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NATIONAL BROTHERHOOD
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VOL. XLI, NO. 24
Death was attributed to a brain
hemmorhage.
“Judge Fadway, died as he lived
—fighting‘foK_a cause of labor,”
said AFL Prefl&ent William Green,
i The convening*.held memorial serv
ices for P&tyay who was born in
Leeds, England. He was educated
in England md obtained his law
degree fjMarquette University
in 1912.
His career ks st labor figure be
an in KU’S'tyhen he was appointed
"general counsel of the Wi
AFL. He was elected to
senate in 1925, first on th
and later on the Progres
ticket. From 1925 to 19
ed as civil court judfe
kee and ever after v
his intimates and to
as -“Judge Pad way.”
JUnion Labor News, local labor pap
er, they got an editorial and a
printed plea from one of the moth
ers. The Madison Federation of
Labor quickly went on record in
favor of continuing the nursery
school. By the time of the August
City Council meeting, civic groups
got a 60-day extension of the
school. The catch was that all par
ents who could afford the full fee
of $10 a week were disqualified,
and only children of families on
relief—11 of them—were allowed
to stay in school
By this time, public indignation
was high. Petitions were circulat
ed by every union in town, stores
have given space for displays on
the school, and members of wo
men’s organizations, church groups,
and the Junior Chamber of Com
merce are circulating petitions.
Even'the rival local papers have
buried their deep-seated political
differences to support the public
nursery school drive.
Mothers have taken to public
speaking including four broad
casts over the local radio station.
Meanwhile, everyone except the 11
youngsters still enjoying school is
waiting for the outcome at this
month’s council meeting.
Everything Set
'ror Salem Party
Monday Evening
Salem, Ohio Everything is all
set for the big fish fry to be held
by Local Union 42 on Oct. 20. The
committee reports preparations
have been made to hqndle a large
crowd and everyone is assured
plenty to eat.
Entertainment is also listed on
the evening’s agenda and will be
furnished by the famous “Welsh”
sisters from Beloit. This stellar at
traction Which includes fine musi
cal entertainment as well as tap
|NoYncing specialists, are know far
MuJnid wide for their variety of enter
tainment.
Members of the Executive Board
and plant officials will be special
guests for the occasion and will be
called upon for short talks. All in
all, the evening tends to be a gala
night of fun and the committee is
looking forward for every member
of the local to be present.
A short business session will be
held previous to the banquet, but
we all have the word of our presi
dent that all business transactions
will be over by eight o’clock and
the balance of the evening devoted
to the funfest.—O. C. 42.
oseph Pad wayDies, At
.Convention
AFL
eneral Council Joseph
v uuiiv i
ivncpn Pad
Way,
Lone of the most highly respected
wsg’and effective labor lawyers in the
^‘—cent history of the American
union movement, died here last
week. \.
Pa(lway, 68, ahd a familiar
W fighter for labor causes before Con
Egressions 1 committees, collapset
during an address of the AFL con[
vention and died a few hours after
in the Stanford University Hospita
■nsin
te
st
y
Padway gained natio
nence in many innporta
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CAFL, CIO Rally
Public Behind
Hursery School
Madison, Wis.—(LPA)— Some
thing more important than the
Taft-Hartley law or the high cost
of living is being discussed in Madi
son these days. The whole city, fol
lowing the lead of AFL and CIO
unions, is turning out to support a
^public nursery school program.
The battle began in July, whW
the city council announced that on
aetpfc ’rilie o^rteMHdnlng nuraery
school would be closed and some 50
children would be left at the mercy
of relatives or neighbors of their
^working parents. e
(FQ When the parents approached the
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GREAT LOSS Stricken while
denouncing the Taft-Hartley law
before the convention, AFL Gen.
Counsel Joseph A. Padway, 56,
died from a cerebral hemorrhage a
short time later. Hired as the first
full-time AFL lawyer in 1938, he
distinguished himself by his bril
liant batting for labor’s legal
rights.
o
bat/’ Green urged the delegates to1
set a twin objective: Repeal of the
Taft-Hartley law and defeat of its
supporters in Congress.
