The Connecticut labor news., 1924-09-06
STATE FEDERATION OF LABOR

President O'Meara then warned tht
 committees to organize and get down te
 business and the several chairman called
 meetings for during the noon recess.
 President O'Meara then introduced
 John A. Gunshanan of Hartford, long
 a workers in interest of the Employees
 Tuberculosis aid who spoke on the his
 tory of the movement and Organized
 Labor's great part Ill bringing 1t to its
 present great standing in this state. President O'Meara then announced
 the substitution of Delegate Nelson ot
 the Carpenters of Derby in place ot Delegate Davey, barbers of Ansonia
 who had been called away, as a member
 ot the committee on resolutions.
 l Convention adjourned at 12:15.
 SECOND DAY (Afternoon Session) | Convention called to order by Presi-
 dent O'Meara at 1 IS P. M. with a
 warning to the delegates and officers
 vention start at 12 80, stanoard time,
 and not 80, many of the delegates having been in error due to the mix up between daylight and standard time. He then introduced Hugh Glover of the United Hatters of North Amer ica who made an extensive talk on the
 duties of Organized Labor not i'll the label trades to support the 1abo1es of other trades. It IS just as bad for a
 union man to patrOn1Ze and buy non
 union made goods as 1t is TOT a union man to employ non-union labor in any of the trades The failure 10 realize the duty to support union made goods is the cause of the empty seats at con yentions in central labor ana even local
 union meetings, he declared He told
 of the efforts of Danbury merchants to forestal1 the sale of unfon made straw hats in that city which led the matters to establish store of their own which quickly brought the merchants around to ordering union mace goods. The store has been extended to include other label union made goods and IS ready to fill mail orders to union men who have difficulty in getting union made goods in their own towns. He urged them to patronlze II for the benefit of all union labor. and the effect 1t would have on local merchants who do not carry such goods
 Delegate Bacon, Carpenters, Hart ford, asked what a union man is to- do when he asked for a union-made cigar and was handed one out of non union box bearing non-union printing. He stated that of s cigar snops in Hartford only one, that small one, too. used union made and union printed boxes. , Delegate Pede, Cigarmakers, New Haven, suggested that he report It to the local Cigarmakers Union which would act speedily on the matter and cooperate with the Carpenters Tn se- curing union made containers.
 Under the head of reading Of com the communication from the A. F. of L. referred to ar the session, in wnicn financial support and appointment of campaign was asked to aid the move nent for the election of La Toilette and Wheeler was read by Secretary Egan. ,~
 Delegate Dreissens, Cigarmakers, ! New Haven. moved the communication be received, accepted and it's requests ] be complied with. The motion was 1 seconded Delegate Bacon, Hartford, offered an amendment that 1t be re- ,eived and placed on file ana was sec onded, by Delegate Murray, Carpen- .ers, Hartford, who declared politics should be kept out of the Federat1on's | 1oings. He declared that everyone present knew a vote for the candidates | mentioned WOulQ DS d, NOtS lol OooA dee. whom he denounced TOT nis open ,nnity toward Organized Laoor.
 Delegate Treat. Pressmen, Bridge port, raised point of order that the amendment was improper and was sus- aimed by the chair.
 President O'Meara then suggested hat inasmuch as to go ahead with the notion before the convention would only precipitate a debate that will sure V come on a resolution for endorse ! nent then before the Committee on , that it would be fore the interests of all to refer the communica- ion until the resolution was reported