The Connecticut labor news., 1924-09-13

59th Annual Convention of the Connecticut Federation of Labor: Whereas, At several previous Con- ventions of the State Federation ot Labor, Resolutions were presented and adopted which bound this Federation to support a move meaning Ill affect the appointment of qualified partisan of the metal trade with at least five years experience on the State Factory Inspection, and
 Whereas, The importance of the more apparent than at this time, when some manufacturers are tearing out blower equipment in order to speed up production, and this in violation of the present laws on our Statute books therefore be 1t
 Resolved, That we again adopt the following Resolution approved at the last Convention of the State Fedora tion of Labor, held in New Haven June to 7, 1923:
 Whereas, It has been ascertained by the most reliable authorities that no occupation in shop life is SO peril ous to health as that of Metal Pol ishing, and
 Whereas, In almost every other line of effort where the hazard of life, limb, or health stands out sufficiently to be observed-by the public in general whose attention has ben called to the fact by the different crafts employed on these perilous tasks have as a matter of caution and protection in spectors appointed reducing to a mini mum the dangers that were supposed to be correlated and unacceptable com panions of such trades, Engineers, Plumbers, Carpenters and Bricklayers were selected to watch. the construc ton or installation of the work that they had an accurate knowledge of, and
 Whereas, It has been demonstrated beyond doubt or cavil that i'll such states where the Metal Polishers have a factory inspector of their craft the death rate from the dreaded of all dreaded diseases, tuberculosis, has been reduced from thirty to thirty-fve per cent among the followers of the Metal Polishing trade, sufficient in itself to urge that similar measures be adopted in every State where Metal Polishing is done; therefore be 1t
 Resolved, That the incoming Execu- tive Board of the Connecticut Fed eration of Labor secure a copy of the laws Ol lllC oldlC O1 AN(" JSAoN NoN- ering the appointment of Factory In- spectors, and that part making it ob- 1igatory to have one a Metal Polisher with at least five years experience be adopted, and considered a preferred measure by the board in its activities to secure labor legislation before the next legislature when 1t convenes Ill the City of Hartford, and be it further
 Resolved, That the incoming Ex ecutive Board confer with the officials of the Metal Polishers affiliated with the State Federation of Labor to draft a bill suitable to the purposes and pro visions of these resolutions and to make whatever arrangements may be necessary to be heard on such bill be- fore the legislative committee to whom 1t may be referred.
 Signed:
 Ernest C. Schmidt, Delegates, Local
 No. 40, Bridgeport.
 James A. Kennedy, Delegate, Local Mo-
 s, Metal Polishers.
 Leo F. Cosgrove, New Haven, Pattern
 makers.
 Referred to Committee on Resolu tions.
 Adopted.
 NEOoLO lON 4No. Z1
 Submitted by Delegate M J. Murray E. C. Fuller, c. C. Warrick and Perry Hacker, Division 587.
 Whereas, There is a tendency on the part of operators of street railways to increase the use of so-called "one-nan cars"; and
 Whereas, The passengers of such cars are exposed to constant danger by reason of the fact that operators of such cars are required to perform many other duties while such cars are in mo- tion which duties distract and cause the attention of the operators to be re- moved from the running of the cars i; now, therefore be 1t
 Resolved, By the Connecticut Fedora ton of Labor, Ill Convention Assem- bled, That we endorse an Act provfd- ing for the safety of passengers and employees on street cars, and prescribing the number of men that shall consti- tute a car crew, and urge the passage of the attached Act at the next session of the General Assembly an Act relating to public highways, the safety of the public, passengers and employees on street cars, prescribing the number of men that shall constitute a car crew, providing for the prosecution and pen alt1eS tor violation thereof, and tor the time when this Act shall take effect.
 Section 1. The State of Conn.,, ex- ercising herein its police and sovereign power, declared that the safety of the public in crowded thoroughfares de- mands the regulation of dangerous in strumentalities of conveyance.
 Section 2. On and after the taking effect of this Act if Shal be 11n1awf f111 for any corporation, municipality, com pany, person or court officer engaged in the business of carrying or trans porting passengers for hire or fare, to operate, or allow to be operated, any street car in passenger service along or upon any street, road or highway with in corporate limits of any city of the first class, without such car or cars be i'll charge of a full crew, consisting of one motOrman, whose duties shall be confined to the actual running of the