Firm Stand Urged
Green strongly defended labor’s
wage policy and was backed by
Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Sch
wellenbach, who told the conven
tion that an attempt was being
made to make labor “the whipping
boy” for the high cost of living by
using wage boosts “as the excuse
for price increases.”
President Green declared it was
up to the delegates to take a firm
stand on maintaining the American
standard of living in the face of
the threat of continued inflation.
Wage increases won by organ
ized labor since the end of the war,
the AFL chief said, had kept the
American economy “form spiraling
into another depression to date.”
He added that “labor’s hands, were
tied as prices continued to sky
rocket” and challenged the “manu
facturers and sellers of labor’s pro
duct, as their direct responsibility,”
to “return to the American tradi
tion of producing in large quanti
ties for a mass consumption mar
ket at the lowest prices possible
compatible with American stand
ards.”
Asks Russia Change Tactics
Green’s assertion that wage in
creases had prevented a depression
was based on his statement that
they had “materially narrowed the
dangerous economic gap between
excess profits, prices and the pur
chasing power of the people.” He
denied charges of inefficiency made
against labor and said that a “prop
er readjustment of prices and pro-
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President Urges
AFL Help To Aid
Stricken World
San Francisco—(ILNS)— Presi
dent Truman in a message, called
upon the American Federation of
Labor to increase America’s pro
duction still further “to help meet
the critical conditions which threat
en the well-being of the entire
world.”
The message was read by AFL
Secretary-Treasurer George Meany
to the federation’s 66th convention
here.
Truman voiced confidence that
America “can depend upon its
workers to cooperate fully and gen
erously in an all-out effort to help
feed the hungry across the seas in
the months ahead.
Sees Acute Need Of Grain
“I feel sure,” he wrote, “that the
working men and women of Ameri
ca do not begrudge our sharing
our abundance with those less for
tunate, especially in view of the
fact that our production today is
greater than ever before in peace
time.
“The need for grain in many
countries in the year ahead will
be even more acute than in the
past. The United States must ex
port large amounts of food if this
need is to be met—but to do so will
require the conservation of food by
every American.” -:.
The President made no reference
to the Taft-Hartley Act. On the
labo front, he reminded delegates
that employment figures have
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Defeat All Taft Law
Backers, Green Says
San Francisco—(ILNS)—In a scorching denunciation of the Taft
Hartley labor law, President William Green of the American Federation
of Labor called for defeat of every member of Congress who voted for
it and asked that election day next year be set aside as a holiday to
permit every worker to cast his ballot.
Opening the federation’s 66th convention, Green declared that labor
bitterly resented the passage of anti-labor legislation after the war had
ended and after labor had established a “great record” of wartime pro-
-‘M Declaring that *taehave tlw-Vb
es if We can geb them inter.Vhe ballot
fits” should ward off a recession.
Turning to the international sit
uation, Green blasted Communism
and Russian policy and aroused
great applause as he cried:
“We want no more war we
crave international peace. We de
mand that those standing in the
way of peace and security change
their tactics.”
Secretary Assails Reds
Secretary Schwellenbach also de
nounced Communism and urged
that union leaders under domina
tion of a foreign power should be
thrown out. He advised that union
leadership should carry on “in the
same spirit as in the days of Sam
uel Gompers” and cited two types
of leaders who said have brought
discredit to unions—the compla
cent, satisfied type who should be
retired and those who ‘carry out
the directions which are given them
by some foreign power.”
The latter group, he asserted,
should be “picked up by the seat
of the pants and the nape of the
neck and thrown out bodily.”
Sees Unions Losing Race
Discussing wages, Schwellenbach
said that all labor had attempted
to do was to “pursue prices” and
that not in the last 15 months
had it been able to catch up. He
added that there was a relation
ship between wage increases and
price increases but asserted the
wage earners were not “exclusively
responsible” for high prices.
