The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-08-29
GOV. HURLEY ENDORSED BY A,FL. LEADERS
AS We See 1t
BY
THE STAFF

won't get much comfort out of
labor's participation in the coming
election campaign. A BRIDGE
PORT labor leader, Michael T.
Minotti, head of the Conn. Build
ing Trades Council, president of
the Bridgeport Building Trades,
and business agent of Local 2,
Bridgeport, says of Jasper:
mo sense mentioning McLeUy as q
candidate since he's only running to
|fdke votes GzCuy from HURLEY and
let BALDWIN 90 back to Capitol
Hill. That certainly is no secret to us
b Bridgeport
ONLY $459,672 was earned last
year by the New Haven Gas Light
Company and the Company could
ONLY pay dividends of $l.67 per
share. Sen. Joseph T. Rourke, Sec
rotary of the N. H. Central Labor
Council, also points out that only
Bl individuals hold the $25 par
eommOn stock shares i'm the public
utility. Too true, too true, the net
income did drop during the past
rear by $36,1O8 and the dividend
Zoe lower than i'm 1889.
THESE FIGURES, by the sUay,
LOne from, Standard e POOr's Cor
|p0ratiOn, Investment and statistical
Organization. However, in the in
ferests of equality of sacrifice, if
the Company is determined to keep
profits up, sOhy not cut those fat
secutiUe salaries instead of pass
ing on the cost to the public? We
knOs0 hOsc corporations add these
salaries to their s0ages to point out
that the Average sOage is about 500
higher than union scales. We'd also
ike to see a fesU definitions chang
ID. Wages, according to practise,
nre the first things you slash,
Executive salaries something you
i'd bonuses to. OF COURSE, as
|2 last resort, the Company could
dip into profits which have been
CLOSE to the 100000 figure each
year.
JOE ROURKE'S host of friends
bill over the state acre glad to hear
khis week that Mrs. RoMyke, aOho has
been seriously III, is nooV ON the road
o recovery. Mrs. Roarke is in the
Nezo H0ven Hospital.
CONCRATS TO ANDREW CASO-
LIMO on his appointment as Regis
trar of Vital Statistics of New Ha-
ven. sandy" has been a hard
worker in the Democratic vineyard,
md if any man deserved recogni-
ion, he did. Gasoline is a member
Of his draft board, former presi-
dent of the N. III. Advertising Club,
ind is an all-around public-spirited
itizen. The Democrats might well
consider him for a place on the
tate ticket, should a vacancy de-
yelop.
GOV. HURLEY'S appointment
f ERNEST SCOVILLE as mem
per of the Advisory Personnel Com
nittee is a good one. ScOville is a
member of the Middletown local of
The American Federation of State,
county, and Municipal Employees
AFL), and since the Advisory Per-
sonnet Committee passes on appeals
by state employees who have tangled
With department heads, we believe
uch men as Dictator George Err
AMine of Cheshire will be more
.ArefuI of how they violate the
Fights of state employees who be-
long to a bona fide union.
THE GOVERNORS APPOINTMENT
Eoas direct slap at Bernard Nc
asker, zglo is trying to organize an
Independent union" among state
a,orkers. INDEPENDENT of 1VIat, is zVhat
kde zVdnt to knozV.
YOU KNOW, of course, thai
PETER J. MCGUIRE, originator OF
y Loboy Day, came from NezO Haven.
md zeus member of the CARPEN-
CERS and JOINERS. The sixtieth
Eniyersdry of Labor Day 1oiH be
Tebydted Sept. 7.
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