The union times., 1942-04-25

eOefatIOn Of Labor, man speaker at the successful rally sponsored by the New Haven Central Labor Council Thurs day evening in the New Haven Labor Temple, placed the win- ming of the war as labor's first objective in his fighting speech calling upon A.F.L. members and their friends in New Haven and vicinity to continue to fight the attacks on labor at all times and with full strength.
 The rally, one of series sponsored by the GEL. throughout Connecticut, was called to oppose the pending anti-labOr bills i'm Congress.
 GOVERNORS TELEGRAM
 Governor Robert A. HurIey's telegram to the rally, read by Har- old V. Feinmark, president of the
 Council, who presided, reaffirmed his stand against the anti-labor bills pending in Congress. The telegram follows:
 "Sincerely regret my inability to
 attend your gathering this even-
 ing. With a full realization of the purposes for which the meeting is called may I respectfully call to the attention of your members the
 statement by me appearing this
 week in your official publication,
 THE UNION TIMES. This I be-
 lieve accurately states my position concerning the proposed legislation on the 40 hour week. If your body feels that can be of assistance kindly call on me-"
 RESOLUTION
 The resolution passed unanimously by the rally at the end of the meet
 ing opposed the legislation recently introduced into Congress by Cong , ressmen Smith of Virginia and Vim son and Cox of Georgia and other notorious anti-New Deal members of Congress" It resolved Therefore, we
 call upon our Congressmen and
 United States Senators to oppose with all the power at their command the legislation noted above =" SPEAKERS Mayor John w. Murphy of New Haven, introduced by Feinmark as a lifelong member of organized labor, and former vice-president of the CFL", placed himself squarely against the pending bills. Prof. Fred Rodell of the Yale Law School, identified the anti-labor laws as an attack "by our native fascists" and indicated their background and their devious | ways of encroaching on American unity. Sen. Joseph T. RourAe, Council secretary, made a plea for the end of discrimination against minority groups. UNITY URGED Telegrams supporting the rally and urging AFL-CIO unity from William Calm, organizer for La bor's Non-Partisan League of Conn ecticut and Michael Jimenez, in- ternational field organizer of the United Radio, Electrical and Ma chine Workers, CLIO. were heard and cheered by the audience. Fein- mark also read messages from Congressmen James Shanley and Lucien Maciora reassuring the meeting that they would oppose these bills.
 In introducing Egan the last speaker, Feinmark called him "the truest and hardest working member of organized labor in the state of Connecticut"
 OTHER RALLIES
 Other successful AFL rallier were held this week in New London and Norwalk. Assistant Secretary Thomas Shea, GEL, spoke at Norwalk with General Organizers Albert Weisbord and John Van Warnicl1e, of Boston, addressing the New London rallies.
 Egan, in commenting on rallies that have been held to date and those to he held, warned against any let down, ssBusiness agents have to realize that this fight must be made on the same working week that our production schedules are trying to reach, the 168-hour week. The sooner all of us who are labor officials realize that our job is more than just supplying a contractors with two workers on 1 Monday, that much sooner will we further our efforts all along the line.
 ssOur enemies will be bringing anti-labor legislation before Congress every day, every week