“We should fight with all our
vigor,” he declared, “against any
effort to continue the campaign
to tie up the wage earners of the
country the label of being exclu
sively responsible for the increase.”
ILO SUGGESTS SOCIAL SECURITY
PROGRAMS FOR ASIA COUNTRIES
Montreal—(ILNS) Proposals
looking toward the development of
broad social security programs in
the countries of Asia will be laid
before the Preparatory Asian Re
gional Conference convened by the
International Labor Organization
to meet at New Delhi, India, Oct.
27 to Nov. 8.
The proposals are contained in a
report prepared by the Interna
tional Labor Office and designed
to provide a basis for discussion
by the conference of the problems
of social security, one of 5 items
on the agenda.
The conference is expected to be
attended by delegations from Af
ghanistan, China, India, Pakistan,
Siam, the Philippines, Australia,
New Zealand, Burma, Ceylon, Indo
china, Indonesia, and Malaya. The
United States, Great Britain,
France and the Netherlands, as
metropolitan countries with Asian
interests, will also be represented.
The conference is in preparation
for an Asian Regional Conference
of the ILO to be held in China.
The social security report, made
public at ILO headquarters here,
was prepared in consultation with
local officials in a number of Asian
countries. It makes use of infor
mation obtained by an ILO mission
which visited Asia earlier this year.
Medical Care Service Proposed
The report suggests the gradual
development of a public medical
care service in the Asian countries
which would be freely available to
those who need it, whether they
live in urban or rural areas and
whether they are workers or depen
dents. Such a public service, the
report says, would be more prac
tical
than a health program based
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Two)
hefo tt ers rn
AFL’s Growth Shown
Over Last 10 Years
San Francisco—(LPA)— The
AFL’s growth in membership
during the past 10 years was
emphasized by the AFL execu
tive council’s report to the con
vention here last week.
In 1937, the AFL'had a mem
bership of 2,860,933. It picked
up membership during ^the
toughest depression years' in
1938 it lised 3,623,807 in 1989,
4,000,364.
The AFL’s record for the last
four years show£: 1944—6,8G6,
913 -1945—6,981,221 1946—7,
161,808 1947—7,577,716.
Co-operative
Store Hinted
For Wheeling
Wheeling, W. Va. Since this
scribe’s last article in the Herald,
things have been happening down
here in Wheeling. During the ppst
ten days, investigations relative to
vice conditions in the city and
county have been going on and as
a result a large number of indict
ments were returned against the
gambling element which for a num
ber of years flourished under police
protection. Wheeling, known as an
‘open town’ has now been closed
completely. Included in the ban is
the well known ‘Bingo’ games. The
Wheeling Association, a civic or
ganization of prominent citizens
has issued a statement calling
for “No compromise with law: en
forcement” and “No appeasement
of lawless elements”. It is up to
every law-abiding citizen to see to
it that the laws are wholeheartedly
enforced.
As in past years, the week of
October 16-27 will be used to cam
paign fpr a grand total of $185,683.
The Community Chest of Wheelfrig
has outlined it’s program in detail
and will attempt to reach it prompt
ly. Thirteen agencies are listed far
allocations with the Salvation Army
and the Y. M. C. A. heading the
list. The potters will be asked to
give as much as possible to this
worthy cause.
So far there has been no talk
of opening a co-operative food store
in this viejnity, but I believe the
potters would go for it if some
thing could be done to relieve the
high food prices which prevail here.
The officers of the local are do
ing a fine job in conductig the af
fairs of the union and are asking
every member to be present for the
meetings. This months session will
take place on Monday, October
20th. Lets all be out to do our
part.—0. C. 6.
Third Suit Under
Taft-Hartley Law
Hits AFL Miners
Washington—(LPA)—The third
suit under the Taft-Hartley law
against unions found the United
Mine Workers—AFL the victim last
week.
Charging secondary boycott, the
suit was brought by the regional
director of the National Labor Re
lations Board in Owensboro, Ky.,
and U. S. District Court Justice J.
M. Swimford quickly signed an
order requiring the union to show
cause on November 6 why an in
junction should not be issued.
