losses and Hartford county's freedom from any of it, MT. Kelley said:
 What a tribute to the industrial relations of policy of Hartford county to be able to say that not dollar of this $7O0000OO0 strike loss was contri- buted by this locality. Consider what this means alone to our business firms an banks which are dependent largely on the stability of a county industrial payroll of $S5,OO0,OO0 annually. A record like this will eventually force public opinion to demand the open shop.
 It has been the boast and pride of Hartford contractors and organized la Dor that for many years they have been able to reach wage and working agree ments without discord, except in a few remote instances made by Mir. Kelley and his followers and these have been ignored because the available supply of help has been such that "fair" contrac tors have readily been able to absorb all there was. The credit for peace should therefore 1t seems go to these fair contractors and the unions rather than to Kelley and the Open Shoppers who are trying to start discord to dis rupt the unions.
 Kelley also had a naive suggestion for securing more building trades help. pointing out trade schools being main tained elsewhere. One illustration is enough to show his mind as follows:
 The question of the establishment of vocational training course for me chanics in the building and allied trades has been under consideration during the winter. The details of what has been done will be the subject of another re- port this evening.
 "In a number of cities intensive train ing courses have been inaugurated with very satisfactory results. The Y. M. C. A. in Brooklyn is turning out first-class bricklayers, tile settlers and plasterers in
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