The union times., 1943-08-28
N. H. Legislative Conference Saturday
Open Letter Sent
 To Rep. Compton
Congressman From Third Congressional District Told By United Labor In New Haven He Is Guilty of Political Pickering
 During Wartime

BrOadcasting over Station WELL, organized labor in New Haven and surrounding cities and towns this . week addressed an open letter to Congressman Ranulf Compton, urging him to help turn the next session of Congress into s'win- the-war" session.
 Speaking on the broadcast, which was held under the auspices of the United Labor Legislative Confer ence of Greater New Haven were Harold V. Feinmark, president of the New Haven Central Labor Coun- cil; William F. DonOghue, general chairman of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; Edward Nc CrOne, CLIO. director, and numer- Ous other representatives of the three labor organizations.
 The text of the open letter sent to Compton by the United Labor Legis- lative Conference of Greater New Haven follows:
 'Dear Congressman:
 ssWe address this open letter to you in the belief that the winning of the war against the Axis powers in the shortest possible time is the great issue before the people of Connecticut and of the nation at the present time. We also address this open letter to you having in mind the statement of our Com mander-in-Chief, President Frank lin Delano Roosevelt, in which he correctly said that there can be no blueprint which shows where the home front ends, and the war front begins. Everything we do at home affects the prosecution of the war by our heroic armed forces; and everything they do affects our war effort at home.
 Organized labor, which speaks for the hundreds of thousands of workers in Connecticut, is doing its share to win the war. Our record of war pro- duction Is unchallenged. Connecticut has one of the highest records of War Bond purchases of any state in the nation. There has not been an impor- tant labor stoppage in Connecticut since Pearl Harbor Our 1abor-man- agement war production committees are increasing in size and efficiency all the time. We believe we are doing our best to win the war in the shortest possible time, despite the fact that wages, and in many cases, jobs, are frozen; and wage rates have failed to keep up with the rising cost of ; living.
 ssWe are sorry to say that you, ! our Representative in Washington, have not reflected our win-the-war program by your activities in Con- gress. You have joined with other reactionary Republicans and with Southern poll-tax Democrats to at- tempt to block President Roose- velt's program at every turn. Your chief contribution to winning the war was voting for the Appropria- tion Bills, and since the war could not be fought without these appro- priatiOns, you could not have done less.
 !. ''Your voting record shows these facts:
 'sl. Despite the fact that more than 99 per cent of the members
 of the ALL, CLIO. and Rail-
 road Unions have faithfully ob- served their no-strike pledge, a pledge given despite great in- justices which labor has had to bear, you voted for the Smith, Connally Bill, which legaIizes strikes.
 ''2. Despite the fact that Con- necticut labor has not been charged with any wrong-doing, (Continued on Page Threel