The previous suits were filed
against the International Typo
graphical Union-AFL in Baltimore,
charging refusal to bargain, and in
Chattanooga, Tenn., against the
AFL Carpenters, charging secon
dary boycott. Hearings on the ITU
case were scheduled for October
14, and for October 13 on the Chat
tanooga carpenters.
The complaint against the UMW
related that a construction com
pany contracted with a coal firm
to erect some preliminary construc
tion prior to the begining of strip
mining operations. The UMW’s
District 23 asked the coal company
to sign a contract before mining
work started and the company re
fused. UMW officers appeared on
the site of the construction, accord
ing to the complaint, and informed
the construction workers that they
would not be permitted to work
until the UMW was recognized.
Employes of the company, the
NLRB complaint said, “were then
and there threatened with bodily
harm if they performed any furth
er services for Jackson (the con
struction firm) and were ordered to
sign applications for membership
in the UMW labor organizations or
to leave the locality and not re
turn.” The construction workers
left and Jirf return, it was
charged. i
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EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO, THURSDAY, October 16, 1947
READY TO GO—In the first formal meeting
ruled that national officers of the AFL and CIO
right: Abe Murdock, John M. Houston, Chairman
James J. Reynolds was absent.
Consumer Co-ops
Endorsed By 170
AFL, CIO Leaders
Washington—(LPA) Support
for consumer cooperatives was en
thusiastically voiced this week in
Washington by 170 officers of over
60 local AFL, CIO, and indepen
dent unions at a dinner sponsored
by the Filene cooperative depart
ment store now being built in Ar
lington, Virginia.
The dinner was the largest gath~
ering of local union officers ever
to come together in the greater
Washington area in support of co
operatives. The Central
Union of Washington has asked
each of its member unions to set
up a three-man co-op committee to
work with the cooperatives in
Washington, which already include
grocery super-markets, credit
unions, a medical care co-op, a
radio station, and a recreation cen
ter.
Labor
Speakers were Lester G. Ott,
president of the Filene Co-op and
of the Consumer Distribution Cor
poration which was founded by the
late Boston merchant and philan
thropist, Edward A. Filene, former
Congressman Jerry Voorhis, gen
eral secretary of the Cooperative
League, U. S. A., and Herbert
Evans, Director of Personnel of the
Ohio Farm Bureau.
Evans told the labor leaders that
what the farmers had done city
workers could do likewise. “Wage
increases are not much benefit in
the midst of inflation, if they are
taken away by high prices. The
solution,” declared Evans, “is for
city workers to have enough co
operatives to at least police retail
prices.”
“Cooperatives are the balance
wheel of freedom and represent
the best of free enterprise with
out siphoning profits into the hands
of fewer and fewer people,” Voor
his said. He told the unionists that
“Cooperatives increase purchasing
power in every community rather
than draining workers’ money into
far away cities and the capital mar
kets of the country.”
Profiteering Is
Greatest Source
Of Food Waste
Washington— (LPA) Profit
erring, not thei ndividual’s eating
habits, is the “greatest source of
food waste,” President Philip Mur
ray wrote to all local CIO bodies
last week.
“Food goes where it commands
highest prices, not where it is
most needed,” Murray asserted,
adding that “There is no serious
food crisis in this country except
that which we bring upon ourselves
by our failure to eliminate profit
eering and to stamp out specula
tion in food supplies.”
While urging members to sup
port the Citizens Food Committee
drive to conserve food, Murray in
sisted “We must do more. We must
make sure that we and the nations
we seek to help are protected from
the intolerable exactions of profit
eering and high prices which to
day make it impossible for most
American families and for other
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Int'lLabor Press
Votes A Clean-up
On Ad Racketeers
San Francisco— (LPA) The
36th annual convention of the InVI
Labor Press of America, the labor
press “arm” of the AFL, has rec
ommended a renewed drive against
“so-called yearbooks” and long
distance telephone soliciting of ads
by certain labor papers, and voted
a stinging attack on Federated
Press, labp.r pews service.
