The union times., 1943-05-29

this week considering a plan proposed by its executive board for a city-wide labor conference. This plan will be further discussed at the June 4 meeting of the Committee.
 The conference which is tentatively set for the first week in July would be in line with the Committees purpose of unifying and mobilizing labor for the most effective action on the home front for winning the war and advanc- ing the cause of labor.
 FULL SUPPORT
 Representatives of the ALL. and the CLIO. make up the Joint Labor Committee, which has the full support of the Hartford Gen. traI Labor Union and the Greater Hartford Industrial Union Council.
 1t is part of nationwide joint labor movement springing up inde- pendently in communities through cut the land in which organized la- bor is getting together to defend it. self against the attacks of anti-labOr legislators and organize their work so as to increase labOr's cOntribu- ton to the war program.
 Since its foundation in midApril, as was reported in the April Y issue of The Union Times, the Committee has been working through its executive board, originally of four but now con taining eight members, four each rep resenting the A.FL. and the CLIO. A standing invitation has been extended to the Railroad Brotherhoods to send delegates.
 Among the works of the executive board are the following:
 CD Sending resolution of protest to COngressmen on the vicious Connally-Smith Bill, ask ing its defeat.
 CD Forwarding letters to both Pres. Roosevelt and O.P.A. Director Prentiss Brown urging grade labelling and more strin- gent price control.
 (3) Dispatching cOmmunica- tiOns to congressman in protest of the Ruml-favored tax plan passed by the Senate asking its defeat, and favoring the bill passed by the House.
 (4) Petitioning the General Assembly's Labor Committee to report out favorably the Conn. Federation of Labor's bill for es- tablishing a state labor relations act, which the Committee refused to do.
 (5) Asking the Governor to name or otherwise identify ''the labor leaders, who allegedly in- formed him that this was an in- OppOrtune time to enact state labor relations act, as was report ed in the press.
 OFFER HELP Patrick Ward, president of the Hartford CLIO. council and CO., chairman, and Joseph Lombard, a member of the Public Affairs Com mittee, called on William Ennis, di- rector of the Hartford War Man. power Area, to offer full cO-Opera- ton in setting up an advisory com mittee for the area.
 Plans for the city-wide conference include having as speakers a U. ;. senator or representative labor lead CTS, and governmental officials. Unity of purpose and action on all home fronts is the guiding principle of the committee. This includes rationing, conservation of consumer goods; d training and recruiting of women to- gether with securing adequate care for children of working mothers; as well as the preservation and furthering of labor's rights. Several phases of this program are to be emphasized at the citywide conference.
 C.L.U. GIVES $25
 Miss Sylvia Sachs, Connecticut Labor Department Local, No. 649, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, reported on the progress Ot the La bOr Committee at the last meeting of the Hartful C.L.U. Miss Sachs is recording secretary of the Com mittee. The report was favOrably received and the C.L.U. voted sum of $25 to help defray expenses of work of the joint group.
 The executive committee. which meets every two weeks, the next meeting being May 28, is as follows:
 Joseph Cronin, Aircraft Local 743, LAM, and Patrick Ward, CO., chairmen; Rep. Harold Conroy, Colts CLIO. union, executive-sec- retary; Miss Sachs, recording sec retary; Jack Goodwill, president of Local TAB, LAM; Joseph Lom- bard, Local 371, Meat Cutters; AL bert Freitag, Local 281, and Al. Madsen, Local 265, both of the U.E.R.W.-C.I.O.