The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-06

offered to James F. Corrigan, for mer president of Central Labor Union, for his fine cooperation. Mir Corrigan is still associated with us in labor matters, as are other labor officials.
 Your secretary, in the capacity of secretary of the MIRA compli- ance board, was required on sev- eral occasions to go to the state MIRA office in Hartford to present evidence in cases on which com plaints were pending, and contrib uted thereby to satisfactory adjust ments, and, on one occasion to the court of common pleas.
 Retail Code Authority
 To supervise the. observance of MIRA code commitments in the re- tail trade, representative commit tee was established from the ranks of the retail merchants known as the Local Retail Code Authority, to which PAT retailers subscribed. The Local Authority brought about 80 corrections in trade practices dur ing the period of it's operation, ob- tained wage refunds totaling $233.2S to II persons, and has communicated code information to 264 persons seeking it. All mem- bers have received from this office labor provision posters, MIRA Eagles and MIRA Code Eagles, as we'll as much other material, in- cluding bulletins on orders and code provisions necessary for the information of members.
 Authorization of the Local Retail Code Authority was received Jan. 5, 1894, in response to the formal application made according to i'm structions received Dec. 8, 1883, from the National Retail Code Authority. The personnel of the Local Code Authority was selected by referendum on which all mem- bers voted. The selected list of proposed code authority members originated in this office, and all voting members were given the right to vote for other names if they saw fit, the set-up having been carefully drawn in line with na- tation from particular lines of re- tail trade.
 Retail Drug Code Authority
 In manner and degree similar to the handling of the Local Re- tail Code Authority, this office has, since July, 1884, also been respon- sible for all details of assessment bulletins and related activities of the Local Retail Drug Code Auth ority.
 Builders Exchange Bid Depository
 This office was designated the official bid depository for the Wa such has been handling, since June, 1884, all matters pertaining to the filing of duplicate bids as required by provisions of the Code of Fair Competition for the construction industry. Up to the time of com- piling this report, 1,636 duplicate bids had been filed with this office. Your secretary, as custodian for the Builders Exchange Bid Depos- itory, has attended and participant ed in a number of meetings to dis cuss various complaints of unfair competition, failure to deposit du- | PhASeAtO OA0SS esAAN ASAASSo AAASsSSS@ S arising under the code.
 Chamber of Commerce
 Investigations. Because activities of fraudulent nature are harmful to the community and its business institutions, even though the mesh of the law may not be fine enough in some cases to prevent them, we regard our investigations depart ment as one of our basic responsi- bilities. We have been given the continuous cooperation of the Wa terbury police department, through Supt. Joseph H. Mclean and Capt. William P. Keegan of the detec- tive bureau, and the state police, in all matters involving illegality, but 1t should also be emphasized that we have succeeded in stop ping parasitic practices not neces- sarily covered by law, in all cases when the public has followed our recommendations. During the period from July i, 1885 to 'June 24. 1885, our investigations depart ment has actually saved si0.700.0l for persons consulting us about matters of this nature. and our In. veatigatIons have covered transac. tons involving the total of sB2,- 24e.30 during this period. oi course, 1t is impossible to give . true picture of the amount of sav- ings in Waterbury. as result oi newspaper stories and telephone contacts. where people call Us and we eive them a report which stopi further activity.
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