The ALPA report cited Labor
Press Associates as an example of
the “services of excellent quality”
which were recommended by AFL
papers, including also the AFL
News Service, Int’l Labor News
Service, Nat’l Labor Service, and
Stelzle Service.
“We strongly urge all AFL pap
ers to discontinue Federated Prebs
for the same reason that the AFL
refuses to join the Soviet-dominat
ed World Federation of Trade
Unions,” the ALPA convention de
clared.
In floor discussion of the report,
President Max Zaritsky of the Hat,
Cap & Millinery Workers-AFL de
clared “It’s no secret that Feder
ated Press is a Communist outfit
and follows the party line, even
though sugar-coated.
“We can edit our papers without
using Federated Press,” he said.
“In Labor Press Associates, you
have a service that is outstanding.
The merits of Labor Press Associ
ates should be called to the atten
tion of all labor papers.”
Defy Subpoenas
Brown Advises
Industrialists
Washington—(LPA) Defiance
of U. S. anti-trust subpoenas was
recommended to Canadian news
print manufacturers here last week
by Rep. Clarence Brown (R., Ohio)
who advised the industrialists to
tell the Justice Dep’t “to go to
hell.”
Brown is chairman of a special
House committee investigating the
newsprint shortage. The Justice
Dep’t has sought to subpoena the
books and financial records of sev
eral of the giant newsprint corp
orations to ascertain whether they
have conspired to fix prices and al
lot newsprint to favored customers.
Part of the Justice Dep’t investi
gation was known to revolve
around the suspicion that many of
the
the
the
ers
their records from the possibility
of subpoena.
big newsprint firms which do
majority of their business in
U. S. located their headquart
in Canada in order to remove
The committee headed by Brown
also heard from President R. M.
Fowler, of the Canadian Newsprint
Institute, that the supply of news
print for U. S. consumers for
1947-1948 may run short of 245,000
tons.
Despite the fact that black mar
ket prices in New York have rang
ed up to $200 a ton in recent
months, one American newsprint
manufacturer told the committee
that “I think that the price of
newsprint must increase for the
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Den ham Rev e rsed 4-1 On
Communist Affidavit Ruling
since passage of the Taft-Hartley law, the NLRB
need not sign non-Communist affidavits. Left to
Paul Herzog and J. Copeland Gray. Board member
Convention Told
Europe's Fate Is
In Marshall Plan
San Francisco (LPA) “The
fate of 500/100,000 people in Europe
depends on the Marshall Plan,”
said Dr. Kurt Schumacher, chair
man of the German Social-Demo
cratic Party, who is here to address
the AFL convention,
r.
The gaunt, rmr i)mad Ifld0T
one of the most powerful and in
fluential groups of European work
ers spent ten yean in some df Hit
ler’s worst concentration camps as
a result of his unyielding devotion
to the interests of the German
working class.
Dr. Schumacher declared, in an
interview with newsmen, that at
tempts ara being made by the
Communists to capitalize on the
continued chaps and anarchy in
Europe for their own purposes.
“The attack by the new Com
munist International, just organ
ized, is not just an attack against
the Marshall Plan,” he said. “It
is also an attack upon those work
ing class movements which stand
for democracy, instead of a Com
munist police state.
Discussing the work of the un
derground movement of Germany,
the flashing-eyed German political
leader told of how in the early
days of Hitler, the concentration
camps were filled with workers
who resisted Fascism. “The roots
of Hitler’s success were in the
terrible social conditions that ex
isted in Germany,” stated Dr. Schu
macher. “If present-day living con
ditions for the masses of German
workers do not become better, a
new nationalist force may arise
supported by big industry.”
Progress Being
Made For Opening
Of Co-Op Store
At a meeting held this week in
the auditorium at National Head
quarters, further plans for launch
ing a cooperative store in East Liv
erpool were discussed and all indi
cations point to the store being
opened within the next two weeks.
