The union times., 1943-06-05
Issue Statement
 Attacking Baldwin
JOSEPH V. GROWN Aircr0ft Lodge. TAB. LAM.

1AOOCPtAAAS aAC CAAoACASC OA the anti-labOr forces on Capi. tOl Hill, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Pub lie Affairs Committee of Hart. ford today issued joint state. ment denOuncing the leader ship of the Republican party in the state, and announcing the formation of a special Elections subcommittee to or ganize plans for the biennial state elections in 1914.
 The announcement of the Greater Hartford organization is the first indication of direct action to be taken by or ganized labor to bring to account those individuals whose pledges to labor were ignored or repudiated during the recent legislative session.
 CHAMPAIGN PROMISE"
 The statement scored Governor Raymond E. Baldwin for his ''vacOl- lating leadership, and deplOred the failure of the chief executive to follow through on his prediction promise to organized labor that he would support the enactment of a State Labor Relations Act.
 Co-chairmen Patrick J. Ward, president of the Greater Hartford Industrial Union Council, CIO, and Joseph V. Cronin, Hartford Aircraft Lodge, 743, AFL, issued the joint declaration, which was approved at the last regular meeting of the Public Affairs Commitree.
 The full. statement follows:
 "The time for temporizing is now past. The action of the State Legis- lature, particularly of the Republican party leaders, in repudiating their pre- election pledges to organized labor, has made 1t evident that organized labor in the state of Connecticut must set aside all jurisdictional questions, all feeling of partisanship, and join forces during the next IS months, per hapS the most crucial period, through which working men and women will pass during our time.
 'sThe spacious excuse set forth by Governor Raymond E. Baldwin to justify his failure to support en- actment of State Labor Relations Act are mere camOufiage to hide the conviction both of himself and of his party leaders, that labor in the state of Connecticut has not the striking power at the polls to de- feat the forces which scuttled the Labor Relations Act.
 We of the Greater Hartford Public Affairs Committee believe that the success of our Elections committee last fall in obtaining the election of State Senator William A. Scott, President of the Central Labor Union, and of State Representative Harold A. Conroy, secretary of the Greater Hartford Industrial Union Council, CLO., may well be repeated on a larger scale in the state of Connecticut.
 Regardless of these facts, how ever, the time certainly has come when the A.F.L. and the CLIO. must take a firm stand against the re- turn to high public office of insin- cere men and women, whose only claim to distinction is the facility with which they seize opportunities to substitute political expediency for honest judgment.
 ~Our two great labor Organiza-, tiOns have a certain mutuality Of purpose, a definite legislative and political objective in this state. To the end that this purpose and that objective may be attained we in the Greater Hartford area have pledged ourselves to subordinate all individ- ual differences to the greater task which lies before us.'
 The committee, which recently wrote Governor Baldwin asking for the names of the labor leaders who are supposed to have informed him that the time was not ripe for the enact ment of the State Labor Relations Act is still awaiting an answer to its re- quest for this information.
 In the interim, the committee is going ahead with plans for the Public Affairs Conference to be held, in all likelihood, in September.
 Other plans call for an outdoor party and dance for the benefit of servicemen stationed in the Greater Hartford area, this event to be held, possibly, the latter part of August.
 The formation of the long awaited eight-man War Manpower Committee in Hartford, announced this weeek by William C. Ennis, area director, full fills one part of the program of the committee.
 The next executive board meeting will be held Friday night, June II, at the office of Joseph A. Lombard, 635 Main Street, Hartford.
 On January l, 1943 there were OF sIJ:o ~o4s0,, hooLs for noe.