Reports gathered from various
cities where similar stores are in
operation state they are a definite
success and enables working people
to buy the necessities of life at
from 25 to 40 per cent less than the
same items can be bought in reg
ular retail stores.
While it is the plan of the com
mittee to handle only food items at
first, later on clothing for both
men and women as well as house
hold equipment will be handled
through the cooperative system at
tremendous savings to the consum- I
er.
Location of a store room for
distribution of products will be de
cided at a meeting to be held next
week at headquarters. A manager
for the store will also be chosen at
this meeting and it is the desire
of the committee that as many rep
resentatives from the various locals
in this district be present at this
meeting. Notification will be sent
all Locals as to the date and time
of the meeting.
MEMBER
INTERNATIONAL LABOR
NEWS SERVICE
$2.00 PER YEAR
3,000 Cases
PufBack On
Active List
Washington—(LPA)—By a four
to one vote the National Labor
Relations Board last week reversed
General Counsel Robert Denham’s
ruling that top CIO and AFL offi
cials must sign the Taft-Hartley
anti-Communist affidavits before
affiliates can use NLRB facilities.
The repudiation of Denham’s ar
bitrary interpretation of the law
proved a complete verification of
the contentions of labor attorneys
that the AFL and CIO cannot be
considered unions in the sense of
bargaining agencies. Voting to
override the Denham ruling were
Chairman Paul Herzog and Mem
bers James J. Reynolds, John Hous
ton and Abe Murdock who wrote a
separate concurring opinion. J.
Copeland Gray, the Board’s “indus
try member” dissented.
The Board’s decision pointed out
that “the fundamental purpose” of
Congress in enacting the anti-.Com
munist clause was “to eliminate
Communist influence from the laboj^
movement”
The Denham interpretation would
not do that, the Board found. “Are
Communists likely to be eliminat
ed from positions of influence in
the labor movement by our barring
those local and international unions
that are in full compliance
from using the facilities of the
Board, merely because certain of
ficers of a parent organization over
whose status they have only the
most remote control may choose not
to sign the required affidavits?
We th&* not An'exaiftfriation
the-constitutions and practices rf
the AFL and CIO convinces us that
the authority of their governing
bodies is narrowly limited.”
The decision pointed out that “if
one officer of the AFL or CIO fails
to comply, not a single complying
local or international union within
that federation can derive any
benefits from its own clean hands.
In consequence, there being no con
ceivable advantage to such unions
in bothering to comply they
would be no better off than labor
organizations that might be unable
to comply because of the actual
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L.U. 156 Studies
Firm’s Request
For More Output
East Palestine, Ohio Local
Union 156 met in regular session
Monday evening, Oct. 6, with Presi
dent Frank Mansell in charge.
Business matters of routine na
ture were quickly dispensed with,
leaving the balance of the eve
ning for a general discussion on
shop production. The firm has re
quested more production but ways
and means to meet this request
have not yet been worked out. We
are all doing as much as we pos
sibly can now in our limited num
ber of hours at the bench.
Withdrawal cards were granted
to Bernice Hanna and Robert Dunn.
Congratulations to Mr. afrd Mrs.
Jack Early and greeting# to their
new baby Karen. We-bear the new
arrival is the Ispit Image of Jack,
but then again we hear this report
came from the proud father.
The $64 question: Just how big
was that coon the fellows treed
while running their dogs after the
local meeting Monday evening. Sev
eral of the boys are of the opinion
someone is exaggerating a little.
—O. C. 156.
AFL Treasury Drops
To $464,582 In 1947
The
San Francisco (LPA)
AFL’s treasury balance dropped
from $1,742,077 as of Aug. 31,
1946, down to $464,582, the AFL
Executive Council reported to the
convention here last week.
With a record membership of 7,
577,716, the AFL reported an in
come from per capita tax of $1,
888,358. Total receipts were $5,589,
819. Organizing expenses were list
ed as $1,264,300 and organizers’
salaries, $715,136.
Printing of the AFL weekly
news service was listed as $15,224.
Cost of printing the American Fed
erationist, monthly magazine, was
reported $129,450.